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Every inch of New York is filled with music. You'll hear pop songs blasting from speakers on pedicabs, solo singing and instrumentalizing ringing through subway stations, muzak drifting out from the doors of bars and shops, and of course, live music of all genres filling up the city's many theatres and concert halls.

As but one example, the Broadway theatre [Studio 54](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/studio-54) currently hosts [*A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong...

The 'Wonderful World' Broadway cast's favorite live music venues in New York City

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If you can't get enough of hearing jazz and more at this Broadway musical, set to the songs of Louis Armstrong, here are some other concert venues to check out.

Roundabout Theatre Company has named the complete cast for its production of [*English*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/24265-english-play-tickets) on Broadway, running for 66 performances only at the [Todd Haimes Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/todd-haimes-theatre). Performances begin January 3 ahead of a January 23 opening.

The cast, all of whom reprise their roles from the show's 2022 world premiere with Atlantic Theatre Company, includes Tala Ashe as Elham, Ava...

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The Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play will be presented by Roundabout Theatre Company for a limited time starting in January 2025.

Welcome back to the Moulin Rouge! Boy George will return to the cast of [*Moulin Rouge! The Musical*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/15911-moulin-rouge-the-musical-on-broadway-tickets) on Broadway, playing a limited engagement at the [Al Hirschfeld Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/al-hirschfeld-theatre) from March 18 to May 25, 2025.

Boy George is best known as the lead singer of Culture Club, the Grammy Award-winning '80s band known for songs like "Karma...

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The Grammy Award-winning artist will play a limited engagement in the Tony Award-winning Broadway show at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre beginning in March 2025.

With most of [Broadway's 41 theatres](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/broadway) packed into one square mile of Midtown Manhattan, you can leave one and be mere steps away from a dozen more containing entirely different stories. But sometimes, shows are close both in proximity and in themes, which makes for a unique kind of magic — and a great double-feature option.

Such is the case for Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth's new play [*The Hills of...

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For one month, the new play and the Audra McDonald-led musical, both about a mother who dreams of stardom for her daughters, are playing in adjacent Broadway theatres.

[*Redwood*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41270-redwood-on-broadway) on Broadway has named the complete cast joining [previously announced](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/idina-menzel-to-star-in-redwood-on-broadway) star [Idina Menzel](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/idina-menzel). Performances begin at the [Nederlander Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/nederlander-theatre) January 24 ahead of a February 13...

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The new musical, which premiered at California's La Jolla Playhouse earlier this year, will come to New York in January with multiple actors returning.

Extra, extra! Lincoln Center Theater has named the full cast for the spring 2025 Broadway premiere of [*Floyd Collins*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41242-floyd-collins-on-broadway), including [Jeremy Jordan](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/jeremy-jordan), Lizzy McAlpine, and more. Performances begin on March 27 ahead of an April 21 opening at the [Vivian Beaumont Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/vivian-beaumont-theater).

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Jeremy Jordan, Lizzy McAlpine to star in ‘Floyd Collins’ on Broadway

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The two-time Tony Award nominee and the singer-songwriter will lead Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s musical, presented by Lincoln Center Theater in March 2025.

The year is drawing to a close, but plenty of New York shows are opening in December before 2024 is up. The last shows of the fall season make their debuts just in time for the holiday season, when tons of visitors flood New York to see the decorations and, of course, see not only new shows, but fan favorites from the last year.

And with the holidays in full swing, December is filled with Broadway and Off-Broadway shows that celebrate the magic of the winter season. <a...

Top theatre to see in New York in December

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Discover our top picks for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows to see this month, including new shows premiering and last-chance shows closing this month.

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Read our picks for must-see Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre in December 2024, including the year's final fall Broadway productions and holiday-themed shows.

