Today’s Highlights:

  The Whoopi Monologues, directed by Whitney White, featuring Dominique Fishback, Kecia Lewis, Danielle Pinnock, Kerry Washington, and Kara Young, opens at Off-Broadway’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

  Guys and Dolls concert presentation, directed by Jeff Calhoun, featuring. Julie Benco, Bonnie Milligan, Christopher Sieber, and Ryan Vasquez. opens at Theatre Aspen.

   The Limelight Club at 8 PM at Three Clubs Hollywood, with music direction by Dwight Rivera, and special guests Bryce Ryness, Laura Schein & Clayton Farris, Juliette Goglia, Ryne Strom, and Benny Lipson.

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   A Miss Is As Good As A Mile by Jim Bernhard

Complete these titles with the name of a Miss.

Scroll down for the answers.

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  Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, has been extended through Aug. 23 at Off-Broadway’s 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 the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths.

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   Jason Graae’s It’s a Graae Night for Singing will take place Sun. Aug. 9 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Gerald Sternbach.

The concert will also be available to livestream here.

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   Paranormal Activity, by Levi Holloway, will begin  previews Aug. 14, and open Aug. 25 at the August Wilson Theatre, directed by Felix Barrett.

  Cher Álvarez (Lou), Travis A. Knight (James), Shannon Cochran (Carolanne), and Andrea Syglowski (Etheline Cotgrave,) with Caron Buinis, Caroline Hendricks, and Michael Holding.

  A story distinct from the film, the play follows a couple, Lou and James, who move from Chicago to London to escape their past, soon discovering that places aren’t haunted—people are.

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   The Price, directed by Elina de Santos, continues through July 19 at the Pacific Resident Theatre.

   Dana Dwses IEsther Franz), Richard Fancy (Gergory Soloman), Jason Huber (Walter Franz), and Scott Jackson (Victor Franz).

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   The annual Fire Island Dance Festival will run July 18 & 19 at NY’s Fire Island Pines, in support of Dancers Responding to AIDS.

  Set on an awe-inspiring waterfront stage overlooking the Great South Bay, the festival transforms its Fire Island Pines environs into a living theater where movement, community and nature combine. An unforgettable weekend of bold premieres, acclaimed dance companies and extraordinary performances.

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  Mark Sonnenblick’s Midnight at the Never Get, directed by David Cromer, continues through Sept. 12 at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

  Ben Platt, Gregor Milne, and Barry James.

  Set in 106, in Greenwich Village, the show follows the romance between a singer and an ambitious songwriter, Arthur Brightman, and show explores their efforts to stage an illegal nightclub act in a secret gay bar called The Never Get, where they perform queer love songs.

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  Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, continues through July 26 at MCC Theater, directed by Teddy Bergman.

 Hale Appleman, Molly Bernard Eli Gelb, Abbi Jacobson, Liz Larsen, Nate Mann, and Zoë Winters.

 How do you show up for the people you love? 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 the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths.

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   The world premiere of Dan Caffrey’s  Kaiju will run run Sept. 22 – Nov. 1 (opening Sept. 25) at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre, directed by Ken Sawyer.

   Cherish Monique Duke (Apex/Amelia), Leandro Cano (Goilath/Manual), Gloria Ines (Lee), Jon Snow (roy), Milly Baker (Kyle), Noa Lev-Ari (Sondra, Ann Hearn (Maggie), and Sapna Kumar (Rani).

   Two gigantic, mythical monsters have just destroyed the city. Amid the chaos and destruction, a debate ensues.  A funny and audacious takedown of the sometimes pretentious nature of art and culture,  KAIJU also presents a pointed examination of power and artistic responsibility in our current world.

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  Heated Rivalry: The The Unauthorized Musical Parody, by Dylan MarcAurele, will run Oct. 7 – Nov. 1 (opening Oct. 13) at the Underbelly 6th Floor Theatre, directed by  Alan Kiffer.

   Zheng Xi Yong, Joseph Dann, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, with Andrew Berlin,  Sylvie Stenson, and Sylvie Stenson, and May Tether.

  Inspired by the hit HBO Max series about a complicated romance between two professional hockey players, the piece follows starry-eyed golden boy Shane Hollander on his “journey from power center to power bottom.”

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  Answers: A Miss Is As Good As A Mile by Jim Bernhard

1-G. Driving Miss Daisy, play by Alfred Uhry

2-C. Miss Julie, play by Strindberg

3-F. And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, play by Paul Zindel

4-E. Miss Dolly Dollars, musical by Victor Herbert and Harry Smith

5-J. Miss Liberty, musical by Irving Berlin and Robert E. Sherwood

6-I. Miss Lonelyhearts, play with music by Howard Teichman and Jule Styne

7-A. Miss Lulu Bett, play by Zona Gale

8-D. Miss Margarida’s Way, play by Roberto Athayde

9-H. Miss Saigon,  musical by Boublil, Schoenberg, and Maltby

10-B. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, play by Jay Allen

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This Weekend’s Highlights:

Friday, July 10:

  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Larry Raben, featuring Daebrreon Poiema (Narrator), Brian Justing Crum (Joseph), Thomas Hobson (Pharoah/Jacob), Harrison White (Potiphar), Jeffrey Laughrun (Reuben), Adam Lendermon (Simeon), Perry Marks (Levi), Neil Starkenberg (Dan), Jean Charles (Napthtali), Zane Camacho (Gad), Teronn S. Shrikian (Asher), Brody Tarrant Zebulun (Zeulun), Jerdan Cruz (Benjamin), and Ali Vesey (Mrs. Potiphar), with Johnisa Breault, Alexandra Skylar Kunin, and Sabrina Ryan, opens at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West.

  North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company‘s 17th Annual Playwrights Festival, opens.

   If/Then, by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey, directed by Brayden Hade, featuring Jon Armijo, Ryan Axberg, Keenan Carver, Renee Cohen, Quin Domalaon, Danielle Johnson, Shaheen Kapambwe, Joelle Lewis, Natalie Luna, Nadia Salina Salvia, Stephanie Saunders, Jewell Valentin, Michael Vandie, and Judd Yort, with Amy Melendrez and Jason Rivera, opens at LA’s Chromolume Theatre at the Zephyr.

  The Wizard of Oz, directed by Richard Israel, featuring Hannah Sedlacek (Dorothy Gale), Eric Stanton Betts a(Huck/Scarecrow), Lucas Alifano (Hickory/Tin Man), Tom Anawalt (Zeke/Cowardly Lion), Becky Lythgoe (Almira Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West), Noah Kaplan (Professor Marvel/The Wizard), Cassandra Marie Murphy (Aunt Em/Glinda), and Mike Baker (Uncle Henry/Emerald City Guard), with  Samantha Bell, Aaron Michael-Rees Camitses, Bar Daniel, Sam Davidson, Josh Igarashi. Amanda King, Lauren Lorati, Nicholas Ley, Ali Marquez-Qadiri, Jacob Ray, Barbara Ann Reed, Spencer Reese, Xavier F. Reynoso, Angelica Roque, Bayley Tanenbaum, Calista Zajac,   CC Adeva, Ryan Bohmholdt, Kaylie Cho, Gibson Day, Malia Johnson, Amaeline Lynch, and Anna Marie Holland Melendrez, opens at CA’s Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks.

Saturday, July 11: 

  Defiantly Joni: A Singer/songwriter Bares Her Soul concert opens at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.

