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Arts Intel Report

The Unknown

Sean Hayes with the director Leigh Silverman and the writer David Cale.

Jan 31 – Apr 12, 2026
305 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036, United States

Elliott has writer’s block. To help him break it, friends send him on a writer’s retreat upstate. When the woodland quiet is invaded by a voice singing a number from one of Elliott’s own musicals, he bolts back to New York City, only to discover the voice has followed him home. So begins the new one-man show written by David Cale and directed by Leigh Silverman. The beleaguered Elliott is played by Sean Hayes (Will & Grace), who “takes to this material as if it were written for him,” according to Helen Shaw in The New York Times. —Jeanne Malle