Today’s Highlights:
American Ballet Theatre’s Like Water for Chocolate, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, opens at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Hall.
Dark of the Moon, world premiere by Jonathan Prince, Lindy Robbins, Dave Bassett & Steve Robson, directed by James O’Neil, featuring Ava Delaney (Barbara Allen), Jake David Smith (John), Jennifer Leigh Warren (Conjur Woman), Timothy Warmen (Conjur Man), Lesli Margherita (Raven), Juliette Redden (Arwen), Dylan Goike (Devin), Terri Bibb (Gemma Allen), Joseph Fuqua (Thomas Allen), CJ Cruz (Floyd), Anna Demaria (Ella), and Jane Macfie (Patricia Bergen), begins previews at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre.
Abingdon Theater‘s Broadway on the Bowery: The Music of Judy Garland concert, with music direction by Robbie Cowan, featuring Jackie Burns, Kennedy Caughell, Autumn Hurlbert, Shereen Pimentel, Dee Roscioli, Julia Murney, Samantha Pauly, Alysha Umphress, Teal Wicks, Carolina Rial, Sylvana Cecilia Tapia, and Pearls Daily, at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Duane Park (308 Bowery).
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Mar. 26.
Click here for the complete analysis (scroll down).
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A free reading of Roger Q. Mason’s Waiting for a Wake will take place Fri. Apr. 21 at 4 PM at NYC’s Open Jar Studios, directed by Timothy Douglas. 
here.
TBA.
Meet the Brickstones: Quentin dreams of escaping the nest at 30 years old through fashion design. His father Ovid wants to write his memoirs – and make all his family members his secretaries. His mother Divina pines for peace in the house and runs away often to find it. And Jason plays video games in his room to quell the rage he exhibits when things don’t go his way. As we spend one day in their house, once a beacon of social mobility, we see a Black and Filipino family deferred from their American dreams by co-dependence, mental illness and mutual financial abuse. How will they survive their lives without destroying each other completely?
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Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home will run Apr. 28 – May 20 (opening May 4) at Yale Rep, directed by Tamilla Woodard.
Jennean Farmer, Marcus Henderson, Chalia La Tour, and Adrienne S. Wells.
1992. Janice lives with her family in an Ohio suburb – a world away from her childhood in 1960s Kansas, where her activist parents fought to integrate public pools and taught Black children how to swim. When she is asked to return and speak at a ceremony honoring her father, she must decide whether she is ready to reckon with her political inheritance and a past she has tried to forget.
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Steven Brinberg: Simply Barbra Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Yentl will take place Sun. May 14 at 7 PM at NYC’s Chelsea Table & Stage, with music direction by Chris Denny.
George Krissa
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TheLetter Series will run May 30 – June 4 at Irish Rep, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly.
Love Letters (May 30 – June 4), by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, featuring Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti. 
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Dear Liar (Apr. 25-30), by Jerome Kilty, directed by Charlotte Moore, featuring Melissa Errico and David Staller. The play explores the relationship between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, exploring the relationship between these two fiery and fascinating personalities. here.
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42nd Street Moon‘s It’s Our Time gala will take place Thurs. Apr. 13 at 7:30 PM at San Francisco’s Gateway Theatre.
Jason Graae and Faith Prince
Sophia Alawi, Caroline Altman, Doris Bumpus, Ashley Cowl, Renee DeWeese, Noel Anthony Escobar, Alison Ewing, Will Giamona, Cindy Goldfield, Cate Hayman, Ben Jones, Christina Lazo, Edu Gonzalez-Maldonado, Meg Mackay, Maureen McVerry, Nicole Helfer, Nick Nakashima, StephanieRhoads, Marah Sotelo, Gary Stanford, Jr., and Monica Turner.
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Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, written & directed by Richard Hellesen, will run June 13 – July 30 (opening June 20) at Theatre at St. Clements.
John Rubinstein.
A candid and fascinating fictional eavesdropping on President Dwight D. Eisenhower at his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania farm. It is 1962 and New York Magazine has published its first list ranking the American Presidents in order of greatness. Pondering his placement on the list, Eisenhower looks back on his life – his Kansas upbringing, his decorated Army career, his victories in World War II, and his two terms as President – contemplating the qualities and adversities that make an American President great.
