A sitcom king and queen take up residence Off Broadway next month when Will and Grace's Megan Mullally and Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman bring Sharr White's comic two-hander Annapurna to The New Group for a limited run beginning April 13.
Other prominent Will and Grace alums have graced Broadway stages of late, Debra Messing in the recently-closed Outside Mullingar and Sean Hayes in Promises Promises with Kristin Chenoweth. Isn't it about time New York audiences got to see the two-time Emmy-winning Mullally on stage again? Though she made her Broadway debut in 1994 in Grease, she has, it seems, been too busy appearing in more TV series than we can name to find time for the stage in recent years.
One of those television credits was a recurring role on the hit NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, and that's where you'll usually find her Annapurna costar (and husband) Nick Offerman, as department boss Ron Swanson. In Annapurna, Offerman plays a down-and-out cowboy poet who works in the buff, with Mullally as his ex-wife who seeks him out when she hears he's hitting bottom. When the show ran a year ago in L.A., the Los Angeles Times said it "builds masterfully from hilarity to poignancy."
Annapurna is slated to run April 13 through June 1 at Theatre Row.
