{"id":192461,"date":"2026-04-10T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192461\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:42:10","slug":"sara-bareilles-michael-arden-meg-wolitzer-will-preview-the-interestings-musical-at-symphony-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192461\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Bareilles, Michael Arden, Meg Wolitzer Will Preview The Interestings Musical at Symphony Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Symphony Space will host\u00a0Inside the Interestings: An Evening with Sara Bareilles<\/a>, Michael Arden<\/a>, and Meg Wolitzer,\u00a0a special one-night-only event offering an inside look into the trio’s collaboration on The Interestings, their\u00a0new musical. The evening, which will serve as a fundraiser for Symphony Space, will be held June 9 in the Peter Jay Sharp\u00a0Theatre.<\/p>\n

Grammy-winning songwriter and\u00a0Waitress<\/a>\u00a0star and creator Bareilles has teamed up with Tony Award-winning director Arden (Maybe Happy Ending<\/a>, The Lost Boys)\u00a0to adapt Wolitzer’s novel\u00a0The Interestings.\u00a0Wolitzer is co-writing the musical’s book\u00a0with playwright Sara Ruhl. The musical is set to make its world premiere at\u00a0Berkeley Repertory Theatre<\/a>, in association with Matt Ross<\/a>, beginning January 31, 2027, with an opening night slated for February 17.<\/p>\n

The Interestings\u00a0follows six friends who bond over their shared dreams of leading creative lives, from their first meeting as teenagers at a summer camp to decades later in New York\u00a0City.<\/p>\n

The Symphony Space fundraiser\u00a0will stage performances of selections from\u00a0Bareilles’ score for the musical, performed by\u00a0Bareilles and other guests to be announced, as well as a Q&A with the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A limited number of VIP tickets will be available for the special event, which will include premium seating; a\u00a06\u00d79″ commemorative event print signed by Bareilles, Arden, and Wolitzer; and a copy of The Interestings novel signed by Wolitzer.<\/p>\n

For tickets and more information, visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Symphony Space will host\u00a0Inside the Interestings: An Evening with Sara Bareilles, Michael Arden, and Meg Wolitzer,\u00a0a special one-night-only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-192461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}