<a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/trouble-in-mind">Trouble in Mind</a>&nbsp;has announced the&nbsp;full cast for the Broadway premiere of Alice Childress's play. The newly announced cast members will join the previously confirmed Tony and Emmy Award winner&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/actor-profile/lachanze">LaChanze</a>, who will star in the lead role of Wiletta.Joining LaChanze are&nbsp;Michael Zegen as Al Manners, Chuck Cooper as Sheldon Forrester, Danielle Campbell as Judy Sears, Jessica Frances Dukes as Millie Davis, Brandon Micheal Hall as John Nevins, Simon Jones as Henry, Alex Mickiewicz as Eddie Fenton,&nbsp;and Don Stephenson as Bill O'Wray.Childress's play follows a veteran Black stage actress who is cast in a big-budget production with a white leadership and creative team. The play peeks behind the curtain of rehearsals and sees Wiletta struggling between getting her big break and compromising her beliefs to do it.&nbsp;Trouble in Mind was originally set to premiere on Broadway in 1957, but the production fell through.Charles Randolph-Wright directs the upcoming production at Roundabout Theatre Company's <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/american-airlines-theatre">American Airlines Theatre</a>. It will begin performances October 29 ahead of a November 10 opening, and play a limited engagement through January 9, 2022.<a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/trouble-in-mind">Trouble in Mind&nbsp;tickets</a> are on sale now.&nbsp;

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__LaChanze__, a founding member of Black Theatre United, returns to Broadway following her 2019 performance as the Ghost of Christmas Present in *A Christmas Carol*. She also starred in *Summer: The Donna Summer Musical* in 2018, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for best performance by a leading actress in a musical.

Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind offers a wry and moving look at racism, identity, and ego in the world of New York theatre. 

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See playwright Alice Childress's Broadway debut 64 years in the making. Get *Trouble in Mind* tickets on TodayTix.

Childress's *Trouble in Mind* play centers on Wiletta, an experienced Black stage actress who is cast in the lead of a major Broadway production. The show is a rural Southern melodrama written and directed by two white men. Wiletta is just happy to have the job, and she tries to bury her ego when rehearsals reveal the play’s painful stereotypes. Yet as opening grows closer, tensions rise as the cast struggles to do good work under the white gaze — and in a white-run theatrical world.

LaChanze, a founding member of Black Theatre United, returns to Broadway as Wiletta following her 2019 performance as the Ghost of Christmas Present in *A Christmas Carol*. She also starred in *Summer: The Donna Summer Musical* in 2018, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical.

The premiere of *Trouble in Mind* off Broadway ran in 1955 to instant acclaim, but Childress’s play failed to get its due in her lifetime after its Broadway transfer was canceled. Following a resurgence in regional revivals this past decade, Roundabout brings Childress’s prophetic work to Broadway. 

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## What to Watch For

- *Trouble in Mind* premiered off Broadway in 1955 at Stella Holt's Greenwich Mews Theatre, where it ran for 91 performances to critical acclaim. 
- The play’s canceled Broadway transfer would have marked the first play by an African American woman ever produced on Broadway. The transfer was canceled because producers asked Childress to tone down her treatment of racism, which she refused to do. The current Broadway production presents *Trouble in Mind* exactly as Childress wrote it.
- Childress wrote over a dozen plays. However, she achieved the most commercial success as a novelist, such as with the young adult work *A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich*.
- *Trouble in Mind* reopens Roundabout’s premiere Broadway space for plays the American Airlines Theatre, following its shuttering in March 2020.
- *Trouble in Mind* has received regional revivals in recent years in New Jersey, Malibu, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

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Trouble in Mind makes its Broadway debut presented by Roundabout Theatre Company at the <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/american-airlines-theatre">American Airlines Theatre</a>. Alice Childress's powerful and prescient drama, starring Tony Award winner <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/actor-profile/lachanze">LaChanze</a>, finally reaches Broadway 64 years after an expected transfer was canceled. Trouble in Mind tickets are on sale now.When Wiletta, a stalwart Black actress of the stage, is cast as the lead in a new Broadway production, she's thrilled just to be getting work. While other Black cast members struggle with painful stereotypes in the play, a Southern melodrama written and directed by white men, she encourages them to grin and bear it. Yet as rehearsals grow tense and the cast faces worsening mistreatment, Wiletta hits her limit with the white-run industry to which she's devoted her life.Alice Childress's wry and witty examination of racism, identity, and ego in the world of New York theatre receives its long overdue Broadway debut. Childress's drama debuted off Broadway in 1955 at Stella Holt's Greenwich Mews Theatre, where it ran for 91 performances to critical acclaim. In a startling turn of life echoing art, producers refused to transfer Trouble in Mind to Broadway unless the ending was changed to something more upbeat. Childress refused, and the transfer, which would have made her the first African-American woman playwright in Broadway's history, never came to fruition.&nbsp;Trouble in Mind has received a resurgence of interest and regional revivals in recent years, including a celebrated production at Two River Theater, New Jersey in 2014. In an appreciation entitled "<a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/alice-childress-trouble-in-mind.html" target="_blank">Alice Childress Didn't Defang Her Plays, and Producers Said No</a>," New York Magazine theater critic Helen Shaw wrote: "Any list of great American playwrights is incomplete without Alice Childress .... Everyone should be reviving Childress's work." Roundabout Theatre now heeds the call, giving Trouble in Mind its Broadway debut.Reviewing the revival at Two River Theater in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/nyregion/a-review-of-trouble-in-mind-at-two-river-theater-in-red-bank.html">The New York Times</a>, critic Michael Sommers declared it a "rich, unsettling play that lives up to its title ... Trouble in Mind lingers in one's memory long after its conclusion."&nbsp;A founding member of the American Negro Theatre, Childress was the first Black female playwright to be produced professionally in New York with her play&nbsp;Gold Through the Trees&nbsp;in 1952.Get&nbsp;Trouble in Mind tickets on Broadway now.

