This weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, Feb. 6
Penelope, solo show, written by & starring Amy Doherty, opens at Boston’s Lyric Stage.
Matt Doyle: New Beginning concert, opens at NYC’s 54 Below.
The Shitheads, by Jack Nicholls, directed by Aneesha Srinivasan & David Byrne, featuring Peter Clements, Jonny Khan, Annabel Smith, Ami Tredrea, Scarlet Wilderink and Jacoba Williams, begins previews at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
Finding Dorthy Parker benefit concert, featuring Julie Halston, Ann Harada, Jackie Hoffman, and Anika Larsen, closes at Off-Broadway’s West Bank Café.
Saturday, Feb. 7
Ensemble Theatre Company‘s The Shark is Broken, by Ian Sahaw & Joseph Nixon, directed by Pesha Rudnick, featuring Will Block (Richard Dreyfuss), Gild Jackson (Robert Shaw), and Adam Poole (Roy Scheider), begins opens at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.
Matt Doyle: New Beginning concert, opens at NYC’s 54 Below.
Ensemble Theatre Company‘s The Shark is Broken, by Ian Shaw & Joseph Nixon, directed by Pesha Rudnick, featuring Will Block (Richard Dreyfuss), Gild Jackson (Robert Shaw), and Adam Poole (Roy Scheider), opens at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.
Dracula, My Love free staged reading, written & directed by Syrie James, featuring Katyana Rocker-Cook, Steven Frankenfield, Isaac W. Jay, Michael Mullen, Kristin Towers-Rowles, and David Hunt Stafford, at at 2 PM at LA’s Beverly Hills High School. RSVP not required.
National Theatre Live’s screening of London’s Hamlet, directed by Robert Hastie, featuring Hiran Abeysekera (Hamlet), Vrancesca Mills (Ophelia), Alistair Petrie (Claudius), Ayesha Dharker (Gertrude), Geoffrey Streatfield (Polonius), Tom Glenister (Laertes), Tessa Wong (Horatio), Ryan Ellsworth (Ghost), Hari Mackinnon (Rosencrantz), Joe Bolland (Guildenstern), Siobhán Redmond (First Player), Phil Cheadle (Marcellus), Liz Jaday (Nurse), Kiren Kebaili-Dwyer (Fortinbras), and Mary Higgins (Osric), at 3 PM at UCLA’s James Bridge’s Theatre.
Oedipus, newly adapted by & directed by Robert Icke, featuring Mark Strong (Oedipus) and Lesley Manville (Jocasta), with Samuel Brewer (Teiresias), Bhasker Patel (Corin), Jordan Scowen (Eteocles),’and James Wilbraham (Polyneices), John Carroll Lynch (Creon), Teagle F. Bougere (Driver), Ani Mesa-Perez (Lichas), Olivia Reis (Antigone), and Anne Reid (Merope),with Brian Thomas Abraham, Denise Cormier, Karl Kenzler, and Oliver Rowland-Jones, closes at Broadway’s Studio 54.
Sunday, Feb. 8
Making a Show of Myself, written & performed by Mary Kate O’ Flanagan, directed by Will O’Connell, opens at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep.
Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon world premiere concert, by Will Friedwald, Adrian Galante, Tedd Firth & Jack Lewin, directed by David Zippel, featuring Hilary Kole, John Pagano, and Ta-Tynisa Wilson, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater.
Oedipus, newly adapted by & directed by, directed by Robert Icke, featuring Mark Strong (Oedipus) and Lesley Manville (Jocasta), closes at Broadway’s Studio 54.
Louisa Gillis, by Joanna MccCeland Glass, directed by David Ellenstein, featuring James Sutorius (Grandpa), Faline England (Celia), Caroline Renee (Lucy), and Denise Young (Helga), closes at CA’s North Coast Rept.
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Reviews for Bug at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre:
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Grégoire, Serge Denon Court & Scott Price’s Bernadette the Musical has posted its tour schedule here.
Bernadette Soubris (Eyma), Jéremié Roy (Francois Sourirous) Steven Martella (Commissioner Jacomet), and Jessie MacBeth (Louise Soubirous).
The true story of Bernadette Soubirous, the 14-year-old daughter of a miller from Massabielle living in 19th Century Lourdes, in the South of France. During the winter of 1858, Bernadette returned from a grotto on the riverbank claiming to have seen a vision of a “something white in the shape of a lady.,” leaving her with feelings of peace, serenity and love. The Musical focuses on the few weeks that followed this event, and how the teenager, experiencing another 16 visions, stood firm against doubt, ridicule, and condemnation. She faced pressure from adults, police, religious authorities—even her own parents—with courage, simplicity, and the quiet certainty of someone who says, “I don’t know how to explain it, but I know what I saw.” The musical also highlights Bernadette’s remarkable personality: innocent yet sharp, gifted with an extraordinary sense of humor.
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Little Shop of Horrors will have a new principal cast on Mar. 10 at the West Side Theatre (upstairs).
Nikki M. James (Audrey), Jordan Fisher ( Seymour), James and Andy Karl (Dr. Orin Scrivello, D.D.S.
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PA’s Bucks County Playhouse will present The Vienna Boys Choir on Sun. Mar. 8, at 4 PM at Our Lady of Guadalupe R.C. Church, 5194 Cold Spring Creamery Road, in Doylestown, PA.
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August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson will run Feb. 24 – Mar. 22 at Milwaukee Rep, directed by Dan Hasse.
TBA.
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Off-Broadway’s Amas Musical Theatre (link TBA) will present the 58th anniversary Benefit Concert of Bubbling Brown Sugar, on Mon. May 11 at 6 PM at NYC’s Rosetta’s Place Penthouse 45 (432 W. 45 , directed by Jonathan S. Cerullo.
TBA.
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As You Like It will run Mar. 10 – Apr. 12 at DC’s Folger Theatre, directed by Timothy Douglas.
Terrance Fleming (Ollie), Mnu Kumasi (Orlando), Nikole Salter (Jaques), and Sabrina Lynne Sayer (Celia), with Tsilala Brock (Rosalind), Joey Collins (TAdam), Ahmad Kamal (Touchstone), Raven Lorraine (Corin), Jefferson A. Russell (Duke Senior /Duke Frederick), and John Sygar (LeBeauAmiens).