I am proud to announce my co-productions for the 2018-2019 season!
Productions Coming to Broadway in 2019
BROADWAY
Be More Chill
Discover BE MORE CHILL for yourself, and give your life an upgrade. What if popularity came in a pill? Would you take it, no questions asked? In BE MORE CHILL, achieving that elusive “perfect life” is now possible thanks to some mysterious new technology – but it comes at a cost that’s not as easy to swallow.
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BROADWAY
Tootsie
A new comedy musical is coming to Broadway: TOOTSIE. It’s the story of a talented, but difficult-to-work-with actor who will do anything to land the role of a lifetime—including adopting a new persona as Dorothy Michaels.
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Broadway
Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations
Ain’t Too Proud is an electrifying new musical about the life and times of The Temptations, “the greatest R&B group of all time” (Billboard Magazine).
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Broadway
Beetlejuice
Lydia Deetz is a strange and unusual teenager who is obsessed with death. Lucky for Lydia, her new house is haunted by a recently deceased couple and a degenerate demon. When Lydia calls on this ghost to scare away her insufferable parents, Beetlejuice comes up with the perfect plan, which involves exorcism, arranged marriages and a girl scout who gets scared out of her wits.
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Broadway
Hadestown
Hadestown follows songwriter Orpheus and his mythical quest to overcome Hades and regain the favor of his one true love, Eurydice. Celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s mesmerizing melodies and poetic imagination pit nature against industry, faith against doubt, and love against fear in this genre-defying new work that blends modern American folk music with vintage New Orleans jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale.
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Production Coming to Broadway in 2020
REGIONAL
Jagged Little Pill
Inspired by the themes and emotions laid bare in Alanis Morissette’s Grammy Award-winning album, Jagged Little Pill is an original story about pain, healing, and empowerment.
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Upcoming Productions Announced Off-Broadway
BROADWAY
The Play That Goes Wrong
The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does! The accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences!
Tony Award (2017)
2017 Drama Desk Award (2017)
2017 Audience Choice Award (2017)
OFF-BROADWAY
Alice By Heart
Alice By Heart is the world premiere of a new musical that reunites the Tony and Grammy Award-winning creators of Spring Awakening – Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik. Alice By Heart, inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is directed and co-written by Jessie Nelson.
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Current Regional Production
REGIONAL
Kleptocracy
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the full company for the world premiere of Kenneth Lin’s timely cautionary tale of capitalism run amok, Kleptocracy. Inspired by the power struggle between the richest of the Oligarchs and an ambitious Vladimir Putin after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lin (House of Cards) explores U.S. – Russia relations then and now.
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Productions Currently Playing on Broadway
BROADWAY
To Kill A Mockingbird
“To Kill a Mockingbird” was penned by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from the novel of the same name by Harper Lee about racial injustice and set in 1930s Alabama. The drama is structured as a memory play, with Scout remembering the events of one summer when her father Atticus defended a black man during a local trial. Jeff Daniel stars as Atticus Finch.
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BROADWAY
Network
Bryan Cranston stars as Howard Beale in the stage version of “Network” as the TV news anchor who mentally unravels on-air and the manipulative executives who seek to use him for their advantage.
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BROADWAY
The Waverly Gallery
A powerfully poignant and often hilarious play, The Waverly Gallery is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother’s final battle against Alzheimer’s disease. Making a rare stage appearance, Elaine May will star alongside Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera.
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BROADWAY
The Band’s Visit
The Band’s Visit is based on Eran Kolirin’s 2007 film about an Egyptian Police Band that arrives in Israel to play a concert. Under the spell of the desert sky, their lives become intertwined with the locals in the most unexpected ways.
Winner of:
10 Tony Awards including Best Musical (2018)
1 Drama Desk Award (2018)
1 Drama League Award (2018)
Time Magazine ranked The Band’s Visit among “The Top Plays and Musicals of 2017!” See the article by clicking here.
Check out FOX 5: Lori Stokes Talks The Band’s Visit in the 8am Hour
Check out FOX 5: Lori Stokes Talks The Band’s Visit in the 9am Hour
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BROADWAY
Dear Evan Hansen
A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to fit in.
