Today’s Highlights:
Oklahoma!, directed by Daniel Fish, featuring Arthur Daryill (Curly), Anoushka Lucas (Laurey), Patrick Vaill (Jud Fry), James Davis (Will Parker), Liza Sadovy (Aunt Eller), Marisha Wallace (Ado Annie), Stavros Demetraki (Ali Hakim), Raphael Bushay (Mike), Greg Hicks (Andrew Carnes), Rebekah Hinds (Gertie Cummings), Ashley Samuels (Cord Elam), and Marie Mence (lead dancer), opens at London’s Young Vic.
Our Brother’s Son, by Charles Gluck, directed by David Alpert, featuring Dan Sharkey, Allen McCullough, Liz Larsen, Harrison Chad, Leeanne Hutchison, Midori Tashima Nakamura, and Dan Sharkey, with Ethelyn Friend, Ben Rosenbach, and Dared Wright, opens at Off-Broadway’s Signature Center.
The Lucky Star, by Karen Hartman, directed by Noah Himmelstein, featuring Skye Alissa Friedman (Genka), Danny Gavigan (Joseph), Nina Hellman (Mania), Eva Kaminsky (Klara/Felicia), Alexa Shae Niziak (Luisa), Alexandra Silber (Dola/Vita), Steven Skybell (Richard), Sky Smith (Craig), Dale Soules (Berta/Arnold), and Stuart Zagnit (Salo/Blaustein), opens at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters.
Andre McArdle & Friends Celebrates its 45th Annieversary concert, with special guests Shelley Bruce, Donna Graham, and more, opens at NYC’s 54 Below.
Justice, by Bree Lawdermilk, Kate Kerrigan & Lauren Gunderson, directed by Melissa Crespo, featuring Nancy Opel (Sandra Day O’Connor), Joan Ryan (Ruth Bader Ginsburg), and Chanel Bragg (Vera), opens at Arizona Theatre Company (Phoenix).
Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland opens at Milwaukee Rep‘s Stackner Cabaret.
Afterglow, written & directed by S. Asher Gelman, featuring Noah Bridgestock (Josh), James Hayden Rodriguez (Alex), and Nathan Mohebbi (Darius), opens at Hollywood’s Hudson Theatre.
New Faces Sing Broadway 1947 concert, directed by Adrian Abel Azevedo, featuring Samantha Behen, Anna Brockman, Jonah Cochin, Breanna Ghostone, Nathan Karnik, Austin Nelston Jr, Oliver Schilling, Destiny Strothers, Ciarra Stroud, and Austin Winter, concludes streaming at Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre.
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Theaterworks Hartford presents it New Work Festival 2022, offering readings of new plays, to run May 16-22. Casting TBA.
The Drop Off (May 16-22), by James Anthony Tyler, directed by Shariffa Ali. 
At Deer Lakes Assisted Living Facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, Allain drops off her mother Delphina who has the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s. When Delphina refuses to stay at the facility, memories of loss, dreams broken and an impending eviction come to the surface in a way that may break this mother and daughter bond forever.
Dearly Beloved (May 21 at 2 PM ET), by Brooke Berman, directed by Barakiva. A witty Gen-X coming-of-age comedy set in the East Village when it was still the East Village.
New Work Panel Discussion (May 21 at 4:30 PM ET), with Rob Ruggiero, Tracy Bridgen, Michael Barakiva, and Jacob Padrón. A discussion about what makes a great play, the crazy journey of a script from idea to production and where the American Theater is headed in a post-pandemic world.
Egress (May 21 at 7 PM ET), a streaming reading & talkback, by Melissa Crespo & Sarah Saltwick, directed by Caitlin Sullivan. A provocative psychological thriller. You have just moved to a small college town to teach architecture. You have trouble sleeping. Sometimes, you lose track of time. You realize that your fears have followed you. You have no one to confide in, not your roommate, not your students, not the prosecutor who needs you to testify as a key witness. You can’t sleep. You’re considering buying a gun. You don’t want to want a gun.
Andy Warhol Presents: the Cocaine Play (May 16-22) streaming readings & talkbacks, by Terry Guest, directed by Mikael Burke. A surreal and emotional examination of fame, art, beauty, love and betrayal through the lens of Andy Warhol and friends, reimagined as Black characters.
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Video: Broadway’s Company cast performs the opening number on the “Today Show.”
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Arthur Miller’s The Price will run May 25 – June 5 at Kansas City Actors Theatre, directed by Dennis D. Hennessy.
Jason Chanos, Victor Raider-Wexler, Mark Robbins, and Jan Rogge.
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Ann Kittredge: reIMAGINE concert, in celebration of the album’s release, will take place Thurs. May 26 at 7 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre, directed by Barry Kleinbort, with music direction by Chrisopher Denny.
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The national tour of Lincoln Center’s My Fair Lady will run May 17-22 at Schenectady’s Proctors, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Shereen Ahmed (Eliza Doolittle), Laird Mackintosh (Professor Henry Higgins), Leslie Alexander (Mrs. Higgins), Adam Grupper (Alfred P. Doolittle), Kevin Pariseau (Colonel Pickering), Gayton Scott (Mrs. Pearce), and Sam Simahk (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Lee Zarrett (Professor Zoltan Karpathy), with Rajeer Alford, Colin Anderson, Polly Baird, Mark Banik, Michael Biren, Mary Callanan, Elena Camp, Christopher Faison, Nicole Ferguson, Kaitlyn Frank, Juliane Godfrey, Colleen Grate, Patrick Kerr, Brandon Leffler, Nathalie Marrable, William Michals, Aisha Mitchell, Rommel Pierre O’Choa, George Psomas, Keven Quillon, JoAnna Rhinehart, Samantha Sturm, Sarah Quinn Taylor, Gerard M. Williams, Michael Williams, Richard Riaz Yoder, and Minami Yusui.
