Sunday Scoop Week of 9/11/22 Beginning Performances, Extended Run, New Cast Members, Now Streaming, What's Happening This Week and More

A) Opening This Week 

B) Extended Run

C) New Cast Members

D) Now Streaming

E) What's Happening This Week and More

A) Opening This Week

In New Jersey

Thou Shalt Not

THINKERY & VERSE are pleased to announce the return engagement of Thinkery & Verse’s THOU SHALT NOT: A Site-Specific Play about the Hall-Mills Double Homicide, directed by Karen Alvarado and recognizing the 100th Anniversary of the crime.

In 1922, near the banks of the Raritan River, a small-city priest and a choir singer were slaughtered in the most infamous unsolved double homicide of the 20th century. Incompetent cops, political operatives, and the poorest and most powerful families in New Jersey were all swallowed in the circus that followed. Thinkery & Verse, working with the Church of Saint John the Evangelist, now present THOU SHALT NOT, a nightmare narrative seen through the perspective Charlotte Mills, a young woman desperate to find her mother's murderer.

Church of Saint John the Evangelist (189 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901) 

Beginning Performances 9/15

Opening Night 9/17

Through 10/8 

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/organizations/events

The Wolves

Meet nine young women from a competitive high school soccer team.  It’s just a few weeks until nationals and the pressure is on.  Relatable and resilient, this pack of adolescent warriors will push and train for their games, while also navigating their complicated world. The Wolves is about life, love, and resilience on and off the Astroturf.

McCarter Theatre (91 University Pl., Princeton, NJ)

Performances Begin 9/17

Through 10/16

In New York

1776

What will it take to get two dozen powerfully passionate, exceedingly complicated, and all-too-human individuals to settle their differences, while they hold the very future of a nation in their hands? This Tony Award-winning Best Musical is tuneful, funny, and constantly surprising, especially in this revolutionary new production from directors Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. You may never think about our country—who we are and why—the same way again.

The cast includes multiple representations of race, ethnicity, and gender; they identify as female, transgender and nonbinary.

American Airlines Theater (227 W. 47th St.)

Performances Begin 9/16

Opening Night 10/6

Limited engagement through 1/1

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  roundabouttheatre.org

Bloom Bloom Pow

Bloom Bloom Pow is inspired by 1950s monster movies and the real-life 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when the tap water became deadly for humans because of toxic algal blooms. The play de-centers humans, elevates microorganisms and celebrates queer joy in the face of climate devastation.

Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theaters (502 W. 53 St)

Performances Begin 9/17

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.bloombloompowtheplay.com

Cheek to Cheek

Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood is an all-singing, all-dancing celebration of the most famous songs that the legendary Irving Berlin composed for the silver screen. Mr. Berlin understood the impact dance had on the public and his melodies, rhythms, and lyrics reflected his love of that art form. Six spectacular performers will showcase these magnificent songs and will also tell the stories behind the man who made the music that made the movies dance. Four-time Tony nominee Randy Skinner directs and choreographs an evening featuring an array of classic Berlin tunes from such classic films as Top Hat, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Holiday Inn, Easter Parade, White Christma_s, and many more. 

The Theatre at St. Jeans (150 East 76th Street)

Performances Begin 9/13

Through 10/16

Death of a Salesman

Hudson Theatre (141 West 44^th Street

Performances 9/19

Opening Night 10/9

Strictly Limited 17 Week Run

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  www.salesmanonbroadway.com

Fauna

An English Language premieres of a play by celebrated Argentinian playwright Romina Paula

FAUNA brings together four characters involved in the making of a film, a film that will never be made: a fictionalized biography based on a legendary figure who in her lifetime dressed like a man, translated Rilke, and rode her horse with abandon through the campo until she was in her nineties. FAUNA contemplates how to tell the story of a life, questions what is true and real, and asks us to decipher where fiction and the real co-exist.

Torn Page (435 W. 22)

9/16 - 10/1

Seating Extremely Limited (16 people per performance)

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit EventBrite

If the Bells Would Ring

If the Bells Would Ring is a two-act play—written and produced by youth activists—about the greed, devastation, passion, and resilience surrounding the climate crisis. As the generation who is ultimately the most affected by our changing climate, it is important that young activists be able to communicate the power imbalances that continue to propel this crisis. 

