Crime and Punishment/A.R.T – After Midnight/Paper Mill Playhouse – Ernie’s Secret Life/Dixon Place – Teeth/Playwrights Horizons – The Following Evening/Perelman Arts Center – Kristin Chenoweth/An Evening for Todd
Dixon Place – a bastion for visionary artists since 1986 – is proud to present the world premiere of Concrete Temple Theatre’s Ernie’s Secret Life, an episodic odyssey that fuses ever-changing puppetry and stagecraft with humor, music, and a raw understanding of our profound collective reality. Written and directed by Renee Philippi and featuring puppetry and set design by Carlo Adinolfi, Ernie’s Secret Life runs January 4–27, 2024, at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie St, Manhattan) with an opening set for Monday, January 8. Tickets are currently on sale at www.dixonplace.org.
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, led by Craig Smith and Elise Stone, will present its mounting of the Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” fromJanuary 19 to 28, 2024 at Gural Theatre of A.R.T/New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street. The production compresses the tension and pathos of the famed Russian novel into a powerful 90 minute, three-actor play that is at once fresh and faithful to the original. Karen Case Cook directs.
Paper Mill Playhouse is pleased to announce the cast and creative team for After Midnight, co-directed by Dominique Kelley (PMP: The Great Gatsby; Denver Center: Oklahoma!) and Paper Mill Playhouse’s Associate Artistic Director Jen Bender (PMP: Honeymoon in Vegas; Broadway: The Lion King) and choreographed by Kelley. The production will play January 31 – February 25, 2024 at Paper Mill Playhouse (22 Brookside Drive). Opening night is Sunday, February 4.Conceived by Jack Viertel, this Jazz Age rhythm and dance extravaganza is an electrifying musical revue that transports you to the Cotton Club of the Harlem Renaissance. www.PaperMill.org
TEETH at Playwrights Horizons, with book and music by Anna K. Jocobs, book and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, directed by Sarah Benson, choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly starts February 21 and runs thru March 31, 2024.www.phnyc.org
Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC, Khady Kamara, Executive Director; Bill Rauch, Artistic Director), the cultural cornerstone and final public element of the World Trade Center site, is proud to present the world premiere of The Following Evening, created by 600 Highwaymenfor Talking Band. The Following Evening is written and directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone and kicks off Talking Band’s 50th anniversary season. It runs February 1–18, 2024 at PAC NYC (251 Fulton Street), with an opening set for Tuesday, February 6. Tickets are now on sale at www.pacnyc.org.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director) announces Emmy & Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth in KRISTIN: AN EVENING WITH FRIENDS FOR TODD, a special benefit concert directed & choreographed by Warren Carlyle, on Monday, April 15, 2024 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd Street). Please visit https://roundabouttheatre.org/kristin-with-friends for information and to purchase tickets.
