Today’s Highlights:
Maiden Voyage, by Cayenne Douglass, directed by Alex Keegan, featuring Arianne Banda, Georgia Kate Cohen, Brenda Crawley, Shimali De Silva, Rachel Griesinger, Nataxha Hakata, Kait Hickey, and Tricia Mancuso Parks, opens at Off-Broadway’s Flea Theatre.
Penelope, by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean & Eva Steinmetz, directed by Steinmetz, featuring Jessica Phillips, opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
Steven Brinberg is Simply Barbra concert, at 7:30 PM at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre.
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At This Performance… will return to NYC’s Green Room 42 on Mon. Mar. 18 at 7 PM, directed by Stephen DeAngelis, with music direction by Asher Denburg.
Dani Apple, Will Branner, Zak Edwards, Olivia Hernandez, Daniel J. Maldonado, Alec Michael Ryan, Bronwyn Tarboton, and Ayanna Nicole Thomas.
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Audio recording of Bob Fosse directing Liza Minnelli in the original production of Chicago. Listen here. (1:25:54)
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“The Mayfly,” an animated short film by Betty Buckley, will debut on Mar. 24 at Palm Springs’ American Documentary and animation Film Festival.
The story of Megalyn Mayfly, who goes against all expectations and dedicates her short life to music and dance. Her quest takes her from Central Park West to the Upper East Side’s Carlyle Hotel where she dances her final opus at the elegant Cafe Carlyle.
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A concert production of Allan Kneee, Mindi Dickstein & Jason Howland’s Little Women will run Apr. 27-28 at CT’s New Canaan Library, directed by Kate Simone, with music direction by Ari Goldbloom-Helzner, and choreography by Chris Mcniff.
Kennedy Cuaghell (Jo), Kelly Gabrielle Murphy (Meg), Francesca Mehrotra (Beth), Carla Rose DiPietro (Amy), Ethan Riordan (Laurie), Michael F. McGuirk (Professor Bhaer), Jack Shapiro (John Brooke), and William Squier (Mr. Laurence).
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Invitation-only developmental readings of Barbara Bellman, Joan Ross Sorkin & Emiliano Messiez’s Bordello, The Musical recently took place at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre Company, directed by Will Pomerantz, with music direction by Steven Gross.
Dana Aber, Harrison Bryan, Emily Brockway, Ellie Biron, Alison Cimmet, Omar Cepero-Lopez, Cicily Daniels, Ryan Duncan, Jamie LaVerdiere, Jillian Louis, Benjamin Magnuson, Samantha Massell, Shereen Pimentel, Cheryl Stern, Pablo Torres, and Eric Van Tielen.
Set in the colorful world of Buenos Aires in 1920 and inspired by historical events surrounding Raquel Liberman, Bordello is the story of a Polish immigrant who is forced into prostitution and risks everything to bring an international Jewish sex-trafficking ring to justice. This never-been-told-before tale of love and bravery has a musical theatre score that incorporates tango, klezmer and other sounds of the period.
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54 Sings Guilty Pleasures will take place Tues. Mar. 26 at 9:30 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Jeremy Jacobs.
Lily Rose, Casey Burke, Kenedi Chriske, Nick Adam Humphries, Lauren Monaco, Arnold Harper II, Steven Van Dao, Natalie Livingston, Alex Shunnarah, Melvin Rodz, Hannah Verdi, Paula Gaudier, Sydney Jo Gershon, Gabrielle Lavoie, Tony Lehman, Caitlin Rae Diekhoff, Sabrina Daysie Huancayo, Leigh Dillon, Sabrina Daysie Huancayo, Zachary Scott Prall, Lily Rose, and more TBA.
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The world premiere of Jonathan Norton’s I Am Delivered’t will run Mar. 13-24 at Actors Theatre of Louisville, directed by Robert Barry Fleming.
