This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, July 3
Relax … let go …. let fly…
Saturday, July 4
How High the Moon, world premiere by Barbara Nell Beery, directed by Asaad Kelada, featuring Jeanine Anderson, Kathie Barnes, Lane Compton, Matthew Gademske, John Posey, Anya Profumo, Caroline Quigley and David Nathan Schwartz, opens at LA’s Theatre West.
London’s Les Miserable in concert (celebrating it’s 1oth anniversary) streams for free at the Royal Albert Hall, at 2 PM ET. Click here to watch.
Hadestown (London production), featuring André De Shields (Hermes), Amber Gray (Persephone), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), and Patrick Page (Hades), begins screenings around the U.S.
Bob Dylan in Concert at 7 PM at Kansas City Starlight.
Sunday, July 5
How Shakespeare Saved My Life, world premiere written & performed by Jacob Ming-Trent, closes at DC’s Folger Theatre.
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Click here for the reviews of CrazySexyCool, a new bio-musical featuring the songs of the hit 90s pop group TLC., making its world premiere at D.C.’s Arena Stage. Scroll down for the reviews.
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Click here to access streaming musicals on “Streaming Musicals.”
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Video: Lauren ‘Lolo’ Pritch performs “We Are Young” from Stephen Michael Spencer & Jonathan Judge Russo’s Music City, ft.
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Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Teddy Bergman, continues through July 26 at MCC Theater.
Hale Appleman, Molly Bernard Eli Gelb, Abbi Jacobson, Liz Larsen, Nate Mann, and Zoë Winters.
How do you show up for the people you love? 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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Theatrical Rights Worldwide has added Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump)’s stage adaptation of the 1952 film High Noon to its licensing catalogue, and is now available for new productions worldwide. The work made its world premiere in London’s West End earlier this year.
Unfolding in real time, the work centers on a law enforcement officer faced with the impending arrival of a newly pardoned criminal he helped put away for murder, and he’s out for revenge. With his wedding to a Quaker pacifist planned for the same day, the officer is suddenly at odds between his sworn duty and his soon-to-be new wife’s beliefs.
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The world premiere of The Curse of the Banshee, written & directed by Tom Dugan, will run July 17 – Aug. 2 at Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills (exact address givin upon reservation).
Patrick Jon Rivers and Stuart Orloff.
Halloween night, 1925. A desperate son recruits his shell-shocked war buddy to stop a family murder in the local cemetery.
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Video: Paulo Szot performs “Some Enchanted Evening” in rehearsals for South Pacific at the St. Louis Muny.
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Hairspray will run July 15-Aug. 8 at t Mass’s Cape Playhouse, directed by Bill Fennelly.
Alex Michaels(Edna Turnblad), Grace Carroll (Tracy Turnblad), Michael Brian Dunn (Wilbur Turnblad), Keisha Gilles Motormouth Maybelle), Ben Jackson Walker (Link Larkin), Maddy Le (Little Inez), Meaghan Maher(Penny Pingleton), Kate Marilley (Velma Von Tussle), Maya Musial (Amber Von Tussle), Lukas Poost (Corny Collins), and Jalen Xavier (Seaweed J. Stubbs), with Taylor Colleton, Talia Cutulle, Zeth Dixon, Adena Ershow, Madeline Glave, Jordyn Jones, Laura Jordan, Natalie Lacy, Jack Mastrianni, Kevin B. McGlynn, Elexis Morton, Ryan Norton, Isaiah Reynolds, Alanna Rishaan Porter, and Drew Tremblay.
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The 2026 Fire Island Dance Festival, in support of BCEFA, will run July 18 (at 5 & 7 PM) and July 19 (at 5 PM) at New York’s Fire Island Pines, hosted by Jeff Hiller.
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Broadway Cares awarded a record $3,007,500 last month to 265 organizations, providing health care, housing, emergency assistance, and other support to those facing illness and hardship across the country.
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Benedict Lombe’s Shifters will run July 6 – Aug. 30 (opening July 15) at the Cherry Lane Theatre, directed by Lynette Linton.
Heather Agyepong (Des) and Daniel Ezra (Man).
The love story follows Dre and Des, two gifted Black young adults on the precipice of change. In the end, he stayed, and she left. Years later, they come crashing back into each other’s lives, carrying new secrets and old scars. Caught between memory and reality, they must navigate the shifting borders that threaten to rewrite their past and reshape their future.
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Video: Watch the Dick Tracy Shoe and Dom-in-the-Matrix from the 2026 Broadway Bares.
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Into the Woods will run July 17-26 at Arrow Rock’s Lyceum Theatre, directed by Michael Michael Lluberes.
Natascia Diaz Diaz (Witch), Cy Paolantonio (Little Red Riding Hood), Jane Brockman (Jack’s Mother/ Tree; Giant), Asunta Fleming (Cinderella’s Stepmother), Joneal Joplin (Narrator), Joshua Morgan (Baker), Hayden Stanes (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf) , Andrea Prestinario (Baker’s Wife) Bersai Reyes (Steward), Paris Porche Richardson (Cinderella), Amal Ramadan (Lucinda / Grandmother), Jerry Pinkard (Rapunzel’s Prince), Rayna Key (Florinda) Michael Fabisch (Jack), and Devin McCall (Rapunzel).
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The Duke of York’s Theatre will be renamed the Tom Stoppard Theatre for a new production of the late Stoppard’s Arcadia, currently playing the venue through mid-September.
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Schedule of Upcoming and Current Broadway Free Live Stream Broadcasts:
Click here for all available live-stream broadcasts.
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Broadway Cares awarded a record $3,007,500 last month to 265 organizations, providing health care, housing, emergency assistance, and other support to those facing illness and hardship across the country.
This record-breaking sum marks the largest single grant-round increase in Broadway Cares’ history, bringing the organization’s 2026 National Grants Program grants to $8.7 million. The grants support organizations providing direct services, emergency financial assistance, harm reduction programs, and quality-of-life initiatives.