  Hot Summer Musicals, a world premiere of one-acts, featuring Olive Banny, Maggie Borgen, Eric V Crumley, Jeron Devonte, Isa Fuller, Joshua Gill, Christina Giordano, Cate Harbin, Christine Hughes, Ann Li, Alyssa Lomosad, Naledi Miga, Linda Nile, Gilad Nilo, Teni Oduntan, Jack Sweeney, and Anthony Zermeno, opens at LA’s Write Act Repertory at the Brickhouse Theatre

  The 28th Annual Broadway Barks” Star-Studded Dog and Cat Adoption Event, from 3-6:30 PM at Broadway’s Shubert Alley. Click here for complete information.

  Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre’s 2026 Gala, honoring Lin-Manuel Miranda, featuring Alec Baldwin, Joy Behar, Tovah Feldshuh, Will Roland, Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley,  Luis A. Miranda Jr.,  Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda, Scott Schwartz, Tracy Mitchell, and more, at 6 PM.  Click here for the link.

  The Book of Mormon, directed by Trey Parker & Matt Stone, featuring Blair Gibson (Elder Price), Conner Peirson (Elder Cunningham), Paige Peddie (Nabulungi), Colin Burnicle (Elder McKinley), Ian Carlyle (Mafala Hatimbi), Matthew Elliot-Campbell (General/Satan), with Ron Remke, Deon Adams, Carys Alyse Thomson, Josh Barnett, Jake Bishop, Charlie Booker, Char Burnett, Joseph Davenport, Jemal Felix, Patrick George. George Grayson, Callum Henderson, Harry Lake, Harrison Langham, Michael Lewis, Jacob McIntosh, Paige Miller, Zachary Miller, Sean Parkins, Stephen Rolley, Jack Rose, Robin Simões Da Silva, Kellah-M Spring, Kinshasa Sunrise, Aisha Williams, and Jason Yeboa, closes at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre.

  Care, by Alexander Zeldin, directed by Zeldin, featuring Linda Bassett, Rosie Cavaliero, Hayley Carmichael, Richard Durden), Aoife Gaston, Llewella Gideon, William Lawlor, Ethan Mahony and Charlie Web, closes at London’s Young Vic.

Sunday, July 12:

  Mexodus, written & performed by Brian Quijada & Nygel D. Robinson, opens at Pasadena Playhouse.

  Midnight at the Never Get, by Mark Sonnenblick, directed by David Cromer, featuring Ben Plat, Gregor Milne. and  Barry James, begins previews at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory.

  Girl, Interrupted, world premiere by Martyna Majok & Aimee Mann, directed by Jo Bonney, featuring 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, closes at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.

  Mean Girls, directed by Mara Newbery Greer, featuring Abigail Isom (Cady Heron), Cecilia Ptetrch (Regina George), Sydi Moon (Gretchen Wieners), Gretchen Wieners (Sydni Moon), Karen Smith (Kaley Bender), Janis Sarkisian (Lyda Jade Hearlan)  Damian Hubbard (Jack Haroutunian), Quincy Hamton (Aaron Samuels), and Rayhan Khimji (Kevin Gnapoor, closes at Pittsburgh CLO.

  South Pacific, directed by William Carlos Angulo, featuring Paulo Szot (Emile de Becque), Taylor Louderman (Nellie Forbush), Loan Almedilla (Bloody Mary, .Michael Canu (Lt. Joseph Cable), bobby Conte (Luther Billis), Michaela Marfori (Liat), Robert Crenshaw (Stewpot), John El-Jor (Professor), Michael James Reed (Capt. George Brackett), Jeff Cummings (Cmdr. William Harbison), Grace Moore (Ngana), Josiah Paik (Jerome), and more, closes at the St. Louis Muny.

  Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, by Pearl Cleage, directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson, featuring Denise Burse (Betty Samson), Olivia Washington (Precious “Pete” Watson), Deborah Joy Winans (Kate Hughs), and Charlayne Woodard (Anna Campbell), with Pauline Dyer and Monica Parks, closes at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.

  A Beautiful Noise, directed by Michael Mayer, featuring Mary Page Nance (Marcia Murphey), Lisa Reneé Pitts (Doctor), Michael Accardo (Bert Berns/Kieve Diamond), Heidi Kettenring (Ellie Greenwich/Rose Diamond), Tiffany Tatreau (Jaye Posner), and Gene Weygandt (Fred Weintraub/Tommy O’Rourke), closes at Kansas City’s Starlight Theatre.

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   2026 Emmy Awards nominations:   

Click here for the complete list of nominees.

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    Video: Film trailer for London’s Giant, written by Mark Rosenblatt  and directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring John Lithgow.

  A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends.

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   Casting has been announced for Week 2 (July 16-19) of the Blank Theatre’s 34th Annual Young Playwrights Festival at LA’s Skylight Theater. Tickets are free.

Click here for complete information.

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   Video  Watch Taylor Louderman “Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair” in South Pacific at the St. Louis Muny.

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  Conor McPherson’s The Good Thief will run. Nov. 7 – Dec. 13 (opening Nov. 12)  at Irish Rep, directed by Justin Waldman.

  Christopher Fitzgerald.

  The play centers on a small-time Irish gangster who’s finally facing the consequences by telling his brutal past. The work premiered in Dublin in 1994.

Today’s Highlights:

  Ensemble Shakespeare Company‘s Julius Caesar, directed by Dylan Diehl, featuring Mark Dacascos, Pedro Garza, Dylan Diehl, Rob Hatzenbeller, Susannah Hoffman, Dennis Kear, Gerrard Lobo, Paul Marchegiani, Diego Millan, Celeste Moratti, Ella Olesen, Katie Pelensky, Matisse Ratron-Neal, Erin Roth, and Joe Staton. opens at Off-Broadway’s Flea Theater.

  The 2026 Blank theatre Young Playwrights Festival opens at LA’s Blank Theatre.

  Ethan Mathias in concert at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42.

  Giant (filmed London production), starring John Lithgow, released worldwide. Click here to find a theatre near you.

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   2026 Emmy Awards nominations:

Click here for the complete list of nominees.

The awards ceremony will air on Mon. Sept. 14 at 8 PM ET on NBC.

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. A reading of Janice Kennedy’s The Woman Who Knew Too Much will take place Mon. July 27 at 7 PM at Beverly Hills’ Theatre Forty (link TBA), directed by Melanie MacQueen. Admission: suggested $10 at the door.

  Marie Broderick, Milda Dacys and Martin Thompson.

  An historical drama and play centered on the mysterious life and death of acclaimed journalist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen. The storyline explores the lingering suspicions surrounding her unexpected 1965 death in New York and the sudden disappearance of her closely guarded portfolio concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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   Marin Ireland’s Pre-Existing Condition will begin previews Sept. 1 and open Sept. 14 at the Greenwich House Theater (27 Barrow Street), directed by Maria Dizzia.

(rotating) Lupita Nyong’o, Edie Falco, Phillipa Soo, Harni Nef, Susannah Flood, Greg Keller, Dael Orlandersmith, Sarah Steele, and more TBA.

  An unnamed woman (known as “A”) struggles to navigate trauma, grief, and the everyday indignities of moving forward after leaving a life-altering, abusive relationship.

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   NYC’s 92Y will presents its 2026-27 American Songbook Concert Series:

  Patti Lupone: Life in Notes (Oct. 1) at 7:30 PM.

