Performances of the Broadway play “The Nance†will be extended by eight weeks through August 11, Lincoln Center Theater announced on Thursday, aiming to capitalize on the Tony Award nomination this week for lead actor Nathan Lane.
The show received four Tony nominations for design contributions as well, though not a best play nomination for the playwright, Douglas Carter Beane. The play, which opened to good reviews in April, is about the personal and professional travails of a gay New Yorker (played by Mr. Lane) who performs in a 1930s burlesque theater as a nance, a brazenly effeminate stock character. The production by the nonprofit Lincoln Center Theater has been selling well; it took in $445,409 last week, or 60 percent of the maximum possible gross, a solid amount for a play.
