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Broadway: THE STORY BEHIND THE MUSIC MAN
THE MUSIC MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC MAN OK, we’ve had Trouble with a capital “T” this year. But fear not, the train will be coming into the Winter Garden Theatre station for one of the most anticipated shows of the upcoming season. New dates have been announced for Meredith Willson’s The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman…
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Broadway: HADESTOWN (reopening at the Walter Kerr Theatre)
HELL-O AGAIN! Who knew a trip to the underworld could be so much fun? Epic, touching, poetic, and tragic — and winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical — this new twist on two classic Greek myths is a rousing adventure from start to finish. Now, Hadestown is returning to Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre…
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Broadway: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (reopening at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre)
Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Love return to Broadway! Moulin Rouge! The Musical Based on the 20th Century Fox Motion Picture by Baz Luhrmann Returns to Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre on September 24, 2021 Moulin Rouge! The Musical will resume performances beginning Friday, September 24, 2021 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th St, NYC). The…
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Broadway: MRS. DOUBTFIRE — THE NEW MUSICAL COMEDY (Stephen Sondheim Theatre)
Mrs. Doubtfire is on its way to Broadway following an eighteen-month hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will now open on Broadway this fall with Tony Award nominee Rob McClure in the title role at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd St, NYC). Previews will resume on October 21, 2021 in advance of the official…
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Broadway: CHICAGO (Resumes at the Ambassador Theatre)
Celebrating its 25th Anniversary Year, The Longest Running American Musical in Broadway History Is Back: CHICAGO The Razzle-Dazzle resumes on September 14, 2021 at the Ambassador Theatre The record-breaking hit musical Chicago will return to the Broadway stage on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at the Ambassador Theatre (219 W. 49th St.; New York, NY). Tickets…
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Broadway: SIX (The Musical at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre)
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: And Now, This Fall They Are Finally – LIVE ON BROADWAY SIX The Electrifying Musical Phenomenon By Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss Opening Night on October 3, 2021 Performances begin on September 17, 2021 At Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre Tickets now available at SIX THE MUSICAL The production of Six was previously set…
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Off-Broadway Theater and North American Tour: FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY (The Jerry Orbach Theater)
FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE TOUR WITH A SUMMERTIME RUN IN NYC PREVIEWS BEGIN JULY 19, 2021 OFF-BROADWAY AT THE JERRY ORBACH THEATER Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Monica, Joey and Phoebe are coming back to the Big Apple. As friends across America begin to gather again, Friends! The Musical Parody, the hilarious unauthorized sendup of…
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Virtual Theater Review: THE NICETIES (Manhattan Theatre Club in association with The Huntington)
I just watched Manhattan Theatre Club‘s special new adaptation of The Niceties updated for the virtual stage by playwright Eleanor Burgess. In The Niceties an ambitious young Black college student and her esteemed white professor meet over Skype to discuss a paper the college junior is writing about the American Revolution. Unfortunately, they find it hard to agree about the facts of the past…
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Virtual Theater Review: chekhovOS /an experimental game/ (Arlekin Players Theatre)
THE ILLUSION OF AGENCY Beamed to us from the Chekhov Operating System (chekhovOS), a virtual panoply that contains the great Russian playwright’s works and forlorn characters — who spout about how alternately beautiful and broken our world is — our hostess Natasha, one of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, has the audience, live on Zoom, vote on…
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Virtual Off-Broadway Theater: PLAY THE LINE (The Public)
ENCORE STREAMING OF WORLD PREMIERE PLAY THE LINE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND THROUGH JUNE 21, 2021 The Public Theater’s The Line, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen and directed by Blank, was first performed live on Zoom on July 8, 2020, and the world premiere play was viewed more than 55,000 times in 18 countries during its limited…
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Live & Virtual Theater Gala: CURTAIN UP, LIGHT THE LIGHTS! (Jane Krakowski & The New York Pops for Roundabout)
