This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, July 24
Austen’s Pride, by Lindsay Warren Baker & Amanda Jacobs, directed by Igor Goldin, featuring Olivia Hernandez Jane Austen), Delphi Borich (lizabeth Bennet), Dan Hoy (Fitzwilliam Darcy), Addie Morales (Jane Bennet), Cole Thompson (Charles Bingley), Sarah Ellis (Caroline Bingley), Mary Bennet, and Mrs. Gardiner), Kate Fahey as Lydia Bennet, Cali Noack (Kitty Bennet and Georgiana Darcy), Dianica Phelan (Cassandra Austen/ Charlotte Lucas), Paul Castree (Mr. Collins / Mr. Gardner), Kevyn Morrow ( Mr. Bennet), Sally Wilfert (Mrs. Bennet / Lady Catherine de Bourgh), and Michael Burrell (George Wickham / Tom Lefroy), with with Travis Anderson, Matt Gibson, Keith Johnson, Drew Tanabe, Brett Rawlings, Graham Keen, Abigail Isom, Jazmin Gorsline, and Caroline Santiago Turner, opens at Stages St. Louis.
Free 50th Anniversary of Broadway’s A Chorus Line discussion, featuring Kelly Bishop, Baayork Lee, Priscilla Lopez, and Donna McKecknie, and more at 3 PM at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Saturday, July 25
Gaslight, by Patrick Hamilton, directed by Michael Rothhaar, featuring Jaxon Duff Gwillim (Mr. Manningham). Tanya Getty (Mrs. Manningham), Stuart W. Howard (Rough), Rita Obermeyer (Elizabeth), Miranda Wynne (Nancy), Harold Newman (Detective Sergeant Tarrant), opens at LA’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
Sunday, July 26
A Chorus Line Official 50th Anniversary Celebration benefit concert, directed & choreographed by Baayork Lee, with original 1975 Broadway cast members Kelly Bishop, Wayne Cilento, Baayork Lee, Priscilla Lopez and Donna McKechnie, with special performances by Charlotte d’Amboise, Jessica Lee Goldyn, Robyn Hurder, Francis Jue, Krysta Rodriguez, Jessica Vosk, Anthony Wayne, Tony Yazbeck, ) Leigh Zimmerman, and more, at 7:30 PM at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre
The Food Chain reading, by Nicky Silver, directed by Michael Van Duzer, featuring Matthew Gademske, Samantha Gregory, Amy Simon, and Michael Van Duzer, at 3 PM at LA’s Theater West.
Eileen Barnett in concert at 7 PM at LA’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
Beau the Musical, by Douglas Lyons & Ethan D. Pakchar, directed & choreographed by Josh Rhodes, featuring Matt Rodin (Ace Baker), Chris Blisset (Beau), Amelia Cormack (Raven), Andrea Goss (Nurse/Karina/Le-Ann), Cory Jeacoma (Ferris), Miyuki Miyagi (Daphney), Derek Stoltenberg (Dennis), and Matt Wolpe (Larry), with Seth Eliser, Tyler Donovan McCall, Pearl Phein, and Lauren Jeanne Thomas, closes at Off-Broadway’s Out of the Box Theatre (formerly the New Ohio theatre).
The Color Purple, directed by Lili-Anne Brown, featuring Brittney Mack (Celie), Aeriel Williams (Shug Avery), Evan Tyrone Martin (Mister), Nicole Michelle Haskins (Sofia), Gilbert Domally (Harpo), Shantel Renee Cribbs (Nettie), Daryn Whitney Harrell (Squeak), Jos N. Banks (Grady), Curtis Bannister (Buster), Sean Blake (Ol Mister), Sharriese Hamilton (Darlene), Ariya Hawkins (Olivia), Reneisha Jenkins (Jarene), Eric Lewis (Bobby), Michael Earvin Martin (Pa), and Juwon Tyrel Perry (Preacher), with Aalon Daeja Smith, Marta Bady, Richaun Shamar Stewart, and Shelbi Voss, closes at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
Frozen, directed by Michael Hietzman, featuring Cate Hayman (Elsa), Daisy Wright (Anna), Matthew Hydzik (Kristoff), Jordan Barron (Sven), Michael Brian Dunn (Weselton), Kevin Hack (Hans), Kyle Kemph (Olaf), Allan Snyder (Sir Dinadin), Hallie Camacho (Young Anna), Hailey Kenyon (Young Elsa), Bellamy Kelly (Young Anna), and Kailey Kenyon (Young Elsa), with Ryan Cavanauth, Lance T Barker, Brett Barthelemy, Bella Bilandzija, Jordon T. Elelon, Matthew Regorek, Laura Culey, Carly Haig, Hom Henke, Liz Leclerc, Justin Mock, Justin O’Brien, Maile Oravitz, Brittany Pent Rohm, Brittany Pend Rhom, Madsen Piper, Michaela Plummer, Kai Sachon, BB Stone, and Jasmine G. Swaby, closes at Pittsburgh CLO.
