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| Terence Archie, Patti LuPone and Katrina Link in Company Credit: Brinkoff Moegenburg |
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| Sara Bareilles will star in a return engagement of Waitress for which she also wrote the score. Credit: Jeremy Daniel |
Speaking of Waitress, the feel-good tuner from Sara Bareilles will return to Broadway, starting a limited run at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Sept. 2 through Jan. 9, 2022. Bareilles will play the lead through Oct. 17. The original production opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in 2016 and played 1,544 performances, closing in Jan. 2020 just before the pandemic hit.
Tony and Emmy winner LaChanze has been announced as the lead of Roundabout's revival of Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind. She'll play an experienced African-American actress dealing with subtle and overt racism on 1950s Broadway. Previews begin Oct. 29 in advance of a Nov. 18 opening.
With Company pushed up to a December opening, the Manhattan Theater Club production of Dominique Morriseau's Skeleton Crew will now be the first Broadway production of 2022. There has been much internet chatter about the play's headliner Phylicia Rashad since she tweeted in support of her former TV co-star Bill Cosby's release from prison on a sexual assault charge. Cosby was released on a legal
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| Alexander Mitchell, Audra McDonald and Phylicia Rashad in the 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun. Credit: Joan Marcus |
technicality after serving two and a half years and Rashad tweeted "FINALLY!! A terrible wrong is being righted--a miscarriage of justice is corrected!" After a backlash from advocates of the MeToo movement and others online, Rashad deleted the tweet and wrote a letter of apology to students of Howard University where she has been appointed as Dean of the College of Fine Arts. There were calls for her to resign from that position and on some theater chat boards, questions were raised if she will be kept on in Skeleton Crew. Cosby has since blasted Howard for criticizing Rashad and there has been no indication that Rashad will resign or be let go from either her academic position or her upcoming Broadway role.
Rashad is a brilliant actress who has won a Tony Award for the 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun (she is the first African-American actress to win in the category of Leading Actress in a Play) and has delivered numerous heartfelt and stunning performances on and Off-Broadway. The public and Howard University have a right to express outrage over her tweet in support of Cosby--people can even protest outside the theater if they want--but she does not deserved to be "cancelled."
July 27--Merry Wives (Shakespeare in the Park/Delacorte)
Sept. 3--Blue Man Group (Astor Place)
Sept. 12--Pass Over (August Wilson)
Sept. 14--Chicago (Ambassador); Hamilton (Richard Rodgers); The Lion King (Minskoff); Wicked (Gershwin)
Sept. 21--Little Shop of Horrors (Westside)
Sept. 22--Come from Away (Gerald Schoenfeld)
Sept. 24--Moulin Rouge (Al Hirschfeld)
Sept. 26--Tony Awards (CBS/Paramount +)
Oct. 3--Six (Brooks Atkinson)
Oct. 5--To Kill a Mockingbird (Shubert)
Oct. 7--Freestyle Love Supreme (Booth)
Oct. 8--Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Lunt-Fontanne)
Oct. 9--Gazillion Bubbles Show (New World Stages)
Oct. 10--Chicken and Biscuits (Circle In the Square)
Oct. 13--Girl from the North Country (Belasco)
Oct. 14--The Lehman Trilogy (Nederlaner)
Oct. 16--Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial)
Oct. 21--Jagged Little Pill (Broadhurst)
Oct. 22--Phantom of the Opera (Majestic)
Oct. 27--Caroline or Change (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Oct. 31--Thoughts of a Colored Man (Golden)
Nov. 3--Morning Sun (MTC/City Center)
Nov. 5--The Book of Mormon (Eugene O'Neill)
Nov. 15--Jersey Boys (New World Stages)
Nov. 17--Diana (Longacre)
Nov. 18--Trouble in Mind (Roundabout/AA)
Dec. 5--Mrs. Doubtfire (Stephen Sondheim)
Dec. 6--Flying Over Sunset (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
Dec. 11--Dear Evan Hansen (Music Box)
Jan. 12, 2022--Skeleton Crew (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Jan. 27--Intimate Apparel (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Feb. 1--MJ: The Michael Jackson Musical (Neil Simon)
Feb. 10--The Music Man (Winter Garden)
March 20--Paradise Square (Barrymore)
April 7--The Minutes (Studio 54)
April 10--Birthday Candles (Roundabout/AA)
April 19--How I Learned to Drive (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
May 17--Golden Shield (MTC/City Center)
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