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who won the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama on Monday night, plans to make her Broadway debut next season.A source told The Post that Snook will come to New York with “The Picture of Dorian Gray” once it finishes its run in London, where she’s also its star. The one-woman show is scheduled to play across the pond from February to May.She’ll perform all 26 roles in the adaption of Oscar Wilde’s novel by Kip Williams, the artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company, where the show premiered back in 2020.

“An Enemy Of The People” (featuring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli), “Uncle Vanya” (starring Steve Carell and Alfred Molina) and “Mother Play” (with Jessica Lange and Jim Parsons).But that’s not all. High-profile revivals of “Cabaret,” “Doubt,” “The Wiz,” “The Who’s Tommy” and “Hamlet” are all coming to the Great White Way in these next few months, too.Who are all the eligible upcoming Tony contenders? Who are the big stars headed to Midtown in the very near future? How much are all the cheapest available tickets for the shows?Great questions all around and ones we’d love to help answer.Below, you’ll find our comprehensive list of the 20 biggest shows opening on Broadway in 2024.And we’ll see you at the theater(s).A Jewish couple in 1944 Paris face the impact of the Holocaust.Starring Anthony Edwards (“E.R.”) and Betsy Aidem (“Law and Order”) Samuel J. Friedman TheatrePreviews began in 2023Prices start at $80 before feesA musical about a couple falling in love in 1950’s New York and struggling to rebuild a family.Starring Kelli O’Hara (“The Gilded Age”) and Brian d’Arcy James (“Evil”)Studio 54Previews start Jan. 6Prices start at $86 before feesA small-town doctor who has his world rocked when his community tries to silence him.Starring Jeremy Strong (“Succession”) and Michael Imperioli (“The Sopranos”)Circle In The SquarePreviews start Feb. 27Prices start at $85 before feesA strict nun wrestles with whether or not relations between a priest and student are pure.Starring Liev Schrieber (“Ray Donovan”) and Tyne Daly (“Cagney and Lacey”)American Airlines TheatrePreviews start Feb. 2Prices start at $75 before feesAllie and Noah share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull them apart.Starring Ryan

In a four-star review, I called director Jamie Lloyd’s imaginative revival “jolting” and “absolutely gut-wrenching,” and added that Scherzinger “stops you in your tracks” with her “breathtaking” turn. A few weeks after writing that, I went back to see it a second time.The acclaimed show is just what Lloyd Webber needs to recover from the one-two punch of “Phantom of the Opera” closing after 35 years and his “Bad Cinderella” flopping after just a few short months.Everybody on Broadway has been jetting over to the UK to watch his electric “Sunset,” which takes its final bow in the West End on Saturday.

shut down because of the pandemic, according to data the Broadway League released last month. New York metro suburbanites accounted for a mere 14% or 1.7 million of the overall tickets last season — the lowest number on record in the 23 years the Broadway League has tracked such data.The Broadway League declined to comment on the dip. “We do not speculate generally about the numbers,” spokesperson Scalla Jakso said in an email.

The Color Purple often succeeds as a thoughtful fusion of two other adaptations of Alice Walker’s landmark novel that still confidently hums its own tune.In shakier moments, though, confidence gives way to nostalgia, when the film hammers home its reinterpretations of quotable scenes and dialogue from the Quincy Jones-produced, Steven Spielberg-directed 1985 adaptation with an insistence that borders on flashing “Hey, remember this?” in bold type onscreen.Creating and saying something new with such proven material, while also purposely coaxing audience sentiment for a beloved original, surely posed a formidable challenge for Bazawule and company. And having Jones, Spielberg, and Oprah Winfrey — the big guns and big breakout from the 1985 film — onboard as producers must have eased and complicated the gig in unfathomable ways.Oprah and Jones also had a hand in the original Broadway musical adaptation, which has spun off its own lore and legacy, and adds another meta layer of pop-lit gloss to what this film aims to freshly reinterpret.The stage musical — with a book by Marsha Norman, and lyrics and music by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray — has amassed its own roster of breakout stars, including American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino, who made her 2007 Broadway debut stepping into the lead role of Celie, and Orange Is the New Black‘s Danielle Brooks, Tony-nominated for playing Sofia opposite Cynthia Erivo in the 2015 Broadway revival.Barrino and Brooks reprise their respective roles here with a lived-in grace and fortitude that does freshly illuminate Walker’s moving narrative, the lifeblood that courses through every iteration.

