This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, February 20
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, by Joe DiPietro & Jimmy Roberts, directed by Barry Pearl, featuring Michael Deni, Shannon O’Boyle, Will Riddle, and Whitney Kathleen Vigil, opens at CA’s Long Beach International City.
Saturday, February 21
Love Letters, by A.R. Gurney, directed by Gloria Gifford, featuring Jane Jenkins and Joseph D’Agosta, opens at LA’s Hudson Theatres.
Cold War Choir Practice, by Ro Reddick, directed by Knud Adams, featuring Alana Raquel Bowers, Will Cobbs, Crystal Finn, Andy Lucien, Lizan Mitchell, Suzzy Roche, Nina Ross and Ellen Winter, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre.
Zack, by Harold Brighouse, directed by Britt Berke, featuring Jordan Matthew Brown, Caroline Festa, Grace Guichard, Đavid Lee Huỳnh, David Patterson, Douglas Rees, Sean Runnette, Joy Avigail Sudduth, and Cassia Thompson, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theatre.
Patti LuPone in Concert at 7:30 PM at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Fallen Angels, by Noel Coward, directed by Christopher Luscombe, featuring Janie Dee (Julia Steroll), Alexandra Gilbreath (Jane Banbury), Christopher Hollis (Bill Banbury), Richard Teverson (Fred Steroll), Sarah Twomey (Saunders), and Graham Vick (Maurice Duclos), closes at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory.
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, adapted by David Eldridge, directed by Jeremy Herrin, featuring Rofy Keenan (Alec Leanas), Agnes O’Casey (Liz Gold), Gunnar Cauthery (Hans Dieter Mundt), and John Ramm (George Smiley), closes at London’s @sohoplace.
Guess How Much I Love You?, world premiere by Luke Norris, directed by Jeremy Herrin, featuring Robert Aramayo , Rosie Sheehy (Machinal) and Lena Kaur, closes at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
More Miracles, offering original one-act plays, closes at LA’s Actors Gang.
Sunday, February 22
Marcel on the Train, by Ethan Slater & Mashall Pailet, directed by Pailet, featuring Ethan Slater (Marcel Marceau), with Maddie Corman, Max Gordon Moore, Aaron Serotsky, Slex Wyse, Tedra Millan, and Tedra Millan (Berthe), with Harrison Bryan, opens at Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company.
Crooked Cross, by Sally Carson, directed by Jonathan Bank, featuring Samuel Adams, Liam Craig, Katie Firth, Jack Mastrianni, Gavin Michaels, Ben Millspaugh, Douglas Rees, Ella Stevens, and Jakob Winter, concludes its free streaming option here.
Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon, by Will Friedwald, Adrian Galante, Ted Firth & Jack Lewin, directed by David Zippel, featuring Adrian Galante, Hisary Kole, John Pagano, and Ta-Tynisa Wilson, closes at off-Broadway’s Amas Musical Theatre.
Sweeney Todd, directed by Jason Alexander, featuring Will Swenson (Sweeney Todd), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Lovett), Chris Hunter (Anthony), Allison Sheppard (Johanna), Norman Large (Judge Turpin), Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper (Beadle Banford), Austyn Myers (Tobias), Andrew Polec (Pirelli), Meghan Andrews (The Beggar Woman), and Jeff Lowe (The Overseer), with Gabbie Adner, Anthony Cannarella, Ryan Dietz, Grant Hodges, Bets Malone, Drew Margolis, Michael McClure, Hassan Nazari-Robati, Lizzy Sheck, Riannay Vasquez, Toni Elizabeth White, Davide Costa, and Maddie Miller Lacambra, closes at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Ensemble Theatre Company‘s The Shark is Broken, by Ian Sahaw & Joseph Nixon, directed by Pesha Rudnick, featuring Will Block (Richard Dreyfuss), Gild Jackson (Robert Shaw), and Adam Poole (Roy Scheider), closes at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.
Love Letters, by A.R. Gurney, directed by Gloria Gifford, featuring Jane Jenkins and Joseph D’Agosta, closes at LA’s Hudson Theatres.
The Altruist, world premiere by Bill Fitzhugh, directed by Bruce Kimmel, featuring Tori Austin, Joe Clabby, Julie Davis, Lindsey GarciaFreiberg, Lee Grober, Angie Lin, Constance Mellors, Lloyd Pedersen, Isabella Sawoski, Larry Toffler, and Htet Waiyan, closes at North Hollywood’s Group Rep.
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Reviews for The Dinosaurs at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons:
Click here for all the reviews.
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Theatre Aspen (link TBA) has announced its 2026 Summer Season.
Casting TBA.
Sylvia (June 15-27), directed by Hunter Foster.
A Chorus Line (July 3-25), directed by Paige Price, with chroreography by Eamon Foley.
Grease (July 31 – Aug. 29), directed Patrick O’Neill, with choreography by Eamon Foley.
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Arthur MIller’s The Price will run Feb. 28 – Apr. 5 at Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Elina de Santos.
Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), Richard Fancy (Gregory Solomon), Jason Huber (aWalter Franz), and Scott Jackson (Victor Franz).
Two brothers reunite in the attic of a New York brownstone to sort through their late father’s possessions. What begins as a long overdue reunion becomes an unforgettable exploration of the value of success versus personal integrity as four indelible characters struggle to make sense of the past and create a future.**********************
Goodspeed Musicals‘ 2026 Gala & Auction will take place May 30 at CT’s historic New Haven Lawn Club on May 30 at 5 PM.
Performers and additional information TBA.
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Dragon Mamma, written & performed by Sara Porkalob, will run Mar. 4 – Apr. 12 (opening Mar. 12) at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Andrew Rusell.
Sara Porkalob returns to Geffen Playhouse for the second installment of The Dragon Cycle. In this next chapter, Maria Porkalob, Jr. dreams of a bigger, gayer life beyond Bremerton, WA. But when an unexpected chance to escape arises, she faces an impossible choice—stay with her struggling family or chase freedom in the wilds of Alaska. Packed with ghosts, Filipino gangsters, and a killer ’90s R&B soundtrack, this award-winning, high-octane solo show is a raw, hilarious, and deeply moving story of resilience, queer love, and what it takes to break free and find home.
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Broadway and Beyond: Mandy Gonzalez in Concert will take place Sat. Feb. 28 at 7:30 PM at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage.
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DC’s Arena Stage will present its 75th Anniversary New Play Festival Feb. 27 – Mar. 1., offering three-day celebration of new works.
The festival brings together artists, audiences, and theater leaders for a series of readings and conversations that reflect Arena Stage’s 75-year legacy as a home for plays in development and its enduring commitment to what comes next.