Today’s Highlights:
Here Lies Love, by David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, directed by Alex Timbers, featuring Arielle Jacobs (Imelda Marcos), Lea Salonga, Conrad Ricomora, Jose Llana, Melody Butiu, Jaygee Macapuagay, Julia Abueva, Aaron Alcaraz, Kristina Doucette, Jeigh Madjus, Geena Quintos, Shea Renne, Angelo Soriano, Moses villarama, Jasmine Forsberg, Reanne Acasio, Renée Albulario, Carol Angeli, Nathan Angelo, Roy Flores, Timothy Matthew Flores, Sarah Kay, and Aaron “AJ” Mercado, opens at Broadway’s Broadway Theatre.
Flex, by Candice Jones, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, featuring Brittany Bellizeare, Christiana Clark, Renita Lewis, Erica Matthews, Ciara Monique, and Tomalili, opens at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
The Play That Goes Wrong, by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields, directed by Mark Bell, featuring Bartley Booz (Dennis), Joseph Anthony Byrd (Jonathan), Peyton Crum (Robert), Mara Davi (Sandra), Matt Harrinton (Chris), Kai Almeda Heath (Annie), Alex Mandell (Max), and Akron Watson (Trevor), with Brett Cassidy, Kullan S. Edbert, and Brendon Haaangenson, opens at the Kennedy Center.
Crime and Punishment, A Comedy, world premiere by Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen, directed by Greenberg, featuring Vincent Randazzo (Actor 1), Juliet Brett (Actor 2), Stephanie Gibson (Actor 3), Orville Mendoza (Actor 4 – through Aug. 6), Andrew Polec (Actor 4 as of Aug. 8) and Nik Walker (Actor 5), with Cody Ingram, Jasmine January, and Zakk Mannella, opens at San Diego’s Old Globe.
Call Fosse at the Minskoff solo show, written & performed by Mimi Quillin, directed by Michael Berresse, opens at Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater.
Word Play, by Rabiah’s Hussain, directed by Nimmo Ismail, featuring Issam Al Ghussain, Kosar Ali, Simon Manyonda, Sirine Saba, and Yusra Warsama, begins previews at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
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Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre presents its Freshplay Festival 2023 July 21-22, offering readings of new plays written by the theatre’s Youth Company Playwrighting Lab.
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Cabaret will run Sept. 1 – Oct. 8 (opening Sept. 6) at San Diego’s Old Globe, directed & choreographed by josh Rhodes.
Lincoln Clauss (The Emcee), Joanna A. Jones (Sally Bowles), and more TBA.
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Levi Holloway’s Grey House, scheduled to run through September, will now close early, on July 30 at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, directed by Jo Mantello.
Laurie Metcalf, Tatiana Maslany, Sophia Anne Caruso, Paul Sparks, Millicent Simmonds, Cyndi Coyne, Colby Kipnes, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Eamon Patrick O’Connell. Winsome Brown, Emma Safiyah Haeri, Mia Sinclair Jenness, Claire Karpen, Daniel Reece, Erin Rosenfeld, and Luca Thomas.
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Eric Jordan Young & Wendy Dann’s Sammy and Me: A One-Man Show will run Aug. 14-20 at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre, directed by Dann.
Eric Jordan Young
Sammy Davis, Jr., singer, dancer, child star, a fixture of the Rat Pack… but at what cost? Eric Jordan Young investigates his own obsession with Sammy—and his questions take audiences on a whirlwind journey through Sammy’s life and his music. But when you ask: who was the man behind the perfect cool smile? …the answers that unravel are as powerful as the new questions they raise.
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A slight Ache, by Harold Pinter, will run Aug. 24 – Oct. 1 (opening Aug. 26) at the Odyssey Theatre, directed by Jack Heller.
Susan Priver, Henry Olek, and Shelly Kurtz.
As married couple Flora and Edward breakfast in their garden, a wasp circles menacingly overhead while Edward feels “a slight ache” in his eyes. And who is that derelict match seller hovering just beyond the garden gate?
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The New Group has announced complete casting for the world premiere of John Turturro & Ariel Levy’s Sabbath’s Theater, to run Oct. 10 – Dec. 3 (opening Nov. 2) at the Signature Theatre, directed by Jo Bonney.
John Turturro (Mickey Sabbath), Elizabeth Marvel (Drenka), and Jason Kravits (additional roles).
