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Are You a Pirate or a Lost Boy?

In this outrageously queer, adults-only British-style Panto, NYC Panto reimagines Peter Pan with a Frank-N-Furter-esque Captain Hook, a foul-mouthed Tinker Bell, drag queen Lady Chicken Cutlets, and a Neverland where growing up is optional and absolutely nothing is safe from satire.

Pop parodies, audience participation, slapstick mayhem, and brand-new original music fuel a wildly irreverent theatrical romp where fairy tales, politics, and the zeitgeist collide.

Bold and bawdy, pantomime, or Panto, has been a holiday tradition in Great Britain since 1717. With roots in Commedia dell'arte, the genre takes classic fairy tales and gives them a broad and comedic twist. While pantos are traditionally considered family-friendly entertainment, Peter Panto is strictly for grown-ups.

Because sometimes the best way to make sense of the world is to laugh at it.

The world's on fire. Come laugh with us anyway.

Featuring:
Matthew Mastromatteo
Lily Ali-Oshatz
Regan Sims
Diego Velázquez
Jonathan Nathaniel Dingle-El
David Hernandez
Stephanie Marrow
Rachel McPhee
Robert K. Benson
Elizabeth Wright-Williams
Blake Williams
Kendall Perry
Jim Kennedy

And a special guest at every performance! 

Written by Robert K. Benson

Direction by Madeline Wall 
Stage Management by Lyndsey Barratt
Assistant Stage Manager EC Gibbons
Costume Design by Maryellen DeVivo
Wardrobe Supervisor and Costume Assistant Loren Velázquez
Original music by Lily Ali-Oshatz and Kendall Perry
Accompaniment and Music direction by Mark Galinovsky 
Production Consulting by Kane Prestenback