This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, March 7
STRIPPED: House of Blue Robes, by Seth Zvi Rpsenfeld, directed by Brian Roff, featuring Victor Almanzar, Katherine George, Izabel Mar, David Potters, Ed Trucco, and Viviana Valeria, opens at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters.
The Triumph of Love, by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, directed by Loretta Greco, featuring Allison Altman a(Léonide), Avanthika Srinivasan (Corine), Vincent Randazzo (Harlequin), Patrick Kerr (Dimas), Rob Kellogg (Agis), Marianna Bassham (Léontine), and Nael Nacer (Hermocrate), with Morgan Ford, Joanna Strapp, Nick Sulfaro, and Lewis D. Wheeler, opens at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.
King James, by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Monteze Freeland, featuring Blake MOrris (Shawn) and Doug Harris (Matt), opens at Cleveland Playhouse.
The Lehman Trilogy, directed by Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill, featuring Kevin McGuire (Henry Lehman), Oliver Wadsworth (Mayer Lehman), and William Oliver Watkins (Emanuel Lehman), opens at Albany’s Capital Rep.
The Inspector, newly adapted & directed by Nikolai Gogol, featuring Whitney Andrews, Edoardo Benzoni, Brandon E. Burton, Sam Douglas, Malik James, Annelise Lawson, Chinna Palmer, John Evans Reese, Grayson Richmond,Darius Sakui, Nomè SiDone, and Elizabeth Stahlmann, begins previews at Yale Rep.
Gingold Theatrical Group‘s Doctors Dilemma script-in-hand presentation, directed by David Staller, featuring Nadia Brown, Robert cucciloi, Judy Gold, Stefamia Gonzalez, David Lee Huynh, Simon Jones, George Dvorsky, Rocco Sisto, James Rana, and Nick Wyman, at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players.
Saturday, March 8
Nayatt School Redux, by Elizabeth LeCompte & Spalding Gray, directed by LeCompte, featuring Ari Fliakos, Andrew Maillet, Michaela Murphy, Suzzy Roche, Scott Shepherd, Maura Tierney, Kate Valk, and Omar Zubair, opens at Off-Broadway’s Wooster Group.
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), opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Jean’s.
Così Fan Tutte, conducted by James Conlon, featuring Erica Petrocelli (Fiordiligi), Rihab Chaieb (Dorabella), Ana Maria Martinez (Despin, opens at LA Opera.
Hard Road to Heaven, world premiere by Willy Holtman, David Spangler, Jerry Taylor & Marty Dodson, directed by Jackson Gay, featuring Jackie Burns (Jenny Dixon), Leah Hocking (Linnell Dixon), Elizabeth Teeter (Anna Grace Dixon), J. Robert Spencer (Hank Dixon), Bryan Fenkart (Jimmy Lee Stewart), Jerry Dixon (Charlie Morgan), Nathaniel Hackmann (Kellin Wayne) and Marcus Gladney, Jr. (Marcus Dorsey), with Imani Brissett, Grad Greer, Alec Ludacka, Christopher McCrewell, Claire Newumann, Shannon Stasiulis, and Cecilia Trippiedi, opens at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse.
Kate Baldwin: Let’s Not Talk About… concert, with special guests (Santino Fontana( Mar. 6 only), Nicholas Rodriguez (Mar. 7 only), and Kennedy Caughell (Mar. 8 only), closes at NYCs 54 Below.
Mothers Know Best concert, featuring Laura Benanti and her mother, Linda Benanti, closes at NYC’s 54 Below.
Native Gardens, by Karen Zacarias, directed by JoAnn M. Hunter, featuring Paula Leggett Chase (Virginia Butley), Linedy Genao (Tania De Valle), Adam Heller (Frank Butley), and Anthony Michael Martinez (Pablo Del Valle), closes at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse.
Sunday, Mar. 9
The Remarkable Mister Holmes, by Omri Schein, David Ellenstein & Daniel Lincoln, directed by David Ellenstein, featuring Darcy Rose Byrnes (Rosa and others), Susan Denaker (Mrs. Hudson and others), Jason Graae (Artemis and others (March 5 – 23), Michael Scott Harris (Gustav Von Schwanz and others), Katie Karel (Gerda von Schwanz, and others), Martin Kildare (Inspector Lestrade and others), Shannon O’Boyle (Sheila Watson), Paul Slade Smith Sherlock Holmes), and Pat Towne (Corpse, and oethers), Justin Michael Wilcox, and (Artemis and others – Mar. 24-30), opens at Laguna Playhouse.
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, directed by Matthew Bourne, featuring Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Beth Leavel, Gavin Lee, Ryan McCartan, Jasmine Forsberg, Kate Jennings Grant, David Harris, bonnie Langford, Jason Pennycooke, and Joanna Riding, with Jeremy Secomb, Jeremy Seccomb Maria Wirries, Daniel Yearwood, Kevin Early, Pairge Faure, and Alexa Lopez, closes at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre.
Fake It Until You Make It, by Larissa FastHorse, directed by Michael John Garcés, featuring Noah Bean (Theo), Eric Stanton Better (Mark), Julie Bowen (River), Tonantzin Carmelo (Wynona), Brandon Delsid (Krys), and Kota Ray Hebert (Grace), closes at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.
The Grove, by Mfoniso Udofia, directed by Awoye Timpo, featuring Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Abasiama Ufot), Abigail C. Onwunali (Adiaha Ufot), Joshua Olumide (Disciple Ufot), Amani Kojo (Ekong Ufot), Aisha Wura Akorede (Toyoima Ufot), and Paul-Robert Pryce (Udosen Udoh), with Ekemini Ekpo, Janelle Grace, Dayenne CB Walters, Sharmarke Yusuf, Maduka Steady, Maurice Emmanuel Parent, Chibuba Bloom Osuala, and Awoye Timpo, closes at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion.
Constellations, by Nick Payne, directed by Jonathan Fox, featuring Tom Ainsley and Kodi Jackman, closes at Ventura, CA’s Rubicon Theatre.
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. The upcoming Swept Away Reunion Concert has added a second show on Mon., April 28 at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St.). Shows will now take place at 7 & 9:30 PM. 
The first concert is already sold out.
John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, and Wayne Duvall.**********************
The world premiere of Sharon Scott Williams’ Crazy Mama will run Mar. 26 – Apr. 6 at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre, directed by Anson Williams.
Linda Purl
This one-woman,16-character, tour-de-force is about a daughter’s decades-long dream of saving her mother from the soul-crushing grip of mental illness. A testament to the steely resilience of the human heart and the enduring nature of hope.
Eric Germand’s The Totality of All Things will run Apr. 5 – June 7 (opening Apr. 18) at North Hollywood’s Road Tjeatre. directed y Taylor Nichols. Tina Carlisi (Judith), Meeghan Holaway (Deem Ann), Gloria Ines (Mrs. Carter), Carlos Lacamara (Principal Benson), Cabriel Palma (Gregg), and Victor Kallett (Michal). When a hate crime rocks a small Indiana town, an act of vandalism escalates into something with potentially deadly consequences, and the search for answers only leads to uncertainty about the very nature of truth itself.**********************
DC’s Signature Theatre‘s 2025 Sondheim Award Gala will celebrate its 15th Anniversary on Mon. Apr. 14 at 8 PM at the Anthem, directed by Matthew Gardiner.
Mandy Patinkin
Ben Platt, Nathan Gunn, Angel Lozada Tracy Lynn Olivera, Awa Sal Secka, and Ángel Lozada.
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Before Broadway & Beyond will take place Sat. Mar. 15 at 7:30 PM at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space, directed by Theo Lencicki with music direction by Nissa Kahle.
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.