This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, January 14
Fatal Attraction, adapted by James Dearden, directed by Loveday Ingram, featuring Kim Marsh (Alex Forrest), Oliver Farnsworth (Dan), and Susie Amy Beth), with John Macaulay, Troy Glasgow, and Emma Laird Craig, launches its UK tour at Brighton’s Theatre Royal.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Joe Rosario, featuring Sonoya Mizuno (Maggie), Matt de Rogatis (Brick), Christian Jules Le Blanc (Big Daddy), Alison Fraser (Big Mama), Austin Pendleton (Doc Baugh), Milton Elliott (Rev. Tooker), Tiffan Borelli (Mae), Carly Gold (The No Neck Monsters), and Spencer Scott (Gooper), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theater at St. Clements.
Everybody Rise: Signature Remembers Stephen Sondheim concert, directed by Matthew Gardiner, featuring Evan Casey, Natascia Diaz, Erin Driscoll, James Gardiner, Nicholas McDonough, Christopher Mueller, Katie Mariko Murray, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Nova Y. Payton, Christopher Michael Richardson, Maria Rizzo, Awa Sal Secka, Bobby Smith, Holly Twyford, John Leslie Wolfe, and Rachel Zampelli, begins FREE streaming at 5:45 PM ET at DC’s Signature Theatre.
Shoshana Bean live in concert at Westport Country Playhouse, airs at 9 PM PBS (check local listings).
Caroline, or Change 2021 Broadway production, featuring Sharon D. Clarke, Alexander Bello, John Cariani, Joy Hermalyn, Arica Jackson,, Tamika Lawrence, Caissie Levy, Kevin S. McAllister, Harper Miles, N’Kenge, Nya, Jayden Theophile, Nasia Thomas, Samantha Williams, Stuart Zagnit , and Chip Zien, with Gabriel Amoroso, Adam Makké, and Jaden Myles Waldman, who share the role of Noah Gellman (it is unclear which actor recorded the role for the album), cast album released on CD.
Saturday, January 15
This Beautiful Future, by Rita Kalneijais, directed by Jack Serio, featuring Austin Pendleton, Justin Mark, and Angelina Fiordellisi, opens at Off-Broadway’s Theaterlab.
The LA Philharmonic‘s Symphonic Duke Ellington, conducted by Thomas Wilkins, opens at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
She Loves Me, directed by Robert Hastie, featuring Alex Young (Amalia Balash), David Thaxton (Georg Nowack), Marc Elliott (Ladislav Sipos), Andy Coxon (Steven Kodaly), Kaisa Hammarlund (Ilona Ritter), Karle Seth (Zoltan Maraczek), Lewis Cornay (Arpad Laszlo), and Adele Anderson (Head Waiter), with Zac Adlam, Michael Anderson, Kamau Davis, Lawrence Guntert, Samantha Hull, Exme Laudat, and Gleanne Purcell-Brown, closes at London’s Crucible Theatre.
Kimberly Akimbo, world premiere by David Lindsay-Abaire & Jeanine Tesori, directed by Jessica Stone, featuring Steven Boyer, Victoria Clark, Justin Cooley, Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan II, Michael Iskander, Alli Mauzey, Bonnie Milligan, and Nina White, closes at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre Company.
Sunday, January 16
Whisper House, by Kyle Jarrow & Duncan Sheik, directed by Steve Cosson, featuring Samantha Mathis (Lily), Alex Boniello (Male Ghost), Jeb Brown (The Sheriff), Wyatt Cirbus (Christopher), Molly Hager (Female Ghost), and James Yaegashi (Yasuhiro), opens at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theatres.
Everybody Loves Jamie, by Dan Gillespie & Tom MacRae, directed by Jonthan Butterell, featuring Layton Williams (Jamie), Roy Haylock (Hugo/Loco Chanelle), Melissa Jaques (Margaret), Shobna Gulati (Ray), Gillian Ford (Miss Hedge), David O’Reilly (Laika Virgin), Leon Craig (Sandra Bollock), Richard Appaih-Sarpong (Cy), Zion Battles (Levi), Ryan Hughes (Mickey), Jodie Knight (Fatimah), Harriet Payne (Bex), Adam Taylor (Sayid), George Sampson (Dean), Kazmin Borrer (Vicki), and Talia (Palamathanan (Becca), with Simeon Beckett, Rachel Seirian, and Emma Robotham-Hunt, begins previews at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre.