  An Evening with Tituss Burgess (Oct. 26) at 7:30 PM.

  Diamonds and Rust: The Artistry and Activism of Joan Baez (Nov. 7 at 2 PM), featuring Andréa Burns.

  An Evening with Shaina Taub (Jan. 28 at 7:30 PM)

  An Evening with LaChanze (Feb. 22 at 7:30 PM)

  Brandon Victor Dixon (March 13-15)

  An Evening with Jason Robert Brown (Mar. 1)

  What’d I Say: The Genius of Ray Charels (Mar. 13), featuring Brandon Victor Dixon.

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   The national tour of Beauty and the Beast will run Aug. 12 – Sept. 6 at the Pantages Theatre, directed & choreographed by Matt West.

  Kyra Belle Johnson (Belle, Fergie L. Philippe (Beast), aStephen Mark Lukas (Gaston), Danny Gardner (Lumiere), Javier Ignacio (Cogsworth), Harry Francis (Le Fou), Holly Ann Butler (Madame), Cameron Monroe Thomas (Babette), and Levi Blaise Coleman & Kanoa Edgar (alternating as Chip), Christina Rose Hall (Mrs. Potts), and Aaron Kaburick (Maurice), with Vinny Andaloro, Benjamin Cheng, Spencer Dean, Julian Marcus De Guzman, Michael Dikegoros, Leigh-Ann Esty, Masumi Iwai, Darrell T. Joe, Emily Larger, Lena Matthews, Caleb McArthur, Melaina Rairamo, Ellen Roberts, Grace Marie Rusnica, Ben Sears, Michael Seltzer, Jasmine Pearl Villaroel, and Kate Wesler.

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  A reading of R.A. Shiomi’s Fire in the New World will take place  Thurs. July 16 at 5 PM at the Bruce Mitchell Room at 5 PM at NYC’s  Spaces@520 (520 8th Ave., third floor, directed by Ron Nakahara. here.

 Conlan Ledwith, Robert Meksin, James Patrick Nelson, Erin Quill, Camilla Shae, Moses Villarama, Cody Wilson, andJae Woo.

  The noir-style detective comedy follows hard-boiled detective Sam Shikaze fighting crime in the Powell Street area of Vancouver’s Japantown during the post-World War II years (specifically set in the 1960s).

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   LA Opera will present Candide Nov. 21 – Dec. 13 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, directed by Francesca Zambello.

   Duke Kim (Candide), Deanna Breiwick  (Cunegonde), Patti LuPone (Old Lady), and more TBA.

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  Pennsylvania’s Bristol Riverside Theatre has announced its 2026-27 season. Casting and additional information TBA.

 Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (Oct. 6025), By Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen,  directed by Ken Kaissar.    In this take, the infamous Count Dracula isn’t just terrifying—he’s as sexy as a rock star, brimming with swagger and supernatural charm. But when he arrives in a quiet town, his grand plans quickly unravel. Mismatched
servants, bumbling heroes, and a wildly eccentric cast of characters send his sinister schemes spinning hilariously out of control.

  A Christmas Story: The Play (Dec. 1 – Jan. 3, 2027), by Philip Grecian, directed by Amy Kaissar.

   In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (Dec. 1 – Jan. 3, 2027), by Jean Shepherd, directed byTBA.    In this adult version of the protagonist, Ralphie, returns to his hometown of Hohman, Indiana (referred to as Holden in the book) and spends hours drinking and swapping memories with his childhood friend, Flick, who now runs a local bar.

    Antigone (Feb. 2-021), adapted byKen Kaissar, directed by Amy Kaissar.  An electrifying retelling of the Greek classic, Antigone is the story of a young woman who refuses to obey an unjust law.

   Annie (Mar. 23 – May 2), directed by Victoria Rae Padgett.

  Fences (June 1-20), directed by Lisa Strum.

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  Commonwealth Shakespeare Company‘s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run July 22 – Aug. 9 at the Boston Commons, directed by  Steven Maler.

  Nick Cearley (Puck/Philostrate), De’Lon Grant (Theseus/Oberon), Nora Eschenheimer (Hippolyta/Titania), Paul Melendy (Bottom), Karen MacDonald (Quince), Michael Broadhurst (Flute), Meghan Carey (Hermia), Annika Burley (Helena), Jaime José Hernández (Lysander), Jack Greenberg (Demetrius), Brooks Reeves (Egeus/Starveling) Patrick Curran (Snout), Nicolas Bolton (Mustardseed), Evan Danyliw (Moth), and Bella Grace Harris (Fairy).

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  Film:  The trailer for Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant has been released.  The production was filmed live at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre.

  Lithgow (Roald Dahl), Elliot Levey (Tom Maschler), Aya Cash (Jessie Stone), Rachael Stirling (Felicity Dahl), Tessa Bonham Jones(Hallie) and Richard Hope (Wally).

  The play takes place in Dahl’s kitchen, where a heated battle of wills unfolds. The core storyline centers on four main characters debating how to respond to Dahl’s pernicious remarks.

Today’s Highlights:

  Dukes, written & performed by Jane Wickline & Liva Pierce, directed by Henry Hornbuckle & Mabel Lewis, opens at Off Broadway’s at SoHo Playhouse.

  The  2026 Fire Island Dance Festival, in support of Dancers Responding to AIDS, opens at NY’s Fire Island Pines.

  Mexodus, written & performed by Brian Quijada & Nygel D. Robinson, begins previews at Pasadena Playhouse.

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 Broadway Grosses for the week ending July 5, 2026.

Click here for the complete analysis.

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  LA’s  Musical Theatre Gild will present Here’s to Us!—The Musical Theatre Guild Celebrates 30 Years written by Michael Kostroff, will take place Sun. Oct. 11 at 7 PM at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage, directed by Kim Huber, with music direction by Brad Ellis.

   TBA.

   The presentation will feature memorable songs from productions including Titanic, Fanny, The Pajama Game, Sunday in the Park with George, and many more.

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   Iceboy!Or, The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh, by Mark Hollman, Jay Reiss, & Erin Quinn Purcell, will now continue through Aug. 16 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, directed by Marc Bruni.

  Megan Mullally (Vera Vimm), Nick Offerman (Eugene O’Neill), Grey Henson  ( Iceboy),  Cedric Yarbrough (Floyd), Sarah Stiles (Lambert), and Alex Goodrich (Frankenstein), along with Donterrio, Melanie Brezill, Will Koski, Linda Mugleston, Shawn Pfautsch Andrea San Miguel,Will Lidke, Leah Morrow, and Jeff Parker.

  The musical follows Broadway star Vera Vimm, who adopts a 40,000 year-old Neanderthal from the Arctic only to reel when he begins stealing the spotlight.

Video: sneak peek.

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   South Pacific, directed by William Carlos Angulo, continues through July 12 at the St. Louis Muny.

   Paulo Szot (Emile de Becque), Taylor Louderman (Nellie Forbush), Loan Almedilla (Bloody Mary, Michael Canu (Lt. Joseph Cable), bobby Conte (Luther Billis), Michaela Marfori (Liat), Robert Crenshaw (Stewpot), John El-Jor (Professor), Michael James Reed (Capt. George Brackett), Jeff Cummings (Cmdr. William Harbison), Grace Moore (Ngana), Josiah Paik (Jerome), and more.

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   I Put a Spell On You, the biggest Halloween, party, will return to  Webster Hall on Mon. Oct. 12. This year’s iteration is dubbed “A Sanderson Sister Act,” directed by Heath Saunders & Mack Brown.

