Matty Maggiacomo is taking his love of theater off the Tread and onto the stage in New York.
Matty will take part in a star-studded off-Broadway event from the Public Theater at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater on Monday, June 15, sharing the bill with screen star Christian Slater, Tony winner J. Harrison Ghee, and more.
The event, “Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion, or What We Do For Love,” pairs a performance of an excerpt from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following the play’s four young lovers, with a talkback exploring why we do “so many crazy, inspired, devoted, disloyal things in our friendships and love affairs.” Matty shared that he will serve as a narrator for the performance.
Alongside Slater and Ghee, the cast includes Frankie J. Alvarez, Grantham Coleman, Micaela Diamond, and Rebecca Naomi Jones. The post-performance discussion brings in Kwame Anthony Appiah, the NYU philosopher behind The New York Times Magazine’s weekly “Ethicist” column; Shakespeare scholars James Shapiro and Ayanna Thompson; and Logan Ury, Hinge’s lead relationship scientist and author of “How to Not Die Alone.”
Matty has a long history with Broadway. He hosts the Broadway podcast “Drama Club with Matty,” teaches a long list of Broadway-themed Peloton classes, and regularly works theater into his workouts, including an elaborate Sunset Boulevard parody staged during a class last summer.
The performance kicks off the relaunch of the Public’s Public Forum series, which will take over the Delacorte’s Monday nights (otherwise the dark day for its free Shakespeare in the Park run of Romeo and Juliet) through the summer.
The free, one-night-only event begins at 8 PM. There are four ways to grab free tickets:
- The line at the Delacorte
- Evening standby at the Delacorte
- Digital lottery through TodayTix
- In-person lottery at the Public
You can find ticketing details on the Public’s Public Forum page, more on the event via the Public Theater’s event page, and additional context from Playbill.
Will you be catching Matty at the Delacorte on June 15?
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