Today’s Highlights:

  Realitytown, written & directedby Billy Recce & Danny Salles, featuring Sam Underwood), Ginna Claire Mason, David Beach, Garrett Poladian, SLee), and Micaela Lamas, opens at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre.

  East West Players‘ Flower Drum Song, adapted by David Henry Hwang, directed by Jacqui Park, featuring Joven Calloway, Ethan Yaheen-Moy Chan, Jay Espinoza, Sierra Goria, Sally Hong, Tony Jin, Esther Lee, Brian Liebson, Emma Park, Gemma Pedersen, Avelina Sanchez, Hillary Tang, Ai Toyoshima, Haoyi Wen, and Paul Wong, opens at LA’s Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’s Aratani Theatre.

  Children of Eden streaming presentation, featuring Michelle Williams (Eve/Mama), David Phelps (Adam/Noah), Koryn Hawthorne (Yonah)  Sam Tsui (Cain/Japheth), Randal Keith, (Father), Chris Graham (Abel/Ham), Darian Goulding (Seth/Shem), Donica Lynn (Aphra), and Rhealee Fernandez Aysha, begins streaming here for 48 hours. Tix here.

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   NY City Center‘s Encores! has announced that La Cage Aux Folles will run June 17-28 , directed by Robert O’Hara, with music direction by Joseph Joubert.

   Tony Pinkins (Jacqueline), Peter Francis James (Edouard) Rachel Webb (Anne), Wayne Brady (George), Billy Porter Albin), Alaman Diadhiou (Jean-Michel), James Jackson Jr. (Jacob), Michael McElroy (Francois), Sharon Washington (Marie), and Lance Coadie Williams (Renaud), with Jordan Alexander, Sai Anthony, Jordan Chin, Joshua Dawson, Jamal Christopher Douglas, Michael Samarie George, Aaron Graham, Ari Groover, Jaquez, Karma Jenkins,  Christian Kidd, Kendall Lashanti, Andre Malcolm, Kareem Marsh,    Marsh, Morgan McGhee, Ernest Mingo, Wesley Ryan, Julian Amari Smith, Jordan Simone Stephens, Wade Watson, Anthony Wayne, and Travon Williams.

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   Small But Aggressive, written & performed by Denise Moses, will run   June 19, 20, 27 & 28 at the Greenway Court Theatre, directed by Ross Clarck.

  When Denise’s ballet dancer husband, Craig is diagnosed with a “small but aggressive” brain tumor, an unwelcome guest (chain- smoking “Grief”) takes up residence and refuses to leave. As “Denise” and “Grief” butt heads, the diminutive Denise finds she too can be “small but aggressive”.

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  The Entertainment Community Fund will present its Annual Gala on Mon. June 1 at NYC’s Cipriani 42nd Street.

  The cast of the original The Gilded Age producer Daryl Roth, and composer Yoshiki..

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  Ben Andron’s Broken Snow, currently in previews, will open Apr. 30 and continue through May 24 at Theatre 71 (152 W. 71st St.), directed byColin Hanlon.

Tom Cavanaugh, 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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   Hershey Felder: The Piano & Me will run Apr. 30 – May 10  at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.

   Hershey Felder and 16 other characters, present the music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Barto, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Williams &amp, and  sixteen other characters.

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   Lindsey Ferrentino’s The Fear of 13 will  continue through July 12 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, directed by David Cromer.

  Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson.

  How a routine traffic stop led to a murder conviction. Nick then spent 22 years on death row, eventually petitioning the court for his execution date. Then, everything changed.

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   Pippin will run May 12 – July 26 (opening May 19) at DC’s  Signature Theatre, directed by Matthew Gardiner.

   Brayden Bambino (Pippin) Cedric Neal (Leading Player),Eric Hissom (Charles), Maria Rizzo (Estrada), Naomi Jacobson (Berthe), Awa Sal Secka (Catherine), Ryan Sellers (Lewis), and  Ellison Bihm (Theo), with Ben Bogen, Calin L’mont Cooper, Candice Hatakeyama, Georgia Monroe, Alanna Sibrián, Jacob Taylor Starks, Emily Ssteinhardt, Hank von Kolnitz, Dylan Arredondo, Alonso Nicolas Waller, Liz Weber, Veronica Quezada, and Ian Rubin.

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   Pearl Cleage’s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous will run June 10 – July 12 (0pening June 18) at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson.

   Michele Shay (Betty Samson), Olivia Washington ( Precious “Pete”Watson),  Watson; Deborah Joy Winans (Greenleaf, Whitney) as Kate Hughes; and Charlayne Woodard (Anna Campbell).

  Anna Campbell, a pioneering Black actress returns to Atlanta after 25 years of exile to witness a revival of her iconic nude performance art piece. Conflict arises when she discovers a younger, inexperienced actress, Pete, is set to perform the role, forcing Anna to confront generational divides, artistic legacy, and her own ego.

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   Red Bull Theater’s Titus Andronicus, directed by Jesse Berger, continues through May 3 at the Signature Center.

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

  Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble family. But when his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen Tamora and her lover Aaron the Moor release a fury that brings Titus, his family, and all of Rome to their knees. The play’s exploration of humankind’s capacity for inhumanity is shockingly contemporary.

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   The world premiere of Henry Ong’s Ascent will run May 9 – June 14 at the Skylight Theatre, directed by Diana Wyenn.

   Trieu Tran, Iris Liu, Russell Edge, and Jorge-Luis Pallo.

  Based on the true story, Ascent tells about the life of Qian Xuesen, the brilliant aerospace engineer who helped launch America’s space age—until Cold War paranoia forever changed the future of both his new and native homelands.

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  Mark St. Germain‘s Eleanor will run May 13-31 (opening May 16) at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre, directed byDavid Ellenstein.

  Kandice Chappell.

  Candid and commanding, vulnerable and visionary, from the shadows of the White House to the global stage, Eleanor finds her purpose at life’s greatest crossroads, shaping an extraordinary legacy. The play takes audiences from Hyde Park to The White House and beyond and provides a rich personal account of the Roosevelt family, dynasty and presidency.

Today’s Highlights:

  Billy Barnes Bash benefit concert, in support of the Billy Barnes Foundation, with music  direction by Michael Orland, featuring Eileen Barnett, Cheryl Daro, Michael Deni, Jane A. Johnston, Jackie Joseph, Jeffrey Polk, James Snyder, BJ Ward, and Jo Anne Worley, at 7 PM at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club.

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    Reviews for The Balusters at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre:

Click here for all the reviews.

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   Reviews for Schmigadoon at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre.

Click here for all the reviews.

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   Broadway Grosses for the week ending Apr. 19.

Click here for the complete analysis.     

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   MCC Theater‘s MISCAST26! will take place live on Mon. Apr. 27 at 9 PM at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom, —- as well as online for free onTues. May 12 at 7 PM, with music direction by  by Will Van Dyke.

 Lea Michele, Jane Krakowski, Darren Criss, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ruthie Ann Miles, Nicholas Christopher,  Cassie Levy, Tramell Tillman, Jessica Vosk, Alex Brighteman, Marla Mindelle, Michaeka Jae Rodriguez, L.J.Benet, Ali Ali Houlis Bourzgui, Christiani Pitts, Emma Sofia, Sam Tutty, and Jessica Vosk.

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  Pittsburgh CLO will present its 80th Anniversary Gala on Fri. June 12 at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. directed by TBA.

Performers and additional information TBA.

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   A benefit concert of Carson Kreitzer & Matt Could’s Lempicka will take place Mon. June 1 at 7 PM at NYC’s  Beechman Theatre,  directed by Rachel Chavkin.  The concert will support the LGBTQIA+ youth.

