Today’s Highlights:
The Balusters, world premiere by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by by Kenny Leon, featuring Renée Elise Goldsberry, Richard Thomas, Marylouise Burke, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, and Margaret Colin, with Kayli Carter, Ricardo Chavira, Michael Esper, Maria Christina Olivaras, and Jeena Yi, opens at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
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Boston’s Huntington Theatre has announced its 2026-27 season:
Purpose (Sept. 10 – Oct. 11), by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Josiah Davis. 
Encircled by civil rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen for decades, the Jasper family is a foundational pillar of Black American society. That is, until their youngest son returns home with an unexpected dinner guest, and their carefully curated existence begins to fracture. Don’t miss this searing and hilarious exploration of faith, class, ambition, and heritage.
To Kill a Mockingbird (Oct. 8 – Nov. 8), directed by Loretta Greco.
Adia & Clora Snatch Joy (Nov. 24 – Dec. 13), world premiere by Mfoniso Udofia & Michael Ellis Ingram. directed by Awoye Timpo. In the marshes of South Carolina, Clora Abernathy opens her front door to a stranger from Massachusetts — Adiaha Ufot — and something unnamed stirs within them. Both are dutiful daughters who’ve devoted their lives to their parents – but as the sparks fly, a life-changing question takes shape: What might happen if they dare to be good to themselves? To wholly experience desire, pleasure, and joy as grown-ass women — for the very first time.
Ufot Family Cycle (), by Mfoniso Udofia. The nine-play a final chapter two years in the making. In the marshes of South Carolina, Clora Abernathy opens her front door to a stranger from Massachusetts — Adiaha Ufot — and something unnamed stirs within them. Both are dutiful daughters who’ve devoted their lives to their parents – but as the sparks fly, a life-changing question takes shape: What might happen if they dare to be good to themselves? To wholly experience desire, pleasure, and joy as grown-ass women — for the very first time.
Adia & Clora Snatch Joy (Nov. 24 – Dec. 13), world premiere by Mfoniso Udofia & Michael Ellis Ingram, directed by Awoye Timpo . When nationally acclaimed playwright Mfoniso Udofia grew up in Southbridge, Massachusetts and went to Wellesley College, she rarely saw stories about Africans and African Americans that felt like her family. Inspired in part by meeting August Wilson at The Huntington, she set out to create a richly textured and emotionally engrossing cycle of nine plays that follows one family through three generations: parents, children, grandchildren. Each play stands alone, yet together form a rich tapestry of storytelling traditions that will resonate with everyone.
Meet the Cartozians (Feb. 8 – Mar.21, 2027), by Talene Monahon, directed by Loretta Greco. A layered, complex, surprising, and stylish exploration of immigration, accountability, roots, and race. How do we decide who gets to belong — and at what price?
Unorthodox (Apr. 29 – May 30), by Joshua Harmon, Benji Pasek & Shaina Taub, directed by Jordan Fein. The musical follows two parallel, intervenerational stories in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Satmar community. It explores 17-year-old Devoiri’s arranged marriage alongside her grandmother’ Fraida’s arrival in America 60 years earlier, contrasting one woman’s journey into faith with another’s awakening to leave.
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Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre has announced its 2026-27 season:
Casting TBA.
Merrily We Roll Along (Aug. 25 – Nov. 1), directed & Choreographed by Matthew Gardiner
All the World’s a Stage (Oct. 20 – Nov. 20), by Adam Gwon, directed & Choreographed by Matthew Gardiner. A funny and heart-wrenching new musical centered around a small-town math teacher who reluctantly agrees to coach a misfit student for the 1996 State Thespian Competition. Enter the teacher’s new outspoken boyfriend and the devout school secretary, and he soon has trouble navigating his carefully compartmentalized life.
The Secret Garden (Dec. 8 – Feb. 21, 2027), by Marsha Norman & Lucy Simon, directed by Ethan Heard.
The Monsters (Feb. 22 – Mar. 21) by xNgozi Anyanwu), directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene. A sibling love story about reunions, resentment, reconnection, and wrestling with demons. For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she’s been doing it all from afar until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep.
A Mountain for Elodie (Mar. 16 – Apr. 18), written & performed by Benjamin Scheuer, directed by Séimí Campbell. When his daughter ELODIE is born, BEN realizes the closure he thought he’d found with his own long-dead father needs to be re-examined in this heartbreaking new show from Benjamin Scheuer, the creator of Drama Desk Award-winning “The Lion.”
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Kenrex, by Jack Holden & Ed Stambollouian, currently in previews, will open J June 27 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, directed by Stambollouian.
Jack Holden
The blistering true-crime thriller about the thin line between justice served and justice taken.
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From Corinne’s Heart, by Charles Mandracchia, will take place Fri. May 15 at 9:30 PM, (both live & livestreamed,), with music direction by Mitch Marcusat NYC’s 54 Below.
Keith Crowningsheild, Olympia eyal, Arielle Joy Hubbard, Ken Jennings, Scot Fraser O’Brien, Jessi Shieman, Hannah Thompson, and Exavier Wilson.
Miracles do happen. The piece explores the hope and resilience of Corinne, affected by Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Inspired by true events, Corinne dreamed of becoming a world class figure skater. Diagnosed with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, she cannot accept her misfortune until the love of Tony gives her hope and a small miracle.
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The world premiere of Dana Leslie Goldstein’s Go Down, Moses will run May 13-31,(opening May 17) at A.R.T./New York Theatres, directed by Brandon M. Weber.
Terence Archie, Philip Hoffman, Shania Adams, Lucas Bernhauer, Kaa’lah Bynes, Maddy Mackarey, Yarin Neuhaus, Jeremiah Packer, Vanessa, Donovan Price, Patrick Saint Ange, Celina Mylene Santana, and Renee Shohet.
Inspired by a true story, Go Down, Moses is set on a college campus in 1985 and follows ethics professor Philip Hoffman and newly appointed Dean of Students Albert Becker—two men bound by a shared history in the Civil Rights Movement—now navigating a new generation of activism. When a student from the South Bronx invites a controversial speaker to campus, long-standing tensions erupt, and questions of free speech, institutional responsibility, and systemic inequity.
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Matt Doyle: New Beginnings will take place Sun. May 10 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Evan Zavada.
A tribute to the great singer-songwriters who have inspired Doyle throughout the years.