Coming Up: Mr. Saturday Night – H*tlers’ Tasters – Anthony Rapp – POTUS – Acedia – Lucille Lortel Awards – Kenny Ortega – MCC Youth Company – Vaccine Mandates Theater
Martin McDonagh’s Hangman – a killer comedy comes to Broadway. McDonagh is writer of the Academy Award ® nominated film In Bruge. What’s Britain’s second-most famous executioner to do now that hanging has been abolished? Drink, of course. His 7th play on Broadway following Tony nominated The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Beauty Queen of Leanne- Hangman arrives at the Golden Theatre on April 8th– Barrow Street Theatricals
The new comedy musical, MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, starring Billy Crystal, will launch a digital lottery powered by Broadway Direct on Monday, March 28, making a limited number of $45 tickets available at https://lottery.broadwaydirect.com/show/msn-ny/. The digital lottery will be open from 10am to 4pm the day prior to the performance. Winners will be notified by email shortly after each drawing and have 60 minutes to claim and pay for tickets online. Tickets will be delivered via email the day of the performance. Seat locations and number of tickets awarded by the lottery are subject to availability. Lottery seats may be partial view. Maximum 2 tickets per entry. MR. SATURDAY NIGHT begins previews on Broadway on Tuesday, March 29th and will officially open on Wednesday, April 27th. The musical has a book by Crystal, Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel with music by Jason Robert Brown, lyrics by Amanda Green, choreography by Ellenore Scott and is directed by John Rando.
H*tler’s Tasters, a new play by award-winning playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks (War Words, Kalamazoo) and directed by Sarah Norris (Everything is Super Great, This Wrestling Place), begins performances April 14 at Theatre Row, Theatre One (410 West 42nd Street, NYC). The limited Off-Broadway engagement has been extended to run through May 21. Opening night is Tuesday, May 3 at 7PM. H*tler’s Tasters is presented by New Light Theater Project (Artistic Director Sarah Norris, Producing Director Michael Aguirre) in association with NewYorkRep (Founding Executive Director Gayle Damiano Waxenberg, Artistic Director Justin Reinsilber) and Josh Gladstone. Tickets are now on sale at www.bfany.org.
Royal Family Productions (Chris Henry, Founder/Artistic Director; Lorna Ventura, Creative Director) with Lisa Dozier (Be More Chill) announces it will bring Anthony Rapp’s acclaimed one-man show, Without You, back to New York City. This piece is written by and stars Anthony Rapp (“Star Trek Discovery,” Rent, RFP: Nobody Suspects a Butterfly), with direction by Steven Maler and musical direction by Daniel Weiss. Without You will run four performances only April 19-21 at Royal Family Performing Arts Space (145 West 46th Street, 3rd Floor). Tickets are $50-$250 and can be purchased by clicking www.RoyalFamilyProductions.org
POTUS, the Selina Fillinger play, directed by Susan Stroman, will open at a matinee performance April 27 (one day before Tony Awards eligibility cut-off date) and invite Tony Voters. The play was previously scheduled to open May 9. It will begin previews April 14 at the Shubert Theatre.
Girl from the North Country – the Depression-era drama set to the songs of Bob Dylan, will reopen on Broadway this spring, a little more than three months after going on hiatus because of virus concerns … the musical will return to the Belasco Theatre for 50 performances only, beginning April 29 until June 11.
Christian De Gré Cárdenas’ ACEDIA: An Apocalypse Trilogy will play a limited run at The Brick Theatre April 13 through April 30. Produced by Mind the Art Entertainment in association with The Brick, the three plays can be enjoyed separately or as a combined immersive experience on the three Saturdays during the run. Tickets: HERE
Emmy Award winning Director and Choreographer Kenny Ortega will take the reins as Camp Director for this summer’s Kristin Chenoweth Broadway Bootcamp. Ortega & Chenoweth have a long history working with each other including their triumph on the Disney Channel, “Descendants”, and of course, the PBS special “Coming Home” filmed at the Kristin Chenoweth Theater in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Applications are available online at www.kcbbc.camp or www.brokenarrowpac.com.
The Lucille Lortel Awards, the preeminent honor presented exclusively to recognize Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, have confirmed their return to a LIVE in-person celebration on Sunday, May 1, 2022, at 7:00PM at NYU Skirball. It was also announced that Deirdre O’Connell will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award and David Henry Hwang will be inducted onto the famed Playwrights’ Sidewalk in front of the Lucille Lortel Theatre. www.LortelAwards.org
MCC Youth Company’s UNCENSORED takes the stage in their return to live-in-person performances in the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater April 22 – 24. MCC Theater Space, 511 West 52 St. NYC – Pay What You Can! www.mcctheater.org
Aaron Tveit, Natalie Mendoza, Tam Mutu and Ricky Rojas to depart Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! Playing their final performances on May 8.
Vaccine mandate for Broadway performers remains unchanged after NYC announcement – “The vaccine mandate for Broadway performers and other crew members will remain in place, despite an exemption announced Thursday by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.”