   Eden Espinosa, Natalie Joy Johnson, Zoe Glick, Lauren Blackman,  Stephen Brower , Holli’ Conway, Abby Matsusaka , Jimin Moon, Ximonse Rose , Nicholas Ward, Veronica Fiaoni ), Michael Milkanin, and Mary Page Nance.

   The piece explores the life and legacy of painter Tamara de Lempicka, a Polish aristocrat-turned-artist who flees with her husband from the turmoil of the Russian Revolution for exile in Paris. Once there, Tamara meets her new muse, a woman named Rafaela, and claws her way to success.

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    Crossing Delancey, by Susan Sandler, will run  May 21 – June 21 at Theatre Forty (241 S. Moreno Drive, Beverly Hills, in the Mary Levin Cutler Theatre, directed by Jonathan Fahn.

  Ari Hagler, Matt Landig, Sharron Shayne, Holly Sidell, and Amy Tolsky.

  Isabelle “Izzy” Grosman, a single inteltual woman livings in 1980s New York, whose traditional grandmother, Bubbie, hires a matchmaker to set her up with Sam, a kink-hearted, lower-class pickle vendor. Izzy must decide whether to pursue a shallow romance with a writer or choose a genuine life with Sam.

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   In The Heights, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez, continues through Apr. 23 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez.

  Rubén J. Carbajai (Usnvavi), Amanda Aceves-Lopez (Nina), Angelica Lozada Ramos (Vanessa), Antwone Barnes (Benny), Susanna Guzmán (Abuela Claudia), Adam Leiva (Sonny), Mario Rocha (Kevin Rasario), Elvira Barjau (Camila Rosario),  Veronica Vazquez Jackson (Daniela), Rianny Vasquez (Carla), Berto Fernández (Piragua Guy), and Patrick”Patches” Viloria (Grafiti Pete).

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  Lincoln Center‘s benefit performance of Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh & lyrics  Joe Darion’s Man of La Mancha will take place Mon. May 18 at 6:30  PM, directed by Bartlett Sher.

 Lindsay Mendez ( Aldonza ) Dulcinea, Harvey Guillén (Sancho Panza), Phillip Boykin (Governor / Barber), Patrick Page (Captain of the Inquisition / Innkeeper), Adam Dannheisser (Duke / Dr. Sanson Carrasco / Knight of the Mirrors), J. Harrison Ghee (Padre), Bonnie Milligan (Maria), Maria Bilbao (Antonia), and Olivia Hernandez (Housekeeper / Fermina), with Matías de la Flor, Charlie Franklin, Jacob Guzman, Michael Mendez, Justin Lee Miller, Frank Viveros, and Clyde Voce.

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   St. Louis Muny has announced its Summer 2026 season:

Casting and creative teams TBA.

  Shrek  (June 25 – July 2)

 South Pacific  (June 15 – 12)

  Newsies (July 16-22)

   Ain’t Too Proud (July 17-Aug. 2)

   Meet Me in St. Louis (Aug. 6-13)

   Something Rotten (Aug.17 -23)

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   Jack Holden & Ed stambollouian’s Kenrex currently in previews, will open Apr. 26 at the Lucile Loretel Theatre, directed by Stambollouian.

  Jack Holden

  A blistering true-crime thriller about the thin line between justice served and justice taken.

  Ventura’s  Rubicon Theatre Company has announced its 2026-27 season:

Creative teams and casting TBA.

   Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: a Ghost Story’ solo show (Dec. 2026 dates TBA), written by & starring  Jefferson Mays.    Link not yet available.

  Jon & Jen (Feb. 10 – 28, 2027), directed by Erin Ortman, starring Ari Afsar & Nikhil

  The Lehman Trilogy (Mar. 24 – Apr. 27) by Stefano Massini.

  Murder for Two,  (May 12 – 30), by Kellen Blair and JoeKinosian, A  madcap musical comedy that blends murder mystery with vaudevillian flair. With two performers playing all the roles (and the piano!), sharp wit, clever wordplay.

  John & Jen (Feb, 10 – 28, 2027), by Andrew Lippa & Tom Greenwald.

   Murder for Two (May 12 – 30) by Kellen Blair & Joe Kinosian.

  Come From Away  (Oct. 27 – Nov. 21)

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  Amas Musical Theatre‘s  Bubbling Brown Sugar benefit concert, by Loften Mitchell & Rosetta LeNoire, will take place at Mon. May 11 at 6 PM at  NYC’s Rosie’s Place at Penthouse 45 (432 W. 45th St.), with music direction by Barnell White.

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

Today’s Highlights:

  The Balusters, world premiere by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by by Kenny Leon, featuring Renée Elise Goldsberry, Richard Thomas, Marylouise Burke, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, and Margaret Colin, with Kayli Carter, Ricardo Chavira, Michael Esper, Maria Christina Olivaras, and Jeena Yi, opens at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

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   Boston’s Huntington Theatre has announced its 2026-27 season:

  Purpose (Sept. 10 – Oct. 11), by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Josiah Davis.  Encircled by civil rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen for decades, the Jasper family is a foundational pillar of Black American society. That is, until their youngest son returns home with an unexpected dinner guest, and their carefully curated existence begins to fracture. Don’t miss this searing and hilarious exploration of faith, class, ambition, and heritage.

   To Kill a Mockingbird (Oct. 8 – Nov. 8), directed by Loretta Greco.

  Adia & Clora Snatch Joy (Nov. 24 – Dec. 13), world premiere by Mfoniso Udofia & Michael Ellis Ingram. directed by Awoye Timpo.  In the marshes of South Carolina, Clora Abernathy opens her front door to a stranger from Massachusetts — Adiaha Ufot — and something unnamed stirs within them. Both are dutiful daughters who’ve devoted their lives to their parents – but as the sparks fly, a life-changing question takes shape: What might happen if they dare to be good to themselves? To wholly experience desire, pleasure, and joy as grown-ass women — for the very first time.

  Ufot Family Cycle (), by Mfoniso Udofia.   The  nine-play a final chapter two years in the making. In the marshes of South Carolina, Clora Abernathy opens her front door to a stranger from Massachusetts — Adiaha Ufot — and something unnamed stirs within them. Both are dutiful daughters who’ve devoted their lives to their parents – but as the sparks fly, a life-changing question takes shape: What might happen if they dare to be good to themselves? To wholly experience desire, pleasure, and joy as grown-ass women — for the very first time.

  Adia & Clora Snatch Joy (Nov. 24 – Dec. 13), world premiere by Mfoniso Udofia & Michael Ellis Ingram, directed by Awoye Timpo .  When nationally acclaimed playwright Mfoniso Udofia grew up in Southbridge, Massachusetts and went to Wellesley College, she rarely saw stories about Africans and African Americans that felt like her family. Inspired in part by meeting August Wilson at The Huntington, she set out to create a richly textured and emotionally engrossing cycle of nine plays that follows one family through three generations: parents, children, grandchildren. Each play stands alone, yet together form a rich tapestry of storytelling traditions that will resonate with everyone.

   Meet the Cartozians (Feb. 8 – Mar.21, 2027), by Talene Monahon, directed by Loretta Greco. A layered, complex, surprising, and stylish exploration of immigration, accountability, roots, and race. How do we decide who gets to belong — and at what price?

   Unorthodox (Apr. 29 – May 30), by Joshua Harmon, Benji Pasek & Shaina Taub, directed by Jordan Fein.   The musical follows two parallel, intervenerational stories in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Satmar community. It explores 17-year-old Devoiri’s arranged marriage alongside her grandmother’ Fraida’s arrival in America 60 years earlier, contrasting one woman’s journey into faith with another’s awakening to leave.

