Little Dog Laughed industry pressntation

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 12:05pm

Luke Macfarlane, Cooper Koch and Billy Porter to Star in THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED Presentation

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Must confess I think taking a plum role from a woman and rewriting it for a man is gross, especially in 2026. 

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 12:17pm

Julie White won a Tony for a reason

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 12:52pm

The lead female role in this has no reason to be a gay man, and in fact robs the play of any reason to exist. If Billy Porter wants to play a bitchy Hollywood agent, they should write another play for him. A friend of mine suggested Sandra Oh, and I think that’s brilliant casting.

That said, they’re clearly trying to rival Johnny Galecki’s, uh… talent… by hiring Cooper Koch.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 12:55pm

Minus Cooper Koch, this sounds like an excellent presentation.

[DCS]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 3:52pm

love the play.... loved Julie White... can't stand Porter... hard pass for me!

[WldKingdomHM]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 3:53pm

Loved this play. Julie White was amazing in it. Billy Porter eh …give me Janelle James

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 3:58pm

Interesting but recast Porter.

[Falsettolands]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 4:28pm

This loses a lot of the bite without someone like Julie White in that role. What a force of nature that performance was.

[SisterGeorge]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 7:34pm

ColorTheHours048 said: "The lead female role in this has no reason to be a gay man, and in fact robs the play of any reason to exist. If Billy Porter wants to play a bitchy Hollywood agent, they should write another play for him. A friend of mine suggested Sandra Oh, and I think that’s brilliant casting.

That said, they’re clearly trying to rival Johnny Galecki’s, uh… talent… by hiring Cooper Koch."

So we know for sure that the lead role is being rewritten. Do we know for sure that the rest of the play is staying as is?

Updated On: 2/27/26 at 07:34 PM

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 10:23pm

Been a long time but I remember thinking that Julie White was a hell of a lot better than the play...

Updated On: 2/28/26 at 10:23 PM

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 2/27/26 at 10:37pm

WldKingdomHM said: "Loved this play. Julie White was amazing in it. Billy Porter eh …give meJanelle James"

OMG LOVE THIS IDEA

[Dolly80]

Posted: 2/28/26 at 1:44am

Who on earth thought casting Porter was a good idea? 

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/28/26 at 8:35am

I saw a production of the play somewhat recently, and I didn't feel it held up particularly well -- especially without a performance as dynamic as White's at its center. Without acting like homophobia still doesn't exist within the industry, the world the play represents felt like a relic of a bygone era. (It's worth remembering that Neil Patrick Harris was outed around the time this play was on Broadway, and there were sincere conversations about whether he'd still be believable as a straight leading man.) It would need a lot of revising and tightening to seem as relevant today as it did 20 years ago.

Casting Porter is an atrocious idea. Putting aside everything about his stage persona that's off-putting, the gendered dynamic between Diane and Mitchell is such a key to the play that wouldn't be replicated by presenting the characters as two gay men. 

Updated On: 2/28/26 at 08:35 AM