Today’s Highlights:
The Antiqutities, by Jordan Harrison, directed by David Cromer & Caitlin Sullivan, featuring Cindy Cheung (Woman 3), Marchánt Davis (Man 2), Layan Elwazani (Woman 4), Andrew Garman (Man 3), Aria Shahghasemi (Man 1), Kristen Sieh (Woman 1), Ryan Spahn (Man 4), Julius Rinzel (Boy), and Amelia Workman (Woman 2), opens at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons.
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Complete casting has been announced for SpitLip’s Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, to begin previews Feb. 15 and open Mar. 20 at the Golden Theatre, directed by Robert Hastie.
David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Jak Malone and Zoë Roberts, with Brandon Contreras, Sam Hartley, Jessi Kirtley, Gerianne Pérez and Amanda Jill Robinson.
It’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself), Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII.
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The pre-Broadway engagement of Stephen Sndheim’s Old Friends will run Feb. 8 – Mar. 9 at the Ahmanson Theatre, directed by Matthew Bourne, with choreography by Stephen Mear.
Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Jacob Dickey, Jasmine Forsberg, Kate Jennings Grant, Bonnie Langford, Beth Leavel, Gavin Lee, Jason Pennycooke, Joanna Riding, Jeremy Secomb, Kyle Selig, Maria Wirries, Daniel Yearwood, Kevin Earley, Paige Fauer, Alexa Lopez, and Peter Neureuther.
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Doug Wright’s Good Night, Oscar will run July 31 – Sept. 21 at the Barbican Theatre, directed byLisa Peterson.
Sean Hayes.
The work takes place backstage and on set of a 1958 episode of “The Jack Paar Tonight Show,” with Levant picked as the headlining guest.
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BroadwayCon 2025 has changed its venue and will now run Feb. 7-9 at NYC’s Marriott Marquis.
Click here for complete details.
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The world premiere of Dolly Parton & Maria S. Schlatter’s Dolly: An Original Musical will run July 18 – Aug. 17 (opening Aug. 8) at Nashville’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (at Belmont University), directed by Bartlett Sher
Casting and additional information TBA.
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The Wedding Singer will run June 5 – 29 (opening June 7) at Burbank’s Colony Theatre, directed by Michael Donovan, with choreography by Michelle Elkin, and music direction by Brent Crayon.
TBA.
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Doug Wright’s Good Night, Oscar will will run July 31 – Sept. 21 at the Barbican Theatre, directed by Lisa Peterson.
Sean Hayes
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog will run Feb 26 – Mar. 23 (opening Mar. 4) a the Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Gregg T. Daniel.
Brandon Gill (Booth) and Brandon Micheal Hall (Lincoln).
Two brothers in freefall struggle to find their footing as they hustle their way through life. Haunted by the past and their obsession with street cons and cards, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their fate.
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The Sphere of Fixed Stars in the Heavens, written & directed by J. Holtham, will run Feb. 13-23 (opening Feb. 15) at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68 Arts Complex (5112 Lankershim Blvd.
Tiffany Smith and VonDexter Montegut II.
On a rooftop in North Hollywood, Owen and Elodie meet at a friend’s birthday party. Then they meet again. And again. And again. They get to know each other, learn about each other, and maybe start to like each other. Again. And again. And again. For both, this one encounter challenges what they know about love, desire, hope, and time. They discover that nothing lasts forever … except for the things that do.
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New casting has been announced for Hadestown at London’s Lyric Theatre as of Mar. 11:
Desmonda Cathabel (Eurydice,) Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (Persephone), Chris Jarman (Hades), Cedric Neal (Hermes), and Dylan Woo (Orpheus), with Melanie Bright (Fate), Lauran Rae (Fate), Allie Daniel (Fates), with Femi Akinfolarin, Michelle Andrews, Ollie Bingham, Laura Delany, Sebastian Lim-Seet, Lucinda Buckley, Juan Jackson, Oisín Nolan-Power, Lindo Shinda, and Jasmine Triadi.
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The West End production of Hadestown will be filmed Feb. 11 – Mar. 9 at the Lyric Theatre.
(original London cast): Reeve Carney (Orpheus), Andre de Shields (Hermes), Amber Gray (Persephone), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), and Patrick Page (Hades), with Bella Brown, Madeline Charlemagne, Allie Daniel, Lauren Azania, Tiago Dhondt Bamberger, Waylon Jacobs, Christopher Short, Lucinda Buckley, Francessca Daniella-Baker, Winny Herbert, Ryesha Higgs and Miriam Nyarko.