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Women’s Rights, Season Announcements, Next Year at Yale, and More

Women’s Rights: Yale Rep closes its season with Cadillac Crew, a world premiere by Tori Samson that runs Friday, April 26 to Saturday, May 18. The play is set on the day that Rosa Parks is making a speech at the height of the civil rights movement. Four workers in a civil rights office wonder if this equality extends to women. According to the press materials, the play “claims the stories of the forgotten leaders who blazed the trail for desegregation and women’s rights and asks: When will the world be ready to embrace women in all their capacity?” For tickets, visit yalerep.org or call 203-432-1234.

Season Announcements: It’s the time when most of Connecticut theaters that operate on a July-to-June schedule announce their programming for the coming year. Hartford Stage, which announced three productions a few weeks ago, has announced a fourth play. Pike St. is a solo show by Nilaja Sun (who will perform it). The play is described as bringing to life three generations of a Puerto Rican family living on New York’s Lower East Side.

Tony Winners at Bushnell: Three Tony-winning musicals will arrive at The Bushnell in Hartford next year. Plus, the theater announced that Hamilton will return during the 2020-’21 season. The 2019-’20 season opens with The Spongebob Musical (Sept. 30 to Oct. 6) followed by the national tour of Hello, Dolly! (Nov. 12 to 17). During the holiday season, the non-subscription How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a musical, will perform Dec. 13 to 15. In the new year, Anastasia, which began at Hartford Stage, returns Jan, 14 to 19 followed by Jesus Christ, Superstar (Feb. 24 to March 1). Then comes two Tony-winners: the 2018 winner The Band’s Visit (April 21 to 26) and Dear Evan Hanson, the 2017 winner, from May 19 to 24. The season ends with Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritaville from June 9 to 14. Current subscribers will get renewal forms soon; new subscriptions will go on sale in early summer. For information, visit bushnell.org.

Next Year at Yale: Two world premieres will open Yale Rep’s season next fall. Girls (Oct. 4 to 26) is a described as “after Euripides’ The Bacchae, using elements of the story but set in modern times.” It will be followed by Will Eno’s new play The Plot (Nov. 29 to Dec. 21), which is described as a hilarious story about people’s grand designs for a small plot of land. The new year will bring the East Coast premiere of Manahatta (Jan. 24 to Feb. 15) about finance, ancestors and commercial exploitation. The classic play A Raisin in the Sun will run March 13 to April 4 and the season will end with another East Coast premiere: TestMatch (April 24 to May 16) about a women’s cricket match.

Long Wharf: Though Long Wharf has a new artistic director, the 2019-’20 season was planned before he came on board. Once again, Long Wharf has no production of what might be called a “classic.” The season opens with a world premiere of On the Grounds of Belonging by Ricardo Pérez Gonzáles (Oct. 9 to Nov. 3), billed as a show about forbidden love in 1950s Jim Crow Texas. Then will come Doug Wright’s award-winning one person show, I Am My Own Wife¸ (Feb. 3 to March 1); The Chinese Lady (March 18 to April 12) is inspired by America’s first female Chinese immigrant. The season ends with The Great Leap (May 6 to 31) about basketball and foreign relations in China in the 1980s. Subscriptions are now on sale at longwharf.org or 203-787-4282.

Two Musicals, a Play, and a Comedy: MTC (Music Theater of Connecticut in Norwalk) will present the musicals Ragtime (Sept. 27 to Oct. 13) and Next to Normal (March 20 to April 5) as well as the play Steel Magnolias (Nov. 8 to 24) and the A.R. Gurney comedy Sylvia (Feb. 7 to 23). This intimate theater does excellent work. For subscriptions, visit musictheatreofct.com or call 203-454-3883.

Revival: Kelli O’Hara is back on Broadway—all is right with the world. She is starring in a revival of Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter’s last great musical, at Studio 54. Once again, she shows why she is one of our great musical performers giving a nuanced performance in the dual roles of Lily and Kate (the character in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew). This show-within-a-show also has a terrific performance by Will Chase, great choreography and, of course, great music. It is a total delight. For tickets, visit roundabouttheatre.org.

Karen Isaacs is an East Haven resident. To check out her reviews for New York and Connecticut shows, visit 2ontheaisle.wordpress.com. She’s a member of both the Connecticut Critics Circle and New York’s Outer Critics Circle.