Today’s Highlights:
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, by Chris Bush, Miranda Cooper & Jennifer Decilveo, directed by Hodge, featuring Meg Hateley, Charlotte Jaconelli, Anelisa Lamola, Aaliyah Monk, Georgia Grant-Anderson, Elena Breschi, Summer priest, and Rand returning swings Summer Priest and Rachel Seirian, opens at London’s The Other Palace.
Mamma, by Britton Smith and Britton & The Sting, directed & choreographed by Ebony Williams, featuring Britton Smith, with Tiffany Mann, Ines Nassara, Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere, Andrew Jagannath, Malachi Mabson, and Josh Roberts. opens at NYC’s Little Island.
Broadway in Bryant Park FREE concert, featuring performances from The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge!, The Book of Mormon, Suffs, The Notebook, and Chicago, at 12:30 PM.
Winesday: The Wine Tasting Musical, by Jenne Wason & Joseph Benoit, directed by Jamibeth Margolis, featuring Dawn Cantwell, Jennifer Diamond, Debra Thais Evans, Shannen Hofheimer, Amanda Lea Lavergne and Michael Valvo, with with Suzanne Dressler, closes at Off-Broadway’s Jerry Orbach Theater.
Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Rob Ruggiero, featuring Adam Heller (Tevye), Jill Abramovitz (Golde), Samantha Massell (Tzeitel), Hannah Corneau (Hodel), Emerson Glick (Chava), Clay Singer (Perchik) Andrew Alstat (Fyedka), Max Chernin (Motel), Jeremy Radin (Lazar Wolf, u/s Tevye), Cheryl Stern (Yente), James A. Butz (Constable), Max Chucker (The Fiddler), Bob Amaral (Rabbi), Ben Rosenbach (Mendel), Price Waldman (Mordcha), David Perlman (Avram), Jerry Vogel (Nachum), Ellie Schwartz (Shprintze) and Zoe Klevorn (Bielke). Members of the ensemble and swings: Ze’ev Barmor, Jonathan Bryant, Michael Bullard, Derek Ege, Mathew Fedorek, Blair Goldberg, Susan J. Jacks, Michał Kołaczkowski, Barrie Kreinik, Erica Mansfield, Nick Nazzaro, Nick Raynor, Caitlin Stebelman, Zoe Vonder Haar and Annie Zigman, closes at the St. Louis Muny.
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The Oyster Radio Hour will run July 31 – Aug. 4 (all at 8 PM) at NYC’s Little Island, hosted by Susan Sarandon.
Amber Gray and Amber Iman
A live, 3-act family-friendly radio show combining science, story and song that celebrates the resilience of oysters and their crucial ecological roles. Alongside Broadway vocalists Amber Gray and Amber Iman and with original music, Sarandon engages with audio interviews from scientists, historians, and artists, as their voices bring the world of oysters to life on stage. The show blends hope and interconnectedness, spotlighting the humble oyster’s journey of revival.
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Video: Highlights from Ask for the Moon at Goodspeed.
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Othello will begin Spring 2025 (dates TBA) at a Shubert Theatre TBA, directed by Kenny Leon. Click here for more information.
Denzel Washington (Othello), Jake Gyllenhaal (Iago), Molly Osborne (Desdemona), and more TBA.
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Henry V will run Sept. 6 – Oct. 6 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, directed by Edward Hall.
Elijah Jones (Henry V), Scott Aiello, Donté Bonner, Ronald L. Conner, Rachel Crowl, Alejandra Escalante, Sean Fortunato, Kate Fry, Courtney Rikki Green, Gregory Linington, Jaylon Muchison, Adam Poss, and Demetrios Troy.
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Robin Hiley & Becky Hope-Palmer’s Lifeline will run Aug. 28 – Sept. 28 (opening Sept. 4) at the Signature Center, directed by Alex Howarth.
Matthew Malthouse (Alexander Fleming), Kirsty MacLaren (Jess), Scott McClure (Aaron and Clowes), Robbie Scott (Julian and Pryce), Nicole Raquel Dennis (Amalia), and Mari McGinlay (Layl), with Richard Lounds, Sarah Haddath, and Graham RIchardson….. with a chorus of New York-based scientists and healthcare professionals.
The new musical tracks Alexander Fleming’s world-changing discovery of Penicillin in 1928.
