New Maltby & Shire Musical ABOUT TIME to Premiere Off-Broadway

About Time, the new Maltby & Shire musical revue with music by Academy Award and Grammy Award winner David Shire and lyrics by Tony Award winner Richard Maltby, Jr., will premiere Off-Broadway at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater for a limited 5-week engagement this Spring starring Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius de Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, and Lynne Wintersteller. Directed by Maltby, About Time completes the legendary songwriting duo’s massively influential trilogy that includes Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever. Performances begin Friday, February 27, ahead of an official opening night on Sunday, March 15.

Best known for a body of work that spans acclaimed book musicals and influential revues, Maltby & Shire are singular voices in American musical theater, celebrated for their wit, emotional precision, and incisive observations of modern life. Throughout their career, they have returned to the musical revue as a uniquely intimate form—one that allows their songs to speak directly to audiences, telling a larger story without narrative distance or ornament.

The new show completes a trilogy that the authors didn’t know they were writing, that has quietly helped shape contemporary musical theater. Starting Here, Starting Now, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1977, introduced a candid, conversational songwriting style that captured the exhilaration and uncertainty of early adulthood and became a cult classic, including a nomination for a Grammy Award. More than a decade later, Closer Than Ever turned its focus to adult relationships, ambition, compromise, and reinvention, earning critical acclaim, including Best Off-Broadway Musical at the Outer Critics Circle Awards and producing songs that remain enduring standards of the musical theater canon. Now, About Time will complete the picture.