WORLD PREMIERE: ELIZABETH ADDISON’S CHASING GRACE BEGINS OFF-BROADWAY MARCH 12

NEW YORK, NY - January 6, 2026: SheNYC ARTS is pleased to announce the World Premiere of Elizabeth Addison’s compelling and highly relevant new musical, CHASING GRACE, which will play a three-week limited engagement at Off Broadway’s ART/NY Mezzanine Theatre (502 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019). ​ Performances begin Thursday, March 12th, 2026, and continue through Sunday, March 29th. Opening Night is Saturday, March 14th, 2026 (7:30 pm). Tickets begin at $35 and are available at http://www.shenycarts.org/ChasingGrace

Moving fluidly between a treatment facility, memory, and the rehearsal room, CHASING GRACE is a meta-musical about recovery, authorship, and the cost of telling the truth out loud. With a score blending contemporary musical theatre, pop, and R&B, the show holds space for grief, rage, joy, absurdity, and hard-won laughter, capturing the lived reality of women navigating addiction, healing, and self-definition.

The show follows a writer as she sorts through the memories of her time in early recovery inside a women's treatment facility, where survival meant learning how to stay, how to listen, and how not to run. As the writer shapes her treatment experience into a new musical, memory and rehearsal collide. The women she once lived beside reappear, not as cautionary tales, but as full, complex human beings whose stories demand dignity, humor, and care.

As the musical's workshops succeed and industry attention grows, the writer is pulled into a familiar danger zone: external validation, creative compromise, and the seductive belief that success will finally make her feel whole. Pressure mounts to reshape the story into something more “palatable,” more marketable, and less honest. The farther she moves from the truth of her recovery, the closer she comes to losing it.

Inspired by author Elizabeth Addison’s time in treatment and chasing her own Brodway dreams with her first musical, CHASING GRACE examines recovery not as a fixed destination, but as an ongoing practice, one shaped by community, memory, perseverance, accountability, and choice. At its core, CHASING GRACE asks, what happens when you stop chasing the idea of grace and start learning how to live inside it?

"Chasing Grace is about having faith in your vision and keeping true to your story even when the world wants the easier version," says Addison, who will also direct the production. "The show sings in the voice of recovery - fierce, funny, and honest."

The production will feature choreography by Brian Harlan Brooks, lighting design by Athziri Morales, sound design by Jasper Percy Pollinger and will be stage managed by Avery Wood. Publicity by Katie Rosin/Kampfire PR.

Tickets begin at $35 and are now available online at http://www.shenycarts.org/ChasingGrace

Running Time: 120 minutes

Website: http://www.shenycarts.org/chasinggrace

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BIOGRAPHIES

ELIZABETH ADDISON (Book, Music, Lyrics, & Director): Elizabeth Addison is an award-winning multi-hyphenate whose work exists at the intersection of recovery and the performing arts. She has written three musicals inspired by her recovery journey, one of which, “Chasing Grace,” is set to have an Off-Broadway run in 2026 and will be produced by SheNYC. Recently, she was the scriptwriter on two shows at the 92Y celebrating the songs and legacy of Jonathan Larson and Holland-Dozier-Holland. ​ Elizabeth is a creative recovery coach, story coach, and trauma-informed facilitator with The Meghann Perry Group where she facilitates Recovery Storytelling, Embodied Storytelling and Embodied Songwriting workshops. ​ She is also a consultant for The Opioid Response Network (ORN) and The Resident Artist at The Grayken Center in Boston. Elizabeth travels the world performing and giving keynotes on the role creativity, play, music and theatre has in recovery. This past summer, she was in Aotearoa, New Zealand, performing with Recovery Street. Follow Elizabeth’s journey at Elizabethspeaks.com

SheNYC Arts is a nonprofit organization that fights for gender equity in the arts & entertainment industry. We know that what audiences watch in plays, musicals, films, and TV shows helps mold the way they see the world around them – and we want audiences to see shows by women & femme artists, telling our stories through our lens.

We focus most of our support on the original creators — playwrights, composers, and producers — to get more women, trans, and non-binary people in these roles that decide which stories get told on stage and screen.

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