Prince Faggot

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Prince Faggot
Prince Faggot Program Cover.png
Program cover from Studio Seaview run
Written by Jordan Tannahill
Directed byShayok Misha Chowdhury
Date premieredJune 16, 2025
Original languageEnglish

Prince Faggot is a 2025 play by Jordan Tannahill.

Synopsis

An ensemble of queer and trans performers imagine a future world where Prince George of Cambridge is a gay man. In the process, they interrogate the ways in which power and colonisation play upon their lives and sexualities. [1] [2]

Contents

The play features a series of fictional, direct-address monologues written by the playwright for the members of the ensemble, and a final monologue based on the real-life experiences of actress N'yomi Allure Stewart. [3] [4]

Production history

World premiere (Off-Broadway)

Prince Faggot opened at Playwrights Horizons with a first preview on May 30, 2025, an official opening night on June 16, and a scheduled closing on July 6. After an extension, the first run closed on August 3, 2025. The show was co-produced by Soho Rep and Jeremy O. Harris, and directed by Obie Award winner Shayok Misha Chowdhury. [5]

Studio Seaview (Off-Broadway)

The show returned to for a second Off-Broadway run at Studio Seaview for an initial run of September 11, 2025 to October 26, 2025. [6] It was later extended through November 30, 2025. [7] On November 3, 2025, a third and final extension through December 13, 2025 was announced. [8]

Critical reception

New York Times theatre critic Jesse Green gave Prince Faggot a Critics' Pick and wrote "If the playwright means to shock, mission accomplished. But here’s the real shocker: the play... is thrilling. Inflammatory, nose-thumbing, explicit to the point of pornography, wild and undisciplined." [9] The play received positive reviews from various publications including The New Yorker , [10] Attitude , [11] and Cosmopolitan , which described the show as "a horny, thought-provoking play that's as academic as it is avant-garde." [12] The play stirred a degree of controversy [13] and prompted international press coverage [14] over its depiction of Prince George of Cambridge as an adult gay man engaged in kink and chemsex.

The premiere production was included on a number of 'Best of 2025' lists, including in the Los Angeles Times [15] Artforum [16] and Vulture. [17]

Casting and characters

Playwrights Horizons [18] Studio Seaview [18]
Performer 1Mihir Kumar
Performer 2 K. Todd Freeman Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (September 11-26, 2025)
K. Todd Freeman (from September 27)
Performer 3Rachel Crowl
Performer 4 N'yomi Allure Stewart
Performer 5 David Greenspan
Performer 6 John McCrea

References

  1. ↑ "Prince Faggot". Playwrights Horizon. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  2. ↑ Nevins, Jake (2025-07-15). "Jordan Tannahill Takes Tony Kushner Inside "Prince Faggot"". Interview. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  3. ↑ "Prince Faggot May Look Like It's About the Royal Family, But It's Actually About Queer Joy". Playbill , November 20, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Breaking the fourth wall to confront and galvanise audiences". Los Angeles Times , December 8, 2025.
  5. ↑ Buchwald, Linda (2025-04-16). "K. Todd Freeman, David Greenspan, and More Join Jordan Tannahill World Premiere". TheaterMania. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  6. ↑ Gans, Andrew; Culwell-Block, Logan (4 August 2025). "Prince F****t Sets Fall Off-Broadway Return". Playbill. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  7. ↑ "Prince F****t Extends Off-Broadway Return". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2025-09-22. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  8. ↑ Culwell-Block, Logan (3 November 2025). "Prince Fagg*t Gets 3rd, Final Extension Off-Broadway at Studio Seaview". Playbill. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
  9. ↑ "Review: He's Here, He's Queer, He's the Future King of England". The New York Times . 2025-06-18. Retrieved 2025-09-25.
  10. ↑ Shaw, Helen (2025-06-26). ""Prince Faggot" Sends Up Kink and Country". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2025-09-25.
  11. ↑ "Prince Faggot Off-Broadway Review 'No kings in NYC, but we bow to the princess of the pier'". 2025-06-18. Retrieved 2025-11-30.
  12. ↑ "Broadway's Edgier Cousin Is Thriving—and Getting Political". Cosmopolitan. 2025-06-18. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  13. ↑ "Sex, drugs and S&M: hit play depicts Prince George as grown up and gay". The Times, June 21, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Why are Americans obsessed with making the Royal family gay?". The Telegraph, June 18, 2025.
  15. ↑ "Best Theater of 2025". Los Angeles Times , Dec 9, 2025.
  16. ↑ "Rhoda Feng Best of Performing Arts 2025". Artforum , Dec 2, 2025.
  17. ↑ "What the Culturati 50 Loved in 2025". Vulture , Dec 1, 2025.
  18. 1 2 Russo, Gillian (2025-08-04). "'Prince F****t' to play encore Off-Broadway run this fall". New York Theatre Guide. Retrieved 2025-09-25.
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