Today’s Highlights:
Nothing today.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Dec. 31:
Click here for the complete analysis.
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Selena Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, will run Jan. 17 – Feb. 18 (opening Jan. 25) at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Jennifer Chambers.
Ito Aghayere (Chris), Maria Bello (Bernadette) Alexandra Billings (Margaret), Lauren Blumenfeld (Stephanie), Shannon Cochran (Harriet), Celeste Den (Jean), Jane Levy (Dusty) and Deirdre Lovejoy (Bernadette).
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Red Bull Theater is seeking submissions for its Short New Play Festival, which will return June 24.
New short plays will be selected from an open-submission process and presented in live in-person staged readings alongside 2 new short plays by commissioned writers Madeleine George and Robert O’Hara, directed by Evan Yionoulis and another director TBA. Click the link above for complete details.
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Eureka’s Castle, starring Eureka O’Hara, will take place Fri. Jan. 12 at 8:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Bar & Grill.
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Donald Steven Olson’s The Christine Jorgensen Show will run Feb. 8 – Mar. 3 (opening Feb. 14) at 59E59 Theaters, directed by Michael Barakiva.
Jesse James Keitel and Mark Nadler.
The life story of Jorgensen, America’s first transgender celebrity, and Myles Bell, who helped her create a nightclub act.
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: Aaron Lazar has announced that he has been diagnosed with ALS.
Video: Aaron performs “To Dream the Impossible Dream”
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The Broadway Podcast Network has announced the return of “Radio Play Revival” (a podcast celebrating the golden age of radio plays).
Episode 1: “A Worn Path,” by Eudora Welty, featuring Corey Hawkins, Phylicia Rashad, Sam Robards, Megan Beard, Kathleen Mulligan, and Kitty Swink.
The remainder of season 3 will feature classic works by Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Edna Ferber, and Raymond Carver. These works will be performed by award-winning actors, including Aaron Alcaraz, Allison Janney, Armin Shimerman, Ashton Muñiz, Aubrey Plaza, Bryan Cranston, Claybourne Elder, Coleman Hemsath, Darren Criss, David Zayas, Ed O’Neill, Gia Mantegna, Jefferson Mays, Jessica Lange, John Skelley, Jon Hamm, Josh Johnston, Kathryn Allison, Kathryn Grody, Kelly Fairbrother, Lashette Showers, Luke Wise, Marilyn Caserta, Nathan Malin, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Page, Paul Urcioli, Rebecca Kuznick, Rob Nagle, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Sami Gayle, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Taylor Misiak, Tia DeShazor, Tyler Hansen, and Young Dylan.
Click here for the first episode of Season 3 and previous seasons.
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Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind will run Jan. 12 – Feb. 4 (opening Jan. 14) at Boston’s Lyric Stage, directed by Dawn M. Simmons.
Patrice Jean-Baptiste (Wiletta), Barlow Adamson (Al Manners), Allison Beauregard (Judy Sears), KadahJ Bennett (John Nevins), Davron S. Monroe (Sheldon Forrester), Bill Mootos (Bill O’Ray), Maconnia Chesser (Millie Davis), James Turner (Eddie Fenton), and Robert Walsh (Henry).
A Black actress makes her 1955 stage debut in a backstage story crackling with wit and startling revelations.
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Tony Danza in Concert will run Feb. 22-24 at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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Anything Goes will run Jan. 13 – Feb. 25 (opening Jan. 18) at Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre, directed by Michael Weber, with choreography by Tammy Mader, and music direction by Nick Sula.
Meghan Murphy (Reno Sweeney), Luke Nowakowski (Billie Crocker), Emma Ogea (Hope Harcourt) Jackson Evans (Lord Evelyn Okaleigh), Steve McDonagh (Moonface Martin), Genevieve Venjohnson (Evangeline Harcourt), Nataki Rennie (Purity), Tafadzwa Diener (Erma), Gabriel Solis (Spit), and Anthony Wittaker (Elisha J. Whitney), with Logan Becker, Tommy Bullington, Rachael, Nick Dorado, Josiah Haugen, Ciara Hickey, J. Christian Hill, Emily Ling Mei, Kelsey Macdonald, Hannah Remian, Jenna Schoppe, Mack Spotts, Jerod Turner,,
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Video: Aaron Tveit performs “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie: The Movie”
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Frederick Knott’s Dial M for Murder will run Jan. 24 – Feb. 11 at Virginia Stage Company, directed by Mark Shanahan.
Michelle Liu Coughlin (Margot Wendice), Joe Delafield (Max Halliday), Daniel Domingues, Jr. (Tony Wendice), Steve Pacek (Captain Lesgate), and Jan Neuberger (Inspector Hubbard).
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Formidable! Aznavour will take place Sat. Jan. 13 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Town Hall, directed by Bil Marsalla. The concert received approval from Aznavour prior to his passing several years ago.
Melissa Errico and Jules Grison
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Sweeney Todd will run Feb. 11 – Mar. 17 (opening Feb. 17) at Pasadena’s A Noise Within, directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott.
Geoff Elliott (Sweeney Todd), Cassandra Marie Murphy (Mrs. Lovett), Jeremy Rabb (Judge Turpin), Josey Montana McCoy (Tobias Ragg), Kasey Mahaffy (Adolfo Pirelli), Joanna A Jones (Johanna), James Everts (Anthony Hope), Harrison White (Beadle Bamford), Amber Liekhus (Beggar Woman), and Josey Montana McCoy (Tobias), with Grace Albano, Samantha Atilano, Ella Blain (Ethan Clayton), Ariel Davis, Rachel K. Han, Sebastian Rodriguez, Sarah Randall Hunt, and Michael Solomon.
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Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World will run Feb. 6 – Mar. 3 at Upstairs as the Gatehouse, directed by Kai Wright, with music direction by Liam Holmes.
Lizzy Parker, Eleanor Frances, Luke Walsh, and Christopher Camerson, with Elizabeth Chambers and Johan Sercombe.