Today’s Highlights:
The Drilling Company’s Shakespeare in The Parking Lot‘s new As You Like It, directed by Hamilton Clancy, featuring Lia Bonfilio (Rosalind), Thammie Laine Guac (Celia), Andy Rowell (Touchstone), Patrick Hart (Orlando), Emanuel Elpenord (Oliver), Bob Arcaro (Adam), Chris Martel (Duke Senior / Duke Frederick), Carly Grissom (Denise/Audrey), Raphael del Rio (Charles), David Marantz (Jacques), Elowyn Castle (Corinne), Adama Joy Sall (Amiens), Lizabeth Allen (Phoebe) and Dan Teachout (Silvius) opens at NYC’s Stanton Street (no address available, but enter on the Lower East Side location at Rivington St. between. Norfolk and Suffolk).
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Rogue Machine Theatre will present Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God Sept. 5 – Oct. 11 at the Matrix Theatre, directed by John Perrin Flynn.
Carlo Mancasola and Nicholas Anthony Reid.
In a small office where lives are measured in credit scores, two strangers find themselves returning to the same conversation. Keith, a mortgage broker raising his daughter alone, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker determined to reclaim a piece of his family’s lost land, meet as client and lender. What unfolds instead is an unexpected connection between two fathers navigating uncertainty, responsibility, and the quiet weight of unrealized dreams. With wit, compassion, and emotional precision, this story touches an extraordinary humanity hidden within ordinary lives. What do we owe one another in a world shaped by inequality, and can small acts of trust and kindness become something transformative?**********************
LA Opera will present Candide Nov. 21 – Dec. 13 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by Lina González-Granados and directed by Francesca Zambello.
Duke Kim (Candide), Meghan Picerno (Cunegonde), Patti LuPone (Old Lady), Mario Manzo ( (Maximilian / Father), Kristen Choi (Paquette), Katie Trigg (Baroness / Vanderdendur), Vinícius Costa (James / Martin), Samuel Wallace (Cacambo), and Bernard Holcomb (Barron/Don Issachar/Govenor), with Erin Alford, Erin Alford, Andrea Beason, Julia Harnett, Amber Liekhus, Peter Murphy, and David Prottas.**********************
LA’s Skylight Theatre Company has announced its 2026-27 season:
Dates and casting TBA.
Rorschach, world premiere by Kelly Younger, directed by Cameron Watson. A funny, inventive, and surprisingly tender new play about the art and science of perception, the courage to be seen for who we truly are, and the mysterious, blotted shape of love itself.
Dirty Sexy Scum, world premiere by Ruth Fowler. It’s just another day shooting porn in the Valley. Ava’s director is mid-divorce and falling apart. Her scene partner has gonorrhea. His last-minute replacement, Jonny, is the last person Ava wanted to see again.
… and one more TBA.
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Laura Benanti in Concert will run Oct. 1-4 at LA’s The Wallis, directed by Annie Tippe.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Larry Raben, continues through July 26 at CA’s Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West.
Daebrreon Poiema (Narrator), Brian Justing Crum (Joseph), Thomas Hobson (Pharoah/Jacob), Harrison White (Potiphar), Jeffrey Laughrun (Reuben), Adam Lendermon (Simeon), Perry Marks (Levi), Neil Starkenberg (Dan), Jean Charles (Napthtali), Zane Camacho (Gad), Teronn S. Shrikian (Asher), Brody Tarrant Zebulun (Zeulun), Jerdan Cruz (Benjamin), and Ali Vesey (Mrs. Potiphar), with Johnisa Breault, Alexandra Skylar Kunin, and Sabrina Ryan.
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Sasha Cohen’s Charlotte will begin online on July 26 at Open-Door Playhouse, directed by Bernadette Armstrong.
Noelle Evangelisti (Jenna), Gilbert Glenn Brown (Joseph), Gloria Tsai (Anne), and Camille Ameen (Clara).
Joseph is desperate to find help for his troubled trans daughter, Charlotte. He seeks the counsel of a renowned transgender activist, Jenna. But Jenna is the trans woman he bullied in high school. She has never forgiven him.
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Taylor Mac & Matt Ray’s Songs from Bark of Millions will run Sept. 18-20 at Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre.
The Plethora: Mama Alto, El Beh, Heather Christian, Viva DeConcini, Chris Giarmo, Greg Glassman, Jack Fuller, Emily Hope Price, Dana Lyn, Taylor Mac, Joel Mateo, Machine Dazzle, Wes Olivier, Lisa “Paz” Parrott, Matt Ray, Stephen Quinn, Jules Skloot, Shirazette Tinnin, Gary and Wang.
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Grease will run Aug. 6 – 16 at at CA’s Altadena’s Mountain View Mausoleum, directed by Oliver Azcarate, with music direction by Chris Wade, and choreography by Missa Schade.
Ruby Lewis, Bryce Ryness, Eric Stanton Betts, Cheyenne Wells, with Monica Azcarate, Lauren Barette, Kir Beaux, Eugene Boyd, James Byous, Tara Carbone, Rio Colino,Romy Evans, Jake Ewan, Jalen Friday, Kasey Hentz, Brennan Hilger, Harmony Jones,Nancy Landis, Justin Anthony Long, Chelsea Maker, Robert Manion, Scarlett Sheppard.
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Crazy for You, directed byMichael Fling, has extended through Aug. 16 at CT’s Goodspeed Musicals.
Will Burton (Bobby Child), Brittany Zeinstra (Ppolly Baker), Edward Juvier (Bela Zangler), Hailey Thomas (Irene Roth), Jeremy Davis (Everett Baker), David Andrew Morton (Lank Hawkins), and Michele Ragusa IMother/Pariciam, with Claire Avakian, Willie Clyde Beaton II, Colin Bradbury, Courtney Brady, Kailee Regan Brandt, Katie Scarlett Brunson, Samuel Colina, Bradley Gibbins-Klein, Kelly Gleason, Taylor Lane, Brian Shimasaki Liebson, Griffin Wilkinsm Lexi Baldachino, and Brandon J. Morris.
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Fire Island for Broadway Cares will take place Mon. Aug. 17 at 2 PM at the home of Manoj Nair (see RSVP below).
Lillias White, Andrew Keenan Bolger, and Nick Rashad Burroughs.
See MacKillop’s Instagram (@markmackillop) for details on how to secure an invitation.
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Hairspray will run Aug. 21 – 30 at CA’s Broadway Sacramento, directed by Robbie Roby.
Ginger Minj(Edna Turnblad), and Kaitlyn Louise Smith (Tracy Turnblad), with Jamie Torcellini, Altamiece Carolyn Cooper, Michael Starr, Hannah Sedlacek, Will Savarese, Kathryn Brunner, Jamonté D. Bruten, Madeleine Doherty, Dave Pierini, Olivia Elease Hardy, and Sara Gettelfinger.