Off-Broadway News

Reporting from Off-Broadway — the Public, Second Stage, Atlantic, Signature, MCC and the rest of the 100 to 499 seat houses.

Justin Sudderth, Oscar Escobedo, Taylor Iman Jones, Gabi Carrubba and Amy Jo Jackson in rehearsal for The King’s Critique. Photo by Russ Rowland
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The King’s Critique goes into rehearsal ahead of its Off-Broadway run at the Signature Center

The King’s Critique, an original musical comedy from Nat Zegree and Eric Holmes, went into rehearsal this week, and the first photographs from the room are out ahead of its limited Off-Broadway run at the Pershing…

Cory Jeacoma as Leon in Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen at The Night Egg at the Culture Club. Photo by Andy Henderson
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First look at Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen inside the Night Egg

One shaft of light, an open pinstripe jacket, a face caught mid-thought. The first production photographs from Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen are out, just over two weeks before the new Duncan Sheik musical has its…

Liba Vaynberg, writer of The Blue Parts, photographed outdoors against a sunlit hedge
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Roundabout Underground returns in February with the world premiere of The Blue Parts

Roundabout Theatre Company reopens its new-work strand in February with The Blue Parts, a world premiere by Liba Vaynberg directed by Lee Sunday Evans — and every Underground seat is now pay-what-you-wish, starting at…

Key art for Imitation of Life: a woman in a wide white hat seen through a torn red poster carrying the show title and credits
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Jessica Vosk, Michael Luwoye and Charlie Thurston join Adrienne Warren in Imitation of Life

Jessica Vosk, Michael Luwoye, Charlie Thurston and Aleyse Shannon will play opposite Adrienne Warren in Imitation of Life, the new musical by Lynn Nottage and John Legend that begins performances at The Griffin Theater…

Lucas Iverson, who joins the company of A Ghost in Your Ear at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre
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Lucas Iverson joins A Ghost in Your Ear as the run shifts to October 3

Lucas Iverson takes over from Harry Richardson in Audible Theater’s New York premiere of A Ghost in Your Ear, and the limited run at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre now begins on Saturday, October 3 and plays through…

Masked guests beneath pink light at Le Bal Macabre, the Halloween soirée staged by Masquerade in New York. Photo by Mark Minton
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Masquerade sets a second Le Bal Macabre for October 31, with tickets on sale now

Masquerade will follow its October 31 performance with a second Le Bal Macabre, a Halloween soirée staged on the production’s own set. Tickets went on sale on September 25.

The company of A Christmas Carol at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. Photo by Andy Henderson
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Andy Karl will play Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at PAC NYC

Andy Karl will spend the holidays as Ebenezer Scrooge, taking the central role in the Old Vic's production of A Christmas Carol when it returns to the Perelman Performing Arts Center in November.

Key art for Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen at The Night Egg at the Culture Club
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Marc delaCruz and Alexa De Barr join the company of Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen

Two performers join Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen days before the new musical begins performances off-Broadway. Marc delaCruz takes the role of Sakae; Alexa De Barr comes in as a swing.

Daniel J. Watts, who joins the cast of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at Lincoln Center Theater as Canewell
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Daniel J. Watts takes on Canewell in Lincoln Center Theater’s Seven Guitars

Daniel J. Watts joins Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars as Canewell, stepping in for Jason Dirden. Previews begin November 5 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.