GRACE NOTES: Monday, June 22, 2026

Today’s Highlights:

Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, a 12 hour reading festival of 5 of Letts’ works, from 11 AM – 11 PM at NYC’s Circle in the Square Theatre School. Click the link, then Scroll down for information on each play, the director, and cast.

Project Shaw‘s presentation of Getting Married, directed by David Staller, featuring Tonya Pinkins, Robert Cuccioli, Dan Domingues, Ann Harada, Howard McGillin, Lauren Molina, Reynaldo Piniella, James Rana, and Evie Schuckman, at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players (16 Gramercy Park South).

Red Bull Theater‘s Short New Play Festival 2026: Refinished, featuring Playwrights Ken Ludwig, Betty Shaniec, Sabrina Caruso, Nate Currier, Nadel Henfille, Nick Martorelli, Justin Muschong, Karon Ogle, and Chris PBrowne Valenzuela, at 7:30 PM Off Broadway’s Symphony Space.

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Grace Notes Quiz: Oh, Mary! by Jim Bernhard.

Match these characters named Mary with the show in which they appear.

1. Mary Boyle	A. Chicago
2. Mary Cavan Tyrone	B. Jagged Little Pill
3. Mary Delgado	C. Mary, Mary
4. Mary Flynn	D. Parade
5. Mary Jane Healy	E. Juno and the Paycock
6. Mary McKellaway	F. South Pacific
7. Mary Phagan	G. Jersey Boys
8. Mary Sunshine	H. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
9. Mary Todd Lincoln	I. Merrily We Roll Along
10. Bloody Mary	J. Oh, Mary!

Scroll down for the answers….

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Reviews for La Cage aux Folles at New York City Center Encores.

Click here for all the reviews.

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Reviews for at A Woman Among Women at Lincoln

Center’s Claire Tow Theater.

Click here for all the reviews… then scroll down

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Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater has announced its 2026-27 season:

Casting, creative teams, additional dates, and ticket sale information for each production will be announced at a later date.

Anon (Sept. 25 – Nov. 1),world premiere by Anne Washburn, directed by Anne Kauffman. Jeanie, a terminally online TikToker who is thrust into conflict mediation after a gay pride flag is unfurled in front of the home across from hers in her sheltered Texas suburb. As the fantasy and reality of living in 21st-century America collide, she is forced to question how well she actually knows the people she lives amongst.

The Heart Sellers (Jan., 2027 dates TBA), by Lloyd Suh, directed by May Adrales. The story of a chance encounter and quintessentially American connection between Jane and Luna, two immigrant strangers who met on Thanksgiving in 1973. The pair decide to spend this strange new holiday together over an evening full of shared laughs, dreams, and a frozen turkey that refuses to thaw.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape ( June 2027, dates TBA), newly adapted by Peter Hedges, Adrian Enscoe, Christopher Sears, Sydney Shepherd & Regina Strayhorn, directed by TBA. A grocery store clerk lives with his dysfunctional family, including his obese mother, his mentally disabled younger brother, and two sisters in the fictional rural town of Endora, Iowa.

The 24 Hour Musicals (June 22). Information TBA.

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Shakespeare in The Parking Lot’s new As You Like It, directed byHamilton Clancy, will run July 16 – Aug. 1 at 7 PM in the parking lot at 145 Stanton Street (on the lower East Side –entrance on Rivington St. betw. Norfolk and Suffolk).). Shows are Thurs. – Sat. at 7 PM. Details here.

Lia Bonfilio (Rosalind), Thammie Laine Guac (Celia), Andy Rowell (Touchstone), Patrick Hart (Orlando), Emanuel Elpenord (Oliver), Bob Arcaro (Adam), Chris Martel (Duke Senior / Duke Frederick), Carly Grissom (Denise/Audrey), Raphael del Rio (Charles), David Marantz (Jacques), Elowyn Castle (Corinne), Adama Joy Sall (Amiens), Lizabeth Allen (Phoebe) and Dan Teachout (Silvius).

Blending romance, political exile, comic mischief and questions of personal freedom, the production finds fresh relevance in Shakespeare’s tale of characters escaping an authoritarian court for a more humane community. It also reimagines Phoebe and Silvius as older lovers, suggesting that the exhilaration, confusion and folly of love are not reserved for the young.

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The world premiere of Iceboy! Or, The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write, by Mark Hollman & Jay Reiss, currently in previews, will open June 29 and continue through July 26 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, directed by Marc Bruni.

Megan Mullally (Vera Vimm), Nick Offerman (Eugene O’Neill), Grey Henson (Iceboy), Cedric Yarbrough (Floyd, Sarah Stiles (Lambert, Alex Goodrich (Frankenstein), Donterrio, (Nightbirds), Melanie Brezill, Will Koski, Linda Mugleston, Shawn Pfautsch, and Andrea San Miguel, with Will Lidke, Leah Morrow, and Jeff Parker.

Broadway star Vera Vimm adopts a 40,000 year-old Neanderthal from the Arctic, only to reel when he begins stealing the spotlight.

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Playwright Paula Vogel has teamed up with Michael Maso and Grace Nordhoff on a new center for playwrights and theatrical composers that will open in Wellfleet, MA in 2028.

The program will unfold on a four-acre property that includes six Bauhaus-style cottages overlooking Cape Cod Bay, offering writers a serene haven to work on projects. The team is planning on hosting multiple-week residencies, readings, and other communal gatherings with both fellow writers and mentors. Rosey Strub, currently vice president of artistic strategy at Concord Theatricals, will serve as the program’s strategic advisor. Click here for more information.

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Paddington The Musical, by Tom Fletcher & Jessica Swale, will begin previews Mar. 30, 2027 and open Sun. Apr. 18 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, directed by Luke Sheppard.