Today’s Highlights:
Lifeline, by Robin Hiley & Becky Hope-Palmer, directed by Alex Howarth, featuring Matthew Malthouse (Alexander Fleming), Kirsty MacLaren (Jess), Scott McClure (Aaron and Clowes, Robbie Scott as Julian and Pryce, Nicole Raquel Dennis as Amalia, and Mari McGinlay (Layl), with Richard Lounds, Sarah Haddath, and Graham RIchardson, along with a chorus of New York-based scientists and healthcare professionals, opens at Off-Broadway’s Signature Center.
Hamilton national tour, featuring Michael Luwoye (Alexander Hamilton), Joshua Henrey (Aaron Burr), Rory O’Malley (King George), Solea Pfeiffer (Eliza Hamilton), Emmy Riaver-Lampman (Angelica Schuyler), Isaiah Johnson (George Washington), Amber Iman (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Jordan Donica (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), and Mathenee Treco (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), opens at LA’s Pantages Theatre.
Maggie, by Matt Murray, Johnny Reid & Rob Foster, directed by Mary Francis Moore, featuring Christine Dwyer (Maggie), Terra C. MacLeod (Betty), Sophia Clarke (Sadie), Kennedy Cuaghell (Jean), Wes Williams (Tommy), Jeffrey Kringer (Shug), Sam Primack (Wee Jimmy), Ryan Duncan (Sam Primack), and Matt Faucher (Tam), with Jodi Bluestein, Anthony Festa, Lyda Jade Harlan, Brian Michael Hoffman, Joshua Kring, Emma McGlinchy, Paul Scanlan, Sonya Venugopal, Nick Ziobro, Jenna Bienvenue, and Nathan Quay Thomas, opens at CT’s Goodspeed.
Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Nicolas Minas, featuring Victoria Alev (Elaine Harper), Alvan Bolling II (Officer Brophy), John Cauthen (Rve. Dr. Harper), Dan Cimo (Officer Klein), Ryan Clemens (Teddy Brewster), Arthur Lazalde (Jonathan Brewster), Steven Minow (Dr. Einstein), Darius Nelson (Officer O’Hara), Ron Newman (Mr. Gibbs), Tom O’Reilly (Mr. Witherspoon), Michael Raver (Mortimer Brewster), Scott Rollins (Lieutenant Rooney), Linda Slade (Abby Brewster), and Kathryn Strouse (Martha Brewster), opens at Virginia Stage Company.
That Parenting Musical, by Graham and Kristina Fuller, directed byJen Wineman , featuring Natalie Bourgeois, Max Crumm, McKenna OGrudnik, Brian Owen, Dwayne Washington, Mia Gentile, and Branden R. Mangan, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
Cyrano De Bergerac, adapted by Martin Crimp, directed by Mike Donahue, featuring Chukwudi Iwuji (Cyrano), Rosa Salazar (Roxane), Will Hochman (Christian), Kimberly Scott (Madame Ragueneau), Larry Powell (Lignière), Jens Austin Astrup (Alastair/Act 3 Soldier), Aaron Costa Ganis (Le Bret), E.M. Davis (Usher/Denise/Medic), Christine Lin (Woman Sent By Roxane/Marie-Louise), Barry Livingston (Theatre Owner/Priest), Michael Nathanson (De Guiche), Kila Packett (Fencing Referee/Sentry), Sawyer Patterson (Valvert), Jonathan Slavin (Montfleury/Armande), and John Garet Stoker (Annoying Person), begins previews at Pasadena Playhouse.
Don’t Dress for Dinner, adapted by Robin Hawdon, directed by Christopher M. Williams, featuring Brian Robert Burns (Bernard), Kim Morgan Dean (Jacqueline), Veronica Dunne (Suzette), Brandon J. Pierce (Robert), Katy Tang (as “Suzanne), and Jared Van Heel (George), begins previews at Laguna Playhouse.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Sept. 1.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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Marla Mindelle & Constantine Rousoulli’s Titanique will begin previews Dec. 9 and open Jan. 9, 2025 at the Piccadilly Circus, directed by Tye Blue, with choreography by Ellenore Scott, and music supervision by Nicholas J Connell.
Casting TBA.
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The Best Is Yet to Come, in support of CT’s Westport Country Playhouse, will take place Sat. Sept. 14 at 7 PM, with music direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell.
Kristin Chenoweth and Mary-Mitchell Campbell
Laura Benanti, Bonnie Milligan, Debra Monk, Lillias White, Kristin Chenoweth, F. Murray Abraham, Raúl Esparza, and Norm Lewis.
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Awkward Productions’s Gwyneth Goes Skiing will run Dec. 11-21 at the Pleasance Theatre.
Linus Karp (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Joseph Martin (Terry Sanderson)
The musical reimagines the infamous skiing accident between Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow and a retired optometrist … where you are the jury.
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: A staged reading of All These Women, written & directed by Melanie MacQueen will take place Sat. Oct. 12 at 2 PM at LA’s Theatre 40 (link TBA).
