Today’s Highlights:
Stereophonic, by David Adjmi, directed by Daniel Aukin, featuring Jack Barrett (Grover), Claire DeJean (Diana), Steven Lee johnson (Simon), Denver Milord (Peter), and Christopher Mowad (Reg), with Eli Bridges Andrew Gombas, Quinn Allyn Martin, Jake Regensburg, and Laura Wilmore, opens at LA’s Pantages Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Dec. 7.
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The world premiere of Beth Hyland’s Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia will run Feb. 4 -Mar. 8 (0pening Feb 12) at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Jo Bonney.
Midori Francis, Marianna Gailus, Noah Keyishian, and Cillian O’Sullivan.
Sally, a once-celebrated novelist grappling with writer’s block and overshadowed by her husband Theo’s rising literary fame, seeks solace and inspiration in the iconic Boston apartment once inhabited by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. But when eerie encounters begin to blur the line between inspiration and madness, Sally is forced to question what’s real, what’s imagined, and what her art may truly cost her. A darkly funny, gripping world premiere from rising playwright Beth Hyland, this tragicomic thriller explores creativity, obsession, and our ghosts that refuse to be ignored.
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Melissa Errico: The Secret Diary of Mrs. Santa will take place Tues. Dec. 16 at 7:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club, with pianist Billy Stritch.
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Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 will run Dec. 11 – Jan. 11 at the Pacific Resident Theatre, adapted & directed by Graham C. King.
Haskell V. Anderson, Blaire Battle, Oscar Best, Olivia Braun, Tara Brown, David Clayberg, Michael Franco, Edward Hoke, James Morris, Gregg Ostrin, Sharron Shayne, and Katerina Tana.
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The world premiere of Luke Norris’ Guess How Much I Love You? will run Jan 16 – Feb. 21 (opening Jan. 22) at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
Robert Aramayo , Rosie Sheehy (Machinal) and Lena Kaur.
The play follows a pregnant couple awaiting their 20-week scan, as the future they had planned slips through their fingers.
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“Hirschfeld: Strokes of Genius” continues at NYC’s Helicline Fine Art (in a private space), and is available by appointment only.
Additional works have been added to the exhibition which includes more than six dozen Hirschfeld original drawings and lithographs (all signed and numbered) depicting Broadway, Hollywood, TV, music and comedy.
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Age is a Feeling, written & performed by Haley McGee, will run Mar. 5 – 7 at the Soho Theatre, directed by Mitchell Cushman.
This never-the-same-twice show is a gripping story about how our relationship with mortality shapes the way we live. Inspired by hospices, mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a Feeling wrestles with our endless chances to change course while we’re alive. A covert rallying cry against cynicism and regret. A call to seize our time.
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Masquerade has been extended through Mar. 29 at Off-Broadway’s custom-built space at 218 W. 57th St., directed by Diane Paulus.
Alaska, Lee H. Alexander, Laura Lee Anderson, Baby Byrne, Matthew Curiano, Nicholas Edwards, Gabriella Enriquez, Nicole J. Fergeson, Haile Ferrier, Nkrumah Gatling, Francisco Javier González, Cooper Grodin, Maxfield Haynes, Bryan Hernandez-Luch, Satomi Hofmann, Kody Jauron, Maree Johnson, Tia Karaplis, Nathan Keen, Joseph Kerr, Jeff Kready, Michael Kuhn, Jacob Lacopo, Rawb Lane, Eryn LeCroy, Telly Leung, Claire Leyden, Francesca Mehrotra, Georgia Mendes, Sami Merdinian, Anna Monoxide, Betsy Morgan, Dario Natarelli, Riley Noland, Charles Osborne, Hugh Panaro, Alex Ross, Chris Ryan, Kyle Scatliffe, Paul Adam Schaefer, Clay Singer, Phumzile Sojola, Cooper Stanton, Jeremy Stolle, Jack Sullivan, Olivia Tarchick, Kaley Ann Voorhees, Nik Walker, Andrew Wojtal, Nikita Yermak, Kevin Zambrano, and Anna Zavelson.
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Michael Griffo’s Pen Pals continues through Mar. 15 at the DR2 Theatre, directed by SuzAnne Barabas.
Brooke Adams (Bernie) and Marilu Henner (Mags)
Pen Pals is inspired by a true story and charts five decades of friendship through handwritten letters exchanged by two women who never meet in person. Each new pairing brings fresh emotional insight to this deeply moving and often humorous story of connection and resilience.
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The world premiere of Samson Hawkins’ Top Gs Like Me will run Feb. 12 – Mar. 7 (opening Feb. 6) at the UK’s Royal & Derngate, Northampton, directed by Jesse Jones.
Danny Hatchard Hugo Bang) and Lee in Ridley Road (Dave/El Davo), and more TBA.
The new work follows a group of rudderless young adults, diving headfirst into the influence of online culture, the pull of toxic masculinity, and the search for identity in the digital age. It centres on the sometimes dangerous, coercive, relationships that young people can have with digital algorithms and with influential figures who curry ideological favour with people on the cusp of adulthood, getting to them via the quick endorphins and short-cut culture of poisonous social media.
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Rogers & Hart’s and Richard LaGravenese’ Chez Joey will run Jan. 30 – Mar. 15 at DC’s Arena Stage, directed by Tony Goldwyn & Savion Glover, with choreography by Glover.
Awa Sal Secka, Samantha Massell, Angela Hall, and Kevin Cahoon.
The year is 1940-something, and on the South Side of Chicago, the night scene is sizzling. Enter Joey Evans an irresistible, slick-talking, velvet-voiced nightclub performer with dreams bigger than the bandstand. But in a city where the right connections mean everything, he finds himself caught between Linda, the bright-eyed chorus girl, and Vera, the wealthy baroness who can bankroll his big break—for a price. With no-nonsense club owner Lucille and vaudeville-performer-turned-Chicago-social-insider Melvin watching his every move, Joey’s got one choice to make: play it straight or risk it all for the spotlight.
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A Sleighful of Songs! will run Dec. 11-14 (opening Dec. 12) at LA’s Theatre West, directed by Victoria Lavan.
Constance Mellors, Scottie Nevil, Meg Lin, David Mingrino, Anibal Silveyra, Michael Van Duzer, Cody Kelepolo, Roni Williams, Auriana Chisholm, Vertreace Sanders, Preston Simon, Jordan Elliott, Lulu Francis, Michael Gabiano, and Aaron Gillis.
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NewYork Rep‘s The American Soldier, written & performed by Douglas Taurel, continues through Dec. 21 at A.RT.
An award-winning one-man play that brings to life the untold human stories of our veterans through their real letters from the battlefield. It is not a political play. It is a profoundly human story that honors the mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons who have carried our nation’s battles.