Today’s Highlights:
Crazy for You, directed byMichael Fling, featuring Will Burton (Bobby Child), Brittany Zeinstra (Ppolly Baker), Edward Juvier (Bela Zangler), Hailey Thomas (Irene Roth), Jeremy Davis (Everett Baker), David Andrew Morton (Lank Hawkins), and Michele Ragusa IMother/Pariciam, with Claire Avakian, Willie Clyde Beaton II, Colin Bradbury, Courtney Brady, Kailee Regan Brandt, Katie Scarlett Brunson, Samuel Colina, Bradley Gibbins-Klein, Kelly Gleason, Taylor Lane, Brian Shimasaki Liebson, Griffin Wilkinsm Lexi Baldachino, and Brandon J. Morris, opens at CT’s. Goodspeed Musicals.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending June 28:
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Woody Guthrie and The Ghost of Tom Joad Today continues streaming on PBS Socal.
Narrated by Rosanne Cash and featuring music from Bruce Springsteen, this timely film connects the paths of two American icons—songwriter Woody Guthrie (who penned “This Land is Your Land”) and novelist John Steinbeck (who wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”)—as they forged a bond in a campaign to ease the suffering of migrants in California, and their legacy today.
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A reading of Reginald Edmund’s What Had Happened Was will take place Sun. July 5 at 3 PM a the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre 4, (514 S. Spring St.), directed by Ben Guillory. 
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The play follows Marcellus “MRT” Turner, a passionate Los Angeles City Councilman and community advocate determined to create meaningful change for the people he represents. Told through a documentary-style blend of interviews, memories and reflections, the play traces MRT’s personal and political journey—from his early relationship with AV, the woman who becomes his wife, inspires and loves him, to his rise as a public figure fighting for his community. When a powerful university expansion threatens to displace longtime residents and reshape the neighborhood, MRT must decide how far he io willing to go to defend the people who trusted him. As he challenges powerful institutions and navigates the complicated world of politics, he is forced to confront questions about progress, power, loyalty, and the sacrifices required to stand by one’s values while dealing with the deceit and hypocrisy with some in leadership positions.
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A free reading of Reginald Edmund’s What Had Happened Was will take place Sun. July 5 at 3 PM at Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre, directed by by Ben Guillory. 
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Marcellus “MRT” Turner, a passionate Los Angeles City Councilman and community advocate determined to create meaningful change for the people he represents. Told through a documentary-style blend of interviews, memories and reflections, the play traces MRT’s personal and political journey—from his early relationship with AV, the woman who becomes his wife, inspires and loves him, to his rise as a public figure fighting for his community.
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Video: Highlights from Goodspeed’s Crazy for You.
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Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Teddy Bergman, continues through July 26 at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater.
Hale Appleman, Molly Bernard Eli Gelb, Abbi Jacobson, Liz Larsen), Nate Mann, and Zoë Winters.
What begins as a reunion among six young friends after a Birthright trip to Israel in 2006 becomes, over the span of 18 years, an exploration of identity, fracturing communities, and the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths.
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Broadway in Bryant Park, NYC’s beloved lunchtime theatre series, will take place Thursdays July 23–Aug. 13, from 12:30 – 1:30 PM.
Click here for daily lineups and updates.
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Martin Fogarty’s That Kind of Future will be available online starting July 15 at Open Door Playhouse, directed by Bernadette Armstrong.
Sue Gisser (Julie) and Matthew Scott Montgomery (Evan).
Julie loves Evan and wants to be his wife and have his children. Evan loves Jilie, but won’t give her that kind of future. There’s a reason for that.
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Lionel Richie in concert will take place Sat. Aug. 29 at 8 PM at the St. Louis Muny.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Larry Raben, will run July 10-26 at CA’s Musical Theatre West.
Daebrreon Poiema (Narrator), Brian Justing Crum (Joseph), Thomas Hobson (Pharoah/Jacob), Harrison White (Potiphar), Jeffrey Laughrun (Reuben), Adam Lendermon (Simeon), Perry Marks (Levi), Neil Starkenberg (Dan), Jean Charles (Napthtali), Zane Camacho (Gad), Teronn S. Shrikian (Asher), Brody Tarrant Zebulun (Zeulun), Jerdan Cruz (Benjamin), and Ali Vesey (Mrs. Potiphar), with Johnisa Breault, Alexandra Skylar Kunin, and Sabrina Ryan.
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The free soundtrack of Disney’s “Moana” is now available here.
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Doubt: A Parable will run Apr. 7-25, 2027 at Santa Barbara’s New Vic, directed by Beejan Land.
Mimi Rogers (Sister Aloysius Beauvier).