Today’s Highlights:
Sleepova, by Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, directed by Paige Hernandez, featuring Tymetrias L. Bolden (Funmi), Ciara Hargrove (Elle), Nykila Norman (Rey), and Jasmine Proctor (Shan), opens at MD’s Olney Theater.
Crazy Mama, by Sharon Scott Williams, directed by Anson Williams, starring Linda Purl, opens at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Mar. 23, 2025.
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Adam Guettel & Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins will now begin previews Mar. 28 and open Apr. 21 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, directed by Landau, with music direction by Ted Sperling.
Jeremy Jordan (Floyd Collins), Jason Gotay (Homer Collins), Sean Allan Krill (H.T. Carmichael, Marc Kudisch (Lee Collins), Lizzy McAlpine (Nellie Collins), Wade McCollum (Bee Doyle), Jessica Molaskey (Miss Jane), Taylor Trensch (Skeets Miller), and Cole Vaughan (Jewell Estes), with Kevin Bernard, Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Charlie Franklin, Kristen Hahn, Happy McPartlin, Kevyn Morrow, Zak Resnick, Justin Showell, Colin Trudell, and Clyde Voce.
A gripping and powerful musical based on the true story of a cave explorer in Kentucky, 1925. While chasing a dream of fame and fortune by turning Sand Cave into a tourist attraction, Floyd Collins himself becomes the attraction when he gets trapped 200 feet underground. Alone but for sporadic contact with the outside world, including his brother Homer, Floyd fights for his sanity – and, ultimately, his life – as the rescue effort above explodes into the first genuine media circus. Reporters and gawkers from across the country descend on the property, fueling the hysteria and manipulating the nation into holding its collective breath.
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The Songbook Sundays series, created & hosted by Deborah Grace Winer, will continue Apr. 6 at at 5 & 7:30 PM with Isn’t It Rodgers and Hart? at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, with music direction by Ted Rosenthal.
Debby Boone, Nikki Renée Daniels, andCharles Turner.
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Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor is the Villain has been extended through July 6 at the Booth Theatre, directed by Danya Taymor.
Sadie Sink (Shelby Holcomb), Nihar Duvvuri (Mason Adams), Gabriel Ebert (Carter Smith), Molly Griggs (Bailey Gallagher), Maggie Kuntz (Ivy Watkins), Hagan Oliveras (Lee Turner), Morgan Scott (Nell Shaw), Fina Strazza (Beth Powell), and Amalia Yoo (Raelynn Nix).
Five young women running on pop music, optimism, and fury, are about to shed light on some of the darkest secrets in their one stoplight town.
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The “Kiss of the Spider Woman” film, written & directed by Bill Condon, will be released in movie theaters this Fall (date TBA)
Jennifer Lopez (Spider Woman), Tonatiuh (Luis Molina) and Diego Luna (Valentin Arregui), Josefina Scaglione and Aline Mayagoitia.
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CT’s Goodspeed has announced its 2025 season:
Ragtime (Apr. 29 – June 15), directed by Christopher Betts, with choreography by Sara Edwards.
All Shook Up (June 27 – Aug. 17), directed by Daniel Goldstein, with music direction by Adam Souza.
A Chorus Line (Sept. 25 – Oct. 26)), directed by Rob Ruggiero, with choreography by Parker Esse.
Mrs. Santa Clause (Nov. 14 – Dec. 28), world premiere by Jerry Herman, directed & choreographed by Josh Rhodes.
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Video: Adam Lambert performs “Acid Queen” at Broadway Backwards
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Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, directed by Matthew Bourne, will now continue through June 15 the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Jacob Dickey, Kyle Selig, Jasmine Forsberg, Kate Jennings Grant, David Harris, Bonnie Langford, Beth Leavel, Gavin Lee, Jason Pennycooke, Joanna Riding, Jeremy Secomb, Maria Wirries, and Daniel Yearwood, with Kevin Earley, Paige Faure, Alexa Lopez, and Peter Neureuther.
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Waitress will run Apr. 16 – 27 at Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars, directed & choreographed by Lisa Shriver.
Kerstin Anderson (Jenna), Tori Gresham (Dawn), Porscha Shaw (Becky), Adam Standley (Dr. Jim Pomatter), Dane Stokinger (Earl), Kennedy Kanagawa (Ogie), Allen Fitzpatrick (Joe), Brandon O’Neill (Cal), and Siena Quintos Blodgett (Lulu) and Adeline (alsoLulu), with Kristin Burch, Rob Burgess, Carly Corey, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Nik Hagen, Nalica Hennings, Matthew Kacergis, Jordan King, Cherisse Martinelli, Nick McCarthy, Trina Mills, Taylor Niemeyer-Symons, Yusef Seevers, and Jason Weitkamp.
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Video: George Clooney on his long-awaited Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck.
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Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Theatre Company has announced its 2025-26 season:
2 Pianos 4 Hands (Sept. 12-27)
Dear Evan Hansen (Oct. 24 – Nov. 8)
Noises Off (Dec. 5-20)
Ten Brave Seconds (Jan. 30 – Feb. 14, 2026), world premiere by Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott. Mike is having a very big day. He’s been holding onto a secret for awhile, and today his secret is totally coming out. It’s also a big day for the country – huge decisions are being made all over, and at the center of it is one family teetering on the brink of . . . everything. Ten Brave Seconds is a bright and vital new musical, infused with infectious pop melodies and rooted in a big-hearted examination of one day in the life of a kid, a family and a community stepping bravely from the dark unknown into the daylight together.
King James (Mar. 20 – Apr. 4), by Rajiv Joseph.
Come From Away (Apr. 24 – May 9),
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Off-Broadway’s Public Theater will host a series of staged readings Apr. 21 – May 20 spotlighting works written by members of its 2023-2025 Emerging Writers Group. Performers TBA.
Karina Billini, Tommy Endter, Jesse Jae Hoon, Humaira Iqbal, Celeste Jennings, Nina Ki, Gloria Oladipo, Valen-Marie Santos, Amita Sharma, and Al Sierra.
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Lucas Hnath’s new drama, “The Dealer,” will stream on Apple TV+ (release date TBA).
Jessica Chastain and Adman Driver, with more TBA.
Chastain will reportedly play an aspiring super gallerist with a tangled relationship with a gifted but unpredictable artist played by Driver.
Additional information TBA.
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Coleman Domingo & Patricia McGregor’s Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole will run Apr. 30 – June 15 (opening May 19) at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by McGregor, with choreography by Edgar Godineaux.
Dulé Hill (Cole), Daniel J. Watts (Sammy Davis, Jr.) andKrystal Joy Brown, with Kathy Fitzgerald, Christopher Ryan Grant, Ruby Lewis, Elliott Mattox, Kenita Miller, and Walter Russell III
The play takes place on the final night of Nat King Cole’s variety show and features the crooner’s signature songs including “Nature Boy,” “It’s a Good Day,” and “Smile.”
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NJ’s American Theater Group will present a reading of Douglas J. Cohen’s King of the Hollywood Fixers on Apr. 14 at 7 PM, directed by Chris Wells.
Briga Heelan, Robert Sella, Larry Mitchell, and Mike Giese.
The new work takes place in January 1942 as MGM “fixers” Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling converge at the El Rancho Hotel in Las Vegas with the studio’s top star, Clark Gable, after a plane carrying his wife, actress Carole Lombard, goes missing in the nearby mountains. Charged with managing the crisis and getting Gable back to work, the two fixers clash over motives, methods, and morals.