New Jersey - Theater

Gazillion Bubble Show
This long-running New York City hit combines spectacular light and laser effects with masterful bubble artistry. The Yang family’s amazing transformation of ordinary soap bubbles has earned them international fame and 16 Guinness World Records. The Gazillion Bubble Show has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Late Show with David Letterman, Live with Regis and Kelly, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Fox & Friends, The View, the Today show and more. Young or old, this is an event the whole family will enjoy.

Perfect Crime
For more than 32 years, the mystery-thriller Perfect Crime has kept audiences guessing with its comic, romance-filled take on the whodunit, making it the longest-running non-musical play in New York City history. The complex, twisty story unfolds in the secluded Connecticut mansion of Harvard-educated psychiatrist Margaret Brent, who’s accused of murdering her wealthy British husband, and soon finds herself tangling with a handsome detective, who may just have fallen for her. Catherine Russell has starred as Brent, missing but a scant four performances, since the show opened in 1987, earning her a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Back By Popular Demand Series
Give the people what they want! That’s the concept behind Back By Popular Demand at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York City — a performance series that brings back popular Feinstein’s acts for an encore performance. Don’t miss this impressive variety of musical styles and other talents on display.

Blue Man Group New York
The worldwide phenomenon known as Blue Man Group is a wildly outrageous and engaging theatrical experience combining music, comedy and multimedia theatrics to create a totally unique form of entertainment. Plus, there’s a lot of fun audience interaction, as well as a pulsating finale with an original score. Audiences across the globe have experienced and loved this imaginative stage show for all ages and its exuberant nonverbal combination of comedy, art and science, not to mention the fabulous visual effects and Grammy-nominated music. The Astor Place Theatre production continues to reinvent itself, too, combining classic moments with exciting and fascinating new pieces that you have to see to believe.

Chicago
Boasting sizzling songs, seductive dance numbers and a show biz story that packs a powerful punch, Chicago tells the tale of accused murderers Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, who’ll stop at nothing to get the attention of the press and celebrity attorney Billy Flynn. During the showy decadence of the 1920s, their malicious crimes turn them into media darlings, producing a barrage of sensational headlines, the likes of which could just as easily be ripped from today’s tabloids. A smash on Broadway (winning six Tony Awards) and on the big screen (winning six Academy Awards), this biting satire features the unforgettable songs of Kander and Ebb, including “All That Jazz,” “Cell Block Tango” and many more hits. Enjoy this musical trip back to a time when a little razzle-dazzle made everything just fine in this dazzling production at the Ambassador Theatre in the heart of Broadway.

The Office: A Musical Parody
Singing! Dancing! Paper! It’s a typical morning at Scranton’s third largest paper company until a documentary crew begins filming the lives of the employees of Dunder Mifflin, for no logical reason. That’s right, Dunder Mifflin is back in business, with a couple of twists. You’ll see all your favorite moments from the show, and I really mean ALL. In just two hours, the talented cast and crew cover all the marriage proposals, management changes, office parties, Dundie awards and other shenanigans that make up the best moments of all nine seasons of the show. Don’t miss this hilarious, unauthorized musical parody of the hit TV show, The Office, now playing at The Jerry Orbach Theater in New York City.

Fresh Out Of The Box
The Funnest Sketch Show In New York City.

True Crime: the Musical
Musical improv duo Beautiful Dreamers (Jillian Vitko and Maggie Lalley) created this one-of-a-kind show, where they get an audience suggestion of the victim, the murder weapon, and the location — from there, they completely improvise a musical right before your eyes to get to the bottom of this never-before-seen and never-to-be-seen again murder case.

Sponsored By: Sketch Comedy
Sponsored By: is a variety sketch comedy show featuring improvisers, stand-ups, musical guests, and well … sketch comedy!!

I Mostly Blame Myself
I Mostly Blame Myself is a live sketch show based on the YouTube show of the same name. It’s a series of dark, weird yet relatable sketches that approach controversial topics we’ve been too nervous to discuss with our peers, such as: Did most of us peak in high school? Probably. Beverages will be offered before the show and during a brief intermission.

