Today’s Highlights:
Sunset Baby, by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, featuring Russell Hornsby (Kenyatta), Moses Ingram (Nina), and J. Alphonse Nicholson (Damon), opens at at Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre.
The Animal Kingdom, by Ruby Thomas, directed by Jack Serio, featuring David Cromer, Tasha Lawrence, Lily McInerny, Uly Schlesinger, and Calvin Leon Smith, opens at Off-Broadway’s Connelly Theater Upstairs.
Munich Medea: Happy Family, world premiere by Corinne Jaber, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, featuring Crystal Finn (Caroline), Heather Raffo (Alice), and Kurt Rhoads (Father), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s WP Theater.
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Theater Resources Unlimited will present its 2024 TRU Voices New Plays Virtual Reading Series on Sun. Feb, 12 & 19, both at 4PM. Each reading will be followed by a talkback. Casting TBA.
Rolling With The Punches (Feb. 18), by Joel S. Bailey, directed by Ben Rauch. 
Jo, held back more by how others see her than by her paralysis, resolves to find out if she can create a better life beyond the limited expectations others have for her. A compassionate play that highlights a part of the disabled community’s challenging fight to live lives as fully as others.
Un Hombre: A Golem Story (Feb. 25 at ), by Stephen Caplin, directed by Fara Alvin. A sculptor, is struggling to get back on track after the untimely death of her husband. She is suffering from intense artist’s block, and her son is withdrawn, failing Spanish, and unprepared for his upcoming Bar Mitzvah. All seems hopeless until a lot of wine and a little magic transform a hunk of clay into the answer to all of their problems. Or is it?
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Complete casting has been announced for Carson Kreitzer & Matt Gould’s Lempicka, to begin previews Mar. 19 and open Apr.14 at the Longacre Theatre, directed by Rachel Chavkin, with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly.
Eden Espinosa (Tamara de Lempicka), Amber Iman (Rafaela), Andrew Samonsky (Taduesz Lempi), George Abud (Marinetti), Natlalie Joy Johnson (Suzy Solidor), Zoe Glick (Kizette), Nathaniel Stamply (Baron), and Beth Leavel )Baroness), with Mariand Torres, Alex Aquilino, Lauren Blackman, Stephen Brower, Kyle Brown, Holli’ Conway, Abby Matsusaka, Jimin Moon, Khori Michelle Petinaud, Ximone Rose, Nicholas Ward, Veronica Fiaoni, Michael Milkanin, Mary Page Nance, and Julio Rey.
The true story of Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, a young aristocrat-turned-artist who flees with her husband from the turmoil of the Russian Revolution for exile in Paris. Once there, Tamara meets her new muse, Rafaela, and claws her way to success.
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New York City Opera’s Enrico Caruso and His Songs will take place Wed. Feb. 21 at 7:30 PM at Carnegie Hall, with pianist Marco Scolastra.
Mark Milhofer
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Michael Roberts’s Swimming in Jerusalem: A Modern Musical Parable, will run Feb. 8-11 at Theater 555, directed by Hannah Ryan. 
BoxOffice@Theater55.com.
Casting not announced.
As the team prepares for a major swim meet, the musical explores the many mixed emotions and reactions among the young swimmers.
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Manhattan Theatre Club Spring Gala will take place Mon. May 20 at 7 PM at NYC’s Cipriani 42nd St.
Creative team, casting, link, and additional information TBA.
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Red Bull Theater (link NA) will present a discussion (not a reading or performance) of Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island on Thurs. Feb. 1 at 6 PM. Sold out.
This is an exploration of the volatile relationship between Shaw and Yeats, with the universal need to create and communicate, the useful marriage of arts to activism, and the power of comedy. David Staller will be joined by Profession James Armstrong for the discussion.
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Evan Rachel Wood (Audrey) and Darren Criss (Seymour) join the company of Little Shop of Horrors tonight at the Westside Theatre.
