Today’s Highlights:
Finding Dorothy Parker, written & directed by Douglas Carter Beane, featuring Julie Halston, Ann Harada, Jackie Hoffman, and Anika Larsen, opens at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre.
All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented The Villain, by Patric Page & Simon Godwin, directed by Godwin, starring Paige, opens at LA’s Broad Stage.
Isabel Leonard: An Unprecedented Spotlight concert, with special guests Jordan Donica and Ryan Speedo Green, at 7 PM at Carnegie Hall.
More Miracles, offering original one-act plays, begins previews at LA’s Actors Gang.
Kid Gloves, world premiere by Matthew Leavitt & Nathan Wang, directed by Richard Israel, featuring Will Collyer (Caleb), Heather Marsden (Meredith, Adam J. Smith (Eddie), Natalie Lander (Darla), Joey Richter (Jackson), Lauren Lorati (Vidki), Harry S. Murphy (Professor Penguinpants), Jonathan Slavin (Edmund the Elephant), Suzy Nakamura (Penelope/Bonita the Bunny), and Christopher Kerrigan (Juaquin), begins previews at LA’s Skylight Theatre.
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Amber Ruffin, David A. Schmoll & Kevin Sciretta’s Bigfoot! will begin previews Feb. 11 and open Mar. 1 at New York City Center, directed & choreographed by Danny Mefford.
Grey Henson (Bigfoot), Crystal Lucas-Perry (Francine), Katerina McCrimmon (Joanne), Alex Moffat (Mayor), and Jason Tam (doctor), with Jade Jones, Jake Letts, Kala ross, and Mike Millan.
Set in the town of Muddirt, a glow-in-the-dark oasis that exists somewhere between a chemical dump site and a nuclear power plant, BIGFOOT! is a larger-than-life musical tale of corrupt politicians, small town paranoia, and misunderstood youth. When that youth happens to be eight feet tall, innocent, and in dire need of electrolysis, it makes him more than a target. It makes him the subject of a can’t miss can’t-myth musical comedy.
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Musical Theatre Guild will offer a concert presentation of Applause on Sun. Feb. 15 at 7:15 at Santa Monica’s Broad. Stage, directed by TBA.
TBA.
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Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee’s Inherit the Wind will run Feb. 17 – Apr. 5, (opening Mar. 5) at DC’s Arena Stage, directed by Ryan Guzzo Purcell.
Alex De Bard, Billy Eugene Jones, Rebecca Madeira, Ethan Miller, Natalya Lynette Rathnam, Todd Scofield, Holly Twyford, and James Whalen. with Jordan Friend, Alyssa Keegan, Alina Collins Maldonado, Dakin Matthews, Noah Plomgren, and Tristan Turner.
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Hadestown will welcome an all-new principal cast on Tues. Mar. 3 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
New cast: Joshua Colley (Orpheus), Gary Dourdan (Hades), J. Harrison Ghee (Hermes), Caby Moreno (Persephone), Gaby Moreno (Persephone), and Jordan Tyson (Eurydice).
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Richard Skipper Celebrates will take place Feb. 11 at 7 PM at Palm Springs’ Revolution Stage Company.
Richard Skipper celebrates his 65th birthday.
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Sunday in the Park with George will run in Summer 2027 (dates TBA) at the Barbicon Theatre, directed by Marianne Elliott.
Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey, and more TBA.
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Penelope written by & starring Amy Doherty, will run Feb. 6 – Mar. 1 at Boston’s Lyric Stage, with music direction by Dan Rodriguez.
A generous glass of bourbon, a five-piece band, and 90 minutes is all Penelope needs to tell her side of the story as she embraces her heartacke, lonliness, and resolve during the wait for her husband and Ocysseus to return from a seemingly endless war. Her son has disapeared. Relentless suitors prance before her. Days drom on as she is left to wonder who she is if she is alone. From jazz to folk to indie rock, Penelope dishes the dirt in a captivating cacophony of emotions that redfines what we might know of her throug a modern lens.
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New York Theater Workshop has announced its 2026 Gala will take place Mon. Mar. 2 at 6 PM at NYC’s Gotham Hall (1356 Broadway), directed by Kevin Cahoon, and hosted by J. Harrison Ghee.
Colman Domingo, Mara Isaacs, Nicole Ari Parker.
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The world premiere of Emily Saliers, Beth Malone & Mary Ann Stratton’s Starstruck will run Feb. 19 0 Mar. 21 at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse, directed by & choreographed by Lorin Latarro.
TBA.
A musical centered on a middle-aged queer love story, I immediately saw dollar signs and a clear path to retirement
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PA’s Bucks County Playhouse has announced its 2026 season:
Starstruck (Feb. 10 – Mar. 21), by Emily Saliers, Beth Malone & Mary AnnStratton, directed & choreographed by Lorin Latarro.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Apr. 23 – May 23), directed by Eric Rosen.
South Pacific (June 18 – July 26), directed by Denis Jones.
Rent (Aug. 13 – Sept. 13) directed & choreographed by Jennifer Weber.
Holiday Inn () The New Irving Berlin Musical (Nov. 19 0 Jan. 3, 2027), directed by Hunter Foster.
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What the Constitution Means to Me will run Jan. 31 & Feb. 1 at Theatre West, directed by Christian Wolf.
Jessica Hayes (Heidi), Brian Singer (The Legionnaire), and Brooklyn Reiss (The Teen Debater).