Today’s Highlights:
“Daddy” A Melodrama, by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Danya Taymor, featuring Terique Jarrett, Claes Bang, Sharlene Whyte, John McCrea, Ionna Kimbrook, and Jenny Rainsford, with Rebecca Bernice Amissah, Keisha Atwell, and T’Shan Williams, opens at London’s Almeida Theatre.
Suffs, world premiere by Shaina Taub, directed by Leigh Silverman, featuring Shaina Taub (Alice Paul), Nikki M. James, Phillipa Soo, and Jenn Colella, with Jenna Bainbridge, Ally Bonino, Tsilala Brock, Hannah Cruz, Nadia Dandashi, Aisha de Haas, Stephanie Everett, Amina Raye, Holly Goould, Cassondra James, Jaygee Macapugay, Grace McLean, Susan Oliveras, Mia Pak, Liz Pearce, Monica Tulia Ramirez, J. Riley Jr., Angela Travino, Ada Westfall, and Aurelia Williams, opens at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater.
Next to Normal, directed & choreographed by Marcos Santana, featuring Darlesia Cearcy (Diana) Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Dan), Ashley LaLonde (Natalie), Gian Perez (Henry), Daniel J. Maldonado (Gabe), and Katie Thompson (Dr. Madden/Dr. Fine), opens at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse.
Titanic The Musical, directed by Mark Clements, featuring Emma Rose Brooks (Kate McGowan), Lillian Castillo (Alice), Matt Daniels (Pitman/Etches), Kelly Faulkner (Caroline), Nathaniel Hackman (Barrett), Evan Harrinton (Murdoch), Jeremy Landon Hays (Andrews), David Hess (Captain smith), Carrie Hitchcock (Ida Straus), Philip Hoffman (Isador Straus), Brian Krinsky (Jim Farrell), Steve Pacek (Bride), Tim Quartier (Charles), Julio Rey (Fleet), Rána Roman, Andrew Varela (Ismay), and Steve Watts (Edgar), with Jamey Feshold, Jared Brandt Hoover, Kyle Johnson, George Lorimer, Kelty Morash, Sophie Murk, Max Pink, Ogunde Snelling Jr., Vivian Vaeth, Paxton Haley, Zoah Hirano, James LaRoque, and Lainey Techtmann, opens at Milwaukee Rep.
A Strange Loop, by Michael R. Jackson, directed by Stephen Brackett, featuring Jaquel Spivey (Usher), Antwayn Hooper (Thought 6), L. Morgan Lee (Thought 1), James Jackson (Thought 2), John-Michael Lyles (Thought 3), John-Andrew Morrison (Thought 4), and Jason Veasey (Thought 5), begins previews at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre. Just announced: Previews have been postponed to Apr. 7.
Blues for an Alabama Sky, by Pearl Cleage, directed by Phylicia Rashad, featuring Joe Holt, Nija Okoro, Dennis Pearson, Greg Alverez Reid, and Kim Steele, begins previews at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.
Gem of the Ocean, by August Wilson, directed by Tim Bond, featuring Greta Oglesby (Aunt Ester), Edward Ewell (Citizen Barlow), Porscha Shaw (Black Mary), Kim Sullivan (Solly Two Kings), Jerome Preston Bates (Eli), Rodney Hicks (Caesar), and Dan Hiatt (Rutherford Selig), begins previews at CA’s TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
Standard Time with Michael Feinstein: A Century of Romance: of Love Songs concert, with special guest Catherine Russell, at 7:30 PM ET at Carnegie Hall.
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GRACE NOTES Quote of the Week: “It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.”
~ W. Somerset Maugham
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Broadway Grosses for the weekend ending Apr. 3. Click here for the complete analysis.
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An industry reading of Dillon Feldman’s Siren: A New Musical will take place Apr. 14 in NYC, directed by Elena Araoz, with music direction by Rodney Bush.
Brittney Mack, Troy Iwata, Marcy Harriell, iris menas [sic], Leana Rae Concepcion, Allison Griffith, and Tuan Malinowski.
The musical centers on three sirens that are the last vestiges of a community on the verge of extinction, when they make the choice to kill a girl from a nearby village to add to their ranks.
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Cyrano de Bergerac, freely adapted by Martin Crimp, and directed by Jamie Lloyd, and starring James McAvoy, is currently in previews, will open Apr. 14 and continue through May 22 at Brooklyn’s BAM.
The production is now offering $10 on stage seating, available daily through Today Tix.
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A screening of “Great Performances: Keeping Company with Sondheim” will take place Mon. May 23 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y, followed by a discussion moderated by Ruthie Fierberg.
Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone, and Marianne Elliot.
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Video: Highlights from Broadway’s Plaza Suite, starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Hudson Stage Company will present the world premiere of Brenda Withers’ Off Peak Apr. 22 – May 7 (opening Apr. 23) at Armonk’s Whippoorwill Theatre, directed by Jess Chayes.
Kurt Rhoads, Nance Williamson, and Doug Ballard.
When two old flames run into each other on the evening commute, different views of the same past threaten to derail their connection. A play about forgiving, forgetting, and the healing power of a good delay.
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Rogue Machine has extended its production of Daf James’ On The Other Hand, We’re Happy through May 8 at Hollywood’s’ Matrix Theatre, direction by Cameron Watson.
Rori Flynn, Alexandra Hellquist, and Christian Telesmar.