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Chicago’s Porchlight Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season:
ICONS Cala (Sept. 22)
New Faces Sing Broadway NOW (Nov. 11-12)
Fun Home (Jan. 16 – Mar. 2, 2025)
Titanique (Mar. 25 – May 18)
Chicago Sings 30 Years of Porchlight (May 12)
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Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin will depart Cabaret at the Kit Cat Lub on Sept. 14 at the August Wilson Theatre.
They will be replaced on Sept. 16 by Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho
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Aaron Tveit and Ericka Yang have revealed in an Instagram post that the couple is expecting a baby.
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Broadway’s Girl from the North Country, by Conor McPherson & Bob Dylan, will screen Nov. 21 & 24 throughout the U.S. Tickets and additional information TBA.
Todd Almond, Colin Bates, Jeannette Bayardelle, Craig Bierko, Jennifer Blood, Matthew Frederick Harris, Caitlin Houlahan, Robert Joy, Luba Mason, Ben Mayne, Matt McGrath, Tom Nelis, Jay O. Sanders, John Schiappa, Austin Scott, Housso Semon, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Rachel Stern, Chiara Trentalange, Bob Walton, Aidan Wharton, Chelsea Lee Williams, and Emmy winner Mare Winningham.
Video: Highlights
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New York City Center will present Ragtime Oct. 30 – Nov. 10, directed by Lear deBessonet, with music direction by James Moore, and choreography by Ellenore Scott.
. Joshua Henry (Coalhouse Walker Jr.), Cassie Levy (Mother), Brandon Uranowitz (Tateh), Colin Donnell (Father), Ben Levi Ross (Younger Brother), Sahaina Taub (Emma Goldman), Joy Woods (Sarah), Colin Donnell (Father), Ben Levi Ross (Younger Brother), and more TBA.
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Ngozi Anyanwu’s Leroy and Lucy will run Oct. 4 – Dec. 15 (opening Nov. 3) Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, directed by Awoye Timpo.
John Michael Hill and Brittany Bradford, with more TBA.
The play follows two lost souls who meet at a crossroads, in the dead of night, deep in Mississippi. With a yearning guitar between them, they tell secrets and conjure a sound once forgotten – a tune pitched with Leroy’s longing and Lucy’s desires.
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Video: Jessica Vosk and Devin DeSantis rehearse “Bad Idea” in The Muny’s production of Waitress.
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Complete casting has been announced for James Ijames’ Good Bones, to run Sept. 19 – Oct. 13 (opening Oct. 1) at the Public Theater, directed by Saheem Ali.
Mamoudou Athie (Travis), Khris Davis (Earl,) Téa Guarino (Carmen), and Susan Kelechi Watson (Aisha).
The play explores gentrification and the growing price of the American dream as Aisha and her husband, Travis, buy and renovate a charming old house in the blighted neighborhood she grew up in. When Aisha’s purely professional relationship with her contractor, Earl, gives way to heated debate, she’s forced to reckon with the choices she’s made to get ahead.
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The annual Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes will run Nov. 8 – Jan. 5, 2025 at Radio City Music Hall.
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Complete casting has been announced for Henry V, to run Sept. 6 – Oct. 6 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Edward Hall.
Elijah Jones (King Henry V), Scott Aiello (Duke of Salisbury/Williams/Nym), Donté Bonner (Duke of Exeter), Ronald L. Conner (Bardolph/Duke of Orleans), Rachel Crowl (Fluellen/Grey), Alejandra Escalante (Dauphin of France/Bishop of Ely/Nell), Sean Fortunato (King of France/Erpingham/Duke of York), Kate Fry (Duke of Westmoreland/Monsieur le Fer/Alice), Courtney Rikki Green (Katherine, Princess of France/Lad), Gregory Linington (Archbishop of Canterbury/Bates/Governor of Harfluer), Jaylon Muchison (Mountjoy/Scroop), Adam Poss (Constable of France/Cambridge), and Demetrios Troy (Pistol/Duke of Burgundy).
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The world premiere of Jordan Harrison’s The Antiquities, a co-production of Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, and Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, will run Jan. 30 – Mar. 2, 2025 at Playwrights Horizons, directed by David Cromer & Caitlin Sullivan. The production will then head to Chicago’s Goodman Theater May 3-June 1
TBA.
The play takes place decades in the future in a museum dedicated to memorializing human life in the early 21st century.
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Video: Andrew Barth Feldman and Sarah Hyland offer a Funk Cover of “Somewhere That’s Green” from Little Shop of Horrors