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The Pulitzer-finalist play features an ensemble cast including Tony winners Jessie Mueller, Blair Brown, and Letts, along with Schitt’s Creek’s Noah Reid, and more.
The Broadway premiere of The Minutes officially opens April 17 at Studio 54 for a limited run through July 24. The Pulitzer-finalist play by Tracy Letts resumed post-shutdown previews April 2.
The Minutes began previews in February 2020, but never officially opened due to the pandemic interruption. The majority of the Broadway cast returned with the production, including Tony-winning playwright and actor Letts, Tony winners Blair Brown and Jessie Mueller, Tony nominees Ian Barford, K. Todd Freeman, and Austin Pendleton, plus Cliff Chamberlain, Danny McCarthy, Sally Murphy, and Jeff Still. Schitt’s Creek actor Noah Reid joins the company in his Broadway debut.
Anna D. Shapiro directs the work, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2017 under her helm. The play takes place in real time at a closed-door city council meeting, peeking at all the hypocrisy, greed, and ambition that go-along with the small-town politics in the fictitious town of Big Cherry.
The production features scenic design by David Zinn, costume design by Ana Kuzmanić, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt, sound design and original music by André Pluess, hair and wig design by Tom Watson, choreography by Ty Defoe, dramaturgy by Edward Sobel, and casting by Caparelliotis Casting.
The producing team is led by Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Gold, Carl Moellenberg, Spencer Ross, Louise Gund with Elizabeth Armstrong, Blakeman Entertainment, HornosBerger, Across the River Productions, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley/Leah Lane, Kathleen K. Johnson, Jayne Baron Sherman, Emily Dobbs, Robert Flicker, Jacob Soroken Porter, and The Shubert Organization.
Though it is being performed at the Roundabout-operated Studio 54, The Minutes is not a Roundabout Theatre Company production.
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Jessie Muller and Noah Reid
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Tracy Letts and Noah Reid
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Jessie Mueller, Noah Reid, Jeff Still, Tracy Letts, and Cliff Chamberlain
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Jeff Still, Tracy Letts, and Cliff Chamberlain
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Get a first look at the Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ The Minutes, the newest work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August Osage County.
The Neil Simon revival gets its full cast back at the Hudson Theatre following bouts of COVID in the company.
Sarah Jessica Parker returns to Broadway’s Plaza Suite opposite husband and co-star Matthew Broderick at the Hudson Theatre April 16. Parker is second to re-join the production after both she and Broderick received positive COVID tests that put the production on hiatus April 7-13. Broderick and the production resumed performances April 14 with standby and Tony nominee Erin Dilly standing in for Parker.
To allow ticket holders to cancelled performances to reschedule, the production has extended its run by a week, adding performances through July 6. Affected ticket holders will be given exclusive priority access to the new performances at the originally booked ticket price in a comparable location. The point of purchase will contact ticket holders to reschedule their tickets or arrange a refund.
Plaza Suite opened March 28 at the Hudson Theatre, under the helm of director John Benjamin Hickey. Previews began February 25 for the limited engagement.
The Neil Simon play follows three different twosomes (Broderick and Parker), each spending an evening in the famed Plaza Hotel: one couple dealing with difficulties in their marriage on their 24th anniversary, a pair of high-school sweethearts reuniting after many years apart, and the frenzied parents of a jittery bride on her wedding day.
In addition to Broderick and Parker, the cast includes Danny Bolero, Molly Ranson, and Eric Wiegand. Tony winner Michael McGrath and Tony nominee Erin Dilly are Broderick and Parker’s standbys, respectively, with Laurie Veldheer, Cesar J. Rosado, Brian Eng, and Olivia Hernandez serving as understudies.
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker in Plaza Suite
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick in Plaza Suite
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Kayla Meikle plays the title character in the U.K. premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play.
The U.K. premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury‘s Marys Seacole begins previews at London’s Donmar Warehouse April 15. Opening night is slated for April 21, and the show will run through June 4.
Kayla Meikle plays the title character in a cast that includes Déja J. Bowens as Mamie, Llewella Gideon as Duppy Mary, Esther Smith as Miriam, Olivia Williams as May, and Susan Wooldridge as Merry.
The production is directed by Nadia Latif with set design by Tom Scutt, lighting design by Jessica Hung Han Yun, sound design and composition by Xana, and movement direction by Theo Tj Lowe. Rounding out the creative team are voice and dialect coach Hazel Holder and casting director Anna Cooper. Josh Parr serves as the assistant director.
The work follows a real-life Jamaican nurse who worked during the Crimean War. It had its world premiere Off-Broadway in 2019 at Lincoln Center Theater, helmed by Lileana Blain-Cruz and starring Quincy Tyler Bernstine. Drury and director Blain-Cruz won Special Citation Obie Awards for their work. A filmed performance of the production was streamed via the From the LCT Archives series last year.
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