This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, April 22
All’s Well That Ends Well, directed by Shana Cooper, featuring Alegandra Escalante (Helena), Dante Jemmott (Bertram), Ora Jones (Countess of Roussillon), Emma Ladji (Dian), Frances Guinan (King of France), Elizabeth Ledo (Lavache), William Dick (Lafew), Patrick Agada (Second Lord Dumaine), Casey Hoekstra (First Lord Dumaine), Joseph Aaron Johnson (Rinaldo), Jeff Kurysz (First Soldier), Tanya Thai McBride (Mariana) and Pablo David Laucerica, opens at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Hudson Stage‘s Off Peak, world premiere by Brenda Withers, directed by Jess Chayes, featuring Kurt Rhoads and Nance Williamson, opens at Armonk’s Whipporwill Theatre.
Marys Seacole, by Jackie Sibblies Drury, directed by Nadia Latif, featuring Kayla Meikle (Mary Seacole), Déja J. Bowens (Mamie), Llewella Gideon (Duppy Mary, Esther Smith (Miriam, Olivia Williams (May), and Susan Wooldridge (Merry), opens at London’s Donmar Warehouse.
SpeakEasy Stage‘s The Inheritance (Parts 1 & 2), by Matthew López, directed by Paul Daigneault, featuring Eddie Shields (Young Man 9 / Eric Glass), Jared Reinfeldt (Toby), Benjamín Cardona (Young Man 2 / Jason 1 / Paul / Doorman), Brandon Curry (Young Man 6 / Trisan / Stage Manager), Travis Doughty (Young Man 3 / Young Henry), Kees Hoekendijk (Young Man 5 / Charles Wilcox / Peter West / Toby’s Agent), Ricardo “Ricky” Holguin (Young Man 8 / Jason 2), Greg Maraio (Young Man 7 / Jasper), Paula Plum (Margaret Avery), Jo Michael Rezes (Young Man 4 / Young Walter), Dennis Trainor Jr. (Henry Wilcox), Mishka Yarovoy (Young Man 1 / Adam / Leo), and Mark H. Dold (Morgan / Walther), begins previews (in rep) at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion.
The Sound of Music, directed by Glenn Casale, featuring Diane Phelan (Maria), Christopher Carl (Captain von Trapp), Suzanna Guzmán (Mother Abbess), Roland Ponce Rusinek (Max), Joanne Javien (Elsa), Kevin Symons (Franz), Cory Lingner (Rolf), Jenna Lea Rosen (Liesl), Weston Bagley (Friedrich), Erin Choi (Marta), Kayla Anjali (Gretl), Alma Marian (Brigitta), Ashley Gallo (Louisa), Oliver Stewart (Kurt), Gordon Goodman (Herr Zeller), Janna Cardia (Sister Sophia), Linda Griffin (Sister Margaretta), and Jennifer Leigh Warren (Sister Berthe), with Elizabeth Campbell, Chelle Denton, Grant Hodges, Adam Lendermon, Carter Michael, Monika Peña, Brad Rupp, and Erica Schaeffer, previews at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Off Peak, Hudson Stage Company‘s world premiere by Brenda Withers, directed by Jess Chayes, featuring Kurt Rhoads, Nance Williamson, and Doug Ballard, previews at Armonk’s Whippoorwill Theatre.
Linda Purl: In The Mood… an intimate evening of songs for jumping back into life concert, at 9 PM GMT at London’s The Pheasantry.
Beastgirl and Other Origin Myths, by C. Quintana & Janelle Lawrence, directed by Rebecca Aparicio, featuring Jenni Gil (Cami), Edima Essien (Eji), Brittani McNeill (Egun), and Mikaela Secada (Heketi), closes at the Kennedy Center.
Saturday, April 23
A Chorus Line, directed by Antonio Banderas & Baayork Lee, featuring Manuel Bandera, Antonio Banderas, Angie Alcázar, Tomy Álvarez, Lucía Castro, Alex Chavarri, Javier Cid, Aaron Cobos, Anna Coll, Fran Del Pino, Daniel Délyon, Sonia Dorado, Roberto Facchin, Daniel Garod, Bealia Guerra, Pep Guillem, Cassandra Hlong, Ariel Juin, Flor Lopardo, Joan López-Santos, Juan José Marco, Graciela Monterde, Fran Moreno, Marcela Nava, Ivo Pareja-Obregón, Lucrecia Petraglia, Estibalitz Ruiz, Aida Sánchez, Lorena Santiago, Sarah Schielke, and Victor González, re-opens at Barcelona’s Teatre Tivoli.
