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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
RICHARD MALTBY, JR. & DAVID SHIRE
CONTINUE THEIR LEGENDARY PARTNERSHIP
AND COMPLETE A TRILOGY 50 YEARS IN THE MAKING
WITH THEIR NEW REVUE
“ABOUT TIME”
LIMITED, 5-WEEK ENGAGEMENT
BEGINS OFF-BROADWAY
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!
New York, NY (January 21, 2026) — Producers Joey Parnes, Janet Brenner, and Laura Ivey announced today that About Time, the new Maltby & Shire musical revue with music by Academy Award® and Grammy Award® winner David Shire and lyrics by Tony Award® winner Richard Maltby, Jr., will premiere Off-Broadway at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater (10 W 64th Street) for a limited 5-week engagement this Spring starring Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius De Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, and Lynne Wintersteller. Directed by Maltby, About Time completes the legendary songwriting duo’s massively influential trilogy that includes Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever. Performances begin Friday, February 27, ahead of an official opening night on Sunday, March 15.
General tickets are available now at https://ci.ovationtix.com/37022/production/1263512.
Best known for a body of work that spans acclaimed book musicals and influential revues, Maltby & Shire are singular voices in American musical theater, celebrated for their wit, emotional precision, and incisive observations of modern life. Throughout their career, they have returned to the musical revue as a uniquely intimate form—one that allows their songs to speak directly to audiences, telling a larger story without narrative distance or ornament.
The new show completes a trilogy that the authors didn’t know they were writing, that has quietly helped shape contemporary musical theater. Starting Here, Starting Now, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1977, introduced a candid, conversational songwriting style that captured the exhilaration and uncertainty of early adulthood and became a cult classic, including a nomination for a Grammy Award. More than a decade later, Closer Than Ever turned its focus to adult relationships, ambition, compromise, and reinvention, earning critical acclaim, including Best Off-Broadway Musical at the Outer Critics Circle Awards and producing songs that remain enduring standards of the musical theater canon. Now, About Time will complete the picture.
“This show feels very much of the moment for us,” said Maltby & Shire. “We weren’t interested in looking back so much as looking around—at the lives people are actually living right now. About Time is about staying curious, staying connected, and finding the humor and grace in where you are, rather than where you thought you’d be. People have often told us that if the songs in our shows were placed in chronological order, they would tell a person’s complete life story. We decided to do the job for them and write a show that completes the picture. Taken collectively, we like to call the three revues Life: A Musical.”
About Time features choreography and musical staging by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, music direction by Deniz Cordell, scenic design by James Morgan, costume design by Tracy Christensen, and lighting design by Mitchell Fenton. Associate choreographer and musical stager is Josh Walden with Drew Neal as production stage manager.
Rounding out the company are Ethan Paulini and Nicole Powell as understudies. To download cast headshots, click here.
About Time was developed at the Weathervane Theatre, Out of the Box Theatrics, and Goodspeed Musicals.
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