The Cottage on Broadway

The Cottage is a side-splitting farce by Sandy Rustin inspired by the works of Noel Coward. Set in the English countryside in 1923, this tale of sex, betrayal and love unfolds when Sylvia decides to expose her affair to both her husband and to her lover’s wife. The true meaning of fate, identity and marriage are called into question as a surprising and hilarious web of secrets unravels in this ridiculous – potentially murderous – romantic comedy.

Seinfeld comedy icon Jason Alexander takes his talents to the director's chair, staging Sandy Rustin's world-premiere farce The Cottage. Set an alert for The Cottage tickets on TodayTix.

The Cottage is a play about secrets, sex, romance, and — possibly — murder. In the English countryside in 1928, a woman having an affair decides to spill the truth. She tells her husband and her lover's wife at the same time, setting off a snowball effect of secrets coming to light and relationships hilariously turning upside down.

Alexander has directed for the screen before, but he makes his Broadway directorial debut with The Cottage in New York. He's performed in six Broadway shows before, winning a Tony for Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989, but he's best known as Jerry's best friend George Costanza on the classic sitcom Seinfeld.

He directs a trio of fellow comedy aces with Emmy and Tony honors to their name. You likely know Eric McCormack best as Will Truman on Will & Grace, which won him an Emmy and earned him multiple other nominations. Laura Bell Bundy and Lilli Cooper are both Tony nominees: Bundy for Legally Blonde: The Musical as Elle Woods and Cooper for Tootsie as Julie Nichols.

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What to Watch For

• Jason Alexander made his Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along in 1981. That musical will have its first Broadway revival in fall 2023, just as The Cottage wraps up.
• The Cottage is inspired by the plays of Noël Coward. He mostly wrote comedies of manners set in early 20th-century England (like Rustin's show), when he lived.
• Two actors in The Cottage return to Broadway after long hiatuses. McCormack last appeared in 2012's Gore Vidal's The Best Man, and Legally Blonde is Bundy's most recent credit, from 2007.
• Rustin is no stranger to period comedies. She adapted Jonathan Lynn’s screenplay for Clue, the 1950s-set comedy whodunnit, into a 2022 play. American Theatre Clue named one of the most produced shows of the 2022-23 season.
• Rustin also wrote the book for a new musical adaptation of the hit Julia Roberts film Mystic Pizza.