Today’s Highlights:
The Who’s Tommy, directed by Des McAnuff, featuring Ali Lous Bourzgui (Tommy), Alison Luff (Mrs. Walker), Adam Jacobs (Captain Walker), John Ambrosino (Uncle Ernie), Bobby Conte (Cousin Kevin), and Christina Jajous (The Acid Queen), with Haley Gustafson, Jeremiah Alsop, Ronnie S. Bowman Jr., Mike Cannon, Tyler James Eisenreich, Sheldon Henry, Afra Hines, Aliah James, David Paul Kidder, Tassy Kirbas, Lily Kren, Quinten Kusheba, Reese Levine, Brett Michael Lockley, Nathan Lucrezio, Alexandra Matteo, Mark Mitrano, Reagan Pender, Cecilia Ann Popp, Daniel Quadrino, Olive Ross-Kline, Jenna Nicole Shoen, Dee Tomasetta, and Andrew Tufano, opens at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre.
Sanctuary City, by Martyna Majok, directed by Jacob G. Padrón & Pedro Bermúdez, featuring Sara Gutierrez (G), Edward Montoya (B), and Mishka Yarovoy (Henry), opens at Theaterworks Hartford.
The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Solo Festival opens at North Hollywood’s Theatre 58.
Hell’s Kitchen, by Alicia Keys & Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Michael Greif, featuring Shoshana Bean (Jersey), Brandon Victor Dixon (Davis), Kecia Lewis (Miss Liza Jane), Chris Lee (Knuck), and Maleah Joi Moon (Ali), Chad Carstarphen (Ray,) Vanessa Ferguson (Tiny), Jakeim Hart (Q,) Jackie Leon (Jessica), Nyseli Vega (Millie), Lamont Walker II (‘Riq), and Rema Webb (Crystal), with Reid Clarke, Chloe Davis, Nico DeJesus, Timothy L. Edwards, David Guzman, Raechelle Manalo, Sarah Parker, Niki Saludez, Desmond Sean Ellington, Badia Farha, Gianna Harris, Jade Milan, Susan Oliveras, Oscar Whitney Jr.,Takia Hopson, Onyxx Noel, Aaron Nicholas Patterson, William Roberson, and Donna Vivino, begins previews at Broadway Shubert Theatre.
Sally & Tom, by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, featuring Sheria Irving (Luce/Sally), Gabriel Ebert (Mike/Tom), Sun Mee Chomet (Scout/Polly), Leland Fowler (Devon/Nathan), Kristolyn Lloyd (Maggie/Mary), Alano Miller (Kwame/James), Kate Nowlin (Ginger/Patsy), and David Petzold (Geoff/Cooper/Colonel Carey/Mr. Tobias), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.
A Broadway Birthday: Sondheim, Lloyd Webber, and Friends! concert, featuring Betty Buckley, Matthew Morrison, Liz Callaway, Alex Joseph Grayson, Aaron Lazar, and Kerry O’Malley, at 8 PM at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Hall.
Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along conversation, featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Johnathan Groff & Lindsay Mendez, at 3 PM at NYC’s 92NY.
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The world premiere of Phelim McAleer’s October 7 will run May 2 – June 16 (opening May 13) at The Actors Temple Theatre (link TB), directed by Karen Carpenter.
TBA.
A new verbatim play about Israel’s darkest day as told by those who lived through it, all in their own words using only transcripts of actual interviews. The event brings together accounts from those who experienced Oct. 7. Their experiences may have been different, but all were changed by that day. In the play, we meet young and old, secular and religious, people who were with family and those who were at a dance party when the unthinkable happened.
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Manhattan Theatre Club‘s Brooklyn Laundry, world premiere, written & directed by John Patrick Shanley, will now close Apr. 14 at Off-Broadway’s NYC Center Stage 1.
Cecily Strong (Fran), David Zayas (Owen), Florencia Lozano (Trish), and Andrea Syglowski (Susie).
Sometimes big things start from little things; in this case, a bag of laundry. Shanley’s latest is about three sisters, a guy who runs a laundry in Brooklyn, and the sometimes savage tricks life plays on them. Tragic and funny by turns, this story will remind you what is important in life… and the sorrow and joy of fully embracing adulthood.
