Today’s Highlights:
Love Play, by Danny Gavigan, directed by Matthew Gardiner, featuring Danny Gavigan (Man) and Gligh Voth (Woman), opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
The Hills of California, by Jez Butterworth, directed by Loretta Greco, featuring Allison Jean white (Veronica), Amanda Kristin Nichols (Gloria), Aimee Dhherty (Ruby), Karen Killeen (Jillian), and more, op, opens at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.
Caroline, world premiere by Preston Max Allen, directed by David Crome, featuring Amy Landekcer, river Lipe Smith, and Chloë Grace Moretz, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre.
Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth, directed by Dawn M. Simmons, featuring David J. Castillo, Arthur Gomez, Janelle Grace, and Luis Negrón, begins previews at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion.
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The world premiere of Murdoch: The Final Interview, by an unnamed source, will run Sept. 12 – Dec.28 (opening Sept. 28) at Theater555, directed by Christopher Scott.
Jamie Jackson.
Who almost drowned him as a boy? What happened after he met JFK in the Oval Office? What are his honest feelings about marriage, truth and sacred cows? Can he survive the return of a bitter Roger Ailes? Come and watch Planet Earth’s most controversial media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, face the cameras, a live audience and a mysterious interviewer as he attempts to secure his legacy. Over ninety minutes Murdoch encounters family members, revisits Presidents, wrangles with newspaper editors, collides with “Fox News” creator, Roger Ailes, and finally, wrestles, literally, with an inscrutable monster. It’s the shocking, fair and balanced interview you’ve been waiting for, written by an unnamed source, brought to life by a single actor.
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Cal Silberstein & Paul Hodge’s The Great Emu Wars will run Oct. 3 -26 at (opening Oct. 22) at CT’s Goodspeed, directed & choreographed by Amy Anders Corcoran.
LaRaisha DiEvelyn Dionne, Claire Saunders Ethan Peterson, Taylor Matthew (Meredith), Jeremy Davis (Enoch), Morgan Cowling (McMurray).
Remember that one time that the Australian government sent their army with machine guns to wage war on emus in Western Australia? Neither do most people…but when Edith, the headstrong warbler, and her flock begin to feed on the wheat of local farmers—the humans take up arms against Australia’s favorite feathered friends. Think of it as Cats, but with emus. It’s the most emusing 90 minutes you’ll have in any theatre.
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Erik J. Rodriguez & Charles A. Sothers’ Not Ready for Prime Time will run Oct. 5 – Nov. 30 at MCC Theatre, directed by Conor Bagley.
Ian Bouillon, Ryan Crout, Jared Grimes, Caitlin Houlahad, Nate Nanis, Krisian Lugo, Woodrow Proctor, Taylor richardson, and Evan Rubin.
The unauthorized, unsanitized, and slightly unhinged story of how a small group of lunatics made Saturday night unmissable.
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Amas Musical Theatre will present Michael Colby & Gerald Jay Markoe Charlotte Sweet: The Madcap Musical on Mon. Nov. 17 at 7 PM at NYC’s Mezzanine Theatre – A.R.T./NY Theatres, directed by Jeff Calhoun, with music direction by Michael Lavine.
Megan Styrna (Charlotte Sweet), Darius DeHaas, Ann Harada, Nicholas King, Michael McCoy, Mamie Parris, Stephanie Pope, and more TBA.
Imagine a fractured fairy tale in the tradition of Gilbert & Sullivan and MAD Magazine! The return of Charlotte Sweet spotlights the stratospherically hgh soprano of British Music Hall, along with the freaky Circus of Voices. Don’t miss the revival concert of the acclaimed musical mock melodrama that was a favorite of Leonard Cohen, Al Hirshfeld, and others.
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Martyna Majok’s Queens will run Oct. 14 – Nov. 30 (opening Nov. 5) at NYC Center Stage 1, directed by Trip Cullman.
Brooke Bloom, Anna Chlumsky, Sharlene Cruz, Marin Ireland, Julia Lester, Nadine Malouf, Andrea Syglowski, Nicole Villamil.
An epic drama about hunting for the American Dream, finding family, and facing the ghosts you left behind. In an illegal basement apartment in Queens, multiple generations of immigrant women fight to launch a new life. But when a young Ukrainian woman comes searching for the mother who abandoned her years ago, she forces a reckoning with the impossible choices the women made to survive.**********************
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s The Fizderalds: A Reading with Music will take place Sat. Sept. 27 at 7 PM at C.T,s Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Stephen Hamilton.
Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist.
Marking the centennial of “The Great Gatsby” the presentation revisits the lives behind one of the most enduring works of American literature. At the heart of this performance lies the extraordinary correspondence between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald — letters that reveal a relationship shaped by ambition, artistry, and emotional complexity. Through their own words, we encounter two singular voices whose love and conflict fueled some of the most iconic writing of the 20th century.
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Richard III will run Oct. 28 – Nov. 30 at the Aster Place Theatre, adapted & directed by Craig Baldwin.
Michael Urie, Ryan Spahn, Kathrye Meisle, and Grantham Coleman.
Ambition and betrayal reign supreme in this electrifying reimagining of Shakespeare’s poetic masterpiece. Set in 1980s Manhattan, the neon skyline and shadowy backrooms become an epic battleground of identity and power, where a king’s divine right crumbles beneath the weight of human frailty. Michael Urie’s virtuosic performance and Craig Baldwin’s inventive adaptation make Richard’s tragic descent freshly immediate, staged a stone’s throw from the site of the historic Astor Place Riots, the original American cocktail of politics, insurrection, and Shakespeare.
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N.T. Vandecar’s Otherkin will run Sept. 26 – Nov. 2, opening Sept. 26 at North Hollywood’s Road on Magnolia, directed by Chistina Carlisi.
Nychelle Hawk (Olive), Stephany Erb (Vivian/Grael), Justin Lawrence Barnes (Lucax), Andre G. Brown (Darren/Fafnir), and Arthur Hanket (Howy/Naelyan).
14 year old Olive, who identifies as part of the subculture Otherkin, is compelled by strange forces to help prepare for humanity’s end. Olive and her family are thrust into a raucous ride of epic proportions, confronting their pasts, perilous futures and the possibility of a destiny far greater than themselves.