This Weekend’s Highlights:

Friday Apr. 3

  Twisted, by Chris DiGiovanni, directed by Marc Antonio Pritchett, featuring Crystal Yvonne Jackson, Isaiah Frazilus, and  Monty Renfrow, opens at LA’s Theatre West.

  The 2026 Play LA New Works Festival, free event, (beginning at 3 PM) at LA’s  Greenway Court Theatre.

  The Pushover, by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Kirk Gostkowski, featuring Rebecca De Mornay (Evelyn), Di D Zhu (Pearl), Christina Toth (Soochie), and Christopher Sutton (The Rapist), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Chain Theatre.

  The Man Who Would Be King, written & directed by Salisbury, featuring Terrence Archie, Shanel Bailey, Josh Candield, Coleman Cummings, Rita Harvey, Vici Lewis, Trevor Martin, Wesley Slade, and Katie Thompson, closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Lukes.

Saturday, Apr. 4

  Ensemble Theatre Company‘s A Night with Janis Joplin, by Randy Johnson, directed by Mary Bridget Davies & Brian McDonald, featuring Sadé Ayodele, Jenna Gillespie Byrd, Melissa Musique, and Sha’leah Nikol, opens at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.

Sunday, Apr. 5

  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, closes at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre.

  About Time, by  Maltby & Shire, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, featuring Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius de Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, and Lynne Wintersteller, with Ethan Paulini and Nicole Powel, closes at Off Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater.

  Paulo Szot in concert closes at NYC’s 54 Below.

  Inherit the Wind, directed by Ryan Guzzo Purcell, featuring Alex De Bard, Billy Eugene Jones, Rebecca Madeira, Ethan Miller, Natalya Lynette Rathnam, Todd Scofield, Holly Twyford, and James Whalen. with Jordan Friend, Alyssa Keegan, Alina Collins Maldonado, Dakin Matthews, Noah Plomgren, and Tristan Turner, closes at DC’s Arena Stage.

  Here Lies Love, byDavid Byrne & Fatboy Slim, directed by Snehal Desai, featuring Arielle Jacobs (Imelda Marcos), Jose Llana (Ferdinadnd Marcos), Conrad Ricamora (Ninoy Aquino), Lea Salonga (Aquino’s Mother), and more, closes at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.

  York Theatre‘s Monte Cristo, by Peter Kellogg & Stephen Weiner, directed by Peter Flynn, featuring Sierra Boggess, Adam Jacobs, James Mudy, Norm Lewis, Stephanie Jae Park, Danny Rutigliano, Eliseo Roman, Daniel Yearwood, and Karen Ziemba, closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Jeans.

  The Maltese Falcon, by Matthew Salazar-Thompson, directed by Todd Nielsen, featuring Richard Baird, Regina Fernandez, Louis Lortorto, Allison Scagliotti, Daniel A. Stevens, and Scott Paulson, closes at CA’s North Coast Rep.

  The Price, by Arthur Miller, directed by Elina de Santo, featuring Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), Richard Fancy (Gregory Solomon), Jason Huber (aWalter Franz), and Scott Jackson (Victor Franz) , closes at LA’s Pacific Resident Theatre.

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.  Millennials Are Killing Musicals, world premiere by Nico Juber, will run Apr. 30 – May 17 (opening May 2) at Burbank’s Colony theatre, directed by Kristin Hanggi.

  Emma Hunton, John Krause, Diana Huey, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Michael Thomas Grant, with Aynsley Burrico, Mitchell Gerrard, an Lana McKissack.

   With a contemporary pop-rock score, this entirely original musical comedy offers a fierce, funny look at identity in the age of social media. Brenda, a single millennial mom, just wants to do better “adulting” (like the seemingly perfect Jake’s mom at her daughter’s school), when her younger #influencer sister Katrina shows up eight months pregnant and totally unprepared for motherhood. The three women work to shed the Greek Chorus of social media filters on their lives to achieve their dreams.

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  The world premiere of Martyna Majok & Aimee Mann’s  Girl, Interrupted will run May 13 – June 21 (opening June 4) at the Public Theatre (link TBA), directed by Jo Bonney.

   Leela Bassuk, Ta’Rea Campbell, Gabi Campo, Juliana Canfield, Eileen Doan, Mano Felciano, King Princess, Gunnar Manchester, Mia Pak, Katherine Reis, Anna Roman, Sally Shaw, Emily Skinner, Rachel Stern, and Lauren Jeanne Thomas.

  When Susanna admits herself to a psychiatric hospital, following a 15-minute session with a doctor she’d never met, she forms unexpected bonds with the young women inside as they search for connection and a way forward. Raw and unapologetic, this new play with music reveals that the people who witness our darkest moments are often those who truly see us.

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   A concert production of Follies will run Apr. 25-27 at Chicago’s Porchlight Theatre, directed by Michael Weber.

  Michelle Duffy (Phyllis Rogers Stone) Angela Ingersoll (Sally Durant Plummer), Anthony Rapp (Benjamin Stone), Stephen Wallem (Buddy Plummer, and more TBA.

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  Eugène Ionesco’s Exit the King will run May 3 – 31 at Pasadena’s A Noise Within, directed by Michael Michetti.

  Nedri Lubatti (King Berenger), Joy DeMille (The King’s 1st Wife), and Erika Soto (the King’s 2nd wife), with Lynn Robert Berg, Ralph Cole Jr. and KT Vogt.

  It’s King Berenger’s last day on Earth, but he refuses to accept it. A wildly funny and deeply human meditation on mortality.

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  Amas Musical Theatre will present a benefit concert celebrating theThe 50th anniversary of Bubbling Brown Sugar on Mon. May 11 at 6 PM at NYC’s Rosie’s Place at Penthouse 45 (432 W. 45th St), directed by Jonathan S. Cerullo. and hosted by Carla Hall.

   Darlesia Cearcy, Darius de Haas, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Mel Johnson, Jr., Nicolas King, Doremshia Sumbry-Edwards, Anthony Wayne, Lillias White and Brittany Nicole Williams.

  Three young people are guided by characters: Irene Paige, Sage, and Checkers through Harlem’s “Golden Age” (1920s – 1940s) discover it history and vibrant culture.

Today’s Highlights:

    The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Phillip Breen, featuring Ora Jones (Mistress Page), Issy van Randwyck (Mistress Ford),  Chiké Johnson Master Page, Edward Kane (Master Ford), and Jason Simon (Sir John Falstaff), with Sam Bell-Gurwitz, Zach Bloomfield, Nate Burger, Rohan Degala, Dylan J. Fleming, Teddy Gales, Colin Huerta, Carmelo Kelly, James McCracken, Olivia Pryor, Nick Sandys, Justice Tatum, Paul Oakley Stovall, Olemich Tugas, Bret Tuomi, Nancy Voigts, and Alex Weisman, opens at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

  The Unknown, by David Cales, directed  by Leigh Silverman, starring Sean Hayes, closes at LA’s Studio Seaview.

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   The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, by William Finn & Rachel Sheinkin, directed by Danny Mefford, has been extended through Sept. 6 at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.