Kim’s Convenience, by Ins Choi, directed by Aria Vel, featuring Stan Kang (Appa), Tuyết Thị Phạm (Umma), Justine “Icy” Moral (Janet), and Zion Jang (Jung) daughter Janet, and Zion Jang (Jun), and Jonathan Del Palmer (mulitple roles), with Morganne Chu, Franklin Dam, Jay Frisby, and Andrew V. Ly, closes at Maryland’s Olney Theatre.
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The world premiere of All These Women, written & directed by by Melanie MacQueen, will run Sept. 18 – Oct. 19 at Theatre 40.
April Audia, Todd Andrew Ball, Jessica Kent, Dan Leslie, Lary Ohlson, Anica Petrovic, Michele Schultz, and Kristin Towers-Rowles.
The play examines the almost insurmountable struggle women faced to get the right to vote in America. It is 1913, and women in America have been fighting for suffrage since 1848. Now that a new Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson presides over a Democratic Congress, has the time finally come for women to win the right to vote? Hopes are high until a World War looms, and divisions among the women themselves threaten to unravel it all. If they are to succeed, it’s time for desperate measures …
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company has announced its 2025-26 season:
Otherkin (Sept. 26- Nov. 2) by N.T. Vandecar, directed by Chirstina Carlisi. Casting TBA. v14 year old Olive, who identifies as part of the subculture Otherkin, is compelled by strange forces to help prepare for humanity’s end. Olive and her family are thrust into a raucous ride of epic proportions, confronting their pasts, perilous futures and the possibility of a destiny far greater than themselves.
Lifeline (opening Jan. 23, 2026), by Robert Axelrod, directed by Ken Sawyer. Casting TBA. In the aftermath of an unforeseen life-changing event, Patti, a well-meaning mother, decides to become a volunteer for a suicide hotline, where laughter, tears, and a new understanding bridge the divide between people from very different walks of life.
Hell Mouth (opens Apr. 17, 2026), by Tom Jacobson, directed by Ann Hearn-tobolowsky.**********************
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More Ventura Live 25, featuring One-Night and Short-Run Concerts, Jam Sessions, One-Person Shows, Comedy, and much more! will run Aug. 22 – Nov. 1 at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre. Click the link for all events.
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Michael Griffo’s Pen Pals has announced a new rotating cast, to begin Aug. 15 at Union Square’s DR2 Theatre, directed by SuzAnne Barabas.
Aharna Burgess & Paige Davis …… Catherine Curtin & Marcia Cross ….. and Donna Lynne Champlin & Emily Skinner, with more TBA.
Inspired by a true story, Pen Pals invites audiences into the lives of Bernie and Mags—two women whose bond, forged in adolescence, endures for decades without them ever meeting in person. A story of connection, resilience, and the unbreakable bond between friends, Pen Pals is as poignant as it is powerful.
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It’s a Graae Night for Singing!, starring Jason Graae, will run Aug. 29-30 at 9 PM at Hollywoods Gardenia, with music direction by Gerald Sternbach.
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CA’s Musical Theatre Guild has announced it 2025-26 season at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center.
An Evening with the Maestro: MTG Sings Bernstein will (Sept. 21)
Applause (Feb. 15, 2026)
Casting and additional information TBA.