(“I’m the outlaw Jesse James! Bang bang—!”) He got drunk, got in fights, moved out west; he joined a gang of Oklahoma train robbers, and he died in a shootout at the age 31. But that’s ...

That’s the gorgeously perverse opening of “Dead Outlaw,” the feel-good musical of the season, if death and deadpan feel good to you. As directed by David Cromer, in another of his daringly ...

For 65 years, the mummified body of outlaw Elmer McCurdy was bought and sold for private and public consumption. “Dead Outlaw” brings this crazy story to vivid Broadway life. Senior Editor and ...

Now landing in the dog days of the 2024-25 Broadway season, “Dead Outlaw” is a deliciously sardonic little tuner from the cheerfully nihilistic, ever anti-sentimental, ever macabre team of ...

At the Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48th Street. There’s a nagging similarity between the 20th-century criminal Elmer McCurdy and “Dead Outlaw,” the eccentric musical about him. McCurdy was ...

Unlike the mobile British corpse in “Operation Mincemeat,” the traveling American cadaver in the Broadway musical “Dead Outlaw” has a far less noble posthumous purpose than winning World ...

The unlikely subject of Dead Outlaw is the life — and death — of Elmer McCurdy, a late 19th-century ne’er-do-well who came to an early end but whose corporeal form enjoyed a bizarrely long ...

Dead Outlaw features a book by Itamar Moses, music and lyrics from David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and is directed by David Cromer. The cast, reprising their roles from Off-Broadway ...

(Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) The creative team behind Dead Outlaw: Director David Cromer, composer-lyricist David Yazbek, book writer Itamar Moses and composer-lyricist Erik Della ...

NEW YORK — “Dead Outlaw,” the offbeat musical from the team behind the Tony-winning musical “The Band’s Visit,” isn’t mincing words with the title. The show, which had its official ...

Dead Outlaw is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer’s body finds even more outlandish ...

Ask the folks flocking toward their bodies like circus attractions in “Dead Outlaw” and “Floyd Collins” — a pair of recently opened musicals set on the precipice of death. That turns out ...