This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, June 27
ECHO: (Every cold-hearted Oxygen), by Nassim Soleimanpour, directed by Omar Elerian, featuring Lolly Adefope, Milly Alcock, James Corden, Mel Goiedroye, Daniel Kaluuya, Nish Kumar, Simon McBurney, Reece Shearsmith, Juliet Stevenson, and Dominic West, opens at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
All Shook Up, directed by Daniel Goldstein, featuring Kerstin Anderson (Natalie/Ed), Ryan Mac (Chad), Benjamin Howes (Jim), L Morgan Lee (Sylvia), Amy Hillner Larsen (Mayor Matilda), Messica Crouch (Miss Sandra), Jordan Mattew Brown (Denis), Jackera Davis (Lorraine), Jackson Reagin (Dean), and Kilty Reidy (Sheriff Earl), with Ian Dominguez Ball, Jenna Bienvenue, Corinne C. Broadbent, Julius Chase, Maddie Garbaty, Michael James, Myles McHale, Keyon Pickett, Sydney Quildon, and Montria Walker, with Ben Horsburgh and Eleni Kontzamany, begins previews at CT’s Goodspeed.
An Afternoon with Dick Van Dyke concert, at 2 PM at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club.
Saturday, June 28
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, opens at Maryland’s Olney Theatre.
An Evening with Jason Robert Brown concert, at 7 PM at the Las Vegas Smith Center.
Signature Theatre‘s Broadway in the Park concert, directed by Matthew Gardiner, featuring LIndsay Mendez, Jessie Mueller, Felicia Curry, Christian Douglas, Kevin McAllister, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Mova Y. Payton, Awa Sal Secka, and Tobias A.Young, at at 8 PM at Virginia’s Wolf Trap.
CANCELED: An Intimate Evening with Lucy Arnaz concert at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club
Cracked Open, world premiere written & directed by Gail Kriegel, featuring Pamela Bob, Joyia D. Bradley, Rubén Caballero, Paul Castree, Blaire DiMisa, Scott Harrison, Madeline Grace Jones, Lisa Pelikan, Katherine Reis, Bart Shatto, and Jeene Vath, closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Hunter Foster, featuring Judy Kaye (Daisy Werthan), Bernard Dotson (Hoke Colburn), and Jim Poulos (Bollie Werthan), closes at Theatre Aspen.
Sunday, June 29
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, directed by Matthew Bourne, featuring Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Jacob Dickey, Kyle Selig, Jasmine Forsberg, Kate Jennings Grant, David Harris, Bonnie Langford, Beth Leavel, Gavin Lee, Jason Pennycooke, Joanna Riding, Jeremy Secomb, Maria Wirries, and Daniel Yearwood, with Kevin Earley, Paige Faure, Alexa Lopez, and Peter Neureuther, closes at Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club.
The Imaginary Invalid, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Jesse Berger, featuring Mark Linn-Baker, Sarah Stiles, Arnie Burton, Russell Daniels, Manoel Felciano, Emilie Kouatchou, Emily Swallow, John Yi and Brandon Espinoza closes at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, by Lonne Elder III, directed by Clinton Turner Davis, featuring Norm Lewis, Jeremiah Packer, Calvin M. Thompson and Bryce Michael Wood, closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clements.
Bye Bye Birdy, directed by Paige Price, featuring Alex Walton (Conrad Birdie), Noah Weisberg (Albert Peterson), Ashley Pérez Flanagan (Rosie Alvarez), Amani Velada (Ursula Merkel), Susanna Cathryn Ballenski (Kim MacAfee), Jazmin Gorsline *Mrs. MacAfee), Ty Willis (Mr. MacAfee), Leslie Law Mae Peterson), Elliott Aillaud & Liam Kuriatnyk (Randolf MacAfee), Tori Gresham (Gloria Rasputin), and Isaiah Hyde (Hugo Peabody), with Candace Son Donehoo, Jordan King, Ashley Lanyon, Nick McCarthy, Karin Terry, Jason Weitkamp, Paul Abwao, Ana Sofia Cabrera Castro, Liz Conlon, Conor Thomas Craggan, River DeJong, Kekoa Dilay, Alexander R Hernandez, Klara Tuininga, Chailia Wendland, Parker Drown, Cristin J. Hubbard, Mackenzie Neusiok, Casey M Raiha, Ania Briggs, Sophie Taylor, and Keoni Dilay, closes at Seattle’s Fifth Avenue Theatre.
42 Balloons, by Jack Godfrey, directed by Ellie Coote, featuring with Julia Bain, Lacey Jack, Joshua Messmore, and Luke Nowakowski., closes at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Peril in the Alps, world premiere written & directed by Steven Dietz, featuring Gabbie Adner (Woman 2), Valerie Larsen (Captain Hastings), Brian Mackey (Man Two), Omri Schein (Hercule Poirot), Amanda Sitton (Woman One), Christopher M. Williams (Man One), closes at CA’s Laguna Playhouse.
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, directed by Tim Jackson, featuring Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, closes at Cambridge’s A.R.T.