Tosca
A trio of commanding sopranos share the role of opera’s quintessential diva. Sondra Radvanovsky, Elena Stikhina, and Aleksandra Kurzak star in David McVicar’s thrilling production, sharing the stage with tenors Brian Jagde, Joseph Calleja, and Roberto Alagna as the painter-revolutionary Cavaradossi and bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin and baritones George Gagnidze and Željko Lučić as the vile police chief Scarpia. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Carlo Rizzi share conducting duties.

Joke & Dagger: Dungeon, Dragons, and Improv
Dungeons and dragons and improv, oh my! Every month, join a group of heroes as they navigate the realm of Drullumund with all the fantasy adventuring and loud improvising one can possibly handle.

Friends! the Musical Parody
It’s a seemingly typical day at New York’s only coffee shop, Central Perk, until an unexpected runaway bride with beautiful hair enters the picture and kicks the whole gang out of second gear!

Elvis Lives! Tribute Direct from Atlantic City
W 72nd Street welcomes Elvis impersonator extraordinaire, Jeff Krick Jr. Direct from Atlantic City! This consummate performer has won awards galore across the nation for his striking portrayal of Elvis. The flair, the sound, the swagger, the charisma and the presence of the King combine to convince your senses that he’s right in front of you! From the Event Organizer Elvis may have left the building forever, but he’ll never leave the hearts of adoring fans — especially when you’ve got Jeff Krick Jr. channeling the rock legend in Elvis Lives! The Atlantic City Elvis Jeff Krick Jr. has become one of the most successful tribute artists to embody the look and sound of the King, earning sixth place in the entire world at the prestigious Ultimate Elvis Tribute Contest and in the Top 10 at the Images of the King Contest in Elvis’ hometown of Memphis. He is a two-time Fan-Favorite Award winner and three-time Top 10 Finalist at the Ocean City MD Elvis Festival. Jeff comes from a very musical family and as a child, while other kids were listening to the sounds of Eminem and Justin Bieber, the sounds of Elvis and other awe-inspiring artists like Conway Twitty and George Strait flooded his play lists. Hailing from Reading, PA, Jeff began singing before he was able to talk and has been performing professionally since age 16. In his short but busy career, he has headlined Cruise Ships, numerous Elvis and music festivals, and has performed as far West as Hawaii and Las Vegas! You’ll be “All Shook Up” as Jeff shakes his hips and sings all your favorite tunes in this Elvis Tribute Concert on 72nd Street in New York City!

Titanique: Une Parodie Musicale
When the music of Céline Dion makes sweet Canadian love with the eleven-time Oscar®-winning film Titanic, you get TITANIQUE, a musical celebration that turns one of the greatest love stories of all time into a hysterical and joyful slay-fest. Featuring powerhouse voices and show-stopping numbers (plus, contemporary pop culture and punchy odes to the 90s film), TITANIQUE is a one-of-a-kind musical voyage bursting with nostalgia & heart. It’s a pure love letter comedy, fun and all things joyful! See you aboard the Ship of Dreams! “This is f**kin’ outstanding. Bravo!” -David Foster “A CAN’T MISS!” -Buzzfeed

Seven Sins
From the creator of Nutcracker Rouge and Queen of Hearts, you are cordially invited to give in to temptation and eat the apple with Adam and Eve in a mythical dreamscape inspired by the fall of man and the seven deadly sins. Immerse your senses in Company XIV’s signature mélange of athletic circus artists, virtuosic singers, Baroque Burlesque dancers and lush design at Seven Sins, an elegant, hedonistic cavalcade of naughty feats and decadent treats. Company XIV’s “most lavish, thrilling show to date” (TheaterMania) was lauded as “one of the best-hidden secrets New York has to offer” (The Knockturnal) and “a wonderful feast for the eyes, ears…and loins” (Opplaud) before its premiere run short was cut short March, 2020. Now “the sexiest date night in town” (BroadwayWorld) has returned for a limited engagement at Théâtre XIV.

