Today’s Highlights:
Lillias White begins her run as Hermes in Hadestown at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre.
The Color Purple UK tour, directed by Tinuke Craig, featuring Me’sha Bryan (Celie), Bree Smith (Shug Avery), Aaliyah Zhané (Nettie), Ahmed Hamad (Harpo), Jimand Allotey (Squeak), Ako Mitchell (Mister), Anelisa Lamola (Sofia), KM Drew Boateng (Pa), Rosemary Annabella Nkrumah (Darlene), and Karen Mavundukure (Doris/alternate Celie), with Kyle Birch, Kayla Carter, Joshua Clemetson, Esme Laudat, DeeArna McLean, Monifa James, Nathaniel Morrison, Alex Okoampa, and Neil Patterson, opens at Birmingham’s The Hippodrome.
York Theatre Company‘s Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood, by Barry Kleinbort, Randy Skinner & David Hancock Turner, directed & choreographed by Randy Skinner, featuring Jeremy Benton, Darien Crago, Kaitlyn Davidson, Danny Gardner, and Melinda Porto, with Corinne Munsch and Sean Quinn, opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Jean’s.
Ann Talman: Elizabeth Taylor and The Shadow of Her Smile concert opens in person & streaming at NYC’s 54 Below.
Manhattan Theatre Club‘s Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok, directed by Jo Bonney, featuring Gregg Mozgala, Katy Sullivan, Kara Young, and David Zayas, begins previews at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Our Man in Santiago, by Mark Wilding, directed by Charlie Mount, featuring Presciliana Esparolini, Nick McDow Musleh, George Tovar, Steve Nevil, and Michael Van Duzer, previews at Off-Broadway’s AMT Theatre.
The Griswold’s Family Vacation, by David Rossmer & Steven Rosen, directed & choreographed by Donna Feore, featuring Hunter Foster (Clark Griswold), Megan Reinking (Ellen Griswold), Livvy Marcus (Audrey), Nathan Levy (Rusty), Jay Klaitz (Cousin Eddie), and Alan Green (Naked Commando), and Megan Reinking (Ellen Griswold alternate), with Carol Angeli, Sydni Beaudoin, Sarah Bishop, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Jennifer Cody, Merritt David Janes, Julian DeGuzman, Rohit Gopal, Olivia Griffin, Garett Hawe, Jaygee Macapugay, Heather Makalani, Jennifer Noble, Michael Olaribigbe, Julio Rey, Jody Reynard, Matthew Sims, Jr., Jonathan Wagner, and Brandon Whitmore, Connor Russell and Brenna Mikale Wagner, begins previews at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre. Note: Kate Rockwell (Ellen Griswold), has departed the production due to her upcoming baby’s birth.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, world premiere by Nathan Englander, directed by Barry Edelstein, featuring Rebecca Creskoff (Debbie), Sophie von Haselberg (Lauren), Greg Hildreth (Mark), Joshua Malina (Phil), and Nathan Salstone (Trevor), begins previews at San Diego’s Old Globe.
Oklahoma! tour, directed by Daniel Fish, featuring Sasha Hutchings (Laurey Williams), Sean Grandillo (Curly McLain), Christopher Bannow (Jud Fry), Sis (Ado Annie), Hennessy Winkler (Will Parker), Benj Mirman (Ali Hakim), Barbara Walsh (Aunt Eller), Hannah Solow (Gertie Cummings), Mauricio Lozano (Mike), Ugo Chukwu (Cord Elam), Mitch Tebo (Andrew Carnes), and Gabrielle Hamilton (Lead Dancer), with Gillian Hassert, Cameron Anika Hill, Hunter Hoffman, Scott Redmond, Gwynne Wood, Jordan Wynn, and Minga Prather, begins previews at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre.
The Inheritance, by Matthew López, directed by Mike Donahue, featuring Nic Ashe (Adam/Leo), Bill Brochtrup (Morgan/Walter Poole), Tantoo Cardinal (Margaret Avery), Juan Castano (Toby Darling), Jay Donnell (Young Man 6/Tristan), Israel Erron Ford (Young Man 2/Jason #1/Doorman #1/Toby’s Other Agent), August Gray Gall (Young Man 3/Young Henry Tucker), Adam Kantor (Eric Glass), Eddie Lopez (Young Man 5/Charles Wilcox/Toby’s Agent/Toby’s Dealer), Kasey Mahaffy (Young Man 7/Jasper/Paul Wilcox/Doorman #2), Miguel Pinzon (Young Man 4/Young Walter), Avi Roque (Young Man 7/Jason #2/Clinic Worker), and Tuc Watkins (Henry Wilcox), begins previews at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
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2022 Emmy Award winners.
Click here for the complete list of winners.
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The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, will close Jan. 1, 2023 at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre, after 46 previews and 358 regular performances.
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Fun Home will run Oct. 8-30 (opening Oct. 14) at TheaterWorks Hartford, directed by Rob Ruggiero, with music direction by Jeff Cox.
Aaron Lazar (Bruce), Christianne Noll (Helen), Sarah Beth Pfeifer (Alison), Ali Louis Bourzgui (Roy/Mark/Pete/Bobby/Jeremy), Sam Duncan (John-Jasper), Myles Low (Christian), Skylar Lynn Matthews (Small Alison), Julia Nightingale (Medium Alison), and Cameron Silliman (Joan).