Frozen, directed & choreographed by Dan Knechtges, featuring Cailen Fu (Princess Anna), Jenna Lea Rosen (Princess Elsa, Mark Ivy as (Olaf), Garrett Clayton as (Hans), Alexander Mendoza (Kristoff), Thomas Whitcomb (Sven), Derek Manson (Duke of Weselton), Daniel Dawson (Oaken/Bishop), Everleigh Kim-Bergman (Young Anna), Bellami Soleil Smith (Young Elsa), Kenneth Mosley Pabbie), Regina Le Vert (Bulda), Gabriel Navarro (King Agnarr, and Ashley Moniz (Queen Iduna) , with Brittany Anderson, Beau Brians, Delilah Brien, Davide Costa, Quintan Craig, Sloane Griffith, Harmony Ishikawa, Bruno Koskoff, Marisa Moenho, Monika Peña, and Alexander Ríos. The Swings are Isabella Abiera, Andrea Dobbins, Audrey Moore, and Camal Pugh, closes at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Greenwood 1964, by Mohammed Ali Ojarigi, directed by Iona Morris Jackso, featuring Tracey Dukes (Harry Belafonte), Eltony Williams (Sidney Poitier), and Joy DeMichelle (Fannie Lou Hamer), closes at LA’s Greenway Court Theatre.
The Wedding Singer, by Chad Beguelin, Gim Herlihy & Matthew Sklar, directed by Michael Donovan, featuring Blake Jenner, Kay Cole, Hannah Sedlacek, Juliane Godfrey, Michael Austin Deni, Colin Huerta, Chris Bey, Natalie Holt MacDonald, and Whitney Kathleen Vigil. The company includes (in alphabetical order) Madison AiSanaye, Mike Baker, Lisa Dyson, Chris Ho, Liv Kaplan, Samantha Lawrence-Mata, Kailyn Leilani, Veronica Carolina Leite, Almand Martin Jr., Honza Pelichovský, Michael Wells, and Stephen Wilson, closes at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
Network, by Lee Hall, directed by Tom Lazarus, featuring Linda Alznauer, Patrick Anthony, Fox Carney, Ken Dixon Jr., Bert Emmett, Matthew Harper-Johnston, Idielís Hernández, Belinda Howell, Mimi Kmet, Angie Lin, Hudson Long, Melissa Lugo, Bob McCollum, Michelle McGregor, Kevin Michael Moran, Sherrick O’Quinn, Danny Salay, Tack Sappington, Amy Shaughnessy, Larry Toffler, Cathy Diane Tomlin and Sylvie Wiley, closes at North Hollywood’s Group Rep.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run July 17-27 at the Flea Theatre, directed by Dylan Diehl.
Chloe Champken, Dylan Diehl, Susannah Hoffman, Dennis Kear, Gerrard Lobo, Jesse Cao Long, Paul Marchegiani, Diego Millan, Celeste Moratti, Ella Olesen, Katie Pelensky, Erin Roth, Joe Staton, Lawrence E. Street, and Colleen Smith Wallnau
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company‘s 16th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival will run July 11-20.
Click the link above for complete details.
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Cary Gitter’s Gene & Gilda will run July 12 – Sept. 7 (opening July 27) at 59 E 59 Theaters, directed by Joe Brancato.
Jordan Kai Burnett (Gilda Radner) & Jonathan Randell Silver (Gene Wilder).
Comic geniuses Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner had a love like no other. What started as a friendship on a movie set grew into an electric and enduring romance. In this heartfelt and hilarious new play, Wilder and Radner share their love and their laughter with us, even as they navigate some of life’s hardest challenges.
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Off-Broadway’s York Theatre has launched its new website … and logo..
Click here to access the new site & logo.
The 2925/26 season will be announced soon.
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Bryce Hallett’s Rolling Thunder will begin previews July 10 and open July 24 at New World Stages, directed by Kenneth Ferrone.
Drew Becker (Johnny), Cassadee Pope (Linda), Justin Matthew Sargent (Thomas), Daniel Yearwood (Andy), Courtnee Carter (Lauren & others), and Deon’te Goodman (Mike & others), with Ethan Hardy Benson and Erin Ramirez.
Part rock concert, part documentary, this exhilaration and moving show tells the heartfelt stories of young soldiers caught in the abyss of the Vietnam War and the galvanizing protest movement that sought to end it.
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Off-Broadway’s York Theatre has announced its new website & logo HERE.
The theater’s 2025/26 season will be be announced soon.
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Billy Porter (Emcee) and Marisha Wallace (Sally) will reprise their performances from July 22 – Oct 9 (closing date) in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre.
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The world premiere of Peter Léfcourt’s Menage À Quatre will run July 18 – Aug. 17 (opening July 19) at the LGBT Theater, directed by Ryan O’Connor.
Carly J. Casey (Jeannie,) Matthew Downs (Reuben), Daniel Montgomery Walter/Darren/Ezra Pound), Jeremy S. Walker (Gary), and Sarah Wolter (Meg).
This witty, fast-paced world premiere comedy set in Los Angeles, involves two married couples – Gary and Jeannie, and Reuben and Meg – whose long-time friendship implodes when Gary, acting on a gnawing suspicion that Jeannie is having an affair, hires an eccentric private detective named Ezra Pound (no relation), who discovers that Jeannie is indeed having an affair, and it happens to be with his best friend, Reuben. In an attempt to deal with the fallout, they come up with a novel solution which they hope will salvage their friendship and their marriages…and of course, major shit hits the fan.
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The Fire Island Dance Festival, in support of Dancers Responding to AIDS will run July 18-20 at NY’s Fire Island Pines, Fire Island, NY.
Click here for the complete schedule of events.