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  Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre has announced its 2026-27 season:

Casting TBA.

  Merrily We Roll Along  (Aug. 25 – Nov. 1), directed & Choreographed by Matthew Gardiner

 All the World’s a Stage (Oct. 20 – Nov. 20), by Adam Gwon, directed & Choreographed by Matthew Gardiner. A funny and heart-wrenching new musical centered around a small-town math teacher who reluctantly agrees to coach a misfit student for the 1996 State Thespian Competition. Enter the teacher’s new outspoken boyfriend and the devout school secretary, and he soon has trouble navigating his carefully compartmentalized life.

  The Secret Garden (Dec. 8 – Feb. 21, 2027), by Marsha Norman & Lucy Simon, directed by Ethan Heard.

  The Monsters (Feb. 22 – Mar. 21) by xNgozi Anyanwu), directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene.  A sibling love story about reunions, resentment, reconnection, and wrestling with demons. For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she’s been doing it all from afar until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep.

  A Mountain for Elodie (Mar. 16 – Apr. 18), written & performed by Benjamin Scheuer, directed by  Séimí Campbell.    When his daughter ELODIE is born, BEN realizes the closure he thought he’d found with his own long-dead father needs to be re-examined in this heartbreaking new show from Benjamin Scheuer, the creator of Drama Desk Award-winning “The Lion.”

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  Kenrex, by Jack Holden & Ed Stambollouian, currently in previews,  will open J June 27 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, directed by Stambollouian.

  Jack Holden

  The blistering true-crime thriller about the thin line between justice served and justice taken.

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  From Corinne’s Heart, by Charles Mandracchia, will take place Fri. May 15 at 9:30 PM, (both live & livestreamed,), with music direction by Mitch Marcusat NYC’s 54 Below.

  Keith Crowningsheild, Olympia eyal, Arielle Joy Hubbard, Ken Jennings, Scot Fraser O’Brien, Jessi Shieman, Hannah Thompson, and Exavier Wilson.

  Miracles do happen. The piece explores the hope and resilience of Corinne, affected by Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Inspired by true events, Corinne dreamed of becoming a world class figure skater. Diagnosed with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, she cannot accept her misfortune until the love of Tony gives her hope and a small miracle.

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  The world premiere of Dana Leslie Goldstein’s Go Down, Moses will run May 13-31,(opening May 17) at A.R.T./New York Theatres, directed by Brandon M. Weber.

  Terence Archie, Philip Hoffman, Shania Adams, Lucas Bernhauer, Kaa’lah Bynes, Maddy Mackarey, Yarin Neuhaus, Jeremiah Packer, Vanessa, Donovan Price, Patrick Saint Ange, Celina Mylene Santana, and Renee Shohet.

   Inspired by a true story, Go Down, Moses is set on a college campus in 1985 and follows ethics professor Philip Hoffman and newly appointed Dean of Students Albert Becker—two men bound by a shared history in the Civil Rights Movement—now navigating a new generation of activism. When a student from the South Bronx invites a controversial speaker to campus, long-standing tensions erupt, and questions of free speech, institutional responsibility, and systemic inequity.

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  Matt Doyle: New Beginnings will take place Sun. May 10 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Evan Zavada.

 A tribute to the great singer-songwriters who have inspired Doyle throughout the years.

Today’s Highlights:

  LAByrinth Theater Company’s Celebrity Charades 2026! benefit, featuring Lea DeLaria and many more (not reported), at  6:30 PM at NYC’s Pier 57,  (25 11th Ave.).

  Dreamers on Fire benefit concert, with music direction by Jason Goldston , featuring Alex Newell, Sidney Dupont, Ryann Redmond, Olivia Hardy, Samantha, Pollino , Brett Gray, Ari Groover , Jeff Gorti, Rachel Webb), Grace Slear, Rico LeBron, Jason Goldston, Tristan Hill, Thea Erichsen, Ginna Le Vine, Samantha Gorjanc, Grace Conrad, Sarah Stipe, Ann-Eliza Canning-Skinner, Nicole Hood, and Amy Bransky, at 7:30 PM at  NYC’s Cutting Room.

  Red Bull Theater‘s Paris, Actors! reading, by Hamish Linklater, directed by Jack O’Brien, featuring Gus Birney, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Jay O. Sanders, Lily Santiago, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Azalea Wolfe, at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space.

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   Grace Notes Quiz:  Come, Come, by Jim Bernhard

Add the missing phrases in these show songs:

Scroll down for the answers…

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  Reviews for Fallen Angels at Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre:

Click here for all the reviews.

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  Pamela Gray & Ann Marie Milazzo’s A Walk on the Moon will run June June 15. – Aug. 22 (opening June 29)  at the the Laura Pels Theatre , directed by Sheryl Kaller.

   Talia Suskauer (Pearl Kantrowitz), Max Chernin (Marty Kantrowitz), Sam Gravitte (Walker), and Andréa Burns (Lillian).

  a new musical about dreams differed and one women’s desire for a life that isn’t strictly earthbound. It’s the Summer of 1969. Pearl Kantrowitz, a Brooklyn mother and housewife, takes the annual trip north to a Catskills bungalow colony just as the world begins to shift beneath her feet. The country is reaching for the moon. A new spirit of freedom is sweeping the nation. And an unexpected encounter leads her to a musical festival happening just around the corner. As the countercultural revolution begins, and music starts to change the world, Pearl awakens to a life beyond the one she’s always known.

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  Pippin will run May 12 – July 6 at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Matthew Gardiner, with choreography by Rachel Leigh Dolan, and music direction by Jon Kalbfleisch.

   Cedrick Neal (Leading Player), with Brayden Banbino (Pippin), Eric Hissom (Charles), Maria Rizzo (Fastrada), Naomi Jacobson (Berthe), Awa Sal Secka (Catherine), Ryan Sellers (Lewis), and  Ellison Bihm (Theo), with Ben Bogen, Calvin L’mont Cooper,  Candice Hatakeyama, Georgia Monroe, Alanna Sibrián, Jacob Taylor Starks, Emily Steinhardt, Hank von Kolnitz, Dylan Arredondo, Alonso Nicolas Waller, Liz Weber,  Veronica Quezada, and Ian Rubin.

  A traveling troupe of performers bring to life the story of Pippin, the restless heir of Charlemagne, on his quest for purpose. Dreaming of greatness, he dives into war, passion, and even murder—only to find himself disillusioned at every turn in this dazzling and provocative coming-of-age parable about what it means to be extraordinary.

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   Nora Sorena Casey’s The Censorship of Dreams will run May 1-17 at (opening May 4) at La MaMa, directed by Arthur Makaryan.

   Jes dubber, Chris Jaymes, Kat Warnnusz-Steckel and Bryce Michael Wood.

  After the mysterious Restart, people awaken without memories, living with strangers they’re told are their families. The Man and the Woman are one such couple: she strives for a happy marriage, he doubts the assurances that this Restart is “for everyone’s safety.” When she takes a job cataloguing problematic dreams at an official Post Office, he begins a dangerous and haphazard journey to rediscover forbidden words and images that might reveal what came before. As dreams become dangerous currency and language is slowly weaponized, their love is tested by a surveillance state, the failures of the past and the decision of what comes next.

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   Something Rotten will run May 1 – June 7 at Lyric Stage Boston, directed by Ilana Ransom Toeplitz.

  Jared Troilo (William Shakespeare), Ryan Mardesich (Nick Bottom), Ohad Ashkenazi (Nigel Bottom), Joy Clark (Nostradamus), Kristian Espiritu (Bea), Kenneth Kelleher (Brother Jeremiah), Lauren Dodds (Portia), Bobbie Steinbach (Shylock), and Brian Miner (Lord Clapham), with Jonah Barricklo, Temma Beaudreau, Danny Hernandez, Elliana Karris,  Jennifer Preston, Indijhan Richard, and Colin Welter.