   Justin Cooley (Leaf Coneybear), Kevin McHale (William Barfée), Philippe Arroyo (Chip Tolentino), Leana Rae Concepcion and (Marcy Park),  Justin Cooley (Leaf Coneybear), Kevin McHale (William Barfée), Philippe Arroyo (Chip Tolentino), and Leana Rae Concepcion (Marcy Park), Jasmine Amy rogers (Olive Ostrovsky), Autumn  Best (Logaininne Schwartzgrubenierre, and Matt Manue (Mitch Mahoney).

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  Dylan Marcaurele’s Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody will run May 12 – July 7 (opening May 26) at  The Club (530 West 27th St. 6th floor), directed by Alan Kliffer.

 Jay Armstrong Johnson (Ilya Rozanov) and Jimin Moon (Shane Hollander), with Ryann Redmond, Cherry torres, and Ryan Duncan.

  nspired by the hit show about hockey, the piece follows starry-eyed golden boy Shane Hollander on his journey from power center to power bottom.

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.  The Unknown, by David Cales, directed  by Leigh Silverman, continues through Apr. 12 at LA’s Studio Seaview.

  Sean Hayes

  Desperate to cure his writer’s block, Elliott retreats to a remote cabin—only to discover he may not be alone. As the boundaries between his work and his life collapse, Elliott begins to question everything he knows. Is he writing a thriller? Living one? Both?

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  Trey Everett’s Obit will run  May 14 – May 30 (0pening May 18)  at the East Village Basement, directed by Andrew Barth Feldman.

 Carson Higgins (Charlie), Kerstin Anderson (Kay), Loren Lester, Jerusha Cavazos

An anxious soon-to-be father returns to his estranged dad’s chaotic NYC apartment. He confronts family history and his father’s dementia, using an obituary to redefine legacy. It explores generational inheritance and the fear of becoming one’s parents

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   did you charge your phone for the end of the world? world premiere written & directed by Fletcher Michael, has been rescheduled to Aug. 17 – 29 at Off-Broadway’s Kraine Theater.

  Sean Hayes, Lucy Boisvert, Collin Dennis, and Fletcher Michael.

  The play i set in 2034, where a city-demolishing asteroid is heading for Brooklyn.The lot centers on a boutique advertising agency tasked with rebranding the catastrophe, as the government delays alerting the public, highlighting themes of technology, apathy, and social media.

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   DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library has extended the celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday wil a staged reading of Macbeth and a variety of events.

Click the link above to learn more.

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   Stage Raw and The Greenway Arts Alliance present The 2026 Play LA New Works Festival Apr. 3-4 from 11 AM – 10 PM. at the Greenway Court Theatre. The event is free.

Click here for additional information and to RSVP.

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  Seagull the True Story, by Eli Rarey, created & directed by Alexander Molochnikov, has been extended through May 3 at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.

  Gus Birney, Andrey Burkovskiy, Ohad Mazor, Myles McCabe, Quentin Lee Moore, Keshet Pratt, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Eric Tabach, and Elan Zafi.

  The play fuses autobiographical drama and biting political satire with classic Chekhovian themes. This politically charged retelling of Molochnikov’s attempt to stage Chekhov’s The Seagull unfolds as a whirlwind of comedic mayhem, artistic rebellion, and deeply personal reflection on displacement, censorship, and the pursuit of creative freedom. Featuring an extraordinary ensemble of international artists, offers a provocative and poignant exploration of artistic survival, resistance to censorship, and the transformative power of live theater.

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   DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library has extended it s Celebration of Shakespeare’s Birthday with a staged reading of Macbeth and other events.

Click the link above to access all events.

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   Pittsburg CLO has announced its 2026 Summer Season:

Creative teams and casting TBA.

  Beautiful: The Carol King Musical (June 23 – 28)

   Dream Girls (July 7-12)

   Suffs (July 21 – 26)

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  Dylan MarcAurele’s Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody will run May 12 -July 6 (opening May 26) at the 16th Floor Theatre (530 West 27th St.), directed by Alan Kliffe.

  Jay Armstrong Johnson (Ilya Rozanov),  and Jimin Moon (Shane Hollander), with Ryann Redmonda and Cherry Torres and Ryann Duncan.

  Inspired by the hit show about hockey, the piece follows Shane Hollander on his journey from power center to power bottom. Relive all of the moments from the show up close on the small-stage by a cast of Broadway actors who thought they were auditioning to be in Season 2. Sporting a bop-infused score, scene-stealing cameos by characters like “Rose Landry” and “Ilya’s Ass”, and time jumps absolutely no one can keep track of, audiences will find themselves hot, bothered, and probably saying, “….Girl!”

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   Stage Raw and the Greenway Arts Alliance will present The 2026 Play LA New Works Festival, which will take place Apr. 3 (11 AM – 11 PM) and Sat. Apr. 4 (11 AM – 10 PM PM at LA’s Greenway Arts Alliance.

The event is in association with IAMA Theatre Company, InHouse Theatre, The Odyssey Theatre Company, Plays With People, The Road Theatre Company, and the Victoy Theatre Center.  Click the link above for the complete schedule.

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. The world premiere of Dirty Books, written & directed by Mara Lieberman, has be been extended through June 27 at Off-Broadway’s Bated Breath Theatre.

  laina Bozarth, Alexis Pratt, Sammy Rivas, Laura Walter, and Grayson Willenbacher; with understudies Elisa Grace Davis, Claire Hampsey, and Camilo Zuqui.

  An immersive performance that plunges audiences into the heated battles over anti-obscenity laws and censorship in America. Inspired by the true stories of erotic fiction writers of the 1960’s and using Supreme Court-inspired transcripts, Dirty Books reveals the ingenuity and resilience of artists who thrived in the shadows of America’s anti-obscenity laws working in the soft-core adult publishing industry. Inside an intimate world of secret bookstores, banned novels, and underground desire, the audience collaborates with the company to compose an erotic story.

Today’s Highlights:

  did you charge your phone for the end of the world? world premiere written & directed by Fletcher Michael, featuring Lucy Boisvert, Collin Dennis, and Fletcher Michael, opens at the 2026 New York City Fringe Festival.

   Ensemble Theatre Company‘s A Night with Janis Joplin, by Randy Johnson, directed by Mary Bridget Davies & Brian McDonald, featuring Sadé Ayodele, Jenna Gillespie Byrd, Melissa Musique, and Sha’leah Nikol, begins previews at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.

  It’s a Graae Night for Singing concert, starring Jason Graae, at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below.

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   Broadway Grosses for the week ending Mar. 29.

Click here for the complete analysis.

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   Video:  Highlights from Broadway’s Beaches, starring Jessica Vosk and Kelly Barrett.

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   Red Bull Theater will present a reading of Hamish Linklater’s Paris, Actors! on Mon. Apr. 20 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s symphony Space, directed by Jack O’Brien.

  Gus Birney, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Jay O. Sanders, Lily Santiago, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Azalea Wolfe.

   Occupied Paris. 1944. Real life celebrity Nazi Werner Krauss is between projects. But the Party, desperate for a propaganda extravaganza in the City of Lights, has arranged a remount of his notorious Merchant of Venice produced by a French theater teeming with family secrets. Paris, ACTORS! is “The Last Metro” if Truffaut were unavailable to direct, but the Marx Brothers were. A madcap backstage drama, penned by Obie Award-winning actor and playwright Hamish Linklater, appearing together with some of our best-loved actors of the American theater.

