Jonathan Groff will be back on Broadway on Wednesday, February 10, 2027, alone on the stage of the Broadhurst Theatre in The Amish Project, Jessica Dickey’s solo play, directed by Sarna Lapine.
The producers are Robert Ahrens and Tom Kirdahy, the team behind Groff’s last Broadway outing, Just in Time, and Live Wire Theatrical, the general management company Ahrens runs with Chris Aniello, is general manager. That Bobby Darin musical, on which Groff is also a producer, was the first musical of the 2024-2025 season to recoup in full, which makes the partnership’s next step notable for its scale: one performer, one script, and the Broadhurst, at 235 West 44th Street.
Dickey wrote the play in response to the October 2006 shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and to the forgiveness the community extended in its aftermath. A single actor gives voice to the people caught up in it. The events took place a few minutes from where Groff grew up.
“Sarna Lapine sent me The Amish Project last year and I was floored by the urgency and potent poetry of Jessica’s writing,” Groff said, adding that the play “explores the idea that sometimes the most radical human act is forgiveness.”
The piece has a long New York history behind it. It began at the New York International Fringe Festival, was developed at the Cherry Lane Theatre, and opened Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2009. It has since become the most produced of Dickey’s plays, staged at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Milwaukee Rep, American Theater Company in Chicago and City Theatre in Pittsburgh, among others. The New York Times called it “a remarkable piece of writing”; the Chicago Sun-Times went further, with “a masterpiece.” Dickey’s other plays include The Rembrandt and The Convent, and she has written for television on Apple TV+’s Physical.
Lapine recently directed Jean Smart’s return to Broadway in Call Me Izzy at Studio 54, and before that the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George with Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. Ahrens and Kirdahy said there is “nothing quite like experiencing the singular Jonathan Groff live.”
Groff won the Tony Award as Franklin Shepard in the revival of Merrily We Roll Along and was Tony-nominated for Hamilton and Spring Awakening, as well as for Just in Time. He has also recently made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Rosalind in an all-male As You Like It, directed by Daniel Evans.
A 24-hour fan presale opens on Monday, November 9, 2026, at 10 a.m. ET, for those who register on the production’s website, and general sale follows on Tuesday, November 10, at 10 a.m. ET through Telecharge (212-239-6200). The design team has not yet been announced.
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