Today’s Highlights:
Gotta Dance, co-directed by Nikki Feirt Atkins & Randy Skinner, featuring Keely Beirne, Brandon Burks, Anthony Cannarella, Barton Cowperthwaite, Deanna Doyle, Sara Esty, Jessica Lee Goldyn, RJ Higton, Kate Louissaint, Libby Lloyd, Drew Minard, Cole Newburg, Melody Rose, Samantha Siegel, Ahmad Simmons, Landon Winslow, and Blake Zelesnikar, opens at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42.
Jelly’s Last Jam, directed by Tyrone L. Robinson, featuring Stanley Martin (Jelly Roll Morton) and Forrest McClendon (Chimney Man), opens at PA.’s Bristol Riverside Theatre.
Proof, by David Auburn, directed by Thomas Kail, featuring Ayo Ede (Catherine), Don Cheadle (Robert), Kara Young (Claire), and Jin Ha (Hal), begins previews at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre.
An Evening with Charles Busch live stream interview with theater journalist Michael Portantiere, at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman theatre.
Storm Large in concert closes at NYC’s 54 Below.
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Reviews for Dog Day Afternoon at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre:
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A benefit reading of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart will take place Mon. Apr. 27 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater, directed by Tony Kushner.
TBA.
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In The Heights will run Apr. 10-26 (opening Apr. 27) at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez.
Ruben J. Carbajal (Usnavi), Amanda Aceves-Lopez (Nina Rosario), Elvira Barjau (Camila Rosario), and Antwone Barnes bBenny), with Berto Fernandez, Suzanna Guzman, Adam Leiva, Angelica Marie Lozada, Mario Rocha, Rianny Vasquez, Veronica Vazquez Jackson, Patrick Viloria, Leonel Ayala, Miah Blake, Remmie Bourgeois, Julisa Maya Carbajal, Andrea Dobbins, Elijah Samuél Figueroa, Juan Camilo Laverde, Veronica Carolina Leite, Mireya Zoé Nevel, Alonzo Melgoza, Emilia Vial, Paris Nicole, and Scott Spraags.
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The world premiere of Irvine Welsh & Stephen McGuinness’s Trainspotting The Musical will rbegin previews July 22 and 0pening July 15 at Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by Caroline Jay Ranger.
Mark Renton, and more TBA.
This brand new musical adapts Irvine Welsh’s novel, about a group of friends struggling with addiction in 1990s Edinburgh. The musical has a book by Welsh himself, and features original songs co-written by Welsh and dance legend Steve Mac, along with iconic tracks from the 1996 hit film adaptation, which starred Ewan McGregor. Trainspotting comes to London for a strictly limited run this summer – so choose life, choose tickets, and book today.
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Off-Broadway’s New Group has announced its 2026-27 season at its new home at Theater at St. Clement’s.
The Adding Machine (Mar 21 – May 10), byElmer Rice, directed by Scott Elliott, featuring Sarita Choudhury, Michael Cyril Creighton, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Jennifer Tilly.
Bocking, world premiere by Preston Crowder (Summer’Fall 2o26dates TBA) A preacher, a gay exorcism and a chicken named Danalana Parmesana collide in this irreverent sex farce. After a shocking playground incident, two very different sets of parents must come together to confront their kinks and taboos. This is a raunchy romp…Bock bock, muthacluckers!.
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The world premiere of Tami Workentin’s George & Gracie: A Love Story will run May 1 – June 14 at Milwaukee Rep, directed by Laura Braza.
Tami Workentin & James Pickering.
The piece traces George Burns and Gracie Allen’s journey from a struggling vaudeville act to the height of stardom, celebrating their enduring partnership, their groundbreaking comedy, and the devotion that defined their lives on and off stage. Warm, witty, and deeply human, George & Gracie: A Love Story invites audiences to rediscover two of America’s most iconic entertainers in a production sure to captivate and inspire.
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Eileen Barnett – It’s my Birthday and Il’ sing if I want to will take place Thurs. May 7 at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club, with music direction by Michael Collum.
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Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust will run Apr. 14 – May 2 at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Logan Vaughn.
Jasminn Johnson (Corrina/Wally’s Waiter/Bank Customers), Greg Stuhr (Clay/Sam/Le Pousselet Bartender), alphonso Walker Jr.(Kenneth), and Lance Coadie Williams (Bert).
The play centers on Kenneth, a lonely 38-year-old man living in the small town of Cranberry, New York. Kenneth is something of a failure to launch, never quite stepping into full independence or adult responsibility. A creature of habit, he spends every evening sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar with Bert, his best friend – who happens to be imaginary. When Kenneth is suddenly laid off from his lifelong job in a bookstore, his world is upended. Facing a reality he’s long avoided, Kenneth is forced to leave the comfort of his imagination and learn to trust beyond the barstool. He musters courage to take a new job at the Primary Trust Bank with transformative, and even sweetly comical, results.
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Timeless: A Tribute to Bernadette Peters will take place Sun. Apr. 19 at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama (link TBA), directed by Lennie Watts.
Gerrilyn Sohn.
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Three-time Tony nominee Mary Beth Hurt has died after a multi-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, at the age of 79.
Ms. Hurt was born Mary Beth Supinger in Marshalltown, Iowa, in the aftermath of the Second World War. She studied drama at the University of Iowa before moving to New York, attending New York University’s Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts as the city was transformed by the end of the 1960s. In the program, she met fellow actor William Hurt, and the pair were married in 1971. While their marriage would end in 1982, she would retain his surname professionally for the rest of her life.
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Red Bull Theater will present a reading of Hamish Linklater’s Paris, Actors! on Mon. Apr. 30 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space, directed by Jack O’Brian.
Gus Birney, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Jay O. Sanders, Lily Santiago, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Azalea Wolfe.
Occupied Paris. 1944. Real life celebrity Nazi Werner Krauss is between projects. But the Party, desperate for a propaganda extravaganza in the City of Lights, has arranged a remount of his notorious Merchant of Venice produced by a French theater teeming with family secrets. Paris, ACTORS! is “The Last Metro” if Truffaut were unavailable to direct, but the Marx Brothers were. A madcap backstage drama, penned by Obie Award-winning actor and playwright Hamish Linklater, appearing together with some of our best-loved actors of the American theater.