Today’s Highlights:
Lifeline, by Robert Alexrod, directed by Ken Sawyer, featuring Jen Brittany Visser Jen),Tommy Dickie (Drew), Amy Tolsky (Patti), Clifton J. Adams (Kai), Naomi Rubin (Sarah Beth), and Xoe Savvle (Maya). Alternate cast: Destinee Stewart (Jen), Juan Pope (Drew), Ivy Khan (Pattie), Casey Daley (Kai), Gabie Faulkner (Sara Beth), and Rafi Perez (Maya), begins previeves at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre.
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The history of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will take place Friday, Jan. 23 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Jarrett Winters Morley.
Casey Martin Klein (Pierre), Julia Im Caldwell (Natasha), Ella Dolynchuk (sonya), Lindsa Zaroogian (Marya), Bex Odoriso (Helene), Collin Matthew Flanagan (Anatole), Shane Lonergan (Colokhov), Yulia Goldberg (Mary), and Vaheed Talebian (Andrey), with Annabelle Skala and Jarrett Morley.
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Kansas City Starlight has announced its 2026 season:
Casting and creative teams TBA.
Hadestown (June 9-14)
A Beautiful Noise (The Neil Diamond Musical) July 7-12
Monty Python’s Spamalot (Aug. 4-8)
Newsies (Sept. 8-)13
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Jack Lewin,Will Friedwald, Adrian Galante & Ted Firth’s Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon has been extended through Feb. 22 at Off-Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre (10 West 64th St.), directed by David Zippel, with music supervision by Tedd Firth.
Hilary Kole, John Pagano, and Ta-Tynisa Wilson.
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Red Bull Theatre will present an in-person & simulcast reading of Ben Jonson’s Sejanus: His Fall will take place Mon. Jan. 26 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, adapted & directed by Nathan Winkelstein. The simulcast reading will also be available through Feb.1.
Amir Arison, Shirine Babb, Tina Benko, Grantham Coleman, Chuck Cooper, Gabriel Ebert, Martin Lewis, Max Gordon Moore, Laila Robins, Derek Smith, T. Ryder Smith, and Myra Lucretia Taylor.
Tiberius is the Emperor of Rome. Sejanus is her right-hand man. But in a society where books are burnt and free men are the “prey of greedy vultures and spies,” factions are growing behind both charismatic leaders. When Sejanus sets his sight on Emperorship, who will stop him? First staged at the dawn of the Jacobean age, Ben Jonson’s brilliantly incisive drama takes on startling new significance in its bold exploration of tyranny, sycophancy, and treason. It’s a tragedy of epic proportions, fit for Rome and today’s political arena.
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A screening of “101 Dalmations” will run Jan. 30 – Feb. 4 at LA’s El Capitan Theatre.
All seats are reserved.
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54 Sings the Life of a Showgirl will livestream (no in-person option) on Tue. Jan. 27 at 7 & 9:30 PM at 54 Below, with music direction by Drew Wutke.
Alexandra Baker, Elyse Bell, Anna Bermudez, Aryn Bohannon, Ethan Carlson, Tyler Conroy, Deanna Giulietti, Tayler Harris,Krystal Hernandez, Morgan Higgins, Natalie Joy Johnson, Korie Lee Blossey, Cate Ré, Morgan Reilly, Kat Rodriguez, Carrie Wagner, and Gianna Yanelli.
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The world premiere of Julissa Reynoso & Michael J. Chepiga’s Public Charge will run Mar. 12 – Apr. 5 (opening Mar. 25) at The Public Theatre, directed by Doug Hughes.
Marinda Anderson, Nate Betancourt, Maggie Bofill, John J. Concado, Dan Domingues, Zabryna Guevara, Yesenia Iglesias, Paco Lozano, Nairoby Otero, Armando Riesco,Al Rodrigo, and Barbara Walsh.
In 1982, seven-year-old Julissa immigrates to the U.S from the Dominican Republic. In 2009, she leaves her successful practice at a Wall Street law firm to supervise Caribbean and Central American Affairs for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The play chronicles the challenging education of a twenty-first century American diplomat as she works with scores of other dedicated public servants to deploy humanitarian aid to an earthquake-ravaged Haiti, navigate the roiling politics of immigration, confront the reality of international espionage, and free a wrongly imprisoned American from a Cuban prison. This bracing world premiere by former United States Ambassador Julissa Reynoso and award-winning playwright Michael J. Chepiga is, at its core, about a group of Americans who believe, sometimes against all appearances to the contrary, that their government might actually be a force for good upon the frighteningly chaotic world stage. Tony Award winner Doug Hughes directs this first-hand account of the principled use of power and the enormous potential of keen intelligence, hard work, and good will to bridge seemingly irreconcilable conflict.
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Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus has been extended through Mar. 15 at CA’s Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Darko Tresnjak.
Kenajuan Bentley, Jared Andrew Bybee, Jennifer Chang, Matthew Patrick Davis, Michelle Allie Drever, Alaysha Fox, Matthew Henerson, John Lavelle,Brent Schindele, and Hilary Ward.
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The 2026 Chain Winter One-Act Festival will run Feb. 5 – Mar. 1 at the Chain Theatre (312 West 36th Street).
A carefully curated “mix-tape” of programming bringing together drama, comedy, and everything in between, welcoming Broadway actors, beloved television performers, and emerging voices to the same stage. The 2026 Winter Festival will feature more than 90 new plays and hundreds of artists, creating a vibrant playground for creativity that celebrates storytelling in all its forms.
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LA Opera has announced 2 upcoming concerts at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Juan Diego Flórez (Feb. 10 at 7:30 PM. 
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Patti LuPone (Sat. Feb. 21 at 7:30 PM ). here.
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Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean & Eva Steinmetz’s Penelope a New Musical will run Feb. 6 – Mar. 1 at Boston’s Lyric Stage, directed by Courtney O’Connor.
Aimee Doherty.
A generous glass of bourbon, a 5-piece band, and 90 minutes is all Penelope needs to sell her side of the story as she embraces her heartache, loneliness, and resolve during the wait for her husband Odysseus to return from the seemingly endless war. her son has disappeared. Relentless suitors prance before here. Days drone on as she is left to wonder who she is if she is alone. From jazz to folk to indie rock, Penelope dishes the dirt in a captivating cacohpony of emotions that redfines what we might know of her through a modern lens.