Sunday, June 22, 2025

B'way/Off-B'way Update: St. Ann's; Endgame; Jeffrey Ross; Etc.

Julia McDermott in Weather Girl.
Credit: Mihaela Bodlovic
St. Ann's Warehouse has announced its 2025-26 season which will include a rare Eugene O'Neill revival, a performance by cabaret star Justin Vivian Bond, and the London hit Weather Girl. The season opens with Brian Watkins' Weather Girl (Sept. 16--Oct. 12), a one-character play about the climate change crisis seen through the eyes of Stacy, an underpaid and oversexed California TV forecaster. Julia McDermott repeats her Edinburgh and London performance.

Justin Vivian Bond will play folk legend Marianne Faithful in Flaming September (Sept 24-28), directed by Daniel Fish (Oklahoma!). 

Michelle Williams, Mike Faist, Justin Vivian Bond
Oscar and Tony nominee and Emmy winner Michelle Williams (Blackbird, Fosse/Verdon) and Tony nominee and Emmy winner Mike Faist (Dear Evan Hansen) will headline a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie directed by Tony winner Thomas Kail (Hamilton) (Nov. 25--Feb. 1). O'Neill's 1922 Pulitzer Prize winning drama about a reformed prostitute seeking redemption was last seen on Broadway in 1993 with Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson. (Note: this Michelle Williams should not be confused with the pop singer from Destiny's Child of the same name who is currently appearing in Death Becomes Her. I thought Equity had a rule against that.)

Aaron Monaghan and Marie Mullen in
Druid's Endgame.
Credit: Ros Kavagh
In other news: Ireland's Druid Theater Company will present its production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at the Irish Arts Center (Oct. 22-Nov. 23) Director Garry Hynes and actress Marie Mullen who won Tony Awards for The Beauty Queen of Leenane stage and are featured in this nihilistic play taking place after a nuclear holocaust. Bosco Hogan, Aaron Monaghan (The Banshees of Inisherin), and Rory Nolan also star. Endgame was last seen in NYC at the Irish Repertory Theater in 2023....

Stand-up comic Jeffrey Ross will bring his solo show Take a Banana for the Road to Broadway at the Nederlander Theater, starting previews Aug. 5 and opening Aug. 18 for a limited run until Sept. 29....

Jinx Monsoon will take over the lead in Oh, Mary!

Oh Mary!
has benefitted from its Tony wins for Best Actor and Director. Cole Escola's wild rewrite of history has been extended to Jan. 2026. Escola gave his final performance in the title role June 21 and Titus Burgess will take over starting June 23 until Aug. 2. On Aug. 4, RuPaul's Drag Race winner Jinx Monsoon will go straight from Pirates! The Penzance Musical to Mary! through Sept. 27.


2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Summer 2025
June 24--Duke and Roya (Lortel)
June 25--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)
June 25--Low Country (Atlantic Theater Co./Linda Gross)
June 30--Heathers (New World Stages)
July 8--The Gospel at Colonus (Little Island)
July 17--The Weir (IRT)
July 20--Joy (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Aug. 7--Ava: The Secret Conversations (City Center Stage I)
Aug. 14--Mamma Mia (Winter Garden)
Aug. 18--Take a Banana for the Ride (Nederlander)
Aug. 21--Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)
Masquerade (Phantom of the Opera)--Lee's Art Shop

Fall 2025
Sept. 6--Galas (Little Island)
Sept. 10--The Brothers Size (The Shed)
Sept. 16--Art (Music Box)
Sept. 16--Weather Girl (St. Ann's Warehouse) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Sept. 25--The Other Americans (Public)
Sept. 28--Waiting for Godot (Hudson)
Sept. 28--The Honey Trap (IRT)
Oct. 8--Beetlejuice (Palace) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)
Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 22--Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 24--Did You Eat? (Public)
Oct. 30--This World of Tomorrow (Shed) (previews begin; opening TBA)
October--The Baker's Wife (CSC)
Nov. 3--Kyoto (LCT/Newhouse)
Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)
Nov. 13--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Nov. 17--The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stage)
Nov. 18--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)
Nov. 25--Anna Christie (St. Ann's Warehouse) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Chess
Cottonfield
Little Bear Ridge Road
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)
Punch (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Queens (MTC/City Center)
Saturday Church (NYTW)
Sugar Daddy
Tartuffe (NYTW)
The Seat of Our Pants (Public)

Winter 2025-26
Dec. 8--Marjorie Prime (Second Stage/Hayes)
Dec. 18--Amahl and the Night Visitors (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Jan. 2026--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)
February--Marcel on the Train (CSC)
Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)
Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Jesa (Public)
Monsters (MTC/City Center)
Public Charge (Public)
Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)
What We Did Before Our Moth Days

2026
Dolly: An Original Musical
Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)

Spring 2026
April 8--Becky Shaw (Second Stage/Hayes)
April--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)
May--The Emporium (CSC)
Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)
The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)
Dog Day Afternoon
Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
The Lost Boys (Palace)
Montauk
My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)
The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

2026-27
Death of a Salesman
Private Lives

Summer 2026
July 14--The Whoopi Monologue (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Future--10 Things I Hate About You; 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; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.

2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
The Balusters
Call Me Izzy
Cottonfield
Dog Day Afternoon
Little Bear Ridge Road
Montauk
Oedipus
Punch

New Musicals
Dolly: An Original Musical
The Lost Boys
Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals
Art
Becky Shaw
Fallen Angels
Marjorie Prime
Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals
Beetlejuice
Chess
Mamma Mia!
Ragtime
The Rocky Horror Show

Solos/Specialties
Take a Banana for the Ride


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