Participants and additional informations TBA.

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  The cast album of  Jeffrey Scharf’ & Jimmy Calire’s Reunions, directed &  choreographed by Gabriel Barre, has been released on most platforms.

   Bryan Fenkart ( Sir Harry), Joanna Glushak (Dona Laura), Chilina Kennedy (Kate), Courtney Reed (Lady Sims), Daniel Torres (Edward/Juanito), and Chip Zien (Don Gonzalo), with Janet Aldrich, Keith Lee Grant, and Pearl Rhein.

  A musical adaptation of two famous one-act plays with a common theme: What happens when you rediscover the life you almost lived? The musical is divided into two acts with each act a different story.

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   Dolly: A True Original Musical, by Dolly Parton & Maria S. Schlatter, will begin previews Dec. 7 and open Jan. 19 (Parton’s 81st birthday) at the St. James Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher, with choreography by Mandy Moore.

  TBA.

  The biomusical follows Dolly’s journey from barefoot beginnings in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee to her triumphs, trials, and trailblazing in Hollywood

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  The 2026 Emmy Awards will take place live on Mon. Sept. 14 at 8 PM at LA’s Peacock Theater, and  stream live on Peacock.

Nominations will be announced later today, and will be posted here tomorrow.

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     LA’s Actors’ Gang will present Free Shakespeare in the Park for Mamilies, offering Two Gentlebots of Verona  Aug. 1-23 at 11 AM at the Media Park in downtown Culver City.  Early registration is  recommended here.

  Not posted.

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  The world premiere of Iceboy! Or, The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write the Iceman Cometh, by Mark Hollman, Jay Reiss & Erin Quinn Purcell, will continue through Aug. 16 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, directed by Marc Bruni.

  Megan Mullally (Vera Vimm), Nick Offerman (Eugene O’Neill), Grey Hendon (Iceboy), Cedric Yarbrough (Floyd), Sarah Stiles (Lambert), and Alex Goodrich   (Frankenstein), with Donterrio, Melanie Brezill , Will Koski, Linda Mugleston, Will Lidke, Leah Morrow, and Jeff Parker.

  The play follows Broadway star Vera Vimm, who adopts a 40,000 year-old Neanderthal from the Arctic only to reel when he begins stealing the spotlight.

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  The 2001 film adaptation of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, by John Cameron Mitchell, and songs by Stephen Trask, turns 25 this year, and the film is on tour to celebrate.

Click here to learn more…

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   Melissa Maney’s Hungry Woman continues through Aug. 30 at the SoHo Playhouse, directed by Daniella Caggiano.

   Julia Lester, Zoe Dean, and Sophie Zmorrod.

  The work explores a world in which men have gone extinct, covering 200 years of survival, identity, sexuality, motherhood, and power in the absence of patriarchy.

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   Documentary:  “Tyler Peck: Suspending Time” is now available for free.

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   Off-Broadway’s Pan Asian Rep (link not avaialble) will present a staged reading of R.A.Shiomi’s Fire in the New World on Thurs. July 16 at 5 PM at NYC’s Bruce Mitchell Room at Off-Broadway’s Spaces@520 (520 8th Ave., 3rd floor), directed by Ron Nakahara.

   Conlan Ledwith, Robert Meksin, James Patrick Nelson, Erin Quill, Camilla Shae, Moses Villarama, Cody Wilson, and Jae Woo. The stage directions will be read by Jonathan Wong Frye.

   The story follows tough-talking private eye Sam Shikaze as he investigates a mystery at the fading New World Hotel. Shikaze is hired by a prominent real estate developer to find his missing Japanese American wife. The investigation quickly escalates into a larger conflict when Shikaze discovers the developer is also scheming to bulldoze and gentrify the local community. Blending mystery and social commentary, the plot highlights the systemic displacement, racism, and anti-Asian sentiment that Japanese Canadians faced following the post-World War II internment era.

My apologies for the short post today. Many tech issues…..

Today’s Highlights:

  Mean Girls, directed by Mara Newbery Greer, featuring Abigail Isom (Cady Heron), Cecilia Ptetrch (Regina George), Sydi Moon (Gretchen Wieners), Gretchen Wieners (Sydni Moon), Karen Smith (Kaley Bender), Janis Sarkisian (Lyda Jade Hearlan)  Damian Hubbard (Jack Haroutunian), Quincy Hamton (Aaron Samuels), and Rayhan Khimji (Kevin Gnapoor, opens at Pittsburgh CLO.

  A Beautiful Noise, directed by Michael Mayer, featuring Mary Page Nance (Marcia Murphey), Lisa Reneé Pitts (Doctor), Michael Accardo (Bert Berns/Kieve Diamond), Heidi Kettenring (Ellie Greenwich/Rose Diamond), Tiffany Tatreau (Jaye Posner), and Gene Weygandt (Fred Weintraub/Tommy O’Rourke), opens at Kansas City’s Starlight Theatre.

  The Whoopi Monologues, directed by Whitney White, featuring Dominique Fishback, Kecia Lewis, Danielle Pinnock, Kerry Washington, and Kara Young, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

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Click here for the schedule of upcoming Broadway & Off-Broadway Closings:

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   Click here for the schedule of Upcoming and Current Free Live Stream Broadcasts for plays and musicals.

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   Newsies will run July 16-22 at the St. Louis Muny, directed by Denis Jones.

  Jack Roden (Jack Kelly), Michael Park (Joseph Pulitzer), Anastacia McCleskey (Medda Larkin), Bryce Williams (Davey), Kayla Pecchioni (Katherine Plumber), Nolan Almeida (Crutchie), and Jaron Bentley (Les), with Drew Battles, Arick Brooks, Omarion Burke, Jim Butz, Christian J. Collins, Matt Dean, Michael Di Leo, Zach Doran, Joel Douglas, Kylie Edwards, Johnny Fenton, Michael Halling, Brianna Kim, Jacob Kim, Miles Marmolejo, Joshua Messmore, Adolfo Ortiz-Feder, Evan Owen, Becca Perron, Rich Pisarkiewicz, Kevin Antonio Rodriguez, and Jonah D. Winston.

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   Video:  Matt Doyle leads “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” from Hello, Holly! at Maine’s Ogunquit Playhouse.

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  Gingold Theatrical Group will present a script-in-hand performance of  Noël Coward’s This Was a Man on Mon. July 20 at The Players (16 Gramercy Park), directed by David Staller.

 A.J. Shively (Edward Churt), Wesley Taylor (Evelyn Bathurst), Jane Bruce (Lady Margot Butler), Stella Everett (Carol Churt), Vanessa Kai ( Zoe St. Merryn), Carman Lacivita (Harry Challoner, and Lor Robert Romford, with Zoe St. Merryn, and Carman Lacivita (Harry Challoner), with Lor Robert Romford.

The play follows Edward Churt, a painter whose carefully composed world begins to fracture as he confronts his wife Carol’s infidelity.

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  North Hollywood’s  Road Theatre Company will present its Summer Playwrights Festival July 10-29. The festival is one of the largest staged reading festivals in the nation, with playwrights from across the country and around the world participating  Click the link above for the complete schedule.

  The festival is one of the largest staged reading festivals in the nation, with playwrights from across the country and around the world participating.

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   Dead Man, written & directed by Ann Noble, will will have a limited run July 21, July 28 & Aug. 4 at the Echo Theater.