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   It’s All Right with Cole Porter will take place Sun. Apr. 12 at 5 & 7:30 PM at  Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, hosted by Deborah Grace Winer, and music direction by Tedd Firth.  

  Karring Allyson, Aisha de Haas, and Declan Cashman.

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   The world premiere of Jennifer Nettles’ Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palerno will run June 28 – July 26 (opening July 10) at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, directed by Mary Zimmerman.

  JenniferNettles (iulia) Matthew Amira (Carlo), Quentin Earl Darrington  (Cardinale), Emily Fink (Maria), Bre Jackson (La Capitana), Andrew Kober (Pietro), Aubrey Matalon (Renata), Christopher M. Ramirez (Governatore), Didi Romero (Duchessa), Naomi Serrano (Vitoria), and Sam Simahk (Father Paolo), with Jamila Sabares-Klemm and Maya Sistruck.

  The ply tracks a real-life serial killer whose trail of murder begins with an act of self-defense

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   Video: Highlights from Broadway’s Beaches, starring Jessica Vosk and Kelly Barrett.

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   A screening of  the West End production of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown will be released theatrically in North America on July 24, directed by Brett Sullivan.

  Reeve Carney (Orpheus), André De Shields’( Hermes),  Amber Gray ( Persephone), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), and Patrick Page(Hades).

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   Read here.   Cameron Mackintosh Says he’s done producing on Broadway: ‘The Costs Are Ludicrous”

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  Chess will continue through June 21 at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre, directed by Michael Mayer.

  Aaron Tveit (Freddie Trumper), Nicolas Christopher (Anatoly Sergievsky), Lea Michelle (Florence Vassy), Hannah Cruz (Svetlana), Bryce Pinkham (Arbiter), Bradley Dean (Molokov), and Sean Allan Krill (Walter).

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   The world premiere of Susan Charlotte’s The People Versus Lenny Bruce will run May 7 – June 28 (opening May 14) at Theatre Row, directed by Antony Marsellis.

  Johnny Anthony, Timothy Doyle, Dan Grimaldi, Ian Lithgow, Stephen Schnetzer, Jonathan Spivey, and Roberta Wallach.

  The story of Lenny Bruce and his New York trial is more relevant now than ever. A heart-breaking and thought provoking story filled with humor, this theatrical adaptation is the story of comic Lenny Bruce and his lawyer Martin Garbus who tried to save his client from the system – and from himself.

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  The West End production of Hadestown has been recorded and will begin screening on July 4 in movie theaters around the U.S.

   André De Shields (Hermes), Amber Gray (Persephone), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice),  and Patrick Page (Hades).

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   The New Group’s Fallen Angels will run Mar. 27 – Jun 7 (opening  Apr. 19) at the Roundabout Theatre, directed by Scott Ellis.

  Rose Byrne (Jane Banbury), Kelly O’Hara (Julia Sterroll), Tracee Chimo  (Saunders), Mark Conseulos (Maurice Duclos), Christopher Fitzgerald (Willy Banbury), and Aasif Mandvi (Fred Sterroll, with Tina Benko, Christopher Innvar, Max Gordon Moore, and Laura Shoop.

   The play follows two wealthy married women who, with husbands away, toast their pre-wedding loves—who happen to be the same man, who’s on his way to visit. The work premiered in London in 1925, coming to Broadway in 1927. Early productions attracted the ire of censors, who objected to its shocking depiction of women acknowledging premarital sex.

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   The world premiere of Susan Charlotte’s The People Verses Lenny Bruce will run May 7 – June 8 (opening May 14) at Theatre Row, directed by Antony Marsellis.

  Johnny Anthony (Lenny Bruce), Timothey Doyle (Jules Feiffer), Dan Grimaldi (Richard H. Huh, Ian Lithgow (Hergert ruhe), Jonathan Spivey (Forrrest Johnson), Stephen Schnetzer (Martin Garbus/Narrator), and Roberta Wallach (Dorothy Kilgallen).

  The story of Lenny Bruce and his New York trial is more relevant now than ever. A heart-breaking and thought provoking story filled with humor, this theatrical adaptation is the story of comic Lenny Bruce and his lawyer Martin Garbus who tried to save his client from the system – and from himself.

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   Video:  Highlights from Kinky Boots at Houston’s TUTS.

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   Seagull the True Story, by Eli Rarey, created & directed by Alexander Molochnikov, has been extended through May 3 at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.

   Gus Birney, Andrey Burkovskiy, Ohad Mazor, Myles McCabe, Quentin Lee Moore, Keshet Pratt, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Eric Tabach, and Elan Zafi.

   A whirlwind of comedic mayhem, artistic rebellion, and deeply personal reflection on displacement, censorship, and the pursuit of creative freedom.

   Gotta Dance, co-directed by Nikki Feirt Atkins & Randy Skinner, featuring 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, opens at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42.

   Jelly’s Last Jam, directed by Tyrone L. Robinson, featuring Stanley Martin (Jelly Roll Morton) and Forrest McClendon (Chimney Man), opens at PA.’s Bristol Riverside Theatre.

  Proof, by David Auburn, directed by Thomas Kail, featuring Ayo Ede (Catherine), Don Cheadle (Robert), Kara Young (Claire), and Jin Ha (Hal), begins previews at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre.

  An Evening with Charles Busch live stream interview with theater journalist Michael Portantiere, at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman theatre.

  Storm Large in concert closes at NYC’s 54 Below.

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   Reviews for Dog Day Afternoon at Broadway’s  August Wilson Theatre:

Click here for all the reviews.

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   A benefit reading of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart will take place Mon. Apr. 27 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s  Public Theater, directed by Tony Kushner.

  TBA.

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   In The Heights will run Apr. 10-26  (opening Apr. 27) at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez.

   Ruben J. Carbajal (Usnavi), Amanda Aceves-Lopez (Nina Rosario), Elvira Barjau (Camila Rosario), and Antwone Barnes bBenny), with Berto Fernandez, Suzanna Guzman, Adam Leiva, Angelica Marie Lozada, Mario Rocha, Rianny Vasquez, Veronica Vazquez Jackson, Patrick Viloria, Leonel Ayala, Miah Blake, Remmie Bourgeois, Julisa Maya Carbajal, Andrea Dobbins, Elijah Samuél Figueroa, Juan Camilo Laverde, Veronica Carolina Leite, Mireya Zoé Nevel, Alonzo Melgoza, Emilia Vial, Paris Nicole, and Scott Spraags.

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   The world premiere of Irvine Welsh & Stephen McGuinness’s Trainspotting The Musical will rbegin previews July 22 and  0pening July 15 at Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by Caroline Jay Ranger.

  Mark Renton, and more TBA.

  This brand new musical adapts Irvine Welsh’s novel, about a group of friends struggling with addiction in 1990s Edinburgh. The musical has a book by Welsh himself, and features original songs co-written by Welsh and dance legend Steve Mac, along with iconic tracks from the 1996 hit film adaptation, which starred Ewan McGregor.  Trainspotting comes to London for a strictly limited run this summer – so choose life, choose tickets, and book today.

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   Off-Broadway’s New Group has announced its 2026-27 season at its new home at Theater at St. Clement’s.

   The Adding Machine (Mar 21 – May 10), byElmer Rice, directed by Scott Elliott, featuring Sarita Choudhury, Michael Cyril Creighton, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Jennifer Tilly.

