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GRACE NOTES: Friday, July 30, 2021

  This Weekend’s Highlights: Friday, July 30   School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, by Jocelyn Bioh, directed by Lili-Anne Brown, featuring Adia Alli (Gifty), Kyrie Courter (Ericka

GRACE NOTES: Thursday, July 29, 2021

  Today’s Highlights:   The Lion King, featuring George Asprey (Scar), David Blake (Banzai), Janique Charles (Nala), Gugwana Dlamini (Rafiki), Shaun Escoffery (Mufasa), Gary Jordan (Zazu), Jamie McGregor (Timon), Melone

GRACE NOTES: Wednesday, July 28, 2021

  Today’s Highlights:   John & Jen, world premiere adaptation, by Andrew Lippa & Tom Greenwald, directed by Guy Retallack, featuring Lewis Cornay and Rachel Tucker, opens at London’s Southwark

GRACE NOTES: Tuesday, July 27, 2021

  Today’s Highlights:   The Phantom of the Opera, featuring Lucy St. Louis (Christine Daaé), Rhys Whitfield (Raoul), Killian Donnelly (The Phantom), Saori Oda (Carlotta Giudicelli), Matt Harrop (Monsieur Firmin),

GRACE NOTES: Monday, July 26, 2021

  Today’s Highlights:   Smokey Joe’s Cafe, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, featuring Charl Brown, Michael Campayno, Mykal Kilgore, Tiffany Mann, Haley Pedschun, Dee Roscioli, Christopher Sams, Nasia Thomas, and

GRACE NOTES: Friday, July 23, 2021

  This Weekend’s Highlights: Friday, July 23   Theater Works Hartford‘s Walden, written by & starring Amy Berryman, directed by Mei Ann Teo, opens at Hartford’s Riverfront Recapture.   First

GRACE NOTES: Thursday, July 22, 2021

  Today’s Highlights:   Live at the New Am concert series, featuring Michael James Scott, Ashley Brown, Kissy Simmons, and Josh Strickland, opens at Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre.   Johnny

GRACE NOTES: Wednesday, July 21, 2021

  Today’s Highlights:   Commonwealth Shakespeare Company‘s The Tempest, directed by Steven Maler, featuring John Douglas Thompson (Prospero), John Lam (Ariel), Remo Airaldi (Antonio), Siobhan Juanita Brown (Gonzala), Nora Eschenheimer

GRACE NOTES: Tuesday, July 20, 2021

  Today’s Highlights:   Stomp re-opens at Off-Broadway’s Orpheum Theatre.   “Backstage Babble” podcast, created by Charles Kirsch, with special guests Lee Roy Reams, Brad Oscar, Gerard Alessandrini, Lawrence Leritz, livestreams

GRACE NOTES: Monday, July 19, 2021

  Today’s Highlights:   Darknights & Daydreams developmental reading, a pre-Broadway’ play based on “The Boy who Loved Batman,” featuring Michael Uslan, takes place at 6:30 PM PT at LA’s