Today’s Highlights:
Distant Thunder, by Lynne Taylor Corbett, Shaun Taylor Corbett, Chris Wiseman, Robert Lindsey-Naffis, & Michael Moricz, directed & choreographed by Lynn Taylor Corbett. featuring Jeff Barehand, Spencer Battiest, Aubee Billie, Xander Chauncey, Bonale Fambrini, Brent Florend-Sitwallapum, Angela Gómez, Irma-Estelle Laguerre, Johnlee Lookingglass, Michelle Rios, Glenn Stanton, Sampwe Tarrant, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, and Chelsea Zeno, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s A.R.T/New York Theaters.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Sept. 22.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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The revival of Gypsy will begin previews Nov. 21 and open Dec. 19 at the Majestic Theatre, directed by George C. Wolfe, with choreography by Camille A. Brown, and music direction by Andy Einhorn.
Audra McDonald (Rose), Danny Burstein (Herbie), Joy Woods (Louise), Jordan Tyson (June), Lesli Margherita (Tesse Tura), Lili Thomas (Miss Mazeppa), Mylinda Hull (Miss Electra), and more TBA.
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The 79th Annual Theatre World Awards Ceremony will take place Mon. June 2, 2025 at 7 PM at a venue TBA, hosted by Peter Filichia.
Recipients and additional details TBA.
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A workshop presentation of John C. Introcaso & Michael Colby’s Dangerous, a Noir Musical will take place Oct. 17 & 18 (location TBA), directed & choreographed by Denis Jones, with music direction by Phil Reno.
& more info here.
Jared Zirilli (Jake), Jill Paice (Rose,) N’Kenge (Jazz), Preston Truman Boyd (Klaus von Schuler), Nicholas Meyer Lansky/Simon Ben-Ezra), Henry Gainza (Percival Bouchard), Danny Gardner (Inspector Kittering), Nigel Jamal Hall (Dolsy Davis), Candice Hatakeyama (Olga Chikalov), Trisha Jeffrey (Monique), Kuppi Alec Jessop ( Gregor Lawaich), Kaitlyn Mayse (Senator Rosland Pike), Jon J. Peterson (Jilly/Nelson), Alex Pouloutides (Reva Akkerman), Yash Ramanujam Abbu Mussad), James Rana (Qasif Halim), Megan Sikora (Myrtle), Bobby Underwood (Monk Genna/Hornbeck), and Stuart Zagnit ( Zweben).
A historical fiction told in the style of film noir, Dangerous is a love letter to the Golden Age of Hollywood set against the smoky backdrop of the late 1930s. Centering on saloon owner Rose McSweeney and her lover, gangster Jake Kinberg, the duo find themselves entangled in a deadly game when involved in the murder of a mobster on the opening night of Rose’s nightclub in Shubert Alley.
Click here to learn more about the musical.
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BC/EFA‘s Hudson Valley Dance Festival, in support of Dancers Responding to AIDS, will take place, will take place Sun. Oct. 13 at 2 & 5 PM at NY’s Historic Catskill Point.
Click the link above for the complete line-up and additional information.
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Christmas with C. S. Lewis will run Nov. 29 – Dec. 15 at St. Louis’ Westport Playhouse.
Gregory Williams Welsch (C.S. Lewis).
C.S. Lewis is hosting a group of Americans on Christmas Eve at his home near Oxford. The group shares Yuletide stories that evoke a range of emotions. Some say the show is a fair and accurate portrayal of Lewis, and that it’s told in a warm-hearted manner with some moments of humor.
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The Acting Company will present a reading of Holiday, newly adapted by Richard Greenberg, on Sun. Oct. 6, at 7PM at NYC’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater (524 W 59th Street), directed by Robert Falls.
Rachel Brosnahan, Ella Beatty, Lilli Cooper, Hiram Delgado, Chris Perfetti and John Slattery.
The upper east side Seton family prepares to welcome free-spirited Johnny Case to the fold, but as New Year’s Eve approaches, the eternal battle between whether one lives to work or works to live threatens to break them all apart.
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Casting has been announced for the final 5 weeks of All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich (Jan. 14 – Feb. 16, 2025z) at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre, directed by Alex Timbers.
