Variety (Exclusive): Jesse Tyler Ferguson Starring as Truman Capote in 'Tru'

[MezzA101]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:25am

https://variety.com/2026/legit/news/jesse-tyler-ferguson-truman-capote-tru-play-1236659274/

[quizking101]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:31am

Oooooh. I loved André’s Tartuffe at HOUSE OF THE REDEEMER. I’m curious to see this in their library/theatre

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:44am

quizking101 said: "Oooooh. I loved André’s Tartuffe at HOUSE OF THE REDEEMER. I’m curious to see this in their library/theatre"

Did they have stools for that? Are they higher than the rest? Just curious about seating.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:50am

[MasterThespian 2]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:14pm

I’m in. Seeing this in April. Should be quite good. Fascinated by Capote and a sucker for anything set in the 1970s.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:17pm

MasterThespian 2 said: "I’m in. Seeing this in April. Should be quite good. Fascinated by Capote and a sucker for anything set in the 1970s."

Here’s Tony Award winner Robert Morse in the original 1990 Broadway production: 

 

[Benj11242]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:53pm

any idea if this could potentially extend? I’m in town the weekend after it’s scheduled to. I don’t know much about this venue or if Tartuffe extended its run so I don’t know patterns. 

[blug]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 1:27pm

If memory serves, the play is extremely boring. 

[JSquared2]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 1:34pm

blug said: "If memory serves, the play is extremely boring."

 

Sounds like your memory is "out of service"?

 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 2:03pm

blug said: "If memory serves, the play is extremely boring."

Seems the creatives agree so the play is being trimmed down into an intermission-less 90-minute adaptation. 

[blug]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 2:48pm

JSquared2 said: "blug said: "If memory serves, the play is extremely boring."



Sounds like your memory is "out of service"?

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It isn't boring?  Explain.  Here's one of Frank Rich's takes:

​​​​​​"The complex, possibly tragic figure of a wasted artist is replaced by a maudlin, some might say antediluvian, stereotype of ''Boys in the Band'' vintage: the alcoholic moneyed homosexual who, having lost his youth and beauty, is left all alone with his telephone and record collection in his penthouse on Christmas Eve."

Updated On: 2/11/26 at 02:48 PM

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 12:49am

iluvtheatertrash said: "quizking101 said: "Oooooh. I loved André’s Tartuffe at HOUSE OF THE REDEEMER. I’m curious to see this in their library/theatre"

Did they have stools for that? Are they higher than the rest? Just curious about seating."

It was general admission seating for that, three or four rows of normal chairs, no stools I recall. 

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 2:00pm

The play is certainly not boring - quite the opposite in fact.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 2:20pm

The Feud season was boring.

Nice to see a gay actor play the part, on screen I've only ever seen hetero guys. Who were all great, but still, it's nice.

[Ke3]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 9:25pm

Truman is a tragic figure but not in the way so many treatments of his life seem to want him to be tragic. Would be interested to see this take.