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I once asked a famed Tony-winning Broadway director, what is the point of a revival? Is it to tell us how far we've come or to tell us how far we have to go? The answer that the director gave me was a simple yes. If the same question was asked about the glorious revival, and belated Broadway debut, of Alice Childress's play <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/trouble-in-mind">Trouble in Mind</a>,&nbsp;the answer would definitely be a resounding yes. Though the play was written in 1955, it pulsates with such vitality that it feels like it was written yesterday, showing the audience that while some things have changed in 66 years, others have stayed maddeningly the same.&nbsp;In 1955, Childress's play Trouble in Mind&nbsp;premiered off Broadway and was well-received critically. The play was optioned for Broadway with a caveat: Childress had to tone down her play about racism in the American theatre&nbsp;and make it more comfortable for the ostensibly white audience that would be seeing it. Childress refused, and Trouble in Mind&nbsp;was relegated to the footnotes of American theatre&nbsp;history, never achieving the kind of mainstream success that it deserved. Until now, when&nbsp;it has been given its much-delayed Broadway debut 66 years later.&nbsp;Childress's contemporaries included Lorraine Hansberry and her play A Raisin in the Sun.&nbsp;While Hansberry's play dealt with the overt, capital-R racism of housing discrimination, Childress's dealt with a common, insidious form of racism, that of well-meaning liberals — those who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the white moderates, "more devoted to 'order' than to justice."&nbsp;Trouble in Mind&nbsp;is a workplace comedy, about a group of Black actors and two white actors gathering, in Arnulfo Maldonado's shabby chic set, to rehearse a new Broadway play about a lynching in the American South. The intentions are valid: to move the white audience into sympathizing with the Black experience. Except the play is written by a white playwright and overseen by a white director, and all of the Black characters are servants and stereotypes that only scrape and bow to their white employers.&nbsp;Trouble in Mind&nbsp;doesn't mention microaggressions but that is exactly what happens during this rehearsal process,&nbsp;such as how the white actress Judy (an authentically oblivious Danielle Campbell) never hangs up her own coat and always gives it to one of the Black actors, or when director Al Manners (played by Michael Zegen, at his most unlikeable) keeps on interrupting Black actress Wiletta (an electrifying <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/actor-profile/lachanze">LaChanze</a>) when she's speaking.The audience sees the actors rehearse the fictional play, pushed by the abusive Al to find the "truth" and motivations of their characters. Except the Black characters were written by a white man. Trouble in Mind&nbsp;asks whether it is possible to authentically play something that is inherently inauthentic, and whether doing so is actually upholding the racism that these artists say they want to abolish.The play-within-a-play concept means that director Charles Randolph-Wright has a particular challenge: make the characters in the narrative seem human while making the play-within-a-play realistic to the period without falling into pastiche and encouraging the audience to laugh at the Black actors. Randolph-Wright threads that needle finely;&nbsp;the audience are charmed by the actors and their interpersonal dynamics. Then when rehearsals start for the play-within-a-play, it is clear where the characters have had to compromise themselves, so moments when the Black actors have to play stereotypes, the discomfort is pronounced.&nbsp;Trouble in Mind&nbsp;runs at 2&nbsp;hours and 10 minutes, but once it gets going, Randolph-Wright keeps it moving briskly like a runaway train. And when the inevitable crash comes, it is breathtaking.&nbsp;At the center of the play is LaChanze's Wiletta, who is tired of playing the maid and wants to be a legitimate actress. Dressed in Emilio Sosa's sumptuous period costumes, LaChanze's natural magnetism means that it is even more offensive when Wiletta is forced to be sidelined in the narrative. Wiletta's frustrations are a slow build but when she inevitably breaks into an earth-shattering monologue in the second act, it's not only earned, but necessary.The rest of the characters are not as fully developed as Wiletta, which is a shame. But the cast is so dynamic that even when they are in the background, you want to look at them and take in the entire tableau — particularly Chuck Cooper and Jessica Frances Dukes, who are skilled at conveying depth, even contempt, in just looks and small actions.Childress wrote Trouble in Mind&nbsp;because of her frustrations at the lack of substantive roles for Black actors. Today, Black actors, and actors of color, are still trying to go beyond playing stereotypes on stage and on screen. Those same actors have come together to release the We See You, White American Theatre letter last year. In a time when Broadway is going through its own reckoning with its history of erasure, this revival of Trouble in Mind&nbsp;asks, how far have we truly come? Perhaps if the play had gotten its Broadway premiere 66 years ago, it would have become the American classic it deserved to be. And we would have tackled the conversation around representation, stereotypes, cultural appropriation, and liberal hypocrisy even sooner, and perhaps moved past them.Trouble in Mind&nbsp;may have come to Broadway 66 years too late, but in a time when the American public is currently leaning towards comfort and wanting to hide America's racist past from the classroom, the play is holding up a mirror to society, especially the sector that considers itself progressive. Sixty-six years ago, society chose to look away. Perhaps the play's premiere on Broadway is a sign we are finally ready to truly look at ourselves.<a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/trouble-in-mind">Trouble in Mind is at the American Airlines Theatre through January 9. Get tickets to Trouble in Mind on New York Theatre Guide.</a>Photo credit:&nbsp;LaChanze, Chuck Cooper, and Michael Zegen in Roundabout Theatre Company's Trouble in Mind. (Photo by Joan Marcus)