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    Billy Barnes Bash will take place Wed.Apr. 22 at 8:30 PM at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club, directed by Kay Cole, with music direction by Michael Orland.

  Eileen Barnett, Cheryl Dano, Jane A. Johnston, Jackie Joseph, Jeffrey Polk, Todd Sherry, James Snyder, BJ Ward, Jo Anne Worley and David Zack.

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   Twisted, by Chris DiGiovanni, a Writers in Residence Production, continues through May 3 at Theatre West, directed by Marc Antonio Pritchett.

  Crystal Yvonne Jackson, Isaiah Frazilus, and  Monty Renfrow.

  As Scilla begins the journey to uncover the truth of the tragic events that took place to her son on his college campus, the path she’s on not only leads to changes in her life and worldview, but ultimately changes in her relationship with her son, which may turn out to be the biggest tragedy of all.

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   Jesus Christ  Superstar continues through June 7 at CT’s Goodspeed Musicals, directed by Tatiana Pandiani.

  Justin Matthew Sargent (Jesus), Austin Lesch (Judas), Stephanie Zaharis (Mary), Devin Kolluri (Pilate), Nicolette Antonia Shin (King Herod), Jamar Darling (Caiaphas), Jamari Darling (Caiaphas), and Kevin Trinio Perdido (Annas), with  Jordan Alexander, Elijah Dawson, Jack Hale, Michael James, Eleni Kontzamanys, Alex Lauren, Kathy Liu, Adam Mandala, Thabitha Moruthane, Mikaela Rada, Matthew Saggiomo, Garrick Vaughan, Dakota Hoar, Selena Robinson.

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   Grace Notes Quiz: answers:  Come, Come, by Jim Bernhard

1-E. “Come Along With Me” – Can-Can

2-H. “Come and Be My Butterfly” – Hello, Dolly!

3-F. “Come Back to Me” – On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

4-A.  “Come Fly With Me” – Come Fly Away

5-J. “Come Follow the Band” – Barnum

6-B. “Come Home With Me” – Hadestown

7-I. “Come Out of the Dumpster” – The Wedding Singer

8-C. “Come Rain or Come Shine” – St. Louis Woman

9-G. “Come to Me, Bend to Me” – Brigadoon

10-D. “Come Up to My Place” – On the Town

This Weekend’s Highlights:

Friday, April 17

  Hell Mouth, world premiere by Tom Jacobson, directed by by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, featuring Tomy Abatemarco (Russell/Spencer), Taylor Hilbert (Lois/Samara), and Danny Lee Gomez (Tim), opens at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.

Saturday, April 18

   Back to Oz concert, with music direction by rachael Worby, featuring Carmen Cusack, LaVance Colley, Nathan Granner,  and the DC6 Singers Collective, opens at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.

  Falstaff, conducted by James Conlon, featuring Craig Colclough (Falstaff) and Nicole (Alice Ford), with Ernesto Petti (Ford), Deanna Breiwick (Nannetta),  Anthony  León (Fenton), Hyona Kim (Mistress Quickly), Sarah Saturnino (Meg Page), Yuntong Han (Bardolph), Vinícius Costa (Pistol), and Nathan Bowles (Dr. Caius), opens at LA Opera.

  The Adding Machine, by Elmer Rice, directed by Cihan Sahin, featuring Pierre Adeli (Mr. Zero) and Jennifer Tilly (Mrs. Zero), Zoe Molina, with Brent Hinkley, Adam J. Jefferis, Kirk Palmer, Chad Reinhart, Megan Stogner, Mariana Jaccazio, Ana Ming Bostwick-Singer, and Lynde Houck, closes at LA’s Actors Gang Theatre.

Sunday, April 19

  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), opens at Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre.

  Miracle on South Division Street, by Tom Dudzick, directed by Joe Brancato, featuring Coryn Carson, Grace Experience, and Liz McCartney, opens at Off-Broadway’s Sheen Center.

  Works in Progress reading series begins at Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre.

  Timeless: A Tribute to Bernadette Peters concert, directed by Lennie Watts, featuring  Gerrilyn Sohn, at 4 PM at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama.

  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), closes at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre.

   As You Like It, directed by Timothy Douglas, featuring Terrance Fleming (Ollie), Mnu Kumasi (Orlando), Nikole Salter (Jaques), and Sabrina Lynne Sayer (Celia), with Tsilala Brock (Rosalind), Joey Collins (TAdam), Ahmad Kamal (Touchstone), Raven Lorraine (Corin), Jefferson A. Russell (Duke Senior /Duke Frederick), and  John Sygar (LeBeauAmiens), closes at DC’s Folger Theatre.

  Dragon Mamma, written & performed by Sara Porkalob, directed by Andrew Rusel, closes at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.

  Marilyn Maye in Concert closes at NYC’s 54 Below. A livestream option is also available.

  Rogue 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), closes at LA’s Matrix Theatre.

  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, closes at Ventura, CA’s  Rubicon Theatre.

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   Reviews for Proof at Broadway’s Booth Theatre:

Click here for all the reviews.    

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     David Yazbeck & Terrance McNally’s The Full Monty will return to The  Roundabout Theatre during the 2026-27 season, directed by Leigh Silverman, with choreography by Connor Gallagher.

Dates, link. and casting TBA.

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      The Judith Champion PlayLabs Reading Series, will run  May 4-18 at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre.  Casting TBA.

All readings are free and open to the public, and will be followed by a light reception. Space is limited and seating is general admission.

  My Love My Love (May 4 at 6:30 PM), by Justice Hehir, directed by Joan Sergay.  In 2012, Jane and Eric are scene partners for their college intermediate acting class. In 2022, Jane is dead and Eric is doing community theater in Pittsburgh. A play about all that we wish for ourselves and each other.

  Is Cry YouCry’n? (May 11 at 6:30 PM), by Dhari Noel, directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps.   Grace is staging a green-card wedding: Tashie–recently coming from Trinidad with her son Likkle–is marrying her Americanized “cousin” Nap, who is bringing his “friend” as a witness. Four fraternity pledges are preparing for their last night of hell week before becoming full-fledged brothers: they make dances, crack jokes, and test one another. Both stories take place in the same basement, blurring the lines of identity, time, and belonging. “If cat mek kitten in an oven does that make it bun?” is a Trini saying our mothers might tell us when we dare suggest we are not really Trini. Is Cry You Cry’n? is about the dream this proverb aspires to make real.

  At the Confluence of Creeks (May 18 at 6:30 PM), by Sam Mueller,, directed byTBA. Caleb is back at his family’s hunting cabin in rural Wyoming for the first time in a decade. He hasn’t been since he came out as trans, but his estranged brother, Cain, has invited him along for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hunt a bighorn sheep. Little do they know, there’s a bighorn sheep nearby pulling off his limbs and morphing into a man. The brothers are too busy collapsing under the weight of things they won’t say to each other to notice they might be the ones being hunted.

   Cat Cohen & David Dabbon’s Broad Strokes will run July 14 – Sept. 5 (opening July 27) at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, directed by Alex Timbers.

  Catherine Cohen

  After suffering a stroke at 30 caused by a hole in her heart, comedian Cohen transforms this near-death experience into a song-filled solo show about mortality, hypochondria, and the undeniable thrill of being the main character.

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   Ca’s La Mirada Theatre (link TBA) has announced its 2026-27 season:

Creative teams and casting TBA.

   Little Shop of Horrors (Sept. 18 – Oct. 11  – opening Sept. 19).

