Taylor Swift attended a matinee performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum Theater in New York City on Saturday, June 13, with Travis Kelce at her side. The visit came just two days after Swift was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Thursday night.
According to Billboard, Swift and Kelce posed backstage with the cast after the show, including Maya Rudolph, who is currently starring as Mary Todd Lincoln. A clip filmed by a fellow audience member at curtain call shows Swift several rows from the stage, leading a standing ovation.
Rudolph's run in the production is limited. Her final performance is scheduled for July 5, with Megan Stalter set to take over the role of Mary Todd for a 10-week stint beginning July 6.
Oh, Mary! is described in its official synopsis as a comedic one-act play that examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mary Todd Lincoln. The show was written by Cole Escola, who also originated the lead role. Rudolph currently portrays the first lady in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln's assassination, with the plot centering on her unrequited desires and unhappiness within her marriage. The play reimagines President Lincoln as closeted.
"This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Escola told NPR. "A dream that the whole world is telling her is stupid and doesn't make any sense."
At the 2025 Tony Awards, Escola won best leading actor in a play, and director Sam Pinkleton took home best direction of a play.
Swift's Songwriters Hall of Fame induction on Thursday made her the youngest woman ever admitted to the organization. Steven Spielberg introduced her to the stage. A group called Sombr performed two Swift songs in tribute, "Cardigan" and "Dear John," with Swift and her parents softly singing along from their table.
In her speech, Swift reflected on more than two decades in music. "If I look back at my entire 23-year career in music, the ups and downs and industry battles, the trials and tribulations, the cheers and tears and dogpiling of doubt, the criticisms — both fair and unfair — the complete loss of privacy, the world tours and ego wars, and the twists of fate, the absolute magical chaos of this path that I chose when I was too young to remember it even being a choice at all, songwriting was the easiest thing I ever did," she said.
