Jul. 31, 2024 to Aug. 31, 2025
Arizona
Frankenstein
By: Nick Dear
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Screening
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://https://atc.org/national-theatre-live/frankenstein/
Description: Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle, Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles.
Present Laughter
By: Noel Coward
Directed by: Matthew Warchus
Event Date(s): Sep 07 2024 - Sep 07 2024
Type of Event: Screening
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://https://atc.org/national-theatre-live/present-laughter/
Description: Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic, and soul-searching.
Dial M For Murder
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Frederick Knott
Directed by: Michael John Garcés
Event Date(s): Sep 22 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/dial-m-for-murder/
Description: Frederick Knott’s nail-biting 1952 play has been newly adapted for a modern audience by ATC favorite playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Dial M For Murder
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Frederick Knott
Directed by: Michael John Garcés
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/dial-m-for-murder/
Description: Frederick Knott’s nail-biting 1952 play has been newly adapted for a modern audience by ATC favorite playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Scrooge!
By: Leslie Bricusse
Directed by: Matt August
Event Date(s): Nov 03 2024 - Nov 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: 330 S. Scott Ave., Tucson, AZ 85701
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: atc.org/show/scrooge-2024/
Description: Get whisked away in the holiday spirit with ATC's musical extravaganza Scrooge! Create a holiday tradition and celebrate a twist on a beloved classic with your family.
Scrooge!
By: Leslie Bricusse
Directed by: Matt August
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Tempe Center for the Arts
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/scrooge-2024/
Description: Get whisked away in the holiday spirit with ATC's musical extravaganza Scrooge! Create a holiday tradition and celebrate a twist on a beloved classic with your family.
Blues in the Night
By: Sheldon Epps
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2025 - Feb 15 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/blues-in-the-night/
Description: This toe-tapping revue features 26 of the hottest torch numbers by blues and jazz icons like Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and more. Follow the stories of three women and one man as they navigate life.
Blues in the Night
By: Sheldon Epps
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/blues-in-the-night/
Description: This toe-tapping revue features 26 of the hottest torch numbers by blues and jazz icons like Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and more. Follow the stories of three women and one man as they navigate life.
Bob & Jean: A Love Story
By: Robert Schenkkan
Directed by: Matt August
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2025 - Apr 12 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/bob-jean-a-love-story/
Description: A new play written by Pulitzer- and Tony-winning and Emmy-nominated playwright Robert Schenkkan, Bob & Jean: A Love Story is a stirring and romantic world premiere.
Bob & Jean: A Love Story
By: Robert Schenkkan
Directed by: Matt August
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/bob-jean-a-love-story/
Description: A new play written by Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated playwright Robert Schenkkan, Bob & Jean: A Love Story is a stirring and romantic world premiere.
Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 18 2025 - Jun 07 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/ms-holmes-and-ms-watson-apt-2b/
Description: This twist on Doyle’s cherished Sherlock Holmes characters delivers non-stop laughter inside a rollicking murder mystery that promises fun for everyone.
Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 14 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/ms-holmes-and-ms-watson-apt-2b/
Description: This twist on Doyle’s cherished Sherlock Holmes characters delivers non-stop laughter inside a rollicking murder mystery that promises fun for everyone.
Birds of North America
By: Anna Ouyang Moench
Directed by: Gretchen Wirges
Event Date(s): Sep 01 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/birds-of-north-america/
Description: John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they witness the changing seasons and the shifting patterns of bird migration, they also confront their own personal transformations, revealing deeper truths about love, loss, and the passage of time.
High Tea, an event honoring Tucson’s own SUZ
By:
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): Oct 20 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: Tucson Jewish Community Center
City: Tucson
Price: $150
Reference Link: https://
Description: Invisible Theatre will host a special event on Oct. 20 to honor Susan Claassen, the outgoing managing artistic director, for her extraordinary contributions over the past decades. Susan Claassen has been a cornerstone of Invisible Theatre for 50 years.
Almost, Maine
By: John Cariani
Directed by: Nancy David Booth
Event Date(s): Nov 10 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/almost-maine/
Description: One cold, clear winter night, as the Northern Lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways.
Sweet Spot
By: Germaine Shames
Directed by: Fred Rodriguez
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: The fleeting glory of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton.
Aren’t You…?
By: Fred. Pitts
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 11 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Solo-show
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/arent-you/
Description: Fred found himself on a mission to explore every California Mission. This became a study of his fellow tourists and Mission personnel: some experts on the Catholic Church, a few experts on Native American history, all experts on which famous Black person Fred resembles!
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Carrie Cole
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2025 - Feb 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/what-the-constitution-means-to-me/
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationships among four generations.
Small Domestic Acts
By: Joan Lipkin
Directed by: Fred Rodriguez
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: A new play by Joan Lipkin.
Good Morning, Good Mother
By: Kathleen Clark
Directed by: Susan Claassen
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: A new play by Kathleen Clark.
Tevye in New York
By: Tom Dugan
Directed by: Tom Dugan
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Berger Performing Arts Center
City: Tucson
Price: $47
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/tevye-in-new-york/
Description: Tevye In New York picks up where the original stories left off. Follow Tevye as he fights for his piece of the American dream in the crowded streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1914.
Truth
By: Marilyn Harris Kriegel
Directed by: Susan Claassen
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: A new play by Marilyn Harris Kriegel.
Winston Churchill: Man of the Century
By: Randy Otto
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Berger Performing Arts Center
City: Tucson
Price: $47
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/winston-churchill-man-of-the-century/
Description: Journey with Winston from his 18th-century upbringing through careers as a soldier, journalist, politician, and statesman, then ultimately explore Churchill’s lasting legacy of leadership and its meaning to us in the 21st century. Randy Otto brings Churchill to life.
The Garbologists
By: Lindsay Joelle
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): Apr 22 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: invisibletheatre.com/shows/the-garbologists/
Description: Danny’s a white, blue-collar, New York City sanitation worker. Marlowe’s the Black, Ivy-educated newbie. As their lives become increasingly intertwined, these two essential workers discover there’s more that binds them than picking up the trash.
Going It Alone
By: Various playwrights
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Monologue Series
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/going-it-alone-2/
Description: A collection of monologues by local playwrights celebrating the unique challenge of writing for a solo performer and performing solo.
Hopscotch to Infinity
By: Alejandro Canelos
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/hopscotch-to-infinity-by-alejandro-canelos/
Description: Relive schooldays through the “peeps” at Plinkett Elementary, who delight in magical powers, holidays, and whether stepping on a crack will break your mother’s back. Through a series of vignettes that are funny, ironic, and poignant, Hopscotch captures the joy of childhood.
Arkansas
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: Dexter J. Singleton
Event Date(s): Aug 21 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $43-76
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/raisin-in-the-sun
Description: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun paints a vivid portrait of the Younger family's struggle to retain dignity amidst a harsh and ever-changing world. With poignant depth, Hansberry's work continues to resonate as a searing testament of hope and inspiration.
twenty50
By: Tony Meneses
Directed by: Rebecca Rivas
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $29-62
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/twenty50
Description: Prosperous Southwestern rancher Andres Salazar is in a brutally challenging race for Congress in the year 2050, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Is compromising his sense of identity worth the potential benefits?
A Christmas Carol
By: Amy Herzberg & Robert Ford, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Steven Marzolf
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $43-76
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/christmas-carol
Description: The inventive, magic-filled T2 original—a new Northwest Arkansas family tradition. Three spirits come to visit the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and take him on a fantastic journey through past, present, and future. But will it be enough to save him? For all ages.
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: vickie washington
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $31-65
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/primary-trust
Description: Primary Trust follows mild-mannered Kenneth, a 36-year-old, set-in-his-ways bookstore worker, who spends most evenings sipping Mai Tais with his best friend at the local tiki bar. When he’s suddenly laid off, his world turns upside down—in more ways than one.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare, in a modern verse translation by Alison Carey
Directed by: Aneesha Kudtarkar
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $43-76
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/twelfth-night
Description: With lively music, captivating swordplay, and a fresh perspective, TheatreSquared's reimagining of this "most wonderful" romantic comedy promises an unforgettable live theatre experience. In partnership with the National Asian American Theatre Company.
In the Grove of Forgetting
By: Robert Ford
Directed by: Damon Kiely
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/in-the-grove-of-forgetting
Description: Summer, 1938. Ilona, a concert pianist known for her sharp wit as much as her musical passion, refuses to be ruled by fear, even as fellow Jewish artists and academics flee Hungary. Surely Budapest is safe from the growing Nazi fervor—isn’t it?
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
By: Robert L. Freedman (book & lyrics), Steven Lutvak (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Amy Herzberg & James Taylor Odom
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $43-76
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/gentlemans-guide
Description: Follow Monty Navarro, a low-born man who discovers he's eighth in line for an earldom in the D'Ysquith family. Featuring unforgettable music, endless laughs, and a standout performance by one actor playing all eight doomed heirs, this comedic romp guarantees an evening of fun.
California
4 Guys Named José… and Una Mujer Named María
By: Dolores Prida
Directed by: Erin Rose Solario
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: 6th Street Playhouse GK Hardt Theatre
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $29-$55.95 including all applicable fees
Reference Link: https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/shows/2024-25/four-guys-named-jose-and-una-mujer-named-maria/
Description: A passionate, vibrant, and hilarious musical celebrating Latin music and culture! Four guys named José add some spice to their lives in Omaha by staging a revue of the Latin hits they grew up with. Performed in English and Spanish.
Lizzie, the Musical
By: Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, Alan Stevens Hewitt
Directed by: Pat Nims
Event Date(s): Oct 05 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: 6th Street Playhouse Monroe Stage
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $29-$47.95 including all applicable fees
Reference Link: https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/shows/2024-25/lizzie-the-musical/
Description: In 1892, Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her father and stepmother. Based on the historical record, Lizze: The Musical has searing rock score that explores the heated days leading up to the murder and Lizzie’s controversial acquittal.
The Skin of Our Teeth
By: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott
Event Date(s): Sep 01 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $50-$120
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/the-skin-of-our-teeth/
Description: This Pulitzer-winning comedic masterpiece is a time-bending romp that catapults audiences into the lives of the Antrobus family. Various cataclysmic events serve as a backdrop for a hilarious and thought-provoking exploration of human resilience.
The Piano Lesson
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Gregg T. Daniel
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $45 - $100
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/the-piano-lesson/
Description: A captivating story set in 1930s Pittsburgh, where siblings are locked in a dispute over a precious family heirloom. This Pulitzer-winning play weaves together elements of history and spirituality, creating a haunting story about reckoning with a complicated past.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Directed by: Julia Rodriguez-Elliot & Geoff Elliot
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $50 - $130, not including Pay What You Choose events
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/a-christmas-carol-2024/
Description: This timeless story of redemption is filled to the brim with music and merriment. Create cherished memories with your whole family by witnessing Ebenezer Scrooge’s joyful transformation. It is a perfect burst of boundless good cheer for the season---and beyond!
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Andi Chapman
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $45 - $100, not including Pay What You Choose events
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/macbeth/
Description: Set in a world of political intrigue and supernatural forces, we land in a divided nation at the edge of tearing itself apart. Delve deep into the psychological turmoil of a king tortured by guilt, fate, and the corrupting influence of his own desires.
Jane Eyre
By: Elizabeth Williamson
Directed by: Geoff Elliot
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $45 - $100, not including Pay What You Choose events
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/jane-eyre/
Description: Facing societal expectations and personal challenges, Jane navigates betrayal and injustice with inexhaustible courage. This bold and dynamic production offers audiences a compelling portrayal of one woman’s quest for freedom and fulfillment in the face of devastating adversity.
A Man of No Importance
By: Terrence McNally
Directed by: Julia Rodriguez-Elliot
Event Date(s): May 04 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $45 - $100, not including Pay What You Choose events
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/a-man-of-no-importance/
Description: In 1960s Dublin, bus driver Alfie Byrne attempts to stage an Oscar Wilde play, but encounters religious objections and is pushed into facing the stigma and shame over a love “that dare not speak its name.” This musical is a hard-fought journey of self-discovery.
Private Lives
By: Nöel Coward
Directed by: KJ Sanchez
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$130
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/private-lives
Description: Bay Area favorite KJ Sanchez directs Coward’s hysterical classic tale of the tempestuous dance that is marriage. Reset in 1930s Argentina and featuring sensual tango dancing, Coward’s iconic, wry comedy sings with spiky repartee.
The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Gigi Bermingham
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Nov 18 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/productions/the-importance-of-being-earnest/
Description: When bachelors Jack and Algernon both create alter egos named Earnest, the lies quickly spiral into chaos, hilarity, cucumber sandwiches, and Victorian handbags.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Armin Shimerman
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Mar 17 2025
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/show-details/twelfth-night
Description: Separated from her twin brother in a shipwreck, Viola is forced to make her own way in the kingdom of Illyria—where, disguised as a man, she discovers unrequited passion, double-crossings, hilarity, and yellow stockings.
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Carolyn Ratteray
Event Date(s): Apr 27 2025 - Jun 02 2025
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/show-details/theglassmenagerie
Description: Tennessee Williams's indelible portrait of the dysfunctional Wingfield family. Fading Southern belle Amanda and her two grown children—aspiring poet Tom and desperately shy Laura—pin their hopes on the long-awaited appearance of a Gentleman Caller in this unsparing study.
God Will Do the Rest
By: Nicholas Pilapil
Directed by: Fran de Leon
Event Date(s): Aug 29 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: World premiere play (comedy)
Venue: The Los Angeles Theatre Center
City: Los Angeles
Price: $10-38
Reference Link: https://www.latinotheaterco.org/godwilldotherest
Description: Strong, glamorous family matriarch Maggie is celebrating a milestone birthday, and the de Dios family has gathered to celebrate in true FilAm style. God Will Do the Rest is a warm, funny new play that shares the joy and tension of a multigenerational Filipino American household.
Fallen Angels
By: Noël Coward
Directed by: Tom Ross
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Alafi Auditorium
City: Berkeley
Price: $38-61
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/fallen-angels
Description: Jane and Julia’s perfect polished lives are thrown into delightful disarray when an old flame returns. Passions and desires---along with generous helpings of champagne---send the two friends into a frenzy of anticipation, jealousy, and determination to choose their own destinies.
Fallen Angels
By: Noël Coward
Directed by: Tom Ross
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Aurora Theatre Company
City: Berkeley
Price: $10-$60
Reference Link: https://www.auroratheatre.org/fallen-angels
Description: Jane and Julia’s perfect polished lives are thrown into delightful disarray when an old flame returns. Passions and desires – along with generous helpings of champagne – send the two friends into a frenzy of anticipation, jealousy, and determination to choose their own destinies.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jennifer Chang
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Northern California Premier
Venue: Alafi Auditorium
City: Berkeley
Price: $38-61
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/heart-sellers
Description: Can you find a new way to make a home when you know your heart is somewhere else? Two lonely immigrant wives bond over hopes and heartaches as they attempt to celebrate their first American Thanksgiving.
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Elizabeth Carter
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue:
City: Berkeley
Price: $38-61
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/crumbs
Description: In the shifting social politics of 1950s America, the Crump family relocates the family from Pensacola to Brooklyn. Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage weaves the era's themes into a colorful poignant story of one family’s heartbreak, resilience, and joy.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
By: Jane Wagner
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue:
City: Berkeley
Price: $38-61
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/search-for-signs
Description: The celebrated and hilarious one-woman show that asks the biggest questions of all. One woman plays a cast of quirky and unforgettable characters in this brilliant and hilarious celebration of humanity’s beauty, chaos, and contradiction.
Mexodus
By: Brian Quijada & Nygel D. Robinson
Directed by: David Mendizábal
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/mexodus/
Description: History meets hip-hop in Mexodus, an electrifying live-looping musical, composed in real time by multitalented writer/performers Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson. Mexodus explores the often-untold stories of the Underground Railroad that led south into Mexico.
The Matchbox Magic Flute
By: Mary Zimmerman, adapt. from Mozart
Directed by: Mary Zimmerman
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Roda Theatre
City: Berkeley Rep
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-matchbox-magic-flute/
Description: Theatrical powerhouse Mary Zimmerman triumphantly returns to Berkeley Rep with a mesmerizing adaptation of Mozart’s iconic Magic Flute, using only 10 singers and five musicians. Join Tamino on a daring quest to rescue the captive princess Pamina.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Whitney White
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/jaja-s-african-hair-braiding/
Description: Step into the vibrant world of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a beloved Harlem hotspot where West African immigrant braiders work their magic on the locals’ locks. Jaja’s African Hair Braiding is “a play that is equally affecting as it is hilarious,” raves Entertainment Weekly.
The Thing About Jellyfish
By: Keith Bunin, adapt. from Ali Benjamin
Directed by: Tyne Rafaeli
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Roda Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-thing-about-jellyfish/
Description: Adapted from the best-selling novel, The Thing About Jellyfish is a visually stunning and deeply emotional coming-of-age tale about love, loss, friendship, and the profound expansiveness of the human spirit.
Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekov, adapt. by Conor McPherson
Directed by: Simon Godwin
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/uncle-vanya/
Description: When the distinguished elderly owner of a rural estate returns with a new young wife, chaos erupts. Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) plays Uncle Vanya in this heartbreaking comedy about the eternal battle between futility and change.
Here There Are Blueberries
By: Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich
Directed by: Moisés Kaufman
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Roda Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/here-there-are-blueberries/
Description: In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs— what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust and our own humanity.
the aves
By: Jiehae Park
Directed by: Knud Adams
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-aves/
Description: In summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain...but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. The ordinary turns into the extraordinary as the seasons shift, meditating on themes of human connection, memory, and growing older.
A Going Away Party Play
By: Keyanna Khatiblou
Directed by: James Fowler
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boston Court Pasadena
City: Pasadena
Price: $19-59
Reference Link: https://bostoncourtpasadena.org/events/agoingawaypartyplay/
Description: A Going Away Party Play is a world premiere play celebrating multicultural identities and exploring what it means to leave or lose your home country.
Fairview
By: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by: Anthony D'Juan
Event Date(s): Aug 28 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/fairview/
Description: Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this birthday party is perfect for Grandma. A standard family dramedy that takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jennifer Chang
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/the-heart-sellers/
Description: Jane and Luna run into each other in the grocery store on Thanksgiving in 1973 and find they have much in common: Each are recent Asian immigrants, a bit homesick and lonely with hard-working absentee husbands, and adjusting to a new country filled with new opportunities.
Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley
By: Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
Directed by: Janis Stevens
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/georgiana-kitty-christmas-at-pemberley-2024/
Description: Meddlesome families and outmoded expectations won’t stop these determined friends, Georgiana and Kitty, from forging their own way in a holiday tale filled with music, ambition, sisterhood, and forgiveness in the third and final play in the Christmas at Pemberley trilogy.
English
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Torange Yeghiazarian
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/english/
Description: It’s 2008 and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj, Iran. As the class slowly devolves into a linguistic mess, some students cling tighter to their mother tongue while others embrace the possibilities of a new language.
Everything Beautiful Happens at Night
By: Ted Malawer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/everything-beautiful-happens-at-night/
Description: World premiere. Ezra is a successful children’s book writer. Nancy is his longtime editor. They are always on the same page, until someone new threatens to disrupt their friendship and influence Ezra’s next book.
Unseen
By: Mona Mansour
Directed by: Benjamin T. Ismail
Event Date(s): May 07 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/unseen/
Description: Conflict photographer Mia wakes up in the Istanbul apartment of her on-again, off-again girlfriend after being found unconscious at the scene of a massacre she was photographing. Mia can’t even remember being there, but she wired photos of the site hours before she was found.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Michael Stevenson
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2025 - Jul 27 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/king-james/
Description: Shawn and Matt are in an unlikely friendship forged by fandom of LeBron James. Over 12 years, from LeBron’s rookie season to an NBA Championship, the men navigate their turbulent friendship through their shared love of basketball.
Arsenic and Old Lace
By: Joseph Kesselring
Directed by: Matt M. Morrow
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $65-85
Reference Link: https://www.lesherartscenter.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/17293/3899
Description: The grandmother of dark comedies gets a mischievous and campy makeover as artistic director Matt M. Morrow makes her Center REP directorial debut. Deliciously macabre, classically winsome, and queerishly delightful---a new vision for one of theatre's most enduring comedies.
Dragon Lady
By: Sara Porkalob
Directed by: Andrew Russell
Event Date(s): Oct 27 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $66.00
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: Broadway powerhouse Sara Porkalob takes Center REP by storm in her acclaimed one-woman musical adventure!
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens Adaptation by Cynthia Caywood & Richard L. James
Directed by: Scott Denison
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $37.00-70.00
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: “THE Christmas Carol to see in the Bay Area!”
Froggy
By: Jennifer Haley
Directed by: Matt M. Morrow
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $66.00
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: Nearly a decade in the making, this sensory-rich rollercoaster of a thriller springs theatre into the future in this altogether wild new work from a team of today’s groundbreaking theatere-artists.
The Roommate
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Vanessa Stalling
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: Who says being single, middle-aged, and an empty nester has to be a bummer? Now in her mid-50’s—and recently ‘liberated’ from her child and husband—Sharon needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn, also in her mid-50s, seeks a refuge and a chance to reboot.
Happy Pleasant Valley
By: Min Kahng
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
Event Date(s): Jun 01 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: When internet influencer Jade Park is cancelled online, she seeks redemption by taking on a precarious challenge—helping her rebellious grandmother June, who has the raised eyebrows of many in her senior residential community following a string of mysterious deaths of her lovers.
Gloria
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn 30.
Jane Austen’s Emma, The Musical
By: Paul Gordon (book, lyrics, and music)
Directed by: Casey Long
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center, 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA
City: Anaheim
Price: $59
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/emma
Description: Jane Austen’s enduring love story is brought to life as a romantic comedy musical. The story revolves around Emma, a well-meaning but disaster-prone matchmaker, who ignores her own romantic feelings while setting out to find a suitor for her friend Harriet.
Tick, Tick… Boom!
By: Jonathan Larson
Directed by: H. Adam Harris
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Cripe Stage at Bette Aitken theater arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $51
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/boom/
Description: Before Jonathan Larson revolutionized Broadway, he was a young man struggling to make his mark. This autobiographical musical, set in 1990, is a raw, humorous, and heartfelt journey of a composer on the brink of turning 30.
Such Small Hands
By: Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by: James Michael McHale
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Fyda-Mar Stage at Bette Aitken theater arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/smallhands/
Description: This hilarious and moving world premiere play about love, aging, selfishness, and selflessness from Chance Theater’s 2011 resident playwright Adam Szymkowicz, is sure to resonate with audiences with its laughter and heart.
The Chinese Lady
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Shinshin Yuder Tsai
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cripe Stage at Bette Aitken theater arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/thechineselady/
Description: Inspired by a true story, Lloyd Suh’s critically acclaimed play, The Chinese Lady, is a poetic, whimsical tale that paints a unique portrait of the United States as seen through the eyes of this remarkable young Chinese girl.
Spring Awakening
By: Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater
Directed by: Jocelyn A. Brown
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Cripe Stage at Bette Aitken theater arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $51
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/springawakening/
Description: Based on Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking play, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s brilliant rock score and searingly emotional book bring the story of sexual awakening, youth revolt, and self-discovery into a new century.
Gutenberg! The Musical!
By: Scott Brown and Anthony King
Directed by: Jacob Russell-Snyder
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Sonoma State University
City: Petaluma
Price: $35-55
Reference Link: https://cinnabartheater.org/show/gutenbergthemusical/
Description: Gutenberg! The Musical!, by Scott Brown and Anthony King, follows Bud Davenport and Doug Simon as they pitch their musical about Johannes Gutenberg to potential Broadway producers in a hilarious backer's audition.
An Inspector Calls
By: J.B. Priestley
Directed by: Mark Anderson Phillips
Event Date(s): Sep 26 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/inspector/
Description: As the well-to-do Birlings celebrate an engagement in the family, the festive evening is suddenly punctured by an uninvited visitor: an inspector looking into the death of a young woman.
Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War
By: Kit Wilder
Directed by: Angie Higgins
Event Date(s): Nov 21 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/truce/
Description: Set in the trenches of France, this story follows soldiers on both sides who embraced a spontaneous ceasefire to celebrate Christmas in 1914.
In Love and Warcraft
By: Madhuri Shekar
Directed by: Kimberly Ridgeway
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/warcraft/
Description: Level up your laughter and your heart with this hilarious, raunchy, R-rated take on intimacy and love in the digital age.
The Mousetrap
By: Agatha Christie
Directed by: Kimberly Ridgeway
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/mousetrap/
Description: A police detective arrives on skis to interrogate the diverse mix of suspects, who include the newlyweds running the house, the peculiar young architect, the haughty old pensioner, the retired general, the weary traveler, and the mysterious stranger.
The Cake
By: Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by: Lisa Mallette
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/the-cake/
Description: Della and her North Carolina bakery are renowned for creating the most beautiful, delicious cakes. So it’s no surprise that when the girl she helped raise returns to the South, she asks Della to make her wedding cake. The surprise? There are two brides.
Head Over Heels
By: Jeff Whitty and James Magruder
Directed by: Jeffrey Bracco
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/heels/
Description: This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the infectious music of the iconic ’80s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, featuring hit songs including “Vacation” and “Our Lips Are Sealed."
Next to Normal
By: Brian Yorkey & Tom Kitt
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $80-$125
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: Nominated for 11 Tonys, Next to Normal became the eighth musical in history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Heartbreaking and moving, Next to Normal depicts a family’s struggle with depression and mental health through powerful songs, comedic and chaotic setting.
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 11 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $55-$115
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: Mix a Hitchcock movie masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, then add a dash of Monty Python craziness, and you have The 39 Steps. It’s a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award winner is packed with nonstop laughter.
The Light in the Piazza
By: Adam Guettel & Craig Lucas
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Palm Springs
Price: $65-$125
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: With six Tonys and five Drama Desk Awards, The Light in the Piazza takes us to Tuscany where a beautiful, endearing yet surprisingly childish young woman loses her hat in a sudden gust and lands at the feet of a handsome young Florentine man. A love story unlike any other unfolds.
Jesus Christ Superstar
By: Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice
Directed by: Adam Karsten
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $65-$125
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: Jesus Christ Superstar tells of the struggles between Jesus, Judas Iscariot, Mary Magdalene, his disciples, his followers, and the Roman Empire entirely through song. CVRep will present a semi-immersive version of this masterpiece in a way that has never been seen before.
Other Desert Cities
By: Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $55-$115
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: When a young lady arrives at her parents’ Palm Springs manor on Christmas Eve with a copy of her "tell-all" memoir in tow, she uncovers a devastating family secret---launching her parents into a panic that threatens to rip the clan apart.
Macabre Cabaret
By: n/a
Directed by: Cleo DeOrio
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Theater, Variety
Venue: Carlo Theater, Dell'Arte
City: Blue Lake
Price: $30-100
Reference Link: https://dellarte.com/onstage/
Description: As the veil between worlds thins, the Macabre Cabaret crosses the boundary to confront patrons with an evening of clowns juggling knives, disembodied voices, goth drag sensations, monsters in the shadows, haunting electronic melodies, and more.
Midnight at the Never Get
By: Mark Sonnenblick
Directed by: Stephen Brotebeck
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Diversionary Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/midnight
Description: It’s 1965 in Greenwich Village. In an illegal backroom cabaret called the Never Get, lovers Trevor and Arthur perform an act that unabashedly celebrates gay romance for like-minded audiences. As they croon their way toward the end of a revolutionary decade, facing the conflicting promises of professional success and personal liberation, will their relationship survive?
we are continuous
By: Harrison David Rivers
Directed by: Kian Kline Chilton
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Diversionary Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-60
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/we-are-continuous
Description: Simon and his mother, Ora, have always been close. She’s been his champion, his defender, and his friend. But when a life-changing secret comes to light, can their bond survive?
Merry Me
By: Hansol Jung
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 08 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Diversionary Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-60
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/merry-me
Description: While a mysterious blackout leaves a navy stranded near enemy territory, the libidinous Lieutenant Shane Horne puts her very specific talents to use, including with the general’s wife. Meanwhile, a famed Angel sends the Navy’s psychiatrist on an epic quest to save humanity.
Pacific Overtures
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), John Weidman (book)
Directed by: Tim Dang
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 01 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: David Henry Hwang Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $39-$69 (not including access $15, PWYC Night, or obstructed view $24)
Reference Link: https://www.eastwestplayers.org/pacific24
Description: 🌊🗾⚓ It's 1853 and it’s the end of the world! When two emissaries are tasked with meeting Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s gunboat docked on the coast of isolationist Japan, little could they know that they would irreversibly change the “Floating Kingdom.”
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
By: Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Directed by: Jamie Torcellini
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors/
Description: Ever wondered what would happen if you took Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire tale and put it into a blender with the comedic influences of Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and The 39 Steps? That’s just what happens in this lightning-fast, laugh-out-loud, gender-bending magical romp.
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Directed by: Brian McDonald
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/million-dollar-quartet/
Description: This Tony-nominated musical is set on Dec. 4, 1956, when an extraordinary twist of fate brought Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley together at Sun Records in Memphis for what would be one of the greatest jam sessions ever.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Margaret Starbuck
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/hamlet/
Description: The most famous thriller ever written is given a visceral, frightening, and moving new modern-dress production. This production will reinvent Shakespeare’s tragedy for the 21st century, drawing new resonance from this 400-year-old play.
Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone
By: Hershey Felder
Directed by: Joel Zwick
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/hershey-felder-as-george-gershwin-alone/
Description: George Gershwin Alone tells the story of America’s great composer who, with the groundbreaking “Rhapsody in Blue,” made a “lady out of jazz.” The show incorporates the composer’s best-known songs from “The Man I Love” and “Someone to Watch Over Me” through Porgy & Bess.
Justice
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Jenny Sullivan
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/justice/
Description: Justice features the “firsts” of the Supreme Court justices, exploring the first women on the U.S. Supreme Court---Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor---at the height of their power.
The Brothers Size
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by: Bijan Sheibani
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/the-brothers-size/https://
Description: A modern-day fable. Ogun, the elder brother, embodies hard work and reliability, while Oshoosi, formerly incarcerated, is seemingly carefree and unpredictable. Their relationship is tested when the charismatic Elegba arrives, tempting Oshoosi back to his old habits.
Dragon Lady
By: Sara Porkalob
Directed by: Andrew Russell
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/dragon-lady/
Description: On the eve of her 60th birthday, Maria Porkalob Sr. fires up her new karaoke machine to regale her granddaughter Sara with her astonishing life story. Broadway star and storyteller Sara Porkalob embodies dozens of characters in a trigenerational tour-de-force performance.
Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
Directed by: Judy Hagarty Lovett
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/waiting-for-godot/
Description: As Vladimir and Estragon wait and wait for the arrival of the elusive Godot, a cast of mysterious misfits interrupt their endless vigil in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterpiece that has captivated audiences for decades. Featuring Conor Lovett and Rainn Wilson.
Noises Off
By: Michael Frayn
Directed by: Anna D. Shapiro
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $36–139
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/noises-off/
Description: Chaos reigns for a troupe of floundering actors whose forgotten lines, misplaced props, and steamy romantic entanglements make it nearly impossible for the show to go on. A co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Furlough’s Paradise
By: a.k. payne
Directed by: Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $36–139
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/furloughs-paradise/
Description: While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship.
The Reservoir
By: Jake Brasch
Directed by: Shelley Butler
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2025 - Jul 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $36–139
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/the-reservoir/
Description: Desperate for camaraderie, Josh decides to bring his four lovable grandparents on his road to recovery. Served up with outrageous humor and truth, The Reservoir reminds us that sometimes the path forward isn’t the one we expect.
11 Reflections: San Francisco
By:
Directed by: Andrea Assaf
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: multi-disciplinary
Venue: Brava Theater Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25 - $100. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Reference Link: https://goldenthread.org/productions/11-reflections-san-francisco/
Description: 11 Refections: San Francisco illuminates our collective experience in a post-9/11 world, from the fall of the Twin Towers to the U.S. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan to the Muslim ban to the funding of genocide in Palestine, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty.”
11Reflections: San Francisco
By: Andrea Assaf & ensemble
Directed by: Andrea Assaf
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: devised theatre performance
Venue: Brava! for Women in the Arts
City: San Francisco
Price: $30-100
Reference Link: https://goldenthread.org
Description: 11Reflections: San Francisco is the newest devised performance in a national series, co-created with local artists and community, reflecting on a post-9/11 world and illuminating our collective experiences, from the fall of the Twin Towers to the funding of genocide in Palestine.
Alaa: a Family Trilogy
By: Adam Ashraf Elsayigh, w/ generative dramaturgy by Salma Zohdi
Directed by: Evren Odcikin
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: A script-in-hand workshop production
Venue: Z Space
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-100
Reference Link: https://goldenthread.org
Description: ALAA: a Family Trilogy is an epic dramatization of the life and times of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a leading voice of the Egyptian Revolution, unlawfully held today by Egypt's military regime. The trilogy weaves writings and personal testimonials from Alaa and his family's matriarchs.
The Double V
By: Carole Eglash-Kosoff
Directed by: caryn desai
Event Date(s): Aug 21 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Long Beach Convention & Performance Center
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-55
Reference Link: https://InternationalCityTheatre.org
Description: In 1942, sparked by a letter to the editor, The Pittsburgh Courier kicked off the “Double V” campaign, the first Black civil rights movement that used the popular "V for Victory" motto of World War II in its fight for racial equality in the military and across the United States.
Murder on the Links
By: Steven Dietz, adapt. from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Jamie Torcellini
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-55
Reference Link: https://www.InternationalCityTheatre.org
Description: Detective Hercule Poirot receives an urgent letter from Paul Renauld, summoning him to France. But when he arrives, Poirot finds he’s too late—M. Renauld now lies dead, face down in a grave on the edge of the golf course he was building. But certain facts do not add up…
Desperate Measures
By: Music by David Friedman, book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical Comedy
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: A foot-stompin’, knee-slappin’ musical with a nod to Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
The Violin Maker
By: Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Drama with music
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: An Israeli violin maker wrestles with family ghosts, devoting his life to repairing “stringed survivors,” ruined instruments rescued from the ashes of the Holocaust, the voices of which can now heard in concerts around the world.
Theatre People or The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Jun 11 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: A rollicking romantic comedy about a writer commissioned to adapt his novel, The Angel Next Door, for the stage. When it turns out that the “angel” may not be angelic, only the power of theatre can save the play, the novel, and---perhaps most importantly---the writer’s heart.
Masala Dabba
By: Wendy Graf
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Aug 27 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: In the newest family drama from Los Angeles-based playwright Wendy Graf, members of a mixed race family see themselves reflected in stories from the past, each inspired by a spice in their grandmother’s Indian spice box ("masala dabba").
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: Knud Adams
Event Date(s): Sep 24 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: When the award-winning Primary Trust premiered, The Daily Beast said it’s “pretty darn near to perfect.” A transformative and heart-warming story of new beginnings, old (and new) friends, and finding the courage to see the world for the first time.
Your Local Theatre Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again
By: Anna Ouyang Moench
Directed by: Les Waters
Event Date(s): Nov 19 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: World-Premiere Play
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: Gather ‘round for a very Playhouse take on Christmas. Eddie is a young actor ready to make his mark on the American theatre. First he’s just going to do this production of A Christmas Carol. This comedic play is a love letter to artists and dreamers of all professions.
3 Summers of Lincoln
By: Joe DiPietro (book and lyrics), Daniel J. Watts (lyrics), Crystal Monee Hall (music)
Directed by: Christopher Ashley
Event Date(s): Feb 18 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: World-Premiere Musical
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: Summer, 1862. President Lincoln must find a way to end the Civil War. Enter powerful abolitionist Frederick Douglass. This new musical tells the inspirational story of one of the most important friendships in our nation’s history, and that of a divided country coming together.
Cleopatra
By: Joy Yvonne Jones
Directed by: Andréa Agosto
Event Date(s): Aug 11 2024 - Sep 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $5-90
Reference Link: https://www.moxietheatre.com/shows/cleopatra/
Description: Skin of pure gold and stories untold; Cleopatra awakens the original diva in a one-woman, interactive performance in this retelling of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Written and starring San Diego Critics Circle Award-winning actor Joy Yvonne Jones.
Little Women
By: Allan Knee, Jason Howland, Mindi Dickstein / Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Leigh Scarritt / Desireé Clarke Miller
Event Date(s): Nov 10 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Two productions in rep
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $5-90
Reference Link: https://moxietheatre.com
Description: In rep with Our Dead Drug Lord. Internationally celebrated Broadway musical meets jaw-droppingly controversial and terrifyingly funny thriller about high school girls having seemingly "harmless" fun. A genre defying combination of two productions performed by a cast of San Diego’s most fiercely talented women.
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Desireé Clarke Miller
Event Date(s): Nov 10 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Two productions in rep
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $5-90
Reference Link: https://moxietheatre.com
Description: In rep with Little Women. Internationally celebrated Broadway musical meets jaw-droppingly controversial and terrifyingly funny thriller about high school girls having seemingly "harmless" fun. A genre-defying combination of two productions performed by a cast of San Diego’s most fiercely talented women.
Lamoise New Works Festival: Bridging the Gender Gap
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Staged Readings Festival
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://moxietheatre.com
Description: The first edition of MOXIE's Lamoise New Works Festival, dedicated to developing new plays and musicals by women+ playwrights. At the culmination of a two-week workshop, audiences will be invited to join in celebrating new and exciting works over one weekend of staged readings.
Do You Feel Anger?
By: Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Directed by: Yari Cervas
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $5-90
Reference Link: https://moxietheatre.com
Description: A hardcore comedy about empathy (or the lack thereof!). When a debt collection agency is forced to hire an empathy coach, absurdity ensues in this powerfully funny new play. Maybe someone will keep getting mugged in the kitchen, but at least they can talk about their feelings!
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare, adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan
Directed by: Michael Gene Sullivan
Event Date(s): Aug 16 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Forest Meadows Amphitheatre
City: San Rafael
Price: $15-40
Reference Link: https://www.marinshakespeare.org
Description: Michael Gene Sullivan's adaptation of this classic Shakespearean comedy imagines a group of women in Elizabethan England bravely performing an underground version of the play to satisfy their artistic longings.
Ride the Cyclone
By: Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
Directed by: Stephanie Temple
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $35.50-$72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/ride-the-cyclone
Description: Reach for the skies takes on a whole new meaning when six members of a Canadian chamber choir take a fateful rollercoaster ride to the great beyond. Both madly hilarious and surprisingly introspective, this award-winning musical poses the question of what makes a life well-lived.
The Gulf
By: Audrey Cefaly
Directed by: Tracy Ward
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Jun 06 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-72.50 including fees
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/the-gulf
Description: Betty wants change. Kendra likes the status quo. On a small fishing boat on the Alabama Delta, a tranquil evening of playful banter takes a volatile turn as two lovers witness the weight of their unspoken words. West Coast premiere of the winner of the 2018 Lammy for LGBTQ Drama.
Deep Inside Tonight
By: Kinsey Sicks
Directed by: Kinsey Sicks
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $35.50-$72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: nctcsf.org/deep-inside-tonight
Description: The Kinsey Sicks bring their glorious, award-winning harmonies to the NCTC stage where it all began in celebration of their 30th anniversary tour. Tune in for outrageous highjinks, the wittiest of parodies, and a performance as delightful and legendary as the girls themselves.
Wild With Happy
By: Colman Domingo
Directed by: ShawnJ West
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/wild-with-happy
Description: A wondrous dramedy from the mind of Colman Domingo: When the process of grieving his mother involves an overly enthusiastic funeral director, and a demanding Aunt Glo, there’s nowhere for Gil to turn but a wild grab-an-urn-and-go road trip to find his fairy tale ending.
To My Girls
By: JC Lee
Directed by: Ben Villegas Randle
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/to-my-girls
Description: A tight-knit group of gay men reunite in the dreamy town of Palm Springs, only to discover they've packed some "baggage" with their baggage. A heartwarming and vivacious story explores what happens when the inflatable swans are tossed aside and the truth is laid bare.
Simple Mexican Pleasures
By: Eric Reyes Loo
Directed by: Evren Odcikin
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $30-72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/simple-mexican-pleasures
Description: It’s hard to enjoy a post-breakup pozole in peace when the spirits of your ancestors are squabbling in both ears. Eric’s impulsive trip to Mexico City turns into a mystical journey of discovering his identity, need for familial ties, and a deeper connection to his roots.
The Thanksgiving Play
By: Larissa FastHorse
Directed by: Daniel Jáquez
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center
City: Carlsbad
Price: $30-60
Reference Link: https://newvillagearts.org/thanksgiving-play/
Description: Four (very) well-intentioned theatre people walk into an elementary school. The work at hand: a Thanksgiving pageant that won’t ruffle any feathers. What could possibly go wrong? In MacArthur Genius Larissa FastHorse’s skewering and satirical comedy, well, just about everything.
A View From the Bridge
By: Arthur Miller
Directed by: David Ellenstein
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/a-view-from-the-bridge/
Description: Season 43 blazes onto the stage with Arthur Miller’s Tony-winning play, A View From the Bridge. Set in a tight-knit Italian-American community in 1950s Brooklyn, the play explores the lives of its characters with raw emotion and powerful storytelling.
Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help
By: Katie Forgette
Directed by: Jenny Sullivan
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/incident-at-our-lady-of-perpetual-help/
Description: Embark on a delightful journey down memory lane with the San Diego premiere of Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1970s, Katie Forgette’s charming comedy unfolds within the confines of a working-class family home.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Kat Yen
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Feb 02 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/the-heart-sellers/
Description: The Heart Sellers makes its San Diego premiere, offering a compelling portrayal of intelligent, curious, and creative women navigating the challenges of a new country, and highlighting the Asian immigrant experience.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Shana Wride
Event Date(s): Feb 26 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/what-the-constitution-means-to-me/
Description: What the Constitution Means to Me is an emotionally charged theatrical experience exploring the U.S. Constitution’s profound significance in contemporary America. Crafted by playwright Heidi Schreck, it is a deeply personal and introspective journey.
Peril in the Alps
By: Steven Dietz
Directed by: Steven Dietz
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/peril-in-the-alps/
Description: The twin sister of Captain Hastings's wife Dulcie has been kidnapped—and Hercule Poirot rightly expects not only extortion to follow, but murder! Using elements of Agatha Christie’s Poirot Investigates, Steven Dietz creates a sequel to his wildly popular Murder on the Links.
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by: David Ellenstein
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/birthday-candles/
Description: Birthday Candles is a touching journey of the human experience, filled with laughter, tears, and moments of reflection that make up one woman’s ordinary life. The play explores the passing of time, the evolution of relationships, and the profound changes that occur in life.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
By: Robert L. Freedman (book & lyrics), Steven Lutvak (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Noelle Marion
Event Date(s): Jul 16 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/a-gentlemans-guide-to-love-and-murder/
Description: Winner of the 2014 Tony for Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is an endlessly entertaining foray into a charming man’s relentless quest for a bountiful inheritance that will change his life forever.
The Agitators
By: Mat Smart
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 23 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre & Solvan Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria/Solvang
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: Young abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony are full of dreams and seemingly common purpose when they meet in Rochester, N.Y., in the 1840s and form an unexpected friendship.
Blast Off
By: Maya Malan-Gonzalez
Directed by: Marilet Martinez
Event Date(s): Nov 02 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Severson Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Never let fear hinder your pursuit of knowledge and big dreams! Join Valentina and her imaginary best friend, astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa, as they defy stereotypes and discover the harmonious synergy between science and art.
Beauty and the Beast
By: Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice, Book by Linda Woolverton
Directed by: Erik Stein
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: In Disney's enchanting "tale as old as time," Belle, a young woman trapped in her provincial life, encounters a prince trapped under a curse that has turned him into a terrifying beast. But the key to their freedoms might lie in each other.
El Ermitaño
By: by Miguel Sabido
Directed by: Gerardo Gutierrez
Event Date(s): Dec 14 2024 - Dec 14 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Severson Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: El Ermitaño (The Hermit) is a captivating 60-minute play in Spanish, rich with music, humor, and tradition, embodying the time-honored elements of a Pastorela. Miguel Sabido's Mexican Christmas tale explores the eternal conflict of good versus evil within the human experience.
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Andy Philpot
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: In Shakespeare's cherished comedy, love, wit, and mischief entwine, and the results are hilarious and heart-aching in this timeless battle of the sexes.
Sanctuary City
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Sara Rademacher
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Severson Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: In this powerful coming-of-age story, two teens forge a deep bond amid the complexities of immigration, identity, belonging, and love.
Waitress
By: Book Jessie Nelson, Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Directed by: Kitty Balay
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Waitress serves up a heartfelt tale of love, liberations, and the pursuit of dreams, as Jenna finds inspiration in her pies and embarks on a journey of self-discovery amidst steadfast friendship and sweet melodies.
Waitress
By: Book Jessie Nelson, Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Directed by: Kitty Balay
Event Date(s): Jun 19 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Solvang Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Waitress serves up a heartfelt tale of love, liberations, and the pursuit of dreams, as Jenna finds inspiration in her pies and embarks on a journey of self-discovery amidst steadfast friendship and sweet melodies.
Holmes and Watson
By: Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Michael Brusasco
Event Date(s): Jun 26 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Join Dr. Watson in a twisty, tantalizing mystery as he navigates a deadly guessing game to uncover the truth behind three men claiming to be Sherlock Holmes, in Jeffrey Hatcher's gripping adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's original tale, Holmes and Watson.
Holmes and Watson
By: Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Michael Brusasco
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Solvang Festival Theater
City: Solvang
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Join Dr. Watson in a twisty, tantalizing mystery as he navigates a deadly guessing game to uncover the truth behind three men claiming to be Sherlock Holmes, in Jeffrey Hatcher's gripping adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's original tale, Holmes and Watson.
Something Rotten
By: Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick
Directed by: Keenon Hooks and Roger DeLaurier
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Join the Bottom Brothers on a riotous quest to outshine Shakespeare in this uproariously entertaining musical romp. Something Rotten blends 16th century wit, with 21st century Broadway flair to prove that stardom requires kicking up your heels and staying true to yourself.
Something Rotten
By: Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick
Directed by: Keenon Hooks and Roger DeLaurier
Event Date(s): Aug 01 2025 - Aug 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Solvang Festival Theater
City: Solvang
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Join the Bottom Brothers on a riotous quest to outshine Shakespeare in this uproariously entertaining musical romp. Something Rotten blends 16th century wit, with 21st century Broadway flair to prove that stardom requires kicking up your heels and staying true to yourself.
Songs for Nobodies
By: By Joanna Murray-Smith, Orchestrations by Andra Velis Simon
Directed by: Rob Lindley
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2025 - Aug 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Step into the mesmerizing world of Songs for Nobodies, where the paths of some of the most legendary singers of all time intersect with those of everyday women in a tour de force of inspiration and resilience.
Songs for Nobodies
By: By Joanna Murray-Smith, Orchestrations by Andra Velis Simon
Directed by: Rob Lindley
Event Date(s): Aug 28 2025 - Sep 07 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Solvang Festival Theater
City: Solvang
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Step into the mesmerizing world of Songs for Nobodies, where the paths of some of the most legendary singers of all time intersect with those of everyday women in a tour de force of inspiration and resilience.
Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand, freely adapted by Martin Crimp
Directed by: Mike Donahue
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play - Drama
Venue: Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $40 and up
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/cyrano-de-bergerac/
Description: One of the greatest plays ever written is radically reborn in this critically acclaimed adaptation. Modern poetry and sizzling rhythm collide in a scorching love triangle when Cyrano discovers the love of his life has eyes for another man. Don't miss this epic romantic adventure.
Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand, freely adapt. by Martin Crimp
Directed by: Mike Donahue
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/cyrano-de-bergerac/
Description: One of the greatest plays ever written is radically reborn in this critically acclaimed adaptation. Modern poetry and sizzling rhythm collide in a scorching love triangle when Cyrano discovers the love of his life has eyes for another man.
La Cage aux Folles
By: Jerry Herman (music & lyrics), Harvey Fierstein (book)
Directed by: Sam Pinkleton
Event Date(s): Nov 12 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: Tickets start at $44
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/la-cage-aux-folles/
Description: Beautiful. Bawdy. Bizarre. Welcome to La Cage aux Folles, the hottest drag club in St. Tropez and one of theater’s all-time biggest hits. The Tony Award-winning musical comes to life in this all-new Playhouse extravaganza.
La Cage aux Folles
By: Jerry Herman (music & lyrics), Harvey Fierstein (book)
Directed by: Sam Pinkleton
Event Date(s): Nov 12 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/la-cage-aux-folles/
Description: Beautiful. Bawdy. Bizarre. Welcome to La Cage aux Folles, the hottest drag club in St. Tropez and one of theatre’s all-time biggest hits. The Tony Award-winning musical comes to life in this all-new Playhouse extravaganza.
Anything Goes: In Concert
By: Cole Porter (music & lyrics)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Jan 25 2025
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/special-concert-events/
Description: Anything Goes in concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. One of the most iconic shows in Broadway history, featuring some of American musical theatre’s most beloved songs, performed with full orchestrations.
Follies: In Concert
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), James Goldman (book)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 01 2025
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/special-concert-events/
Description: One of the most iconic shows in Broadway history, featuring some of American musical theatre’s most beloved songs performed with full orchestrations.
Topdog/Underdog
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 31 2025
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/topdog-underdog/
Description: Two brothers in free fall struggle to find their footing as they hustle their way through life. Haunted by the past, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their fate. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Suzan-Lori Parks’s darkly comic fable is poetic, gripping, and unforgettable.
Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
By:
Directed by: Suzy Newman
Event Date(s): Aug 16 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $27-37
Reference Link: https://www.slorep.org
Description: The basic plot of all five shows: June is an ingenue who can’t pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? From Sondheim’s tortured artistic genius to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock musical, don’t miss this delightful comic vehicle.
Misery
By: William Goldman, adapt. from Stephen King
Directed by: Lawrence Lesher
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has as killed off her favorite character.
A Christmas Story
By: Philip Grecian, adapt. from Jean Shepherd
Directed by: Kevin Harris
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Holiday Show
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher, and even Santa Claus himself!
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Colin Escott
Directed by: Kevin Harris
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $35-60
Reference Link: https://www.slorep.org
Description: On a Tuesday night shortly before Christmas 1956, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley gathered at Sun Records in Memphis, Tenn. This was their only performance together, a cultural flashpoint that caught rock ‘n’ roll at the moment of creation.
The Cake
By: Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by: Kerry DiMaggio
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: Della makes cakes, not judgment calls---those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down.
I Hate Hamlet
By: Paul Rudnick
Directed by: R. Michael Gros
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: In Paul Rudnick’s hilarious dramatic comedy, when television star Andrew Rally moves back to New York and finds himself cast as Hamlet, nothing seems right.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
By: Clark Gesner
Directed by: Suzy Newman
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: Happiness is great musical theatre! With charm, wit, and heart, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and his friends in the Peanuts gang.
Choir Boy
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by: Darryl V. Jones
Event Date(s): Sep 24 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Shotgun Players, The Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: $28 - 40
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/choir-boy
Description: Nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Play, and winner of two including Best Vocal Arrangements, Choir Boy is a coming-of-age story with African American spirituals and step choreography. This is not a coming-out story. It's a story about the power of self-love.
Hair
By: Gerome Ragni & James Rado (book & lyrics); Galt MacDermot (music)
Directed by: Jerry Lee
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park
City: Columbia
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://www.sierrarep.org/
Description: Celebrate the 1960s counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded, and fringed glory.
Into the Woods
By: James Lapine (book), Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Scott Viets
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: East Sonora Theatre
City: Sonora
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://www.sierrarep.org/
Description: When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a witch’s curse, the two set off on a magical journey to break the curse.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
By: Robert Penola (adaptation), Johnny Marks (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Scott Viets
Event Date(s): Nov 21 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park
City: Columbia
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://www.sierrarep.org/
Description: Because of his shiny nose, Rudolph doesn’t feel like he belongs in Christmastown and sets off to find a place that accepts him. Along his journey, he encounters fellow misfits, only to realize that home is where he has belonged the whole time.
Macario
By: adapted for the stage by Evelina Fernández and Teatro Visión with original music by Russell Rodríguez
Directed by: Rodrigo García
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave., San José, CA 95148
City: San José
Price: $10 -40
Reference Link: https://www.teatrovision.org/macario
Description: Macario is the classic story of a poor woodcutter who dreams of a day without hunger. When his wife makes that dream come true, he is given a healing power that could change his family and his community’s lives forever.
No llegamos aquí solos
By: Yosimar Reyes
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Dec 07 2024
Type of Event: Staged reading
Venue: TBA
City: San José
Price: $10-40
Reference Link: https://www.teatrovision.org/shows
Description: Teatro Visión and Santa Clara County poet laureate Yosimar Reyes are embarking on a collaborative, community-centered new play development project focusing on East San José and the Mayfair District's immigrant communities.
The House on Mango Street
By: adapted by Amy Ludwig from the novel by Sandra Cisneros
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave., San José, CA 95148
City: San José
Price: $10-40
Reference Link: https://www.teatrovision.org/shows
Description: Twelve-year-old Esperanza's house is small and dark; she shares a room with her parents and her three siblings. But her dreams are so much bigger and stronger and full of hope than narrow Mango Street.
Murder on the Orient Express
By: Ken Ludwig, adapt. from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Peter Amster
Event Date(s): Sep 07 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/murder-on-the-orient-express/#?startDate=2024-09-01&%3FendDate=2024-09-30
Description: On a train traveling through Europe, a wealthy American tycoon is found dead in his compartment, the door locked from the inside. Enter world-famous detective Hercule Poirot, who must navigate a train full of suspects and solve the murder before the killer strikes again.
Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors
By: Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Directed by: Gordon Greenberg
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: West Coast premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors/#?startDate=2024-09-01&%3FendDate=2024-09-30
Description: Famed vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing and her motley crew chase Count Dracula around the English countryside in a madcap race to save his innocent victims.
Globe for All Tour of ‘As You Like It’
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Emil Weinstein
Event Date(s): Oct 29 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Diego
Price: $0
Description: Banished from the court by her distrustful uncle, the Duke, Rosalind, and her cousin Celia journey to the magical Forest of Arden to escape from their world of oppression.
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By:
Directed by: James Vásquez
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Dec 31 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $33-94
Description: Back for its 27th incredible year, the family favorite features the songs “Santa for a Day,” “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” and “Welcome, Christmas (Fah Who Doraze),” the delightful carol from the popular animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Sam White
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $10-15
Description: With no male heir and the weight of the nation on his shoulders, King Henry VIII seeks to divorce his wife Katherine so he can marry Anne Boleyn. But Henry’s trusted advisors have plans of their own, and the consequences of his decisions will change their lives.
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Told by Jefferson Mays
By: Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons, and Michael Arden
Directed by: Barry Edelstein
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $29-118
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/a-christmas-carol-a-ghost-story/#?startDate=2024-12-01&%3FendDate=2024-12-31
Description: This holiday, season, Mays will return to The Old Globe after his San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award–winning performance in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder in 2013. He will portray over 50 beloved characters from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Appropriate
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Steve H. Broadnax III
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: San Diego premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/appropriate/#?startDate=2024-10-01&?endDate=2024-10-31
Description: A ferociously funny look at family secrets and hidden truths.
Empty Ride
By: Keiko Green
Directed by: Sivan Battat
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Globe-commissioned world premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/empty-ride/
Description: A poignant story set in 2011 Japan that explores how love can transcend loss.
Regency Girls
By: Book by Jen Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan; Music by Curtis Moore; Lyrics by Amanda Green
Directed by: Josh Rhodes
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: World premiere musical
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/regency-girls/
Description: A group of best friends take a rebellious road trip through 19th century England in this riotous new musical.
House of India
By: Deepak Kumar
Directed by: Zi Alikhan
Event Date(s): May 10 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: World premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/house-of-india/
Description: A family restaurant's legacy hangs in the balance in this heartwarming play.
One of the Good Ones
By: Gloria Calderón Kellett
Directed by: Kimberly Senior
Event Date(s): May 24 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: San Diego premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/one-of-the-good-ones/
Description: A tightknit family figures out what it truly means to be Latin American in this laugh-out-loud comedy.
All’s Well That Ends Well
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Peter Francis James
Event Date(s): Jun 08 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/alls-well-that-ends-well/
Description: Shakespeare's delightful comedy of love, laughter, and adventure.
The Janeiad
By: Anna Ziegler
Directed by: Tyne Rafaeli
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: World premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/the-janeiad/
Description: Modern love and ancient myth converge in this moving world premiere play.
Noises Off
By: Michael Frayn
Directed by: Gordon Greenberg
Event Date(s): Jul 06 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/noises-off/
Description: A brilliant and uproarious backstage comedy that pulls back the curtain on a theatre company struggling to keep its production from falling apart.
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: James Vásquez
Event Date(s): Jul 27 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/the-comedy-of-errors/
Description: Double the fun and double the chaos in this classic Shakespearean comedy.
Deceived
By: By Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson
Directed by: Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: West Coast premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/deceived/
Description: Bella Manningham’s new husband seems the doting partner, but when she sees the gaslights dim and he claims they have not, she begins to suspect the strange occurrences aren’t just in her head.
Robbin, From the Hood
By: Marlow Wyatt
Directed by: Chuma Gault
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Road Theatre Company
City: North Hollywood
Price: $17-39
Reference Link: https://roadtheatre.org/event/robbin-from-the-hood/
Description: In this reimagined classic tale, corporate greed dominates the deceptive game of capitalism until 17-year-old math genius Robbin Woods discovers how to level the playing field. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for the right reason.
Sleeping Giant
By: Steve Yockey
Directed by: Ann Hearn Tobolowsky
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Road Theatre Company
City: North Hollywood
Price: $17-39
Reference Link: https://roadtheatre.org/
Description: When a firework-filled marriage proposal goes very wrong, the accompanying explosions wake up something very old that’s been sleeping in the nearby lake for thousands of years. What follows are intimate, darkly comic, and sometimes startling vignettes about the lengths people go to when they desperately want to believe in something.
Last Night at Mikell’s
By: Larry Muhammed
Directed by: Ben Guillory
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Los Angeles Theatre Center
City: Los Angeles
Price: $25-40
Reference Link: https://therobeytheatrecompany.org
Description: James Baldwin meets his brother David at the iconic Mikell's jazz club, where they will also encounter Maya Angelou and Miles Davis.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
By: Alan Menken (music), Stephen Schwartz (lyrics), Peter Parnell (book)
Directed by: M. William Shiner
Event Date(s): Aug 10 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical Production
Venue: Hartnell College Mainstage Theater
City: Salinas
Price: $5-30
Reference Link: https://westernstage.com
Description: Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney film. Originally developed by Disney Theatrical Productions. A tragic tale of isolation, love, rejection and acceptance and how the unlikeliest of us can be a hero.
The Last Five Years
By: Jason Robert Brown (book, music, lyrics)
Directed by: Dennis Beasley
Event Date(s): Oct 05 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical Production
Venue: Hartnell College Studio Theater
City: Salinas
Price: $5-28
Reference Link: https://westernstage.com
Description: Backwards and forwards in time and in love. Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress, tells the story of her marriage from breakup to first meeting. Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, tells his story of their marriage from first meeting to breakup.
Emilia
By: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Directed by: Rebecca Clark and Kristin Kusanovich
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartnell College Mainstage Theater
City: Salinas
Price: $5-30
Reference Link: https://www.westernstage.com/emilia
Description: The amazing, speculative, true story of Emilia Lanier née Bassano, purported to be the “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets. This Olivier Award-winning play was first commissioned for Shakespeare’s Globe before heading to London’s West End in 2019.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Giovanna Sardelli
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: Superfans Matt and Shawn forge a friendship through their shared love of the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James. Over 12 years, tensions mount both on and off the court for the duo in this exploration of love, grace, and the power of a good game to bring people together.
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
By: Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lucie Stern Theatre
City: Palo Alto
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: For the holidays, TheatreWorks presents this heartwarming Pride and Prejudice sequel. This charming romantic comedy stars a different Bennet sister: bookish Mary. A new guest’s arrival at Pemberley for the holidays offers Mary the chance to take control of her story.
Hershey Felder: Rachmaninoff and the Tsar
By: Hershey Felder
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: In this mesmerizing play full of Sergei Rachmaninoff's rich romantic melodies, the Russian composer remembers his mother country. Pianist/performer Hershey Felder will be joined onstage by Jonathan Silvestri as Tsar Nicholas II in this mystical journey. Regional premiere.
Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical
By: Min Kahng
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lucie Stern Theatre
City: Palo Alto
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: This lively musical comedy explodes misconceptions about sexuality and aging. Vlogger Jade discovers a murderous mystery at her grandmother June’s senior living community. Inspired by their favorite crime-solving heroines, Jade and June join forces to crack the case.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jennifer Chang
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lucie Stern Theatre
City: Palo Alto
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: This humorous and heartwarming play takes its title from the Hart-Celler Act, which helped thousands become U.S. citizens. Set in 1973, Luna from the Philippines and Jane from South Korea start as strangers and find common ground navigating their first American Thanksgiving.
5 & Dime
By: Ashley Robinson, Dan Gillespie Sells, Shakina
Directed by: Giovanna Sardelli
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: Based on the play and film Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk, this rockin’ country musical spotlights the reunion of a James Dean fan club. As the women reminisce, they are joined by a stranger who threatens to unearth secrets.
The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote
By: Bernardo Cubría
Directed by: Bernardo Cubría and Willow Geer
Event Date(s): Aug 24 2024 - Oct 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Los Angeles
Price: $15-60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/the-vote/
Description: When the Political Party offers University Professor Paola Aguilar a large paycheck to help them understand the Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote, she reluctantly takes the job. Can she help? Or will her own journey ultimately be more important than who wins the vote?
Under the Oaks Presents Hills Like White Elephants
By: Adapted by Kellen McDaniel & Berber Heerema, based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway
Directed by: Kellen McDaniel
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 13 2024
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: Under the Oaks
City: Topanga
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/under-the-oaks/
Description: An interdisciplinary adaptation of the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Experience this evening of musical drama featuring acting, singing and a live string quartet performing gripping music by renowned composers such as Caroline Shaw, Philip Glass, and Louis Andriessen.
Composer Collective
By: Multiple
Directed by: Marshall McDaniel
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Sep 20 2024
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: Under the Oaks
City: Topanga
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/under-the-oaks/
Description: Experience the magic of Hollywood’s musical masterminds at an exclusive concert showcasing some of L.A.’s hottest film and TV composers. Featuring both world premieres and selections from recent scores, this concert celebrates the artistry behind the scenes.
Under the Oaks Presents A Tribute to Bob Dylan
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Sep 27 2024
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga CA 90290
City: Topanga
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/under-the-oaks/
Description: Under the Oaks presents a Theatricum Cabaret celebrating the genius and music of Bob Dylan. Members of Theatricum's company gather under the stars beneath the old-growth oak trees on the main stage to perform favorites like "Mr. Tamborine Man," "Blowin' In the Wind," and more.
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry
By: Joe Landry
Directed by: Ellen Geer
Event Date(s): Dec 14 2024 - Dec 14 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance and Festival
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Topanga
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/holiday-family-faire/
Description: It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is a stage play adaptation of Frank Capra's film classic, presented at 5 p.m. after the Holiday Family Faire at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum (11 a.m.-5 p.m.).
Colorado
Waitress
By: Jessie Nelson
Directed by: Lynne Collins
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Stage Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $56+
Reference Link: https://https://arvadacenter.org/events/waitress
Description: Jenna is a waitress and expert pie-maker trapped in a small town and a rocky marriage. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, Jenna fears her dreams are out of reach---until a baking contest and a handsome doctor offer up a sweet taste of happiness.
Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Carolyn Howarth
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Black Box Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $47+
Reference Link: https://https://arvadacenter.org/events/dracula-a-feminist-revenge-fantasy-really
Description: One part horror, one part humor, playwright Kate Hamill upends the sexism in Bram Stoker’s vampire classic in a thrilling, gory, and funny new adaptation.
Once Upon a Mattress
By: Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, Marshall Barer (book), Mary Rodgers (music), Marshall Barer (lyrics)
Directed by: Kenny Moten
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Stage Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $56+
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/once-upon-a-mattress
Description: A laugh-out-loud musical version of the Princess and the Pea, Once Upon a Mattress redefines what it takes to be a princess. Perfect for the whole family, this hilarious tale, zany enough to launch the Broadway career of Carol Burnett, celebrates the uniqueness in all of us.
Clybourne Park
By: Bruce Norris
Directed by: Kenny Moten
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Black Box Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $47+
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/clybourne-park
Description: Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race, housing, and gentrification.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
By: Robert L. Freedman (book & lyrics), Steven Lutvak (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Geoffrey Kent
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Stage Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $56+
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/a-gentlemans-guide-to-love-and-murder
Description: Monty Navarro discovers he’s eighth in line for an earldom in the aristocratic D'Ysquith family. Monty plots to speed up the line of succession through any means necessary, all while juggling his mistress, his fiancee, his reputation, and an increasing body count.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Chris Coleman
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wolf Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/hamlet/
Description: Arguably one of the greatest plays of all time, Hamlet is a psychological revenge thriller, political epic, and family saga that’s both grand and deeply human.
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By: Isaac Gómez
Directed by: Laura Alcalá Baker
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/i-am-not-your-perfect-mexican-daughter/
Description: This vibrant and poignant adaptation of Erika L. Sánchez’s New York Times bestseller follows Júlia, a Chicago high schooler who is definitely not your perfect Mexican daughter (that’s her older sister Olga’s role).
Avaaz
By: Michael Shayan
Directed by: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Singleton Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/avaaz/
Description: Meet Roya, our fabulous hostess, as she welcomes you into her home to celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. She’s preparing a feast, but the main attraction is Roya sharing her great American journey from Tehran to “Tehran-geles,” Calif.
The Reservoir
By: Jake Brasch
Directed by: Shelley Butler
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Singleton Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/the-reservoir/
Description: Josh’s life is a mess. He’s come home to Denver from NYU to get his life together but can’t manage to stay sober. Struggling with fogginess, memory loss, shame, and regret, he finds unlikely allies in his four loveable grandparents.
The Suffragette’s Murder
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: Margot Bordelon
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/the-suffragettes-murder/
Description: On the morning of July 5, 1857, an eclectic group of tenants bustle about their Manhattan boarding house, arranging the final details of a clever scheme they hope to pull off in the name of the budding women’s suffrage movement.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Howard Ashman (book & lyrics), Alan Menken (music)
Directed by: Chris Coleman
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wolf Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/little-shop-of-horrors/
Description: Feast on the Denver Center’s production of a beloved sci-fi musical that has rocked the globe for generations! The meek yet nurturing Seymour Krelborn is perennially down on his luck. One day, Seymour chances upon a strange and mysterious new plant cutting, which he nurses back to health.
The Hot Wing King
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Timothy Douglas
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/the-hot-wing-king/
Description: On the eve of the annual “Hot Wang Festival” in Memphis, Tenn., Cordell Crutchfield thinks he has finally found a recipe that will land him the coveted title of Hot Wang King.
October Surprise
By: Miguel Muñoz
Directed by: Miguel Muñoz
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: TBA
City: Fort Collins
Price: $27
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/october-surprise/
Description: In the midst of a high-tension Texas Senate race, a political crisis at the border, and a sibling rivalry, October Surprise is a heart-wrenching look at the disparity between family loyalty and personal convictions in America.
Reefer Madness
By: Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney (book, music, lyrics)
Directed by: Kenny Moten
Event Date(s): Nov 02 2024 - Nov 30 2024
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: The Lincoln Center - Magnolia Theatre
City: Fort Collins
Price: $42-47
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/reefer-madness/
Description: Inspired by the 1936 propaganda film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy is full of camp, hilarity, and mayhem. If you get high on laughter, you have come to the right place!
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow, adapt. from John Buchan
Directed by: Jessica Jackson
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2025 - Feb 08 2025
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: The Lincoln Center - Magnolia Theatre
City: Fort Collins
Price: $34-39
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/39-steps/
Description: A Hitchcock masterpiece. A juicy spy novel. A colossal dash of Monty Python. Shake it all up…It’s The 39 Steps! A cast of four actors plays over 150 characters in this Tony-winning, laugh-out-loud, lightning-paced whodunit!
The Minutes
By: Tracy Letts
Directed by: Sydney Parks Smith
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: The Lincoln Center - Magnolia Theatre
City: Fort Collins
Price: $34-39
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/minutes/
Description: This razor-sharp comedy by the Pulitzer-winning author of August: Osage County, exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers.
Agnes of God
By: John Pielmeier
Directed by: Jessica Emerling Crow
Event Date(s): May 09 2025 - May 24 2025
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: TBA
City: Fort Collins
Price: $27
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/agnes-god/
Description: The murder of a newborn in a convent warrants the expertise of Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, to determine the mental state of the accused novice. Agnes of God examines where science, religion, fact, and devotion intersect.
Pride and Prejudice
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Heather Ostberg Johnson
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2025 - Jul 12 2025
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: The Park at Columbine Health Systems
City: Fort Collins
Price: $34-39
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/pride-prejudice/
Description: This isn’t your great auntie’s Austen! Literature’s classic romance has never felt so full of life as it does in this effervescent adaptation. In the park and under the stars! Walk in, bike in, or drive in! Featuring nightly food trucks.
Henry IV & V
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Max Shulman
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/henry-iv-v
Description: From throne room to tavern to the battlefield and back, witness this epic interrogation of the steep cost of power to those who wield it, those who lose it and the nation that must choose its leaders wisely. This sweeping production promises an explosive opening to the season!
Sense & Sensibility
By: Kate Hamill, adapt. from Jane Austen
Directed by: Caitlin Lowans
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theatre, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/sense-and-sensibility
Description: Sisterhood and scandal, romance and rumors, high society and...horses? Jane Austen's Dashwood family bubbles with wit and warmth in this energetic, family-friendly adaptation of the classic novel.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jenna Moll Reyes
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/heart-sellers-theatreworks
Description: Thanksgiving dinner looms over a grocery store in 1970s America, when Luna and Jane, immigrants from the Philippines and Korea and both medical student wives, strike up a conversation over matching coats and matching challenges.
Turn of the Screw
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Henry James
Directed by: Kristin Skye Hoffmann
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/turn-screw-theatreworks
Description: An isolated manor on the windswept moors, an unsuspecting governess, her two enigmatic young charges, secrets lurking around every corner. Henry James's classic novella has terrified audiences for over a hundred years, and this new stage adaptation heightens the mystery!
Silent Sky
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Caitlin Lowans
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/silent-sky-theatreworks
Description: The year is 1900 and the Harvard Observatory is no place for a woman...unless of course she's crunching numbers for a man. Not to be dissuaded, Henrietta Leavitt begins to record her observations of Cepheid stars, and changes the way we see the night sky the universe forever.
Flyin’ West
By: Pearl Cleage
Directed by: Marisa Hébert
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2025 - Jul 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/flyn-west-theatreworks
Description: In 1890s Kansas, the homesteading Dove sisters are proud of their land and of the all-Black town of Nicodemus. Soon they find themselves contending with speculators attempting to buy up their town from outside and an unsavory brother-in-law who might break up their family.
Connecticut
The Moors
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Kristen Palmer
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Nafe Katter Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $12 - 35
Reference Link: crt.uconn.edu
Description: Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a governess and a moor-hen set them on a strange, dangerous path. A deliciously dark comedy about desperation and visibility. "Eminently entertaining" -- The Guardian
The Old Man and the Old Moon
By: Book, Music and Lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co.
Directed by: Matthew Sorensen
Event Date(s): Nov 14 2024 - Nov 23 2024
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $12 - 40
Reference Link: crt.uconn.edu
Description: The Old Man is the moon's sole caretaker. When his wife is lured away by a mysterious melody, he must decide between duty and love. An imaginative seafaring epic encompassing storms, civil wars, a giant fish, and grouchy ghosts. A glorious music- and puppet-filled adventure.
Pocatello
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Paul Mullins
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $12 - 35
Reference Link: crt.uconn.edu
Description: Eddie manages an Italian chain restaurant in a city being paved over with strip malls and franchises. As pressures mount he strives to keep his hometown feeling like home, one soup and salad special at a time. A heartbreaking comedy about love and connection in a shifting world.
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Vince Tycer
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Nafe Katter Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $12 - 45
Reference Link: crt.uconn.edu
Description: CRT celebrates our 75th season with Shakespeare’s joyful 15th century rom-com, replete with intrigue, hijinks, mistaken identity, and a conniving ne’er-do-well. Can true love triumph over deceit, and will Beatrice and Benedick discover the spark beneath their sparring? Come see!
