Yes, the summer is winding down, but the theater season is gearing up. Witness the news below of new casts on Broadway, new shows Off-Broadway, and some tantalizing maybes.
It’s not too early to check out how the 2016-17 Broadway season is shaping up.
Week in New York Theater Reviews
Week in New York Theater News
Jennifer Holliday (“Dreamgirls” on Broadway) joining The Color Purple as Shug Avery starting October 4.
A production of Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” that opened in Harringtons Pie Shop (an actual pie shop in UK.) is now set to open at Barrow Street Theatre March 1, 2017.
Last week, @PublicTheaterNY held a reading of Act I of Sondheim’s new musical — working title “Bunuel” https://t.co/XviJHuKbJI
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 23, 2016
TheatreFestNYC
Meet 20 of the best non-profit theaters in NYC at Signature Theater, Tuesday, August 30th, from noon-4. FREE. The event is designed for students new to New York to become acquainted with the rich theatrical offerings in the city. But it’d surely be fun for anyone interested in theater to meet representatives (and get goodies) from:
Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater Company / Atlantic Acting School,
BAM, The Barrow Group Theatre Company & School,
Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center Theater,
MCC Theater, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop,
The Pearl Theatre Company, Performance Space 122, Playbill
Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Rattlestick Playwrights Second Stage Theatre, Signature, Soho Rep, St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Vineyard Theatre.
Winner of Best of Edinburgh Fringe, “Life According to Saki” by Katherine Rundell, will be produced at the New York Theatre Workshop February 9-March 5 2017. The play imagines Saki, born Hector Hugh Munro, entertaining his fellow troops during World War I with his stories. He died in the trenches in 1916.
Producers Daryl Roth and Elizabeth McCann are trying to bring Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” to Broadway.
“Small Mouth Sounds” has been extended to October 9
.@RobinofJesus & @michaelurie in Jordan Seavey’s Homos,Or Everyone in America @LabTheaterNYC Oct 20–Nov 27 pic.twitter.com/CN3iDfKbZ6
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 24, 2016
“Missed Connections: A Craigslist Musical,” a hit in Canada based on actual ads on Craigslist, opens at New Ohio Theatre September 15.
#IdentityWeek
Panels on access,transgender etc.@vineyardtheatre FREE
Sept 27-30 https://t.co/VE6SJVlP1E pic.twitter.com/rTYFrhfFag— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 24, 2016
Women in musicals are either ingenues or “worldly dames,” writes @melissa_errico, at 46, still an ingenue https://t.co/ku2Oqdu1y9
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 27, 2016
.@KennedyTwits bravely pans Streisand’s new Bway album: ” mannered….tedious”https://t.co/JXKCUnpLHB pic.twitter.com/4dTXdQm9vQ
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 27, 2016
CBS Sunday Morning interview with her:
