Today’s Highlights:
Red Bull Theater‘s Titus Andronicus, directed by Jesse Berger, starring Patrick Page, opens at Off-Broadway’s Signature Center.
Lost Boys: A New Musical, by David Hornsby, Chris Hoch & The Rescuers, directed by Michael Arden, featuring Shoshana Bean (Lucy Emerson), LJ Benet (Michael Emerson), Ali Louis Bourzgui (David), Benjamin Pajak (Sam Emerson), Maria Wirries (Star), and Paul Alexander Nolan (Max), begins previews at Broadway’s Palace Theatre.
Liza Minnelli – Live in Conversation in Los Angeles, at 7:30 at LA’s Million Dollar Theatre (307 South Broadway).
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NYC Center Encores will present Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party, to run Mar. 18 – 29 , directed by Lili-Anne Brown, with music direction by Daryl Waters, and choreography by Katie Spelman.
Jasmine Amy Rogers (Queenie), Adrienne Warren (Kate), Tonya Pinkins (Dolores Montoya), Jelani Alladin (Black), Wesley J. Barnes (Oscar D’Armano), Jordan Donica (Burrs), KJ Hippensteel (Gold), Andrew Kober (Goldberg), Lesli Margherita (Mae), Betsy Morgan (Sally), Meghan Murphy (Miss Madelaine True), Maya Rowe (Nadine), Joseph A. Byrd (Phil D’Armano), Claybourne Elder (Jackie), and Evan Tyrone Martin (Eddie Mackrel), with Curtis Bannister (Standby for Burrs and Black) and Kyrie Courter (Standby for Queenie and Kate).
A Jazz-age musical based on a 1928 poem about Queene and Vurrs, a vaudvile couple in a toxic relationship. To shake up their stale life, they throw a raucous party, but mounting jealousy, intoxication, and a love triangle lead to a violent, tragic shooting by dawn.
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Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee: Grounds for Murder will run Apr. 18-26 at the Players Theatre, directed by Brenda Bell.
TBA.
This production of Agatha Christie’s very first play introduces Hercule Poirot, the now famous beloved Belgian detective known for his sharp wit and sometimes biting sense of humor.
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Wallace Shawn’s What We Did Before Our Moth Days has been extended through May 4 at Off-Broadway’s Greenwich House Theatre, directed by André Gregory.
Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early, and Josh Hamilton.
The play celebrates the legendary, lifelong collaboration between Wallace Shawn and André Gregory.
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Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond & Nell Benjamin’s Mean Girls will run April 10 – May 3 (opening Apr. 11) at CA’s La Mirada Theatre, directed & choreographed by Dana Solimando, with music direction by Anthony Zediker.
Katie Roche a(Cady Heron), Adrianna Rose Lyons (Regina George), Sarah-Anne Martinez (Gretchen Wieners), Grace Fluharty (Karen Smith), McKenna Michael (Janis Sarkisian) Gavin Leahy (Damian Hubbard), Eric Myrick (Aaron Samuels,), Shailen Patel Braun (Kevin Gnapoor), Daryl C. Brown (Mr. Hubbard), Daniel Dawson (Coach Carr), and Gwen Hollander (Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George), with Sabrina Astengo, Alyssa Anne Austin, Eugene Boyd, Augusto Guardado, Brandon Halvorsen, Emmy J. Lane, Jenna Luck, Keturah McIntyre, Caroline Moulios, Barbara Ann Reed, Eric Renna, Clayton Michael Walke, Kevin Corte and Bailey Renee Miller.
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Toby Armour’s Flo will run Apr. 9-26 at Theater for the New City, directed by Joan Kane.
John Cencio Burgos, Rachael Spaulding, Mikayla Petrilla, Juli Harkins, Jenny Taher, Anthony Cedeno, JC Augustin, and Darrel Blackburn.
The play of magical realism blends fantasy with contemporary life on the Upper West Side. Can you double-cross the devil? The question is answered in the play, a fantastical, philosophical comedy that follows the restless journey of an elderly widow, Flo Weinberg, who lives alone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Feeling that her life has amounted to little, she confides her regrets to a mysterious longtime companion, Max, who offers her a Faustian bargain: if she sells him her soul, he will grant her youth, beauty, fame and any desire she can imagine. But when the time comes to pay up, Flo has other ideas.
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Romeo and Juliet will run May 30 at 2 & 7 PM at Boston’s Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, directed by Bryn Boice.
Evan Danyliw (Romeo/Gregory), Anna Kate Gossett (Juliet/Balthasar), Kandyce Whittingham (as Friar/Lord Montague), Alexandra White (Nurse/Lady Montague), Kayla Sessoms (Mercutio/Prince/Abraham), Sandy Clancy (Lady Capulet/Page), Alex Leondedis (Lord Capulet), Nicolas Bolton (Benvolio/Friar John), Dani Grace Nissen (Tybalt/Apothecary), and Sofonyas (Paris/Sampson).
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Bee Gees Celebration will take place Sat. April 11, at 8 PM at Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre.
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The CD of “The Wizard and I: Liz Callaway Sings Stephen Schwartz” is now available for pre-order here, and is scheduled to ship this week.
The CD includes a 12 page booklet with liner notes by Liz and Stephen Schwartz.
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In the Heights, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez, will run Apr. 10-26 at Long Beach’s Musical’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez.
Rubén J. Carbajal (Usnavi) and more TBA.
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The Santa Monica International Jazz Festival will May 1-9 at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage.
Click the link above for the performance schedule.
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LA Opera will present Falstaff Apr. 18 – May 10 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by James Conlon.
Craig Colclough (Falstaff) and Nicole (Alice Ford), with Ernesto Petti (Ford), Deanna Breiwick (Nannetta), Anthony León (Fenton), Hyona Kim (Mistress Quickly), Sarah Saturnino (Meg Page), Yuntong Han (Bardolph), Vinícius Costa (Pistol), and Nathan Bowles (Dr. Caius).
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“The Devil Wears Prada” will run at various times on Thurs. Apr. 30 at LA’s El Capitan Theatre. Tickets are $24 and include a complimentary small popcorn.
Screening times: 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM, 7:20 PM and 10:25 PM
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20at20, the 20th anniversery biannual celebration of Off-Broadway theater will take place Mar. 23 – Apr. 12, offering $20 tickets 20 minutes prior to curtain for 28 participating Off-Broadway plays & musicals.
Click here for participating productions.
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Pittsburg CLO has announced its Summer 2026 season:
Creative teams and casting TBA.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (June 23-28)
Mean Girls (July 7-12)
Suffs (July 21-26)
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Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hymn will run May 2 – June 14 at the Odyssey Theatre, directed by Gregg T. Daniel.
Jason Delane and Chuma Gault.
At a moment when public conversation about men’s emotional lives, and the particular pressures facing Black men, has never been more charged, Hymn offers something rare: a portrait of male friendship that is tender, funny and utterly without apology.