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Manhattan Theatre Club will present Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration Nov. 29 – Jan. 22, 2023 (opening Dec. 20) at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope.
In the summer of 1984, longtime international superstar Andy Warhol and the art scene’s newest wunderkind, Jean-Michel Basquiat, agree to work together on what may be the most talked about exhibition in the history of modern art. But can these two creative giants co-exist, or even thrive?
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Broadway By The Year: One Night Only History of Broadway Song and Dance has announced additional casting. The concert will take place Mon. Sept. 19 at 8 PM ET at NYC’s Town Hall, directed & hosted by Scott Siegel, with choreography by Danny Gardner.
Jeanette Bayardelle, Jarrod Spector, Kellie Barrett, Luke Hawkins, Rema Webb, Kendrick Jones, and Danny Gardner.
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Cicely Tyson, who passed away in January 2021 at the age of 96, will be honored with a street renaming later this month when East 101st Street (between 3rd and Lexington) is renamed Cicely Tyson Way.
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ABC will present an animated/live-action hybrid special of “Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration” on Thurs. Dec. 15 at 8 PM (and then available beginning Dec. 16 on Disney+.
H,E.R. (Belle), Josh Groban (Beast), Rita Moreno (Narrator), and more TBA.
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Driver’s Seat, written & performed by Ellie Brelis, will run Oct. 1-23 at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68 Arts Complex, directed by Kymberly Harris.
The triumphant journey of a young girl navigating OCD, a once-in-a-lifetime heartbreak, mental health hospitalization, and coming out as queer. Learning to drive should be a cinch, right?
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“Hirschfeld’s Broadway,” a world premiere multi-media presentation illustrating and celebrating some of the most love moments in American theater, will take place Wed. Sept. 28 at 7:30 PM ET at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse, hosted by David Leopold (Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director).
The event will feature backstage stories of Hirschfeld’s interactions with theater legends, nine decades of Hirschfeld’s iconic artwork and searches for the hidden “Nina”s within.
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The Out of the Box Theatrics revival of Tina Landau & Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins, previously announced for an Off-Broadway run this Fall, has been cancelled. The production was to have been directed by Christina Sajous.
Landau and Guettel are in the process of revising the musical and do not wish for it to be performed in NYC at this time.
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National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene has announced casting for the return of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, to run Nov. 13 – Jan. 1, 2023 at New World Stages, directed by Joel Grey.
Steven Skybell (Tevye), Jennifer Babiak (Golde), Rachel Zatcoff (Tsaytl), Ben Liebert (Motl), Stephanie Lynne Mason (Hodl), Rosie Jo Neddy (Khave), Bruce Sabath (Leyzer-Volf), Drew Seigla (Pertshik), Raquel Nobile (Shprintse), Jonathan Quigley (Chaim), Nick Raynor (Yosl), Adam B. Shapiro (Der Rov), Jodi Snyder (Beylke), James Monroe Števko (Mendl), Lauren Jeanne Thomas (Der Fidler), Bobby Underwood (Der Gradavoy), Mikhl Yashinsky (Nokhum/Mordkhe), with John Giesige, Kirk Geritano, Abby Goldfarb, Kayleen Seidl, Ron Tal, and more TBA.
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Crimson Square Theatre Company will present David Auburn’s Lost Lake Sept. 23 – Oct. 9 at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, directed by Faye Viviana.
Lisagaye Tomlinson (Veronica) and Craig Bachmann (Hogan)
A tense, carefully wrought drama about the surprising, complicated friendship formed by two very different people with no one else to turn to. The lakeside rental Veronica has managed to afford is a var cry from the idyllic getaway she and her children so desperately need and the disheveled property owner Hogan has problems of his own. Problems that Veronica is inevitably and irrevocably pulled into.
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The Broadway production of Billy Crustal, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Jason Robert Brown & Amanda Green’s Mr. Saturday Night, starring Billy Crrystal, will stream on BroadwayHD (release date TBA).
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York Theatre will present the 2022 Oscar Hammerstein Awards Gala on Mon. Nov. 14 at 6 PM ET at NYC’s Edison Rooftop (223 West 46th Street), directed by Michael Unger.
Leslie Uggams and Ted Chapin
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The world premiere of “Hirschfeld’s Broadway,” a new multi-media presentation illustrating classic moments in the American theatre, will open Sept. 28 at 7:30 PM ET at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse.
The evening will feature backstage stories of Hirschfeld’s interactions with the theatre legends, nine decades of the late artist’s drawings, and searched for the hidden “Ninas.”
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New cast members have been announced for the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Timothy Sheader, who will begin their runs Oct. 8. Click here for the tour schedule.
Jack Hopewell (Jesus), Elvie Ellis (Judas), Faith Jones (Mary), Isaac Ryckeghem (Caiaphas), Nicholas Hambruch (Pilate), and Kodiak Thompson (Annas), with Ethan Hardy Benson, Joshua Bess, Jordan Wesley Brown, Jahlil M. Burke, Cooper Clack, Kalei Cotecson, Lydia Eku, Savannah Fisher, Domanick Anton Hubbard, Haley Huelsman, Jeremy Makana Hurr, Brett Hennessey Jones, Lena Matthews, Hosea Mundi, Caroline Perry, L’Oréal Roaché, Colin Robertson, Darren James Robinson, Erich W. Schleck, and Lauren Soto.
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Leslie Odom, Jr. The Christmas Tour has announced its tour dates:
Click here for the tour schedule.