You Send Me: The Songs and Soul of Sam Cooke concert, conceived by & starring Darius De Haas, with Crystal Monee Hall, Phillip Johnson Richardson, and Avery Smith, opens at NYC’s 92Y.
Asolo Rep‘s Knoxville, world premiere by Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens, directed by Frank Galati, featuring Jason Danieley (James Agee), Hannah Elless (Mary Follet), Paul Alexander Nolan (Jay Follet), Ellen Harvey (Aunt Hannah Lynch), Nathan Salstone (Andrew Lynch), Sarah Aili (Sally Follet), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Jessie), Dwelvan David (Ferryman/Dr. Dekalb), Jack Casey (Rufus Follet), Barbara Marineau (Cathering), William Parry (Joel), Abigail Stephenson (Victoria), Joel Waggoner (Ralph Follet), and Scott Wakefield (Man at the Scene), with Alan Chandler, Sade Crosby, Ian Johnston, Patricia M. Lawrence, and Sharon Pearlman, opens at FL’s FSU Center for the Performing Arts.
The Sound of Music, directed by Glenn Casale, featuring Diane Phelan (Maria), Christopher Carl (Captain von Trapp), Suzanna Guzmán (Mother Abbess), Roland Ponce Rusinek (Max), Joanne Javien (Elsa), Kevin Symons (Franz), Cory Lingner (Rolf), Jenna Lea Rosen (Liesl), Weston Bagley (Friedrich), Erin Choi (Marta), Kayla Anjali (Gretl), Alma Marian (Brigitta), Ashley Gallo (Louisa), Oliver Stewart (Kurt), Gordon Goodman (Herr Zeller), Janna Cardia (Sister Sophia), Linda Griffin (Sister Margaretta), and Jennifer Leigh Warren (Sister Berthe), with Elizabeth Campbell, Chelle Denton, Grant Hodges, Adam Lendermon, Carter Michael, Monika Peña, Brad Rupp, and Erica Schaeffer, opens at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Nightclub Cantata, by Elizabeth Swados, Brian Avidan, Nazim Hikmet, Nancy Larrick, Isabel Leitner, Eve Merriman, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Muriel Rukeyser, and Delmore Schwartz, directed & choreographed by Bill Castellino, featuring Noreen Crayton, Sarah Nandola, Pearl Rhein, Noah Ruebeck, Hansel Tan, Miles Whitaker, and Victoria Casillo, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s cell theatre.
Spring Awakening, directed & choreographed by Brenda Didier, featuring Ariana Burks (Martha), McKinley Caret (Adult Women), Jack DeCesare (Melchior), Maya Lou Hlava (Wendla), Quinn Kelch (Moritz), Maddy Kelly (Thea), John Marshall Jr. (Hanschen), (Adult Men), Juwon Tyrel Perry (Georg), Kevin James Sievert (Otto), Kelan M. Smith (Ernst), and Tiffany T. Taylor (Ilse), with Isis Elizabeth, Desiree Gonalez, Ryan Hamman, Drew Mitchell, Michael Joseph Mitchell, Sydney Monet Swanson, Genevieve Thiers, and Anthony Whitaker, begins previews at Chicago’s Porchlight Theatre.
Center Theatre Group‘s Gala 2022: Stories Unite US, with special guest Jennifer Holliday, at 6 PM PT at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre.
Gingold Theatrical Group’s FREE Shakespeare Sonnet Soiree event, with special guests Brenda Braxton, Alison Frasier, Harriet Harris, David Lee Huynh, Judith Ivey, Jefferson Mays, Charlotte Moore, Thom Sesma, Renee Taylor, Jon Patrick Walker, and Karen Ziemba, at 6 PM ET on GTG’s Facebook page. Click here for more information and to register.
Garrison Keillor Tonight event, at 8 PM ET at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.