Christy Altomare in concert, at 8 PM ET at 54 Below.
I Know Things Now: Jeff Harnar Sings Sondheim concert, at 7 PM CT at Chicago’s Davenport’s Piano Bar & Cabaret.
To Kill a Mockingbird closes temporarily at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre, and will re-open June 1 at the Belasco Theatre, starring Greg Kinnear.
Lincoln Center Theatre’s Flying Over Sunset, by James Lapine, Tom Kitt & Michael Korie, directed by Lapine, featuring Carmen Cusack (Claire Boothe Luce), Harry Hadden-Paton (Aldous Huxley), Tony Yazbeck (Cary Grant), Emily Pynenburg, Michele Ragusa, Robert Sella, Laura Shoop, and Atticus Ware, with Aria Braswell, Danny Gardner, Kate Marilley, Patrick Scott McDermott, Tony Roach, Kanisha Marie Feliciano, Nehal Joshi, and Michael Winther, closes at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
Second Stage Theatre‘s Clyde’s, by Lynn Nottage, directed by Kate Whoriskey, featuring Edmund Donovan, Uzo Aduba, Ron Cephas Jones, Reza Salazar, Kara Young, and Edmund Donovan, closes at Broadway’s Hayes Theatre.
Ain’t Too Proud, by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Des McAnuff, featuring Nik Walker (Otis Williams), James Harkness (Paul Williams), Jawan M. Jackson (Melvin Franklin), Matt Manuel (David Ruffin), and Jelani Remy (Eddie Kendricks), with Esther Antoine, Saint Aubyn, Shawn Bowers, E. Clayton Cornelious, J. Daughtry, Tiffany Francés, Ta’Nika Gibson, Taylor Symone Jackson, Jahi Kearse, Darius Jordan Lee, Jarvis B. Manning Jr., Morgan McGhee, Joshua Morgan, Aaron Patterson, Christian Thompson, Sir Brock Warren, Correy West, Drew Wildman Foster, Curtis Wiley, and Candice Marie Woods, closes at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre.
Danny Burstein concludes his run as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
Daniel J. Watts concludes his run as Ike Turner in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
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On Mon. Jan. 31 at 7:30 PM ET, director Diane Paulus and Jeffrey L. Page will share insights into the creative process behind Cambridge’s A.R.T. new production of 1776, which will run May 14 – July 24 (opening May 26).
Click here to register for the conversation.
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The recent live filmed production of London’s Anything Goes, directed & choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, starring Sutton Foster and Robert Lindsay, will be released in 700+ US movie theaters for 2 days only — Sun. Mar. 27 & Wed. Mar. 30. 
here.
The cast also features Felicity Kendal (Evangeline Harcourt), Gary Wilmot (Elisha Whitney), Samuel Edwards (Billy Crocker), Nicole-Lily Baisden (Hope Harcourt), Haydn Oakley (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh), and Carley Mercedes Dyer (Erma).
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Rufus Does Judy at City Winery has announced concert dates, all which will offer 2 concerts each night, during which Rufus Wainwright will re-create the entirety of the “Judy at Carnie Hall” album.
* NYC: June 5, 7, 8, & 10. here.
* San Franisco: June 16 & 17. here.
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. The 2021 BroadwayWorld Off/Off-Off Broadway Awards winners have been announced.
Click here for the complete list of winners.
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Dipika Guha’s Yoga Play will run Jan. 19 – Feb. 6 at Syracuse Stage, directed by Octavia Chavez-Richmond.
Octavia Chavez-Richmond (Romola), Andrea Cirie (Joan), Rishan Dhamija (Raj), Christopher Gurr (John), and Rocky Pak (Fred).
The comedy skewers the multi-billion-dollar athleisure wear industry and the quest to ring big profits from the physical and spiritual practice of yoga.
