Today’s Highlights:
Relax, let go, let fly...
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Pippin will run May 12 – July 16 at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Matthew Gardiner.
Brayden Bambino (Pippin) and Cedric Neal (Leading Player), Awa Sal Secka (Catherine), Maria Rizzo (Fastrada), Eric Hissom (Charles), Naomi Jacobson (Berthe), Ryan Sellers (Lewis), and Ellison Bihm (Theo), with Ben Bogen, Calvin L’mont Cooper, Candice Hatakeyama, Georgia Monroe, Alanna Sibrián, Jacob Taylor Starks, Emily Steinhardt, Hank von Kolnitz, Dylan Arredondo, Alonso Nicolas Waller, Liz Webe Veronica Quezada, and Ian Rubin.
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NYC’s Public Theater has announced its annual Free Shakespeare season at NYC’s Central Park.
Romeo & Juliet (May 22 – June 28), directed by Saheem Ali, featuring Daniel Bravo Hernández (Romeo), Ra’Maya Latiah Aikens (Juliet), LaChanze (Lady Capulet), Deirdre O’Connell (Nurse), Caleb Joshua Eberhard (Mercutio), Okieriete Onaodowan (Benvolio), Francis Jue (Friar Laurence), Ariyan Kassam (Tybalt), Jessica Pimentel (Escalus), Mariand Torres (Lady Montague), Rachel Crowl (Apothecary), and Sergio Mauritz Ang (Friar John), with Marlon Xavier and Andrés Nicolás Chaves.
The Winter’s Tale (July 25 – Aug. 3), directed by Daniel Sullivan.
Casting and additional information TBA.
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Barbara Lindsay’s Holy Hell will be available beginningMay 6 at LA’s Open Door Playhouse (link not yet Available), directed by Gary B. Lamb.
Gary B. Lamb (The Man) and Elaine Mello (the Woman).
A man and woman separately relate the story of the tragedy that brought them together and the love that redeemed them both.
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Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer, will run Mar. 9-27, 2027 at New Theatre Cardiff, then transferring to the West End’s Noël Coward Theatre Apr. 17 – Aug. 17, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
Michael Sheen (Salieri) and Callum Scott Howells (Mozart).
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The world premiere of The (Not So Real) Housewives of Transylvania will run June 4-26 at The Actors Company Let Live Theatre (916 N. Formosa Ave.), directed written & directed by Scott Sanders.
Scott Sanders, Almario, Kristen Aziza, Jennifer Durst, Johnny Kay, Kristina Korsholm, and Christian Sanders.
Kristina has it all, charisma, power, great looks, wonderful girlfriends, a handsome and powerful husband—Miklos—and, immortality. Yes, she’s a vampire. In present-day Bucharest, Kristina is having a mid-century crisis and decides that she wants to stop being a vampire, get a divorce from her handsome “coven-leader” husband, stop feeding on humans, and……… become HUMAN… again! Kristina is bored of the constant need for human feeding and a limited circle of nocturnal friends. She wants out. Now! Or maybe in a week. Kristina wants to be mortal again and be a normal woman. We soon discover that our four fiendish vampires and their groupie, are as dysfunctional as can be. Kristina wants to be human again—possibly impossible. Ali is tired of being second fiddle to Kristina and is always trying oddball ways to depose the Alpha Female Vampire. Mina is human but wants to be a vampire, but she wants to be turned at the right time by the right vampire. Miklos is seeing his Coven and his world collapse, and he sorely needs to find some new blood and “turn” some humans to build up his coven community. All bat guano is about to hit the fan when Kristina runs into an American duo—writer and producer—who want to film a reality show in Eastern Europe. Can an American reality television show save the helpless and hopeless vampires from destruction, or worse, mediocrity? A full moon is not the answer. Maybe becoming a star is what Kristina really needs! And maybe, just maybe this is the change Kristina needs as she introduces the American team (and us) to her world.
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A reading of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children will take place Thurs. Apr. 23 at 7 PM at LA’s Theatre West, directed by Louis Fantasia.
Laura James, Xader Toti, David Baer, Emily Fabretti, Tim Realbuto, David Shofner, Nigel Lythgoe, Oscar Pereida, David Datz, Zoey Mae Dillion-Levine, Judy Rosenfeld, Caroline Quigley, Atoki Ileka, Maegan McConnell, Cecil Jennings, Pablo Castel, Ernest McDaniel, Kathy Bell Denton, and Melodee Fernandez.
Mother Courage, with its theme of the devastating effects of war and the blindness of anyone hoping to profit from a war, is not set in modern times but during the Thirty Years’ War of 1618–1648, which involved most of Europe. It follows the fortunes of Anna Fierling, nicknamed “Mother Courage,” who is determined to make her living from the war. Over the course of the play, she loses all three of her children, Schweizerkas, Eilif, and Kattrin, to the very war from which she tried to profit.
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The original Off-Broadway cast album of Mark Saltzman’s Romeo & Bernadette is now available on Jay Records.
Nikita Burshteyn , Anna Kostakis, Carlos Lopez, Michael Marotta, Judy McLane, Michael Notardonato, Ari Raskin, Troy Valjean Rucker, Zach Schanne, Viet Vo, and. Charlie Marcus.
Romeo—yes, THAT Romeo—finds himself in 1960 Brooklyn, chasing a girl he believes is his beloved Juliet. But no, it’s Bernadette, the beautiful, foul-mouthed daughter of a crime family in this wild spoof of Shakespeare’s timeless tale.
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The world premiere of The (Not So Real) Housewives of Transylvania, written & directed by Scott Sanders, will run June 4 – 26 (opening June 12) at The Actors Company.
Scot Sanders, Iris Almario, Kristen Aziza, Jennifer Durst, Johnny Kay, Kristina Korsholm, and Christian Sanders.
Kristina has it all, charisma, power, great looks, wonderful girlfriends, a handsome and powerful husband—Miklos—and, immortality. Yes, she’s a vampire. In present-day Bucharest, Kristina is having a mid-century crisis and decides that she wants to stop being a vampire, get a divorce from her handsome “coven-leader” husband, stop feeding on humans, and……… become HUMAN… again! Kristina is bored of the constant need for human feeding and a limited circle of nocturnal friends. She wants out. Now! Or maybe in a week.