   Dear Evan Hansen (Oct. 30 – Nov. 22 – (opening (Oct. 31).

   To Kill a Mockingbird (Feb. 5 – 28, 2027 (opening Feb. 6).

   Hairspray (Apr. 2-25 (opening Apr. 3)

Today’s Highlights:

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

  Circus Fire, world premiere by Jacques Lamarre, directed by Jared Mezzocchi, featuring Olivia Nicole Hoffman, Caroline Kinsloving, Janelle Anne Robinson, Mike Boland, Constantino Fernandez, Stuart Rider, Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Marco Verna, Rebecka Jones, and Dan Wheltonm with  Anastasia Maglaras and Eric Orsini, opens at Theaterworks Hartford.

  Master Harold … and the Boys, by Athol Fugard, directed by Emily Mann & Tarell Alvin McCraney, featuring Ben Beatty (Hally), Nyasha Hatendi ( Willie), and and John Kani (Sam), opens at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.

  Flower Drum Song, presented by East West Players,  adapted by David Henry Hwang, directed by Jacqui Park, featuring Joven Calloway, Ethan Yaheen-Moy Chan, Jay Espinoza, Sierra Goria, Sally Hong, Tony Jin, Esther Lee, Brian Liebson, Emma Park, Gemma Pedersen, Avelina Sanchez, Hillary Tang, Ai Toyoshima, Haoyi Wen, and Paul Wong, begins previews at LA’s the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’s Aratani Theatre.

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  Reviews for The Fear of 13 at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre:

Click here to read all the reviews.

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   Thornton Wilder’s final play, The Emporium, will run Apr. 30 – June 7 (opening May 18) at Classic Stage Company, directed by Rob Melrose.

  Candy Buckley, Mahira Kakkar, Eva Kaminsky, Patrick Kerr, Derek Smith, Joe Tapper, and Cassia Thompson.

  Thornton Wilder’s final, unfinished play, (completed by Kirk Lynn), follows John, an orphan who escakes a harsh life to the big city, seeking meaning by trying to gain employment in the “Emporium”, a mythical, Kafaka-essque department store containing all human desires. The play serves as a profound allegory for life, with the audience actively immersed in roles like orphans or customers. 

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   “Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen” will continue through May 10 at NYC’s HeliclineFineArt.

  The exhibition celebrates a century of ‘performance’ as seen through the eyes of some of the most influential artists and designers of the 20th century. On view through May 10, the exhibition brings together more than three dozen works that capture the spectacle, emotion, and cultural impact of live theatre, film, dance, opera, and popular entertainment.

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   In the Heights continues through Apr. 26 at  CA’s Long Beach’s Musical Theater West, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez.

  Rubén J. Carbajai (Usnvavi), Amanda Aceves-Lopez (Nina), Angelica Lozada Ramos (Vanessa), Antwone Barnes (Benny), Susanna Guzmán (Abuela Claudia), Adam Leiva (Sonny), Mario Rocha (Kevin Rasario), Elvira Barjau (Camila Rosario),  Veronica Vazquez Jackson (Daniela), Rianny Vasquez (Carla), Berto Fernández (Piragua Guy), and Patrick(Patches), Viloria (Grafiti Pete), and  Antwone Barnes. 

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  Off-Broadway’s The Tank will present its 2026 Gala-Off-Off Runway on Mon. May 4 at 6 PM at  NYC’s Crowne Plaza hotel, hosed by Mariyea.

 Stan Zimmerman

  Wilson Cruz, Rickie Vasquez , Paige Davis , and Pooya Mohseni

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    Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater will present the Judith Champion Play Labs Reading Sereies.  Casting TBA.

  My Love My Love (May 4 at 6:30 PM), by Justice Hehir, directed by Joan Sergay. In 2012, Jane and Eric are scene partners for their college intermediate acting class. In 2022, Jane is dead and Eric is doing community theater in Pittsburgh. A play about all that we wish for ourselves and each other. In 2012, Jane and Eric are scene partners for their college intermediate acting class. In 2022, Jane is dead and Eric is doing community theater in Pittsburgh. A play about all that we wish for ourselves and each other.

   Is Cry You Cry’n? (May 11 at 6:30 PM), by Dhari Noel, directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps.   Grace is staging a green-card wedding: Tashie–recently coming from Trinidad with her son Likkle–is marrying her Americanized “cousin” Nap, who is bringing his “friend” as a witness. Four fraternity pledges are preparing for their last night of hell week before becoming full-fledged brothers: they make dances, crack jokes, and test one another. Both stories take place in the same basement, blurring the lines of identity, time, and belonging. “If cat mek kitten in an oven does that make it bun?” is a Trini saying our mothers might tell us when we dare suggest we are not really Trini. Is Cry You Cry’n? is about the dream this proverb aspires to make real.

   At the Consluence of Creeks (May 18 at 6’30 PM) by Sam Mueller.    Caleb is back at his family’s hunting cabin in rural Wyoming for the first time in a decade. He hasn’t been since he came out as trans, but his estranged brother, Cain, has invited him along for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hunt a bighorn sheep. Little do they know, there’s a bighorn sheep nearby pulling off his limbs and morphing into a man. The brothers are too busy collapsing under the weight of things they won’t say to each other to notice they might be the ones being hunted. At The Confluence of Creeks is a play that asks just how much.

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  The world premiere of Art Shulman’s Act Your Age will run May 22 – June 24 at North Hollywood’s Two Roads Theatre, directed by Stan Mazin.

   Ezra Black, Brittney DeLeon, Jillian McWhirter, and Morry Schorr.

  Things change with the passage of time, and Jake is denying those changes for as long as he can. However, once the star player of the neighborhood Sunday basketball game, Jake struggles to keep up with the younger guys. Jake’s about to become a grandfather and he’s not quite ready for that either. This may have more to do with things other than his advancing age. Will Jake allow his age-denial to threaten his relationships with his wife, daughter and son-in-law, or will Jake finally act his age?

Today’s Highlights:  

  The Fear of 13, by Lindsey Ferrentino, directed by David Cromer, featuring Lindsey Ferrentino, Adrien Brody, and Tessa Thompson, opens at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre.

  Spamalot, dorected & choreographed by Josh Rhodes, featuring 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, opens at Houston’s TUTS.

  Kenrex, by Jack Holden & Ed Stambollouian, directed by Stambollouian, featuring Jack Holden, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre.

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  Broadway Grosses for the week ending Apr. 12

Click here for the complete analysis.

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   All Roads Theatre Company will present the world premiere of The Music That Mankes Me Dance: The Songs of July Styne, t0 run May 1-3 (opening May 2) at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre, directed & choreographed by Scott Thompson.

   Annaliese van der POL, Nick Adams, Lana Gordoon, and Angel Reda, with Rhett George, Neill Starkenberg, and Michael Zampino.

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   The Festival will run Aug. 14-16 at Kingston, NY’s historic Hutton Brickyards, directed by D.B. Bonds, with with choreography by Jerry Mitchell & Jon Rua.

  Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Alex Newell, Christopher Jackson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, , Adrienne Warren, Amber Ardolino, Ben Levi Ross, Cara Rose DiPietro, Casey Likes, Denée Benton, Eva Noblezada, Gianmarco Soresi, JJ Niemann, Jason Robert Brown, Jenn Colella, Julie Benko, Lauren Patten, Mandy Gonzalez, Mitch Wood, Norbert Leo Butz, Reeve Carney, Seth Rudetsky, Talia Suskauer, Tommy Bracco, Tom Kitt, Tyler Joseph Ellis, Adam Pascal, Aiko Nakasone, Anthony Rapp, Byron Utley,  Fredi Walker-Brown, Jesse L. Martin, Kristen Lee Kelly, Taye Diggs, Timothy Britten Parker, Rodney Hicks, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia Taye Diggs, Aiko Nakasone, Gianmarco Soresi, and Mitch Wood.

