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:
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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.
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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)