Today’s Highlights
Safety Not Guaranteed, by Ryan Miller & Nick Blaemire, directed by Oliver Butler, featuring Preston Truman Boyd (Jeff), Tyler Dobies ( Arnau), Gunnar Manchester (Kenneth), Joshua Morgan (Tristan), Mia Pak (Darius), and Erin Weaver(Liz), with Steven Nicolás Franco Sydne Lyons, and Scout Santoro, opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
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Reviews for Bigfoot at Off-Broadway’s City Center, Stage 1:
Click here for all the reviews.
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The world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s The Pushover, will return to the Chain Theatre Apr. 3-26 (opening Apr. 6), directed by Kirk Gostkowski.
TBA.
A play about three bad-ass women who collide and collude at a spa in New Mexico, and a bare-bones Asian restaurant in Queens. Dangerous and hungry, their weapons and their passions bleed into each other. They speak the language of the outcast, rough and sexual, and fight to survive, and to love.
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The Typist, world premiere by Shem Bitterman, directed by Jeremy Wechsler, continues through Mar. 9 at Hollywood’s Hudson Guild Theatre. 
Free tickets are available.
Noah James and Evangeline Edwards
A jazz-infused, 1061-set drama about a bourbon-soaked novelist in Greenwich Village hiring a young female writer to dictate his manuscript. What begins as a professional arrangement becomes a combustible, romantic, and ultimately doomed relationship, exploring themes of, sexism, and, artistic desperation.
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CrazySexyCool – The TLC Musical, written & directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, will run June 12 – Aug. 9 at DC’s Arena Stage.
Holli’ Gabrielle Conway (Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins), Jade Milan (Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes), and Stoney B. Woods (Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas).
The musical chronicles the group’s journey from their formation in Atlanta to becoming the top-selling female group, featuring hits like “Waterfalls,” “Creep,” and “No Scrubs.” With their fearless style, iconic fashion, unforgettable anthems, and unapologetically honest storytelling, TLC redefined what it meant to be women in music. They didn’t just top the charts—they changed the culture. Challenging expectations, celebrating individuality, and championing independence, the trio stormed the ‘90s music scene and shaped the look, sound, and soul of a generation.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre will offer a screening of “A League of Their Own” on Sat. Mar. 14 at 4 & 8 PM, directed by Penny Marshall.
Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell, Madonna, and Megan Cavanaugh.
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Ro Reddick has is the winner of the 2026 Susam Smith Blackburn Prize for his play Cold War Choir Practice.
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Jelly’s Last Jam will run Mar. 31 – Apr. 26 at PA.’s Bristol Riverside Theatre, directed by Tyrone L. Robinson.
Stanley Martin (Jelly Roll Morton) and Forrest McClendon (Chimney Man).
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The Foundation for New American Musicals will present Music-Cal? A Concert of New Musical, on Wed. Mar. 4 at 7 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club. Performers TBA.
Gladiatrix, by Paul Bianchi, Sam Johnides & Tony Gonzalez. Cast TBA.
Sweet and Twenty, by Adam Carl & Julian Drucker, featuring Adam Carl, Julian Drucker, Rachel Sarah Levy, Taubert Nadalini, Larry Cedar.
Coming Home to the Soul, by Catriona Fray, Jonny Perl, Danny Segura, Alena Bernardi, Danny Pravder, and Bella Hicks.
BFA: A New Musical Comedy, by Joe Nedder, featuring Queenie Navaro, Ryan Foreman, Naledi Miga, Janissi Jones, Joseph Rosales.
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Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater has announced its Short New Play Festival 2026. Submissions will close Mon. Mar. 23. Seeking work with a classical inspiration.
Submission Guidelines: Using the theme REFINISHED, write a short play that: makes use of heightened language, and/or is in conversation with a classical theme, style, or story from any cultural tradition; is no more than 10 minutes in length; is self-contained with a beginning, middle and end; is an original, unpublished, and never previously produced new work.
Selected playwrights will receive a staged reading of their submission as part of the festival on Monday, June 22, 2026, performed by an ensemble company of some of New York City’s finest actors, with a commissioning fee and travel reimbursement to attend the festival, rehearsal, and performance in New York City.
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Jason Graae: It’s a Graae Night for Singing! will take place Wed. Apr. 1 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Gerald Sternbach.
The concert explores Janson’s Graae-ness and his beloved, fascinating and divorced parents, along with their friends and acquaintances, like Dorothy Loudon, Victor Borge, and Edvard Grieg.
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Off-Broadway’s LAByrinth Theater Company will present its Celebrity Charades 2026! on Sun. Apr. 26 at 8 PM at NYC’s City Winery (25 11th Ave).
Special guests and additional information TBA.
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Video: Robin de Jesús performs “Miricle Song” from Night Side Songs.
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Vanessa Williams has won the 2026 Sondheim Award. and will be presented Mon. Mar. 16 at DC’s The Anthem.
The award celebrates Williams’ remarkable career.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will run Mar. 11-29 at Virginia Stage, directed & choreographed by Bill Bustamante.
Aaron Alcaraz, Hannah Balago, Terrence J. Bennett, Alvan Bolling, II, John Cauthen, Raymond Dimaano, Elisa Galindez, Michael Goltry, Kevin Gonzalez, McKinley Heidelberg-Denison, Lizz Hughes, Job Jones-Noel, Quincy Lawson, Mitchell Maguire, Tré Porchia, Jay Roberts-Miller, and Alex Simpson.
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L.A. Opera‘s Akhnaten, by Philip Glass, continues through Mar.22 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by Dalia Stasevska.
John Holiday (Akhnaten), Sun-Ly Pierce (Queen Nefertiti), So Young Park (queen Tye), Zachary James (Amenhotep III), and more.
The opera begins with the death of Amenhotep III. We see him first revealed both as a corpse and as a ghostly figure, reciting words taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. During the ceremony, we see a sacred ritual performed in which the body’s organs are carefully taken out and placed into canopic jars and the body is wrapped and embalmed. A ceremony takes place that represents a ritual occurring in the Book of the Dead, in which the pharaoh’s heart is weighed against a feather; if his heart is as light as this, it will ensure that Amenhotep will travel through into the afterlife.