Choir Boy, by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Christopher D. Bettes, featuring Jarrett Anthony Bennett, Gilbert Domally, Denzel Fields, Israel Erron Ford, Allen Gilmore, Anthony Holiday, Malik James, Aaron James McKenzie, Darian Peer, Wildlin Pierrevil, and Walton Wilson, closes at Yale Rep.
Next to Normal, directed & choreographed by Marcos Santana, featuring Carlesia Cearcy (Diana), Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Dan), Ashley LaLonde (Natalie), Gian Perez (Henry), Daniel J. Maldonado (Gabe), and Katie Thompson (Dr. Madden/Dr. Fine), closes at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse.
White Pearl, by Anchuli Felicia King, directed by Priscilla Jackman, featuring Deborah An, Manali Datar, Melissa Gan, Kaori Maeda-Judge, Nicole Milinkovic, Shirong Wu, and Stephen Madsen, closes at Australia’s White Pearl Theatre.
The Concrete Jungle (A Chicano Horror Play), world premiere by Travyz Santos Gatz, directed by Mitch Rosander & Igancio Navarro, featuring Lemon Baardsen, Macedonia Bullington, Berenice Diaz, Kathleen Guevara, Sydney Jenkins, Jordan Klomp, Matt Lorenzo, and Alejandro Mungaray, closes at North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble.
Azad, by Sona Tatoyan, a multi-media theatrical experience, directed by Tatoyan & Jeremy Boxer, closes at LA’s Pico Playhouse.
Sunday, April 24
Funny Girl, directed by Michael Mayer, featuring Beanie Feldstein (Fanny Brice), Ramin Karimloo (Nicky Arnstein), Jane Lynch (Mrs. Brice), Peter Francis James (Florenz Ziegfeld), Ephie Aardema (Emma / Mrs. Nadler), Debra Cardona (Mrs. Meeker), Toni DiBuono (Mrs. Strakosh), Martin Moran (Tom Keeney), and Julie Benko (Fanny Brice Standby), with Amber Ardolino, Daniel Beeman, Colin Bradbury, Kurt Thomas Csolak, Leslie Donna Flesner, Afra Hines, Masumi Iwai, Aliah James, Jeremiah James, Danielle, Kesley, Stephen Mark Lukas, Alicia Hadiya Lundgren, John Thomas Manzari, Liz McCartney, Katie Mitchell, Justin Prescott, Mariah Reives, and Leslie Blake Walker, opens at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, by Joe DiPietro & Jimmy Roberts, directed & choreographed by Paula Hammons, featuring John Adkison, Sophia Swannell, Danny Crowe, and Alison Nusbaum, opens at Laguna Playhouse.
A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, directed by Spiro Veloudos, featuring Leigh Barrett, Tersa Winner Blume, Neil A. Casey, Aimee Doherty, Jennifer Ellis, Kate Klika, Lori L’Italien, Todd McNeel Jr., Karen Murphy, Robert St. Laurence, Phil Tayler and Jared Troilo, opens at Boston’s Lyric Stage Company.
Side Show, directed by Frank Portanova, featuring Rebecca Kuznick (Violet), Emily Kristen Morris (Daisy), Jack Brewer (Buddy), Andrew Foote (Boss), Bronson Norris Murphy (Terry), and Miguel Ángel Vásquez (Jake), with Matthew Blum, Bríanna Brice, Logan Graye, Matt Henningsen, Keith Mankowski, Jenna Leigh Miller, Taylor Okey, David Neil Ossman, Alexander Rothfield, Emily Royer, Rebecca Skowron, and Rosie Staudt, opens at White Plains PAC.
Our Brother’s Son, by Charles Gluck, directed by David Alpert, featuring Dan Sharkey, Allen McCullough, Liz Larsen, Harrison Chad, Leeanne Hutchison, Midori Tashima Nakamura, and Dan Sharkey, with Ethelyn Friend, Ben Rosenbach, and Dared Wright, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Signature Center.
Sondheim Unplugged concert, with special guests Lorna Dallas, Ramona Mallory, Sally Mayes, and Sarah Rice, featuring John Treacy Eagan, Aaron Ramey, Brian Charles Rooney, Lucia Spina, and Donna Vivino, at 7 PM ET at NYC’s 54 Below.
Death Drop, by Holly Stars, directed by Jesse Jones, featuring RuPaul, Kitty Scott-Claus, and Holly Stars, closes at London’s Criterion Theatre.
