Have a glorious holiday. GRACE NOTES will return Monday, Dec. 1.
Holiday Highlights:
Wednesday, Nov. 26
Seriously Sondheim: An Evening With Beth Leavel, concert, with music direction by Phil Reno closes at NYC’s 54 Below.
Thursday, Nov. 27
Relax … let go … let fly…
Friday, Nov. 28
The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by by Melissa Rain Anderson, featuring Kristen Hahn (Cecily Cardew), Anthony Michael Martinez (Algernon Moncrieff), Jan Neuberger (Miss Prism), Michael Raver (Jack Worthing), Triney Sandoval (Rev. Canan Chasuble), Mark Silence (Merriman /Lane ), and Katy Tang (Gwendolyn Fairfax), opens at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse.
Tartuffe, newly adapted by Lucas Hnath, directed by Raja Feather Kelly, featuring Matthew Broderick (Tartuffe), David Cross ( Orgon), Emily Davis (Mariane), Bianca del Rio (Mme Pernelle), Amber Gray (Elmire), Ryan Haddad (Damis), Francis Jue (Cleante), Lisa Kron (Dorine, and Ike Ufomadu ( Valére), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Off-Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop.
Marilyn Maye in concert closes at NYC’s 54 Below.
Saturday, Nov. 29
Relax … let go … let fly…
Sunday, Nov. 30
Kyoto, by Joe Murphy, directed by Stephen Daldry & Justin Martin, featuring Stephen Kunken (Don Pearlman), Jorge Bosch (Raul Estrada-Oyuela, Peter Bradbury a(Fred Singer), Kate Burton a(USA), Feodor Chin China),Erin Darke(Germany), Natalie Gold (Shirley), Daniel Jenkins (Gore/Bolin/Santer/Observerer), Dariush Kashani (Saudi Arabia), Rob Narita (Japan,), Imani Jade Powers as ‘(Secretariat), Ferdy Roberts (‘U.K./Prescott/Houghton), Roslyn Ruff (Tanzania), and Taiana Tully ( ‘Kiribati), with Odera Adimorah, Zoe Cipres, Luis Carlos de La Lombana, and Paul Juhn, closes at Off-Broadway’s Lincoln Center Theatre.
Romy & Michele Musical, by Robin Schiff, Gwendolyn Sanford & Brandon Jay, directed by Kristin Hanggi, featuring Laura Bell Bundy and Kara Lindsay, with Jordan Kai Burnett, DeMarius R. Copes , Ninako Donville, Erica Dorfler,Michael Thomas Grant, Shaun Jackson, Pascal Pastrana, Lauren Zakrin, Hannah Florence and Cameron Sirian, closes at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42.
Messy White Gays, by Drew Droege, directed by Mike Donahue, featuring Drew Droege, James Cusati-Moyer, Aaron, Jackson, Zane Phillips, and Pete Zias, closes at Off-Broadway’s Duke on 42nd Street.
Queens, by Martyna Majok, directed by Trip Cullman, featuring Brooke Bloom, Anna Chlumsky, Sharlene Cruz, Marin Ireland, Julia Lester, Nadine Malouf, Andrea Syglowski, Nicole Villamil, closes at Off-Broadway’s New York City Center.
Amas Musical Theatre‘s Dare To Be Different festival, closes at Off- Broadway’s A.R.T. New York Theatre (502 W. 53rd St).
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, directed by Stephen Hamilton, featuring John Kroft (Buy Montag), J. Stephen Brantly (Captain Beatty ), Daniela Mastropietro (Mildred Montag), Anna Francesca Schiavoni (Clarisse McCellan), Bonnie Comeley (Good Morning Show Host), Matthew Conlon (Faber), Nicole Marie Hunt (Mrs. Hudson), Stewart F. Lane (Family Theater Show Attorney), and Dan Pavacic (Fireman Black), closes at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.
