Today’s Highlights:
The Public Theater‘s Richard III, directed by Robert O’Hara, featuring Danai Gurira (Richard III), Wyatt Cirbus (Prince of Wales), Sanjit De Silva (Buckingham), Sam Duncan (Duke of York),Monique Holt (Duchess of York), Gregg Mozgala (King Edward IV/Richmond), Paul Niebanck (George), Michael Potts (Lord Stanley), Ariel Shafir (Lord Hastings, Heather Alicia Simms (Queen Elizabeth), Ali Stroker (Anne), Sharon Washington (Queen Margaret), and Daniel J. Watts (Catesby Ratcliffe), with Maleni Chaitoo, Thaddeus Fitzpatrick, Skyler Gallun, Sara Nina Hayon, Matthew Jeffers, Matt Monaco, Xavier Pacheco, Marcus Rae Perez, Grace Porter, and N’yomi Stewart, opens at Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre.
Emily Skinner: A Broad with a Broad, Broad Mind concert opens at NYC’s 54 Below.
We Shall Someday concert presentation, by Harrison David Rivers & Ted Shen, directed by Kelli Foster Warder, featuring Benjamin Harold Moore, Nova Y. Payton, Emmanuel Elliot Key, and Drake Leach, opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill, world premiere by Matt Schatz, directed by Mike Donahue, featuring Jahbril Cook (The Son, and others), Zehra Fazal (The Lady on the Radio, and others), Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper (The Junior Rabbi/The Private Investigator, and others), Rivkah Reyes (The Daughter/The Reporter, and others), Danny Rothman (The Rabbi, and others), and Jill Sobule (The Canor/The Rabbi’s Wife, and others, opens at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
Cabaret, directed & choreographed by Sanaz Ghaiar & Ben Hobbs, featuring Trevor McQueen (Emcee), Candice Hatakeyama (Sally Bowles), Alex Hanna (Cliff), with Molly Bremer, Sebastien Diaquoi, Fred Frabotta, Jasmine Gobourne, Heidi Hayes, Kuppi Alec Jessop, Madalyn Macko, Kobe McKelvey, Brianna Puma, Justine Horihata Rappaport, Caleb Wilson Schaaf, Ema Zivkovic, and Cullen Zeno. Kamau Nosakhere, Owen Harrison, and Liz Gilmartin, opens at Ithica’s Hangar Theatre.
Follies, directed by Bill English, featuring Natascia Diaz (Sally Durant Plummer), Samantha Rose Cárdenas (Young Sally), Maureen McVerry (Phyllis Rogers Stone), Danielle Cheiken (Young Phyllis), Ryan Drummond (Buddy Plummer), Chachi Delgado (Young Buddy), Chris Vettel (Benjamin Stone), Cameron La Brie (Young Benjamin), Cindy Goldfield (Carlotta Campion), Lucinda Hitchcock Cone (Hattie Walker), Jill Slyter (Solange LaFitte), Caroline Louise Altman (Stella Deems), Louis Parnell (Dimitri Weismann), Frederick Winthrop (Roscoe), Eiko Yamamoto (Emily Whitman), and Rene Collins (Theodore Whitman), with Emily Corbo, Anthony Maglio, Catrina Manahan, and Anne Warque, begins previews at San Francisco Playhouse.
Michael Orland: An Open Mic Event, with special guests Marilu Henner, Chris Mann, and Adriana McPhee, at 7 PM PT at Studio City’s Upstairs at Vitellos.
Lessons in Survival: 1971, created with The Commissary, directed by Tyler Thomas, featuring Carl Clemons-Hopkins (James Baldwin) and Crystal Dickinson (Nikki Giovanni), closes at Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre.
Sweeney Todd, directed & choreographed by Stephen Nachamie, featuring Carolee Carmello (Mrs. Lovett), Craig Colclough (Sweeney Todd), Lojus Tiemann (Anthony Hope), Angela Yam (Johanna), Daniel Mobbs (Judge Turpin), Morgan Mastrangelo (Tobias), Arnold Livingston Geis (Beadle Bamford), Maria De Conzo (Begger Woman), and Brian Yeakley (Pirelli), closes at Opera Saratoga.
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Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt will begin previews Sept. 14 and open Oct. 2 at the Longacre Theatre, directed by Patrick Marber.
Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Jenna Augen, Faye Castelow, Arty Froushan, Aaron Neil, Jesse Aaronson, Betsy Aidem, Japhet Balaban, Corey Bill, Daniel Cantor, Erica Dasher, Eden Epstein, Gina Ferrall, Charlotte Graham, Jacqueline Jarrold, Sarah Killough, David Krumholtz, Colleen Litchfield, Tedra Millan, Seth Numrich, Anthony Rosenthal, Sara Topham, Dylan Wallach, Romy Fay, Chris Stevens, Reese Bogin, Max Ryan Burach, Michael Deaner, Pearl Scarlett Gold, Jaxon Cain Grunkleger, Wesley Holloway, Ava Michele Hyl, Joshua, Satine, Aaron Shuf, and Drew Ryan Squire.
Set over several decades in Vienna, and following the lives of a singular extended family, the play explores the human condition and its resilience in the face of traumatic history before and after World War II.
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The Wrecking Crew Golden Hits + a Taste of Motown will take place Sat. Aug. 13 at 8 PM PT at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre (link TBA).