54 Below: Musicals in Concert
If there’s a big Broadway anniversary to be celebrated, 54 Below is where the party starts. Their series Musicals in Concert gathers top New York talent to pay tribute to the greatest shows of the Great White Way. Enjoy salutes to West Side Story, My Favorite Year, No Way to Treat a Lady, cast reunions from the musicals Lennon, Tamar of the River and more.

Pop Music With a Broadway Twist
Line ‘em up and let ’em sing! Some of Broadway’s finest will be adding their stamp onto today’s biggest pop hits. Performers from shows like American Idiot, Spring Awakening, Les Miz and Rock of Ages add a ‘lil over-the-top pop to stadium anthems and radio hits by some of your favorite stars, including Rufus Wainwright and Adele. Catch a rotating roster of artists singing the most popular jams at Pop Music With a Broadway Twist, at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York City.

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical
Take a trip back to Hawkins, Indiana: 1983… when times were simpler, hair was bigger, and unsupervised children were getting snatched by inter-dimensional creatures. STRANGER SINGS! THE PARODY MUSICAL is a wild and irreverent send-up of the hit Netflix series – and all it’s campy 1980’s glory. Join Mike, Eleven, Lucas, Dustin, and the whole Hawkins gang for a night of adventure, thrills, indulgent pop culture references, pubescent angst, heavy synth, poor parenting, convoluted love triangles, cheap effects, singing monsters, and maybe, just maybe… justice for everyone’s favorite missing ginger, Barb Holland.

Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway
Winner of every off-Broadway “Best Musical” award, including the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the “powerful new musical” (Jesse Green, The New York Times) Kimberly Akimbo is moving to Broadway! Tony Award winner Victoria Clark stars as Kim, a bright and funny Jersey teen who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. And yet her aging disease may be the least of her problems. Forced to maneuver family secrets, borderline personalities, and possible felony charges, Kim is determined to find happiness in a world where not even time is on her side. Written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire and Tony Award winner Jeanine Tesori, with direction by Outer Critics Circle Award winner Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo “feels like a miracle — the funniest and most moving experience of my entire return to theatergoing” (Peter Marks, The Washington Post).

The Play That Goes Wrong
The time is right to see THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Broadway’s funniest smash hit! This Olivier Award-winning comedy is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes. Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), it’s “A RIOTOUS EXPLOSION OF COMEDY!” (The Daily Beast) and “TONS OF FUN FOR ALL AGES!” (HuffPost). Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG “A GUT-BUSTING HIT,” and Cindy Adams of the New York Post has just one word for you: “GO!” Get tickets now – it would be WRONG to wait!

Colin Quinn: Small Talk
In his latest attempt at humor, Colin breaks down the one area he’s actually gifted in: Personality. Mr. Quinn has been chatting it up with friends, family, municipal employees and counter people for his whole life and now he can teach you how to stop sucking the energy out of the room.

Mike Lemme: The Roach – Places & Things I Hide At Work
Fresh from bringing two critically acclaimed plays to the Edinburgh Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world, NYC comedian and playwright Mike Lemme returns to the Cre8ive NYC Studios to build his new hour of stand-up comedy and storytelling. These unique performances will take place inside an artist studio. No stage, no microphone, only 20 seats available per show. If you’re interested in seeing how a comedian builds a show, you’ll love this experience. Think of it as seeing a comedy show as an exhibit in an art gallery. The Roach – Places & Things I Hide At Work is a confessional celebration of all the times we smile at work while wanting to scream.

Leopoldstadt on Broadway
TOM STOPPARD returns to Broadway with his critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning Best Play. Set in Vienna, the play takes its title from the Jewish quarter. This passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last days of 1899 and follows one extended family deep into the heart of the 20th century. Full of his customary wit and beauty, Stoppard’s late work spans fifty years of time over two hours. With a cast of 38 actors and direction by Patrick Marber, LEOPOLDSTADT will play on Broadway beginning September 14. This ‘unforgettable family saga’ (The Sunday Times) must not be missed.