  Christian Haines, Jeffrey Johnson, Robin McDonald, Ann Noble.

  In this noir comedy clown mystery, a lone private eye investigates a crime everyone wants to forget: it will definitely take more than one clown to figure it out. Somebody’s dead. Somebody must find the killer. Different somebodies, but… you get the idea. Life is easier when everything’s black and white. Except for those pesky greys.

Today’s Highlights:

South Pacific, directed by William Carlos Angulo, featuring Paulo Szot (Emile de Becque), Taylor Louderman (Nellie Forbush), Loan Almedilla (Bloody Mary, .Michael Canu (Lt. Joseph Cable), bobby Conte (Luther Billis), Michaela Marfori (Liat), Robert Crenshaw (Stewpot), John El-Jor (Professor), Michael James Reed (Capt. George Brackett), Jeff Cummings (Cmdr. William Harbison), Grace Moore (Ngana), Josiah Paik (Jerome), and more, opens at the St. Louis Muny.

   Shifters, by Benedict Lomb, directed by Lynette Linton, featuring Heather Agyepong (Des) and Daniel Ezra (Man), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre.

  Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater presents  Jason Robert Brown in Concert at 8 PM at the Harbor’s One Long Wharf.

  Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody, by Dylan Marcaurele, directed by , featuring Jay Armstrong Johnson (Ilya Rozanov) and Jimin Moon (Shane Hollander), with Ryann Redmond, Cherry torres, and Ryan Duncan, closes at Off-Broadway’s The Club (530 West 27th St. 6th floor).

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   Red, White, or Blue by Jim Bernhard

Complete the titles of these show songs with the color red, white, or blue:

1. “At the ____ Rose Cotillion” – Where’s Charley?
2. “Alice ____ Gown” – Irene
3. “Little ____ Hat” – 110 in the Shade
4. “My ____ Knight” – The Music Man
5. “____ and Black” – Les Miserables
6. “Black and ____” – Ain’t Misbehavin’
7. “____ Boys” – Hair
8. “Great ____ Father” – Purlie
9. “The Mirror-____ Night” – Spring Awakening
10. “The ____ Baron” – You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Scroll down for the answers…

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   Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will run July 10- 26 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Larry Raben.

  Daebrreon Poiema (Narrator), Brian Justing Crum (Joseph), Thomas Hobson (Pharoah/Jacob), Harrison White (Potiphar), Jeffrey Laughrun (Reuben), Adam Lendermon (Simeon), Perry Marks (Levi), Neil Starkenberg (Dan), Jean Charles (Napthtali), Zane Camacho (Gad), Teronn S. Shrikian (Asher), Brody Tarrant Zebulun (Zeulun), Jerdan Cruz (Benjamin), and Ali Vesey (Mrs. Potiphar), with Johnisa Breault, Alexandra Skylar Kunin, and Sabrina Ryan.

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   Jazz in July: Echoes of Miles – Cool Jazz for hot Nights will run  July 15-25 at 8 PM at NYC’s 92Y.

  Terence Blanchard, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Nicole Glover, John Patitucci, Kate Kortum, Aaron Diehl, and more.

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  Pippin, directed by Matthew Gardiner, continues through July 26 at DC’s Signature Theatre.

   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 Rubi.

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   Leslie Odom Jr. (Aaron Burr) has joined the London company of Hamilton through Sept. 5 at the Victoria Place Theatre.

   Stephenson Ardern-Sodje )Alexander Hamilton), Georgina Onuorah (Angelica Schuyler), Bente Mulan (Eliza Hamilton), Akmed Junior Khemalai (George Washington), Ashley J. Daniels (Marquis De Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Alexander Bellinfantie (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Shak Mancel James (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Jasmine Jia Yung Shen (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), and Daniel Boys (King George III), with Yuki Abe, Turrell Barrett-Wallace, John Browning, Milan Cacacie, Joshua Clemetson, Roxanne Couch, Yesy Garcia, Manaia Glassey-Ohlson, Riccardo Haerri, Jack Harrison-Cooper, Olivia Kate Holding, Sergi Ibanez, Jared Irving, Nicolais-Andre Kerry, Lily Laight, Michael Lin, Avigalle Mendoza, Fallon Mondlane, Tamara Morgan, Liam Morris, Tim Nutt, Joshian Angelo Omaña, Aharon Rayner , Phoebe Samuel-Gray, and Daisy Ward.

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  What Became of Us, by Shayan Lotfi, with a rotating cast, continues through July 26 at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Ethan Heard.

Alma Cuervo (Q), Michael DeLorenzo (ZZ), Jo Yang (Q), and Stan Kang (Z).

  A sister and brother, the elder born in The Old Country and the younger born in This Country, share both big and small moments and memories from childhood through teenage rebellion, career successes, parenthood, and growing old. Their disparate perspectives lead to both fractures and forgiveness as they witness each other’s stories.

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  Brian Friel’s A Month in the Country will run Aug. 22 – Oct. 3 at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Lyndsey Turner.

   Sophie Okonedo (Natalya Petrovna), Thomas Arnold (Arkady Islayev), Jessica Brindle (Katya), Susan Brown (Anna Islayeva), Rachelle Diedericks (Vera Aleksandrovna), Patrick Gibson (Aleksey Belyayev), Mark Hadfield (Herr Schaaf,), Michael Hodgson (Alfanasy Bolshintsov), Jonathan Livingstone (Matvey), Alistair Petrie (Michel Rakitin), Daniel Rigby (Ignaty Shpigelsky), and Amanda Wilkin (Lizaveta Bogdanovna).

  The play explores passion against propriety, as a cast of characters struggle to reconcile the lives they lead with the happiness they crave.

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   Hairspray continues through Aug. 8 at Dennis, Mass.’s Cape Playhouse, directed by Bill Fennelly.

 Alex Michaels (Edna Turnblad), Grace Carroll (Tracy Turnblad), Michael Brian Dunn Wilbur Turnblad), Keisha Gilles (Motormouth Maybelle), Ben Jackson Walker (Link Larkin), Maddy Le (Little Inez), Meaghan Maher (Penny Pingleton), Kate Marilley (Velma Von Tussle), Maya Musial (Amber Von Tussle), Lukas Poost (Corny Collins), and Jalen Xavier (Seaweed J. Stubbs), with Taylor Colleton, Talia Cutulle, Zeth Dixon, Adena Ershow, Madeline Glave, Jordyn Jones, Laura Jordan, Natalie Lacy, Jack Mastrianni, Kevin B. McGlynn, Elexis Morton, Ryan Norton, Isaiah Reynolds, Alanna Rishaan Porter, and Drew Tremblay.

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  Answers:  Red, White, or Blue by Jim Bernhard

1. “At the Red Rose Cotillion” – Where’s Charley?
2. “Alice Blue Gown” – Irene
3. “Little Red Hat” – 110 in the Shade
4. “My White Knight” – The Music Man
5. “Red and Black” – Les Miserables
6. “Black and Blue” – Ain’t Misbehavin’
7. “White Boys” – Hair
8. “Great White Father” – Purlie
9. “The Mirror-Blue Night” – Spring Awakening
10. “The Red Baron” – You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

This Weekend’s Highlights:

Friday, July 3

Relax … let go …. let fly…

Saturday, July 4

   How High the Moon, world premiere by Barbara Nell Beery, directed by Asaad Kelada, featuring Jeanine Anderson, Kathie Barnes, Lane Compton, Matthew Gademske, John Posey, Anya Profumo, Caroline Quigley and David Nathan Schwartz, opens at LA’s Theatre West.

