This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, March 13
Kate Baldwin: The Bucket Show concert, with music direction by Georgia Still, opens at NYC’s 54 Below.
5-Star Theatricals‘ The Play That Goes Wrong, by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields, directed by Larry Raben, featuring Travis Joe Dixon a(Dennis), Mark Gagliardi (Robert), Adam Hagenbuch (Jonathan), Lyndsi Larose (Sandra), Gabi Manoukian (Annie), John Shartzer (Max), Justin Michael Wilcox (Chris), and Timothy Willard (Trevor), with Noah Kaplan, Samantha Lawrence-Mata and Calaway Swanson, opens at Thousand Oak’s Scherr Forum Theatre.
Saturday, March 14
Rogue Machine Theatre‘s Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies, directed by Oz Scot, featuring Jasmine Ashanti (Jasmine), iesha m. daniels (Keisha), Tuler Gaylord (Jimbo), Michael Guarasci (Nack), Marco Martinez (Dayton), Gala Nikolic (Bets), Marie-Francoise Theadore (Beverly), and Daisy Tichenor (Suze), opens at LA’s Matrix Theatre.
“A League of Their Own” screenings, featuring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell, Madonna, and Megan Cavanaugh, at 4 & 8 PM at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre.
National Live Theatre‘s The Audience screening, by Peter Morgan, directed by Peter Daldry, featuring Imelda Staunton and her real-life daughter Bessie Carter, at 3 PM at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre.
The Shitheads, by Jack Nicholls, directed by Aneesha Srinivasan & David Byrne, featuring Peter Clements, Jonny Khan, Annabel Smith, Ami Tredrea, Scarlet Wilderink and Jacoba Williams, closes at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
The Counter, by Meghan Kennedy, directed by Rob Rucgiero, featuring Justis Bolding, Tim DeKay, and Erika Erika Rolfsrud, closes at TheaterWorks Hartford. Hartford.
Sunday, March 15
Ulster American, by David Ireland, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, featuring Matthew Broderick, Geraldine Hughes, and Max Baker, opens at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep.
Pen Pals, by Michael Griffo, directed by SuzAnne Barabas, featuring (final cast) Jodi Benson & Marcia Mitzman, closes at Off-Broadway’sDR2 Theatre.
Kate Baldwin in concert, with music direction by Georgia Stitt, closes at NYC’s 54 Below.
Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer, directed by Darko Tresnjak, featuring Kenajuan Bentley, Jared Andrew Bybee, Jennifer Chang, Matthew Patrick Davis, Michelle Allie Drever, Alaysha Fox, Matthew Henerson, John Lavelle, Brent Schindele, and Hilary Ward, closes at Pasadena Playhouse.
Huntington Theatre‘s We Had a World, by Joshua Harmon, directed by Keira Fromm, featuring Amy Fesnick (Renee), Eva Kaminsky (Ellen), and Will Conard (Joshua), with Jack Greenberg and Joanna Strapp, closes at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion.
The Counter, by Meghan Kennedy, directed by Rob Ruggiero, featuring Justis Bolding, Tim DeKay, and Erika Rolfsrud, closes at TheatreWorks Hartford.
Red Harlem, world premiere by Kimba Henderson, directed by Bernadette Speakes, featuring Christopher Cassarino (David), Dennis Gersten Hugh Cooper), Micah Johnson (James Ford/Ralph Bunche), Dylan Jones (Velma), Luis Kelly-Duarte (Shifty), Rama Orleans-Lindsay (Lenore), Claudio Parrone Jr. (Misha), Fana Minea Tesfagiorgis (Selena), and Fana Minea Tesfagiorgis (Selena), closes at LA’s Company of Angels.
Invitation to the Dance, written & directed by Michael Van Duzer, featuring Michael Gabiano (Malcolm), David Mingrino (Asher), Casey Alcoser (Finn), closes at LA’s Theatre West.
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A 29 hour-long reading & industry presentation of Chilina Kennedy/Dani Stoller/& Eric Holmes’ Wild About You will take place on Mon. Mar. 23 at a location TBA. A developmental production is planned for early 2027 at an Off-Broadway theatre TBA, directed by Kristin Hanggi
Jackie Burns, Jessica Phillips, Charlie Pollock, Noah J. Ricketts, Josh Strobl, and Chani Wereley.
The musical, set to a pop-folk score, follows Billy, a young man feeling at odds with what his future holds before it has even begun, on the day of his high school graduation party. Billy finds a trunk of letters written to him by his late mother, whom he’d been told had abandoned him as a child. The discovery sets Billy and his Best Friend off on a journey to uncover the truth about his lineage, his past, and his connection to a woman he never knew, but who might just be the key to understanding the ceaseless and indefinable longing that exists within his heart.
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NAATCO (The National Asian American Theatre Company) will present Henry VI: Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts, to run June 9 – July 19 (opening June 21) at The Public Theatre, directed by Stephen Brown-Fried.
Tommy Bo (John Talbot), Rajesh Bose (York), Kimiye Corwin (Somerset), Myka Cue (Joan), John Haggerty (Talbot), Ðavid Lee Huỳnh (Charles, the Dauphin), Anna Ishida (Warwick), Paul Juhn (Suffolk), Mia Katigbak (Gloucester), Teresa Avia Lim (Margaret), Orville Mendoza (Jack Cade), Jon Norman Schneider (Henry VI), David Shih (Edward of York), Julyana Soelistyo (Richard), Sue Jin Song (Bedford), and James Yaegashi (Winchester).
Part 1: Foreign Wars kicks off with the funeral of King Henry V, leaving his infant son on the throne and sending the country into decades of spiraling chaos both abroad and at home. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later, as nascent domestic feuds rapidly metastasize into the full-blown civil war known as the War of the Roses.
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Henry VI will run June 2 – July 19 (opening June 21) at the Public Theater, directed by Stephen Brown-Fried.
Tommy Bo (John Talbot), Rajesh Bose (York), Kimiye Corwin (Somerset), Myka Cue (Joan), John Haggerty (Talbot), Ðavid Lee Huỳnh (Charles, the Dauphin), Anna Ishida (Warwick), Paul Juhn (Suffolk), Mia Katigbak (Gloucester), Teresa Avia Lim (Margaret), Orville Mendoza (Jack Cade), Jon Norman Schneider (Henry VI), David Shih (Edward of York), Julyana Soelistyo (Richard), Sue Jin Song (Bedford), and James Yaegashi (Winchester).
Part 1: Foreign Wars kicks off with the funeral of King Henry V, leaving his infant son on the throne and sending the country into decades of spiraling chaos both abroad and at home. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later, as nascent domestic feuds rapidly metastasize into the full-blown civil war known as the War of the Roses.
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Helicline Fine Art presents Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen, a rousing new exhibition celebrating nearly a century of performance through the vision of some of the 20th century’s most influential artists and designers. Available thhrough May 10. Online viewing here.
On view , the exhibition features more than three dozen works capturing the spectacle, glamour, and cultural force of Broadway, film, dance, opera, and popular entertainment. Spanning the 1920s through the 1990s, Showstoppers brings together costume and set design drawings, illustrations, sculptures, and paintings inspired by performance. The exhibition reveals how visual artists helped define unforgettable moments on Broadway, in Hollywood, and beyond.