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Robert Louis Stevenson
Directed by: Melia Bensussen
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/jekyll-and-hyde38d
Description: When the well-respected Dr. Jekyll investigates the mayhem being wrought on the streets of London, he becomes suspicious of the mysterious Mr. Hyde. In pursuing this shady figure, Jekyll’s life begins to unravel. To what lengths will we go to hide our true selves?
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
By: Michael Wilson, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Michael Wilson
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/a-christmas-carol
Description: Hartford's beloved holiday tradition is back! Join Scrooge and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future on this journey of redemption in a mesmerizing display of theatrical magic and wonder.
Two Trains Running
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Gilbert McCauley
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/two-trains-running
Description: Amid the economic turbulence of Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1969, diner owner Memphis Lee finds himself at a juncture: He can either maintain his much-beloved neighborhood spot or sell it, changing the lives of its big-hearted regulars.
Laughs in Spanish
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Lisa Portes
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/laughs-in-spanish
Description: Ay, dios mío! It’s the eve of Art Basel in Miami and gallery director Mari is freaking out. Stylish and hilarious, Laughs in Spanish is a vibrant collage of chaos, cultura, and connection.
Romeo & Juliet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Melia Bensussen
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/romeo-and-juliet
Description: An intoxicating blend of tragedy and hope, the spark of young love is ignited in Romeo & Juliet. Artistic Director Melia Bensussen brings this Shakespeare classic to life, in a romantic production rife with desire (and sword fighting!).
Hurricane Diane
By: Madeleine George
Directed by: Zoë Golub-Sass
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/hurricane-diane
Description: The cosmic clock is ticking and at the eleventh hour, Diane discovers the fate of humanity is buried in a New Jersey suburb and that – oh, gods! – only the housewives can save us.
Artistic Congress
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Conference
Venue: Yale Schwarzman Center
City: New Haven
Price: $100.00
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/artistic-congress/
Description: Join Long Wharf Theatre and Yale Schwarzman Center for a weekend conference on theatre's role in democracy. Featuring artists, scholars, and neighbors, we'll explore how art bridges civic spaces and activates community stories. Let's humanize and impact positive change together.
Black Trans Women at the Center: A New Play Festival
By: Various
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 19 2024 - Nov 19 2024
Type of Event: New Play Festival
Venue: Online/Virtual
City: Online/Virtual
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/5th-black-trans-women-at-the-center/
Description: Experience the fifth annual Black Trans Women at the Center: Virtual New Play Festival at Long Wharf Theatre, led by Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi. Witness new works from Black trans women in a digital showcase, including her latest piece, Shapeshifter. Don't miss this powerful event.
She Loves Me
By: Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), Joe Masteroff (book)
Directed by: Jacob G. Padrón
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The LAB at ConnCORP
City: New Haven
Price: $10-$53
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/she-loves-me/
Description: Step into 1934 Budapest as Long Wharf Theatre transforms the Lab at ConnCORP. Artistic director Jacob G. Padrón and Grammy-nominated Andy Einhorn present a stripped-down She Loves Me, focusing on raw emotion. Join us for a journey of romance, connection, and hope.
El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom
By: Matt Barbot
Directed by: Kinan Valdez
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Lyman Center at Southern CT State University
City: New Haven
Price: $10-$53
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/el-coqui-espectacular/
Description: Meet El Coquí Espectacular, the Puerto Rican superhero from Brooklyn! Follow Alex, a comic book artist battling self-doubt and the lure of a steady job. Long Wharf Theatre presents an action-packed, heartwarming story of heroism both on and off the page. Don't miss it!
Unbecoming Tragedy: A Ritual Journey Toward Destiny
By: Terrence Riggins
Directed by: Cheyenne Barboza
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Off Broadway Theatre
City: New Haven
Price: $10-$53
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/unbecoming-tragedy/
Description: In a solitary prison cell, a failed actor transforms his confinement into an unlikely stage. Long Wharf Theatre and Collective Consciousness Theatre present Unbecoming Tragedy, a world premiere exploring vulnerability, resilience, and the human spirit.
Fever Dreams (of Animals on the Verge of Extinction)
By: Jeffrey Lieber
Directed by: Rob Ruggiero
Event Date(s): Oct 03 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Subscription Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/fever-dreams/
Description: A steamy, decades-long affair. A remote cabin. An unexpected visitor. This is only the beginning for the exciting new play from the mind of writer Jeffrey Lieber, co-creator of the hit television series Lost.
Christmas on the Rocks
By: John Cariani, Judy Gold, Jenn Harris, Jeffrey Hatcher, Jacques Lamarre, Edwin Sánchez, Matthew Wilkas
Directed by: Rob Ruggiero
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Holiday Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/christmas-on-the-rocks-24/
Description: Connecticut's favorite twisted holiday tradition returns! It’s Christmas Eve in a rundown local bar. Expecting a silent night, the bartender finds himself mixing drinks for a parade of surprising (and familiar) guests who come to pour out their Christmas woes in this parody.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Rob Ruggiero
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Subscription Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/king-james/
Description: From Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph comes a celebration of friendship and fandom. It's 2004. LeBron James is just the hero Cleveland needs. Two strangers eat, sleep, and dream in the language of basketball while forging a deep bond over their worship of "The King."
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Subscription Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/primary-trust/
Description: Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize, this heartfelt new play is a touching and inventive tale of lost dreams, new beginnings, and old friends. When Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker, is suddenly laid off, he is forced to face a world he's long avoided.
Your Name Means Dream
By: José Rivera
Directed by: José Rivera
Event Date(s): Jun 03 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Subscription Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/your-name-means-dream/
Description: An evocative new play from Academy Award nominee José Rivera. We’re in the not-too-distant future. Aislin is old and isolated in her messy New York City walk-up. She pines for a simpler analog past, when her son sends a sensational new caretaker who is not quite...human.
Delaware
Shrek
By: Jeanine Tesori (music), David Lindsay-Abaire (book)
Directed by: David Button
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 10 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Celebration Hall Theatre
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.clearspacetheatre.org/shows/shrek/
Description: One of your favorite animated films comes to life! "Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek...." And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue.
Venus in Fur
By: David Ives
Directed by: David Button
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Celebration Hall Theatre
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $34.50
Reference Link: https://https://www.clearspacetheatre.org/shows/venus-in-fur/
Description: A crackling exploration of sexual control and desire, Venus in Fur combines David Ives’s legendary rigor, wit, and wild humor.
Sweeney Todd
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), Hugh Wheeler (book)
Directed by: David Button
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Celebration Hall Theatre
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $34.50
Reference Link: https://https://www.clearspacetheatre.org/shows/sweeney-todd/
Description: Sweeney Todd, an unjustly imprisoned barber, returns to London seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.
White Christmas
By: Irving Berlin (music & lyrics), David Ives & Paul Blake (book)
Directed by: David Button
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Celebration Hall Theatre
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $34.50
Reference Link: https://www.clearspacetheatre.org/shows/white-christmas/
Description: A holiday tradition on the big screen since 1954, the stage musical will warm your heart once more. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II ends.
Every Brilliant Thing
By: Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Directed by: Matt Silva
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/every-brilliant-thing
Description: “Ice cream.” “Water fights.” “Staying up past your bedtime.” A handwritten list of the small joys that make life worth living becomes immersive storytelling, providing a life-affirming jolt of humanism and reminding us that hope comes from life’s smallest miracles.
Home for the Holidays in the 302
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/home-for-the-holidays
Description: White Christmas meets The Ed Sullivan Show in DTC’s first annual holiday extravaganza! Celebrate community and family with this dazzling mix of local talent, song, dance, and cheer. Sure to be the holiday event in Wilmington this year!
Tuesdays With Morrie
By: Jeffrey Hatcher & Mitch Albom, adapt. from Albom
Directed by: Matt Silva
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/tuesdays-with-morrie
Description: Prof. Morrie Schwartz and his former student Mitch Albom reunite for one final lesson: The meaning of life. Based on the best-selling memoir of all-time, Tuesdays With Morrie is a powerful, emotional exploration of humanity, compassion, and enduring friendship.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
By: Phaedra Michelle Scott & Alan Govenar (book, adapt. from Alan Govenar)
Directed by: Tamara Tunie
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/stompin-at-the-savoy
Description: Ida Moore dreams of being a dancer at the Savoy Ballroom in 1930s Harlem, but learns life on the dance floor is simpler than reality. Inspired by the Queen of Swing dance, Norma Miller, this world premiere musical electrifies the stage with the timeless rhythm of big-band jazz.
Kinky Boots
By: Cyndi Lauper (music & lyrics), Harvey Fierstein (book, adapt. from Geoff Deane & Tim Firth)
Directed by: Lena Mucchetti
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/kinky-boots
Description: This Tony-winning musical celebrates the power of true acceptance with a joy that will “raise you up!” Featuring a sensational score, knockout dancing, and a story with a huge heart, this show is filled with glitter, glam, and a whole lot of sole!
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Stephen Pelinski
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Gore Recital Hall
City: Newark
Price: $15-20
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/what-the-constitution-means-to-me
Description: Challenging, hopeful, and funny---this groundbreaking play makes a sharp analysis of the biases inherent in the Constitution and imagines how this founding document could shape the next generation of Americans.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]
By: Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield
Directed by: Steve Tague
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Thompson Theatre
City: Newark
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/the-complete-works-of-william-shakespeare
Description: This fast-paced comedy is guaranteed to have both lovers and haters of Shakespeare in stitches as it covers all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in just one night.
Rough Crossing
By: Tom Stoppard
Directed by: Ian Belknap
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Thompson Theatre
City: Newark
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/rough-crossing
Description: A hilarious farce in which two playwrights, one jealous composer, and most of the cast of a Broadway-bound show attempt to simultaneously finish writing and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner.
Misery
By: William Goldman, adapt. from Stephen King
Directed by: Michael Gotch
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Thompson Theatre
City: Newark
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/misery
Description: This terrifying psychological thriller follows the disturbed mind of a former nurse as she holds her favorite author captive. As the author struggles to escape, he realizes that the biggest challenge of his life will be surviving the wrath of his “number one fan."
King Lear
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jackson Gay
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Thompson Theatre
City: Newark
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/king-lear
Description: King Lear has decided to end his reign and divide his country among his three daughters. Loyalties are misjudged and Lear soon finds himself stripped of everything that once defined him. A classic tale full of betrayal and chaos that only the Bard could weave.
District Of Columbia
Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Raymond O. Caldwell
Event Date(s): Oct 01 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-84
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/romeo-and-juliet/
Description: In a violent world, two young people from warring families fall in love. How can they safeguard their future when the systems meant to protect them fail?
A Room in the Castle
By: Lauren M. Gunderson
Directed by: Kaja Dunn
Event Date(s): Mar 04 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-84
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/a-room-in-the-castle/
Description: This world premiere retelling of Hamlet from the perspective of the women of the story offers up what it's like to be on the other end of a wild prince's antics while delivering a message of defiant hope.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Mei Ann Teo
Event Date(s): May 13 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-84
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/twelfth-night/
Description: Viola washes up on the shore after losing her twin brother in a shipwreck. A playful interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy that brings gender fluidity, mistaken identities, and what it means to move between worlds into a joyful discovery of love.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
By: Lanie Robertson
Directed by: Reginald L. Douglas
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $42-80
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/lady-day-at-emersons-bar-and-grill
Description: Journey back to 1959 for an unforgettable rendezvous with Lady Day herself—the incomparable Billie Holiday, performed by D.C. legend Roz White in the role she was born to play.
Postmortem
By: Marilyn Ness
Directed by: Sheryl Kaller
Event Date(s): Sep 08 2024 - Sep 12 2024
Type of Event: Workshop
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/202425-season
Description: Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Marilyn Ness’ playwriting debut, Postmortem, combines true crime with family drama to tell a story about one woman’s reckoning with her difficult childhood.
The Art of Care
By:
Directed by: Derek Goldman
Event Date(s): Oct 31 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $42-70
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/the-art-of-care
Description: One of the most profound experiences we all share is how we care for, and are cared for by, others. The Art of Care is an innovative world premiere theatrical event exploring this common thread of our humanity at a time in our world when care often feels in short supply.
Out of Character
By: Ari'el Stachel
Directed by: Tony Taccone
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington DC
Price: $11.99-49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/out-of-character/
Description: Tony winner Ari’el Stachel’s one-man show brings to life a full ensemble of characters from his past, availing uproarious laughter, insight, and transformative performance to illuminate what it means to pursue---and accept---our complex identity. A co-production with Theater J.
cullud wattah
By: Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Directed by: Danielle A. Drakes
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $40-70
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/cullud-wattah
Description: This powerful new play by Princess Grace Award winner Erika Dickerson-Despenza deconstructs the linear passage of time to ponder the choices we make for the sake of our survival. cullud wattah honors the people behind the headlines.
Andy Warhol in Iran
By: Brent Askari
Directed by: Serge Seiden
Event Date(s): May 29 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $42-70
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/andy-warhol-in-iran
Description: In 1976, pop artist Andy Warhol travels to Tehran to paint a portrait of the Shah of Iran’s wife. Amid taking in the Crown Jewels and indulging in room-service caviar, Warhol encounters a young Persian revolutionary who throws his plans into turmoil.
How To Be A Korean Woman
By: Sun Mee Chomet
Directed by: Zaraawar Mistry
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $69.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/how-to-be-a-korean-woman-24-25-season/
Description: Sun Mee's poignant and hilarious one-woman show is a personal tale of the artist's search for her birth mother in Seoul, Korea. This heartfelt performance uses text, music, and movement to explore themes of family, love, adulthood, and the universal longing to know one’s past.
Prayer for the French Republic
By: Joshua Harmon
Directed by: Hayley Finn
Event Date(s): Oct 30 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/prayer-for-the-french-republic/
Description: A new-play favorite on Broadway and 2024 Best Play Tony nominee, Joshua Harmon’s Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award-winning epic family drama breaks open the global question: Where are we safe?
Out of Character
By: Ari'el Stachel
Directed by: Tony Taccone
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/out-of-character/
Description: Tony Award-winner Ari’el Stachel’s one-man show brings to life a full ensemble of characters from his past, availing uproarious laughter, insight, and transformative performance to illuminate what it means to pursue---and accept---our complex identity. A co-production with the Mosaic Theater Company.
Your Name Means Dream
By: José Rivera
Directed by: José Rivera
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $11.99-$49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/your-name-means-dream/
Description: Internationally acclaimed playwright José Rivera directs his edge-of-our-current-time, profoundly intimate tragicomedy that asks what it means to be human as we embrace the technology of our future---and it embraces us.
The Berlin Diaries
By: Andrea Stolowitz
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $11.99-$49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/the-berlin-diaries/
Description: Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy that propels her on a search for home, heritage, and repairing her own story within the Jewish diaspora.
The Comeuppance
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Morgan Green
Event Date(s): Sep 08 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: Washington
Price: $35-47, PWYW
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/productions/the-comeuppance
Description: On the night of their 20th high school reunion, the self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” reconnects while they pregame in Prince George’s County, Md. But amid the flow of reminiscing, an otherworldly presence forces these former classmates to face the past.
The Ford/Hill Project
By: Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel
Directed by: Lee Sunday Evans
Event Date(s): Oct 07 2024 - Oct 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: Washington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/whats-on/fall-and-summer-lineup/
Description: This excavation of the testimonies of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford is revisited in the nation’s capital in a special debut presentation of a new play.
The Second City’s Dance Like There’s Black People Watching
By:
Directed by: Rob Wilson
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Improv
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: Washington
Price: $35-47, PWYW
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/productions/dance-like-theres-black-peopl/
Description: From the creators of Black Side of the Moon and She the People, The Second City returns to Woolly Mammoth, now delivering a dose of brilliant Black Joy. The hilarious brand-new show, created exclusively for Woolly Mammoth, features the troupe's world-renowned improv.
Florida
Ring of Fire
By: Richard Maltby Jr. & John Cash
Directed by: Helen R. Murray
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Arts and Culture
Venue: The Raymond James Theatre
City: Saint Petersburg
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://www.americanstage.org/shows/ring-of-fire
Description: A toe-tapping tribute to the Man in Black. Picture this: It's a hot summer night in the heart of the American South. The air is thick with anticipation as the stage lights dim and the first chords of a familiar tune ring out. That's the scene set for "Ring of Fire."
Forever Plaid
By: Written and Originally Directed and Choreographed by Stuart Ross; Musical Continuity Supervision and Arrangements by James Raitt
Directed by: Michael Marotta
Event Date(s): Sep 17 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: ArtStage Studio Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $67
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/forever-plaid/
Description: Celebrate the music of the 1950s in this nostalgic, funny---and heavenly---musical revue! When tragedy strikes on the way to their first big gig, four pals Sparky, Smudge, Jinx, and Frankie, united by their love of music, get to perform a show-stopping concert in the afterlife.
Off the Charts
By: Rebecca Hopkins, Richard Hopkins, Sarah Durham, arr. by Jim Prosser
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $37
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Get ready to turn back the clock and rock out to the best chart-topping hits from the 1950s to the 1980s. From iconic classics like “Hound Dog” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” to unforgettable hits like “Billie Jean” and “True Colors."
Waitress
By: Jessie Nelson (book), Sara Bareilles (music & lyrics)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Featuring music and lyrics by Grammy winner Sara Bareilles (“Love Song,” “Brave”), Waitress is the story of Jenna, a waitress and expert pie-maker who dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.
59th Street Bridge
By: Rebecca Hopkins & Richard Hopkins, arr. by Jim Prosser
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $37
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: In the '60s and '70s, a groovy new sound reshaped music, led by icons like John Denver, Simon & Garfunkel, and Carole King. This electrifying revue features timeless hits like “Mrs. Robinson” and “Annie’s Song.”
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 17 2024 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Jane and Luna, two Asian immigrant women in their early 20s, spend Thanksgiving together in 1973. They discuss their dreams and struggles in America while they share an evening together.
The Cancellation of Lauren Fein
By: Christopher Demos-Brown
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a top U.S. university, raising their 16-year-old foster son, Dylan. When Fein's actions clash with the university's DEI policies, her research, career, and family are jeopardized.
Divas: Time After Time
By: Richard Hopkins, arr. by Jim Prosser
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 12 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $37
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Embark on a musical journey with three powerhouse vocalists delivering timeless hits by legendary divas from the 1960s to the 1990s, including Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, and Barbra Streisand.
The Jersey Boys
By: Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 26 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Experience the Tony- and Olivier-winning musical Jersey Boys, tracing the rise and fall of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. From New Jersey roots to international stardom, this electrifying show reveals their groundbreaking sound and the personal struggles behind the fame.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Ruben Carrazana
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: “King” LeBron James’s reign in Cleveland brings promise, prosperity, and renewal to a city in desperate need of all three. It also brings together two unlikely friends in a bond forged by fandom. The Miami premiere of a clever, fast-paced comedy by Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph.
Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen
By: Danielle Wertz and Robbie Schaefer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: This intimate theatrical cabaret, developed at Washington, D.C’s Signature Theatre, weaves together the lives and iconic music of longtime friends and one-time lovers Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. Featuring 13 songs that soundtracked generations of collective yearning.
Appropriate
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Bari Newport
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: Straight from Broadway, this darkly comic American drama by Pulitzer finalist and Obie Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins invites audiences to one helluva family reunion! Long hidden secrets and buried resentments can no longer be contained and the family is forced to face the ghosts of their past.
Summer, 1976
By: David Auburn
Directed by: Bari Newport
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mother and a naïve young housewife. This deeply moving, insightful piece is about connection, memories, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Terrence Pride
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: Hamlet, but with more barbeque and disco. Swapping a Danish castle for a North Carolina BBQ pit, Fat Ham remakes Shakespeare’s story of murder and revenge into something hilarious and profound. A South Florida premiere.
Die, Mommie, Die!
By: Charles Busch
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 29 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Charles Busch’s comic melodrama evokes the 1960s "Grande Dame Guignol" films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner.
The Smuggler: A Thriller in Verse
By: Ronan Noone
Directed by: David M. Jenkins
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Straz Center, Shimberg Playhouse
City: Tampa
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/smuggler/
Description: Irish immigrant Tim Finnegan wants to be a writer but struggles to find his path. That all changes when a stranger arrives with a plan to make people “disappear and reappear.” In this mischievous one-man, rhyming-verse dark comedy, Tim learns the price to become American.
POTUS or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By:
Directed by: Summer Bohnenkamp
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/potus/
Description: When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
The Guys
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Sep 11 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Tampa Firefighters Museum
City: Tampa
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/guys/
Description: Jobsite is proud to support the Tampa Firefighters Museum through a special one-night fundraiser performance of Anne Nelson’s The Guys.
Gorey Stories
By:
Directed by: David Jenkins
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/gorey-stories/
Description: Gorey Stories weaves together a changed-up compilation of stories, poems, and limericks from the late, great Edward Gorey. Full of wild creatures, weird characters, and humorous, horrid happenings, Gorey Stories is a play with music featuring live accompaniment.
Macbeth
By:
Directed by: David Jenkins
Event Date(s): Jan 15 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/macbeth/
Description: A tale of ambition, greed, and murder under the influence of supernatural forces, Macbeth is a haunting examination of one couple’s ruthless quest for power and its bloody aftermath.
The Pillowman
By:
Directed by: David Jenkins
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/pillowman/
Description: The Pillowman is an exhilarating comedy-drama about a fiction writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is interrogated when several bizarre incidents occurring in town resemble the gruesome content of their short stories.
The Butterfly’s Evil Spell
By:
Directed by: Developed by the Ensemble
Event Date(s): May 07 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/butterflys-evil-spell/
Description: This imaginative English-language adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play (El Maleficio de la Mariposa) fuses live music, visual art, puppetry, theater magic, and aerial and circus arts into a thrilling theatrical experience.
Puffs Or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
By:
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Jul 09 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/puffs/
Description: For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain school and conquered evil. You Know Who He Is. This is not his story, sorry, but that of those who also happened to be there, too. Puffs is a play for anyone who has never been destined to save the world!
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]
By:
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Aug 13 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/shakespeare-abridged/
Description: Having shrunk Shakespeare’s wit and wisdom into manageable morsels of madness, Jobsite returns to tear around the stage in doublets and Chuck Taylor’s on a riotous romp through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays plus the sonnets in 90 minutes.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Monica Long Tamborello
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Orlando Family Stage
City: Orlando
Price: $24+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/constitution/
Description: Follow playwright Heidi Schreck’s journey through the complexities of American democracy, gender equality, and the evolving interpretation of the United States Constitution! Don’t miss this funny, fast-paced, and warm production---that ultimately inspires hope.
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Irwin Appel
Event Date(s): Oct 07 2024 - Oct 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Orlando Family Stage, Orlando Museum of Art
City: Orlando
Price: $27+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/education/school-field-trips/
Description: Experience a visually striking modern production of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, featuring an arresting design, bold costumes, and modern choreography. Blind ambition and twisted prophecy lead Macbeth to murder the Scottish king and seize the throne.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Directed by: Jim Helsinger
Event Date(s): Nov 27 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play/Musical
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $24+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/christmas-carol-2024/
Description: The miserly and miserable Ebenezer Scrooge greets each Christmas with a “bah humbug,” until he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Come see this classic, heartwarming at Orlando Shakes---a magical and musical spectacle for the whole family!
Sleigh—It’s Christmas Actually!
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Concert/Cabaret
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/sleigh-its-christmas-actually/
Description: It’s Christmas actually! This contemporary pop a cappella group will delight with fresh, new arrangements of both current and classic holiday tunes. Their comic banter and unique guest interaction will put everyone in the holiday spirit.
Bare Bard: Henry VI Part 2: She Wolf of France
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Jan 19 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $27+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/henryvi_shewolfoffrance/
Description: A love triangle, a plot to murder, and a rebellion are all part of this thrilling tale---centered on the Wars of the Roses! In this raw, “Bare Bard/Original Practices” production, Orlando Shakes actors will perform the play with less than 40 hours of rehearsal with no director.
Cabaret
By: Joe Masteroff (book), Kander & Ebb (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Steve MacKinnon
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2025 - Mar 03 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/cabaret/
Description: Let Orlando Shakes take you back to Berlin in the late 1920 where, inside the Kit Kat Club, a spotlight shines on the colorful, gritty, and hedonistic lives found inside. Don’t miss this landmark musical that is filled with iconic songs and electrifying dance.
Welcome to Matteson
By: Inda Craig-Galván
Directed by: Roberta Emerson
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Goldman Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $24+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/welcome-to-matteson/
Description: Catch Inda Craig-Galván’s dark comedy from Orlando Shakes’ PlayFest 2020! In suburban Matteson, Patricia and Gerald’s dinner for new neighbors Regina and Corey—relocated from Cabrini Green—exposes classism and racism, straining relationships and threatening to ruin the evening.
Stuart Little
By: E.B. White
Directed by: Nick Bublitz
Event Date(s): Mar 26 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $22+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/stuart-little-2025/
Description: The classic story of Stuart Little comes alive onstage! Stuart, a tiny mouse with a big heart, is adopted by the Littles and embarks on adventures with colorful characters, including his nemesis, the family cat Snowbell. He learns about family, loyalty, and friendship along the way.
Lost in Yonkers
By: Neil Simon
Directed by: Julianne Boyd
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/lost-in-yonkers
Description: Set during World War II, this funny and heartbreaking Pulitzer-winning memory play is both an exploration of the wounds inflicted by family and a testament to the power of familial love and resilience.
The Dresser
By: Ronald Harwood
Directed by: J. Barry Lewis
Event Date(s): Dec 20 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre play
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/the-dresser
Description: The co-dependent---if unequal---relationship between Sir, a renowned but fading actor, and Norman, his devoted, self-sacrificing dresser, is the heartbeat of this warts-and-all tragicomic valentine to the transcendent magic of theatre.
The Humans
By: Stephen Karam
Directed by: J. Barry Lewis
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: theatre play
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/the-humans
Description: "A family play that is sort of infected by my love of the thriller genre,” is how the playwright once described this Tony-winning comedy drama, in which the foibles, fears, and fragilities of an American family play out with great insight, humor, and compassion.
Camping With Henry and Tom
By: Mark St. Germain
Directed by: William Hayes
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Theatre play
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/camping-with-henry-and-tom
Description: A work of fiction inspired by an actual 1921 camping trip taken by Warren G. Harding, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison---three men with starkly different personalities and world views---the play deals with issues and ideas that remain as relevant today as they were 100 years ago.
Dangerous Instruments
By: Gina Montet
Directed by: Margaret Ledford
Event Date(s): May 23 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: theatre play
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/dangerous-instruments
Description: Laura, a single mother, finds herself thrust into a gripping battle against a broken system when her son, Daniel, spirals into darkness. She must confront a parent’s deepest fears and sacrifice everything to rescue Daniel from the brink of becoming America’s next tragic headline.
The Foreigner
By: Larry Shue
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Jan 11 2025
Type of Event: comedy
Venue: Red Barn Theatre
City: Key West
Price: $40-65
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: In this classic American comedy, a shy man adopts a persona as a non-English speaking foreigner. Hilarity ensues.
Christine Mild: A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock n Roll
By: Christine Mild
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 15 2025 - Jan 18 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: Red Barn Theatre
City: Key West
Price: $75.00
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: Christine Mild brings a brand new knockout country music show, featuring Jim Rice on the piano.
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt 2b
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Mimi McDonald
Event Date(s): Jan 28 2025 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: comedy
Venue: redbarntheatre.com
City: Key West
Price: $40-65
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: Cheerfully desecrating the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Brooklyn Laundry
By: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: Joy Hawkins
Event Date(s): Apr 08 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: drama
Venue: Red Barn Theatre
City: Key West
Price: $40-64
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: This remarkable comic drama about three sisters and a guy who runs a Brooklyn laundry will remind you of what is important in life.
Short Attention Span Theatre: 2025 Edition
By: Various
Directed by: Mimi McDonald, Gary McDonald, Amber Good, Jack McDonald
Event Date(s): Apr 08 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: comedy
Venue: Red Barn Theatre
City: Key West
Price: $40-65
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: Fresh, new, pertinent, and funny 10-minute plays featuring some of Key West's favorite directors and actors. Always a big hit!
Home for the Holidays
By: Various
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Dec 19 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Revue
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: Home for the Holidays is a Southwest Florida tradition. Cast members perform energetic dance routines accompanied by a live orchestra, leaving the audiences filled with joy after every performance.
Once
By: Enda Walsh (book), Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová (songs)
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2025 - Jan 19 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: A story of passion for music, heartbreak, and intimacies between Guy, a songwriting guitar player, and Girl, whose encouragement lifts his spirits when he wants to quit. Take decisions of the heart that will keep the audience guessing about happy endings.
The Rink
By: Terrence McNally (book), Kander & Ebb (songs)
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: The Rink is one of 10 Kander & Ebb collaborations, which include Cabaret and Chicago. The heart of the plot is the relationship between a mother and her estranged daughter. John Kander said it was the most complete realization of his intentions of any production he had done.
Jersey Boys
By: Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice (book), Bob Gaudio (music), Bob Crewe (lyrics)
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: Jersey Boys dramatizes the formation, success, and breakup of the 1960s group The Four Seasons. It is structured in four seasons, each narrated by a different member of the group who gives his own perspective on the history and music.
Ghost: The Musical
By: Bruce Joel Rubin (book), Dave Stewart & Glen Ballard (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: An adaptation of the 1990 hit film. Sam and Molly’s connection takes a shocking turn when Sam is killed To communicate with Molly, he turns to a storefront psychic who can communicate to Molly.
Soul Crooners Solid Gold Edition
By: Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: WBTT's Soul Crooners Solid Gold Edition is a celebration of the most renowned soul and R&B artists, such as Earth, Wind & Fire, The Commodores, James Brown, and more, and the hottest hit songs of the late 1960s through the 1970s.
A Motown Christmas
By: Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Event Date(s): Nov 27 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $57
Reference Link: https://www.westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: During the holiday season, WBTT will present its Christmas card to the community, the exuberant musical revue A Motown Christmas, featuring favorite traditional carols as well as original Christmas songs written and recorded by Motown's most celebrated artists.
Fences
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Chuck Smith
Event Date(s): Jan 15 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://www.westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: This dramatic play tells the story of a responsible yet otherwise flawed Black garbage collector in pre-Civil Rights America. Fences is one of the most significant African American plays of the 20th century.
Five Guys Named Moe
By: Clarke Peters
Directed by: Jim Weaver
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://www.westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: An exuberant tribute to the music of rhythm & blues pioneer Louis Jordan, Five Guys Named Moe features incredible dance numbers and a wonderful musical score.
Syncopated Avenue
By: Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Musical/Tap Revue
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://www.westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: WBTT produces its first tap revue, starring electrifying tap dancer Lamont Brown, in this musical journey through the captivating and entertaining world of tap dance.
The Pillowman
By: Martin McDonagh
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center - Carnival Studio Theatre
City: Miami
Price: $56-61
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2024-2025/theater-up-close/the-pillowman/
Description: Zoetic Stage returns to the horror genre with The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. This modern classic centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center - Carnival Studio Theatre
City: Miami
Price: $56-61
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2024-2025/theater-up-close/potus/
Description: When the president spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep him out of trouble. A regional premiere at Zoetic Stage, featuring a cast of South Florida's finest and funniest female actors!
Fiddler on the Roof
By: Joseph Stein (book), Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics)
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center - Carnival Studio Theatre
City: Miami
Price: $56-61
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2024-2025/theater-up-close/fiddler-on-the-roof/
Description: Artistic director Stuart Meltzer has a history of presenting fresh, bold interpretations of musical theater classics, focusing on the intimacy of performance and storytelling. In that tradition, Zoetic Stage will present Fiddler on the Roof with a cast of 11, alongside puppets.
The Comeuppance
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): May 08 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center - Carnival Studio Theatre
City: Miami
Price: $56-61
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2024-2025/theater-up-close/the-comeuppance/
Description: A self-proclaimed "Multi-Ethnic Reject Group" reunites for their 20th high school reunion, trying to reconnect who they once were with who they've become. The Comeuppance focuses on millennials and their reckoning with the world they will soon inherit.
Fable
By: Doug DeVita
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: Who has the right to tell your story? Fable explores the nature of memory through the eyes of two very different show business siblings. When one sister wants her version of events made legendary on the Broadway stage, the other is pulled into a tug of war over the truth.
Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are back on the case! An investigation into the Bohemian king’s stolen letters cascades into an international mystery filled with spies, blackmail, and intrigue.
Road Show
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), John Weidman (book)
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: From the writing team that brought us Assassins and Pacific Overtures, Road Show is based on the true story of the Mizner brothers.
For Closure!
By: Hannah Benitez
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: In this farce set in a small Florida seaside town, Raven and Amanda are trying to keep the family real estate agency afloat in trying times.
The House of Future Memory
By: Eric Davis
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $$45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: This surprising and innovative performance will bring together the talents and imagination of the performers with the dreams, fears, and desires of the audience to create a unique evening of storytelling and theatre that can only happen once.
Georgia
What Are You?
By: Nicolette Emanuelle
Directed by: Nicolette Emanuelle
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Immersive theatre
Venue: 7 Stages
City: Atlanta
Price: $15-$35
Reference Link: https://www.7stages.org/shows/what-are-you-11-7-24-2024/
Description: What Are You? is an exploration of what it means to be multi-racial in America. This original production delves into the complexities of racial identity through a blend of movement, music, and personal testimonies, confronting the relentless question, “what are you?”
A Third Way
By: Lee Osorio
Directed by: Lauren Morris
Event Date(s): Oct 03 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Nico and Matt’s marriage is on shaky ground. When they decide to open their relationship, they test the boundaries of love, sex, intimacy and fidelity. Will they discover a new way to strengthen their bond…or will three become too much of a crowd?
The Mountaintop
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 85
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/the-mountaintop
Description: A play that “pulses with a new sense of urgency” (Entertainment Weekly), The Mountaintop is a gripping reimagining of events the night before the assassination of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that encourages us to pick up the baton for change.
The Chinese Lady
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jess McLeod
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hertz Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 55
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/the-chinese-lady
Description: Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy and described as "moving and often sharply funny” (The New York Times), Lloyd Suh's critically acclaimed play The Chinese Lady serves as an examination of the ongoing struggle for empathy and understanding across cultural divides.
A Christmas Carol
By: David H. Bell, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Caitlin Hargraves (orig. dir. Leora Morris)
Event Date(s): Nov 09 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 125
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/a-christmas-carol
Description: Alliance Theatre’s beloved production of A Christmas Carol returns to the Coca-Cola Stage with its new adaptation, featuring a magical set design and striking costumes. The timeless redemption story of Ebenezer Scrooge is told with beautiful live music and an all-star cast.
Business Ideas
By: Milo Cramer
Directed by: Matt Torney
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Hertz Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 55
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/business-ideas
Description: Winner of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, Business Ideas is a comedy about getting rich. Inspired by playwright Milo Cramer’s experiences with his enterprising mom, Business Ideas looks at wealth---who has it and why---and the value we place on it.
Doctor De Soto
By: Idris Goodwin, adapt. from William Steig
Directed by: Mark Valdez
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Hertz Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $10-20
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/doctor-de-soto
Description: Award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin brings William Steig's tale of wit, wisdom, and whimsy to the stage with an eye-popping blend of live action, puppetry, music, and rhyme. This modern-day fable proves that even the smallest creatures can make a big difference with kindness.
Bust
By: Zora Howard
Directed by: Lileana Blain-Cruz
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 85
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/bust
Description: It’s not only hell that breaks loose in this ground-breaking, form-defying, laugh-out-loud, surreal new drama from Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Zora Howard. When Retta and Reggie's neighbor is pulled over by police, everything goes as expected—until it doesn't.
The Reservoir
By: Jake Brasch
Directed by: Shelley Butler
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Hertz Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 55
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/the-reservoir
Description: Josh comes home from NYU to get his life together but can’t stay sober. Desperate for camaraderie, he drags his four loveable grandparents onto his road to recovery. Full of outrageous humor and truth, The Reservoir reminds that the path forward isn't always the one we expect.
Millions
By: Bob Martin (book, adapt. from Frank Cottrell Boyce), Adam Guettel (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Bartlett Sher
Event Date(s): May 10 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Musical
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 85
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/millions
Description: MILLIONS is a hilarious and heartwarming new musical about two brothers, their newly-widowed father, a train robber, and (possibly) a miracle. With soaring music and a story full of surprises, MILLIONS is a modern-day fable that will enchant and entertain the entire family.
Hairspray
By: Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell (book), Marc Shaiman (music), Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (lyrics), adapted from John Waters
Directed by: Justin Kalin
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $30-40
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/hairspray/
Description: It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and the lovable plus-size teen, Tracy Turnblad, has only one desire: to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star.
Murder on the Polar Express
By: Ryan Landry
Directed by: Paul Conroy
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Holiday
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/murder-on-the-polar-express/
Description: “The World’s Foremost Drag Detective” Shirley Holmes boards the world’s most elegant train with her sidekick Dr. Jody Watley and 10 other unsavory characters, all en route to the North Pole for a much-needed Christmas vacation. But not so fast: There’s a psycho killer onboard!
At the Wedding
By: Bryna Turner
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Feb 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $20-30
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/at-the-wedding/
Description: You are cordially invited to the best day of someone else’s life…but what if it’s also the worst day of yours? Join Carlo as she attempts to make it through the night without drinking too much, talking too much, or trying to win back the bride.
Immediate Family
By: Paul Oakley Stovall
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Mar 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $20-30
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/immediate-family/
Description: The Bryant family reunion takes a comedic turn when the middle son brings home his Swedish boyfriend and tosses him into a stew of family dysfunctions.
Trick! The Musical
By: Jason Schafer (book & lyrics), David Gursky (music), adapted from screenplay by Jason Schafer
Directed by: Paul Conroy
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 17 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $30-40
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/trick-the-musical/
Description: When an office-temp and aspiring Broadway songwriter meets a hunky go-go dancer at a Manhattan gay club, their one-night stand turns into a series of complications. Amidst the chaos, they plunge into a world of dancers, piano bars, therapy sessions, and fierce drag queens.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: Robert John Connor
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Balzer Theater at Herren's
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/raisin-sun/
Description: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun comes to Atlanta with a fresh look at an American classic that proves to be as provocative and powerful today as it was in 1959.
A Christmas Story
By: Phillip Grecian, adapt. from Jean Shepherd
Directed by: Rosemary Newcott
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Balzer Theater at Herren's
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/christmas-story/
Description: Gather the entire family for the return of your favorite holiday theatrical tradition: A Christmas Story live onstage!
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapt. by Ben Power
Directed by: Matt Torney
Event Date(s): Feb 05 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Balzer Theater at Herren's
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/lehman-trilogy/
Description: Weaving together nearly two centuries of family history, The Lehman Trilogy charts the humble beginnings, outrageous successes, and devastating failure of the financial institution that would bring the global economy to its knees.
Launchpad
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 11 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Balzer Theater at Herren's
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/launchpad/
Description: Launchpad: A "Made in Atlanta" Festival is an exciting way to empower a new generation of theatre artists with the space, resources, development, and institutional support to create visceral, compact, innovative, and portable performance pieces that can be replicated in any space.
Hawaii
Forest Flutter: A Bird-Day Party
By: Danica Rosengren & the HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Danica Rosengren
Event Date(s): Aug 10 2024 - Aug 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Very Young Audience Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Explore Hawai‘i’s forests and meet Hawai‘i’s native forest birds through smells, touch, and movement in this world premiere. The interactive show is created for our littlest audience members and is a collaboration with Capitol Modern - The Hawaiʻi State Art Museum.
Winnie-the-Pooh and Bunraku Too
By: HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Eric Johnson
Event Date(s): Aug 25 2024 - Sep 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Adapted from the classic stories of A. A. Milne by the HTY Ensemble, this world premiere will bring to life some of the most beloved characters in children’s literature. The production will draw on ancient Japanese puppeteering techniques, original music, and audience interaction.
The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
By: Reiko Ho
Directed by: Reiko Ho
Event Date(s): Sep 29 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Performance
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: This HTY original production was the recipient of a 2024 NEA grant. The show is centered around a familyʻs celebration of New Year and retells one of the most beloved tales in Chinese folklore. Featuring traditional Chinese music, kung fu, and Jīngjù movement.
Pā Ka Makani
By: Annie Cusick Wood & Lokomaikaʻi Lipscomb
Directed by: Annie Cusick Wood
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Oct 26 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: This original HTY production features hula (dance), oli (chant), and science to explore the winds of this place and our relationship to these winds. The production is an international collaboration.
Christmas Talk Story
By: Local Writer and the HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Eric Johnson
Event Date(s): Dec 08 2024 - Dec 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Families Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Enjoy stories and songs created by our community for our community around holiday traditions. From Thanksgiving chores to New Year’s fireworks, these stories bring humor and heart to our traditions in a brand new production.
Musubi Man
By: Lee Cataluna, adapt. from Sandi Takayama
Directed by: Reiko Ho
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Very Young Audience Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Adapted from the beloved book by Hawaiʻi author Sandi Takayama, this HTY favorite is the local version of the “Gingerbread Man” and follows a magical Musubi on the adventure of a lifetime.
The Paʻakai We Bring
By: Moses Goods & the HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Moses Goods and Eric Johnson
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Feb 15 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Families Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Helmed by Native Hawaiian theatremaker Moses Goods, the show returns to Tenney before heading out to finish a national tour. This original production introduces young audiences to Hawaiian ideas of balance and healing by exploring our relationship to Pa‘akai (salt).
Too Many Mangos and Other Stories
By: adapt. from Tammy Paikai
Directed by: Reiko Ho
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2025 - Apr 26 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Join Kama and Nani as they learn valuable lessons from their grandpa about generosity and kindness. This original world premiere musical based on a local classic is sure to bring smiles as it teaches what it means to bring aloha to your family and your neighbors.
Joseph Kekuku and the Voice of the Steel Guitar
By: Moses Goods & Noa Gardner, w/ Kealakai Center for Pacific Strings
Directed by: Moses Goods
Event Date(s): May 11 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Families Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: World premiere based on a true story. In 1889, Joseph Kekuku made a steel bar in his school’s machine shop and slid it across the strings of his guitar. He played his new "steel guitar" for royalty in Hawai‘i , across Europe and inspired musicians around the world.
Nothing Micro About Micronesia
By: Leilani Chan, Ova Saopeng
Directed by: Leilani Chan
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Oct 25 2024
Type of Event: Public Theatrical Performance
Venue: Pacific Youth Empowerment for Success (PacYES) Summit in Hilo - October 19th - 12:30pm (FREE); UH Hilo Performing Arts Center - October 22 - 7pm; Maui Arts & Cultural Center - October 25 - 7:30pm
City: Kahului (Maui) and Hilo (Big Island)
Price: PacYES → FREE Admission; UH Hilo → $ 20 adult, $15 for seniors, faculty, staff, alum; $10 for youth (17 and under); Maui Arts & Cultural Center → Prices TBA
Reference Link: https://teada.org/nmam
Description: Coming of age story of three youth who meet in an unlikely place and through magic are transported to island adventures in Micronesia. Journey with these friends as they navigate between Hawai’i and the traditions of their ancestors, facing the rising tides of their uncertain futures.
Idaho
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Oct 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human play, Heidi Schreck resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that helped shape their lives.
The Lion
By: Benjamin Scheuer
Directed by: Sean Daniels
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical Play
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: This Drama Desk Award-winning piece by Benjamin Scheuer, directed by Sean Daniels, has redefined the genre of musical theatre. His piece tells, sings, and plays the turbulent story of his family and his own brush with mortality, with one actor and a supporting cast of six guitars.
On the Other Hand We’re Happy
By: Daf James
Directed by: Cameron Watson
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: A single dad meets his adopted daughter for the first time. Then he agrees to meet her birth mother. When their two worlds collide, will what they have in common outweigh their differences? A one-off meeting. But three lives will be changed forever.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Benjamin Burdick
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: At a desk in the middle of America, loan talk leads to a discussion of the chokehold of financial insecurity and a bond over the precariousness of parenthood. With humor, empathy, and wrenching honesty, Hunter commingles two lives and deftly bridges their disparate experiences.
The Life You Gave Me
By: Novid Parsi
Directed by: Hamid Dehghani
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 10 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: A son tries to save his mother. She has other ideas. So do two mysterious strangers who watch the play—and ask the son to tell the story again and again until he gets it right, whatever right might be.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: Jeff Whitty, translating Shakespeare, in partnership with Play On Shakespeare
Directed by: Sara Bruner
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: An exhilarating night of midsummer madness, this magical comedy brims with mistaken identity, mismatched lovers, and mischief-making fairies. This modern verse translation of Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece is a joyful celebration of love lost, transformed, and restored.
Always… Patsy Cline
By: Ted Swindley
Directed by: Victoria Bussert
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: A musical celebration of the country legend. Enjoy the touchingly true story of Patsy Cline’s friendship with a fan, Louise Seger, which started in 1961 and continued until the premature death of the renowned country star, told through Cline’s music.
Illinois
Blue-Eyed Soul Sung by Brown-Eyed People
By: Jackie Taylor
Directed by: Jackie Taylor
Event Date(s): Sep 21 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Black Ensemble Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $56.50 - $66.50
Reference Link: https://blackensembletheater.org/
Description: How many times have you heard a soulful song and just assumed that the singer was Black, only to find out they were not? Music is the common denominator that unites us all. Great music---is great music. This show will honor and celebrate the music that proves: We all have soul!
A Gamble On Huff: The Story of Gamble & Huff
By: Daryl D. Brooks
Directed by: Daryl D. Brooks
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Jan 19 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Black Ensemble Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $56.50 - $66.50
Reference Link: https://blackensembletheater.org/
Description: Founded by songwriters Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff, Philadelphia International Records was a powerhouse in churning out soul hits by the biggest stars in the soul music industry. Join us as we tell the story of this dynamic duo from their humble beginnings to their biggest triumphs.
Henry V
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Edward Hall
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Courtyard Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-henry-v/
Description: From the evocative opening line, “O for a Muse of fire,” Henry V includes some of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches and stirring poetry. Artistic director Edward Hall explores the thrill and destructive power of war, examining nationalism at its most dangerous and seductive.
Pericles
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Tamara Harvey
Event Date(s): Oct 20 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Courtyard Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-pericles/
Description: The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Chicago for the first time in 30 years as part of a new ongoing partnership with CST, with a major new production of Shakespeare’s moving tale of love, hope, and miracles.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Whitney White
Event Date(s): Jan 14 2025 - Feb 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Yard
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/jajas-african-hair-braiding/
Description: Straight from a twice-extended Broadway run, making its regional premiere, this comedic play offers a glimpse into the lives of a group of West African immigrant women who find community in a Harlem hair salon. A co‑production of CST, Arena Stage, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Avaaz
By: Michael Shayan
Directed by: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Event Date(s): Jan 21 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Upstairs Studio
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/avaaz/
Description: Michael Shayan plays the role of his own larger-than-life mother, Roya, who welcomes audiences into her home to celebrate the Iranian New Year and shares her quintessential American journey from Tehran to “Tehrangeles,” Calif., formerly known as Westwood.
Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Edward Hall
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Courtyard Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-ss-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
Description: A perfect 75-minute introduction to Shakespeare’s beloved romantic comedy. Adapted and directed by Edward Hall, it captures the exhilaration, foolishness, and delight of young love, as the chaos of magic and enchantment turns the world upside down.
Teatro La Plaza’s Hamlet
By: Chela De Ferrari
Directed by: Chela De Ferrari
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Upstairs Studio
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-hamlet/
Description: From Peru, a joyful celebration of self-expression. Blending Shakespeare’s text with personal anecdotes from their lives, a group of young performers with Down syndrome take the stage in a lively and profound theatrical experience.
Sunny Afternoon
By: Joe Penhall (book), Ray Davies (story, music & lyrics)
Directed by: Edward Hall
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Yard
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/sunny-afternoon/
Description: In its North American premiere, this winner of four Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, tells the story of the rise to stardom of The Kinks through their own prolific catalog of chart-topping songs.
Hymn
By: Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 29 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Courtyard Theater
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-hymn/
Description: Lolita Chakrabarti reframes her acclaimed play to be set in Chicago. This soul-affirming story charts the lives of two middle-aged Black men as they form a deep bond in an intimate exploration of the loyalties and betrayals of brothers, fathers, and sons.
East Texas Hot Links
By: Eugene Lee
Directed by: Ron OJ Parson
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2024-2025-season/east-texas-hot-links/
Description: Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, East Texas Hot Links is simultaneously a gripping character study, a lyrical masterpiece, and a juggernaut of suspense. In East Texas in 1955, a group of cafe regulars' lives are changed forever when confronted with a shocking betrayal.
Falsettos
By: William Finn (music & lyrics), William Finn & James Lapine (book)
Directed by: Nick Bowling
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2024-2025-season/falsettos/
Description: The Tony-winning Falsettos is a tribute to family and its many forms, a playful interrogation of faith and identity, and a celebration of the beauty, complexity, and necessity of love. A co-production with Timeline Theatre.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: Gabrielle Randle-Bent
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2024-2025-season/a-raisin-in-the-sun/
Description: Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, a Pulitzer Prize, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a stunning portrayal of a family’s fight for dignity and the right to dream.
Berlin
By: Mickle Maher, adapt. from Jason Lutes
Directed by: Charles Newell
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2024-2025-season/berlin/
Description: Berlin is an unforgettable mosaic of intersecting narratives set amidst the decline of Weimar Germany. Fascism is taking hold; revolutionaries are organizing; and, as everything falls apart, everyone is faced with a choice: Abandon Berlin or fight to survive.
An Iliad
By: Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, adapt. from Homer, trans. by Robert Fagles
Directed by: Charles Newell
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2024/2025-season/an-iliad-2025/
Description: A timely and gripping retelling of Homer’s epic poem, An Iliad returns to Court’s stage, illuminating the human cost of conflict with breathtaking urgency. Timothy Edward Kane reprises his role as the Poet.
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
By: Daniel Jamieson (book), Ian Ross (music)
Directed by: Elizabeth Margolius
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
City: Skokie
Price: $35-79
Reference Link: https://northlight.org/
Description: Marc Chagall and his poet wife Bella were partners in life and in art. A romance immortalized in music, dance and paintings. With a klezmer-inspired score, wistful songs, and inventive staging, Flying Lovers celebrates the inspiring life and love of an extraordinary couple.
Little Women
By: Lauren Gunderson, adapt. from Louisa May Alcott
Directed by: Georgette Verdin
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
City: Skokie
Price: $35-79
Reference Link: https://northlight.org/
Description: Captivating readers for generations, this beloved classic shines in an all-new stage adaptation. A timeless tale of family, resilience, and a determined young writer finding her way in the world.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Helen Young
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
City: Skokie
Price: $35-79
Reference Link: https://northlight.org/
Description: It’s Thanksgiving 1973 and Asian immigrants Jane and Luna reminisce about home and dreams. Inspired by the “Hart-Celler Act,” which opened a new path to citizenship for people around the world, this funny and moving play gives a big-hearted voice to the Asian immigrant experience.
Prayer for the French Republic
By: Joshua Harmon
Directed by: Jeremy Wechsler
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
City: Skokie
Price: $35-79
Reference Link: https://northlight.org/
Description: In 1944, a Jewish couple in Paris awaits news of missing family. Seventy years later, their great-grandchildren face the same question, "Are we safe?" Following five generations of a French-Jewish family, this play is a sweeping look at history, home, and the effects of an ancient hatred.
Twisted Melodies
By: Kelvin Roston Jr.
Directed by: Kelvin Roston Jr.
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
City: Skokie
Price: $35-79
Reference Link: https://northlight.org/
Description: Flashback to 1979, when singer and composer Donny Hathaway was a soul music icon, known for R&B hits and his duets with Roberta Flack. This mesmerizing one-man show immerses us in a day with the brilliant artist, seeking solace in the music that has always been his salvation.
Happy Days Are Here (Again)
By: Omer Abbas Sale
Directed by: Azar Kazemi
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Stage Play
Venue: Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://steeptheatre.com/happy-days-are-here-again
Description: An unanswered question rings through the halls of St. Boniface High School: "Who will help me?" Happy Days Are Here (Again), a world premiere commission by Steep ensemble member Omer Abbas Salem, examines man-made "divine" power, who wields it, and if they should be trusted.
Falsettos
By: William Finn (music & lyrics), William Finn & James Lapine (book)
Directed by: Nick Bowling
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $23.50 - 93.50
Reference Link: https://www.timelinetheatre.com/falsettos
Description: The Tony-winning musical Falsettos is a tribute to family and its many forms, a playful interrogation of faith and identity, and a celebration of the beauty, complexity, and necessity of love.
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
By: adapt. by Christopher McElroen
Directed by: Christopher McElroen
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: DePaul University Cortelyou Commons
City: Chicago
Price: $20-$80
Reference Link: https://www.timelinetheatre.com/debate
Description: Following critically acclaimed runs in New York City and London, TimeLine will create an immersive Chicago premiere of the american vicarious’s imagining of the historic debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr., on the occasion of the event’s 60th anniversary.
Dhaba on Devon Avenue
By: Madhuri Shekar
Directed by: Chay Yew
Event Date(s): Jun 19 2025 - Jul 27 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Writers Theatre
City: Glencoe
Price: $35 - 85
Reference Link: https://www.timelinetheatre.com/dhaba
Description: Rich with culinary tradition and dramatic twists, this world premiere drama serves up a searing Chicago-set story of family, legacy, and survival at all costs.
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
By: Dave Malloy
Directed by: Katie Spelman
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Alexandra C and John D. Nichols Theatre
City: Glencoe
Price: $45 - $110
Reference Link: https://www.writerstheatre.org/natasha-pierre-and-the-great-comet-of-1812
Description: Based on a slice of Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace, this innovative musical spectacle with an “electropop opera” score earned two Tony Awards and 12 nominations. Katie Spelman and Matt Deitchman, the creative team behind WT’s hit production of Once, helm this Chicago premiere.
Indiana
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
By: William Finn (music & lyrics), Rachel Sheinkin (book), Rebecca Feldman (conception)
Directed by: Patdro Harris
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Indiana Repertory Theatre
City: Indianapolis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.irtlive.com/shows-and-events/events/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee/
Description: A motley crew of wonderfully unique and impassioned young spellers each yearn to be the next county champion. This captivating musical comedy is a silly celebration of the thrill of victory, the irony of defeat, and the gift of being true to yourself.
A Christmas Carol
By: Tom Haas, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: cara hinh
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Indiana Repertory Theatre
City: Indianapolis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.irtlive.com/shows-and-events/events/a-christmas-carol-2/
Description: A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of one man’s journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, warm your heart with story and song at the Indiana Repertory Theatre.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Jamil Jude
Event Date(s): Jan 14 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Indiana Repertory Theatre
City: Indianapolis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.irtlive.com/shows-and-events/events/king-james/
Description: During LeBron James’s rookie season in Cleveland, two young men—one Black, one white—meet and bond over their love for the Cavaliers. Over the next 12 years, their passion for basketball never wavers, even as their lives keep moving in different directions.
Nina Simone: Four Women
By: Christina Ham
Directed by: Austine Van
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Indiana Repertory Theatre
City: Indianapolis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.irtlive.com/shows-and-events/events/nina-simone-four-women/
Description: The High Priestess of Soul shook the world with her powerful music. This deeply personal play with music imagines a conversation among Nina and three other Black women, showing how the iconic chanteuse forged her true calling—and gave voice to a movement.
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: James Still
Event Date(s): Mar 11 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Indiana Repertory Theatre
City: Indianapolis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.irtlive.com/shows-and-events/events/the-glass-menagerie/
Description: Faded Southern belle Amanda shares a cramped apartment with her two adult children, the painfully shy Laura and the restless poet Tom. Perhaps a gentleman caller will bring the one thing they all desperately crave: hope.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields
Directed by: Benjamin Hanna
Event Date(s): Apr 09 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Indiana Repertory Theatre
City: Indianapolis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.irtlive.com/shows-and-events/events/the-play-that-goes-wrong/
Description: A troupe of intrepid thespians are set to raise the curtain on the grandest production their village has ever seen—until things go from bad to calamitous. It’s nothing you want in a show—and everything you want in a show!
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 23 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: South Bend
Price: $10-25
Reference Link: https://shakespeare.nd.edu/shows/events/2024/10/30/twelfth-night-aftls-fall-2024-notre-dame/
Description: Love, deception, ambition, and desire collide in Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and enduring stories. Actors From The London Stage, the renowned five-actor touring group, brings the show back to the touring circuit in fall 2024.
Iowa
Scalia/Ginsburg
By: Derrick Wang (music & libretto)
Directed by: Adam Knight, w/ music direction by Michael Sakir
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Theatre/Opera
Venue: Wilson Family Stage
City: Iowa City
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://riversidetheatre.org/scaliaginsburg/
Description: An operatic comedy hailed as “a dream come true” by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It tells the story of the friendship between the notorious RBG and her fierce judicial opponent Antonin Scalia through the lens of the art form they both adored.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Angie Toomsen
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wilson Family Stage
City: Iowa City
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://riversidetheatre.org/potus/
Description: The fate of the free world is put into question by an ill-timed four-letter word uttered by the Commander in Chief. Enter seven brilliant and beleaguered women in the West Wing, fighting tooth and nail to keep this PR nightmare from becoming a global catastrophe.
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
By: Joe Landry
Directed by: Juliana Frey-Méndez
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wilson Family Stage
City: Iowa City
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://riversidetheatre.org/wonderfullife/
Description: The beloved holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble of five performers who bring dozens of characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful night.
Louisiana
A Doll’s House
By: Henrik Ibsen, a new version by Amy Herzog
Directed by: Jana Mestecky
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Marquette Theatre at Loyola
City: New Orleans
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.crescentcitystage.com/adollshouse
Description: A seemingly perfect life unravels as Nora, a charming wife and mother, grapples with a shocking secret. Herzog's thrilling, compact and devastatingly contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s classic drama makes its regional premiere in September.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens, in a new adaptation by Patrick Barlow
Directed by: Elizabeth Elkins Newcomer
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Marquette Theatre at Loyola
City: New Orleans
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.crescentcitystage.com/a-christmas-carol-2024
Description: Patrick Barlow, writer of the Broadway and West End hit The 39 Steps, has retold Charles Dickens’ holiday classic. This thrilling adaptation uses only five actors to bring some of Dickens's most beloved characters to life.
Penny Dreadfuls: The Remarkable Rooming-House of Madame Le Monde
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Augustin J Correro
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Lower Depths Theatre
City: New Orleans
Price: $20-48
Reference Link: https://www.twtheatrenola.com
Description: In the fall we explore some of Williams’ most queer and frightful feats of horror and social commentary (you read that correctly) in Penny Dreadfuls: The Remarkable Rooming-House of Madame Le Monde…with a few extra surprises.
Maine
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: Over the course of 84 birthdays, we experience the impossible, heartbreaking, joyful wonder of what makes up a life.
A Christmas Carol
By: Lavina Jadhwani, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Jonathan Berry
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: With music, dance, Dickensian charm and theatrical spectacle, this holiday treat will delight the entire family and warm the heart of us all.
Dial M For Murder
By: Jefferey Hatcher, adapted from Frederick Knott
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: Who can be trusted when your very survival is at stake? This masterpiece of suspense will have you on the edge of your seat till the final thrilling moment.
Matinicus
By: Jenny Connell Davis
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: Inspired by the true story of Maine folk heroine Abigail Burgess, this is a story of community, isolation, and resilience in the face of forces far greater than ourselves.
Mother Russia
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: Two hapless Russian comrades find themselves in dead-end jobs, part of a mistaken-identity love triangle, and pursued by the jealous leader of the KGB.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
By: Richard O’Brien
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: The long-awaited return of this cult classic. On a stormy night, the newly engaged Brad and Janet find themselves out of gas and on the doorstep of one Dr Frank-N-Furter.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields
Directed by: Kevin R. Free
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play, Comedy
Venue: Portland Stage
City: Portland
Price: $20-72
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/show/the-play-that-goes-wrong-summer-2024/
Description: It’s opening night for the Cornley Drama Society’s production of The Murder at Haversham Manor, and the cast wants everything to go right. But with a missing dog, a set that won’t hold together, and actors going up on their lines…it seems like the play might just go wrong.
Conscience
By: Joe DiPietro
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play, Dramedy
Venue: Portland Stage
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/show/conscience/
Description: This is the story of Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, a trailblazer of Maine and national politics whose story is gripping, real, and critical to the Maine cultural identity. This play is a deep look into her gripping political rivalry with Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy.
The Snow Queen
By: Hans Christian Anderson
Directed by: Anita Stewart
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Play, Holiday
Venue: Portland Stage
City: Portland
Price: $20-70
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/show/the-snow-queen/
Description: A beautiful story to be enjoyed by the whole family! A story of friendship and bravery with magic and a visually striking setting, The Snow Queen takes us through many seasons on a hero’s journey. This timeless play sure to delight everyone this holiday season.
Murder on the Links
By: Steven Dietz, adapt. from Agatha Christie
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play, Comedy
Venue: Portland Stage
City: Portland
Price: $20-78
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/show/murder-on-the-links/
Description: This hilarious adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery takes audiences on an exciting romp through Merlinville-Sur-Mer, France, to find the killer of a rich businessman. Follow famous detective Hercule Poirot as he puts the puzzle pieces together in this classic whodunit!
Madeleines
By: Bess Weldon
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Stage
City: Portland
Price: $20-73
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/show/madeleines/
Description: Some family secrets are hard to swallow! Here is a play from a Maine writer, a new play that is already a multi-award winner and sure to win many more. When a secret hidden among a mother’s recipes is discovered, siblings fracture and their understanding of family is tested.
Not Quite Almost (Or Almost Almost, Maine)
By: John Cariani
Directed by: Sally Wood
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Stage
City: Portland
Price: $20-78
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/show/not-quite-almost/
Description: Near the Canadian border, the Perseid Meteor Showers are about to start, but the residents of a certain small town can’t decide if they’re a bad omen or a good luck charm. Not Quite Almost is an interconnected collection of short plays about young love, hope, connection.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 14 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Stage
City: Portland
Price: $20-73
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/show/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf/
Description: As the New York Journal-American states, “This is a big one.” Part of the American theatre canon, this play is sure to have us on the edges of our seats. It’s like a train wreck, and you can’t look away! Relationships deconstruct as the drinks are poured in a play to remember.
Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika
By: Tony Kushner
Directed by: Keith Powell Beyland & Peter Brown
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Stage
City: Portland
Price: $20-73
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/show/angels-in-america-part-2-perestroika/#headingTwo
Description: One of America’s most important theatrical experiences, this is the Tony-winning conclusion to Tony Kushner’s gay fantasia on national themes. Written with a boldness rarely seen in theatre, this play is transcendent.
Maryland
Winnie the Pooh
By: Le Clanche du Rand
Directed by: Christopher Michael Richardson
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: TYA show
Venue: Lerner Family Theatre
City: Bethesda
Price: $12 and up
Reference Link: https://imaginationstage.org/on-our-stages/winnie-the-pooh/
Description: In this delightful and gentle musical, everyone's favorite bear from the 100 Acre Wood is surrounded by Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, and Owl.
Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood
By: Joan Cushing
Directed by: Nathaniel P. Claridad
Event Date(s): Dec 11 2024 - Mar 07 2025
Type of Event: TYA show
Venue: Lerner Family Theatre
City: Bethesda
Price: $12 and up
Reference Link: https://imaginationstage.org/on-our-stages/petite-rouge-a-cajun-red-riding-hood/
Description: This foot-stomping musical updates the classic tale, sending our plucky heroine---now a red-robed duckling---and her 'fraidy cat friend Te Jean on a perilous journey through the bayou.
Paper Dreams
By: Claudio Moreso, Mons Dansa Dance Company
Directed by: Kathryn Chase Bryer
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Very Young Audiences
Venue: Reeve Studio Theatre
City: Bethesda
Price: $19.50
Reference Link: https://imaginationstage.org/on-our-stages/paper-dreams/
Description: This charming and dreamy dance-based performance for ages 1-4 imagines two friends who live inside a wastepaper basket! Together they discover what imaginative ideas might unfold from a crumpled piece of paper. This non-verbal show can be enjoyed by speakers of all languages.
Mother Goose
By: Janet Stanford
Directed by: Kathryn Chase Bryer
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Very Young Audiences
Venue: Reeve Studio Theatre
City: Bethesda
Price: $19.50
Reference Link: https://imaginationstage.org/on-our-stages/mother-goose/
Description: Through innovative puppets, props, and original music, eight classic Mother Goose rhymes come gently and tunefully to life. The magical Mother Goose invites the audience to join in with each rhyme’s story, and teaches them that the best way to do what needs to be done is together.
Dory Fantasmagory
By: John Glore
Directed by: Kathryn Chase Bryer
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: TYA show
Venue: Lerner Family Theatre
City: Bethesda
Price: $12 and up
Reference Link: https://imaginationstage.org/on-our-stages/dory-fantasmagory/
Description: Based on the popular books, the show features Dory, who, with the help of her fairy godfather, Mr. Nuggy, her monster friend, Mary, and her mighty imagination, sets out to win what she wants most: her family's attention.
MET Comedy Night
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Jun 07 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $15-20
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/comedynight/
Description: Every Friday and some Saturdays all season! Come out and see a one-of-a-kind show featuring hilarious acts such as "The Comedy Pigs," "Oh Crit!," Key City Improv, "That's What She Said," and many more!
Comedy Extravaganza
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Sep 21 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: MET
City: Frederick
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/comedynight/
Description: Kick off the MET Comedy Night season with this hilarious comedy festival! You’ll see our house teams, some newer teams, guest teams, and some hilarious standup. Each night is unique and acts as a fundraiser for MET Comedy Night. Come out and see a one-of-a-kind show!
Sense and Sensibility
By: Kate Hamill, adapt. from Jane Austen
Directed by: Gené Fouché
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-36
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/sense-and-sensibility/
Description: This hilarious, playful, highly physical, and loving adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel follows the Dashwood sisters after the death of their beloved father leaves them penniless and socially vulnerable.
The Three Swingin’ Little Pigs
By:
Directed by: Joseph Waeyaert
Event Date(s): Sep 28 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Family Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-20
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/the-three-swingin-little-pigs/
Description: In this modern twist on the classic tale, our trio of pigs venture off the farm and head to the big city. With catchy songs, lively dance numbers, this swingin’ musical is sure to entertain audiences of all ages.
Alone: Tales from Edgar Allen Poe
By: Daniel Hall Kuhn
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 17 2024 - Oct 26 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $20-25
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/alone-tales-from-edgar-allen-poe/
Description: Daniel Hall Kuhn’s one-man show, a multimedia performance featuring "The Telltale Heart," "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and more.
The Rocky Horror Show
By: Richard O'Brien
Directed by: Tad Janes
Event Date(s): Oct 31 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Frederick Community College
City: Frederick
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://
Description: In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler.
A Very Jewish Christmas
By: Sarah Schulman
Directed by: Steven Satta
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-36
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/a-very-jewish-christmas/
Description: When a Jewish-Catholic family reunites for their Hanukkah and Christmas celebrations, relationships are challenged and secrets are revealed that test the family more than ever before.
Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
By: Allison Gregory, adapt. from Barbara Park
Directed by: Julie Herber
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Family Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-20
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/junie-b-jones-2025/
Description: She’s back! Follow the feisty and irrepressible Junie B. Jones as she plays Secret Santa to her least favorite classmate, Tattletale May. Will Junie B. give Tattletale May exactly what she thinks she deserves, or will the holiday spirit force a change of heart?
A Christmas Carol
By: Theatricks, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Julie Herber
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Weinberg Center for the Arts
City: Frederick
Price: $17-28
Reference Link: https://weinbergcenter.org/shows/a-christmas-carol-2024/
Description: Experience the timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey toward redemption as he is guided by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future in this retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic novel.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By: Martin McDonagh
Directed by: Elizabeth Van Den Berg
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-36
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/the-beauty-queen-of-leenane/
Description: In this intimate and pitch-black comedy from Martin McDonagh, County Galway's Maureen cares for her manipulative, ailing mother Mag, in a seemingly endless cycle of spite and mutual loathing.
The Commedia Princess and the Pea
By: Rebecca L. Byars and Lane Riosley
Directed by: Stephen Craig
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Family Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-20
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/the-commedia-princess-and-the-pea/
Description: Arlequin is afraid he’ll be stuck playing the role of the pea, but he ends up getting to play the prince. The troupe romps through a series of hilarious princess tests with great slapstick humor!
Jane Anger
By: Talene Monahon
Directed by: Suzanne Beal
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-36
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/jane-anger/
Description: Jane Anger, a sharp-tongued Cunning Woman, storms into Shakespeare's quarantine in 1606. With the plague and writer’s block stifling his King Lear, Jane gives him a piece of her mind—and much more!
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
By: Mo Willems and Mr. Warburton (book), Mo Willems (lyrics), Deborah Wicks La Puma (music)
Directed by: Julie Herber
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Family Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-20
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-the-bus/
Description: Even more fun than staying up late and having a hot dog party! It’s not easy being the Pigeon---you never get to do anything! But when the Bus Driver has a crisis that threatens to make her passengers (gasp!) late, maybe that wily bird can do something.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Rikki Howie
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $7-36
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/clydes/
Description: Clyde’s, a truck stop sandwich shop, offers its kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, and become inspired to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
Eisenhhower: This Piece of Ground
By: Richard Hellesen
Directed by: Peter Ellenstein
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Sep 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Olney Theatre Centre.
City: Olney
Price: $
Reference Link: https://eisenhowertheplay.com
Description: Tony winner John Rubinstein stars in a candid and fascinating fictional eavesdropping on President Dwight D. Eisenhower at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm.
The Monroe Doctrine
By: Mark Scharf
Directed by: Ann Turiano
Event Date(s): Aug 16 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/the-monroe-doctrine/
Description: What does success mean in America? What does it mean when you don’t make it? In The Monroe Doctrine, poet and adjunct professor Real Monroe tries to hold his world together from his trailer on Hog Island on Maryland’s eastern shore. A production of Vest Pocket Productions.
The Red Shoes: Soul Stories
By: Ryan Clark
Directed by: Ryan Clark
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Sep 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $20 - $25
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/the-red-shoes-soul-stories/
Description: 48.7 million people aged 12 or older had some form of substance use disorder. In The Red Shoes: Soul Stories, Quarry Theatre will explore the complex world of compulsion and addiction through a reimagining of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.
and we, each
By: Michael Hersch (music), Shane McCrae (text)
Directed by: James Matthew Daniel
Event Date(s): Sep 28 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Opera
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $25 - $40
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/and-we-each/
Description: Mind on Fire presents the world premiere of Michael Hersch’s opera and we, each. The opera, built around the poetry of Shane McCrae, is an exploration of the treacherous territories of relationships: between individuals, within societies, and, ultimately, the collapse of both.
A Wall Between Us
By: Filipa Tomas & Bradley Smith
Directed by: Filipa Tomas & Bradley Smith
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Company Devised Play
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $15 - $25
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/a-wall-between-us/
Description: London-based Single Shoe Productions’ A Wall Between Us combines video projection, visual storytelling, and illusions to interweave three revealing stories examining our need to belong to a place, how this affects us, others, and the land itself.
The Cradle Will Rock
By: Marc Blitzstein
Directed by: Timothy Nelson
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Opera
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $20 - $30
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/the-cradle-will-rock/
Description: A thundering work of American history. Artists defied government and union orders to bring this searing work that celebrates the labor movement to life from the seats of a packed theatre while the work’s composer and librettist Marc Blitzstein sat alone at the piano onstage. A production of the IN Series.
Cabaret Noir
By: Happenstance Theater
Directed by: Mark Jaster & Sabrina Mandell
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Company Devised Comedy
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $15 - $25
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/cabaret-noir/
Description: Cabaret Noir is a series of dark comic vignettes featuring femmes fatales and fedoras, trench coats and torch songs, intrigue, suspense, and shadows, in a virtuosic display of physical comedy, object manipulation, and period style, with music played on multiple instruments. A production of Happenstance Theatre.
Happy Birthday, Mon Ami
By: Alex Vernon & Sarah Olmsted Thomas
Directed by: Alex Vernon & Sarah Olmsted Thomas
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Puppetry
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $15 - $20
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/happy-birthday-mon-ami/
Description: Class, cultures, and expectations clash when Jacques’s American cousin Sam visits him in Paris for a birthday celebration. Happy Birthday, Mon Ami combines glove puppetry, live music, and audience participation to create a delightful hour of fun for the whole family.