The Tank (312 W 36th St., New York, NY 10018) 

Two Performances Only 9/16 & 9/17

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit ci.ovationtix.com/35658/production/1136160

The Piano Lesson

August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, which premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1987 and starred a then-39-year-old Samuel L. Jackson as Boy Willie, is the fourth play in the American Century Cycle. Three years later, a new production, starring Carl Gordon, Charles S. Dutton and S. Epatha Merkerson, opened at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, and soon transferred to Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre. In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama, The Piano Lesson won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, the Peabody Award and was nominated for the 1990 Tony Award for Best Play.

The Piano Lesson is set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1936.  A brother and sister are locked in a war over the fate of a family heirloom: a piano carved with the faces of their ancestors. Only by revisiting history can the siblings endeavor to move forward. The Piano Lesson, wrote Frank Rich in The New York Times, “has its own spacious poetry, its own sharp angle on a nation's history, its own metaphorical idea of drama and its own palpable ghosts that roar right through the upstairs window of the household where the action unfolds. Like other Wilson plays, The Piano Lesson seems to sing even when it is talking.”

Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47^th Street

Performances Begin 9/19

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit t PianoLessonPlay.com

 

B)Extended Run

Into the Woods

St. James Theatre (246 W. 44th St.)

Run Extended to 1/8/23

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit intothewoodsbway.com

C)New Cast Members

Funny Girl

August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52^nd Street)

Lea Michele has joined the cast in the role of Fanny

Tovah Feldshuh has joined the cast in the role of Mrs. Brice

“Fanny Brice” standby Julie Benko will perform the title role from 

Tuesday, August 2 – Sunday, September 4, 2022 and on Thursdays beginning Thursday, September 8, 2022.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  

www.FunnyGirlOnBroadway.com

Hadestown

Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48^th Street) 

Lillas White joins the cast as the first female Hermes starting 9/13

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.hadestown.com

Perfect Crime

The Theater Center Theater Center (210 West 50^th Street)

Michael Halling joins the cast as Detective James Asher

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  www.perfect-crime.com

D) Now Streaming

Bikeman

On September 11, 2001, journalist Tom Flynn set off on his bike toward the World Trade Towers not knowing what he was riding into. Bikeman is one man's journey back to the horrors of that day and to the humanity that somehow emerged from the dust and the death. Both heartbreaking and haunting, his words will stay with you like that “forever September morning” (Meredith Vieira, NBC's “Today”).

Modeled on Dante's Inferno, veteran journalist Thomas F. Flynn's Bikeman chronicles the morning of September 11, 2001 like no other published work. Flynn delivers a personal account of his experiences beginning with the first strike on the World Trade Center when he decided to follow his journalist's instinct and point his bike's handlebars in the direction of the north tower. His story continues as he transitions from reporter to participant hoping to survive the fall of the south tower. Now Flynn, as both journalist and now survivor, must come to terms with the harrowing ordeal and somehow find peace in the very act of surviving.

Access to Bikeman is free, with donations encouraged to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund. Bikeman can be viewed directly at www.irishrep.org/bikeman.

D) What's Happening This Week and More

1) Ballet Hispanico School of Dance Virtual Dialogos 

Kicks Off Hispanic Heritage Month 9/15

2) Dramatists Guild Upcoming Events

3) Ice Theatre of New York Presents Edge Class Wednesdays

9/14 - 12/21

4) Kyiv Ballet to Tour the US

September - October 2022

5) New Camerata Opera Presents Faust et Helene L'heure espagnole

9/16 - 9/24

6) Nai Ni Chen Dance Co. The Bridge Virtual Dance Class on Zoom

9/12 & 9/14

7) Smithsonian Magazine's 18th Annual Museum Day

9/17

8) Town Hall  Final Broadway by the Year Concert of 2022

9/19

9) River Theater Little Shakes Big Celebration

9/16

10) Works & Process at the Guggenheim & 92 St Y Present

LayeRhythm (On the Move): Passion Fruit Dance Co, 9/15

1) Ballet Hispánico School of Dance

Announces

Virtual Diálogos, Instituto Coreográfico with Omar Román De Jesús

To Kick Off Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrations

September 15, 2022

Ballet Hispánico School of Dance announces a virtual Diálogos, Instituto Coreográfico with Omar Román De Jesús to kick off its Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations, on September 15, 2022 at 7:30pm EST on Ballet Hispánico's Facebook or YouTube pages, or watch it afterwards on demand. Make sure to follow and subscribe Ballet Hispánico to receive a tune in reminder.

