Today’s Highlights:
did you charge your phone for the end of the world? world premiere written & directed by Fletcher Michael, featuring Lucy Boisvert, Collin Dennis, and Fletcher Michael, opens at the 2026 New York City Fringe Festival.
Ensemble Theatre Company‘s A Night with Janis Joplin, by Randy Johnson, directed by Mary Bridget Davies & Brian McDonald, featuring Sadé Ayodele, Jenna Gillespie Byrd, Melissa Musique, and Sha’leah Nikol, begins previews at Santa Barbara’s New Vic.
It’s a Graae Night for Singing concert, starring Jason Graae, at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Mar. 29.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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Video: Highlights from Broadway’s Beaches, starring Jessica Vosk and Kelly Barrett.
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Red Bull Theater will present a reading of Hamish Linklater’s Paris, Actors! on Mon. Apr. 20 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s symphony Space, directed by Jack O’Brien.
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.
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It’s All Right with Cole Porter will take place Sun. Apr. 12 at 5 & 7:30 PM at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, hosted by Deborah Grace Winer, and music direction by Tedd Firth.
Karring Allyson, Aisha de Haas, and Declan Cashman.
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The world premiere of Jennifer Nettles’ Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palerno will run June 28 – July 26 (opening July 10) at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, directed by Mary Zimmerman.
JenniferNettles (iulia) Matthew Amira (Carlo), Quentin Earl Darrington (Cardinale), Emily Fink (Maria), Bre Jackson (La Capitana), Andrew Kober (Pietro), Aubrey Matalon (Renata), Christopher M. Ramirez (Governatore), Didi Romero (Duchessa), Naomi Serrano (Vitoria), and Sam Simahk (Father Paolo), with Jamila Sabares-Klemm and Maya Sistruck.
The ply tracks a real-life serial killer whose trail of murder begins with an act of self-defense
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Video: Highlights from Broadway’s Beaches, starring Jessica Vosk and Kelly Barrett.
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A screening of the West End production of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown will be released theatrically in North America on July 24, directed by Brett Sullivan.
Reeve Carney (Orpheus), André De Shields’( Hermes), Amber Gray ( Persephone), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), and Patrick Page(Hades).
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Read here. Cameron Mackintosh Says he’s done producing on Broadway: ‘The Costs Are Ludicrous”
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Chess will continue through June 21 at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre, directed by Michael Mayer.
Aaron Tveit (Freddie Trumper), Nicolas Christopher (Anatoly Sergievsky), Lea Michelle (Florence Vassy), Hannah Cruz (Svetlana), Bryce Pinkham (Arbiter), Bradley Dean (Molokov), and Sean Allan Krill (Walter).
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The world premiere of Susan Charlotte’s The People Versus Lenny Bruce will run May 7 – June 28 (opening May 14) at Theatre Row, directed by Antony Marsellis.
Johnny Anthony, Timothy Doyle, Dan Grimaldi, Ian Lithgow, Stephen Schnetzer, Jonathan Spivey, and Roberta Wallach.
The story of Lenny Bruce and his New York trial is more relevant now than ever. A heart-breaking and thought provoking story filled with humor, this theatrical adaptation is the story of comic Lenny Bruce and his lawyer Martin Garbus who tried to save his client from the system – and from himself.
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The West End production of Hadestown has been recorded and will begin screening on July 4 in movie theaters around the U.S.
André De Shields (Hermes), Amber Gray (Persephone), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), and Patrick Page (Hades).
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The New Group’s Fallen Angels will run Mar. 27 – Jun 7 (opening Apr. 19) at the Roundabout Theatre, directed by Scott Ellis.
Rose Byrne (Jane Banbury), Kelly O’Hara (Julia Sterroll), Tracee Chimo (Saunders), Mark Conseulos (Maurice Duclos), Christopher Fitzgerald (Willy Banbury), and Aasif Mandvi (Fred Sterroll, with Tina Benko, Christopher Innvar, Max Gordon Moore, and Laura Shoop.
The play follows two wealthy married women who, with husbands away, toast their pre-wedding loves—who happen to be the same man, who’s on his way to visit. The work premiered in London in 1925, coming to Broadway in 1927. Early productions attracted the ire of censors, who objected to its shocking depiction of women acknowledging premarital sex.
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The world premiere of Susan Charlotte’s The People Verses Lenny Bruce will run May 7 – June 8 (opening May 14) at Theatre Row, directed by Antony Marsellis.
Johnny Anthony (Lenny Bruce), Timothey Doyle (Jules Feiffer), Dan Grimaldi (Richard H. Huh, Ian Lithgow (Hergert ruhe), Jonathan Spivey (Forrrest Johnson), Stephen Schnetzer (Martin Garbus/Narrator), and Roberta Wallach (Dorothy Kilgallen).
The story of Lenny Bruce and his New York trial is more relevant now than ever. A heart-breaking and thought provoking story filled with humor, this theatrical adaptation is the story of comic Lenny Bruce and his lawyer Martin Garbus who tried to save his client from the system – and from himself.
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Video: Highlights from Kinky Boots at Houston’s TUTS.
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Seagull the True Story, by Eli Rarey, created & directed by Alexander Molochnikov, has been extended through May 3 at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.
Gus Birney, Andrey Burkovskiy, Ohad Mazor, Myles McCabe, Quentin Lee Moore, Keshet Pratt, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Eric Tabach, and Elan Zafi.
A whirlwind of comedic mayhem, artistic rebellion, and deeply personal reflection on displacement, censorship, and the pursuit of creative freedom.