Today’s Highlights:
Operation Mincemeat, by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts, directed by Robert Hastie, featuring an all-American cast: Julia Knitel, Keff Kready, Brandon Contreras, Jessi Kirtley, and Amanda Jill Roninson, with Robert Ariza, Allison Guinn, Sam Hartley, Gerianne Pérez and Lexi Rabad, begin their runs at Broadway’s Golden Theatre.
Labyrinth Theatre‘s The Locus, by Lucy Thurber, directed by Jenna Worsham, featuring Ngozi Anynwu, Nadira Foster-williams, and Alison Pill, opens at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theatres.
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My Uterus: A Womb with a View, written & performed by Dina Morrone, will run Mar. 21 (at 8 ) PM & Mar. 22 (at 2 PM) at Theatre West.
The pice digs deep into Morrone’s pelvic cavity to explore what the Uterus really is, what it means to own one, and to probe and examine how and why it continues to get screwed over, again and again, by those who have no business being in there.
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Maltby & Shire’s new revue, About Time, will begin preview Feb. 27 and open Mar. 8 at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, directed by Maltby, with choreography and musical staging by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius de Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, and Lynne Wintersteller with Ethan Paulini and Nicole Powell.
The new show completes a trilogy that the authors didn’t know they were writing, that has quietly helped shape contemporary musical theater.
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MYC’s Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2026–27 Season:
Click the link above for the complete season.
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“The Wizard and I: Liz Callaway Sings Stephen Schwartz” will be available Mar. 20 digitally on all platforms as well as on Amazon.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor will run Apr. 2 – May 3 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Phillip Breen.
Ora Jones (Mistress Page), Issy van Randwyck (Mistress Ford), Chiké Johnson Master Page, Edward Kane (Master Ford), and Jason Simon (Sir John Falstaff), with Sam Bell-Gurwitz, Zach Bloomfield, Nate Burger, Rohan Degala, Dylan J. Fleming, Teddy Gales, Colin Huerta, Carmelo Kelly, James McCracken, Olivia Pryor, Nick Sandys, Justice Tatum, Paul Oakley Stovall, Olemich Tugas, Bret Tuomi, Nancy Voigts, and Alex Weisman.
The secret lives of Windsor wives reveal there is much more to this charming, middle-class English hamlet than meets the eye. Besties Mistress Page and Mistress Ford find themselves the romantic targets of the lewd-but-lovable rogue John Falstaff. In a welcome escape from the drudgery of their day-to-day, they band together to have the last laugh—and get the entire town in on the revelry.
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Red Bull Theatre will present a reading of Thomas Dekker & Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl on Mon. Mar. 23 at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd St.), directed by Melia Bensussen.
Ra’Mya Latiah Aikens, b, Jason Bowen, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Andy Paris, Cara Ricketts, Nick Saxton, and more TBA.
Moll Cutpurse — the notorious roaring girl who plays fast and loose with the law, dresses in men’s clothes, and answers insults by drawing her sword in taverns—is herself drawn into a scheme to trick a corrupt magistrate into letting his son marry the woman he loves by pretending he means to marry the infamous Moll. But this time, her part in the plot may well put her head into a noose. Can she protect her freedom and her life while also helping her friends… and even find her own unexpected love? The citizens of 17th century London trick, seduce, and hilariously unmask each other in this true-life tale of an iconoclastic free spirit.
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CT’s Good Speed Musicals has announced its 2026 season. Casting and creative teams TBA.
Jesus Christ Superstar (Apr. 17 – June 7).
Crazy For You (June 19 – Aug. 9), directed by Mochael Fling.
The Snow Goose (Aug. 28 – Oct. 18), world premiere, developed through the GoodWorks program, by Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie, directed by Marshall Pailet.
Annie (Oct.3 – Dec. 27), the 50th anniversary production, directed by Jenn Thompson.
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LA Opera‘s Akhnaten, by Philip Glass, continues through Mar. 22 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by Phelim McDermott.
John Holiday (Akhnaten), Sun-Ly Pierce (Nefertiti), So Young Park (Queen Tye), Zachary James (Amenhotep III), Vinícius Costa (Aye), Yuntong Han (High Priest of Amon), Hyungin Son (Beneral Horemahab), and the Six Daughters of Akhnaten, played by Emily Damasco, Katie Trigg, Abi Levis, Julia Maria Johnson, Erin Alford, and Kristen Choi.
Akhnaten is not simply an opera about Ancient Egypt —i t is a ritual reawakening of a king and a belief system that died with him. Through sound, language, and ceremony, the work resurrects a pivotal moment in history, drawing directly from texts carved in stone and written on papyrus more than three thousand years ago.
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The Santa Monica International Jazz Festival will run May 1-9 at various locations.
Click here for details, schedule, and more…
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LA Opera has announced its 2026-27 season at various LA locations.
Hercules vs Vanpires (Oct. 30-31)
Carmen (Oct. 17 – Nov. 7)
Candide (Nov. 21 – Dec. 13)
Nabucco (Feb 27, 2027 – Mar 21)
Turandot (Apr. 17 – May 9)
Hercules Vampires (May 20-23)
The Marriage of Figaro (May 29 – June 20)
The Old Man and the Sea (May 20-23)
Jamie Barton (Nov. 15)
Erin Morley & Lawrence & Lawrence Brownlee (Apr. 22)
Sondra Radvanovsky (May 8)
Les Talens Slyriques (Mar. 2)
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Duels Volume 2: The Genre Game will take place Mon. Mar. 9 at 9:30 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Joshua Turchin & Julia Schade.
Way too many to post here, but click on the link above to for the complete roster of talent.
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Meghan Kennedy’s The Counter has been extended through Mar. 22 at TheaterWorks Hartford, directed by Rob Rucgiero.
Justis Bolding, Tim DeKay, and Erika Erika Rolfsrud.
Every morning at a small upstate New York diner, a single cup of coffee becomes a ritual that connects a lonely waitress and her sleep-deprived regular. What begins as casual conversation slowly deepens into an unexpected friendship. When he asks her for a shocking favor, long-buried secrets come to the surface, changing them both in unexpected ways.
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My Uterus: A Womb with a View, written & performed by Dina Morrone, will take place Mar. 21 (8 PM) and Mar. 22 (2PM), at LA’s Theatre West, directed by Peter Flood.
Dina digs deep into her pelvic cavity to explore what the Uterus really is, what it means to own one, and to probe and examine how and why it continues to get screwed over, again and again, by those who have no business being in there.