{"id":653251,"date":"2026-10-22T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653251\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:30:09","slug":"sydney-lemmon-alison-pill-ato-blankson-wood-more-join-atlantic-theater-companys-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653251\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Lemmon, Alison Pill, Ato Blankson-Wood, more join Atlantic Theater Company&#8217;s 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New casting has been announced for three of the Off-Broadway institution&#8217;s upcoming shows.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic Theater Company has announced casting for three of the upcoming Off-Broadway productions in its 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>The January production of Too Bad For Her will feature Tony Award nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/ato-blankson-wood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ato Blankson-Wood<\/a> (Slave Play), Renata Friedman (The Patient), Obie winner Greg Keller (Indian Princesses), Peter Mark Kendall (Watson), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/sydney-lemmon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Lemmon<\/a> (Succession, Job), and Tony nominee Alison Pill (Uncle Vanya).<\/p>\n<p>Additional casting is to be announced. The play, written by Obie and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner Clare Barron and directed by Tony Award nominee Anne Kauffman, follows a 30-year affair and its consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Obie winner Lucas Hnath&#8217;s play Old Actress, starting performances in March, will feature Pulitzer Prize winner Eboni Booth (Primary Trust) and Susan Yassky alongside the previously announced Tony Award winner Deirdre O&#8217;Connell (Dana H.). Obie winner Les Waters directs the &#8220;play about learning lines for a play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This season\u2019s Atlantic for Kids musical, the New York premiere of Finn by Chris Nee, Michael Kooman, and Christopher Dimond, will feature Jonice Bernard, Sydney Carmona, Gio Coppola, Catherine Luckenbach, Arwen-Vira Marsh, Maya Mays, Hayden Eugene Poe, and Alexa Stratton. Additional casting, under director Ryan Dobrin, is to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Casting for Atlantic&#8217;s final 2026-27 production, Push, will be announced at a later date. The show is written by Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury, choreographed by Tony Award winners Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, and directed by Peck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/theatre-news\/news\/atlantic-theater-company-sets-2026-27-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about Atlantic Theater Company&#8217;s 2026-27 season.<\/a> All productions will be staged at the Linda Gross Theater except Finn, which will play at Atlantic Stage 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New casting has been announced for three of the Off-Broadway institution&#8217;s upcoming shows. Atlantic Theater Company has announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-653251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}