This Week's Theater News: June 12, 2024

This Week's Theater News: June 12, 2024

The latest news in theater in New York's Capital Region and beyond.

Highlights:
• Albany High ’87 alum to be recognized at Tony Awards
• Members of WNY's State delegation announced nearly $1.2M for Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo
• Shubert Foundation awards $40 million in arts grants.

Bennett Liebman

Government Law Center at Albany Law School

Greater Capital District

‘New normal’ for summer theater: Trying to make more out of less (timesunion.com)

'87 alum to be recognized at Tony Awards | Albany High School (albanyschools.org)

Tony’s to present Albany High grad award (news10.com)

Albany native to receive special Tony Award (timesunion.com)

Harbinger Theatre Announces Auditions for “Into the Breeches” (berkshireonstage.blog)

REVIEW: “The Secret Garden” at Home Made Theater (berkshireonstage.blog)

REVIEW: “Circle Mirror Transformation” at the Ghent Playhouse (berkshireonstage.blog)

REVIEW: A One-Act Jamboree at the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York (berkshireonstage.blog)

REVIEW: Much to untangle in Sand Lake Center for the Arts' 'Web' | Arts | nippertown.com

“Web” at Sand Lake Center for the Arts puts community in community theater | WAMC

REVIEW: Shadowlands presents hilarious ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ | Arts | nippertown.com

Tickets Now on Sale for “Parade” (berkshireonstage.blog)

Bob Gale brings "Back to the Future" Musical to Proctors Mainstage (timesunion.com)

Beetlejuice On The MainStage In One Week At Proctors (broadwayworld.com)

5 U.S. performances of "Grief ... A Comedy" at Barrington Stage before Alison Larkin takes the show to Edinburgh Fringe | WAMC

THEATER REVIEW: Great Barrington Public Theater's 'Dog People' is a stylistically inventive rom-com | Arts and Theater | berkshireeagle.com

BITS & BYTES: Joshua Henry at Barrington Stage; Basic performs at The Clark; Tiny Glass Tavern at Adams Theater; Sabina Sciubba at Race Brook Lodge; Pinc Louds at The Foundry; Seth Glier at The Guthrie Center; Harvest & Rust unplugged at Adams Theater; Michael Aaron and Katherine Winston at Dottie’s - The Berkshire Edge

Mr. Finn's Cabaret artist Joshua Henry plans on letting the audience lean in | Arts and Theater | berkshireeagle.com

PREVIEW: Renee Benson and Jennifer Sargent's “A Spell for Living” at The Foundry, June 14 and 15 - The Berkshire Edge

Adirondack Theatre Festival Announces Starry Casting for 30th Anniversary Season  (berkshireonstage.blog)

With puppets and storefront of fake goods, 'The Plastic Bag Store' imagines a future shaped by plastic waste | Arts and Theater | berkshireeagle.com

Lineup Set for Williamstown Theatre Festival’s WTF IS NEXT Featuring Adam Kantor Britton & The Sting and More - Flip The Media

Lempicka’s Natalie Joy Johnson Will Star in Next to Normal at Barrington Stage Company - TheaterMania.com

Natalie Joy Johnson to Star in Barrington Stage Company’s Next to Normal - Flip The Media

Barrington Stage Annouces Casts and Creative Teams for Four Summer Shows (berkshireonstage.blog)

Natalie Joy Johnson to Star in Barrington Stage Company's Next to Normal | Playbill

Belmont watch parties boost local businesses with mimosas, dance classes, and charity (cbs6albany.com)

Brian Higgins - Today members of WNY's State delegation... | Facebook

5 Questions with Musicians of Ma’alwyck’s Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz | Arts | nippertown.com

Everywhere Else

Shubert Foundation awards $40 million in arts grants (broadwaynews.com)

Shubert Foundation Announces Record-Breaking $40 Million in Annual Grants | Playbill

Broadway box office soars over same week last season as multiple shows have highest-grossing week (broadwaynews.com)

Broadway Does Robust Business Heading Into Tony Awards; Most-Nominated Shows ‘Stereophonic’ & ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Among Sellouts (yahoo.com)

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/9/24 - THE LION KING, MERRILY & More Top the List (broadwayworld.com)

Grosses Week Ending 6/9/2024 (#3) | Broadway Business Grosses

Tony Awards 2024: A Powerhouse Year for Nonprofits - WSJ

Tonys Producers on Changes For This Year's Show, ‘Stereophonic' and Their Plan to Honor Plays (msn.com)

All in the Details: Tony-Nominated Set Designers on Getting It Right - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Public Theater Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Join IATSE, Become Fifth Off-Broadway Group to Unionize - IATSE

