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How to Dance in Ohio, the Broadway musical that features a cast of autistic actors, will end its run at the Belasco Theatre on Sunday, February 11.

Broadway performer Monette McKay, whose credits include Come From Away, Memphis, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mamma Mia!, has launched small batch ceramics business, Symphony Clay. Recently, McKay collaborated with her former Come From Away co-star and current How To Dance In Ohio star Caesar Samayoa on custom opening night gifts for the show's company.

How to Dance in Ohio, the first Broadway musical with openly Autistic actors playing Autistic characters, is currently running at the Belasco Theatre. This is quite ironic for me because recent neurodiverse representation on that particular stage has historically been… not great. 

Amigo and Samayoa discuss the new musical at the Belasco Theatre and praise how inclusive it is.

Adapted from the 2015 documentary,

Read our four-star review of *How to Dance in Ohio*, the musical based on the Peabody Award-winning documentary of the same name about autistic, young adults. Read all our theatre reviews at NewYorkTheatreGuide.com.

The HBO doc-turned-musical 'How to Dance in Ohio' hits some high notes with its appealing cast, but it also gets a bit lost in translation.

“How To Dance In Ohio,” the new musical that opened Sunday night at the Belasco Theatre, marks a laudable first for Broadway: A show about autistic persons who are actually played by actors with autism. But as groundbreaking “How To Dance” is as an idea, its execution across the board does not match its admirable intentions. The show, directed by Sammi Cannold, waffles between being stalely predictable and taking confounding narrative leaps. The construction of plot and dialogue is shodd...

A musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.

Broadway's first autistic cast has all the right moves in a musical that sometimes doesn't.