Today’s Highlights
Starstruck, world premiere by Emily Saliers, directed by Lorin Latarro, featuring Beth Malone (Cyd DeBerg), Krysta Rodriguez (Roxanne Cooley) Sam Gravitte (Sunny), Scott Stangland (J.D), Sandra Valls ( Crash), Donald Corren (Woody), and Sydney Patrick (Linda), with Nathan Quay Thomas and Elana Cantor, opens at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse.
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Labyrinth Theatre will present Lucy Thurber’s The Locus Feb. 24-28 at 59E59 Theaters, directed by Jenna Worsham.
Ngozi Anyanwu and Alison Pill
Two old friends meet once a year. Always the same motel, in the same quaint town. Always the same sweet memories and joyful traditions. Tina and Sarah are closer than sisters, and it’s always good to catch up. Or so it seems.
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The world premiere of Sara Bareilles’ The Interestings will begin previews Jan. 31, 2027 and open Feb. 17 at Berkley Rep (link TBA), directed by Michael Arden.
TBA.
The story spans 4 decades, and follows 6 friends as they navigate love, envy, class, and art as they grow up in New York City, exploring how their youthful ideals shift with the realities of adulthood.
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Grey Arias, devised, written, directed & performed by Adrienne Truscott & Le Gateau Chocolat will run Mar. 5-7 at The Flea.
A razor-sharp, music-fueled interrogation of identity.
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A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters will run Feb. 21-22 at the Hudson Theatres, directed by Gloria Gifford.
Jane Jenkins and Joseph D’Agosta.
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A filmed recording of Broadway’s Suffs, by Shaina Taub, will air on Fri. May 8 at 9 PM ET on PBS.
Shaina Taub (Alice Paul), Nikki M. James (Ida B Wells), Jenn Colella (Carrie Chapman Catt), Grace McLean (President Woodrow Wilson), Hannah Cruz (Inez Milholland), Kim Blanck (Ruza Wenclawska), Anastacia McCleskey (Church Terrell), Ally Bonino (Lucy Burns), Tsilala Brock (Dudley Malone), Nadia Dandashi (Doris Stevens), Emily Skinner (Alva Belmont/Phoebe Burn), Jaygee Macapugay (Mollie Haay), and Laiala Drew (Phyllis Terrell/Robin).
The musical is based on suffragists and the American women’s suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United Stage Constitution in 1920 that gave wome women the right to vote.
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Houston’s TUTS has announced its 2026-27 season.
Casting and creative teams TBA.
The Music Man (Sept 15-27)
Mrs. Doubtfire (Oct. 13-25)
The Little Mermaid (Dec. 8-24)
The who’s Tommy (Feb. 2-14, 2027)
Kinky Boots (Mar. 30 – Apr. 11)
Oh, Mary! (Apr. 27 – May 9), by Cole Escol
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Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest will run Mar. 9 – Apr. 19 at Beverly Hill’s Theatre 40 (link TBA), directed by Warren Davis.
Lee Grober, Katyana Rocker-Cook, Diane Linder, Eve Sigall, Riley Introcaso, David Hunt Stafford, Todd Andrew Ball, and Nick Trafton.
Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house, only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. But the woman’s dazed confession is anything but convincing, and the unexpected guest decides to help. Remarkably, the police clues point to a man who dies two years previously, but as the ghosts of a past wrong begin to emerge, a tangled web of lies reveals family secrets and chilling motives, where the real murderer turns out to be the greatest mystery of all.
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What We Did Before Our Moth Days, by Wallace Shawn, and directed by André Gregory, has been extended though May 10 at the Greenwich House Theatre.
Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early, and Josh Hamilton
Set in an urban world of intelligent and somewhat gentle middle-class people, a father, mother, son, and the long-time mistress of the father tell the intimate story of their lives. Wallace Shawn, a student of morality whose plays have brought us frank truths about politics and sexuality, here takes on the subject of love — suffocating and freeing — and the kaleidoscopic journeys we make through remorse, sorrow, resentment, and joy.
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Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, a marthon theater reading festival celebrating the works of the playwright, will take place Mon. Feb. 23 from 11 AM – 11 PM at Off-Broadway’s Circle in the Square.
Mark Armstrong, Benita de Wit, Victor Malana Maog, Jeanne Slater, and Eric Tucker.
Abigail Breslin, Jeffrey DeMunn, Silvia Dionicio, Lisa Emery, Beanie Feldstein, John Gallagher Jr., Gina Gershon, Carla Gugino, Joe Holt, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Katrina Lenk, Matthew Lillard, Hamish Linklater, Jak Malone, Eric, William Morris, Lauren LOLO Pritchard, Lily Rabe, Andrew Rothenberg, (Other Desert Cities), Jeff Still, Adrienne Warren, John David Washington, and Kara Young (Purpose), with Karen Sours Albisua, Rory Hammond, Adam Langdon, Libby Lee, Terra Mackintosh, and Emma Tracy Moore, Scott Caan, Joe Forbrich, Trevor Kluckman (Julius Caesar), Brad Lemons (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Michael Rispoli, David Rysdahl. Josh Segarra, and Milly Shapiro.
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Death of a Salesman, which begin previews Mar. 6 and opens Apr. 9, has been extended through Aug. 9 at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre, directed by Joe Mantello.
Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf Christopher Abbott, and Ben Ahlers.
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Arthur Miller’s The Price continues through Mar. 27 at Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Elina de Santos.
Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), Richard Fancy (Gregory Solomon), Jason Huber (Walter Franz), and Scott Jackson (Victor Franz).
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An Evening with Brian Stokes Mitchell will take place Thurs. Mar. 19 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s 92Y.