I am proud to announce my co-productions for the 2017-2018 season!
Award Nominated Productions Currently Playing on Broadway
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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. After a mix-up at the border, they are sent to a remote village in the middle of the desert. With no bus until morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely travelers are taken in by the locals. Under the spell of the desert sky, their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected ways.
The Band’s Visit has received 16 award nominations including 11 Tony Award Nominations!
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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Carousel
The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Carousel made its triumphant return to Broadway featuring Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller (Waitress) as Julie Jordan, Tony nominee Joshua Henry (Hamilton) as Billy Bigelow and opera star Renee Fleming as Nettie Fowler. Three-time Tony winner Jack O’Brien directs the revival and the production is choreographed by Justin Peck, a one-time Broadway performer (The Phantom of the Opera, Movin’ Out, Come Fly Away) who is now resident choreographer of the New York City Ballet.
Carousel has received 39 award nominations including 11 Tony Award Nominations!
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Tony Kushner’s seminal epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, returns to Broadway for the first time since its now-legendary original production opened in 1993. Starring multi-Tony Award winner Nathan Lane and Academy Award and Tony nominee Andrew Garfield, the cast of Angels in America features fellow original National Theatre cast members Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Amanda Lawrence, James McArdle, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. Multi-Tony winner Marianne Elliott (War Horse) directs.
Angels in America has received 27 award nominations including 11 Tony Award Nominations!
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The Iceman Cometh
Tony winner and two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington is set to return to Broadway as Hickey in a new production of Eugene O’Neill’s four-act epic, The Iceman Cometh. Five-time Tony winner George C. Wolfe will direct the limited engagement at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre this spring.
The Iceman Cometh has received 12 award nominations including 8 Tony Award Nominations!
“You cannot take your eyes off of the titanic Denzel Washington.” The New York Times
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Three Tall Women
Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, Tony winner Laurie Metcalf, and Tony nominee Alison Pill star in the Broadway Premiere of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Three Tall Women. Two-time Tony winner, Joe Mantello (Wicked) will direct at the John Golden Theatre.
Hailed as “essential viewing” by Ben Brantley of The New York Times.
Three Tall Women has received 21 award nominations including 6 Tony Award Nominations!
Award Nominated Productions That Have Concluded
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1984
1984 has received the following award nominations.
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Meteor Shower
Meteor Shower has received the following award nominations.
1 Tony Award Nomination:
1. Best Performance by an Actress in a leading Role in a Play: Amy Shumer
3 Drama League Award Nominations:
1. Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play
2. Nominee for the Distinguished Performance Award: Laura Benanti
Productions Currently Playing on Broadway
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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)
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Hello, Dolly
The musical follows the story of Dolly Levi (a strong-willed matchmaker), as she travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the miserly “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder.
Time Magazine ranked Hello, Dolly! among “The Top Plays and Musicals of 2017!” See the article by clicking here.
4 Tony Awards (2017)
5 Outer Critics Circle Awards (2016-2017)
3 Drama Desk Awards (2017)
1 Drama League Award (2017)
2 Audience Choice Awards (2017)
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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)
Now Playing in London
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.
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An American in Paris
An American in Paris is the romantic story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war.
The Most Award Winning Musical of the 2014 – 2015 Broadway Season!
4 Tony Awards
4 Outer Critics Circle Awards
3 Adele and Fred Astaire Awards
2 Theater World Awards
4 Drama Desk Awards
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Something Rotten!
Welcome to the ’90s – the 1590s – long before the dawn of premium tickets, star casting and reminders to turn off your cell phones. This is a musical comedy with brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom who are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock-star known as “The Bard.”
The Most Award Winning Musical of the 2014 – 2015 Broadway Season!
Tony Award (2015)
Additional Credits
- ALL ABOUT ME
- ALL THE WAY
- AMERICAN BUFFALO
- AN ACT OF GOD
- AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
- ANGELS IN AMERICA
- BIG FISH
- BLACKBIRD
- BLITHE SPIRIT
- BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
- CAROUSEL
- CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
- CHINA DOLL
- RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA
- DEAD ACCOUNTS
- DEAR EVAN HANSEN
- DREAMGIRLS
- DRIVING MISS DAISY
- ECLIPSED
- EVITA
- GOD LOOKED AWAY
- HAIR
- HANDS ON A HARD BODY
- HEISENBERG: The Uncertainty Principle
- HELLO, DOLLY!
- IMPRESSIONISM
- IT’S ONLY A PLAY
- LEGENDS!
- LEND ME A TENOR
- LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
- MARY STUART
- METEOR SHOWER
- MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN
- 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 LIGHT PRINCESS
- THE MOUNTAINTOP
- THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
- THE REALISTIC JONESES
- THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
- THREE TALL WOMEN
- TIME STANDS STILL
- 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
- 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