This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, May 9
Josh Groban in concert opens at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace.
Next to Normal London production, directed by Michael Longhurst, featuring Caissie Levy, Jamie Parker, Jack Wolfe, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Trevor Dion Nicholas, and Jack Ofrecio, airs at 9 PM (ET) on PBS.
Saturday, May 10
A Knight’s Tale, written &, directed by Brian Helgeland, featuring Emily Benjamin (Kate), Max Bennett (Chaucer), Andrew Coshan (William), Emile Ruddock (Roland), Jay Saighal (Prince Edward), Eva Scott (What), Giles Taylor (Father), Oliver Tompsett (Count Adhemar), and Meesha Turner ( Jocelyn) with Robbie Alexander, Lauren Arney, Arcangelo Ciulla, Georgia Clements, Zac Frieze, Elliot Gooch, Gabriela Gregorian, Benedict Hastings, Danielle Huntley, Thomas Inge, Lisa Kerr, Zera Malvina-Aitken, Mehran James McCullough, Ryan North, Ryan Pidgen, Chioma Uma, Cristian Buttaci, Cristiano Cuino, Nicholas Teixeira, and Theo Wake, closes at the UK’s Manchester Opera House.
Sierra Boggess in Concert closes at NYC’s 54 Below.
Sunday, May 11
Peccadillo Theatre Company‘s Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, by Lon Elder III, directed by Clinton Turner Davis , featuring Norm Lewis, Felicia Boswell, James Foster Jr., Morgan Siobhan Green, Jeremiah Packer, Calvin Thompson, and Bryce Michael Wood, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clements.
Manhattan Theater Club‘s We Had a World, by Joshua Harman, directed by Trip Cullman, featuring Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason, and Jeanine Serralles, closes at Off-Broadway’s NY City Center Stage II.
Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth, directed by Jennifer Chang, featuring Justin Weaks (Kenneth), Samuel Stricklen (Bert), Hilary Ward (Corrina/Wally’s Waiter/Bank Customers), and Ricardo Chavira (Clay/Sam/Le Pousselet Bartender), closes at CT’s TheaterWorks Hartford.
The Civil Twilight, by Shem Bitterman, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, featuring Taylor Gilbert (Ann Carlson) and Andrew Elvis Miller (John Pine), closes at LA’s Broadwater Studio Theatre.
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Good Witch Bad Witch – The Broadway Witches will take place Sat. June 7 at 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse.
Alli Mauzey and Alyssa Fox.
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Driving Miss Daisy will run June 12-28 at Theatre Aspen, directed by Hunter Foster.
Judy Kaye (Daisy Werthan), Bernard Dotson (Hoke Colburn), and Jim Poulos (Bollie Werthan).
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Cleveland Playhouse has announced its 2025-26 season:
Our Town (Sept. 7-28), directed by Mary Zimmerman.
The Christine Jorgensen Show (Oct. 26 – Nov. 16), by Donald Steven Olson& Mark Nadler, directed by Michael Barakiva.
A Christmas Story (Nov. 30 – Dec. 21), by Philip Grecian, directed by Jackson Gay.
written by Philip Grecian
Primary Trust (Feb. 8 – Mar. 1, 2026), by Ebony Booth.
Rachmaninoff and the Tsar: A New Musical Play: The Music of Sergei V. Rachmaninoff (Mar. 5-15), directed by Trevor Hay
Tartuffe (Apr. 5-26), directed by M ichael Baradiva.
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Alan James’ The Buddy Holly Story will run July 11–27 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed & choreographed by Keith Andrews, and music direction by Ryan O’Connell.
Casting TBA.
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The 2025 Chita Rivera Awards will be presented Mon. May 19 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s NYC’s NYU Skirball Center.
Ben Vereen and Stephen Schwartz.
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“Shakespeare with Leo Schaff: All’s Well That Ends Well“ will run May 14 – July 2 at NYC’s 92NY.
The courses present an actor’s approach to Shakespearean study, with riveting scene-by-scene readings and passionate interpretations that bring the plays to life. Animated, participatory, community-focused, his courses are perfect for those who are new to Shakespeare or are longtime Bardolators.