   London’s Les Miserable in concert (celebrating it’s 1oth anniversary) streams for free at the Royal Albert Hall, at 2 PM ET.   Click here to watch.

  Hadestown (London production), featuring André De Shields (Hermes), Amber Gray (Persephone), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), and Patrick Page (Hades), begins screenings around the U.S.

  Bob Dylan in Concert at 7 PM at Kansas City Starlight.

Sunday, July 5

  How Shakespeare Saved My Life, world premiere written & performed by Jacob Ming-Trent, closes at DC’s Folger Theatre.

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   Click here for the reviews of CrazySexyCool, a new bio-musical featuring the songs of  the hit 90s pop group TLC., making its world premiere at D.C.’s Arena Stage.  Scroll down for the reviews.

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    Click here to access streaming musicals on “Streaming Musicals.”

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   Video:  Lauren ‘Lolo’ Pritch performs  “We Are Young” from Stephen Michael Spencer & Jonathan Judge Russo’s Music City, ft.

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  Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Teddy Bergman, continues through July 26 at MCC Theater.

  Hale Appleman, Molly Bernard Eli Gelb, Abbi Jacobson, Liz Larsen, Nate Mann, and Zoë Winters.

  How do you show up for the people you love? 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 the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths.

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   Theatrical Rights Worldwide has added Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump)’s stage adaptation of the 1952 film High Noon to its licensing catalogue, and is now available for new productions worldwide. The work made its world premiere in London’s West End earlier this year.

   Unfolding in real time, the work centers on a law enforcement officer faced with the impending arrival of a newly pardoned criminal he helped put away for murder, and he’s out for revenge. With his wedding to a Quaker pacifist planned for the same day, the officer is suddenly at odds between his sworn duty and his soon-to-be new wife’s beliefs.

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   The world premiere of The Curse of the Banshee, written & directed by Tom Dugan, will run July 17 – Aug. 2 at Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills (exact address givin upon reservation).

  Patrick Jon Rivers and Stuart Orloff.

   Halloween night, 1925.  A desperate son recruits his shell-shocked war buddy to stop a family murder in the local cemetery.

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   Video: Paulo Szot performs  “Some Enchanted Evening” in rehearsals for  South Pacific at the St. Louis Muny.

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  Hairspray will run July 15-Aug. 8 at t Mass’s Cape Playhouse, directed by  Bill Fennelly.

  Alex Michaels(Edna Turnblad),  Grace Carroll (Tracy Turnblad), Michael Brian Dunn (Wilbur Turnblad), Keisha Gilles Motormouth Maybelle), Ben Jackson Walker (Link Larkin), Maddy Le (Little Inez), Meaghan Maher(Penny Pingleton), Kate Marilley (Velma Von Tussle), Maya Musial (Amber Von Tussle), Lukas Poost (Corny Collins), and Jalen Xavier (Seaweed J. Stubbs), with  Taylor Colleton, Talia Cutulle, Zeth Dixon, Adena Ershow, Madeline Glave, Jordyn Jones, Laura Jordan, Natalie Lacy, Jack Mastrianni, Kevin B. McGlynn, Elexis Morton, Ryan Norton, Isaiah Reynolds, Alanna Rishaan Porter, and Drew Tremblay.

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   The 2026 Fire Island Dance Festival, in support of BCEFA, will run July 18 (at 5 & 7 PM) and July 19 (at 5 PM) at New York’s Fire Island Pines, hosted by Jeff Hiller.

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  Broadway Cares awarded a record $3,007,500 last month to 265 organizations, providing health care, housing, emergency assistance, and other support to those facing illness and hardship across the country.

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  Benedict Lombe’s Shifters will run July 6 – Aug. 30 (opening July 15) at the Cherry Lane Theatre, directed by Lynette Linton.

   Heather Agyepong (Des) and Daniel Ezra (Man).

  The love story follows Dre and Des, two gifted Black young adults on the precipice of change. In the end, he stayed, and she left. Years later, they come crashing back into each other’s lives, carrying new secrets and old scars. Caught between memory and reality, they must navigate the shifting borders that threaten to rewrite their past and reshape their future.

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   Video: Watch the Dick Tracy Shoe and Dom-in-the-Matrix from the 2026 Broadway Bares.

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   Into the Woods will run July 17-26 at Arrow Rock’s Lyceum Theatre, directed by Michael Michael Lluberes.

  Natascia Diaz Diaz (Witch), Cy Paolantonio (Little Red Riding Hood), Jane Brockman (Jack’s Mother/ Tree; Giant), Asunta Fleming (Cinderella’s Stepmother), Joneal Joplin (Narrator), Joshua Morgan (Baker), Hayden Stanes (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf) , Andrea Prestinario (Baker’s Wife) Bersai Reyes (Steward), Paris Porche Richardson (Cinderella), Amal Ramadan (Lucinda / Grandmother), Jerry Pinkard (Rapunzel’s Prince), Rayna Key (Florinda) Michael Fabisch (Jack), and Devin McCall (Rapunzel).

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  The Duke of York’s Theatre will be renamed the Tom Stoppard Theatre for a new production of the late Stoppard’s Arcadia,  currently playing the venue through mid-September.

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  Schedule of Upcoming and Current Broadway Free Live Stream Broadcasts:

Click here for all available live-stream broadcasts.

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   Broadway Cares awarded a record $3,007,500 last month to 265 organizations, providing health care, housing, emergency assistance, and other support to those facing illness and hardship across the country.

This record-breaking sum marks the largest single grant-round increase in Broadway Cares’ history, bringing the organization’s 2026 National Grants Program grants to $8.7 million. The grants support organizations providing direct services, emergency financial assistance, harm reduction programs, and quality-of-life initiatives.

Today’s Highlights:

   Shrek The Musical, directed by John Tartaglia, featuring Nik Walker (Shrek), Kara Lindsay (Princess Fiona), Marcus M. Martin (Donkey), Troy Iwata (Lord Farquaad), Solomon Rosenthal (Young Shrek), Lake Schultz (Young Fiona), Amelie Lock (Teen Fiona), Aymee Garcia (Gingy), Tyler Joseph Ellis (Pinocchio), and Salome Smith (Voice of the Dragon), with Mathew Blasio, DeShawn Bowens, Monique Churchill, Matthew Davies, Kylie Edwards, Ryan Fitzgerald, Matt Gibson, Jack Gimpel, Shelby Griswold, Michael Harp, Gwen Hollander, Abby Linderman, Sean McManus, Shelby Ringdahl, Trevor Michael Schmidt, Kelly Sheehan, Caitlin Stebelman, and Jonah D. Winston, closes at the St. Louis Muny.

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   A Beautiful Noise, will run July 7-12 at Kansas City’s Starlight Theatre, directed by Michael Mayer.

  Mary Page Nance (Marcia Murphey), Lisa Reneé Pitts (Doctor), Michael Accardo (Bert Berns/Kieve Diamond), Heidi Kettenring (Ellie Greenwich/Rose Diamond), Tiffany Tatreau (Jaye Posner), and Gene Weygandt (Fred Weintraub/Tommy O’Rourke).