6 Tony Awards including Best Musical (2017)
2 Drama League Awards (2017)
2 Lucille Lortel Awards (2017)
8 Audience Choice Awards (2017)
Current London Productions
LONDON
Company
West End theatregoers are lining up Side By Side to see Patti LuPone and Rosalie Craig in this new gender-bending version of Stephen Sondheim’s marital musical comedy, Company.
It’s the legendary Broadway musical as you’ve never seen it before. Marianne Elliott directs Company in the West End in a stirring re-imagination of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical comedy about life, love and marriage.
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LONDON
Dream Girls
DREAMGIRLS transports you to a revolutionary time in American music history and charts the tumultuous journey of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called ‘The Dreams.’ They learn the hard lesson that show business is as tough as it is fabulous.
Dreamgirls received FIVE OLIVIER AWARD NOMINATIONS including: Best New Musical, Best Actress: Amber Riley, Best Supporting Actor: Adam Bernard, Best Music and Best Costume Design.
Current National Tours
NATIONAL
On Your Feet!
ON YOUR FEET!, fresh from its Broadway run, is the musical about the life story of GLORIA and EMILIO ESTEFAN. ON YOUR FEET! is a true audience pleaser – a love story about two people who believed in their talent, their music and in each other, and fighting against all odds became an INTERNATIONAL sensation.
NATIONAL
Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony-Award winning Best Musical, is going on a 60-city National Tour starting September 2018.
NATIONAL
The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes Wrong, the hilarious award-winning show, is going on a multi-city National Tour starting September 2018.
NATIONAL
Hello, Dolly!
2017 Winner of:
- Four Tony Awards
- Three Drama Desk Awards
- Five Outer Critics Circle Awards (2016-2017)
- One Drama League Award
- Two Audience Choice Awards
Additional Credits
- AIN’T TOO PROUD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS
- ALICE BY HEART
- ALL ABOUT ME
- ALL THE WAY
- AMERICAN BUFFALO
- AN ACT OF GOD
- AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
- ANGELS IN AMERICA
- BEETLEJUICE
- BE MORE CHILL
- BIG FISH
- BLACKBIRD
- BLITHE SPIRIT
- BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
- CAROUSEL
- CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
- CHINA DOLL
- RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA
- COMPANY
- DEAD ACCOUNTS
- DEAR EVAN HANSEN
- DREAMGIRLS
- DRIVING MISS DAISY
- ECLIPSED
- EVITA
- GOD LOOKED AWAY
- HADESTOWN
- HAIR
- HANDS ON A HARD BODY
- HEISENBERG: The Uncertainty Principle
- HELLO, DOLLY!
- IMPRESSIONISM
- IT’S ONLY A PLAY
- JAGGED LITTLE PILL
- KLEPTOCRACY
- LEGENDS!
- LEND ME A TENOR
- LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
- MARY STUART
- METEOR SHOWER
- MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN
- NETWORK
- NOVEMBER
- ON YOUR FEET!
- ORPHANS
- PASSING STRANGE
- PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS
- PIPPIN
- RAGTIME
- ROCKY
- SIGNIFICANT OTHER
- SOMETHING ROTTEN!
- THE ADDAMS FAMILY
- THE BAND’S VISIT
- THE BEST MAN
- THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME
- THE FRONT PAGE
- THE GIN GAME
- THE GLASS MENAGERIE
- THE ICEMAN COMETH
- THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
- THE LIGHT PRINCESS
- THE MOUNTAINTOP
- THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
- THE REALISTIC JONESES
- THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
- THE WAVERLY GALLERY
- THREE TALL WOMEN
- TIME STANDS STILL
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
- TOOTSIE
- UNCONDITIONAL ACTS OF LOVE
- WOLF HALL
- YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
- 1984
- 50 WORDS!
I have also had financial involvement with the following productions:
- HAMILTON
- MEAN GIRLS
- MY FAIR LADY
- THE CHER SHOW
- BOOK OF MORMON UK
- FROST/NIXON
- MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT
- ONCE
- SPRING AWAKENING
- THE AUDIENCE
- THE ODD COUPLE
- VOICES IN THE DARK
- THE LIGHT PRINCESS at the National Theatre, London, UK