Today’s Highlights:
Suffs, by Shaina Taub, directed by Leigh Silverman, featuring Maya Keleher (Alice Paul), Danyel Fulton (Ida B. Wells), Marya Grandy (Carrie Chapman Catt), Jenny Ashman (President Woodrow Wilson), Monica Tulia Ramirez (Inez Milholland), Gwynne Wood (Lucy Burns), Joyce Meimei Zheng (Ruza Wenclawska), Livvy Marcus (Doris Stevens), Trisha Jeffrey (Mary Church Terrell), Brandi Porter (Dudley Malone), Laura Stracko (Alva Belmont/Phoebe Burn), Tami Dahbura (Mollie Hay), and Victoria Lauren Pekel (Phyllis Terrell/Robin, opens at LA’s Pantages Theatre.
Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Selina Cadel, featuring Deborah Hay (Beatrice) and Craig Bierko s(Benedick), with Debo Balogun, Mark Bedard, Joey Chelius, Sean Fortunato, Kevin Gudahl, Suzanne Hannau, Colin Huerta, Samuel B. Jackson, Mi Kang, Jaylon Muchison, Felicia Oduh, Yona Moises Olivares, Jeff Parker, and Tiffany Scott, opens at Chicago Shakespeare.
Amas Musical Theatre‘s Charlotte Sweet: The Madcap Musical benefit concert, by Michael Colby & Gerald Jay Markoe, directed byJeff Calhoun, featuring Megan Styrna, Darius DeHaas, Ann Harada, Nicholas King, Michael McCoy, Mamie Parris, Stephanie Pope, and more, closes at NYC’s Mezzanine Theatre – ART/NY Theatres.
A 13-track album of Waiting for Godot, will be released today at 12 PM on all DSPS. The album will feature original compositions from & inspired by the recent Broadway production, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
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Reviews for Oedipus at Broadway’s Studio 54.
Click here to read all the reviews.
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Eli Rarey’s Seagull: True Story will run Mar. 22 – Apr. 26, 2026 (opening Mar. 30) at the Public Theatre, directed by Alexander Molochnikov.
TBA.
This politically charged retelling of Molochnikov’s attempt to stage Chekhov’s The Seagull unfolds as a whirlwind of comedic mayhem, artistic rebellion, and deeply personal reflection on displacement, censorship, and the pursuit of creative freedom.
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Ann Kittredge: You Sleigh Me will take place Wed. Dec. 3 at 7 PM at NYC’s Chelsea Table + Stage., directed by Barry Kleinbort, with music direction by Christopher Denny.
Brent Barrett, Jeff Harnar, Karen Mason, and Paul Folnick, with Randy Klein & Alexander Ryback.
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Pygmalion, directed by David Staller, continues through Nov. 22 at Theatre Row.
Carson Elrod (Colonel Hugh Pickering), Mark Evans (Henry Higins), Synnove Karlesn (Eliza Doolittle), Teresa Avia Lim (Clara Eynsford-Hill), Lizan Mittchell (Mros. Higgin/Mrsl. Pearce), and Matt Wolpe (Freddy Eynsford Hill/Alfred Doolittle).
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An Evening with Len Cariou will take place Tues. Dec. 16 at 7 PM Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre.
Cariou shares reminiscences of his storied career and the many legends he has worked with in a live interview conducted by theater journalist Michael Portantiere. The evening will include clips of Mr. Cariou’s greatest roles, live performances of a song or two (with Mark Janas at the piano), and a Q&A session with the audience.
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A Musical Christmas Carol, written & directed by David H. Bell, will run Dec. 13-23 at Pittsburgh CLO.
Denis O’Hare (Scrooge) and more TBA.
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Resplendent Joy: Christmas Traditions from Spain and Portugal will run Dec. 5-14 at DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library, directed by Robert Eisenstein & Christopher Kendall.
Robert Eisenstein (viol, recorder), Amy Domingues (viol), Elizabeth Hardy (dulcian, recorder), Paula Maust (organ), Daniel Meyers (trombone, recorder, percussion), and Hideki Yamaya (vihuela), and six guest vocalists: sopranos Crossley Hawn and Susan Lewis Kavinski, alto Hannah Baslee, tenors Oliver Mercer and John Logan Wood, and baritone Corbin Phillips.
