Today’s Highlights:
A Grand Night for Singing, directed & choreographed by Cindy Goldfield, featuring Alison Ewing, Edu González, Jacqueline DeMuro, Joel Champman, and Keith Pinto, opens at San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon.
Audible Theater‘s presentation of Coal Country, by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen, directed by Blank, featuring Mary Bacon, Amelia Campbell, Kym Gomes, Ezra Knight, Thomas Kopache, Michael Laurence, Deirdre Madigan, and Carl Palmer, opens at Off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre.
Notes From Now, world premiere, with songs by Jay Adana, Troy Anthony, Masi Asare, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Georgie Castilla & Jaime Lozano, Gretchen Cryer, Tia DeShazor & Derrick Byars, Alexandra Elle & Stephen Schwartz, Adam Gwon, Douglas Lyons & Ethan Pakchar, Peter Mills, Ryan Scott Oliver, Michelle J. Rodriguez, Angela Sclafani, Paulo Tiról, and Amanda Yesnowitz & Deborah Abramson, directed & choreographed by Billy Bustamante, featuring Ashley Blanchet, Thani Brant, Darron Hayes, Josh Lamon, Aline Mayagoitia, Judy McLane, and John Yi, with Genesis Adelia Collado, opens at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters.
Trayf, by Lindsay Joelle, directed by Maggie Burrows, featuring Ilan Eskenzai (Zalmy), Ben Hirschhorn (Shmuel), Louisa Jacobson (Leah), and Garrett Young (Jonathan), opens at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Bartlett Sher, featuring Rafe Spall (Atticus Finch), Harry Attwell (Mr. Cunningham/Boo Radley), Amanda Boxer (Mrs Henry Dubose), Poppy Lee Friar (Mayella Ewell), John Hastings (Bailiff), Simon Hepworth (Mr Roscoe/Dr Reynolds), Laura Howard (Miss Stephanie/Dill’s Mother), Lloyd Hutchinson (Link Deas), Gwyneth Keyworth (Scout Finch), Tom Mannion (Sheriff Heck Tate), David Moorst (Dill Harris), Pamela Nomvete (Calpurnia), and Jim Norton (Judge Taylor), begins previews at London’s Gielgud Theatre.
“Company: Katrina Lenk, Patti Lupone & Chris Harper” FREE streaming discussion, at 12:30 PM ET here.
MasterVoices’ Anyone Can Whistle in concert, directed & conducted by Ted Sperling, featuring Vanessa Williams (Cora Hoover Hooper), Elizabeth Stanley (Fay Apple), Santino Fontana (J. Bowden Hapgood), Douglas Sills (Comptroller Schub), Eddie Cooper (Treasurer Cooley), and Michael Mulheren (Police Chief Magruder), at 7 PM ET at Carnegie Hall.
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The 2022 Tony Awards will air Sun. June 12 from NYC’s Radio City Music Hall. The broadcast has been restored to a full 3 hours. Paramount will air the first hour at 7 PM ET, followed by the remaining 2 hours on CBS at 8 PM ET.
Nominations will be announced Tues. May 3.
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Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ will run Apr. 19 – May 29 at San Diego’s Old Globe, directed & musically staged by Wayne Cilento.
Casting TBA.
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Initial casting has been announced for Bonnie & Clyde, to run June 17 – July 10 at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co., directed & choreographed by Sam Hooper, with music direction by Zara Stanton.
Teagan Wouters (Bonnie) and Blake Appelqvist (Clyde), with more TBA.
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The Huntington Theatre presents the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s Our Daughters, Like Pillars, which will run Apr. 8 – May 8 (opening Apr. 20) at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion, directed by Kimberly Senior.
Lyndsay Allyn cox (Zelda), Lizan Mitchell (Yvonne), Julian Parker (Paul), Postell Pringle (Morris), Nikkole Salter (Lavinia), and Cheryl D. Singleton (Missy).
The story about the Shaw family begins when Lavinia brings her sisters and mother on a much-needed family vacation. She has planned the week to the smallest detail, and if Lavinia gets her way, they will stay forever.
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Patricia Zehentmayr & Jan Roper’s The Path to Catherine will run Mar. 26 – May 1 (opening Mar. 27) at North Hollywood’s Write Act Rep, directed by Joanna Syiek.
. Elise Walters (Sophie/Catherine), Jessica Reiner-Harris (Joanna), and Robyn Roth (Elizabeth).
. There is not much more a noblewoman can do in 1740’s Germany than dream of love and the intrigues of court life. She can become a nun if she fails at a betrothal, or she can marry. Young Princess Sophie plans to do just that. And do it well!
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. RIP: Dr. Mary John, founder of Milwaukee Rep in 1954, has died at the age of 96.
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Video: The Skivvies perform a medley of “Hot in Here” (Nelly), “It’s Hot Up Here (Sunday in the Park…), “Hot Hot Hot” (Buster Poindexter), and “Rock Your Body” (Justin Timberlake).
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A livestream benefit reading of Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasures, in support of Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater, will take place Mon. Mar. 14 at 7:30 PM ET (and will be available through Mar. 18), directed by Kim Weild.
Heidi, Becca Ayers, Talley Gale, Cloteal Horne, Anthony Michael Martinez, Rami Margron, Maria Chritina Oliveras, and Josh Tyson.
