Today’s Highlights:
Jersey Boys national tour, directed by Des Mcanuff, featuring Eric Chambliss (Bob Gaudio), Matt Faucher (Nick Massi), Devon Goffman (Tommy DeVito), and Jon Hacker (Frankie Vallie), with Justin Albinder, Amy Coelho, Kenneth Quinney Francoeur, Samantha Marisol Gershman, Katie Goffman, Antonio King, Connor Lyon, Kevin Patrick Martin, Sean McGee, Hamilton Moore, Alec Michael Ryan and Bruno Vida, opens at Seattle’s Fifth Avenue Theatre.
As You Like It, adapted & directed by Daryl Cloran, featuring Morgan Matthew Bernard (Assassin/Hymen), Lizzy Brooks (Celia), Adam Wesley Brown (Touchstone), Tony Carter (Oliver), Michael Dashefsky (Silvius), Savannah L. Jackson (Rosalind), Heidi Kettenring (Phoebe/Eleanor Rigby), Trish Lindström (Jaques/Le Beau), Justin Gregory Lopez (Orlando), Kieran McCabe (William/Jacques de Boys), Norman Moses (Adam/Sir Oliver), Sophie Murk (Audrey/Mother Russia), Don Noble (Duke Senior/Duke Frederick), Kurt Schweitz (Assassin/Amiens), Nancy Voigts (Corin/Duke’s Assistant), and Marquis Wood (Charles the Wrestler/Forest Lord), opens at Milwaukee Rep.
Out of Time, world premiere by Jaclyn Backhaus, Sam Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka & Anna Ouyang Moench, directed by Les Waters, featuring Mia Katigbak (Ena), Glenn Kubota (Taki), Page Leong (Woman), and Rita Wolf (Carla), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater.
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. The national tour of Pretty Woman will run Feb. 22-27 at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theatre, directed & choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.
Adam Pascal (Edward Lewis), Olivia Vallie (Vivian Ward), Jessica Crouch (Kit De Luca), Kyle Taylor Parker (Happy Man/Mr. Thompson, and Matthew Stocke (Philip Stuckey), with Nella Cole, Michael Dalke, Nico DeJesus, Christian Douglas, Danny Drewes, Alex Gibbs, Em Hadick, Joshua Kenneth Allen Johnson, Chris Manuel, Alexa Xioufaridou Moster, Kaylee Olson, Amma Osei, Jonathan Ritter, Becca Suskauer, Kelsee Sweigard, Matthew Vincent Taylor, Brent Thiessen, Bria J. Williams, and Imani Pearl Williams.
Click here for the complete tour schedule.
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Macbeth will begin previews Mar. 29 and open Apr. 28 at the Longacre Theatre, directed by Sam Gold.
Daniel Craig (McBeth), Ruth Negga (Lady McBeth), Phillip James Brannon (Ross), Grantham Coleman (Macduff), Asia Kate Cilloon (Malcolm), Maria Dizzia (Lady Macduff), Amber Gray (Banquo), Emeka Guindo (Fleance), Paul Lazar (Duncan), Bobbi MacKenzie (Macduff’s Child), Michael Patrick Thornton (Lennox), and Danny Wolohan (Seyton), with Che Ayende, Eboni Flowers, Peter Smith, and Stevie Ray Dallimore.
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Casting has been announced for the North American tour of Six, which will launch Mar. 29 – July 3 at Chicago’s CIBC Theatre.
Khaila Wilcoxon (Catherine of Aragon), Storm Lever (Anne Boleyn), Jasmine Forsberg (Jane Seymour), Olivia Donalson (Anna of Cleves), Didi Romero (Katherine Howard), and Gabriella (Catherine Parr), with Erin Ramirez, Cassie Silva, and Kelsee Sweigard, and Kelly Denice Taylor.
Click here for the initial tour dates.
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The Skivvies Anniversary Show, starring Lauren Molina & Nick Cearley, will take place Mon. Mar. 7 at 9:30 PM ET at Off-Br0adway’s Joe’s Pub.
