Meg Stalter is heading to Broadway for the first time, taking over the title role in Oh, Mary! as Mary Todd Lincoln on July 6, 2026. Her 10-week engagement will run through September 12, 2026, after Maya Rudolph’s extended stint in the part ends on July 5.

The move gives Stalter a new stage as the hit comedy keeps extending its reach. Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024, at the Lyceum Theatre and quickly became a rare commercial force, becoming the first show in the theater’s 121-year history to gross more than $1,000,000 in a single week. It has broken its own box office record thirteen times and was the first show of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its investment.

Stalter’s casting also keeps the role in a line of performers who have made Mary Todd Lincoln central to the show’s appeal. Cole Escola created the part, and Betty Gilpin, Tituss Burgess, Jinkx Monsoon, Jane Krakowski, Hannah Solow, John Cameron Mitchell and Rudolph have all played Mary in the production’s Broadway life.

In a statement, Stalter said she felt an immediate connection to the character and to Escola’s writing, describing the experience as “excited and giddy” and saying she saw herself in Mary in a way she had never seen herself in a role before. She added that she has been in love with Escola’s “brain, heart, and work” since first experiencing it, and called the opportunity “the prize of a lifetime.”

Her Broadway debut arrives during an especially busy stretch for the comedian and actor. Stalter currently stars as Kayla in the fifth and final season of Hacks, released her debut single Prettiest Girl in America, and announced a summer album, Crave. Last year, she led Netflix’s romantic comedy series Too Much.

Oh, Mary! is directed by 2025 Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton and is now part of a larger life that includes a production in London’s West End and a North American tour set to launch in Hartford, Connecticut, this fall. Stalter’s arrival on July 6 keeps the show’s momentum intact, and for Broadway it is another sign that the rare play can still behave like a runaway commercial event.

And it puts Stalter in the role that has helped define the show’s run at the Lyceum, where the next question is not whether Oh, Mary! can keep drawing crowds, but how far its reach will go as it keeps adding new Marys and new audiences.