Today’s Highlights:
Daniel Yearwood (Anthony Hope) begins his run in Sweeney Todd at Broadway’s Lunt Fontanne Theatre.
The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh, directed by Matthew Dunster, featuring Lily Allen (Katurian), Steve Pemberton (Tupolski), Paul Kaye (Ariel), and Matthew Tennyson (Michal), opens at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre.
Encores‘ Light in the Piazza, directed by Chay Yew, featuring Ruthie Ann Miles (Margaret), Anna Zayelson (Clara), Shereen Ahmed (Franca Naccarelli), Andrea Burns (Signora Naccarelli), and Rodd Cyrus (Signor Naccarelli), with Nick Alvino, Daniel Assetta, Jhailyn Farcon, Alex Humphreys, Mary Illes, Jolina Javier, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Matt Leisy, Katerina McCrimmon, Eliseo Roman, Vishal Vidaya, Kathy Voytko, and JD Webster, opens at NY City Center.
Rock & Roll Man, by Gary Kupper, Larry Marshak & Rose Caiola, directed by Randal Myler, featuring Constantine Maroulis (Alan Freed), Joe Pantoliano (Morris Livy/Leo Mintz), Bob Ari (Hoover), Rodrick Covington (Little Richard), and Valisia Lekae (LaVern Baker, with Jamonte D. Bruten, Andy Christopher, AJ Davis, Autumn Guzzardi, Anna Hertel, Dominique Scott, Eric B. Turner, Joe Barbara, Kaye Clater, Lawrence Dandridge, Chase Peacock, and Bronwyn Tarboton, opens at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.
Into the Woods, directed by Lear deBessonet, featuring Diane Phelan (Cinderella), Montego Glover (Witch), Stephanie J. Block (Baker’s Wife), Sebastion Arcelus (Baker), Gavin Creel (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf), Cole Thompson (Jack), Katy Geraghty (Little Red Riding Hood), Nancy Opel (Cinderella’s Stepmother), Jason Forbach (Rapunzel’s Prince), Aymee Garcia (Jack’s Mother), David Patrick Kelly (Narrator), Josh Breckenridge (Cinderella’s Father), and Felicia Curry (Cinderlla’s Mother /Grandmother /Giant’s Wife), with Erica Durham, Eddie Lopez, Ximone Rose, Ellie Fishman, Marya Grandy, Paul Kreppel, and Sam Simahk, begins previews at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre.
Wonderful Town 70th Anniversary All-Star Concert!, directed by Robert W. Schneider, featuring Ken Barnett, Alison Le Bender, Todd Buonopane, Hilary Cole, Erin Davie, Eric Michael Gillett, Janine LaManna, Aaron Mitchum, Amanda Green, Timmy Lewis, Cameron Loyal, Lee Roy Reams, J. Savage, Rebecca Spigelman, Sean McDermott, Billy Reece, Seth Sikes, Karen Ziemba, Elizabeth Teeter, Cameron Loyal, and Steve Ross, with Maggie Bera, James Cella, Chas Conacher, Connor Coughlin, Roger Dawley, Grant Evan, Kali Evonne, Aaron Gooden, Matthew Fairlee, Will Hutcheson, Christina Jackson, Tyler Mell, Juliana Padilla, Molly Samson, Taylor Erin Wade, Maggie Bera, James Cella, Chas Conacher, Connor Coughlin, Roger Dawley, Grant Evan, Kali Evonne, Caleb Funk, Aaron Gooden, Will Hutcheson, Christina Emily Jackson, Tyler Mell, Juliana Padilla, Molly Samoson, and Taylor Erin Wade, at 9:30 PM at NYC’s 54 Below.
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Off-Broadway’s York Theatre Company will honor Patti LuPone (2023 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theater) and Jamie deRoy (2023 Founders Award) on Mon. Nov. 13 at NYC’s Edison Rooftop.
Performers and additional information TBA.
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Courtney Reed will return to the role of Satine in Moulin Rouge!The Musical on Aug. 1 at the Hirschfeld Theatre.
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Manhattan Concert Productions will present a concert performance of Stephen Schwartz & John Caird’s Children of Eden, on Feb. 18, 2024 at 8 PM at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, directed by Tony Yazbeck, with music direction by Kimberly Grigsby.
Auli’J Cravalho (Yonah), Nikki Renée Daniels (Eve), Jordan Fisher (Cain), Norm Lewis (Father), Paul Alexander (Adam), and more TBA.
