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Tony nominee Elizabeth Stanley, who's starring in the new musical All the World's a Stage Off Broadway.
Plus six exciting revivals
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Broadway isn't the only destination for exciting new musicals this spring. You'll also find intriguing tuners on NYC's smaller stages, including the world premiere of an Adam Gwon show starring Tony nominee Elizabeth Stanley, a revue of unsung songs by Rent creator Jonathan Larson and a musical based on the myth of Marimba starring Tony nominee Amber Iman.
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Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B in the East Village
Previews begin February 7. Opens February 10. Closes March 1. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Indie singer-songwriter Jill Sobule scored an enduring hit at the Wild Project with her musical memoir F*CK7THGRADE. Now the venue is presenting the evolutionary tale of another underground music artist, the mononymic Bitch, in B*TCHCRAFT: A Musical Play. Find out how Karen Mould, a shy kid from Detroit's burbs, transformed into a queer, feminist, self-described "electric violin poet rocker" with a controversial moniker. Margie Zohn cowrote the book and directs.
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Orpheum Theatre, 126 Second Avenue at 8th Street in the East Village
Previews begin February 14. Opens March 10. Closes June 1. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Theatre historian, author and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper has been working on The Jonathan Larson Project for way longer than 525,600 minutes. A musical celebrating the life and legacy of Rent creator Jonathan Larson, this production includes numbers cut from his shows, including tick, tick… BOOM!, as well as songs culled from the hundreds of cassettes and music files he left behind when he died suddenly at age 35. John Simpkins directs a cast of Broadway vets in this tribute to the Pulitzer Prize winner, including Adam Chanler-Berat, Taylor Iman Jones and Jason Tam.
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St Ann's Warehouse, 45 Water Street near New Dock Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn
Previews begin February 15. Opens February 20. Closes March 2.
A multimedia song cycle from composer Anna Mullarkey and Tony-winning Once playwright-lyricist Enda Walsh, Safe House features Kate Gilmore as Grace, a broken woman raised in an unhappy Irish home in the 1980s, who's looking to escape her past. Through projections and emotional songs, this one-woman show takes audiences into Grace's troubled mind as she tries to transcend trauma. Walsh directs the production, which was an acclaimed hit in Dublin last fall.
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AMT Theater, 354 West 45th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin March 5. Opens March 7. Closes April 5.
What if LGBTQ folks ruled the world? That's the setup of Upside Down about two gay songwriters who decide to challenge cultural norms by creating the first-ever Broadway show about a straight couple. Will audiences accept that love is love is love? Al Tapper (Sessions, Imperfect Chemistry) penned the tunes for this musical satire.
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The York Theatre Company at Theatre at St. Jean's, 150 East 76th Street near Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side
Previews begin March 8. Opens March 9. Closes March 16.
The diva at the center of Platinum Dreams is aiming for a comeback. The same could be said for this musical, a revisal of the cult Broadway flop Platinum, which played for a few months in 1978. Set in a '70s recording studio where two exes are trying to help a Hollywood has-been cut a solo album, this York Theatre Company New2NY concert staging stars jazz singer Stevie Holland, who penned a new book and some fresh lyrics to go with her husband Gary William Friedman's score.
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the cell, 338 West 23rd Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Chelsea
Previews begin March 19. Opens March 22. Closes April 19.
Loading Dock Theatre is known for its genre-defying work, including Spaceman and War Dreamer. But The Trojans is the troupe's first musical, an Iliad-inspired tale of disgruntled warehouse workers tapping into their youthful dreams through synthwave songs. The company's co-artistic director, Leegrid Stevens, wrote the book, lyrics and score, which is played on vintage analog synthesizers.
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The York Theatre Company at Theatre at St. Jean's, 150 East 76th Street near Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side
Previews begin March 22. Opens March 23. Closes March 30
A good-natured send-up of jukebox bio-musicals, Who Is Jimmy Pants? chronicles the life, times and tunes of a fictional songwriter who overcomes a cornucopia of clichés on his quest for a No. 1 hit. Book writer and composer Jeff Bienstock collaborated with his former NYU professor Joseph Church on this romp, which is part of the York Theatre Company's New2NY series.
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Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin March 25. Opens April 15. Closes May 10.
Adam Gwon's All the World's a Stage has its world premiere courtesy of Keen Company. Known for his delightfully off-kilter projects, including his love letter to interconnected New Yorkers Ordinary Days and the Macbeth-inspired Scotland, PA, Gwon's new musical centers on a small-town gay math teacher whose carefully compartmentalized life cracks open as he coaches an outcast student for the 1996 State Thespian Competition. Jagged Little Pill Tony nominee Elizabeth Stanley leads the ensemble cast.
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The York Theatre Company at Theatre at St. Jean's, 150 East 76th Street near Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side
Previews begin April 5. Opens April 6. Closes April 13
The York Theatre Company closes out its New2NY series of concert stagings with According to Howard, a bio-musical about the enigmatic business mogul, film producer and ladies' man who faced mental health challenges in his later years. Jennifer Paulson-Lee, who cowrote the book, directs.
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BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street between Ashland and Rockwell Places in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Begins April 15. Closes April 27.
Whitney White may be the busiest NYC theatre artist this season. Not only is she directing three productions, she is also starring in her celebrated show Macbeth in Stride, a rocking reimagining of the Scottish Play that presents Lady Macbeth as a powerful Black woman looking to have her own seat at the table. A fusion of pop, gospel and R&B songs, Shakespeare's words and contemporary poetry, the show explores the challenges ambitious Black women face through the journey of the Bard's most iconic female character.
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The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin April 22. Opens May 13. Closes June 1.
Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley are pop culture scholars. Their last two shows, This American Wife dissecting The Real Housewives franchise and Circle Jerk, a Pulitzer-nominated satire about gay internet trolls, were insightful as well as entertaining as they parsed the power of viral trends. Their obsession continues with their new musical The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, inspired by a bitchy 2006 New York Post cover dubbing Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears "bimbos." When a trio of Gen Zers becomes fixated on an unnamed fourth bimbo, they go on a quest to find a forgotten pop princess. The ensemble cast includes Matilda the Musical star Milly Shapiro.
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The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place in the East Village
Previews begin April 29. Opens May 20. Closes June 1.
After a well-received run at Berkeley Rep, Goddess makes its NYC debut at The Public. With a book by Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, Jaja's African Hair Braiding and songs by Michael Thurber, it's an epic romance inspired by the myth of Marimba about an enthralling singer (Lempicka Tony nominee Amber Iman) seducing audiences in an Afro-jazz club in Kenya. But will an engaged man with political aspirations (Nick Rashad Burrough) win her heart? Fat Ham Tony nominee Saheem Ali directs.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Just as it does every spring, Encores! presents three revivals of undersung musicals featuring big stars, barely there sets and a glorious onstage orchestra.
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AMT Theater, 354 West 45th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Like Encores!, J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company revives rarely performed musicals, though admittedly with smaller budgets. This season's lineup is:
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