Today’s Highlights:
Master Harold … and the Boys, by Athol Fugard, directed by Emily Mann & Tarell Alvin McCraney, featuring Ben Beatty (Hally), Nyasha Hatendi ( Willie), and and John Kani (Sam), begins previews at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
We Chose to go to the Moon event, directed by Michale Mayer, and narrated by John Nomnsky, closes at NYC’s Carnegie Hall.
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Reviews for Cats: The Jellicle Ball at Broadway’s Broadhust Theatre:
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Apr. 5
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Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre will present its 2026 Gala on Sat. July 11.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Special guests, cast, and additional information TBA.
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Martyna Majok, Aimee Mann & Aimee Mann’s Girl Interupted will run May 13 – June 21 (opening June 4) at The Public Theatre, directed by Jo Bonney. Reminder: The 1st review is FREE.
Juliana Canfield (Susanna), King Princes (Lisa),Ta’Rea (Valerie), Gabi Campo (Tori) , Maonel Feliciano (Man/Musician), Mia Pak (Grace), Kartherine Reis (Daisy), Sally Shaw (PollyP, Emily Skinner (Dr. Wick), and Lauren Jeanne Thomas (Judy/Musician), with Leela Bassuk, Eileen Doan, Gunnar Manchester, Anna Roman, and Rachel Stern.
When Susanna admits herself to a psychiatric hospital, following a 15-minute session with a doctor she’d never met, she forms unexpected bonds with the young women inside as they search for connection and a way forward. Raw and unapologetic, this new play with music reveals that the people who witness our darkest moments are often those who truly see us.
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Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre has announced its 2026 Gala will take place Sat. July 11.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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The Merry Wives of Windsor continues through May 3 at the Chicago Shakespeare Company, directed by Phillip Breen.
Ora Jones (Mistress Page), Issy van Randwyck (Mistress Ford), Chiké Johnson (Master Page), Imothy Edward Kane (Master Ford), and Jason Simon (Sir John Falstaff, with Sam Bell-Gurwitz, Zach Bloomfield, Nate Burger, rohan Rhts Degala, Dylan J. Fleming, Teddy Gales, Colin Huerta, Carmelo Kelly, James McCracken, Olivia Pryor, Diego Sanchez-Galvan, Nick Sandys, Paul Oakley, Justice Tatum, Bret Tuommi, Nancy Voigts, and Alex Weisman.
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Jeremy Jordan in concert will take place Sat. Apr. 11 at 8 PM at LA’s The Soraya,
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Off-Broadway’s Labyrinth Theatre‘s will present its 2026 Celebrity Charades one Mon. Apr. 20 at 6:30 PM at the New York City Winery.
Lea DeLaria
Participants and additional information TBA.
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Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown & Cunningham Onstage will run May 7 -9 at LA’s Wallis Annenberg Center.
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The Vineyard Theatre will present Works in Progress 2026, a series of readings, will run Apr. 19-25 the Vineyard Theatre.
Click the link above complete details.
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Long Island’s Bay Street Theater will present Eve Potts, Andrew Bentley & Jeffrey Stock’s Talk of the Town on Sat. May 23 at 7 PM, directed by TBA.
TBA.
Set in the vibrant world of 1920s New York, Talk of the Town brings to life the true story behind the founding of The New Yorker. It is a story of ambition, creativity, and the relationships that helped shape an American cultural institution.
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Theater Press Agent David Gersten has died at 67 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.
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The world premiere of Julie Shavers’ The Baptist Witches of Shelbyville will continue throughMay 1 at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre, directed by Daniel O’Brien.
Mamie Gummer and Gigi Bermingham.
When eldest daughter Lucinda Moon returns home to her small Tennessee town for the July 4th holiday, she is greeted not only by fireworks but by the same women who shaped her – and the memories she can’t shake. What’s on the family’s picnic menu? Dark comedy, tragic poetry, and moments of pure sonic bliss when the Moon family finds their old harmonies. They’re keeping a burger on the grill, and a tumbler of frosé cold, just for you.
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DC’s Arena Stage has announced it’s 2026 Voices of Now Festival, to take place Sat. April 25 at 1 PM.
A day-long celebration of youth-devised theater featuring four ensembles of middle and high school artists from across the DC region. Developed through longstanding partnerships with DC Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, and the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, the highly anticipated program includes performances and post-show talkbacks that invite audiences to engage directly with the work on stage.
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Back to Oz will run Apr. 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, and 26 at the Mark Taper Forum, with music direction by rachael Worby.
Carmen Cusack, LaVance Colley, Nathan Granner, and the DC6 Singers Collective.
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Terry Schreiber, the founder of T. Schreiber Studios, has died at the age of 89.
The acting teacher, directed the Tony-nominated Broadway production of K2 and trained notable alumni including Edward Norton at his New York City studio, which he founded in 1969. Terry began the T. Schreiber Studio in 1969 with twelve students in a converted loft on the upper east side of Manhattan. As enrollment grew, he began mounting productions in what were the early beginnings of New York City’s Off-Off Broadway movement.
Terry directed regionally at The Guthrie Theater, Syracuse Stage, Hartman Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Buffalo Arena Stage, and George Street Playhouse working with Betty Buckley. He started directing in Japan which created a unique opportunity for Edward Norton, who began his acting studies with Terry, exchanging Japanese lessons for professional training. Norton later remarked that the T. Schreiber Studio was an “enormous blessing,” and given the diverse acting skills required for modern actors, he “couldn’t find these things anywhere else.”‘
On Broadway, Terry directed the Tony-nominated production of K2, as well as acclaimed productions of The Trip Back Down starring John Cullum and Devour the Snow. Off-Broadway directing included Desire Under the Elms at The Roundabout Theatre and Feedlot at Circle Repertory with Jeff Daniels.