Today’s Highlights:
The Reservoir, by Jake Brasch, directed by Shelley Butler, featuring Noah Galvin (Josh), Carolinw Aaron (Beverly), Heidi Armrbruster (Patria), Peter Malonyey (Hank), Mary Beth Peil (Irene), Matthew Saldivar (Hugo), and Chip Zien (Shrimpy), opens at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre Company.
The 2026 Chain Winter One-Act Festival opens at Off-Broadway’s Chain Theatre.
Finding Dorthy Parker concert,featuring Julie Halston, Ann Harada, Jackie Hoffman, and Anika Larsen, opens at Off-Broadway’s West Bank Café.
Marcel on the Train, by Ethan Slaer & Mashall Pailet, directed by Pailet, featuring Ethan Slater (Marcel Marceau), with Maddie Corman, Max Gordon Moore, Aaron Serotsky, Slex Wyse, Tedra Millan, and Tedra Millan (Berthe), with Harrison Bryan, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company.
Hans Litten: The Jew Who Cross-examined Hitler, by Douglas Lackey, directed by Alexander Harrington, featuring Mark Vaughn, Hans Litten, Friedrich Litten, Irmagard Litten, Ludwig Barbacsh, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
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DC’s Signature Theatre will present Vanessa Williams at the 2026 Stephen Sondheim Award Gala on Mon. Mar. 16 at The Anthem, hosted by Michael Urie.
Norm Lewis
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The world premiere of Michael Dukakis’ Punish Me continues through Feb. 25 at the Hudson Backstage Theatre, directed by Monique Sorgen.
Michael Dukakis (Nick), Dylan Griner (Damon), Lidia Porto (Carmen Diaz). Brianna Bell (Giselle), Jaiden Blessing (Shelly), Anuradha Seneviratne (Booker), and Peter Nikkos (Father’s Voice).
A screenwriter struggling to make it in Hollywood becomes trapped in an increasingly abusive relationship with a narcissist who threatens both his career dreams and his legal status in America. The play explores the complexity of toxic relationships, narcissism, and obsession. It includes adult themes and simulated sex. Inspired by true events.
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Paul Simon: A Quiet Celebration will take place June 16 at Kansas City’s Starlight Theatre.
Start time, director, and link TBA.
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LA Opera has announced its 2026-27 season:
Dates and casting TBA.
Carmen
Candide
Nabucco
Turandot
Figaro
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Million Dollar Quartet will run Feb. 17 – Mar. 1 at Houston’s Tutts, directed by Hunter Foster.
Daniel Durston (Elvis Presley), Sky Seals (Johnny Cash), Nat Zegree (Jerry Lee Lewis), Sam Sherwood (Carl Perkins), Bart Shatto (Sam Phillips). Isaac Foley (Brother Jay), Kieran McCabe (W.S. ‘Fluke’ Holland), Margaret Dudasik (Dyanne), and Teresa Zimmermann (Dyanne), with Chance Michael Wall, Mike Lucchetti, and Brian Michael Henry.
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Penelope, written by & starring Amy Doherty, will run Feb. 6 – Mar. 1 at Boston’s Lyric Stage.
A one-woman folk-pop musical that reimagines Homer’s Odyssey from the perspective of Odysseus’s wife, who has waited 20 years for his return. The show explores. her lonliness, greif, and growng independcence, utlimately focusing on her discovering her own strength and identity, regardless of her husband.
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Milwaukee Rep has announced its 2026-27 season:
Casting and creative teams TBA.
The World Goes ‘Round (Sept. 11 – Nov. 1)
Footloose (Sept. 22 – Nov. 1)
Instructions for a Séanse (Oct. 6 – Nov. 8)
Rock ‘N Roll Piano Man (Nov. 6 – Jan. 3), by JP Coletta. Heist (Nov. 17 – Dec. 20) A Christmas Carol (Dec. 2 – 24, 2026) John Proctor is the Villain (Jan. 12 – Feb. 7, 2027) Mike MVP (Jan. 6 14 Mar, 14, 2027
The Cherry Tortured (Feb. 16 – Mar. 28, 2027)
The Craic (Mar. 26 – May 30, 2027)
Penelope (Apr. 6 – May 9, 2027. Somewehere (Apr. 13 – May 9, 2o27) Twelve Angry Men (Feb. 2 – 28, 2027)**********************
Article: A complete history of Ragtime.
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Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre (link TBA) will present the world premiere of Jacob Ryan Smith & Caroline Pernick’s Like Father in the theater’s 2026-27 season, directed by TBA.
TBA.
A coming-of-age musical set against America’s true-crime obsession. After her father’s arrest, seventeen-year-old Chris moves in with her estranged mother, Michelle, and stepfather, Ben. When a hit true-crime podcast exposes their family’s disturbing past to the world, they are forced to face the truth of what brought them together, or risk being undone by its consequences.
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Red Bull Theatre‘s Titus Andronicus will run Mar. 17 – Apr.19 at Off-Broadway’s Signature Center, directed by Jesse Burger.
Patrick Page
Revenge is on the menu. Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble family. But when his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen Tamora and her lover Aaron the Moor release a fury that brings Titus, his family, and all of Rome to their knees. The play’s exploration of humankind’s capacity for inhumanity is shockingly contemporary, brought to searing new life in a production directed by Jesse Berger and starring the incomparable Patrick Page as Titus, one of Shakespeare’s most demanding tragic roles.
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Catherine Butterfield’s Brownstone has been extended through Mar. 14 at LA’s Open Fist Theatre Company, directed by Ron West.
Rosie Byrne, Matthew Goodrich, Isaac W. Jay, Jade Santana, Chelsea Spirito, and Amber Tiara.
The bittersweet comedic drama unfolds on the second floor of a classic New York brownstone at three distinct moments in its history. Brownstone’s structure is as striking as the architecture that inspired it: three poignant, often funny stories, set in 1978, 1937 and 1999, take place in the same building, linked through time.
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Ryan Miller & Nick Blaemire’s Safety Not Guaranteed will run Mar. 3 – Apr. 12 at at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Oliver Butler.
Preston Truman Boyd (Jeff), Tyler Dobies ( Arnau), Gunnar Manchester (Kenneth), Joshua Morgan (Tristan), Mia Pak (Darius), and Erin Weaver(Liz), with Steven Nicolás Franco Sydne Lyons, and Scout Santoro.
A genre-bending sci-fi story with an indie spirit, that taps into something deeply human: the longing to go back and change a moment, undo regret, or return to life before. At its heart, the piece reminds us that life offers.