Today’s Highlights:
Hir, by Taylor Mac, directed by Steven Kunis, featuring Felicity Huffman ( Paige), Steffan Cennydd (Isaac), Thalía Dudek (Max), and Simon Startin (Arnold), opens at London’s Park Theatre.
The Age of Innocence, newly adapted by Karen Zacarías, directed by Chay Yew, featuring Callum Adams (Newland Archer), Shereen Ahmed Ellen), Barzin Akhavan (Beaufort), Delphi Borich (May), Mahira Kakkar Mrs. Welland) and Medora Manson Narrator), Eva Kaminsky Narrator, Rami Margron (Mrs. Archer/Regina Beaufort, Sophia Oberg (Janey Archer/Opera Singer), and Nastasia, Socorro Santiago (Catherine Mingott/ Mrs. van der Luyden), Mike Sears (Sillerton Jackson/Mr. Letterblair/Mr. van der Luyden, and Michael Underhill (Dallas). with Luana Fontes, Chris Hathaway, Madeline Grace Jones, Erick Lindsey, Angelynne Pawaan, Akoni Steinmann, and Emma Svitil, opens at San Diego’s Old Globe.
10X10 New Play Festival, directed by Alan Paul and Matthew Penn, opens at Barrington Stage Company.
Black Cypress Bayou, world premiere by Adele Calhoun, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene, featuring Amber Chardae Robinson (Taysha Hunter), Brandee Evans (LadyBird “Lady” Manifold), Angela Lewis (RaeMeka “Meka” Manifold-Baler) and Kimberly Scott (Vernita Manifold), opens at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
Where We Belong, written & performed by Madeline Sayet, directed by Mei Ann Teo, opens at DC’s Folger Theatre.
Corruption, by J.T. Roger, directed by Barlett Sher, featuring Dylan Baker, John Behlmann, Saffron Burrows, Anthony Cochrane, Adam Dannheisser, Sanjit De Silva, K. Todd Freeman, Eleanor Handley, Robyn Kerr, Sepideh Moafi, Seth Numrich, Michael Siberry, and Toby Stephens, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre.
The Ally, world premiere by Itamar Moses, directed by Lila Neugebauer, featuring Josh Radnor (Asaf), Cherise Boothe (Nakia/Rabbi), Elijah Jones (Baron), Michael Khalid Karadsheh (Farid), Joy Osmanski (Gwen), Ben Rosenfeld (Reuven), and Madeline Weinstein (Rachel), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater.
Deadly Stages, by Marc Castle & Mark Finley, directed by Finley, featuring Marc Castle, Tom Galantich, David Leeper, Dani Marcus, and Ellen Reilly, with Jonas Cohen, and Sarah Ellis, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
Five: The Parody Musical, by Shimmy Braun, Moshiel Newman Daphna & Billy Recce, directed & choreographed by Jen Wineman, featuring Anyae Anasia (Ivana), Gabriella Joy Rodriguez (Marla), Jaime Lyn Beatty (Melania), Gabi Garcia (Stormy), and Hannah bonnett (Ivanka), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre 555.
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Broadway’s A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical has already begun its series of post-performance conversations entitled “The Making of the Neil Diamond Musical” at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre.
Nick Fradiani, Mark Jacoby, Amber Ardolino, Shirine Babb, director Michael Mayer, music director Sonny Paladino, producer Ken Davenport, and others.
The conversations will explore the show’s creative evolution, why Diamond wanted his life to be told on stage, the hundreds of hours of conversations Diamond had with A Beautiful Noise bookwriter four-time Academy Award-nominee Anthony McCarten, bringing the musical to Broadway, and beyond.
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The national tour of Funny Girl will run Apr. 2-28 at the Ahmanson Theatre, directed by Michael Mayer, with choreography by Ellenore Scott and music supervision by Michael Rafter.
Katerina McCrimmon (Fanny Brice), Melissa Manchester (Mrs. Brice), Stephen Mark Lukas (Nick Arnstein), Izaiah Montaque Harris (Eddie Ryan), Walter Coppage (Florenz Ziegfeld), Leah Platt (Emma/Mrs. Nadler), Christin bunuan (Mrs. Meeker), Eileen T’Kaye (Mrs. Strakosh), and David Foley Jr. (Tom Keeney), with Vinny Andaloro, Lamont Brown, Kate E. Cook, Julia Grondin, Jackson Grove, Jorge Guerra, Dot Kelly, Alex Hartman, Ryan Lambert, Kathy Liu, Zoey Lytle, Meghan Manning, Bryan Charles Moore, Sami Murphy, Hannah Shankman, Jordon Taylor, Sean Thompson, and Annaliese Wilbur.
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The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus will present its gala benefit, Harmony, on Mon. Feb. 19 at 6 PM at the Hotel Edison Ballroom.
Chita Rivera, along with Telly Leung, Solea Pfeiffer and Matt Doyle.
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Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers will run Mar. 6-24 at Virginia Stage Company, directed by Tom Quaintance.
