Today’s Highlights:
Bug, by Tracy Letts, directed by David Cromer, featuring ,Carrie Coon (Agnes White), and Namir Smallwood (Peter Evans), with Randall Arney (Dr. Sweet), Jennifer Engstrom (R.C.), and Steve Key (Jerry Goss) opens at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Theatre Forty‘s An Inspector Calls, by J.B. Priestley, directed by Cate Caplin, featuring Mouchette Van Helsdingen, Katyana Rocker-Cook, Isaac W. Jay, Arezu Tavakoli, David Hunt Stafford, Diana Angelina, Monty Renfrow, Isabella DiBernardino, and Quinn Ruby DeVries, opens at LA’s Greystone Mansion.
Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon, by Will Friedwald, Adrian Galante, Ted Firth & Jack Lewin, directed by David Zippel, featuring Adrian Galante, Hisary Kole, John Pagano, and Ta-Tynisa Wilson, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Amas Musical Theatre.
Matthew Morrison: Rhythms & Revelations concert closes at NYC’s 54 Below.
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Joe DiPietro & Jimmy Roberts’ I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change will run Feb. 20 – Mar. 8 at Long Beach’s International City Theatre, directed by Barry Pearl.
Michael Deni, Shannon O’Boyle, Will Riddle, and Whitney Kathleen Vigil.
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Theater for the New City will present its Love ‘n Courage Gala, in support of its Emerging Playwrights Program, will take place Tues. Feb. 23, at 6 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players (16 Gramercy Park South), directed by TBA.
Estelle Parsons.
TBA.
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Zach & Dylan Zmed’s The Everly Brothers Experience will run Jan. 31 – Feb. 1 at PA’s Buck County Playhouse.
the Zemed Brothers.
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Red Bull Theater‘s reading of Aphra Behn’s The Rover, adapted by Kate Wlalat, will take place Sun. Jan. 11, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.
Michael Braun, Kelley Curran, Darryl Gene Daughtry, Damon Daunno, Vivian Farahani, Andy Grotelueschen, Lauren Karaman, Ismenia Mendes, Conrad Ricamora, Antoinette Robinson, and David Ryan Smith.
How far will women go to follow their hearts’ desire? It’s Carnival time in the Italian port town and two sisters from Spain hit the streets, one to reunite with her true love and the other looking for a man (any man) to evade the nunnery. Enter a band of roving English cavaliers and let the games begin, in this raucous and romantic Restoration comedy. From the first professional female playwright comes a play that was a hit in 1677 for telling it like it was (and is?) with women, men, and marriage, while asking timeless questions of sexual politics, rendered ever more relevant in this brand-new adaptation.
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York theatre will present the world premiere of Peter Kellogg & Stephen Weiner’s Monte Cristo, to run Mar. 12 – Apr. 5 (opening Mar. 19) at Theatre at St. Jeans, directed by Peter Flynn.
Adam Jacobs (Edmund), Seirra Boggess (Mercedes), Norm Lewis (Villefort), Danny rutigliano (Caderrousse/Abbe), Karen Ziemba (Carconte/Lucrezia), Daniel Yearwood (Fernand), James Judy (Danglars), Stephanie Jae Park (Haydee), Eliseo Roman (Morell), and more TBA.
The epic story of a man wrongfully imprisoned who returns richer, wiser, and bent on vengeance. But as his carefully orchestrated plan unfolds, he must face the ultimate question: is justice enough without love?
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David Cales’ The Unknown will run Jan. 31 – Apr. 12 (opening Apr. 2) at Off Broadway’s’ Sheen Center, directed by Leigh Silverman.
Sean Hayes.
A gripping new play about a writer on the edge. Desperate to cure his writer’s block, Elliott retreats to a remote cabin—only to discover he may not be alone. As the boundaries between his work and his life collapse, Elliott begins to question everything he knows. Is he writing a thriller? Living one? Both? The Unknown is a provocative thriller that explores the fine line between fascination and obsession.
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Ensemble Theatre Company will present Ian Sahaw & Joseph Nixon’s The Shark is Broken, to run Feb. 4 – 22 (opening Feb. 7 )at Santa Barbara’s New Vic, directed by Pesha Rudnick.
Will Block (Richard Dreyfuss), Gild Jackson (Robert Shaw), and Adam Poole (Roy Scheider).
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Ethan Slaer & Mashall Pailet’s Marcel on the Train will run Feb. 5 – Mar. 14 (opening Feb. 22) at Classic Stage Company, directed by Pailet.
Ethan Slater (Marcel Marceau), with Maddie Corman, Max Gordon Moore, Aaron Serotsky, Slex Wyse, Tedra Millan, and Tedra Millan (Berthe), with Harrison Bryan.
The work follows Marceau in the years before his worldwide fame, during his time in World War II-era French resistance saving Jewish children from the Nazis.
Note: Julie Benko, who was previously announced for the production, is no longer available. She has just joined the Broadway production of Ragtime.
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Hamid Rashmanian’s Song of the North will run Mar. 21-29 at Pasadena Playhouse, created, designed & directed by Rashmanian, with a cast of 483 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of actors and puppeteers.
The piece is a powerful theater for young minds ready to explore heroism, heritage, and imaginative storytelling.
Video: Trailer.