Today’s Highlights:
The New Group‘s All of Me, by Laura winters, directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe, featuring Madison Ferris, Danny J. Gomez,Lily Mae Harrington, Florencia Lozano, Brian Furey Morabito, and Kyra Sedgwick, opens at Off-Broadway’s Signature Center.
John Lloyd Young in concert opens at NYC’s Café Carlyle.
Dear Dr. Thomas: A New Play Reading, by Christopher Monger, featuring Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell, Lorna Bennett, Gopal Divan, Taylor Trensch and Betsy Zajko, at 7:30 PM at NYC’s 92NY.
Mommie Dearest, an unauthorized parody reading, directed by Alli Miller, featuring Sam Pancake (Faye Dunaway is Joan Crawford), and Jonnie Reinhart (Christina Crawford), with Nathan Frizzell and Daniele Gaither, at 7:30 PM at Hollywood’s Celebration Theatre.
Ann Kittredge: Romantic Notions album release concert, at 5:30 PM at NYC’s Birdland.
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2024 Outer Critic Circle Awards Click here for the complete list of winners
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George Clooney & Grant Heslov’s Good Night, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in Spring 2025 at a Schubert theatre TBA, directed by David Cromer.
George Clooney (Edward R. Murrow), and more TBA.
Based on the 2005 film of the same name. When Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his foolhardy campaign to root out Communists in America, CBS News impresario Edward R. Murrow dedicates himself to exposing the atrocities being committed by McCarthy’s Senate “investigation.” Murrow is supported by a news team that includes long-time friend and producer Fred Friendly. The CBS team does its best to point out the senator’s lies and excesses, despite pressure from CBS’ corporate sponsors to desist.
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The world premiere of Ophelia, written & directed by Stefan Marks, has been extended through May 25 at LA’s Odyssey Theatre.
Deborah Geffner (Mom), Tatus Langton (Her), and Stefan Marks (Son).
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Newsies will run July 12-28 (opening July 13) at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed & choreographed by Jeffry Denman, with music direction by Ryan O’Connell.
Casting TBA.
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Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season (exact dates TBA):
Table 17 (Aug.-Sept.), by Doug Lyons, directed by Zhalion Levingston, featuring Kara Young, Biko Eisen-Martin and Michael Rishwan. If your ex wanted to meet up again, would you? Previously engaged, Jada and Dallas reunite for dinner to hash out the good, the bad, and the ugly from their romantic past. Despite the intrusion of sassy waiters, complicated memories, and their best efforts to keep things casual, the estranged couple find themselves cornered by the truth.
Shit. Meet. Fan (Oct – Nov.), written & directed by Robert O’Hara. Here’s the game… Phones Out. Face Up. Volume High. Every text, every email, every call must be shared aloud. That’s what a group of long-time friends gather to play on the night of the eclipse. With the cocktails flowing among grownups who refuse to grow up, outrageous secrets and skeletons begin to emerge.
New show TBA (Spring 2025)
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Project Shaw‘s Heartbreak House script-in-hand performance, will take place Mon. May 20 at 7 PM at Symphony Space, directed by Stephen Brown-Fried.
Christine Pedi (Nurse Guiness/Narrator), Teresa Avia Lim (Ellie Dunn), Dakin Matthews (Captain Shotover), Laila Robins (Lady Ariadne Utterword), Patrice Johnson (Hesione Hushabye), Mark Nelson (Mazzini Dunn), Robert Cuccioli (Hector Hushabye), Steven Skybell (Ross Mangan), Carman Lacivita (Randall Utterword (Carman Lacivita), and Nick Wyman (Burglar).
The play brings a wildly disparate group of people together in the English countryside over a September weekend to make major decisions about their future. No stone is left unturned as each character is forced to come to terms with his or her past while finding a way to move forward in the face of the coming crisis.