Public Theater Company Workers Vote to Join IATSE | Playbill

A Cave Explorer Died 99 Years Ago. Now His Story Is Broadway Bound. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Floyd Collins Is Getting a Broadway Debut Via Lincoln Center Theater | Playbill

Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins to Receive Broadway Premiere in 2025 - TheaterMania.com

Lincoln Center Theater announces Broadway bow of ‘Floyd Collins’ (broadwaynews.com)

I Saw 4 New Broadway Musicals in a Week—2 Were Incredible & 2 Were...Oh Boy (yahoo.com)

SIX: LIVE ON OPENING NIGHT Album Hits 100 Million Streams (broadwayworld.com)

Melissa McCarthy on 'Suffs,' Backing Broadway Shows (hollywoodreporter.com)

On Broadway, ‘Suffs’ Has a New Tune (and 6 Tony Nominations) - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Exclusive: On SUFFS and Motherhood (broadwayworld.com)

“Suffs” Creator Shaina Taub Recalls Moment She Knew Tony-Nominee Nikki M. James Had to Be in the Musical (Exclusive) (yahoo.com)

What Pride Means to Suffs Star Jenn Colella | Broadway Direct

Why ‘Company,’ new ‘Gypsy’ casting are the future of theater | Datebook (sfchronicle.com)

Broadway Q&A: Here Lies Love set designer David Korins (timeout.com)

What Became of Us Review. Immigrant Siblings, Quirky Choices. – New York Theater

2024 Drama Desk Award winners announced | New York Theatre Guide

Stereophonic and Water for Elephants Lead Drama Desk Award Winners | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com

2024 Drama Desk Awards Winners- The Full List (broadwayworld.com)

‘Stereophonic’ leads 2024 Drama Desk Award winners (broadwaynews.com)

The Ladies of Stereophonic Take Jeremy O. Harris Inside the Year's Hottest Play (interviewmagazine.com)

 'Water For Elephants' is making its mark on Broadway with 7 Tony nominations, including 'Best Musical' - ABC7 New York (abc7ny.com)

& Juliet Announces Recoupment of $17 Million Broadway Production Cost - TheaterMania.com

'& Juliet' Recoups $17 Million Broadway Capitalization (deadline.com)

‘& Juliet’ recoups on Broadway (broadwaynews.com)

'Pitch Perfect' Star Skylar Astin to Host Tony Awards Simulcast (variety.com)

Skylar Astin will host Tony Awards simulcast (broadwaynews.com)

The Impact of a Tony Performance (broadwaynews.com)

Tony Awards To Feature 'Merrily We Roll Along', 'Cabaret', More (deadline.com)

The Broadway Show You Need to Have an Opinion on This Season (yahoo.com)

'Cabaret' Star Gayle Rankin Has Heard All Your Sally Bowles Takes | Glamour

Pete Townshend to Introduce THE WHO'S TOMMY Performance on the 2024 Tony Awards (broadwayworld.com)

Lorna Courtney | 20 in Their 20s 2024 | Crain's New York Business (crainsnewyork.com)

Lempicka Delays Cast Album Release Date (Again) | Playbill

Watch Gavin Creel discuss his career and the vitality of Broadway in new short film (broadwaynews.com)

What Shows Will Win the Best Musical, Play, and Revival Tonys in 2024? - TheaterMania.com

Tonys Roundtable: Rachel McAdams, Daniel Radcliffe, Eddie Redmayne and More (hollywoodreporter.com)

Daniel Radcliffe on first Tony nomination, how Broadway challenged him after "Harry Potter" - CBS News

Watch Maria Friedman discuss her work on ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ (broadwaynews.com)

Why Paula Vogel could only have written ‘Mother Play’ right now (broadwaynews.com)

Jessica Lange and Paula Vogel on Breaking, and Keeping, the Family Contract - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

What Broadway Shows Have Sold 100% Of Their Tickets This Month: June 2024 (nytix.com)

League of Resident Theatres announces new board leadership (broadwaynews.com)

Creating a Chosen Broadway Musical Family Based on S.E. Hinton’s Beloved The Outsiders - TheaterMania.com

'The Outsiders' Director And The Hollywood Insider: Danya Taymor & Angelina Jolie (deadline.com)

Justin Levine interview: ‘The Outsiders' composer and writer (msn.com)

Brody Grant's Soaring Vocals on The Outsiders' "Great Expectations" Are Tony-Worthy | NBC Insider

Danya Taymor Opens Up About 'The Outsiders' Musical, Angelina Jolie | HuffPost Entertainment

