Today’s Highlights:
Chita Rivera Awards presented at 6 PM at NYC’s NYU’s Skirball Center.
Gingold Theatrical Group‘s St. Joan script-in-hand performance, directed by Lily Kanter Riopelle, featuring Madeline Seidman (Joan), Ben Davis (Robert), Ty Jones (Paulengey/Ladvenu), Patrick Page (Archbishop/Inquisitor), Paco Tolson (Archbishop/Inquisitor, Paco Tolson (Dunois), Rob McClure (Warwick), PJ Adzimia (Charles), Mark Shanahan (Chaplian), John-Andrew Morrison (Cauchon), Sean McCintrye (La Hire/d’Estivet), Robert Elihah Kollman (Stweard/Edward the Page), R.J. Foster (La Tremouille), andChristopher Innvar (Bluebeard/English Soldier), at 7 PM at NYCs Museum of Art & Design (2 Columbus Circle South).
Ensemble Shakespeare Center’s Julius Caesar presentation, directed by Dylan Diehl, featuring Chloe Champken, Rob Hatzenbeller, Susannah Hoffman, Dennis Kear, Denis Lambert, Gerrard Lobo, Paul Marchegiani, Celeste Moratti, Ella Olesen, Erin Roth, Joe Staton, and Colleen Smith Wallnau, at 7 PM at NYC’s Open Jar Studios (1601 Broadway, 11th Floor).
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GRACE NOTES 
Election Day by Jim Bernhard
Name the politicians featured in these plays and musicals:
| 1. All the Way, play by Robert Schenkkan | A. Roosevelt |
| 2. Hizzoner, play by Paul Shyre | B. Bush |
| 3. Sunrise at Campobello, play by Dore Schary | C. Clinton |
| 4. Of Thee I Sing, musical by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, George Gershwin, and Ira Gershwin | D. Laguardia |
| 5. Jimmy, musical by Melville Shavelson, Morrie Ryskind, Bill and Patti Jacob | E. Blair and Bush |
| 6. Soft Power, musical by Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang | F. Koch |
| 7. Mayor, musical by Warren Leight and Charles Strouse | G. Walker |
| 8. Knickerbocker Holiday, musical by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill | H. Stuyvesant |
| 9. Stuff Happens, play by David Hare | I. Johnson |
| 10. You’re Welcome America, play by Will Ferrell | J. Wintergreen |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Good Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by David Cromer, has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play in Broadway history and is the first play to surpass a gross of $4 million in a single week. For the week ending May 5, 2025.
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Abby Rosebrock’s Lowcountry will run June 4 – July 13 at the Atlantic Theatre, directed by Jo Bonney.
Jodi Balfour, Keith Kupferer, and Babak Tafti.
When Tally, a down-and-out actress and gig worker, returns to her rural hometown, she swipes right on a disgraced high-school teacher fresh out of an ankle bracelet. Lowcountry is a dark, twisted romcom about the psychic distress of looking for love in the digital age and the carceral state.
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LA’s Center Theatre Group has announced its 2025-26 season:
And Juliet (Aug. 13 – Sept. 7) at the Ahmanson Theatre, by David West Read & Max Martin & Friends.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Oct. 1 – Nov. 9) at the Mark Taper Forum, by Jocelyn Bio, directed by Whitney White.
Paranormal Activity (Nov. 13 – Dec. 7), by Levi Holloway, at the Ahmanson Theatre. An original story set in the world of the Paranormal Activity film franchise, this world premiere play will haunt you long after the lights go out.
Here Lies Love (Feb. 11 – Mar. 22, 2026), by David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, at the Mark Taper Forum.
Primary Trust (May 20 – June 28), by Ebony Booth at the Mark Taper Forum.
Mamma Mia! (June 23 – July 19, 2026) at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Puppet Up! – Uncensored (July 16-27) at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. (Improv comedy from Jim Henson Puppeteers), at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Guac (Oct. 14 – Nov. 2) at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. When you lose a son, what do you do? GUAC is a fearless, funny, and deeply moving theatrical tour-de-force about a father turned activist. Seven years after his son Joaquin “Guac” Oliver was killed in the Parkland shooting, Manuel Oliver channels his love, loss, and rage into a powerful force for change.
Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile (Dec. 5 – Jan. 4, 2026) at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
He’s greedy, he’s grumptious, he’s beastly! The Enormous Crocodile is weaving his way through the jungle of Los Angeles! This mischievous musical based on Roald Dahl’s snappy book has toe-tapping tunes and a menagerie of puppets. Snap up your tickets today for this wickedly funny musical adventure, perfect for the whole family!
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Josh Sharp’s ta-da! will run July 7 – Aug. 23 (opening July 21) at the Greenwich House Theater, directed by Josh Finkleton.
Josh Sharp.
A one-man comedy show inside of a manic 2,000 slide PowerPoint. Expect dumb but erudite jokes and sad but sweet stories alongside the Herculean feat of stupidity that is memorizing a slide every 2.1 seconds.
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The Peccadill0 Theater Company, Negro Ensemble Comany & Eric Falkensten have announced at 6-week extension of Lonne Elder’s Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, now through June 29 at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clements, directed by Clinton Turner Davis.
Norm Lewis, Jeremiah Packer, Calvin M. Thompson and Bryce Michael Wood.
The “ceremonies” are not formal rituals, but rather the recurring patters of life, relationships, and choices that defint Parker and family in 1950s Harlem. These ceremonies involve the checkers game between Russell Parker and his friend Jenkins, which symbolizes their connected and shared history, and the family’s dependence on Adele’s work, a situation that echoes the past and is untimately unsustainable. The also explores the “dark old men” in the sense of the men’s struggles and the consequences of their choices, including their involvement in criminal activities that ultimately lead to tragedy.
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Andrea McArdle in Concert will run June 4-5 at NYC’s Beechman Theatre.
Link and additional information TBA.
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Caitlyn Waltermire’s Persephone Steps Out will run Jun 19 – July 6 at Theater for the New City, directed by Natalie Thomas.
Sophie Kelly-Hedrick, Zuhairah, Guy Ventoliere, Alec Febbraro, Diogo de Oliveira, Elizabeth Sherman, Phil Oetiker, and Jessalyn Charles.
A darkly comedic magical-realism new play about family hierarchies.
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GRACE NOTES Answers: Election Day
1-I. All the Way, play by Robert Schenkkan – Lyndon B. Johnson
2-D. Hizzoner, play by Paul Shyre – Fiorello LaGuardia
3-A. Sunrise at Campobello, play by Dore Schary – Franklin D. Roosevelt
4-J. Of Thee I Sing, musical by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, George Gershwin, and Ira Gershwin – John P. Wintergren (fictional)
5-G. Jimmy, musical by Melville Shavelson, Morrie Ryskind, Bill and Patti Jacob – Jimmy Walker
6-C. Soft Power, musical by Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang – Hillary Clinton
7-F. Mayor, musical by Warren Leight and Charles Strouse – Ed Koch
8-H. Knickerbocker Holiday, musical by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill – Peter Stuyvesant
9-E. Stuff Happens, play by David Hare – Tony Blair and George W. Bush
10-B. You’re Welcome America, play by Will Ferrell – George W. Bush