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NYC’s Public Theater will present Hamlet June 8 – Aug. 6 (opening June 28) at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, directed by Kenny Leon.
Ato Blankson (Hamlet), Brandon Gill (Guildenstern), Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (Osric/Priest), Greg Hildreth (Gravedigger), Colby Lewis (First Player), Warner Miller (Horatio), Daniel Pearce (Polonius), Solea Pfeiffer (Ophelia), Nick Rehberger (Laertes), John Douglas Thompston (Claudius), Lorraine Toussaint (Gertrude), and Mitchell Winter (Rosencrantz), with Safiya Kaija Harris, Jaylon Jamal, TrÍ Lê, Cornelius McMoyler, Laughton Royce, Lance Alexander Smith, and Lark White. Rounding out the company as understudies will be Liam Craig, Myxolydia Tyler, William Oliver Watkins, and Bryce Michael Wood.
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Lincoln Center‘s Next@LCT3 has been announced, with programming to include new music, solo evenings, works in progress and other exciting musical performances that will push boundaries, inspire, and entertain. All events will take place at Clare Tow Theater.
Michael R. Jackson (Apr. 26-30) 
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Melissa Li and Kit Yan (May 3-7) here.
The Bengsons (May 9-14) here.
John Gallagher, Jr. (May 17-21). here.
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Burbank’s Colony Theatre will bring back its 2018 production of Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett & Wendy Kesselman’s The Diary of Anne Frank, which will run Apr. 28 – May 1, directed by Stan Zimmerman.
(predominately LatinX), Genesis Ochoa (Anne Frank), Emiliano Torres (Otto Frank), Aris Alvarado, Rebecca Asquino, Gladys Bautista, Mariangelica Cuervo, Charlie Farrell, David Gurrola, Danny Pardo, and Raquenel.
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Jerome Kilty & George Bernard Shaw’s Dear Liar will run Apr. 25-30 at Irish Rep, directed by Charlotte Moore.
Melissa Erico and David Staller.
The play explores the relationship between two fiery and fascinating personalities. In scenes of both lovemaking and furious confrontation, they verbally duel with each other, all the while making passionate love through their gorgeously exorbitant exchanges.
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Back to the Future U.S. tour, by Bob Gale, Alan Silvestri & Glen Ballard,, will launch in Summer 2024, directed by Jon Rando, with choreography by Chris Bailey, and music supervision by Nick Finlow.
Casting, tour schedule and additional in formation TBA.
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Stew & Heidi Rodewald’s Passing Strange will run Apr. 25 – June 18 at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Raymond O. Caldwell, with music direction by Marika Countouris, and choreography by Tiffany Quinn.
Isaac “Deacon Izzy” Bell (Narrator), Imani Branch (sherry/Renata/Desi), Deimoni Brewington (Youth), Alex De Bard (Edwina/Marianna/Sudabey), Michael J. Mainwaring (Hugo/Christopher/Terry), Kara-Tameika Watkins (Mother), and Tobias A. Young (Mrs. Franklin/Joop/Mr. Venus), with Jordan Essex, Kalen Robinson and Tyrell Stanley.
A young man discovers his musical calling and sets off for Europe, leaving behind his mother and comfortable suburban life. In his rebellion filled with sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, he yearns for something in life that he thinks can only be found in art.
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Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre has announced its Icons Gala 23, to take place Fri. Sept. 8 at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago. Performers and additional information TBA.
The gala will also include the presentation of the 2023 Icon Award to Ben Vereen.
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L.A. Theatreworks will present live audio performances of The Confession of Henry Jekyll, M.D., Apr. 14-16 at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre. adapted by David Rambo, and directed by Anna Lyse Erikson.
Casting TBA.
On the last night of his life, Henry Jekyll records the harrowing story of his years-long struggle to maintain his high-profile, esteemed reputation as a physician and philanthropist while secretly attempting to suppress a voracious beast he had long felt lurking within.