A brand-new off-Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s influential hit Cats — embeded in the underground world of the 1980s Ballroom culture — is on tap for the inaugural season at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, which opens this fall at the website of the previous World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
Cats, running June-July 2024, will be co-directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, with choreography by Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles. Josephine Kearns functions as dramaturg and gender expert. The precious musical is based upon T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Further details is still to be revealed.
“We have invited some of the most compelling talents in theater, opera, music, and dance to work with us and with each other, to create and present new works that bring PAC NYC to life, here in the world capital of performing arts,” said Rauch, who is likewise the creative director of the place. “Our program, which celebrates and brings together an array of artistic disciplines, will anchor a robust and diverse inaugural season that will inspire, entertain, and engage all audiences.”
Additionally, the season will consist of the opening night of Laurence Fishburne’s brand-new solo program, Like They Do in the Movies, directed by Leonard Foglia (10 to 31 March); David Henry Hwang and Huang Ruo’s opera An American Soldier, directed by Chay Yew (12 to 19 May); and others.
