Today’s Highlights:
A Doll’s House, adapted by Amy Herzog, directed by Jamie Lloyd, featuring Jessica Chastain (Nora Helmer), Arian Moayed (Torvald Helmer), Jesmille Darbourze (Kristine Linde), Tasha Lawrence (Anne-Marie), Michael Patrick Thornton (Dr. Rank), Okieriete Onaodowan (Nils Krogstad), with Franklin Bongjio, Carey Rebecca Brown, Melisa Soledad Pereyra, and Jose Joaquin Perez, opens at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre.
Dark Disabled Stories, world premiere by Ryan J. Haddad, directed by Jordan Fein, featuring Ryan J. Haddad, Dickie Hearts, and Alejandra Ospina, opens at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater.
The Lonely Few, world premiere by Rachel Bonds & Zoe Sarnak, directed by Trip Cullman & Ellenore Scott, featuring Lauren Patten (Lila), Ciara Renée (Amy), Joshua Close (Adam), Damon Daunno (Dylan), Helen J Shen (JJ), and Thomas Silcott (Paul), opens at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
The Comedy of Errors, adapted & directed by Barbara Gaines, featuring Breon Arzell, Adia Bell, Melanie Brezill, Lillian Castillo, Dan Chameroy, William Dick, Keving Gudahl, Ora Jones Bill Larkin, Ross Lehman, Michael E. Martin, Steve McDonagh, Russell Marnagh, Susan Moniz, Robert Petkoff, Maya Vinice Prentiss, Greg Vinkler, and Bruce A. Young, with Isabella Abel-Suarez, Angelica Herndon, Benjamin Jenkins, Madison Kauffman, Jeff Kurysz, Matt Miles, Michael Joseph Mitchell, Ian Reed, and Jonathan Schwart, opens at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Donna McKechnie: Take Me to the World – The Songs of Stephen Sondheim concert opens at NYC’s 54 Below.
Camelot, adapted by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Barlett Sher, featuring Andrew Burnap (Arthur), Phillipa Soo (Guenevere), Jordan Donica (Lancelot Du Lac), Dakin Matthews (Merlyn/Pellinore), Taylor Trensch (Mordred), Marilee Talkington (Morgan Le Fey), Anthony Michael Lopez (Sir Dinadan), Fergie Philippe (Sir Sagramore), Danny Wolohan (Sir Lionel) Andrew Burnap (Arthur), Phillipa Soo (as Guenevere), and Jordan Donica (Lancelot Du Lac), with Delphi Borich, Matías De La Flor, Sola Fadiran, Rachel Fairbanks, Nkrumah Gatling, Christian Mark Gibbs, Holly Gould, Monte Greene, Edwin Joseph, Tesia Kwarteng, James Romney, Ann Sanders, Britney Nicole Simpson, Philip Stoddard, Valerie Torres-Rosario, Frank Viveros, and Paul Whitty, begins previews at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
Life of Pi, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, directed by Max Webster, featuring Hiran Abeysekera (Pi), Brian Thomas Abraham (Cook/Voice of Richard Parker), Rajesh Rose (Father), Avery Glymph (Father Martin/Russian Sailor/Rear Admiral Jackson), Mahira Kakkar (Nurse/Amma/Orange Juice), Kirstin Louie (Lulu Chen), Salma Qarnain (Mrs. Biolog Kumar/Zaida Kahn), Sathya Sridharan (Mamajii/Pandit-Ji), Daisuke Tsuji (Mr. Okamoto/Captain), Sonya Venugopal (Rani), Fred Davis (Puppeteer), Andrew Wilson (Royal Bengal Tiger Richard Parker), and Scarlet Wilderink (Puppeteer), with Nikki Calonge, Fred Davis, Rowan Ian Seamus Magee, Jonathan David Martin, Betsy Rosen, Celia Mei Rubin, Scarlet Wildering, Mahnaz Damania, Jon Hoche, Usman Ali Mughal, Uma Paranipe, David Shih, and Adi Dixit, begins previews at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre.
Broadway’s The Wanderers performance and conversation, featuring Anna Ziegler, Sarah Cooper, Lucy Freyer, Katie Holmes, Dave Klasko, and Eddie Kaye Thomas, at 7:30 PM at NYC’s 92Y.
Bedlam Theater‘s Fall River Fishing, by Zuzanna Szadkowski, directed by Eric Tucker, featuring Zuzanna Szadlkowski, Susannah Millonzi, Tony Torn, and Jamie Smithson, closes at Off-Broadway’s Connelly Theater.
The Kingston Trio in concert closes at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre.
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Broadway on the Bowery: The Music of Judy Garland will take place Wed. Mar. 29 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Duane Park (308 Bowery), hosted by Chad Austin, with music direction by Robbie Cowan. 
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Jackie Burns, Kennedy Cuaghell, Autumn Hurlbert, Shereen Pimentel, Dee Roscioli, Julia Murney, Samantha Pauly, Alysha Umphress, Teal Wicks, Alyssa Wray, Keri René Fuller, Carolina Rial, Sylvana Cecilia Tapia, and Pearls Daily.
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Lincoln Center Theatre‘s production of Candrice Jones’ Flex will begin previews June 23 and open July 20 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz.
Casting TBA.
The play follows an Arkansas all-girls high school basketball team in 1997 juggling aspirations of going pro in the WNBA and the pressures of being young, Black, and female in rural Arkansas.