The play follows disgraced puppet maker Mickey Sabbath, whose secret life of debauchery comes to a heartbreaking end as he plunges into increasingly mad and maddening encounters with people from his wild and wicked past.
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Video: “Pinball Wizard” from The Who’s Tommy at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
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The world premiere of Joe Iconis & Gregory S. Moss’ The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical will run Aug. 29 – Oct. 1 at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Christopher Ashley, with choreography by Jon Rua.
Gabriel Ebert (Hunter S. Thompson), George Abud (Nixon), Jeanette Bayardelle (Jann), Giovanny Diaz de Leon (Kidd), Marcy Harriell (Sandy), Lorinda Lisitza (Virginia), Lauren Marcus (Flower Child), George Salazar (Oscar), Ryan Vona (Juan), and Jason SweetTooth Williams (Ralph), with Summer Broyhill, Josiah Cajiudo, and Kürt Norby.
An untitled, unauthorized bio-musical about gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
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Linda Purl: This Could Be the Start will take place Mon. Sept. 11 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, with music direction by Tedd Firth.
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Off-Broadway’s SoHo Rep has announced its 2023-24 season:
Writer Director Lab Presentations, including Woo Woo Child (Sept. 15-16), by Nkenna Akunna and Nana Dakin ….. Unresolved Rage Game (Sept. 13), by Ran Xia & Risa Puno ….and … Untitled Seagull Project (Sept. 29-30), by Carolina Đỗ and Annie Jin Wang.
Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month (Oct. 25 – Dec. 3), world premiere written & directed by Becca Blackwell. A 6-foot tall vagina named Snatch Adams loses her job as a clown at Planned Parenthood in 2016. Facing unemployment, she finds a job hosting a talk show with comic Tainty McCracken.
The Fires (May 8 – June 16, 2024), world premiere written & directed by Raja Feather Kelly. Three men trying to understand love: what it means, where to find it, and how to experience it.
…and more TBA…
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Levi Holloway’s Grey House will close early, now on July 30, at the Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, directed by Joe Mantello.
Laurie Metcalf, Tatiana Maslany, Sophia Anne Caruso, Paul Sparks, Millicent Simmonds, Cyndi Coyne, Colby Kipnes, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Eamon Patrick O’Connell. Winsome Brown, Emma Safiyah Haeri, Mia Sinclair Jenness, Claire Karpen, Daniel Reece, Erin Rosenfeld, and Luca Thomas.
The play follows a couple whose car crashes on a mountain and subsequently seek shelter in an isolated cabin with somewhat unusual inhabitants.
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The world premiere of Emily Mann, Carmel Dean, Lucy Simon & Susan Birkenhead’s On Cedar Street will run Aug. 12 – Sept. 2 (opening Aug. 19) at MA’s The Berkshire Group, directed by Susan H. Schulman.
Stephen Bogardus (Louis Waters), Lana Gordon (Ruth Clark), C. Wild Handel (Young Girl), Hayden Hoffman (Mamie Moore), Ben Roseberry (Gene Moore), Dan Teixeira (Russell Beckman), lauren Ward (Addie Moore), and Lenny Wolpe (Lloyd Beckman), with Zooey Bayles).
On Cedar Street is set in Holt, Colorado, as Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and both have long been living alone in empty houses. As their relationship deepens, they each deal with grief and loss, and a real romance begins to blossom.
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Video: Sneak peek Sandy Rustin’s The Cottage, directed by Jason Alexander, featuring Laura Bell Bundy, Eric McCormack, Lilli Cooper, Alex Moffat, Dana Steingold, Nehal Michelle Federer, Jamie Ann Romero, Matthew Flloyd Miller, and Tony Roach., at Broadway’s Helen Haye’s Theatre.
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Tawni O’Dell’s Pay the Writer will run Aug. 13 – Sept. 30 (opening Aug. 21) at the Signature Theatre, directed by Karen Carpenter.
Ron Canada (Cyrus Holt), Marcia Cross (Lana Holt), Bryan Batt (Bruston Fischer), Steven Hauck (Jean Luc), Miles G. Jackson (Young Bruston/Taz), Garrett Turner (Young Cyrus), Danielle J. Summons (Gigi), and Stgephen Payne (Homeless Man).
The new play follows the friendship between a white, gay literary agent and his best friend and most successful client, a gifted Black writer. The first performance will be a benefit in support of the Writers Guild of America, which is currently on strike.