Lena Hall, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Andréa Burns, Jackie Cox, Josh Breckenridge, Marissa Rosen, Logan Hart, Roe Hartrampf, and Felicia Boswell.
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Off-Broadway’s The Tank has announced its Spring 2022 season:
Glass Town (Mar. 10-26), by Miriam Pultro, directed by Daniella Caggiano.
Filiki Eteria: The Brotherhood Behind the Revolution (Apr. 21-23), by Ioli Andreadi & Aris Asproulis.
. Homecoming: Dance (Apr. 30 – May 7).
In Scena! Italian Theatre Festival NY (May 4-15 at the Kairos Italy Theater.
War Stories (May 20 – June 12), by Marthe Rachel Gold, directed by Christina Roussos.
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PA’s Bucks County Playhouse has rescheduled the new film, “Andy Mientus Sings ‘Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon’,” which will now stream on demand on Stellar Mar. 18 – Apr. 1 (with a live online viewing part on Mar. 19), directed by Michael Arden, with music direction by Benjamin Rauhala.
Nikki M. James, Krista Pioppi, and Cathy Ang.
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The world premiere of Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann MacNamee’s Other World run Feb. 23 – Mar. 20 at the Delaware Theatre Company, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, with choreography by Karla Puno Garcia.
Jamen Nanthakumar, Bonnie Milligan, Adinah Alexander, Ryan Andes, Charnette Batey, Sommer Carbuccia, Jon Cooper, Bella Coppola, Madeleine Doherty, Zuri Noelle Ford, Andrew Gasparini, Adam Harrington, Heather Hill, Arianne Menes, Kristen Faith Oei, Mukta Phatak, Seth Rettberg, Marilyn Melissa Salguero, Sav Souza, Daryl Tofa, Patrick Tombs, Joseph Torello, Zuri Washington, Jason Williams, and Sierra Wilson.
Sri and Lorraine are in a garage on earth, where they are magically transported into Sri’s favorite video game. Now trapped in the game and in a race against the clock, the pair must work together, discover their inner strengths, and connect with gifted gamers and astonishing avatars in order to survive and find a way home.
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Newsies: 10th Anniversary Celebration, in support of Covenant House, will run Mar. 28-29 (at 7 & 9:45 PM ET on both dates) at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Steven Malone.
Aaron Albano, Mark Aldrich, Joe Barreiro, Giuseppe Bausilio, Turner Birthisel, John E. Brady, Joshua Burrage, Kevin Carolan, Caitlyn Caughell, Corey Cott, Ben Fankhauser, Jonathan Fenton, Kaitlyn Frank, Damon J. Gillespie, Liana Hunt, Thayne Jasperson, Molly Jove, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Beth Stafford Laird, Jess LeProtto, Kara Lindsay, Stuart Marland, Tommy Martinez, John Michael Pitera, Daniel Quadrino, Andy Richardson, Anthony Rosenthal, Jordan Samuels, Jack Sippel, Ethan Steiner, Stephanie Styles, Nick Sullivan, Daniel Switzer, Madeline Trumble, Laurie Veldheer, Andrew Wilson, Lavon Fisher Wilson, Alex Wong, Ian Young, and Stuart Zagnit.
Enjoy music from the musical as well as songs cut from the show.
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RIP: Emmeretta Marks, one of the inaugural members of Hair‘s Broadway tribe, passed away Jan. 4 after an extended battle with dementia, at the age of 76.
While singing with Al Kooper’s “The Bule’s Project,” Ms. Marks auditioned for the Broadway transfer of Hair, joining the tribe as expanded in size from its original Off-Broadway production.
Following the original Broadway production and the first national tour of the musical, Ms. Marks sang with Ike and Tina Turner, as also with The Rolling Stones.
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. Broadway by the Year: The New Wave will present its first concert of the 2022 season on Mon. Mar. 21 at 8 PM ET at NYC’s The Town Hall,
The work of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Benji Pasek & Justin Paul, Bobby Lopez, Jeff Marx, Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, and more TBA.
