Today’s Highlights
Eureka Day, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Margot Bordelon, featuring Ken Cheeseman (Don), Nancy Lemenager (Suzanne), Eunice Woods (Carina), Sasha Diamond (Meiko), Japhet Balaban (Eli), and Ebonie Marie (Winter), with Jeff Church, Jihan Haddad, Christine Hamel, and Ebonie Marie, opens at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.
Flower Drum Song, updated by David Henry Hwang, directed by Lily Tung Crystal, featuring , opens at LA’s East West Players.
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Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Evita will begin previews Feb. 27, 2027 and open Mar. 25 at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón) and more TBA.
Additional information and complete casting TBA.
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An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger is now available to stream for free here.
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If/Then, by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey, will run July 10-26 at the Chromolume Theatre at the Zephyr, directed by Brayden Hade, with music direction by Isaac Channo Johndon.
Jon Armijo, Ryan Axberg, Keenan Carver, Renee Cohen, Quin Domalaon, Danielle Johnson, Shaheen Kapambwe, Joelle Lewis, Natalie Luna, Nadia Salina Salvia, Stephanie Saunders, Jewell Valentin, Michael Vandie, and Judd Yort, with Amy Melendrez and Jason Rivera.
A woman in her late 30s moves back to New York City for a fresh start after a divorce. The story explores themes of choice, chance, and fate, suggesting that while choices have profound impacts, both paths involve joy, pain, struggle, and the possibility for new beginnings.
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Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, which originally aired in 2013, is now available to watch here.
Narrated by Joel Grey, this documentary explores the unique central role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical and showcases the work of Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, and many more.
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The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2026 will run June 10-28 at various LA locations.
Click here for the complete schedule of events.
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East West Player‘s presentation of Flower Drum Song continues through May 31 at the Aratani Theatre at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (244 San Pedro St.), directed by Lily Tung Crystal.
Grace Yoo (Mei-Li), Emily Kuroda (Madame Liang), Marc Oka (Wang), Scott Keiji Takeda (Ta) Gedde Watanabe (Chin), Krista Marie Yu (Linda Low), Kenton Chen (Harvard), and Cooper Bennett (Chao).
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The world premiere of CrazySexyCool, written & directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, will run June 12 – Aug. 9 (opening June 26) 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), Trenton McKenzie Beavers (Tommy), Aaron Bliden (Danny), Felicia Curry (Dr. Nzinga) and Christina, Josh A. Dawson (Blake), Deon’te Goodman (Rain), Ciara Alyse Harris (Rikara), Darius Jordan Lee (Michael), and Christopher Henry Young (MC Hammer), with The Nichole Forde, Bethany Hemmans, Kennedy Holmes, Lindsey Jolyn Jackson, Malik Kitchen, and Madison McBride, with swings Bryan Archibald, Justin Raynard Hicks, Kalen Robinson, and Mikari Tarpley.
The project explores the story behind the iconic recording group’s rise to fame, set to a soundtrack of their best loved songs, including “Waterfalls,” “No Scrubs,” “Creep,” and “Unprety.”
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Gingold Theatrical Group will present a scrip-in-hand performance of Shaw’s Getting Married on Mon. June 22 at Off-Broadway’s The Players (16 Gramercy Park), directed by David Staller.
Ann Harada (Mrs. Alice Bridgenorth), James Rana (Alderman Collins), robert Cuccioli (General Bridgenorth), Lauren Molina (Lesbia Grantham), Howard McGillin (Bishop of Chelsea), Reynaldo Pinella (Cecil Sykes),Evie Chuckman (Edith Bridegnorth), Ryan Spahn (St. John Hotchkiss), Mirirai Sithole (Leo Bridgenorth), Dan Domingues ( Reginald Bridgenorth), Tony Pinkins ( Mrs. George Collins ), and Evan Zes ( Rev. O. C. Soames / Narrator).
A provocative comedy examining the meaning of marriage and the rules that govern it. On the day the Bishop’s daughter is to be married, unconventional desires and questions about love, partnership, and parenthood collide. Lesbia wishes to have a child without a man, while Hotchkiss’s romantic entanglements threaten established norms. When the enigmatic Mrs. George arrives, chaos and hilarity ensue.
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“Infinite Life”, the book (Annie Baker’s new play), is now available from TCG Books.
Set at a wellness clinic in Northern California, “Infinite Life” follows five women navigating chronic illness, pain, hope, and desire in a space where time itself begins to blur. Both darkly funny and deeply compassionate. A funny and profound meditation on the complexity of chronic illness and the ache of desire. For the women gathered at theclinic, deprivation seems to be the only path forward as theynavigate cancers, autoimmune disorders, thyroid conditions,mysterious infections, and unrelenting pain. Over the course of several days, they pass the time by philosophizing, swapping book recommendations, sharing intimate family stories, and imagining futures beyond their illnesses. As hunger and exhaustion begin to distort their sense of time, the clinic
transforms into a purgatorial space where the body becomesboth prison and mystery.
Funny, compassionate, and quietly unsettling, Infinite Life resists easy answers while offering a profound meditation on pain, and longing.
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Gingold Theatrical Group will present a reading of Shaw’s Getting Married on Mon. June 22 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players (16 Gramercy Park), directed by David Staller.
Tonya Pinkins, Robert Cuccioli , Dan Domingues , Ann Harada, Howard McGillin, Lauren Molina, Reynaldo Piniella, James Rana, Evie Schuckman, Mirirai , Ryan Spahn, and Evan Zes.
The play is set on the day of a bishop’s daughter’s wedding, as a gathering of independent minds begins to question the assumptions underpinning marriage—who defines it, who benefits from it, and who is excluded.