Today’s Highlights:
Hamlet, directed by Robert O’Hara, featuring Patrick Ball (Hamlet), Coral Peña (Ophelia), Gina Torres (Gertrude), James T. Alfred (Head Attendant), Joe Chrest Detective Fortinbras), Fidel Gomez (Gravedigger), Ty Molbak (Laertes /Rosencrantz), Ramiz Monsef (Polonius,) Jakeem Powell (Horatio), Ariel Shafir (Claudius), Jaime Lincoln Smith (First Player /Attendant), and Daniel Zuhlke (Guildenstern, begins previews at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.
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NYC’s Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2024-25 season:
Click here for the season, as well as special offers.
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Melissa R Randel’s Sorry will run June 20 – July 19 at the Moving Arts Theater, directed byMelissa Randel & Larry Biederman.
Lea Floden (Lillian), Anna Giannotis (Fury), Jeffrey Johnson (The Men), Denise Leitner (Fury), Melisa R Randel (Persephone), Denice Scheerer (Fury), and Jacqueline Wright (Francine).
In the present day, Francine, a lawyer, looks the other way from the harassment of a female colleague. Oh, and then she murders her husband. From the 19th century, Lillian terminates pregnancies with herbs. And she gets institutionalized for being a lesbian. Persephone, of Ancient Greece, fights breast cancer AND domestic violence. Three mythical Furies reflect these women to themselves, championing their power and questioning their participation in their own oppression. What’s going to happen to us, now?
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The 2025 Drama Desk Awards will take place Sun. June 1 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s NYU’s Skirball Concert Center, 
here.
Debra Messing & Tituss Burgess, Nicole Scherzinger, Audra McDonald, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.
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All Shook Up will run June 27 – Aug. 17 (opening July 9) at CT’s Goodspeed, directed by Daniel Goldstein, with music direction by Adam J. Rineer, and choreography by Byron Easley.
Kerstin Anderson (Natalie/Ed), Ryan Mac (Chad), Benjamin Howes (Jim), L Morgan Lee (Sylvia), Amy Hillner Larsen (Mayor Matilda), Messica Crouch (Miss Sandra), Jordan Mattew Brown (Denis), Jackera Davis (Lorraine), Jackson Reagin (Dean), and Kilty Reidy (Sheriff Earl), with Ian Dominguez Ball, Jenna Bienvenue, Corinne C. Broadbent, Julius Chase, Maddie Garbaty, Michael James, Myles McHale, Keyon Pickett, Sydney Quildon, and Montria Walker, with Ben Horsburgh and Eleni Kontzamanys.
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Rogue Machine will present Melissa Ross’ Nice Girl May 29 – July 13 at LA’s Matrix Theatre, directed by Ann Bronston.
Anaïs Fairweather (Jo), Bailey Humiston (Sherry), Jeff Lorch (Donny), and eahl (Francine).
In suburban Massachusetts, 1984, thirty-seven-year-old Josephine Rosen has a dead-end job, still lives with her mother, and has settled into the uncomfortable comfort of an unintended spinsterhood. But when a chance flirtation with an old classmate and a new friendship at work give her hope for the possibility of change, she dusts off the Jane Fonda tapes and begins to take tentative steps towards a new life. A play about the tragedy and joy of figuring out who you are and letting go of who you were supposed to be.
The Drunk Shakespeare Society will present Drunk Romeo & Juliet, written and directed by Lori Wolter Hudson, to run May 30 – Sep. 20. 20 at the Ruby Theatre.
Samuel Adams, Gracie Lee Brown, Ryan Farnsworth, Morgan Haney, Craig Jackson, Sarah Ann Leahy, Travis Raeburn, Ali Regan, Brandon Salerno, and Sky Young.
The stage is set in a hidden venue. One professional actor has 5 shots of whiskey and then attempts to perform a major role in Shakespeare’s greatest love story: Romeo & Juliet. Hilarity and mayem ensue while the remaining sober actors try to keep the script on track. Every show is different depending on who is drinking…and what they’re drinking!
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Rogue Machine will present Melissa Ross’ Nice Girl May 31 – July 4, directed by Ann Bronston.
Anaïs Fairweather (Jo), Bailey Humiston (Sherry), Jeff Lorch (Donny), and eahl (Francine). In suburban Massachusetts, 1984, thirty-seven-year-old Josephine Rosen has a dead-end job, still lives with her mother, and has settled into the uncomfortable comfort of an unintended spinsterhood. But when a chance flirtation with an old classmate and a new friendship at work give her hope for the possibility of change, she dusts off the Jane Fonda tapes and begins to take tentative steps towards a new life. A play about the tragedy and joy of figuring out who you are and letting go of who you were supposed to be.**********************
My Fair Lady in concert will take place Tues. July 15 at 7:30 PM at the Aspen Musical Festival, directed by Maggie Burrows and conducted by Andy Einhorn.
Julie Benko (Eliza Dolittle ), Raúl Esparza (Professor Henry Higgins), Shuler Hensley (Alfred P. Doolittle), Anna L. Nathan (Mrs. Pearce), and more TBA.
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The Williamstown Theatre Frestival has announced its Summer 2025
season.
Tooo Much to post here. Click the link above for the complete festival schedule.
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Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story will run July 11 – July 27 at CA’s Musical Theatre West, directed & choreographed by Keith Andrews, with music direction by Ryan O’Connell.
Will Riddle (Buddy Holly), Justin Mariel Boyd (trumpet player Tyrone), Will Riddle (Buddy Holly) and Justin Mariel Boyd (Tyrone), with Trent Mills, Elizabeth Curtain, Mia Sempertegui, David Kirk Grant, Janaya Mahealani Jones, Chase Ramsey, Ryan DeNardo, and Lauren Han.
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A reading of Raffaele Pacitti’s Mister Halston will take place Mon. June 2 at 7 PM at Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre, directed by Kevin Hourigan.
Ken Barnett (Halston)
It is early spring, 1987, New York. Late afternoon, spilling into dusk. The play is set in the living room of the East 63rd Street apartment of famed American fashion designer, Halston. A journalist has arrived and throughout the interview, the audience learns about varied aspects of Halston’s life and career, including people Halston knew and loved, as well as the cultural figures who influenced him. The new play explores the visionary work that not only gripped the fashion world for decades, but also helped shape the evolution of identity, gender politics, sexuality and style— in America and around the world.
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. Chaya Doswell’s Fostered continues through June 22 at Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Andrew D. Weyman.
Terri Davis, Katy Downing, Jillian Lee Garner, Hope Lauren, Hiram Murray, Taubert Nadalini, Tony Pasqualini, and Satiar Pourvasei. An adult comedy about a rather chaotic family in Scarsdale, New York. Set in 2016, just prior to the election, and moving into 2017, parents Karen and Sandy Foster are ready and excited to make some big changes in their lives. Their plans are thwarted by their adult children who return home, one by one, beset with problems. Each family member is forced to take a good hard look at who they’ve been pretending to be. Karen and Sandy find a way to move ahead with their lives as they, and their children, learn to embrace their authentic selves…and oh, there’s vodka!