Today’s Highlights:
Manic Street Creature, by Maimuna Memon, directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward, featuring Maimuna Memon, Rachel Barnes, and Harley Johnston, opens at London’s Southwark Playhouse.
King of the Jews, by Leslie Epstein, directed by Alexandra Aron, featuring Richard Topol, Rachel Botchan, David Deblinger, John Little, Daniel Oreskes, Allen Lewis Rickman, JP Sarro, Dave Shalansky, Jonathan Spivey, Erica Spyre, Wesley Tiso, and Robert Zukerman, opens at Off-Broadway’s HERE Arts Center.
Ragtime, directed by Matthew Gardiner, featuring Bill English (Father), Nkrumah Gatling (Coalhouse Walker Jr.), Jake Loewenthal (Mother’s Younger Brother), Awa Sal Secka (Sarah), Bobby Smith (Tateh), and Teal Wicks (Mother), opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
Hell’s Kitchen, world premiere by Alicia Keys & Kristoffer Diaz, directed by directed by Michael Greif, featuring Shoshana Bean (Jersey), Chad Carstarphen (Ray), Brandon Victor Dixon (Davis), Vanessa Ferguson (Tiny), Crystal Monee Hall (Crystal), Jakeim Hart (Q), Chris Lee (Knuck), Jackie Leon (Jessica), Kecia Lewis (Miss Liza Jane), Maleah Joi Moon (Ali), Mariand Torres (Maria, (Understudy), and Lamont Walker II (Riq), with Reid Clarke, Chloe O. Davis, Nico DeJesus, Timothy L. Edwards, Desmond Sean Ellington, Badia Farha, David A. Guzman, Gianna Harris, Raechelle Manalo, Jade Milan, Onyxx Noel, Susan Oliveras, Sarah Parker, William Roberson, Niki Saludez, Donna Vivino, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater.
One Night with Anthony Rapp concert, at 7 PM at Oscar’s Palm Springs.
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Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club will begin previews Apr. 1, 2024 and open Apr. 20 & 21 at the August Wilson Theatre, directed by Rebecca Frecknall, with choreography by Julia Cheng, and music direction by Jennifer Whyte.
Eddie Redmayne (Emcee), Gayle Rankin (Sally Bowles), and more TBA.
The creative team will transform the August Wilson Theatre into the Kit Kat Club with an in-the-round auditorium and sinfully dreamlike spaces which guests will be invited to explore featuring pre-show entertainment, drinks, and dining. After purchasing tickets, guests will receive a “club entry time” to allow them to take in the world of the club before the show starts.
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Judy Garland: We Need a Little Christmas, starring Debbie Wileman, will take place Sun. Dec. 10 at 8 PM at Carnegie Hall.
Chita Rivera and Margaret O’Brien.
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Gingold Theatrical Group‘s Arms and the Man, directed by David Staller, continues through Nov. 18 at Theatre Row.
Shanel Bailey, Delphi borich, Ben Davis, Keshay Moodliar, Thomas Jay Ryan, Evan Zes, and Karen Ziemba, with René Thornton Jr, and Matthew Zimmerman
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An album release concert for “YOU AND I – The Words and Music of Leslie Bricusse,” featuring Dianne Fraser, directed by Laura Henry, will take place Wed. Nov. 15 at 8:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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The Crucible will run Nov. 6-26 at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre, directed by Will Pomerantz.
Allen O’Reilly (Reverend Samuel Parris), Kate Fitzgerald (Abigail Williams), Teresa DeBerry (Mrs. Ann Putnam / Rebecca Nurse), Gabriel Portuondo (Thomas Putnam / The Bailiff), Sonnie Betts (Mercy Lewis), Anna Francesca Schiavoni (Mary Warren), Joe Pallister (John Proctor), Meg Gibson (Elizabeth Proctor), and Keith Reddin (Reverend John Hale), and Matthew Conlon (Deputy-Governor Danforth).
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Video: Highlights From Daphne at Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3.
Jasmine Batchelor (Daphne), Denise Burse (The Stranger), Naomi Lorrain (Wendy), Keilly McQuail (Winona), and Jeena Yi (Piper).
Daphne has left the city to live with her girlfriend in the woods. After a series of unsettling incidents lead her to question reality, a strange transformation takes hold of her body.
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Page 73, which develops and produces the work of early-career playwrights who have yet to receive a professional production in New York City, has announced the 12 semifinalists for its 2024 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship.
Semifinalists: jose sebastian alberdi, Calley N. Anderson, Brysen Boyd, Jake Brasch, Garrett David Kim, Forest Malley, Ankita Raturi, Stacey Rose, Genevieve Simon, Marissa Joyce Stamps, May Treuhaft-Ali, and Elinor T Vanderburg.
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Ellen Hollander Sings the Beatles will take place Sun. Nov. 12 at 3:30 PM at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama, with music direction by Phill Hall.
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Alex Petti and Annie Pulsipher’s The Trouble with Dead Boyfriends will be workshopped through the Discovering Broadway Writer’s Retreat (Nov. 1-5), directed by Joel Kirk, before receiving a concert presentation in April, 2024.
Casting TBA.
The gory feminist musical centers on three best friends—Stella, Grace, and Madison—who are searching for the perfect dates to Senior Prom. Obsessed with monsters, the three girls summon their dream dates, even though they’re a little…dead. But when things take a turn for the worse as their dates reveal themselves to be monstrous, will the girls—and their friendship—survive?
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Alysha Umphress Swings Jeff Blumenkrantz will take place Mon. Oct. 30 at 8:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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Two invitation-only staged readings of Brett Macias & Jessica Carmona’s An Un-Hero’s Journey will take place on in NYC on Oct. 30, directed by Ioana Alfonso, with music direction by Bruce De La Cruz.
Michel Alejandro Castillo, Julieta Gozalo-Michaud, Ashley LaLonde, Xavier Reyes, David Biada, Joe Cassidy, Desiree Rodriguez, and Satomi Hoffman.
An intensely personal look at two siblings struggling to understand a history and culture that was unintentionally denied them by a father who lived a fascinating double life. Brett’s music draws you in and makes your heart beat faster. He wrote a meaningful, complex, and compelling story and he is a significant new voice in contemporary musical theatre.”