School Girls closes Nov. 15 at the Friedman; its final week also streams
Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Jocelyn Bioh's play plays its final performance Nov. 15. The last week of performances streams as-live, with a 24-hour replay, for $59.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play plays its final Broadway performance on Sunday, November 15, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Jocelyn Bioh's play, directed by Whitney White for Manhattan Theatre Club, began previews September 8 and opened September 28. The cast includes Denée Benton, Patina Miller and Jasmine Amy Rogers. The play is set at Aburi Girls Boarding School in Ghana in 1986, around the Miss Ghana pageant, and runs 80 minutes with no intermission. It is Bioh's Broadway debut production, nine years after the play's Off-Broadway premiere at MCC Theater in 2017.
The closing comes with a second way in. Performances from Tuesday, November 10 through Sunday, November 15 stream as-live at curtain times through the League of Live Stream Theater, each with a 24-hour replay window after the stream. Stream tickets are $59. The production also runs a digital rush for in-person seats.
For readers outside New York, the stream is the only remaining route to this production before it closes. The production record is here.
- Playbill, Last Chance closing schedule, updated October 29, 2026: final performance November 15, 2026, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
- Manhattan Theatre Club and BroadwayWorld, October 21, 2026: final-week streaming November 10–15, $59 stream tickets via the League of Live Stream Theater, 24-hour replay, preview and opening dates.
- Aparté, "The Closing Desk," October 29, 2026: cast, running time and production history.