Today’s Highlights:
seven methods of killing kelie jenner, by Jasmine Lee-Jones, directed by Milli Bahatia, featuring Tia Bannon (Kara), and Leanne Henlon (Cleo), opens at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater.
Donna McKechnie – Take Me to the World: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim concert opens at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
Pictures from Home, adapted by Sharr White, directed by Bartlett Sher, featuring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoe Wanamaker, begins previews at Broadway’s Studio 54.
Keen Company‘s benefit performance of The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, starring Kathleen Chalfant, at 8 PM at Off-Broadway’s Players Club (also Jan. 17).
Golden Globe Awards ceremony airs at at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT on NBC.
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Emma Donoghue, Cora Bissett & Kathryn Joseph’s stage adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s Room, will open on Broadway (theatre TBA) in April for a limited run through Sept., directed by Bissett.
Theatre, creative team, casting, dates, and additional information TBA.
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor’s garden for seven year. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma’s games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
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National Theatre Live presents a screening of Checkhov’s The Seagull, adapted by Anya Reiss, on Sun. Jan. 15 at 3 PM at UCLA’s James Bridge’s Theatre, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
Emilia Clarke, Tom Rhys Harries, Daniel Monks, Sophie Wu, and Indira Varma.
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Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Deepa Purohit’s Elyria, to run Feb. 9 – Mar. 19 (opening Feb. 27) at Atlantic Theater Company, directed by Awoye Timpo, with choreography by Parijat Desai.
Nilanjana Bose, Sanjit De Silva, Gulshan Mia, Bhayesh Patel, Sanskar Agarwal, Honit Gautam, Mahima Saigal, Khyati Sehga, and Omar Shafiuzzaman.
It’s 1982 in Elyria Ohio. Two decades after striking a deal, two women crash into each other and must face their past — and their entwined future.
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Patti LuPone: Don’t Monkey with Broadway will take place Thurs. Feb. 9 at 8 PM at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center, directed by Scott Whitman, with music direction by Joseph Thalken.
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Beth Wohl’s Grand Horizons will run Jan. 14 – Feb. 5 at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, directed by Brian Robertson.
Dale Hodges (Nancy), Joneal Joplin (Bill), Nick Cearley (Brian), Jared Joplin (Ben), Shonita Joshi (Jess), Deb G. Girdler (Carla), and Dan Davidson (Tommy).
Bill and Nancy decide to divorce after 50 years of marriage and the effect of that decision on everyone around them.
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Taylor Louderman and her husband Brooks Tot have announced the birth of their first child on Jan. 6, named Addison Brooks Toth Jr.
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Video: Wilson Jermaine Heredia performs “I Am the One” from Next to Normal.
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Parade will return to Broadway, Feb. 21 – Aug. 6 (opening Mar. 16) at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, directed by Michael Arden, with choreography by Lauren Yalango-Grant & Christopher Cree Grant, and music direction by Tom Murray. Additional information TBA.
Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, with more TBA.
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The Tony Administration Committee is poised to change the Tony Race. Click here to read the entire article.
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Andrea McArdle: From Broad Street to Broadway will take place Sun. Jan. 15 at 7:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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Urinetown will run Jan. 11 – Feb. 5 at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre, directed by Ylaria Rogers, with choreography by Cameron Mitchell, and music direction by Matthew Reid.
Karen Vickery (Office Lockstock), Natasha Vickery (Little Sally), Deanna Farnell (Penelope Pennywise), Joel Horwood (Bobby Strong), Max Gambale (Caldwell B. Cladwell), Petronella Van Tienen (Hope), Joe Dinn (Senator Fipp/Ma Strong), Tom Kelly (Barrel/Tiny Tom), Dani Caruso (Pa Strong), Artemis Alfonzetti (McQueen), Benoit Yari (Hot Blades Harry), Barbra Toparis (Little Becky Two Shoes), Kira Leiva (Swing), and Danielle Matthews (Penelope Pennywise alternate).
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Eileen Barnett: Love Is In The Air will take place Sat. Feb. 11 at 8 PM at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre, directed by Kirsten Chandler, with music direction by Michael Collum.
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Video: Trailer for “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” directed by Annabel Oakes, which will be released Apr. 6 on Paramount+.
Jackie Hoffman (Asst. Principal McGee), Marisa Davila (Jane), Cheyenne Isabel Wells (Oliva), Ari Notartomaso (Cynthia), Tricia Fukuhara (Nancy), Shanel Bailey (Hazel), Madison Thompson (Susan), Johnathan Nieves (Richie), Jason Schmidt (Buddy), and Maxwell Whittington-Cooper (Wally).
The musical series takes place four years before the original “Grease”; in 1954 before rock ‘n’ roll ruled, before the TpBirds were the coolest in the school, four fed-up, outcasts dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever.
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Complete casting has been announced for a concert performance featuring selections from Jocelyn Mackenzie, Jeremy Lloyd Styles & Sarah Gancher’s RUTKA, to take place Mon. Jan. 23 at 6 PM at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium, directed by Wendy C. Goldberg, with music direction by Sharon Kenny.
Judy Kaye (Grandma/Narrator), Julie Benko (Dvorah), Andrew Barth Feldman (Janek), Nathan Levy (Jumek), Zachary Noah Piser (Lolek), Zoe Siegel (Micka), Gabi Carrubba (Minda), Zoe Holtzman (Nina), Annabelle Kempf (Rozna), Lana Schwartz (Rutka), Cara Rose DiPietro (Stanislawa), Presley Ryan (Tusia), Ben Cherry (Yaakov), and Oscar Williams (Ensemble).
The musical captures Rutka’s experiences living in the Jewish Ghetto in Bedzin, Poland for three months in 1943. She she was deported, Laskier left her diary behind – it was only discovered decades later, authenticated, and published in 2006. Born the same day as Anne Frank, her published diary has drawn significant comparison to “The Diary of Anne Frank,” serving as another perspective of the Holocaust through youthful eyes.
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Steve Martin & Martin Short‘s tour has announced its 17 tour dates here.
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The Diary of Anne Frank, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman, will run Jan. 19-20 at Burbank’s Colony Theatre, directed by Stan Zimmerman.
Genesis Ochoa, Emiliano Torres, Aris Alvarado, Rebecca Asquino, Mariangelica Cuervo, Charlie Farrell, David Burrola, Nikki Mejia, Danny Pardo, and Raquenel.
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A concert presentation of Austin Nuckols & Lily Dwoskin’s Please Like Us: An Evening of Nuckols and Dwoskin will take place Thurs. Jan. 19 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, directed by Mika Kauffman.
Trevor Bunce, Ashley Chiu, DeShawn Jenkins, Kate Loprest, Mark Mendez Muños, and Amy Weintraub.