Diálogos is Ballet Hispánico's conversation series exploring the interconnections of the arts, social justice, and Latino cultures. Tune in to hear choreographer Omar Román De Jesús (Bayamón, Puerto Rico) discuss his experience working with Ballet Hispánico Company dancers, his creative process, and how Instituto Coreográfico gives a voice to young artists and opens access to the dance-making process for all audiences.

For more information, visit ballethispanico.org/community/the-arnhold-center/dialogos.

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2) 

 

MUSICAL THEATRE WRITERS

JOHN WEIDMAN, JEANINE TESORI, JASON ROBERT BROWN, AMANDA GREEN, AND TOM KITT

 

WILL CELEBRATE STEPHEN SONDHEIM AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

This fall, in collaboration with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Dramatists Guild will present two special programs that celebrate the legacy of acclaimed songwriter (and past Guild Council president) Stephen Sondheim, including his advocacy work on behalf of his fellow writers. These programs, which are free and open to the public, will be presented in association with the special Sondheim issue of The Dramatist magazine -- available in September both online and in select bookstores.

 

The Dramatist Guild Presents: An Evening with John Weidman

September 15 at 6pm EDT

 

In this intimate conversation, Jeanine Tesori (Kimberly Akimbo) will interview writer, librettist, and advocate John Weidman, discussing his body of work, including Assassins, Pacific Overtures, and Road Show, as well as his upcoming projects. In honor of the Dramatists Guild's The Dramatist magazine issue dedicated to Stephen Sondheim, Weidman will also discuss his longtime collaboration with the iconic songwriter.

 

How to Register:

Learn more and register via the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-in-conversation-the-dramatists-guild-presents-john-weidman-tickets-401353337637

 

The Dramatists Guild presents:  Sondheim: The Man, The Mentor, and His Music

October 17 at 12pm EDT

 

His peers have frequently spoken about Stephen Sondheim’s lyric writing, but comparatively little attention has been dedicated to his music. In this panel of Broadway songwriters, moderated by lyricist and DG President Amanda Green (Mr. Saturday Night), composers Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years) and Tom Kitt (Almost Famous) will discuss the craft behind the legendary writer's music, as well as how Sondheim mentored a generation of theatrical composers. This panel is being presented in celebration of The Dramatist magazine's Sondheim issue, which honors the legacy, advocacy, and impact of Stephen Sondheim.

 

How to Register:

Priority registration for this event will be offered to high school, college, and graduate students who are currently studying playwriting, musical theatre writing, and/or musical composition. Eligible students can reserve their spot by filling out the following form: https://zfrmz.com/t2XTOfdiMd2MdTMLjCf9

 

Tickets will be available to the general public starting in late September.

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3) Ice Theatre of New York, Inc ®

presents

Edge Class

Wednesdays, September 14 - December 21, 2022

Sky Rink, Pier 61 Chelsea Piers

Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) presents Edge Classes on Wednesdays at 1:30pm, September 14, 2022 through December 21, 2022 at Sky Rink, Chelsea Piers, NYC. Skaters can drop in for one session, or attend all fifteen. Single sessions are $20 each, a ten-class subscription is $150, and a fifteen-class subscription is $200. To register, please click here. 

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4) 

The Kyiv City Ballet (www.kcbtheater.com), under the artistic direction of Ivan Kozlov, will tour the U.S from September 16 to October 24, 2022. The Fall tour is a US premiere and marks the Kyiv City Ballet’s first United States performances ever. 

The US tour will include a full-length Swan Lake (choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and Ivan Kozlov), and a second mixed repertory program of three ballets: Thoughts (choreography by Vladyslav Dobshynskyi) a contemporary ballet, Tribute to Peace (choreography by Ekaterina and Ivan Kozlov) a neo-classical work, and Men of Kyiv (choreography by Pavlo Virsky) a Ukranian folk dance.

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5) New Camerata Opera

announces

Faust et Hélène and L'heure espagnole

September 16-24, 2022

New Camerata Opera (NCO) announces details for a double bill of French one-act operas - Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène and Maurice Ravel’s L’heure espagnole - from September 16 through September 24, 2022 at 8pm at Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $25 mezzanine, $45 general admission, and $80 VIP and are available for purchase at newcamerataopera.org/double-bill.