Vivan Reed, Joe Iconis, Sara Neimietz, Danny Garder, and Gunhild Carling.
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Mark Saltzman’s Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, will run May 3 – June 26 (opening May 16) at Theatre555, directed & choreographed by Justin Ross Cohen.
. Nikita Burshteyn, Anna Kostakis, Carlos Lopez, Michael Marotta, Judy McLane, Troy Notardonato, Ari Raskin, Tory Valjean Rucker, Zach Schanne, and Viet Vo.
Romeo – yes, THAT Romeo – finds himself in 1960 Brooklyn, chasing a girl he believes is his beloved Juliet. But no, it’s Bernadette, the beautiful, foul-mouthed daughter of a crime family in this wild spoof of Shakespeare’s timeless tale.
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An Evening with Ali Stroker will run Mar. 3-5 at Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre.
The concert will be available to in-person audiences while being recorded live for a later global release on Audible Theatre.
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New York Theatre Workshop‘s production of Aleshea Harris’ On Sugarland has been postponed due to positive COVID tests within the company. The production will now open Mar. 3 and run through Mar. 20, directed by Whitney White.
Stephanie Berry, Thomas Walter Booker, Caleb Eberhardt, Xavier Scott Evans, Mister Fitzgerald, Josh Fulton, Charisma Glasper, Kal Heath, Shemar Yankick Jonas, Billy Eugene Jones, Kiki Layne, Mariyea, Lizan Mitchell, and Adeole Role.
The story of young Sadie’s search for the truth about her mother through a transcending call upon her matriarchal ancestors on the historied land beneath a modern-day cul-de-sac.
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Beverly Hills’ The Wallis will present RECKONING – A Short Play Festival Mar. 3, 4 & 6, featuring the work of 12 emerging and established write, with three world premieres and seven LA premiere, directed & choreographed by Madeleine Dahm.
Brian Cox, Alex Kingsley, Krysta Gonzales, Eric Lane, Joe Rodriguez, Jaisey Bates, Starina Johnshon, Phillip B. Williams, and Sam Ambler.
Kendel Byrd, Rami Campbell, Alan Coryaia, Karlee Foster, Mark Antony Howard, Austin Owens Kelly, Ashley Victoria Robinson, and Taneal William.
Kendell Byrd, Rami Campbell, Alan Corvaia, Karlee Foster, Mark Antony Howard, Austin Owens Kelly, Ashley Victoria Robinson, and Taneal Williams.
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Complete casting has been announced for Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas, Larry Kirwan, Jason Howland, Nathan Tysen & Masi Asare’s Paradise Square, to begin previews Mar. 15 and open Apr. 3 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, directed by Moisés Kaufman, with choreography by Bill T. jones.
Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, John Dossett, Sidney DuPont, A.J. Shively, Nathaniel Stampley, Gabrielle McClinton, Jacob Fishel, Kevin Dennis and Matt Bogart, with Aisha Jackson, Garrett Coleman, Jason Oremus, Colin Barkell, Karen Burthwright, Kennedy Caughell, Dwayne Clar, Conor Coleman, Eric Craig, Colin Cunliffe, Chloe Davis, Josh Davis Bernard Dotson, Jamal Chistopher Douglas, Camille Eanga-Selenge, SamEdgerly, Shiloh Goodin, Sean Jenness, Joshua Keith, Jay McKenzie, Ben Michael, Kayla Pecchioni, Ellis Quinn, Lee Siegel, Erica Spyres, Lael van Keuren, Sir Brock Warren, Alan Wiggins, Kristen Beth Williams, and Hailee Kaleem Wright.
The musical is set in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City circa 1863 and is about a community of poor Irish immigrants and free Blacks who survive the war years and Draft Riots with raucous dance contests in neighborhood bars and dance halls.
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To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim will run Mar. 23-26 at NYC’s 54 Below.
Click here and here for more upcoming Liz Callaway concerts.