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David Corenswet, François Arnaud and Yvonne Strahovski will star in ‘Three Days of Rain’



David Corenswet is trading Superman’s cape for Richard Greenberg’s elegant, emotionally bruised New Yorkers.

Corenswet will make his Broadway debut next February in “Three Days of Rain,” joining François Arnaud of “Heated Rivalry” and Yvonne Strahovski of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro (“August: Osage County”) will direct.

Greenberg’s 1997 play begins with the adult children of a celebrated architect trying to decipher the clues and damage left behind by their parents. The actors then shift into a second generation, playing the parents in their younger years.

The play’s only prior Broadway production, in 2006, was a celebrity event built around Julia Roberts’ stage debut, with Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper, years before his movie-star breakthrough, as her co-stars.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’ ‘Warriors’ will open at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Lin-Manuel Miranda is bringing another New York odyssey to Broadway.

“Warriors,” his new musical with Eisa Davis, will begin previews in March 2027 and open in April at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Jenny Koons will direct, with Andy Blankenbuehler (“Hamilton”) co-directing and choreographing. Casting has not been announced.

Based on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel and Walter Hill’s 1979 cult film, the musical follows an all-women gang trying to get back to Coney Island after being falsely blamed for the murder of Cyrus, a gang leader hoping to unite the city’s rival crews.

Miranda and Davis first released “Warriors” as a concept album in 2024. Its Broadway arrival promises a nightmarish, stylized trip across the five boroughs.

Sardi’s will reopen this fall with a new operator

Sardi’s, the Broadway restaurant that has always been more about nostalgia, caricatures and opening-night mythology than food, closed after service on June 24 for a several-month renovation.

The closure followed the Shubert Organization’s recent acquisition of the Theater District fixture from longtime owner Max Klimavicius, who retired after more than 50 years at the restaurant. La Masseria Group has now been selected as Sardi’s new operating partner, with a reopening planned for the fall.

The restaurant will retain its caricature-covered walls, with the portraits placed in storage during the work and reinstalled afterward.

Ethan Slater and Betsy Wolfe will take over ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

Ethan Slater and Betsy Wolfe will become the latest stars to step into Mushnik’s flower shop when they take over the lead roles in the Off-Broadway revival of “Little Shop of Horrors” on July 21.

Slater will play Seymour, the nebbishy florist whose discovery of a bloodthirsty plant brings sudden success and escalating horror. Wolfe will play Audrey, the sweet, battered blonde at the center of his affections. They succeed Jordan Fisher and Nikki M. James, who play their final performances July 19.

Slater earned a Tony nomination for “SpongeBob SquarePants” and reached a much wider audience as Boq in the “Wicked” films. Wolfe, a Tony nominee for “& Juliet,” recently played Madeline Ashton in “Death Becomes Her.”

The Westside revival has turned its revolving Seymour-Audrey casting into a kind of Off-Broadway relay race. Jonathan Groff and Tammy Blanchard opened the production in 2019. Subsequent Seymours have included Gideon Glick, Jeremy Jordan, Conrad Ricamora, Skylar Astin, Rob McClure, Matt Doyle, Corbin Bleu, Darren Criss, Andrew Barth Feldman, Nicholas Christopher and Milo Manheim. The Audreys have included Lena Hall, Maude Apatow, Joy Woods, Constance Wu, Evan Rachel Wood, Jinkx Monsoon, Sarah Hyland, Sherie Rene Scott, Elizabeth Gillies and Madeline Brewer.

‘Heathers’ will close in November after a final extension

“Heathers the Musical” has set its final New York date.

The Off-Broadway revival will remain at New World Stages through Nov. 8, following its fourth and final extension. By then, it will have played almost 600 performances and broken New World Stages’ box-office record four times.

The musical first arrived at New World Stages in 2014, but its original Off-Broadway run lasted only a few months. It then crossed the Atlantic, found a far more fervent audience in London and became a durable West End and touring favorite. More than a decade after its New York premiere, it returned last summer to the same Theater District complex with the kind of built-in fan base that the original production never had.

Based on Daniel Waters’ vicious 1989 high-school satire, “Heathers” has become one of musical theater’s most durable cult properties. Its fans, known as the “Corn Nuts,” have kept it alive through London engagements, British tours, and, now, a lengthy New York homecoming. 



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