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The 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement Off Broadway will be presented virtually as an online event on May 3 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with shows that opened after February 16 given the option to be considered as part of either the 2020 or 2021 season. The revisions were announced…

Veteran newsman Dan Rather will stage an autobiographical two-night stand Off Broadway next month called Stories Of A Lifetime, recording the show for audiobook publisher Audible. Set for Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 at Manhattan’s Minetta Lane Theatre, the Stories of a Lifetime limited engagement…

Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Stephanie J. Block are among the cast announced today for the world premiere production of Sarah Silverman’s Off Broadway musical The Bedwetter. Sami Bray, who appeared on Broadway in the 2017 production of 1984, and Zoe Glick (of Broadway’s Frozen) will share the role of Sarah, the…

Trevor: The Musical, an acclaimed stage adaptation of the 1994 Oscar-winning short film that gave rise to one of the nation’s most prominent LGBTQ organizations, will make its New York debut this April in an Off Broadway staging by Marc Bruni, director of the Tony-winning Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and the rece…

Duncan Sheik, the composer and co-lyricist of the upcoming Off Broadway musical version of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, is handing off his planned onstage role to his pal and frequent collaborator, singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. “It turns out that being in the cast on top of being composer and co-lyricist of a new…

Full casting for the upcoming Off Broadway world premiere production of Duncan Sheik’s Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice musical has been completed, with Michael Zegen (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Jennifer Damiano, Ana Nogueira and Joél Pérez in the title roles. Directed by Scott Elliott, the New Group production will begin…

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…

Is one hotel bathroom big enough for personalities as outsized as Harvey Fierstein and Bella Abzug? The playwright’s Bella Bella, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Off Broadway venue in the New York City Center, suggests a pretty tight fit. A public personality has reached true large-than-life status…

Little Shop of Horrors, the once and current Off Broadway marvel, announced in 1982 the arrival of two songwriters – Howard Ashman & Alan Menken – who’d soon expand musical theater boundaries to swallow Hollywood like so much plant food. The musical comes home again (you can’t isn’t in its vocabulary) with Michael…

Steven Pasquale, about to appear in Netflix’s movie version of Broadway’s American Son, has joined the cast of Classic Stage Company’s 2020 revival of the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical Assassins, CSC announced today. Pasquale, who will play John Wilkes Booth, is one of five high-profile stage actors who will…

UPDATE, with opening date A musical adaptation of Between the Lines, the best-selling novel by mega-selling author Jodi Picoult and daughter Samantha Van Leer, is heading for Off Broadway. Producer Daryl Roth announced today that the new musical today, with previews set to begin Tuesday, April 21, 2020 and an official…

Michael Urie (Younger, Broadway’s Torch Song) and Mr. Robot‘s Grace Gummer have joined the cast of the upcoming Off Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day. The two actors were among the complete cast announced today by the Public Theater for the first major New York revival of Kushner’s 1985 pre-An…