This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, August 20
Back to the Future, by Bob Gale, Alan Silvestri & Glen Ballard, directed by John Rando, featuring Roger Bart (Dr. Emmett Brown), Olly Dobson (George McFly), Rosanna Hyland (Lorraine Baines), Cedric Neal (Goldie Wilson), Aidan Cutler (Biff Tannen), Courtney-Mae Briggs (Jennifer Parker), Will Haswell (Dave mcFly), Emma Lloyd (Linda McFly), and Mark Oxtoby (Strickland), with Rhianne Alleyne, Amy Barker, Matt Barrow, Joshua Clemetson, Jamal Crawford, Bessy Ewa, Ryan Heenan, Cameron McAllister, Alessia McDermott, Laura Mullowney, Nic Myers, Shane O’Riordan, Katharine Pearson, Oliver Tester, and Justin Thomas, re-opens at London’s Adelphi Theatre.
Hamlet in concert, by Cody Fry, Gary Fry, Joel Ansett, Andrew R. Butler & Jeff Daye, directed by Joel Kirk, featuring Jordan Donica (Hamlet), Samantha Pauly (Ophelia), Adam Pascal (King Claudius), and Bryonha Marie Parham (Gertrude), at 7 PM CT at Indianapolis’ Indiana Historical Society.
“My Marcello” recording, by Rosabella Gregory, Dina Gregory & Corey Brunish, featuring Santino Fontana, Laura Osnes, Elizabeth Stanley, Derek Klena, Terrence Mann, Robert Cuccioli, and Raymond Jaramillo McLeod, released on Broadway Records.
Girl From the North Country Broadway cast album, featuring Todd Almond, Jeanette Bayardelle, Jennifer Blood, Law Terrell Dunford, Matthew Frederick Harris, Caitlin Houlahan, Robert Joy, Marc Kudisch, Luba Mason, Ben Mayne, Matt McGrath, Tom Nelis, Colton Ryan, Jay O. Sanders, John Schiappa, Austin Scott, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Rachel Stern, Chiara Trentalange, Bob Walton, Chelsea Lee Williams, and Mare Winningham, released on iTunes (and other outlets).
“High: A Prom in Nine Musical Podcasts,” by David Zellnik & Eric Svejcar, offering 10-minute episodes, featuring Ali Stroker, Kathryn Gallagher, Isaac Powell, Mason Alexander Park, Ryann Redmond, Kathryn Allison, Troy Iwata, Hailey Kilgore, Jay Armstrong Johnson, , Gizel Jiménez, and Andrew Durand, re-released here, as well as on most podcast platforms.
“On Broadway” documentary, by Oren Jacoby, which chronicles how Broadway, on the verge of bankruptcy in the ’70s, avoided collapse and reinvented itself, featuring Hugh Jackman, Helen Mirren, George C. Wolfe, Ian McKellen, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, August Wilson, Hal Prince, James Corden, John Lithgow, Tommy Tune, Alexandra Billings, David Henry Hwang, Oskar Eustis, Nicholas Hytner, Jack O’Brien, Daniel Sullivan, Trevor Nunn, Julie Taymor, Sonia Friedman, Jeffrey Seller, and Tony Kushner, released at various NYC theaters here.
Together Apart, 10 mini-musicals about connecting on Zoom at the beginning of the pandemic, written, directed, and starring Brown University alumni (Lisa Loeb, Julie Bowen, Josh Hamilton, Ann Harda, and JoBeth Williams, concludes streaming on Broadway on Demand, in support of The Actors Fund.
Freshplay Online Summer Festival concludes FREE streaming at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater.
Saturday, August 21
On Your Feet!, directed by Maggie Burrows, featuring Arianna Rosario (Gloria), Omar Lopez-Cepero (Emilio), Natascia Diaz (Gloria Fajardo), Alma Cuervo (Consuelo), and Lee Zarrett (Phil), Isabella Iannelli (Little Gloria), and Jordan Vergara (Nayib/Young Emilio/Jeremy), with Karmine Alers, Ryan Alvarado, Dhanny Burgos (Emilio Standby), Alexander Cruz, Tami Dahbura, Gina de Pool, Ruben Flores, Henry Julián Gendron, Stephanie Gomérez, Rebecca Kritzer, Tomás Matos, Natalia Nievers-Melchor, Marina Pires (Gloria Standby), Matthew Rivera, Cristina Sastre, Sarah Sigman, Martín Solá, Alora Tonielle, and Julien Valme, opens at the St. Louis Muny.
John & Jen, world premiere adaptation, by Andrew Lippa & Tom Greenwald, directed by Guy Retallack, featuring Lewis Cornay and Rachel Tucker, closes at London’s Southwark Playhouse.
Lincoln Center‘s BAAND Together outdoor dance performances, featuring Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem, concludes at Damrosch Park.
Bridge Production Group‘s [title of show], directed by Max Hunter, featuring Max Hunter (Jeff), Keri René Fuller (Heidi), Jennifer Apple (Susan), and Josh Daniel (Hunter), closes at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Code Pink, world premiere written & directed by Adam Chambers & Jana Lee Hamblin, featuring Bahsi Chapman, Nicole Craig, Britt Crisp, Madylin Sweeten Durrie, Sydney Jenkins, Matt Monaco, Ignacio Navarro, Bree Pavey, Leesie Pinto, Natasha Ranae Potts, Sarah Siverson, Sarah Sommers, and Vel Stacy, closes at North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble.
Sunday, August 22
Lincoln Center Theater‘s Pass Over, by Antoinette Chinonye Nwanda, directed by Danya Taymor, featuring Jon Michael Hill, Namir Smallwood, and Gabriel Ebert, opens at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre.