For the first time ever, New Camerata Opera brings its unique blend of immersive and fun performances to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Music Director Kamal Khan and Stage Director John de los Santos conjure a gorgeous world in which clockwork photography by NYC-based artist Atom Moore creates a striking backdrop to this timeless story.This double bill is part of the company's groundbreaking 7th season that breaks boundaries by bringing classic stories to the stage and re-contextualizing them for today’s audience.

NCO presents the New York Staged Premiere of Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène. Boulanger was a contemporary of Ravel’s, and his influences can be heard in this piece that won her the Prix de Rome composition prize at the age of 19. With just three voices, this rarely-staged work offers a generous glimpse into the genius of Boulanger’s compositional skill and deserves to be featured more frequently in the operatic canon. Taken from Goethe’s retelling of the story of Faust, Boulanger’s opera focuses on the moment when Faust is persuaded by Méphistophélès to sign over his soul to eternal damnation in return for being shown one moment of true happiness. The theme of time connects the two operas in this double bill and provides a framework for Moore’s unique displays.

L’heure espagnole

First performed in Paris in 1911, L’heure espagnole is set in a clock shop in central Spain. It follows the fortunes of Torquemada, the hardworking clockmaker, as his young wife Concepción negotiates her way through her collection of ridiculous lovers. Ravel’s music is bursting with hummable melodies, lively habanera dances, and other Spanish folk song elements that will defy audience’s preconceived notions of opera.

A season-opening new production of Faust et Hélène and L’heure espagnole

Lili Boulanger and Maurice Ravel

September 16, 17, 23, and 24, 2022

Irondale Center, 85 S Oxford St, Brooklyn, NY 11217

NewCamerataOpera.org/double-bill

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6) Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

Announces

The Bridge

Virtual Dance Institute

 of boundary-breaking dance experiences

Free One-Hour Company Classes on Zoom

Open to All Dancers at an Intermediate to Advanced Level

September 12 & 14, 2022

 In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has established a new dance institute through Zoom, The Bridge. The Institute’s aim is to bring together dancers, choreographers and directors around the world to experience the master teachers of color whose practices are embedded in the community and are focused on advancing the art of dance that transform the personal, environmental and metaphysical spaces. Interested dancers can join the class by registering here.

As a virtual dance institute, The Bridge will invite world renowned as well as up and coming dancers and choreographers to come to guest teach the class. Advanced/Intermediate level professional or pre-professional dancers who are looking to explore beyond their own boundaries and looking for new dance experiences are encouraged to participate. The core program is based on Nai-Ni Chen’s Kinetic Spiral, which is a cross-cultural dance vocabulary that integrates the Chinese martial arts philosophy in TaiChi with contemporary dance practices she studied in America. Guest artists will cover a wide range of folk and classical dance styles.

The Bridge Class schedule:

Monday, September 12, 2022 | Tina “Tino” Zoccoli-Mayers (Yoga) at 10am

Tino will teach their first Yoga class with NNCDC, focusing on restorative practices to prevent and/or heal injuries for dancers and athletes. They will pair Vinyasa and Yin yoga–"Yin and Vin”-- to stretch, condition and heal the aerobic anatomical system. S/he will help students prepare, simply, wherever they practice, a psycho-somatic space and body consciousness for the gentle, extended cool-down with Yin yoga, invented by American yogis along the Pacific Ocean coast, incorporating Chinese Medicine. Please prepare if possible to bring: a yoga mat; blankets/towels; 2 yoga blocks (or: books, soup cans); a yoga strap (or: fabric belt, towel) and any other soothing or healing object.

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | Rio Kikuchi (Kinetic Spiral) at 10am

Tapping into the creative energy of the universe through Kinetic Spiral. Nai-Ni Chen's signature technique is based on the principle of ever-changing universal forces of Yin and Yang to cultivate the dancer’s vital energy Chi (Qi) allowing the dancer to achieve higher performance with less effort. By focusing on breathing and images, Kinetic Spiral also balances the spiritual, mental and physical energy of the dancer. The Kinetic Spiral Technique forms the foundation of Nai-Ni Chen’s style of cross-cultural movement and embodies her efforts to work in the intersection of culture and race, advocating for equity with grace and power.

