Today’s Highlights:
Matt & Ben, by Mindy Kaling & Brenda Withers, directed by Max Downs, featuring Genevieve Lerner and Spring Ferrara, closes at North Hollywood’s Sherry Theatre (11052 Magnolia Blvd.)
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Aug. 2.
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Doubt: a Parable will run Apr. 7-25, 2027 at Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre Company, directed by Beejan Land.
Mimi Rogers (Sister Aloysius) and Madison Lintz (Sister James).
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New cast members have been announced for Hadestown at the Walter Kerr Theatre Theatre, starting Sept.1.
(new): Jasmin Savoy Brown (Eurydice), Norbert Leo Butz (Hermes), Amber Iman (Persephone), Kayko as (Orpheus), and Geno Segers (Hades).
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An American Daughter, by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Sarna Lapine, currently in previews, opens Aug. 11 and continues through Sept.20 at LA Opera
Montego Glover and Robert Sean Leonard, with Jean Lichty, Dakin Matthews, Mary Beth Peil, Ryan Spahn, Will DeVary, Chris Ghaffari, and Carmen Zilles, opens at Off-Broadway’s Signature Center.
The opera centers on Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, a health care expert nominated for a cabinet post (Surgeon General), whose career is derailed by a media frenzy over a minor past oversight regarding jury duty.
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A benefit reading of Bruce Vilanch’s Captain Show Biz will take place Thurs. Aug. 20 at 8 PM at LA’s Harmony Gold.
Lesley Ann Warren, Alec Mapa, Garrett Clayton, and more TBA.
Vilanch spent a quarter-century putting words in Hollywood’s mouth. This piece is his gloriously fictionalized account of where it all began: his chaotic, hilarious first ceremony in 1989. He test-drove the play this January in front of a sold-out crowd in Wilton Manors, Florida — and walked away certain of one thing: this show’s true home is Los Angeles, the only audience guaranteed to catch every inside-Hollywood joke.
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LA’s Celebration Theatre has announced a benefit reading of Bruce Vilanch’s Captain Show Biz on Thurs. Aug. 20 at 8 PM at LA’s Harmony Gold.
Bruce Vilanch, Lesley Ann Warren, Alec Mapa, Garrett Clayton, and more TBA.
The play is Vianch’s gloriously fictionalized account of where it all began: his chaotic, hilarious first ceremony in 1989. He test-drove the play this January in front of a sold-out crowd in Wilton Manors, Florida — and walked away certain of one thing: this show’s true home is Los Angeles, the only audience guaranteed to catch every inside-Hollywood joke.
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How High the Moon, by Barbara Nell Beery, directed by Asaad Kelada, continues through Aug. 16 at Theatre West, directed by Asaad Kelada.
Jeanine Anderson (Violet), Kathie Barnes (Millie), Lane Compton(Harrison), Matthew Gademske (Russell), John Plsey (Carl), Anya Profumo (Allison), Matthew Gademske (Fussell), Caroline Quitley (Amy), and David Nathan Schwartz (Walter).
A Young housewife questions her marriage and an estranges son rreturns home. A play about sibling conflict and family secrets during the early 9050’s houseing boom in CA’s San Fernando Valley.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run Aug. 27 – Sept. 13 at A.R.T/New York Theatres, directed by John Gordon & Ruby Rich.
Sam Andrews (Snug & Mote), Kaleb Baker (Demetrius), Martin Challinor (Puck), Aaron Cirillo (Lysander), Isabel Criado (Hermia), Robert Daniel (Flute), Catherine Desciak (Hippolyta / Mustardseed), Caroline Feduccia (Starveling / Cobweb), Rosalind Joyce (Snout / Peaseblossom), Julianne Lorndale (Helena), James Mackey (Oberon / Theseus), Abdullah Naser (Nick Bottom), Ruby Rich (Titania), and Tony Savage Thorn (Egeus / Peter Quince).
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Spamalot will run Aug 4-9 at Kansas City’s Starlight, directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes.
Major Attaway (Arthur), Sean Bell ( Sir Robin), Chris Collins-Pisano ( Sir Lancelot), Ellis C. Dawson III (Sir Bedevere), Leo Roberts (Sir Galahad), Amanda Robles (The Lady of the Lake), Blake Segal (Patsy) and Steven Telsey (The Historian/Prince Herbert, with Lindsay Lee Alhady, Delaney Benson, Jack Brewer, Connor Coughlin, L’ogan J’ones, Graham Keen, Claire Kennard, Ben Lanham, Nathaniel Mahone, Maddie Mossner, Emilie Renier, Mark Tran Russ and Meridien Terrell.
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Theater for the New City has announced its 14th Dream Up Festival, which will run Aug. 23 – Sept. 13.
TBA.
The festival will offer 23 Productions, including 18 world premieres, which will be announced soon.
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The Arsonists, by Max Frisch, will run Sept. 3 – 20 at the Skylight Theatre, directed by Luke Harlan.
Tessa Auberjonois (Babette), Flor de Maria Chahua (Mrs Knechtling), Molly Kirschenbaum (Dr. of Philosophy), Trevor Jonathan Lown (Schmitz), Seamus Mulcahy (Chorus Leader), Liam Rhodes (Eisenberg), Jazelle Villanueva (Anna), Brian Wallace (Biedermann), and Moneer Yaqubi (Police), with Michael Lorz. Amorality play without a moral. Promising a compelling blend of theatrical virtuosity and wit, this headline-relevant commentary shines with our “in the moment” nightmares on contemporary denial and political apathy. Arsonists have begun setting fires in neighboring towns. But that could never happen here—and certainly not in the Biedermann’s home. Then a stranger appears at the front door. Everyone sees it coming—no one does anything to stop it. Not even the Greek chorus.**********************
August Wilson’s Seven Guitars will run Nov. 5 – Jan. 10, 2027, (opening Nov. 23) at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
Chanté Adams, Jason Dirden, Russell Hornsby, Kristolyn Lloyd, Michael potts, roslyn Ruff, and John Douglas Thompson, with Taylor Elise Jackson, Warner Miller, Simone Moore, and Kevyn Morrow.
Set in 1940s Pittsburgh, Wilson’s haunting drama follows blues musician Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton, a man determined to win back the woman he loves and build a future beyond the limitations of Black life in America. As his friends gather and stories about Barton flow, what emerges is a richly layered portrait of masculinity and ambition, artistry, community and the collective weight of dreams deferred.