Look ahead to the busy pipeline of productions opening from January through summer, on Broadway and off. Unlike the movie calendar, which floods the market with prestige releases for awards consideration toward the end of every year, the New York theater season begins and ends midyear, pegged to the Tony Awards in June, meaning a whole slate of major shows [...]
Outside of the theatre district, TV audiences know her as 40-something millennial Liza Miller on TV Land/Paramount's Younger. Sutton Foster will star alongside fellow Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Music Man. As previously reported, the Jerry Zaks-directed production will start September 9, 2020, before officially opening October 22, 2020 The production will also [...]
The first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This begins preview performances on March 15 at the Hudson Theatre. Michael Mayer directs the new production, set to officially open on April 16. Keri Russell, Adam Driver, Brandon Uranowitz and David Furr star. Burn This tells the story of four New Yorkers whose lives are uprooted by a young dancer's accidental [...]
WAITRESS• Theatre: Adelphi Theatre• First Preview: February 8, 2019• Opening: March 7, 2019• Book: Jessie Nelson• Music and Lyrics: Sara Bareilles• Director: Diane Paulus• Cast: Katharine McPhee, David Hunter, Marisha Wallace, Laura Baldwin, Peter Hannah, Jack McBrayer, ShaunPrendergast, Kelly Agbowu, Piers Bate, Nicole Raquel Dennis, Michael Hamway, Stephen Leask, Chris McGuigan, Olivia Moore, Nathaniel Morrison, Sarah O’Connor, Leanne Pinder, Shaun [...]
what’s in previews, what’s premiering out of town, and what’s in development ...... BE MORE CHILL Theatre: LyceumFirst Preview: February 13, 2019Opening: March 10, 2019Score by: Joe IconisDirector: Stephen BrackettBased on Ned Vizzini’s novel, the show tells the story of an average teenager (currently played Off-Broadway by Dear Evan Hansen's Will Roland), who takes a pill purported to make people [...]
Ben Platt is taking his act on the road. The Tony-winning original star of Dear Evan Hansen has announced the schedule for his upcoming North American concert tour, presented in conjunction with the launch of his debut album, Sing to Me Instead. The previously announced album will be released in its entirety on March 29. Platt's 2019 tour schedule can [...]
Following a rumored Broadway transfer, Manhattan Theatre Club has confirmed an upcoming staging of Tony-nominated scribe Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm, set to arrive at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre following a debut engagement at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End. Two-time Tony winner Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon) and three-time Olivier winner Eileen Atkins (The Retreat from Moscow) will star in director [...]
Off-Broadway's Public Theater has announced a talent-packed lineup for its 2018-2019 season. Highlights include new productions starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge and Glenn Close, along with the North American premiere of Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan's acclaimed collaboration Girl From the North Country. Kicking off the Public's new season is Girl From the North Country (September 11-November 4, 2018), arriving off-Broadway [...]
Directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus, the production premiered last year at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alanis Morissette is heading to Broadway. Jagged Little Pill — the musical named after the singer-songwriter's career-making album from 1995 — is set to debut in New York this fall, though a theater or dates have yet to be announced. The [...]
The 2019–2020 season will also include the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, directed by Tony winner Mary Zimmerman. After a star turn as Margaret Johnson in The Light in the Piazza in London, Renée Fleming will headline the musical stateside. Daniel Evans’ production, which premieres at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall in June, is on the [...]