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

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   August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, currently in previews, will open  Apr. 25 at the Barrymore Theatre, and close July 19, directed by Debbie Allen.

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

  The play  is set in 1911 Pittsburgh, at the boarding house of Seth Holly (Cedric) and his wife Bertha. The house welcomes travelers, many of whom are formerly enslaved people from the South who move north for a better life, during the Great Migration. One of the migrants is Herald Loomis, who endured seven years of labor under a cruel man named Joe Turner.

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    Cagney The Musical, by Peter Colley, Robert Creighton & Christopher McGovern, will run June 20 – July 26 at Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre., directed by Will Pomerantz.

  Melissa Manchester (Ma Gacney), Robert Creighton (James Cagney), and more TBA.

    A high-energy musical that traces the life and career of James Cagney, one of Hollywood’s most iconic performers. Known for his explosive screen presence, precision dancing, and unmistakable charisma, Cagney rose from the streets of New York to become a defining figure of American film. Featuring music and lyrics by Robert Creighton and Christopher McGovern, and a book by Peter Colley, the production blends tap dance, storytelling, and a dynamic score to capture the spirit of an artist who helped shape modern entertainment.

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   August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, currently in previews, will open Apr. 25 at the Barrymore Theatre, directed by Debbie Allen.

  Taraji P. Henson (Bertha Holly ), Cedric The entertainer (Seth Holly ), Joshua Boone (Herald Loomis), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Bynum Walker ), and more.

  Set in Pittsburgh in 1911 during a pivotal era of migration and transformation, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone centers on Seth and Bertha Holly (Cedric and Henson) who run a warm, orderly boardinghouse for those navigating uncertain paths. But when a mysterious man named Herald Loomis (Boone) arrives with his young daughter, the stillness of the house begins to shift. This timeless American classic is a profoundly moving story of personal awakening, collective memory, and the quiet power of human connection.

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  The world premiere of Tom Jacobson’s  Hell Mouth, curently in previews, will  opens Apr. 17 at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.

  Tony Abatemarco (Russell/Spencer), Taylor Hilbert (Lois/Samara), and Danny Lee Gomez (Tim).

  The play follows Tim, a character torn between his Midwestern parents and Beverly Hills owners, who discover a lost Caravaggio painting of Judas.

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   Something Rotten will run May 1 – June 7 at Lyric Stage Boston, directed by Ilana Ransom Toeplitz.

  Jared Troilo (Shakespeare), Ryan Mardesich (Nick Bottom), Ohad Ashkenzai (Nigel Bottom), Joy Clark (Nostradamus), Kristian Espiritu (Bead), Kenneth Kelleher (Brother Jeremiah), Lauren Dodd (Portia), Bobby Steinbach (shylock), and Bryan Miner (Lord clapham).

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  Marilyn Maye in concert continues through Apr. 19 at NYC’s 54 Below.

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   The Physicists, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, will run May 7 – June 20 at The Actors Gang, directed by Brent Hinkley.

   TBA.

  Set in an insane asylum that houses Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, the biting 1962 German comedy is full of murder, mayhem, espionage, and questions about the morality and ethics of science.

Today’s Highlights:

  Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth, directed by Logan Vaughn, featuring Jasminn Johnson (Corrina/Wally’s Waiter/Bank Customers), Greg Stuhr (Clay/Sam/Le Pousselet Bartender), alphonso Walker Jr.(Kenneth), and Lance Coadie Williams (Bert), opens at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse.

  Mrs. Christie, by Heidi Armbruster, directec by Joanie Schultz, featuring Matt Bowdren ( Archie,) Blake Hamilton Currie  (William / Collins),  Amira Danan ( Nancy / Chloe), Zoë Sophia Garcia ( Lucy), Dale Hodges ( Jane,) Betsy Hogg ( Charlotte / Mary), Alex Keiper (Agatha) and William Sturdivant ( Monsieur), opens at Milwaukee Rep.

  Miracle on South Division Street, by Tom Dudzick, directed by Joe Brancato, featuring Coryn Carson, Grace Experience, and Liz McCartney, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Sheen Center.

  Hell Mouth, world premiere by Tom Jacobson, directed by by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, featuring Tomy Abatemarco (Russell/Spencer), Taylor Hilbert (Lois/Samara), and Danny Lee Gomez (Tim), begins previews at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.

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   Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia will begin previews Nov. 10 and open Dec. 1 at the Music Box Theatre, directed by Justin Martin.

   Rosamund Pike (Jesica Parks), and more TBA.

  The play centers on Judge Jessica Parks, a pioneering London Crown Court judge and mother who balances a high-powered career with family life. The plot focuses on a severe ethical kilemma when her son is accused of rape, forcing her to confront her own legal prinicples against and her insting to progect her family.

  Video. Trailer for the London production.

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   Arthur Miller’s The Price has been extended through May 31 at Venice, CA’s Pacific Resident Theater, directed by Elina de Santos.

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

   Two brothers reunite in the attic of a New York brownstone to sort through their late father’s possessions. What begins as a long overdue reunion becomes an intense exploration comparing the price of professional success to the cost of personal integrity, as four indelible characters struggle to make sense of the past and create a future.

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  Off-Broadway’s LAByrinth Theater Company will present its annual Celebrity Charades 2026 benefit on Mon. Apr. 20 at NYC’s City Winery (25 11th Ave.).

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

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   Amas Musical Theatre (link TBA), will present  Sound Bites: A Festival of 10-minute Musicals on Mon. May 4 at 7 PM at NYC’s Symphony Space.

   The event provides emerging composers and writers with development opportunities and mentorship. The festival emphasizes diverse, innovative storytelling and often includes audience favorites.

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  Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey will run May 7 – June 7 at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion, directed by Loretta Greco.

   Juan Arturo (Oedipus), Gabe Martinez (Laius), Melisa Soledad Pereyra (Jocasta), Jaime Jose Hernandez (Creon), Victor Almanzar (Tiresias), and Javier David (El Sobador).

  Oedipus dreams of rewriting his own story — but liberation comes at a price: can he truly escape the destiny laid out before him? What’s fate, and what’s just the system? A searing tale of love, family, and prophecy, Oedipus el Rey blends ancient myth with modern urgency and Chicano swagger with swaths of sly humor.

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  Jonathan Spector’s Birthright will run June 5 – July 12, opening June 25 at MCC Theater, 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 world premiere of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” will livestream May 1 on Disney+ and Hulu.

  Meryl Streep (Miranda Priestly), Anne Hathaway (Andy Sachs), Emily Blunt (Emily Charlton), and Stanley Tucci (Nigel), with Kenneth Branagh.

  The sequel follows a, now, high-powered Miranda Priestly navigating the decline of traditional magazine publishing, forcing her to rely on her former assistant, Emily Charlton, who is now a high-ranking executive at a luxury group, according to Deadline.

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   Gingold Theatrical Group‘s reading of Maurine Dallas Watkins’ 1926 play Chicago (the inspiration for the musical), will take place  on Mon. May 18 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.

   Nikki M. James(Roxie Hart) Reg Rogers( Billy Flynn), Katerina McCrimmon (Velma Kelly), Arnie Burton( Jake, David Ryan Smith (Amos Hart), Randy Graff (Mary Sunshine), Jackie Hoffman(Mrs. Morton), Richard B. Watson (The Sargeant Charles E. Murdock), Daniel Jenkins(Martin S. Harrison), Troy Iwata (Babe), and Erin Maquire  (Go-To-Hell Kitty).

