Off-B'way's Shockheaded Peter to Play Final Performance on May 29

Shockheaded Peter will end its run at the Little Shubert Theatre on May 29. At the time it closes, the show will have played 12 previews and 112 regular performances.

Shockheaded Peter, which has played all over the world and had a previous New York engagement in 1999 in the form of a limited run at the New Victory Theatre, is based on Heinrich Hoffman's classic 19th century children's book Struwwelpeter Slovenly Peter. Featuring the music of The Tiger Lillies, the production illuminates Hoffman's cautionary tales and his horrible cast of disobedient children with a combination of music, puppetry, and Victorian melodrama. Young Harriett and her pyrotechnic tendencies, little Conrad and his insatiable thumb-sucking, and a handful of other misbehaving youngsters all come to untimely and gleefully gory ends in this British import.

The piece, directed by Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott, opened off-Broadway on February 22. In his Broadway.com Review of the show, Ron Lasko wrote: "The costumes, set and props are all appropriately oddball. The performances are also quite remarkable… Shockheaded Peter certainly isn't for everyone, but with its edgy humor and naughty puppets, it just could become the next Avenue Q."