GRACE NOTES: Wednesday, April 29, 2026

 

 

Today’s Highlights:

 

  Warsaw, world premiere by Paul Webb, directed by Caryn desai, featuring Suzanne Ford, Anna Van Valin, Elias Scoufaras, Spencer Del Carmen, and Bruce Nozick, begins previews at CA’s Long Beach International City Theatre.

 

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  Broadway Grosses for the week ending Apr. 26.

 

Click here for the complete analysis.

 

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   Scott Siegel’s 54 Sings Broadway’s Greatest Hits! continues through Dec. 30 at NYC’s 54 Below.

 

Click here for the complete schedule.

 

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   Nominations for The 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced Wed. Apr. 29  at 10 AM ET on the Broadway.com Youtube channel

 

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  A Woman Among Women, by Julia May Jonas, will begin previews May 16 and open June 4 at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater, directed by Sarah Cameron Hughes.

 

  Brittany K. Allen (Christine), Gabriel Brown (Roy), Tina Chilip (Tina), Zoë Geltman (Grace),Morgan Siobhan Green (Rida/Trisha), Hannah Heller ( Sarah), Lucy Kaminsky (‘Tammy), Drew Lewis (Lane), and Dee Pelletier (Cleo).

 

  It’s a summer day in Northampton, Massachusetts and Cleo, founder of the local women’s wellness center, holds court in her backyard. As friends, family and neighbors pass through, the air hums with a tension that may destroy the community she’s worked so hard to build.

 

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   The world premiere of The (Not So Real) Housewives of Transylvania, written & directed by Scott Sanders, will run June 4 – 26 (opening June 12) at The Actors Company (916 N. Formosa Ave.).

 

  Scott Sanders, Iris Almario, Kristen Aziza, Jennifer Durst, Johnny Kay, Kristina Korsholm, and Christian Sanders.

 

  Kristina has it all, charisma, power, great looks, wonderful girlfriends, a handsome and powerful husband—Miklos—and, immortality. Yes, she’s a vampire. In present-day Bucharest, Kristina is having a mid-century crisis and decides that she wants to stop being a vampire, get a divorce from her handsome “coven-leader” husband, stop feeding on humans, and……… become HUMAN… again!

 

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  Labelless, by Lea Lachey & Drew Lachey, will run June 10 – Aug. 29 (0pening June 18) at The Duke on 42nd Street & New 43nd Studios (229 W. 42nd St.), directed by Lea Lachey & Drew Lachey .

 

  Justin Daxt Bobbs, Nasir Butler, Antonio Davis, Micah Day, Abby Docherty, Diana Hutchinson, Iz Lachey, Kendall Maley, Colton Smith, and Kiwi Villalobos.

 

  A groundbreaking new 90-minute musical experience that gets real about the challenges we all face in today’s world, sharing real-life experiences and taking audiences on an emotional journey packed with soaring vocals and electric dancing.

 

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  Our Time: Lempicka Reunion Concert will take place Mon. June 1 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre.    A livestream option is TBA.

 

   Eden Espinosa, Natalie Joy Johnson, Zoe Glick, Lauren Blackman, Stephen Brower, Holli’ Conway, Abby Matsusaka, Jimin Moon, Ximonse Rose, Nicholas Ward, Veronica Fiaoni, Michael Milkanin, and Mary Page Nance.

 

The musical is based on the life of Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, focusing on her escape from the 1917 russian Revolution to Paris, where she stransforms from a penniless refugee into a famed Art Deco portraitist.

 

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 A woman Among Women, by Julia May Jonas, will run May 16 – June 28 (opening June 4) at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater, directed by Sarah Cameron Hughes.

 

  Brittany K. Allen (Christine), Gabriel Brown (Roy), Tina Chilip (Tina), Zoë Geltman (Grace), Morgan Siobhan Green (Rida/Trisha), Hannah Heller (Sarah), Lucy Kaminsky (Tammy), Drew Lewis (Lane), and Dee Pelletier (Cleo).

 

It’s a summer day in Northampton, Massachusetts and Cleo, founder of the local women’s wellness center, holds court in her backyard. As friends, family and neighbors pass through, the air hums with a tension that may destroy the community she’s worked so hard to build.

 

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   Therapist Zero, written by & starring Brian Leonard, will run June 8, June 11, 12, 13 & 14 at LA’s Hudson Guild Theatre.

 

   An unflinching, darkly funny solo performance about raising a brilliant but troubled daughter – and the endless revolving door of therapists who couldn’t help her. Written and performed by Leonard, the piece traces a decades-long journey through misdiagnoses, meltdowns, and moments of unexpected grace.

 

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  Falstaff, conducted by James Conlon, continues through May 10 at LA Opera.

 

  Craig Colclough (Falstaff) and Nicole (Alice Ford), with Ernesto Petti (Ford), Deanna Breiwick (Nannetta),  Anthony  León (Fenton), Hyona Kim (Mistress Quickly), Sarah Saturnino (Meg Page), Yuntong Han (Bardolph), Vinícius Costa (Pistol), and Nathan Bowles (Dr. Caius).

 

  Sir John Falstaff finds himself a bit short on cash, so he hatches a scheme: seduce two merry (and wealthy) wives of Windsor and live out his days in luxury. Too bad this bumbling knight happened to send both his targets the same love letter! Now Alice Ford and Meg Page are set on teaching Falstaff a lesson, and it’s not long before a long list of his adversaries join in. Audiences are in for a whirlwind of disguises and deceptions, and maybe even an unexpected dip in the River Thames.

 

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  A Night of Chekhov will run May 16 – June 28 (0pening May 26) at the Actors Temple Theatre, directed by Mr. Kurtesevic.

 

  Luna Vintner, Tom Shane, Damian Cruces and Gene Morgan.

 

  A swift 90-minute journey through Anton Chekhov’s rarely produced short plays: Swan SongThe Proposal and The Bear.

 

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  Daylan Marc Aurele’s Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody  currently runs at the Culture Club (530 W. 27th St.), directed byAnn Hearn Tobolowsky.

 

 

 


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