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| George Clooney in the film version of Good Night and Good Luck. Credit: Warner Bros./Allstar |
In a statement, Mr. Cromer said, “Edward R. Murrow operated from a kind of moral clarity that feels vanishingly rare in today’s media landscape. There was an immediacy in those early live television broadcasts that today can only be effectively captured on stage, in front of a live audience.”
Mr. Clooney added, “I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to.”
Good Night and Good Luck will open on Broadway at a Shubert house in Spring 2025.
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| Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Credit: Marc Brenner |
According to Deadline, Emmy winner Sarah Snook (Succession) has signed to recreate her London triumph, a one-woman version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, on Broadway for a potential Spring 2025 run. Snook won an Olivier Award as Best Actress for this multi-media adaptation of Wilde's tale of an immoral man whose portrait ages but he doesn't. She portrays 26 characters. The show by Sydney Theater Company Artistic Director Kip Williams just completed its run at the Theater Royal Haymarket. It first appeared in Sydney in 2020.
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| Helen J. Shen |
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| Darren Criss |
Another Emmy winner Darren Criss (American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace) will return to Broadway along with Helen J. Shen (Lonely Few, Teeth) in Maybe Happy Ending, with music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Hue Park and book by both Aronson and Park. Direction is by Tony Award-winner Michael Arden (Parade, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Once on this Island). Maybe Happy Ending will also feature Dez Duron (NBC’s “The Voice”) who makes his Broadway debut along with Shen. The musical begins previews at the Belasco Theater on Sept. 18 in advance of an Oct. 17 opening.
Inside a one-room apartment in the heart of Seoul, Oliver (Criss) lives a happily quiet life listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re a HelperBot 3, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow HelperBot neighbor Claire (Shen) asks to borrow his charger, what starts as an awkward encounter leads to a unique friendship, a surprising adventure, and maybe even...love?
Maybe Happy Ending was written in both Korean and English-language versions. The Korean-language version opened in December of 2016 at DaeMyung Culture Factory in Seoul and subsequently won six Korean Musical Awards including Best Musical. The English-language version was awarded the 2017 Richard Rodgers Production Award and had its U.S. premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in the 2019-2020 season under the direction of Michael Arden.
2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar (and Beyond)
Spring 2024
May 14--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)
May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)
May 14--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)
May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)
May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)
May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony (Bruno Walter Auditorium/NY Public Library for the Performing Arts)
May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony (Bruno Walter Auditorium/NY Public Library for the Performing Arts)
May 28--Ben Platt at the Palace
Summer 2024
June 4--What Became of Us (Atlantic Stage 2)
June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
June 10--Drama Desk Awards (NYU Skirball)
June 10--Theater World Awards (Marquis Theater)
June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)
June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)
June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)
June 20--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)
June 23--N/A (Mitzi Newhouse)
July 11--Oh, Mary! (Lyceum)
Fall 2024
Sept. 12--The Roommate (Booth)
Sept. 12--Counting and Cracking (Public Theater/NYU Skirball)
Sept. 24--Vladimir (MTC/City Center Stage I) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Sept. 30--MCNEAL (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 1--Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Oct. 1--Good Bones (Public)
Oct. 9--The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Oct. 10--Our Town (Barrymore)
Oct. 10--Deep History (Public)
Oct. 17--Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco)
Oct. 20--Sunset Boulevard (St. James)
Nov. 8--Gatz (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)
Nov. 14--Tammy Faye (Palace)
Nov. 25--Eureka Day (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) (previews begin; opening TBA)
King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)
Left on Tenth
Romeo and Juliet w/Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler
Winter 2024-25
Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Sumo (Ma-Yi Theater/Public)
2024-25
My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)
Romeo and Juliet w.Tom Holland/Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (?)
Smash
Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)
Spring 2025
March 25--Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) (previews begins opening TBA)
April 24--The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)
Good Night and Good Luck
Othello
The Picture of Dorian Gray (???)
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
Summer 2025
Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)
Fall 2025
Initiative (Public)
Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Queen of Versailles; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Working Girl.
2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
Good Night and Good Luck
Left on Tenth
MCNEAL
Oh, Mary!
The Roommate
New Musicals
Maybe Happy Ending
Old Friends
Smash
Tammy Faye
What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
Play Revivals
English
Eureka Day
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
Yellowface
Musical Revivals
The Pirates of Penzance
Sunset Boulevard
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