Today’s Highlights:
Shrek The Musical, directed by John Tartaglia, featuring Nik Walker (Shrek), Kara Lindsay (Princess Fiona), Marcus M. Martin (Donkey), Troy Iwata (Lord Farquaad), Solomon Rosenthal (Young Shrek), Lake Schultz (Young Fiona), Amelie Lock (Teen Fiona), Aymee Garcia (Gingy), Tyler Joseph Ellis (Pinocchio), and Salome Smith (Voice of the Dragon), with Mathew Blasio, DeShawn Bowens, Monique Churchill, Matthew Davies, Kylie Edwards, Ryan Fitzgerald, Matt Gibson, Jack Gimpel, Shelby Griswold, Michael Harp, Gwen Hollander, Abby Linderman, Sean McManus, Shelby Ringdahl, Trevor Michael Schmidt, Kelly Sheehan, Caitlin Stebelman, and Jonah D. Winston, closes at the St. Louis Muny.
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A Beautiful Noise, will run July 7-12 at Kansas City’s Starlight Theatre, directed by Michael Mayer.
Mary Page Nance (Marcia Murphey), Lisa Reneé Pitts (Doctor), Michael Accardo (Bert Berns/Kieve Diamond), Heidi Kettenring (Ellie Greenwich/Rose Diamond), Tiffany Tatreau (Jaye Posner), and Gene Weygandt (Fred Weintraub/Tommy O’Rourke).
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Theater4All will present the world premiere of Crone Creed, by John Epstein, Casey Morgan, and T. Theresa Scaranom will run Sept. 30 – Oct. 17 at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre, directed by John Epstein, Casey Morgan, & T. Theresa Scarano.
TBA.
A mythic drama spanning centuries, following Vita, a young woman whose life is shattered by religious violence and betrayal in medieval Europe. Reborn in the late 1800s American frontier as part of an ancient lineage of mystical women known as the Crones, she discovers her brother has also returned through time as part of a corrupting force known as the Fallen. As their conflict unfolds across eras, Vita must confront questions of power, loyalty, and resistance in a struggle where belief itself shapes reality.
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Gingold Theatrical Group will present a script-in-hand performance of Noël Coward’s This Was a Man on Mon. July 20 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players (16 Gramercy Park), directed by David Staller.
Jane Bruce (Lady Margot Butler), Stella Everett (Carol Churt), Vanessa Kai (Zoe St. Merryn), Varman Lacivita (Harry Challoner), Carman Lacivitta (Lord Robert Romford), A.J. shively (Edward Churt), and Wesley Taylor (Evelyn Bathurst).
The play explores themes that would come to define much of his work: social performance, morality, jealousy, repression, and the fragility beneath upper-class sophistication. The play follows Edward Churt, a successful painter whose carefully composed world begins to fracture as he confronts his wife Carol’s infidelity. While Edward attempts to maintain an air of elegant detachment, his closest friend becomes determined to force a reckoning that threatens to upend them all.
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5-star Theatrical‘s The Wizard of Oz, directed by Richard Israel, will run July 10- 19 at CA’s Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks, directed by Richard Isreal.
Hannah Sedlacek (Dorothy Gale), Eric Stanton Betts a(Huck/Scarecrow), Lucas Alifano (Hickory/Tin Man), Tom Anawalt (Zeke/Cowardly Lion), Becky Lythgoe (Almira Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West), Noah Kaplan (Professor Marvel/The Wizard), Cassandra Marie Murphy (Aunt Em/Glinda), and Mike Baker (Uncle Henry/Emerald City Guard), with Samantha Bell, Aaron Michael-Rees Camitses, Bar Daniel, Sam Davidson, Josh Igarashi. Amanda King, Lauren Lorati, Nicholas Ley, Ali Marquez-Qadiri, Jacob Ray, Barbara Ann Reed, Spencer Reese, Xavier F. Reynoso, Angelica Roque, Bayley Tanenbaum, Calista Zajac, CC Adeva, Ryan Bohmholdt, Kaylie Cho, Gibson Day, Malia Johnson, Amaeline Lynch, and Anna Marie Holland Melendrez, at CA’s Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks.
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Long Island’s Bay Street Theater Gala will take place Sat. July 11 at 6 PM.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Alec Baldwin, Joy Behar, Tovah Feldshuh, Will Roland, Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley, Luis A. Miranda Jr., Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda, Scott Schwartz, Tracy Mitchell, and more TBA.
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The 2026 Fire Island Dance Festival: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, will run July 18-19 at NY’s Fire Island Pines, hosted by Jeff Hiller.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Leggybones Physical Theater, Miami City Ballet, with new works by Robbie Fairchild, Ricky Ubeda, Leggybones Physical Theater, Miami City Ballet with new works from Broadway’s Robbie Fairchild and Ricky Ubeda.
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Mean Girls, directed by Mara Newbery Greer, will run July 7-12 at Pittsburgh CLO,
Abigail Isom (Cady Heron), Cecilia Ptetrch (Regina George), Sydi Moon (Gretchen Wieners), Gretchen Wieners (Sydni Moon), Karen Smith (Kaley Bender), Janis Sarkisian (Lyda Jade Hearlan) Damian Hubbard (Jack Haroutunian), Quincy Hamton (Aaron Samuels), and Rayhan Khimji (Kevin Gnapoor.
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LA’s East West Players has announced its 2026-27 season:
Wives (May 2027), by Jaclyn Backhaus, directed by Arpita Mukherjee.
Kristina Wong,#Food Bank Influencer (May 2027), by Fkristin Wong, directed by Jessica Hanna.
New works Festival (dates TBA), featuring Redpoint My Heart (by Amanda L. Andrei).
Trans History Project (details TBA)
…and more TBA.
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Arthur Miller’s The Price will continues through July 19 at Venice, CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Elina de Santos.
Dana Dewes (Esther Franz); Richard Fancy (Gregory Solomon), Jason Huber Walter Franz), and Scott Jackson (Victor Franz).
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Birthright, by Jonathan Spector, continues through July 26 at MCC Theater, directed by Teddy Bergman.
Hale Appleman, Molly Bernard Eli Gelb, Abbi Jacobson, Liz Larsen), Nate Mann, and Zoë Winters.
What begins as a reunion among six young friends after a Birthright trip to Israel in 2006 becomes, over the span of 18 years, an exploration of identity, fracturing communities, and the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths.