This Weekend’s Nightlights:
Friday, March 14
5-Star Theatricals‘ Cabaret, directed by Michael Matthews, featuring Sean Samuels (The Emcee), Emily Goglia (Sally Bowles), Connor A. Bullock ( Cliff), Valerie Perri (Fraulein Schneider), Ron Orbach (Herr Schultz), and Jacob Wilson (Ernst), with Tatiana Monique Alvarez, Sydelle Aaliyah Bhalla, Christian Tyler Dorey, Christopher Ho, Donovan Mendelovitz, Angeline Mirenda, Amy Smith, Terrick Walker, Rianny Vasquez, opens at Thousand Oaks’ Scherr Forum Theatre.
The New York Pops: Epic Film Scores concert, conducted by Steven Reineke, featuring Sara Bareilles, Kristn Bell, Clive Davis, Montego Glover, James Monroe Iglehart, Capathia Jenkins, Carly Rae Jepsen, Angela Lansbury, Queen Latifah, Cyddi Lauper, Norm Lewis, Barry Manilow, Kelli O’Hara, Adrienne Warren, Dione Warwick, Miss Piggy, and more… at 8 PM at Carnegie Hall.
Saturday, March 15
Coming Home: Angel Blue in Concert, at 7:30 PM at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Before Broadway & Beyond benefit concert, directed by Theo Lencicki, featuring Cassidy Baltazar, Isaiah Baston, Matthew Cruz, Lila Freifeld, Ben Gluck, Saydie Grossman, Tatum Hopkins, Kyra Leeds, Anthony Lerro, Calvin Lindo, Mateo Lizcano, Marla Louissaint, Maddy Lyons, Lauren Marchand, Halle Mastroberardino, Helen Murphy, Sophia O’Brien, Rosabella Procario-Soler, Ryan Rodino, Oliver Tam, and Ekele Ukegbu, at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space.
Sunday, March 16
Last Call, by Peter Danish, directed by Gil Mehmert, featuring Helen Schneider (Bernstein) and Lucca Züchner (Karajan), opens at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.
The Journals of Adam & Eve presentation, by Ed. Weinberger, featuring Hal Linden and Sally Struthers, at 2 PM at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
York Theatre‘s Platinum Dreams, by Stevie Holland, Garry William Friedman & Will Holt, directed by Joseph Hayward, featuring Stevie Holland (Lila Halliday), Conor Ryan (Dan Hardin), and Jovan E’Sean (Jamie Stiles), closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Jean’s.
Stripped: House of Blue Robes, by Seth Zvi, directed by Brian Roff, featuring Victor Almanzar, Katherine George, Izabel Mar, David Potters, and Viviana Valeria, closes at Off-Broadway’s 59 E. 59 Theaters.
A.R.T, by Yasmina Reza, directed by Courtney O’Connor. featuring Remo Airaldi, Michael Kaye, and John Kuntz, closes at Boston’s Lyric Stage.
Willing Suspension of Disbelief, by Katherine James, directed by Rachel Berney Needleman, featuring Marwa Bernstein, Tara Brown, Suzanne Ford, Nick Marini, and Rachel Townsend, closes at CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
The Secret World of archy and mehitabel, by Mel Brooks, Joe Darion & George Kleinsinger, directed by Moosie Drier,Moosie Drier, featuring Dan Gilvezan (Archy), Caroline Hennesy (Mehitabel), Kelly Stables (Mayfly), Richard Horvitz and (Aging Cat), and Dan West (playing the orginal ragtime score), closes at Hollywood’s Broadwater Black Box.
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Manhattan Theatre Club will present James Graham’s Punch in Summer 2025 (dates TBA), at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed byAdam Penford.
TBA.
As Jacob tears through Nottingham in a whirlwind of drugs, girls, and bar fights, he makes a fatal mistake that lands him in prison. But as he struggles to accept the consequences of his actions and build a new life, he finds an unusual source of salvation: the parents of the boy he killed.Based on a remarkable true story.
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Cambridge’s A.R.T. will present its 2025 Gala on Mon. May 5 at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center, directed by TBA.
Fay Lampert Shutzer and Bill Shutzer.
Ashley LaLonde
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La MaMa will present the world premiere of Those Who Remained May 8-18, written & performed by Sophia Gutchinov, directed by Rani O’Brien.
The play is about finding one’s activist voice while navigating the complexities of identity, culture and tradition encompassing her unique Italian-Mongolian heritage.
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Lisette Glodowski & Richard C. Walter’s Madame Cicqouot: A Revolutionary Musical will run May 29 – June at Pittsburgh CLO, directed by Glodowski.
TBA.
Set again the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napolionic Wars, this is the remarkable true story of a young woman who defied societal expectations to become one of the most powerful forces in the history of Champagne. In 1789, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin flees her boarding school as revolution engulfs France. A decade later, an arranged marriage to François Clicquot, the son of her father’s business rival, unexpectedly leads to an innovative partnership in winemaking. But when tragedy strikes, she faces an impossible choice – surrender to fate or risk everything to change the industry forever. With innovation, resilience, and a bold gamble that could make or break her legacy, she takes on the male-dominated world of Champagne, transforming the industry and securing her place in history.
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Lisette Glodowski & Richard C. Walter’s Madame Clicquot: A Revolutionary Musical will run May 29 – June 8 at Pittsburgh CLO, directed & choreographed by Laurie Glodowski.
Victoria Frings (Barb-Nicole Clicquot Pnsardin), Kevi Massey (François Cliquot, and Paolo Montalban (Louis Bohne).
The remarkable true story of a young woman who defied societal expectations to become one of the most powerful forces in the history of Champagne. In 1789, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin flees her boarding school as revolution engulfs France. A decade later, an arranged marriage to François Clicquot, the son of her father’s business rival, unexpectedly leads to an innovative partnership in winemaking. But when tragedy strikes, she faces an impossible choice – surrender to fate or risk everything to change the industry forever. With innovation, resilience, and a bold gamble that could make or break her legacy, she takes on the male-dominated world of Champagne, transforming the industry and securing her place in history.
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Pittsburgh CLO has announced its Summer 2025 Season:
Creative teams and casting TBA.
Madame Clicquot: A Revolutionary Musical (May 29 – June 18), by Lisette Glodowski & Richard C. Walter, directed byTBA. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, this is the remarkable true story of a young woman who defied societal expectations to become one of the most powerful forces in the history of Champagne. In 1789, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin flees her boarding school as revolution engulfs France. A decade later, an arranged marriage to François Clicquot, the son of her father’s business rival, unexpectedly leads to an innovative partnership in winemaking. But when tragedy strikes, she faces an impossible choice – surrender to fate or risk everything to change the industry forever. With innovation, resilience, and a bold gamble that could make or break her legacy, she takes on the male-dominated world of Champagne, transforming the industry and securing her place in history.
Camelot (June 17-22)
Back to the Future (July 1-6)
Frozen (July 18-27)
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Billy Barne’s Bash, in support of of the Billy Barnes Foundation, will take place Sun. Apr. 27 at 1 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club,.
Jason Graae
Owen Bakula, Eileen Barnett, Sam Harris, Carly Hughes, Jane A. Johnston, Jackie Joseph, Maude Maggart, Mark Arthur Miller, Joanne O’Brien, Shawn Ryan, Todd Sherry, Mary VanArsdel and Jo Anne Worley.
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Barbara Beckley Celebration of Life will take place Sat. Mar. 29 at 1:30 PM at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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A bold, immersive production of Shaw’s Saint Joan will run Apr. 4-19 at Tennessee Shakespeare Company, directed by Sarah Hankins.
Erin Amlicke, Lauren Gunn and more TBA.
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Off-Broadway’s Labyrinth Theatre will present its annual Celebrity Charades 2025 on Mon. May 19.
Location, start time, participants, and additional information TBA.