Passion, directed by James Esposito, featuring David Callander, Renee Cohen, Mary Delan, Lisa Dyson, Nora Elkind, Gavin Michael Harris, Paul Luoma,Tyler Marshall, Lia Peros, Richard Rosales, Lyla Ross, John Sala, Chris Spangler, Jack Stuhley, and Elias Wygodny, closes at LA’s Zephyr Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Nov. 23.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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The Los Angeles Master Corale’s English Cathedral Christmas Corale will take place Sat. Dec. 13 at 7:30 PM at LA’s Broad Stage.
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All The Devils Are Here, created & performed by Patrick Page, will run Jan. 15 – 25 at LA’s Broad Stage, directed by Simon Godwin.
Dubbed “The villain of Broadway”, Patrick Page has never shied away from exploring his dark side. Now, with this tour de force show, he turns his attention to the twisted motivation and hidden humanity at the heart of Shakespeare’s greatest villains. Moving swiftly through the Shakespeare canon, Page illuminates the playwright’s ever-evolving conception of evil by delving into more than a dozen of his most wicked creations. Thrilling, biting, hilarious, and enlightening, what Page delivers is a masterclass on the most terrifying subject of them all: human nature.
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The Story of Sal. B. and Barbranne: A Mob Fantasia (Cyrano Redux) written & directed by Stephan Morrow, will run Dec. 18 – Jan. 4 at Theater for the New City.
Tsahai Gilchrist, George Lugo, Joe Marshall, Mark Evan Melendez, Donata O’Neill, Aidan Peluso, Roy Rohrsetzer, and Vaibhav Taparia.
Cyrano meets the underworld of the future: poetry, passion, and peril in the crosshairs of crime and war. We meet Sal B., a resourceful mob consigliere and horribly scarred veteran of Special Forces. He must orchestrate the heroic deeds of the impulsive and narcissistic Paul Jr., whose attempts at romance and military glory repeatedly put him–and those around him–at risk. Jr. courts a brave, irresistible, kidnapped journalist named Barbranne (also known as “B”) with poetic, often ridiculous, declarations of love while Sal, unseen, guides him. Tasked with protecting the journalist, Sal faces jihadists, international intrigue, and his own messianic impulses, all while orchestrating moments of poetry and unlikely love.
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Stereophonic, by David Adjmi, will run Dec. 9-26 (opening Dec. 10) at the Pantages Theatre, directed by Daniel Aukin.
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.
The most Tony Award-winning Show of the year. The most Tony Award-nominated Play of all time. Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup — or their breakthrough.
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Jane Lynch: A Swing’n Little Christmas concert, will take place Wed. Dec. 17 at 7:30 PM at LA’s Broad Stage.
Kate Flannery, Tim Davis, and the Tony Guerrero Quintet.
August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone will run Mar. 30 – July 12, 2026 (opening Apr. 25) at the Barrymore Theatre, directed by Debbie Allen.
Taraji P. Henson, Cedric “The Entertainer,” Joshua Boone, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Savannah Commodore, Dominique Skye Turner, Zonia Loomis; Bradley Stryker, Tripp Taylor, Christopher Woodley, Jackson Edward Davis, Jasmine Batchelor, Rosalyn Coleman, Thomas Michael Hammond, Cayden McCoy, and Kevyn Morrow, with more TBA.
Set in 1911, the play unfolds in a Pittsburgh boarding house run by the steadfast Seth and warm-hearted Bertha Holly. Their home offers refuge to Black travelers navigating the upheaval of the Great Migration. Among them is Herald Loomis, a man on a quest to reunite with his lost wife—and to reclaim the self he was forced to abandon during seven years of forced labor under Joe Turner. As buried traumas surface and spiritual forces awaken, Loomis’s journey becomes one of profound self-discovery. Around him, others seek connection, direction, and healing from a past marked by pain. Through poetic dialogue and vivid, deeply human characters, Wilson crafts a powerful meditation on identity, resilience, and renewal.
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Mandy Gonzalez in Concert will take place Feb. 28 at 7:30 PM at LA’s Broad Stage.