Today’s Highlights:
Teeth, by Michael R. Jackson & Anna J. Jacob, directed by Sarah Benson, featuring Alan Louis (Dawn O’Keefe), Andy Karl (Pastor Bill O’Keefe), Will Connolly (Brad O’Keefe), Jason Gotay (Tobey), Jared Loftin (Ryan), Courtney Bassett (Becky), Jenna Rose Husli (Trisha), Micaela Lamas (Rachael), Madison McBride (Keke), Sydney Parra (Fiona), and Wren Rivera (Stephanie), with Kyra Kennedy, Julia Bain, Griffin Binnicker, Sean Doherty, and James D Sasser, opens at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.
Little Piece of You — An Atypical Musical, by Melissa Leilani Larson, Kjersti Long, Jeremy Long, Melissa Leilani Larson, Chantry Johnson, Michelle Zarlenga, Wendy Parr, Paul Moak, and Hunter Wolf, directed byJennifer Tang & Joshua Long, opens at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Brody and the Dark and Stormy Night podcast, by Matthew Scott Montgomery, directed by Miranda Stewart, featuring Matthew Scott Montgomery (Brody) and Michael Fletcher (Stranger), begins at Open -Door Playhouse.
Sojourners, by Mfoniso UdoFia, directed by Dawn M. Simmons, featuring Abigail C. Onwunali (Abasiama), Asha Basha Duniani (Moxie), Nomè SiDone (Ukpong), and Joshua Olumide (Disciple), with Aisha Akorede, Malik Mitchell, and Kiera Prusmack, begins previews at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.
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Initial casting has been announced for Show/Boat: A River, which is part of the 2025 Under the Radar Festival, and will run Jan. 9-26, 2025 (opening Jan. 15) at the NYU Skirball Center, directed by David Herskovits.
Alvin Crawford, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Suzanne Darrell, Edwin Joseph, J Molière, Steven Rattazzi, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, and Stephanie Weeks, with more TBA.
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Almeida Theatre’ summer production of The Years will transfer to the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre Jan. 24, -Apr. 19, 2024, adapted & directed by Eline Arbo.
Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai (through March 8), Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra, and Harmony Rose-Bremner, with more TBA.
The work sees five women bringing one woman’s personal story to life against the backdrop of post-war Europe.
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Cambridge’s A.R.T. Theatre will present the world premiere of Lisa Loomer, Nell Benamin, Joy Huerta & Benjamin Velez’s Real Women Have Curves, to begin previews Apr. 1, 2025 and open Apr. 27 at the James Earl Jones Theater, directed & choreographed by Sergio trujillo, with music direction by Nadia DiGiallonardo.
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Summer 1987, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. After eighteen years under her parents’ roof, Ana is ready to spread her wings. Her dreams of college and a career in New York City are bursting at the seams, but her mother’s expectations would keep her home, working at their garment factory. Should Ana pursue her own dreams at the expense of her family’s?
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Jeremy Jordan will end his run in Broadway’s The Great Gatsby on Jan. 19, 2025 at Broadway’s Broadway Theatre. No word yet on his replacement.
The musical continues its run through Sept. 7, 2025.
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An industry reading of Annie Pulsipher & Alex Petti’s The Trouble With Dead Boyfriends will take place Tues. Nov. 19 at Off-Broadway’s Black Watch Theatre, directed by Rachel Klein. Click here to learn more about the musical.
Antonio Cipriano, Leana Rae Concepcion, Cara Rose DiPietro, Alan H Green, Ashanti J’aria, Ashley D. Kelley, Livvy Marcus, Nichalas Parker, Benjamin Jackson Walker, and Daniel Quadrino.
Three best friends attempt to summon their dream prom dates with a sketchy love spell, and instead create a trio of monstrous boyfriends.
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Video: Hadestown‘s Maia Reficco and Jordan Fisher perform “All I’ve Ever Known”
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La Cage aux Folles will run Nov. 12 – Dec 15 (opening Nov. 17) at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Sam Pinkleton, with choreography by Ani Taj, and music direction byDarryl Archibald.
Cheyenne Jackson (Georges), Kevin Cahoon (Albin), Ryan J. Haddad (Jean-Michel), Shannon Purser (Anne), George Salazar ( Jacob), Michael McDonald (Edouard Dindon/M. Renaud), Nicole Parker (Marie Dindon/Mme), Renaud, El Beh (Francis), and Shea Diamond (Jacqueline), with Kay Bebe Queue, Cody Brunelle-Potter, Salina EsTitties, Rhoyle Ivy King, Ellen Soraya Nikbakht, Suni Jade Reid, and Paul Vogt as Les Cagelles.
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Mark Wilding’s The Goddam Couple Down the Hall (Oh… and Merry Christmas) will run Nov. 8 – Dec. 15 at Theatre West, directed by Charlie Mount.
Cecil Jennings, Presciliana Esparolini, Sam Gregory, Dave Kumar, John Combs, Steve Nevil, Jill Remez, and Liv Denevi.
It’s Christmas Day in Pasadena, and the Woodruff clan has gathered to celebrate. What promises to be a beautiful day full of good cheer gets turned on its head by the foul-mouthed couple down the hall, who subject the Woodruffs to one screaming match after another. The question soon arises: Has the couple’s mutual hatred escalated to murder?
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Classic Stage Company has announced initial casting for Alice Childress’ Wine in the Wilderness, to run Mar. 6 – Apr. 13, 2025, directed by LaChanze.
Tramell Tillman, Olivia Washington, and more TBA.
Fortune has smiled on artist Bill Jameson – his friends just introduced him to a model for the final piece of his triptych on Black womanhood. But this woman, Tomorrow Marie, is no mere muse, and she’s about to give Bill much more than he bargained for. Set against the backdrop of the 1964 Harlem riot on a hot summer night, Wine in the Wilderness is a rarely-seen play from the brilliant mind of Alice Childress.
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The Broadway Producers Alliance has announced a new organization composed of over 100 Broadway producers that is dedicated to promoting collaboration, innovation, and communication within the Broadway producing community.
Initial Board: Jamie deRoy, Wendy Federman, Jessica R. Jenen, Alia Jones-Harvey, Phil Kenny, Jim Kierstead, Heni Koenigsberg, Jack Lane, Joey Monda, Miles David Romney and Clint Ramos, with more TBA.
Through networking opportunities, training, mentorship, and facilitating open discussion among its membership, the BPA seeks to provide seasoned and emerging producers with the resources and support to bring their productions to the stage.
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Video: Promo for Broadway’s Swept Away at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre.
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Pittsburgh CLO has announced its 2025 Summer season:
Creative teams and casting TBA.
Camelot (June 17 – 22)
Back to the Future (July 1-6)
Frozen (July 18-27)
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Ian Belknap will be the next Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s New York Stage and Film.
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Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie will run Nov. 3 – 23 at Venice, CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Michael Rothaar.
Anthony Foux and Stuart W. Howard.
1928. 3 AM on a muggy summer night in Manhattan. In the dingy lobby of a rundown hotel on a Westside street just off Times Square, two lonely souls share a wandering, one-sided conversation. A downtrodden, introverted Desk Clerk endures the ruminations of Erie Smith, a small-time gambler, haunter of the joints along the Great White Way, as he tries to talk himself out of his despair over the recent death of his only friend and good luck charm, Hughie.