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7) SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE’S 18TH ANNUAL MUSEUM DAY 

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE

 

FREE NATIONWIDE EVENT ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Tickets for Smithsonian magazine’s 18th annual Museum Day are now available for download. Museum lovers across the country can go to the Museum Day website to download tickets. 

Each ticket grants the ticket holder and one guest free timed access to any participating museum on September 17, 2022. One ticket is permitted per email address.

To see the full, updated list of participating museums and download a free ticket, please visit the Museum Day website.  

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8)

BROADWAY BY THE YEAR

A ONE NIGHT ONLY HISTORY OF BROADWAY SONG AND DANCE Celebrating an explosion of dance on the Great White Way September 19 at 8PM   CREATED, WRITTEN, HOSTED AND DIRECTED BY SCOTT SIEGEL   MUSICAL DIRECTOR / PIANIST ROSS PATTERSON AND THE ROSS PATTERSON LITTLE BIG BAND     THE TOWN HALL (123 W. 43rd Street) www.TheTownHall.org

September 19, 2022 at 8PM Broadway by the Year: A ONE NIGHT ONLY HISTORY OF BROADWAY SONG AND DANCE   It’s an awesomely big subject, but Broadway by the Year will bring it to you in an explosion of tap, ballroom, jazz, ballet, and more! From George M. Cohan, Fred &Adele Astaire, and the dancing feet of 42nd Street, right up to the brilliance of Andy Blankenbeuler’s choreography for In the Heights and Hamilton — and the world of Broadway dance that swirls in-between.   A cast of brilliant Broadway singer-dancers will be on display in this, Broadway by the Year’s most ambitious concert event in its 21 year history! In fact, this entire 21st season will set a new standard for Town Hall’s signature series. We hope you’ll be there to witness it all!

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9) TWO RIVER THEATER ANNOUNCES LITTLE SHAKES: BIG CELEBRATION

A FUNDRAISING EVENT AND RECEPTION FOR BELOVED YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAM

FEATURING A SPECIAL FILM SCREENING OF NJ PBS HERE’S THE STORY: MUCH ADO

 Two River Theater invites the public to celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of the youth education program A Little Shakespeare with a special film screening of NJ PBS’s Here’s The Story: Much Ado, starring the cast and creative team from Two River’s 2022 production of A Little Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing on Friday, September 16, 2022 at 7:00pm. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A onstage with special guests and a fun and lively post-show reception after-party in Two River Theater’s lobby.

NJ PBS’s Here's the Story is produced by visual storyteller Steve Rogers and his crew, who seek out extraordinary tales of extraordinary people often in the most unlikely of places, in New Jersey. In this 30-minute episode, dedicated to A Little Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing, they follow the cast and crew of the show from beginning to end, spotlighting local New Jersey students navigating auditions, rehearsals and opening night. You’ll hear from the students in one-on-one interviews about their excitement, what they learned, and making life-long friends along the way. 

The celebration continues after the screening with a Q&A and after-party to celebrate ten years of A Little Shakespeare, all to benefit Two River’s Education programs and support the official return of student matinee performances during our 2022/23 season. 

Learn more at https://tworivertheater.org/whats-on/little-shakes-big-celebration/

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10) Works & Process at the Guggenheim

In Collaboration with 92NY

Announces

LayeRhythm (On The Move): Passion Fruit Dance Company

September 15, 2022 at 7:30pm

Works & Process at the Guggenheim, in collaboration with 92NY, announces LayeRhythm (On The Move), featuring Passion Fruit Dance Company. Tickets available now at www.worksandprocess.org.

LayeRhythm (On The Move)

Featuring Passion Fruit Dance Company, with 92NY

Thursday, September 15, 7:30 pm

Tickets $35, Choose-What-You-Pay

Embodying the continuum of concert and social dance, LayeRhythm, led by Mai Lê Hô, weaves a singular mix of freestyle dance, live music, and audience interaction, celebrating the vibrancy of street and club dance cultures. Spotlighting Passion Fruit Dance Company and Hip-Hop, House, Waacking, and Popping, the evening will feature choreographed work alongside improvisations by musicians, dancers, and emcees, captivating the young and old, from theater to club goers.

On third Thursdays this fall, Works & Process and 92NY will present LayeRhythm (On The Move), continuing at The New York Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division (October 20), Gibney Center (November 17), and Lincoln Center (December 15).

WORKS & PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM

1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128

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And that's the scoop. Tune in tomorrow for More Theater Monday.