Resplendent Joy offers skillful, multi-voiced choral compositions set to sacred texts by the Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano (c.1520–c. 1561), considered to be the first published Black composer of European music. The program includes livelyseasonal villançicos (early Spanish Christmas carols) and engaging instrumental music for vihuela, a 15th-century Spanish stringed instrument; organ; and mixed ensembles. Through touching songs of simple beauty as well as celebratory odes to the festive season, audiences can learn about and enjoy some of the most prominent Spanish composers of the 16th century, including Cristobal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Francisco Guerrero.
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The Last Ship, written & performed by Sting, Barney Norris, will run June 9-14, 2026 at the Metropolitan Opera House.
The newly adapted presentation directed by Leo Warner took place yesterday at the same venue.
TBA.
Rooted in his own childhood in the British shipbuilding town of Wallsend, The Last Ship tells the story of a community of shipbuilders in the northeast of England, faced with the closure of their shipyard—the heart of their existence.
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Jamie deRoy & Friends, in support of the Entertainment Community Fund, will take place Sun. Nov. 23 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Laurie Beechman Theatre, directed by Barry Kleinbort, with music direction by Christopher Denny.
Ali Ewoldt, John Forster, Judy Gold, Ann Kittredge, and Jak Malone.
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Romy & Michele Musical, by Robin Schiff, Gwendolyn Sanford & Brandon Jay, directed by Kristin Hanggi, will close Nov. 30 at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42.
. Laura Bell Bundy and Kara Lindsay, with Jordan Kai Burnett, DeMarius R. Copes , Ninako Donville, Erica Dorfler,Michael Thomas Grant, Shaun Jackson, Pascal Pastrana, Lauren Zakrin, Hannah Florence and Cameron Sirian.
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One-Day Play Festival: Giving Tuesday will take place Tues. Dec.. 2 at LA’s Theatre West.
A program of short plays created in 24 hours from conception to presentation. Casting not announced.
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Ro Reddick’s Cold War Choir Practice will run Feb. 21 – Mar. 29 (opening Mar. 10) at MCC Theatre, directed by Conud Addams.
Alana Raquel Bowers (Meek), Will Cobbs (Smooch), Andy Lucien (Clay), and Lizan Mitchell (Puddin), and more TBA.
A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults,” the Syracuse, New York–set work centers on a young girl whose estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays.
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The Lovers, The Dreamers & Me: The Songs of Paul Williams will run Dec. 6-8 at NYC’s s 92NY, directed by Christian Borle.
Paul Williams.
John Cariani, Amanda Clement, Nasia Thomas & Teddy Yudain.
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New York Rep will present Douglas Taurel’s The American Soldier Dec. 2-21 at A.R.T./New York.
Douglas Taurel
In 90 minutes, playwright and actor Douglas Taurel performs 14 different characters – men, women, and children – affected by various wars. He exposes their scars with darkness and humor while transporting the audience to a dozen different wartime eras – from the sweltering jungles of Vietnam to the freezing fields of Valley Forge.
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Pittsburg CLO has announced its 2026 Summer season:
Creative teams and casting TBA.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (June 23-28)
Mean Girls (July 7-12
Suffs (July 21-26**********************
Once in a Lifetime: A Sammy Davis, Jr. Centennial Celebration will take place Sun. Dec. 7 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Michael Lavine. 
The concert will be available both live and livestreamed.
Michael-Demby Cain, Keith David, Jerry Dixon, Ava Nicole Frances, Rupert Holmes, Nicolas King Marc Kudisch, Lee Roy Reams, T. Oliver, Blinky Williams Reid ,Jasm
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Pygmalion, directed by David Staller, will run Jan. 15 – Feb. 25, 2026, at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row, directed by David Staller.
Carson Elrod (Colonel Hugh Pickering), Mark Evans (Henry Higins), Synnove Karlesn (Eliza Doolittle), Teresa Avia Lim (Clara Eynsford-Hill), Lizan Mittchell (Mros. Higgin/Mrsl. Pearce), and Matt Wolpe (Freddy Eynsford Hill/Alfred Doolittle)