   Bocking, world premiere by Preston Crowder (Summer’Fall 2o26dates TBA)  A preacher, a gay exorcism and a chicken named Danalana Parmesana collide in this irreverent sex farce. After a shocking playground incident, two very different sets of parents must come together to confront their kinks and taboos. This is a raunchy romp…Bock bock, muthacluckers!.

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  The world premiere of Tami Workentin’s George & Gracie: A Love Story will run May 1 – June 14 at Milwaukee Rep, directed by Laura Braza.

  Tami Workentin & James Pickering.

 The piece traces George Burns and Gracie Allen’s journey from a struggling vaudeville act to the height of stardom, celebrating their enduring partnership, their groundbreaking comedy, and the devotion that defined their lives on and off stage. Warm, witty, and deeply human, George & Gracie: A Love Story invites audiences to rediscover two of America’s most iconic entertainers in a production sure to captivate and inspire.

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   Eileen Barnett – It’s my Birthday and Il’ sing if I want to will take place Thurs. May 7 at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club, with music direction by Michael Collum.

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  Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust will run Apr. 14 – May 2 at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse, directed by  Logan Vaughn.

  Jasminn Johnson (Corrina/Wally’s Waiter/Bank Customers), Greg Stuhr (Clay/Sam/Le Pousselet Bartender), alphonso Walker Jr.(Kenneth), and Lance Coadie Williams (Bert).

  The play centers on Kenneth, a lonely 38-year-old man living in the small town of Cranberry, New York. Kenneth is something of a failure to launch, never quite stepping into full independence or adult responsibility. A creature of habit, he spends every evening sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar with Bert, his best friend – who happens to be imaginary. When Kenneth is suddenly laid off from his lifelong job in a bookstore, his world is upended. Facing a reality he’s long avoided, Kenneth is forced to leave the comfort of his imagination and learn to trust beyond the barstool. He musters courage to take a new job at the Primary Trust Bank with transformative, and even sweetly comical, results.

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   Timeless: A Tribute to Bernadette Peters will take place Sun. Apr. 19 at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama (link TBA), directed by Lennie Watts.

  Gerrilyn Sohn.

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    Three-time Tony nominee Mary Beth Hurt has died after a multi-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, at the age of 79.

Ms. Hurt was born Mary Beth Supinger in Marshalltown, Iowa, in the aftermath of the Second World War. She studied drama at the University of Iowa before moving to New York, attending New York University’s Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts as the city was transformed by the end of the 1960s. In the program, she met fellow actor William Hurt, and the pair were married in 1971. While their marriage would end in 1982, she would retain his surname professionally for the rest of her life.

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   Red Bull Theater will present a reading of Hamish Linklater’s Paris, Actors! on Mon. Apr. 30 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space, directed by Jack O’Brian.

  Gus Birney, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Jay O. Sanders, Lily Santiago, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Azalea Wolfe.

  Occupied Paris. 1944. Real life celebrity Nazi Werner Krauss is between projects. But the Party, desperate for a propaganda extravaganza in the City of Lights, has arranged a remount of his notorious Merchant of Venice produced by a French theater teeming with family secrets. Paris, ACTORS! is “The Last Metro” if Truffaut were unavailable to direct, but the Marx Brothers were. A madcap backstage drama, penned by Obie Award-winning actor and playwright Hamish Linklater, appearing together with some of our best-loved actors of the American theater.

Today’s Highlights:

   Storm Large in concert opens at NYC’s 54 Below.

  Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, by August Wilson, directed by Debbie Allen, featuring Taraji P. Henson (Bertha Holly ), Cedric The entertainer (Seth Holly ), Joshua Boone (Herald Loomis), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Bynum Walker ), and more, begins previews at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre.

  York Theatre Company‘s Songs for a New World: The Music and Lyrics of Jason Robert Brown benefit concert, directed by Jessica McRoberts, featuring Jay Copeland, Nikki Renee Daniels, Jason Gotay, and Jill Paice, at Theatre at 7 PM at  Off-Broadway’s St. Jean’s.

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   Famous Quotations by Jim Bernhard

Fill in the missing words to find a quotation about the theatre:

Scroll down for the answers…

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   Jason Graae: It’s a Graae Night for Singing! will take place will take place Wed. Apr. 1 at  7 PM NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Gerald Sternbach.

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  The world premiere of did you charge your phone for the end of the world?, written & directed by Fletcher Michael, will run at the 2026 New York City Fringe Festival at the Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street.).

Performance dates: 
Sat. Apr. 14 at8:40 PM
Mon. Apr. 6 at 6 PM
Sat. Apr. 18 at 3:40 PM
Sun. Apr. 19 at 5:20 PM

   Lucy Boisvert, Collin Dennis, and Fletcher Michael.

   The year is 2034. A city-demolishing asteroid is heading straight for Brooklyn. Rather than alerting the public to the impending catastrophe, the government delays the announcement until a boutique advertising agency can devise a suitably “positive” rebrand for the calamitous space rock. In a culture obsessed with optics, messaging, and spin, the piece  skewers the absurdity of image management in the face of existential threat, blending sharp satire with Infinite Monkey’s signature absurdist edge.

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   Tom Jacobson’s Hell Mouth will run Apr. 14 – June 6 (opening Apr. 17) at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.

  Canny Lee Gomez (Tim), Taylor Gilbert (Lois/Samara), and Tony Abatemarco (Russel/Spencer.

  Torn between his Midwestern parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio Hanging Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century. Imagine your own mother on the Worls Dressed Women List.

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   The Billy Barnes Foundation will present Billy Barnes Bash on Wed. Apr 22 at 8:30 PM at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club, directed by Kay Cole, and hosted by Shawn Ryan, with music direction by Michael Orland.

 Eileen Barnett, Cheryl Dano, Michael Deni, Jane A. Johnston, Jackie Joseph, Jeffrey Polk, James Snyder, BJ Ward, and Jo Anne Worley.

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   New York Theatre Workshop has announced the first 2 productions of it’s 2026-27 season:

  Basquiat (FAll 2026  – dates TBA), written & performed by Roger Guenveur Smith.
As Mandela stepped out of prison Ellen Stewart rang a bell in the theatre which now bears her name Cause Frederick Douglass dressed as Huey P. Newton was rapping about struggle and progress. Just across the street from where Marc Anthony Thompson is gonna be remixing Basquiat’s greatest hits.

  Wild Rose (Fall 2026 – dates TBA), by Nicole Taylor, directed by John Tiffany, with choreography by Steven Hoggett & Vicki Manderson.   There is only one thing in Rose-Lynn’s life that has ever made sense: country music. Fresh out of jail for some past mistakes, free-spirited Rose-Lynn is bursting with raw talent & charisma, and ready to escape Glasgow, Scotland to chase her dream of being a country music singer. But her mother Marion has had enough, insisting that she settle down, ditch the fantasy, and focus on raising her two young kids. Rose-Lynn reluctantly agrees to take a cleaning job and finds an unlikely champion in her new boss Susannah, bringing her dream closer than ever. Now Rose-Lynn must decide if risking everything will really pave the road to Nashville.

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  Off-Broadway’s Labyrinth Theatre will present the next Celebrity Charades on Mon. Apr. 20 at 8:30 PM at the City Winery (25 11th Ave).

