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Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues is now the fifth show set to begin performances on Sept. 14, the first day of Broadway’s post-shutdown reopening. The play – written, performed and directed by Santiago-Hudson (Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – will be the season’s…

The Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain't Too Proud) and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (August Wilson's Jitney) will begin performances on Broadway during the winter of 2022, producer Manhattan Theatre Club announced today. The production joins MTC…

The Broadway premieres of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned To Drive have been set for 2022 and 2021, respectively, with producers at the Manhattan Theatre Club expressing “hopes high that we will be able to return to live theatre.” The nonprofit MTC announced the target openings…

Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Perplexed has completed its cast with Gregg Edelman (City of Angels, Into the Woods) and Eric William Morris (King Kong, Coram Boy). With previews at the major Off Broadway venue set to begin Feb. 11 and opening March 3, Edelman and Morris join the…

Broadway’s not-for-profit Manhattan Theatre Club has upped Nicki Hunter, who joined the MTC 10 years ago as an intern, to Artistic Producer, with responsibility for working with the artistic team on season programming and producing current MTC shows. The announcement was made by MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and…

Torch Song playwright Harvey Fierstein’s new biographical play about New York’s legendary, hat-wearing “political firebrand” Bella Abzug will make its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club Off Broadway next October, with Fierstein himself taking the title role. A solo show, Bella Bella, directed by Kimberly…

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the Broadway premiere next April of the West End hit Ink, a play about Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of UK tabloid The Sun. Ink was written by James Graham, an Olivier Award winner whose credits include Labour of Love and Finding Neverland. The production is directed by Rupert…

With a commission from the American Repertory Theater and its artistic director Diane Paulus, Eve Ensler adapted her harrowing, revelatory 2013 memoir In the Body of the World into an equally harrowing, revelatory play. I’d call it an unblinking work, but in truth I doubt anyone will come away from this evening…

Three timely plays given superb productions offer stark contrasts to the Broadway blockbusters you probably can’t get into anyway, as well as some of the best performances on view anywhere. • School Girls; or The African Mean Girls Play. As the title suggests, Jocelyn Bioh’s drama draws some inspiration from Tina…

If the question of whether a woman can have it all makes your eyes glaze over, you’re probably a man. One theatergoer’s fallow field can be another’s fertile ground. In the case of Penelope Skinner’s Linda – which opened Tuesday at the Manhattan Theatre Club in a sleek production directed by MTC a.d. Lynne Meadow – a…

Harold Prince’s long-gestating career retrospective Prince Of Broadway will open in August at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s flagship Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The show, featuring scenes from the life and legendary c.v. of Broadway’s most Tony-decorated denizen, will be produced by the non-profit by special…

John Legend, who’s increasingly using his stature as a Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and songwriter (for “Glory,” co-written with Common for the film Selma) to promote theater projects that align with his social activism, has signed on as a co-producer of the upcoming Broadway premiere of August Wilson’s Jitney. The…