Encores!: La Cage aux Folles

City Center's invaluable Encores! series concludes it 2025–26 season with a look back at the Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's groundbreaking 1983 musical, adapted from Jean Poiret's French stage play. In this all-Black version, directed by Robert O'Hara (Bootycandy), Billy Porter and Wayne Brady star as a middle-aged gay couple in St. Tropez—proprietors of a popular drag nightclub—who must go back into the closet to meet the arch-conservative parents of their son's fiancée. James Jackson Jr. plays their flamboyant maid and Tonya Pinkins is their friend, a swanky restaurateuse; Alaman Diadhiou and Rachel Webb are the younger couple, and Peter Francis James and Sharon Washington are the mean in-laws-to-be. Joseph Joubert is the visiting musical director.