This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, May 29
Cassatt, written & directed by Arden Teresa, featuring Samantha Gregory, Cecil Jennings, Caroline Quigley, Sara Ballantine, Kathie Barnes, Alexandria Sanders, Lily Cadot, Briana Burnside, Walter Rodriguez, and Daniel Korth, opens at LA’s Theatre West.
Act Your Age, world premiere by Art Shulman, directed by Stan Mazin, featuring Ezra Black, Brittney DeLeon, Jillian McWhirter, and Morry Schorr, opens at North Hollywood’s Two Roads Theatre.
Saturday, May 30
The Magic Flute opera, conducted by James Conlon, featuring Kyle Miller (Papageno), Aigul Khismatullina (Queen of the Night), and Kwangchul Youn (Sarastro), opens at LA Opera.
Romeo and Juliette presentations, directed by Bryn Boice, featuring Evan Danyliw (Romeo/Gregory), Anna Kate Gossett (Juliet/Balthasar), Kandyce Whittingham (as Friar/Lord Montague), Alexandra White (Nurse/Lady Montague), Kayla Sessoms (Mercutio/Prince/Abraham), Sandy Clancy (Lady Capulet/Page), Alex Leondedis (Lord Capulet), Nicolas Bolton (Benvolio/Friar John), Dani Grace Nissen (Tybalt/Apothecary), and Sofonyas (Paris/Sampson), at 2 & 7 PM at Boston’s Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.
Sunday, May 31
The Price, by Arthur MiIller, directed by Elina de Santos, featuring Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), Richard Fancy (Gregory Solomon), Jason Huber (aWalter Franz), and Scott Jackson (Victor Franz), opens at CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
Silverback Mountain, by Mickey Gooch, Jr, directed by Sam Lafrage, featuring Mickey Gooch (Micky), Amerasu (Miss Jackson), Olamide Asanpaola (Tumaini), Leo Jasper Davis (Mamadu), Joe Regelbrugge (Andy), Samuel Selman (Mustafa), Walker Stovall (Marty), and Jason Yanto (Kai), with Kahlil S. Harvey and Collins Rush, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s AMT Theater.
Take Me to Dolyllwood, world premiere by Harris Singer, directed by Luke Wisniewski, featuring Harris Singer (The Playwright), Lisa Cohen (Playwright’s Mom), Sam Flynn, Brason Jones, Tomias Robinston, Paris Alexander, Earl Dax, Michelle Zabinski, Caroline Best, and Royce Johnson, closes at Off-Broadway’s La MaMa.
Go Down, Moses, world premiere by Dana Leslie Gosldstein, directed by Brandon M. Weber, featuring Terence Archie and Philip Hoffman, with Shania Adams, Lucas Bernhauer, Kaa’lah Bynes, Maddy Mackarey, Yarin Neuhaus, Jeremiah Packer, Vanessa Pliskow Donovan Price, Patrick Saint Ange, Celina Mylene Santana, and Renee Shohe, closes at Off-Broadway’s A.R.T./New York Theatres.
Broken Snow, by Ben Andron, directed by Colin Hanlon, featuring Tom Cavanagh, Tony Danza, and Michael Longfellow, with Bob Ari and Max Rol, closes at Off-Broadway’s Theatre 71.
Circus Fire, world premiere by Jacques Lamarre, directed by Jared Mezzocchi, featuring Olivia Nicole Hoffman, Caroline Kinsloving, Janelle Anne Robinson, Mike Boland, Constantino Fernandez, Stuart Rider, Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Marco Verna, Rebecka Jones, and Dan Wheltonm with Anastasia Maglaras and Eric Orsini, closes at Theaterworks Hartford.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, directed by Dan Knechtges, featuring Kyra Kennedy(Carole King), Dylan S. Wallach (Gerry Goffin), Teresa Zimmermann (Cynthia Weil), Barrett Riggins (Barry Mann), Mark Ivy(Don Kirschner), and Holland Vavra (Genie Klein), with Abigail Bensman, Ben Chavez, Lizzie Cooper, John Ryan Del Bosque, Evin Johnson, Anyssa McDonald, Gloria Prince, Sarah Sachi, Braden Tanner, Raven Troup, Kristopher Ward, LaBraska Washington, Kaleb Womack, Miles Marmolejo, Cary Michelle Miller, Tobias Rytting, Destiny Webb, Alexia Alla, Luke Duckett, Finley Franco, Ruby Jefferies, Riley Johnson, Daniel Karash, Julian Lammey, Belyn McNamara, Ryan Schmehil, Nathan Bryant and Kaavya Rajarathnam, closes at Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars.
Eleanor, by Mark St. Germain, directed by David Ellenstein, featuring Kandice Chappel, closes at Venura’s Rubicon Theatre.
East West Players Flower Drum Song, adapted by David Henry Hwang, directed by Jacqui Park, featuring Joven Calloway, Ethan Yaheen-Moy Chan, Jay Espinoza, Sierra Goria, Sally Hong, Tony Jin, Esther Lee, Brian Liebson, Emma Park, Gemma Pedersen, Avelina Sanchez, Hillary Tang, Ai Toyoshima, Haoyi Wen, and Paul Wong, closes at LA’s Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’s Aratani Theatre.
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The Off Broadway Alliance has announced its 2026 Award Winners:
Click here for the complete list of winners.
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The Chicago Shakespeare production of Henry VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts will run June 9 – July 19 at The Public Theater, adapted & directed by Stephen Brown-Fried.
Jon Norman Schneider (Henvy VI), Jon Norman Schneider (Henry VI), Teresa Avia Lim (Margaret), Mia Katigbak (Gloucester), Rajesh Bose (York), Myka Cue (Joan),Tommy Bo ( John Talbot), John Haggerty (Talbot), Ðavid Lee Huỳnh (Charles/the Dauphin), Anna Ishida (Warwick), Paul Juhn (Suffolk), Orville Mendoza (Jack Cade), David Shih (Edward of York), Julyana Soelistyo (Richard), Sue Jin Song (Bedford), James Yaegashi (Winchester),and Kimiye Corwin (Somerset).
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As Long as You’re Asking: A Conversation with Jason Alexander will take place June 25 & 26 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
In this evening of comedy, musical performance, and conversation with the Emmy and Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen, the audience determines what they want to know the most. Alexander presents a variety of topics for the audience to pick and choose, culminating in behind-the-scenes stories of his life, career, and social activism. Or ask about anything you’ve always wanted to know and see if he can answer. It’s all on the table and the conversation is completely in your control—making for a once-in-a-lifetime evening, June 25 & 26 only in The Yard.
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Mister Halston, by Raffaele Pacitti, directed by Michael Wilson, will run June 2 – 21 at Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre.
Michael McGrath (Roy Halston Frowick).
Roy Halston Frowick, the visionary American designer who helped define modern fashion and became a symbol of the Studio 54 era. Produced in association with Tony Award-winning producer Bruce Robert Harris, the World Premiere production explores Halston’s rise, reinvention, ambition, glamour, and ultimate fall.
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John Philip: Positivity Reigns….Say Yes! will run June 27 & 28 (both at 7 PM) at NYC’s Don’t Tell mama, with music direction by David Pearl.
Seth Sikes.