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Romeo & Juliet, currently in previews, will open May 23 and continue through Aug. 3 at the Duke of York’s Theatre, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
Tom Holland (Romeo), Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (Juliet), Freema Agyeman (Nurse), Michael Balogun (Friar), Tomiwa Edun (Capulet), Mia Jerome (Montague), Daniel Quinn-Toye (Paris), Ray Sesay (Tybalt), Nima Taleghani (Benvolio), and Joshua-Alexander Williams (Mercutio), with Harriet Bunton, Nathaniel Christian, Shardé Neikaiya, and Philip Olagoke.
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Cock Tales: Straight Up, Dirty & Shaken Stories of Lust & Love, written & performed by Lori Hoeft & Macy Pitt, will run June 9, 11, 22 & 23 at Hollywood’s LGBT Center.
A raw and all too real tell-all, sparing no details about the numerous ways one responds to grief. Hoeft will take audiences through libations and sex in a sea of Mr. Wrongs and visits with so-called “love gurus” who exploit her. The stories include colonics gone wrong, an Earth Day debacle, inheritance pilfering by a stepmonster, and more. Macy, Hoeft’s rescue Pitt Bull, and the ghost of her recently passed father are the spirits who eventually lead her through this messy yet beautiful heartbreak. Based on true experiences. Optional after-party with gummies and drinks. Contains nudity. Mature audiences only.
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Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich’s Here There are Blueberries continues through June 16 at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Kaufman.
Scott Barrow, Nemuna Ceesay, Kathleen Chalfant, Noah Keyishian, Jonathan Raviv, Erika Rose, Anna Shafer, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Charlie Thurston, and Grant Varjas.
In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unraveled the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs—what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity.
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Porchlight Music Theatre‘s Broadway in your Backyard will run June 6 – Aug. 6 at city parks throughout Chicago, directed by Frnakie Leo Bennett & Michal Weber, with music direction by Linda Madonia.
Performers TBA.
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Musical Theatre Guild will present Broadway Time Capsule 1996 on Tues. June 25 at 8:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club, directed by Will Collyer & Susan Edwards Martin, with music direction by Jeff Hoeppner.
Eileen Barnett, Roger Befeler, Jennifer Bennett, Teri Bibb, Bryan Chesters, Will Collyer, Joshua Finkel, Tal Fox, Julie Garnye, Kim Huber, Maura Knowles, Ashley Linton, Susan Edwards Martin, Kevin Matsumoto, Tonoccus McClain, Dana Meller, Barbara Minkus, Chelsea Morgan Stock, Gabriel Navarro, Trance Thompson, Diane Vincent, Paul Wong, Robert Yacko, and David Zack.
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Fix + Foxy’s Dark Noon will run June 7 0 July 7 at St. Ann’s Warehouse, directed & choreographed by Tue Beiering & Nhlanhla Mahlangu.
Bongani Bennedict Masango, Joe Young, Kaygee Letsholonyana, Lillian Tshabalala, Mandla Gaduka, Siyambonga Alfred Mdubeki, and Thulani Zwane.
Performed on a bare stage, the skeleton film set of a Western town emerges in real time as the actors embody the distinctive characters of America’s past: cowboys, gold seekers, missionaries, enslaved Africans, Chinese workers, Native Americans, prostitutes, Bluecoats, and Confederates.
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Coming of Age at 65, written & performed by Gerry Fishman, will run June 16-30 at Hollywood’s Hudson Guild Theatre, directed by Franscico Roel.
At age 5, a grown-up asked Gerry what he wanted to be when he grew up. Not missing a beat, “a co-med-di-dan.” 60 years later, he found a simple concept that allowed him to let it rip.
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The world premiere of Rob Ulin’s Judgement Day has been extended through June 2 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel.
Jason Alexander (Sammy Campo), Daniel Breaker (Father Michael) and Candy Buckley (Angel), with Maggie Bofill (Tracy), Olivia Denise Dawson (Della), Joe Dempsey (Jackson), Michael Kostroff (Monsignor), Ellis Myers (Sammy/Casper), and Meg Thalken (Edna)
The story of Sammy Campo, a staggeringly corrupt, morally bankrupt lawyer who’s threatened with eternal damnation by a terrifying angel after a near-death experience. In a desperate attempt to redeem himself, Sammy forms an unlikely bond with a Catholic priest who is having his own crisis of faith.