Today’s Highlights:
Dukes, written & performed by Jane Wickline & Liva Pierce, directed by Henry Hornbuckle & Mabel Lewis, opens at Off Broadway’s at SoHo Playhouse.
The 2026 Fire Island Dance Festival, in support of Dancers Responding to AIDS, opens at NY’s Fire Island Pines.
Mexodus, written & performed by Brian Quijada & Nygel D. Robinson, begins previews at Pasadena Playhouse.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending July 5, 2026.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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LA’s Musical Theatre Gild will present Here’s to Us!—The Musical Theatre Guild Celebrates 30 Years written by Michael Kostroff, will take place Sun. Oct. 11 at 7 PM at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage, directed by Kim Huber, with music direction by Brad Ellis.
TBA.
The presentation will feature memorable songs from productions including Titanic, Fanny, The Pajama Game, Sunday in the Park with George, and many more.
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Iceboy!Or, The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh, by Mark Hollman, Jay Reiss, & Erin Quinn Purcell, will now continue through Aug. 16 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, directed by Marc Bruni.
Megan Mullally (Vera Vimm), Nick Offerman (Eugene O’Neill), Grey Henson ( Iceboy), Cedric Yarbrough (Floyd), Sarah Stiles (Lambert), and Alex Goodrich (Frankenstein), along with Donterrio, Melanie Brezill, Will Koski, Linda Mugleston, Shawn Pfautsch Andrea San Miguel,Will Lidke, Leah Morrow, and Jeff Parker.
The musical follows Broadway star Vera Vimm, who adopts a 40,000 year-old Neanderthal from the Arctic only to reel when he begins stealing the spotlight.
Video: sneak peek.
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South Pacific, directed by William Carlos Angulo, continues through July 12 at the St. Louis Muny.
Paulo Szot (Emile de Becque), Taylor Louderman (Nellie Forbush), Loan Almedilla (Bloody Mary, Michael Canu (Lt. Joseph Cable), bobby Conte (Luther Billis), Michaela Marfori (Liat), Robert Crenshaw (Stewpot), John El-Jor (Professor), Michael James Reed (Capt. George Brackett), Jeff Cummings (Cmdr. William Harbison), Grace Moore (Ngana), Josiah Paik (Jerome), and more.
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I Put a Spell On You, the biggest Halloween, party, will return to Webster Hall on Mon. Oct. 12. This year’s iteration is dubbed “A Sanderson Sister Act,” directed by Heath Saunders & Mack Brown.
Participants and additional informations TBA.
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The cast album of Jeffrey Scharf’ & Jimmy Calire’s Reunions, directed & choreographed by Gabriel Barre, has been released on most platforms.
Bryan Fenkart ( Sir Harry), Joanna Glushak (Dona Laura), Chilina Kennedy (Kate), Courtney Reed (Lady Sims), Daniel Torres (Edward/Juanito), and Chip Zien (Don Gonzalo), with Janet Aldrich, Keith Lee Grant, and Pearl Rhein.
A musical adaptation of two famous one-act plays with a common theme: What happens when you rediscover the life you almost lived? The musical is divided into two acts with each act a different story.
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Dolly: A True Original Musical, by Dolly Parton & Maria S. Schlatter, will begin previews Dec. 7 and open Jan. 19 (Parton’s 81st birthday) at the St. James Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher, with choreography by Mandy Moore.
TBA.
The biomusical follows Dolly’s journey from barefoot beginnings in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee to her triumphs, trials, and trailblazing in Hollywood
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The 2026 Emmy Awards will take place live on Mon. Sept. 14 at 8 PM at LA’s Peacock Theater, and stream live on Peacock.
Nominations will be announced later today, and will be posted here tomorrow.
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LA’s Actors’ Gang will present Free Shakespeare in the Park for Mamilies, offering Two Gentlebots of Verona Aug. 1-23 at 11 AM at the Media Park in downtown Culver City. Early registration is recommended here.
Not posted.
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The world premiere of Iceboy! Or, The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write the Iceman Cometh, by Mark Hollman, Jay Reiss & Erin Quinn Purcell, will continue through Aug. 16 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, directed by Marc Bruni.
Megan Mullally (Vera Vimm), Nick Offerman (Eugene O’Neill), Grey Hendon (Iceboy), Cedric Yarbrough (Floyd), Sarah Stiles (Lambert), and Alex Goodrich (Frankenstein), with Donterrio, Melanie Brezill , Will Koski, Linda Mugleston, Will Lidke, Leah Morrow, and Jeff Parker.
The play follows Broadway star Vera Vimm, who adopts a 40,000 year-old Neanderthal from the Arctic only to reel when he begins stealing the spotlight.
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The 2001 film adaptation of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, by John Cameron Mitchell, and songs by Stephen Trask, turns 25 this year, and the film is on tour to celebrate.
Click here to learn more…
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Melissa Maney’s Hungry Woman continues through Aug. 30 at the SoHo Playhouse, directed by Daniella Caggiano.
Julia Lester, Zoe Dean, and Sophie Zmorrod.
The work explores a world in which men have gone extinct, covering 200 years of survival, identity, sexuality, motherhood, and power in the absence of patriarchy.
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Documentary: “Tyler Peck: Suspending Time” is now available for free.
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Off-Broadway’s Pan Asian Rep (link not avaialble) will present a staged reading of R.A.Shiomi’s Fire in the New World on Thurs. July 16 at 5 PM at NYC’s Bruce Mitchell Room at Off-Broadway’s Spaces@520 (520 8th Ave., 3rd floor), directed by Ron Nakahara.
Conlan Ledwith, Robert Meksin, James Patrick Nelson, Erin Quill, Camilla Shae, Moses Villarama, Cody Wilson, and Jae Woo. The stage directions will be read by Jonathan Wong Frye.
The story follows tough-talking private eye Sam Shikaze as he investigates a mystery at the fading New World Hotel. Shikaze is hired by a prominent real estate developer to find his missing Japanese American wife. The investigation quickly escalates into a larger conflict when Shikaze discovers the developer is also scheming to bulldoze and gentrify the local community. Blending mystery and social commentary, the plot highlights the systemic displacement, racism, and anti-Asian sentiment that Japanese Canadians faced following the post-World War II internment era.