Top Drawer
Top Drawer: Stories of Dysfunction and Redemption from Park Avenue to Havana is Adelaide Mestre’s award-winning show tracing her journey to Cuba to seek out her deceased father’s piano, left behind when her family fled in 1960. This one-woman play takes place in both the past and present, as you follow her on her quest to reclaim her family’s heritage. In flashbacks, Mestre chronicles her life growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with her mother, a thrice-married, opera-singing socialite with impossible top-drawer standards, and her father, a gay, Cuban, manic-depressive concert pianist. In story and song, she shares about her parents’ doomed love affair, her father’s struggle with his homosexuality and his eventual tragic suicide. With sentiment and humor, she spins a tale of dysfunction and redemption. Watch the family drama unfold when Top Drawer comes to The Triad in New York.

The Wizard of Oz
Presented by Plaza Theatrical Productions, this one-hour version of The Wizard of Oz is the perfect introduction to live theater for children. Come join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the Cowardly Lion, and Toto, as they travel the universe of Dorothy’s imagination!

Fat Ham on Broadway
Fat Ham, the deliciously funny, Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, comes to Broadway following a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at The Public Theater. Playwright James Ijames and Director Saheem Ali reinvent Shakespeare’s masterpiece, creating what The New York Times calls “a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy.” Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. But here’s the rub! Revenge doesn’t come easy to Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man in search of his own happiness and liberation. From an uproarious family cookout emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.

Bad Cinderella on Broadway
In the exceptionally beautiful kingdom of Belleville, the fields are idyllic, the prince is charming, and the townsfolk are ravishing. Only one stubborn peasant stands in the way of absolute perfection: Cinderella. To the flawless residents and royals of Belleville, this damsel IS the distress. From ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER comes “a big, colorful, fun fairy-tale rewrite” (The New York Times), featuring an original story and book by Oscar-winning writer EMERALD FENNELL (Promising Young Woman, Killing Eve) and lyrics by Tony Award winner DAVID ZIPPEL (City of Angels). Choreographed by JOANN M. HUNTER (School of Rock) and directed by LAURENCE CONNOR (Les Misérables).

White Girl in Danger
Tune in to the epic and viciously funny new musical WHITE GIRL IN DANGER from Michael R. Jackson, the Tony Award ® and Pulitzer Prize winning creator of A Strange Loop (2022 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical). It’s a fever dream mashup of classic daytime and primetime soap operas, Lifetime movies, and red-hot melodrama. The citizens of the soap opera town Allwhite face high-stakes drama and intrigue all the days of their lives. But Keesha Gibbs and the other Blackgrounds have been relegated to backburner stories of slavery and police violence for all of theirs. Keesha is determined to step out of the Blackground and into the center of Allwhite’s juiciest stories. Can Keesha handle the Allwhite attention—especially from the Allwhite Killer on the loose? What role do the other Blackgrounds play in Keesha’s Allwhite schemes? And just whose story is this anyway? Find out at WHITE GIRL IN DANGER.

Katie Holmes in The Wanderers
Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli are newly married, and their future is written in the laws of the Torah. Secular Jew Abe is a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future…until an unexpected email from a movie star puts his marriage to the test and threatens to prove him wrong. From playwright Anna Ziegler (The Last Match) comes the New York premiere of a play that ripples across cultures, challenging two very different couples with the same question: Can we be happy with what we have while we have it?

Pictures from Home on Broadway
Three of the theatre’s most inventive, inspired and award-winning artists will bring to vivid theatrical life a comic and dramatic portrait of a mother, a father and the son who photographed their lives. Based on the landmark photo memoir by Larry Sultan, adapted to the stage by Sharr White, starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein, and Zoë Wanamaker and staged by award-winning director Bartlett Sher, PICTURES FROM HOME will evoke memories of childhood, parenthood, and the hard-won wisdom that comes with both. This is a new American play, a play of heart and great humor.

