Raising the curtain
A look at 8 new Off -Broadway shows coming in March
BY MATT WINDMAN
In the coming weeks, no less
than 15 shows will begin
previews on Broadway, almost
all of which will offi cially
open in April.
However, there will also be
plenty of activity Off-Broadway,
including the eight new
shows listed below.
A Touch of the Poet
During the pandemic, the
Irish Rep mounted a digital
production of Eugene O’Neill’s
1942 drama about a vainglorious
Irishman in 19th century
Boston. Now, the company will
fi nally produce the play live,
two years later than originally
planned, with Robert Cuccioli
(“Jekyll and Hyde”) leading
the cast.
Irish Repertory Theatre,
132 W. 22nd St., irishrep.org.
Now in previews.
Coal Country
This documentary drama
about the 2010 Upper Big
Branch coal mine disaster (in
which 29 men lost their lives),
which opened at the Public Theater
in March 2020 right before
the shutdown began, is receiving
an encore run produced by Audible,
which previously released
AROUND TOWN
an audio version of the play.
Cherry Lane Theatre, 38
Commerce St., coalcountrymusical.
com. Begins March 4.
At the Wedding
The LCT3 series at Lincoln
Center Theater returns for the
fi rst time since the pandemic
with Byrna Turner’s comedy
about a smart, lonely, and heartbroken
woman who crashes
her ex-girlfriend’s wedding
to a man.
Claire Tow Theater, 150
W. 65th St., lct.org. Begins
March 5.
Confederates
Dominique Morisseau, who
recently had two shows running
on Broadway (“Skeleton Crew”
and “Ain’t Too Proud”), returns
with a new drama which explores
racism and bias by contrasting
two African-American
women from different time
periods: a slave who is also a
Union spy and a contemporary
university professor.
Pershing Square Signature
Center, 480 W. 42nd St.,
signaturetheatre.org. Begins
March 8.
Suffs
Singer-songwriter Shaina
Taub, whose musical adaptations
of Shakespeare’s
“Twelfth Night” and “As You
Like It” have previously been
produced by the Public Theater,
returns with a new musical
about the suffragettes
who fought for passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment.
Public Theater, 425 Lafayette
St., publictheater.org.
Begins March 10.
To My Girls
Bryan Batt (“Mad Men”) and
Jay Armstrong Johnson (“On
the Town”) the cast of JC Lee’s
play about a group of gay men
who realize how much their
lives have changed after the
pandemic when they meet up
for a Palm Springs getaway.
Second Stage, 305 W. 43rd
St., 2st.com. Begins March 15.
The Life
The Encores! series at City
Center continues with a rare
revival of Cy Coleman and Ira
Gasman’s 1997 musical about
sex workers in a gritty 1980s
Times Square, as directed and
adapted by Billy Porter.
City Center, 131 W. 55th
St., nycitycenter.org. Begins
March 16.
Harmony
After circling New York for
two decades, Barry Manilow’s
original musical about the Comedian
Harmonists (a male
musical group in 1920s Germany
that included Jewish singers)
will be produced by the
National Yiddish Folksbiene.
Museum of Jewish Heritage,
36 Battery Plaza, nytf.org.
Begins March 23.
Celebrate the Power Women of
Manhattan this month
Schneps Media — publishers
of amNewYork
Metro, The Villager,
Chelsea Now, Downtown Express
and Manhattan Express
—will bring together the most
extraordinary women in Manhattan
during the “Power Women
of Manhattan” event later
this month.
The premiere networking
event takes place at 6 p.m.
on Thursday night, March
24, at the Bryant Park Grill,
located at 25 West 40th St.
in Midtown.
Power Women of Manhattan
“Coal Country”
gives the borough’s fearless
females the opportunity to
connect, support one another,
do business and build community.
The honorees are women
who help make Manhattan the
thriving and vibrant place it is
to work, live and do business.
“We are thrilled to bring together
the powerful women of
Manhattan for an evening of
ultimate networking and joyful
celebration,” said Elizabeth
Aloni, executive vice president
of events for Schneps Media.
Among the honorees who
will be recognized as Power
JOAN MARCUS
Women of Manhattan this
year: Ramona Singer of Bravo’s
“The Real Housewives of
New York”; Rosanna Scotto,
co-host of Fox 5’s “Good Day
New York”; Misty Marris, on-
Air TV legal analyst, Gordon
Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP;
Renee Sacks, executive director,
Women’s Builders Council;
and Cristina Contreras,
CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/
Metropolitan.
Nominations are still open,
and a limited number of tickets
to this exclusive event are
available.
From left to right: Schneps Media President Victoria
Schneps, Camille Forde of RBC Wealth Management, and
Fox Business Channel anchor Cheryl Casone.
For more information, visit
powerwomenmanhattan.com,
or contact Events Concierge
PROVIDED
Demetra Mattone at 718-260-
4512 or email dmattone@
schnepsmedia.com.
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