John Mulaney (Dec. 11 – Jan. 12)
Fred Armisen (Dec. 11 – Jan. 12)
Renée Elise Goldsberry (Dec. 11 – 30
Richard Kind (Dec. 11 – January 12)
Chloe Fineman (Jan. 2 – 12)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Jan. 14 – Feb. 16)
Aidy Bryant (Jan. 14 – Feb. 2)
Andrew Rannells (Jan. 14 – 26)
Sam Richardson (Jan. 14 – Feb. 2)
Jimmy Fallon (Jan. 28 – Feb. 2)
David Cross (Feb. 4 – 9)
Tim Meadows (Feb. 4 – 16)
Hank Azaria (Feb. 11 – 16)
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James Magruder’s “The Play’s the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966 – 2016)” is now available here.
The stories of American film, television, Broadway, and regional theater are entwined with the story of Yale Repertory Theatre. August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Meryl Streep, James Earl Jones, Sarah Ruhl, Courtney B. Vance, and many others who have **********************
Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney’s Reefer Madness the Musical continues through Oct. 6 at LA’s Whitley Theatre, directed & choreographed by Spencer Liff.
Anthony Norman (Jimmy Harper), Darcy Rose Byrnes (Mary Lane), J. Elaine Marcos (Sally De Bain), Nicole Parker (Mae Coleman), Thomas Dekker (Ralph Wiley), and Bryan Daniel Porter (The Lecturer/Jack/Jesus), with Andre Aultman, Claire Crause, Jane Papageorge, Alex Tho, David T. Crane, and Natalie Holt MacDonald.
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Hanna Eady & Edward Mast’s The Mulberry Tree will run Oct. 10-20 (opening Oct. 14) at La MaMa, directed by Alexandra Aron.
Ramzi Khalif, Rachel Botchan, Laith Zuaiter, Najla Said, Khalifa Natour, and Haythem Noor.
As 1948, the year of the founding of Israel, approaches, a Palestinian boy and his beloved neighbor, the village Rabbi, struggle to maintain their friendship in a village where Jews and Muslims live side by side, trying to go about life as usual – until it becomes impossible.
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Musical Theatre Guild‘s The Light in the Piazza concert presentation will take place Sun. Sept. 29 at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage, directed by Kirsten Chandler.
Kim Huber (Margaret), Valerie Larson (Clara), Gabriel Navarro (Fabrizio), Tal Fox (Franca), Will Collyer (Guiseppe), Robert Yacko (Signor), Eydie Alyson (Signora), and Brent Schindele (Roy), with Maura M. Knowles, and David Zack.
Video: Will Collyer interviews Matthew Morrison (the original Fabrizio).
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Michael Merton’s I’ll Be With You Shortly will run Oct. 15 – Nov. 7 at North Hollywood’s Neo Ensemble Theatre, directed by Carol Becker.
Alexis C. Martino, Rebecca O’Brien, Janet Hoskins, Debra Kay Lee, Jerry Weil, Jason Paul Evans, Patrick Thofson, Amanda Lynne, Alex de Rita, Nick Benson, Brittany De Leon, Andrea Jogo, Andrew Leaves, and Starr Shapiro, with Joan Kubicek.
You’re living in real life. Have you ever been curious about what happens next?Welcome to the afterlife. Take a number.
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Ain’t Misbehavin’ will run Oct. 18 – Nov. 3 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed & choreographed by Paul David Bryant, with music direction by William Foster McDaniel.
TBA.
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Linda Purl: POSSIBILItES – Songs of Hope, Risk, and Maybe will take place Tues. Oct. 22 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Billy Stritch.
A jazzy look at what does, can and perhaps even must not lie ahead! Possibilities of all sorts energetically explored through such tunes as Swinging on the Moon,
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Madame Butterfly: An Adaptation will be presented Sat. Oct. 19 at 8 PM at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre, directed by J.A. Diaz, with music direction by Sergio Martinez.
Ashley Galvani (Madame Butterfly), Bell Errin Brooks (Pinkerton), Michal Nansel (Sharpless), Anna Tonna (Suzuki), Richard Bernstein (Bonze), John Easterlin (Goro), and Ashley Galvani Bell.