DEAD OUTLAW PLAYED ITS FINAL PERFORMANCE JUNE 29, 2025

WINNER!
Best Musical
Drama Desk Award
WINNER!
Best Musical
Outer Critics Circle Award
WINNER!
Best Musical
New York Drama Critics’
Circle Award
  • “This truly twisted yarn is THE SURPRISINGLY FEEL-GOOD
    MUSICAL OF THE SEASON!     It should have a hell of an afterlife.”
  • “WILDLY ENTERTAINING! It should attract audiences who like their entertainment bold, bracing and outrageous.”
  • “A glorious musical. DEAD OUTLAW IS UNMISSABLE.”
  • ★★★★★ “This rollicking, darkly hilarious, thoroughly
    original musical tale is going to knock you dead.”
A New York Times Critics' Pick

Dead Outlaw Dead Outlaw

image of a bandana with guitar, trains, money bag, cowboy hat motif

Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek & Eric Della Penna

Book by Itamar Moses | Conceived by David Yazbek | Directed by David Cromer

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  • a man and woman wearing old west period attire swing dancing on a dark stage
  • a rock band wearing old west period attire perform on a stage
  • a woman wearing old west period attire sings on a stage
  • two men dressed in old west attire present another man in a coffin, on a stage, with a sign that reads &sdquo;Elmer “Missouri$rdquo; McCurdy, The Safe-Cracker Who Wuld Not Be Taken Alive’
  • a man in fancy plaid suit and tie, with a lab coat on top, performs on a stage, smiling
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The Best New Musical This Season - Observer

He was wanted by the law, killed by a posse... and then his career really took off! Based on the “that can’t actually be true” story of bumbling bandit Elmer McCurdy and winner of three Best Musical Awards (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, NY Drama Critics’ Circle), this “rollicking, darkly hilarious, and thoroughly original musical will knock you dead!” (Time Out). Step right up and get tickets to the show Entertainment Weekly calls “a truly one-of-a-kind production, complete with a whole lot of laughs and a surprising amount of heart. It needs to be seen to be believed!”

The Best New Musical This Season - Observer