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Today’s Highlights:
Fake It Until You Make It, by Larissa Fasthorse, directed by Michael John Garcés, featuring Noah Bean (theo), Eric Stanton Betts, Amy Brenneman (River), Brandon Delsid (Krys), Shyla Lefner (Wynona), and Burgandi Trejo Phoenix (Grace), with Josh Bywater, Aleisha Force, and Kenny Ramos, opens at DC’s Arena Stage.
Blackbird, by David Harrower, directed by Suzanne Didonna, featuring Scott McCord and Emilie Rose Bak, opens at Off-Broadway’s Studio 17.
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Evita will run June 14 – Sept. 6 (opening July 1) at the London Palladium, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
Diego Andres Rodriguez (Che), Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón), and more TBA.
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DC’s Signature Theatre will present Broadway in the Park, which will take place Sat. June 28 at 8 PM at Virginia’s Wolf Trap, directed by Matthew Gardiner, with music direction by Jon Kalbfleisch.
LIndsay Mendez, Jessie Mueller, Felicia Curry, Christian Douglas, Kevin McAllister, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Mova Y. Payton, Awa Sal Secka, and Tobias A.Young.
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A concert presentation of John L. Haber & Jack Herrick’s Balst from the Past: Lone Star Love, or, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas will take place Mon. May 19 at 6:45 PM at Off-Broadway’s Theatre 555, directed by Randy Skinner.
Gary Bristol, Clay Buckner, Stacia Fernandez, Harriet D. Foy, Chris Frank, Stacey Harris, Jack Herrick, John Jellison, Lauren Kennedy, David Longworth, Drew McVety, Ollie Oshay, Kilty Reidy, Nick Sullivan,, Julie Tolivar, Brandon Williams, Dana Zihlman Harshawans, Miguel Angel Vazquez, and Jay O. Sanders.
The musical sets the Bard’s The Merry Wives of Windsor_ in post-Civil War Texas. Ex-Confederate Colonel Falstaff charms his way into the graces of Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford, wives of two wealthy cattle ranchers, and proclaims his passions to each lady–with an eye on the irhusbands’ riches. But who’s fooling whom–the Colonel, mild-mannered Mrs. Page or madly jealous Mrs. Ford? And who will win the hand of pretty Miss Anne Page–local yokel Master Slender, elegant immigrant Dr. Caius or Fenton, the yodeling cowboy? Book a trip to Windsor, Texas and find out for yourself!
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MCC Theatre’s Miscast25 will be available worldwide for a digital broadway presentation on Mon. Apr. 21 at 7 PM ET here.
The event will be available for free only at this time.
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CT’s Goodspeed Musicals has announced 2 upcoming productions for this Summer. Casting TBA.
About Time (May 24 – June 15), by Maltby & Shire, will run May 24 – June 15, directed by Richard Maltby, Jr., with choreography by Marcia Milgrom Dodge. From long-ago love affairs and ambitions of the past to tech-savvy grandkids and lost keys, this funny and touching revue features all new songs about people navigating the joys and challenges of growing older while staying young in spirit. Casting TBA.
The Great Emu War (Oct. 3-26), by Cal Silberstein & Paul Hodge, direted & choreographed by Amy Anders Corcoran. Remember that one time that the Australian government sent their army with machine guns to wage war on emus in Western Australia? Neither do most people…but when Edith, the headstrong warbler, and her flock begin to feed on the wheat of local farmers—the humans take up arms against Australia’s favorite feathered friends. Think of it as Cats, but with emus.
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Virginia Stage Company has announced 25-26 season:
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Sept. 3-21), directed by Anthony Mark Stockard.
Emma (Oct. 22 – Nov. 29), adapted by Kate Hamill, directed by
A Merry Little Christmas Carol & A Sherlock Carol (Dec. 3-28), both by Mark Shanahan, and running in rep.
Wait Until Dark (Jan. 28 – Feb. 15, 2026.), by Frederick Knott.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Mar. 14 – 29).
Malcom X & Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem (April 8 – 26), world premiere by Jonathan Norton. In 1943, two young Harlemites form a friendship over leftover fried chicken and dirty dishwater. But a long, hot summer of heartbreak, betrayal, and racial uprisings moves them closer to the men they will become and farther from each other.
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The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC), has announced its 2024 Season Award recipients, and to invite Award recipients, nominees, and the greater Los Angeles professional theatre community to join them for a live reception event on Mon,, Apr. 21 sponsored by the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station Arts complex.
Click here for the complete list of winners.
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The Acting Company‘s Gala 2025: From Great Expectations: What Dreams May Come will take place on Mon. Apr. 21.
Click the link above for more information.
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The premiere of a new Hitchcockian noir take on Hamlet will run May 18 – July 6 (opening June 4) at the Ahmanson Theatre, directed by Robert O’Hara.
Patrick Ball (Hamlet), Coral Pena (Ophelia), Gina Torres (Gertrude), James T. Alfred (Head Attendant), Joe Chrest (Detective Fortinbras), Fidel Bomez (Gravedigger), Ty Molbak (Laertes/Rosencrantz), Ramiz Monsef (Polonius), Aruek Sgafur (Claudius), Jaime Lincoln Smith (First Player/Attendant) and Daniel Zuhike (Guildenstern).
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Evita will run June 14 – Sept. 6 (opening July 1) at the London Palladium, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
Diego Andres Rodriguez (Che), Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón), and more TBA.
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The Renaissance Gala, in support of BC/EFA, will take place Mon. Apr. 14 at 7 PM at NYC”s Laurie Beechman Theatre, with music direction by Benjamin Rauhala.
Ariana DeBose, Andrea McArdle, Lorna Luft, and Nina West, Chip Zien, André De Shields, Lillias White, Matt Doyle, Lauren Patten, Jak Malone, Bryan Batt, Christine Pedi, Joe Iconis, Jelani Remy, Emma Pittman, and JJ Niemann.
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Jim Barne & Kit Buchan’s Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) will run May 20 – June 29 (opening May 30) at Cambridge’s A.R.T., directed & choreographed by the authors.
Christiani and Sam Tutty
A naïve and impossibly upbeat Brit, Dougal, has just landed in New York for his dad’s second wedding—the dad he’s never known. Robin, the sister of the bride, is at the airport to pick him up—and she’s late for work. Hungry for an adventure in the city he’s only seen in movies, Dougal hopes native New Yorker Robin will be his guide. Taking inspiration from traditional rom-coms, this “fresh, funny, ironic, and inventive” (The Observer) new musical balances life’s sweetness and struggle as Dougal and Robin discover the meaningful impact on each of their lives a stranger can make.