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She’s a three-time Tony Award winner who moves seamlessly between plays and musicals and always speaks her mind — often to tell you to turn off your phone in the theatre. She’s [Patti LuPone](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/patti-lupone), and she’s back on Broadway opposite [Mia Farrow](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/mia-farrow) in [*The Roommate*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/40630-the-roommate-on-broadway), a comedy about two women sharing a...

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The three-time Tony Award-winning actress, a living Broadway legend, returns to the stage in fall 2024 opposite Mia Farrow in the comedy play *The Roommate*.

Wilkommen! Musician Adam Lambert and film actress Auli’i Cravalho will join the cast of [*Cabaret*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/32847-cabaret-tickets) on Broadway, beginning September 16 at the [August Wilson Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/august-wilson-theatre).

Lambert is best known as the runner-up on season 8 of *American Idol*, and he has collaborated with Queen as the rock band’s lead vocalist since 2011. He also performed twice in the national tour of...

Adam Lambert, Auli’i Cravalho to join ‘Cabaret’ Broadway cast

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The *American Idol* runner-up and *Moana* star will replace Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin as the Emcee and Sally Bowles in the Tony Award-winning musical revival.

Molly Osborne has joined the cast of [*Othello*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/40030-othello-on-broadway) on Broadway, starring opposite the [previously announced](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/denzel-washington-jake-gyllenhaal-to-lead-othello-on-broadway) [Denzel Washington](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/all-the-times-denzel-washington-did-theatre) and [Jake...

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The English actress will make her Broadway debut in the latest revival of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, which will begin performances in spring 2025.

It's getting another term! [*Oh, Mary!*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/37743-oh-mary) has extended on Broadway, with tickets now available through November 10. Get *Oh, Mary!* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*Oh, Mary!* dives into the life of Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks before Abraham Lincoln's assassination. In playwright [Cole Escola](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/cole-escola)'s comedic version of events, she's consumed by desire, booze, and an...

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Cole Escola's critically acclaimed historical comedy play played an extended run off Broadway this spring before transferring to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.

Their love still goes on! [*The Notebook*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/33744-the-notebook-the-musical) on Broadway has released a new ticket block, with seats now available for performances at the [Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/gerald-schoenfeld-theatre) through December 29. Get *The Notebook* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*The Notebook* [began as the debut...

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The Tony Award-nominated musical, adapted from the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and the 2004 romance movie, opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre this spring.

August is the prime time to soak up some last sun rays on the beach or get away with your family before school starts back up again. But it's also a great time to go to the theatre! The Broadway season kick offs in earnest in the fall, so it's a great time to catch a bucket-list show you've been meaning to see or venture off Broadway to discover something entirely new.

Below, we've rounded up the new Off-Broadway shows premiering in August and the hit Broadway shows playing their final...

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Here are our top picks of New York plays and musicals to check out in August 2024, including the first new shows to kick off the 2024-25 fall Broadway season.

Talk about a Rocketman. Pop superstar Elton John first blasted onto Broadway  in 1975 and almost never left. One of his best-known musical works, the 1997 Disney dynamo [*The Lion King*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/42-the-lion-king-tickets), is, well, still standing. Audiences can feel the love tonight.

This fall, [*Tammy Faye*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/37219-tammy-faye), a musical about real-life televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, marks Sir John’s fifth...

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The Tony Award-winning composer's latest New York premiere is the new musical *Tammy Faye*, but he's been represented on Broadway for over 25 years and counting.

She's ready for her close-up! Mandy Gonzalez has joined the cast of *Sunset Boulevard* on Broadway, starring [Nicole Scherzinger](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/nicole-scherzinger). Performances begin September 28 ahead of an October 20 opening at the [St. James Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/st-james-theatre).

Scherzinger stars in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical as Norma Desmond, and Gonzalez will serve as her alternate, playing Norma once a week...

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Grammy Award nominee and Olivier winner Nicole Scherzinger will primarily star in the musical as Norma Desmond, and Gonzalez will play the role once a week.

__UPDATE: As of July 11, additional performers have joined the cast of *Once Upon a Mattress* on Broadway. The article has been updated to reflect the full cast list.__

We have a royal proclamation! [*Once Upon a Mattress*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/31936-encores-once-upon-a-mattress) has completed its main Broadway cast ahead of its first performance at the [Hudson Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/hudson-theatre) later this month. The limited-run musical...

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Four new actors and two returning cast members from the show's Off-Broadway run earlier this year join the previously announced Sutton Foster and Michael Urie.

Prepare to drop your jaws in awe — and perhaps terror — at the mother of all stage mothers that is Rose in the musical [*Gypsy*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41161-gypsy-on-broadway). After all, the real-life burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee once called her mom “in her own words, a jungle mother.” To navigate showbiz is like walking through the wild.

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The six-time Tony Award-winning actress plays the iconic role of Mama Rose in the latest revival of the classic musical at the Majestic Theatre from November.

Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 program for new works will present Julia May Jonas's new play&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27063-your-own-personal-exegesis" target="_blank">Your Own Personal Exegesis</a>&nbsp;this fall for a six-week limited engagement. Performances run from November 19 to December 31 at the <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/lincoln-center-claire-tow-theater" target="_blank">Claire Tow Theater</a>, with opening night on December 5.Your Own Personal Exegesis, a comedic play,&nbsp;takes place at a liberal church, where spirituality and eroticism collide. Various parishioners deal with power, transformation, obscurity, and coming-of-age. The youth pastor, too, crushes on a parishioner.&nbsp;The cast includes Savidu Geevaratne as Brian, Mia Pak as Addie, Annie Fang as Beatrice, Hannah Cabell as Kat, and Cole Doman as Chris. The creative team includes director Annie Tippe, set designer Brett J. Banakis, costume designer Wendy Yang, lighting designer Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, sound designer Stowe Nelson, and composer Brian Cavanagh-Strong.Check back for information on&nbsp;Your Own Personal Exegesis&nbsp;tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

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Julia May Jonas's *Your Own Personal Exegesis* is at Lincoln Center Theater in fall 2022. Check back for information on Your Own Personal Exegesis tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*Your Own Personal Exegesis* is a play set in a liberal church, following a group of congregants and staff who experience religious and erotic awakenings in the building's rooms. Brian seeks power, Addie seeks transformation, Beatrice seeks attention, and the youth pastor Kat seeks a connection with Chris, a parishioner. This comedic play shows where eroticism and ecstasy, of the religious and bodily varieties, cross.

LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's program for emerging writers and new plays, presents the world premiere of *Your Own Personal Exegesis* off Broadway. The show is by Julia May Jonas, an author of books and plays whose other works include the novel *Vladimir* and the play *Time and Motivation for Fitness*. She also leads and creates work for her own theatre company, Nellie Tinder, including a five-play cycle titled *All Long True American Stories* that reframe classic plays about men.

Directing *Your Own Personal Exegesis* in New York is Annie Tippe, the Lucille Lortel Award-winning director of *Octet* at Signature Theatre. Brian Cavanagh-Strong wrote original music for the show; he also composed music for Jonas's *All Long True American Stories* plays.

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Coming of age collides with Christianity in Julia May Jonas's dark comedy. Everyone in the church's teen youth group wants something, but one of their desires is more dangerous than the rest, risking a scandal of biblical proportions. Learn more about tickets to *Your Own Personal Exegesis*.

*Your Own Personal Exegesis*, a new coming-of-age play by Julia May Jonas, invites you to the congregation at Lincoln Center Theater. Get *Your Own Personal Exegesis* tickets on TodayTix now.

*Your Own Personal Exegesis* is a play set at the meetings of a liberal parish's youth group, consisting of the youth pastor Kat and her congregants: Brian, Addie, Beatrice, and Chris. Everyone is going on their own journey, personal and spiritual, as they prepare for their annual passion play as a group. Separately, Kat finds herself enthralled by Chris, and a scandal of biblical proportions begins to brew.

Jonas is a multi-hyphenate. In addition to writing plays including *Time and Motivation for Fitness* and *All Long True American Stories*, a cycle of five plays inspired by classic works by and about men, she's also a book author (of the novel *Vladimir*) and the leader of her own theatre company, Nellie Tinder.

Director Annie Tippe is best known for directing Signature Theatre's production of *Octet*, for which she won a Lucille Lortel Award for Best Direction. Her other works includes *Ink*, which she co-led with *Hadestown* director Rachel Chavkin, and plays at Goodman Theatre, Bushwick Starr, Ars Nova, and more.

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## What to Watch For

- An exegesis is a critical analysis of a text; the word is most often applied to interpretations of the Bible and other religious scriptures.
- Jonas and Trippe both make their Lincoln Center Theater debuts with *Your Own Personal Exegesis* off Broadway.
- *Your Own Personal Exegesis* isn't a musical, but Brian Cavanagh-Strong provides original music. 
- This play is Cavanagh-Strong and Jonas's second collaboration; he previously composed music for *All Long True American Stories*.
- LCT3 presents *Your Own Personal Exegesis* in New York; this Lincoln Center Theater program supports new work by up-and-coming and/or underproduced playwrights.

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A Christian church, however progressive, is perhaps one of the most antithetical places to have a sexual awakening. That, or to have a fall from grace.

But in Julia May Jonas's [*Your Own Personal Exegesis*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27063-your-own-personal-exegesis-tickets), both happen on a collision course at [Redacted] Church in [Redacted], New Jersey. A lot of things are redacted in *Exegesis* besides the church's name — the last names of every character, for one, in the church bulletin we're provided alongside the show's regular program. It's the first indication that there's a sinister thread lurking beneath this comedy at the [Claire Tow Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/lincoln-center-claire-tow-theater).