Confederates, by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Stori Ayers, featuring Elijah Jones (Abner.Malik), Kristolyn Loyd (Sara), Andrea Patterson (LuAnne/Jade), Kenzie Ross (Sara), andMichelle Wilson (Sandra), closes at Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre.
York Theatre‘s Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written, world premiere by Peter Kellogg, Stephen Weiner& Emily Maltby, directed by Emily Maltby, featuring Philippe Arroyo (Telemachus), Leah Hocking (Eurycleia), Cooper Howell (Antinous), Ben Jacoby (Odysseus), David Lamarr (Mileter), Jacob Alexander Simon (Bassanio), Britney Nicole Simpson (Penelope), George Slotin (Haius), Sean Thompson (Barius), and Maria Wirries (Daphne), closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Jean’s.
Woody King’s New Federal Theatre‘s Gong Lum’s Legacy, world premiere by Charles L. White, directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke, featuring Anthony Goss, Alinca Hamilton, Hansel Tan, DeShawn White, and Henry Yuk, closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre @ St. Clements.
She Loves Me, directed by Matthew Gardiner, featuring Ali Ewoldt (Amalia Balash), Deven Kolluri (Georg Nowack), Emmanuel Elliot Key (Arpad Laszlo), Bobby Smith (Ladislav Sipos), Maria Rizzo (Ilona Ritter), Vincent Kempski (Seven Kodaly), Lawrence Redmond (Mr. Maraczek), and David Schlumpf (Head Waiter), with Andre Hinds, Christopher Mueller, Daniel Powers, Olivia Ashley Reed, Katherine Riddle, Jillian Wessel, Drake Leach, Sarah Anne Sillers, and Dylan Toms, closes at DC’s Signature Theatre.
Good Night, Oscar, world premiere by Doug Wright, directed by Lisa Peterson, featuring Sean Hayes (Oscar Levant) Emily Bergl (June Levant), Ben Rappaport (Jack Paar), Peter Grosz (Bob Sarnoff), Ethan Slater (Max Weinbaum), Tramell Tillman (Alvin Finney), and John Zdrojeski (George Gershwin), closes at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
The Wanderer, by Charles Messina, directed by Kenneth Ferrone, featruring Mike Wartella (Dion), Christy Altomare (Susan), Joey McIntyre (Johnny), Kingsley Leggs (Willie Green), Jasmine Rogers (Melody Green), Jeffrey Schecter (Bob Schwartz), Johnny Tammaro (Pat DiMucci), and Joli Tribuzio (Francis DiMucci), with Joe Barbara, Mackenzi Bell, Stephen Cerf, Jordan Dobson, Josh Dunn, Billy Finn, Natalie Gallo, Miguel Jarquin-Moreland, Will Jewett, Michal Kolaczkowski, Jess LeProtto, Janyé McAlpine, Katie Pohlman, Sydney Sky, and Gabi Stapula, closes at NJ’s Papermill Playhouse.
Next to Normal, directed & choreographed by Marcos Santana, featuring Darlesia Cearcy (Diana) Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Dan), Ashley LaLonde (Natalie), Gian Perez (Henry), Daniel J. Maldonado (Gabe), and Katie Thompson (Dr. Madden/Dr. Fine), closes at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse.
Ann, written by & starring Holland Taylor, directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein, closes at Pasadena Playhouse.
NEWSical, by Rick Crom, directed by Mark Waldrop, featuring Kristen Alderson, Michael West, Taylor Crousore, and Carly Sakolove, closes at Las Vegas’ Majestic Repertory Theatre.
Ensemble Theater Company‘s American Son, by Christopher Demos-Brown, directed by Jonathan Fox, featuring Tracey A. Leigh (Kendra), Jamison Jones (Scott), Alex Morris (Lieutenant John Stokes), and Toby Tropper (Officer Paul Larkin), closes at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.
Apartment Living, world premiere by Boni B. Alvarez, directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, featuring Gabriel Leyva (Alex), Geri-Nikole Love (Mayisha), Charrell Mack (Cassandra), Gigette Reyes (Easter), Andrew Russel (Dixon), and Rachel Sorsa (White Lady), closes at LA’s Skylight Theatre.
