Today’s Highlights:
Fog and Filthy Air, by Tom Diriwachter, directed by Jonathan Weber, featuring Robert Homeyer, Kate A. McGrath, and Steve Gamble, opens at Off Broadway’s Theatre for the New City.
Mothers Know Best concert, featuring Laura Benanti and her mother, Linda Benanti, opens at NYC’s 54 Below.
Roundabout‘s Liberation, by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White, featuring Betsy Aidem (Margie), Audrey Corsa (Dora), Kayla Davion (Joanne), Susannah Flood (Lizzie), Kristolyn Lloyd (Celeste), Irene Sofia Lucio (Isidora), Charlie Thurston (Bill), and Adina Verson (Susan), closes at Off-Broadway’s Laura Pels Theatre.
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Pittsburgh CLO has announced its Summer 2025 season:
Creative teams and casting TBA.
Camelot (June 17-22)
Back to the Future (July 1-6)
Frozen (July 18-27)
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A reunion concert of Broadway’s Swept Away will take place Mon. Apr. 28 at 7 PM at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom (6 Deancey St.).
John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Wayne Duvall and the original Broadway ensemble and swings.
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Vanya, radically adapted solo presentation by Simon Stephens, will begin previews Mar. 10 and open Mar. 18 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, directed by Sam Yates.
Andrew Scott
A family is beset by secrets, illicit love interests, and deep divides over their burdensome estate.
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Ensemble Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Jay Martel’s Parents in Chains Mar. 22-30 Santa Barbara’s New Vic, directed by Andy Fickman.
John Ross Bowie, Melora Hardin, Sharon Lawrence, Joshua Mailina, Jane Lynch, Thomas Sadoski, Gina Torres, Matt Walsh, Gina Torres, and James Urbaniak.
Six L.A. parents exchange texts as their 17-year-old daughters drive home from a weekend in San Francisco during the approach of a hurricane. The trip and the inclement weather bring out both the best and the worst in the parents as they confront, as a group, as couples, and as individuals, what it means to let go of their kids. By turns viciously comic and poignant, the play is a valentine to the most difficult, most failure-prone job in the world…parenting.
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Seth Zvi Rpsenfeld’s House of Blue Robes will run Mar. 7-16 at 59E59 Theaters. directed by Brian Roff.
Victor Almanzar, Katherine George, Izabel Mar, David Potters, Ed Trucco, and Viviana Valeria.
Hell’s Kitchen, 1985. Roommates Alphonso Ramirez, an actor, and Schlomo D., an aspiring rapper, are struggling to break through as artists. Alphonso is torn between his love for Marisol and his father’s old-world ideas, while Schlomo’s own tortuous relationship with girlfriend Maylin Chang has brought his life to a standstill. When Alphonso meets Florence, a transplant from Naples, their connection sets a series of events in motion, to devastating effect for all.
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L.A. Opera will presentMozart’s cosi fan Tutte Mar. 8-27 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by James Conlon, and directed by Shawna Lucey.
Erica Petrocelli (Fiordilig), Rihab Chaieb (Dorabella), Ama Ana María Martínez (Despina), Anthony León (Errando), Justin Austin (Guglielmo), and Rod Gilfry (Don Alfanso).
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Broadway Bound Benefit Concert : Raise Your Voice will take place Mon. Mar. 10 at 8 PM at City Winery NYC.
Josh Groban
Apollo Levine, Major Attaway, N’Kenge, Donnie Kehr, George Abud, and Morgan Reilly.
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ART continues through Mar. 16 at Boston’s A.R.T., directed by Courtney O’Connor.
Remo Airaldi (Yvan), Michael Kaye (Serge), and John Kuntz (Marc).
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Kate Baldwin: Let’s Not Talk About… will run Mar. 6-8 at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Georgia Stitt.
Santino Fontana( Mar. 6 only), Nicholas Rodriguez (Mar. 7 only), and Kennedy Caughell (Mar. 8 only).
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Peter Danish’s Last Call will present an open rehearsal on Tues. Mar. 11 at 11:15 AM at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages (Stage 5), directed by Gil Mehmert.
Helen Schneider, Lucca Züchner, and Victor Petersen.
For half a century, American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan were the world’s most celebrated figures in classical music – and the fiercest of rivals. Their influence transcended music into popular culture, politics, and almost every facet of the modern landscape. Late in their lives these titans of classical music unexpectedly crossed paths one last time at the Sacher Hotel in Vienna. Inspired by true events, Last Call brings us to this meeting as both men struggle to find common ground through their music and their lives over one last drink. The play mixes storytelling and music, giving audience members a glimpse into the complex minds of these two music titans.
Von Karajan was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. He helped found the London’s Philharmonia Orchestra in 1948, and in 1955 he became music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. A Nazi Party member from 1933 to 1942, Karajan was exonerated by an Allied tribunal after World War II, but his American debut in 1955 precipitated public protests.
Bernstein, on the opposite end of the spectrum, was Jewish, and made his New York Philharmonic conducting debut in 1943. He went on to compose the scores of On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, and West Side Story. He made his conducting debut with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1966, beginning a lifelong relationship with the orchestra.
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The Avett Brothers’ Swept Away has offered an additional performance on Mon. Apr. 28 at 9:45 PM at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St.).
John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Wayne Duvall and the original Broadway ensemble and swings