This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, March 11
Bina’s Six Apples, world premiere by Lloyd Suh, directed by Eric Ting, featuring Olivia Lampert (Bina), Albert Park (Father), Sun Mee Chomet (Mother), Elizabeth Pan (Hamee), Joseph Pendergrast (Jinsoo), Sheeli Delgado (Youngsoo), and Jayden Ham (Boy), opens at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre.
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, opens at Australia’s White Pearl Theatre.
Once On This Island, directed by Pascale Florestal, featuring Peli Naomi Woods (Ti Moune), Becky Bass, Jonathan Gallegos, Kira Sarai Helper, Lovely Hoffman, Christina Jones, Kenny Lee, Reagan Massó, Malik Mitchell, Davron S. Monroe, Yewande Odetoyinbo, Anthony Pires Jr., and Kira Troilo, opens at Boston’s Speakeasy Stage.
The Play That You Want, by Bernardo Cubría, directed by Michael John Garcés, featuring Peter Pasco (Bernardo), Chelsea Gonzalez (Vera), Nathalie Llerena (Chloe/Mija/Jlo), Jonathan Nichols (gilbert Cruz/Alfred Molina), Roland Ruiz (Lin-Manuel Miranda/Mijo/Pablo/John Leguizamo), Christopher Larkin (Sam Gold/Chay Yew/Variety Reporter), and Stewart J. Zully (Oskar Eustis/Scott Rudin), opens at North Hollywood’s Road on Magnolia.
Branwell (and the other Brontës): An Autobiography Edited by Charlotte Brontë, by Stephen Kaplan, directed by Sarah Nilsen, featuring Marc Leclerc, Maia Luer, Naomi Phyl, Calvin Picou, Natasha Renae Potts, and Sarah Sommers, opens at North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble.
The Bridges of Madison County, directed by Hunter Foster, featuring Kate Baldwin (Francesca Johnson) Aaron Lazar (Robert Kincaid), Bart Shatto (Bud Johnson), Thomas Cromer (Michael Johnson), and Emily Pellecchia (Carolyn Johnson), with Giuliana Augello, Sealth Grove, Lara Hayhurst, Mark Megill, Natalie Myrick, Rutledge Varley, and Nikki Yarnell, previews at NJ’s Axelrod PAC.
The New York Public Library’s “The Creative Process: Liza Minelli, John Kaner, and Fred Ebb,” a rarely seen 1974 interview with Liza Minelli, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, streams for FREE (only with prior registration) at 5:30 PM ET at the NY Public Library. Click here to register.
“Gershwin Country” album, produced by Liza Minelli & Michael Feinstein, featuring your favorite country stars, released here.
Saturday, March 12
The Bridges of Madison County, directed by Hunter Foster, featuring Kate Baldwin (Francesca Johnson) Aaron Lazar (Robert Kincaid), Bart Shatto (Bud Johnson), Thomas Cromer (Michael Johnson), and Emily Pellecchia (Carolyn Johnson), with Giuliana Augello, Sealth Grove, Lara Hayhurst, Mark Megill, Natalie Myrick, Rutledge Varley, and Nikki Yarnell, opens at NJ’s Axelrod PAC.
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), opens at LA’s Skylight 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), begins previews at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay!, by Dario Fo & Franca Rame, directed by Bob Turton, featuring Kaili Hollister (Antonia), Lynde Houck (Margherita), Jeremie Loncka (Giovanni), Steven M. Porter (Agent, Old Man, Sergeant, Undertaker), Luis Quintana (Luigi), and Stephanie G. Galindo (Officer, Agent, Nurse, Assistant), begins previews at LA’s The Actors Gang Theater.
“An Evening with Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman,” a discussion about, and songs from Harmony: A New Musical, at 7 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y.
Sandra Bernhard: An Evening of Comedy and Music at 8 PM ET at Westport Country Playhouse.
Frank Ferrante’s Groucho solo show directed by Dreya Weber, at 7 PM ET at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre.
TW Cabaret: Love Actually concert, directed by Victoria Lavan, featuring Sara Ballentine, Sandra Tucker, Paul Cady, Sara Shearer, Arden Lewis, Connie Mellors, Mimi Kmet, Anne Leyden, Michael Van Duzer, Heidi Appe, Rick Simone-Friedland, Tessa Bell, and Robert W. Laur, at 7 PM PT at LA’s Theatre West. (also Mar. 19)
Isaac Mizrahi: In Person closes at NYC’s Café Carlyle (sold out).