They join the current cast, which includes Bryce Pinkham (Dr. Orin Scrivello, D.D.S.), Brad Oscar (Mr. Mushnik), Aaron Harrington (Voice of Audrey II), D’Kaylah Unique Whitley (Ronnette), Tiffany Renee Thompson (Crystal), and Khadija Sankoh (Chiffon), with Camryn Hampton, Najah Hetsberger, Michael Iannucci, Weston Chandler Long, Jeff Sears, Teddy Yudain, Zakiya Baptiste, Jonothon Lyons, Noel MacNeal, Johnny Newcomb, and Kevin Pariseau.
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The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival will run Mar. 28 – 31 at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68 Arts Complex (5112 Lankershim Blvd). 
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The event, celebrating the festival’s 31st aniversary, will include four days of virtuosa performances, panels, workshops, and its Champagne GALA and Awards Ceremony honoring distinguished women of achievement in theatre.
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Concert presentations of Michael Roberts’ Swimming in Jerusalem: a Modern Musical Parable will tale place Feb. 8-10 at 7 PM, with matinees on Feb. 10 & 11 at 3 PM, at Off-Broadway’s Theater555, directed by Hannah Ryan. The presentations will run 60 min., followed by a talk-back. Casting not announced. 
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The play explores the relationships among citizens of Israel as presented through the complex experiences of teenage swimmers in a YMCA swim club in Jerusalem.
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MCC Theater‘s MisCast24 will take place Mon. Apr. 15 at 6 PM at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
Jason Robert Brown and Nicole Suazo.
Mel & Linda Brosterman, Chelsea Kellogg, Judith, Manocherian, Rachel Masch, Peter McKown, andJac Scheiner.
Bradley Hames, Joseph Rokacz & Lawrence Gordon, and Jenni Swan.
Gavin Creel, Brian d’Arcy James, Tyne Daly, Ingrid Michaelson, Lauren Patten, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Anika Nono Rose, Lea Salonga, Ryan Vasquez, Vanessa Williams, Joy Woods, and more TBA.
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An Evening with Stephanie J. Block: The Mother will take place Thurs. Feb. 22 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s 92NY, with music direction by Ben Cohn.
An all-new show centered on the theme of motherhood and features songs by Jule Styne, Stephen Schwartz, William Finn, Dolly Parson, James Taylor, and Brandi Carlile, who’s moving “The Mother” gives the show its title.
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Sunset Boulevard will run May 21 – July 28 at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre, followed by a run Aug. 28 – Nov. 1 at the Sydney Opera House, directed by Paul Warwick Griffen, with choreography by Ashley Wallen, and music supervision by Kristen Glodgette.
Sarah Brightman (Norma Desmond), Tim Draxl (Joe Gillis), Robert Grubb (Max Von Mayerling), Ashleigh Rubenach (Betty Schaefer), Jarrod Draper (Artie Green), Paul Hanlon (Cecil B. DeMille), and Silvie Paladino ( Norma at select performances), with Regan Barber, Amy Berrisford, Billy Bourchier, Campbell Braithwaite, Benjamin Colley, Grace Driscoll, Madison Green, Peter Ho, Leah Lim, Mary McCorry, Charlotte Page, Morgan Palmer, Caity Plummer, Taylor Scanlan, Tom Sharah, Lisa Sontag, Troy Sussman, Riley Sutton, and Dean Vince.
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Laura Eason’s Sex With Strangers will run Feb. 17 – Mar. 3 at Hollywood’s McCadden Place Theatre, directed by Kate Sargeant.
Sarah Wylie and Jonathan Dylan King.
This thought-provoking play explores the intersection of love, ambition, and the digital age. A captivating journey of passion, connection, and the complexities of modern relationships.
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Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie, to run Mar. 1-23 (opening Mar. 7) at St. George’s Episcopal Church, adapted by Albom & Jeffrey Hatcher, and directed by Erwin Maas.
Len Cariou (Morrie) and Chris Doming (Mitch).
The play follows Albom as he reconnects with a former sociology professor after learning he’s battling the Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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Amas Musical Theatre (link TBA) will present A Lotta Night Music on Wed. May 13 at a location TBA, directed by Jonathan Cerullo.
Patricia Birch, Len Cariou, and Butler Tibbets.
Performers TBA.