Atlantic Theater Company

Mo Willems's delightful Elephant & Piggie books are the inspiration for this original musical for tots, featuring dialogue and lyrics by Willems himself and music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. Director-choreographer MK Lawson coordinates the fun for the Atlantic for Kids, which performs at 10:30am at the Atlantic's main Off Broadway space. The cast features Juan Castro, Nathan Diaz, Frenki Hykollari, Christian Adriana Johannsen, Cindy Tsai and Gabriella Scott. 

As half of the Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen has been one of the cinematic auteurs behind such classics as Fargo, The Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men—but in his spare time, he likes to write short comedies for the stage. Neil Pepe has already directed two collections of them for his Atlantic Theater Company (2008's Almost an Evening and 2011's Happy Hour) and was set to bring in another in 2020, A Play Is a Poem, before Covid interfered. With the Atlantic embroiled in a labor dispute, there's a fairly good chance that this one will be postponed as well.