  The satirical comedy Chicago was inspired by real-life murder cases covered by journalist Watkins. The play follows two women accused of murder as they navigate both the legal system and the court of public opinion.

Today’s Highlights:

Relax, let go, let fly…

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  H-e-e-e-re’s Johnny! By Jim Bernhard

Match these actors named John with their most recent Broadway appearances.

Scroll down for the answers…

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   Reviews for  Titaníque at Broadway’s St. James Theatre:

Click here  for all the reviews.

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  Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre has announced it Works in Progress reading series, to run Apr. 19-25.

  Unlined  – Hardcover – Layflat (Apr. 19 at 7 PM), by Ro Reddick, directed by Leigh Sliverman, featuring Micaela Diamond, Crystal Finn, Nathan Lee Graham,  Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Erin Saidah Lockett, and Nina Ross.     In a world where the analog reigns supreme and the titans of industry measure influence by the ream, Morgan, a recent grad with a “unique ability”, stumbles into a prestigious design mentorship program. Under the guidance of Madam, a glamorous notebook magnate, Morgan’s on her way to becoming the second most well-known producer of high-end analog time management resources in North America! — if she survives Madam, that is. Unlined – Hardcover – Layflat is an absurdist corporate satire that explores capital’s unholy union with time and the perennial allure of a bunch of dykes in the dangerous world of luxury notebooks.

  Letiche and [The Wondrous] Pursuit of Elvis (Apr. 10 at 7 PM), by Marissa Joyne, directed by Josiah Davis, featuring Joe Morton, Stacey Sargeant, Mari Anne Stamps, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, and more TBA    New York City mother-daughter duo, Imara and Kal, are on a swamp tour on their New Orleans vacation. They find themselves led by a white captain on an all-Black boat of tourists. What are the odds?! In the murkiness of their 90-minute tour, Kal finds herself itching and her psyche morphing in a place full of contradictions and turns to the alligators and their leader—the mighty alligator, Elvis—for some clarity.

  Homo Erectus (Apr. 12 at 7 PM), written & performed by American Sing-Song (Jake Brasch & Nadja Leonhard-Hooper), directed by R.J. Tolan.   The
year is 2131. Tim and his husband Harry are desperate for a baby, but on the day that they’re finally invited to conceive at the Babies for Gays Womb Center….everything goes wrong. From the perverted minds of American Sing-Song (A.S.S.), Homo Erectus is a new musical about grief, gay parenthood, and the raw sexual power of fishing for your dinner.

  Gertrude (Apr. 25 at 7 PM), by Carly Mensch, directed by Liz Flahive, featuring Micaela Diamond, Nathan Lee Graham, Chris Lowell, Mary-Louise Parker, David Rasche, Thomas Sadoski, Merritt Wever, Joe Morton, and Stacey Sargean.  This isn’t Hamlet’s play. It’s his mom’s.

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  Dreamers on Fire will take place Mon. Apr. 20 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Cutting Room,  with  music direction by Jason Goldston.

  Alex Newell, Sidney Dupont, Ryann Redmond, Olivia Hardy, Samantha, Pollino , Brett Gray, Ari Groover , Jeff Gorti, Rachel Webb), Grace Slear, Rico LeBron, Jason Goldston, Tristan Hill, Thea Erichsen, Ginna Le Vine,  Samantha Gorjanc, Grace Conrad, Sarah Stipe, Ann-Eliza Canning-Skinner,  Nicole Hood, and Amy Bransky.

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   Cassatt, written & directed by Arden Teresa, will run May 19 – June 28 Theatre West.

  Samantha Gregory, Cecil Jennings, Caroline Quigley, Sara Ballantine, Kathie Barnes, Alexandria Sanders, Lily Cadot, Briana Burnside, Walter Rodriguez, and Daniel Korth.

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   Off-Broadway’s Tru, by Jay Presson Allen, has been extended for the final time, now through May 10, at Off-Broadway’s House of the Redeemer (2 E. 95th St.), directed by Rob Ashford.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Charlotte d’Amboise.

   This funny and heartbreaking one-man play is an unflinching portrait of an artist at his breaking point, confronting the consequences of his most scandalous work.

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  Bike Shop the Musical, by Elizabeth Barkan, Caroline Murphy & Youn-Young Park, will run  Apr. 30 – May 17 (opening May 4) at Theater for the New City, directed by Gretchen Cryer.

  Elizabeth Barkan, David Edwards, Jeff McCarthy, Amy Siller, and Joe Symon.

   With the right tools, you can fix anything. Set against the pulse of downtown Manhattan’s bike messenger era, the musical follows Bobby, a female bike messenger and fearless rider who suffers a life-changing traumatic accident. Twenty years later, she is still unable to get back on her bike. She fixes and restores other people’s bikes as penance, all while turning away from her own bike, still mounted on the wall.

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  Verdi’s Falstaff will run Apr. 18 – May 10, conducted by James Conlon at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

   Ernesto Petti, Deanna Breiwick, Nicole Heaston, and Craig Colclough.

  What happens when a failed Casanova sends two women the same love letter? Chaos, revenge, and a dunk in the River Thames, to start.

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  Judith Isacoff ‘s  The Marshmallow Connection will begin Apr. 15 at Theatre West, directed by Mimi Kmet.  Link TBA.

  Matt Foyer (Daniel), Goreti da Silva (Barb), Kenajuan Bentley (Pete), and Gary Lamb (the Cop.

  A yearslong battle that involved a notorious baseball manager, a marshmallow salesman and a few swinging punches comes to a resolution at a dive bar in Pennsylvania.

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  Answers:   H-e-e-e-re’s Johnny! By Jim Bernhard

1-F.  John Barrymore – My Dear Children, 1940

2-I.  John Gielgud – No Man’s Land, 1976

3-E.  John McMartin – All the Way, 2014

4-G.  John Cullum – Waitress, 2017

5.- H John Wilkes Booth –  Julius Caesar, 1864

6-B.  John Leguizamo  Latin History for Morons, 2017

7-D.  John Malkovich – Burn This, 1987

8-J.  John Cameron Mitchell – Oh, Mary!, 2026

9-A.  John Lithgow – Giant, 2026

10-C.  John Travolta – Over Here!, 1974

This Weekend’s Highlights:

Friday, April 10

   The 10th Annual L.A. Get Down Festival opens at LA’s Greenway Court Theatre.

   In The Heights, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez, featuring Rubén J. Carbajai (Usnvavi), Amanda Aceves-Lopez (Nina), Angelica Lozada Ramos (Vanessa), Antwone Barnes (Benny), Susanna Guzmán (Abuela Claudia), Adam Leiva (Sonny), Mario Rocha (Kevin Rasario), Elvira Barjau (Camila Rosario),  Veronica Vazquez Jackson (Daniela), Rianny Vasquez (Carla), Berto Fernández (Piragua Guy), and Patrick “Patches” Viloria (Grafiti Pete), previews at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West.

  Mean Girls, by Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond & Nell Benjamin, directed & choreographed by Dana Solimando, featuring Katie Roche, (Cady Heron), Adrianna Rose Lyons (Regina George), Sarah-Anne Martinez (Gretchen Wieners), Grace Fluharty (Karen Smith), McKenna Michael (Janis Sarkisian)  Gavin Leahy as “Damian Hubbard,” Eric Myrick as “Aaron Samuels,” Shailen Patel Braun (Kevin Gnapoor),  Daryl C. Brown a(Mr. Hubbard), Daniel Dawson (Coach Carr), and Gwen Hollander (Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George), with Sabrina Astengo, Alyssa Anne Austin, Eugene Boyd, Augusto Guardado, Brandon Halvorsen, Emmy J. Lane, Jenna Luck, Keturah McIntyre, Caroline Moulios, Barbara Ann Reed, Eric Renna, Clayton Michael Walke, Kevin Corte and Bailey Renee Miller, previews at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.

