Today’s Highlights:
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, opens at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre.
As You Like It, directed by Timothy Douglas, featuring Terrance Fleming (Ollie), Mnu Kumasi (Orlando), Nikole Salter (Jaques), and Sabrina Lynne Sayer (Celia), with Tsilala Brock (Rosalind), Joey Collins (TAdam), Ahmad Kamal (Touchstone), Raven Lorraine (Corin), Jefferson A. Russell (Duke Senior /Duke Frederick), and John Sygar (LeBeauAmiens, opens at DC’s Folger Theatre.
Little Shop of Horrors welcomes a new principal cast, with Nikki M. James (Audrey), Jordan Fisher ( Seymour), James and Andy Karl (Dr. Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. at Off-Broadway’s West Side Theatre.
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Due to popular demand, Operation Mincemeat has been extended for 16 weeks, now through Jan. 17, 2027 at Broadway’s Golden Theatre, directed by John Madden.
Julia Knitel (Ewen Montagu), and Jeff Kready (Hester Leggatt), with Brandon Contreras, Jessi Kirtley, Amanda Jill Robinson, Johnny Bevan, and more.
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The 16th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival will run June 4-28 at various LA locations. Click here for the complete schedule of events. 
on sale May 1.
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Apr. 15: Registration deadline.
June 4-9: Preview Performances
June 10: Opening Night Party
June 11-28: Festival
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Rogers & Hart’s and Richard Lagravenese’s Chez Joey has been extended through Mar. 22 at DC’s Arena Stage, directed by Tony Goldwin & Savion Clover, with choreography by Glover.
Myles Frost (Joey Evans), Awa Sal Secka (Linda Inglish), Samantha Massell (Vera Simpson), anela Hall (Lucille Wallace), and Kevin Cahoon (Melvin Snyder), with Charis Michelle Gullage), Kalen robinson, Ndaya Dream Hoskins, Alana S. Thomas, Brooke Taylor, Josh Johnson, Marcus John, Addi Loving, and Crystal J. Freeman, with Justin Michael Duval, Jordan Taylor, Karen Vincent, Jailyn Wilderson, and Lafayette Harris Jr.
Set against the heat and hustle of the 1940s Chicago club scene, Chez Joey reexamines the question of sex and love and ambition and cost through a bold contemporary lens. Cue Joey Evans: an irresistible, slick-talking, velvet-voiced nightclub performer with dreams bigger than the bandstand. But in a city where the right connections mean everything, he finds himself caught between Linda, the bright-eyed chorus girl, and Vera, the wealthy baroness who can bankroll his big break—for a price. With no-nonsense club owner Lucille and vaudeville performer-turned-Chicago-
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The world premiere of Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy & Ivan Menchell Death Note: The Musical will run July 30 – Sept. 12 at at the Barbican Theatre, directed by Stephen Whitson.
TBA.
The story of Light Yagami, an exceptionally gifted high school student who one day discovers a mysterious notebook bearing a chilling rule: “Any human whose name is written in this notebook will die in 40 seconds.” The notebook, known as the Death Note, has been dropped into the human world out of boredom by the Shinigami Ryuk. Disillusioned by a justice system he believes fails to punish criminals, Light tests the notebook’s power triggering the sudden death of a criminal live on television. Convinced he has been chosen to become the “god of a new world,” Light begins using the Death Note to eliminate criminals across the globe. As unexplained deaths mount, the public coins the name “Kira” for theunseen killer, with supporters praising his actions as crime rates plummet. With no physical evidence to
follow, the authorities turn to the enigmatic master detective L, setting the stage for a gripping psychological battle between two brilliant minds.
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Spamalot wil run March 24 – Apr. 12 at at the Pantages Theatre, directed by Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage.
Emma Elizabeth Smith (Catherine of Aragon), Nella Cole (Anne Boleyn), Kelly Denice Talro (Jane Seymour), Hailey alexis Lewis (Anna of Cleves), Alizé Cruz (Katherine Howard), Tasia Jungbauer (Catherine Parr), Tasia and Jungbauer (Catherine Parr), with Reese Cameron, Anna Hertel, Carlina Parker, and Abigail Sparrow.
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LA’s Theatre West has announced its annual Writers in Residence Series, and will feature production of orginal, member-written plays. The program highlights work developed in their workshop, often featuring multiple shows throughout the season. The schedule of events is TBA.
Theatre West program began in 2014 and selects four original plays, written by our playwright members, workshopped over time in our Writers Workshop, and given a fully realized, main stage production. The plays will run back-to-back over several months. Since its inception, ten new plays have been introduced to theatre audiences in Los Angeles from our stable of writers.
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Gotta Dance! will run Mar. 20 – July 26 (opening Mar. 31) at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42, co-directed by Nikki Feirt Atkins & Randy Skinner.
Keely Beirne, Brandon Burks, Anthony Cannarella, Barton Cowperthwaite, Deanna Doyle, Sara Esty, Jessica Lee Goldyn, RJ Higton, Kate Louissaint, Libby Lloyd, Drew Minard, Cole Newburg, Melody Rose, Samantha Siegel, Ahmad Simmons, Landon Winslow, and Blake Zelesnikar.
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The Echo Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Olivia Dufault’s For Want Of a Horse Apr. 16 – May 25 (opening Apr. 18) at the Atwater Village Theatre, directed by Elana Luo.
Joey Stromberg (Calvin), Jenny Soo (Bonie), Steven Culp (PJ), and Griffin Kelly (Q-Tip)
A darkly comic, deeply human exploration of love, desire and unconventional relationships.