• GRACE NOTES: Thursday, March 5, 2026

     

    Today’s Highlights:

     

      Dust of Egypt: The Story of Sojourner Truth, by Karin Abarbanel, directed by Rhonda Passion Hansome, featuring Desi Waters (Sojourner Truth), with Jade Cayne, Eliott Johnson, Eric Ruffin, Jeanna Schweppe, Mark McCullough Thomas, and Nicholas Louis Turturro, opens at Off-Broadway’s Sheen Center.

     

      What We Did Before Our Moth Days, by Wallace Shawn, directed by André Gregory, featuring Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early, and Josh Hamilton, opens at Off-Broadway’s Greenwich House.

     

      Inherit the Wind, directed by Ryan Guzzo Purcell, featuring Alex De Bard, Billy Eugene Jones, Rebecca Madeira, Ethan Miller, Natalya Lynette Rathnam, Todd Scofield, Holly Twyford, and James Whalen. with Jordan Friend, Alyssa Keegan, Alina Collins Maldonado, Dakin Matthews, Noah Plomgren, and Tristan Turner, opens at DC’s Arena Stage.

     

      Quincy’s Jones’ Quincy’s World: The New Founding Father of American Music concert opens at Beverly Hills’ Wallis Center.

     

      The Adding Machine, by Elmer Rice, directed by Cihan Sahin, featuring Daphne Rubin-Vega (Mr. Zero), Jennifer Tilly (Mrs. Zero), Sarita Choudhury (Daisy), and Michael Cyril Creighton, opens at LA’s Actors Gang Theatre.

     

      The Women’s Media Center’s 21st Anniversary Women’s Media Awards celebration, honoring Chandra Childers, Julie F. Kay, Barbara Kopple, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Paola Ramos, Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, and Margot Wallström, at (start time not reported) at NYC’s Tribeca Rooftop.  Link for event.

     

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      Reviews for Big Foot: A New Musical at Off-Broadway’s NYC Center:

     

    Click here for all the reviews …. then scroll down.

     

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       “Bell Tower: Georgia Stitt” album will be released Fri. Mar. 6.  Buy or stream the album anywhere you listen to music, or click here.

     

      Kate Baldwin, Sierra Boggess, Titus Burgess, Nikki Renée Daniels, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Marc Kudisch, Ruthie Ann Miles, Kelli O’Hara, Hila Plitmann, and Rebeca Luker.

     

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       Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theatre will present it’s annual Running of the Bulls  event on Mon. June 1 at NYC’s Bowery Hotel, hosted by Santino Fontana.

     

      John Lithgow and Joanna Cole.

     

      Norbert Leo Butz and Nikki Renee Daniels.

     

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      VideoRobin de Jesús sings “Miracle Song” from Night Side Songs at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater.

     

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      An Evening with Charles Busch, a live interview with Michael Portantiere, will take place Tues. Mar. 31 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman theatre.

     

      A live interview by theater journalist Michael Portantiere. The evening will include video clips from some of Charles’ most famous work, plus live performances of a song or two (with Jono Mainelli at the piano), as well as a Q&A session with the audience at the end of the evening.

     

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       A screening of National Live Theatre’s The Audience, by Peter Morgan, and directed by Peter Daldry, will take place Sat. Mar. 14 at 3 PM at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre.     here.

     

      Imelda Staunton and her real-life daughter Bessie Carter.

     

      Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost?

     

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      The world premiere of Tom Jacobson’s Hell Mouth will run Apr. 14 – May 24 (opening Apr. 17) at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.

     

      Tomy Abatemarco (Russell/Spencer), Taylor Hilbert (Lois/Samara), and Danny Lee Gomez (Tim).

     

      Torn between his Oklahoma parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown
    Caravaggio hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history
    discovery of the century.  Heretical theology, miraculous hair growth, microscopic art theft
    and a visit to the Valley of Hell.  Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women
    List.

     

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      “BarbaraStreisand: Timeless concert” a live concert, will Air Mon. Mar. 2 at 7 PM on PBS.  The concert was concert filmed on New Year’s Eve in 1999 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

     

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       A new principal cast of Hadestown has begun its run at the Walter Kerr Theatre Theatre,

     

    New Cast:   Joshua Colley (Orpheus), Gary Dourdan (Hades), J. Harriosn Ghee (Hermes), Gaby Moreno (Pershepone, and Jordan Tyson (Eurydice).

     

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      Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theatre will present The Running of the Bulls Gala Benefit on Mon. June 1 at  NYC’s Bowery Hotel, directed by TBA., and hosted by Santino Fontana.

     

      John Lithgow and Joanna Cole.

     

      Norbert Leo Butz and Nikki Renée Daniels

     

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       The Festival will run Aug. 14-16 at NYC’s Kingston’ historic Hutton Brickyards.

     

     Reeve Carney, Alex Newell, JJ Niemann, and five new members of the  Rent original Broadway company including Rodney Hicks, Kristen Lee Kelly, Timothy Britten Parker, Byron Utley and Fredi Walker-Brown, with more TBA.

     

      The first-of-its-kind three-day outdoor celebration of Broadway’s greatest hits and brightest stars.

     

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       Jay Presson Allen’s True,  currently in previews (opening Mar. 19), has been extended through May 3 at NYC’s House of the Redeemer, directed by Rob Ashford.

       Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Truman Capote)  and Charlotte d’Amboise

     

     It’s December 1975 and Truman Capote is alone in his New York apartment, reeling from a crisis that cost him the elite social circle he adored. Drawn entirely from Capote’s own words, this funny and heartbreaking one-man play is an unflinching portrait of an artist at his breaking point, confronting the consequences of his most scandalous work.

     

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       Finding Dorothy Parker returns March 7–8 and April 14–16 at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre.

     

      Veanne Cox, Jackie Hofflman, Ann Harada & Anika Larsen.

     

      It’s December 1975 and Truman Capote is alone in his New York apartment, reeling from a crisis that cost him the elite social circle he adored. Drawn entirely from Capote’s own words, this funny and heartbreaking one-man play is an unflinching portrait of an artist at his breaking point, confronting the consequences of his most scandalous work. Performed in House of the Redeemer’s hyper-intimate Library, this strictly limited engagement offers a rare, immersive theatrical experience brought vividly to life by one of today’s most celebrated actors for an audience of only 99 patrons nightly.