Today’s Highlights:
Lady Patriot, written & directed by Ted Lange, featuring Fred Grandy, Jill Whelan, Josie DiVincenzo, Gordon Goodman, Chrystee Pharris, Derek Powell, and Count Stovall, opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
Eureka Day, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Teddy Bergman, featuring Mia Barron (Suzanne), Cherise Boothe (Carina), Camille Chen (Meiko), Nate Corddry (Eli,) and Rick Holmes (Donn, begins previews at Pasadena Playhouse.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Sept. 7.
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Sanaz Toossi’s English will run Oct. 2 – Nov. 2 at TheatreWorks Hartford, directed by Arya Shahi.
Neagheen Homaifar, Sahar Milani, Afsheen Misaghi, Anahita Monfared, and Pantea Ommi.
“English Only” is the mantra that rules one classroom in Iran, where four adults are preparing for the TOEFL – the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Together with their teacher, they leapfrog through a linguistic playground that is a funny, stunning triumph about the universal foibles of language and miscommunication. English is a powerful exploration of how language shapes identity, belonging, and connection.
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Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles will present Holiday Legends Dec. 13-14 at Beverly Hills’ Saban Theatre.
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Mint Theater Company will present Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross Sept. 20 – Nov. 1 (opening Oct. 9) at Theatre Row, directed by Mr. Bank
Samuel Adams, Liam Craig, Katie Firth, Jack Mastrianni, Gavin Michaels, Ben Millspaugh, Douglas Rees, Ella Stevens, and Jakob Winter.
The story of the Klugers, facing the economic and political challenges of life in a quaint village in the Bavarian mountainside between Christmas 1932 and June 1933. At the heart of the play is a family torn apart by conflicting loyalties. Lexa Kluger is engaged to Moritz Weissmann, a Jewish doctor. Lexa’s brothers, Helmy and Erich, are becoming increasingly involved with the Nazi party. We see the rise of fascism, but we also see the yearning for belonging that drives these young men into the darkness.
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A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, directed by Noelle Marion, will run Sept. 17 – Oct. 5 at Laguna Playhouse.
Michael Cavinder (Inspector Pinckney), Shinah Hey (Miss Barley/Lady/ Eugenia), Jean Kauffman (Miss Shingle) Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper (D’Ysquith Family), Andrew Polec (Monty, Katy Tang (Phoebe D’Ysquith, and Lauren Weinberg (Sibella.
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LA’s Actors Gang has announced its 2025-26 season:
Topsy Turvy (Sept. 18-27)
Arrest the Clowns (Oct. 30 – Nov. 15)
Holiday Show (Dec. 4-20)
More Miracles — 3 One Act Plays (Jan. 22-Feb. 21, 2026
The Adding Machine (Mar. 15-Apr. 8
Fractured Fables (Apr. 25 – May 30)
T he Physicists (May 7 – June 20), by Frederich Currenmatt.
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Hello Dolly will run Oct. 17 – Nov. 2 at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Cheryl Baxter.
Tami Tappan Damiano (Dolly Levi), David Engel (Horace Vandergelder), Robert Pierannunzi (Cornelius Hackl), Anna Mintzer (Irene Molloy), Benjamin Raanan (Barnaby Tucker), Natalie Holt McDonald (Minnie Fay), Domonique Paton (Ermengarde), Landen Starkman (Ambrose Kemper) Jane papageorge (Ernestina), Ricky Bulda (Judge), Janna Cardia (Mrs. Rose), and Roger Castellano (Rudolf), with ryan Cody, Bar Daniel, Sydney DeMaria, Brandon Halvorsen, Camryn Hamm, Corinne Miller, Stefan Miller, Rasha Willes Samaha, Michalis Schinas, Grace Simmons, Helen Tait, Matt Wiley, Andy Wissink, Rachel Beard, Ryan Bohmholdt, Grace Catron, Savanna Cezus, Kacie Dillon, Jameson Hollar, Talia Landau, Drew Larsen, Samantha Lelesi, Charley McCain, and Zachary Veeh.