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Bruce Vilanch, Gabriel Barre & Tricia Paoluccio’s Here You Come Again will run July 26 – Aug. 27 at CT’s Goodspeed, directed & choreographed by Gabriel Barre.
Casting TBA.
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Ian Shaw & Joseph Nixon’s The Shark is Broken will July 25 – Nov. 19 (opening Aug. 10) at the Golden Theatre, directed by Guy Masterson.
Ian Shaw (Robert Shaw), Alex Brightman (Richard Dreyfuss), and Colin Donnell (Roy Scheider).
The play takes audiences behind the scenes as the film’s three stars try to cope with foul weather, a temperamental mechanical shark, and each other’s egos.
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Flayed, a solo clown & character show, written & performed by Josiah Blount, will close on Sat. June 24 at the at LA’s Broadwater Black Box Theatre, directed by David Bridel.
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Private Jones will run Oct. 13 – Nov. 5 at CT’s Goodspeed, written & directed by Marshall Pailet, with choreography by Misha Shields, and music direction by Madeline Benson.
Casting TBA.
Inspired by the true story of a deaf soldier in World War I who displays a remarkable skill as a sniper while hiding his profound hearing loss. Driven by an ensemble of deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing actors and a dynamic Celtic score, witness how one man’s journey through war becomes all the more treacherous because he―and we―can’t hear what’s coming next.
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54 Sings Beyonce will take place Sun. July 2 at 9:30 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Drew Wutke.
Miki Abraham, Morgan Bryant, DeMarius R. Copes, Jordan Dobson, Hillary Fisher, J. Harrison Ghee , Stephanie Gomérez, Olivia Elease Hardy, Ciara Alyse Harris, Savy Jackson, Tatiana Lofton, Tiffany Mann, Johanna Moise, Sarita Amani Nash, Jennafer Newberry, Tavon Olds-Sample, Vanessa Sears, Justin David Sullivan, and Rachel Webb.
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Sesame Street the Musical, written, directed, and produced by Jonathan Rockefeller, with new music by Tom Kitt, Helen Park & Nate Edmondson, will return to Theatre 555 July 20 – Oct. 29.
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Life of Pi will close on Sun. July 23 at Broadway Schoenfeld Theatre, after 23 previews and 133 regular performances.
The show will launch a national tour in Fall 2024, with dates and venues TBA.
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NY City Center‘s 2024 Encores has announced its 2024 season:
Once Upon a Mattress (Jan. 24-28), adapted by Amy Sherman Paladino, with music direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, and starring Sutton Foster.
Jelly’s Last Jam (Feb. 21-25), directed by Robert O’Hara.
Titanic (June 12-16), directed by Anne Kauffman.
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Christopher Shinn’s Now or Later continues through June 25 at the Matrix Theatre, directed by Ann Johnstone.
Cherish MMonique Duke, Brendan Farrell, Suzanne Ford, Samuel Garnett, George Kappaz, and Jack McKeever.
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The return of Stranger Sings!, which closed Off-Broadway in May, has announced new streaming dates — July 1 and 15 at 7 PM ET & 7 PM PT. 
streaming tickets begin at $19.99 here.
Jamir Brown (Lucas), Shawn Smith (Hopper), Jeremiah Garcia (Dustin), Caroline Huerta (Joyce/Will), Jeffrey Laughrun (Mike), Garrett Poladian (Steve/Jonathan), Harley Seger (Eleven/Nancy), and SLee (Barb).
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Additional performers have been announced for Bay Street Theater‘s Summer Gala: Where Did We Go Right? on Sat. July 8 at 6:30 PM, directed by Will Pomerantz.
Julie Andrews (via video), Sarah Jessica Parker, and Matthew Broderick.
Derrick Davis, Isaac Mizrahi, James Bassi, Samantha Massell, Max Chlumecky, Lora Lee Gayer, and Matthew Scott.
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Stockholm Syndrome, written & directed by Kamal John Iskander, will close Sat. June 24 at the McCadden Theatre.
Ohad Bitton, Joey Bothwell, Sean Hemeon, and Jenna Zhu.
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Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s will run July 7-30 at Theaterworks Hartford, directed by Mikael Burke.
Ayanna Bria Bakari, Michael Chenevert, Samuel María Gómez, David T. Patterson, and LaTonia Phipps.
A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at reclaiming their lives. Even as the shop’s tough-as-nails owner tries to keep them under her thumb, the crew is given purpose and permission to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.