Today’s Highlights:
Proof, by David Auburn, directed by Thomas Kail, featuring Ayo Ede (Catherine), Don Cheadle (Robert), Kara Young (Claire), and Jin Ha (Hal), opens at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre.
Circus Fire, world premiere by Jacques Lamarre, directed by Jared Mezzocchi, featuring Olivia Nicole Hoffman, Caroline Kinsloving, Janelle Anne Robinson, Mike Boland, Constantino Fernandez, Stuart Rider, Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Marco Verna, Rebecka Jones, and Dan Wheltonm with Anastasia Maglaras and Eric Orsini, opens at Theaterworks Hartford.
Master Harold … and the Boys, by Athol Fugard, directed by Emily Mann & Tarell Alvin McCraney, featuring Ben Beatty (Hally), Nyasha Hatendi ( Willie), and and John Kani (Sam), opens at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
Flower Drum Song, presented by East West Players, adapted by David Henry Hwang, directed by Jacqui Park, featuring Joven Calloway, Ethan Yaheen-Moy Chan, Jay Espinoza, Sierra Goria, Sally Hong, Tony Jin, Esther Lee, Brian Liebson, Emma Park, Gemma Pedersen, Avelina Sanchez, Hillary Tang, Ai Toyoshima, Haoyi Wen, and Paul Wong, begins previews at LA’s the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’s Aratani Theatre.
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Reviews for The Fear of 13 at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre:
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Thornton Wilder’s final play, The Emporium, will run Apr. 30 – June 7 (opening May 18) at Classic Stage Company, directed by Rob Melrose.
Candy Buckley, Mahira Kakkar, Eva Kaminsky, Patrick Kerr, Derek Smith, Joe Tapper, and Cassia Thompson.
Thornton Wilder’s final, unfinished play, (completed by Kirk Lynn), follows John, an orphan who escakes a harsh life to the big city, seeking meaning by trying to gain employment in the “Emporium”, a mythical, Kafaka-essque department store containing all human desires. The play serves as a profound allegory for life, with the audience actively immersed in roles like orphans or customers.
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“Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen” will continue through May 10 at NYC’s HeliclineFineArt.
The exhibition celebrates a century of ‘performance’ as seen through the eyes of some of the most influential artists and designers of the 20th century. On view through May 10, the exhibition brings together more than three dozen works that capture the spectacle, emotion, and cultural impact of live theatre, film, dance, opera, and popular entertainment.
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In the Heights continues through Apr. 26 at CA’s Long Beach’s Musical Theater West, directed by Jesse J. Sanchez.
Rubén J. Carbajai (Usnvavi), Amanda Aceves-Lopez (Nina), Angelica Lozada Ramos (Vanessa), Antwone Barnes (Benny), Susanna Guzmán (Abuela Claudia), Adam Leiva (Sonny), Mario Rocha (Kevin Rasario), Elvira Barjau (Camila Rosario), Veronica Vazquez Jackson (Daniela), Rianny Vasquez (Carla), Berto Fernández (Piragua Guy), and Patrick(Patches), Viloria (Grafiti Pete), and Antwone Barnes.
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Off-Broadway’s The Tank will present its 2026 Gala-Off-Off Runway on Mon. May 4 at 6 PM at NYC’s Crowne Plaza hotel, hosed by Mariyea.
Stan Zimmerman
Wilson Cruz, Rickie Vasquez , Paige Davis , and Pooya Mohseni
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Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater will present the Judith Champion Play Labs Reading Sereies. Casting TBA.
My Love My Love (May 4 at 6:30 PM), by Justice Hehir, directed by Joan Sergay. In 2012, Jane and Eric are scene partners for their college intermediate acting class. In 2022, Jane is dead and Eric is doing community theater in Pittsburgh. A play about all that we wish for ourselves and each other. In 2012, Jane and Eric are scene partners for their college intermediate acting class. In 2022, Jane is dead and Eric is doing community theater in Pittsburgh. A play about all that we wish for ourselves and each other.
Is Cry You Cry’n? (May 11 at 6:30 PM), by Dhari Noel, directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps. Grace is staging a green-card wedding: Tashie–recently coming from Trinidad with her son Likkle–is marrying her Americanized “cousin” Nap, who is bringing his “friend” as a witness. Four fraternity pledges are preparing for their last night of hell week before becoming full-fledged brothers: they make dances, crack jokes, and test one another. Both stories take place in the same basement, blurring the lines of identity, time, and belonging. “If cat mek kitten in an oven does that make it bun?” is a Trini saying our mothers might tell us when we dare suggest we are not really Trini. Is Cry You Cry’n? is about the dream this proverb aspires to make real.
At the Consluence of Creeks (May 18 at 6’30 PM) by Sam Mueller. Caleb is back at his family’s hunting cabin in rural Wyoming for the first time in a decade. He hasn’t been since he came out as trans, but his estranged brother, Cain, has invited him along for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hunt a bighorn sheep. Little do they know, there’s a bighorn sheep nearby pulling off his limbs and morphing into a man. The brothers are too busy collapsing under the weight of things they won’t say to each other to notice they might be the ones being hunted. At The Confluence of Creeks is a play that asks just how much.
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The world premiere of Art Shulman’s Act Your Age will run May 22 – June 24 at North Hollywood’s Two Roads Theatre, directed by Stan Mazin.
Ezra Black, Brittney DeLeon, Jillian McWhirter, and Morry Schorr.
Things change with the passage of time, and Jake is denying those changes for as long as he can. However, once the star player of the neighborhood Sunday basketball game, Jake struggles to keep up with the younger guys. Jake’s about to become a grandfather and he’s not quite ready for that either. This may have more to do with things other than his advancing age. Will Jake allow his age-denial to threaten his relationships with his wife, daughter and son-in-law, or will Jake finally act his age?