Today’s Highlights:
Manhattan Theatre Club‘s How I Learned to Drive, by Paula Vogel, directed by Mark Brokaw, featuring Mary-Louise Parker, David Morse, Johanna Day, Alyssa May Gold, and Chris Myers, opens at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Bonnie & Clyde, by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black & Ivan Menchell, directed by Nick Winston, featuring Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie), Jordan Luke Gage (Clyde), George Maguire (Buck), Natalie McQueen (Blanche), Cleve September (Ted), Ako Mitchell (Preacher), Pippa Winslow (Cumie / Governor Miriam Ferguson / Eleanore), Gracie Lai (Emma Parker / Stella), Alistair So (Sheriff Schmid), Alexander Evans (Henry Barrow / Deputy Johnson), Ross Dawes (Captain Frank Hamer), Barney Wilkinson (Bud / Archie), and Lauren Jones (Trish), with Charlie McCullagh and Annie Guy, opens at London’s Arts Theatre.
Anthony Rapp: Without You, directed by Steven Maler, opens at Off-Broadway’s Royal Family Performing Arts Space.
Into the Woods, directed by Addie Gorlin-Han, featuring Mimi Bessette (Jack’s Mother), Cooper Grodin (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf), Aidan O’Reilly (Mystery Man), Keith Watson (Baker), Ximone Rose (Baker’s Wife), Miranda Jane (Witch), Erica Durham (Cinderella), William Romain (Jack), Annslee Clay (Little Red Ridinghood), Monica Clark-Robinson (Narrator), Hannah Gothard (Rapunzel), Augustine Nguyen (Rapunzel’s Prince), Satia Spence (Stepmother), Hannah Fairman (Florinda), Bridget Davis (Lucinda), Shelton Harden (Cinderella’s Father), Karen Q. Clark (Cinderella’s Mother), Judy Trice (Granny), Ben Grimes (Steward), and Jacob Rivera (Milky White), with Hannah Hill, Ruby Reeves, Chad Bradford, Frederick Webb Jr…… and Hillary Clinton (The Giant), opens at Arkansas Rep.
Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, with direction & musical staging by Wayne Cilento, featuring 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, begins previews at San Diego’s Old Globe.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, directed by Gordon Greenberg, featuring Zachary Quinto (George), Calista Flockhart (Martha), Graham Phillips (Nick), and Aimee Carrero (Honey), begins previews at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
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Off-Broadway’s Keen Company has announced its benefit reading of Moss Hart’s Light Up the Sky, to take place Mon. Apr. 25 at 7 PM ET at Theatre Row, directed by Jonathan Silverstein.
Arnie Burton, Jasminn Johnson, Lauren Molina, Reg Rogers, Ari’el Stachel, Jason Tam, Tovah Feldshuh, Andrew Dawson, Kelly McAndrew, Matt Servitto, Allan K. Washington, and Kayce Wilson.
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80, Girls, 80: Celebrating Barbra Streisand’s Birthday will take place Sun. Apr. 24 at 9:30 PM ET at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Christopher Denny.
Tovah Feldshuh, Ramona Mallory, Sharon Azrieli, and Spencer Gonzalez.
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Video: Highlights from Broadway’s The Minutes.
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York Theatre Company will present Marylyn Maye in May on Mon. May 16 at 7:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Jeans, accompanied by Ted Firth.
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The Orchard (translated by Carol Rocamora) will run May 31 – July 3 (opening June 16) at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, conceived, adapted & directed by Igor Golyak.
Jessica Hecht (Lubov Ranevskaya), Mikhail Baryshnikov (Anton Chekhov / Firs), Anna Baryshnikov, Juliet Brett, Darya Denisova, John McGinty, Nael Nacer, and Mark Nelson.
Audiences worldwide will be able to experience the production through an online virtual experience that will run concurrently with the live performance, and will allow users to explore a 3D rendering of the family estate.
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The 1491s sketch comedy group’s Between Two Knees will run May 12 – June 4 (opening May 19) at Yale Rep, directed by Eric Ting, with choreography by Ty Defoe.
Edward Chin-Lyn, Rachel Crowl, Derek Garza, Justin Gauthier, Shyla Lefner, Wotko Long, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, and Sheila Tousey.
An outrageously funny and wickedly subversive intergenerational take of familial love, loss, and connection, which fractures traditional narratives of the U.S. through the lens of the Native American experience.
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Patti Lupone will star in Lincoln Center Theater‘s 2022 Gala, Songs From a Hat, which will take place Mon. May 9 at 7:30 PM ET at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, with music direction by Joseph Thalken.
Ms. LuPone will perform songs of titles randomly chosen from a hat.
