Ain’t No Mo extends Broadway Run by a week

isn’t a mo’Playwright Jordan E. Cooper’s acclaimed but troubled Broadway comedy has been extended for another week, now playing at the Belasco Theater through Friday, December 23rd.

Cooper announced the extension during the curtain call after tonight’s performance. The postponement comes just days after the Lee Daniels-hosted production announced a December 18 completion date after just 22 previews and 21 regular performances.

Watch Cooper share the news in the video above.

Cooper, the youngest Black American playwright to open a Broadway show, launched a #SaveAintNoMo social media campaign after the graduation announcement as he and Daniels worked to drum up support for the show. isn’t a mo’critically acclaimed, tackles racial injustice through outrageous comedy, poignant drama and searing satire, with multiple scenes and vignettes built around the premise that the US government has decided to “fix racism.” , by sending black Americans back to Africa.

Since the launch of the awareness campaign, celebrities such as Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, RuPaul, Tyler Perry, Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, Queen Latifah, Shonda Rhimes and Sara Ramirez have lent a helping hand in support of the program, according to tonight’s announcement. who “make significant contributions.” ‘ by Rev. Al Sharpton, Swizz Beatz, D-Nice, Derrick Hayes & Pinky Cole, Jeremy O. Harris, Denee Benton, Debbie Allen and Dominique Morrisseau.

Co-producers Lena Waithe and RuPaul hosted performances this week, with Perry and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith buying entire performances.

Earlier this week, Deadline interviewed Cooper and Daniels about the show, the challenges of presenting black theater on Broadway and the possibility of an extension. “We don’t mind going down,” Cooper told Deadline, “but we’re not going down without a fight.” Read the interview here.