Today’s Highlights:
The Last Five Years, directed by Whitney White, featuring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, opens at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre.
Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth, directed by Jennifer Chang, featuring Justin Weaks (Kenneth), Samuel Stricklen (Bert), Hilary Ward (Corrina/Wally’s Waiter/Bank Customers), and Ricardo Chavira (Clay/Sam/Le Pousselet Bartender), opens at TheaterWorks Hartford.
Waitress, directed & choreographed by Lisa Shriver, featuring Kerstin Anderson (Jenna), Tori Gresham (Dawn), Porscha Shaw (Becky), Adam Standley (Dr. Jim Pomatter), Dane Stokinger (Earl), Kennedy Kanagawa (Ogie), Allen Fitzpatrick (Joe), Brandon O’Neill (Cal), and Siena Quintos Blodgett (Lulu) and Adeline (alsoLulu), with Kristin Burch, Rob Burgess, Carly Corey, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Nik Hagen, Nalica Hennings, Matthew Kacergis, Jordan King, Cherisse Martinelli, Nick McCarthy, Trina Mills, Taylor Niemeyer-Symons, Yusef Seevers, and Jason Weitkamp, opens at Houston’s TUTS.
Furlough’s Paradise, by a.k payne, directed by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, featuring Kacie Rogers( Mina) and DeWanda Wise (Sade), begins previews at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
To Each Their Own, by Travis William, directed by Brooklyn Sample, featuring Jason Madera, James Lemire, Tabitha Trosen, and William Wilson, previews at LA’s Atwater Village Theatre.
Theater Communications Group‘s Story/Teller Arts: Eboni Booth and Heidi Schreck live & livestreamed Concert, with William Jackson Harper and Luke Wuggodny, at 7 PM at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction (5 Lafayette Ave.)
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Apr. 13.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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Boston’s Lyric Stage Company has announced its 205-26 season:
Our Town (Sept. 19 – Oct. 19), directed by Courtney O’Connor
A Sherlock Carol (Nov. 14 – Dec. 21), by Mark Shanahan, directed by Ilyse Robbins.
Penelope (Feb. 6 – Mar. 1, 2026), by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean & Eva Steinmetz, directed by Courtney O’Connor.
Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Mar. 20 – Apr. 12), by Pearl Cleage, directed by Jacqui Parker.
Something Rotten (May 1 – June 7), directed by Llana Ransom Toeplitz.
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Waiting for Godot will run Sept. 13 – Jan. 4, 2026 (opening Sept. 28) at the Hudson Theatre, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
Keanu Reeves (Estrgon) and Alex Winter (Vladimir)
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The Winter’s Tale (modern verse) will run Apr. 24 – June 14 at the Skylight Theatre Company, adapted by Lisa Wolpe and Tracy Young directed by Tracy Young.
Daniel DeYoung (Leontes/Mariner/Bear), Iman Nazemzadeh (Polixenes), Miguel Perez (Antigonus/Valentine), Misha Osherovich (Perdita/Dion), Israel Erron Ford (Shaan Dasani / Camillo Florizel/Cleomenes, Shaan Dasani (Camillo), KT Vogt (Paulina/Old Shepherd), Victoria Hoffman (Emilia/Dorcas), Audrey Cirzan (Clown/Servant), Quest Sapp (Officer Rogero), and Spencer Jamison (Hermione/Mopsa).
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Emmanuelle Mattana’s Trophy Boys will run June 5 – July 13 (opening June 25) at MCC Theater, directed by Danya Taymor.
Emmanuelle Mattna (Owen), Terry Hu (David), Louisa Jacobson Jared), and Esco Jouléy (Scott).
The work centers on a debate team at an elite all-boys prep school one hour before their final match. As they prepare to smoke their sister school (on the prompt “feminism has failed women,” no less), a rumor emerges that threatens to ruin everything. The upcoming Off-Broadway bow follows earlier stagings in Australia.
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Video: Ragtime in rehearsal at Goodspeed.
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Legally Blonde The Musical will run Apr. 25 – May 18 (opening Apr. 26) at CA’s La Mirada Theatre, directed by Cynthia Ferrer, with choreography by Dana Solimando, and music direction by Ryan O’Connell.
Kathryn Brunner (Elle Woods), Michael Thhomas Grant (Emmett Forrest), Nicholas James McDonough (Warner Hunington III), anna Mintzer (Vivienne Kensington), Anthea Neri Best (Pauline), Ed Staudenmayer (Professor Callahan), Jane Papageorge (Brooke Wyndham), Ed Staudenmayer (Professor Callahan), Jane Papageorge (Brooke
Wyndham), Dahlya Glick Enid), Grace Simmons (Margot), Bella Hicks (Serena), and Aurelia Michael (Pilar), with Cristyn Dang, Grant Hodges, Nathan Madden, Donovan Mendelovitz, Bailey Renee Miller, Taylor Mettra, Davon Rashawn, Anthony Sanchez, Callula Sawyer, Rochelle Scudder (“Bruiser” Handler), Jabari, Krystle Rose Simmons, Rodrigo Varandas, Rianny Vasquez, Emmy J. Lane and Ben Raanan.
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The world premiere of Tom Jacobson’s Tasty Little Rabbit will run Apr. 26 – June 6 at Moving Arts, directed by George Ramber.
Robert Mammana, Rob Nagle, and Massi Pregoni.
A true story of intrigue and artists, set during the 1936 Fascist Italian investigation of pornography charges in Taormina, Sicily. This artistic prosecution uncovers a much darker secret of an 1890s love triangle involving poet Sebastian Melmoth, photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden and an 18-year-old Sicilian boy. What might be discovered, and sacrificed, to protect secrets of the heart?
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David Valdes’ The Great Reveal will run Apr. 4-27 at Cambridge’s Lyric Stage, directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary & Charlotte Snow.
Paige Clark (Lexi), Arthur Gonez (Christopher), Jupiter Lê Linus, and Antonia Turilli (Dosia).
Newly married and seven months pregnant, Lexi has planned the perfect backyard gender-reveal party with every detail immaculately in place. But not everyone is as enthusiastic about the celebration. Her immature husband, Christopher, is rattled by what the future holds for him as a father. Her brother Linus, a trans man, is caught between his sister and his partner Dosia, who is tasked with making the cake for an event that goes against everything they stand for. When emotions escalate and revelations are shared, a family and the importance of being true to oneself is tested as they all grapple to find ways to keep on loving each other.
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A Fabulous 50th: Broadway’s Most Legendary Season will take place Fri. Apr. 18 at 8 PM at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center, directed & hosted by Scott Coulter.
Tony Yazbeck, Eden Espinosa, Klea Blackhurst, Carole J. Bufford, Max Clayton, Jason Graae, and Stephanie Jae Park.
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