Former FBI Director James Comey has been spotted backstage at a touring Broadway show just four days after he was fired by Donald Trump.

During his first public outing since was publicly sacked by the president, Comey spent Saturday afternoon at the National Theater in Washington, catching the penultimate performance of Fun Home.

The touring show, which won a Tony Award for best new musical in 2015, is a true, coming of age story about lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel.

Comey, who was with his wife Patrice, told the cast that his daughter had seen the show when it toured in Chicago and and that 'they had to see it.'

Former FBI Director James Comey (back, center) has been spotted backstage at a touring Broadway show just four days after he was fired by Donald Trump

Barbara Whitman, one of Fun Home's lead producers, said that Comey and his wife were so moved by the performances, they were 'wiping away tears' when they came backstage.

'He said something to the effect of it was the best thing they could have picked for their first outing,' she told the New York Times.

'It's awfully moving, but I would imagine doubly so at the end of a week like this,' she wrote in an email.

'I was a little tongue-tied, and as they were leaving, I said, 'Get home safe,' as if I were his mom, and also as if he doesn't know every F.B.I. agent in the country.'

The news of Comey's termination on Tuesday sent shock waves through the nation's capital.

Trump (left) told Comey (right) in his termination letter that he was being ousted because he was not 'able to effectively lead the bureau'

Comey has been heading an investigation into the connections between Trump's advisers and the Russian government (President Trump, left, shook hands with Comey on January 22)

In fact, the former FBI director first learned that he was fired when he saw the news reports being played on a TV in the background, according to the New York Times, and assumed it was a 'fairly funny prank.'

He reportedly even laughed at the news before staff asked him to step into another room.

A letter from Donald Trump was delivered to the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC around the same time.

'While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau,' Trump wrote.

'It is essential that we find new leadership for the F.B.I. that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.'

FBI sources told ABC News that Comey was finally read his termination letter over the phone.

Comey's firing was effective immediately, and deputy director Andrew McCabe was quickly made the acting head of the FBI. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly recommended that Trump fire Comey.

A letter from Donald Trump was delivered to the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, informing Comey he had been fired

Comey has been heading an investigation into the connections between Trump's advisers and the Russian government before the 2016 presidential election. He was also responsible for handling the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server last fall - a lengthy process that Trump once called 'gutsy.'

In July, Comey stated that the bureau 'did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information,' but that they had been 'extremely careless.'

Rosenstein wrote in a letter released by the White House that he did not appreciate the findings that Comey had come to.

'I cannot defend the director’s handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton’s emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken.'

He was kept a very low profile since then, only making his first public appearance at Washington's National Theater yesterday.

He is hardly the first politician to seek solace in the theater after their career went down in flames.

Hillary Clinton has repeatedly been seen at Broadway shows since losing out to Trump in the presidential election.

HERO TO ZERO: FIRED FBI BOSS ENDED UP HATED BY EVERYONE Attorney General James Comey sealed a reputation as a brave and principled actor after a 2004 standoff during the Bush administration, when he refused White House efforts to get him to reauthorize warrantless eavesdropping while Attorney General John Ashcroft was hospitalized. Comey had been appointed deputy attorney general by President George W. Bush, having served as a U.S. attorney in New York under Rudy Giuliani in New York. With Ashcroft incapacitated, Bush administration officials wanted Ashcroft, and then Comey, to sign off on an extension of the authority, with just hours to go before an N.S.A. program expired. Comey refused. His stand was a major reason why President Obama nominated him to be head of the FBI in 2013. Obama hailed Comey as a person of 'fierce independence and deep integrity' as he nominated him for the FBI post, which carries a 10-year term. A devout Catholic, a registered Republican and a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he seemed to radiate independence from the Democratic machine. And many congressional Democrats became far less supportive of Comey after the 2016 presidential election. Obama's man: Republican James Comey was chosen by the Democratic president for his principled stand but ended up in the words of one senator as 'as popular as cholera' Led by defeated candidate Hillary Clinton, many have griped about Comey's handling of the Clinton email scandal. On July 5th, 2016, Comey personally announced the FBI's decision not to charge Clinton in connection with its investigation of her private email server and handling of classified material. He nevertheless called her conduct 'extremely careless.' Then on October 28, he told lawmakers the bureau was reviewing newly discovered emails in connection to the investigation. The FBI had uncovered thousands of emails on disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop that had been sent to his wife, longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Comey drew the Democrats' ire once again when he announced two days before the election that the investigation hadn't turned up anything to alter the decision not to prosecute. Clinton said it only made matters worse and stole headlines. In the congressional hearing where he made inaccurate statements about about Abedin's emails, Democrats grilled Comey about why he had not revealed the existence of an ongoing investigation into alleged Russian election interference. Comey said the FBI 'didn't say a word about' the Russia investigation until months into, whereas he had testified under oath about the existence of the Clinton investigation. Advertisement