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Reviews for Hangman at Broadway’s Golden Theatre:
NY Times (Jesse Green): Welcome to Broadway’s fleurs-du-mal moment, a rare blossoming of funny plays on deeply unfunny subjects… But no fleur is as mal right now as the one that opened on Thursday at the Golden Theater: Hangmen, Martin McDonagh’s rip-roaringly hilarious yet profoundly horrific play about the abolition of capital punishment. Or rather its endurance… [David] Threlfall’s titanic performance… offers the most terrifying incarnation yet of the author’s acid misanthropy… [Alfie] Allen’s convincingly reptilian performance… The fight direction, by J. David Brimmer, is superb… the contrast between its profoundly serious subject and its baroque construction is more unsettling here than usual…
New York Daily News (Chris Jones): …It’s a fabulous offering — a throwback, really, to the heyday of juicy, creepy London imports by McDonagh (Pillowman), Conor McPherson (Shining City) and Mark Ravenhill (Jerusalem)… Meticulously directed by Matthew Dunster and designed within an inch of its life by the brilliant Anna Fleischle, it offers up dextrous plotting, sardonic satire, subtle observations about the gray northern life and, above all, an unforgettable central character in Harry, a hangman who also loses his job and who also decides to run a pub in Oldham, Lancashire… Harry is played here by David Threlfall, in a towering, relentless, impossibly verbose performance…
NY Stage Review (Frank Scheck) … Mixing pitch black comedy with genuine terror, Hangman reveals McDonagh at his most technically accomplished, although not his most profound. Overlong at nearly two-and-a-half hours, the play feels like an extended episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” complete with twist ending… Despite its longueurs, however, it’s wonderfully entertaining, thanks to the playwright’s gift for acerbically funny and ever-surprising dialogue, the superb performances by its well-honed ensemble, and Matthew Dunster’s marvelous staging that fully immerses you in the morbidly funny proceedings… Because of some recasting, the play doesn’t quite have the impact that it did in the 2018 staging at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company.
NY Post (Johnny Oleksinski): As twisty as McDonagh’s script is Ian Dickinson’s phenomenal set — the best this year of any show, play or musical — that’s a veritable Russian doll of scenic surprises… You’re absolutely wracked with guilt at Hangmen — from laughing so hard at the many, many inappropriate jokes. A crude sight gag near the end had me practically dry heaving. That nonstop naughtiness is what makes Martin McDonagh’s killer satire the best new play on Broadway by a green mile… a heaping scoop of jaw-droppers and taboos — albeit with a sophisticated takeaway about the justice system — that’ll make wimps clutch their pearls for dear life. The rest of us can’t help but chuckle at the macabre madness.
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Principal casting has been announced for the pre-Broadway engagement of Anthony McCaren’s A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, to run June 21 – July 31 at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre, directed by Michael Mayer, with choreography by Stephen Hoggett,
Will Swenson (Young Neil Diamond), Mark Jacoby (Neil Diamond now), Robyn Hurder (Marcia), and Linda Powell (Marcia), with more TBA.
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Complete casting for the world premiere of Duncan Sheik & Kyle Jarrow’s Noir, to run June 2 – July 3 at Houston’s Alley Theatre, directed by Darko Tresnjak, with choreography by Karla Puno Garcia.
Christy Altomare (Scarlet), Adam Kantor (The Neighbor), Morgan Marcell (The Wife), Sinclair Daniel (The Kid), David Guzman (The Husband), Clifton Samuels (The Boss), and Voltaire Wade-Greene (The Goon).
A heartbroken man never leaves his apartment, finding his only solace in the music on the radio. Then a couple moves next door. Eavesdropping becomes his new entertainment – and his new obsession. Soon he finds himself drawn into a web of love, lies, deceit, and danger
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Yale Rep has announced its 2022-23 season:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Oct. 6-29), directed by James Bundy.
The Brightest Thing in the World (Nov. 25 – Dec. 17), world premiere by Leah Nanako Winkler, directed by Margot Bordelon. It’s a classic rom-com. Beguiling Lane works in a bakery and in short order wins over cool customer Steph with her warmth, wit, and homemade desserts. Their blossoming relationship also opens the door to romance for Lane’s older sister Della, who hasn’t been on a date in years. But the skies dramatically darken as each woman must come to terms with her own limitations.
Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Mar. 10 – Apr. 1, 2023), by Luis Alfaro, directed by Laurie Woolery. Medea, a Mexican seamstress of extraordinary skill, barely survived the perilous border crossing into the U.S., and lives uneasily in a borrowed L.A. house with her husband Hason and their young son Acan: the tension between their traditional values and assimilation is a matter of live and death.
the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Apr. 28 – May 20), by Christina Anderson, directed by Tamilla Woodard. 1992. Janice lives with her family in an Ohio suburb – a world away from her childhood in 1960s Kansas, where her activist parents fought to integrate public pools and taught Black children how to swim. When she is asked to return and speat at a ceremony honoring her father, she must decide whether she is ready to reckon with her political inheritance and a past she has tried to forget.
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Initial casting has been announced for Sweeney Todd, to run July 16-22 at the St. Louis Muny, directed by Rob Ruggiero, with music direction by James Moore.
Ben Davis (Sweeney Todd), Carmen Cusack (Mrs. Lovett), and Robert Cuccioli (Judge Turpin), with more TBA.
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Video: Inside rehearsals for A Walk on the Moon at NJ’s George Street Playhouse, which stars Jackie Burns, Jonah Platt, and John Arthur Greene. (16:35)
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Nilo Cruz, Carlinhos Brown & Siedah Garrett’s Black Orpheus (a stage musical adaptation of the film) is now aiming for a 2023-24 Broadway debut, directed & choreographed by Sergio Trujillo.
Casting and additional information TBA.
The musical resets the classic Greek love story of Eurydice and Orfeu against the backdrop of a Rio de Janeiro favela during Carnival.
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Video: Katrina Lenk performs “Being Alive” on “Late Night with Seth Myers.”
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Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, written and performed by Wong, will run Sept. 20 – Oct. 16 at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Chay Yew.
Wong navigates through thoughts on COVID, including finding community amid isolation. Early in the pandemic, Wong sewed masks out of old clothes and household materials, eventually leading a virtual cohort of volunteers that blurred the lines between “feminist care utopia” and “mutual aid doomsday cult.”
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Roundabout Theatre has announced its 2022-23 Off-Broadway season:
You Will Get Sick (Fall 2022) by Noah Diaz, at the Laura Pels Theatre. A young man is shocked to receive a life-changing diagnosis. Overwhelmed, he turns to a stranger for help, hiring an older woman to break the news to his family and friends – thus setting into motion a series of events that will profoundly reshape both of their lives. Learn more here.
The Bandaged Place (Fall 2022) world premiere by Harrison David Rivers, directed by David Mendizábal, at the Black Box Theatre. Struggling to recover after an assault, Jonah realizes the only way to heal is by mending the relationships with his family. Learn more here.
The Wanderers (Winter 2023), by Anna Ziegler, at the Laura Pels Theatre. Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli are newly married, and their future is written in the laws of the Torah. Secular Jew Abe is a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future…until an unexpected email from a movie star puts his marriage to the test and threatens to prove him wrong. Learn more here.
Primary Trust (Spring 2023), by Eboni Booth, directed by Knud Adams, at the Black Box Theatre. Meet Kenneth, a 36-year-old bookstore worker who spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he’s suddenly laid off, Kenneth finally begins to face a world he’s long avoided – with transformative and even comical results. When a struggling guitarist returns to his small Georgia town a blues star, rumors begin swirling that he may have made a deal with the devil to attain his musical genius. Before long, however, it becomes clear he’s not the only one with a secret. Learn more here.
Covenant (Spring 2023), by York Walker, at the Black Box Theatre. When a struggling guitarist returns to his small Georgia town a blues star, rumors begin swirling that he may have made a deal with the devil to attain his musical genius. Before long, however, it becomes clear he’s not the only one with a secret. Learn more here.
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Anna Deavere Smith’s new play, Love All, is currently in development, with a NYC reading planned for the first week in August, directed by Marc Bruni.
Casting, dates, and additional information TBA.
The rise of sports icon and trailblazer for equality Bille Jean King against a backdrop of the social upheaval and countercultural revolutions of the 1960s. A tale of tough competition on the court and gritty teamwork in the world, it asks what it takes to be a champion and what more it takes to change the course of history.