Today’s Highlights:
Commonwealth Shakespeare Productions’ FREE presentation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Steven Maler, featuring Michael Broadhurst (Flute), Annika Burley (Helena), Meghan Carey (Hermia), Nick Cearley (Puck/Philostrate), Nora Eschenheimer (Hippolyta/Titania), De’Lon Grant (Theseus/Oberon), Jack Greenberg ( Demetrius), Jaime José Hernández (Lysander), Karen MacDonald (Quince), Paul Melendy (Bottom), Brooks Reeves (Egeus/Starveling), Patrick Curran (Snout), Nicolas Bolton (Mustardseed), Evan Danyliw (Moth), Bella Grace Harris (Fairy), Alex Leondedis (Snug), Dani Grace Nissen (Peaseblossom), and Alexandra White (Cobweb), opens at the Boston Commons.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending July 19.
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Noises Off, by Michael Frayn, will run Aug. 20 – Sept. 6 at MA’s Barrington Stage Company, directed by Gordon Greenberg.
Erin Davie (Belinda Blair), Abby Leigh Huffstetler ( Poppy Norton-Taylor), Nehal Joshi (Garry Lejeune), Leslie Margherita (Dottie Otley), Orville Mendoza (Selsden Mowgray), James Josephe O’Neil (Frederick Fellowes), Geoff Packard (Lloyd Dallas), Jennifer Sánzhez (Brook Ashton), and Evan Alexander Smith (Tim Allgood).
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, by Jocelyn Bioh, swill run Sept. 8 – Nov. 1 (opening Sept. 28) at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed by Whitney White.
Jasmine Amy Rogers (Ericka), Denée Benton (Paulina), Patina Miller (Eloise Amponsah), Erin Morton (Nana), Nia Otchere-Sarfo (Gifty), Jordan Rice (Mercy), Heather Alicia Simms (Headmistress Francis), and Lucia Aremu (Ama).
Becoming Miss Ghana 1986 would mean fame, fortune, and prosperity. At least, that’s what Paulina—the queen bee of Aburi Girls Boarding School—believes. When the pageant recruiter comes to school, Paulina and her crew pull out all the stops. But to their surprise, a new transfer student from America kicks the competition into a higher, far more personal gear.
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Zach Braff’s All New People will run Aug. 15-23 at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage, directed by Paul Glaser.
TBA.
A dark comedy play about a heartbroken man who makes a retreat to a desolate New Jersey beach house in winter to end his life, only to have his plans interrupted by a series of eccentric strangers including a British real estate agent, a fireman, and a high-priced escort, who force him to confront his loneliness and find unexpected connection.
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A Walk on the Moon, by Pamela Gray & Ann Marie Milazzo, directed by Sheryl Kaller, continues through Aug. 22 at Off-Broadway’s Laura Pels Theatre.
Talia Suskauer (Pearl Kantrowitz), Max Chernin (Marty Kantrowitz), Sam Gravitte (Walker), and Andréa Burns (Lillian).
Pearl married and became pregnant in her teens. Yearning for a life and identity beyond being just a devoted wife and mother, she is caught in a profound personal and emotional upheaval.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues through July 26 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Larry Raben.
Daebrreon Poiema (Narrator), Brian Justing Crum (Joseph), Thomas Hobson (Pharoah/Jacob), Harrison White (Potiphar), Jeffrey Laughrun (Reuben), Adam Lendermon (Simeon), Perry Marks (Levi), Neil Starkenberg (Dan), Jean Charles (Napthtali), Zane Camacho (Gad), Teronn S. Shrikian (Asher), Brody Tarrant Zebulun (Zeulun), Jerdan Cruz (Benjamin), and Ali Vesey (Mrs. Potiphar), with Johnisa Breault, Alexandra Skylar Kunin, and Sabrina Ryan.
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Shakespeare in the Park’s Winter’s Tale, directed by Daniel Sullivan, will run July 25 – Aug. 1 at at Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre.
Teagle F. Bougere (Camillo), Chuck Cooper (Old Shepherd), Matthew Eby ( (Mamillius/Time), Raúl Esparza (Leontes), Isabela Ferrer (Perdita), Katie Griffith (Mopsa), Alex Hernandez (Cleomenes), Michael Khalid Karadsheh (Young Shepherd), Daniel Kyri (Florizel), Aubie Merrylees (Archidamus), Jennifer Mogbock (Emilia), Gilbert Owuor (Polixenes), Lily Rabe (Hermione), Matthew Russell (Dion), Steven Skybell and (Antigonus/Autolycus), with Heschel Bay Peter Douskalis, Denise Kolodja, Violeta Picayo, Bianca Rogoff, Michael Thanh Tran, and Jackson Whitman.
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Dear Evan Hanson will run Aug. 4-29 at Sag Harbors’ Bay Street Theatre, directed by Scott Schwartz.
Kenny Lee (Evan Hansen), Maya Days (Heidi Hansen), Olivia Foght (Zoe Murphy), Erik Houck (Connor Murphy), Heather Ayers (Cynthia Murphy), Gil Brady (Larry Murphy), and Josh Hoyt (Jared Kleinman), with Mackenzie Germain, Payton Thomas, Joseph Tore, Laura Elizabeth Flanagan, Mackenzie Germain, Payton Thomas, and Joseph Tortello.
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Acceptance, by Martin Fogarty will begin Aug. 5, at LA’s Open Door Playhouse, directed by Mimi Kmet.
Noelle Evangelisti (Julie), David Mingrino (David), and Ernest McDaniel (Robert).
While lying in his hospital bed, David reaches out to his estranged daughter Julie and her husband Robert and requests a visit to clear the air and apologize for all the cruel things he said and did in the past. Can she accept him as her father?
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Grease will run aut. 6-16 at CA’s Mountain View Mausoleum (2300 Marengo Ave., in Altadena), directed by Oliver Azcarate. Click here for info & tix.
Ruby Lewis, Bryce Ryness, Eric Stanton Betts, Cheyenne Wells, Monica Azcarate, Lauren Barette, Kir Beaux, Eugene Boyd, James Byous, Tara Carbone, Rio Colino,Romy Evans, Jake Ewan, Jalen Friday, Kasey Hentz, Brennan Hilger, Harmony Jones, Nancy Landis, Justin Anthony Long, Chelsea Maker, Robert Manion, and Scarlett Sheppard.
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The cast recording of Jeffrey Scharf & Jimmy Calire’s Reunions is now available here.
Bryan Fenkart, Joanna Glushak, Chilina Kennedy, Courtney Reed, Daniel Torres , and Chip Zien, with Janet Aldrich, Keith Lee Grant, and Pearl Rhein.
A musical adaptation of two famous one-act plays with a common theme: What happens when you rediscover the life you almost lived? The musical is divided into two acts with each act a different story.