  Chris Rock, Kristen Wiig, Julia Roberts, Robin Williams, Billy Crudup, Edie Falco, Edward Norton, Paul Rudd, Cynthia Rowley, and Julianna Margulies, many more.

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   The James Conlon Farewell Concert will take place Fri. Apr. 24 at 7 PM at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Conlon made a tremendous to the musical life of Los Angeles over his remarkable 20-year tenure as the company’s Richard Seaver Music Director.

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   Jiulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo, by Jennifer Nettles, will run June 28 – July 26 (0pening July 10) at the  Perelman Performing Arts Center, directed by Mary Zimmerman.

  Jennifer, Nettles i(Julia), Bre Jackson ( La Capitana), Andrew Kober (Pietro), Aubrey Matalon (Renata), Christopher M. Ramirez (Governatore), Didi Romero (Duchessa), Naomi Serrano (Vitoria), and Sam Simahk (Father Paolo), and Jamila Sabares-Klemm and Maya Sistruck, with Kim Onah, Kaleb Wells and Jessica Rush.

  The new work tracks a real-life serial killer whose trail of murder begins with an act of self-defense.

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   American Voices, curated & performed by Tyne Daly, will take place Sat. Apr. 27 at 8 PM at Greenway Court Theatre.

  Tyne Daly loves poetry. And she wants you to love.it, too. American Voices is a curated collection of Ms. Daly’s favorite poets.

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   The 40th Anniverary benefit reading of  Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart will take place Mon, Apr. 27 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater , directed by Tony Kushner.

  TBA.

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Answers:   Famous Quotations by Jim Bernhard

Quotation: The play is not in the words—it’s in you.—Stella Adler

1-H. Speed- the- Plow, play by David Mamet

2-F. Fanny’s First Play, play by George Bernard Shaw

3-G. Music Is, musical by George Abbott, Jerry Adler, and Will Holt

4-J. Not About Nightingales, play by Tennessee Williams

5-A.  The Woman In White, musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Zippel, and Charlotte Jones

6-I. Don’t Drink the Water, play by Woody Allen

7-E. Words and Music, musical by Sammy Cahn

8-B. It’s Only a Play, play by Terrence McNally

9-D. Music In the Air, musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern

10-C.Talking To You, play by William Saroyan

This weekend’s Highlights:

Friday, March 27

 My First Ex Husband, written & performed by Joy Behar, opens at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.

  Roundabout Theatre‘s Fallen Angels, by Noël Coward, directed by Scott Ellis, featuring Jane Banbury (Rose Byrne), Kelli O’Hara (Julia Sterroll), Tracee Chimo (Saunders), Mark Consuelos (Maurice Duclos), Christopher Fitzgerald (Willy Manbury), and Asif Mandvi (Fred Sterroll), begins previews at Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre.

Saturday, March 28

  Death of a Salesman, directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, featuring Geoff Elliott (Willy Loman), Deborah Strang (Linda), David Kepner (Biff), and Ian Littleworth Happy), with  Jacob Cherry, Bert Emmett, Rachel K. Han, Kasey Mahaffy, Cassandra Marie Murphy, David Nevell, Dominique Razón and Michael Uribes, opens at Pasadena’s A Noise Within.

   Write of Spring 2026 Firsts, a world premiere presentation of 6 original one-act plays, by Susan C. Hunter, Anne Mesa, Abigael Peltonen, Jorge A. Pulido, and Darrin Yalacki, directed by Susan C. Hunter, Chris McGriff, Anne Mesa, Abigael Peltonen, Jorge A. Pulido, and Darrin Yalacki, and featuring John Barbarotta, Jeremy Bassett, Makeda Diggs, Justin Gubersky, R. Eric Hill, Luana Holtz, Adam Kroksh, Mindy Le, Alyssa Lomosad, Meilyn Luo, Amelia Mackey, and Jay Valles, opens at LA’s Write Act Repertory.

  Open Fist Theatre Company‘s Amerika or, The Man Who Disappeared, by Franz Kafka, directed by Dietrich Smith, featuring Oqalile, Tambrie Allsup, Matthew Goodrich,  Jade Santana, Jack Sharpe, Grace Soens,  Jeremy D. Thompson, Emma Bruno, Maria Mastroyannis, Elliott Moore, Julien Thompson  and Pat Towne, opens at LA’s Atwater Village Theatre.

   Zack, by Harold Brighouse, directed by Britt Berke, featuring  Jordan Matthew Brown, Caroline Festa, Grace Guichard, Đavid Lee Huỳnh, David Patterson, Douglas Rees, Sean Runnette, Joy Avigail Sudduth, and Cassia Thompson, closes at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theatre.

  Speak Easy Stage Company’s The Antiquities, by Jordan Harrion, directed by Alex Lonati, featuring Harry Baker, Catia, Kelsey Fonise, Jesse Hinson, John Kuntz, Alison Russo, Anderson Stinson III, Helen Hy-Yuen Swanson, and Tobias Wilson, closes at Boston’s Calderwood Pavillion.

Sunday, March 29

  Julie Benko concludes her run as Emma Goldman in Ragtime at Broadway’s Lincoln Center Theatre.

  The Wild Party concert presentation, directed by Lili-Anne Brown, featuring Jasmine Amy Rogers (Queenie), Adrienne Warren (Kate), Tonya Pinkins (Dolores Montoya), Jelani Alladin (Black), Wesley J. Barnes (Oscar D’Armano), Jordan Donica  (Burrs), KJ Hippensteel (Gold), Andrew Kober (Goldberg), Lesli Margherita (Mae), Betsy Morgan (Sally), Meghan Murphy (Miss Madelaine True), Maya Rowe (Nadine), Joseph A. Byrd (Phil D’Armano), Claybourne Elder (Jackie), and Evan Tyrone Martin (Eddie Mackrel), with  Curtis Bannister (Standby for Burrs and Black) and Kyrie Courter (Standby for Queenie and Kate), closes at NCY Center.

  Chasing Grace, world premiere by Elizabeth Addison, directed by Jacinth Greywoode, featuring Gabrielle Beckford and Harper Miles, with LaDonna Burns, Chantelle Guido, and more, closes at Off-Broadway’s ART/NY Mezzanine Theatre.

  Dust of Egypt: The Story of Sojourner Truth, by Karin Abarbanel, directed by Rhonda Passion Hansome, featuring Desi Waters (Sojourner Truth), with Jade Cayne, Eliott Johnson, Eric Ruffin, Jeanna Schweppe, Mark McCullough Thomas, and Nicholas Louis Turturro, closes at Off-Broadway’s Sheen Center.

  The Recipe, by Claudia Shear, directed by Lisa Peterson, featuring Christina Kirk (Julia Child) and Nobert Leo Butz (Paul Child, closes at CA’s La Jolla Playhouse.

  My First Ex Husband, written & performed by Joy Behar, closes at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.

   Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed & choreographed by Bill Bustamante, featuring Aaron Alcaraz,  Hannah Balago, Terrence J. Bennett, Alvan Bolling, II, John Cauthen, Raymond Dimaano, Elisa Galindez, Michael Goltry, Kevin Gonzalez, McKinley Heidelberg-Denison, Lizz Hughes, Job Jones-Noel, Quincy Lawson, Mitchell Maguire, Tré Porchia, Jay Roberts-Miller, and Alex Simpson, closes at Virginia Stage.

  Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience, directed by Raymond O. Caldwell, featuring America Covarrubias, Naseem Etemad, Kita Grayson, Mackenzie Mondag,  Savannah Schoenecker, and Janet Song, closes at LA’s Fountain Theatre.

  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, closes at Thousand Oak’s Scherr Forum Theatre.

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   Something Rotten will run  May 1 – June 7 (opening June May 3 )at  Lyric Stage Boston, directed by Ilana Toeplitz Ranson.

  Ohad Ashkenazi, Jonah Barricklo, Temma Beaudreau, Joy Clark, Lauren Dodds, Kristian Espiritu, Danny Hernandez, Elliana Karris, Kenneth Kelleher. Ryan Mardesich, Bryan Miner, Jennifer Preston, Indijhan Richard, Bobbie Steinbach, Jared Troilo, Colin Welter.

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   York Theatre‘s Monte Cristo, by Peter Kellogg & Stephen Weiner, continues through  Apr. 5 at Theatre at St. Jeans, directed by Peter Flynn.

  Sierra Boggess, Adam Jacobs, James Mudy, Norm Lewis, Stephanie Jae Park, Danny Rutigliano, Eliseo Roman, Daniel Yearwood, and Karen Ziemba.

   The epic story of a man wrongfully imprisoned who returns richer, wiser, and bent on vengeance. But as his carefully orchestrated plan unfolds, he must face the ultimate question: is justice enough without love?

  Video:  New cclips from the show.

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  Spamalot will run Apr. 15-26 at Houston’s TUTS. directed & choreographed by Josh Rhodes.

  Major Attaway (Kin Arthur), Sean Bell (Sir Robin), Chris Cillins-:Pisano (Sir Lancelot),   Ellis C. Dawson ( Sir Bedevere,) Leo Roberts (Sir Galahad), Amanda Robles (The Lady of the Lake), Blake Segal (Patsy) and Steven Telsey (The Historian/Prince Herbert), with  Lindsay Lee Alhady, Delaney Benson, Jack Brewer, Connor Coughlin, L’ogan J’ones, Graham Keen, Claire Kennard, Ben Lanham, Nathaniel Mahone, Maddie Mossner, Emilie Renier, Mark Tran Russ and Meridien Terrell.

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   Red Bull Theater‘s Titus Andronicus, currently in in previews, will open Mar. 29 and continue through Apr. 19 at the Signature Theatre, directed by Jesse Berger.

   Patrick Page, McKinley Belcher III, Francesca Faridany, Enid Graham, Jesse Aaronson, Matthew Amendt, Blair Baker, Amy Jo Jackson, Adam Langdon, Anthony Michael Lopez, Anthony Michael Martinez, Howard Overshown, Olivia Reis, and Zack Lopez Roa.

  This shockingly timely thriller about the chaos of a corrupt and crumbling empire is brought to new life, taking the stage as one Shakespeare’s boldest and bloodiest tragedies.

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   “The Inspector General” film, starring Danny Kaye, is available to stream for free here.

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  An invitation-only presentation of Russell Citron & Ryan Peters’ Our Little Secret: A True New Musical will take place Mon. Mar. 26 at NYC’s New 42 Studios, directed by Adam Pascal.

  Noam Tomaschoff

   The hilarious, moving, and completely true story of Noam Tomaschoff’s discovery that his parents weren’t quite who he thought they were — and he wasn’t an only child. Blending comedy, drama, and addictive music, Our Little Secret will leave you laughing, crying — and seeing your family in a whole new light.

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  The world premiere of Harris Singer’s Take Me to Dolylwood will run May 14-31 (opening May 16) at Downstairs at La MaMa, directed by Luke Wisniewski.

   Harris Singer (The Playwright), Lisa Cohen (Playwright’s Mom), Sam Flynn, Brason Jones, Tomias Robinston, Paris Alexander, Earl Dax, Michelle Zabinski, Caroline Best, and Royce Johnson.

   A genre-defying theatrical event that blends Queer confession, Southern gothic ritual, absurdist comedy, erotic theatricality, and pop-cultural mythology into a singular, immersive experience

Today’s Highlights:

   John Proctor is the Villain, by Kimberly Belflowers, featuring Lauryn Ajufo (Nell Shaw), Charlie Borg (Lee Turner), Reece Braddock (Mason Adams), Dónal Finn (Carter Smith),  Holly Howden Gilchrist (Beth Powell), Cl

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   Trey Everett’s Obit will run May 14 – May 30 at East Village Basement (321 E. 9th St.), directed by Vivian Farahani.  Link TBA.

Ben Millspaugh, Abigail Garcia, Briana Archer, Ruby Westhoff, and Henry Germansky.

  Adark comedy about mourning. When an anxious soon-to-be father returns to his estranged dad’s chaotic New York apartment, he’s pulled into a messy, darkly funny confrontation with family history, forgotten memories, and the unraveling mind of a man he thought he’d already said goodbye to, until an obituary forces him to rewrite what legacy really means. Balancing dark, biting humor with emotional urgency, Obit. explores dementia, generational inheritance, and the fear of becoming one’s parents, while asking what, if anything, we leave behind when memory fails

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  The 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival will run June 1- 28 at a variety of venues in Los Angeles.

I’ll post additional details when they are aviable.

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    at NYC’s 54 Below:

   Claybourne Elder (Apr. 3, 4 & 15).  here.

   Mariln Maye (Apr. 6-19)  here.

   Hugh Panaro: Man Without a Mask (Apr. 23-25 , Apr. 30), and May 1  here.

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   The world premiere of Paul Webb’s Warsaw will  run Apr. 29 –  May 17 (opening  May 1) at Long Beach’s International City Theatre, directed by Caryn desai.

  Suzanne Ford, Anna Van Valin, Elias Scoufaras, Spencer Del Carmen, and Bruce Nozick.

  A woman fighting for her life after a devastating accident draws four very different visitors to her bedside — a doctor, the doctor’s estranged fiancé, a truck driver, and a hospital volunteer who believes he once knew her long ago . As the four keep vigil, they realize that the comatose patient holds vital pieces missing from their own lives. The play is a moving meditation on survival, forgiveness, and the invisible threads that bind our lives together.

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  The Last Five Years will run Mar. 27 – Apr. 12 at LA’s Hudson Backstage Theatre, directed by Aaron Byrnes.

For free tickets, use code LETUSIN.

   Cat Rojo (Cathy Hiatt) and Sean Yves Lessard (Jamie Wellerstrin), with Sophia Konat and Corydon Melgoza.

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  Heidi Armbruster’s Mrs. Christie will run Apr. 14 – May 10 at  Milwaukee Rep directed by Joanie Schultz.

  Alex Keiper (Agtha Christie), Zoë Sophia Garcia (Lucy), Matt Bowdren (Archie), Dale Hodges (Jane), Betsy Hogg (Charlotte/Mary), Amira Danan (Nacy/Chloe), Blake Hamilton Currer (William/Collins,  and William William Sturdivant (Monsieur)

  Set 100 years after Agatha Christie’s real‑life 11‑day disappearance, Mrs. Christie  follows a devoted superfan who stumbles upon clues that may finally crack the century‑old mystery. What begins as a literary obsession becomes a heartfelt coming‑of‑age journey—one that celebrates writers, womanhood, and the stories that shape our lives. With humor, heart, and the thrill of a good old‑fashioned whodunit, Mrs. Christie invites audiences to rediscover the “Queen of Mystery” through a fresh, contemporary lens.