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Jersey Boys will run Apr. 19 – May 12 (opening Apr. 20) at CA’s La Mirada Theatre, directed by T.J. Dawson, with choreography by Dana Solimando, and music direction by Allen Everman.
Noah Rivera (Frankie Valli), Taubert Nadalini (Bob Gaudio), Blake Burgess (Nick Massi), Chris Fore (Tommy DeVito), Gian Raffaele DiCostanzo (Joey), Adam Lendermon (Bob Crewe), Marlana Dunn (Mary Delgado), Maggie Ek (Francine), Michael Ray Fisher (Barry Belson), Mel Mehrabian (Lorraine), Dominic Pace (Gyp De Carlo), Quintan Craig (Hank Majewski), and Johnny diGiorgio (Norman Waxman), with Joe Abraham, Dayna Sauble, and Eran Scoggins.
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Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season. Creative teams and casting TBA.
Jersey Boys (Sept. 13-28)
Prayer for the French Republic (Oct. 25 – Nov. 9), by Joshua Harmon.
Souvenir (Dec. 6-21), by Steven Temperley. The story of Florence Foster Jenkins.
Dial M for Murder (Jan. 10-25, 2025), newly adapted by Jeffrey Hather.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Feb. 14 – Mar. 1).
A Case for the Existence of God (Mar. 28 – Apr. 12), by Samuel D. Hunter. In the confined space of an office cubicle, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker with aspirations tied to ancestral land, discover an unexpected shared thread weaving through their lives.
Waitress (May 2-27)
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Peter Morgan’s Patriots will run Apr. 1 – June 23 (opening Apr. 22) at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, directed by Rupert Goold.
Michael Stuhlbarg (Boris Berezovsky), Will Keen (Putin), Luke Thallon (Roman Abramovich), Stella Baker (Marina Litvinenko), Ronald Guttman (Professor Perelman), and Alex Hurt (Alexander Litvinenko).
The play recounts the story of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power after the fall of the Soviet Union. Billionaire Boris Berezovsky supports Putin’s political ascent until it threatens his own reign, sparking near-Shakespearean conflict between the two men. In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russia belongs to its oligarchs—and no one is more powerful than billionaire Boris Berezovsky. When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. But soon Putin’s ruthless rise threatens Berezovsky’s reign, setting off a riveting, near-Shakespearean confrontation between the two powerful, fatally flawed men.
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The Drowsy Chaperone will run Apr. 5 – May 12 at Boston’s Lyric Stage Company, directed & choreographed by Larry Sousa.
Joy Clark, Yasmeen Duncan, Kristian Espiritu, Danny Feldman, Maureen Keiller, Mark Linehan, Cristhian Mancinas-García, Paul Melendy, Katie Pickett, Nick Potts, Ilyse Robbins, Kathy St. George, Carolyn Saxon, Damon Singletary, Jared Troilo, and Todd Yar.
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DC’s Signature Theatre‘s 2024 Stephen Sondheim Award Gala Benefit will take place Mon. Apr. 29 at 6 PM at The Anthem.
Nathan Lane
Susan Stroman
Faith Prince, Krysta Rodriguez, James Caverly, Adelina Mitchell, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Awa Sal Secka, and Bobbby Smith.
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Off-Broadway’s Theater for the New City will present its 12th annual Dream Up Festival Aug. 25 – Sept. 15. Click the link above for more information.
The festival plans to offer about 20 plays, a mix of world premieres, American premieres and New York premieres. An ultimate new works festival dedicated to the joy of discovering talented authors of all backgrounds and original, innovative performances.
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DC’s Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced its 2024-25 season:
The Comedy of Errors (Sept. 10 – Oct. 6), directed by Simon Godwin, featuring Alex Brightman and David Rynn
Babbit (Oct. 1- 27), newly adapted by Joe DiPietro, directed by Christopher Ashley, featuring Matthew Broderick (George), Ann Harada, Matt McGrath, and Chris Myers.
Leopoldstadt (No. 30 – Dec. 29), by tom Stoppard, directed by Carey Perloff.
Kunene and the King (Feb. 16- Mar. 16, 2025), by John Kani
Uncle Vanya (Mar. 30 – Apr. 20), featuring Hugh Bonneyville.
Frankenstein (June 3 – 29), adapted by Emily Burn.