There are actually multiple dark threads, though most aren't redaction-worthy. All four members of the church's youth group, plus its leader, are grappling with something, and they perhaps hope religion will provide them respite, if not quite salvation. For the popular Addie, it's anorexia; the shy Beatrice, bulimia and friction with her mom. Swaggering Brian's sense of self-assurance is more fragile than it looks, and Chris can't cope with his alcoholic dad's absence.

The youth group is their safe haven, however imperfect, with the 30something youth pastor Kat as a de facto parental figure they can seek support from. In theory.

It quickly becomes evident that Kat silently wants Chris, who, being an impressionable 18-year-old that deeply trusts her, resists little. Kat takes her ever-growing sexual frustration out on the rest of the youth group. Addie, Chris's girlfriend, and Beatrice, who isn't necessarily crushing on Chris but is enamored by the fact that he pays any attention to her at all, especially become collateral damage in Kat's abuse of power.

Now the redactions make more sense. This isn't just a play about teenagers turning to faith to find their way — Jonas is subtly making us look at sexual abuse in the church. The issue likely brings to mind older male priests and young children, with multiple such cases making headlines in recent years (and long before that — this show, for one, begins in 1995). But *Your Own Personal Exegesis* is a reminder that the face of abuse can be young, warm, and of any denomination. It's no less abuse. 

It's terrifyingly clever, especially because centering *Your Own Personal Exegesis* primarily on older teens also allows the play to still function effectively as a comedy. Unlike young children, they're old enough to be aware and wary of the world, so we can chuckle at the perfectly innocent romantic endeavors and interactions that transpire separately from the central conflict. These are awkward, hormonal teenagers nursing crushes in a church basement — it's a situation ripe for comedy, so much that the dark stuff still manages to creep up on us even though we know it's coming.

Plus, the action unfolds as the youth group prepares for events like a dance-a-thon and a passion play (in which the story of the married Bathsheba and lustful David — note the parallel — is set in the Vietnam War era), and we get to see the increasingly sophisticated fruits of all their efforts. A spirited dance sequence to The Cardigans' "Lovefool" is particularly joy-inducing. It's also the first moment Kat and Chris openly exhibit a whiff of tension. This mingling of the sacred and profane defines the show up to its ambiguous and unsettling end.

Annie Tippe gracefully directs the show's many moving parts, and the cast plays teenage insecurity well, if borderline caricatureish at times. Cole Doman, as Chris, strikes a particularly compelling balance between lax-bro thickheadedness and sincere desire to be something more. As Kat, Hannah Cabell is excellent at being disarming until she isn't. Mia Pak (Addie), Annie Fang (Beatrice), and Savidu Geevaratne (Brian) complement each other well, though I'd have loved to see consistently more of them — their plot lines, especially Brian's, fade in and out, even as a turning point in the play hinges on their presence.

A church may not be the best place to experience a sexual awakening or a fall from grace. But the theatre, at *Your Own Personal Exegesis*, is the best place to witness one.

[*Your Own Personal Exegesis* is at the Claire Tow Theater through December 31. Get *Your Own Personal Exegesis* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27063-your-own-personal-exegesis-tickets)

*Photo credit: Annie Fang, Cole Doman, Savidu Geevaratne, Hanna Cabell, and Mia Pak in Your Own Personal Exegesis. (Photo by Jeremy Daniel)*

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The Lincoln Center Theater - Claire Tow Theater, often simply referred to as the Tow Theater, is an intimate performance space nestled in within the vibrant heart of New York City. Featuring a configuration that promotes deep engagement between performers and spectators, the theater seats 112 people in a close, unobstructed view forum, creating an immersive experience unlike any other. The Claire Tow Theater offers a regular program of new plays by both established and emerging playwrights, enriching the vibrant arts scene of the city.

**How to get to the venue:**

Nestled at 150 West 65th Street on the rooftop of the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Claire Tow Theater is accessible via an array of public transportation options. Easily reachable via the 1 train, exiting at 66th Street Lincoln Center Station, it's just a short walk to the venue. Alternatively, bus lines M5, M7, M11, M66, and M104 serve the area. There is also a convenient drop-off and pick-up area in front of the theater for taxi services or private vehicles. Affordable parking is also available in the vicinity, although spots can fill up quickly during peak times.

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The Claire Tow Theater is named in honor of the wife of longtime Lincoln Center Theater board member Leonard Tow. The theatre is located on the roof of the building housing Broadway's [Vivian Beaumont Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/vivian-beaumont-theater) and the Off-Broadway [Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/lincoln-center-mitzi-e-newhouse-theater), all of which are owned and operated by Lincoln Center Theater. The Tow is LCT's newest space, having opened to the public in 2012.

The 112-seat venue is the current home of LCT3, a programming initiative designed to nurture the work of emerging playwrights and directors.

## How to get to the Claire Tow Theater off Broadway

The Claire Tow Theater is closest to the 66th St. - Lincoln Center subway stop on the 1 line. The nearest bus stop is W 66th St./Columbus Avenue on the M66 line.

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