Wednesday, March 26, 2025

B'way Update: John Krasinki, Private Lives, Beaches, James Taylor

SAG winner and Emmy nominee John Krasinski (The Office, A Quiet Place) will star in the debut production of Studio Seaview (formerly Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater), Angry Alan, a solo play about a man diving into a digital rabbit hole. Penelope Skinner's dark comedy premiered during the 2018 Edinburgh Festival. Tony winner Sam Gold directs. Previews begin May 23 with an official opening of June 11 for a 10-week limited run. Krasinki last appeared Off-Broadway in Dry Powder at the Public Theater in 2016.

“I couldn’t be more excited to be returning to Off Broadway, and to be surrounded by such a force of talent in Penny and Sam is quite literally a dream scenario,” Krasinski said in a statement.

Private Lives: It's a bit early,  but we have our first production of the 2026-27 season. Jeffrey Richards, Playful Productions, Rebecca Gold, and M/B/P Productions have announced they will present a revival of Noel Coward's 1931 comedy Private Lives sometime two seasons ahead. No news of casting or creative personnel yet.

Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward
in Private Lives.
Coward's mannered comedy concerns divorced couple Elyot and Amanda who encounter each other while on their respective honeymoons with new spouses. This will be the ninth Broadway production of the play. Previous outings have earned Best Actress Tonys for Tammy Grimes and Lindsay Duncan and a nomination for Maggie Smith. There have also been stagings starring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier, Tallullah Bankhead, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Joan Collins and Simon Jones, and Kim Catrall and Paul Gross. 

Beaches Launches Tour: The musical version of Beaches, based on Iris Rainer Dart's novel and the

Shoshana Bean and Whitney Bashor in
the Signature Theater, Wash. DC
production of Beaches the Musical.
Credit: Brett Beiner

1988 film starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey, will launch a pre-Broadway national tour in the fall of 2026. The show features music by Grammy winner Mike Stoller with lyrics by Dart and a book by Dart and Thom Thomas developed in collaboration with David Austin. Tony nominee Lonny Price (Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Sunset Boulevard revival) directs. Beaches had a production in Calgary in 2024 and developmental productions in Washington, DC and Chicago.



James Taylor Musical: Grammy winner James Taylor joins Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Carol King, Tina Turner, Cher,

James Taylor

Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons, the Beach Boys, and numerous other pop music stars to have his songbook serve as the basis of a musical. Fire and Rain will feature an original story by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracey Letts (August: Osage County) and direction by Tony winner David Cromer (The Band's Visit). Taylor's songs have previously appeared in the 1978 Broadway musical Working.



Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Season Calendar
Spring 2025
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 6--I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan (Atlantic Stage 2)
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 22--Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater Company)
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 25--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced (Museum of Broadway)
April 27--Real Women Have Curves (James Earl Jones)
April 27--Dead Outlaw (Longacre)
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 19--Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)
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 11--Angry Alan (Studio Seaview)
June 12--Call Me Izzy (Studio 54)
June 24--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)
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 Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Monsters (MTC/ City Center)

2026
Dolly: An Original Musical

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

2026-27
Private Lives

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; Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; 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

2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
Call Me Izzy
Oedipus
Punch

New Musicals
Dolly: An Original 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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