Today’s Highlights:
Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth, directed by Logan Vaughn, featuring Jasminn Johnson (Corrina/Wally’s Waiter/Bank Customers), Greg Stuhr (Clay/Sam/Le Pousselet Bartender), alphonso Walker Jr.(Kenneth), and Lance Coadie Williams (Bert), opens at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse.
Mrs. Christie, by Heidi Armbruster, directec by Joanie Schultz, featuring Matt Bowdren ( Archie,) Blake Hamilton Currie (William / Collins), Amira Danan ( Nancy / Chloe), Zoë Sophia Garcia ( Lucy), Dale Hodges ( Jane,) Betsy Hogg ( Charlotte / Mary), Alex Keiper (Agatha) and William Sturdivant ( Monsieur), opens at Milwaukee Rep.
Miracle on South Division Street, by Tom Dudzick, directed by Joe Brancato, featuring Coryn Carson, Grace Experience, and Liz McCartney, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Sheen Center.
Hell Mouth, world premiere by Tom Jacobson, directed by by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, featuring Tomy Abatemarco (Russell/Spencer), Taylor Hilbert (Lois/Samara), and Danny Lee Gomez (Tim), begins previews at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.
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Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia will begin previews Nov. 10 and open Dec. 1 at the Music Box Theatre, directed by Justin Martin.
Rosamund Pike (Jesica Parks), and more TBA.
The play centers on Judge Jessica Parks, a pioneering London Crown Court judge and mother who balances a high-powered career with family life. The plot focuses on a severe ethical kilemma when her son is accused of rape, forcing her to confront her own legal prinicples against and her insting to progect her family.
Video. Trailer for the London production.
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Arthur Miller’s The Price has been extended through May 31 at Venice, CA’s Pacific Resident Theater, directed by Elina de Santos.
Dana Dewes (Esther Franz), Richard Fancy (Gregory Solomon), Jason Huber (Walter Franz), and Scott G. Jackson (Victor Franz).
Two brothers reunite in the attic of a New York brownstone to sort through their late father’s possessions. What begins as a long overdue reunion becomes an intense exploration comparing the price of professional success to the cost of personal integrity, as four indelible characters struggle to make sense of the past and create a future.
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Off-Broadway’s LAByrinth Theater Company will present its annual Celebrity Charades 2026 benefit on Mon. Apr. 20 at NYC’s City Winery (25 11th Ave.).
Lea Dealria, Chris Rock, Kristen Wiig, Julia Roberts, Robin Williams, Billy Crudup, Edie Falco, Edward Norton, Paul Rudd, Cynthia Rowley, and Julianna Margulies, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and many more.
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Amas Musical Theatre (link TBA), will present Sound Bites: A Festival of 10-minute Musicals on Mon. May 4 at 7 PM at NYC’s Symphony Space.
The event provides emerging composers and writers with development opportunities and mentorship. The festival emphasizes diverse, innovative storytelling and often includes audience favorites.
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Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey will run May 7 – June 7 at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion, directed by Loretta Greco.
Juan Arturo (Oedipus), Gabe Martinez (Laius), Melisa Soledad Pereyra (Jocasta), Jaime Jose Hernandez (Creon), Victor Almanzar (Tiresias), and Javier David (El Sobador).
Oedipus dreams of rewriting his own story — but liberation comes at a price: can he truly escape the destiny laid out before him? What’s fate, and what’s just the system? A searing tale of love, family, and prophecy, Oedipus el Rey blends ancient myth with modern urgency and Chicano swagger with swaths of sly humor.
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Jonathan Spector’s Birthright will run June 5 – July 12, opening June 25 at MCC Theater, directed by Teddy Bergman.
Hale Appleman, Molly Bernard Eli Gelb, Abbi Jacobson, Liz Larsen, Nate Mann, and Zoë Winters.
What begins as a reunion among six young friends after a Birthright trip to Israel in 2006 becomes, over the span of 18 years, an exploration of identity, fracturing communities, and what it means to belong. As these friends grow up and the world around them shifts in seismic ways, they find themselves confronting essential questions: How do we carry the weight of history? How do we define who we are, and who we want to be? And what happens when the narratives we inherit no longer fit the lives we’re living?
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The world premiere of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” will livestream May 1 on Disney+ and Hulu.
Meryl Streep (Miranda Priestly), Anne Hathaway (Andy Sachs), Emily Blunt (Emily Charlton), and Stanley Tucci (Nigel), with Kenneth Branagh.
The sequel follows a, now, high-powered Miranda Priestly navigating the decline of traditional magazine publishing, forcing her to rely on her former assistant, Emily Charlton, who is now a high-ranking executive at a luxury group, according to Deadline.
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Gingold Theatrical Group‘s reading of Maurine Dallas Watkins’ 1926 play Chicago (the inspiration for the musical), will take place on Mon. May 18 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
Nikki M. James(Roxie Hart) Reg Rogers( Billy Flynn), Katerina McCrimmon (Velma Kelly), Arnie Burton( Jake, David Ryan Smith (Amos Hart), Randy Graff (Mary Sunshine), Jackie Hoffman(Mrs. Morton), Richard B. Watson (The Sargeant Charles E. Murdock), Daniel Jenkins(Martin S. Harrison), Troy Iwata (Babe), and Erin Maquire (Go-To-Hell Kitty).
The satirical comedy Chicago was inspired by real-life murder cases covered by journalist Watkins. The play follows two women accused of murder as they navigate both the legal system and the court of public opinion.