Today’s Highlights
As You Like It, directed by Josie Rourke, featuring Leah Harvey (Rosalind), Rose Ayling-Ellis (Celia), Alfred Enoch (Orlando), Tom Mison (Touchstone), Martha Plimpton (Jaques), Tom Mison (Touchstone), Allie Daniel (Amiens), Tom Edden (Duke Frederick), Dickon Gough (Charles), Gabriella Leon (Audrey), Mary Malone (Phoebe), Syakira Moeladi (Hisperia), Cal Watson (Le Beau), June Watson (Adam/Corin), and Ben Wiggins (Oliver), opens at London’s Sohoplace Theatre.
The King and I UK tour, directed by David Needham, featuring Ramon Tikaram (The King), Josefina Gabrielle (Anna), Claire-Marie Hall (Tup-Tim), Adrian Li Donni (Lun-tha), Maya Sapone (Lady Thiang), Nicholas Goh (Kralahome), and Gary Wood (Prince Choulalonghorn), with The rest of Craig Turbyfield, Rowan Lewis Mitchell, Aiko Kato, Makato Leahy, Charlotte Humphrey, Naomi Bailie, Farrah Hussain, Kaho Uchida, Misa Koide, Adam Denman, Matthew Cheney, Lori Hayley Fox and Yuki Ikezawa, opens at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre.
Joe & Julia’s Advent Carolndar Concert, featuring Julia Mattison and Joel Waggoner, begins streaming at Midnight ET here.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Dec. 11. Click here for the complete analysis.
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The 76th Annual Tony Awards will take place Sun. June 11 at a new location — the United Palace in Washington Heights.
The ceremony will be broadcast live from the new location, and will also air on CBS, as well as stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
Additional information TBA.
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Joshua Henry discusses his preparation for playing Gaston in “Beauty & the Beast: A 30 Celebration,” which airs Dec. 15 on ABC. Click here.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will return to Theatre at St. Clements from Feb. 24 – Mar. 31 (opening Mar. 5), directed by Joe Rosario.
Courtney Henggeler (Maggie) and more TBA.
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Ali Stroker and David Perlow have welcomed a baby boy. Jesse Kenneth Perlow was born Nov. 8.
Stoker and Perlow were married on July 16, 2021. They met in college and then reconnected during the 2015 Deaf West Theatre revival of Spring Awakening,
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Video: Hugh Jackman reveals why he’s ready to move on from The Music Man.
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“The 76th Annual Tony Awards” will broadcast live on Sun. June 11, 2023 from a new location — NYC’s United Palace (4140 Broadway).
The ceremony will also air live on CBS Television Network, and stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
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Audio: Joshua Henry performs “Can’t Nobody Tell Us Nothin’”
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Cabaret will run June 14 – July 8 (opening June 18) at Pittsfield’s Barrington Stage, directed by new Artistic Director Alan Paul.
Casting, link, and additional information TBA.
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The perfect holiday gift: Manhattan Theatre Club’s MTC Passport Vouchers are a way for you to give the gift of theatre – and they’re valid for a full year from purchase! The recipient can choose from any of our plays at the Friedman Theatre on Broadway, or Off-Broadway at New York City Center Stage I. Whether you’re giving to an avid or first-time theatregoer, you can be sure your thoughtful gift won’t soon be forgotten.
We’ll send your Passport Vouchers with a gift envelope and instructions for how to redeem them, so all you need to do is give them to the right person. Or you could always keep them for yourself!
Click here for details.
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Video: Will Swenson performs “America” from Broadway’s A Beautiful Noise.
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Audible Theater has announced its first two live shows of 2023 at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
Nostalgia: A Love Letter to NYC, Eva Noblezada’s solo show, (Jan. 12-24). 
An intimate evening of songs and storytelling celebrating everything that is so maddening and magical about our beloved city, the show will debut new music along with personal reflections that Noblezada plans to share with her audiences live for the very first time.
Lucy (Jan. 2 – Feb. 25), world premiere written & directed by Erica Schmidt, featuring Brooke Bloom and Lynn Collins. Ashling is every busy parent’s dream: a professional nanny with experience and a warm, sunny attitude. But from the moment Mary hires her to look after her young children, things start to feel just a little…off.”
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L.A. Theatre Works will bring its signature radio-theater hybrid style 22 national tour of Gregg Oppenheimer’s Lucy Loves Desi: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom, directed by Brendon Fox. One of the tour dates will include one performance on Jan. 14 at 2 PM at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Ellis Greer (Lucille Ball), Bill Mendieta (Ricky Ricardo), Laila Ayad (Vivian Vance), Tom Virtue (William Frawley). Ozzie Rodriguez (Harry Ackerman), and Gerard Marzilli (Jess Oppenheimer), with Paul Culos, Desiree Mee Jung, and Matthew Floyd Miller.
A comedy about the comedy business.
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Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine will now run Feb. 17 – June 3 at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre, directed by Matthew Dunster.
Sheridan Smith.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will return Feb. 24 – Mar. 31 (opening Mar. 5) at the Theatre at St. Clements, directed by Joe Rosario.
Matt de Rogatis (Brick), Courtney Henggeler (Maggie), and more TBA.
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CT’s Westport Country Playhouse Radio Theater presents “A Merry Little Christmas Carol,” written & directed by Mark Shanahan, and will air Sat. Dec. 24 at 6:06 PM (following the national news), with a second broadcast on Sun. Dec. 25 at 1:06 PM.
The piece is also accessible here through Sun. Jan. 1.
Paxton Whitehead (Ebenezer Scrooge), Brian J. Carter (Bob Cratchit), Joel de la Fuente (Fred), Sana ‘Prince’ Sarr (Street Urchin/Peter Cratchit), Triney Sandoval (jacob Marley), Mia Dillon (Mrs. Dilber), Geneva Carr (Ghost of Christmas Past), Mark Shanahan (Mr. Creakle), Pearl Sun (Fan), Richard Henry (Old Fezziwig), Joe Delafield (Dick Wilkins), Danielle Davenport (Belle), Britney Coleman (Ghost of Christmas Present), Sarah Manton (Mrs. Cratchit), Catherine Shanahan (Martha Cratchit), Theo Adamson (Tiny Tim), John Gromada (Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come), and Mark Lamos (Narrator).
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Broadway at Sacramento has announced its 2023 Broadway at Music Circus season:
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (June 13-18)
Cinderella (June 27 – July 2)
The Music Man (July 11-16)
The Addams Family (July 25-30)
Rent (Aug. 22-27)
Casting and creative teams TBA.
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Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, adapted from the novel by Mark Izzard, has been extended through Feb. 11 at Off-Broadway’s Greenwich House Theatre, directed by Selina Cadell.
Eddie Izzard (as 21 characters)
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The recent West End revival of Grease, which closed Oct. 29 at the Dominion Theatre, will return June 2 – Oct. 8, again directed by Nikolai Foster, with choreography by Arlene Phillips.
Casting and additional information TBA.