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   CrazySexyCool – the Musical, written & directed by Kwame Kei-Armah, will run June 12 – Aug. 9 at DC’s Arena Stage.

  Holli’ Gabrielle Conway (Tionne ‘(T-Boz’ Watkins), Jade Milan (Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes), and Toney B. Woods (Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas), with Felica Curry  and Kennedy Holme.

  TLC blazed a trail and changed the game. The trio stormed the 90s music scene, not only topping the charts—but creating the look, sound, and soul of a generation. With their unforgettable anthems, fly dance moves, and head-turning style, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas defined what it meant to be women in music. The most successful female group of all time, they’ve spent over three decades breaking boundaries and empowering generations. Now their journey comes to the stage…

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   August Wilson’s Joe Joe Turners’ Come and Gone will now run Mar. 30 – July 19 (opening Apr. 25) at Broadway’s  Barrymore Theatre, directed by Debbie Allen.

  Taraji P. Henson (Bertha Holly), Cedric The Entertaine,r (Seth Holly)  Joshua Boone a(Herald Loomis), Maya Boyd (Molly Cunningham), Savannah Commodore & aDominique Skye Turner (sharing the role of ‘Zonia Loomis), Abigail Onwunali (Martha Pentecost), Bradley Stryker (Rutherford Selig), Tripp Taylor (Jeremy Furlow), Christopher Woodley & Jackson Edward Davis (sharing the role of Reuben Scott), Nimene Sierra Wureh (Mattie Campbell), with  Jasmine Batchelor, Rosalyn Coleman,  Thomas Michael Hammond, Cayden McCoy, and Kevyn Morrow.

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  York Theatre will present the world premiere of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, by Peter Kellogg to run Mar. 12 – Apr. 5 (opening Mar. 19) at Theatre at St. Jean’s, directed by Peter Flynn.

   Sierra Boggess (Mercedes,) Adam Jacobs (Edmund), James Judy( Danglars),  Norm Lewis (Villefort), Stephanie Jae Park (Haydee), Danny Rutigliano Caderrousse/Abbe,) Eliseo Roman (Morrell), Daniel Yearwood (Fernand, Karen Ziemba (Carconte/Lucrezia Borgia), , Kate Fitzgerald (Eugénie) and Jadon Lopez (Albert), with Madison Claire Parks and Travis Keith Battle.

  The epic story of a man wrongfully imprisoned who returns richer, wiser, and bent on vengeance. But as his carefully orchestrated plan unfolds, he must face the ultimate question: is justice enough without love?

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  Ensemble Theatre Company will present Randy Johnson’s A Night with Janis Joplin will run Apr. 1 -26 (opening Apr. 4 )at Santa Barbara’s New Vic, directed by Mary Bridget Davies & Brian McDonald.

  Sadé Ayodele, Jenna Gillespie Byrd, Melissa Musique, and Sha’leah Nikole.

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   The Echo Theater Company (link TBA) & Frank’s will present This Ends Badly, an evening of short plays by Frank Demma, Marlane Meyer, John Pellech, John Pollono, Benjamin Weissman and Sharon Yablon.

  Shawna Casey, Frank Demma, Edward Hoke, Silas Weir Mitchell, Conor Murphy, Frank Pellegrino, Jennifer Pollono, Michael Redfield, Wes Walker, Jacqueline Wright and more.

Today’s Highlights:

  Public Charge, world premiere by Julissa Reynoso & Michael J. Chepiga, directed by Doug Hughes, featuring Marinda Anderson, Nate Betancourt, Maggie Bofill, John J. Concado, Dan Domingues, Zabryna Guevara, Yesenia Iglesias, Paco Lozano, Nairoby Otero, Armando Riesco,Al Rodrigo, and Barbara Walsh, opens at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.

  The Man Who Would Be King, written & directed by Salisbury, featuring Terrence Archie, Shanel Bailey, Josh Candield, Coleman Cummings, Rita Harvey, Vici Lewis, Trevor Martin, Wesley Slade, and Katie Thompson, opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Lukes.

  Somebody to Love: A New Musical, world premiere by Robert Sternin & Prudence Fraser, directed by Sean Daniels, featuring Sophie Alawi, Will Blum, Gizel Jimenez, Donovan Mendelovitz, F. Michael Haynie, Alexis Semevolos-Velaquez, and Desmond Newson, with Jesse Graham, John Gregorio, Molly Kirschenbaum, Sydney Mucha, Presley Christine Nicholson, Soleil Perry, Kayla Christine Quiroz, & Mea Wilkerson, opens at CA’sRubicon Theatre.

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  Reviews for Giant, starring John Lithgow,at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre.

Click here for all the reviews.

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   Broadway Grosses for the week ending  Mar. 22:

Click here for the complete analysis.

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   Arthur Miller’s The Price has added additional performances to its schedule through Apr.5 at  CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by  Elina de Santos.   Click the link above for the updated schedule.

  Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), Richard Fancy (Gregory Solomon), Jason Huber (aWalter Franz), and Scott Jackson (Victor Franz).

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   About Time, by Maltby & Shire, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, continues through Apr. 5 at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater.

 Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius de Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, and Lynne Wintersteller, with Ethan Paulini and Nicole Powel,

  From long-ago love affairs to buried ambitions, to lost keys and tech-savvy grandkids, About Time is a funny and touching new musical revue about life, love, and laughter in your third act.

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   LA’s Geffen Playhouse  has announced its 2026/27 season:

   Purpose (Nov. 11 – Dec. 13, by Brandon Jacob Jenkins, directed by Phylicia Rashad, featuring Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Jon Michael Hill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix & Kara Young.   Meet the Jaspers: generations of a powerful Black political family under one roof where nothing stays buried for long. When their youngest son returns home, instincts kick in to protect their public image of leadership and moral authority, and fractures soon appear as private grievances, betrayals, and long-simmering questions of identity rise to the surface.

   Liberation (Jan. 27 – Feb. 28, 2027, by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White.  Casting TBA.    Following its smash Broadway run, Liberation makes its West Coast debut with sharp wit, emotional insight, and fearless ambition to challenge the status quo. It’s 1970, somewhere in Ohio: six women gather in a basement gymnasium for a consciousness raising group, determined to shake up their lives and change the world. These meetings quickly become complicated—friendships are tested, alliances shift, the personal becomes political and vice versa, ultimately calling into question the very meaning of freedom itself.

  The Monsters (Mar. 3 – Apr. 4), by Ngozi Anyanwu, directed by Awoye Timpo, featuring Ngozi Anyanwu, and more TBA.  As a seasoned MMA fighter at the end of his career, Big reluctantly agrees to coach his younger sister, Lil, a fierce and hungry newcomer with something to prove. But years of distance, resentment, and unresolved pain simmer beneath every training session. Does Big have what it takes to make Lil a champion… or will their past knock them both out?  Told with raw honesty and lyrical intensity, The Monsters explores the complicated intimacy of sibling relationships when family can be both a sanctuary and a battlefield. With sharp dialogue and moments of surprising tenderness, this sibling love story examines the ways we protect one another, even when bruises stay hidden just under the surface.

