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Full guide →When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
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Remember the class presentation where somebody went way too hard? Meet Sunny Zimmerman. In LBJ: The Play, a fifth-grade teacher hires a local performer for a simple history lesson, and Sunny commits to playing Lyndon B. Johnson with every fiber of their being. LBJ, for his part, sees a room of ten-year-olds as the perfect chance to rescue his legacy with a big, ambitious production.
Things do not stay simple. As the vision gets bigger, the line between the actor and the president gets blurrier, and the classroom turns into something much stranger and funnier than anyone signed up for.
Sunny Zimmerman created the show and stars, and it was devised by the cast, with Katie Davis, Soraya Perry and Albert Muzquiz alongside. Caitlan Moore and Andrew Barth Feldman co-direct. After earlier runs at The Elysian, this is the comedy's first full-length production.
It plays Paradise Factory on East 4th Street, a tiny East Village black box, so every seat is a front-row seat to the chaos. Running time is about 90 minutes. The run opened October 10 and closes October 30, 2026. All the way with LBJ, but only for a couple of weeks.
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