Today’s Highlights:
Relax … let go … let fly…
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending May 24.
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Crazy for You will run June 19 – Au9. at CT’s Goodspeed, directed by Michal Fling.
Will Burton (Bobby Child), Brittany Zeinstra (Ppolly Baker), Edward Juvier (Bela Zangler), Hailey Thomas (Irene Roth), Jeremy Davis (Everett Baker), David Andrew Morton (Lank Hawkins), and Michele Ragusa IMother/Pariciam, with Claire Avakian, Willie Clyde Beaton II, Colin Bradbury, Courtney Brady, Kailee Regan Brandt, Katie Scarlett Brunson, Samuel Colina, Bradley Gibbins-Klein, Kelly Gleason, Taylor Lane, Brian Shimasaki Liebson, Griffin Wilkinsm Lexi Baldachino, and Brandon J. Morris.
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LA Opera will present The Magic Flute May 30 – June 21 at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by James Conlon.
Sydney Mancasola (Pamina), Miles Mykkanen Tamino), Kyle Miller (Papageno), Aigul Khismatullina (Queen of the Night), Kwangchul Youn (Sarastro), Kyle Miller), Aigul Khismatullina (Queen of the Night), and Kwangchul (Sarastro).
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Burn Scar, written & performed by Christine Dunford, will run June 4 – 13 – 20 at Theatre of Note
A comedy of catastrophic proportions. On the morning of Jan, 7, 2025, a veteran actress grabbed her dogs, her medications, and her nerve, and drove three hours through gridlocked LA traffic to escape the largest wildfire in the city’s history. What followed — a dizzying rotation of AirBnBs, soul-crushing insurance battles, and one transformative encounter — became this solo show. “Burn scar” is the geological term for earth scorched by wildfire — hardened, brittle, impenetrable. It is also a precise metaphor for what happens to people navigating the aftermath of catastrophe in an era of systemic cruelty.
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Celebrity Autobiography continues through Sept. 6 at the Shubert Theatre.
Scott Adsit, Mario Cantone, Jeff Hiller, Jackie Hoffman, Christopher Jackson, Gayle King, Ben Mankiewicz, Andrea Martin, Bobby Moynihan, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Kenan Thompson, Nia Vardalos, and Rita Wilson … with weekly guests.
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Something Rotten, directed by Ilana Toeplitz Ranson, continues through June 7 at Lyric Stage Boston.
Ohad Ashkenazi, Jonah Barricklo, Temma Beaudreau, Joy Clark, Lauren Dodds, Kristian Espiritu, Danny Hernandez, Elliana Karris, Kenneth Kelleher. Ryan Mardesich, Bryan Miner, Jennifer Preston, Indijhan Richard, Bobbie Steinbach, Jared Troilo, and Colin Welter.
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A free reading of Hamish Linklater’s Mrs. Alving & The Captain, Los Feliz will take place Thurs. June 11 at 7:30 PM at LA’s Echo Theater Company (link TBA), directed by Stephen Laughton.
Sami Cavestani, Hamish Linklater, Deborah Puette, and Steven Strobel.
Have you ever woken up to find yourself married with kids and living on the “cool” side of L.A., only to sense that you might be living out the origin story of an Ibsen play? When an East Side dad shares his location with a stranger, he unlocks his true potential, sells a blockbuster opus, and blows up the neighborhood in this lean-out-your-window-and-
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Every Brilliant Thing, by Duncan Macmillan & Jonny Donahoe, will run June 3-21 at Santa Barbara’s New Vic, directed by Jenny Sullivan.
Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper
What makes life worth living? A child starts a list of every brilliant thing in the world, hoping to help their mother through depression. As the list grows—ice cream, the color yellow, the sound of laughter—the audience is invited on a heartwarming, interactive journey through life’s highs and lows, discovering joy in the simplest things.
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Emmet Cahill: From Dublin to Broadway will take place Tues. June 23 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below.
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North by Northwest, adapted & directed by Emma Rice, will run Jan. 21 – Feb. 7, 2027 (opening Jan. 22) at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.
TBA.
A New York advertising executive who is accidentally mistaken for a government spy He is hurled into a wild cross-country chase dodging foreign agents, falling for a mysterious femme fatale, and desperately trying to clear his name.
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Cats: The jellicle Ball has been extended through Sept. 6 at the Broadhurst Theatre, directed by Zhailon Levingston & Bill Rauch.
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The world premiere of Monkeys on my Back & Everywhere Else, written & performed by Debbie Kasper, will run Mar. 7 – Apr. 12 at the Odyssey Theatre, directed by Chris Barnes.
A raw, deeply moving, and hilarious one-woman show created and performed by two-time Emmy-nominated writer and comedian Debbie Kasper. The autobiographical production takes audiences on a wild laught-out-loud ride through her life as she battles addiction, navigates the cuttthroat wrold of Hollywood, and learns to heal her inner deamons.
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North by Northwest, adapted & directed by Emma Rice, will run Jan. 21 – Feb. 7, 2027 (opening Jan. 22) at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.
TBA.
A New York advertising executive who is accidentally mistaken for a government spy He is hurled into a wild cross-country chase dodging foreign agents, falling for a mysterious femme fatale, and desperately trying to clear his name.
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Dirty Dancing will run Oc. 26 , 2026 – Mar. 21, 2027 at the Capital Theatre, directed by Federico Bellone.
Casting TBA.
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Nicole Scherzinger from Royal Albert Hall will continue streaming through June 30.
Click here to stream the concert.
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What Became of Us, by Shayan Lotfi, will run June 16 – July 26 at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Ethan Heard.
Alma Cuervo (Q), Michael DeLorenzo (ZZ), Jo Yang (Q), and Stan Kang (Z).
A sister and brother, the elder born in The Old Country and the younger born in This Country, share both big and small moments and memories from childhood through teenage rebellion, career successes, parenthood, and growing old. Their disparate perspectives lead to both fractures and forgiveness as they witness each other’s stories.