Who Played Understudy in Andre De Shields is Tartuffe

Understudy is a role in Andre De Shields is Tartuffe, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 2025.

This October, for a strictly limited engagement, Tony Award® winner and Broadway legend André De Shields opens the doors of the House of the Redeemer (7 East 95th St. ) to only his most devoted disciples for a decadent spectacle. Within an historic Upper East Side mansion rarely opened to the public, De Shields and his ensemble invite just 100 guests per night to a sumptuous evening of ritual and revelry inspired by Molière’s notorious deceiver, Tartuffe. With a razor-sharp translation by Ranjit Bolt (OBE) and direction by Keaton Wooden, this scandalous satire that once shocked Paris is reborn as a wicked parlor party: fast, furious, and unmistakably timely.