The Outsiders Is First Broadway Show to Use New L-Acoustics Speakers (billboard.com)

How ‘The Outsiders’ Staged a Broadway Fight Club - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

5 minutes with a Tony nominee: ‘The Outsiders’’ Joshua Boone (broadwaynews.com)

Performers Announced for Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth Concert (iloveny.com)

North American Tour of Mrs. Doubtfire Recoups - TheaterMania.com

Video: Will Brill Is Living His Best Tony Nominee Life (broadwayworld.com)

Amber Gray and More Will Lead THE ROYAL PYRATE Workshop Tour (broadwayworld.com)

Seattle Rep Layoffs To Impact Artistic Staff, Education Programs, and New Works Development (broadwayworld.com)

Seattle Rep layoffs to include majority of its artistic staff | The Seattle Times

ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company may merge soon | The Seattle Times

AMERICAN THEATRE | They Will Survive: Theatres That Are Beating the Odds

John Fire: East Bay grass fire destroys Pittsburg Theatre Company's warehouse ahead of shows - ABC7 San Francisco (abc7news.com)

‘I can’t understand a lyric’: Patti LuPone laments lost art of projection in musical theatre | Theatre | The Guardian

The Notebook Adapter Bekah Brunstetter Tried to Hide Inside a Big Musical But Got a Tony Nomination Instead | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com

Nonprofit helps visually impaired get full experience of live theater (kcrg.com)

CT's senators want $1 billion to aid struggling live stage theaters (ctinsider.com)

Unlikely allies in the Atlanta nonprofit World - SaportaReport

The Yale Review | Why Conservatives Killed America's Federally Funded…

Oregon Children's Theatre needs $150K to stay open through fall | kgw.com

AMERICAN THEATRE | Wish You Were Here

Curious Theatre Company plans to sell its building in the Golden Triangle (denverite.com)

Chicago's Music Box Theatre is spending $750K for new seats and a spiffing up (yahoo.com)

Theater adapts ‘An Enemy of the People’ to address public health after the pandemic | PBS NewsHour

‘An Enemy of the People’ revival recoups investment (broadwaynews.com)

'An Enemy of the People' Starring Jeremy Strong Recoups on Broadway (hollywoodreporter.com)

Bill Murray To Join Taylor Schilling, Kathryn Erbe And Climate Activists In Free Times Square ‘Enemy Of The People' Event (msn.com)

AMERICAN THEATRE | All the Lonely People

'South Pacific' seeks to honor tradition and add modern insight at Goodspeed Opera House (courant.com)

Sarah Paulson, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Tony nominations and Paulson's return to Broadway - CBS News

Stephen Mckinley Henderson Will Lead The 2024 Lunt-fontanne Fellowship Program At Ten Chimneys (broadwayworld.com)

Cultural Comings and Goings: Harlem Stage’s New Director and More | Observer

‘Home’ Director Kenny Leon Talks Play’s Broadway Revival and Teases Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Upcoming ‘Othello’ (yahoo.com),

Florence Welch Gatsby Musical Opens World Premiere at A.R.T. June 5 | Playbill

That old ‘Gatsby’ magic, made new  — Harvard Gazette

‘Gatsby’ at ART reimagines Fitzgerald’s classic tale - The Bay State Banner

Evan Alexander Smith and David Josefsberg to Join Back to the Future on Broadway | Playbill

Dorian Theater Awards winners list - GoldDerby

Kecia Lewis (‘Hell’s Kitchen’) video interview - GoldDerby

Broadway Q&A: Hell's Kitchen director Michael Greif (timeout.com)

After A 40-Year Broadway Career, Kecia Lewis Gets Her First Tony Nomination for Hell's Kitchen (forbes.com)

Interview: Brandon Stirling Baker on Giving Light to Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise - TheaterMania.com

Exclusive: On the History and Hope of PURLIE VICTORIOUS (broadwayworld.com)

Kara Young on Being a Tony Award Nominee for the Third Year in a Row | Broadway Direct

AMERICAN THEATRE | The Right (to) Protest

AMERICAN THEATRE | Elinor Fuchs, Peerless Guide to Theatre’s ‘Small Planet’

5 Essential Comedy Plays You Should Know | Backstage

Ruining Father’s Day - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot & Morę to Lead SOUTH PACIFIC Reunion Concert at Lincoln Center Theater (broadwayworld.com)

Aaron Tveit on Being ‘Terrified & Excited’ to Play Sweeney Todd, How His Cafe Carlyle Setlist Takes a Cue From Eras Tour (yahoo.com)

Full Cast Set For The National Tour Of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (broadwayworld.com)

