This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, March 17
Festival of New Musicals, offering readings, discussions & concerts, opens at CT’s Goodspeed Theatre.
Gifted, by Bob DeRosa, directed by Jennier DeRosa & Sarah Nilsen, featuring Biniyam Abreha, Antwan Alexander II, Lemon Baardsen, Isaac Deakyne, John Goodwin, Jay Hoshina, April Littlejohn, Ignacio Navarro, Jazmine Nichelle, Danielle Ozymandias, Bree Pavey, Benjamin Rawls, Madylin Sweeten, and Nate Thurman opens at North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble.
Peter Pan Goes Wrong, by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields, directed by directed by Adam Meggido, featuring Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Chris Leask, Ellie Morris, Charlie Russell, Greg Tannahill, and Nancy Zamit, begins previews at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Wild Goose Dreams, by Hansol Jung, directed by Pascale Florestal, featuring Seonjae Kim, Eunji Lim, Jeffrey Song, Amanda Centeno, Ciaran D’Hondt, Fady Demain, John D. Haggerty, Elaine Hom, and Ryan Mardesich, begins previews at Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage.
Gingold Theatricals’ FREE Irish Poetry Slam virtual open mike, featuring Blair Brown, Charles Busch, Robert Cuccioli, Tyne Daley, Midori Francis, Alison Fraser, Daniel Jenkins, Howard McGillin, John Andrew Morrison, Kerry O’Malley, Mary Beth Peil, Laila Robins, and Thom Sesma, at 6 PM here, or livestream on Facebook.
“The Hours” opera by Kevin Puts & Greg Pierce, directed by Stephen Daldry, featuring Kelli O’Hara, Renée Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato, with Kathleen Kim, Sylvia D’Eramo, Denyce Graves, John Holiday, William Burden, Sean Panikkar, Kyle Ketelsen, and Brandon Cedel, premieres at 9 PM on PBS, as well as on the PBS app (check local listings).
Saturday, March 18
Did You See What Walter Paisley Did Today?, by Randy Rogel, directed by BT McNicholl, featuring Steven Booth (Walter Paisley), Vanessa Sierra (Carla), Ross Hellwig (Maxell Brock), Kingsley Leggs (Leonard DeSantis), Kathy Fitzgerald (Mrs. Swickert), Janna Cardia (Lili von Vondergraff), Ashley Moniz (Beatnik Girl), and Josh Adamson (Detective Lou Raby), James Caleb Grice (Beatnick Guy), and Jamir Brown (Clive), opens at Ca’s La Mirada Theatre.
Rent: In Concert, directed by Amanda McRaven, featuring Ricky Abilez, Ray Auxias, Ellie Aviles, Sofia Bragar, Sean Cruz, Shanelle Darlene, Mitchell Johnson, Graham Kurtz, Nicole Ledoux, Carrie Madsen, Nicole Monet, Carlos Padilla Jr., John “Rusty” Proctor, and Eddie Vona, opens at LA’s Coeurage Ensemble.
Elizabeth Ward Land: Still Within the Sound of My Voice – The Songs of Linda Ronstadt concert, at 8 PM at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse.
Mint Theater‘s Becomes a Woman, by Betty Smith, directed by Britt Berke, featuring Duane Boutté, Jeb Brown, Gina Daniels, Antoinette Lavecchia, Jack Mastrianni, Pearl Rhein, Phillip Taratula, Jason O’Connell, Peterson Townsend, Scott Redmond, Tim Webb, Christopher Reed Brown, Emma Pfitzer Price, and Madeline Seidman, closes at Off-Broadway’s NY City Center.
The Wife of Willesden, adapted by Zadie Smith, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, featuring Clare Perkins (Alvita), Marcus Adolphy (Winston/Mandela/Black Jesus), George Eggay (Pastor/Eldridge), Andrew Frame (Ian/Socrates/Bartosz), Troy Glasgow (Darren/Young Maroon), Claudia Grant (Polly/Sophie), Nikita Johal (Asma/Kelly), Scott Miller (Ryan/Colin), Jessica Murrain (Author/Zaire/Queen Nanny), and Ellen Thomas (Aunty P/Old Wife), with Sophie Cartman, closes at Cambridge’s A.R.T.
Putting It Together, directed & choreographed by Gerry McIntyre, featuring Tyrick Wiltez Jones, Judy McLane, Cayleigh Capaldi, Nicholas Rodriguez, and Brent Thiessen, closes at Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Playhouse.
Sunday, March 19
Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, with direction & musical staging by Wayne Cilento, featuring Yeman Brown, Peter John Chursin, Dylis Croman, Jovan Dansberry, Karli Dinardo, Tony d’Alelio, Aydin Eyikan, Manuel Herrera, Gabriel Hyman, Kolton Krouse, Mattie Love, Krystal Mackie, Yani Marin, Nando Morland, Khori Michelle Petinaud, Ida Saki, Ron Todorowski, and Neka Zang, opens at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre.
NEWSical The Musical, by Rick Crom, with 50% of the proceeds donated to the Entertainment Community Fund, directed by Mark Waldrop, featuring Kristen Alderson, Taylor Crousore, Carly Sakalove, and Michale West … with a special guest star each week, returns to Off-Broadway’s AMT Theatre.
Wild Goose Dreams, by Hansol Jung, directed by Pascale Florestal, featuring Seonjae Kim, Eunji Lim, Jeffrey Song, Amanda Centeno, Ciaran D’Hondt, Fady Demain, John D. Haggerty, Elaine Hom, and Ryan Mardesich, opens at Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage.
The Plot reading, by Philip Roth, featuring Eric Bagosian, Jane Kaczmarek, S. Epatha Merkerson, Marjan Neshat, Cynthia Nixon, Peter Riegert, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Benjamin Washington, and Sam Waterston, at 1 PM at the New Jersey PAC.
Varla Jean Merman’s Ready to Blow! cabaret, at 4 & 7 PM at TheaterWorks Hartford.
London’s The Crucible screening, directed by Lyndsey Turner, featuring Brendan Cowell (John Proctor) Erin Doherty (Abigail Williams), Eileen Walsh (Elizabeth Proctor), Fisayo Akinade (Reverend Hale), Karl Johnson ( Giles Corey), and Matthew Marsh (Danforth), with David Ahmad, Nathan Amzi, Zoë Aldrich, Stephanie Beattie, Raphael Bushay, Sophia Brown, Halle Brown, Anushka Chakravarti, Grace Cooper Milton, Rachelle Diedericks, Hero Douglas, Henry Everett, Nick Fletcher, Jersey Blu Georgia, Colin Haigh, Una Herrmann, Martin Johnston, Evie Marner, Gracie McGonigal, Alastair Parker, Joy Tan, Ami Tredrea, Tilly Tremayne, and Cadence Williams, at 3 PM PT at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre.
NY City Center Encores’ Dear World, by Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee, directed & choreographed by Josh Rhodes, featuring Brooks Ashmanskas (President), Andréa Burns (Constance), Christopher Fitzgerald (Sewerman), Ann Harada (Gabrielle), Kody Jauron (Artiste), Phillip Johnson Richardson (Julian), Samantha Williams (Nina), Lilli Cooper (Nancy), Raúl Esparza (Fagin), Tam Mutu (Bill Sikes), Brad Oscar (Mr. Bumble), Benjamin Pajak (Oliver Twist), Mary Testa (Widow Corney), with William Thomas Colin, Charity Angel Dawson, Julian Marcus DeGuzman, Zachary Downer, Sam Duncan, William Foon, Ethen Green-Younger, Jeff Kready, Jenny Laroche, Devin Miles Lugo, Morgan Marcell, Lindsay Roberts, Eliseo Roman, Michael Cash Savio, and Jacob Keith Watson, with Darlesia Cearcy, Cicily Daniels, Brian Flores, Blair Goldberg, Aaron Kaburick, Eddie Korbich, Josh Lamon, Will Mann, Manna Nichols, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Phumzile Sojola, Jessica Tyler Wright, Franca Vercelloni, Kathy Voytko, and Patrick Wetzel, closes.
The Trees, world premiere by Agnes Borinsky’, directed by Tina Satter, featuring Jess Barbagallo (David), Marcia DeBonis (Sheryl), Crystal Dickinson (Sheila), Sean Donovan (Jared), Xander Fenyes (Ezra), Nile Harris (Julian), Max Gordon Moore (Saul), Pauli Pontrelli (Tavish), Ray Anthony Thomas (Norman), Danusia Trevino (Grandmother), Sam Breslin Wright (Terry/Vendor), and Becky Yamamoto (Charlotte), closes at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons.
Elyria, world premiere by Deepa Purohit, directed by Awoye Timpo, featuring Nilanjana Bose, Sanjit De Silva, Gulshan Mia, Bhayesh Patel, Sanskar Agarwal, Honit Gautam, Mahima Saigal, Khyati Sehga, and Omar Shafiuzzaman, closes at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company.
1 + 1, by Eric Bogosian, directed by Matt Okin, featuring Michael Gardiner, Katie North, and Daniel Yaiullo, closes at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse.
Hercules, by Alan Menken, David Zippel & Robert Horn, directed by Ron Clements & John Musker, featuring Bradley Gibson (Hercules), Shuler Hensley (Hades), James Monroe Iglehart (Phil), Isabelle McCalla (Meg), Jeff Blumenkrantz (Panic), Reggie De Leon (Pain), Charity Angél Dawson (Clio), Tiffay Mann (Calliope), Anastacia McCleskey (Thalia), Destinee Rea (Terpsichore), Rashidra Scott (Melpomene), Kathryn Allison (Despina), Allyson Kaye Daniel (Aunt Tithesis/Lachesis), Lucia Giannetta (Atropos), Jesse Nager (Nessus), Kristen Faith Oei (Hera), Dennis Stowe (Zeus), and Anne Fraser Thomas (Clotho), with Joshua Buscher, Marcus Cobb, Zachary Downer, Ryan Fitzgerald, Kendall LeShanti, Chani Maisonet, Skye Mattox, Jason W. McCullum, Erin Moore, JJ Niemann, Gabrielle Reid, Adam Roberts, Ben Roseberry, Christine Shepard, Chiara Trentalange, and Lamont Walker II, closes at NJ’s Papermill Playhouse.
Big Fish, by John August & Andrew Lippa, directed by Henry Godinez, featuring Alexander Gemignani (Edward Bloom), Heidi Kettenring (Sandra Bloom), Michael Kurowski (Will), and William Daly & Archer Geye (alternating as Young Will/Will’s Son), with Lydia Burke, Brandon Dahlquist, Lucy Godinez, Christopher Kale Jones, Emma Rosenthal, Allison Sill, Ayana Strutz, and Jonah D. Winston, and understudies Emily Ann Brooks, Andres Enriquez, Andrew Greiche, Sam Alan Johnson, Darryl D’Angelo Jones, and Jenny McPherson, closes at Chicago’s Marriott Theatre.
Festival of New Musicals, offering readings, discussions & concerts, concludes at CT’s Goodspeed.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Allen O’Reilly, featuring John Leonard (Vanya), Teresa DeBerry (Sonia), Andrea Schiavoni (Mash), Connor Tuohy (Spike), Anna Schiavoni (Nina), and Catherine Bromberg (Cassandra), closes at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.
Sunday in the Park with George, directed by Sarna Lapine, featuring Graham Phillips (George Seurat/George), Krystina Alabado (Dot/Marie), Michael Manuel (Jules/Bob), Emily Tyra (Yvonne/Naomi), Liz Larsen (Old Lady/Blair), Jenni Barber (Celeste #2/Elaine), Pippa Blaylock (Louise), Brian Calì (Boatman/Lee), Jennie Greenberry (Nurse), Trevor James (Soldier/Alex), Robert Knight (Louis/Charles), Deborah Lew(Frieda/Betty), Alexandra Melrose (Mrs./Harriet), Juliana Sloan(Celeste #1), Jimmy Smagula (Mr./Billy), and Jason Michael Snow (Franz/Dennis), with Marc Ginsburg, Armand Akbari, Allison Belinkoff, Savannah L. Jackson, Matthew McCoy, Brianna Pember, closes at Pasadena Playhouse.
Virginia Stage Company‘s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, by Pearl Cleage, directed by Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, featuring Patricia Alli (Anna Campbell), Mikayla Lashae Bartholomew (Precious “Pete” Watson), Terri Brown (Betty Samson), and Bethany Mayo (Kate Hughes), closes at Norfolk’s Wells Theatre.
The Heart Sellers, world premiere by Lloyd Suh, directed by Jennifer Chang, featuring Narea Kang (Jane) and Nicole Javier (Luna), closes at Milwaukee Rep.
Dino! An Evening with Dean Martin, starring Tally Sessions, directed by Jonathan Hetler, closes at Milwaukee Rep.
The Great Leap, by Lauren Yee, directed by Michael Hisamoto, featuring Barlow Adamson, Jihan Haddad, Gary Thomas Ng, and Tyler Simahk, closes at Boston’s Lyric Stage.
Cabaret, directed by Michael Weber, featuring Josh Walker (The Emcee), Erica Stephan (Sally Bowles), Samuel B. Jackson (Clifford Bradshaw), Mary Robin Roth (Fraulein Schneider), Josiah Haugen (Ernst Ludwig), Mark David Kaplan (Herr Schultz), Neala Barron (Fraulein “Fritzie” Kost), Tim Foszcz (Herman), Frankie Leo Bennett (Emcee and Max standby), Morgan DiFonzo (Texas), Julia Fleckenstein (Helga), Haley Gustafson (Frenchie), Natalie Henry (Rosie), Shane Roberie (Max), Lance Spencer (Victor), TJ Tapp (Lulu), Shaun White (Bobby), and Evan Wilhelm (Hans), with Cam Turner and Jordan Beyeler, closes at Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre.
The Group Rep‘s Harold and Maude, directed by Larry Eisenberg, featuring (rotating cast) Landon Beatty, Fox Carney, Lareen Faye, JC Gafford, Kat Kemmett, Jessica Kent, John Ledley, Lloyd Pederson, Susan Priver, Clara Rodriguez, Steve Shaw, Janet Wood, Gina Yates, and Douglas Gabrielle, closes at North Hollywood’s Lonny Chapman Theatre.
Rent: In Concert, directed by Amanda McRaven, featuring Ricky Abilez, Ray Auxias, Ellie Aviles, Sofia Bragar, Sean Cruz, Shanelle Darlene, Mitchell Johnson, Graham Kurtz, Nicole Ledoux, Carrie Madsen, Nicole Monet, Carlos Padilla Jr., John “Rusty” Proctor, and Eddie Vona, closes at LA’s Coeurage Ensemble.
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Reviews for Parade at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre:
NY Times (Jesse Green): …in the riveting Broadway revival… it’s Micaela Diamond, as Lucille Frank, you watch most closely and who breaks your heart. With no affectation whatsoever, and a voice directly wired to her emotions, she makes Lucille our way into a story we might rather turn away from… true, this alters the balance of the show… further tipping it toward the marriage instead of the miscarriage of justice… In Platt’s highly physical interpretation, he is scrunched and sickly looking, as if literally oppressed by the gentile society around him… Michael Arden’s staging… When the first act ends on that awful note, we still do not know Leo well… His last [song] before the verdict is “It’s Hard to Speak My Heart.” Whatever that heart really holds is further blurred by Uhry’s device of having Leo enact the false testimony of other characters, so we see him as a rake and a maniac before we’ve grasped him as a man…
Chicago Tribune (Chris Jones): …The new revival, which stars Ben Platt in the title role, is a more politically engaged Parade than the one I remember more than 20 years ago, less of a melancholy exploration of the clash of cultural division and more of an explicit indictment of Southern Republicans and their jingoistic, lingering, festering loyalties to the remnants of the Confederacy, a hotbed of racism and antisemitism… Which makes it all the more strange that Platt offers a beautifully sung but less than empathetic performance… Platt sounds spectacular and nothing he does feels fake. Yet his Leo Frank seems much the same at the end of the show at the beginning, and just as remote… I think book writer Alfred Uhry and Brown intended exactly the opposite.
Variety (Frank Rizzo): … Parade has now found its moment in a brilliant Broadway revival… Brown, Uhry and director Michael Arden reshape this tragic story and elevate it with significance and stagecraft… Despite the unsettling subject matter there are also moments of charm, wit and even a razzmatazz number to act as a respite from the weight of grief, outrage and the ghosts of history… Ben Platt in a stunning performance as Leo Frank… Frank is not an easily sympathetic character, but the eminently likable Platt commits to the character’s formality, imperiousness and insensitivity, while revealing just a bit of wry humor… But it’s the vivid portrayal of his character’s emotional transformation in the second act that’s most moving…
Theatermania (Hayley Levitt): … Parade is back on Broadway to remind audiences what musical theater can really do… Brown’s anthem to Southern dignity…furtively casts the die… Ben Platt…delivering a mature, textured, and fabulously sung performance… Micaela Diamond…proves the breadth of her talent… If nothing else, this production demonstrates exactly why Brown’s genre-spanning score won the Tony all those years ago… the wonderful Kelli Barrett takes the witness stand as Mrs. Phagan… Jake Pedersen is vocally astonishing as young Frankie Epps… Brown’s composite score epitomizes the range of cultures bumping up against one another in the early 20th-century South, and Arden’s staging…shows precisely how these frictions can burst into flames…
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Reviews for The Coast Starlight at Lincoln Center Theatre:
NY Times (Alexis Soloski): …A gentle, rueful play, directed with a steady and sympathetic hand by Tyne Rafaeli, it settles down among six passengers sharing a single coach. Narrow, nimble, self-contained, the ride it offers is as smooth as it is wistful… The narrative engine of “The Coast Starlight” is powered by T.J. (a jittery, ingenuous Will Harrison)…. Mia Barron, in a brazen, audacious performance… Much of the play is written in the past conditional — “If I had told you,” “If I had known” — illuminating Bunin’s interest in the care that might have been tendered, the humanity that might have been shown if only the characters had been brave and vulnerable enough to reveal themselves to one another.
Theatermania (Zachary Stewart): It’s nice to have confirmation that I’m not the only person who forges imaginary relationships with my fellow train and airplane passengers… this achingly earnest, beautifully written drama about the trails we take and the paths we do not… the hilarious Mia Barron delivers the play’s one great coloratura aria in the form of a one-way phone call about a particularly humiliating breakup… a close examination of people in transition, not just from place to place, but between the status quo and what comes next. In such circumstances, we are inordinately open to possibilities and particularly susceptible to the influence of compelling strangers… the story of beautiful and flowed individuals forming an ephemeral community, but mostly declining the opportunity to connect….
New York Stage Review (Frank Scheck): There’s something romantic about encountering fellow passengers on a train, especially of the long-haul variety… a long train ride seems to hold infinite possibilities… We learn this intimate information via monologues delivered by all of the characters and conversations that take place among them. Except, as we soon figure out, their interactions are all in their heads, as they imagine each other’s situations and what they might have said to each other if they had the nerve. It could all come across as very precious, the playful machinations of an omniscient playwright putting his characters through arbitrary paces. But it somehow works, thanks to the empathetic characterizations and resonant dialogue that makes all of the figures appealing…
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Reviews for Dark Disabled Stories at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater:
NY Times (Laura Collins-Hughes): …Ryan J. Haddad’s richly provocative new show… Haddad is an actor and writer of extraordinary charm. Disarmingly witty, immensely likable, he is not about to spend his show lecturing you… He will make you laugh, though. And with his director, Jordan Fein, and fellow actors, Dickie Hearts and Alejandra Ospina, he will change the way you think about disability — and prompt you to think of accessibility as something that can deepen a dramatic experience when it’s built into the architecture of the piece… a highly theatrical, gracefully layered model of inventive inclusivity. Haddad and Hearts, a Deaf actor who radiates charisma, play parallel versions of a character called Ryan. Haddad speaks the lines; Hearts signs them…
Theatermania (Christian Lewis): When you hear the phrase “accessible performance,” you likely imagine a theater having a single autism-friendly or ASL-interpreted show, or maybe wheelchair-user-accessible seating, or perhaps even an autism-friendly elements. Ryan J. Haddad’s Dark Disabled Stories… takes access to much deeper level… dramaturg Alison Kopit writes, “Access is not an add-on to the show–it is the show.”This powerful sentence acts as both preamble and thesis statement for the play to come, which foregrounds access in ways that are nothing short of radical…
Time Out (Melissa Rose Bernardo): …Ryan J. Haddad does not want your sympathy. “If you came here to pity me, you can leave”… “I try to make disability funny so that non-disabled people can understand it,” he says… Dark Disabled Stories digs into accessibility, ableism and inclusion, yet it’s still shamelessly funny… Deaf actor Dickie Hearts communicates in ASL alongside Haddad, and the duo’s comic timing is flawless… At just 75 minutes, the show does feel a bit short. Is it greedy to want a few more vignettes to let us spend more time with these dynamic performers? Here’s hoping these Stories are just Haddad’s first volume.
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Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are (formerly known as Square One), co-written by David Ives, was in the works prior to Sondheim’s death and took inspiration from two Luis Buñuel films, “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” and “The Exterminating Angel.”
The production will begin previews in September (dates TBA) at The Shed, directed by Joe Mantello.
Casting and additional information TBA.
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Complete casting has been announced for the national tour of 1776, to run Apr. 11 – May 7 (opening Apr. 12) at the Ahmanson Theatre, directed by Diane Paulus, with music supervision by Ryan Cantwell.
Shelby Acosta (Sec. Charles Thomson), Gisela Adisa (John Adams), Nancy Anderson (Thomas Jefferson), Tiffani Barbour (Andrew mcNair), Dawn Cantwell (Col. Thomas McKean), Julie Cardia (Stephen Hopkins), Joanna Glushak (John Dickinson),Anissa Marie Griego (Roger Sherman), Kassandra Haddock (Edward Rutledge), Shawn Hamic (Richard Henry Lee), Lisa Karlin, Connor Lyon (Martha Jefferson/Dr. Lyman Hall), Liz Mikel (Benjamin Franklin), Nykila Norman (Caesar Rodney), Oneika Phillips (John Hancock), Lulu Picart (Samuel Chase), Brooke Simpson (Courier), Sav Souza (Dr. Josiah Bartlett), Teisha Thomas (Abigail Adams/Rev. Jonathan Witherspoon), Zuri Washington (Robert Livingston), Gwynne Wood (George Read), and Candice Marie Woods (Joseph Hewes), with Amanda Dayhoff, Sara Gallo, Lisa Karlin, Kayla Saunders, Ariella Serur (Judge James Wilson), and Lillie Eliza Thomas,
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Evita will run May 16 – July 16 (opening May 24) at Cambridge’s A.R.T., directed by Sammi Canold.
Casting and additional creative team TBA.
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Laguna Playhouse has announced its 2023-24 season:
Creative teams and casting TBA.
2 Pianos, 4 Hands (July 5-23, opening July 9), by Ted Dykstra & Richard Greenblatt.
The Rainmaker (Sept. 20 – Oct. 8, opening Sept. 24)
The Angel Next Door (Oct. 18 – Nov. 5, opening Oct. 22), by Paul Slade Smith (adapted from Ferenc Molnar’s Play at the Castle.
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Jan. 24 – Feb. 11, 2024).
A Shayna Maidel (Mar. 13-31, opening Mar. 17), by Barbara LeBow.
Tartuffe (Apr. 17 – May 5, opening Apr. 21)
Holmes and Watson (May 29 – June 16), by Jeffrey Hatcher
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Video: Morgan James and Ephraim Sykes perform “Nobody’s Fool”
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Ain’t Misbehavin’ will run Apr. 11 – 29 at Westport Country Playhouse, directed & choreographed by Jeffrey Page, with music direction by Terry Bogart.
Miya Bass, Paris Bennett, Jay Copeland, Judith Franklin, and Will Stone.
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National Theatre Live will present a screening of London’s Othello on Sat. May 6 at 3 PM at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre, starring Giles Terera, Rosy McEwen, and Paul Hilton.
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Theater Breaking Through Barriers will present Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage Apr. 18 – May 20 (opening Apr. 27) at Theatre Row, directed by Nicholas Viselli.
Christiane Noll, David Burtka, Carey Cox, and Gabe Fazio.
The play follows two New York couples who meet to talk out an unfortunate incident concerning their children. Though things begin with civility, the night wears on and veneers of politeness crack.
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York Theater Company will present a benefit concert, Julie Benko: Julie Sings Jule, on Mon. Apr. 10 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Jeans, with music direction by Jason Yeager.
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Gypsy will run Apr. 28 – June 18 (opening May 10) at CT’s The Goodspeed, directed by Jenn Thompson, with choreography by Patricia Wilcox, and music direction by Adam Sousa.
Judy McLane (Rose), Talia Suskauer (Louise), Philip Hernandez (Herbie), Laura Sky Herman (Dainty June), Emily Jewel Hoder (Baby June), Cameron Blake Miller (Baby Louise), with Gabriel Amato, Romelda Teron Benjamin, Kelly Margaret Berman, Amahri Edwards-Jones, Carlos Velasquez Escammilla, Thomas Goldbach V, Sunny Lauren Hoder, Victoria Huston-Elem, Edward Juvier, Meadow Nguy, Bianca Belle Palana, Maddie Robert, Ben Sears, Michael Starr, Geoffrey Wade, David Cochise Williams, and Valerie Wright.
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Red Bull Theater will present a reading (in person only) of David Grimm’s Kit Marlow on Mon. Apr. 3 at 7:30 PM at Brooklyn’s Polonsky Center, directed by Emma Rose Went.
Helen Cespedes, Amy Jo Jackson, Merritt Janson, Rami Margron, B Norwood, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Yasmin Pascall, Sushma Saha, Han Van Sciver, and Ching Valdes-Aran.
Set in the seedy underworld of Elizabethan England, this is the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Christopher Marlowe – playwright, poet, spy, and sexual outlaw – charts the ambitions of youth in a cold and unforgiving world.
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Additional casting has been announced for Jon Hartmere’s Once Upon a One More Time, which will begin previews May 13 and open June 22 at the Marquis Theatre, directed by Keone & Mari Madrid
Jennifer Simard (Stepmother), Adam Godley (Narrator), Briga Heelan (Cinderella), Justin Guarini (Prince Charming), Aisha Jackson (Snow White), and more TBA.