Gregory Bernard

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT PREVIEWS BEGIN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 AHEAD OF A MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2022 OPENING NIGHT AT BROADWAY’S HUDSON THEATRE Neil Simon’s  Plaza Suite with Matthew Broderick  and  Sarah Jessica Parker played a sold-out pre-Broadway engagement at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre but had to scrap the Broadway opening when COVID struck. It ahs been announce that preview…

J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company announces the exciting three-musical lineup for its second season. The 2022 season, running February 10 – March 20, 2022 at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street – between 9th and Dyer Avenues), will include A Class Act, A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine, and The Baker’s…

MCC Theater (511 W 52nd St) opens its 2021-22 season with Nollywood  Dreams, which reunites the entire cast from the 2020 MCC production that was postponed due to the theater shutdown. Written by Jocelyn Bioh  (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play), Nollywood  Dream  will begin previews in-person at  MCC Theater’s   Newman Mills Theater  on  October 21, 2021. Directed by  Saheem Ali  (Fires…

TWO NOBODIES WITH A DREAM. ONE POP STAR WITH A PHONE. THIS IS THEIR CALLING. A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, the first new musical to premiere in New York City since the shutdown began, began performancesSeptember 17 at the DR2 Theatre (103 E. 15th Street), and now has been extended to November 21, 2021….

United Solo Theatre Festival 2021 The 12th  Annual  United Solo Theatre Festival, based  at  Theatre Row in New York City,  is the world’s largest solo theatre  festival.  After a decade of presenting over one thousand solo  shows, the  Festival  returns to its stage  at Theatre Row. There, it will feature  productions from around the  globe. United Solo features a vast array of shows ranging from drama, storytelling, and…

SETH’S BROADWAY BREAKDOWN OPENS AT ASYLUM NYC Seth Rudetsky, SiriusXM’s afternoon Broadway host, musician, actor and award-winning comic, has opened his hilarious one-man homage to Broadway at Asylum NYC. Celebrating Broadway’s return, Seth’s Broadway Breakdown continues its run Sat & Sun at 4 thru December, 2021. The 90-minute comedic tour-de-force breaks down musical theatre with…

In Los Angeles, we have L.A. Theatre Works, which has been recording live theater for decades in front of a live audience. These shows are then available for radio broadcast. Even without sets and lights, just Foley, the live performances have been remarkable events, often more satisfying than live theater itself. Now in New York,…

OH, YOU CAN SWALLOW THIS The re-opening cast of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS starts performances tonight, “on the twenty-first day of the month of September” at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd Street). For tickets — on sale for performances through January 9, 2022 — visit Telecharge.com/212-239-6200. Jeremy Jordan as Seymour Under the direction of…

WP THEATER WELCOMES AUDIENCES BACK TO PHYSICAL SPACE WITH AN IMMERSIVE AUDIO TOUR WP Theater invites you back to the theater to consider what makes physical spaces feel like home with Welcome Home, or Ten Tiny Snapshots of WP, conceived and created by Rebecca Martí­nez and with Sound Design & Editing by Christopher Darbassie. Multiple…

Festival includes performances & appearances from 18 Returning Broadway Musicals, 5 Broadway Plays and Special Guests All Live and Free in Times Square Sept 17-19, 2021 Throughout the celebratory weekend, Broadway fans will have the unique opportunity to join with a wide variety of interactive experiences and intimate concerts peppered throughout the festival, including Broadway…

Trevor, the new musical that was in rehearsals ahead of its New York premiere when theaters shut down last spring, will begin performances Monday, October 25, 2021  at  Stage 42  (442 West 42nd  Street, near 9th Avenue). Opening night is Wednesday, November 10. 13-year-old  Holden William  Hagelberger from Sugarland, Texas has been cast in the role of “Trevor” following a process…

Opening Way Up! Producers  Barry and Fran Weissler  announced today that the hit Broadway musical  Waitress — the first musical to return to Broadway — grossed $197,878 in tickets sales on Friday, September 3, 2021, breaking the previous single-performance house record at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre set by the Daniel Craig-led production of Betrayal  ($184,476). Waitress  plays a limited engagement…

The casting has been announced for the Broadway return of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the most successful American play in Broadway history. Written by  Aaron Sorkin with direction by Bartlett Sher,  To Kill a Mockingbird  is set to reopen on  Tuesday, October 5, 2021, at the Shubert Theatre. Tickets are now  available via Telecharge  at 212 239 6200,  and on…

Morning’s at Seven, Paul Osborn’s treasured comedy classic, returns to New York this fall for the first time in 20 years featuring an all-star cast including Lindsay Crouse, Alma Cuervo, Judith Ivey, Dan Lauria, Patty McCormack, Tony Roberts, John Rubinstein, Keri Safran, and Jonathan Spivey. Directed by Dan Wackerman (artistic director of The Peccadillo Theater…

The Public Theater is extending Free Shakespeare in the Park’s delightful  comedy MERRY  WIVES, adapted by award-winning  Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Saheem Ali. Set in South Harlem amidst a vibrant and eclectic community of West African immigrants, this fresh and joyous adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merry  Wives  of Windsor with an all-Black cast shares in the celebration of Black joy,…