Today’s Highlights:
Table 17, by Douglas Lyons & Zhailon Levingston, directed by Levingston, featuring Kara Young, Biko Eisen-Martin, and Michael Rishawn, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater.
The Manhattan Variations, by Claire Coffee’s, featuring Tenzin Donsel, Julia Gu, Kewulay Kamara, Malcolm Opoku, Shubhra Prakash, Irwin Sánchez, and Dmitris Stefanidis, previews at NYC’s Little Island.
The Brothers Size, by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Bijan Sheibani, featuring Alani iLongwe (Oshoosi Size), Malcolm Mays (Elegba), and Sheaun McKinney (Ogun Size), begins previews at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Aug. 11.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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The Museum of Broadway has announced !VIVA! Broadway: ayer, hoy y mañana a special exhibit in celebration of Latiné and Hispanic heritage onstage. to run Sept. 15 – Oct. 15 in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Video. Trailer For Soft Power at DC’s Signature Theatre.
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Genna Ryan & Kyle Lopez Barisich’s A Touch of Vegas: The Second Coming will take place Sat. Sept. 21 at 8 PM at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.
Genna Ryan (Trudy Lee) and Kyle Lopez Barisich (Kent Lee)
A satirical lounge act parody, Trent & Trudy Lee are the eccentric Christian crooner staples of the Las Vegas strip. After a suspiciously long, self-enforced, time apart social distancing, former Barbizon model Trudy Lee and reformed homosexual Trent are finally back together, sharing their hilarious showbiz tales from the conservative cabaret circuand magical 80s medleys in a multimedia experience unlike any other.
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MasterVoices has announced its 2024-25 season:
Casting, creative teams and additional information TBA.
Strike Up the Band (Oct. 29 at Carnegie Hall), by George & Ira Gershwin and Morrie Ryskind, directed by Ted Sperling.
Blind Injustice (Feb. 3-4, 2025 at the Rose Theater), by Scott Davenport Richards & David Cote. Based on Mark Godsey’s book of the same name, and casework by the Ohio Innocence Project, the opera explores the U.S. criminal justice system and how it can fail the wrongfully accused.
Bach Reframes: The B Minor Mass (May 5), at The Great Hall at Cooper Union. The multimedia work features excerpts from J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass alongside texts and visuals by commissioned writers and artists.
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Off-Broadway’s Tectonic Theater Project‘s A Tectonic Cabaret will take place Mon. Oct. 21 at 6:30 PM at NYC’s Current (Pier 59 at Chelsea Piers), directed by Timothy Koch, with music direction by Anna Ebbesen.
Tom Viola, Gigi Pritzker, and Colman Domingo
Performers TBA.
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Group Rep will present the world premiere of Brent Beerman’s Mourning Song Aug. 15 – Sept. 15 at North Hollywood’s Lonny Chapman Theatre, directed by Mareli Mitchel-Shields.
Brent Beerman, Kathi Chaplar, Amy Earhart, PaulAnthony Kelly, Lloyd Pedersen, Alex Scyocurka, and Bonnie Snyder.
The Musical Epilepsy caused by a stroke uncovers a voice from Bridgette Newsome’s (an Irish orphan) forgotten past.
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Dancers Responding to AIDS will present The Hudson Valley Dance Festival on Sun. Oct. 13 at 2 & 5 PM at NY’s Historic Catskill Point.
Performers and choreographers TBA.
The festival will again transform a charming 19th-century warehouse set upon the banks of the Hudson River into an elegant and distinctive performance space. With a lineup highlighting works nurtured in and inspired by the rich artistic culture of the Hudson Valley.
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An Evening with Kate McKinnon: The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science will take place Mon. Sept. 30 at 8 PM at N YC’s 92NY,
This story — inspired by McKinnon’s own childhood, “eating honeysuckle on the playground and collecting bugs and falling in love with the natural world,” is the first in a madcap new book series about three sisters and a mysterious scientist which, hopes McKinnon, will inspire and empower young readers. Hear about how this long-term passion project developed, McKinnon’s own fascination with science and nature, finding your own place to belong, her essential message that being weird is exactly what makes you wonderful, along with reflections and anecdotes about her life and career.
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The world premiere of Sam Henry Kass’ Brooklyn’s Way will run Sept. 6 – Oct. 13 (opening Sept. 7) at Theatre 68 Complex, directed by Ronnie Marmo.
TBA.
Set in New York, Brooklyn’s Way centers around Sam, a gifted and witty veteran writer, full of both emotion and depression. He is charismatic and gloomy at the same time. His own worst enemy. Brooklyn is a young writer’s assistant, full of ambition, clever yet vulnerable, charming and totally captivated by Sam’s talent and yet she is fearful of his self-destructing behavior. They each face their own difficult situations. Two people now aligned forever, yet separated by life and the circumstances they must navigate.
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NYC’s Broadway Week (Sept. 3-13) has announced the shows offering two for one tickets:
Six
Once Upon a Mattress
Back to the Future
Sterophonic
Aladdin
MJ
& Juliet
Hell’s Kitchen
Hadestown
Wicked
Moulin Rouge!
The Notebook
Chicago
The Roommate
Job
The Great Gatsby
The Lion King
The Hills of California
The Book of Mormon
Hamilton
Harry Potter and the Cursed Chids
Suffs
Water for Elephants.
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Master Voices has announced its 83rd season in NYC (venues TBA):
Creative teams and casting TBA.
Strike Up the Band (Oct. 29), by George & Ira Gershwin
Blind Injustice (Feb. 3-4, 2025), by Scott Davenport Richars & David Cote. The opera explores the U.S. criminal justice system and how it can fail the wrongfully accused.
Bach Reframed: The B Binor Mass. (May 5) The multimedia work features excerpts from J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass alongside texts and visuals by commissioned writers and artists.
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Sam Morrison’s Sugar Daddy will run Sept. 20 – Oct. 13 (opening Sept. 29) at the Wallis Annenberg Center, directed by Stephen Brackett,
Sam Morrison
One summer in the gay paradise of Provincetown, MA., Sam met the sexy silver daddy of his dreams, igniting a romance for the ages. But in the midst of the pandemic, the love of his life tragically died from COVID. Devastated, Sam realized the only way to cope was through comedy. Done live on stage. In front of thousands of strangers. All around the globe. And to call the show Sugar Daddy.
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“Mid-Century Modern,” by David Kohan & Max Mutchnick, will launch on Hulu (date TBA), directed by James Burrows.
Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer, Nathal Lee Graham, and Linda Lavin.
The modern-day “Golden Girls” follows best friends (played by Lane, Bomer, and Graham) who decide to live together after the death of a fellow friend. They share their Palm Springs residence with Lane’s mother, Sybil (Lavin).
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Complete casting has been announced for the national tour of Kimberly Akimbo, which will launch Sept. 22 at the Denver Center at Utica’s Stanley Theatre, directed by Jessica Stone. Click here for the tour schedule.
Carolee Carmello (Kimberly Akimbo), Miguel Gil (Seth), Jim Hogan (Buddy), Skye Alyssa Friedman (Teresa), and Darron Hayes (Martin), Emily Koch (Debra), Dana Steingold (Pattie), Grace Capeless (Delia), Pierce (Aaron), and Valerie Wright (Kimberly standby), with Sarah Lynn Marion, Regene Seven Odon, Marcus Phillips, Bailey Ryon, and Brandon Springman.