Today’s Highlights:
Cagney the Musical, by Robert Creigton, Christopher McCovern & Peter Colley, directed by Will Pomerantz, featuring Robert Creihtoon (James Cagney) and Melissa Manchester (Ma Cagney), with James Borstelmann, Corinne C. Broadbent, Audrey Cardwell, Robert Creighton, Matt Guernier, Emma Kantor, Melissa Manchester, Daniel Plimpton, Bruce Sabath, and Michael Starr, opens at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.
**********************
After more than 25 years, the original TV characters of Victoria Wood’s beloved sitcom “Dinerladies” will reunite for a brand new stage adaptation , directed by Sean Foley, to tour the UK, directed by Sean Foley. This brand-new stage adaptation for 2027 is the first piece of Victoria’s work to be commissioned by the Estate since her passing. The tour will run Jan. – Aug. 2027 (tour schedule TBA). Click here for additional information.
Les Dennis and more TBA.
The new show features a storyline inspired by the beloved original TV sitcom episodes and characters.**********************
Beth Henly’s Crimes of the Heart will run July 15 – 26 (opening July 17) at Theater 154 (154 Christopher Street), directed by Eve Bianco.
TBA.
It’s been a bad few days for the Magrath sisters. The eldest, Lenny, is turning thirty alone in the family home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. The middle one, Meg, has come back from Hollywood with broken dreams and old wounds. And the youngest, Babe, has just shot her husband and can’t quite explain why. Over a few extraordinary days in their grandparents’ kitchen, the three sisters reckon with the past, with each other, and with the particular madness of family love.
**********************
Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody, written & directed by Alan Kliffer, will now run through Nov. 1 at Off-Broadway’s Culture Club.
Jay Armstrong Johnson (Ilya Rozanov), and Jimin Moon (Shane Hollander), with Ryann Redmond, Cherry Torres, Ryan Duncan, Shelby Acosta, and Daniel Brackett, with more TBA.
The play follows starry-eyed golden boy Shane Hollander on his journey from power center to power bottom.
**********************
Les Misérable: The Arena Concert Spectacular in Concert will run July 23 – Aug. 9 at MYC’s Radio City Music Hall, directed by James Powell & Jean-Pierre Van Der Spuy.
Alfie Boe, Killian Donnelly, & Gerónimo Rauch (alternating as Jean Valjean), Badley Jaden & Jeremy Secomb (alternating as Javert), Samantha Barks (Fantine), Matt Lucas (Thénardier), Marina Prior (Madame Thénardier), Mac Yarrow (Marius), Beatrice Penny-Touré (Cosette), Christian Mark Gibbs (Enjolras), Philip Quast (Bishop of Digne), and Rob Madge (Bamatabois).
**********************
The Public Theater will present Shakespeare in the Park’s The Winter’s Tale July 25 – Aug. 22 (opening Aug. 11) at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, directed by Daniel Sullivan.
Teagle F. Bougere (Camillo), Chuck Cooper (Old Shepherd), Matthew Eby ( (Mamillius/Time), Raúl Esparza (Leontes), Isabela Ferrer (Perdita), Katie Griffith (Mopsa), Alex Hernandez (Cleomenes), Michael Khalid Karadsheh (Young Shepherd), Daniel Kyri (Florizel), Aubie Merrylees (Archidamus), Jennifer Mogbock (Emilia), Gilbert Owuor (Polixenes), Lily Rabe (Hermione), Matthew Russell (Dion), Steven Skybell and (Antigonus/Autolycus), with Heschel Bay Peter Douskalis, Denise Kolodja, Violeta Picayo, Bianca Rogoff, Michael Thanh Tran, and Jackson Whitman.
**********************
Wait Til You See What’s Next, featuring Ethan Mathias, will take place Thurs. July 9 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, with music direction by Michael Lavine.
**********************
Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater has announces its 2026-2027 40th season:
ANON – a tempest at our kichen Table (Sept. 25 – Nov. 1 , opening Oct. 13), directed by Anne Kauffman. When a gay pride flag is unfurled across the street from Jeanie, an increasingly online TikToker in a suburb in Texas, two seemingly different households…freak out. How well do you know the people you live among, and with, in an America where the line between fantasy and reality has become increasingly optional?
The Heart Sellers (Jan. 2027 dates TBA), by Lloyd Suh, directed by May Adrales.
A warm and funny story of a chance encounter and quintessentially American connection. When Jane and Luna, two immigrant strangers, meet on Thanksgiving in 1973, they decide to spend this strange, new holiday together over an evening full of shared laughs, dreams, and a frozen turkey that refuses to thaw.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (June 2027 dates TBA), world premiere by Peter Hedges , Adrian Enscoe, Christopher Sears, Sydney Shepherd Regina Strsayhorn, directed by Anne Kauffman. A warm and funny story of a chance encounter and quintessentially American connection. When Jane and Luna, two immigrant strangers, meet on Thanksgiving in 1973, they decide to spend this strange, new holiday together over an evening full of shared laughs, dreams, and a frozen turkey that refuses to thaw.
**********************
Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd will run July 14 – Aug. 1 at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Mark Shanahan.
Shereen Ahmed (Flora Ackroyd), Anthony Cochrane (Hercule Poirot), Joe Delafield (Ralph Paton), Allen Gilmore (Inspector Raglan), Erin Noel Grennan (Caroline Sheppard), John Rapson (Dr. James Sheppard), Mark Silence (Roger Ackroyd), Tom Hewitt (Parker), Nicole Shalhoub (Helen Russell), Richard Ruiz Henry (Major Hector Blunt), and Katy Tang (Ursula Bourne).
A shocking murder. A house full of secrets. A mystery only the legendary detective Hercule Poirot can unravel. Set in 1926 England, “Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” follows Poirot as he investigates the killing of a wealthy man, uncovering hidden motives and long-buried secrets among a cast of intriguing suspects.
**********************
An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger, recorded in Oct. 2025, is now available to stream through June 30 here.