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Get Lit youth poets, standout local artists, and a nationally-renowned featured poet will get together for a night of spoken word performance with host Mason Granger.

Isabel Sanford, who played Louise 'Weezy' Jefferson on the 'The Jeffersons', was the first Black woman to win an Emmy for best actress in a comedy series

More than once during “Oh, Mary!,” which opened Thursday night off-Broadway, it hits you: How am I laughing so uncontrollably at a play about Mary Todd Lincoln? Yes, Abraham Lincoln’s wife is the subject of this riotous new comedy at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, written by and starring Cole Escola, that definitely does not aim to teach your anything or challenge your brain cells. Rather, the campy “Oh, Mary!” is too busy daring your lungs to stay full of air for more than a few seconds. 

Escola wrote and stars in this way-way-waaaaaay-over-the-top musical comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln.

Cole Escola's wicked sense of humor takes to the stage, this time finding inspiration in the wild ambitions of Mary Todd Lincoln.