Just in time for Christmas, everyone’s favorite Peanuts holiday special comes to life in A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live on Stage.New Yorkers can celebrate the holiday season with the Peanuts gang when A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live on Stage plays its New York City premiere engagement, December 21 – 24 at The Palladium Times Square (1515 Broadway, NYC).
THE SEEING PLACE THEATER is pleased to announce their production of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, WIT, directed by Brynn Asha Walker. WIT will play a three-week limited engagement at The Seeing Place at The Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street, NYC 10003). Performances begin Thursday, December 30, 2021 and continue through Sunday, January 16, 2022. Opening Night is Sunday, January 2 (2 p.m.). Tickets are $25-$35 and are available at www.TheSeeingPlace.com.
Classic Stage Company has added a performance to its sold-out production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins to benefit The Actors Fund, on Sunday, January 9, 2022, at 2pm ET. Tickets, priced at $125 each, will become available to In the Spotlight members of The Actors Fund on Tuesday, December 21, at 12pm ET. Remaining tickets, pending availability, will go on sale to the public on Wednesday, December 22, at 12pm ET. All proceeds will go to The Actors Fund. Tickets will only be sold online at classicstage.org. www.actorsfund.org
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents Addressless, an interactive ‘choose your own adventure’ experience beginning in January, about homelessness to promote a deeper understanding. Tickets HERE.
New Jersey Rep presents The Promotion January 27 thru February 20 – Trish and Josh are coworkers and good friends. When they’re both up for the same promotion, they’re pushed to their limits. Just how far are they willing to go to get ahead. A comedy about surviving in this dog-eat-dog world of business. Directed by Evan Bergman, the play stars John Caliendo, Sophia Parola, Anja Lee, and Phillip Clark. Tickets: $50.00 www.NJRep.org Tickets can be purchased online or over the phone 732-229-3166
Play On Shakespeare, the not-for-profit organization dedicated to exploring the world of Shakespeare in performance through translation and adaptation, today announces their winter 2022 season. Play On Podcasts – King Lear debuts on February 4. Modern verse translation by acclaimed poet-playwright-screenwriter Marcus Gardley with direction by Eric Ting will feature the legendary Keith David among many other established actors — and a very special jazz-inspired sound design. Further details will be announced shortly. www.playonShakespeare.org
Moulin Rouge! The Musical will welcome Eric Anderson in the role of club impresario Harold Zidler beginning Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th St, NYC). Danny Burstein, who earned a Tony Award, an Outer Critics Circle Awards honor and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance for originating the role of Zidler, plays his final performance on Sunday, January 16, 2022. Eric Anderson has appeared on Broadway in the original casts of Kinky Boots, Rocky, The Last Ship, Soul Doctor (Drama Desk nomination), Pretty Woman, and Waitress, most recently reprising his portrayal of Cal in the post-shutdown revival. His film and TV credits include The Greatest Showman, “Elementary,” “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Alias,” and “Live From Lincoln Center: South Pacific.” www.MoulinRougeMusical.com
spit&vigor theatre company (2015 NYIT Award-winners for In Vestments) will present the World Premiere of Ectoplasm, written and directed by Sara Fellini (Hazard a Little Death, Best New Script at the 2014 Planet Connections Theater Festivity). The production will run January 5-February 6, 2022 at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street New York, NY 10012) with performances on Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7pm and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets ($52-$99) are available for advance purchase at www.spitnvigor.com. The performance will run approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.
The Flea announced today the limited engagement of ARDEN: A Ritual for Love and Liberation, a genre-bending, boundary-breaking, and interactive new work commissioned by The Flea and led by Black and queer artists. ARDEN creates space for grace and communal practice in the face of indifference and division. ARDEN is a new performance ritual developed in collaboration by Niegel Smith, Diana Oh, Peter Born, and MacArthur Fellows Okwui Okpokwasili and Carrie Mae Weems. The limited engagement of ARDEN is set to begin previews on February 6, 2022 with an official opening night of February 11, 2022, and play through March 6, 2022. Tickets for ARDEN are priced $15-$35 and are available now at www.theflea.org.
