Today’s Highlights:
Bay Street Theater‘s An Evening at Topping Rose benefit gala, featuring Bobby Conte Thornton & Alex Wyse, Madeline Myers (performing selections from Myers’ new musical, Double Helix), and Anna Schiavoni, at 6:30 PM ET at Bridgehampton’s Topping Rose House.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed & choreographed by Josh Rhodes, featuring Jason Gotay (Joseph), Jessica Vosk (Narrator), Eric Jordan Young (Jacob/Potiphar), and Mykal Kilgore (Pharaoh), with Gabriel Amato, Becca Andrews, Matthew Davies, Drew Elhamalawy, Sean Ewing, Anna Gassett, Michael Hartung, Darron Hayes, Sydney Jones, Evan Kinnane, Kamal Lado, Ben Lanham, Marissa Levesque, Tiffany Rae Mallari, UJ Mangune, Sarah Meahl, Natalia Nieves-Melchor, Erica Messonnier, Collin Milfort, Harris Milgrim, Hayley Podschun, Spencer Ramirez, Emilie Renier, John Scherer, and Hannah Whitley, closes at the St. Louis Muny.
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Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater has announced its 2023 season of productions, readings, and special events… both in-person and online.
PRODUCTIONS:
Arden of Faversham (opens Mar. 20 2023), adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher & Kathryn Walat, directed by Jesse Berger. 
The 1st true-crime story. A tale of illicit passion and slaughter that rocked the Elizabethan world.
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (opens May 1), by Francis Beaumont. One of the first parodies of the English theater, this Elizabethan comedy is a joyful romp that celebrates our collective capacity to improvise and our natural desire to be center stage.
BENEFIT:
Your Own Thing (Dec. 12 at Symphony Space), an in-person-only benefit performance, by Hal Hester, Danny Apolinar, adapted by Donald Driver.
READINGS:
The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger (Oct. 24 at 7:30 PM ET), both in-person and online at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space, by John Vanbrugh, directed by Marc Vietor, featuring Michael Urie. A riotous Restoration comedy, in which a reformed rake succumbs to temptation with a new love affair while his wife is subjected to a determined seduction attempt. Meanwhile, the fabulous Lord Foppington flamboyantly flirts about town before leaving to marry a country wife – but his rakish brother is determined to get their first.
The Duchess of Malfi (Nov. 4 at 7:30 PM ET, at a venue TBA, by John Webster, directed by Jesse Berger, featuring Matthew Rauch and more TBA. A great romance turns to horror as the Duchess of Malfi seek true love in a world of forbidden passions.
Animal Magnetism (Jan. 23, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET online only, by Elizabeth Inchbald, directed by José Zayas. Lady Constance and her maid Lisette are locked away by a quack doctor. Their lovers, a persistent Marqui and his servant, trick their way to love by pretending to use “animal magnetism.”
Phèdre (Feb. 20 at 7:30 PM ET), online & in person at Florence Gould Hall, by Jean Racine, directed by Gaye Talor Upchurch, featuring Jennifer Ehle.
A tale of forbidden love strong enough to bring down a kingdom, Phèdre’s overwhelming passion for her stepson is brought to vibrant life.
Kit Marlow (Apr. 3 at 7:30 PM ET at a venue TBA), by David Grimm, directed by Emma Rosa Went. Set in the seeding underworld of Elizabethan England, the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Kit Marlowe – playwright, poet, spy, and sexual outlaw – charts the ambitions of youth in a cold and unforgiving world.
Titus Andronicus (Apr. 23 at 7:30 PM ET at the Lucille Lortel Theatre), directed by Jesse Berger, featuring Patrick Page and John Douglas Thompson. Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble Roman family.When his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen, Tamora, unleashes a fury that brings Rome, Titus, and his family to their knees.
Medea: Re-Versed by Euripides (May 21 at 7:30 PM at the Lucille Lortel Theatre), freely adpated by Luis Quintero, directed by Nathan Winkelstein, featuring Jacob Ming-Trent. . An ice-cold high-octane adaption of Euripides’ play, which re-ignites the sacred rage of our ancestors and explores the destruction that comes when society suppresses and silences women.
REMARKABULL PODVERSATIONS (all livestreamed):
F. Murray Abraham (Oct. 3)
Jacob Ming-Trent (date TBA)
…and more TBA.
FESTIVAL
13th Annual Short New Play Festival (Summer 2023), offering 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes, using the theme “Forbidden Love.”
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The world premiere of Grant MacDermott’s Jasper will begin previews Sept. 8 and open Sept. 14 at the Signature Center, directed by Katie McHugh.
Dominic Fumusa, Abigail Hawk, and Jessica Pimentel.
Facing the reality of their son’s illness, a couple manages to keep both their child and marriage alive. but when a chance encounter gives birth to an innocent lie, it could unravel everything.
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Timothy Allen McDonald, Elyssa Samsel & Kate Anderson’s Between the Lines will close early, now on Sept. 11 at Off-Broadway’s Tony Kiser Theatre, directed by Jeff Calhoun.