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  Theater4All will present the world premiere of Crone Creed, by John Epstein, Casey Morgan, and T. Theresa Scaranom will run Sept. 30 – Oct. 17 at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre, directed by John Epstein, Casey Morgan, & T. Theresa Scarano.

   TBA.

  A mythic drama spanning centuries, following Vita, a young woman whose life is shattered by religious violence and betrayal in medieval Europe. Reborn in the late 1800s American frontier as part of an ancient lineage of mystical women known as the Crones, she discovers her brother has also returned through time as part of a corrupting force known as the Fallen. As their conflict unfolds across eras, Vita must confront questions of power, loyalty, and resistance in a struggle where belief itself shapes reality.

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  Gingold Theatrical Group will present a script-in-hand performance of  Noël Coward’s This Was a Man on Mon. July 20 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players (16 Gramercy Park), directed by  David Staller.

  Jane Bruce (Lady Margot Butler), Stella Everett (Carol Churt), Vanessa Kai (Zoe St. Merryn), Varman Lacivita (Harry Challoner), Carman Lacivitta (Lord Robert Romford), A.J. shively (Edward Churt), and Wesley Taylor (Evelyn Bathurst).

   The play explores themes that would come to define much of his work: social performance, morality, jealousy, repression, and the fragility beneath upper-class sophistication. The play follows Edward Churt, a successful painter whose carefully composed world begins to fracture as he confronts his wife Carol’s infidelity. While Edward attempts to maintain an air of elegant detachment, his closest friend becomes determined to force a reckoning that threatens to upend them all.

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  5-star Theatrical‘s The Wizard of Oz, directed by Richard Israel, will run July 10- 19 at CA’s Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks, directed by Richard Isreal.

  Hannah Sedlacek (Dorothy Gale), Eric Stanton Betts a(Huck/Scarecrow), Lucas Alifano (Hickory/Tin Man), Tom Anawalt (Zeke/Cowardly Lion), Becky Lythgoe (Almira Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West), Noah Kaplan (Professor Marvel/The Wizard), Cassandra Marie Murphy (Aunt Em/Glinda), and Mike Baker (Uncle Henry/Emerald City Guard), with  Samantha Bell, Aaron Michael-Rees Camitses, Bar Daniel, Sam Davidson, Josh Igarashi. Amanda King, Lauren Lorati, Nicholas Ley, Ali Marquez-Qadiri, Jacob Ray, Barbara Ann Reed, Spencer Reese, Xavier F. Reynoso, Angelica Roque, Bayley Tanenbaum, Calista Zajac,   CC Adeva, Ryan Bohmholdt, Kaylie Cho, Gibson Day, Malia Johnson, Amaeline Lynch, and Anna Marie Holland Melendrez,  at CA’s Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks.

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  Long Island’s Bay Street Theater Gala will take place Sat. July 11 at 6 PM.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Alec Baldwin, Joy Behar, Tovah Feldshuh, Will Roland, Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley,  Luis A. Miranda Jr.,  Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda, Scott Schwartz, Tracy Mitchell, and more TBA.

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   The 2026 Fire Island Dance Festival: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, will run July 18-19 at NY’s Fire Island Pines, hosted by Jeff Hiller.

   Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Leggybones Physical Theater, Miami City Ballet, with new works by Robbie Fairchild, Ricky Ubeda, Leggybones Physical Theater, Miami City Ballet with new works from Broadway’s Robbie Fairchild and Ricky Ubeda.

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   Mean Girls, directed by Mara Newbery Greer, will run July 7-12 at Pittsburgh CLO,

  Abigail Isom (Cady Heron), Cecilia Ptetrch (Regina George), Sydi Moon (Gretchen Wieners), Gretchen Wieners (Sydni Moon), Karen Smith (Kaley Bender), Janis Sarkisian (Lyda Jade Hearlan)  Damian Hubbard (Jack Haroutunian), Quincy Hamton (Aaron Samuels), and Rayhan Khimji (Kevin Gnapoor.

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   LA’s East West Players has announced its 2026-27 season:

  Wives (May 2027), by Jaclyn Backhaus, directed by Arpita Mukherjee.

   Kristina Wong,#Food Bank Influencer (May 2027), by Fkristin Wong, directed by Jessica Hanna.

   New works Festival (dates TBA), featuring Redpoint My Heart (by Amanda L. Andrei).

   Trans History Project (details TBA)

…and more TBA.

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   Arthur Miller’s The Price will continues through July 19 at Venice, CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Elina de Santos.

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

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   Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, continues through July 26 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 the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths.

Today’s Highlights:

  Crazy for You, directed byMichael Fling, featuring Will Burton (Bobby Child), Brittany Zeinstra (Ppolly Baker), Edward Juvier (Bela Zangler), Hailey Thomas (Irene Roth), Jeremy Davis (Everett Baker), David Andrew Morton (Lank Hawkins), and Michele Ragusa IMother/Pariciam, with Claire Avakian, Willie Clyde Beaton II, Colin Bradbury, Courtney Brady, Kailee Regan Brandt, Katie Scarlett Brunson,  Samuel Colina, Bradley Gibbins-Klein, Kelly Gleason, Taylor Lane, Brian Shimasaki Liebson, Griffin Wilkinsm Lexi Baldachino, and Brandon J. Morris, opens at CT’s. Goodspeed Musicals.

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  Broadway Grosses for the week ending June 28:

Click here for the complete analysis.

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  Woody Guthrie and The Ghost of Tom Joad Today continues streaming  on PBS Socal.

  Narrated by Rosanne Cash and featuring music from Bruce Springsteen, this timely film connects the paths of two American icons—songwriter Woody Guthrie (who penned “This Land is Your Land”) and novelist John Steinbeck (who wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”)—as they forged a bond in a campaign to ease the suffering of migrants in California, and their legacy today.

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   A reading of Reginald Edmund’s What Had Happened Was will take place Sun. July 5 at 3 PM a the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre 4, (514 S. Spring St.), directed by Ben Guillory.    here.

  TBA.

  The play follows Marcellus “MRT” Turner, a passionate Los Angeles City Councilman and community advocate determined to create meaningful change for the people he represents. Told through a documentary-style blend of interviews, memories and reflections, the play traces MRT’s personal and political journey—from his early relationship with AV, the woman who becomes his wife, inspires and loves him, to his rise as a public figure fighting for his community. When a powerful university expansion threatens to displace longtime residents and reshape the neighborhood, MRT must decide how far he io willing to go to defend the people who trusted him. As he challenges powerful institutions and navigates the complicated world of politics, he is forced to confront questions about progress, power, loyalty, and the sacrifices required to stand by one’s values while dealing with the deceit and hypocrisy with some in leadership positions.

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     A free reading of Reginald Edmund’s What Had Happened Was will take place Sun. July 5 at 3 PM at Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre, directed by by Ben Guillory.  here.

  TBA.

  Marcellus “MRT” Turner, a passionate Los Angeles City Councilman and community advocate determined to create meaningful change for the people he represents. Told through a documentary-style blend of interviews, memories and reflections, the play traces MRT’s personal and political journey—from his early relationship with AV, the woman who becomes his wife, inspires and loves him, to his rise as a public figure fighting for his community.

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   Video:  Highlights from Goodspeed’s Crazy for You.

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  Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Teddy Bergman, continues through July 26 at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater.

  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 the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths.

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  Broadway in Bryant Park, NYC’s  beloved lunchtime theatre series, will take place Thursdays July 23–Aug. 13, from 12:30 – 1:30 PM.

