Monday, March 10, 2025

B'way Update: Jean Smart, Kristin Chenoweth and MTC

Jean Smart on Hacks.
Credit: Jake Giles Netter/Max
Six-time Emmy winner and Tony nominee Jean Smart (Hacks, Designing Women, The Man Who Came to Dinner) and Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, Pushing Daisies) will both return to Broadway. Smart will star this summer in a new play Call Me Izzy by Jamie Wax (Evangeline) and directed by Sarna Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George). The 12-week limited engagement starts previews on May 24, opens on June 12 and runs through Aug. 17. The play concerns a woman in rural Louisiana whose greatest secret is her greatest gift. Roundabout Theater Company owns Studio 54 but thsi is not a Roundabout production.

Kristin Chenoweth

Chenoweth also returns in Queen of Versailles, a new musical which was previously announced for Broadway and has now confirmed opening at the St. James on Nov. 10 with previews starting Oct. 8. A red-carpet celebration is planned for Nov. 9. She will be reunited with Wicked songwriter Stephen Schwartz in this tuner based on the story of Jackie Segal who along with her husband David "Timeshare King" Segal, played by Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham, planned to build America's biggest private home in Orlando, Florida. The book, based on Lauren Greenfield's 2012 documentary film, is by Olivier Award nominee Lindsay Ferrentino. Tony winner Michael Arden (Once on This Island, Parade) directs.

Manhattan Theater Club has announced two shows for its 2025-26 season. MTC will presented the critically acclaimed Punch by Olivier Award winner James Graham (Ink) on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman in the fall and The Monsters written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu Off-Broadway at City Center in a co-production with Two River Theater this winter. Based on James Dunne's memoir Right from Wrong, the play follows the consequences of an impulsive act of violence. Adam Penford directs.
David Shields (center) in Punch.
Credit: Marc Brenner
The Monsters focuses on two siblings: BIG and LIL. The two have been estranged until LIL admires BIG's success in mixed martial arts fighting and suddenly appears on his doorstep. The two must come to terms with their past.

  

Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Season Calendar
Spring 2025
March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 10--The Jonathan Larsen Project (Orpheum)
March 10--The Great Privation (Playwrights Horizons)
March 16--Last Call (New World Stages)
March 17--Purpose (2nd Stage/Hayes)
March 18--Vanya (Lucille Lortel)
March 19--Buena Vista Social Club (Schoenfeld)
March 19--We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage II)
March 20--Operation Mincemeat (Golden)
March 23--Othello (Barrymore)
March 24--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)
March 26--The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse/St. Ann's Warehouse)
March 27--The Picture of Dorian Gray (Music Box)
March 30--The Swamp Dwellers (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)
March 31--Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace)
April 2--Lortel Award nominations announced
April 3--Good Night and Good Luck (Winter Garden)
April 3--Threepenny Opera (BAM/St. Ann's Warehouse)
April 3--Humpty Dumpty (Chain Theater)
April 5--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical (Broadhurst)
April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)
April 8--Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
April 7--Becoming Eve (NYTW/Abrons Arts Center)
April 10--Smash (Imperial)
April 14--John Proctor Is the Villain (Booth)
April 15--Macbeth in Stride (BAM)
April 16--Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public) 
April 17--Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)
April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)
April 22--Drama League Award nominations (NYPL)
April 23--Just in Time (Circle in the Square)
April 23--Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons)
April 24--Pirates: The Penzance Musical (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
April 27--Real Women Have Curves (James Earl Jones)
April 27--Dead Outlaw (Longacre)
April 28--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced
April 30--Drama Desk Nominations announced
May 1--Tony Nominations announced
May 4--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)
May 12--Outer Critics Circle Award winners announced
May 13--The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group/Signature Center)
May 14--Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Signature Center) (Previews begin, opening TBA)
May 14--Bistro Awards (Gotham Comedy Club)
May 16--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)
May 18--Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO/Transport Group)
May 20--Goddess (Public Theater)
May 22--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony
May--Eurydice (Signature Theater)

2025
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Sugar Daddy

Summer 2025
June 1--Drama Desk Awards (NYU Skirball)
June 2--Theater World Awards (Theater TBA)
June 8--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)
June 12--Call Me Izzy (Studio 54)
June 24--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)
Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)
Aug. 14--Mamma Mia (Winter Garden)
Aug. 21--Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)

Fall 2025
Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)
Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Initiative (Public)
Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Punch (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Saturday Church (NYTW)
Waiting for Godot

Winter 2025-26
Chinese Repulicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Monsters (MTC/ City Center)

2026
Dolly Parton Musical

Spring 2026
Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
The Lost Boys (Palace)
The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; Get Happy; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Slumdog Millionaire; Soul Train; Studio 54; Working Girl.

2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich
Cult of Love
Good Night and Good Luck
The Hills of California
Job 
John Proctor Is the Villain
Left on Tenth
MCNEAL
Oh, Mary!
Purpose
The Roommate
Stranger Things: The First Shadow

New Musicals
Boop! The Betty Boop Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
Just in Time
Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat
Real Women Have Curves
Redwood
Smash
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Swept Away
Tammy Faye
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

Play Revivals
English
Eureka Day
Glengarry Glen Ross
Home
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
Yellow Face

Musical Revivals
Elf the Musical
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
Penzance! The Pirate Musical
Sunset Boulevard

Solos/Specialties
The Picture of Dorian Gray

2045-26 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
Call Me Izzy
Oedipus
Punch

New Musicals
Dolly Parton Musical
The Lost Boys
Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals
Fallen Angels
Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals
Mamma Mia!
The Rocky Horror Show

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