Today’s Highlights:
Relax … let go … let fly
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Feb. 15.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles‘ And the Beat Goes On will run Mar. 21-22 at Beverly Hill’s Saban Theatre, conducted by Ernest H. Harrison.
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Manhattan Theatre Club will present its annual 2026 Spring Benefit on Tues. Apr. 7 at 8 PM at Broadway’s Booth Theatre.
The event will celebrate the legacy and Broadway return of David Auburn’s Proof.
Performers and additional information TBA.
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Upcoming s at NYC’s 54 Below:
Kate Baldwin Mar. 13-15. 
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Paulo Szot (Mar. 6 – Apr. 5). here.
The Wizard and I: Liz Callaway Sings Stephen Schwartz (Mar. 18, 20, 21). here.
Jen Colella (Mar. 27-28). here.
Storm Large (Mar. 30-31). here.
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Video: New Faces of 1952 streaming musical, featuring Virginia Bosler, June Carroll, Robert Clary, Allen Conroy, Viginia de Luce, Michael Cominico, Alice Alice Chostley, Ronny Graham, Patricia Hammerlee, Eartha Kitt, Joe Lautner, Carol Lawrence, Paul Lynde, Bill Mullikin, Carol Nelson, Rosemary “Reilly, and Jimmy Russell.
Red Bull Theatre‘s production of Titus Andronicus will run Mar. 17 – Apr. 19 (opening Mar. 19) at the Signature Center, directed by Jesse Berger.
Patrick Page, with McKinley Belcher III, Francesca Faridany, Enid Graham, Jesse Aaronson, Matthew Amendt, Blair Baker, Amy Jo Jackson, Adam Langdon, Anthony Michael Lopez, Anthony Michael Martinez, Howard Overshown, Olivia Reis, and Zack Lopez Roa.
A shockingly timely thriller about the chaos of a corrupt and crumbling empire is brought to new life, taking the stage as one Shakespeare’s boldest and bloodiest tragedies.
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Mandy Gonzalez in Concert will take place Sat. Feb. 28 at 7:30 PM at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage.
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The world premiere of Sara Bareilles, Meg Wolitzer & Sarah ruhl’s The Interestings will begin previews Jan. 31 and open Feb. 7, 2027 at Berkley Rep, directed by Michael Arden.
TBA.
The musical follows six friends who bond over their shared dream of leading creative lives. From their first meeting as teenagers at a summer camp in the 1970s to decades later in New York City, that bond remains, but so much else has changed. Tracing their lives as they grow together and apart, The piece explores friendship, love, envy, class, art, money, and power—and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a life.
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Celebration Theatre ‘s world premiere of Matthew Scott Montgomery Foursome, continues through Mar. 23 at the Atwater Village Theatre, directed by Tom DeTrinis.
Matthew Scott Montgomery (Noah), Adrián Javier (Tahj), Jimin Moon (Felix), and Calvin Seabrooks (Kobe).
This razor-sharp, riotously funny, and fearlessly sexy new play explores queer love and the many forms commitment can take. Four friends gather for a weekend getaway, armed with champagne, secrets, and enough emotional baggage to fill the trunk twice over. As pop anthems echo through the cabin, what begins as a warm, wine-drenched reunion becomes a powder keg of desire, miscommunication, history, unexpected revelations, and more.
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Labyrinth Theatre will present Lucy Thurber’s The Locus, will run Feb. 24-28 at the 59E59 Theaters, directed by Jenna Worsham.
Ngozi Anynwu, Nadira Foster-williams, and Alison Pill.
Two old friends meet once a year. Always the same motel, in the same quaint town. Always the same sweet memories and joyful traditions. Tina and Sarah are closer than sisters, and it’s always good to catch up. Or so it seems. What happens when the language you have no longer keeps the truth at bay and the ghosts away? A play about the stories we tell in order to bear the ones we can’t.
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LA Opera will present Philip Glass’ Akhnaten Feb. 28 – Mar. 22 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by Dalia Stasevska.
John Holiday (Akhnaten), Sun-Ly Pierce (Queen Nefertiti), So Young Park (queen Tye), Zachary James (Amenhotep III), and more.
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Operation Mincemeat, by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts, has announced its all-American cast, beginning Feb. 24 at the Golden Theatre.
Julia Knitel, Keff Kready, Brandon Contreras, Jessi Kirtley, and Amanda Jill Roninson, with Robert Ariza, Allison Guinn, Sam Hartley, Gerianne Pérez and Lexi Rabadi.
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Years to the Day, written & directed by Allen Barton, will run Feb. 20 -22 at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Jess LeBeau and Peter Zizzo.
Dan and Jeff are old friends who meet for coffee four to eight years after their last, in-person post-college get-together. It explores whether their friendship can survive the vast, political, and personal changes of middle age.
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Video: Matt Doyle sings Carole King, Sara Barreilles, and Joni Mitchell at 54 Below.
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MCC Theater‘s Miscast26 will take place Mon. Apr. 27 at 6 PM at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
Roy Furman, Jill Furman, and Jose Useche.
Nicholas Christopher, Darren Criss, Jane Krakowski, Caissie Levy, Lea Michele, ruthie Ann Miles, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Tramell Tillman.
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Matthew Leavitt & Nathan Wang’s Kid Gloves has been extended through Feb. 28 at the Skylight Theatre (link not available), directed by Richard Israel.
Will Collyer (Caleb), Heather Marsden (Meredith), Adam J. Smith (Eddie), Natalie Lander (Darla), Joey Richter (Jackson), Lauren Lorati (Vicki), Harry S. Murphy (Professor Penguinpants), Jonathan Slavin (Edmund the Elephant),Suzy Nakamura (Penelope/), Bonita the Bunny), and Christopher Kerrigan (Juaquin).
This world premiere musical comedy dives into the candy-colored chaos of a reality-TV competition where children’s entertainers compete for the chance to win their own show. Fast-paced, hilarious, and sneakily poignant, Kid Gloves skewers the utter depravity of reality TV and how it can corrupt even the most wholesome element of humanity.