Today’s Highlights:
Mint Theater‘s Garside’s Career, by Harold Brighouse, directed by Matt Dickson, featuring Matt Dickson, Erik Cratton, Sara Haider, Daniel Marconi, Melissa Maxwell, Melissa Maxwell, Paul Niebanch, Michael Schantz, Madeline Seidman, Amelia White, and Avery Whitted opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
The Fun-er-al: A Fundraising Memorial for the Death of the American Theatre benefit reading, by Chris Henry, directed by Chris Henry & Lorna Ventura, featuring Ephraim Birney and Lois Robbins, at 7 PM at NYC’s Royal Family Productions (145 West 46th St.).
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Nick Payne’s Constellations continues through Mar. 9 at Ventura, CA’s Rubicon Theatre, directed by Jonathan Fox.
Tom Ainsley and Kodi Jackman.
Step into the mesmerizing multiverse of Constellations, a captivating exploration of love, fate, and the infinite possibilities of existence. Delve into the surreal landscape of multiple universes as Marianne and Roland’s relationship unfolds in a kaleidoscope of moments, each one branching into alternate realities.
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The Secret Comedy of Women, written by & starring Barbara Gehring & Linda Klein, will run Apr. 24 – May 18 at LA’s Colony Theatre, directed by
Tje piece actively engages its audience with its high spirited, good-natured style of humor. With reviewers calling the show, “…truly brilliant.” (Denver Post) and “Laugh out loud comedy!” (Broadway World), it is no wonder that this “two-hour celebration of bras, purses, showers, breastfeeding, and menopause” (Pittsburgh Tribune) ran continuously for nearly two years at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and has played to over a quarter of a million women (and men!) across North America.
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New York Theatre Workshop will present he world premiere of Emil Weinstein’s Becoming Eve (based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein) will run Mar. 19 – Apr. 27 (opening Apr. 7) at Abrons Arts Center , directed by Tyne Rafaeli.
Tommy Dorfman (Chava), Judy Kuhn (Mami), Tedra Millan (Fraidy), Rad Pereira (Chesky), Justin Perkins (Puppeteer), Richard Schiff (Tati), and Brandon Uranowitz (Jonah), with Emma Wiseman (Puppeteer).
A week before the High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family by building a bridge between orthodoxy and modernity. One of these rabbis is Chava, the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family and destined to become a leader of the next generation before the revelation of her trans identity clashed explosively with the strictly gendered world in which she was raised. As we jump through memory—and wrestle with theology—truths and secrets emerge that ensure no one will read the old stories the same way again.
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The 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be presented Sun. June 1 at NYC’s NYU Skirball Center.
Learn more here.
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A presentation of Ed. Weinberger’s The Journals of Adam & Eve will take place Sun. Mar. 16 at 2 PM at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Hal Linden and Sally Struthers.
Follow along from Eden to Exile, their first date to twilight years, bachelor and bachelorette to becoming the world’s first parents.
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Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich’s Here There Are Blueberries will run Mar. 13-30 at the Wallis Annenenberg Center, directed by Kaufman.
Scott Barrow, Nemuna Ceesay, Delia Cunningham, Luke Forbes, Barbara Pitts, Jeanne Sakata, Marrick Smith, Grant James Varjas, Anna Shafer and Sam Reeder.
The story of a mysterious photo album from the Nazi era that arrives at the desk of an archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, revealing disturbing images of Nazis seemingly enjoying leisure time at Auschwitz, prompting a deep examination into the perpetrators of the Holocaust and the complexities of human nature, as the discovery ripples through the lives of those who encounter the photos, including a German businessman who recognizes his grandfather in them.
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Joy Mangano, Ken Davenport 7 Ann Narie Milazzo’s JOY: A New True Musical will begin previews June 21 and open July 20 at the Laura Pels Theatre, directed by Lorin Latarro, with choreography by Joshua Bergasse.
Betsy Wolfe (Joy).
Joy is the fighter, the unsung hero in all of us. At a time where women were often left to stifle dreams, her love for her family led her to do something extraordinary and shows us all what it looks like to believe in yourself
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Little Shop of Horrors will run Mar. 12 – Apr. 6 at Virginia Stage Company, directed by Tom Quaintance.
Robert Ariza (Seymour), Mya Ison (Audrey), Richard R. Henry (Mar. Mushnik), Daniel DiPinto (Orin), Je’Shaun Jackson (Audrhey Two), Jonice Bernard (Chiffon), Claire Fossey (Crystal), and Reyanna Edwards (Ronnette).
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Off-Broadway’s New Georges has announced its 2024-25 Season:
Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (Mar. 28 – Apr. 26, 2025), written & performed by Emma Horwitz and Bailey Williams.
Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures) (May 2 – June 4, 2025), written & performed by Julia Izumi, directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy.
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5-Star Theatricals‘ Cabaret will run Mar. 14 – 30 at Thousand Oak’s Scherr Forum Theatre, directed by Michael Matthews, with choreography by Clarice Ordaz, and music direction by Gregory Nabours.
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, and Rianny Vasquez.
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New York Theatre Workshop will present Emil Weinstein’s Becoming Eve Mar. 19 – Apr. 27 (opening Apr. 7) at Abrons Art Center, directed by Tyne Rafaeli.
Tommy Dorfman, Judy Kuhn, Tedra Millan, Rad Pereira (Chesky), Justin Perkins (Puppeteerm Richard Schiff (tati) Brandon Uranowitz (Jonah), and Emma Wiseman (Purreteer).
A week before the High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family by building a bridge between orthodoxy and modernity. One of these rabbis is Chava, the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family and destined to become a leader of the next generation before the revelation of her trans identity clashed explosively with the strictly gendered world in which she was raised. As we jump through memory—and wrestle with theology—truths and secrets emerge that ensure no one will read the old stories the same way again.
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ART continues though Mar. 16 at Boston’s A.R.T., directed by Courtney O’Connor.
Remo Airaldi (Yvan), Michael Kaye (Serge), and John Kuntz (Marc).