Today’s Highlights:
In Clay, by Rebecca Simmonds & Jack Miles, directed by Kimberly Senior, featuring Alex Fink (Marie-Berthe Cazin) and Sarah Anne Sillers (Understudy), opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, directed by Mitchell Greco, featuring Courtney Markowitz (Betty Haynes), Karli Dinardo (), Jarran V. Muse (Bob Wallace), Drew Redington (Phil Davis), Carolyn Johnson (Martha), Kevin Cooney (General Waverly), and Allie Velasquez ( Susan), with Madeleine Bourgeouis, Armani Brown, Caitlin Cannon, Caley Crawford, Chase Fontenot, Ciara Jarvis, Evin Johnson, John Manzari, Brent McBeth, Miles Marmolejo, Katrina Rautenan, Sarah Sachi, Yasmyn Sumiyoshi, and Braden Tanner, opens at Houston’s TUTS.
Stereophonic, by David Adjmi, directed by directed by Daniel Aukin, featuring Jack Barrett (Grover), Claire DeJean (Diana), Steven Lee johnson (Simon), Denver Milord (Peter), and Christopher Mowad (Reg), with Eli Bridges Andrew Gombas, Quinn Allyn Martin, Jake Regensburg, and Laura Wilmore, previews at LA’s Pantages Theatre.
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Reviews for Margorie Prime at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre:
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Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater will present a benefit concert of The Boys from Syracuse on Mon. Dec. 15 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space, adapted by David Ives and directed by Jesse Berger.
Delphi Borich, Steven Boyer, Krystal Joy Brown, Eddie Cooper, Robert Cuccioli, Nikki Renée Daniels, Stephen DeRosa, Damon Daunno, Santino Fontana, Julie Halston, Ben Jones, T.R Knight, Mark Linn-Baker, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Bonnie Milligan, Sarah Stiles, Dylan Wallach, and John Yi, with a special cameo appearance by Michael Urie.
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The Street Car Project will run Jan. 21 – Feb.1 (opening Jan. 22) at San Francisco’s A.C.T., directed by Nick Westrate.
Heather Lind, Brad Koed, James Russell, and Luci Owen.
A unique, stripped-down, four-actor adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, with the text remaining unabridged but presented without sets or props in unconventional venues.
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The English National Ballet production of Nutcracker will begin streaming Tues. Dec. 16 on PBS.
The production was directed by Saheem Ali in the newly re-opened Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
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A Sleighful of Songs! will run Dec. 12-14 at LA’s Theatre West, directed by Victoria Lavan.
Victoria Lavan, John A. Goux, Constance Mellors, Scottie Neville, Meg Ling, David Mingrino, Anibal Silveyra, Michael Van Cuzer, Cody Kelpolo, Auriana Chisholm, Vertreace Sanders, Preson Simon, Aaron Gillis, Michael Babiano, Jordan Elliot, and Lulu Francis.
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High Society will run May 19 – July 11, 2026 (opening May 27) at the Barbican Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Helen George (Tracy Lord), Felicity Kendal (Eliza), and more TBA.
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Amber Ruffin & Kevin Sciretta’s Bigfoot! will begin previews Feb. 11 – and open Mar 1. at New York City Stage One, directed by & choreographed by Danny Mefford.
Crystal Lucas Perry, Grey Henson, Katerina McCrimmon, and Slec Moffat.
If you think great musical comedies are an urban legend, have we got a show for you! 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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LA’s Theatre West will present A sleighful of Songs Jan. 17-25, directed by Victoria Lavan.
Victoria Lavan, John A. Goux, Constance Mellors, Scottie Neville, Meg Ling, David Mingrino, Anibal Silveyra, Michael Van Cuzer, Cody Kelpolo, Auriana Chisholm, Vertreace Sanders, Preson Simon, Aaron Gillis, Michael Babiano, Jordan Elliot, and Lulu Francis.
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LA’s Center Theatre Group (link TBA) is developing plays and musicals through its New Works Pipeline. Created by Artistic Director Snehal Desai, the initial phase focused on supporting Latina plays and playwrights.
Four new works have recently been part of new developmental pipeline for plays and musicals, created by Artistic Director Snehal Desai. The initial phase, a series of four readings, workshops, and presentations, focused on supporting Latine plays and playwrights, as well as new musicals.
Mama of the Row or Who Raised the Rent? [A Los Angeles Vaudeville of Tragic Proportion], by Luis Alfaro
Displaceement of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage, by Luis Alfaro.
The Final Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, by Tara Mose, Andy Mientus, Jackson Teeley, and Wade Fernadez
Aya, by Fe Fernanda Coppel
The Turning, by Zack Zadek, directed by Sammi Canold.
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The Bridges of Madison County in Concert will take place Mon. Dec. 15 at 7 PM at Carnegie Hall, directed by Bartlett Sher, with music direction by Tom Murray, and conducted by Jason Robert Brown.
Kelly O’Hara and Steven Pasquale, with Whitney Bashor, Caitlin Kinnunen, Derek Klena, Michael X. Martin, Cass Morgan, Ephie Aardema Sarnak, Jennifer Allen, Charlie Franklin, Kevin Kern, Katie Klaus, Luke Marinkovich, Aaron Ramey, and Dan Sharkey.
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Clare Barron’s You Got Older will run Feb. 26 – Mar. 29 (opening Feb. 23) at the Cherry Lane Theatre (link TBA), directed by Anne Kauffman.
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After losing both her job and her boyfriend (comes with the territory when you’re dating your boss), an unmoored and unsettled Mae (Alia Shawkat) returns to her small Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father. When she unexpectedly meets a mysterious stranger, she has the startling realization that maybe the intimacy she’s been craving is easier with the unknown, rather than with her own family. Blending reality and fantasy. A tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.
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“American Masters,” with special guest Dick Van Dyke, will air Fri. Dec. 12 at 9 PM on PBS.
Watch the preview here.