Rigoletto
By: Giuseppe Verdi, adapt. by Bari Biern
Directed by: Timothy Nelson
Event Date(s): Dec 11 2024 - Dec 12 2024
Type of Event: Opera
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $20 - $30
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/rigoletto/
Description: This circus version of Rigoletto, complete with a circus band and bawdy new text by Bari Biern, is at once darkly devilish, toe-tappingly infectious, and horrifically funny. Verdi’s masterpiece is made intimate, in-your-face, and inescapably enjoyable under the big top. A production of the IN Series.
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Carol (Mostly) Improvised!
By: adapt. from Dickens
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Improvised Comedy
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $15 - $20
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/bah-humbug/
Description: Improvisers, turn your suggestions into a never-seen-before, never-to-be-seen-again reboot of the Dickens’s classic. Hilarious, unpredictable, and full of audience participation, Bah Humbug is everything you remember, and everything you never knew, from the story of Scrooge.
Below the Surface
By: Farida Hughes & Matt Keown
Directed by: Farida Hughes & Matt Keown
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Feb 01 2025
Type of Event: Performance Art
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $20 - $30
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/below-the-surface/
Description: This novel evening of visual art and music takes inspiration from both the generative and erosive power of volcanic activity and the creative forces of nature to parallel the act of artistic creation.
Poppea
By: Claudio Monteverdi
Directed by: Timothy Nelson
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Opera
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $20 - $30
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/poppea/
Description: Poppea brings the composer’s most famous and audacious final opera of love, power, sex, and betrayal to life, inspired by the performance tradition of South India, and specifically Bharatanatyam dance. This landmark production is of one of opera’s undisputed masterpieces. A production of the IN Series.
Ethiopia: A Living Newspaper
By: Arthur Arent, w/ new text by Sybil R. Williams, music by Janelle Gill
Directed by: Timothy Nelson
Event Date(s): May 30 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Opera
Venue: Theatre Project
City: Baltimore
Price: $20 - $30
Reference Link: https://theatreproject.org/ethiopia/
Description: Ethiopia was banned by the Roosevelt administration and never performed---until now. Written in 1937, this production fuses theatre and music to tell the hot-off-the-press story of Italy’s colonialist attack on Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia while the world stayed silent. A production of the IN Series.
Massachusetts
Wish You Were Here
By: Sanaz Toosi
Directed by: Melory Mirashrafi
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1188138?_ga=2.246160644.1219110954.1711060202-40263266.1707507701
Description: A circle of tight-knit girlfriends gather to plan weddings, trade dirty jokes, and try to hang onto a sense of normalcy as protests are breaking out all around them.
The Garbologists (Reading)
By: Lindsay Joelle
Directed by: Rebecca Bradshaw
Event Date(s): Aug 20 2024 - Aug 20 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1209440
Description: For one night only, experience this play reading of hopeful story about finding common ground in uncommon times. Purchase tickets at our website or by calling the box office at 978-281-4433.
The Hombres
By: Tony Meneses
Directed by: Armando Rivera
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1189481?_ga=2.6837938.1219110954.1711060202-40263266.1707507701
Description: A macho crew of construction workers clash with the clientele of the next door yoga studio in this new comedy exploring the complexity and intimacy of male friendships.
Edgar Allan Poe Double Header
By: created and performed by Livy Scanlon
Directed by: Livy Scanlon
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $28-$40
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1215248
Description: An imaginative one-person retelling of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado created by Livy Scanlon in partnership with THT Rep. Beginning with the eerie The Tell-Tale Heart and the thrills and chills continue with The Cask of Amontillado.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
By: Jane Wagner
Directed by: Courtney Sale
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Lowell
Price: $
Reference Link: https://mrt.org
Description: Intertwining colorful, complex, and hysterically funny characters, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe is a timeless play about what makes us human.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
By: David Catlin
Directed by: Brian Isaac Phillips
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Nancy L. Donahue Stage
City: Lowell
Price: $
Reference Link: https://mrt.org
Description: A dark evening of ghost stories springs to haunting life in this adventurous adaptation of Mary Shelley’s famous novel. Replete with love, horror, power and unholy experimentation, Frankenstein illuminates the question: What makes us monsters?
A Christmas Carol
By: Courtney Sale, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Courtney Sale
Event Date(s): Dec 11 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Lowell
Price: $
Reference Link: https://mrt.org
Description: A holiday treat for the entire family. Experience Dickens's timeless story of redemption, featuring Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, ghosts, and all your favorite characters including some played by local youth. Spooky, heartwarming, and joyful—with a touch of Lowell lore.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
By: Lanie Robertson
Directed by: Candice Handy
Event Date(s): Feb 05 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Lowell
Price: $
Reference Link: https://mrt.org
Description: March 1959. Billie Holiday gives the greatest concert of her life in a South Philadelphia bar, and you have a front row seat. One of MRT audiences’ favorite plays of all time, Lady Day elucidates the life and artistry of Billie Holiday.
The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel)
By: Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor
Directed by: Reduced Shakespeare Company
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Lowell
Price: $
Reference Link: https://mrt.org
Description: Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark as young Hamlet leaps into action to save the nunnery with Ophelia and Yorick the jester—nothing could go wrong. A fast, funny, and physical extravaganza.
What You Are Now
By: Sam Chanse
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Lowell
Price: $
Reference Link: https://mrt.org
Description: Set in Lowell, What You Are Now follows Pia, a passionate young researcher investigating new ideas about how to heal the mind from traumatic memories. Her interest is deeply intertwined with her family’s history.
Laughs In Spanish
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Mariela López-Ponce
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavillion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2024/09/laughs-in-spanish/
Description: A cafecito-infused comedy set in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, about mothers and daughters and art and success: part telenovela, part whodunit, and 100 percent fun.
Pru Payne
By: Steven Drukman
Directed by: Paul Daigneault
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Nov 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2024/10/pru-payne/
Description: An aging, outspoken scholar finds love just as he memory begins to fade in the East Coast premiere of this tender drama about family, identity, and connection.
Ain’t No Mo’
By: Jordan E. Cooper
Directed by: Dawn M. Simmons
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2025 - Feb 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2025/01/aint-no-mo/
Description: A heady, no-holds-barred look at Black American life, history, and culture, told through a series of sharply funny vignettes. A co-production with Front Porch Arts Collective.
A Man Of No Importance
By: Terrence McNally (book), Stephen Flaherty (music), Lynn Ahrens (music)
Directed by: Paul Daigneault
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2025 - Mar 22 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2025/02/a-man-of-no-importance/
Description: A reimagining of the acclaimed McNally/Ahrens/Flaherty musical about a Dublin bus conductor who learns a life-changing lesson about self-acceptance and love.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Summer L. Williams
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - May 31 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2025/05/jajas-african-hair-braiding/
Description: A joyous and timely tale about sisterhood and community set on a sweltering summer day in a Harlem hair-braiding shop.
Leopoldstadt
By: Tom Stoppard
Directed by: Carey Perloff
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Huntington Theatre
City: Boston
Price: $29-$175
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/leopoldstadt/
Description: Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Play. Winner of two Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Play. The latest masterpiece and most personal play from Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt is a stirring and epic story of love, family, and enduring bravery.
Nassim
By: Nassim Soleimanpour
Directed by: Omar Elerian
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Huntington Calderwood
City: Boston
Price: $29-$135
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/nassim/
Description: From Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour comes an audacious new theatrical experiment. Each night a different VIP joins the playwright onstage, while the script waits unseen in a sealed box… Touchingly autobiographical yet powerfully universal, NASSIM is a striking theatrical demonstration of how language can both divide and unite us.
Sojourners
By: Mfoniso Udofia
Directed by: Dawn M. Simmons
Event Date(s): Oct 31 2024 - Dec 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Huntington Theatre
City: Boston
Price: $29-$160
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/sojourners/
Description: Rising star playwright Mfoniso Udofia launches her sweeping cycle with a family’s origin story. Marriage, migration, and the pursuit of education collide when a young and brilliant Nigerian couple arrives in Houston, looking to earn their degrees and bring insights back to their home country.
Mindplay
By: Vinny DePonto and Josh Koenigsberg
Directed by: Andrew Neisler
Event Date(s): Nov 13 2024 - Dec 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Huntington Calderwood
City: Boston
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/mindplay/
Description: Mindplay invites audiences to an unforgettable experience infused with intrigue and mystery. Theatremaker and mentalist Vinny DePonto guides participants on a jaw-dropping, interactive journey as he reads minds while revealing his own.
The Grove
By: Mfoniso Udofia
Directed by: Awoye Timpo
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Huntington Calderwood
City: Boston
Price: $29-$135
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/the-grove/
Description: Playwright Mfoniso Udofia stages a family homecoming, asking what it means to draw on the wisdom and beauty of our ancestors when the bonds of family are stretched to the limit.
The Triumph of Love
By: Marivaux
Directed by: Loretta Greco
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Huntington Theatre
City: Boston
Price: $29-$160
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/the-triumph-of-love/
Description: Love takes centerstage in this uproarious classic French comedy by 18th-century playwright Pierre Carlet de Marivaux. A clever princess is smitten at first sight, but to win her prince, she must woo him in disguise.
Don’t Eat the Mangos
By: Ricardo Pérez González
Directed by: David Mendizábal
Event Date(s): Mar 26 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Huntington Calderwood
City: Boston
Price: $29-$135
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/dont-eat-the-mangos/
Description: Playwright Ricardo Pérez González’s wickedly funny tragedy Don’t Eat the Mangos portrays life on his home island of Puerto Rico with compassion and humor through the saga of three sisters living just outside San Juan.
The Light in the Piazza
By: Craig Lucas
Directed by: Loretta Greco
Event Date(s): May 08 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Huntington Theatre
City: Boston
Price: $29-$175
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/the-light-in-the-piazza/
Description: A lush and soaring romance unfolds as Huntington artistic director Loretta Greco (Prayer for the French Republic) creates a brand-new production of Adam Guettel’s sweeping, Tony Award-winning score and Craig Lucas’s profound book in this must-see musical.
Michigan
Alamo Shoes
By: Steven Simoncic
Directed by: Jeff Nahan
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $25 advance
Reference Link: https://www.detroitreptheatre.com/alamo
Description: A terrible thing has happened at what might be the last shoe store in Detroit. The sales team, a proper group of misfits, must make sense of their new normal as they struggle with life, death, rebirth, and the importance of clinging to (at least some version of) the truth.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Casaundra Freeman
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $25 advance
Reference Link: https://www.detroitreptheatre.com/ma-raineys
Description: Fiery and determined, Ma Rainey fights to retain control over her music, while her cocky trumpet player Levee dreams of making his own name in the business. More than music goes down in August Wilson’s riveting portrayal of rage, racism, self-hatred, and exploitation.
Hysterical!
By: Elenna Stauffer
Directed by: Leah Smith
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $25 advance
Reference Link: https://www.detroitreptheatre.com/hysterical
Description: It's the Bandits' best year ever! Until, one by one, cheerleaders succumb to a mysterious illness. As the traditional high school pecking order is upended, relationships between the girls are tested and they find themselves both shunned and branded as hysterics.
Covenant
By: York Walker
Directed by: Will Bryson
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $25 advance
Reference Link: https://
Description: Two years after his sudden disappearance, struggling guitarist Johnny “Honeycomb” returns to his small town a blues star, sparking rumors that he may have made a deal with the devil to attain his musical genius. Inspired by the myth of Robert Johnson.
Godspell
By: John-Michael Tebelak (book), Stephen Schwartz (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Michael Lluberes
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
City: Flint
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://thefim.org/event/godspell/
Description: Flint Repertory Theatre opens the season with a splash! This bold new production of the landmark musical, directed by producing artistic director Michael Lluberes, will be reimagined with actors performing in a pool of water.
A Driving Beat
By: Jordan Ramirez Phuckett
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
City: Flint
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://thefim.org/event/drivingbeat/
Description: Mateo, a 14-year-old boy with brown skin, and Diane, his white adoptive mother, take a road trip from their home in Ohio to his birthplace in San Diego. Throughout the journey, they are forced to reconcile their differing identities and what it means to be a family.
2025 New Works Festival
By: Various
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Staged Readings
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
City: Flint
Price: $
Reference Link: https://thefim.org/event/newworksfestival/
Description: Flint Repertory Theatre’s annual New Works Festival brings thrilling new works by some of American theatre’s most compelling contemporary playwrights and composers. The week of workshops and development culminates in a four-day festival of staged readings.
Carrie: The Musical
By: Michael Gore (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics), Lawrence D. Cohen, adapt. from Stephen King (book)
Directed by: Derek Van Barham
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
City: Flint
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://thefim.org/event/carrie/
Description: Carrie's a misfit. At school, she's bullied by the popular crowd, and is virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she’s at the mercy of her cruelly controlling mother. But Carrie’s just discovered she’s got a special power, and if pushed too far, she’s not afraid to use it...
Strangers on a Train
By: Craig Warner, adapt. from Patricia Highsmith
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Chilling Mystery
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39.00 - 48.00
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: The Alfred Hitchcock classic live onstage! Guy and Charles meet on a train and, because they are strangers, they think they can say anything. Bruno suggests that they could get away with murder: He could kill Guy's unfaithful wife, while Guy could eliminate his hated father.
Strangers on a Train
By: Craig Warner
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Chilling Mystery
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Guy and Charles meet on a train and, because they are strangers, they think they can say anything while chatting. Bruno suggests that they could get away with murder---he could kill Guy’s unfaithful wife, while Guy could eliminate Bruno's hated father.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Nolte, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Holiday Classic
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $40-50
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Everyone's favorite holiday classic captivates audiences for the 42nd year with the tale of a mean-spirited miser and the ghosts that haunt him.
Footloose
By: Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie (book), Tom Snow (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Feb 02 2025
Type of Event: Broadway Musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39.00 - 48.00
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Explosive movie musical bursts onto live stage!
Footloose: The Musical
By: Tom Snow (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Feb 02 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: The explosive movie musical bursts onto the live stage! With dynamic new songs augmenting the powerhouse hits from its bestselling Oscar-nominated score, Footloose celebrates the exhilaration of youth, the wisdom of listening to one another, and the power of forgiveness.
The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Feb 12 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: New Comedy
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: It’s 1948 in a ritzy Newport mansion populated by playwrights, actors, a young starstruck author, and the housekeeper who would like all of them to leave. When their weekend getaway goes horribly awry, only a play within the play can save the day.
The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Feb 12 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: New Comedy
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39.00 - 48.00
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: When their weekend getaway goes horribly awry, only a play within a play can save the day. A screwball comedy that's in love with theatre, about people in love with theatre, who know that sometimes even reality needs a rewrite to reach a happy ending.
Vanities: The Musical
By: Jack Heifner (book), David Kirshenbaum (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Heartfelt musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Vanities: The Musical chronicles the life-affirming journey of three vivacious Texas teens from cheerleaders to sorority sisters to housewives to liberated women and beyond. This musical captures a snapshot of the lives, loves, disappointments, and dreams of these young women.
Vanities: The Musical
By: Jack Heifner (book), David Kirshenbaum (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Heartfelt Musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39.00 - 48.00
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: The life-affirming journey of three vivacious Texas teens from cheerleaders to sorority sisters to housewives to liberated women and beyond.
The Rat Pack Lounge
By: James Hindman & Ray Roderick
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Heavenly Musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Frank, Dean, and Sammy are up in heaven, but God tells them they left some unfinished business back on Earth. It seems Frank made an unfulfilled promise to Vic, the owner of the Rat Pack Lounge. Now he and the boys have one night to make things right.
The Rat Pack Lounge
By: James Hindman & Ray Roderick (book), John Glaudini (arr.)
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Heavenly Musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39.00 - 48.00
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Frank, Dean & Sammy are up in heaven, but God has left them some unfinished business back on earth. With hits like "My Way," "What Kind of Fool Am I?" and "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime," this show will leave you singing and savoring the days of highballs and high rollers.
Shear Madness
By: Paul Portner
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Hilarious Whodunit
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: This unique comedy whodunit takes place today in the Shear Madness hair salon and is chock full of up-to-the minute spontaneous humor. During the course of the action, a murder is committed and the audience gets to spot the clues, question the suspects, and solve the case.
Shear Madness
By: Paul Portner
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Hilarious Whodunit
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39.00 - 48.00
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Back by popular demand!
Thirst
By: Terry Guest
Directed by: Tony Caselli
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Production
Venue: Williamston Theatre
City: Williamston
Price: $10-44
Reference Link: https://www.williamstontheatre.org/shows/2024-2025/thirst
Description: A Williamston Theatre commission and world premiere! This post-apocalyptic environmental thriller is set in the not-too-distant future after the Great Lakes have been destroyed. An exploration of the lengths that humans will go for survival.
A Very Williamston Christmas
By: Robert Hawlmark
Directed by: John Lepard
Event Date(s): Nov 14 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Family-friendly holiday comedy!
Venue: Williamston Theatre
City: Williamston
Price: $10-44
Reference Link: https://www.williamstontheatre.org/shows/2024-2025/very-williamston-christmas
Description: A professional woman running in the fast lane of the big city corporate world journeys back to her small town on a mission for her boss. Hot cocoa, light parades, and romance collide. Hilarity ensues. A holiday movie parody to make the season complete!
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Jasmine Rivera
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: A Michigan Premiere
Venue: Williamston Theatre
City: Williamston
Price: $10-44
Reference Link: https://www.williamstontheatre.org/shows/2024-2025/case-existence-god
Description: Inside an Idaho office cubicle, mortgage broker Keith and yogurt-plant worker Ryan couldn’t be more different but they discover one thing they have in common: They are single fathers of toddler daughters. An intimate story about fatherhood, family, and friendship.
Baba
By: Denmo Ibrahim
Directed by: Tony Caselli
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: A Michigan Premiere
Venue: Williamston Theatre
City: Williamston
Price: $10-44
Reference Link: https://www.williamstontheatre.org/shows/2024-2025/baba
Description: Audience favorite Sarab Kamoo portrays both characters in a tender and touching father-daughter tale. Mohammed, an Egyptian immigrant, desperately seeks a passport for his little girl. Thirty years later, she journeys to Egypt to reconnect with her father and her culture.
Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help
By: Katie Forgette
Directed by: Karen Sheridan
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: A Michigan Premiere
Venue: Williamston Theatre
City: Williamston
Price: $10-44
Reference Link: https://www.williamstontheatre.org/shows/2024-2025/incident-our-lady-perpetual-help
Description: This wild and tender comedy explores the foolishness of first love, the pains of Catholic guilt, and ultimately the power of family.
Minnesota
Moya
By: Zip Zap Circus, Josh Hawks (original soundtrack)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/zip-zap-circus-moya/
Description: Soar into the visual spectacle of this pulsating acrobatic performance that explores the spirit and vitality of township life, backed by the energetic beat of South African pop music!
Drawing Lessons
By: Michi Barall
Directed by: Jack Tamburri
Event Date(s): Oct 08 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/drawing-lessons/
Description: Experience the energy of a graphic novelist’s imagination at work as you’re drawn into this innovative story that magically takes place both onstage and on screen! Co-commissioned by Ma-Yi Theater Company (NYC) and Children’s Theatre Company.
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By: Timothy Mason (book & lyrics), Mel Marvin (music)
Directed by: Dean Holt
Event Date(s): Nov 05 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/the-grinch-24-25/
Description: In this CTC holiday favorite, filled with music and Seussian rhymes, everyone’s favorite grouchy green Grinch plots the greatest heist imaginable—stealing the very thing the joyful Whos love the most!
Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster
By: Sarah Fornace and Drew Dir, adapt. from Mo Willems (book), Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Sarah Fornace
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/leonardo/
Description: Nationally acclaimed theatre company Manual Cinema breathes innovative life into this beloved story by Mo Willems, using hundreds of puppets to magically create a movie right before your very eyes!
Milo Imagines the World
By: Terry Guest, adapt. from Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson (book), Christian Albright and Christian Magby (lyrics & music)
Directed by: Mikael Burke
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/milo/
Description: Don’t miss this new musical, featuring dynamic new songs ranging from hip-hop and pop to country as Milo learns that real life can sometimes be even more incredible than an imaginary one! A joint commission by the Rose Theater (Omaha, Neb.), Chicago Children’s Theatre, and Children’s Theatre Company.
Doubt: A Parable
By: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: Jen Shook
Event Date(s): Sep 14 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Commonweal Theatre Company
City: Lanesboro
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://commonwealtheatre.org/our-season/doubt/
Description: A searing drama.
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
By: Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
Directed by: Craig Johnson
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Commonweal Theatre Company
City: Lanesboro
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://commonwealtheatre.org/our-season/miss-bennet/
Description: A romantic Christmas comedy.
Interact’s Greatest Hits
By: Interact Performing Artist's
Directed by: Scotty Reynolds
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical Theatre
Venue: Luminary
City: Minneapolis
Price: $20-35
Reference Link: https://interactcenterarts.org/performing-arts/performances/
Description: Interact explores nearly 30 years of material, presenting our "Greatest Hits." Since 1996, Interact’s mission to create art that challenges perceptions of disability has opened doors for artists with disabilities and audiences eager to experience their work.
Leftovers
By: Josh Wilder
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 16 2024 - Sep 17 2024
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Jungle Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: Pay As You Are
Reference Link: https://www.jungletheater.org/script-reading-series
Description: Jalil and Kwamaine want their family to be “Cosby Show happy,” but that life isn’t in the cards — until a giant dandelion sprouts and wishes start falling from the sky.
Veal
By: Jojo Jones
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 21 2024 - Oct 22 2024
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Jungle Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: Pay As You Are
Reference Link: https://www.jungletheater.org/script-reading-series
Description: Following a violent coup, a young woman named Chelsea becomes Queen of North America. When 3 friends from her past come asking for a big favor, Chelsea makes them revisit their friendship — and its terrible end.
Dinner for One
By: Christina Baldwin, Sun Mee Chomet, Jim Lichtscheidl
Directed by: Christina Baldwin
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Jungle Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: Pay as You Are
Reference Link: https://www.jungletheater.org/2024-25-season
Description: Based on an iconic slapstick comedy sketch and New Year’s Eve tradition in Europe for over 60 years, Dinner for One tells the story of a butler helping his employer celebrate her annual dinner party. Unpredictable mishaps and a little too much wine result in a hilarious evening.
The Effect
By: Lucy Prebble
Directed by: Alison Ruth
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Jungle Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: PAY AS YOU ARE -- Starting at $15
Reference Link: https://www.jungletheater.org/2024-25-season
Description: When Connie and Tristan sign up for a clinical trial to test a new antidepressant, they fall for each other. But are their feelings real, or nothing more than a dopamine-fueled side effect? The Effect keeps audiences guessing, asking which is more powerful—the head or the heart?
Tulipa
By: Kate Douglas
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 28 2025 - Apr 29 2025
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Jungle Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: Pay As You Are
Reference Link: https://www.jungletheater.org/script-reading-series
Description: There was a brief moment in the 17th century when the tulip nearly toppled its economy and turned society on its head. Tulipa is a sensual and surprising monologue telling the riches to rags story about a widow in Holland who loses everything in the name of tulips.
Fast Fwd Motions
By: Katie Ka Vang
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 31 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Jungle Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: PAY AS YOU ARE -- Starting at $15
Reference Link: https://www.jungletheater.org/2024-25-season
Description: This world premiere follows a team of working-class Hmong American women practicing and competing in their ferocious Volleyball League in Minnesota. This high-energy script explores what the sport means these women as life circumstances pull them in different directions.
WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY
By: Reid Tang
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 25 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Jungle Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: Pay As You Are
Reference Link: https://www.jungletheater.org/script-reading-series
Description: A catalog of all the possible phone calls that exist. A play that is not about Amazon, not about Jeff Bezos, and certainly not about Elon Musk.
A Walless Church: The Black Woman’s Guide to Creating God
By: AriDy Nox
Directed by: Signe V. Harriday
Event Date(s): Sep 21 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Pillsbury House + Theatre
City: Minneapolis
Price: Pay What You Want
Reference Link: https://pillsburyhouseandtheatre.org/a-walless-church/
Description: A living room play/ritual/drama where three godlings give insight into how one creates the divine. While Oru, Nona, and Mo struggle to create God, they must also navigate the dynamic and complex relationships of the Black women they embody on their journey.
The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics
By: Julián Mesri
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 30 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://new.pwcenter.org/
Description: In person readings September 30 & October 1. Watch online October 21–27.
Meat Suit, or the Shitshow of Motherhood
By: Aya Ogawa
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 03 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://new.pwcenter.org/
Description: In person readings November 3–4. Watch online November 18–24.
richie never slept, was always up, moving around at night
By: matthew paul olmos
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 09 2024 - Jan 12 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://new.pwcenter.org/
Description: In person readings December 9-10. Watch online January 6-12.
Beneath the Land of Cockpit Country
By: Christin Eve Cato
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Jan 17 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://new.pwcenter.org/
Description: Part of the In the Lab series. In person only January 17.
Alien of Extraordinary Ability
By: Chloé Hung
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 10 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://new.pwcenter.org/
Description: In person readings February 10-11. Watch online March 3-9.
How to Watch an Immigrant Have a Racial Nervous Breakdown
By: Sevan
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2025 - Feb 21 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://new.pwcenter.org/
Description: Part of the In the Lab series. In person only February 21.
The Violet Sisters
By: Gina Femia
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 07 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://new.pwcenter.org/
Description: In person readings April 7-8. Watch online April 21-27.
Mortals
By: J.C. Pankratz
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 12 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://new.pwcenter.org/
Description: In person readings May 12-13. Watch online May 26-June 1.
Just for Us
By: Alex Edelman
Directed by: JC Cutler
Event Date(s): Oct 26 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Highland Park Community Center Theater
City: Saint Paul
Price: $28 - 40
Reference Link: https://www.sixpointstheater.org/just-for-us
Description: Welcome to the world of standup comic and 2024 Tony winner Alex Edelman. After being trolled on social media by white supremacists, he attends a neo-Nazi meeting in Astoria, Queens, setting the stage for hysterically funny, intelligent, and brutally honest storytelling.
Survivors
By: Wendy Kout
Directed by: Warren C. Bowles
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Highland Park Community Center Theater
City: Saint Paul
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.sixpointstheater.org/survivors1
Description: Survivors weaves together the true inspirational stories of 10 Holocaust survivors whose lives were transformed by the Nazi regime. Illustrating the risk of normalizing hate, this work compels us to take lessons from the past to create a safer, more inclusive community.
The Messenger
By: Jenny Connell Davis
Directed by: Faye M. Price
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Highland Park Community Center Theater
City: Saint Paul
Price: $28 - 40
Reference Link: https://www.sixpointstheater.org/the-messenger
Description: Four women in Pasadena, Calif. Each speaks from different moments in time, yet they’re part of the same larger story. The Messenger is a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere.
An Act of God
By: David Javerbaum
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 03 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Highland Park Community Center Theater
City: Saint Paul
Price: $28 - 40
Reference Link: https://www.sixpointstheater.org/an-act-of-god
Description: In this hip and irreverent parody, God has come to Six Points Theater to deliver a new Ten Commandments. Not mincing words, God engages us to reflect on the world today. And God does this all with a sense of humor! Starring Sally Wingert as God.
The Dandelion Seed
By: Joseph P. Anthony and Cris Arbo
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 07 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Theatre For The Very Young / Interactive
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/dandelion-seed/
Description: Theatre for the Very Young began its life at Stages 10 years ago with The Dandelion Seed and we’re celebrating how far we’ve come by bringing it back. One tiny dandelion seed is happy in its cozy home until a wind carries it away.
Señorita Mariposa
By: Ben Gundersheimer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Musical Theatre
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/senorita-mariposa/
Description: A bilingual adventure across America! Take flight and discover just how big Señorita Mariposa’s mundo maravilloso is as we follow the monarch butterfly's journey from Canada to Mexico on this beautiful English and Spanish adventure across the continent.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
By: Dwayne Hartford
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/the-miraculous-journey-of-edward-tulane/
Description: Based on the award-winning book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, this is an adventure that will capture your heart. When Edward Tulane, a china rabbit with a strong personality, falls into the ocean, he embarks on a remarkable journey of discovery.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical
By: Robert L. May
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $18-26
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-the-musical/
Description: Celebrating 60 years on TV! The Stages Theatre Company classic is back to celebrate 60 years of the beloved animated movie! Join Rudolph as he navigates being a little different from the others on a mission to save Christmas.
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!
By: Mo Willems and Mr. Warburton
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-the-bus-the-musical/
Description: With a hilariously funny script written by Mo Willems, the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling, Caldecott Honor award-winning Pigeon picture books, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical! is a silly, laugh-out-loud musical.
When You Trap a Tiger
By: Tae Keller
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/when-you-trap-a-tiger/
Description: What stories do you keep with you? Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on an adventure to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book. A co-production with Theater Mu.
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
By: Joe Tracz, Rob Rokicki
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/the-lightning-thief-the-percy-jackson-musical/
Description: Rock out in this mythical adventure! When teenager Percy Jackson discovers he's a demigod, he and his friends embark on an epic journey to find Zeus's missing lightning bolt and prevent a war among the gods. Adapted from the best-selling book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Madagascar – A Musical Adventure TYA Edition
By: Kevin Del Aguila
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: 16-18
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/madagascar-a-musical-adventure/
Description: "Move It' into summer with Madagascar! With outlandish characters, adventures galore, and an upbeat score, Madagascar will leave you with no choice but to “Move It, Move It!”
Tell Me Your Dreams
By: Amanda Kloots
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 06 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Musical, Play
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/tell-me-your-dreams/
Description: Going to sleep becomes the biggest adventure yet. From soaring across clouds of vanilla ice cream to driving a train across the ocean, you can do anything! Tell Me Your Dreams is based on the book of the same name by bestselling author of Live Your Life, Amanda Kloots.
Helen
By: Euripides
Directed by: Marcela Lorca
Event Date(s): Oct 03 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, Capri Theater, Community Partners around Twin Cities
City: St Paul
Price: $15-$40
Reference Link: https://tenthousandthings.org/helen/
Description: Director Marcela Lorca and an all-star cast probe these questions in the beautiful and often humorous Helen, Lorca’s final show with TTT. Featuring Ryan Colbert, Isabella Dawis, Lynnea Doublette, Bradley Greenwald, George Keller, John Jamison II, Dominic Schiro, and Michael Wolfe.
This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing
By: Finegan Kruckemeyer
Directed by: Markell Kiefer
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, Open Book, Various Community Partners
City: St Paul
Price: $15-$35
Reference Link: https://tenthousandthings.org/this-girl/
Description: In this moving modern-day fairy tale, three young sisters are left in a forest by their woodcutter father and forced to find their way in the world. Featuring Katie Bradley, Maggie, Chestovich, Joy Dolo, and Tyson Forbes. Music by Julie Johnson.
Violet
By: Brian Crawley (book & lyrics), Jeanine Tesori (music)
Directed by: Kelli Foster Warder
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, Various Community Partners
City: St Paul
Price: $15-$40
Reference Link: https://tenthousandthings.org/violet/
Description: A woman embarks on a cross-country bus trip in search of a televangelist she believes can cure a scar on her face. Along the way, she meets two soldiers who are facing their own troubles with money and racism. A tale full of country, gospel, blues, and honky-tonk rock music.
Scotland, PA
By: Michael Mitnick (book), Adam Gwon (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Lonny Price & Matt Cowart
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Ritz Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: $39+
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/scotland-pa
Description: Take a bite out of this deliciously macabre, laugh-out-loud New York Times Critic’s Pick, based on the cult film and Shakespeare’s play. Under Broadway legend Lonny Price, Gwon’s tasty rock score, and Mitnick’s sizzling script are the perfect recipe for a bloody good time.
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
By: Richard Rodgers (music) Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Douglas Carter Beane (book, adapt. from Hammerstein)
Directed by: Justin Lucero
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Ritz Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: $39+
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/cinderella
Description: A cherished score, a fresh, modern script, and inventive staging magically combine in artistic director Justin Lucero’s Latté Da debut, reminding us that goodness and courage can lead to happily ever after.
School Pictures
By: Milo Cramer
Directed by: Morgan Green
Event Date(s): Feb 05 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Ritz Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: $39+
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/school-pictures
Description: Directed by Morgan Green, this “extraordinary meditation on teaching and learning” is told in musical snapshots of individual teenagers. Solo writer-performer Milo Cramer, a former tutor, offers charming and keen observations of 10 New York students' journeys.
Fun Home
By: Lisa Kron (book & lyrics), Jeanine Tesori (music)
Directed by: Addie Gorlin-Han
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Ritz Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: $39+
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/fun-home
Description: This groundbreaking and beloved Tony-winning Best Musical is inspired by Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir. Introspective and refreshingly honest, this hit musical is hailed as one of Broadway’s most original.
Passion
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), James Lapine (book)
Directed by: Justin Lucero
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Ritz Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: $39+
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/passion
Description: Artistic director Justin Lucero will lead Latté Da’s 99th mainstage production with a return to its signature staging of Sondheim’s masterworks. This Best Musical Tony winner, one of Sondheim’s most unforgettable, is an exultantly dramatic journey of love, desire, and obsession.
New Eyes Festival
By: submitted works
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play Reading Festival
Venue: The Playwrights' Center
City: Saint Paul
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://theatermu.org/new-eyes2024
Description: Join Theater Mu for its longest running tradition, New Eyes Festival, a play-reading festival for new works. In addition to a pre-selected script, Theater Mu is featuring two submitted works, as well. Explore new voices and stories in Asian American theatre with us!
Fifty Boxes of Earth
By: Ankita Raturi
Directed by: kt shorb
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Park Square Theatre
City: Saint Paul
Price: $Pay As You Are
Reference Link: https://theatermu.org/fifty-boxes
Description: In this creative response to Dracula, Fifty Boxes of Earth weaves in choreography and puppetry to consider the costs of leaving a home and putting down new roots. When new neighbor grows fantastical plants, they are met with both distrust and friendship.
When You Trap a Tiger
By: Katie Hae Leo
Directed by: Emma Y. Lai
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.theatermu.org/tiger
Description: Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story based on the Newbery-winning book by Tae Keller brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on an adventure to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother.
Stop Kiss
By: Diana Son
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gremlin Theatre
City: Saint Paul
Price: $Pay As You Are
Reference Link: https://theatermu.org/stop-kiss
Description: In this award-winning play, Sara and Callie's first kiss should have been the start to a new romance. Instead, their lives changed irrevocably. Jumping backward and forward in time, the two are forced to look at the little moments that built their relationship.
Mississippi
Noises Off
By: Michael Frayn
Directed by: Francine Thomas Reynolds
Event Date(s): Sep 10 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: In-Person Show
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: A troupe's flop of a play revolves and devolves into comedy chaos in this multi-award-winning play-within-a-play. Doors slam, sardines fly, and trousers drop in Michael Frayn’s side-splitting British farce about a theatre company desperately trying to get their act together.
Gaslight
By: Steven Dietz, adapt. from Patrick Hamilton
Directed by: Francine Thomas Reynolds
Event Date(s): Oct 22 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: In-Person Show
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: Gaslight thrillingly delves into the horrors of psychological abuse, where the truth is fickle for characters and audiences alike. With undertones of Sherlock Holmes and film noir, it’s a story filled with mystery, deceit, and double-crosses.
Million Dollar Quartet Christmas
By: Colin Escott
Directed by: Francine Thomas Reynolds
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: In-Person Show
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley come together again to celebrate the holidays!
The Mountaintop
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Francine Thomas Reynolds
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: in
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: A gripping and electrifying reimagining of events the night before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Mountaintop is a surrealistic fantasy about a chance encounter between King and a mysterious hotel maid who prompts him to confront his life and his legacy.
Little Women
By: Allan Knee (book, adapt. from Louisa May Alcott), Jason Howland (music), Mindi Dickstein (lyrics)
Directed by: Francine Thomas Reynolds
Event Date(s): Mar 25 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: In-Person Show
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: Based on Louisa May Alcott’s life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, each determined to live life on their own terms. Little Women embodies the complete theatrical experience, leaving audiences filled with a sense of adventure!
Come From Away
By: Irene Sankoff & David Hein
Directed by: Francine Thomas Reynolds
Event Date(s): May 27 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: In-Person Show
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: Based on the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared in the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
Missouri
Once
By: Enda Walsh (book) Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Stuart Carden
Event Date(s): Sep 03 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Spencer Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $39-79
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/once/
Description: Featuring gorgeous songs like the Oscar-winning “Falling Slowly,” the transformative power of love and music in Once will uplift you to a world where every note tells a story and every song becomes a journey of the heart.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
By: Lanie Robertson
Directed by: Nedra Dixon
Event Date(s): Oct 08 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: Copaken Stage
City: Kansas City
Price: $39-79
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/lady-day-at-emersons-bar-and-grill/
Description: Step into the smoky allure of this Tony-winning play and go on a spellbinding journey through the life and music of the iconic Billie Holiday.
