Today’s Highlights:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, by Jack Thorn, directed by John Tiffany, featuring John Skelley (Harry Potter), Angela Reed (Ginny Potter), Benjamin Papac (Albus Potter), Steve O’Connell (Ron Weasley), Lily Mojekwu (Hermione Granger), Folanmi Williams (Rose Granger-Weasley), Lucas Hall (Draco Malfoy), and Jon Steiger (Scorpius Malfoy), with Chadd Alexander, John Alix, William Bednar-Carter, Ebony Blake, Melanie Brezill, Shannon Cochran, Jamyl Dobson, Irving Dyson Jr, Gary-Kayi Fletcher, Eleasha Gamble, Kita Grayson, Logan James Hall, Abbi Hawk, Corey Hedy, Chance Marshaun Hill, Nathan Hosner, Nick Hyland, Charles Janasz, Cynthia Jimenez-Hicks, Joel Leffert, Chanté Odom, Erik Evan Olson, Christine Pedersen, Elise Southwick, Tuck Sweeney, Geoffrey Wade, and Brittany Zeinstra, opens at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre.
Blues in the Night, by Sheldon Epps, directed by David Fiorello, featuring Felicia P. Fields (The Lady from the Road), Donica Lynn (The Woman of the World), Clare Kennedy (The Girl with a Date), Evan Tyrone Martin (The Man in the Saloon), and Terrell Armstrong (The Dancing Man), opens at Chicago’s Porchlight Theatre.
Slave Play, by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O’Hara, featuring Ato Blankson-Wood, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Jonathan Higginbotham, Devin Kawaoka, Chalia La Tour, Irene Sofia Lucio, Annie McNamara, and Paul Alexander Nolan, with Eboni Flowers, Blake Russell, Luigi Sottile, Elizabeth Stahlmann, and Galen J. Williams, begins previews at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.
Marry Me A Little, directed by Kari Hayter, featuring Katy Tang and Nick Tubbs, begins previews at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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GRACE NOTES Quote of the Week: “This isn’t exactly a stable business. It’s like trying to stand up in a canoe with your pants down.” ~ Cliff Robertson
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Jagged Little Pill, which closed Dec. 17, 2021 on Broadway, will launch a national tour Nov. 8-13 at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, directed by Diane Paulus, with choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
Casting and tour schedule TBA.
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Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of JC Lee’s To My Girls, to begin previews Mar. 15 and open Apr. 12 at the Tony Kiser Theater, directed by Stephen Brackett.
Bryan Batt, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Carman Lacivita, Noah J. Ricketts, Britton Smith, and Maulik Pancholy.
Is there anything more fabulous than Palm Springs after the end of the world? For one tight group of gay men, a post-pandemic getaway is the perfect chance to reunite, reclaim their time and replace the gloom with some gossip. But as soon as the drinks start pouring, truths start spilling, this chosen family quickly realizes the world has changed.
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Hudson Stage presents a reading of Enid Graham’s A Long Time Ago in a Dark Yard at Night 0n Fri. Feb. 25 at 7:30 PM ET at Armonk’s Whippoorwill Hall Theatre, directed by Robert Sella.
TBA.
Sarah and Ruby, two young girls from a small Texas town, navigate life’s complications as they grow from girls to women. As their lives take very different paths, can their friendship survive?
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Keen Company has announced its 2022 Playwrights Lab, which includes readings from the 2021 participants, as well as a roundtable discussion with the ’21 playwrights on the process of developing new work.
Kristoffer Diaz, Sarah Schulman, and Anna Ziegler.
These mid-career playwrights will develop new full-length plays that uphold Keen’s mission to create theater that champions identification and connection. The lab’s mission is two-fold: to make Keen a home for new plays that speak deeply to the theater’s mission and vibrantly to the present moment; and to help address the dearth of development support for American playwrights who have evolved out of early-career status into the trenches of mid-career.
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Hello, Dolly! will run May 13-28 at Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Theatre Company, directed & choreographed by Karen Azenberg.
Paige Davis (Dolly Gallagher Levi) and more TBA.
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A cast album of Classic Stage Company’s Assassins will be released digitally on Mar. 18, and on CD on Apr. 15. Links for pre-ordering TBA.
Adam Chanler-Berat (John Hinkley, Jr.), Eddie Cooper (The Proprietor), Tavi Gevinson (Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme), Andy Grotelueschen (Samuel Byck), Judy Kuhn (Sara Jane Moore), Steven Pasquale (John Wilkes Booth), Ethan Slater (Lee Harvey Oswald/The Balladeer), Will Swenson (Charles Guiteau), Wesley Taylor (Giuseppe Zangara), and Brandon Uranowitz (Leon Czolgosz), with Brad Griovanine, Bianca Horn, Whit K. Lee), Rob Morrison, and Katrina Yaukey.
