Today’s Highlights:
Eric Peterson begins his run as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
Nick Rashad begins his run as Ike Turner in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
“Reopening: The Broadway Revival,” featuring Aaron Tveit, Andrew Lloyd Webber, James Michael Scott, Jeanna de Waal, Sara Bareilles, Elizabeth Stanley, Alexandra Billings, Jawan M. Jackson, Andrew Rannells, Norm Lewis, Sharon D. Clarke, Lea Salonga, Kristin Chenoweth, Chita Rivera, Laura Benanti, and David Rockwell, airs at 9 PM on PBS (check local listings).
Bonnie and Clyde in Concert, directed by Nick Winston, featuring Jeremy Jordan (Clyde), Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie), George Maguire (Buck), Natalie McQueen (Blanche), Trevor Dion Nicholas (Preacher), and Liam Tamne (Ted), Casey Al-Shagsy (Stella), Simon Anthony (Cop/Bud/Archie/Deputy Johnson), Gillian Bevan (Cummie Barrow/Eleanor), Eloise Davies (Trish), Adrian Grove (Henry Barrow), Debbie Kurup (Governor Miriam Ferguson), Matthew Malthouse (Bob Alcorn), Jeremy Secomb (Judge/Sheriff Schmid), Russell Wilcox (Captain Frank Hamer), and Julie Yammanee (Emma Parker), closes at London’s Theatre Royal Drury.
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Listen: “Little Known Facts,” with Ilana Levine and special guest Arian Moayed, the co-founder of Waterwell, a civic-minded and socially conscious non-profit art and education company. (53:13)
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An encore presentation of Karen Mason: Birthday Bash will take place Wed. Jan. 19 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s 54 Below.
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Million Dollar Quartet will run Jan. 21 – Feb. 13 (opening Jan. 22) at CA’s La Mirada Theatre, directed by Tim Seib.
Jacob Bartin (Elvis Presley), Steven Lasiter (Johnny Cash), Trevor Dorner (Jerry Lee Lewis), Nathan Burke (Carl Perkins), Sean Casey Flanagan (Sam Phillips), Taylor Kraft (Dyanne), Justin Bendel (Brother Jay), and Jon Rossi (Fluke).
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Video: Barbra Streisand pays tribute to Marilyn Bergman.
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The world premiere of I Just Want to Tell You, written & performed by Ronald Smokey Stevens, and directed by Stephen Byrd, has been extended through Jan. 23 at Theater for The New City.
A one-man, two character theater production. The play dramatizes Stevens’ lifelong battle with drugs, in which, at long last, prevailed. “Smokey” play both himself and his nemesis, a sarcastic doppelganger called “D MAN.” The play ushers us through modern moments of theater history that were Smokey’s triumphs and the journey through drug usage that was nearly his undoing.
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Theatre Royal East has announced its 2022 Spring/Summer season:
Burn It Down (Apr. 19 – May 5). A series of six newly commissioned script-in-hand performances about urgent political issues. Each piece will be a stand-alone scrutiny, calling out injustice and interrogating the systems that wield power.
Ballet Black: Double Bill (May 11-21). Ballet Black presents two new works. The first piece is for the full company by South African choreography Gregory Magoma, featuring an original score my Michael “Mickey J” Asante. The second ballet is directed & choreographed by Cassa Pancho, and explores the struggles and inspiration behind the formation of the company.
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (Jun 15 – July 17), by Chris Bush, Miranda Cooper, Kate Pankhurst, and Jennifer Decilveo.
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Article & Video: Brad Oscar reminisces about Something Rotten!, The Adams, Family, and more.
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David West Read & Max Martin’s & Juliet (which opened Nov. 2, 2019) continues at the Shaftesbury Theatre, directed by Luke Sheppard, with music direction by Max Martin and choreography by Jennifer Weber.
Keala Settle will join the company as Nurse Mar. 29 – June 18.
Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet), Cassidy Janson (Anne Hathawaya0, Oliver Tompsett (William Shakespeare), David Bedella (Lance), Jordan Luke Gage (Romeo), Tim Mahendran (Francois), Alex Thomas-Smith (May).
An hilarious irreverent musical that proves when it comes to love there’s always life after Romeo. Join Juliet on this sensational journey of self-discovery and second chances, told through some of the most glittering pop anthems of the last three decades.
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A Collective Cy: Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman will take place Mon. Jan. 31 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Birdland, directed by Sara Louise Lazarus, with music direction by Alex Rybeck.
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Video: Brandon Victor Dixon performs “If I Loved You”
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…an unusually slow news day…