Today’s Highlights:
Noises Off, by Michael Frayn, directed by Lindsay Posner, featuring Felicity Kendal (Dotty Otley), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Belinda Blair) Matthew Kelly (Selsdon Mowbray), Alexander Hanson (Lloyd Dallas), Joseph Millson (Garry Lejeune), Sasha Frost (Brooke Ashton), Pepter Lunkhuse (Poppy Norton Taylor, Jonathan Coy (Fredrick Fellows), and Hubert Burton (Tim), opens at the UK’s Phoenix Theatre.
The Appointment, by Alice Yorke, Eva Steinmetz, Scott R. Sheppard & Alex Bechtel, directed by Steinmetz, featuring Katie Gould, Jamie Maseda, Lee Minora, Brett Ashley Robinson, Scott R. Sheppard, Danny Wilfred, and Alice Yorke, opens at Off-Broadway’s WP Theater.
Pan Asian Rep‘s Memorial, world premiere by Livian Ye, directed by Jeff Liu, featuring Angel Lin and Nancy Ma (alternating as Maya & Nancy Ma), opens at Off-Broadway’s A.R.T. Theatres.
Sugar Daddy, written by & starring Sam Morrison, directed by Ryan Cunningham, opens at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse.
Sugar Daddy, written & performed by Sam Morrison, opens at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse, directed by Ryan Cunningham.
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, opens at Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre.
The Diary of Anne Frank, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman, directed by Stan Zimmerman, featuring Genesis Ochoa, Emiliano Torres, Aris Alvarado, Rebecca Asquino, Mariangelica Cuervo, Charlie Farrell, David Burrola, Nikki Mejia, Danny Pardo, and Raquenel, opens at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
Please Like Us: An Evening of Nuckols and Dwoskin concert presentation, by Austin Nuckols & Lily Dwoskin, featuring Trevor Bunce, Ashley Chiu, DeShawn Jenkins, Kate Loprest, Mark Mendez Muños, and Amy Weintraub, at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42.
Golden Globe awards presentation airs at8 PM ET/5 PM PT on NBC and Peacock.
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Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration has announced its 3rd and final extension, now through Feb. 5, at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope.
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Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons continues through Feb. 5 at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, directed by Brian Robertson.
Dale Hodges (Nancy,) Joneal Joplin (Bill), Nick Cearley (Brian), Jared Joplin (Ben), Shonita Joshi (Jess), Deb G. Girdler (Carla), and Dan Davidson (Tommy).
Over a quiet dinner for two, Bill and Nancy serenely decide to divorce after fifty years of marriage. While Nancy feels liberated and Bill seems unfazed, their adult sons Brian and Ben don’t exactly take it well. As the “kids” descend on the Grand Horizons senior living community to mediate, everything they thought they knew about their parents comes crashing down.
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Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!, written by & starring Reich, will run Feb. 15 – Mar. 11 at the Greenwich House Theater, directed by Adam Brace.
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Anika Noni Rose has announced her marriage to actor Jason Dirden. Click here for photos of the wedding.
The pair were married Oct. 16, 2022, in a whirlwind ceremony that was planned in two months. Their relationship, which began as a backstage friendship at A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 2014, has been kept under wraps, with their partnership only being confirmed with news of their wedding.
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“Schmigadoon!” will return on Apr. 7 on Apple TV, with this season set in the theatrical world of Schmicago.
Keegan-Michael Key, Cecily Strong, Ariana DeBose, Martin Short, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, and Aaron Tveit are set to return, with Tituss Burgess and Patrick Page joining the cast.
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Video: J. Harrison Ghee, Christian Borle, and the cast of Broadway’s Some Like It Hot perform “You Can’t Have Me (If You Don’t Have Him)”
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Christina Andersen’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home, continues through Feb. 12 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, directed by Jackson Gay.
Brianna Buckley (Gayle/Young Chipper/Ambitious Black Woman0, Christiana Clark (Janice), and Aneisa J. Hicks (Helen).
Janice’s parents are prominent activists fighting for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960s Kansas. As injustice penetrates the warm bubble of her childhood, Janice grows apart from her family and starts a new life far away. When she receives a call asking her to speak at a ceremony honoring her father, she must decide whether she’s ready to reckon with her political inheritance—and a past she has tried to forget.
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Beauty and the Beast will run Mar. 3 – Apr. 2 at Arlington, VA’s Synetic Theatre, directed by Ben Cunis & Vato Tsikurishyli, with choreography by Tsikurishyli.
Irinka Kavsadze (Belle), Zana Gankhuyag (Beast), Rachel Small, Emmeranne (Witch), Irakli Kavsadze (Jean Paul), Philip Fletcher (Magnificent), Nutsa Tediashvili (Claudette), and Irene Hamilton (Marie), Jacob Thompson (Avenant), with Osama Ashour and Lev Beloipetski.
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Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre will present David Dean Bottrell Makes Love will take place Sat. Feb. 11 at 8 PM, directed by Guy Stroman.
A comic whirlwind of totally true “love stories” (both spicy and tame) that weaves together one man’s search to find and understand love.
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The world premiere of Simon Stephens & Mark Eitzel’s Cornelia Street has been extended through Mar. 5 at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre, directed by Neil Pepe.
George Abud, Norbert Leo Butz, Esteban Andres Crus, Gizel Jiménez, Jordan Lage, Kevyn Morrow, Mary Beth Peil, Lena Pepe, and Ben Rosenfield.
In a back street in the West Village, Jacob Towney tries to save the restaurant that has been his home for longer than he can remember and release his daughter to the life he dreams she can have. His place is a home for the odd ghosts of the village. It is out of place and out of time and running out of luck.
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Spinning Tree Theatre will present Frank Higgins’ The Country of the Blind Feb. 3-12 at Kansas City MO’s Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, directed by Vanessa Severo.
TBA.
Eduardo, a poor farmer in a South American village, dreams of being in love. Frustrated by his poverty and disability of being blind in one eye, he turns his back on his own world and risks his life to find a mythical village high in the Andes mountains where everyone is blind and the streets are paved in gold. When he stumbles upon the village and realizes that the people who live there have no knowledge of the outside world, he fantasizes that “in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” However, he learns that the people have skills that he does not…
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Broadway Sings For She Angels will take place Sun. Jan. 22 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, with music direction by Ron Abel, and hosted by Roma Torre.
Julie Halston, Paul Kreppel, Mauricio Martinez, Susie Mosher, Linda Purl, Marissa Rosen, Joan Ryan, and Nita Whitaker.
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On last week’s episode of “Celebrity Name That Tune,” Todrick Hall won $135,000 for BC/EFA.
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Taylor Louderman announced the birth of her first child with husband Brooks Toth on Jan. 6.
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9 to 5 will run Feb. 10-26 (opening Feb. 11) at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Cynthia Ferrer, with choreography by Alexis Carra Girbés, and music direction by Wilkie Ferguson III.
Ashley Moniz (Judy Bernley), Madison Claire Parks (Doralee Rhodes), Daebreon Poiema (Violet Newstead), Ed Staudenmayer (Franklin Hart), and Chelle Denton (Roz Keith), with Josh Alvarez, Leonel Ayala, Keith Bearden, Michael Bullard, Michael Cavinder, Brandon Dubuisson, Erin Dubreuil, Kurt Kemper, Edgar Lopez, Missy Marion, Marissa Ruth Mayer, Isabella De Souza Moore, Amelia Prochaska, Alyssa Simmons, Nikki Elena Spies, and Chris Tuck.