The season of the diva is upon us.
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But if you zoom out a bit, the larger theme may just be stardom in general.
is coming to Broadway in Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtars new play.
Sam Mendes directs this musical, multigenerational drama-with-a-capital-D in its transfer from Londons West End.
What could possibly go right?
(I have only done this once before, reads the ad.
Safety not guaranteed.)
If all of that isnt nerd-nostalgia coded enough, Gusters Ryan Miller wrote the score.
If you still getBarrel of a Gunstuck in your head, this years Next Wave fest is for you.
Our burning questions include: Is there a better country singer name than Strings McCrane?
Will Adam Driver play guitar?
And will he have to duck on the Lucille Lortel stage?S.H.
There will also be singing, with music by pop whisperer Jack Antonoff.
Well see if the hosannas continue as her Norma comes home to America at last.
Shes a relative unknown over here, but hey, the part just won Jessica Chastain an Oscar.
Or the muddy ruins of a flood?
Or if all of your co-stars are in drama school.
Starvation, moral quandary, and nautical cannibalism ensued.
Whens the Mumford & Sons musical?
Ragtime
New York City Center, October 30November 14
As City Centers Encores!
(Something Second Stage tends to specialize in, considering last seasonsAppropriate.
It comes to New York by way of Berkeley Rep, directed by Trip Cullman.
Gypsy
Majestic Theatre, previews begin November 21
Here she is, boys!
Whoever she is, shes got one hell of a mother to contend with.
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