Peter Pan Goes Wrong on Broadway
Co-written by Mischief company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned and inspired slapstick, delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring. The play sees the ‘Cornley Drama Society’ back on stage battling technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes as they attempt to present J.M Barrie’s much-loved tale. But will they ever make it to Neverland?

Ben Platt in Parade on Broadway
Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen) returns to the New York stage as Leo Frank alongside Micaela Diamond (The Cher Show) as Lucille Frank in this starry Gala presentation of the Jason Robert Brown (Songs for a New World) and Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) musical. Inspired by historical events, Parade follows the Franks—a Jewish couple living in Marietta, Georgia—as they’re pulled apart and drawn together by Leo’s 1913 murder trial, conviction, appeal, and eventual lynching. Brutal legal drama contrasts with haunting pastoral lyricism as an unlikely love story unfolds—a unique blend of tones that won both Brown and Uhry Tony Awards (for Original Score and Book respectively).

Love
Having dazzled UK audiences at the National Theatre and garnered widespread acclaim around the world, this engaging new play makes its North American premiere and marks the New York debut of writer and director Alexander Zeldin. This powerful piece of drama—written after a years-long process of community collaboration and immersion, personal interviews, and first-hand accounts—draws attention to the cracks in the welfare system when several families are brought together in a shelter in the lead up to Christmas. The audience is invited to step inside their reality and bear witness to some of the touching, humorous, and profoundly human instances of their combined existence. Played with the house lights up and audience members seated amongst the company, the heart-breaking production reveals the cast seeming to live rather than act. The result is an authentic and intimate story for our times that shows rather than tells, born out of the daily rituals of survival to expose the humanity behind housing insecurity.

Dog Man The Musical
A Hilarious Heartfelt Family Adventure Based On The Worldwide Bestselling Series! Best buds George and Harold have been creating comics for years, but now that they’re in 5th grade, they figure it’s time to level up and write a musical based on their favorite character, Dog Man, the crime-biting sensation who is part dog, part man, and ALL HERO!! How hard could it be? With the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, Dog Man loves to fight crime and chew on the furniture. But while trying his best to be a good boy, can he save the city from Flippy the cyborg fish and his army of Beasty Buildings? Can he catch Petey, the world’s most evil cat, who has cloned himself to exact revenge on the doggy do-gooder? And will George and Harold finish their show before lunchtime?? Find out in this epic musical adventure featuring the hilarity and heart of Dav Pilkey’s beloved characters.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
Critically acclaimed The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show features a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets, faithfully adapting four Eric Carle stories. The timeless classic makes its way off the page and onto the stage. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show features a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets, faithfully adapting four of Eric Carle’s stories, BROWN BEAR, 10 LITTLE RUBBER DUCKS, THE VERY LONELY FIREFLY and of course, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show. The critically acclaimed production is created by Jonathan Rockefeller and the team behind Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation, Paddington Gets in a Jam, and Sesame Street the Musical.

The Seagull/ Woodstock, NY
A group of New York theater people retreat to a house in the Hudson Valley hoping to get away from it all. Except they can’t seem to escape the ambitions, rivalries and fragile egos that follow them everywhere. Chekhov’s sharp satirical eye for hypocrisy and self-absorption among well-meaning people is given fresh, fun emphasis as Thomas Bradshaw returns to The New Group with his contemporary reworking of a classic masterpiece. Directed by The New Group’s Founding Artistic Director Scott Elliott. This world premiere reunites playwright Thomas Bradshaw and director Scott Elliott, who previously collaborated at The New Group on Bradshaw’s plays Intimacy and Burning.

The Mystery of the Mosaic Bridge
For his final case before retiring, a detective opens up a case which was easily dismissed a year ago — a case regarding a young woman’s “suicide.” As the witnesses come in one by one, each offering a piece of the story, it quickly becomes clear that the case isn’t as straightforward as it seemed.