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“Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Lauri Beechman” is now available here (59:36), narrated by Rosie O’Donnell.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Menken, Richard Jay-Alexander, Trevor Nunn, Cameron Mackintosh, Andrea McArdle, Loni Ackerman, Mary Testa, Sam Harris, David Friedman, Jim Wilhelm, Joanna Bull, Laurie’s mother Dolly Beechman Schnall, and sisters Claudia Beechman, and Jane Beechman Segal.
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Birmingham Rep will present the world premiere of Joe DiPietro’s The Sinatra Musical Sept. 23 – Oct. 28 at the UK’s Birmingham Rep, directed & choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.
Casting and additional information TBA.
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MasterVoice‘s season finale will be a presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe on Wed. May 3 at 7 PM at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Ted Sperling.
Jason Danieley, Phillip Boykin, Schyler Vargas, Shereen Ahmed, and Ashley Fabian, with the 120-member MasterVoices chorus.
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What’s Going On? Songs of Change will run Mar. 25-27 at NYC’s 92Y.
Charl Brown, Valisia LeKae, Ryan Shaw, Naturi Naughton, Patrice Covington, and Eric B. Turner.
This theatrical production uses choreography, poetry, and projection to tell a powerful story, and leave you hearing iconic American songs in an entirely new light.
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DC’s Arena Stage has announced its 2023-24 season:
Cambodian Rock Band (July 18 – Aug. 28), by Lauren Yee, directed by Chay Yew.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (Oct. 13 – Nov. 12), directed by Margot Bordelon.
Swept Away, by John Logan & The Avett Brothers (Nov. 25 – Dec. 30), directed by Michael Mayer, and includes an updated score. The musical is set in 1888, off the coast of New Bedford, MA. When a violent story sinks their whaling ship, the four surviving souls – a young man in search of adventure, his older brother who was sworn to protect him, a captain at the and of a long career at sea, and a worldly first mate who has fallen from grace – each face a reckoning. How far will I go to stay alive? And can I live with the consequences?
Magical Musical Holiday Show (Dec. 8-17).
Tempestuous Elements (Feb. 16 – Mar. 17), by Kia Corthron. The play shines a light on Anna Julia Cooper’s tumultuous tenure as Principal of Washington, D.C.’s historic M Street School where she fought to keep Black education alive, despite the racism, gossip and sexism that threatened to consign her efforts to obscurity.
Unknown Soldier (Mar. 29 – May 5, 2024), by Daniel Goldstein, directed by Trip Cullman. The piece follows Ellen Rabinowitz, who discovers a photograph of an anonymous soldier whiles cleaning our her grandmother’s home and ultimately uncovers some tangled family lore.
The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence (June 6 – July 14), by Step Afrika! The story of one of the largest movements of people in United States history, when millions of African American migrants moved from the rural South to the industrial North in the 1900s to escape Jim Crow, racial oppression, and lynchings.
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Complete casting has been announced for Mrs. Doubtfire, to begin previews May 12 and open June 22 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Lorin Lottaro, and music supervision by Ethan Popp.
Gabriel Hick (Daniel Hillard), Carla Dixon Hernandez (Lydia Hillard), Cameron Blakely (Frank Hillard), Marcus Collins (Andre), and Ian Talbot (Mr. Jolly), Laura Tebbutt (Miranda Hillard), Samuel Edwards (Stuart Dunmire), Kelly Agbowu (Wanda Sellner), Max Bisphan & Elliot Mugume & Frankie Treadway (alternating as Christopher Hillard), and Scarlett Davies, Angelica-Pearl Scott & Ava Posniak (alternating as Natalie Hillard), with Joshua Dver, Samuel Wilson-Freeman, Maria Garrett, Kiera Haynes, Adam Lyons, Lisa Mathieson, Ellie Mitchell, Matt Overfield, Tom Scanlon, Vicki Lee Taylor, Rebecca Donnelly, Amy Evertt, Paulo Teixeira, Nicole Carlisle, Joseph Dockree, Corey Mitchell, Rhys Owen, Christopher Parkinson, Micha Richardson, and Samuel Wilson-Freeman.
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David Yazbek & Erik Della Penna’s Dead Outlaw will take place Tues. May 2 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below.
David Yazbek, Itamar Moses, and Katrin Lenk
The musical explores the life and death of Elmer McCurdy, a turn-of-the-century criminal who became a mummified sideshow attraction before the TV show “The Six-Million Dollar Man” unravelled the wrappings of his mysterious life after death.
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Naked Boys Singing will return Mar. 18 at the AMT Theatre. The production takes place on Saturday evenings.
David Hernandez, and more TBA.
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The Turn of the Screw, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, will run Mar. 10-26 at the Hollywood Arthouse Theatre, directed by Jeramiah Peay.
Megan Cochrane, Shayna Gabrielle, and Michael Mullen.
The details: a letter, a locket, a riddle, a name. The words are her own — written in her diary in faded ink on the pages of seven days. This is the story she tells. It is a story of terror … and horror … and death. It made my very heart — stop.
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A Doll’s House, which opens tonight at the Hudson Theatre, has extended its run through June 10.
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Lincoln Center’s production of Camelot, which begin previews today at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, has just announced its digital lottery for a limited amount of discounted tickets for each performance.
* Enter the lottery here.
* Tickets are $39
* One entry per person for each lottery
* Winners may choose to purchase either one or 2 tickets.
* For available performances, the lotter will open the previous night at 12:01 AM.
* Winners will be chosen at random and notified on the day of the performance by 10 AM for matinees and by 3 PM for evening shows.