Today’s Highlights:
Public Charge, world premiere by Julissa Reynoso & Michael J. Chepiga, directed by Doug Hughes, featuring Marinda Anderson, Nate Betancourt, Maggie Bofill, John J. Concado, Dan Domingues, Zabryna Guevara, Yesenia Iglesias, Paco Lozano, Nairoby Otero, Armando Riesco,Al Rodrigo, and Barbara Walsh, opens at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.
The Man Who Would Be King, written & directed by Salisbury, featuring Terrence Archie, Shanel Bailey, Josh Candield, Coleman Cummings, Rita Harvey, Vici Lewis, Trevor Martin, Wesley Slade, and Katie Thompson, opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Lukes.
Somebody to Love: A New Musical, world premiere by Robert Sternin & Prudence Fraser, directed by Sean Daniels, featuring Sophie Alawi, Will Blum, Gizel Jimenez, Donovan Mendelovitz, F. Michael Haynie, Alexis Semevolos-Velaquez, and Desmond Newson, with Jesse Graham, John Gregorio, Molly Kirschenbaum, Sydney Mucha, Presley Christine Nicholson, Soleil Perry, Kayla Christine Quiroz, & Mea Wilkerson, opens at CA’sRubicon Theatre.
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Reviews for Giant, starring John Lithgow,at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Mar. 22:
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Arthur Miller’s The Price has added additional performances to its schedule through Apr.5 at CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Elina de Santos. Click the link above for the updated schedule.
Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), Richard Fancy (Gregory Solomon), Jason Huber (aWalter Franz), and Scott Jackson (Victor Franz).
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About Time, by Maltby & Shire, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, continues through Apr. 5 at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater.
Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius de Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, and Lynne Wintersteller, with Ethan Paulini and Nicole Powel,
From long-ago love affairs to buried ambitions, to lost keys and tech-savvy grandkids, About Time is a funny and touching new musical revue about life, love, and laughter in your third act.
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LA’s Geffen Playhouse has announced its 2026/27 season:
Purpose (Nov. 11 – Dec. 13, by Brandon Jacob Jenkins, directed by Phylicia Rashad, featuring Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Jon Michael Hill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix & Kara Young. Meet the Jaspers: generations of a powerful Black political family under one roof where nothing stays buried for long. When their youngest son returns home, instincts kick in to protect their public image of leadership and moral authority, and fractures soon appear as private grievances, betrayals, and long-simmering questions of identity rise to the surface.
Liberation (Jan. 27 – Feb. 28, 2027, by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White. Casting TBA. Following its smash Broadway run, Liberation makes its West Coast debut with sharp wit, emotional insight, and fearless ambition to challenge the status quo. It’s 1970, somewhere in Ohio: six women gather in a basement gymnasium for a consciousness raising group, determined to shake up their lives and change the world. These meetings quickly become complicated—friendships are tested, alliances shift, the personal becomes political and vice versa, ultimately calling into question the very meaning of freedom itself.
The Monsters (Mar. 3 – Apr. 4), by Ngozi Anyanwu, directed by Awoye Timpo, featuring Ngozi Anyanwu, and more TBA. As a seasoned MMA fighter at the end of his career, Big reluctantly agrees to coach his younger sister, Lil, a fierce and hungry newcomer with something to prove. But years of distance, resentment, and unresolved pain simmer beneath every training session. Does Big have what it takes to make Lil a champion… or will their past knock them both out? Told with raw honesty and lyrical intensity, The Monsters explores the complicated intimacy of sibling relationships when family can be both a sanctuary and a battlefield. With sharp dialogue and moments of surprising tenderness, this sibling love story examines the ways we protect one another, even when bruises stay hidden just under the surface.
Closing Costs (Mar. 31 – May 2), world premiere by Grace McLeod, directed by Hannah Wolf. Housing prices in LA are already criminal, but in this home, they may actually be fatal. A scrappy real estate agent and her Uber-driving boyfriend are secretly living in the “luxury” property she’s desperate to sell: a disastrously flipped fever dream where corners are cut and nothing works the way it should. When the home’s bro developer shows up, things go from unethical to unhinged. A newly successful gay couple and a pregnant lesbian couple spiral into a bidding war over the supposedly hot property as the agent and her boyfriend scramble to keep the sale alive—and the skeletons in the closet—in a perfectly escalating farce. Closing Costs is a whip-smart send-up of the absurdity of trying to buy a home in Los Angeles, where the market is cutthroat, the wiring is questionable, and everyone is just one inspection away from disaster.
Wine in the Wilderness (June 2 – July 4), by Alice Childress, directed by LaChanze. Set during the height of the 1964 Harlem riot, Wine in the Wilderness unfolds in the apartment of Bill Jameson, a painter determined to capture “the essence” of Black womanhood in his latest triptych. As friends take shelter from the rising tensions outside, the arrival of a young woman disrupts Bill’s carefully constructed vision and exposes the assumptions, judgments, and hierarchies shaping both his art and his community. The play interrogates class, colorism, gender, and the politics of representation, asking who gets to define beauty, respectability, and worth. Under the direction of Broadway legend LaChanze, this production foregrounds the play’s emotional immediacy and radical compassion, revealing a story that feels as urgent today as when it was first written.
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Arthur Miller’s The Price continues through Apr. 12 at Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Elina de Santos.
Scott Jackson (Victor Franz), Jason Huber (Walter Franz), Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), and Richard Fancy (Gregory Soloman).