TodayTix Group Buys Digital Advertising Agency Arthouse (variety.com)

William Jackson Harper’s Wild, Wonderful Year on the New York Stage | Vanity Fair

Bernadette Peters Returns To Broadway In A Stephen Sondheim Tribute Show (forbes.com)

‘Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’’ Review: A Bittersweet Premiere - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Marie's Crisis – New York, New York - Gastro Obscura (atlasobscura.com)

For ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ musical, these married actors took their kid and cats on tour – Daily Bulletin

University of Michigan archivist discovers long-lost Gershwin musical | WOODTV.com

As the Apollo Theater prepares for its 90th Anniversary Spring Benefit, CEO Michelle Ebanks looks toward the next 90 years - CBS New York (cbsnews.com)

The ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ songwriters are in their 90s — and still best friends - The Washington Post

‘Bye Bye Birdie’ at the Kennedy Center is as feather-light as ever - The Washington Post

How the Muny stages 7 Broadway-caliber shows each summer (stltoday.com)

Review: Gender-swapped ‘Company’ makes fertile ground of museum piece | Datebook (sfchronicle.com)

Review: Magic Theatre’s ‘Garuda’s Wing’ is a master class in dramatic revelation | Datebook (sfchronicle.com)

Review: FST Slips Into Summer with a Pleasing Production of 'The World Goes 'Round' | Sarasota Magazine

Florida Studio Theatre has fun with Broadway hits by Kander And Ebb (heraldtribune.com)

Sarasota Players new play winner ‘Happy Dale’ has its premiere (heraldtribune.com)

Central Florida cultural scene: Season of leadership change (orlandosentinel.com)

Orlando performing arts festival will leave you in the dark (orlandosentinel.com)

AMERICAN THEATRE | New Plays, Good Food, Great Plains: A Proven Recipe

Broadway's Next Hit Musical Brings Unscripted Innovation to Denver | Westword

Ordway's 'Come From Away' an uplifting elixir rooted in tragedy (twincities.com)

'Bull Durham, A New Musical' based on 1988 movie about Durham Bulls team to debut in home city (wral.com)

Where the Mountain Meets the Sea: Signature Theatre Does It Again - Washington City Paper

'Ballad of Johnny and June': Musical faces Cash family addiction - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

Review: La Jolla Playhouse's 'Johnny and June' is tuneful, well-cast but missing the dazzle - The San Diego Union-Tribune (sandiegouniontribune.com)

Bay Area theater offers stark warning about 2024 with classic musical (mercurynews.com)

Five performances to catch at the Hollywood Fringe Festival – Daily News

Review: 'Six' is back in Chicago, still the first-class show its fans want (chicagotribune.com)

Review: "A Little Night Music" has Sondheim's songs of summer (chicagotribune.com)

The film Ghostlight spotlights Chicago’s theater scene - WBEZ Chicago

Review: "The Singularity Play" by Jackalope Theatre Company (chicagotribune.com)

Spotlight: Marriott grooves with jukebox tuner ‘Beehive: The 60’s Musical’ (dailyherald.com)

Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards laud Natasha and Pierre, The Master Plan and Casey and Diana - The Globe and Mail

Crow's/Musical Stage Company's THE GREAT COMET & More Take Home 2024 Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards (broadwayworld.com)

Review: Stratford Festival’s restrained new production of Hedda Gabler is too perfunctory and not punk enough - The Globe and Mail

Sarah Kane’s play-writing legacy haunts Canadian theatre - The Globe and Mail

Toronto Fringe Festival is back this summer and here are the must-see shows (blogto.com)

The Merry Widow, Glyndebourne, review: Danielle de Niese shines in a stunning, if jokey, production (telegraph.co.uk)

Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder! at Ambassadors Theatre review: a slapdash spoof of the true crime genre | Evening Standard

Wedding Band at Lyric Hammersmith review: remarkable '60s revival leaps through time to grab you by the throat | Evening Standard

A View From The Bridge at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: Dominic West delivers in an old-fashioned revival | Evening Standard

Marie Curie review – musical dash through the scientist’s life leaves your head spinning | Stage | The Guardian

Hide the marmalade! Paddington Bear is back – and this time he’s gone immersive | Theatre | The Guardian

Jodie Whittaker returns to London stage to play The Duchess | Theatre | The Guardian

‘The war was not going to stop me’: amateur Ukrainian actors stage King Lear in UK | Theatre | The Guardian

Andrew Lloyd Webber Says He's Completed His Next Musical (broadwayworld.com)

James Shapiro: Theatre and democracy are mutually supportive – when one is in danger, both are in danger – The Irish Times