Fantasia Barrino, “The Little Mermaid” star Halle Berry and five-time Grammy winner H.E.R. to bring the belting in “The Color Purple,” the new movie musical adaption of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that opens in theaters on Christmas Day.But Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson also flexes some surprise vocal chops as blues singer Shug Avery.And Executive Music Producer Stephen Bray already envisioned the former “Empire” diva in the role when she came to see the “Color Purple” musical on Broadway in 2005.“We were sitting together, and at intermission I said, ‘You know, you’d make a great Shug Avery,’ ” Bray — who co-wrote the songs for both 2005’s original stage production and its 2015 revival — told The Post.

tickets are passes to unforgettable experiences.And, if you waited until the eleventh hour (let’s be honest, we did too), seats and general admission passes make great last-minute gifts for the Taylor Swift or Travis Kelce fans in your life.That’s where we come in.Our team compiled a list of games, shows and theatrical productions for the dedicated live events fans on your list. We hope these recommendations will make them laugh out loud, hold their breath through game-winning plays, or lose their voice singing along with their favorite artist.

Monty Python’s Spamalot. The spoof, based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is back on the Broadway boards after a critically acclaimed run earlier this year at the Kennedy Center.Whether you’ll look on the bright side with approval or wish that this quest had more grit may depend upon your expectations of production values and your threshold for unabashed silliness.Tony-winner James Monroe Iglehart leads a top-notch cast as the medieval King Arthur, whose aim is to recruit other men to his Round Table and guide them to the utopia of Camelot.Camelot, as it turns out, is a glitzy casino — an ideal setting for a song and dance routine.

“Uncle Vanya” at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre.Carell, 61, stars as the titular Uncle Vanya with previews starting Tuesday, April 2 and running all the way until closing night on Sunday, June 16.Other big names round out the ensemble.He’ll be joined by familiar faces Alfred Molina (“Spiderman 2”), William Jackson Harper (“The Good Place”), Alison Pill (“Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World”), Jayne Houdyshell (“Only Murders In The Building”) and Anika Noni Rose (“The Princess and the Frog”).For those unfamiliar with the story, “Uncle Vanya” tells the tale of Sonya (Pill) and her uncle Vanya managing the family farm by themselves.

about the dance. Instead, that climactic event allows the viewer to meet the documentary’s extraordinary subjects and gain a deeper, more human understanding of what their daily lives are like. Unlike the overblown musical, the doc is not excessively and damagingly weighty.

“An Enemy of the People” directed by Sam Gold at Broadway’s famously round theater Circle in the Square.As of now, the duo will share the stage from Feb. 27 all the way up until June 2, 2024 for a total of 115 shows spread over 16 weeks.And if you want to scoop up tickets to see Strong play a proud small-town doctor who has his world rocked when his brother (Imperioli) and community tries to silence him, you can snag them as soon as today.At the time of publication, tickets are available for all shows and start at $152 before fees on Vivid Seats for select performances.Looking for a show that fits your busy schedule?You’re in the right place.We’ve got everything you need to know and more about seeing “An Enemy of the People” live on Broadway below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.On Tuesday, Feb.

Sarah Brightman, is taking her legendary pipes to venues all over North America as part of her ‘A Christmas Symphony Tour.’That includes a pair of gigs in the Garden State. First up, she’ll perform at Atlantic City’s Ocean Casino Resort on Saturday, Nov.

Monty Python would often dryly announce, “and now for something completely different.”Well, not much is different about the revival of “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” the musical that’s based on their 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” that opened Thursday night at the St. James Theatre.

the musical “Parade” and Tom Stoppard’s play “Leopoldstadt.” The problem is that while “Harmony” is about a sextet of singers whose voices blend like milk and coffee, its elements do not similarly fuse into a cohesive and satisfying musical.The show, directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, has been tinkered with by Manilow and lyricist/book-writer Bruce Sussman for nearly 30 years, but on its largest stage yet it still doesn’t quite work.Structural flaws that were mostly forgivable when the production played the more intimate Museum of Jewish Heritage downtown last year are detrimentally exacerbated by Broadway’s imposing size. The musical, therefore, is lopsided.

