Douglas Carter Beane transports audiences to the dangerous and secret world of gay New York in 1930s in Broadway’s The Nance. Get a first look at scenes from the drama starring Nathan Lane, Jonny Orsini and more.

For more than 25 years, Cady Huffman has been entertaining Broadway audiences as the big-belting, leggy standout in shows like La Cage aux Folles, Steel Pier and a Tony-nominated turn in The Will Rogers Follies. Of course, Huffman is best known for her Tony-winning performance as blonde bombshell Ulla opposite Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in The Producers. Now, she ...

It’s opening night for Lincoln Center Theater’s latest Broadway production, The Nance. Penned by Douglas Carter Beane and directed by Tony winner Jack O’Brien, the production officially opens at the Lyceum Theatre on April 15.

The Nance stars two-time Tony and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Nathan Lane as closeted gay burlesque star Chauncey Miles and ...

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Four-time Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane is showing audiences another side of his talent in the new Broadway play The Nance, a burlesque-set drama starring Nathan Lane about gay life in 1930s New York. Beane has, of course, created memorable and hilarious scripts for Sister Act, Xanadu, Lysistrata Jones and the current hit revival of Cinderella, as ...

Get to know the heartache behind the clown in Douglas Carter Beane’s latest Broadway show, The Nance. The Lincoln Center Theater production stars two-time Tony winner Nathan Lane as Chauncey Miles, a closeted gay “nance” performer living in New York City in the 1930s. The story follows Chauncey as he falls in love against the backdrop of a changing ...

The Broadway premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Nance, starring two-time Tony and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Nathan Lane, begins performances at the Lyceum Theatre on March 21. Directed by Jack O’Brien, the Lincoln Center Theater production officially opens on April 15.

In addition to Lane, The Nance stars Tony winner Cady Huffman, Andréa Burns ...

Douglas Carter Beane transports audiences back to 1930s burlesque with his latest work, The Nance. Hear how this dangerous love story offers more than meets the eye and why Nathan Lane is the perfect star for this complex role.

The last time Nathan Lane and Cady Huffman shared the stage in the hit musical The Producers, both actors walked away with Tony Awards. Over 10 years later, Lane and Huffman are reuniting for another showbiz story, Douglas Carter Beane’s The Nance. 

“I always say there’s no one I’d rather be on stage with than Nathan Lane ...

Two-time Tony winner Nathan Lane returns to the Great White Way in The Nance as Chauncey Miles, a burlesque figure who leads a heartbreaking and dangerous life offstage. Set in 1930s New York, Douglas Carter Beane’s new play co-stars Lane’s Producers castmate Cady Huffman, Lewis J. Stadlen, Andrea Burns, Jenni Barber and newcomer Jonny Orsini as the young ...

Nathan Lane and Jack O’Brien, the Tony-winning star and director of the surprising, dark and deeply personal new play The Nance, open up about the fun of burlesque and the show’s pivotal love story.