New jazz musical For the Last Time will receive its world premiere off-Broadway. Directed by Will Pomerantz, with music and lyrics by Nancy Harrow and a book by Pomerantz and Harrow, the production is set for a limited engagement May 19 through June 20. Opening night is scheduled for May 28 at Theater Row’s Clurman Theatre.
The cast will feature Brittany Campbell (The Civil War), Carl Clemons-Hopkins (Macbeth), Kim Exum (As You Like It), Britton Smith (After Midnight), Anita Welch (Bubble Boy), Reggie D. White and Jason Veasey (Beautiful).
For the Last Time is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Marble Faun. In 1950’s New Orleans, four young artists create an Eden of music and art. But the past forces its way into their lives, and an act of passion changes everything.