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An Evening with Sandy Duncan will take place Tues. May 13 at 7 PM, hosted by Michael Portantiere livestreamed here. 
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Life of Pi will run June 3-15 at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center. directed by Max Webster.
Taha Mandviwala (Pi), Jessica Angleskhan (Amma/Nurse/Orange Juice), Alan Ariano (Mr. Okamoto/Captain), Emmanuel Elpenord (Cook/voice of Richard Parker), Rishi Jaiswal (Mamaji/Pandit Ji), Sinclair Mitchell (Admiral Jackson/Russian Sailor/Father Martin), Mi Kang/Lulu Chen/ Mrs. Biology Kumar / Zaida Khan), and Sorab Wadia (Father).
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DC’s Signature Theatre has announced its’ 2025-26 season:
. Play On! (Aug. 12 – Oct. 5) , by Sheldon Epps, Cheryl L. West & Duke Ellington, directed by Sili Anne Brown. Aspiring songwriter Vy comes to swinging 1930s Harlem to make it big. But when she discovers the doors of opportunity are closed to women, she disguises herself as a man to pitch her songs to Harlem’s hottest composer, the Duke. However, when her tunes attract the attention of Cotton Club performer Lady Liv, the object of The Duke’s affection, Vy-Man is swept up in a swinging tempest of love, mistaken identity and jazz.
Strategic Love Play (Sept. 23 – Nov. 9) by Miriam Battye, directed by Sheldon Epps. A. razor sharp, not-quite-romantic comedy about the absurdity of modern dating in the seemingly endless quest to find “the one.” After matching online, a man and a woman meet for a date. Although they start off on the (very) wrong foot, they slowly begin to let down their guard in the hope that this time they’ve found something real. Bold, bitingly funny and achingly poignant, Strategic Love Play explores love, loneliness, and lying to (and about) ourselves in the age of swiping.
Fiddler on the Roof (Nov. 4 – Jan. 25, 2026), directed by Joe Calarco
In Clay (Dec. 9 – Jan. 21, 2026), by Rececca Simmonds & Jack Miles. Additional information TBA. Safety Not Guaranteed (Mar. 3 – Apr. 12, 2026), by Ryan Miller & Nick Blaemire. Pippin (May 12 – July 26)), directed by Matthew Gardiner. What Became of Us (June 16 – July 26), by Shayan Lotfi, direred by Ethan Heard.**********************
Caitlyn Waltermire’s Persephone Palmer Steps Out will run June 19 – July 6 at Theatre for the New City, directed by Natalie Thomas. Sophie Kelly-Hedrick (Persephone Palmer)Zuhairah (Connie Palmer), Guy Ventoliere (Herm Palmer), Alec Febbraro (Joe Palmer), Diogo de Oliveira (Paul), Elizabeth Sherman (Lisa Scott), Phil Oetiker (Richard Scott), and Jessalyn Charles (Stef). The play is set during a wintery, sub-zero Summer in the 1990s in a basement apartment hundreds of feet below the ground. This is the home of the Palmer family, headed by the tempestuous and charismatic Connie, whose marriage to the devoted and enabling Herm oversees a fraught dynamic with her fractious stepson Joe. The occasional wandering-ins of Stef, Joe’s girlfriend, and their new friend Paul punctuate the isolated family’s routine, as do the shambolic visits from Connie’s brother Richard and his much-younger wife Lisa. Despite the magical setting of the play, the dynamics between the characters are rooted in realism – except for the fact that Persie, the Palmer’s 13-year-old human daughter, is the family’s “cat.” Yet as the landscape shifts and Persie begins to bond with some of the new visitors, it appears that some changes may be underway – for better or for worse. With character archetypes derived from Greek mythology, Persephone Palmer Steps Out is a darkly hilarious exploration of the god-like nature of familial hierarchies, the contingencies of love, conditional acceptance, and the divine, desperate pursuit of control. Trigger warnings: Domestic violence, reference to sexual assault.