Today’s Highlights:
The Fear of 13, by Lindsey Ferrentino, directed by David Cromer, featuring Lindsey Ferrentino, Adrien Brody, and Tessa Thompson, opens at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre.
Spamalot, dorected & choreographed by Josh Rhodes, featuring Major Attaway (Kin Arthur), Sean Bell (Sir Robin), Chris Cillins-:Pisano (Sir Lancelot), Ellis C. Dawson ( Sir Bedevere,) Leo Roberts (Sir Galahad), Amanda Robles (The Lady of the Lake), Blake Segal (Patsy) and Steven Telsey (The Historian/Prince Herbert), with Lindsay Lee Alhady, Delaney Benson, Jack Brewer, Connor Coughlin, L’ogan J’ones, Graham Keen, Claire Kennard, Ben Lanham, Nathaniel Mahone, Maddie Mossner, Emilie Renier, Mark Tran Russ and Meridien Terrell, opens at Houston’s TUTS.
Kenrex, by Jack Holden & Ed Stambollouian, directed by Stambollouian, featuring Jack Holden, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Apr. 12
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All Roads Theatre Company will present the world premiere of The Music That Mankes Me Dance: The Songs of July Styne, t0 run May 1-3 (opening May 2) at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre, directed & choreographed by Scott Thompson.
Annaliese van der POL, Nick Adams, Lana Gordoon, and Angel Reda, with Rhett George, Neill Starkenberg, and Michael Zampino.
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The Festival will run Aug. 14-16 at Kingston, NY’s historic Hutton Brickyards, directed by D.B. Bonds, with with choreography by Jerry Mitchell & Jon Rua.
Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Alex Newell, Christopher Jackson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, , Adrienne Warren, Amber Ardolino, Ben Levi Ross, Cara Rose DiPietro, Casey Likes, Denée Benton, Eva Noblezada, Gianmarco Soresi, JJ Niemann, Jason Robert Brown, Jenn Colella, Julie Benko, Lauren Patten, Mandy Gonzalez, Mitch Wood, Norbert Leo Butz, Reeve Carney, Seth Rudetsky, Talia Suskauer, Tommy Bracco, Tom Kitt, Tyler Joseph Ellis, Adam Pascal, Aiko Nakasone, Anthony Rapp, Byron Utley, Fredi Walker-Brown, Jesse L. Martin, Kristen Lee Kelly, Taye Diggs, Timothy Britten Parker, Rodney Hicks, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia Taye Diggs, Aiko Nakasone, Gianmarco Soresi, and Mitch Wood.
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The James Conlon Farewell Concert will take place Fri. Apr. 24 at 7PM at LA’s Dorothy chandler Pavilion.
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August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, currently in previews, will open Apr. 25 at the Barrymore Theatre, and close July 19, directed by Debbie Allen.
Taraji P. Henson (Bertha Holly), and Cedric “The Entertainer (), with Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Bynum Walker), Joshua Boone (Herald Loomis), Maya Boyd (Molly Cunningham), Savannah Commodore & Dominique Skye Turner (sharing the role of ‘Zonia Loomis), Abigail Onwunali (Martha Loomis) Bradley Stryker (Rutherford Selig), Tripp Taylor (‘Jeremy Furlow), Christopher Woodley & Jackson Edward Davis (sharing the role of ‘Reuben Scott), and Nimene Sierra Wureh (Mattie Campbell), with Jasmine Batchelor, Rosalyn Coleman, Thomas Michael Hammond, Cayden McCoy, and Kevyn Morrow.
The play is set in 1911 Pittsburgh, at the boarding house of Seth Holly (Cedric) and his wife Bertha. The house welcomes travelers, many of whom are formerly enslaved people from the South who move north for a better life, during the Great Migration. One of the migrants is Herald Loomis, who endured seven years of labor under a cruel man named Joe Turner.
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Cagney The Musical, by Peter Colley, Robert Creighton & Christopher McGovern, will run June 20 – July 26 at Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre., directed by Will Pomerantz.
Melissa Manchester (Ma Gacney), Robert Creighton (James Cagney), and more TBA.
A high-energy musical that traces the life and career of James Cagney, one of Hollywood’s most iconic performers. Known for his explosive screen presence, precision dancing, and unmistakable charisma, Cagney rose from the streets of New York to become a defining figure of American film. Featuring music and lyrics by Robert Creighton and Christopher McGovern, and a book by Peter Colley, the production blends tap dance, storytelling, and a dynamic score to capture the spirit of an artist who helped shape modern entertainment.
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August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, currently in previews, will open Apr. 25 at the Barrymore Theatre, directed by Debbie Allen.
Taraji P. Henson (Bertha Holly ), Cedric The entertainer (Seth Holly ), Joshua Boone (Herald Loomis), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Bynum Walker ), and more.
Set in Pittsburgh in 1911 during a pivotal era of migration and transformation, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone centers on Seth and Bertha Holly (Cedric and Henson) who run a warm, orderly boardinghouse for those navigating uncertain paths. But when a mysterious man named Herald Loomis (Boone) arrives with his young daughter, the stillness of the house begins to shift. This timeless American classic is a profoundly moving story of personal awakening, collective memory, and the quiet power of human connection.
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The world premiere of Tom Jacobson’s Hell Mouth, curently in previews, will opens Apr. 17 at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.
Tony Abatemarco (Russell/Spencer), Taylor Hilbert (Lois/Samara), and Danny Lee Gomez (Tim).
The play follows Tim, a character torn between his Midwestern parents and Beverly Hills owners, who discover a lost Caravaggio painting of Judas.
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Something Rotten will run May 1 – June 7 at Lyric Stage Boston, directed by Ilana Ransom Toeplitz.
Jared Troilo (Shakespeare), Ryan Mardesich (Nick Bottom), Ohad Ashkenzai (Nigel Bottom), Joy Clark (Nostradamus), Kristian Espiritu (Bead), Kenneth Kelleher (Brother Jeremiah), Lauren Dodd (Portia), Bobby Steinbach (shylock), and Bryan Miner (Lord clapham).
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Marilyn Maye in concert continues through Apr. 19 at NYC’s 54 Below.
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The Physicists, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, will run May 7 – June 20 at The Actors Gang, directed by Brent Hinkley.
TBA.
Set in an insane asylum that houses Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, the biting 1962 German comedy is full of murder, mayhem, espionage, and questions about the morality and ethics of science.