Crumbs From The Table of Joy
Keen Company is thrilled to present the first New York revival of Crumbs from the Table of Joy by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and directed by Colette Robert! Set against the social politics of the 1950s, this charming, funny, and moving play follows 17-year-old Ernestine Crump as she adjusts to life after the passing of her beloved mother. In search of spiritual answers, Ernestine’s father relocates the family from Pensacola to Brooklyn where the Crumps must navigate a changing family dynamic, an unwelcoming neighborhood, and a shifting set of American ideals. Crumbs from the Table of Joy questions the limits of escapism and the power of everyday hope.

Summer, 1976 on Broadway
Summer, 1976 is a deeply moving, tenderly insightful new play about friendship, memory, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives forever. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.

The Thanksgiving Play on Broadway
Good intentions. Bad decisions. Great fun. In Larissa FastHorse’s satirical comedy The Thanksgiving Play, a troupe of really well-meaning theater artists dream of creating something revolutionary: a culturally sensitive, totally inoffensive Thanksgiving school pageant that finally gives a voice to Native Americans. Finding said Native Americans … isn’t so simple. And that’s when things start to get absurd. Sending up a whole feast of social issues, this bitingly funny play roasts everything right, wrong, and woke in America.

Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams
What led Tennessee Williams to become the most groundbreaking and unique playwright of the twentieth century? Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams explores the formative six-year period from 1939-1945 in which an unknown writer named Tom metamorphosizes into the acclaimed playwright known as Tennessee. The solo play brings these unknown years center stage as the audience becomes friend and confidant to young Williams as he experiences the unexpected highs and devastating lows of his early career, wherein his most iconic character emerges: himself.

Naked Boys Singing!
The title says it all in this campy musical revue! After a record breaking twenty one year run Off-Broadway, and a recent highly publicized Las Vegas residency, the boys are back in New York City at the newly renovated AMT Theater. Naked Boys Singing is a traditional musical revue, in the vein of vaudeville and high-camp musical theater, that celebrates the male form with a lot of laughs and no costuming! With song titles ranging from “The Bliss of a Briss” to the culinary inspired “I Beat My Meat”, Naked Boys Singing is 60 minutes of non-stop music and laughter!

Walking With Bubbles
Walking With Bubbles is a new musical that explores mental illness and how far a mother will go for her son, her family, and ultimately, herself. Meet Jessica – A Single mom and Broadway actress hell-bent on making her dreams come true. But, it’s harder to keep up the act when a secret from her past follows her and her young son, ‘Bubbles’, to the Big Apple. Hendy’s intimate first-person narrative invites audiences into her seemingly perfect New York City life from center stage as a Broadway leading lady into to the depths of a volatile mental illness.

Checkpoints: An Ode to Godot
Live Theatrical Adaptation. Modernizing, Politicizing, and Personalizing. Get introduced to works you may not have heard of, or see works you know in a new light. This series of one-man performances are 60-100 minutes of insight into the mind of Thomas Hughes Bellavigna; Performer, Director, Playwright, and Adapter. Checkpoint explores absurdist theater. Discussions and Presentations of indirect adaptations of Waiting For Godot, a look at the Beckett International Foundation’s (BIF) restrictions on performing Beckett’s works, and how these restrictions have caused adaptations. Throughout the evening we will visit excerpts from Waiting For Godot, Pass Over, and my very own adaptation: Fortune of Paris. Be open to minor audience participation.

When Your Soulmate Dies
Epstein & Hassan were married for 37 years, and their hit off-Broadway show She’s Black He’s Jewish They’re Married Oy Vey ran in Greenwich Village for 3 years; Blackjewlove was their theme and hilarious, honest discussions of race, sex and marriage were their specialty. When Your Soulmate Dies was written from Naimah Hassan’s nursing home bed while she suffered from stage 4 cancer, kidney failure, and Covid, and had been given a month to live. Epstein and Hassan decided to share their powerful experience. You will laugh, cry and experience a multi-media performance unlike anything you have seen before.