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The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has announced its 2022 Summer season:
Romeo and Juliet (July 7 – Sept. 18), directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, featuring Nance Williamson (Juliet), Kurt Rhoads (Romeo), Kimberly Chatterjee, Kayla Colman, Erin Despanie, Zachary Fine, Zoë Goslin, Merritt Janson, Lauren Karaman, Sean McNall, Emily Ota, Will Ormsby Cary, Luis Quintero, Britney Nicole Simpton, Destini Stewart, and Roman Alex Trevino.
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play (July 8 – Sept. 17), by Anne Washburn & Michael Friedman, directed by Davis McCallum, featuring Kimberly Chatterjee, Kayla Coleman, Erin Despanie, Zachary Fine, Zoë Goslin, Merrit Janson, Lauren Karaman, Sean McNall, Emily Ota, Will Ormsby Cary, Luis Quintero, Britney Nicole Simpson, Destini Stewart, and Roman Alex Trevino.
Where We Belong national tour (Aug. 13-22), by Madeline Sayet, directed by Mei Ann Teo. Casting TBA.
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The world premiere of Will Arbery’s Corsicana will run June 2 – July 10 (opening June 22) at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Sam Gold.
Jamie Brewer (Ginny), Will Dagger (Christopher), Deirdre O’Connell (Justice), and Harold Surratt (Lot).
In Corsicana, a small city in Texas, a woman with Down syndrome named Ginny and her half-brother Christopher are unmoored in the wake of their mother’s death. Their close family friend, Justice, introduces them to a local artist name Lot, a recluse and outsider, hoping that he and Ginny can make a song together.
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“You’ll Be Swell! Be Great! The Fine Art of Performance” will be available May 2 – Aug. 31 at NYC’s Helicline Gallery
About three dozen works of art depicting theatre, film, dance, music, and circus (created between the 1920s – 1970s) will be displayed. In-person viewings can be arranged at their midtown gallery. The display includes paintings, costumes, set design drawings, illustrations, photographs, and more… from Broadway shows, film, and more, which include Hello Dolly!, Cat on a Hot tin Roof, My Fair Lady, Cabaret, The King and I, On The Town, Bye Bye Birdie, Day and Night, The Defiant Ones, portraits of Josephine Baker and Carmen Miranda, as well as works depicting dancers, film sets, performers, playwrights, audiences, backstage, Times Square, and more.
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The cast album of Broadway production of Paradise Square will be released digitally in May, with a physical release this summer.
Stay tuned….
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Open Fist Theatre Company‘s In the Next Room, or the vibrator play has been extended through May 7 at LA’s Atwater Village Theatre.
Bryan Robert Bertone, Spencer Cantrell, Christopher Carver, Stephanie Crothers, Monazia Smith, Dionna Veremis, Alexander Wells, and Jennifer Zobalas.
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Linda Purl: In The Mood… an intimate evening of songs for jumping back into life will take place Fri. Apr. 22 at 9 PM GMT at London’s The Pheasantry.
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Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing) will run June 5-25 at the Broadwater Stage, directed by Bryan Keith.
Johnny Patrick Yoder.
This is an existential comedy … or maybe it’s not … about the beautiful mysteries of the human experience and what may happen when one holds on to them, never being able to make total sense of them, buries them — and then suddenly needs to talk about it all. A meditation on disappointment? An exercise in futility? An attempt, perhaps, to not feel so alone in the world.
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Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Richard Oberacker & Robert Taylor’s Bruce, to run May 27 – June 26 (opening June 8) at Seattle Rep, directed & choreographed by Donna Feore, with music direction by Lily Ling.
Jarrod Spector, Hans Altwies, Eric Ankrim, David Menoit, Preston Truman Boyd, E. Faye Butler, Beth DeVries, Candice Song Donehoo, Jay Donnell, Alexandria J. Henderson, MJ Jurgensen, Justin Keyes, Ramzi Khalaf, Corinna Lapid Munter, Tomothy McCuen Piggee, Cullen R. Titmas, Brenna Mikale Wagner, Matt Wolfe, Geoff Packard, and Napoleon Maurice Douglas, with Kyle Nicholas Anderson, Brian Lange, and Sarah Rose Davis.
The story of a 26-year-old Steven Spielberg as he sets out to film an adaptation of a best-selling novel in 1974. While invading a sleeping fishing island off Cape Cod, he faced several challenges including weather, water, hostile locals, an exploding budget, and a high dysfunctional mechanical star named Bruce.
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Patti LuPone will present Songs From a Hat on Mon. May 9 at 7:30 PM ET at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, with music direction by Joseph Thalken.
The concert will support of Lincoln Center Theater’s productions and education programs.