Today’s Highlights:
The Hollywood Fringe Festival opens at various LA locations. Click here for the complete schedule.
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Twelve Hours With Tracy Letts will take place Mon. June 22 from 11 AM – 11 PM at Off-Broadway’s Circle in the Quare Theatre, with all proceeds benefiting the Circle In the Square Theatre School.
Mark Armstrong, Benita de Wit, Victor Malana Maog, Jeanne Slater, and Eric Tucker.
Karen Sours Albisua, Jason Biggs, Abigail Breslin, Scott Caan, Silvia Dionicio, Beanie Feldstein, Joe Forbrich, John Gallagher Jr, Gina Gershon, Rory Hammond, Joe Holt, Kammy Ibarra, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Kevin Kilner, Trevor Kluckman, Adam Langdon, Libby Lee, Katrina Lenk, Kelly Lester, Matthew Lillard, Hamish Linklater, Terra Mackintosh, Jak Malone, Eric William Morris, Lauren LOLO Pritchard, Andrew Rothenberg, Thomas Sadoski, Milly Shapiro, Sandra Shipley, Samantha Sloyan, Jeff Still, Adrienne Warren, and more TBA.
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A Salute to Broadway: The Most Musical Fan Convention Ever! will run June 27-28 place at Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa (101 Montelago Blvd., Henderson, Nevada.
Andrew Rannells, Lea Salonga, Bebe Neuwirth, Jordan Fisher, Ana Gasteyer, and Jennifer Holiday.
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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company will present A Midsummer Night’s Dream July 22 – Aug. 9 at the Boston Commons, directed by Steven Maler.
Michael Broadhurst (Flute), Annika Burley (Helena), Meghan Carey (Hermia), Nick Cearley( Puck/Philostrate), Nora Eschenheimer (Hippolyta/Titania), De’Lon Grant (Theseus/Oberon), Jack Greenberg ( Demetrius), Jaime José Hernández (Lysander), Karen MacDonald (Quince), Paul Melendy (Bottom), Brooks Reeves (Egeus/Starveling), Patrick Curran (Snout), Nicolas Bolton (Mustardseed), Evan Danyliw (Moth), Bella Grace Harris (Fairy), Alex Leondedis (Snug), Dani Grace Nissen (Peaseblossom), and Alexandra White (Cobweb), De’Lon Grant (Theseus / Oberon), Nora Eschenheimer (Hippolyta / Titania), Jaime José Hernández (Lysander), Jack Greenberg (Demetrius), Annika Burley as Helena, Meghan Carey (Hermia), Paul Melendy (Bottom), Karen MacDonald (Quince), Michael Broadhurst (Flute), Brooks Reeves (Egeus / Starveling), Alex Leondedis (Snug), and Patrick Curran (Snout.
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The world premiere of Tony Pasqualini’s Out with a Bang continues through June 28 at Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Andrew Weyman.
Sarah Brooke (Betty Amalfitano), Robert Lesser (Daniel Katzenberg), and Tony Pasqualini (Eddie Capiello).
Eddie Cappiello is trapped, living out his life in the Out With A Bang Senior Living Community. His ex-wife Betty – recently widowed from her second husband – arrives at his door one day and asks him to help her get revenge on a neighbor who has made her life intolerable. Eddie, longing to reawaken the love that the two of them once had, makes the fateful decision to assist in the endeavor. He enlists his good friend and next-door neighbor, a former Israeli accountant and professional mourner, Daniel. The three of them devise a dangerous and blatantly illegal plot to deal with her recalcitrant neighbor.
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The world premiere of Tommy Vine’s How to Put Down the Weight of Your Past will run July 23 – Aug. 9 (opening July 25) at The American Mime Theare (137 W 25th St.), directed by Madeline Riddick-Seals.
Kirsten Kilburn and Tommy Vine.
An immersive, experimental play disguised as a life-changing, self-help workshop. Led by two facilitators, the story initially guides the audience through exercises to release personal trauma and regret, but quickly unravels into a psychological thriller blurring the lines between guidance and manipulation.
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Miscast Mondays are back! Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre will post one concert every Monday this summer on its YouTube channel.
Click here for all prior 2026 videos.
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LA’s The Wallis has announced its 2026-27 Season:
Click here for the complete schedule.
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Spring Awakening, by Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik, will open this Fall (dates TBA) at Studio Seaview, directed by Danya Taymor.
TBA.
Feral, honest, compassionate, and unflinching, the production will explore the experience of young people caught between desire, repression, fear, and discovery — then and now.
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Ethan Mathias in concert will take place Thurs. July 9 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, with music direction by Michael Lavine.
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Manhatten Theatre Club will present Nick Payne’s The Unbelievers, with previews beginning previews Oct. 13 with opening TBA) at New York City Center Stage 1, directed by Knud Adams.
Lauren Ambrose and Tom Riley.
The play explores the fallout of a family dealing with the unexplained, unsolved disappearance of their 15-year-old son, Oscar. The plot fractures time, jumping between three distinct periods: the immediate aftermath of the disappearance, one year later, and seven years later. Faith means believing in something. Especially when it feels impossible. As the years go by and the mystery of the sudden disappearance of Miriam and David’s teenage son remains unsolved, their blended family must figure out how to go on, relearning how to live through the ups and downs of ordinary days in their altered world.
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Alicia Key’s Hell’s Kitchen continues through June 21 at the Pantages Theatre.
Maya Drake (Ali), Kennedy Caughell (Jersey), roz White (Mill Liza Jane), Desmond Sean Ellinton (Davis), Joh Avery Worrell (Knuck), Stemarciae Bain, Miya Bass, Jaylen T. Bryant, and many more (not listed).
Ali is a 17-year-old girl full of fire–searching for freedom, passion and her place in the world.How she finds them is a New York City coming-of-age story you’ve never felt before.
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Open Door Playhouse will debut a podcast of Chance Lang’s I Didn’t Know on June 17, directed by Gary Lamb.
David Purdham (Pat) and David Andrew Calvillo ( Zayne).
Pat, an isolating, military veteran is asked to put his pain aside to be the father his adult son needs when the young man arrives unannounced… but will he be able to?
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Off Broadway’s Animus Theatre Company will present Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, a 12 hour reading festival of 5 of Letts’ works, on Mon, June 22 from 11 AM – 11 PM at NYC’s Circle in the Square Theatre School.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will run July 10-26 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Larry Raben.
Daebrreon Poiema (Narrator), Brian Justing Crum (Joseph), Thomas Hobson (Pharoah/Jacob), Harrison White (Potiphar), Jeffrey Laughrun (Reuben), Adam Lendermon (Simeon), Perry Marks (Levi), Neil Starkenberg (Dan), Jean Charles (Napthtali), Zane Camacho (Gad), Teronn S. Shrikian (Asher), Brody Tarrant Zebulun (Zeulun), Jerdan Cruz (Benjamin), and Ali Vesey (Mrs. Potiphar), with Johnisa Breault, Alexandra Skylar Kunin, and Sabrina Ryan.