Today’s Highlights:
Relax … let go … let fly…
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The Snow Goose, world premiere by Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie, will run Aug. 28 – Oct. 10 at CT’s Goodspeed, directed by Marshall Paile.
Eric Graise (Philip Rhayader), Ashlyn Maddox (Frith), Ally Bonino (Harper), Sam Sherwood (The Bard), Charlie Webb (Wilf), David Aron Damane (Garrick), Gabriel Marcus Omlor (Farley), Ayanna Nicole Thomas (Clara), Amy Nillner Larsen (Mrs. Frumsey), and Ayanna Nicole Thomas (Clara), with Alan Chandler, Matthew Davies, Leah Hofmann, Kiersten Kelly, Sophia Anna O’Brien, Patrick Tombs, John Viggiano, Sam Hoffman and Jessica Money, Alan Chandler, Matthew Davies, Leah Hofmann (Lead Puppeteer), Kiersten Kelly, Sophia Anna O’Brien, Patrick Tombs, John Viggiano, Sam Hoffman, and Jessica Mone.
On the windswept coast of England an unlikely bond forms between Philip, a reclusive artist shunned by society, and Frith, a resilient young woman, when they rescue a wounded snow goose. With World War II looming, their friendship allows her to imagine a life beyond her village, and him to confront his own humanity as he sets sail on a daring journey to save soldiers trapped at Dunkirk.
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The world premiere of Alleegra & The Cello, in Movements, a New Opera , by Catherine Filloux & Julia Schwartz, will run Dec. 10-20 at Off-Broadway’s La MaMa, directed by Elena Araoz.
Catherine Filloux, Julia Schwartz, Brittany Renee, and Akua Dixon.
In a canon spanning more than four centuries, no opera has ever placed a woman doctor at its center until now. Allegra, the opera’s protagonist, is believed to be the first female physician to serve as the lead character in the history of the art form, a milestone achieved not through an institutional commission but through an act of artistic will.**********************
Come From Away, by Irene Sankoff & David Hein, will run Sept. 2-20 at virginia Stage Company,directed by Tom Quaintance.
Marika Aubrey (Capt. Beverley Bass/Annette/), Liz Brydge, (Beulah Davis/others), Melissa Cartwright (Diane Gray/Others), JohnCauthen (Nick/Doug/Others), (Hannah O’Rourke/Others), Alexandra Fleshman (Janice Mosher/Others), Wallis Herst (Bonnie Harris/Others), and Travis Murad Leland (Kevin J/Ali/& others).
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The original cast recording of Nick Blaemire’s Soon is now available on most platforms.
Ava Delaney (Charlie), Nicholas Podany (Jonah), Mike Millan (Steven), and Mylinda Hull (Adrienne).
A funny, poignant and unexpectedly hopeful meditation on what it means to live and love when the end is near, Soon pairs smart, sharply observed lyrics with indie orchestrations into an unlikely soundtrack for the apocalypse and makes the case for embracing life while we still can. Set during the hottest summer in human history when all of earth’s water will evaporate in less than a year, twentysomething Charlie has taken to her couch to watch TV and eat peanut butter, Soon asks us, in the face of doom, what would you do?,” explains Blaemire. “We look at Charlie and her decisions, but it’s really a larger conversation filled with questions about what it means to do anything and how that leads to our relationships, how we show up for them and our need to love. Those big questions live in this tiny package of one woman making a decision whether she should ever leave her apartment or not.”
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Our Sinatra, a musical celebration, will run Sept. 11 – Oct. 29 (opening Sept. 15) at at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre, directed by Kurt Stamm.
Eric Comstock, Christopher Gines, and Hilary Kole.
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The world premiere of Jacob Ryan Smith & Caroline Pernick’s Like Father will run Oct. 8 – Nov. 15 (opening Oct. 16) at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, directed by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden.
Charity Angél Dawson (Lillian Clark), Hannah Elless ( Michelle), Benjamin H. Moore (Ben), Sophie Pollono (Chris), Frankie Rodriguez (Trevor), and Billy Harrigan Tighe (John Grady), with Mila Bolash, Aavyn Lee, and Nevaeh Riddle.
A coming-of-age story set against America’s true-crime obsession. 17-year-old Chris, who moves i with her estranges mother and stepfather after her father is arrested. When a hut true-crime podcast exposes their dart family history, they must face their past or be torn apart.
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Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, by Duncan Sheik & Leah Nanako Winkler, will begin previews Sept. 25 and open Oct. 15 at The Night Egg at the Culture Club (530 W. 27th St.), directed & choreographed by Rob Ashford.
Sophia Anne Caruso (Colette), Cory Jeacoma (Léon), Nkeki Obi-Melekwe (Nana), Andy Bakun (Sakae), and Jenny Powers (Madame), with Leanne Antonio, Kailin Brown, Michael Everett, Elsa Keefe, Jaedynn Latter, Austin Lesch, Nika Lindsay, Caleb Marshall),Jessie Peltier, Michael Starr, and Thomas Winter.
Based on Moyoco Anno’s award-winning manga of the same name, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is a daring new musical about Colette, a witty young dreamer in 20th-century Paris, who finds her power through writing. While working at an elusive maison close called Night Egg, she begins chronicling the fantasies, confessions, and private sorrows of her eccentric clients, slowly transforming herself from object to observer—turning perversions into art. But underneath her sharp intelligence and growing independence, Colette has her own perversion she cannot outrun: a lingering, destructive attachment to Léon (Jeacoma), her childhood love, whose toxic hold on her continues to blur the line between devotion and self-destruction.
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Like Father, world premiere by Branden Jacobs Jenkins, will run Oct. 8 – Nov. 15 (opening Oct. 16) at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, directed by Keith Arthur Bolden.
Hannah Elless (Michelle), Benjamin H. Moore (Ben), Sophie Pollono (Chris), and Frankie Ridriquez (Trevor), with Billy Harrigan Tighe, Mila Bolash, Aayvn Lee, and Nevaceh Riddle.
What happens when the stories we tell about ourselves start to unravel? A coming of age story set against America’s true-crime obsession.
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Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre will present Bonkers In The Boroughs Sept. 2-6, by Joy Behar.
Joy Behar, Craig Bierko, Veanne Cox, Robert Cuccioli, Illeana Douglas and Lou Liberatore.
Five original comedies about New York families, relationships and everyday absurdity.