Manhattan Theatre Club has announced performance dates for the two previously announced productions that will reopen MTC s Broadway and off-Broadway stages this fall.
On Broadway, Ruben Santiago-Hudson s Lackawanna Blues will begin performances Tuesday, September 14, 2021 and open Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Lackawanna Blues is written, performed, and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (August Wilson s Jitney, Ma Rainey s Black Bottom on Netflix), with original music by Bill Sims, Jr. performed on stage by Grammy Award-nominated blues guitarist Junior Mack.
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Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson returns to MTC for the Broadway debut of his brilliant solo play celebrating the strong, big-hearted woman who raised him: Miss Rachel. In a 1950s boarding house outside Buffalo, Nanny, as she was affectionately called, opened her doors to anyone and e
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Sherman points to the play’s capacity to transcend the parochial and embrace universal human experience. Like Jesus’ parabolic mustard bush, Our Town affords many sheltering branches to an impressive diversity of audiences. It was performed in Japanese internment camps during World War II and was the first American play produced in Berlin after the war. In 1968, a Los Angeles production populated Grover’s Corners with cast members who were African American, Apache, Russian, Mexican, and Chinese.
This trend continues into the 21st century. After three short chapters on the origins and early reception of
Our Town, Sherman’s book consists of a series of oral histories based on interviews with more than a dozen casts of recent revivals of the play.
‘Intermission is over’: Live theater is about to come roaring back Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune © Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS The main entrance to The Second City comedy theater in Chicago in October 2020.
CHICAGO As the sun shines in Chicago and vaccines finally begin to flow to the younger population of artists, optimism is increasing for the return to work. There is good reason. Assuming the theater community puts its focus on its audience, both new and returning, and gives them both what they want and need as they recover from this hellish era, live shows are about to come roaring back to full houses.
CHICAGO â As the sun shines in Chicago and vaccines finally begin to flow to the younger population of artists, optimism is increasing for the return to work. There is good reason. Assuming the theater community puts its focus on its audience, both new and returning, and gives them both what they want and need as they recover from this hellish era, live shows are about to come roaring back to full houses.
Thereâs real evidence now of pent-up demand. Consider what is happening in Las Vegas.
Cirque du Soleil, which has emerged from bankruptcy protection and put its famous productions of both âMystereâ and âOâ on sale last week under the headline âintermission is over,â has seen colossal demand for tickets for performances beginning June 28 for âMystereâ and July 1 for the aquatic âO,â a spokesman has told me. âBlue Man Groupâ is coming back to Las Vegas this summer, too, and while no announcement has been made abou
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