Today’s Highlights:
Hershy Felder: The Piano & Me: A New musical Play (and 16 other characters) opens at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.
Bike Shop the Musical, by Elizabeth Barkan, Caroline Murphy & Youn-Young Park, directed by Gretchen Cryer, featuring Elizabeth Barkan, David Edwards, Jeff McCarthy, Amy Siller, and Joe Symon, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theater for the New City.
The Emporium, by Thornton Wilde, directed by Rob Melros, featuring Candy Buckley, Mahira Kakkar, Eva Kaminsky, Patrick Kerr, Derek Smith, Joe Tapper, and Cassia Thompson, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company.
Millennials Are Killing Musicals, world premiere by Nico Juber, directed by Kristin Hanggi, featuring Emma Hunton, John Krause, Diana Huey, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Michael Thomas Grant, with Aynsley Burrico, Mitchell Gerrard, an Lana McKissac, begins previews at Burbank’s Colony theatre.
“The Devil Wears Prada” film screenings will take place at 4:30 PM, 7:20 PM and 10:25 PM at LA’s El Capitan Theatre, and includes Free popcorn!
Spare Parts, by David J Glass, directed by Michael Herwitz, featuring Jonny-James Kajoba Rob McClure, Michael Genet, Matt Walker, and Langston Reese, closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
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Bob Dylan in concert will take place Sat. July 4 at 7 PM at Kansas City Starlight.
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Christopher Chen’s The Motion will run May 6 – June 14 at DC’s Arena Stage, directed by Hana S. Sharif.
Barzin Akhavan, Peregrine Teng Heard, Nehal Joshi, Nancy Robinette, Nikkole Salter, and Eli El.
What begins as razor-sharp debate between four scholars swiftly spirals into a real-life experiment: where the scientists become the subjects. Stripped of the world they know, they wrestle with profound and unsettling questions about purpose, morality, and what it truly means to be alive. Where certainty shatters, vulnerability reigns, and no conviction emerges unscathed, they find unexpected solace, love, and companionship. The Motion is a searing thinkpiece into the core of the human condition. Who deserves to love? Who deserves to live? And, most importantly, who gets to decide what it means to be human?
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Rogue machine‘s Fairview, byJackie Sibblies Drury, continues through May 3 at the Matrix Theatre, directed by Oz Scott.
Jasmine Ashanti (Jasmine), iesha m. daniels (Keisha), Tyler Gaylord (Jimbo), Michael Guarasci (Mack), Marco Martinez (Dayton), Gala Nikolic (Bets), Marie-Francoise (Theodore), and Daisy Tichenor (Suze).
At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding onto her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place.
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The world premiere of Ben Andron’s Broken Snow continuea through May 31 at Theater 71 (152 West 71st), directed by Colin Hanlon.
Tom Cavanagh, Tony Danza, and Michael Longfellow, with Bob Ari and Max Roll.
A tense psychological drama set inside an abandoned, snow-bound house, where two strangers—James, a volatile drifter, and Steven, a tightly controlled officer—discover they share a dark familial connection. As they dig through the remnants of their father’s secret life, long-buried trauma resurfaces alongside a mysterious cigar box that may contain the truth they both crave.
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The world premiere of Julie Shavers’ The Baptist Witches of Shelbyville continues through May 1 at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre, directed by Daniel O’Brien.
Gigi Bermingham (Mama Moon), Mamie Gummer (Lucinda), Julie Shavers (Birdie Moon), Angelie Simone (Lotte Walker), and Ashley Ward (Kitty).
When eldest daughter Lucinda Moon returns home to her small Tennessee town for the July 4th holiday, she is greeted not only by fireworks but by the same women who shaped her – and the memories she can’t shake. What’s on the family’s picnic menu? Dark comedy, tragic poetry, and moments of pure sonic bliss when the Moon family finds their old harmonies. They’re keeping a burger on the grill, and a tumbler of frosé cold, just for you.
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Readings Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre free readings continue through May 20.
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Brigadoon, newly adapted by Alexandra Silber, will run May 13 – June 14 (opening May 17) at the Pasadena Playhouse, directed & choreographed by Katie Spelman.
Tyne Daly (Widow Lundie), now replacing Mr. Lundie), Max Von Essen ( Tommy Albright), Betsy Morgan (Fiona MacLaren), Happy Anderson (Jeff Douglas), and Daniel Yearwood (Charlie Dalrymple), Kylie Victoria Edwards (Jean MacLaren), Michael Scott Harris (Archie Beaton), Jessica Lee Keller (Maggie Anerson),Spenser Milford (Harry Meaton), Donna Vivno Meg Brockie, and Geoffrey Wake (Andrew Maclaren).
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The Santa Monica Jazz Festival will run May 1-9 at the Broad Stage.
Kamasi Washington, Stanley Clarke, Stewart Copeland, Kiefer, and Keyon Harrold, plus Miles Electric Band, KNOWER, Isaiah Collier, Lakecia Benjamin, and many more!
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Project Shaw will present a reading of Chicago (the play version by Maurine Watkins) on Mon. May 18 at 7 PM at The Players (16 Gramercy Park), directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
Nikki M. James (Roxie Hart), reg Fogers (Billy Flynn), Katerina McCrimmon (Velma Kelly), Arnie Burton (Jake), David Ryan Smith (Amos Hart), Joanna Glushak (Mary Sunshine), Jackie Hoffman (Mrs. Morton), Richard B. Watson (Sergeant Charles E. Murdock), Daniel Jenkins (Martin S. Harrison), Troy Iwata (Babe), and Erin Maguire (Go-To-Hell-Kitty).