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National Queer Theatre will present a pay-what-you-can performnace of Ayla Xuan Chi Sullivan & Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko’s Jubilee for a New World on Mon. Feb. 21 at 7 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater, directed by Roger Q. Mason.
James A. Pierce III and Ianne Fields Stewart.
The event will showcase excerpts from new works amplifying the TGNC experience in scene, song, and performance.
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NAATCO presents the world premiere of Out of Time Feb. 15 – Mar. 13 (opening Mar. 1) at The Public Theater, conceived & directed by Les Waters.
Jaclyn Backhaus, Sam Chanse, Mia Chung, Naolmi Iizuka, and Anna Ouyang Moench.
Mia Katigbak, Glenn Kubota, Page Leong, Natsuko Ohama, and Rita. Wolf.
An evening offering a collection of five brand-new monologues, each written by a different Asian American playwright, and cast with Asian American actors all over the age of 60. A theatrical tapestry exploring age, memory, parenthood, and identity
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Steven Brinberg’s Simply Barbra — Love Is The Answer will take place Thurs. Feb. 10 at 7 PM Et at NYC’s Green Room 42, with music direction by Christopher Denny.
Nikita Burshteyn
This special show will feature great love songs, Streisand classics, and a Sondheim tribute.
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Skylight Theatre Company and Playwrights Arena have announced the world premiere of Boni B. Alvarez’s Apartment Living, to run Mar. 5 – Apr. 17 (opening Mar. 12) at the Skylight Theatre, directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.
Gabriel Leyva (Alex), Geri-Nikole Love (Mayisha), Charrell Mack (Cassandra), Gigette Reyes (Easter), Andrew Russel (Dixon), and Rachel Sorsa (White Lady).
Shared walls. Shared experiences. Neighbors in a Los Angeles apartment building are forced into tighter quarters and the wall of their comfort begin to close in. What happens when these relationships get too close? What we believe about ourselves and others is seldom the truth.
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The Huntington Theatre presents What the Constitution Means to Me Feb. 22 – Mar. 20 at Boston’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, directed by Oliver Butler.
Cassie Beck and Gabriel Marin, with Jocelyn Shek and Emilyn Toffler.
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. Off-Broadway’s Abingdon Theatre Company has announced casting for a concert presentation of Jill Santoriello, Jason Huza & Jeremiah James’ It Happened in Key West on Mon. Mar. 7 at 7:30 PM ET at NYC’s Duane Park, directed by Chad Austin, with music direction by Nick Wilders.
broadwayonthebowery@abingdontheatre.org
Bryce Pinkham, Max von Essen, Wade McCollum, Jessica Vosk, Shereen Pimentel, Pierre Marias, Ilda Mason, Mikaela Bennett, and Jonathan Hoover.
A musical as eclectic and colorful as the island itself – an oddball comedy shifting between the absurdly hilarious and the profoundly moving.
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Boston’s Lyric Stage Company presents Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will Feb. 25 – Mar. 27 (opening Feb. 27), directed by Courtney O’Connor.
Ed Hoopman, Joshua Wolf Coleman, Will McGarrahan, Shani Farrell, Sarah Newhouse, Scot Colford, Grace Experience, Lewis D. Wheeler, Hector Toledo Jr., and Fred Sullivan Jr.
An intimate backstage pass about a group of friend (Shakespeare’s nearest and dearest in this case) who make the impossible happen and forever change the way great works of the theater are preserved for generations to come.
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A national tour of Les Misérables will re-launch in October.
Casting and touring schedule TBA.
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The national tour of The Prom will run Mar. 8-13 at the Providence Performing Arts Center, directed & choreographed by Casey Nicholaw.
Kaden Kearney (Emma), Kalyn West (Alyssa Greene), Courtney Balan (Dee Dee Allen), Patrick Wetzel (Barry Glickman), Emily Borromeo (Angie Dickinson), Bud Weber (Trent Oliver), Sinclair Mitchell (Mr. Hawkins), Ashanti J’Aria (Mrs. Greene), and Shavey Brown (Sheldon Saperstein), with Jordan Alexander, Gabrielle Beckford, Ashley Bruce, Olivia Rose Cece, Maurice Dawkins, Jordan De Leon, James Caleb Grice, Megan Grosso, Marie Gutierrez, Chloe Rae Kehm, Braden Allen King, Brandon J. Large, Christopher McCrewell, Adriana Negron, Lexie Plath, Brittany Nicole Williams, Thad Turner Wilson, and Josh Zacher.
Click here for the complete tour schedule.