A Christmas Carol
By: adapt. from Charles Dickens
Directed by: Jason Chanos
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: Kansas City Repertory Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $39-109
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/a-christmas-carol/
Description: Join Ebenezer Scrooge on his redemptive journey with Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and rediscover the true meaning of the holidays. You’ll meet the Cratchits, Tiny Tim, and the irresistible Fezziwigs, and hear the haunting and joyous "Candlelight Carol"—all this and more!
Broke-ology
By: Nathan Louis Jackson
Directed by: Francois Battiste
Event Date(s): Feb 11 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kansas City Repertory Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $39-79
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/broke-ology/
Description: Celebrating the legacy of Nathan Louis Jackson, we revisit this smart, enduring, and quietly powerful play 15 years after it first moved audiences on our stage.
Emma
By: Kate Hamill, adapt. from Jane Austen
Directed by: Meredith McDonough
Event Date(s): May 06 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kansas City Repertory Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $39-79
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/emma/
Description: Fresh. Funny. Flirty. Step into the world of Emma, where wit and romance collide in Kate Hamill’s delightful adaptation of Jane Austen’s timeless classic.
Blues in the Night
By: Sheldon Epps
Directed by: Ron Himes
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Edison Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description: This dynamic Tony-nominated musical revue will stir your soul with the universal language of the blues. Set in 1930s Chicago, the show introduces us to three women and their experiences with life, love, and all the pain that comes with it.
Chicken & Biscuits
By: Douglas Lyons
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Edison Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: theblackrep.org
Description: Nothing is sacred in this laugh-out-loud comedy as rival sisters Beverly and Baneatta bring the drama to their father's funeral...God rest his soul. But the side eyes aren't just for each other. Get ready to gasp and clutch your pearls.
Coconut Cake
By: Melda Beaty
Directed by: Geovonday Jones
Event Date(s): Feb 05 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description: Eddie Lee seeks companionship with his friends at the local McDonald's, swapping stories for advice over coffee and games of chess. But what happens when a mysterious woman comes to town, offering visitors a tantalizing coconut cake along with another big secret?
The Wash
By: Kelundra Smith
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Catherine B. Berges Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description: Ordinary women become working-class heroes in this true story of the Atlanta 1881 Washerwomen Strike, America's first successful interracial organized labor strike. The story gives us an intimate and often humorous peek at the women who fought for their rights and won.
Radio Golf
By: August Wilson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 14 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Edison Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description: The story of a real estate entrepreneur determined to become Pittsbugh's first black mayor, set in the Hill District in the 1990s. Harmond and his business partner Roosevelt are golf enthusiasts with big plans for the neighborhood, and their futures. But at what risk?
Dial ‘M’ for Murder
By: Frederick Knott
Directed by: Melissa Rain Anderson
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Loretto-Hilton Center
City: St. Louis
Price: $35-90
Reference Link: https://repstl.org
Description: Step into the shadows of a meticulously planned murder. In the elegant home of Tony and Margot Wendice, a sinister game of cat and mouse unfolds. Tony, a calculating mastermind, plots to kill his wife for her inheritance, fueled by revenge and greed.
The Roommate
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Rebekah Scallet
Event Date(s): Oct 26 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Emerson Studio Theatre at Loretto-Hilton Center
City: St. Louis
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://repstl.org
Description: “I guess everybody wants to start over.” In the quietest corner of the Midwest, middle-aged Sharon, recently divorced and seeking a sensible roommate, opens her home to Robyn, a mysterious woman with a murky past. Come and see how coming of age can happen any time, anywhere!
Million Dollar Quartet Christmas
By: Colin Escott
Directed by: Keith Andrews
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Loretto-Hilton Center
City: St. Louis
Price: $55-105
Reference Link: https://repstl.org
Description: Are you ready to rock? Around the Christmas tree, that is! The Rep and Stages St. Louis's Million Dollar Quartet Christmas brings Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins back together for a festive jam session that will have you jingling all the way!
Athena
By: Gracie Gardner
Directed by: Kate Bergstrom
Event Date(s): Jan 15 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Emerson Studio Theatre at the Loretto-Hilton Center
City: St. Louis
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://repstl.org
Description: Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and 17, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Josiah Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 05 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Loretto-Hilton Center
City: St. Louis
Price: $35-90
Reference Link: https://repstl.org
Description: From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage comes the Tony-nominated-play Clyde’s. In a small, run-down sandwich joint, ex-cons endure Clyde’s fiery critiques and a scorching kitchen, for their quest to create the perfect sandwich.
Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Stuart Carden
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Loretto-Hilton Center
City: St. Louis
Price: $35-90
Reference Link: https://repstl.org
Description: Join the Merry Rebellion! Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood is a riotous romp through Sherwood, where Robin and his lively band of outlaws hideout. With a dash of romance and swashbuckling adventure, this show aims its arrow straight at your funny bone.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Vi Tran
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Unicorn Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/the-heart-sellers/
Description: In the 1970s, the landmark Hart-Celler Act provided thousands of immigrants with a new path to citizenship. This funny and deeply moving play explores the challenges and triumphs of starting anew. With grace and dignity, it asks: Would you give up your heart to make a new home?
Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO Christmas Show
By: Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen
Directed by: Ernie Nolan
Event Date(s): Nov 26 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Unicorn Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/scrooge-kc/
Description: Five actors play dozens of roles in this fast-paced and hilarious retelling of the world’s most famous holiday story! Ebenezer Scrooge and friends terrorize the Kansas City Metro, looking for redemption and true holiday spirit. This show is just pure wacky silly fun for everyone.
Doctor Moloch
By: Carla Milarch
Directed by: Sidonie Garrett
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Unicorn Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/doctor-moloch/
Description: An actress is hired by an eccentric billionaire to teach the artificially intelligent Doctor Moloch how to feel. Driven by profit, the doctor’s creator must decide if an empathetic robot is a wise business decision or not. Does the desire for progress overshadow the human risk?
fire work
By: Mary Glen Fredrick
Directed by: Katie Gilchrist
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Unicorn Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/fire-work/
Description: In the near future or distant past, all children work in filthy factories and perform the hard-labor jobs. When the rules start changing, they take matters into their own hands and turn their rage to the Man and revolt against the System. World premiere.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Tosin Morohunfola
Event Date(s): May 14 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Unicorn Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/fat-ham/
Description: Juicy, is a queer, self-aware young Black man. He grapples with identity when his father's ghost demands he avenge his murder. From a backyard family barbecue emerges a hilarious and gripping look at love, loss, and true joy. 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner.
Life Is a Dream
By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated by G. J. Racz
Directed by: Philip Boehm
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marcelle Theater
City: St Louis
Price: $25-45
Reference Link: https://www.upstreamtheater.org
Description: As Prince Segismundo, who was imprisoned at birth due to a prophecy, grapples with his newfound freedom, he ponders the nature of his existence and the power of his own choices. A play of enduring relevance in an age filled with political uncertainty.
Pictures from a Revolution
By: Tino Caspanello, translated by Haun Saussy
Directed by: Philip Boehm
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marcelle Theater
City: St Louis
Price: $25-45
Reference Link: https://www.upstreamtheater.org
Description: Three last resistance fighters are living inside the walls of a stadium, while enemies lurk outside. A woman falls into their closed circle. Are they right to trust her? The ensuing scenes echo famous paintings, which highlight the themes of this deep and darkly comic piece.
Meet Me at Dawn
By: Zinnie Harris
Directed by: Larissa Lury
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marcelle Theater
City: St Louis
Price: $25-45
Reference Link: https://www.upstreamtheater.org
Description: Two women wash up on a distant shore following a boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover that this unfamiliar land is not what it seems—and that, though they may be together, they have never been further apart.
Nebraska
A Body in the Wild Grass
By: Kevin Lawler
Directed by: Mary Beth Easley
Event Date(s): Nov 13 2024 - Nov 14 2024
Type of Event: Workshop
Venue: Yates Illuminates
City: Omaha
Price: Free
Description: An experimental drama that uses storytelling, poetry, and puppets to illuminate the joys, memories, longings, and dreams that arise during the extraordinary liminal time at the end of one’s life.
Stuck With Lemons
By: Marie Amthor Schuett
Directed by: Amy Lane
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Shelterbelt at The Omar
City: Omaha
Price: $0-50
Description: Emma and Cate are expecting their firstborn. When they make the announcement to Emma's conservative Midwestern family, the Lemons must face the trauma of tradition and the struggle of growing up and going forward.
stains
By: Sarah Cho
Directed by: Rebecca Wear
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - May 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Yates Illuminates
City: Omaha
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://www.gptcplays.com/stains/
Description: A coming-of-age comedy about a 14-year-old girl whose impoverished, struggling family experiences her first period as a burden due to their limited resources. stains is a powerful autobiographical play about growing up poor, female, and Korean American in Los Angeles in the late 1990s.
New Jersey
Empire Records: The Musical
By: Zoe Sarnak (music & lyrics), Carol Heikkinen (book)
Directed by: Trip Cullman
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Musical
Venue: McCarter Theatre Center
City: Princeton
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/empirerecords
Description: Overflowing with optimism, ‘90s counterculture, rooftop dancing, and the spirit of punk rock, Empire Records tells the story of a band of idealist misfits fighting to save their beloved record store from a corporate takeover. Produced by special arrangement with Bill Weiner.
Duel Reality
By: The 7 Fingers
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: theatre
Venue:
City: Princeton
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/event-duel-reality
Description: An epic, cirque-infused performance that dazzles the senses and stirs the heart. Inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, the show follows two feuding families as they engage in a battle of skill, each competition more daring than the last.
Here There Are Blueberries
By: Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich
Directed by: Moisés Kaufman
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: McCarter Theatre Center
City: Princeton
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/event-here-there-are-blueberries
Description: In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unraveled the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum.
Legacy of Light
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Sarah Rasmussen
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: McCarter Theatre Center
City: Princeton
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/event-legacy-of-light
Description: What is the science of love? In Princeton, N.J., a brilliant astrophysicist tries to become a mother. Meanwhile—300 years earlier, in France—a mathematician, scientist, and lover to Voltaire finds out she’s about to become one.
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: Timothy Douglas
Event Date(s): May 08 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: McCarter Theatre Center
City: Princeton
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/event-primary-trust
Description: An absorbing and open-hearted comedy about new beginnings, Primary Trust explores the inner and outer lives of Kenneth, a dedicated loner with a passion for drinking Mai Tais on weeknights. A co-production with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
The Other American
By: D.W. Gregory
Directed by: James Glossman
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Co
City: Long Branch
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://njrep.org/show/the-other-american/
Description: Paris 1952. After tangling over politics with an American tourist, a promising art student spirals into a mental breakdown that derails his life. Thirty years later he discovers why: The tourist was a CIA operative, and the student an unwitting participant in a dark conspiracy.
The Other American
By: D.W. Gregory
Directed by: James Glossman
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Comapany
City: Long Branch
Price: $65.00
Reference Link: https://njrep.org
Description: After tangling over politics with an American tourist, a promising art student spirals into a mental breakdown that derails his life. Inspired by real-life events.
Diversion
By: Scott Organ
Directed by: John J. Wooten
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Premiere Stages at Kean University
City: Union
Price: $15-$50
Reference Link: https://premierestagesatkean.com/diversion/
Description: A group of devoted and hard-working nurses in an ICU unit see their world turned upside down when it is discovered that someone is diverting (stealing) medicine on the unit. The nurses grow even more unsettled when a consultant shows up to investigate the diversion.
Pageant Pending
By: Princeton Triangle Club
Directed by: Sam Hay
Event Date(s): Nov 15 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical Comedy
Venue: McCarter Theatre Center
City: Princeton
Price: $0 - 258
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/pageantpending
Description: Dreams, schemes, and ripped seams are all exposed under a merciless spotlight in this new musical comedy about a series of sash decisions! Discover what has made the annual Triangle Show one of Princeton’s favorite town/gown traditions for over 130 years!
New Mexico
Bard Crawl: King Lear
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 14 2024 - Oct 26 2024
Type of Event: Live performance, theatre
Venue: Multiple Venues - check website for details
City: Albuquerque
Price: Pay What It's Worth
Reference Link: https://www.dukecityrep.com/
Description: This October, Duke City Repertory Theatre will bring Shakespeare’s classic tragedy King Lear to various breweries across Albuquerque. Imaginative, innovative, and inclusive, Bard Crawl aims to make the works of William Shakespeare accessible to all.
New York
Wipeout
By: Aurora Real de Asua
Directed by: Josie DiVincenzo
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/wipeout
Description: Claudia, Wynn, and Gary are three best friends, celebrating their golden years with the ultimate challenge: learning to surf in Santa Cruz. Trading their comfort zones for surfboards, the three friends navigate the choppy waters of their changing relationships and identities.
The Cottage
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: David E. Shane
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Nov 30 2024
Type of Event: Comedy/Farce
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/cottage
Description: It’s 1923, and Sylvia wants more than simply to be whisked away to this charming English countryside cottage for her stale annual tryst, dammit! When her lover (and brother-in-law) Beau hesitates to commit, Sylvia throws a wrench into their carefully constructed secret in this old-fashioned farce.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Directed by: Neal Radice
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 23 2024
Type of Event: Holiday Family Classic
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/christmas2024
Description: For 43 years, West New York families have returned again and again for Alleyway’s heartwarming holiday treat. With a pre-show quartet of carolers, hot chocolate, and all the trimmings. The story of A Christmas Carol is a holiday tradition.
A Kidman Carol
By: Kevin Zak
Directed by: Kevin Zak
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/kidman
Description: When Cate Blanchett says “Tár Humbug!” to all things Oscars, she’s visited by three spirits of fellow Australian movie star Nicole Kidman. Can Cate learn the meaning of the season in time for the Oscars broadcast? Who knohrs?! An inappropriate, irreverent and truly bananas parody.
Black Bear Island
By: Karissa Murrell Myers
Directed by: Daniel F. Lendzian
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 08 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/black-bear-island
Description: Following the mysterious death of her estranged childhood sweetheart, Amitra returns home for the first time in 16 years and is plunged into a nightmare of secrets and lies in this gripping psychological thriller.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
By: Heidi Armbruster, adapt. from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Chris J Handley
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: Mystery
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/oger-ackroyd
Description: With clockwork precision, just seven actors play all the characters in this highly theatrical adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1926 masterpiece---a twisty tale which delves deep into the human psyche’s intricate dance with truth and deception.
Okuni
By: Ako Dachs
Directed by: Ako Dachs
Event Date(s): Nov 02 2024 - Nov 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Row
City: New York
Price: $75
Reference Link: https://amaterasuza.org
Description: A new bilingual theatrical work telling the story of the historical figure Okuni, the pioneering 17th-century female artist who created the world-famous art form Kabuki, with full text titles translation projected above the stage.
A Freeky Introduction
By: NSangou Njikam
Directed by: Dennis A. Allen II
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Linda Gross Theater
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://atlantictheater.org/production/a-freeky-introduction/
Description: EVERYBODY SAY YEAH! Everybody talks about freedom, but few know how to get there. That's because they don't know their Freek. Fear not, Freeky Dee is here with a mix of poetry, ministry, and magic...plus I got a DJ with me. You wanna get free? Then come get your Freek on!
I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan
By: Mona Pirnot
Directed by: Ken Rus Schmoll
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Atlantic Stage 2
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://atlantictheater.org/production/im-assuming-you-know-david-greenspan/
Description: One 68-year-old man plays four millennial women in a comedy (full of drama) about how to make a living as a playwright (or to try).
Grief Camp
By: Eliya Smith
Directed by: Les Waters
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Linda Gross Theater
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://atlantictheater.org/production/grief-camp/
Description: It’s summer in Hurt, Va., where a lone cabin fills each year with campers. There's homecooked breakfast and an army of box fans and lots of shifting in the dark. Welcome to Grief Camp: a study of loss and adolescence.
Let’s Love!
By: Ethan Coen
Directed by: Neil Pepe
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 17 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Linda Gross Theater
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://atlantictheater.org/production/lets-love/
Description: Let’s Love! is a comedy, a trio of one-acts that explore love in all its miserable glory. The world is a confusing place and we are a confused people. But it’s easier to be confused together, so—let’s love!
Lowcountry
By: Abby Rosebrock
Directed by: Jo Bonney
Event Date(s): May 22 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Linda Gross Theater
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://atlantictheater.org/production/lowcountry/
Description: When Tally, a down-and-out actress and gig worker, returns to her rural hometown, she swipes right on a disgraced high school teacher fresh out of an ankle bracelet. A dark, twisted rom-com about the psychic distress of looking for love in the digital age and the carceral state.
Griswold
By: Angela J. Davis
Directed by: M. Burke Walker
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/
Description: Inspired by the untold story of Estelle Griswold, the driving force behind Griswold vs Connecticut, the Supreme Court contraceptive case which established legal precedence for the right to sexual privacy.
Out of Order
By: Carl Holder
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 29 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre Speakeasy
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/out-of-order/
Description: 50 index cards in a bowl: Some are confessions, characters, stories; others prompt weird group activities in the room. One card at a time is removed and performed in whatever order the universe dictates. It’s a game. It’s a play. It’s an intimate experience with other people.
ChipandGus
By: John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 26 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/chipandgus/
Description: The two loneliest men in upstate New York meet once a month in the grungy back room of a rundown Schenectady sports bar to do the one thing they love most---play ping pong---and discover that their lives intertwine in ways they couldn’t possibly have imagined. Produced in collaboration with Fat Knight Theatre.
Magic, Love, Mystery!
By: Peter Samelson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$25
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/magic-love-mystery/
Description: A magic show wrapped around the story of a cold-case crime; a film noir style tale of star-crossed lovers who risk it all on a long con. It’s a mystery that the audience helps solve with clues embedded in each illusion, presented by one of the world's great magicians.
The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord
By: Scott Carter
Directed by: Carmen Borgia
Event Date(s): Nov 14 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/discord/
Description: A Founding Father, a Victorian novelist, and a Russian revolutionary walk into---stop me if you’ve heard this one. It's a blistering battle of wits when three famous thinkers are brought together in Purgatory and forced to collaborate on a new translation of the Bible.
The Light and the Dark
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Jade King Carroll
Event Date(s): Aug 10 2024 - Aug 23 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Bratton Theater
City: Chautauqua
Price: $45-55
Reference Link: https://www.chq.org/chautauqua-theater-company/ctc-2024-season/the-light-and-the-dark/
Description: The Light and the Dark delves into the profound impact of art in assuaging trauma and explores the transformative power of female rage in reshaping societal paradigms.
Please Do Not Touch the Indians
By: Joseph A. Dandurand
Directed by: Opalanietet
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Row
City: New York
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://
Description: Traditional Native storytelling is infused into nonlinear theatre, with characters that move freely between past and present, offering perspectives of the same reality from different vantage points.
Franklinland
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Chika Ike
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ensemble Studio Theatre
City: New York
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20242025/2024/6/franklinland
Description: The story of growing up as the only son of Benjamin Franklin: the greatest scientific mind in the world, inventor of the lightning rod and the urinary catheter and the glass harmonica and bifocal glasses, and---oh yeah---in his spare time, the United States of America.
Young Frankenstein
By: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan (book), Mel Brooks (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Gerry McIntyre
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wilson Stage
City: Rochester
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://https://gevatheatre.org/show/young-frankenstein/
Description: Mel Brooks’s comedic genius meets black-and-white horror movies in this electrifying musical! This production brings the hilarious antics of the screen sensation to life with unforgettable tunes such as “The Transylvania Mania,” “He Vas My Boyfriend,” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”
How I Learned What I Learned
By: August Wilson w/ Todd Kreidler
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 15 2024 - Dec 01 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Fielding Stage
City: Rochester
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/how-i-learned-what-i-learned/
Description: From Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson comes this autobiographical one-actor play chronicling Wilson’s life as a Black artist in the Hill District in Pittsburgh.
Nina Simone: Four Women
By: Christina Ham
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 14 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wilson Stage
City: Rochester
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/nina-simone-four-women/
Description: Infused with traditional hymns along with songs, including “Four Women,” “I Loves You, Porgy,” and “Young, Gifted and Black,” Nina Simone: Four Women looks at an artist and the women around her as their journey leads them down a path of discovery and healing.
Little Women
By: Heather Chrisler, adapt. by Louisa May Alcott
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 25 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wilson Stage
City: Rochester
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/little-women/
Description: Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel comes to fresh life in this inventive theatrical adaptation which follows as the March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they come of age against the backdrop of the American Civil War.
Pure Native
By: Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora)
Directed by: Randy Reinholz (Choctaw)
Event Date(s): Apr 15 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wilson Stage
City: Rochester
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/pure-native/
Description: East Coast premiere: Brewster’s back after almost a decade and is proud of his success working for a large corporation, and wants to share it with the people of his Rez. But to his old love Connie, it’s a betrayal of everything the Haudenosaunee stand for. Who will win?
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
By: Douglas McGrath (book), Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Karen Azenberg
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wilson Stage
City: Rochester
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/beautiful-the-carole-king-musical/
Description: Before she was hit-maker Carole King, she was Carole Klein, an up-and-coming songwriter from Brooklyn. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is the inspiring story of how she made her mark on the music industry---and found her own voice in the process.
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
By: Gordon Greenberg & Steven Rosen
Directed by: Chris Kelly
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors-9-13-24-9-29-24/
Description: A laugh-out-loud sendup of a Gothic classic. Step into the shadows with our electrifying Curtain Up! show as we unleash the uproarious mayhem of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors by the ingenious minds of Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen. Fresh from its smash-hit off-Broadway reign.
The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul
By: Christie Baugher
Directed by: Danny Mefford
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Preview Production
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/the-fitzgeralds-of-st-paul-11-8-24-11-24-24/
Description: Memory play meets gin-soaked vaudeville. Get ready for an exclusive peek into a sensational new musical this November! Be among the first audiences to enjoy a preview production of The Fitzgeralds of St. Paulk, with book, lyrics, and music by Larson Grant recipient Christie Baugher.
The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul
By: Book, music, and lyrics by Christie Baugher
Directed by: Danny Mefford
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: A Preview Production of a New Musical.
Venue: Irish Classical Theatre Co
City: Buffalo
Price: $12-$45
Reference Link: https://irishclassicaltheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SUT0000009FpR2AU
Description: Get ready for an exclusive sneak peek into a sensational new musical! Join us as we proudly bring home a piece of a beloved Buffalonian and Irish American literary legend, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his wife Zelda’s legacy.
The Loved Ones
By: Erica Murray
Directed by: Kyle LoConti
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: North American Premiere
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/the-loved-ones-2-14-25-3-2-25/
Description: Embark on an unforgettable journey of love, loss, and unexpected connections with the North American premiere of The Loved Ones by Erica Murray. Don’t miss this exquisite blend of comedy and tragedy, expertly crafted by one of Ireland’s most promising playwrights.
Dorian
By: Phoebe Eclair Powell & Owen Horsley
Directed by: Mason Beggs
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: North American Premiere
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/dorian-3-28-25-4-13-25/
Description: An adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s timeless tale, this North American premiere journeys through the depths of hedonism, narcissism, and eternal beauty, where one man’s descent into darkness becomes a gripping exploration of morality and self-destruction.
Crocodile Fever
By: Meghan Tyler
Directed by: Keelie A. Sheridan
Event Date(s): May 30 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/crocodile-fever-5-30-25-6-15-25/
Description: Praised by The List as “brilliant, batshit, and brutal," ICTC artistic director Keelie A. Sheridan helms this surreal and grotesque black comedy celebrating sisterhood whilst reminding us that the pressure cooker of the Troubles is closer than we imagine.
A House Not Meant To Stand
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Jim Niesen
Event Date(s): Oct 07 2024 - Oct 07 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: The Space at Irondale
City: Brooklyn
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://www.irondale.org
Description: The Irondale Ensemble will perform a one-night staged reading of Tennessee William's last full-length play, the "Gothic comedy" A House Not Meant To Stand, at the Space at Irondale, 85 South Oxford St, Forte Greene, Brooklyn.
Danger, Memory!
By: Arthur Miller
Directed by: Jim Niesen
Event Date(s): Nov 04 2024 - Nov 04 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: The Space at Irondale
City: Brooklyn
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://www.irondale.org
Description: The Irondale Ensemble will perform a one-night staged reading of Arthur Miller's double bill Danger, Memory!, at the Space at Irondale, 85 South Oxford St, Forte Greene, Brooklyn. Tickets will be "pay what you can afford."
Shadows of the Evening
By: Noël Coward
Directed by: Jim Niesen
Event Date(s): Dec 02 2024 - Dec 02 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: The Space at Irondale
City: Brooklyn
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://www.irondale.org
Description: The Irondale Ensemble will perform a one-night staged reading of Noël Coward's Shadows of the Evening, at the Space at Irondale, 85 South Oxford St, Forte Greene, Brooklyn. Tickets will be "pay what you can afford."
Laughs in Spanish
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kitchen Theatre Company
City: Ithaca
Price: $32-52
Reference Link: https://www.kitchentheatre.org/laughs
Description: This fast-paced, cafecíto-induced comedy---set at Art Basel, the annual high-stakes art fair in Miami---is a hilarious look at art and success…and mothers and daughters.
Polishing Shakespeare
By: Brian Dykstra
Directed by: Margarett Perry
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Kitchen Theatre Company
City: Ithaca
Price: $32-52
Reference Link: https://www.kitchentheatre.org
Description: A dot-com billionaire pays an American theatre company to translate Shakespeare into (easily understandable) English. A three-character comedy based on a true (stupid) story.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Emily Jackson
Event Date(s): Nov 13 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kitchen Theatre Company
City: Ithaca
Price: $32-52
Reference Link: https://www.kitchentheatre.org
Description: In an office cubicle in southern Idaho, two men struggle to balance the confounding terms on a loan. This intimate, powerful play is a thoughtful meditation on human resilience.
The Brobot Adventure
By: Darian Dauchan
Directed by: Andrew Scoville
Event Date(s): Feb 12 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kitchen Theatre Company
City: Ithaca
Price: $32-52
Reference Link: https://www.kitchentheatre.org
Description: Through live looped vocals, rhymes, and beat-boxing, an android spreads its message of peace, love, and dopeness. A sci-fi hip-hop solo concert that defies both space and time.
TBD
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 07 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kitchen Theatre Company
City: Ithaca
Price: $32-52
Reference Link: https://www.kitchentheatre.org
Description: The fifth show will be another bold, intimate, engaging play. The pot is simmering with possibilities! As a subscriber, you will join the conversation about what you'd like to see on our stage in this last slot.
McNeal
By: Ayad Akhtar
Directed by: Bartlett Sher
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Vivian Beaumont Theater
City: New York
Price: $199
Reference Link: https://lct.org
Description: Jacob McNeal is a great writer, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind, and an unhealthy fascination with AI. McNeal is an examination of the humanity and inhumanity of the stories we tell.
The Blood Quilt
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Lileana Blain-Cruz
Event Date(s): Oct 30 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
City: New York
Price: $82-92
Reference Link: https://lct.org
Description: Gathering at their childhood island home, four sisters meet to create a family quilt to honor their recently deceased mother. Stitched with history, ritual, laughter and tears, will their “blood quilt” bind the family together or tear them apart forever?
Ghosts
By: Henrik Ibsen, in a new translation by Mark O'Rowe
Directed by: Jack O'Brien
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
City: New York
Price: $82-92
Reference Link: https://lct.org
Description: After several years abroad, Helena Alving’s son has returned home carrying with him a terrifying secret. Ibsen’s Ghosts, in a new version by Mark O’Rowe, grabs you by the throat from the outset and refuses to let go---all the way to its electrifying climax.
Floyd Collins
By: Adam Guettel (music & lyrics), Tina Landau (book)
Directed by: Tina Landau
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Vivian Beaumont Theater
City: New York
Price: $199
Reference Link: https://lct.org
Description: Floyd Collins is a musical based on the true story of a cave explorer in Kentucky in 1925, who gets trapped 200 feet underground while chasing a dream of fame and fortune. Alone, Floyd fights for his sanity and life as his rescue effort explodes into the first genuine media circus.
Table 17
By: Douglas Lyons
Directed by: Zhailon Levingston
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
City: New York
Price: $39
Reference Link: https://mcctheater.org/tix/table-17/#book
Description: If your ex wanted to meet up again, would you? Previously engaged, Jada and Dallas reunite for dinner to hash out the good, the bad, and the ugly from their romantic past.
The Divining: Ceremonies in the Name of the M/other Tree
By: Ebony Noelle Golden
Directed by: Ebony Noelle Golden
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Ceremony
Venue: The Apollo's Stages at The Victoria
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.nationalblacktheatre.org
Description: The Divining: Ceremonies in the Name of the M/other Tree is a 3-part series of ritual performances, processions, and visual installations that blend art, activism, and spirituality. It explores climate change, environmental justice, and Harlem's deep heritage.
KINGS…come home
By: Ira Kip
Directed by: Ira Kip
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Apollo's Stages at The Victoria
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.nationalblacktheatre.org
Description: KINGS...come home tells the story of a family's journey to find a new home after leaving their motherland. As their utopia crumbles, the play explores the effects of migration driven by social, economic, and colonial forces, questioning the meaning of perpetual displacement.
A Woman Among Women
By: Julia May Jonas
Directed by: Sarah Hughes
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Bushwick Starr
City: New York
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://newgeorges.org/the-record-list/a-woman-among-women/
Description: Part of All Long True American Stories, a cycle of five "response plays" in which Julia May Jonas reimagines five 20th-century canonical male-experience plays for other people (mostly women). A Woman Among Women is a brand-new work that responds to Arthur Miller's All My Sons.
Tracks
By: Paula B Stanic
Directed by: Tabatha Gayle & Sarah Norris
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: 59E59 Theaters
City: New York
Price: $32
Reference Link: https://www.59e59.org/shows/show-detail/tracks/
Description: In the wake of the social unrest that followed the 2011 police killing of a Black man in London, Mickey finds himself struggling with his precocious teenage son, shelving old dreams, and doing the best he can---until an old friend returns. A co-production with Pendragon Theatre.
Room 1214
By: Michelle Kholos Brooks
Directed by: Sarah Norris
Event Date(s): Nov 14 2024 - Dec 14 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: 59E59 Theaters
City: New York
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.newlighttheaterproject.com/room1214
Description: Inspired by real interviews with a history teacher who experienced the 2018 tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School firsthand, this stirring memory play follows as she returns to the school to teach one final lesson, asking: What if you could rewrite history?
The Infinite Wrench
By: New York Neo-Futurists
Directed by: New York Neo-Futurists
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Jun 28 2025
Type of Event: Weekly Variety Show
Venue: 154
City: New York
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://nynf.org/tiw
Description: The Infinite Wrench is a barrage of 30 short plays that the NY Neo-Futurists attempt to perform within a single hour. Each play offers something different: funny, profound, topical, terrifying, even a song. All are truthful and tackle the here and now. New plays every week.
the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo)
By: Matt Barbot
Directed by: José Zayas
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
City: New York
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://pregonesprtt.org/the-beautiful-land-i-seek/
Description: In 1950, two would-be assassins on a train from N.Y. to D.C. discuss a plan to strike in the name of Puerto Rican independence. As the train chugs along and the borders of their reality shift, they must finalize their plan and decide how they want their sacrifice to be remembered.
Medea: Re-Versed
By: Luis Quintero, adapt. from Euripides
Directed by: Nathan Winkelstein
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Sheen Center Frank Shiner Theatre
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/medea-re-versed-2024
Description: An ice-cold, high-octane adaptation of Euripides's play written in battle rap verse, this brand-new hip-hop version of Medea sheds contemporary light on the classic tragedy of family, power, and revenge---as terrifying and shocking today as it was 2,000 years ago. A co-production with Bedlam.
The Beast of Hungary
By: Lope de Vega
Directed by: Nadia Guevara
Event Date(s): Sep 17 2024 - Sep 17 2024
Type of Event: READING – In Person & Online
Venue: Sheen Center Shiner Theatre
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/all-events
Description: Red Bull Theater presents the fifth installment of the acclaimed Hispanic Golden Age Classics, in partnership with UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics Initiative.
Sardanapalus
By: Lord Byron
Directed by: Raz Golden
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Oct 24 2024
Type of Event: READING – In Person & Online
Venue: Sheen Center Loreto Theatre
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/all-events
Description: Amir Arison (The Kite Runner, The Blacklist) stars in this rarely seen historical tragedy in blank verse by Lord Byron, set in ancient Nineveh and recounting the fall of the Assyrian monarchy and its supposed last king.
The Dark Lady
By: Jessica B. Hill
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 18 2024 - Nov 18 2024
Type of Event: READING – In Person & Online
Venue: Sheen Center
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/all-events
Description: Emilia Bassano, the probable Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets, was trilingual, multiracial, and a talented musician. The Dark Lady brings these two poets intimately together as they wrestle with artistic collaboration, ambition, envy, and love.
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment—The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
By: Donald Margulies
Directed by: Scott Behrend
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Road Less Traveled Theater
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/shipwrecked
Description: The adventurous Louis de Rougemont invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival, and celebrity that left 19th-century England spellbound.
Witch
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Scott Behrend
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Productions
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/witch
Description: A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, as the village outcast, but her soul is not so readily bought. An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, and a sharp, subversive fable.
Witch
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Scott Behrend
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Road Less Traveled Theater
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/witch
Description: A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, this sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.
Our Lady of 121st Street
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by: Scott Behrend & Mike Doben
Event Date(s): Feb 20 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Productions
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/our-lady-of-121st-street
Description: The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room. Waiting for her return are some of the city's most life-challenged individuals, trying to find a place for their grief, checkered pasts, and uncertain futures.
Our Lady of 121st Street
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by: Scott Behrend & Mike Doben
Event Date(s): Feb 20 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Road Less Traveled Theater
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/our-lady-of-121st-street
Description: The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City’s most emotionally charged, life-challenged neighborhood denizens.
Burn This
By: Lanford Wilson
Directed by: Robyn Horn
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Productions
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/burn-this
Description: Anna shares her Manhatten loft with her two gay roommates: the world-weary young Larry and Robbie, who has just been killed in a freak accident. When Robbie’s older brother, Pale, comes to collect his brother's belongings, he transforms the play's action and the lives of all.
Burn This
By: Lanford Wilson
Directed by: Robyn Horn
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Road Less Traveled Theater
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/burn-this
Description: Set in the bohemian art world of downtown New York, this vivid and challenging drama explores the spiritual and emotional isolation of Anna and Pale, two outcasts who meet in the wake of the accidental death by drowning of a mutual friend.
Dial M for Murder
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Frederick Knott
Directed by: Robert Hupp
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/dialm
Description: It’s twist upon twist when a jealous husband plots the murder of his unsuspecting wife in this fresh adaptation of the original Hitchcock classic.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
By: Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (book & lyrics), Tom Briggs (adapt. from Robert L. Freedman)
Directed by: Melissa Rain Anderson
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/cinderella
Description: The beloved musical proves that dreams do come true with the beloved songs “In My Own Little Corner,” “The Prince is Giving a Ball,” and “Impossible/It’s Possible.”
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: Melissa Crespo
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/primary
Description: In the small town of Cranberry, N.Y., 38-year-old Kenneth must confront a deeply buried trauma after losing his job at the local bookstore.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Jamil Jude
Event Date(s): Feb 26 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/king
Description: Basketball makes and breaks a friendship in this snappy drama about two die-hard fans living in the shadow of LeBron James’s reign in Cleveland.
Sense and Sensibility
By: Kate Hamill, adapt. from Jane Austen
Directed by: Jason O’Connell
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/sense
Description: Jane Austen’s Dashwood sisters find the courage to let love triumph over tradition in this joyously whirlwind adaptation of the treasured classic.
The National Pastime
By: Rogelio Martinez
Directed by: Johanna McKeon
Event Date(s): Jun 11 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/pastime
Description: Baseball and espionage are the weapons of choice in this Syracuse Stage-commissioned world premiere, filled with paranoia and post Cold War tension.
Show / Boat: A River
By: Jerome Kern (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (book & lyrics)
Directed by: David Herskovits
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: NYU Skirball Center
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.targetmargin.org
Description: Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater and NYU Skirball present a new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat, reframing the 1927 production for today, retitled as Show Boat: New Things Come.