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After thousands of performances, Jonathan Freeman, who has played Jafar since The Lion King opened on Broadway in 1997, will depart the production on Jan. 23 at the Minskoff Theatre, after more than 25 years.
Freeman will be replaced by Dennis Stowe, who has served as the role’s standby since the production opened.
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. “The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal” will air Jan. 15 & 16 at 6:30 PM ET here.
Sidney Poiter, Hugh Jackman, Brad Oscar, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Leandra Ellis-Gaston, and Nik Walker
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with Wynton Marsalis will take place Fri. Jan. 21 at 8 PM PT at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center.
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Roger Bean’s The Andrew Brothers will run Feb. 11-27 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Jeffrey Polk, with choreography by Roger Costellano, and music direction by Ryan O’Connell.
David Engel (Max Andrews), Larry Raben (Patrick Andrews), Jonathan Arana (Lawrence Andrews), and Krystle Simmons (Peggy Jones).
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RIP: Terry Teachout, playwright, biographer, and longtime Wall Street Journal theater critic, died unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 65.
He began is journalism career in the 1970s writing about classical music and jazz for the Kansas City Star. He relocated to NYC in the 1980s to work for Harper’s and the New York Daily News, where he served as the classical music and dance critic for the Wall Street Journal from 1993-2000. He took on the role of weekly theater critic for the newspaper in 2003, and held the position until his death.
As a musician (he was a jazz bassist) and theater practitioner, he wrote the libretti for operas and also wrote the acclaimed solo drama Satchmo at the Waldorf, which ran Off Broadway in 2014, starring John Douglas Thomas, as well as the 2017 play Billy and Me, which explored the friendship between William Inge and Tennessee Williams.
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Lynn Nottage & Rickey Ian Gordon’s Intimate Apparel will run Feb. 7 – Mar. 6 at Lincoln Center Theatre, directed by Justin Austin, Errin Duane Brooks, Kearstin Piper Brown, Chanáe Curtis, Adrienne Danrich, Jesse Darden, Matthew Gamble, Arnold Livingston Geis, Christian Mark Gibbs, Tesia Kwarteng, Anna Laurenzo, Barrington Lee, Jasmine Muhammad, Naomi Louisa O’Connell, Kimberli Render, Krysty Swann, Chabrelle Williams, and Jorell Williams. Tickets are also available on TDF.
Justin Austin, Errin Duane Brooks, Kearstin Piper Brown, Chanáe Curtis, Adrienne Danrich, Jesse Darden, Matthew Gamble, Arnold Livingston Geis, Christian Mark Gibbs, Tesia Kwarteng, Anna Laurenzo, Barrington Lee, Jasmine Muhammad, Naomi Louisa O’Connell, Kimberli Render, Krysty Swann, Chabrelle Williams, and Jorell Williams.
Esther, a lonely Black seamstress in turn-of-the-century New York searches for connection and fulfillment while making gorgeous undergarments for others.
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company presents it next reading, Joy Gregory’s The Lonely Ape, which will livestream on Zoom on Mon. Jan. 17 at 7:30 PM PT, directed by Michelle Bossy. Click here to watch. For safety protocol, the in-person option is no longer available.
Avery Clyde, Taylor Nichols, Ben Theobald, and Elana Campbell-Martinez.
Janine is a stuck poet who works in the admission office of a back-up choice liberal arts college in the Northwest. As her husband, Hal, is about to publish the book on early humans that’s he’s been working on for 20 years, Janine finds herself falling into an affair with a strange, young plumber. Bigfoot shows up.
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Roundabout Theatre Company has announced complete casting for Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles, to run Mar. 18 – May 29 (opening Apr. 10) at the American Airlines Theatre, directed by Vivienne Benesch.
Debra Messing (Ernestine Ashworth), John Earl Jelks (Matt/William), Enrico Colantoni (Kenneth), Crystal Finn (Joan/Alex/Beth), Susannah Flood (Alice/Madeline/Ernie), and Christopher Livingston (Billy/John).
Ernestine spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough it’s her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations, dozens of goldfish, an infinity of dreams, one cake baked over a century.