A Beautiful Noise
Including a score of Diamond’s most beloved songs, A Beautiful Noise features a book by four-time Academy Award nominee Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything), direction by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot), and choreography by Olivier Award winner and four-time Tony Award nominee Steven Hoggett (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Once, Black Watch). With his first break into songwriting in the 1960s and his meteoric rise in the 1970s, and plenty of crushing disappointments and heart-stopping triumphs along the way, Neil Diamond has maintained an almost unthinkable level of superstardom for five straight decades. How did a poor Jewish kid from Brooklyn become one of the most universally adored showmen of all time? There’s only one way to tell it: a musical set to his era-defining smash hits that entranced the world.

Billy Porter – Black Mona Lisa Tour: Volume 1
Grammy, Emmy, and 2x Tony winner Billy Porter brings passion and joy to New York with his first-ever career-spanning pop music concert tour: Black Mona Lisa Tour: Volume 1. Expect a full band, backed by a video installation, fronted by Billy Porter telling his life story through song. This 90-minute powerhouse event will feature his chart-topping hits “Love Is on the Way” and “Love Yourself,” a tinge of Broadway, a nod to Pose, and stunning performances of future pop classics from his forthcoming new album, Black Mona Lisa. This is an experience not to be missed. Porter says, “It’s really the first time that I’ve been able to fully express myself and who I am through my music. Through my mainstream pop music space. It’s like my magnum opus. It’s everything to me. You’ll really get a glimpse into who I am even deeper with this music.”

Othello
After the long pandemic hiatus, NEW PLACE PLAYERS returns to New York City with a production of OTHELLO, directed by Makenna Masenheimer, combining their signature original live chamber music, and acting which celebrates language, action, and deeply human storytelling. OTHELLO will play a limited engagement at Casa Clara (218 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010). OTHELLO will be performed for an intimate audience of fifty people in the round, immersed in a former foundry with a rich collection of statuary, featuring both skylights and balconies. As one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, this production of OTHELLO will be a searing & intimate look at shame, manipulation, and the devastation it provokes. It will bring New Place Player’s signature dynamic interplay of music, Lecoq movement, swordplay, and language to a new level — with musicians and actors collaborating with one another to inspire an extraordinarily fresh take on Shakespeare’s powerful and timeless story.

New York, New York on Broadway
New York, New York is a new musical with songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb, additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and direction by Susan Stroman. The New York, New York musical takes its title and setting from Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film of the same name, but it features an entirely new plot by David Thompson and Sharon Washington. Just after World War II ends, in 1946, the city is rebuilding, and lots of artists are moving there hoping to make their dreams come true. But even survival in the city is tricky for these musicians, singers, dancers, and artists — can they make it? Multiple Kander and Ebb songs from the movie remain, like “The World Goes Round” and the iconic “New York, New York” theme. Kander also composed new songs, with lyrics by Tony, Grammy, and Pulitzer-winning writer Lin-Manuel Miranda in place of the late Ebb.

On Your Feet! The Story Of Emilio & Gloria Estefan
ON YOUR FEET! is the inspiring true story about heart, heritage and two people who believed in their talent—and each other—to become an international sensation: Gloria and Emilio Estefan. Now their story is an exhilarating original musical winning the hearts of critics and audiences alike, with the Chicago Tribune declaring “IT’S A HIT!” and The New York Times cheering, “The very air in the room seems to vibrate in this undeniably crowd-pleasing musical!” ON YOUR FEET! features some of the most iconic songs of the past quarter-century, including “Rhythm is Gonna Get You,” “Conga,” “Get On Your Feet,” “Don’t Want To Lose You Now,” “1-2-3” and “Coming Out of the Dark.” Prepare to be on your feet from start to finish!

Camelot on Broadway
Based on The Once and Future King by T.H. White, Camelot, Lerner and Loewe’s 1960 follow up to My Fair Lady, is a story about the quest for democracy, striving for justice, and the tragic struggle between passion and aspiration, between lovers and kingdoms. This epic and timely tale features the iconic characters King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, and Sir Lancelot as well as the beloved original score with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe which includes “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “What Do the Simple Folk Do?” and the title song “Camelot.”