After the death of Lord Fortunate, Lady Happy – being his only heir – inherits her father’s wealth and decides to forsake marriage, invites twenty ladies to her estate, and create a cloistered community called the Convent of Pleasure where the presence of men is banned. The gentlemen intent on wooing Lady Happy lament at the loss of Lord Fortunate’s wealth and a woman who is “extremely handsome, young, rich, and virtuous,” but the only virtue they see in Lady Happy is her wealth. They plot t infiltrate the convent, but achieve little success. Meanwhile, a princess has joined the convent. The princess and Lady Happy quickly fall in love, and the ladies of the convent perform a play about the perils of marriage. At the end of the play-within-a-play, it is revealed that the princess was, all along, a prince, and he and Lady Happy marry.
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Video: “Final Jeopardy! Broadway Musicals” (1:55)
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Michelle Kholos Brook’s H*tler’s Tasters will run Apr. 14 – May 7 (opening May 3) at Theatre Row (link TBA), directed by Sarah Norris.
Hallie Griffen (Liesel), MaryKathryn Kopp (Hilda), Kaitlin Paige Longoria (Anna), and Hannah Mae Sturges (Margot).
Three times a day, every day, a group of young women have the opportunity to die for their country. Inspired by true events, the play is a dark comedy about the young women who have the “honor” of being Adolf Hitler’s food tasters. And what do girls discuss as the wait to see if they will live through another meal? Like all girls, throughout time, they gossip and dream, they question and dance. Using an anachronistic retelling of an historical footnote, the play explores the way girls navigate sexuality, friendship, patriotism, and poison during the Third Reich.
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Complete casting has been announced for Titanic The Musical, to run Apr. 5 – May 15 at Milwaukee Rep, directed by Mark Clements, with music direction by Dan Kazemi, and choreography by Jenn Rose.
Emma Rose Brooks (Kate McGowan), Lillian Castillo (Alice), Matt Daniels (Pitman/Etches), Kelly Faulkner (Caroline), Nathaniel Hackman (Barrett), Evan Harrinton (Murdoch), Jeremy Landon Hays (Andrews), David Hess (Captain smith), Carrie Hitchcock (Ida Straus), Philip Hoffman (Isador Straus), Brian Krinsky (Jim Farrell), Steve Pacek (Bride), Tim Quartier (Charles), Julio Rey (Fleet), Rána Roman, Andrew Varela (Ismay), and Steve Watts (Edgar), with Jamey Feshold, Jared Brandt Hoover, Kyle Johnson, George Lorimer, Kelty Morash, Sophie Murk, Max Pink, Ogunde Snelling Jr., Vivian Vaeth, Paxton Haley, Zoah Hirano, James LaRoque, and Lainey Techtmann.
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LA’s Theatre West presents TW Cabaret: Love, Actually on Mar. 12 & 19 at 7 PM PT, directed by Victoria Lavan, with music direction by Paul Cady. 
While the concert is free, donations will be gratefully accepted.
Sara Ballentine, Sandra Tucker, Paul Cady, Sara Shearer, Arden Lewis, Connie Mellors, Mimi Kmet, Anne Leyden, Michael Van Duzer, Heidi Appe, Rick Simone-Friedland, Tessa Bell, and Robert W. Laur.
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Video: Beanie Feldstein, Ramin Karimloo, Jared Grims, Jane Lynch, and more, discuss the “magical” Broadway revival of Funny Girl. The production begins previews Mar. 26 and opens Apr. 24 at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre.
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Off-Broadway’s Labyrinth Theatre Company will present its LAB’s 2022 Barn Series, with readings available Apr. 5-10 (all at 7 PM ET) at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters, directed. Directors and casting TBA.
Sasha Ginger Hank (Apr. 5), by Mariana Carreño
The Traci Reyes Syndrome (Apr. 6), by Mel Nieves
Dia Y Noche (Apr. 7), by David Anzuelo
The Naming of Small Losses (Apr. 8), created & curated by Sarah Nina Hayon.
Is There Even Porn in India? (Apr. 9), by Dipti Bramhandkar.
Charna Rivka (Apr. 10), by David Deblinger.
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Musical director David Loud’s “Facing the Music” is available now on Kindle, and will be released in hardcover on Mar. 22 here.
A widely entertaining and profoundly poignant trek through the wilderness of his childhood and the edge-of-you-seat drama of a career on, in, under, and around Broadway for decades. Loud takes readers through his musical theatre education, the sexual abuse he dealt with at an elite private school, the rise of his Broadway career, and how the ravages of Parkinson’s nearly destroyed his theatre career – only for him to triumph over the disease.
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“Step Into…The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough” will air Sun. Mar. 20 at 10 PM on ABC (check local listings).
Ariana DeBose, Amber Riley, John Stamos, Kevin Bacon, Charli D’Amelio, Jenna Dewan, Harry Shum Jr., Baz Luhrmann, Tate McRae, Rob Marshall, and Kenny Ortega.
The performances, reimagined through a modern lens, will draw inspiration from iconic films such as “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Moulin Rouge!,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Chicago,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Saturday Night Fever,” and “La La Land.”
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Video: Ali Ewoldt performs “Ice Cream” from DC’s Signature Theatre’s She Loves Me.