Today’s Highlights:
Salt Water Moon, by David French, directed by Peter Kavanagh, featuring Bryony Miller and Joseph Potter, opens at London’s Finborough Theatre.
Tom Hewitt begins his run as Hades in Hadestown at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre.
Sebastian Arcelus returns as The Baker in Into the Woods at Broadway’s St. James Theatre.
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Selections from Rachelle Rak & Steven Jamail’s Electric Island will take place Mon. Jan. 9 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room.
Rachelle Rak, Angie Schworer, Felicia Finley, Jerusha Cavazos, Katie Webber, Nikki Kimbrough, Stephanie Gibson, Irene Rising, and Amy Hillner Larsen.
A new musical about the lives of the women of Broadway. The story takes place on the set of the talk show called “Electric Island.” These Broadway legends have been invited by the host Morgan Taylor, to talk about their journey to Broadway and what it takes to stay there.
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Manhattan Theatre Club‘s production of David Auburn’s Summer, 1976 will begin previews Apr. 4 and open Apr. 25 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed by Daniel Sullivan.
Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht
This deeply moving, insightful play is about connection, memories, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife.
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Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle & Constantine Rousouli’s Titanique has been extended through May 14 at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre, directed by Blue.
Marla Mindelle (Céline Dion), Constantine Rousouli (Jack), Carrie St. Louis (Rose), Frankie Grande (Victor Garber), John Riddle (Cal), Russell Daniels (Ruth), Desireé Rodriguez (The Unsinkable Molly Brown), and Avionce Hoyles (The Iceberg), Mark Evans (Cal), Ken Wulf Clark (Victor Garber through Jan. 25) Rosé (Victor Garber, as of Jan. 26), with Blu Allen, Courtney Bassett, Brad Greer, Donnie Hammond, and Kristina Walz.
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Amy Herzog’s adaptation of A Doll’s House will run Feb. 13 – June 4 (opening Mar. 9) at the Hudson Theatre, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
Jessica Chastain (Nora Helmer), Arian Moayed (Torvald Helmer), Jesmille Darbourze (Kristine Linde), Tasha Lawrence (Anne-Marie), Michael Patrick Thornton (Dr. Rank),and Okieriete Onaodowan (Nils Krogstad), with Franklin Bongjio, Carey Rebecca Brown, Melisa Soledad Pereyra, and Jose Joaquin Perez.
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Video: Tyne Daly discusses her journey with Gypsy.
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Jan. 7: Downstate at Playwrights Horizons
Jan. 8: 1776 at the American Airlines Theatre
Jan. 8: Almost Famous at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Jan. 8 Beetlejuice at the Marquis Theatre
Jan. 8: Into the Woods at the St. James Theatre
Jan. 8: Merrily We Roll Along at New York Theatre Workshop
Jan. 8: Stomp at the Orpheum Theatre
Jan. 15: Death of a Salesman at the Hudson Theatre
Jan. 15: Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Jan. 15: The Music Man at the Winter Garden Theatre
Jan. 15: A Strange Loop at the Lyceum Theatre
Jan. 15: TopDog/UnderDog at the Golden Theatre
Jan. 29: The Collaboration at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Jan. 29: The Piano Lesson at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Feb. 5: Take Me Out at the Schoenfeld Theatre
Feb. 11: Great Expectations at the Greenwich House Theatre
Feb. 12: Between Riverside and Crazy at the Helen Hayes Theatre
Feb. 12: Ohio State Murders at the James Earl Jones Theatre.
Mar. 5: Stranger Sings: A Musical Parody at Playhouse 46
Apr. 16: The Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theatre
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A concert presentation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned, by Brooke Di Spirito, will take place Tues. Jan. 17 at 9:30 PM at NYC’s 54 Below.
James Brautigam, Sarah Anne Fernandez, Mike Jubak Jr., Izzy Ochocki, Beatrix Postley, Emily Schultheis, and Jivan Ramexh.
Before there was “Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote “The Beautiful and Damned,” the harrowing love story of two NYC socialites on the eve of the Jazz Age.
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Lincoln Center‘s Camelot, adapted by Aaron Sorkin, will begin previews Mar. 9 and open Apr. 13 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Casting and creative team TBA.
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“The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal,” with special guests Audra McDonald, Lea Michel, and more (from Nov. 26, 2022)
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Four Predictions for the Theater in 2023. Click here to read the entire article.
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Sharr White’s adaptation of Pictures From Home will begin previews Jan. 10 and open Feb. 9 at Studio 54, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein, and Zoë Wanamaker.
Three actors bring to vivid theatrical life a comic and dramatic portrait of a mother, a father, and the son who photographed their lives.
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Video: “The Broadway Show,” featuring Emma Thomson on bringing “Matilda” to the big screen.
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Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Agnes Borinsky’s The Trees, to run Feb. 12 – Mar. 19 (opening Mar. 5) at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Tina Satter.
Jess Barbagallo (David), Marcia DeBonis (Sheryl), Crystal Dickinson (Sheila), Sean Donovan (Jared), Xander Fenyes (Ezra), Nile Harris (Julian), Max Gordon Moore (Saul), Pauli Pontrelli (Tavish), Ray Anthony Thomas (Norman), Danusia Trevino (Grandmother), Sam Breslin Wright (Terry/Vendor), and Becky Yamamoto (Charlotte).
How does a makeshift community take root in a mercenary world? The play offers an unexpected answer in the story of a brother and sister who unwittingly establish a utopia in the park next to their father’s house.
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The Entertainment Community Fund benefit concert of Ragtime, which was postponed in 2020, will now take place in 2023 (date and location TBA).
Stay tuned for further updates…
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Denis Johnson’s Des Moines will now run through Jan. 8 at Off-Broadway’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, directed by Arin Arbus.
Johanna Day, Arliss Howard, Hari Nef, Michael Shannon, and Heather Alicia Simms.
In this mysterious work, chance events — including a plane crash, a rescued wedding ring, and a frightening diagnosis — bring five characters in its titular city together for a debauch of karaoke, liquor, and sex that becomes an unlikely communion. With its dark humor, Des Moines confronts death, mortality, and the stubborn pursuit of grace among those who barely believe in it.
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Click here to take a look at theater artists we lost in 2022.
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Lolita Chakrabarti’s Life of Pi will begin previews Mar. 9 and open Mar. 30 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, directed by Max Webster.
Casting, creative team, and additional information TBA.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a sixteen year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?