Today’s Highlights:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Laurence Connor, featuring Alexandra Burke (Narrator), Lindsay Hateley (Narrator at select performances) Jason Donovan (Pharaoh), Jac Yarrow (Joseph), Steffan Lloyd Evans (Reuben), and Bobby Windebank (Simeon), with Singh, Femi Alkinfolarin, Jabari Braham, Gemma Buckingham, Thalia Burt, Jasmin Colangelo, Jonathan Cordin, Francessca Daniella-Baker, Alexander Day, Andre Fabien Francis, Llandyll Gove, Abigayle Honeywill, Blythe Jandoo, Danny Nattrass, Perry O’Dea, Georgina Parkinson, Emily-Ann Potter, Jon Reynolds, Rochelle Sherona, Katie Singh, and many, many young performers, opens at the London Palladium.
Jesus Christ Superstar in concert, directed by Mark Stuart, featuring Michael K. Lee (Jesus), Telly Leung (Peter), Ramin Karimloo (Judas), Celinde Schoenmaker (Mary Magdalene), Robert Marien (Pontius Pilate), Masaaki Fujioka (King Herod), Hironobu Miyahara (Caiaphas), and Hayato Kakizawa (Simon Zealotes), and Aaron Walpole (Annas), opens at the Tokyo Theatre Orb.
Steven Brinberg’s Simply Barbra concert opens at Provincetown’s The Art House.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder all-Asian abridged benefit production, directed by Alan Muraoka, featuring Cindy Cheung, Karl Josef Co, Ali Ewoldt, Diane Phelan, and Thom Sesma, begins streaming on Broadway on Demand.
I Hate It Here, by Ike Holter, directed by Lili-Anne Brown, featuring Patrick Agada (Ace/Thomas), Jayson Brooks (Peter/Rah/Walsh), Sydney Charles Ashwana (Mrs. Marcy/Tanya), Behzad Debu (Manny/Worker/Ted), Kirsten Fitzgerald (Maya/Lisa/April), and Gabriel Ruiz (Martin/Alex/Frank), begins streaming at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
Summer Playwrights Festival 12, offering readings of new plays, begins streaming at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.
No One Cries for the Blacksmith benefit reading, by Lloyd Khaner, directed by Tonya Pinkins, featuring Chuck Cooper and Robert Cuccioli, concludes streaming here.
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Video: Stars in the House, a “Scandal” encore, with special guests Kerry Washington, Kate Burton, Tony Goldwyn, Dan Bucatinsky, Katie Lowes, Cornelius Smith Jr., Joe Morton, George Newbern, Jeff Perry, Norm Lewis, Tom Verica, and more. (2:15:08)
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Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre will rotate two productions at the Lyceum Theatre from Sept. 24 – Jan. 16, 2022:
Is This a Room (previews Sept. 24, opens Oct. 11), by Lucas Hnath, directed by Tina Statter, starring Emily Davis, with more TBA. 
The true story of Reality Winner, the 25-year-old former Air Force linguist who was surprised at her home by the FBI on June 3, 2017. The play’s text is taken from the FBI transcript of her interrogation. In this thriller, Reality’s life is upended before our eyes, and we’re left questioning American values and the very nature of truth
Dana H. (previews Oct. 1, opens Oct. 22), by Lucas Hnath, directed by Les Waters, and starring Deirdre O’Connell. In 1997, a woman named Dana Higginbotham was abducted by an ex-convict and member of the Aryan Brotherhood. He dragged her from motel to motel around the South for 5 months, abusing her physically and mentally.
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Speakeasy has been extended through Aug. 31 at NYC’s Edison Hotel (Bond 45), hosted by Madam Lulu.
J. Harrison Ghee, Timothy Hughes, Blaine Krauss, Joey Taranto, the Skivvies, Aryn, Ashlee Montague, Barnaby Llewellyn, Laura Lebron, Omar Edwards, Morgan Bryant, Sarah Meahl, Alec Varcas, Miss Miranda, Opera Gaga, Tansy Burlesque, Audrey Love, and Peekaboo Pointe.
An intoxicating all-in-0ne immersive mixology event that combines the worlds of burlesque, cirque, illusionists, and musical theater with a decadent cocktail, dining, and nightclub experience.
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Steve Ross & Jean Brassard will offer an encore performance of Allons Enfant! on Fri. Aug. 6 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Pangea.
Karen Akers and Stephanie Biddle.
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Complete casting has been announced for The Sound of Music, to run Aug. 3-9 at the St. Louis Muny, directed by Matt Kunkel, with choreography by Beth Crandall, and music direction by Ben Whiteley.
Kate Rockwell (Maria), Michael Hayden (Captain von Trapp), Bryonha Marie Parham (Mother Abbess), Jenny Powers (Elsa), John Scherer (Max), Elizabeth Teeter (Liesl), Andrew Alstat (Rolf), Leah Berry (Sister Margaretta), David Hess (Franz), Michael James Reed (Herr Zeller), April Strelinger (Frau Schmidt), Jerry Vogel (Admiral von Schreiber), Jillian Depke (Brigitta), Parker Dzuba (Kurt), Abby Hogan (Marta), Amelie Lock (Louisa), Kate Scarlett Kappel (Gretl), and Victor de Paula Rocha (Friedrich), with Jordan Bollwerk, Emma Gassett, Madison Geiger, Ta’Nika Gibson, Julie Hanson, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Beth Kirkpatrick, Debby Lennon, Eric Jon Mahlum, Leann Schuering, Blakely Slaybaugh, and Taylor Tveten.
