Today’s Highlights:
Cats: The Jellicle Ball, directed by Zhailon Levingston & Bill Fauch, featuring AndréDe Shields (Old Deuteronomy), Jonathan Burke (Mungojerrie), Baby Byrne (Victoria), Tara Lashan Clinkscales), Sydney James Harcourt (Rum Tum Tugger), Dava Huesca (Rumpleteazer) Dudney Joseph Jr. (Munkustrap), Junior LaBeija (Gus), Robert Silk Mason (Magical Mister Mistoffelees/Tempress), Chasity Moore )Grizabella), Primo Thee Ballerino as (Tumblebrutus), Xavier Reyes (Jennyanydots),Nora Schell (Bustopher Jones), Bebe Nicole Simpson (Demeter), Emma Sofia (Cassandra/Skimbleshanks,Garnet Williams ( Bombalurina), and Teddy Wilson, Jr. (Sillabub), and more, opens at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre.
Manhattan Theatre Club‘s 2026 Spring Benefit, at 5 PM at the Harvard Club of New York City (35 West 44th Street), followed by a performance of Proof at Broadway’s Booth Theatre.
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Lisa Sanderson & Hanna Anréa’s Muse: The Shakespeare Mayhen Musical will run Aug. 7 -31 at London’s Interlochen Center for the Arts, directed by Mindy Cooper.
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Before he was the Bard, he was just Will… with a problem: his publisher will only print one of his plays. With Puck as instigator, Lear, Cleopatra, the Macbeths, and more of Shakespeare’s greatest characters erupt into rebellion in a chaotic race to become the chosen tale. Pop musical comedy meets absurdist theatre in this riotous story of ambition, ego, and the birth of a legend.
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Long Island’s Bay Street Theater will present its 2026 Gala on Sat. July 11 at 5 PM PM at the One Long Wharf, Sag Harbor Village.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , currently in previews, will open Apr. 25 at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse, directed by Eric Rosen.
Elizabeth A. Davis Marget (Maggie the Cat), Lucas Dixon (Brick), Wayne Duvall (Big Daddy), Kate Levy (Big Mama), Tony Roach (Gooper), Bree Elrod (Mae), Gene Gillette (Doctor Baugh), and David Sitler (Reverend Tooker), with Bill Army, Christina DeCicco, Patrick James Cogan and Joy Catherine Ledford.
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Cindy Lou Jonson’s Two in Love: A Two-Hander Festival will run Apr. 9 -26 at Theater Lab (357 W, 36th St. (3rd floor).
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4 Musical Tenors & Friends: Best of Broadway will take place Mon. May 11 at 7:30 PM at Carnegie Hall.
Michael Bragagnolo, Jan Kriz, Pavel Vitek, and Marian Vojtko, with special guests Daniel Assetta, Heather Makalani, and Rachel Zatcoff.
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Pearle Cleage’s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgrious continues through Apr. 12 at Lyric Stage Boston, directed by Jacqui Parker.
Patrice Jean Baptiste, Deannah “Dripp” Blemur, Inés De La Cruz,and Yasmeen Duncan.
The torch needs to be passed. Even if you’re not ready.
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Amas Musical Theatre‘s concert presentation of Bubbling Brown Sugar will take place Mon. May 11 at 6 PM at at Off-Broadway’s Penthouse 45 (432 West 45th St.), with music direction by Darnelll White.
Lillias White, Darius de Haas, Dalesia Cearcy, Carmen Cuby Floyd, Mel Joenson, Jr., Nicholas King, Doremshia Sumbry-Edwards, Anthony Wayne, and Brittany Williams, with special guest Carla Hall.
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The Danish Girl, by Nora Brigid Monahan & Alex Parker, currently in development, recently held its first private workshop on Apr. 2, directed by Georgie Rankcom. Future plans for the musical will be announced later this year.
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The new musical adaptation of The Danish Girl sets to song the groundbreaking story of Lili Elbe, one of the most famous figures in transgender history. In a contemporary art gallery, a woman stands before the century-old paintings by Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe, searching for the truth behind the mythology of their lives and queer love. The show is an exploration of the legacy left behind by these two trailblazers and their relevance almost a hundred years later. The 2015 film starred Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vankaner.
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Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine continues through Apr. 18 at the Actors Gang Theatre, directed by Cihan Sahin.
Pierre Adeli (Mr. Zero), with Zoe Molina, Brent Hinkley, Adam J. Jefferis, Kirk Palmer, Chad Reinhart, Megan Stogner, Mariana Jaccazio, Ana Ming Bostwick-Singer, and Lynde Houck.
Mr. Zero (Daphne Rubin-Vega) is just another cog. He can’t fulfill his own needs, much less those of his wife Mrs. Zero (Jennifer Tilly), or his work wife Daisy (Sarita Choudhury). But when Mr. Zero’s boss (Michael Cyril Creighton) replaces him with a machine, Mr. Zero lashes out violently, propelling him on a wild existential journey.
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In the Heights will run Apr. 10-26 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez.
Rubén J. Carbajai (Usnvavi), Amanda Aceves-Lopez (Nina), Angelica Lozada Ramos (Vanessa), Antwone Barnes (Benny), Susanna Guzmán (Abuela Claudia), Adam Leiva (Sonny), Mario Rocha (Kevin Rasario), Elvira Barjau (Camila Rosario), Veronica Vazquez Jackson (Daniela), Rianny Vasquez (Carla), Berto Fernández (Piragua Guy), and Patrick”Patches” Viloria (Grafiti Pete).
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Road Theatre Company will present Tom Jacobson’s Hell Mouth Apr. 14 – June 6 May 24 (opening Apr.17) at North Hollywood’s NoHo Senior Arts Colony, directed by Ann Hearn-Tobolowsky.
Danny Lee Gomez (Tim), Taylor Gilbert (Lois/Samara), and Tony Abatemarco (russell/Spencer).
Torn between his Midwestern parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio Hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century. Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women List.
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Jesus Christ Superstar will run Apr. 17 – June 7 at Goodspeed Musicals, directed by Tatiana Pandiani.
Justin Mattew Sargent (Jesus), Austin Lesch (Judas), and Stephanie Zaharis (Mary), Deven Kolluri (Pilate), Nicolette Antonia Shin (Herod), Jamari Darling (Caiaphas), and Kevin Trinio Perdido (Annas)