  Closing Costs (Mar. 31 – May 2), world premiere by Grace McLeod, directed by Hannah Wolf.   Housing prices in LA are already criminal, but in this home, they may actually be fatal. A scrappy real estate agent and her Uber-driving boyfriend are secretly living in the “luxury” property she’s desperate to sell: a disastrously flipped fever dream where corners are cut and nothing works the way it should. When the home’s bro developer shows up, things go from unethical to unhinged. A newly successful gay couple and a pregnant lesbian couple spiral into a bidding war over the supposedly hot property as the agent and her boyfriend scramble to keep the sale alive—and the skeletons in the closet—in a perfectly escalating farce. Closing Costs is a whip-smart send-up of the absurdity of trying to buy a home in Los Angeles, where the market is cutthroat, the wiring is questionable, and everyone is just one inspection away from disaster.

   Wine in the Wilderness (June 2 – July 4), by Alice Childress, directed by LaChanze.  Set during the height of the 1964 Harlem riot, Wine in the Wilderness unfolds in the apartment of Bill Jameson, a painter determined to capture “the essence” of Black womanhood in his latest triptych. As friends take shelter from the rising tensions outside, the arrival of a young woman disrupts Bill’s carefully constructed vision and exposes the assumptions, judgments, and hierarchies shaping both his art and his community. The  play interrogates class, colorism, gender, and the politics of representation, asking who gets to define beauty, respectability, and worth. Under the direction of Broadway legend LaChanze, this production foregrounds the play’s emotional immediacy and radical compassion, revealing a story that feels as urgent today as when it was first written.

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   Arthur Miller’s The Price continues through Apr. 12 at Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Elina de Santos.

   Scott Jackson (Victor Franz), Jason Huber (Walter Franz), Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), and Richard Fancy (Gregory Soloman).

Today’s  Highlights:

   Kim’s Convenience, by Ins Choi, directed by Weyni Mengesha, featuring Paul Jun-Hyung Lee (Appa), Jean Yoon (Umma), Andrea Bang (Janet Kim), Simu Liu (Jung Kim), Andrew Phung (Kimchee Han), Benjamin Beauchemin (Gerald Tremblay), and Nicole Power (Shannon), opens at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre.

  Spamalot, directed by Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage, featuring 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, opens at LA’s Pantages Theatre.

  The New Group‘s The Adding Machine, by Elmer L. Rice & Thomas Bradshaw, directed by Scott Elliott, featuring Sarita Choudhury, Michael Cyril Creighton, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and  Jennifer Tilly, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s.

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  Grace Notes Quiz:  Let’s Party! by Jim Bernhard

1. In Carousel the townspeople celebrate the summer season with…a fish fry…a wienie roast…a clambake….a keg party

2. Two musicals, both based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March about a gathering in 1920s Manhattan, are called The ____ Party….Children’s….Wild…Late-Night…Uptown

3. T. S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party was written…in blank verse…in French…using A.I…without using the letter “o”

4.  The Birthday Party was Harold Pinter’s first….play adapted into a Broadway musical…full-length play…play that starred Laurence Olivier…attempt at writing a play, written when he was twelve

5. Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party takes place in a restaurant in…Paris…New York…Beijing…Omaha

6.  A Party With Betty Comden and ­­­­______ also starred Comden’s lyric-writing partner…Marvin Hamlisch…Alan Jay Lerner…Ogden Nash… Adolph Green

7. Noel Coward’s song “I Went to a Marvelous Party” was introduced in a revue called Set to Music by…Beatrice Lillie…Maggie Smith…Tallulah Bankhead…Gertrude Lawrence

8. “The Party’s Over” is from a Broadway musical by…Kander and Ebb…Frank Loesser…Jule Styne and Comden & Green…Cole Porter

9. The Boys in the Band takes place at a birthday party attended by…New York Philharmonic musicians…members of the boy band NSYNC…a group of gay men…the Beatles

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   Ragtime has been extended through Aug. 2 at Broadway’s  Lincoln Center Theatre, directed by  Lear deBessonet.

  Cassie Levy (Mother) Joshua Henry (Coalhouse Walker, Jr.), Brandon Uranowitz (Tateh), Colin Donnell (Father), Nichelle Lewis (Sarah), Ben Levi Ross (Mother’s Younger Brother), Shaina Taub (Emma Goldman), Anna Grace Barlow (Evelyn Nesbit), John Clay III (Booker T. Washington), Rodd Cyrus (Harry Houdini), and Nick Barrington (The Little Boy), with with Ellie May Sennett, and more.

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   Dedication, written & performed by pianist Roger Peltzman, will run Friday May 1, ( 7:30 PM), and Sat. Apr. 2 (at 2:30 PM) at Theatreworks Hartford, directed by Jessi D. Hill.

  The play  combines monologues, images, live piano performance, and humor to tell the story of Roger Peltzman’s family before the war and his mother’s harrowing escape from the Nazi’s who raided the attic in which she and her family were hiding. It uses drama, humor, and powerful images and musical performance of everything from blues to Chopin. As the story unfolds, family photos, letters, and documents that survived the war are projected on stage.

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   The 33rd annual Los Aneles Women’s Theatre Festival: The Strength We Carry will run Mar. 26-29 at LA’s Theatre 68 Arts Complex.

Click here to learn more.

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  David J Glass’ Spare Parts has been extended through Apr. 30 at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row, directed by  Michael Herwitz.

  Jonny-James Kajoba Rob McClure, Michael Genet, Matt Walker, and Langston Reese.

  When a billionaire obsessed with immortality funds radical aging research, ethical lines blur, power dynamics implode, and a shocking secret comes to light—one that turns the quest for longer life into a chilling examination of identity, consent, and what it really means to be human.

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   The world premiere of Julie Shavers’ The Baptist Witches of  Shelbyville vill run Mar. 28 – Apr. 25 at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre, directed by Daniel O’Brien.

  Gigi Bermingham (Mama Moon), Mamie Gummer (Lucinda), Julie Shavers (Birdie Moon), Angelie Simone (Lottie Walker), Ashley Ward (Killy).

  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 porch 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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  LA’s Geffin Playhouse has announced its 2026-27 season:

Dates TBA.

  Purpose, by Branden Jenkins, directed by Phylicia Rashad, featuring the original 2025 Broadway cast: Harry Lennix, LaTanya Richardson Jacksoon, Jon Michael Hill, Glenn Davis, Alana Arenas, and Kara Young.

  Liberation, by Bess Wohl.  Cast TBA.

  The Monsters, world premiere by Ngozi Anyanwu.

   Closing Costs, by Grace Mcleod.

  Wine in the Wildernesss, by Alice Childress, directed by LaChanze.

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  Ro Reddik’s Cold War Choir Practice has been extended through Apr. 5 at  Off-Broadways’ MCC Theatre, directed by Knud Adams.

  Alana Raquel Bowers, Will Cobbs, Crystal Finn, Andy Lucien, Lizan Mitchell, Suzzy Roche, Nina Ross and Ellen Winter.

   A young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. An explosion of roller disco, Reaganomics, espionage, and cults—underscored by the cryptic Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.

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  Grace Notes Quiz Answers:  Let’s Party! by Jim Bernhard

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