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Lydia R. Diamond’s Toni Stone will run Sept. 3 – Oct. 3 (opening Sept. 9) at DC’s Arena Stage, directed by Pam MacKinnon.
JaBen Early, Kenn E. Head, Rodney Earl Jackson Jr., Sean-Maurice Lynch, Jarrod Mims Smith, Gilbert L. Bailey II, Aldo Billingslea, and Santoya Fields.
Set in the 1950s, Toni Stone was the first woman to play baseball in the Negro Leagues, also making her the first woman to play in a professional men’s league.
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If you missed the recent Musical Theatre Guild benefit concert, Stephane J. Block in Conversation & Song Benefit, hosted by Jason Graae & Jennifer Shelton, it’s not to late to watch it here.
Eileen Barnett, Doug Carfrae, Will Collyer, Kelley Dorney, Joshual Finkel, Zachard Ford, Julie Garnyé, Kelly Lester, Melissa Lyons Caldretti, Kevin McMahon, Gabriel Navarro, Monica Quinn, Glenn Rosenbloom, Natalie Wachen, and Shannon Warne.
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Nolan Williams, Jr.’s Grace will premiere in March 2022 at DC’s Ford’s Theatre. Two industry presentations will be held in August, directed & choreographed by Robert Barry Fleming.
Lawrence Cummings, David Hughley, Lacretta, Rayshun LaMarr, Kevin McCallister, Nova Payton, Awa Sal Secka, and Virginia Ann Woodruff.
The musical centers on a Philadelphia family who gather to mourn the loss of their matriarch and cope with the future of their family’s cherished restaurant.
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Lincoln Center Theater will re-stream its 2017 production of Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves from July 22 (7 PM ET) – Aug. 16 on Broadway OnDemand, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
Paola Sanchez Abreu, Mia Barron, Brenna Coates, Jenna Dioguardi, Samia Finnerty, Midori Francis, Lizza Jutila, Sarah Mezzanotte, Tedra Millan, and Susannah Perkins.
A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban field, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with the vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors.
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Rent will return Aug. 6 – Sept. 19 at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre, directed by Luke Sheppard.
Tom Francis, Jocasta Almgill, Dom Hartley-Harris, Millie O’Connell, Maiya Quansah-Breed, Alex Thomas-Smith, Isaac Hesketh, Luke Bayer, Iona Fraser, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, Alison Driver, Joe Foster, and Karl Laneter.
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The Bridge Production Group will present [title of show] Aug. 12-21 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, directed by Max Hunter.
Max Hunter (Jeff), Keri René Fuller (Heidi), Jennifer Apple (Susan), and Josh Daniel (Hunter).
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Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons has announced its 2021-22 season:
What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Sept. 24 – Oct. 17), by Aleshea Harris, directed by Whitney White. A ritual and a homegoing celebrations that bears witness to the physical and spiritual deaths of Black people as a result of racist violence.
Selling Kabul (Nov. 17 – Dec. 23), by Sylvia Khoury, directed by Tyne Rafaeli. The devastation of America’s longest war reverberates through a Kabul apartment in the aftermath of a U.S. withdrawal, has only grown in recent months, as the withdrawal has begun to actually take place.
Tambo & Bones (Jan. 12 – Feb. 20, 2022), world premiere by Dave Harris, directed by Taylor Reynolds. A scathing satire on the intersections of racism, capitalism, and performance.
Wish You Were Here (Apr. 13 – May 22), world premiere by Sanaz Toossi, directed by Gaye Talor Upchurch. The play traces five women across 14 years of friendship amidst the relentless aftershocks of political upheaval in Iran.
Corsicana (June 2 – July 10), world premiere by Will Arbery, directed by Sam Gold. The play is set in a small city in Texas, where a woman with Down syndrome and her younger half-brother grapple with their mother’s death, and become entangles with a local outsider artist.
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A short film adaptation of “Stalking the Bogeyman,” written & directed by Markus Potter & David Holthouse, is currently underway. A release date and additional information is TBA.
Santino Fontana and Thomas Sadoski, with more TBA.
For 25 years, David did nothing about the man who brutally raped him when he was seven. But when the rapist moves to the same town, David can no longer ignore the thoughts that have been haunting him his entire life. The solution? To kill the bogeyman.
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The world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Last of the Love Letters will run Aug. 26 – Sept. 26 (opening Sept. 13) at the Atlantic Theater Company, directed by Patricia McGregor.
Ngozi Anyanwu, Daniel J. Watts, and one more TBA.
Two people contemplate the thing they love most and whether to stick it out or to leave it behind. To stay. Or to go. That is the question. The play is just that: a plea and a painful goodby wrapped into one.
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Ann Hampton Callaway: The Linda Ronstadt Songbook will take place Sun. July 25 at 3 PM PT at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center.
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Oren Jacoby’s “On Broadway” will be released in NYC and LA on Aug. 27, followed by a national rollout. 
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Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, Hal Prince, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Tommy Tune, Hugh Jackman, and Ian McKellen,
The film examines the journey Broadway took from the 1970s, when it was on the verge of bankruptcy, through a reinvention leading to a modern robust industry. Included are behind-the-scenes looks at groundbreaking shows such as A Chorus Line and Hamilton.
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