Today’s Highlights:
Come From Away, directed & choreographed by Richard J. Hinds, featuring Hashini Amarasinghe (Janice,) Kyle Nicholas Anderson (Kevin T/Garth), Isaiah Bob/Muhumuza), David Benoit Claude), Dayna Jarae Dantzler (Hannah/Muhumuza’s Wife,) John El-Jor (Kevin J/Ali), Kent M. Lewis (Nick/Doug), Mary Kate Morrissey (Beverley/Annette), Liz Pearce (Diane), Ben Roseberry (Oz), Jessica Sheridan (Beulah), and Erica Spyres (Bonnie), with ,Travis Darghali, Andrew Harvey, Laura Stracko, and Katherine Alexis Thomas, opens at ME’s Ogunquit Playhouse.
Becky’s New Car, by Steven Dietz, directed by Cate Caplin, featuring John Combs, Isabella DiBernardino, Christopher Franciosa, Riley Introcaso, Brinnell Morris, Jenn Robbins, and Kristin Towers-Rowles, opens at LA’s Theatre 40.
Rolling Stone: Amplified, immersive rock experience, featuring Alan Greenberg, Sandro Kereselidze, Joe Jevy, Jodi Peckman, and Brad Siegel, opens at NYC’s Artechouse at Chelsea Market (439 West 19th St.)
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David West Read & Max Martin’s & Juliet will run Aug. 13 – Sept. 7 at the Ahmanson Theatre, directed by Luke Sheppard, with choreography by Jennifer Weber.
Lorna Courtney (Juliet), Ben Jackson Walker (Romeo), Stark Sands (Shakespeare), Betsy Wolfe (Anne), Paulo Szot (Lance), Philippe Arroyo (Francois), Just David Sullivan (May).
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Broadway’s Floyd Collins is now offering $79 tickets HERE, using code FCBWW. An end date for the offer has not been announced.
Video: Sneak Peek
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The world premiere of Peril in the Alps, written & directed by Steven Dietz, will run June 11 – 29 (opening June 15) at Laguna Playhouse.
Gabbie Adner (Woman 2), Valerie Larsen (Captain Hastings), Brian Mackey (Man Two), Omri Schein (Hercule Poirot), Amanda Sitton (Woman One), Christopher M. Williams (Man One).
The thrilling follow-up to Murder on the Links makes its anticipated debut! This new Hercule Poirot story leads the famed Belgian detective on a thrilling journey into the treacherous snow-capped Alps to solve a kidnapping before it becomes a murder. Will he finally meet his match in the mountains? Fortunately for the audience, the journey to the satisfying conclusion is filled with clever twists and turns and plenty of laughter as Poirot encounters dozens of eccentric characters and clever suspects – all played by six actors!
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Ashley Griffin’s The Opposite of Love will run July 24 – Aug. 31 (opening July 25) at Hollywood’s Hudson Theater, directed by Melora Marshall.
Ashley Griffin (Eloise) and Evan Strand (Will).
If “Pretty Woman” was a “Black Mirror” episode.
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Brandon Zelman, Harrison Bryan, Lena Gabrielle, Pippa Cleary, Joriah Kwamé, Aaron Kenny, Grace Yourchuk & Matthew Ryan Hunter’s BALLS: The Monster-Catchin’ Musical Comédy will return May 21 at Caveat.
Stuart Zagnit, Teresa Attridge, Harrison Bryan, Katie Luke, Ebony Deloney, and Kurt Cruz.
An action-packed immersive experience about the MONSTERS we collect and the FIGHTS we choose to fight. Be the very first to start a “NEW GAME” in this one-of-a-kind extravaganza, overflowing with 8-bit bops, improvised battles, and 151 original Collectabuddies. MONSTERS WERE SCARY. AND THE PROFESSOR WAS SCARED. So he squished ‘em down into little balls, and created a safer world: where monsters are pets – and pets do what they’re told. But when these “Collectabuddies” begin to BITE BACK, the Professor and his piece-of-sh*t grandson are forced to battle their past conceptions of right and wrong to save the game they helped create.
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The Hollywood Reporter’s “An Evening with TV’s Top Producers” will take place Wed. May 28 at 6 PM at Hollywood’s SoHo House (9200 Sunset Blvd.) 
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Paul W. Downs (“Hacks”), Bret Goldstein (“Shrinking”), Stephen Graham (“Running Point”), Mindy Kaling (“Running Point”), Liz Meriwether (“Dying for Sex), John Wells (“The Pitt”), Tracey Wigfield (“The four Seasons”), and Mikey O’Connell (Moderator, Editor, “The Hollywood Reporter”).
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Steven Dietz’s Becky’s New Car will continues through June 15 at Theatre Forty (241 S. Moreno Dr.), directed by Caplin. Free underground parking.
John Combs, Isabella DiBernardino, Christopher Franciosa, Riley Introcaso, Grinnell Morris, Jenn Robbins, and Kristin Towers-Rowles.
Have you ever been tempted to flee your own life? Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage – with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night a socially inept and grief-struck millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where Becky works. Becky is offered nothing short of a new life … and the audience is offered a chance to ride shotgun in a way that most plays wouldn’t dare. This is a thoroughly original comedy with serious overtones, a devious and delightful romp down the road not taken.
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2025 TitleWave: New Works Festival will run June 2-13 at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre. Casting TBA.
Mister Halston (Mon. June 2 at 7 PM), by Raffaele Pacitti. A one-person play exploring the life and times of famed American fashion designer, Halston. It traces his meteoric rise, stunning fame and ultimate fall set against a tumultuous, thrilling time in New York history.
Curvy Widow (Sat. June 7 at 2 PM), by Bobby Goldman & Drew Brody. In this new vision of the hilarious sex-comedy musical, middle-aged Bobby finds herself alone in a penthouse she didn’t choose, living a life she didn’t choose. With the encouragement of her best friend, she throws caution to the wind to brave the internet and New York dating scenes in search of a new beginning and new version of herself.
Ajax (Mon. (June 9 at 3 PM), by by Habib Yazdi. It’s a hot summer in August, 1953, when a clean-cut American arrives at a peaceful villa in North Tehran. Kambiz, the villa’s gardener and pool boy, wonders if the new guest may be his ticket to a better life. As their friendship deepens, Kambiz finds himself entangled with the Shah of Iran and the country’s elected prime minister. How will it end? Only the pool knows…
U.X (Friday June 13 at 3 PM), by Jason Gray Platt, A social media giant designs a virtual reality experience for racial sensitivity training with (obviously!) only the purest of intentions. The project quickly and hilariously gets out of hand, pitting the programmer against his own creation. When technological Utopianism meets the realities of race in America, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, right?