Sunday, March 13
Alma, by Juliette Carillo, directed by Juliette Carillo, featuring Sabrina Fest and Cheryl Umana, with Bianca Ruiz Brockl and Marilyn Camacho, opens at LA’s Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Suffs, world premiere by Shaina Taub, directed by Leigh Silverman, featuring Shaina Taub (Alice Paul), Nikki M. James, Phillipa Soo, and Jenn Colella, with Jenna Bainbridge, Ally Bonino, Tsilala Brock, Hannah Cruz, Nadia Dandashi, Aisha de Haas, Stephanie Everett, Amina Raye, Holly Goould, Cassondra James, Jaygee Macapugay, Grace McLean, Susan Oliveras, Mia Pak, Liz Pearce, Monica Tulia Ramirez, J. Riley Jr., Angela Travino, Ada Westfall, and Aurelia Williams, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater.
Shana Farr – Whistling Away the Dark: the Songbook of Julie Andrews concert, at 7 PM ET at NYC’s 54 Below.
Will Roland in concert with Seth Rudetsky, livestreams at 8 PM ET here.
. Anna Uzele concludes her run as Catherine Parr in SIX at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Out of Time, world premiere by Jaclyn Backhaus, Sam Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka & Anna Ouyang Moench, directed by Mike Lew, featuring Mia Katigbak (Ena), Glenn Kubota (Taki), Page Leong (Woman), and Rita Wolf (Carla), closes at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater.
sandblasted, world premiere by Charly Evon Simpson, directed by Summer L Williams, featuring Khandi Alexander, Marinda Anderson, Brittany Bellizeare, and Andy Lucien, closes at Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre.
Slave Play, by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O’Hara, featuring Ato Blankson-Wood, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Jonathan Higginbotham, Devin Kawaoka, Chalia La Tour, Irene Sofia Lucio, Annie McNamara, and Paul Alexander Nolan, with Eboni Flowers, Blake Russell, Luigi Sottile, Elizabeth Stahlmann, and Galen J. Williams, closes at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.
Ocean Filibuster world premiere, by Lisa D’Amour & Sxip Shirey, directed by Katie Pearl, featuring Jennifer Kidwell (Mr. Majority/The Ocean), Marshall Hughes, Rachel Share-Sapolsky, Emerson Sieverts, Evan Spigelman, Dawn L. Troupe, and Nia Weeks, closes at Cambridge’s A.R.T.
Swept Away, by The Avett Brothers & John Logan, directed by Michael Mayer, featuring John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Wayne Duvall, and Adrian Blake Enscoe, with Taurean Everett, Cameron Johnson, Brandon Kalm, Coleton Schmitto, Ben Toomer, Vishal Vaidya, Ryan Watkinson, and Jacob Keith Watson, closes at Berkeley Rep.
Ensemble Theatre Company‘s Lillian, by David Cale, directed by Jonathan Fox, starring Nancy Travis, closes at Santa Barbara’s Old Vic.
A Little Night Music, directed by Ryan O’Connor, featuring Zoe Bright (Madame Armfeldt), Peyton Crim (Frederick Egerman), Amanda Kruger (Henrik Egerman), Andrea Lara (Anderssen), Meredith Pyle (Linquist), Emma Rose (Fredrika Armfeldt), Alexa Rosengaus (Petra), Christopher Robert Smith (Count Carl-Magnus), Dekontee Tucrkile (Erlansen), Catherine Wadkins (Desiree Armfeldt), and Sarah Wolter (Charlotte Malcolm), with Lux Amaya and Ronni Paige, closes at LA’s Greenway Court Theatre.
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Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre has announced its 2022-23 season:
The Gin Game (Mar. 16 – Apr. 3, opening Mar. 19), directed by Jenny Sullivan, starring JoBeth Williams and Joe Spano.
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Apr. 27 – May 15, opening Apr. 29), by Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Chris Butler & Jenny Sullivan.
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (June 8-26, opening June 11), with director and cast TBA.
Almost Maine (Sept. 7-25, opening Sept. 10), by John Cariani, directed by Stephanie A. Coltrin. 
A quirky, romantic comedy about love and loss, told through a series of nine vignettes, all of which take place on a magical midwinter night when the citizens of Almost – a place too disorganized to be called a town and too populated to be a wilderness – discovers the life-altering power of the human heart. Strangers become friends, friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers.
In the Heights (Oct. 6 – Nov. 13, opening Oct. 19), directed & choreographed by Luis Salgado.
. A Lonesome Traveler Christmas (Oct. 26 – Nov. 13, opening Oct. 29), by George Grove & James O’Neil, directed by O’Neill, with music direction by Scott Anthony.
The Realistic Joneses (Jan. 25 – Feb. 12, 2023, opening Jan. 28), by Will Eno, directed by Judy Hegarty-Lovett, starring Conor Lovett, Joe Spano, and Faline England. Meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors John and Pony, two suburban couples who discover they have more in common that their identical homes and their surnames.
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New York Theatre Workshop‘s 2022 Annual Gala will take place Wed. Apr. 11 at 6 PM ET NYC’s Capitale, honoring Artistic Director James C. Nicola, an directed by Kevin Cahoon, with music direction by Will Van Dyke.
Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Shoshana Bean, Nikki M. James, Andy Mientus, Dina Martina, Somi Kakoma, Martha Redbone, The Bengsons, and the stars of Hadestown.
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“Surprise Earthlings,” the cast album of the West End’s Back to the Future – The Musical, by Bob Gale, Alan Silvestri & Glen Ballard, is now available here.
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Broadway Bares, in support of BC/EFA, will take place Sun. June 26 at 9:30 PM ET & Midnight ET at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom. 
here.
Participants TBA.
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Article: Ethan Hawke on his Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward documentary: “Their Generation Changed American Acting.”
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Rogue Machine Theatre‘s On the Other Hand, We’re Happy, by Daf James, continues through Apr. 17 at the Matrix Theatre, directed by Cameron Watson.
Rori Flynn, Alexandra Hellquist, and Christian Telesmar.
The story of a young couple’s dreams of adopting. When an unforeseen turn of events upends their goals, plans must by adjusted. Life is tough, but even the worst of it can be laugh-out-loud funny.
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Second Stage Theater presents the world premiere of JC Lee’s To My Girls, to begin previews Mar. 15 and open Apr. 12 at the Tony Kiser Theater, directed by Stephen Brackett.
Bryan Batt, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Carmen Lacivita, Maulik Pancholy, Noah J. Ricketts, and Britton Smith.
Is there anything more fabulous than Palm Springs after the end of the world? for one tight group of gay men, a post-pandemic getaway is the perfect chance to reunite, reclaim their time and replace the gloom with some gossip. But as soon as the drinks start pouring, truths start spilling and this chosen family quickly realizes the world has changed.
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Provincetown’s Art House Theatre has announced its Summer 2022 season:
Audra McDonald (May 29)
Rachel Bay Jones (June 24-25)
Christie Altomare (July 8-9)
Stephanie J. Block (July 10)
Faith Prince & Jason Graae: You & Me But Mostly Me (July 17-18)
Man Overboard (July 18), with Roderick Ferguson, directed by Faith Prince.
No One Is Alone: Melissa Errico Remembers Stephen Sondheim (July 22-23)
Donna McKechnie (July 30-31)
Broadway The Calla-Way (Aug. 5-6), with Liz & Ann Hampton Callaway
Chita Rivera (Aug. 7)
Lillias White (Aug. 12-13)
Marilyn Maye: Of Course There’s More (Aug. 23 – Sept. 3)
Max von Essen (Aug. 26-27), with Billy Stritch
Steven Brinberg’s Simply Barbra (Sept 1-2)
Jessica Vosk (Sept. 4)
Beth Malone (Sept. 30 – Oct. 1)
…….. and more TBA …….
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Gingold Theatrical Group presents its open-mic Irish Poetry Slam 2022 on Thurs. Mar. 17 at 6 PM ET here.
Reg Rogers, Laila Robins & Justin “Squigs” Robertson, Tyne Daly, Midori Francis, Julie Halston, Daniel Jenkins, Lauren Molina Kerry O’Malley, Christine Pedi, Thom Sesma, and more.