New Golden Age - 2022 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 1

Ensemble for These Times announced its 19th season program featuring world premieres by Alexander Malinas and Mary Bianco, Shostakovich selections in Yiddish, and new works by Andrea Casarrubios, David Garner, and Stella G. Gitelman Willoughby at Old First Concerts in San Francisco.

The Goodman Theatre's 22nd New Stages Festival will present four works-in-progress by contemporary playwrights, ranging from a kung fu rom-com to a new musical, with free ticketed performances in Chicago.

All Roads Theatre Company will present its third annual gala at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, featuring 50 Broadway performers and an 18-piece orchestra.

Conductor Benjamin Zander leads the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 at Symphony Hall, with a pre-concert talk.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Richard  Greenberg’s acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist THREE DAYS OF RAIN will begin performances on Saturday, January 30, 2027, and officially open Monday, March 1, 2027 at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre.

Classical Soul composer Alexis Ffrench has released his new album 24, comprised of 24 piano pieces recorded at Miraval studio in Provence. The release includes the track 'Coffee Song,' inspired by a London coffee kiosk supporting homelessness charities.

Eva Marie Saint, an Academy Award-winning actress known for ON THE WATERFRONT and NORTH BY NORTHWEST, died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. Her career spanned more than 70 years in film, television, stage and radio.

Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club announced Kazuo Ishiguro's KLARA AND THE SUN as the monthly selection, with exclusive content and a podcast interview between Lipa and the Nobel Prize-winning author.

This October, Broadway treasure Kelli O’Hara is heading from the stage to the big screen—or at least, one of her stage performances is. O’Hara stars in Fallen Angels, the sparkling, dizzying, and deliciously potent Noël Coward comedy, coming to movie theatres this month, giving audiences everywhere another chance to see one of Broadway’s most celebrated leading ladies in action.

The Pulitzer Prize finalist play by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich will open at the Barrymore Theatre with an ensemble featuring Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Montego Glover.

Bistro Award winner and multiple MAC and Broadway World nominee Deborah Zecher returns to Don’t Tell Mama with a new cabaret show BROADWAY BIBLE:  A SERMON IN SEQUINS on 10/18, 11/1 and 12/9. We spoke about the upcoming shows.

Asolo Repertory Theatre will develop My Favorite Year, with a score by the Tony Award-winning team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and book by Joseph Dougherty, in a workshop.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will present nightly performances throughout October, featuring The Hot Sardines, Ron Carter, and birthday celebrations for Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.

Early music ensemble Sonnambula will premiere three 300-year-old airs by Baroque composer Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, discovered in a rare 1712 book at the Morgan Library & Museum and never performed for modern audiences until now.

Margaret Qualley and Sabrina Carpenter have joined Tom Holland in the Fred Astaire biopic in which Holland will star as the famed actor and dancer from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Performances are now underway for Other Desert Cities, which will play a 16-week limited engagement at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre. Meet the cast of Other Desert Cities here!

Seth MacFarlane curates new film composer fanfares for Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, featuring John Williams, Thomas Newman and more in 2027-28.

Phylicia Rashad will direct August Wilson's Fences at the Mark Taper Forum. Set in segregated Pittsburgh in the 1950s, Fences depicts the life of Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball star now scraping by as a sanitation worker.

The discourse surrounding reasons for reviving musicals on Broadway is a relatively recent phenomenon. These days, if a show is announced for a revival, a sentence that often follows is: “Why are they reviving it?” 

Lea Michele is heading to CBS! The Funny Girl star joins ELSBETH's fourth season as Darcy Miles, a Pilates trainer with a wild streak. Details here.

When you go to a show and find out that an understudy is going on for one of the leading roles, you may actually be seeing a future Tony Award winner in the making.

Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit reunite for a one-night-only concert at NYC's Beacon Theatre on November 19, months after their Chess run ended.

Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker will perform in a new concert production of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES at the London Palladium, directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Warren Carlyle, featuring an orchestra of 30 musicians.

Director Devon Hayakawa discusses making their solo directing debut with the Chicago area premiere of MEAN GIRLS at Paramount Theatre, a fierce, campy, and Gen-Z take on the hit musical set in 2026.

Benjamin Zander will lead the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphony Hall in works by Weber, Beethoven, and Brahms, featuring violinist Guy Braunstein, to open the ensemble's 48th and final season.