Don Peake on guitar, Don Randi on keyboard, and Chuck Berghofer on base, with Lamont Dozier Jr. and Kiki Ebsen on vocals.
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Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter & Ingrid Michaelson’s The Notebook, to run Sept. 6 – Oct. 16 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Michael Greif & Schele Williams, with choreography by Katie Spelman.
Jordan Tyson (Young Allie), Joy Woods (Middle Allie), Maryann Plunkett (Older Allie), John Cardoza (Young Noah), Ryan Vasquez (Middle Noah), John Beasley (Older Noah), with Yassmin Alers, Andréa Burns, Jonathan Butler-Duplessis, Dorcas Leung, Omar Lopez-Cepero, Sophie Madorsky, and Liam Oh, with Alex Benoit, Mary Ernster, Jerica Exum, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman, Rhonnie Rose Mantilla, and Carson Stewart.
The musical follows Allie and Noah, who share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull them apart
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“See How They Run,” the new West End murder mystery film, will be released on Sept. 30.
Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, with Adrien Brody, Davis Oyelowo, Ruth Wilson, Harris Dickinson, Shirley Henderson, Sian Clifford, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Reece Shearsmith, and Charlie Cooper.
It’s 1950s London, when world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Staler take on the case, and the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
Video: Trailer
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Sesame Street the Musical will run Sept. 8 – Nov. 27 at Theatre Row, directed by Jonathan Rockefeller. Additional information TBA.
Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Grover, Rosita, Bert, Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, The Count, Gabrielle, and a host of Honder, Martians, and other favorites.
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Let It Be: A Celebration of the Music of The Beatles will run Aug. 19-28 at Atlantic City’s Hard Rock Hotel.
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The 2022 Jimmy Award winners. Click here for the complete list of winners.
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Kate Winslet will star in “Trust,” which will be released as a mini-series on HBO. Casting, release date, and additional information is TBA.
When a wealthy financier reads a novel based on his own life and is dissatisfied by his and his wife’s portrayal, he asks a secretary to ghostwrite his memoir and set the record straight. She, however, grows uncomfortably aware that he is rewriting history – and his wife’s place in it.
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Dance to the Movies will take place Fri. July 8 at 8 PM PT at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Barbara Eden, George Chakiris & Margaret O’Brien, and Debbie Wileman, with Anna Trebunskaya, Dmitry Chaplin, and more.
The evening will recreate some of the most iconic characters and memorable moments from movies like “Grease,” “Chicago,” and “Moulin Rouge,” and will include new, stunning dances to scores from “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Titanic,” “The Matrix,” and “Willie Wonka.”
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Audio: Amber Iman performs “Stay” from Lempicka, by Carson Kreitzer & Matt Gould, currently running at La Jolla Playhouse.
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The world premiere of Roger Q. Mason’s Lavender Men will run Aug. 6 – Sept. 4 at the Skylight Theatre, directed by Lovell Holder.
Roger Q. Mason (Taffeta), Alex Esola (Elmer Ellsworth), and Pete Ploszek (Abe Lincoln).
This genre-pushing play courageously re-imagines one of America’s most beloved historical icons. President Abraham Lincoln, through a queer person of color’s storytelling lens. Taffeta, a self-proclaimed “fabulous queer creation of color,” invades Honest Abe’s private world to confront issues of visibility, race and LGBTQ+ inclusion that still challenge us today.
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Still a Quiet Afternoon, written & performed by Katie Mazzini and Gabriel Thom Pasculli, will run July 14-16 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, directed by Guilherme Kirchheim & Tara Ostiguy.
A mythic, musical tragicomedy about two people observing a multitude of apocalyptic events through their single window.
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Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor will run Sept. 17 – Oct. 9 at LA Opera (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion), directed by Simon Stone. Tickets start at only $20.
Amanda Woodbury & Liv Redpath (sharing the role of Lucia) Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Edgardo), Alexander Birch Elliott (Enrico), and Eric Owens (Raimondo).
The story, originally taking place in the Scottish Highland, has moved to every-town USA, in this portrait of a woman pushed to the brink. Mourning her mother, bullied by her brother, and sold off into marriage to save her family’s finances, Lucia Ashton has a single comfort: her secret engagement to Edgardo. But with Edgardo far away on military service, and her wedding day drawing ever-closer, Lucia grow more and more unstable – and more willing to do the unthinkable.
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New dates have been announced for Lincoln Center‘s Camelot, which will now begin previews Mar. 9, 2023 and open Thurs. Apr. 13 at the Vivan Beaumont Theatre, adapted by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher.
Casting and additional information TBA.
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Seth Rudetsky’s Seth’s Big Fat Broadway Show will take place Mon. July 11 at 7:30 PM ET at Rhode Island’s Theatre by the Sea.
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Get It Together, world premiere written & directed by Michael Quinn, will run July 29 – Aug. 7 at the Zephyr Theatre.
Joseph Basquill (Harold) and Hadley Durkee (Mary).
The play follows Mary, an aspiring poet, and Harold, a computer science professional, who find themselves in the spare bedroom of a Philadelphia house party. They haven’t seen each other in years, but they know what they’re heading towards. After a night of confession, teasing and tension, we see their story tow years later and what that night has wrought: an unconsummated romance and an affection they apprehend but can’t have. It a story of growing into a tangled relationship and finding out what we take from relationships that we know aren’t meant to last.