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The Todd Haimes Theatre, located in the heart of New York City, is an iconic theatre venue renowned for its high-quality shows and excellent customer service. Home to numerous award-winning productions, this theatre is intimately tied with the cultural fabric of the city. It offers a top-notch acoustic experience complemented by its luxurious seating and intricate interior design that reminds of the golden era of Broadway. 

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 For theatergoers travelling by subway, the nearest station is Times Square-42nd Street served by numerous lines including the 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W, and Shuttle to Grand Central. For those preferring to travel by bus, the M7, M20, M42, M104 lines all stop within a short walking distance of the theater. If you're driving, numerous public parking lots are available nearby. However, due to the typical city traffic, public transportation is recommended.

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The Todd Haimes Theatre was originally designed by George Keister as an Italian Renaissance-style theatre. The venue opened in 1918 as the Selwyn Theatre, named for its developers, Edgar and Archibald Selwyn. The first show to play there was Jane Cowl's *Information Please*.

Over the course of its history, the building has been used as a theatre, a cinema, and a visitor center until it fell into a derelict state of disrepair. Roundabout Theatre Company took ownership of the venue in 1997, but the building collapsed, so the company rebuilt the Selwyn as part of the New 42nd Street Building in 1999. The theatre was renamed for American Airlines on June 30, 2000; the company donated $8.5 million to help cover renovation costs.

On February 1, 2024, the venue was renamed in memory of Todd Haimes, the artistic director of Roundabout Theatre Company from 1983 until his death in 2023.

## How to get to the Todd Haimes Theatre on Broadway

The Todd Haimes Theatre is situated on 42nd Street between Eighth Avenue and Broadway. By subway, it is accessible by the A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W, and S lines to 42nd Street.

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The Todd Haimes Theatre, originally the Selwyn Theatre, was opened in 1918. Renovated and rebuilt multiple times, it was renamed in 2024 after the late artistic director of Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes.

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The Todd Haimes Theatre is a renowned New York City Theatre offering immersive experiences, hosting award-winning productions, and providing excellent service.

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