Click here  for daily lineups and updates.

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  Martin Fogarty’s That Kind of Future will be available online starting July 15 at Open Door Playhouse, directed by Bernadette Armstrong.

Sue Gisser (Julie) and Matthew Scott Montgomery (Evan).

  Julie loves Evan and wants to be his wife and have his children. Evan loves Jilie, but won’t give her that kind of future. There’s a reason for that.

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   Lionel Richie in concert will take place Sat. Aug. 29 at 8 PM at the St. Louis Muny.

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  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Larry Raben, will run July 10-26 at CA’s Musical Theatre West.

  Daebrreon Poiema (Narrator), Brian Justing Crum (Joseph), Thomas Hobson (Pharoah/Jacob), Harrison White (Potiphar), Jeffrey Laughrun (Reuben), Adam Lendermon (Simeon), Perry Marks (Levi), Neil Starkenberg (Dan), Jean Charles (Napthtali), Zane Camacho (Gad), Teronn S. Shrikian (Asher), Brody Tarrant Zebulun (Zeulun), Jerdan Cruz (Benjamin), and Ali Vesey (Mrs. Potiphar), with Johnisa Breault, Alexandra Skylar Kunin, and Sabrina Ryan.

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   The free  soundtrack of Disney’s “Moana” is now available here.

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  Doubt: A Parable will run Apr. 7-25, 2027 at Santa Barbara’s New Vic, directed by Beejan Land.

  Mimi Rogers (Sister Aloysius Beauvier).

Today’s Highlights:

  Cagney the Musical, by Robert Creigton, Christopher McCovern & Peter Colley, directed by Will Pomerantz, featuring Robert Creihtoon (James Cagney) and Melissa Manchester (Ma Cagney), with James Borstelmann, Corinne C. Broadbent, Audrey Cardwell, Robert Creighton, Matt Guernier, Emma Kantor, Melissa Manchester, Daniel Plimpton, Bruce Sabath, and Michael Starr, opens at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.

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 After more than 25 years, the original TV characters of Victoria Wood’s beloved sitcom “Dinerladies” will reunite for a brand new stage adaptation , directed by Sean Foley, to tour the UK, directed by Sean Foley. This brand-new stage adaptation for 2027 is the first piece of Victoria’s work to be commissioned by the Estate since her passing. The tour will run Jan. – Aug. 2027 (tour schedule TBA). Click here for additional information.

  Les Dennis and more TBA.

  The new show features a storyline inspired by the beloved original TV sitcom episodes and characters.

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  Beth Henly’s Crimes of the Heart will run July 15 – 26 (opening July 17) at Theater 154 (154 Christopher Street), directed by Eve Bianco.

  TBA.

   It’s been a bad few days for the Magrath sisters. The eldest, Lenny, is turning thirty alone in the family home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. The middle one, Meg, has come back from Hollywood with broken dreams and old wounds. And the youngest, Babe, has just shot her husband and can’t quite explain why. Over a few extraordinary days in their grandparents’ kitchen, the three sisters reckon with the past, with each other, and with the particular madness of family love.

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   Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody, written & directed by Alan Kliffer, will now run through Nov. 1 at Off-Broadway’s Culture Club.

  Jay Armstrong Johnson (Ilya Rozanov), and Jimin Moon (Shane Hollander), with Ryann Redmond, Cherry Torres, Ryan Duncan, Shelby Acosta, and Daniel Brackett, with more TBA.

  The play follows starry-eyed golden boy Shane Hollander on his journey from power center to power bottom.

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  Les Misérable: The Arena Concert Spectacular in Concert will run July 23 – Aug. 9 at MYC’s Radio City Music Hall, directed by James Powell & Jean-Pierre Van Der Spuy.

Alfie Boe, Killian Donnelly, & Gerónimo Rauch (alternating as Jean Valjean), Badley Jaden & Jeremy Secomb (alternating as Javert), Samantha Barks (Fantine), Matt Lucas (Thénardier), Marina Prior (Madame Thénardier), Mac Yarrow (Marius), Beatrice Penny-Touré (Cosette), Christian Mark Gibbs (Enjolras), Philip Quast (Bishop of Digne), and Rob Madge (Bamatabois).

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   The Public Theater will present Shakespeare in the Park’s The Winter’s Tale July 25 – Aug. 22 (opening Aug. 11) at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, directed by Daniel Sullivan.

   Teagle F. Bougere (Camillo), Chuck Cooper (Old Shepherd), Matthew Eby ( (Mamillius/Time), Raúl Esparza (Leontes), Isabela Ferrer (Perdita), Katie Griffith (Mopsa), Alex Hernandez (Cleomenes), Michael Khalid Karadsheh (Young Shepherd), Daniel Kyri (Florizel), Aubie Merrylees (Archidamus), Jennifer Mogbock (Emilia), Gilbert Owuor (Polixenes), Lily Rabe (Hermione),  Matthew Russell (Dion), Steven Skybell and  (Antigonus/Autolycus), with Heschel Bay Peter Douskalis, Denise Kolodja, Violeta Picayo, Bianca Rogoff,  Michael Thanh Tran, and Jackson Whitman.

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   Wait Til You See What’s Next, featuring Ethan Mathias, will take place Thurs. July 9 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, with music direction by Michael Lavine.

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  Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater has announces its 2026-2027 40th season:

   ANON – a tempest at our kichen Table  (Sept. 25 – Nov. 1 , opening Oct. 13), directed by Anne Kauffman.    When a gay pride flag is unfurled across the street from Jeanie, an increasingly online TikToker in a suburb in Texas, two seemingly different households…freak out. How well do you know the people you live among, and with, in an America where the line between fantasy and reality has become increasingly optional?

 The Heart Sellers (Jan. 2027 dates TBA), by Lloyd Suh, directed by May Adrales.
   A warm and funny story of a chance encounter and quintessentially American connection. When Jane and Luna, two immigrant strangers, meet on Thanksgiving in 1973, they decide to spend this strange, new holiday together over an evening full of shared laughs, dreams, and a frozen turkey that refuses to thaw.

   What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (June 2027 dates TBA), world premiere by Peter Hedges , Adrian Enscoe, Christopher Sears, Sydney Shepherd  Regina Strsayhorn, directed by Anne Kauffman.  A warm and funny story of a chance encounter and quintessentially American connection. When Jane and Luna, two immigrant strangers, meet on Thanksgiving in 1973, they decide to spend this strange, new holiday together over an evening full of shared laughs, dreams, and a frozen turkey that refuses to thaw.

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  Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd will run July 14 – Aug. 1 at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Mark Shanahan.

   Shereen Ahmed (Flora Ackroyd),  Anthony Cochrane (Hercule Poirot), Joe Delafield (Ralph Paton), Allen Gilmore (Inspector Raglan), Erin Noel Grennan  (Caroline Sheppard), John Rapson (Dr. James Sheppard), Mark Silence (Roger Ackroyd), Tom Hewitt (Parker), Nicole Shalhoub (Helen Russell), Richard Ruiz Henry (Major Hector Blunt), and Katy Tang (Ursula Bourne).   

  A shocking murder. A house full of secrets. A mystery only the legendary detective Hercule Poirot can unravel. Set in 1926 England, “Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” follows Poirot as he investigates the killing of a wealthy man, uncovering hidden motives and long-buried secrets among a cast of intriguing suspects.

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      An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger, recorded in Oct. 2025,  is now available to stream through June 30 here.