On my radar: Alan Cumming’s cultural highlights

This play is written and directed by Cole Escola, a bitingly funny performer who’s been a New York cabaret scene fixture for years. I saw it off Broadway when it first opened and it blew my mind. It’s now on Broadway and I love that, because it’s the weirdest, downtowniest, queerest thing. Escola plays Mary, the wife of Abraham Lincoln, and the premise is that she always wanted to be a cabaret singer. It’s just nuts and brilliant and hilarious – and so dirty. I can’t wait to see it again.