Peter Marks News

Works & Process at the Guggenheim presented a panel with the creative team of A Strange Loop. The panel featured: Stephen Brackett, director; Michael R. Jackson, book, music and lyrics; Raja Feather Kelly, choreographer; Peter Marks, moderator, staff writer for the 'Washington Post'; and Rona Siddiqui, music director & music supervisor.

Award-winning film, television, and Broadway star Skylar Astin will take on the lead role of Seymour in the three-time Best Musical Revival Award-winning production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. 

Performances of Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-Prize winning A Strange Loop will now begin on Tuesday, April 12th at 8PM due to the detection of a limited number of positive Covid test results within the company.

Performances of Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-Prize winning A Strange Loop will now begin on Monday, April 11 at 8PM due to the detection of a limited number of positive Covid test results within the company.

This first preview performance of Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-Prize winning A STRANGE LOOP has been cancelled due to the detection of a limited number of positive Covid test results within the company, and to give the production more time to rehearse the understudies. 

Second Stage Theater production of Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play, Take Me Out, officially opened at the Hayes Theater! Read all the reviews from the New York Times and more!

The Broadway production of A STRANGE LOOP, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, has announced its digital lottery and rush policies. Find out how to get low priced tickets for lottery and rush.

Dear Evan Hansen comes to Providence's Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), April 5 – 10, 2022.  In advance of the start of performances, the production announced today that it will host a digital ticket lottery offering fans the chance to purchase a limited number of $25 tickets available per performance.

Ben Levi Ross will be welcomed back to the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street) this Tuesday, March 22, where he will re-join the Broadway company of Dear Evan Hansen as ‘Evan Hansen.’

The West Coast premiere of playwright Jeremy O. Harris' unflinching new work “Slave Play” reopened the Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum with the highest grossing five-week engagement in the storied theatre's more than 50-year history.

Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, has announced an addition to the 21/22 season with Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop, featuring Raja Feather Kelly, Stephen Brackett, and Rona Siddiqui on April 3, 2022 at 7:30 pm.

Dear Evan Hansen comes to Schenectady's Proctors Tuesday, March 22-Sunday, March 27. In advance of the start of performances, the production announced today that it will host a digital ticket lottery offering fans the chance to purchase a limited number of $25 tickets available per performance. 

Theater Breaking Through Barriers has announced their 6th Virtual Playmakers’ Intensive — VPI6: STAR CHANGERS, fifteen new, original short plays created specifically for digital platforms. Each play will be presented live, twice each evening.  A talk-back with the artists will follow each performance.

Dear Evan Hansen is coming to Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center Tuesday, March 15 – Sunday, March 20, 2022. The production announced today that it will host a digital ticket lottery offering fans the chance to purchase a limited number of $25 tickets available per performance.

How to Survive a Pandemic takes an inside look at the historic, multi-national race to research, develop, regulate, and roll out COVID-19 vaccines in the war against the coronavirus pandemic. The documentary began filming in early 2020 as the largest public health effort in history got underway and followed those efforts of over the next 18 months.

Individual tickets for the Madison premiere of DEAR EVAN HANSEN will go on sale Friday, March 4 at 11 a.m.

BALLYHOO MUSIC has announced that the second single from pop/jazz vocalist and songwriter LIAM FORDE, “Geraniums,” is available today, Friday, February 25. This will continue the rollout of Great to Be Here, his debut album of original pop/jazz songs due on Friday, March 25.

Center Theatre Group has announced a Black Out for the Friday, February 11, 2022, 8 p.m. performance of “Slave Play” at the Mark Taper Forum. Playwright Jeremy O. Harris and Los Angeles-born artist Martine Syms will welcome the audience to this special performance of “Slave Play” with a pre-show address.

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) announced the acquisition of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, which currently has productions on Broadway, in London’s West End, and touring North America.

MJ is the new Broadway musical that takes audiences inside the creative process of one of the greatest entertainers in history.