Today’s Highlights:
A Night of Chekhov, directed by Mr. Kurtesevic. featuring Luna Vintner, Tom Shane, Damian Cruces and Gene Morgan, opens at Off-Broadway’s Actors Temple Theatre.
Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody, by Dylan Marcaurele, directed by , featuring Jay Armstrong Johnson (Ilya Rozanov) and Jimin Moon (Shane Hollander), with Ryann Redmond, Cherry torres, and Ryan Duncan, opens at Off-Broadway’s The Club (530West 27th St. 6th floor).
Hell’s Kitchen, by Kristoffer Diaz & Alicia Keys, directed by Michael Grei, featuring Maya Drake (Ali), Kennedy Cuaghell (Jersey), Roz White (Miss Liza Jane) Desmond Sean Ellington (Davis), and Jon Avery Worrell (Knuck), opens at LA’s Pantages Theatre.
And Then Here Were None, by Agatha Christie, directed by Laura Braza, featruing Jessica Angleskhan( as Emily Brent), James Carrington (Dr. Armstrong), Mark Corkins (General McKenzie, Matt Daniels (Rogers), Todd Denning (Fred Narracott,) Armando Gutierrez (William Blore), Marcella Kearns (Mrs. Rogers), Steven Koehler (Sir Lawrence Wargrave), Max Pink (Anthony Marston), Jordon Sobel (Philip Lombard), and Sarah Suzuki (Vera Claythorne, opens at Milwaukee Rep.
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Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater will present its Running of the Bulls Gala benefit on Mon. June 1 at 6 PM at NYC’s Bowery Hotel, hosted by Santino Fontana.
John Lithgow and Joanna Cole.
Norbert Leo Butz and Nikki Renée Daniels.
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Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre has announced its 2026-27 season:
Casting & creative teams TBA.
Purpose (Aug. 28 – Sept. 20), by By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Keith Arthur Bolden. 
The Jasper family is gathering for a long-overdue reunion. For decades, they’ve been the embodiment of Black political power and public virtue – a dynasty of ministers, activists, and changemakers whose legacy has shaped generations. But when a young outsider arrives with questions no one is prepared to answer, carefully guarded secrets begin to surface.
Carmela Full of Wishes (Sept. 1-27), by Matt de la Peña. A lyrical and heartfelt story celebrating family, imagination, and the beauty of everyday life in a vibrant Latino community. With music, movement, and vivid storytelling, this production invites audiences of all ages to celebrate heritage, resilience, and the power of a single wish.
Mexodus (Oct 2 – 16), by Brian Quijada & Nygel D. Robinson. what happens when the stories we tell about ourselves start to unravel?
Like Father (Oct. 8 – Nov. 15), by Jacob Ryan Smith, directed by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden. A true-crime podcast unearths a family’s past, forcing them to coonfront identity, legacy, and the consequences of obsession.
A Christmas Carol (Nov. 14 – Dec. 27), adapted by David H. Bell, directed by Amanda Watkins.
Miseducated (Jan. 27 – Feb. 21, 2027), by Rudi Goblen, directed by Teo Castellanos. As a group of exceptional high school students from Atlanta prepares to compete in an elite Harvard debate program, their coach, Brandon, demands excellence—pushing them to sharpen their voices, their arguments, and their sense of purpose. But as his students prepare for the national stage, Brandon finds himself pulled into a surreal debate with the universe itself, where his past and present collide. Confronting the memories that shaped him and the choices that define him, he must argue for the meaning of his life and the possibility of transformation.
Alice in Neverland (Feb. 20 – Mar. 3), by Phil Kenny and Reston Williams, directed by Catie Davis. Twenty years after her journey down the rabbit hole, Alice’s life has fallen apart. She can’t shake the fear that her happiest days are behind her, and so she sets out to return to WONDERLAND. Instead, she lands in NEVERLAND.
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (Mar. 3-Apr. 25), Alanna Coby bridges three centuries to explore how coded language, civility, and class are used to control women’s bodies and choices.
John Proctor is the Villain (May 14 – June 6). Set in 2018 in rural Georgia during the height of the #MeToo movement, the play follows a group of high school studens studyingMill’s classic play as they realize their charismatic male teacher’s celebrated literary hero might actually by a villain.
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“As Long As You’re Asking: A Conversation with Jason Alexander” will take place June 25 & 26, both at 7 PM at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
It’s all on the table in this evening of comedy, musical performance, and conversation with the Emmy and Tony Award-winning star in which the audience determines what they want to know.
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Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, will run June 5 – July 12 at MCC Theatre, directed by Teddy Bergman.
Hale Appleman, Molly Bernard Eli Gelb, Abbi Jacobson, Liz Larsen), Nate Mann, and Zoë Winters.
What begins as a reunion among six young friends after a Birthright trip to Israel in 2006 becomes, over the span of 18 years, an exploration of identity, fracturing communities, and what it means to belong. As these friends grow up and the world around them shifts in seismic ways, they find themselves confronting essential questions: How do we carry the weight of history? How do we define who we are, and who we want to be? And what happens when the narratives we inherit no longer fit the lives we’re living?
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The 1959 Songbook concert, starring Jeff Harnar, will take place Mon. June 8 at 7 PM at NYC’s Birdland, with music direction by Alex Rybeck.
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Crazy for You will run June 19 – Aug. 9 (opening July 1) at CT’s Goodspeed, directed by Michael Fling.
Will Burton (Bobby Child), Brittany Zeinstra (Polly Baker), Polly Baker (Bela Zangler), Hailey Thomas (Irene Roth), David Andrew Morton (Lank Hawkins), Jeremy Davis (Everett Baker), and Michele Ragusa (Mother/Patrircia Fodor), with Claire Avakian, Willie Clyde Beaton II, Colin Bradbury (Eugene Fodor), Courtney Brady, Kailee Regan Brandt, Katie Scarlett Brunson (Patsy), Samuel Colina, Bradley Gibbins-Klein, Kelly Gleason, Taylor Lane (Tess), Brian Shimasaki Liebson, and Griffin Wilkins. Swings for the production are Lexi Baldachino and Brandon J. Morris.
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August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone has been extended again, now through July 26 at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre, directed by Debby Allen.
Taraji P. Henson (Bertha Holly ), Cedric The entertainer (Seth Holly ), Joshua Boone (Herald Loomis), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Bynum Walker ), and more.