Saturday, April 11

  In The Heights, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez, featuring Ruben J. Carbajal (Usnavi) Amanda Aceves-Loppez (Nina Rosario), Antwone Barnes (Benny) Angelica Lozada Ramos (Vanessa),  Angelica Lozada Ramos (Vanessa), Suzanna  Guzmán, Mario Rocha (Kevin Rosario), Ecvira Barjau (Camila Rosario), Adam Leiva (sonny), Vazquez Jackson (Daniela), Rainny. Vasquea (Carla), Patrick *Patches” Viloria (Graffiti Pete), and Berto Fernández (Piragua Guy). with Leonel Ayala, Miah “BLVKE” Blake, emmie J Bourgeois, Julisa Maya Carbajal, Andrea Dobbins, Elijah Samuél Figueroa, Juan Camilo Laverde, Elvira Barjau, and Berto Fernández, opens at Long. Beach’s Musical Theatre West.

  Mean Girls, by Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond & Nell Benjamin, directed & choreographed by Dana Solimando, featuring Katie Roche, (Cady Heron), Adrianna Rose Lyons (Regina George), Sarah-Anne Martinez (Gretchen Wieners), Grace Fluharty (Karen Smith), McKenna Michael (Janis Sarkisian)  Gavin Leahy as “Damian Hubbard,” Eric Myrick as “Aaron Samuels,” Shailen Patel Braun (Kevin Gnapoor),  Daryl C. Brown a(Mr. Hubbard), Daniel Dawson (Coach Carr), and Gwen Hollander (Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George), with Sabrina Astengo, Alyssa Anne Austin, Eugene Boyd, Augusto Guardado, Brandon Halvorsen, Emmy J. Lane, Jenna Luck, Keturah McIntyre, Caroline Moulios, Barbara Ann Reed, Eric Renna, Clayton Michael Walke, Kevin Corte and Bailey Renee Miller, opens at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.

  Jeremy Jordan in concert at 8 PM at CA’s Northridge The Soraya.

  The 10th Annual LA Get Down FEStival – Get Down Festival, curated &performed by Tyne Daly, at 8 PM at LA’s Greenway Court Theatre.

  Bee Gees Celebration concert at 8 PM at Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre.

  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, closes at the 2026 New York City Fringe Festival.

Sunday, April 12

  It’s All Right with Cole Porter concerts, featuring Karring Allyson, Aisha de Haas, and Declan Cashman, at both 5 & 7 PM at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Jazz  Club.

  When I Meet the Wizard concert, featuring Caroline Bowman, Nikki Renée Daniels, and the Broadway Series Junior Company, at 8 PM at Lincoln Center‘s David Geffin Hall.

   20 By 20, offering $10 tickets, 20 minutes prior to curtain, featuring 20 productions, concludes at participating Off-Broadway productions.

  Antigone (This Play I Read in School), world premiere by Anna Zeigler, directed by Tyne Rafaeli, featuring Ethan Dubin (Cop 3/Achilles), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Chorus), Katie Kreisler (Cop 1/Proprietor), Susannah Perkins (Antigone), Dave Quay (Cop 2/Palace Guard), Tony Shalhoub (Creon), Calvin Leon Smith (Haemon), and Haley Wong (Ismene), closes at Off Broadway’s Public Theatre.

  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, closes at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.

  Safety Not Guaranteed, by Ryan Miller & Nick Blaemire, directed by Oliver Butler, featuring Preston Truman Boyd (Jeff), Tyler Dobies ( Arnau), Gunnar Manchester (Kenneth), Joshua Morgan (Tristan), Mia Pak (Darius), and Erin Weaver(Liz), with Steven Nicolás Franco Sydne Lyons, and Scout Santoro, closes at DC’s Signature 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, closes at LA’s Pantages Theatre.

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

  Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, by Pearl Cleage, directed by Jacqui Parker, featuring Patrice Jean Baptiste, Deannah “Dripp” Blemur, Inés De La Cruz,and Yasmeen Duncan, closes at Lyric Stage Boston.

  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, closes at LA’s Write Act Repertory.

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  Reviews for Death of a Salesman at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre:

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  Circus Fire, world premiere by Jacques Lamarre, and directed by Jared Mezzocchi, has been extended through May 31 at Theaterworks Hartford.

Olivia Nicole Hoffman, Caroline Kinsloving, Janelle Anne Robinson, Mike Boland, Constantino Fernandez, Stuart Rider, Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Marco Verna, Rebecka Jones, and Dan Wheltonm with  Anastasia Maglaras and Eric Orsini.

  It’s July 1944. With the nation at war and a heat wave settling over the city, the residents of Harford, CT. eaterly await the arrivival of the Ringling Bros. and Barnub & Bailey Circus. The unthinkable occurs when a fire turns the big top into and inferno. In the minutes, hours and days following the blaze, two communities – Hardford and the Circus – find themselves irretrievably irretrievably intertwined by tragedy, blame, heroism, and healing.

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  Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, by Pearl Cleage, directed by Jacqui Parker, jas been extended through May 3 at Lyric Stage Boston.

Patrice Jean Baptiste, Deannah “Dripp” Blemur, Inés De La Cruz,and Yasmeen Duncan.

  As a young artist in the 1990s, actress Anna Campbell sparked a theatrical firestorm with a staging of August Wilson monologues spoken from a female perspective performed entirely in the nude. Decades later, her provocative performance that changed the trajectory of her career, rises like a ghost, when it is to be included at a woman’s theater festival. But there’s a catch. A much younger and inexperienced actress whose credits are less than desirable has been asked to perform, causing Anna to spiral in a whirlwind of insecurity and hesitancy. With support from her manager and long-time friend Betty, Anna grapples with the choice to step aside on a road she helped to pave so that a new generation can continue the journey.

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   A reading of Steve Engelbrecht’s’ If I Cold Go will take place Thurs. Apr. 23 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s TADA Theatre (link unavailable), directed by Peter Flynn.

  Marc Kudisch, Andréa Burns, Jadon Lopez, Kate Fitzgerald, Jade Jones, and Richard B. Watson, with Elissa Bonito, Jack Gemmell, Genesis Harper, Darius Jordan Lee, and Diogo Ramirez.

   Inspired by the ancient Irish legend of Tír na nÓg—the Land of Eternal Youth—IF I COULD GO reimagines the myth through a contemporary lens.  Set between modern-day Dublin and a crumbling mythic realm, IF I COULD GO follows Oisín, a shy bookshop clerk who escapes into fantasy worlds—until one quite literally opens for him. When Niamh, a princess from the immortal land of Tír na nÓg, reaches out across worlds in search of a hero, Oisín steps into a journey that will test his courage, his identity, and the very nature of love. As the boundaries between worlds collapse, both must confront the cost of escape versus the necessity of living fully in the present. Blending a contemporary voice with Celtic musical influences, the show features a dynamic score of original songs and explores themes of connection, grief, and what it truly means to be brave.

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  Red Bull Theater‘s Titus Andronicus, directed by Jesse Berger, has been extended through May 3 at Off-Broadway’s Signature Center.

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

  Shakespeare’s bloodiest revenge tragedy, where Roman general Titus sacrifices the son of Tamora, Queen of the Goths, sparking a brutal cycle of vengeance, Tamora, now Empress of Rome, orders the rape and mutilation of Titus’s daughter, Lavinia, and kills his sons. Titus retaliates by baking Tamora’s sons into a pie and feeding them to her before a final bloodbath.