E. Faye Butler, Naiqui Macabroad, Liz Mikel, and Zachary J. Willis.
Good Friday. The New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church’s Seven Last Words service is in full swing. But outside—in the church parking lot—another resurrection story is taking shape. Sis, the Vice President of Usher Board Number One, and her protégé Pickles find themselves in a battle royale of romantic quagmires.
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Jake Heggie & Terrence McNally’s opera Dead Man Walking will air Fri. Mar. 15 at 9 PM ET on PBS (check local listings).
Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Ryan McKinny, and Susan Graham.
Sister Helen’s real-life memoir recounts her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer.
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Sunday in the Park With George will run Mar. 8-24 (opening Mar. 9) at NJ’s Axelrod Performing Arts Center, directed by Eamon Foley, with music direction by Jacob Yates.
Graham Phillips (George), Talia Suskauer (Dot), Joy Hermalyn (Old Lady), Bernard Dotson (Jules), Kevin Arnold, Giuliana Augello, Anthony Cataldo, Katie Davis, Bridget Gooley, James C. Harris, Isabel Lagana, Ella Mangano, Dylan Randazzo, and Allie Seibold, with Alyssa Harris, Giana Carroll, Lindsay Jorgensen, Olivia Miranda, Sarah Takash and Gillian Worek.
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54 Loves Cast Albums! will take place Thurs. Mar. 7 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, directed by Michael Portantiere
Gerard Alessandrini and Christine Pedi.
Karen Akers, Jay Aubrey Jones, Megan Styrna, Robbie Rozelle, John Griffin, and George Anthony Papas.
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Red Bull Theater will present a reading of Antony & Cleopatra on Mon. Mar. 25 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre, directed by Arin Arbus.
Isabel Arraiza, Shirine Babb, Jimonn Cole, Dakin Matthews, Nicole Ari Parker, Tom Pecinka, Matthew Rauch, Derek Smith, and John Douglas Thompson.
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Celebration Theatre will present Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World Apr. 19 – May 25 (opening Apr. 27) at Hollywood’s LGBT Center, directed by Brittney S. Wheeler, with choreography by Brin Hamblin, and music direction by Anthony Lucca.
Christin Byrdsong, Kristyn Evelyn, Kasper, and Kyle Montgomery, with Hadiyyah Noelle, and Yassi Noubahar.
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The world premiere of Rutka, adapted from “Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice From the Holocaust,” by Jocelyn Mackenzie, Jeremy Lloyd-Styles, & Neena Beber, will run Oct. 13 – Nov. 10 (opening Oct. 17) at Cincinnati Playhouse, directed by Wendy c. Goldberg.
Casting TBA
The play focuses on a diary kept by 14-year-old Rutka Laskier in 1943 while living in the Jewish Ghetto in Bedzin, Poland.
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My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert will stream on-demand from Mar. 24 – 31 (beginning at 7 PM ET) HERE, which will include the full concert captured in London in Dec. 2023 at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, directed & choreographed by Christopher Gattelli.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rita Moreno
Joanna Ampil, Michael Ball, Daniel Dae Kim, Maria Friedman, Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Lucy St. Louis, Aaron Tveit, Marisha Wallace, Patrick Wilson, Anna-Jane Casey, Lily Kerhoas, Jonny Labey, Jordan Shaw, Jade Albertsen, Alex Louize Bird, Matthew Caputo, Dan Cooke, Barry Drummond, Harry Francis, Matt Gibson, Bethany Huckle, Brenda Newhouse, Emily Ann Potter, Sophie Pourret, Stephen Quildan, and Rachel Wang-Hei Lau.
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The Kingston Trio in concert will run Apr. 10-11 (both at 7 PM) at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre.
Mike Marvin, Tim Gorelankton, and Buddy Woodward.
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Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City will run Mar. 28 – Apr. 21 at Theaterworks Hartford, directed by Jacob G. Padrón & Pedro Bermúdez.
Sara Gutierrez (G), Edward Montoya (B), and Mishka Yarovoy (Henry).
An unforgettable story of two teenagers, young DREAMers, who are fighting to establish a place for themselves in America, the only country they know as home.