Jane Krakowski (Tony Award nominee, She Loves Me; Tony Award winner, Nine) will star in the 2021 Roundabout Theatre Gala celebrating the long-awaited return to live theatre. This year’s special hybrid event “Curtain Up, Light the Lights!” will happen live in Central Park on Monday, June 7, 2021 and also stream live. Krakowski will be joined by The New York Pops and…
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Virtual Theater Review: THIS AMERICAN WIFE (FourthWall Theatrical, in association with Fake Friends and Jeremy O. Harris)
AS AMERICAN AS LEMON CHICKEN PIE [On the phone.] Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl! Wazzup? So, listen, I saw the craziest thing the other night. No, not THAT thing. That’s old news. No, it’s this kinda performance art meets theater meets improv meets homage to reality TV meets virtual streaming meets post-irony meets me gulping down a martini. Hold…
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Broadway Podcast: WE GOT ANNIE: ANN REINKING (1949–2020) (The Fabulous Invalid)
Broadway’s podcast, The Fabulous Invalid, has released a fabulous episode, a thoroughly entertaining tribute celebrating Broadway and dance legend Ann Reinking in We Got Annie: Ann Reinking (1949 – 2020). Listen for free HERE. Co-hosts Jamie DuMont and Robert Russo continue their season-long theme of their “favorite things” by paying tribute to the singular life and work of Broadway…
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Broadway: AIN’T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH (New Production of the 1971 Musical)
The electrifying and seminal musical play Melvin Van Peebles’ Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death will return to Broadway for the very first time since its 1971 premiere production. Directed by Kenny Leon, Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death will open on Broadway in 2022. Filmmaker Mario Van Peebles, Melvin’s eldest son and longtime collaborator, will serve as…
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Broadway-Bound: THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (A New Musical)
Broadway-Bound THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, with music by Sir Elton John (Disney’s The Lion King, Billy Elliot), lyrics by Shaina Taub (Twelfth Night at the Public Theatre), and book by Paul Rudnick and Kate Wetherhead will play a pre-Broadway, world premiere engagement July 19, 2022 – August 21, 2022, at Broadway In Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre. The…
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Off-Off-Broadway: TENNESSEE RISING: THE DAWN OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (the cell)
Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre hosts the World Premiere of TENNESSEE RISING: THE DAWN OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, a solo play written and performed by Jacob Storms. Directed by Alan Cumming, performances run thru June 27, 2021, at the cell. Performances will be presented open air for a strictly limited audience of 18 with masks and social…
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Off-Broadway: THE WAKE OF DORCAS KELLY (spit&vigor)
WAKE UP CALL “Unfortunately, there’s a corpse in this trunk.” Coming from spit&vigor, Sara Fellini’s dark new comedy The Wake of Dorcas Kelly brings the audience front and center as a grotesquely intimate circle of mourners gather within The Maiden Tower brothel to hold a wake for Dorcas Kelly, the beloved former Madame executed for…
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Broadway: PASS OVER (August Wilson Theatre)
The Lincoln Center Theater production of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s acclaimed play PASS OVER, directed by Danya Taymor, will reopen Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre (245 W 52nd Street, New York, NY) for a limited engagement, with exact dates to be announced shortly on Pass Over Broadway. This will mark the Broadway debut of both Nwandu and Taymor. Stage and Cinema‘s review of the Steppenwolf…
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Virtual Dance: GISELLE OF LONELINESS (Ballez at The Joyce)
The Joyce celebrates Pride 2021 with the Joyce debut of the queer, transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists of Ballez in Giselle of Loneliness, created by the company’s founder, Katy Pyle. This deconstruction of one of the world’s most famous and oft-performed ballets — and of the construct and constraints of classical ballet as a…
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NY Theater Event: BEHIND THE CURTAIN: A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF BROADWAY (Peculiar Works Project)
This week’s recommendation for THEATER NERDS: Behind the Curtain is a unique look at New York City’s earliest theaters’”the birth of Broadway’”through images of its locations, its builders and managers, and the actors who made history on its stages. Join downtown theater-maker Ralph Lewis of Peculiar Works Project this Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 7pm ET for a virtual tour…
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