Jonathan Groff will star alone in Jessica Dickey’s The Amish Project on Broadway, with performances starting February 10, 2027, at the Broadhurst Theatre. Sarna Lapine directs the play, inspired by the 2006 tragedy at an Amish school in Pennsylvania. The production brings Dickey’s earlier Off Broadway work to a new stage.
Jonathan Groff will return to Broadway in The Amish Project, a solo play by Jessica Dickey. Performances are scheduled to begin on February 10, 2027, at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York. Producers Robert Ahrens and Tom Kirdahy announced the production, which Sarna Lapine will direct.[1], [2]
Dickey drew inspiration from the 2006 tragedy at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, close to where Groff grew up. The production announcement describes compassion and forgiveness as subjects of the work. Groff said Lapine sent him the play last year and that reading it affected him deeply. Dickey described it as the piece that began her playwriting career.[1]
The work developed through the New York International Fringe Festival and Cherry Lane Theatre before its Off Broadway production at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2009. Later productions included theatres in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Groff recently played Bobby Darin in Just in Time, also serving as a producer, and won a Tony Award for Merrily We Roll Along. The Broadway production’s design team will be announced later.[1]