Counting and Cracking
By: S. Shakthidharan
Directed by: Eamon Flack
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place
City: New York City
Price: $45-$125
Reference Link: https://nyuskirball.org/events/counting-and-cracking/#tickets
Description: Counting and Cracking follows a Sri Lankan-Australian family from 1956 to 2004. Radha flees conflict with her unborn child. 20 years later, her son Siddhartha's identity is challenged by a call from the past. This epic tale explores family, forgiveness, and love across generations.
Good Bones
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Saheem Ali
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Public Theater
City: New York
Price: $95
Reference Link: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/good-bones/
Description: Good Bones delves into gentrification and the growing price of the American Dream. When Aisha and Earl start renovating a house in her old neighborhood, tensions rise over community changes. This clash forces Aisha to confront her choices and complex history of her roots.
Deep History
By: David Finnigan
Directed by: David Finnigan
Event Date(s): Oct 05 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Public Theater
City: New York
Price: $75
Reference Link: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/deep-history/
Description: In a one-man performance interweaving 75,000 years of humanity with personal stories, Finnigan calls on science and resilience to illuminate how we've arrived at this climate crisis in Deep History, an extraordinary ride through the past, present, and future.
Gatz
By: Elevator Repair Service
Directed by: John Collins
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Dec 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Public Theater
City: New York
Price: $210
Reference Link: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/gatz/
Description: More than a decade after its original Obie and Lortel Award-winning engagements, Gatz returns for a thrilling and final NYC encore. A six-and-a-half-hour-long enactment of the entire original novel, this theatrical event and literary tour de force is not to be missed.
Bandstand
By: Music by Richard Oberacker. Book and lyrics by Robert Taylor and Richard Oberacker.
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $42-77
Reference Link: https://therevtheatre.com/2024season/
Description: Bandstand tells the story of musician Donny Novitski, who is about to take on the mission of his life: leading his band of fellow veterans into competition for America’s next swing band sensation. Bandstand is a patriotic tribute to our veterans and the nostalgia of the 1940s.
May We All
By: Eric Ulloa, adapt. from Troy Britton Johnson, Todd Johnson, and Eric Pfeffinger (book), Brian Usifer (orch. and arr.)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $42-77
Reference Link: https://therevtheatre.com/2024season/
Description: Set in Harmony, Tenn., May We All is about rebuilding in the face of adversity and never giving up on your dreams. Featuring hit songs made famous by Florida Georgia Line, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Dolly Parton, Little Big Town, Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, Reba McEntire, and more!
Jesus Christ Superstar
By: Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Lyrics by Tim Rice
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 17 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.therevtheatre.com
Description: The iconic, thrilling rock opera with a worldwide fan base. Written in 1970 by the award-winning team of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar continues to wow audiences over 50 years later.
Barnum
By: Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Michael Stewart, Book by Mark Bramble
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 09 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.therevtheatre.com
Description: The story of the world’s greatest showman! Step right up and enter the dazzling world of P.T. Barnum, where imagination and ambition know no bounds. Hand-in-hand with wife Charity, explore Barnum’s life and career twists as he dreams and schemes his way to bigger heights.
Irving Berlin’s Top Hat
By: Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin, Based on RKO's Motion Picture, Book by Matthew White & Howard Jacques
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 13 2025 - Sep 02 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.therevtheatre.com
Description: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s tap dancing musical comedy comes to life on stage! Packed with Irving Berlin’s greatest hits including, “Cheek to Cheek,” “Top Hat,” “Let’s Face the Music & Dance,” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Top Hat is an exhilarating celebration of 1930s dance!
We Are Your Robots
By: Ethan Lipton (book & lyrics), Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, Ian Riggs (music)
Directed by: Leigh Silverman
Event Date(s): Nov 10 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Polonsky Shakespeare Center
City: New York
Price: $20-125
Reference Link: https://tfana.org/events/we-are-your-robots
Description: A world premiere musical by Obie-winning playwright Ethan Lipton featuring text and songs by Lipton and music by his bandmates of 20 years. The quartet play robots who’ve come to the theatre to answer the question: What do humans want from their machines?
Henry IV
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Eric Tucker
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Polonsky Shakespeare Center
City: New York
Price: $20-125
Reference Link: https://tfana.org/events/henry-iv
Description: Dakin Matthews’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts I and II into a single three-act play. In these beloved and gripping history plays, Shakespeare explores timeless questions about legitimate authority and how the private lives of rulers conflict with their public lives.
The Swamp Dwellers
By: Wole Soyinka
Directed by: Awoye Timpo
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Polonsky Shakespeare Center
City: New York
Price: $20-125
Reference Link: https://tfana.org/events/the-swamp-dwellers
Description: In the American premiere of this rarely produced masterwork from 1958, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka finds stunning universal resonance in a quietly tragic tale steeped in Yoruba myth and lore, set in a rustic hut in the Niger Delta.
Prosperous Fools
By: Taylor Mac
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 01 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Polonsky Shakespeare Center
City: New York
Price: $20-125
Reference Link: https://tfana.org/events/prosperous-fools
Description: World premiere written by and starring the MacArthur genius Taylor Mac. Prosperous Fools, inspired by Moliere’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, is a brilliant and courageous exploration of philanthropy and its hypocrisies---a retooled comedy of manners for an age with no manners.
North Carolina
The Last Wide Open
By: Audrey Cefaly, with music by Matthew M. Nielson
Directed by: Charlie Flynn-McIver
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: North Carolina Stage Co
City: Asheville
Price: $24-48
Reference Link: https://www.ncstage.org/productions/the-last-wide-open/
Description: Late one night after closing the restaurant where they both work, Lina and Roberto unexpectedly find themselves in conversation. This exquisite play with music renders the near hits and misses that are the reality of life as we watch three alternate realities unfold. A love story.
All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
By: Peter Rothstein, with vocal arrangements by Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach
Directed by: Charlie Flynn-McIver
Event Date(s): Nov 21 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: North Carolina Stage Co
City: Asheville
Price: $24-48
Reference Link: https://www.ncstage.org/productions/all-is-calm/
Description: The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man’s Land singing “Stille Nacht.” Thus begins an extraordinary time of peace. A remarkable true story, told in the words and songs of the men who lived it.
Jeeves Saves the Day
By: Margaret Raether, based on stories by P.G. Wodehouse
Directed by: Angie Flynn-McIver
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: North Carolina Stage Co
City: Asheville
Price: $24-48
Reference Link: https://www.ncstage.org/productions/jeeves-saves-the-day-2/
Description: Once again, Bertie finds himself suffering the slings and arrows of misfortune at the hands of his relatives, caught between his fierce Aunt Agatha and plaintive cousin Egbert. Another priceless predicament calling upon the redoubtable Jeeves to save the day.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapt. by Ben Power
Directed by: Charlie Flynn-McIver
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: North Carolina Stage Co
City: Asheville
Price: $24-48
Reference Link: https://www.ncstage.org/productions/the-lehman-trilogy/
Description: Weaving together nearly two centuries of family history, this epic theatrical event charts the humble beginnings, outrageous successes, and devastating failure of the financial institution that would ultimately bring the global economy to its knees.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Charlie Flynn-McIver
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: North Carolina Stage Co
City: Asheville
Price: $24-48
Reference Link: https://www.ncstage.org/productions/king-james/
Description: “King” LeBron James’s years playing in Cleveland bring promise to a city in desperate need. His tenure also unites Shawn and Matt in an unlikely bond forged by fandom. Over 12 years, the men navigate their turbulent friendship through their shared love of basketball.
Ohio
Dial M for Murder
By: Frederick Knott
Directed by: Tatiana Pandiani
Event Date(s): Aug 17 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: The iconic, plot-twisting thriller about suspicion, deception, and murder receives a clever new treatment for the stage.
Mr. Parent
By: Melinda Lopez, Emanuel Parent, Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Directed by: Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Event Date(s): Sep 17 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: A writer-performer tells real-life personal stories about being a struggling actor-turned-urban public school teacher in a hilarious, deeply felt solo performance.
Rutka: The Musical
By: Neena Beber
Directed by: Wendy C. Goldberg
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: A powerful new indie-rock musical and world premiere based on a real diary that a 14-year-old girl hid in the war-torn Jewish Ghetto in 1943 Poland.
The Second City 65th Anniversary Show
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: The Second City returns to celebrate 65 years of legendary laughs with some all-time favorite songs, sketches, and characters hand-picked from their iconic comedy archive.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Directed by: Bridget Leak
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: The holiday story you love unfolds in spectacular fashion with dazzling set, costume, and lighting designs for a magical holiday experience!
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: Timothy Douglas
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this recent Off-Broadway hit is an achingly beautiful tale that will restore your faith in others.
English
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Kimberly Senior
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: The 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, about the human desire to belong as four Iranian adults navigate the mechanics of language with humor and vulnerability.
The Book Club Play
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Blake Robison
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: A comedy about books and the people who love them. When a book club accepts a provocative new member, long-standing relationships take a hilarious turn.
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by: Joanie Schultz
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: Birthday Candles will warm the soul as it tenderly explores motherhood, family, love, loss, and finding your place in the universe.
Kindred Spirits
By: Alice Scovell, based on Noël Coward
Directed by: Brian Isaac Phillips
Event Date(s): Aug 02 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/kindred-spirits
Description: In this world premiere sequel to Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine, haunted by past loves, struggles to finish his book and pursue a new romance. Kindred Spirits blends romance, jealousy, and witty repartee with Coward’s beloved characters and a few new ones.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Candice Handy
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Outdoor FREE Shakespeare
Venue: Outdoor parks in region
City: Cincinnati
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/hamlet
Description: Grappling with grief and betrayal, Hamlet uncovers his uncle's role in his father's murder, thrusting him into a web of deceit and royal drama. This summer, immerse yourself in a riveting tale of passion, ghosts, and intrigue.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Darnell Pierre Benjamin
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/fat-ham
Description: The Cincinnati premiere of this sweet and spicy reimaging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet serves up a feast of drama, with loyalty, identity, and power dynamics on the menu.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
By: David Catlin
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/frankenstein
Description: A new spin on the gothic tale from the mother of science fiction promises to be a spine-tingling encounter with one of literature's most iconic monsters. Presented in partnership with Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Mass.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 15 2024 - Dec 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/twelfth-night
Description: Shakespeare's delightful comedy of mistaken identities and romantic entanglements, is a family-friendly spectacle that promises laughter and joy for all. Presented in partnership with Prague Shakespeare Company in the Czech Republic.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Brian Isaac Phillips
Event Date(s): Nov 15 2024 - Dec 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Otto M. Budig Theater
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/twelfth-night
Description: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is a delightful comedy of mistaken identities and romantic entanglements set in the whimsical land of Illyria. Presented in partnership with Prague Shakespeare Company in the Czech Republic.
Every Christmas Story Ever Told
By: Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald, and John K. Alvarez
Directed by: Jeremy Dubin
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/every-christmas-2024
Description: What begins as another annual production of A Christmas Carol, soon devolves into a slightly irreverent look at all of our favorite "beloved holiday classics” including pop culture favorites like It’s a Wonderful Life, Rudolph, Charlie Brown, and more.
A Room in the Castle
By: Lauren M. Gunderson
Directed by: Kaja Dunn
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/a-room-in-the-castle
Description: World premiere. In this parallel retelling of Hamlet from Ophelia and Gertrude's perspectives, the focus shifts to their emotional journey amidst the chaos of the Danish court. Presented in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Christopher V. Edwards
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$74
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/macbeth
Description: In this contemporary Macbeth, ambition and power take centerstage. When witches foretell Macbeth’s rise to the throne, he and his cunning wife craft a ruthless plot. Toil and trouble boil over in this timeless tale of mayhem and madness, reimagined for today.
The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Candice Handy
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/the-tempest
Description: Marooned on an enchanting yet ecologically fragile island, an exiled sorcerer plots his revenge. When fate delivers his enemies to him, tempests—literal and metaphorical—stir. Amid shifting climates and allegiances, young love takes root in this tale of magic and monsters.
Mrs. Dalloway
By: Lindsey Augusta Mercer (book, lyrics, and music), inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel
Directed by: Sara Clark
Event Date(s): May 23 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/mrs-dalloway
Description: World premiere musical with a neo-Golden Age score and contemporary folk pop music. In 1923, Clarissa Dalloway throws London's grandest party amid post-WWI and pandemic chaos. As she prepares, past reunions challenge her façade, rekindling old connections, and unspoken desires.
Pride and Prejudice
By: Kate Hamill, adapt. from Jane Austen
Directed by: Michael Barakiva
Event Date(s): Sep 07 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Comedic Play
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/pride-and-prejudice
Description: Jane Austen’s most beloved work! The outspoken and independent Elizabeth Bennet is determined to remain single, despite mounting pressure from her hovering and meddlesome mother. This classic love story is a hilarious, modern romcom that celebrates finding your perfect match.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 12 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Dramatic Play
Venue: Outcalt Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://
Description: Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking, Obie Award-winning play breathes new life into the United States Constitution and imagines how it can shape the next generation of Americans.
A Christmas Story
By: Phillip Grecian
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Comedic Play
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/a-christmas-story
Description: One boy. One holiday wish. And a world conspiring to make sure it doesn’t come true. The record-breaking show returns to the Allen Theatre in all its pink-bunny-suit, glowing-leg-lamp, triple-dog-daring glory. The perfect holiday treat for the entire family!
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Comedic Play
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/fat-ham
Description: Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been invited to the backyard barbeque! Get your plate ready for a slab of smokin’ hot revenge, served with a hefty scoop of vengeance, and a side of karaoke. A visit from beyond the grave reveals family secrets and scandalous generational trauma.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Monteze Freeland
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Outcalt
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/king-james
Description: In the world of basketball, LeBron James is the king. But to die-hard Clevelanders like Shawn and Matt, “King James” is a god, and their fandom forges their bond. In a play filled with humor and great poignancy, the men navigate their turbulent friendship through the love of the game.
Fiddler on the Roof
By: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein
Directed by: Michael Barakiva
Event Date(s): May 03 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/fiddler-on-the-roof
Description: “Tradition!” The word immediately invokes the venerated pillars of faith, family, and friendship. But in the Russian shtetl of Anatevka, Tevye the milkman and his wife, Golde, must walk the fine line of balancing tradition with progressiveness. A heart-warming tale filled with love.
POTUS, or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Carrie Williams
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/potus
Description: When the president unwittingly turns a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Peter/Wendy
By: Jeremy Bloom
Directed by: Nathan Motta
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/peter-wendy
Description: When the boy that never grew up arrives at Wendy’s nursery window one star-filled night, the magical Peter Pan helps her to fly away to the enchanted world of Neverland. There she joins his adventures with Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily, and the menacing Captain Hook.
The Hot Wing King
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Sheffia Randall-Nickerson
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/hot-wing
Description: Cordell’s kitchen is flurry of activity as his boyfriend Dwayne and their close friends are busy marinating, frying, and carrying on in a bid to make him a winner at the annual hot wing competition in Memphis, Tenn., until Dwayne’s troubled nephew shows up at the front door.
The Wolves
By: Sarah DeLappe
Directed by: Leighann Delorenzo
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/wolves
Description: A girls' indoor soccer team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of warriors. From the safety of their stretch circle, nine young women discover things about themselves and see each other for who they really are.
RUST: a memoir of steel and grit
By: George Brant, adapt. from Eliese Colette Goldbach
Directed by: Laura Kepley
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play (World Premiere)
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/rust
Description: This is the true story of one woman's experience in the steel industry, her struggle to find peace, and the courage to rebuild her life. What she uncovers in the belly of a Cleveland steel mill is much more than molten metal and grueling working conditions.
The Garbologists
By: Lindsay Joelle
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 14 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Comedy Play
Venue: Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/the-garbologists/
Description: Two essential workers from different worlds discover there’s more that binds them than taking out the trash in this offbeat buddy comedy. When thrown together to pick up what the world has discarded, they learn that some things are easier to toss than others.
Alice in Wonderland
By: Joseph McDonough (book), David Kisor (songs)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+ for adults; $24 for kids
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/alice-in-wonderland/
Description: Ain’t no party like a Wonderland party… Based on the beloved, imaginative tale by Lewis Carroll, this modern retelling is the toe-tapping story of a lost girl, a cool cat, a wild hare, and the original “dancing queen.”
I Need That
By: Theresa Rebeck
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Comedy Play
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/i-need-that/
Description: Meet Sam, an obsessive pack rat bordering on hoarder lost in his own possessions .Faced with the threat of eviction unless he cleans up his property, Sam is forced to reckon with what’s trash, what’s treasure, and whether we can ever know the difference between the two.
The Sound Inside
By: Adam Rapp
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/the-sound-inside/
Description: Bella Baird is a brilliant writer and Ivy League professor who prizes her solitude. But when she faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with a talented and enigmatic student, Christopher, asking an unthinkable favor of him—but is it undoable?
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 31 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Dramedy
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/jajas-african-hair-braiding/
Description: Welcome to Jaja’s bustling hair braiding shop in Harlem, where every day a lively and eclectic group of West African immigrant hair braiders are creating masterpieces on the heads of neighborhood women.
Camp Siegfried
By: Bess Wohl
Directed by: Bridget Leak
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theater of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: First Love. Third Reich. Two teenagers fall in love at Summer Camp on Long Island, while slowly being indoctrinated by the political right. It's 1938, the world is on the brink of war, and this wholesome summer camp is exclusively for American youth of German descent.
Die Hard Is a Christmas Movie
By: A.J. Baldwin & Alexx Rouse
Directed by: Tatiana Godfrey
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: A shot-for-shot remake of the perennial action classic, set inside the suburban home of a family on the brink of collapse. This holiday season, one family will risk it all to make it to Christmas morning together... or die hard trying.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Piper N. Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: In a cubicle in small-town Idaho, two single dads unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds. A story of hope in a world that feels out of control.
Blerds
By: J. Corey Buckner
Directed by: Derek Snow
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: Blerds follows three Black middle school nerds as they set off across Washington, D.C., on a quest to reach a Star Wars Convention and meet the coolest Jedi in the galaxy: Samuel L. Jackson. Not so long ago... three young teens set out on a quest to meet their idol.
The 22nd Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival
By: Various
Directed by: Various
Event Date(s): May 30 2025 - Jun 14 2025
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Art Academy of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: A 15-day celebration of curated new work and uncensored live performance from local, national, and international indie theatre artists. The Cincy Fringe is Cincinnati’s summer theatre party.
Hot Stuff: The Greatest Hits
By: Shadowbox Live
Directed by: Julie Klein
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Comedy and Music Revue
Venue: Shadowbox Live
City: Columbus
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.shadowboxlive.org
Description: A sizzling sketch comedy and music show that brings the heat with encore performances of audience favorites, showcasing the best of Shadowbox Live's repertoire of adult humor and musical talent.
Pride and Prejudice
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Sullivan Canaday White
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Nov 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Forum Theater
City: Athens
Price: $10-25
Reference Link: www.tantrumtheater.org
Description: Tantrum Theater presents Kate Hamill's adaptation of the classic Jane Austen love story. Bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely, this Pride & Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life.
The Prom
By: Book & Lyrics: Chad Beguelin, Book: Bob Martin, Music: Matthew Sklar
Directed by: Steve Pacek
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2025 - Mar 08 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Forum Theater
City: Athens
Price: $10-25
Reference Link: www.tantrumtheater.org
Description: Four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom, they know that it’s time to put a spotlight on the issue…and themselves.
Oklahoma
Patrimony
By: Duane Kelly
Directed by: Michelle Cullom
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Performaning arts
Venue: Tulsa Performance Arts Center
City: Tulsa
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://americantheatrecompany.org7
Description: A compelling new play delves into the endless secrets surrounding the life of a troubled teenager who has grown up without a father. His mother, terrified and unsure where to turn, watches as her son seeks the help of his childhood imaginary friend. But what could this friend possibly offer, even if he can be found?
A Christmas Carol
By: Bob Odle, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Cody McCoy
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Performaning arts
Venue: Tulsa Performing Arts Center
City: Tulsa
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://americantheatrecompany.org7
Description: Tulsa's favorite holiday tradition! A quartet of ghosts converts Scrooge from "Bah, Humbug!" to "God bless us, everyone!" Karl Krause returns as the miserly curmudgeon, joined by a large cast of talented locals who sing and dance their way through ATC's original adaptation.
Oregon
The Event!
By: Lava Alapai, Linda Alper, Anthony Hudson, Daniel Kitrosser, Susannah Mars, Josie Seid & Luan Schooler
Directed by: Luan Schooler
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Artists Repertory Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $40-60
Reference Link: https://artistsrep.org/performance/the-event/
Description: Step into this quaint Oregon town where Rudy, a queer kid, whose disappearance leaves the town flummoxed. Did he run away? Is it extraterrestrial? The Event! is a delightfully playful experience (maybe with a slight naughty twinkle) filled with surprising twists and turns.
Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
Directed by: Patty Gallagher
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: CoHo Productions
City: Portland
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.corribtheatre.org
Description: Corrib Theatre kicks off its 2024-25 season with Beckett's masterpiece. Waiting for Godot will inspire our entire season as we explore Beckett's influence and legacy.
The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote
By: Bernardo Cubría
Directed by: Lawrence Siulagi
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Milagro
City: Portland
Price: Adults - $30 / Seniors - $26 / Students - $22
Reference Link: https://milagro.org/
Description: University professor Paola Aguilar desperately needs money for—well, we’ll let her tell you. So, when the political party offers her a substantial paycheck to help them understand the Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine vote, she begrudgingly takes the job.
Milagro’s 29th Annual Día de Los Muertos Festival
By: Clarrissa Rodriguez
Directed by: Clarrissa Rodriguez
Event Date(s): Oct 17 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Milagro Theatre
City: Portland
Price: Adults - $30 / Seniors - $26 / Students - $22
Reference Link: https://https://milagro.org/event/milagros-29th-annual-dia-de-los-muertos-festival/
Description: Every fall, the dead are commemorated in Portland’s longest running Día de Muertos celebration. Milagro presents a celebration of our chosen families with a story filled with love and joy, that honors the ChangeMakers who have helped shape generations past, present, and future.
Frida, un retablo
By: Dañel Malan-Gonzalez
Directed by: Mia Torres
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Milagro Theatre
City: Portland
Price: Adults - $30 / Seniors - $26 / Students - $22
Reference Link: https://milagro.org/event/frida-un-retablo/
Description: This bilingual play paints a portrait of the rich and turbulent life of Frida Kahlo through three versions of Frida. From the streetcar accident that crippled their body to their torrid relationship with Diego Rivera, life and art intertwine in this story.
a home what howls (or the house what was ravine)
By: Matthew Paul Olmos
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - May 17 2025
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Milagro Theatre
City: Portland
Price: Adults - $30 / Seniors - $26 / Students - $22
Reference Link: https://milagro.org/event/a-home-what-howls-or-the-house-what-was-ravine/
Description: Soledad fights for her family’s right to live on their land. When hope is lost, how far will she go? This modern myth draws from the real-life struggles of displaced communities around the globe, a home what howls is a quest of youth activism standing against forces of injustice.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields
Directed by: John Schmor
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/goeswrong
Description: Mishaps, mischief, and madcap mania abound in this riotous comedy about the theatre. The “Cornley Drama Society” is attempting to put on a 1920s murder mystery. But, as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does.
The Last Yiddish Speaker
By: Deborah Zoe Laufer
Directed by: Craig Willis
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/lastyiddishspeaker
Description: Sarah and her father Paul are struggling to survive post-insurrection America, where everything has changed. When an ancient Yiddish-speaking woman is deposited on their doorstep, they must decide whether to hide her, or to save themselves. A NNPN Rolling World Premiere.
Snow Fever: A Karaoke Christmas
By: Robert Caisley
Directed by: Kirk Boyd
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/snowfever
Description: They’re running low on food, the toilet’s busted, and the jukebox is on the fritz…but come hell or high snowfall, a small band of co-workers and malcontents are determined to make this Christmas at the Wet Whistle nothing like the last. A NNPN Rolling World Premiere.
The Lion
By: Benjamin Scheuer
Directed by: Sean Daniels
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/thelion
Description: This Drama Desk Award-winning solo work redefined the genre of musical theatre. Featuring troubadour Jake Allen, who brings life to Scheuer’s words and music with a supporting cast of six guitars. Like its hero, The Lion roars.
Dorothy’s Dictionary
By: E.M. Lewis
Directed by: Elizabeth Helman
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/dorothysdictionary
Description: Words are powerful…books can transform. Zan doesn’t want to read to Dorothy, and she’s not too sure she wants him to! But his community service assignment is not optional. Gradually, book by book, the two of them form an unexpected friendship…just when they need it most.
Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Brian Haimbach, Craig Willis, Inga Wilson
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/ourtown
Description: Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Our Town depicts the simple daily lives of the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually die. A soaring exploration of human existence.
Behfarmaheen (If You Please)
By: Barzin Akhavan
Directed by: Desdemona Chiang
Event Date(s): Jul 31 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Thomas Theatre
City: Ashland
Price: $35-125
Reference Link: https://www.osfashland.org/en/productions/2024-plays/behfarmaheen.aspx
Description: This one-man show tells a true story of the journey a young man takes to find belonging in two worlds divided. Featuring OSF fan favorite Barzin Akhavan.
Amélie
By: Craig Lucas, adapt. from Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laur (book), Daniel Messe (music), Nathan Tysen & Daniel Messe (lyrics)
Directed by: Brian Weaver
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Portland Playhouse
City: Portland
Price: $5 - 59.95
Reference Link: portlandplayhouse.org/shows-events/amelie
Description: In the bustling streets of the city, Amélie, a waitress with a rich imagination, undertakes clever and covert acts of kindness. Through these acts, she discovers that there are endless possibilities hidden around every corner.
A Christmas Carol
By: Rick Lombardo, adapt. from Dickens (book), Anna Lackaff and Rick Lombardo (music)
Directed by: Charles Grant
Event Date(s): Nov 26 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Playhouse
City: Portland
Price: $5 - 69.95
Reference Link: https://portlandplayhouse.org/shows-events/a-christmas-carol
Description: The story begins with Scrooge, known for his cold heart and his lack of compassion for others. Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, who take him on a journey through time and space to show him the true meaning of Christmas.
Notes from the Field
By: Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by: Jackie Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Playhouse
City: Portland
Price: $5 - 59.95
Reference Link: https://portlandplayhouse.org/shows-events/notes-from-the-field
Description: This powerful performance exposes a world where schools have become a pipeline to prisons and young Black men are being systematically pushed out of the education system and into the criminal justice system.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Lou Bellamy
Event Date(s): Apr 30 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Playhouse
City: Portland
Price: $5 - 59.95
Reference Link: https://portlandplayhouse.org/shows-events/joe-turners-come-and-gone
Description: As Loomis searches for his lost family, his journey mirrors the broader African American pursuit of identity and cultural grounding following the abolition of slavery. This narrative is a profound reflection on resilience, community bonds, and the indomitable spirit of freedom.
The Antipodes
By: Annie Baker
Directed by: Samantha Van Der Merwe
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2025 - Mar 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Shaking the Tree Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.shaking-the-tree.com/
Description: The Antipodes is a play about people telling stories about telling stories.
Infinite Life
By: Annie Baker
Directed by: Rebecca Lingafelter
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Third Rail at CoHo Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $25-$48
Reference Link: https://thirdrailrep.org/mission-production-history/mission-production-history-season-19/infinite-life-by-annie-baker/
Description: In a fasting clinic in Northern California, five women swap stories, philosophize, and humorously provoke each other while undergoing a course of treatment that promises to cure a variety of aliments in this meditation on the complexities of pain and longing.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Third Rail at CoHo Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $25-$48
Reference Link: https://thirdrailrep.org/mission-production-history/mission-production-history-season-19/a-case-for-the-existence-of-god-by-samuel-d-hunter/
Description: Two working dads who seemingly have little in common meet to discuss business. Despite the primarily transactional nature of their relationship, the men connect over their experiences of fatherhood, growing up in a small rural town, and the loneliness of lost opportunities.
Precipice: re-membering, forgetting, and claiming home
By: Damaris Webb and Chris Gonzalez
Directed by: Olivia Matthews
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Third Rail at CoHo Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $25-$48
Reference Link: https://thirdrailrep.org/mission-production-history/mission-production-history-season-19/precipice-by-chris-gonzalez-damaris-webb/
Description: A fluid, magical-realist poem and one-woman show that presses against the boundaries of media reports, geological truths, legacy, DNA reports, and the value of listening to the land as a third-generation Black Portlander and Oregonian.
Ann
By: Holland Taylor
Directed by: Don Horn
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: live theater, drama, comedy, two act, historical
Venue: The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza
City: Portland
Price: $20-$40
Reference Link: https://www.trianglepro.org/ann-1
Description: An encore performance starring Margie Boule. Ann is an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary late governor of Texas. This inspiring and hilarious play brings us face to face with a complex, colorful, and captivating character.
J.C. (a gospel according to an Angel)
By: Donnie (book & lyrics), Michael Allen Harrison (additional book & lyrics)
Directed by: Don Horn
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza
City: Portland
Price: $20-$40
Reference Link: https://www.trianglepro.org/jc-gospel-according-to-an-angel
Description: This new stage musical asks the question, Why do you believe what you believe? Just because it is written in a book---a book that has over the years been translated from one language to another? Is it the stories in the book---is that why so many people believe?
That’s No Lady
By: Donnie (book & lyrics), w/ additional book & lyrics by Storm Large, Tom Grant, Jonathan Quesenberry, and Marv & Rindy Ross
Directed by: Brandon Wooley
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: biographical musical
Venue: The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza
City: Portland
Price: $20-$40
Reference Link: https://www.trianglepro.org/darcelle-thats-no-lady
Description: True story of a run-down tavern on Skid Row becoming a renowned, world-class drag performance venue, and of the world's oldest female impersonator and the venue being honored by being the first Oregon LGBTQ business on the National Register. Dedicated to Walter W Cole/Dracelle.
Pennsylvania
A Christmas Carol
By: Amy Rene Byrne, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Amy Rene Byrne
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: www.bte.org
Description: A brand new adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic work.
Misery
By: William Goldman
Directed by: Nora Gair
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: www.bte.org
Description: An edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller.
A Wrinkle in Time
By: John Glore, adapt. from Madeleine L'Engle
Directed by: Aaron White
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: www.bte.org
Description: One of literature's most enduring young heroines, Meg Murry is joining forces with Mrs. Whatsit, Charles Wallace, Calvin O'Keefe, and more to battle the forces of evil so she can rescue her father, save humanity, and find herself.
The Gin Game
By: D.L. Coburn
Directed by: Jon Marans
Event Date(s): Sep 10 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production
Venue: The Regency Room
City: Bristol
Price: $45.00
Reference Link: https://brtstage.org/shows/gin-game/
Description: In life as in cards, we play the hand we’re dealt and there are winners and losers. What begins as a friendly game of gin rummy on the porch of the Bentley Nursing Home escalates into all-out war, as Fonsia blithely beats Weller again and again...and again.
Venus in Fur
By: David Ives
Directed by: Ken Kaissar
Event Date(s): Oct 22 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: The Regency Room (190 Mifflin Street, Bristol, PA 19007)
City: Bristol
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://brtstage.org/shows/venus-in-fur/
Description: A sexy and hilarious tale about an uninhibited actress who barges into an audition room just when the director is ready to give up for the day. As she fights to win the part, the power slowly changes hands as she turns the tide on the writer-director and his ideas about seduction
An American Christmas Songbook
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 11 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: St's Ann Church, 357 Dorrance Street, Bristol, PA 19007
City: Bristol
Price: $20-45
Reference Link: https://https://brtstage.org/shows/an-american-christmas-songbook-2/
Description: Feel the warmth of the holiday season as hosts Demetria Joyce Bailey and Philip Chaffin, joined by an incredible lineup of singers and musicians, take the stage to bring your favorite Christmas carols and beloved holiday tunes to life. Join BRT and feel the Christmas spirits!
Fires in the Mirror
By: Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by: Amy Kaissar
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
City: Bristol
Price: $15-62
Reference Link: https://brtstage.org/shows/fires-in-the-mirror/
Description: What everyone agreed on: Two cars collided. One, driven by a Hasidic Jew, veered off the road and critically injured two Black children. A crowd formed. Police arrived. What no one agreed on: Anything else. Join the Bristol Riverside Theatre for this remarkable play that features the real words of more than 50 people, interviewed immediately after the events, speaking honestly, the way we do in private. Let’s listen.
Victor Trevino, Jr.: The Ultimate Elvis Experience
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
City: Bristol
Price: $20-63
Reference Link: https://brtstage.org/shows/ultimate-elvis-experience/
Description: Elvis has returned to the building! Victor Trevino, Jr., star of the hit show Elvis Lives for three years, is bringing his incredible tribute to Bristol Riverside Theatre. This is your chance to experience the King’s greatest hits live—don’t miss it!
70’s Flashback
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 30 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
City: Bristol
Price: $20-$45
Reference Link: https://brtstage.org/shows/70-flashback-2025/https://
Description: From The Rolling Stones and David Bowie to Fleetwood Mac and Earth, Wind, & Fire, 70’s Flashback invites you to step back in time, as they bring to life the soundtrack of a generation. Their high energy, show-stopping performance will have you singing along and groove to the music!
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Meredith McDonough
Event Date(s): Sep 21 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94446/potus-or-behind-every-great-dumbass-are-seven-women-trying-to-keep-him-alive
Description: An uproariously funny feminist satire lands in time for election season! A crude comment, a problematic paramour, and an unfortunate medical mess turn a PR nightmare into a global crisis---and it’s all dumped upon the seven women responsible for keeping the president presidential.
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley
By: Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
Directed by: Kyle Haden
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94447/the-wickhams-christmas-at-pemberley
Description: The Darcys and Bennets return to City Theatre in a delightful companion piece to last season’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. The uninvited husband of Lydia appears in the middle of the night. The Wickhams is a charming holiday tale that celebrates forgiveness.
The Real James Bond…Was Dominican
By: Christopher Rivas
Directed by: Daniel Banks
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94448/the-dnaworks-production-of-the-real-james-bond-dot-dot-dot-was-dominican
Description: The Real James Bond…Was Dominican is a young man’s guide to love, color, code-switching, white-washing, fake-it-till-you-make-it, and the roller coaster of finding one’s true self. A DNAWORKS production.
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by: Marc Masterson
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94449/birthday-candles
Description: Birthday Candles examines one woman’s life, one birthday at a time, and asks where our place in the universe is, and what would you risk for the perfect gift?
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Monteze Freeland
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94451/king-james
Description: King James is a buddy comedy that tracks the unlikely friendship of two super fans and examines the bonds that sports can create in an “intensely watchable and astutely observed” (The New York Times) new play.
The Knightly Quest
By: Tennessee Williams, adapt. by Fred Abrahamse & Marcel Meyer
Directed by: Fred Abrahamse
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Fringe, Theater, Interactive solo show
Venue: Cockatoo Bar
City: Philadelphia
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://egopo.org/box-office
Description: A gay vampire escapes from an American police state in a getaway spaceship. A very unusual story by Tennessee WIlliams, adapted for the stage by Cape Town's multi-award winning duo, Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer.
The Drag
By: Mae West
Directed by: Rebecca Wright
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Theater, Play
Venue: Christ Church Neighborhood House
City: Philadelphia
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://egopo.org/box-office
Description: A new adaptation of a play once hailed as outrageous and morally offensive, this production brings to life this controversial work of the infamous sex icon of stage and screen, Mae West. Come for the drag ball and stay for this flamboyant and fiercely funny social satire.
Turds in Hell
By: Charles Ludlam & Bill Vehr
Directed by: Dane Eissler
Event Date(s): Apr 09 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Theater, Play
Venue: Theatre Exile
City: Philadelphia
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://egopo.org/box-office
Description: Turds in Hell follows outcast Orgone as he traverses an amoral world of angels and devils to confront his mother for abandoning him at birth. Whether you’re a saint or a sinner, Turds in Hell is a riotous ride you won’t soon forget.
Fool
By: Clown Daddy
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 13 2024
Type of Event: Alone Together Solo Play Festival
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: Clown Daddy, a.k.a. Ellie J, performs a solo clown play about a clown trapped in a living space. As they attempt to get out, the profundity of human existence is explored.
Dora’s Gently Used Dream Store
By: Morgan McKenzie Kauffman
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 14 2024 - Sep 14 2024
Type of Event: Alone Together Solo Play Festival
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: Dora’s secret collection---the dreams and nightmares donated by past customers---is what writer and performer Morgan McKenzie Kauffman merges to tell the story of Dora and the patrons who make up this mysterious market. A pop-up performance that changes nightly.