Todd Andrew Ball, Alison Blanchard, John Leslie, Meghan Lewis, Kristin Towers-Rowles, Michele Schultz, and Holly Sidell.
When Woodrow Wilson arrived at the train station the day before his Inauguration in 1913, he found almost no people to greet him. A policeman told him, “They’re all at the Suffrage Parade”. That would be the first, but certainly not the last time, that President Wilson would find himself following or being followed by “all these women” pressing for Woman Suffrage in his Administration. Follow the drama of the last years of the battle for women to finally get the vote in America in this new play on a timeless subject – VOTING RIGHTS FOR ALL!
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“Sounding Joy,”Lea Salonga’s new holiday album, will be released on Nov. 1 on most platforms.
1. “Christmas Time / The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
2. “Sleigh Ride”
3. “River”
4. “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)”
5. “Last Christmas”
6. “Christmas on Broadway”
7. “All I Want for Christmas is You”
8. “Love is Our Christmas Star”
9. “What Child is This / Silent Night”
10. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
11. “This Christmas”
12. “Angels We Have Heard (Glory Be) – with Clay Aiken”
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Shapeshifters, the third act of Truth Future Bachman’s queer superhero musical series, will debut Oct. 3 at 7:30 PM at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium (link N/A), directed by Zhailon Levington.
Bachman, Jordan Dobson, Z Infante, Keiji Ishiguri, Ebonée Noel, Pauli Pontrelli, Maya Sharpe, Kaytie Scott, and Zia.
The musical follows Bachman’s earlier Shapeshifters entries Luna & the Starbodies and Skyward: An Ending Elegy, following a doctor who flees to the outskirts of society and finds a group of outcasts who have struck up an unlikely and erotic coalition.
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The world premiere of SHIT. MEET. FAN, written & directed by Robert O’Hara, will run Oct. 10 – Nov. 17 (opening Oct. 28) at MCC Theater.
Garret Dillahunt, Genevieve Hannelius, Billy Magnussen, Debra Messing, Tramell Tillman, and Constance Wu.
Here’s the game…Phones Out. Face Up. Volume High. Every text, every email, and every call must be shared aloud. That’s what a group of long-time friends gather to play on the night of the eclipse. With the cocktails flowing among grownups who refuse to grow up, outrageous secrets and skeletons begin to emerge…SHIT. MEET. FAN. Are they ready for the ensuing chaos? Are you?
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A new revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing continues through Oct. 26 at the Old Vic, directed by Max Webster.
James McArdle (henry), Bel Powley (Annie), Oliver Johnstone (Max), Susan Wokoma (Charlotte), Jack Ambrose (Brodie), Rilwan Abiola Owoeoniran (Billy), and Karise Yansen (Debbie), with Daniel Baskharoun, Peter Eastland, Oyin Orija, and Mahaila Palmer.
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The world premiere of Jane Austen in 89 Minutes, written & directed by Syrie James, will run Sept. 20 – Oct. 13 at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
Katyana Rocker-Cook, Holly Sidell, Michael Mullen, Shayna Gabrielle, Steven G. Frankenfield, Alison Blanchard, and Todd Andrew Ball, with Megan Deford.
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Little Shop of Horrors will run Oct. 22 – Nov. 3 at Houston’s TUTS, directed by Melissa Rain Anderson, with choreography by Monica Josette, and music direction by Dr. John Cornelius.
Rob Riordan (Seymour), Mary Kate Moore (Audrey), Dion Simmons Grier (Audrey II), Mark Ivy (Mushnik), Dan DeLuca (Dentist), Simone Gundy (Crystal), Sarah Sachi (Ronnette), and Kiara Caridad (Chiffon), with John Ryan Del Bosque, Tyler Ray Lewis, Braden Tanner, Glendaliris Torres-Greaux, and Holland Vavra.
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Kieron Barry’s Spy for Spy will run only on Thursdays through Oct. 10 at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre, directed by Michael Massey.
Meeghan Holaway and Andrea Flowers.
Do our lives make more sense in the wrong order? Sarah and Molly are about to find out.**********************
Gingold Theatrical Group will present Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciples Oct. 15 – Nov. 23 at Theatre Row, adapted & directed by David Staller.
Nadia Brown, Susan Cella, Tina Chilip, Teresa Avia Lim, and Folami Williams, with Fiona Maguire, and Lauren Zbylski.
It’s 1777 in New Hampshire and the future of our country is at stake! What can one determined woman and two confused men do to ensure a Democratic future? In this new adaptation, female ferocity rules as this legendary and almost true historical adventure comedy.
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Mark St. Germain’s The Happiest Man on Earth will run Nov. 20 – Dec.14 at the Southwark Playhouse, directed by Ron Lagomarsino.
Kenneth Tigar (Eddie Jaku).
Holocaust survivor Eddie shares his wisdom on his 100th birthday, paying tribute to those lost in the Holocaust.