Today’s Highlights:
King James, by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Justin Emeka, featuring Joshua Echebiri (Shawn) and Caleb Foote (Matt), with Danny Adams and Kevin Alicea-Minor, opens at San Diego’s Old Globe.
I Am Delivered’t, world premiere by Jonathan Norton, directed by Robert Barry Fleming, featuring E. Faye Butler, Naiqui Macabroad, Liz Mikel, and Zachary J. Willis, opens at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
A Shayna Maidel, by Barbara Lebow, directed by David Ellenstein, featuring Samantha Klein (Mama), Zarah Mahler (Lusia Pechnik), Eden Malyn (Rose Weiss), Josh Odess-Rubin (David Pechenik), Marina Schon (Hanna), and Joel Swetow (Mordechai Weiss), begins previews at Laguna Playhouse.
One of the Good Ones, world premiere by Gloria Calderón, directed by Kimberly Senior, featuring Lana Parrilla (Ilana), Carlos Gomez (Yoli), Nico Greethman (Marcos), and Santino Jimenez, begins previews at Pasadena Playhouse.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Mar. 10. Click here for the complete analysis.
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Video: Highlights rom Corruption at Lincoln Center Theater.
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New Hampshire’s Weathervane Theatre will present an industry only workshop for Ed Kleban & Linda Kline SAving the Muse on Tues. Mar. 19 at 1 & 6 PM at Off-Broadway’s AMT Theatre, directed byRichard Maltby Jr., with choreography by Valerie C. Wright, and music direction by Andrew Morrisey. 
I(ndustry only): info@weathervanenh.org
Mary Testa, Robert H. Fowler, Jorge Donoso, Marisa Kirby, Ira Kramer, Ethan Paulini, Sara Jean Ford, and Ta’Rea Campbell.
A funny and touching musical that explores our relationship to the challenges of life, art, and our self-acceptance.
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Who sang what the Broadway Cares benefit concert:
“Luck Be a Lady” from Guys & Dolls, with Julie Benko
“Love Is an Open Door,” from Frozen, with Casey Likes & Jelani Remy.
“What Say You, Meg” from The Last Ship, with Lillias White
“Nothing Really Happened” from Is There Life After High School, with Tony Yazbeck, Darius de Haas, and Jamison Stern.
“Stupid With Love” from Mean Girls, with Jonathan Bennett
“Finishing the Hat” from Sunday in the Park.., with Shoshana Bean
“It Couldn’t Please Me More,” from Cabaret, with Len Cariou & Chip Zien.
“Listen” from Dreamgirls (2006 film), with Jordan Fisher, John McGinty, Daniel Marmion, and Morgana Shaw.
“The Sadder But Wiser Girl,” from The Music Man, with Constance Woo.
“Why God Why?” from Miss Saigon, with Arielle Jacobs.
“A English Teacher” from Bye bye Birdie, with Robin de Jesús.
“A Whole New World,” from Aladdin, with Shoba Narayan and Courtney Reed
“I Loves you Porgy,” from Porgy and Bess, with Tituss Burgess.
“Be Italian,” from Nine, with Bradley Dean & Todd Buonopane, Joe Chisolm, Nicholas Park & Janelle Farias Sando, Andy Christopher, Kris Coleman, Joake Corcoran, Richard Costa, Caleb Dicke, Jerry Gallagher, Danny Grumich, Jaquez, Weston Krukow, Nicholas Nazzaro, Ryan Manuel Rodiño, Robbie Serrano, George Slotin, Jordan Stanfield, Jamison Stern, and Hennessy Winkler.
. “Fly, Fly Away,” from Catch Me If You Can, with Norbert Leo Butz.
“Back to Before,” from Ragtime, with Alex Newell.
“Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” from The Sound of Music, with Joshua Henry.
“Luck Be a Lady,” from Guys and Dolls, with Annelise Baker, Anna Bermudez, Lauren Boyd, Chloë Campbell, Vivianna DeSantiago, Mae-Lynn Flores, Morgan Gillott, Cameron Hah, Rachael Britton Hart, Anna Hiran, Emma Kaufman, Kathleen Laituri, Jessie Lawyer, Carina-Kay Louichey, Alicia Lundgren, Arisa Odaka, Chelsie Pauletti, Christine Sienicki, Bethany Tesarck, and Scarlett Walker.
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The 2024 Susan Smith Blackturn Prize (recognizing women who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre) has been awarded to Ava Pickett for the play 1436.
