Directed by Bartlett Sher is bringing the six-time Oscar-winning La La Land to the stage. Sher is currently directing the Broadway revival of Camelot, which will open in April. The stage adaptation features a new book by Ayad Akhtar (President of PEN America and Pulitzer Prize winner for Disgraced) and three-time Barrymore Award winner Matthew Decker. The Academy Award-winning composing team (music by Justin Hurwitz, lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul) will reunite. Tony-winning producer Marc Platt, who also produced the movie, is also onboard.

The Tony-nominated Conor McPherson musical, Girl from the North Country is heading to the big screen. McPherson will direct, with a cast cast set to include Chloë Bailey as Marianne, Tosin Cole as Joe, Olivia Colman as Elizabeth, and Woody Harrelson as Nick. Set in 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota during the Great Depression. It features the music of Bob Dylan, with songs including “Forever Young,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “Hurricane,” “Slow Train Coming,” “Make You Feel My Love,” and “Like A Rolling Stone.”

New York City Center Encores! production of Dear World, has announced its cast. Joining two-time Tony winner Donna Murphy (Hello, Dolly!) will take on Countess Aurelia, originally played by Angela Lansbury. She will be joined by two-time Tony nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (The Prom) as President, Andréa Burns (On Your Feet!) as Constance, three-time Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald (Company) as Sewerman, Ann Harada (Into the Woods) as Gabrielle, Kody Jauron as Artiste, Phillip Johnson Richardson as Julian, and Samantha Williams (Caroline, or Change) as Nina.
Dear World features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, and a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The musical premiered in 1969, making Jerry Herman the first composer-lyricist in history to have three shows running simultaneously on Broadway. The story follows a motley band of outcasts who must rally together to save their picturesque neighborhood in Paris from a greedy cabal of oil-hungry bankers.
The Encores! production will be directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes, who helmed the 2019 Encores! production of Herman’s Mack & Mabel. New Encores! music director Mary-Mitchell Campbell will lead the Encores! orchestra March 15-19.

Rob Sedgwick and Tony Award-Winning Actor Anthony Crivello announced that they will present a private industry reading of Mr. Sedgwick’s new play Please Leave. Directed by Bob Balaban, the reading will feature Emmy and Tony Award-Winning actor Tony Shalhoub, David Rasche, Clark Johnson,

and Tony Award-Nominee Johanna Day. Please Leave is a satirical, dark comedy: a raw presentation of life as presented on TV, making art out of others’ misery. It will take place on Monday, February 13th at 3:00 p.m. in the Anne L. Bernstein Theater at The Theater Center (210 West 50th St – 4th floor).

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and The Public’s Writer-in-Residence, Suzan-Lori Parks, brings to The Public a new musical adaptation of the 1972 movie, The Harder They Come. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the book tells the story of Ivan, a young singer who arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, eager to become a star. After love and cutting a record deal with a powerful music mogul, Ivan soon learns that the game is rigged, and as he becomes increasingly defiant, he finds himself in a battle that threatens not only his life, but the very fabric of Jamaican society.
Featuring Grammy Award winner Jimmy Cliff’s hits, “You Can Get It If You Really Want” and “Many Rivers to Cross,” former Artistic Director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre Tony Taccone directs this new musical, with co-direction by Tony Award winner Sergio Trujillo and choreography by Edgar Godineaux.
The cast of The Harder They Come features:

You can get tickets through Joseph Papp Free Performance program by offering free tickets to the Thursday, February 16 performance at 8:00PM ET.
Tickets will be available via the TodayTix Digital Lottery. The Lottery is now open for entries on the TodayTix app and will close at 12PM ET on Wednesday, February 15, which is the day before the performance. Winners will be notified by email and push notification anytime from 12PM to 4PM, and if selected, winners will have one hour to claim their tickets.
The day after the conclusion of the TodayTix Digital Lottery, free same-day tickets may become available starting at 4PM ET on Thursday, February 16at the theater, which is located at 425 Lafayette St.
The Box Office agents will add your name to our digital standby upon arrival. We will keep your spot in our digital line and contact you by SMS text message or pager if and when tickets become available. All line members must be in or return to the lobby thirty minutes before the scheduled curtain to ensure timely distribution of tickets that become available at the last minute.

Photo credit: Michaelah Reynolds
Last Wednesday night, the four-time Tony Award-winning musical MJ celebrated it’s first anniversary on Broadway. Audience members were gifted a special edition merch item, and the cast celebrated on stage with a giant MJ themed cake.The smash hit musical continues to play to sold out audiences, and has broken the box office record at the Neil Simon Theatre 10 times. It is the most Tony Award-winning musical of the 2021-2022 season.
Last but not least Neil Patrick Harris took his family to Kimberly Akimbo, as Lin-Manuel Miranda saw & Juliet.
Parade: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W 45th Street.