Today’s Highlights:
The 15th annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards ceremony, at 1 PM at NYC’s Sardi’s. Click here for the complete list of winners.
What Became of Us, by Shayan Lotfi, directed by Ethan Heard, featuring Alma Cuervo (Q), Michael DeLorenzo (ZZ), Jo Yang (Q), and Stan Kang (Z), opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
The Janis Jam concert returns to Paramount Times Square at 6 PM, to raise money for the Ali Forney Center. Hosted by Marti Cummings, featuring DJ Clinton Foster, Vincent Michael, Anne Fraser Thomas, drag legend Selma Nilla, and #Team Janice Rising Stars Marisol Medina & Delaney White.
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Billy Crystal‘s autobiographical solo show, 860, will run Oct. 1 – Jan. 3, 2027 (opening Oct. 21) at the Imperial Theatre, directed by Scott Ellis.
Home is more than a street number. In the aftermath of the Palisades fires which took his home, Billy relives his memories and moments that mattered the most, and how the power of laughter can overcome the most difficult of times. 860 is a hilarious and intimate story about family, friendship, love, luck, and loss.
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Al Pacino has won the 2026 Sam Wanamaker Award for his contribution to theatre and film, and particularly his performances in Shakespeare’s works.
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Project Shaw will present Shaw’s Getting Married on Mon. June 22 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players (16 Gramercy Park South), directed by David Staller.
Tonya Pinkins, Robert Cuccioli, Dan Domingues, Ann Harada, Howard McGillin, Lauren Molina, Reynaldo Piniella, James Rana, and Evie Schuckman.
A provocative comedy examining the meaning of marriage and the rules that govern it. On the day the Bishop’s daughter is to be married, unconventional desires and questions about love, partnership, and parenthood collide. Lesbia wishes to have a child without a man, while Hotchkiss’s romantic entanglements threaten established norms. When the enigmatic Mrs. George arrives, chaos and hilarity ensue.
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The Listies: Make Some Noise, written & performed by Matthew Kelly and Richard Higgins, will run July 1-19 (at 2 PM) at Off Broadway’s AMT Theatre (scroll down).
An outrageous mixtape of silly songs, ridiculous sketches, musical mayhem, absurd clowning, and laugh-out-loud audience interaction designed for audiences ages 4 to 400.
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Shrek The Musical will run June 25 – July 2 at the St. Louis Muny, directed by John Tartaglia.
Nik Walker (Shrek), Kara Lindsay (Princess Fiona), Marcus M. Martin (Donkey), Troy Iwata (Lord Farquaad), Solomon Rosenthal (Young Shrek), Lake Schultz (Young Fiona), Amelie Lock (Teen Fiona), Aymee Garcia (Gingy), Tyler Joseph Ellis (Pinocchio), and Salome Smith (Voice of the Dragon), with Mathew Blasio, DeShawn Bowens, Monique Churchill, Matthew Davies, Kylie Edwards, Ryan Fitzgerald, Matt Gibson, Jack Gimpel, Shelby Griswold, Michael Harp, Gwen Hollander, Abby Linderman, Sean McManus, Shelby Ringdahl, Trevor Michael Schmidt, Kelly Sheehan, Caitlin Stebelman, and Jonah D. Winston.
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Hell’s Kitchen, by Kristoffer Diaz & Alicia Keys, directed by Michael Grey, continues through Sun. June 21 at LA’s Pantages Theatre.
Maya Drake (Ali), Kennedy Cuaghell (Jersey), Roz White (Miss Liza Jane) Desmond Sean Ellington (Davis), and Jon Avery Worrell (Knuck).
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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Celebrity Autobiography, directed by Eugene Pack & Dayle Reyfel, will close Sun. June 21 at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre.
(rotating): Brooke Adams, Pamela Adlon), Scott Adsit, Lewis Black, Christie Brinkley, Danny Burstein, Mario Cantone, Bob Costas), Tate Donovan, Chloe Fineman, Will Forte, Gina Gershon, Kathy Griffin, Jeff Hiller, Jackie Hoffman, Christopher Jackson, Ken Jeong, Gayle King, Stewart Lane, Susan Lucci, Ralph Macchio, Ben Mankiewicz, Andrea Martin, Donna McKechnie, Eric McCormack, Bobby Moynihan, Laraine Newman, Oscar Nunez, Cheri Oteri, Eugene Pack, Tiler Peck, Billy Porter, Dayle Reyfel, Phil Rosenthal, Tony Shalhoub, Sherri Shepherd, Molly Shannon, Jennifer Tilly, Kenan Thompson, Nia Vardalos, Bruce Vilanch, Rita Wilson, and .Alan Zweibel.
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Gingold Theatrical Group will present a reading of Noël Coward’s This Was a Man on Mon. July 20 at 7 PM at NYC’s Players Club, directed by David Staller.
Wesley Taylor (Evelyn Bathurst),A.J. Shively (Edward Churt), Jane Bruce (Lady Morgot Butley), Stella Everett (Carol Churt), Vanessa Kai (Zoe St. Merryn), and Carman Lacivita (Harry Challoner), with Lor Robert Romford.
The play follows Edward Churt, a painter whose carefully composed world begins to fracture as he confronts his wife Carol’s infidelity.
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Video montage of the NYC’s Public Theater free Shakespeare in the Park’s Romeo and Juliet. The production, directed by Saheem Ali, continues through June 28 at Shakespeare in the park.
Francis Jue (Friar Laaurence), La Chanze (lady Capulet), Deirdre O’Connell (Nurse), Caleb Joshua Everhardt (mercutio), Ariyan Kassam, (Tybalt), Janson Manuel Olazábal (Lord Montague), Jessica Pimentel (Escalus, and Glenn Fleshler (Lorg Capulet).
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The world premiere of Drew Larimore’s The Cannibals of McGower County will run July 30 – Aug. 30 at CT’s TheaterWorks Hartford, directed by Jen Winman.
Annalee Jefferies, Constance Shulman, Gus Birney, and Edward Hoke.
The play takes place in McGower County, West Texas – a ghost town lost to time. When two veteran salvagers casing an abandoned barbecue restaurant encounter an unexpected guest, sparks fly. What follows is a darkly comic reckoning that is long overdue.
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Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, by Pearl Cleage, continues through June 17 at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
Michele Shay (Betty Samson), Olivia Washington (Precious “Pete”Watson), Watson, Deborah Joy Winans (Greenleaf, Whitney) as Kate Hughes; and Charlayne Woodard (Anna Campbell).
Anna Campbell is a trailblazing actress flush with accolades but short on cash. After returning to the U.S. to stage a career-defining comeback, she collides with a new generation that challenges her past, her politics, and her place in the movement.