Arielle Jacobs (Deliah), Jake David Smith (Prince Oliver), Vicki Lewis (Ms. Winx/Jessamyn Jacobs/Mrs. Brown/Kyrie), Hillary Fisher (Allie/Princess Seraphima), Will Burton (Frump/Ryan), Jerusha Cavasos (Janice/Marina), John Rapson (Dr. Ducharme/Rapskulio), Wren Rivera (Jules/Ondine), Sean Stack (Martin/Troll/Dad/Delivery Person), and Julia Murney (Grace/Queen Maureen), with Heather Ayers, Dan Hoy, Martin Landry, and Aubrey Matalon.
An outsider in a new town and a new school, Delilah seeks comfort in the pages of her favorite book, where she feel heard and understood. But as the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur in both extraordinary and astonishing ways, Delilah has to confront whether she alone has the power to rewrite her own story.
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Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse has announced its 2022-23 season:
Wuthering Heights (Oct. 14 – Nov. 6), adapted & directed by Emma Rice
The Patient Gloria (Nov. 16 – Dec. 4), by Gina Moxley
The Jungle (Feb. 18 – Mar. 19, 2023), by Joe Murphy & Joe Robertson
Monsoon Wedding (May 2023), adapted by Mira Nair, Sabrina Dhawan, Arpita Mukherjee, Vishal Bhardwaj, Masi Asare & Susan Birkenhead.
Little Amal Walks NYC (Sept. 14 – Oct. 2), written & directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi & Yazmany Arboleda.
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Jason Gotay‘s new autobiographical show, Good Enemy, will run Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 at Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre.
The show is about the women who have impacted his life.
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. A benefit staged reading of Thorton Wilder’s Our Town will take place Sun. Sept. 4 at 7 PM ET at Northport, Long Island’s Engeman Theater, directed by Igor Golden. Proceeds will support Northwell Health’s Huntington Hospital’s Neurosurgery Department.
Edie Falco, Chris Messina, Marin Ireland, Ben Shenkman, Liza Colón-Zavas, Katie Fineran, Darren Goldstein, Matthew Del Negro, Joe Roseto, Cezar Williams, Kalyne, and Natalie Seus.
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SpeakEasy Stage will present Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth will run Sept. 9 – Oct. 8 (opening Sept. 11) at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion, directed by Marianna Bassham.
Karen MacDonald, Dayna Cousins, Jesse Hinson, Nathan Malin, and Elise Piliponis.
One week after the Charlottesville riots in 2017, four friends gather in a Wyoming backyard to gossip and reminisce. They’ve assembled to honor Gina, their mentor and the newly inaugurated president of a far-right Catholic university, of which they are all alumni. But as their celebration continues deep into the night, the reunion explodes into vicious insults, political accusations, and stunning revelations.
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Complete casting has been announced for Daniel Fish’s adaptation of Oklahoma, to run Sept. 13 – Oct. 16 (opening Sept. 15) at the Ahmanson Theatre, directed by Fish, with choreography by John Heginbotham, and music direction by Andy Collopy.
Sasha Hutchings (Laurey Williams), Sean Grandillo (Curly McLain), Christopher Bannow (Jud Fry), Sis (Ado Annie), Hennessy Winkler (Will Parker), Benj Mirman (Ali Hakim), Barbara Walsh (Aunt Eller), Hannah Solow (Gertie Cummings), Mauricio Lozano (Mike), Ugo Chukwu (Cord Elam), Mitch Tebo (Andrew Carnes), and Gabrielle Hamilton (Lead Dancer), with Gillian Hassert, Cameron Anika Hill, Hunter Hoffman, Scott Redmond, Gwynne Wood, Jordan Wynn, and Minga Prather.
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Disney in Concert: Aladdin will take place Sat. Mar. 25 at 3 PM PT at Northridge’s Soraya.
Casting, creative team and performers TBA.
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York Theatre Company has announced initial casting for the limited return of Barry Kleinbort & Randy Skinner’s Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood, which will run Sept. 13 – Oct. 16 at Theatre at St. Jean’s, directed & choreographed by Randy Skinner.
Jeremy Benton, Darien Crago, Kaitlyn Davidson, Danny Gardner, and Melinda Porto, with Corinne Munsch, Sean Quinn, and more TBA.
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The Color Purple at DC’s Signature Theatre:
Video: “I Am Here,” featuring Nova Y. Payton
Video: The cast performs the title song
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San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon has announced its 2023 Mainstage Season. Creative teams and casting TBA.
Anything Goes (Feb. 25 – Mar. 12), directed
Merrily We Roll Along (Mar. 23 – Apr. 9),
The Scottsboro Boys (May 4-21),
She Loves Me (June 8-25),
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New York Theatre Workshop will present Merrily We Roll Along Nov. 21 – Jan. 8, 2023 (opening Dec. 12), directed by Maria Friedman, with choreography by Tim Jackson, and music direction by Alvin Hough, Jr.
Daniel Radcliffe (Charley), Jonathan Groff (Franklin), and Lindsay Mendez (Mary), with more TBA.