A story around a young couple’s dreams of adopting. When an unforeseen turn of events upends their goals, plans must be adjusted. Life is tough, but even the worst of it can be laugh-out-loud funny.
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Charles Gluck’s Our Brother’s Son will run Apr. 24 – June 24 (opening May 5) at the Signature Center, directed by David Alpert.
Dan Sharkey, Allen McCullough, Liz Larsen, Harrison Chad, Leeanne Hutchison, Midori Tashima Nakamura, and Dan Sharkey, with Ethelyn Friend, Ben Rosenbach, and Dared Wright.
A family fragments when confronted with a complicated medical crisis compelling every family member to make an unimaginable person choice,
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Robert Icke’s contemporary adaptations of Hamlet and Oresteia will run in rep at the Park Avenue Armory, directed by Icke.
Hamlet (June 1 – Aug. 13, opening June 28)
Oresteia (June 9 – Aug. 13 – June 21, opening June 21)
Alex Lawther (Hamlet), Lia Williams (Klytemnestra & Gertrude), and more TBA.
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MCC Theater‘s Miscast22 will stream Sun. May 22 at 7 PM, hosted by TBA.
Christine Baranski
Uzo Aduba, Shoshana Bean, Raúl Esparza, Myles Frost, J. Harrison Ghee, Joshua Henry, Andrea Martin, Audra McDonald, Lea Michele, Kelli O’Hara, Steven Pasquale, Jennifer Simard, and Aaron Tveit.
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Jessica Rush will play her final performance as Rhonda in TINA- The Tina Turner Musical on Apr. 10 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
She will be replaced by Katie Webber on Apr. 12.
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A workshop production of THE PILOT WHO CRASHED THE PARTY: A Dangerous Satire in Two Acts, written & directed by Paul Sand, will run Apr. 29 – May 1 at LA’s Odyssey Theatre (link TBA).
Jaqueline Wright (Sally), Lee Boek (Daniel), Megan Rippey (Laura), Irish Giroon (Ilo), Sol Mason (Pilot), Debra Lane (Valerie), and Caroline Quigley (Bess).
Sally celebrated her 50th birthday with a small elaborate dinner party for three friend in her manor nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains. Their evening is interrupted and fully consumed by an unexpected visitor during a rare southern California rainstorm. As the long night progresses, Sally and her guests simultaneously learn more and understand less about each other as the storm brews outside, and within, the house walls. Who is this mystery guest really? Or better yet, who are these four seemingly close friends.
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Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater has announced the schedule for it’s 8th annual Title Wave: 2022 New Works Festival, to run May 6-8.
Double Helix (May 6 at 8 PM ET), by Madeline Myers. The story of Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant scientist who will stop at nothing to make one of the greatest discoveries of all time. But in the race, anything can happen, and hearts and minds are challenged and changed forever.
Atacama (May 7 at 2 PM ET, by Augusto Federico Amador. Thirty years after the dirty wars waged by the General Pinochet regime on the Chilean people, the play follows two strangers – a mother and a father – who search the Atacama follows two strangers, a mother and a father, who search the Atacama Desert for their buried loved ones and discover there are darker truths awaiting them underneath the hard sands.
One Man Titanic (May 7 at 8 PM ET), by Scott Rothman, Joe Kinosian & Kellen Blair. An epic musical about the band that played on the Titanic, in which all five members of the band, as well as all the passengers and crew of the ship are played by the same actor, for reasons that become clear by the end of this moving comedy.
Zero State (May 8 at 3 PM ET), by Allison Moon. The story of a neuroscientist who uses her revolutionary consciousness-transferal technology to inhabit her dead husband’s body, learning uncomfortable truths about her genius and her marriage.
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Baz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Criag Pearce 7 Jeremy Doner’s film, “Elvis,” a drama about Elvis Presley, will be released June 24.
Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Olivia DeJonge, Luke Bracey, Natasha Bassett, David Wenham, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Xavier Samuel, and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
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Invitation-only workshops of Anna Miriam Brown’s His Story, The Musical will take place Apr. 7 & 8 at NYC’s New 42 Studios, directed by Jeff Calhoun, with choreography by Eamon Foley, and music supervision by Rick Hip-Flores. Contact: HisStoryTickets@gmail.com.
Joshua Bess, Sam Brackley, Blake Du Bois, Travis Flynt, Emilee Hassandzadeh, Gigi Hausman, Jataria Heyward, Madeline Hudelson, Lauren Johnson, Casey Lamont, Jared Mazeika, Bryan Munar, Kaitlin Niewoehner, Alexa Renee, Jonathan Reyes, Cameron Sirian, Sean Stack, and Charles P. Way.
In a poor small town in the Holy Land, a hopeful teen girl pleads with God to send the Messiah and establish a kingdom of hope and justice. Jum ahead 30 years, a common man-from-a-sketchy-family, Jesus, arrives in the big city, upending the traditional kingly expectation of the Messiah. He performs miracles and speaks great wisdom, but attracts followers from the dregs of society and hangs out in the wrong part of town. Mocked by the establishment, he is adored by the people. Bringing an iconic story into the third millennium, with contemporary vernacular and perspective, the musical engages the essential struggles of humanity.
Click here to learn more about the musical.
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Macbeth has ceased performances through Apr. 9, at the Longacre Theatre, as Daniel Craig has tested positive for COVID-19, in additional to multiple positive cases throughout the company.