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Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, directed & musically staged by Wayne Cilento, has been extended through June 5 at San Diego’s Old Globe.
Iona Alfonso, Yeman Brown, Peter John Chursin, Dylis Croman, Tony d’Alelio, Jōvan Dansberry, Karli Dinardo, Jacob Guzman, Manuel Herrera, Kolton Krouse, Mattie Love, Yani Marin, Nando Morland, Khori Michelle Petinaud, Ida Saki, and Ron Todorowski, with Ashley Blair Fitzgerald, Gabriel Hyman, Krystal Mackie, and Michaeljon Slinger.
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David Payne’s My Life’s Journey: An Evening with C.S. Lewis, will run weekends May 13-22 at Hollywood’s Actors Co-op.
Phil Crowley
The year is 1963 and C.S. Lewis, the famous British author, is hosting a group of American writers at his home near Oxford. They are about to experience a captivating evening with a man whose engaging conversation and spontaneous humor made him one of the great raconteurs of his day. Seated in his living room, he recalls the people and events that inspired his thought and shaped his life: his friendship with J.R.R> Tolkien, why he nearly abandoned the Narcia Chronicles, how he came to embrace Christianity, and the American woman who turned his life upside down.
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Complete casting has been announced for Carson Kreitzer & Matt Gould’s Lempicka, to run June 14 – July 24 (opening June 25) at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Rachel Chavkin, with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly.
Eden Espinosa (Tamara de Lempicka), Amber Iman (Rafaela – June 14 – July 12), Ximone Rose (Rafaela – July 12-24), George Abud (Marinetti), Victor E. Chan (Baron), Natalie Joy Johnson (Suzy Solidor), Jacquelyn Ritz (Baroness), Andrew Samonsky (Tadeusz Lempicki), and Jordan Tyson (Kizette), with Leanne Antonio, Lauren Blackman, Leovina Charles, Milena J. Comeau, Michael Louis Cusimano, Alexa Jane Lowis, David Merino, Luke P. Monday, Devin L. Roberts, Morgan Nicholas Scott, Joey Taranto, and Mariand Torres.
The story of young aristocrat-turned-artist Tamara de Lempicka who flees with her husband amid the political turmoil and violence of the Russian Revolution to Paris, where Tamara claws her way to success in exile and meets her new muse, Rafaela.
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Video: Complete opening number for Broadway’s MJ.
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Principal casting has been announced for Camelot, to run June 22-28 at the St. Louis Muny, directed by Matt Kunkel, with choreography by Beth Crandell, and music direction by Abdul Hamid Royal.
Robert Petkoff (Arthur), Ta’Nika Gibson (Guenevere), and Brandon Chu (Lancelot), with more TBA.
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Plaza Suite has announced its 3rd extension, now through July 10 at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre, directed by John Benjamin Hickey.
Jessica Parker (Karen Nash, Muriel Tate, and Norma Hubley), Matthew Broderick (Sam Nash, Jesse Kiplinger, and Roy Hubley), Danny Bolero (The Waiter), Molly Ranson (Jean McCormick/Mimsey Hubley), and Eric Wiegand (The Bellhop/Borden Eisler), with standbys Michael McGrath and Erin Dilly, and understudies Laurie Veldhee and Cesar J. Rosado,
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Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men will run May 24 – June 5 at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Mark Lamos.
Richard Kline (Ed), Bill Army Jake), Denver Milord (Matt), Nick Westrate (Drew), Akiko Akita (Person in Charge), and Ashton Muñiz (Person in Charge).
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ed has invited his three grown sons back home for pranks, Chinese takeout, and gossip. In between the male bonding rituals and conversations about money, work, and love, they are forced to face their own identities.
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Brian Belding & Natalie Brice’s We Will Not Be Silent, in support of those resisting oppression today, will take place Thurs. May 19 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Green Room, directed by Will Nunziata.
Mauricio Martínez, Wren Rivera, Nic Rouleau, and more TBA.
The true story of a group of German university students who secretly met to write, print, and distribute leaflets exposing Hitler’s lies an deception to their fellow Germans during WWII. Inspired by a rebellious professor, Sophie joins with a group of fellow students to meet, discuss, and carry out their plans for resisting Nazi rule. Sophie is passionate, impulsive, and bold — traits that are dangerous in Hitler’s Germany.
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Matthew Lopez’s The Legend of Georgia McBride will run June 8-26 (opening June 10) at Long Beach’s International City Theatre, directed by Jamie Torcellini.
Taubert Nadalini (Casey), Karese Frizell (Jo), Tom Trudgeon (Eddie), Jeff Summer (Jess Sumner), and Donzell Lewis (Rexy).
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The 2022 Chita Rivera Awards will take place Mon. June 20 at 7:30 PM ET at NYC’s Skirball Center.
Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Joel Grey
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Broadway for Self Help Africa will take place Mon. May 23 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Cutting Room, with music direction by Will Van Dyke.
Ryanne Redmond, Jelani Remy, Emily Schultheis, Kevin Clay, CJ Pawlikowski, Jelani Remy, Emily Schultheis, Kevin Clay, CJ Pawlikowski, Jason Gotay, Cristina Rae, Antoine Smith, Michael Hartung, Chad Burris, James Harkness, and more TBA.
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Duncan McMillan & Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing will run May 18 – June 5 at Virginia Stage Company, directed by Tom Quaintance.
Jeffrey Meanza and Kathryn Hunter-Williams.
An immersive storytelling experience that blends comedy, improv, and audience interaction to tell the story of an adult growing up in the shadow of mental illness, and learning to grapple with his own experiences with love, loss and depression.