The Public Theater News

The University of Northern Colorado will host this Valentine's Day concert on Monday, February 14, 2022, at 6:30 PM MT in Kepner Hall (Milne Auditorium).

Today's top stories include a new rule for critics being invited to The Music Man. Breaking from the Broadway tradition, the musical has invited critics to its opening night performance rather than to previews. Josh Groban is going on tour this summer! Plus, a new stage musical adaptation of the book 'The Last Unicorn' is in the works with Fergie attached.

The HAMILTON touring schedule has been adjusted to accommodate the rescheduling of performances that were cancelled in other cities due to COVID-19. As a result, the Kennedy Center engagement will play ten weeks instead of 12.

Special Offer - How Director Les Waters conceived OUT OF TIME

The winners of the 2021 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced tonight at a star-studded ceremony, with 29 Awards presented, shared between 18 productions which played on Sydney stages during 2020 and 2021. Check out the full list!

Good Theater returns for the second half of the 2021/2022 season with the Maine premiere of Harry Townsend's Last Stand by George Eastman. A smash hit off-Broadway in 2019, Harry Townsend's Last Stand stars Good Theater favorites Will Rhys and James Noel Hoban, and is directed by Good Theater Artistic and Executive Director Brian P. Allen. The production opens February 2nd and plays through February 20th, 2022 at Good Theater’s home, the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland. 

Les Waters and Mia Katigbak discussed their creation of Out of Time, which is to be staged at The Public Theater. It is a collection of new plays centered on aging actors and Asian American communities.

The Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program is open for submissions for the 2nd Annual Young Native Actor's Contest.

Dallas Theater Center, in collaboration with Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts and AT&T Performing Arts Center, announced the highly anticipated title of the 2022 Public Works Dallas production, The Odyssey.

Playwright Mike Lew’s TEENAGE DICK will stream exclusively beginning February 3, 2022, at pasadenaplayhouse.org. Mike’s modernized take on Shakespeare’s RICHARD III, produced in association with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Huntington Theatre Company, was shot multi-camera during TEENAGE DICK‘s in-person run at Wooly Mammoth last fall. I got the chance to query Mike on his TEENAGE DICK, close collaborations and his sound advice for newbie writers.

The Kleban Foundation is celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre with the announcement of the 2022 prizewinners. The Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to César Alvarez (they/them).

Holmdel Theatre Company has added a second performance for Caissie Levy on Friday, February 18 at 8pm. Caissie's concert sales broke HTC records by selling out in record time, so due to high demand the company is adding a second performance of Caissie's highly anticipated show.

Matthew Shilvock, Tad and Dianne Taube General Director of San Francisco Opera, today announced the appointment of Theresa Von Klug as Chief Operating Officer, effective February 28, 2022.

The 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center's Winter/Spring season features readings by best-selling and prize-winning novelists, acclaimed poets, tributes to Shakespeare, Lucille Clifton and Toni Morrison – and a dramatic reading of Anne Carson's “The Glass Essay,” among other programs.

Eve Theatre is again teaming up with Fledgling Theatre, NY, to present the second in a series of Apple Family Zoom plays, And So We Come Forth, by Richard Nelson.

Joe's Pub will bring back Edward W. Hardy, founder and artistic director of the Omnipresent Music Festival, and acclaimed music director & pianist Drew Wutke, for a concert full of heartfelt music that ranges from Classical to Broadway music.

Pasadena Playhouse will present Teenage Dick, a brilliantly hilarious take on Richard III by Mike Lew and directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel, streaming online.

The Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, directed and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown (Once On This Island, Choir Boy, co-director and choreographer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones) will begin performances on Friday, April 1, 2022 at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street).

Special Offer - Out Of Time: a tapestry of age, memory, and parenthood

Miami New Drama Artistic Director Michel Hausmann and Managing Director Nicholas Richberg have announced the world premiere production of When Monica Met Hillary, a new play by Winter Miller (The Public Theater’s In Darfur) and directed by Margot Bordelon (Playwrights Horizons’ Wives).