Today’s Highlights:
Million Dollar Quartet, directed by Hunter Foster, featuuring Daniel Durston (Elvis Presley), Sky Seals (Johnny Cash), Nat Zegree (Jerry Lee Lewis), Sam Sherwood (Carl Perkins), Bart Shatto (Sam Phillips). Isaac Foley (Brother Jay), Kieran McCabe (W.S. ‘Fluke’ Holland), Margaret Dudasik (Dyanne), and Teresa Zimmermann (Dyanne), with Chance Michael Wall, Mike Lucchetti, and Brian Michael Henry, opens at Houston’s Tutts.
Red Bull Theatre‘s reading (in person & simulcast), of Corneille’s The Illusion, directed by Mirabelle Orinaire, featuring Keith Hamilton Cobb, Sharlene Cruz, Russell Daniels, Christian DeMarais, Allen Gilmore, Michael Rishawn, Nik Walker, Mia Wurgaft, and more, opens at Off-Broadway’s Florence Gould Theater.
Streaming available Feb. 7 at 7:30 PM ET – Feb 17 -Feb. 11 at 11:59 PM.
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Reviews for High Spirits at Off-Broadway’s Encores.
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Video: Phillipa Soo (as Rush Condomin) performs “Was She Prettier Than I?”
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Robert Sternin & Prudence Fraser’s Somebody to Love: A New Musical will run Mar. 25 – Apr. 12 at CA’s Rubicon Theatre, directed by Sean Daniels, with musical direction by Brett Ryback, and choreography by Wendy Seyb.
Sophie Alawi, Will Blum, Gizel Jimenez, Donovan Mendelovitz, F. Michael Haynie, Alexis Semevolos-Velazquez, Desmond Newson, Jesse Graham, John Gregorio, Molly Kirschenbaum, Sydney Mucha, Presley Christine Nicholson, Soleil Perry, Kayla Christine Quiroz, and Mea Wilkerson.
The musical eatures a catalogue of ‘70s rock hits from the bands we listened to on vinyl in our basements: Sly and the Family Stone, America, Billy Joel, Bad Company, Roberta Flack,Kiss,
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Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon, by Will Friedwald, Adrian Galante, Ted Firth & Jack Lewin, continues through Feb. 22 at Off-Broadway’s Amas Musical Theatre, directed by David Zippel.
Adrian Galante, Hisary Kole, John Pagano, and Ta-Tynisa.
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The Porch on Windy Hill, by Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse & David M. Lutken, has been extended through Mar. 8 at Off-Broadway’s Urban Stages, directed by Sherry Stregack Lutken.
Tora Nogami Alexander, David M. Lutken, and Morgan Morse.
The play follows Mira, a biracial Korean American classical violinist, and her folk-song-collector boyfriend Beckett as they escape pandemic isolation in Brooklyn and journey to the mountains of western North Carolina. When they unexpectedly reconnect with Mira’s estranged grandfather, Edgar, they uncover a tangled legacy of love, loss, and music—and discover the unforeseen harmony that can arise when generations and genres collide.
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Mark Sonnenblick’s Midnight at The Never Get will run July 11 – Sept. 12 (opening July 20) at the Menier Chocolate Factory, directed by David Cromer.
Ben Platt, and more TBA.
A 1960s-set musical about Trevor Copland and Arthur Brightman, lovers in New York who run ann illegal cabaret act in a Greenwhich Village gay bar to perform love songs for each other. The story explores their turbulent relationship, the dangers of living as a queer couple in 1965, and their conflicting reactions to the changing political climate.
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NYC’s Gay Men’s Chorus will present its Annual Gala: Harmony, on Mon. Mar. 23 at 6 PM at the Edison Ballroom.
Carolee Carmello, Kate Baldwim, Lesli Margherita, Blaine Krauss, Maria Bilbao, Mandy Gonzalez, Bianca Marroquin, John Riddle, Samantha Pauly, Mary Testa, Alysha Umphress. **********************
Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, a 120-hour marathon offering readings of 5 of the playwright’s works, will take place Mon. Feb. 23 from 11 AM – 11 PM at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre.
August: Osage County … Killer Joe …. Linda Vista …. The Minutes … and Man from Nebraska.
Adrienne Warren, Kara Young, John Gallagher Jr., Abigail Breslin, Beanie Feldstein. and John David Washington, with Carla Gugino, Jeffrey DeMunn, Lisa Emery, Joe Holt, Matthew Lillard, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Gina Gershon, Katrina Lenk, Thomas Sadoski, Jeff Still, Eric William Morris, and Jonathan Judge-Russo.
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Alexander Zeldin’s Care will run May 11 – July 11 at the Young Vic, directed by Zeldin.
Linda Bassett, Rosie Cavaliero, Hayley Carmichael, Richard Durden), Aoife Gaston, Llewella Gideon, William Lawlor, Ethan Mahony and Charlie Webb.
A single mum, two feuding siblings? and their gran. When Grandmother takes a fall, she is hastily moved to a care home she doesn’t want to be in, surrounded by other elderly people longing for comfort and missing home. But as time passes, she comes to see what really matters in life and, between loss and loneliness, we glimpse the unexpected joy in life’s everyday moments.