Goodman Theatre kicks off the new year with a new play: Christina Anderson’s poignant, transporting and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy and family forgiveness, The ripple, the wave that carried me home winner of the prestigious 2022 Horton Foote Prize, awarded to “an original work of exceptional quality.”
Ben Bagley's Oscar Hammerstein Revisited - The lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein with music by Lewis Alter, Rudolf Friml, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Herbert Stothart. Additional lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, Lorenz Hart. Cast includes Cab Calloway, Blossom Dearie, Alfred Drake, E.Y. Harburg, Dorothy Loudon, Patrice Munsel, Elaine Stritch, and Gloria Swanson. Musical Direction and Arrangements by Norman Paris. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Remastered. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected to ship by third week in July 2022.
Mr. Saturday Night - In the five-time Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, Mr. Saturday Night, Billy Crystal returns to the role of Buddy Young Jr. that he portrayed in the original 1992 Columbia Pictures film of the same name, which also marked his directorial debut.
The Sledgehammer Series, a book project hosted by Tripwire Harlot Press, was created during the pandemic by playwrights Sheila Callaghan, Jacqueline Goldfinger, and Sarah Ruhl to address limited opportunities in dramatic publishing in the American theater, and specifically to redress a lack of published visibility for BIPOC playwrights.
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