TBA.
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A concert presentation of Richard Bean, David Arnold & Richard Thomas’ Made in Dagenham will take place Wed. Mar. 6 at 8 PM at the London Palladium, directed by Shaun Kerrison.
Pixie Lott, Killian Donnelly, Bonnie Langford, Peter Duncan, Trevor Dion Nocholas, and Gerardine Sacdalan, with Zoë Rainey, Richard Dempsey, Gerard Carey, Jenna Boyd, Katy Secombe, Kerry Winter, Sarah Merrifield, Oscar Conlon-Morrey, Kieran Brown, Neil Ditt, Will Hopkins, Craig Armstrong, Adam Strong, Sarah Hills, and Josie Brightwell.
Rita O’Grady works for the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dagenham, England. Despite performing the specialized task of sewing upholstery for car seats, women are classified as unskilled labor and paid much less than men. Encouraged by a sympathetic union representative, Rita agrees to bring the women’s grievances to Ford. The meeting goes badly and, outraged by the company’s lack of respect for them, Rita leads her colleagues to strike.
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My Uterus: A Womb with a View, written & performed by Dina Morrone, will take place Sun. Mar. 24 at 2 PM at LA’s Theatre West.
Dina digs deep into her pelvic cavity to explore what the Uterus really is, what it means to own one, and to probe and examine how it continues to get screwed over again and again by those who have no business being in there.
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Video: Ssneak peek at two numbers from the upcoming New York City Center production of Jelly’s Last Jam , to run Feb. 21 – Mar. 3, starring Billy Porter and Joanquina Kalukango.
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Red Bull Theater‘s 20th Anniversary Festival, offering all-star performances of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and more, will run Apr. 15 – May 13 at Off-Broadway’s Sheen Center.
How Shakespeare Saved My Life, written by & starring Jacob Ming-Trent.
Macbeth, featuring ChukwudiIwuji, Jason Bowen, Jason C Brown, Jason O’Connell, Derek Smith, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Raphrael Nash Thompson, and Ayana Workman. The Rover, by Aphra Behn, with Kelley Curran, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Zachary Fine, Santino Fontana, and Ismenia Mendes.
God’s Spies, by Bill Cain, with Matthew Rauch. The Tempest, featuring Patrick Page, Jason Bowen, Reeve Carney, Robert Cuccioli, Howard Overshown, Jacob Ming-Trent, Carson Elrod, Anthony Michael Martinez, Lily Santiage, Derek Smith, and Myra Lucretia Taylor. Or, What She Will, by Liz Duffy Adams, featuring Rebecca Hall.
Titus Andornicus, featuring Patrick Page, Teagle F. Bougere, Derek Smith, and John Douglas Thomson. Medea, by Euripides, featuring Elizabeth Marvel. Another Media, by Aaron Mark, featuring Tom Hewitt.
…plus two “Person Place Thing” in-person podcast recordings, hosted by Randy Cohen, featuring Santino Fontana and Patrick Page.
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Video: Sneak peek at Private Jones at DC’s Signature Theatre, starring Aaron Tveit.
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Dakota Silvey’s Flight Risk will run Mar. 6-11 at the Gene Ftankel Theatre, directed by Dougie Robbins.
Erik Van Conover, Conor Andrew Hall, and Grace Sallee.
The story of a hunter and a midwife stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with their wounded pilot. As near-death confessions come forth, we are left to question who, if anyone, is telling the truth.
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Porchlight Music Theatre will present Chicago Sings Broadway Pop II on Mon.Apr. 15 at 7 PM at House of Blues Chicago, directed by Michael Weber & Frankie Leo Bennett, with music direction by David Fiorello, and choreography by Clayton Cross.
Neala Barron, Molly Callinan, Elisa Carlson, Devin DeSantis, Julia Fleckenstein, Ricky Harris, Matthew Hunter, Angela Ingersoll, Becky Keeshin, Ivory Leonard, Eric Lewis, Christine Mild, Andrew Mueller, Juwon Tyrel Perry, Alexis J. Roston, Billy Rude, Laura Savage, Sawyer Smith, Bethany Thomas, A.D. Weaver, Shaun White, and Aeriel Williams.
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Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre Company is now a LORT theatre! Congrats!
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Liza Birkenmeier’s Grief Hotel will run Mar. 10 – Apr. 20 (opening Mar. 27) at The Public Theater, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad.
Nadine Malouf (Em), Ana Nogueira (Winn), Naren Weiss (Rohit), Obie Susannah Perkins (Teresa), Susan Blommaert (Aunt Bobbi), and Bruce McKenzie (Asher).
Relationships re-form around natural and unnatural disasters, and everyone ends up at Aunt Bobbi’s house, even though her parties are cursed. A comedy about the commodification of healing.
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Brian J. Nash will offer Sunday Night Music Club on Mar. 10 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42.
Nash will offer unique arrangements of pop tunes, his legendary Nash-ups, and more.