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Off-Broadway’s York Theatre will present Dorie Clark & Marie Incontrera’s Absolute Zero on Mon. Sept. 29 at 9:30 PM at 54 Below, directed by Ellie Heyman.
Jenn Colella, Florencia Cuenca, Amber Gray, Sarah Hogewood and Cori Jaskier.
Sam Knight, the CIA’s top agent – and a legendary heartbreaker – who’s racing to stop a terrorist plot that has finally reached the impossible: absolute zero, the coldest temperature known to humanity.
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Ted Lange’s Lady Patriot continues through Sept. 20 at Theatre Row, directed by Lange.
Fred Grandy and Jill Whelan, with Josie DiVincenzo, Gordon Goodman, Chrystee Pharris, Derek Powell and Count Stovall.
The inner sanctum of Confederate president Jefferson Davis has been breached. Information is leaking to the enemy. Who is the spy? No one is privy to this information except Jfferson’s advisors, and they are beyon repute. Based on a true story, Lady Patriout. Who is the spy? No one is privy to this information except Jeffersons advisors, and they are beyond repute. Based on a true story, Lady Patriot reveals an intimate look into the prejudices and patriotism of three ladies who lived during the Civil War: Varina Davis, Elizabeth Van Lew, and Mary Bowser. Lady Patriot combines Langes signature comedy and drama as it peels away traditional stereotypes prevalent in the South during the Confederacy.
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LA Opera will present West Side Story Sept. 20-25 at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, directed & choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
Gabriella Reyes (Maria), Duke Kim (Tony), and more.
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5-Star Theatricals will present Hairspray Oct. 10 – 26 at CA’s Thousand Oaks Sherr Forum Theatre, directed by Marissa Jaret Winokur, with choreography by Clarice Ordaz.
TBA.
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Simply Barbra, starring Steven Brinberg, will take place Sept. 16 at 8 PM at NYC’s Hunt and Fish Club (125 W. 44th St.).
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Gingold Theatrical Group‘s Pygmalion will run Oct. 22–Nov. 22 at Theatre Row, directed by David Staller.
TBA.
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Jez Butterworth’s The Hills of California will run Sept. 12 – Oct. 12 at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, directed by Loretta Greco.
Allison Jean white (Veronica), Amanda Kristin Nichols (Gloria), Aimee Doherty (Ruby), Karen Killeen (Jillian), and more TBA.
The play weaves the compelling, tender, and savagely funny tale of the four adult Webb sisters’ homecoming to the seaside guest house where they grew up. As girls, their fierce and ambitious mother Veronica trained them for a singing career à la The Andrews Sisters. Now adults, the sisters must reconsider the choices their mother made, the nostalgic call of youthful harmonies, and the unbreakable bonds of family.
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The world premiere of Reggie D. White’s Fremont Ave. will run Oct. 8 – Nov.23 at DC’s Arena Stage, directed by Lili-Anne Brown.
Doug Brown, Bradley Gibson, Jerrika Hinton, Stanley Andrew Jackson, Kevin Mambo, Wildlin Pierrevil , Jeffrey Rashad, Galen J. Williams, Eli El, and Dominique Gray.
A searing and soulful new dramatic-comedy where three generations of Black men face off against masculinity, identity, and the weight of silence passed down. Shuffling through time with the force of memory and the rhythm of Spades, Fremont Ave. meets young love and big dreams with buried resentment and unmet expectations. Around the card table, George, Robert, and Joseph confront quiet wounds and the weight of unspoken emotional truths. At the heart of it all sits Audrey, the family’s formidable matriarch: beloved, feared, and never forgotten. Served with the sharp wit and laugh-out-loud honesty only a card game could unleash, Fremont Ave. lays all cards on the table and dares audiences to do the same.