Andy Warhol in Iran staged reading, by Brent Askari, directed by Reginal L. Douglas, featuring Anthony Rapp and Afsheen Misaghi, at 8 PM ET at MA’s Barrington Stage.
Celebrity Autobiography reading, with Christie Brinkley, Matthew Broderick, Susan Lucci, Ralph Macchio, Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, at 7:30 PM ET at Long Island’s Southampton Arts Center.
Walden, a site-specific immersive play, by Amy Berryman, directed by Mei Ann Teo, featuring Diana Oh, Jeena Yi, and Gabriel Brown, closes at Theaterworks Hartford.
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Video: Stars in the House, offering Broadway By the Decades – The 80s, with special guests Priscilla Lopez and Jennifer Leigh Warren. (1:36:48)
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Lee Roy Reams: Remembering Jerry Herman will take place Mon. Sept. 20 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s York Theatre (in its temporary new home at Theatre at St. Jean’s, at 150 East 76th Street), with music direction by Alex Rybeck.
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Open-Door Playhouse will premiere Dana Hall’s Stay Awhile podcast on Sept. 8 here, directed by Gary Lamb.
Gena Kay (Samantha) and Camille Ameen (Janice).
The 10-minute place focuses on Samantha, who has been concerned about her mother, Janice, since her father’s passing. See how she deals with the complexities of grief and how time can stand still for those in mourning.
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Together Apart, 10 mini-musicals about connecting on Zoom at the beginning of the pandemic, has been extended through Aug. 29 on Broadway on Demand, in support of The Actors Fund.
The musicals are written, directed by, and starring Brown University alumni (Lisa Loeb, Julie Bowen, Josh Hamilton, Ann Harda, and JoBeth Williams.
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Bartlett Sher, JT Rogers & Cambra Overend is launching SRO Productions, which will produce entertainment for TV, film, and stage.
Some projects in the works include a “large musical project, from producer Marc Platt, and a stage musical from Aaron Sorkin & JT Rogers’ Blood and Gifts.
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To Kill a Mockingbird will resume performances on Tues. Oct. 5 at the Shubert Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Jeff Daniels (Atticus Finch), Celia Keenan Bolger (Scout), and more TBA.
Video: “Welcome Back ”
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SAG Harbor’s Bay Street Theater has announced its 7th Title Wave @ Bay Street: The New Works Series, to run Sept. 10-12 & 17-19, with each readiing followed by a talk-back. The series features readings of new plays in development, and presents work from diverse and contemporary storytellers, introducing the audience to up-and-coming works for the theater. The series will be curated by Hope Villanueva, Scott Schwartz, and Will Pomerantz.
Between/Time (Sept. 10 at 8 PM ET & Sept. 11 at 2 PM ET), by Dane Figueroa Edidi. The play centers on an artist and a CEO in Baltimore as they fall in love while trying desperately to forget mistakes from their past. When the Global Pandemic struck, Rhonda found work drying up and her money running out, while her neighbor Alex tries to win her affection despite the fact they can only communicate via their windows. As the two begin to fall in love, their past may tear the only thing that can tear them apart.
Tent Revival (Sept. 11 at 8 PM ET & Sept. 12 at 2 PM ET), by Majkin Holmquist. In rural Kansas, 1957, a farmer-turned-preacher searches for inspiration, his wife for hope, and their daughter for a sense of stability. When a seeming miracle turns their church on its head, Ida followers her parents across the state as they spread the work of their newfound faith. But when the miracles begin to multiply, and the demand for spiritual healing grows faster than anyone expected, Ida must confront the cost of deed done to inspire devotion.
Princess Clara of Loisaida (Sept. 17 at 8 PM ET & Sept. 18 at 2 PM ET), by Matthew Barbot. The play follows middle-schooler Clara and her older brother Jose when they start to question their reality, as the fantastical prophecy they created comes true. with Mamá long gone and Papá catatonic (and only able to sing old sitcom theme songs), video-game obsessed middle-schooler Clara finds herself in the hapless care of José.
The Right Here, Right Now (Sept. 18 at 8 PM ET & Sept. 19 at 2 PM ET), by Peter Macklin. Defense lawyer Adam Stein was born Jewish, but as a staunch progressive now finds himself a vehement atheist. When assigned the case of Doreen Smith – a devoutly Christian mother who is on trial for murdering her young child – Adam’s pregnant wife, Nina, and his brother Ira, who has remained faithful to his conservative Judaism, also gets swept up in the case. What happens when belief, faith and certitude get challenged in a post (mid?) pandemic United States?
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NYC’s Bryant Park continues its summer screening next week:
“Cluelesss” (Aug. 23), starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, and Paul Rudd.
“Hustlers” (Aug. 24), starring Jennifer Lopez and Will Ferrell.
Click here for the remainder of the summer schedule.
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Video: Tony Yazbeck talks about James Lapine’s new musical Flying Over Sunset.
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The first two episodes of “High: A Prom in Nine Musical Podcasts,” by David Zellnik & Eric Svejcar, have been re-released, and are available here and on most podcast platforms. The remaining episodes will be released weekly. 
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Ali Stroker, Kathryn Gallagher, Isaac Powell, Mason Alexander Park, Ryann Redmond, Kathryn Allison, Troy Iwata, Hailey Kilgore, Jay Armstrong Johnson, , Gizel Jiménez, and Andrew Durand.
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre on Magnolia has announced Under Construction, offering two groups of emerging and established playwrights who will present their new works as in-person readings starting in September.
Additional information TBA.
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Sutton Foster will discuss her career and new book “Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life,” on Wed. Oct. 13 at 7 PM ET, both in-person and online, at NYC’s 92Y.
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The Actors Fund’s Virtual Gala will take place Mon. Nov. 1 at 7 PM ET. 
here.
Debbie Allen, Stacey Mindich, and Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley.