Today’s Highlights:
Red Bull Theater‘s Sejanus: His Fall benefit reading (in person & on-line), by Ben Jonson, adapted & directed by Nathan Winkelstein, featuring Amir Arison, Shirine Babb, Tina Benko, Grantham Coleman, Chuck Cooper, Gabriel Ebert, Martin Lewis, Max Gordon Moore, Laila Robins, Derek Smith, T. Ryder Smith, and Myra Lucretia Taylor, at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.
The Acting Company‘s reading of Timon of Athens, directed by Kate Pitt, featuring Soph Metcalf, Joshua David Robinson, Richard Topol, and Tatiana Wechsler, with Zach Appelman, Merritt Janson, John Keating, Emily Shain, and Max Woertendyke, at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz: Looey, Looey by Jim Bernhard
Match these lieutenants with the shows they are in.
| 1. Lieutenant (jg) Roberts | A. The Secret Garden |
| 2. Lieutenant Barri | B. South Pacific |
| 3. Lieutenant Bumerli | C. The Plough and the Stars |
| 4. Lieutenant Peter Wright | D. Passion |
| 5. Lieutenant Pinkerton | E. Curtains |
| 6. Lieutenant Rooney | F. Madame Butterfly |
| 7. Lt. Joseph Cable | G. Mister Roberts |
| 8. Lieutenant Frank Cioffi | H. Arsenic and Old Lace |
| 9. Lieutenant Munoz | I. City of Angels |
| 0. Lieutenant Langon | J. The Chocolate Soldier |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Maltby & Shire’s About Time will run Feb. 27 – Apr. 5 (opening Mar. 15) at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, directed by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius De Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, and Lynne Wintersteller.
The piece completes the legendary songwriting duo’s massively influential trilogy that includes Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever. At first, they were Starting Here, Starting Now. After a few years, they were Closer Than Ever. Now, decades later, the legendary award-winning writing team of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire complete the trilogy they didn’t know they were creating…About Time. From long-ago love affairs and ambitions of the past to tech-savvy grandkids and lost keys, this funny and touching revue features all new songs about people navigating the joys and challenges of growing older while staying young in spirit.
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NYC’s Helicline Fine Arts will present “Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen,” Mar. 6 – May 10.
A dynamic new exhibition celebrating nearly a century of performance as seen through the eyes of some of the most influential artists and designers of the 20th century. Tthe exhibition brings together more than three dozen works that capture the spectacle, emotion, and cultural impact of live theatre, film, dance, opera, and popular entertainment.Spanning the 1920s through the 1990s, Showstoppers features paintings, costume and set design drawings, illustrations, sculpture, modernist compositions inspired by performance, that illuminate how visual artists helped shape iconic moments on Broadway, in Hollywood, and beyond.
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Harold Brighouse’s Zack will run Feb. 21 – Mar. 28 (opening Feb. 8) at the Mint Theatre, directed by Britt Berke.
Jordan Matthew Brown, Caroline Festa, Grace Guichard, Đavid Lee Huỳnh, David Patterson, Douglas Rees, Sean Runnette, Joy Avigail Sudduth, and Cassia Thompson.
Zachariah Munning has a natural sweetness that is unappreciated by his family. They long ago decided he was just lazy and dim. Zack’s calculating mother and cold-blooded brother are scheming to take advantage of a rich relative who is coming to visit. They believe her wealth might solve the problem of their failing business and are ready to sacrifice Zack for their own aims. Spoiler alert, Zack comes out on top.
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NYC’s Gay Men’s Chorus has announced the first slate of performers and honorees for Harmony, its annual gala benefit, to take place Mon. Mar. 23 at the Edison Ballroom.
John Kander, Aron Walton, and Tituss Burgess.
Carolee Carmello, Kate Baldwin, Kecia Lewis, Max von Essen, Lesli Margherita, Blaine Krauss, and Maria Bilbao, and more TBA.
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Sweeney Todd will run Jan. 30 – Feb. 22 (opening Jan. 31 ) at CA’s La Mirada Theatre, directed by Jason Alexander.
Will Swenson (Sweeney Todd), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Lovett), Chris Hunter (Anthony Hope), Allison Sheppard (Johanna), Norman Large (Judge Turpin), Nocholas Mongiardo-Cooper (Beadle Bamford), Austen Myers (Tobias Ragg), Andrew Polec (Adolfo Pireelli ), and Meghan Andrews (Beggar Woman).
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Rogue Machine‘s presentation of the world premiere of Justin Tanner’s My Son the Playwright continues through Mar. 1 at Upstairs on the Henry Murray Stage (7657 Melrose Ave.), directed by Lisa James.
Justin Tanner.
In his bold and intimate new solo show, L.A. cult icon and Rogue Machine resident playwright Justin Tanner dives head first with courage and sharp humor into a story that centers around the strained relationship between a playwright and his estranged father. In his most autobiographical play yet, two men in different apartments prepare for a meeting that they would rather avoid – but desperately need. What begins as a messy and comic struggle against pride and past.**********************
A free staged reading of Dracula, My Love, written & directed by Syrie James, will take place Sat. Feb. 7 at 2 PM at LA’s Beverly Hills High School. RSVP not required.
Katyana Rocker-Cook, Steven Frankenfield, Isaac W. Jay, Michael Mullen, Kristin Towers-Rowles, and David Hunt Stafford.
In this spellbinding tale of adventure and forbidden love, Mina Harker is torn between her devotion to her fiancé and her secret passion for the powerful and charismatic vampire he is hunting, Count Dracula, a man who only reveals the true side of nature to Mina.
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New Cast: Simon Rich’s All Out: All Out: Comedy About Ambition, directed by Alex Timbers, has announced a new cast at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre:
Heidi Gardner (through Feb. 15)
Jason Mantzoukas (through Feb. 15)
Craig Robinson (through Feb. 15)
Sara Silverman (through Feb. 15)
Nicholas Braun (Feb. 17 – Mar. 8)
Ashley Park (Feb. 17 – Mar. 8)
Ray romano (Feb. 17 – Mar. 8)
Jenny Slate (Feb. 17 – Mar. 8)
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Fog and Ice, an evening of 3 one-act plays by Eugene O’Neill & Esther E. Balbraith, offers short classic plays Feb. 12 – 28 (opening Feb. 15) at Theatre Row.
TBA.
The plays explore isolation, obsession, and moral reckoning.
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Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon concert has been extended through Feb. 22 at Off-Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, directed by David Zippel.
Adrian Galante, Hisary Kole, John Pagano, and Ta-Tynisa Wilson.
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Chromolume Theatre will presentThe Color Purple Mar. 13-29 at the Zephyr Theatre, directed by Elijah Green, with music direction by Miki Yokmizo, and choreography by Katie Powers-Faulk.
TBA.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz Answers: Looey, Looey by Jim Bernhard.
1-G. Lieutenant (Jg) Roberts – Mister Roberts
2-D. Lieutenant Barri – Passion
3-J. Lieutenant Bumerli – The Chocolate Soldier
4-A. Lieutenant Peter Wright – The Secret Garden
5-F. Lieutenant Pinkerton – Madame Butterfly
6-H. Lieutenant Rooney – Arsenic and Old Lace
7-B. Lt. Joseph Cable – South Pacific
8-E. Lieutenant Frank Cioffi – Curtains
9-I. Lieutenant Munoz – City of Angels
10-C. Lieutenant Langon – The Plough and the Stars