This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday March 6
Paulo Szot in concert opens at NYC’s 54 Below.
Speak Easy Stage Company‘s The Antiquities, by Jordan Harrion, directed by Alex Lonati, featuring Harry Baker, Catia, Kelsey Fonise, Jesse Hinson, John Kuntz, Alison Russo, Anderson Stinson III, Helen Hy-Yuen Swanson, and Tobias Wilson, opens at Boston’s Calderwood Pavillion.
Death of a Salesman, directed by Joe Mantello, featuring Nathan Lane (Willy Loman), Laurie Metcalf (Linda Loman), Christopher Abbott (Biff Loman), Ben Ahlers (Happy Loman), K. Todd Freeman (Charley), Jonathan Cake (Ben Loman), John Drea (Howard), Michael Benjamin Washington (Bernard), Tasha Lawrence (The Woman), and Jake Silbermann (Stanley), Joaquin Consuelos, Jake Termine, Karl Green, and Jack Falahee, begins previews at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre.
Tru, by Jay Preston Allen, directed by Rob Ashford, featuring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, with Charlotte d’Amboise, begins previews at NYC’s Library of Upper East Side Mansion House of the Redeemer.
Ulster American, by David Ireland, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, featuring Matthew Broderick, Geraldine Hughes, and Max Baker, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep.
An Evening wil Bernadette Peters concert at 8 PM at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
“Bell Tower: Georgia Stitt” album, featuring Kate Baldwin, Sierra Boggess, Titus Burgess, Nikki Renée Daniels, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Marc Kudisch, Ruthie Ann Miles, Kelli O’Hara, Hila Plitmann, and Rebeca Luker, released here, and on most platforms.
Saturday, March 7
Finding Dorothy Parker concert, featuring Veanne Cox, Jackie Hofflman, Ann Harada & Anika Larsen, directed by Douglas Carter Beane, opens Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre.
High Noon, by Eric Roth, directed by Thea Sharrock, featuring Billy Crudup and Denise Gough, closes at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre.
Sunday, March 8
About Time, by Maltby & Shire, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, featuring Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius de Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, and Lynne Wintersteller, with Ethan Paulini and Nicole Powel, opens at Off Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater.
Spare Parts, by David J Glass, directed by Michael Herwitz, featuring Jonny-James Kajoba Rob McClure, Michael Genet, Matt Walker, and Langston Reese, opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
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, opens at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theatre.
Cats: The Jellicle Ball, directed by Zhailon Levingston & Bill Fauch, with choreography by Momari Wiles & Arturo Lyons, 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 (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, begins previews at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre.
Bug, by Tracy Letts, directed by David Cromer, featuring ,Carrie Coon (Agnes White), and Namir Smallwood (Peter Evans), with Randall Arney (Dr. Sweet), Jennifer Engstrom (R.C.), and Steve Key (Jerry Goss) closes at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
All Out: Comedy About Ambition, directed by Alex Timbers, featuring Ray Romano, Nicolas Braun, Jake Shane and Jenny Slate, closes at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre.
Finding Dorothy Parker concert, featuring Veanne Cox, Jackie Hofflman, Ann Harada & Anika Larsen, concludes at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre.
The Porch on Windy Hill, by Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse & David M. Lutken, directed by directed by Sherry Stregack Lutken, featuring Tora Nogami Alexander, David M. Lutken, and Morgan Morse, closes at Off-Broadway’s Urban Stages.
Quincy’s Jones’ Quincy’s World: The New Founding Father of American Music concert closes at Beverly Hills’ Wallis Center.
Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia, world premiere by Beth Hyland, directed by Jo Bonney, featuring Midori Francis, Marianna Gailus, Noah Keyishian, and Cillian O’Sullivan, closes at LA’s Geffin Playhouse.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamnet, adapted byLolita Chakrabarti, directed by Erica Whyman, featuring Kemi-Bo Jacobs (Agnes) and Rory Alexander (william)m with Troy Alexander (Bartholomew), Nigel Barrett (John/WillKempe), Ajani Cabey (Hamnet), Saffron Dey (Judith), Victoria Elliott (Joan), Heather Forster (Eliza), Thalia Gambe (Ensemble) Karl Haynes (Ned), Ava Hinds Jones (Susanna), Nicki Hobday (Jude), Penny Layden (Mary), Matilda McCarthy (Tilly/Catherina), and Bert Seymour (Burbage/Father John), with Haydn Burke (Ensemble), closes at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, by oe DiPietro & Jimmy Roberts, directed by Barry Pearl, featuring Michael Deni, Shannon O’Boyle, Will Riddle, and Whitney Kathleen Vigil, closes at CA’s Long Beach’s International City.
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Tru, by Nova Bradford, Arielle Johnson and Bradford, Andre Margatini, & Caleb Zeringuehas, has been extended through May 3 at Off-Broadway’s Library of Upper East Side mansion House of the Redeemer, directed by Rob Ashford.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Truman Capote)
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Video: Kuhoo Verma and the cast of Heathers The Musical perform “Beautiful.”
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Public readings of Luigi Mangione & Nova Bradford’s Luigi: The Musical will run June 15-18 at at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, directed by Bradford.
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The project was inspired by the true story of three high-profile inmates—Luigi Mangione, Diddy, and Sam Bankman-Fried—who were held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn at the same time. The musical reimagines public figures as exaggerated characters representing healthcare, Hollywood, and tech. According to creator Nova Bradford, the work uses comedy to explore public reaction, media consumption, and institutional accountability. The production examines how violence is portrayed and consumed in American culture, using satire to address broader social themes.
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Echo Theater Company will present the world premiere of Olivia Dufault’s For Want of a Horse Apr. 15 – May 25 (opening Apr. 18) at the Atwater Village Theatre, directed by Elana Luo.
Steven Culp, Griffin Kelly, Jenny Soo, and Joey Stromberg.
Calvin loves Bonnie, but in order to proceed forward, he has to open up their relationship to include his new romantic partner, Q-Tip. One complication: Q-Tip is a horse. An intimate, comedic, complicated look into the world of zoophilia.
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Open Fist Theatre‘s Amerika or, The Man Who Disappeared, adapted by Franz Kafka, will return Mar. 28 – May 3 at at Circle X Theatre, adapted by Dietrich Smith.
Oqalile Tshetshe, Tambrie Allsup, Matthew Goodrich, Jade Santana, Jack Sharpe, Grace Soens and Jeremy D. Thompson, with Emma Bruno, Maria Mastroyannis, Elliott Moore, Julien Thompson and Pat Towne.
In Kafka’s surreal, darkly comic coming-of-age odyssey, 17-year-old Karl Rossmann finds himself banished from Germany in disgrace following a family scandal. Arriving in New York City on a steamer, he experiences a series of increasingly strange and bewildering misadventures that turn his world upside down. Although Kafka’s novel can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it pulses with youthful energy, unexpected humor and a lively theatricality that makes it uniquely suited for the stage.