About the Play:

My Big Gay Italian Wedding is a full-length comedy by Anthony Wilkinson. What could possibly go wrong when everyone wants to help out with the wedding plans… everything that is what in this BIG off-Broadway wacky-zanny mega hit production.

My Big Gay Italian Wedding satirizes the controversy surrounding same-sex marriage while drawing on larger than life gay and Italian characters. Anthony Pinnunziato, a gay Italian-American from a large chaotic family, wants to marry his boyfriend Andrew Polinski in a traditional Italian ceremony. Everyone wants to "help", but it spins into a hysterical fiasco as everyone tries to have their way. Anthony's loud, opinionated, outspoken Italian mother won't give her blessing unless Andrew's estranged mother also gives her blessing and the ceremony is performed by a priest. Matters are further complicated by Andrew's saboteur ex-boyfriend, intent on breaking up the couple. Personalities and culture collide in this music and dance-filled extravaganza that is the first of the internationally-known, critically acclaimed Big Gay Italian Trilogy.

My Big Gay Italian Wedding premiered in 2003 at the Actors Playhouse in New York City and later moved to Theatre Four in 2004. It was revived in 2009 at St. Luke's Theatre for a 16 month run off-Broadway. Since then My Big Gay Italian Wedding has become one of the highest grossing off-Broadway plays and has been performed in regional theatres across America, Edinburgh, Scotland during the Fringe Festival, London, Vancouver, Hong Kong, and a UK tour that commenced in France.

Cast: 5 women, 8 men

What people say:

"Feel-good hysterical comedy." — The Wall Street Journal

"An insanely funny and fun confection. The mixture of the sacred and profane, the ultra-serious and ultra-silly makes this the perfect play." — Edge New York

About the Playwright:

Anthony J. Wilkinson is an American playwright, actor, director, and producer. Born and raised in New York, he is a graduate of NYU's College of Arts and Sciences for English and Creative Writing. He started his career as an Intern Writer at ABC Daytime's One Life To Live in 1996 and during his fourteen years there he worked his way up to the position of Associate Director. While in that position he earned three Daytime Emmy Awards and was a four-time recipient of the Directors Guild of America Award.