Set in Tudor Essex, 1536 follows three best friends as they wrestle with marriage offers, gossip, and bad hair. When the news from London of the Queen’s arrest at the hands of her husband reaches them, the dynamics of their friendship begin to splinter as they struggle with what it means to be a woman in a society that kills women, even those high-born. Picket calls it a “very funny and very angry play, which is also a love letter to the violence and primal nature of female friendship.”
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Laguna Playhouse has announced its 2024-25 season:
Camelot (July 24 – Aug. 11, opening July 28), directed by Jeffrey B. Moss.
Don’t Dress for Dinner (Sept. 4 – 22, opening Sept. 8), by adapted by Robin Hawdon, directed by Christopher Williams.
A View from the Bridge (Oct. 30 – Nov. 17, opening Nov. 3), directed by David Ellenstein
Eleanor (Jan. 15 – Feb. 2, 2025, opening Jan. 19), by Mark St. Germain, directed by David Ellenstein, starring Kandis Chappell (Eleanor Roosevelt).
Mister Holmes (Mar. 5-23, opening Mar. 9), by Omri Schein & Daniel Lincoln, directed by David Ellenstein. Sherlock Holmes is back with a new sidekick. Holmes must must solve a series of baffling crimes without the help of his trusted partner Fences (Apr. 30 – May 18, opening May 4). Peril in the Alps (June 11-20, opening June 15), written & directed by Steven Dietz. The follow up to Murder on the Links. Hercule Poirot is lead on a thrilling journey in the the treacherous snow-capped Alps to solve a kidnapping before it becomes a murder. Will he finally meet his match in the mountains? Honky Tonk Angels (July 30 – Aur. 17, opening Aug. 3), by Ted Swindley. **********************
An industry presentation of Will Arbery’s You Hateful Things will take place Thurs. Mar. 14 at NYC’s Pearl Studios, directed by Simon Stone.
Christian Slater, John Cameron Mitchell, Lucas Hedges, Amandla Stenberg, Jakeem Powell, and Myha’la.
Dad keeps all of his weirdness in a big box, and today we’re opening it.
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Video: Teaser for Lincoln Center Theater’s Corruption, featuring Dylan Baker, John Behlmann, Saffron Burrows, Anthony Cochrane, Adam Dannheisser, Sanjit De Silva, K. Todd Freeman, Eleanor Handley, Robyn Kerr, Sepideh Moafi, Seth Numrich, Michael Siberry, Toby Stephens.
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Gregg Ostrin’s The Spy Who Went Into Rehab will run Mar. 15-31 at Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Cyndy Fujikawa.
Satiar Pourvesi, Jill Renner, Rachel Townsend, Stuart W. Howard, Alondra Andrade, and Cyndy Jujikawa.
What happens when a James Bond-like spy gets sent to rehab because of his drinking, gambling, womanizing and anger issues? It’s a comedic look at how an outdated male relic who still embodies Toxic Masculinity learns to think differently, courtesy of a colorful group of Woke, self-aware recovering addicts. His journey to enlightenment gets derailed, however, when his archenemy shows up for a final confrontation.
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Songs From Pippin: A Gala Concert will take place Mon. Apr. 8 at 6 & 8 PM at Off-Broadway’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, hosted by Danny Burstein.
J. Harrison Ghee, Zachary Noah Piser, Kate Baldwin, Christopher Sieber, and Judy Kaye.
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Video: Highlights from Alan Cumming is Not Acting His Age at NYC’s Studio 54. The show continues through Mar. 25.
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Complete casting has been announced for the invitation-only workshop presentation of Ed Kleban’s Gallery, which will take place Tues. Mar. 19 at 1 & 6 PM at Off-Broadway’s AMT Theatre, directed by Richard Maltby, Jr., with choreography by Valerie C. Wright, and music direction by Andrew Morrissey.
Industry members RSVP: Email info@weathervaneh.org.
Mary Testa, Robert H. Fowler, Jorge Donoso, Marisa Kirby, Sara Jean ford, and Ta’Rea Campbell.
A funny and touching musical that explores our relationship to the challenges of life, art, and our self-acceptance.
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A Toast to Steve & Edie concert will take place Mon. Mar. 18 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Carnegie Hall.
David Lawrence and Debbie Gravitte.
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An encore performance of Sophie Thomason & Taubert Nadalini’s Unnerving Berlin, starring Nadalini, will take place Fri. Mar. 22 at 8 PM at LA’s Odyssey Theatre, directed by John Snow.
What would happen if Irving Berlin had fallen down a rabbit hole and seen the future of musical theatre? It’s a one-night trip to the weirder side of musical theatre, including genre-spanning songs, outrageous characters, and niche musical references.