Theatre Row

This original musical by writer-composer Michael Levin eavesdrops on the sometimes raw, sometimes funny recovery journeys of a group of young adults at a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Chris Mackin directs a cast of nine in the world premiere, which is music-directed by Brian Reynolds and features choreography (presumably more than just 12 steps!) by Megan Roe. 

Onetime Love Boat bartender Ted Lange mixes a historical cocktail from the life stories of three Southern women during the Civil War: Union spies Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Bowser and Confederate first lady Varina Davis. Van Lew is played by writer-director Lange's Love Boat costar Jill Whelan, and their Pacific Princess shipmate Fred Grandy is also in the cast.  

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, founded in 1915, pays homage to Hannah Senesh: a young woman who escaped Hungary in 1939 only to be murdered there, five years later, while on a courageous rescue mission to save Jews from the Nazis. Written and directed by David Schechter, this solo piece—which NYTF first mounted in 2019—stars Jennifer Apple and includes poems and diaries by Senesh herself (translated by Marta Cohn and Peter Hay) along with music by Steven Lutvak and additional songs by Schechter and Elizabeth Swados.

Director David Staller has long borne a torch for George Bernard Shaw, as demonstated in his monthly Project Shaw readings. Now he and his company, Gingold Theatrical Group, present a full staging of the Bearded One’s 1913 parable about English accents, class and power, in which a snooty professor tries to pass off a Cockney lass as an aristocrat. (You may know the story as the basis of My Fair Lady.) Casting has not yet been announced.