Fat Ham, James Ijames relocates Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the kingdom of Denmark to a modern-day backyard in “North Carolina, or Virginia, or Maryland, or Tennessee.”The playwright infuses the tale with the culturally specific atmosphere of Black Americana — pork on the grill, brown liquor flowing, and Frankie Beverly singing “Before I Let Go” as a grown and sexy couple grooves to the music. But instead of a pondering prince, we have melancholy only-son Juicy (Marquis D.

Merrily We Roll Along,” “Sweeney Todd” and final show “Here We Are” are all playing at the same time. Over in London is a sublime revue of favorite Sondheim standards called “Old Friends” at the Gielgud Theatre that’s led by a deep-feeling Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga.Two hours and 30 minutes with one intermission. At the Gielgud Theatre in London.

pop-u-lar!Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth rushed to the defense of Lady Gaga on Wednesday after “Bachelor” alum Carly Waddell called the pop star “so extra” for singing songs from “Wicked” during lunch back in college. “I’m ready to sing FOR GOOD with our girl Gaga,” Chenoweth, 55, wrote on X (formerly Twitter), referring to the show’s penultimate ballad.

“Spamalot,” which just began previews at the St. James Theatre, has been only up for a few days in previews and tickets are already surprisingly affordable for such a high profile show.At the time of publication, our team found tickets going for as low as $40 before fees on Vivid Seats.Given that seats for other comedic musicals on the Great White Way like “Book of Mormon” and “Gutenberg” typically fetch higher prices, this very well might be the Holy Grail of deals.Especially when you consider the talented cast on display.At all shows, fans will be treated to an ensemble featuring “Saturday Night Live” alum Taran Killam, “Ugly Betty” star Michael Urie and upcoming “Wicked” film adaptation cast member Ethan Slater (who is romantically tied to Ariana Grande).Plus, so many more.So, if you want to slap coconuts together, see flying cows and have a great “knight” on the town, here’s everything you need to know about catching “Spamalot” on Broadway.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.After debuting on Halloween night, “Spamalot” has settled into a classic eight-show a week groove.However, just like their Monty Python forebears, the show eschews tradition.Rather than going dark on Monday, “Spamalot” performances run Monday through Saturday; there are no shows on Sunday (at least for the next two weeks).After that, things get a bit more conventional.Matinees are on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m.; once Sunday shows come into play, they’ll start at 3 p.m.Want to find the show that makes the most sense for your wallet and schedule?Check out a complete calendar including all “Spamalot” at the St.

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.Politics ain’t for babies, especially at the highest level, so blowing off steam by cursing like a sailor just seems to be what gets an overtaxed, under-appreciated staffer through a tough day.And this day, as it careens ahead into one disaster after another, will be especially tough for staffers, the First Lady, and POTUS himself, who never actually appears onstage. But he gets the whole shitstorm started by referring to his wife as “cunty” — and not in a good way — during a meeting with foreign dignitaries.Managing potential fallout from the flub falls to the President’s harried Chief of Staff, Harriet (Naomi Jacobson); officious press secretary, Jean (Natalya Lynette Rathnam); and, begrudgingly, the First Lady, Margaret (Felicia Curry).A million other complications, from petty to Presidential, threaten to further derail the day: determined journalist and new mom, Chris (Yesenia Iglesias), hiding out in the West Wing; an unexpected visit from POTUS’ much-younger mistress, Dusty (Sarah-Anne Martinez); and a really unexpected visit from his ne’er-do-well lesbian sister, Bernadette (Kelly McAndrew).Meanwhile, the President’s secretary, Stephanie (Megan Hill), tries to control the increasing flow of traffic in and out of the Oval Office.

Monday, Nov. 6, the popular “Parks and Rec” star will share the stage with “Girls” actor Christopher Abbott in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.“It’s an actor’s dream play,” Plaza told Vanity Fair about the two-hander that takes place in a Bronx bar.

“Wicked” is still quite “Popular.”On Sunday, Oct. 29 and Monday, Oct.