Decompositions
By: Tannis Kowalchuk
Directed by: Mimi McGurl
Event Date(s): Sep 15 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Alone Together Solo Play Festival
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: Theatre artist and organic farmer Tannis Kowalchuk writes and performs a series of fiercely personal stories, dances, and songs that explore decomposition as a metaphor for living a full life. Kowalchuk’s dynamic duet with a pile of compost is a brave new work of live intimate theatre.
Lucy-Joseph
By: Farm Arts Collective (devised)
Directed by: Mimi McGurl
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Dec 07 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: A staged reading of a new work in development inspired by the life of L.A. Lobdell, featuring Jess Beveridge, Tannis Kowalchuk, Doug Rogers, and the Farm Arts Collective band.
Dream on the Farm
By: Farm Arts Collective
Directed by: Tannis Kowalchuk
Event Date(s): Aug 07 2025 - Aug 17 2025
Type of Event: Dream on the Farm
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: Play #6 of Dream on the Farm, a decade-long series of performances about climate change. Staged at the new Agri-Cultural Center on Willow Wisp Organic Farm. Created collectively and performed by the artists, farmers, activists, and musicians of Farm Arts Collective.
The Pirates of Penzance
By: W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
Directed by: Benjamin Krumreig
Event Date(s): Nov 02 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://gamuttheatre.org
Description: The Pirates of Penzance tells the story of Frederic, a contracted pirate apprentice, who leaves his band of pirates behind and falls in love with Mabel. However, Frederic must rejoin the pirates to vanquish the Major General. Who will triumph in the end?
Frankenstein
By: Nick Dear
Directed by: Jeff Luttermoser
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://gamuttheatre.org
Description: Abandoned by his creator and left to navigate a hostile world, Frankenstein's bewildered creature faces a harsh, new life of cruelty and isolation. Timeless themes of scientific responsibility, the nature of humanity are explored in this gripping and unsettling Gothic tale.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
By: Sean Adams, adapt. from L. Frank Baum
Directed by: Melissa Nicholson
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://gamuttheatre.org
Description: Follow the adventures of a Kansas farm girl named Dorothy and her pet dog Toto as they are swept away by a cyclone into Munchkin Country in the magical Land of Oz. One of America’s most famous and truly loved fairytales!
Love’s Labour’s Lost
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: J. Clark Nicholson
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2025 - Jun 21 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: free
Reference Link: https://gamuttheatre.org
Description: The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honor is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions.
The Wanderers`
By: Anna Ziegler
Directed by: Jesse Bernstein
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/plays/the-wanderers.html
Description: From the writer of Lantern hits Photograph 51 and The Last Match comes this moving exploration of estrangement and the great human yearning for connection, told with keen humor and deep empathy for these flawed and fascinating characters.
American Moor
By: Keith Hamilton Cobb
Directed by: Kash Goins
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/plays/american-moor.html
Description: An actor auditions for the title role in Othello. From this simple scenario springs a rich and penetrating exploration of Shakespeare, race, and art in modern America.
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Charles McMahon
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 15 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/plays/much-ado-about-nothing.html
Description: Through a dizzying web of misdirection and deceits both malign and benign, Beatrice's and Benedick's steadfast refusal to love is put to the test in Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy. Will they go on with their merry single lives or fall in love despite themselves?
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow, adapted from the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by: Charles McMahon
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/plays/the-39-steps.html
Description: A spy thriller or a rollicking comedy? Why not both! In this riotous adaptation of the classic adventure novel and Hitchcock film, we travel from London to the Scottish Highlands and back again as a social dandy tries to thwart the theft of state military secrets.
Penelope
By: Alex Bechtel (music & lyrics), Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean & Eva Steinmetz (book)
Directed by: Eva Steinmetz
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
City: Center Valley
Price: $25 - 75
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description:
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jason King Jones
Event Date(s): May 30 2025 - Jun 13 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Tour
Venue: Various Touring Locations
City: Center Valley
Price: $Free to attend
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! Community Tour brings free performances of Shakespeare to libraries, parks, and community centers all over the region.
The Producers
By: Mel Brooks (music & lyrics), Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan (book)
Directed by: Jennifer Childs
Event Date(s): Jun 11 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
City: Center Valley
Price: $25 - 75
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description: The hit musical returns.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: Akeem Davis
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
City: Center Valley
Price: $25 - 75
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description: Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking drama, a searing and timeless portrait of a family on Chicago's South Side, is an American classic.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Lindsay Smiling
Event Date(s): Jul 09 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue:
City: Center Valley
Price: $25 - 75
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description: Shakespeare's classic tragedy of identity and revenge.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard
Directed by: Jason King Jones
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2025 - Aug 02 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
City: Center Valley
Price: $25 - 75
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description: The fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play.
Shakespeare for Kids: Hamlet
By: Erin Sheffield, adapt. from Shakespeare
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Jul 22 2025 - Aug 02 2025
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
City: Center Valley
Price: $11-13
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description: A high-energy one-hour production designed for children ages 4 to 10 to actively experience Shakespeare’s vibrant language and characters.
Timon of Athens
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Extreme Shakespeare
Event Date(s): Jul 23 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
City: Center Valley
Price: $25 - 75
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description: “Extreme Shakespeare.” This production will be rehearsed akin to the way Shakespeare’s company would have: Actors arrive with their lines learned, rehearse on their own, wear what they can find, and open in a matter of days. No directors. Just great actors.
The Princess and the Frog Prince
By: adapt. from Grimms
Directed by: Jessica Bedford
Event Date(s): Jul 25 2025 - Aug 02 2025
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
City: Center Valley
Price: $14-18
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/
Description: Based on Grimms’ fairy tales.
The Porch on Windy Hill
By: Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse & David M. Lutken
Directed by: Sherry Stregack Lutken
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: People's Light
City: Malvern
Price: $49
Reference Link: https://www.peopleslight.org/whats-on/20242025-season/the-porch-on-windy-hill-a-new-play-with-old-music/
Description: David Lutken (Woody Sez, The Road, Ring of Fire) returns to the People’s Light stage! A young couple’s journey to North Carolina explores the roots of Appalachian music in a heartwarming tale of family heritage and human connection.
Peter Panto: A Musical Panto
By: Jennifer Childs (book), Alex Bechtel (music & lyrics & arrangements)
Directed by: Bill Fennelly
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: People's Light
City: Malvern
Price: $54
Reference Link: https://tickets.peopleslight.org/overview/90535
Description: The creative team behind Alice in Wonderland: A Musical Panto invites you to explore the whimsical world of Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, and Captain Hook! Cheer the heroes, boo the villains, and sing along with this playful twist on a fairy tale classic.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: Steve H. Broadnax III
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: People's Light
City: Malvern
Price: $54
Reference Link: https://https://tickets.peopleslight.org/overview/90474
Description: Follow the Younger family through generational divides and the pursuit of a better future as they navigate the sociopolitical landscape of 1950s Chicago.
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by: Abigail Adams
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - May 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: People's Light
City: Malvern
Price: $54
Reference Link: https://tickets.peopleslight.org/OVERVIEW/90344
Description: A poignant and humorous look at one woman’s life from ages 17 to 101 while she bakes a cake over the course of a century.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Howard Ashman (book & lyrics), Alan Menken (music)
Directed by: Molly Rosa Houlahan
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: People's Light
City: Malvern
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://tickets.peopleslight.org/overview/90388
Description: Celebrate the summer with a wickedly delightful musical masterpiece centering around a hapless florist manipulated by a man-eating plant with a killer voice in this camp classic.
La Egoísta
By: Erlina Ortiz
Directed by: Tatyana-Marie Carlo
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Suzanne Roberts Theatre (480 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146)
City: Philadelphia
Price: $20-75
Reference Link: https://philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/la-egoista/
Description: This funny and touching new play features sidesplitting stand-up as it explores sisterhood, caregiving, and the search for balance between career and family. La Egoísta is a comedy about being selfish in pursuit of your dreams but selfless with the people you love.
A Benefit Reading: Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune
By: Terrance McNalley
Directed by: James Ijames
Event Date(s): Nov 26 2024 - Nov 26 2024
Type of Event: Benefit Reading
Venue: Suzanne Roberts Theatre
City: Philadelphia
Price: $100-180
Reference Link: https://philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/frankie-and-johnny/
Description: Join Philadelphia Theatre Company, celebrating its 50th season, for a one-night-only benefit reading of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune starring Philadelphia native and Academy Award-winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph and esteemed actor Robert D. DoQui.
Dial M for Murder
By: Frederick Knott, adapt. by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Céline Rosenthal
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: O'Reilly Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $35-103
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/94310/dial-m-for-murder
Description: Before Rear Window and Psycho, Hitchcock redefined thrillers with Dial M for Murder. A stormy night, a jealous husband, and deadly secrets unravel as this classic murder mystery returns. Brace for a web of lies, betrayal, and suspense in this fresh adaptation.
The Hobbit
By: Greg Banks, adapt. from J.R.R. Tolkien
Directed by: Marya Sea Kaminski
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: O'Reilly Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $35-103
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/94335/the-hobbit
Description: Tolkien's Middle Earth leaps from page to stage in this all-ages adventure. Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and Thorin embark on an epic journey, battling goblins and Smaug, reimagined by Greg Banks with puppets by Matt Acheson and Jamie Agnello. A magical treasure hunt for the whole family.
A Christmas Story: The Play
By: Philip Grecian
Directed by: Michael Berresse
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: O'Reilly Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $35-103
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/94455/a-christmas-story-the-play
Description: Celebrate the season with an A++++++ production that takes you from the Parker family’s cozy home to the lively aisles of Higbee’s. With an all-star cast, this heartwarming play offers a fresh take on a classic holiday story—a gift that keeps on giving all season long.
Trouble in Mind
By: Alice Childress
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 05 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Pittsburgh Public Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $35-103
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/94381/trouble-in-mind
Description: Step into 1955 with Trouble in Mind, where Wiletta Mayer, a celebrated Black actress, faces a culture clash in rehearsals for a “progressive” Broadway play. Alice Childress’s visionary drama examines power, race, and ego both onstage and off, in this timely, timeless story.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Pittsburgh Public Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $35-103
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/94415/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf
Description: Prepare for a night of dark humor and intense drama with Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? After a faculty party, George and Martha’s mind games with a younger couple reveal hidden truths and deep resentments in this Tony-winning masterpiece of sharp dialogue and wit.
Public Works Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Marya Sea Kaminski
Event Date(s): Jun 27 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Limited Engagement
Venue: Pittsburgh Public Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/94489/public-works-twelfth-night
Description: Shakespeare’s beloved comedy gets a musical twist! When Viola disguises herself as Cesario, a hilarious love triangle unfolds in Illyria. With a catchy pop score and Pittsburgh’s Public Works program, this enchanting production celebrates love, laughter, and community like never before.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
By: Jay Ball, adapt. from Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz
Directed by: Jed Allen Harris
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre - Play
Venue: The Union Trust Building
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $60.00
Reference Link: https://www.quantumtheatre.com/
Description: This adaptation of the iconic film will be brought to life by the artistic team which masterfully took Pittsburgh audiences on An Odyssey in 2021. This sinister carnival inspired equally by German Expressionism and America's current political landscape.
The Return of Benjamin Lay
By: Naomi Wallace & Marcus Rediker
Directed by: Ron Daniels
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre - Play
Venue: Braddock Carnegie Library
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $60.00
Reference Link: https://www.quantumtheatre.com/
Description: University of Pittsburgh's Marcus Rediker joins forces with Naomi Wallace to bring us The Return of Benjamin Lay, a fierce play about a revolutionary abolitionist far ahead of his time. Disowned for his "radical" ideas of freedom, Benjamin Lay was a towering example of conviction who stood only four feet tall.
Cyrano De Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand, freely adapt. by Martin Crimp
Directed by: Alex Burns
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Sedgwick Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $15 - $65
Reference Link: https://www.quintessencetheatre.org
Description: The beloved pioneer of panache, Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, is a celebration of the power of language, in the Philadelphia premiere of a new wickedly witty adaptation by in-yer-face theatre’s Martin Crimp (The Misanthrope, 2013).
Kiss Me, Kate
By: Cole Porter (music & lyrics), Sam & Bella Spewack (book)
Directed by: Todd Underwood
Event Date(s): Nov 27 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Sedgwick Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $15 - $65
Reference Link: https://www.quintessencetheatre.org
Description: Audiences will fall so in love with Cole Porter’s timeless love letter to the theatre, in all its wunderbar greasepaint and glory, and celebrate the holidays with the first musical to win the Tony Award for Best Musical.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Alex Burns
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2025 - Apr 26 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Sedgwick Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $15 - $65
Reference Link: https://www.quintessencetheatre.org
Description: Is love for the foolish? Four Athenian youths reject their parents’ efforts to interfere in their romantic lives, and choose to run away instead of facing the love-limiting laws of the land. Lost in the surrounding wilderness, the lovers stumble upon a fairy kingdom in conflict.
Antony & Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Alex Burns
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Sedgwick Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $15 - $65
Reference Link: https://www.quintessencetheatre.org
Description: Can passion topple an empire? Torn between desire and duty, will Marc Antony and Cleopatra create a new global power, or will their passions lead to the fall of the Roman Empire?
Giovanni’s Room
By: Benjamin Sprunger & Paul Oakley Stovall, adapt. from James Baldwin
Directed by: Paul Oakley Stovall
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Sedgwick Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $15 - $65
Reference Link: https://www.quintessencetheatre.org
Description: The James Baldwin Estate has granted Quintessence Theatre exclusive permission to produce this world premiere adaptation of Giovanni’s Room, the groundbreaking 1956 novel.
Night Side Songs
By:
Directed by: Taibi Magar
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Philadelphia Theatre Co
City: Philadelphia
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/night-side-songs/
Description: A ground-breaking new musical, Night Side Songs explores the intimacy of illness and mortality of caregivers through the story of Yasmine Holly. Night Side Songs is a musical convergence that reflects and celebrates Philly’s “eds and meds” community with humor, grace, and empathy
Can I Be Frank
By:
Directed by: Sam Pinkleton
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Oct 26 2024
Type of Event: Solo-performance
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $35
Description: Morgan Bassichis revisits queer comedian and performance artist Frank Maya’s 1987 show, Frank Maya Talks. Morgan attempts to ensure Maya’s legacy is no longer overlooked while also resolving the bottomless queer search for laughter in times of crisis through this solo performance
The Comeuppance
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Morgan Green
Event Date(s): Nov 19 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://wilmatheater.org/2024-25-season/
Description: From the boundary-pushing, Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (An Octoroon), this electrifying comedy is a meditation on impermanence, nostalgia, and isolation. Anticipating their 20-year high school reunion, fueled by adult jungle juice and pot, four former classmates reminisce at a porch pre-party that hangs on a porous border with the other side.
Half-God of Rainfall
By: Inua Ellams
Directed by: Linsday Smiling
Event Date(s): Feb 11 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $35-88
Description: The Wilma Theater presents Half-God of Rainfall, a story by Nigerian-born British poet and playwright Inua Ellams. Blending Yoruba and Greek mythologies, it tells the incredible tale of a demigod who becomes an NBA superstar.
The Half-God of Rainfall
By: Inua Ellams
Directed by: Lindsay Smiling
Event Date(s): Feb 11 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://wilmatheater.org/2024-25-season/
Description: Nigerian-born British poet and playwright Inua Ellams blends Yoruba and Greek mythologies into an incredible story of a demigod-turned-NBA superstar in The Half-God of Rainfall.
Archduke
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Blanka Zizka
Event Date(s): Apr 15 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://wilmatheater.org/2024-25-season/
Description: Archduke offers audiences a humanized glimpse into the catalyst of WWI.
A Summer Day
By: Jon Fosse
Directed by: Yury Urnov
Event Date(s): Jun 10 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Experience the haunting beauty of Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse’s A Summer Day, directed by inventive co-artistic director Yury Urnov (Mr. Burns, Minor Character, Twelfth Night) in a production that delves into the depths of human connection, memory, and existential longing.
RED
By: John Logan
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Exile
City: Philadelphia
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://www.theatreexile.org/2024-25-red
Description: Follow the story Mark Rothko, an abstract expressionist, working alongside his assistant, Ken on the biggest commission in the history of modern art. Rothko, challenged by Ken, is placed in a dilemma upon this commission.
Red
By: John Logan
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Exile
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25-$45
Reference Link: https://
Description: Mark Rothko has landed the biggest commission in modern art history. When his young assistant challenges him, Rothko realizes that his masterpiece could become his undoing. Red is a provocative portrait of artistic ambition and the importance of the next generation finding their voice.
Philly Grit
By: Various
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 26 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Exile
City: Philadelphia
Price: $20-$45
Reference Link: https://www.theatreexile.org/on-stage-2024-25-season
Description: Philly Grit is a series of shows by outstanding Philadelphia comic performers. Each show is funny and irreverent and shines an embarrassingly glaring light on our world. Like the fluorescents in an airport bathroom. See one. See all.
Glitter in The Glass
By: R. Eric Thomas
Directed by: Brett Ashley Robinson
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2025 - Apr 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Exile
City: Philadelphia
Price: $20-$45
Reference Link: https://www.theatreexile.org/on-stage-2024-25-season
Description: What can replace a Confederate monument in a Black neighborhood that is more weed than flower? Chelle, an artist, sees an empty pedestal, but can she spark a conversation between the past and the future? A play about liminal spaces, the fragile, and things on the cusp of exploding.
tick, tick…BOOM!
By: Jonathan Larson (book, music, lyrics), David Auburn (script consultant), Stephen Oremus (arr.)
Directed by: Robi Hager & Steve Pacek
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $30-100
Reference Link: https://theatrehorizon.org/season-announcement/
Description: A semi-autobiographical rock musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning creator of the worldwide phenomenon Rent. Our star-studded cast returns to tell this life-affirming story about the pressures of being an artist.
One Book One Norristown
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Nov 08 2024
Type of Event: Book reading and signing
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $Free
Reference Link: https://theatrehorizon.org/season-announcement/
Description: One Book One Norristown 2024 comes to Theatre Horizon, with a reading by award-winning poet Warren C. Longmire, founder of the Excelano Project, and a performance of The Poet vs The Machine by author Marcos de le Fuente. Stay for a panel discussion, audience Q&A, and book signing.
R&B Brunch
By:
Directed by: Moe Peay
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Nov 16 2024
Type of Event: Brunch & Concert
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://https://theatrehorizon.org/season-announcement/
Description: Sip your favorite brunch beverage and chow down on some delicious brunch eats, while enjoying this unforgettable one-day-only R&B performance featuring some of Norristown’s beloved musicians, as curated by Moe Peay.
20th Anniversary Cabaret
By:
Directed by: Matthew Decker
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $20-90
Reference Link: https://theatrehorizon.org/season-announcement/
Description: Celebrate 20 years of musical theatre with us at Theatre Horizon, as sung by Philadelphia and Norristown performers. This retrospective event highlights some of our favorite productions as we look forward to what's on the “Horizon.”
Young Americans
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Regional Premiere
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $20-90
Reference Link: https://theatrehorizon.org/season-announcement/?et_fb=1&PageSpeed=off
Description: This beautiful intergenerational comedy explores what home and belonging truly mean—and the lengths we go for the people we love.
Penelope
By: Alex Bechtel (music & lyrics), Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean, Eva Steinmetz (book)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 07 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Pennsylvania Premiere
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $20-100
Reference Link: https://theatrehorizon.org/season-announcement/
Description: This witty and thoughtful one-woman musical flips the script on Odysseus's dutiful wife, bringing her into the spotlight to recount her time waiting 20 years for his return from war.
Rhode Island
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Brien Lang
Event Date(s): Sep 26 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wilbury Theatre Group
City: Providence
Price: $5-55
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description: Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Obie Award for Best New American Play, Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking What the Constitution Means to Me breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.
Noise
By: César Alvarez
Directed by: Dante Green
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Wilbury Theatre Group
City: Providence
Price: $5-55
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description: Noise follows a group of musicians who agree that society isn't working. Since civilization is found in its earliest form in musical structure, they figure they should be able to make some music that reflects a society they'd actually like to live in. Like, right now.
The Father: A Tragic Farce
By: Florian Zeller, trans. Christopher Hampton
Directed by: Josh Short
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Wilbury Theatre Group
City: Providence
Price: $5-55
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description: Now 80 years old, André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. Or was André an engineer, whose daughter Anne lives in London with her new lover, Pierre? The thing is, he is still wearing his pajamas and is starting to lose control.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Don Mays
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Wilbury Theatre Group
City: Providence
Price: $5-55
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description: Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames's Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.
South Carolina
Something Rotten
By: Wayne Kirkpatrick, Karey Kirkpatrick, and John O’Farrell
Directed by: Whitaker Gannon
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $63
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: Welcome to the Renaissance---and to the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce Something Rotten. Lauded by audiences and critics alike, this big song-and-dance comedy phenomenon was hailed as "the funniest musical in at least 400 years."
42nd Street
By: Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble
Directed by: David Grindrod
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $63
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: Come along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway! 42nd Street celebrates the magic of showbiz! Songs like "We're in the Money" and " Shuffle Off to Buffalo" make this show a fan favorite.
The Cottage
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: Blake White
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: This ridiculously funny romantic comedy calls into question fate and faith, identity and infidelity, and love and marriage as a surprising and riotous web of secrets unravels. Hilarious from start to finish!
Waitress
By: Sara Bareilles (songs), Jessie Nelson (book)
Directed by: Tara Jeanne Vallee
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Is
Price: $63
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, is stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna must weigh her commitments against a rare shot at freedom. Amazing score and a heartwarming story!
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
By: Colman Domingo, Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff
Directed by: Patdro Harris
Event Date(s): Jul 09 2025 - Aug 17 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Is
Price: $63
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: A Boston girl with a voice from heaven, Donna Summer soared to the stars from her beginnings in her church gospel choir to the pinnacle of fame as a dance floor diva. The Summer score, featuring more than 20 classic hits, is a moving tribute to the Queen of Disco!
Fiddler on the Roof
By: Joseph Stein (book), Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics)
Directed by: Marybeth Clark
Event Date(s): Aug 28 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$91
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/fiddler-on-the-roof
Description: Featuring an unforgettable score that includes “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” and “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” Fiddler on the Roof, winner of nine Tony Awards, weaves a powerful tapestry of emotions and human experiences that continue to captivate audiences today.
Purlie Victorious
By: Ossie Davis
Directed by: Henry Clay Middleton
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$85
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/purlie-victorious
Description: Ossie Davis delivers a comedic triumph in Purlie Victorious, the Tony-winning production recently headlined by Leslie Odom Jr. on Broadway. This uproarious narrative follows the charismatic preacher, Purlie, as he returns to his Georgia hometown to reclaim his inheritance.
A Christmas Carol
By: Julian Wiles, adapted from Charles Dickens
Directed by: Sam Henderson
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $49-$96
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/a-christmas-carol
Description: With a delightful score of classic carols and a cast portraying more than 50 iconic characters, from Scrooge to Tiny Tim, this spirited musical brings the heartfelt wonder of Christmas to life once more. Experience the enchantment of the holiday season with A Christmas Carol.
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow, adapted rom the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by: Marybeth Clark
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$85
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/the-39-steps
Description: The Tony and Olivier Award-winning The 39 Steps is a thrilling and comedic theatrical adaptation that pays homage to the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. With its clever staging and witty dialogue, this theatrical masterpiece promises an exhilarating, laughter-filled experience.
Last Stop on Market Street
By: Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson, adapted for the Stage by Cheryl L. West, with songs by Lamont Dozier and Paris Ray Dozier; digital recording and underscoring by Paris Ray Dozier
Directed by: Rylee Coppel
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Feb 08 2025
Type of Event: Family Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/last-stop-on-market-street
Description: Last Stop on Market Street is a captivating and uplifting musical adaptation of Matt de la Peña's acclaimed children's book. Centered around the curious and imaginative CJ, the story takes audiences on a journey through a vibrant and diverse cityscape. Originally co-commissioned and produced by Chicago Children’s Theatre and Children’s Theatre Company, Produced by special arrangement with Plays for New Audiences.
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Julian Wiles
Event Date(s): Feb 26 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$85
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/the-glass-menagerie
Description: Tennessee Williams's timeless, Tony-winning American classic. With its rich characters and hauntingly beautiful narrative, this classic play remains a powerful and resonant exploration of the complexities of the human experience that has entranced audiences for generations.
Legally Blonde
By: Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin (songs), Heather Hach (book), adapted from the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film
Directed by: Marybeth Clark
Event Date(s): Apr 09 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$91
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/legally-blonde
Description: The high-energy and empowering theatrical extravaganza Legally Blonde brings the beloved story of Elle Woods to the stage with a vibrant burst of pink and a whole lot of heart. Based on the hit film starring Reese Witherspoon, and winner of 3 Olivier Awards!
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Maegan McNerney Azar
Event Date(s): Oct 31 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theater
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations.
A Christmas Carol
By: Matt Mundy from Charles Dickens
Directed by: Blake White
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theater
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: A brand-new take on the standard---home grown, faithful to the source material, and adapted in a way only Lean Ensemble Theater can do it. While five actors take you through Ebenezer Scrooge’s Christmas, Lean takes you on a holiday journey.
Summer, 1976
By: David Auburn
Directed by: Maggie Kettering
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: theatre
Venue: HHSO SoundWaves
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: A deeply moving, tenderly insightful play about friendship, memory, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives forever. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana and Alice.
Skeleton Crew
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Katherine LeRoy-Lawson
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theater
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under.
Master Class
By: Terrance McNally
Directed by: Whitaker Gannon
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theater
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience: us. She’s glamorous, commanding, larger than life—and drop-dead funny.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Nakeisha Daneil
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cannon Street Arts Center
City: Charleston
Price: $53.00
Reference Link: https://puretheatre.vbotickets.com/event/Fat_Ham/132099
Description: PURE Theatre is proud to announce the South Carolina premiere of Fat Ham, the “unalloyed comedy pleasure” (WSJ) by James Ijames. The show will run from Sept. 5 through Sept. 21 at the Cannon Street Arts Center.
Septima at the 2024 MOJA Festival
By: Patricia Williams Dockery
Directed by: Sharon Graci
Event Date(s): Sep 26 2024 - Sep 26 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://puretheatre.vbotickets.com/event/SEPTIMA_2024_MOJA_Festival/136681
Description: Step into the inspiring and powerful world of Septima Clark, the unsung heroine of the Civil Rights Movement in PURE Theatre’s production, Septima. Told through monologues, stories, and music, the play honors the moments of Septima’s life that shaped her.
The Last Five Years
By: Jason Robert Brown
Directed by: Sharon Graci
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Nov 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Cannon Street Arts Center
City: Charleston
Price: $53.00
Reference Link: https://puretheatre.vbotickets.com/event/The_Last_Five_Years/132101
Description: Love, heartache, and the passage of time are woven together with music in a mesmerizing journey—from the meet-cute to the break-up and then right back to the start. First produced at PURE 15 years ago, this freshly reimagined staging showcases local singer/songwriters and actors.
Protest-ation
By:
Directed by: RachelSimone
Event Date(s): Nov 09 2024 - Nov 09 2024
Type of Event: Music
Venue: Cannon Street Arts Center
City: Charleston
Price: $PWYW
Reference Link: https://culturekinesis.com/
Description: Presented by Culture Kinesis, PURE Theatre, and South Porch Artist Residency. This is an invitation to co-creATION and conversATION. It’s a call to elegant PROTEST. This is not a performance.
Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Jay Briggs
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
City: Greenville
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/holmes-watson/
Description: An irreverent, darkly comic, modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick, this fast-paced romp reexamines the world’s most famous detective story with an exciting twist.
Misery
By: William Goldman, adapt. from Stephen King
Directed by: Jess Chayes
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
City: Greenville
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/misery/
Description: Based on the novel by Stephen King. Successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan," Annie Wilkes. He quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go and she has Paul writing as if his life depends on it---and it does.
Jane Anger
By: Talene Monahon
Directed by: Anne Kelly Tromsness
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
City: Greenville
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/jane-anger/
Description: Welcome to London, 1606, where the plague's partying hard! Enter William Shakespeare, struggling to pen a masterpiece while trapped with not one, not two, but three people who all want something from him. Constricted to one room, what creativity and conflict will explode?
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Ahsha Daniels
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
City: Greenville
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/king-james/
Description: “King” LeBron James’s years playing in Cleveland bring promise to Cleveland. His tenure also unites Shawn and Matt in an unlikely bond forged by fandom. Over 12 years, the men navigate their turbulent friendship through their shared love of basketball.
Enemy of the People
By: Henrik Ibsen, adapt. by Matthew Earnest
Directed by: Matthew Earnest
Event Date(s): May 30 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
City: Greenville
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/enemy/
Description: A small-town doctor considers himself a proud, upstanding member of his close-knit community. When he discovers a catastrophe that risks the lives and well-being of everyone in town, he raises the alarm. But he is shaken to his core when those in power try to destroy him.
Dandelion
By: Colleen Francis, Jessica Francis Fichter, Sean Riehm
Directed by: Jessica Francis Fichter
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Aug 24 2024
Type of Event: musical
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $30-35
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/dandelion/
Description: Jane and Delilah are forced to confront profound questions of guilt, responsibility, and sacrifice as Jane must decide between attending college in pursuit of her lifelong dreams or staying home to care for Delilah, who is locked in a desperate battle with severe mental illness.
People, Places, and Things
By: Duncan Macmillan
Directed by: Dewey Scott-Wiley
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $30-33
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/people-places-and-things/
Description: An exhilarating new play about surviving in the modern world. The story focuses on Emma, a 30-something actress who thinks she is having the time of her life, until she finds herself in rehab.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Ginny Ives
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Nov 09 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-25
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/what-the-constitution-means-to-me/
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human play, she resurrects her teenage self to trace the profound relationship between the people and the founding document.
The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical
By: David Nehls and Betsy Kelso
Directed by: Robin Gottlieb
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $35-40
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/the-great-american-trailer-park-christmas-musical-2/
Description: Back by popular demand! It’s holiday time down in Armadillo Acres.
The Revolutionists
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Martha Hearn
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Feb 01 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-25
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/the-revolutionists/
Description: Playwright Olympe De Gouge, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, lose their heads, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in the Paris of 1793.
Ain’t Misbehavin’
By: Richard Maltby Jr., Murray Horwitz, and Luther Henderson
Directed by: Terrance Henderson
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2025 - Mar 22 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $35-40
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/aint-misbehavin/
Description: Five performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and reflect Waller’s view of life as a journey meant for pleasure and play.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Erin Wilson
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $30-33
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/clydes/
Description: Clyde’s is a truck stop sandwich shop frequented by truckers making the long journey across Pennsylvania. The kitchen is staffed exclusively by formerly incarcerated individuals on a shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Jonathan Monk
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - May 31 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-25
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/a-case-for-the-existence-of-god/
Description: A Case for the Existence of God unfolds in a cubicle where two seated people choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds. At this desk, loan talk opens up into a discussion about the chokehold of financial insecurity and a bond over the precariousness of parenthood.
Aida
By: Tim Rice and Elton John
Directed by: Jessica Francis-Fichter
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $35-40
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/elton-john-and-tim-rices-aida/
Description: An enslaved Nubian princess, Aida, finds her heart entangled with Radames, an Egyptian soldier who is betrothed to the Pharaoh’s daughter, Amneris. Aida is forced to weigh her heart against the responsibility that she faces as the leader of her people.
Tennessee
Waitress
By: Sara Bareilles (music & lyrics), Jessie Nelson (book)
Directed by: Lauren Shouse
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $58-96
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: Jenna is stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, Jenna fears she may have to abandon the dream of opening her own pie shop...until a baking contest and the town's handsome doctor offer her a tempting recipe for happiness!
Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Micah-Shane Brewer
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $58-86
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: This Pulitzer-winning play tells the story of two young neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance and then culminates in marriage. The occurrences of everyday life reveal universal truths about love, family, and community.
A Christmas Carol
By: Micah-Shane Brewer, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Micah-Shane Brewer
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $58-96
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future as they lead the miserly prosperous curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey of transformation and redemption.
The Mountaintop
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Alicia Haymer
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $58-86
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: The Mountaintop is a gripping reimagination of what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night on earth could have been. King is visited by a mysterious maid at the Lorraine Motel and their conversation progresses into a soul-searching discussion of King's humanity.
Sunday in the Park with George
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), James Lapine (book)
Directed by: Micah-Shane Brewer
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $52-106
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: Inspired by Georges Seurat’s famous painting, Sunday peaks into the life of the artist who is struggling to make meaningful art while maintaining a relationship. A poignant and glorious exploration of what it takes, and what it costs, to be an artist.
Texas
Swing State
By: Rebecca Gilman
Directed by: Jennifer Dean
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: 4th Wall Theatre Co
City: Houston
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.4thwalltheatreco.com/swing-state
Description: A contemporary portrait of America’s divided heartland.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
By: Christopher Durang
Directed by: Jennifer Dean
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: 4th Wall Theatre Co
City: Houston
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.4thwalltheatreco.com/vanya-and-sonia-and-masha-and-spike
Description: An outrageous comedy that runs Chekhovian characters and themes through a blender.
Topdog/Underdog
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by: Aaron Brown
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: 4th Wall Theatre Co
City: Houston
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.4thwalltheatreco.com/topdog-underdog
Description: A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare, adapt. by Eric Tucker
Directed by: Kim Tobin-Lehl
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - May 24 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: 4th Wall Theatre Co
City: Houston
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.4thwalltheatreco.com/hamlet
Description: A stripped down reimagining of Shakespeare’s seminal classic for a modern audience. Adapted by Eric Tucker of BEDLAM Theatre.
Arcadia
By: Tom Stoppard
Directed by: Lara Haddock and Don Toner
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Austin Playhouse West Campus
City: Austin
Price: $21-46
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com/arcadia
Description: Arcadia dances back and forth across the centuries as it explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex on our life orbits -- the attraction Newton left out.
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
By: Margaret Engel and Allison Engel
Directed by: Lara Haddock
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Austin Playhouse West Campus
City: Austin
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com/redhotpatriot
Description: Red Hot Patriot captures notorious Texas journalist Molly Ivins’s unflinching character by weaving personal anecdotes with her colorful take on national politics.
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
By: Ken Ludwig, adapt. from Arthur Conan Doyle
Directed by: Lara Haddock
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Austin Playhouse West Campus
City: Austin
Price: $21 - $46
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com
Description: This inventive adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles finds the intrepid Holmes and his sturdy companion Watson battling their most notorious mystery amid foggy London streets and the foreboding moors of the English countryside.
She Was Here
By: Raul Garza
Directed by: Jerry Ruiz
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Austin Playhouse West Campus
City: Austin
Price: $19-$42
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com
Description: She Was Here is a new play that reflects inherited joys, losses, and longings. Inspired by conversations with Austin Latina elders, the play spans multiple generations within a single inner-city block as characters struggle to find connection to a place they no longer belong.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
By: David Yazbek (music & lyrics), Jeffrey Lane (book)
Directed by: Lara Haddock
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: Austin Playhouse West Campus
City: Austin
Price: $24 - $52
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com
Description: Based on the popular film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels takes us to the French Riviera for a hysterical musical comedy featuring a delightfully jazzy score!
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Ben Wolfe
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Austin Playhouse West Campus
City: Austin
Price: $21-$46
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com
Description: This uproariously funny, Pulitzer Prize-winning new play is a modern revamp of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Fat Ham follows Juicy, a queer, pensive, young Black man finding his way in the world when the ghost of his father demands that Juicy avenge his murder.
Jet Fuel
By: Amy Evans
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $18 - $60
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1172837
Description: Embark on an unforgettable journey through the world of elite sports with Amy Evans' groundbreaking new play. Inspired by the story of Olympic sprinter Caster Semenya, Jet Fuel is an original play about sex, gender, and the construct of “fairness” in elite sports.
Jet Fuel
By: Amy Evans
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $18-35
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1172837
Description: Jet Fuel is an original play about sex, gender, and the construct of “fairness” in elite sports, inspired by the story of Olympic sprinter Caster Semenya.
Patches: A Black Gay Man’s Journey to the Moon
By: Joe Anderson Jr.
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $21.20 - $36.20 including fees
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1205543?performanceId=11489193://
Description: Patches: A Black Gay Man’s Journey to the Moon is a captivating theatrical experience that seamlessly blends poetry, music, performance, and storytelling.
Black Nativity
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $21.20 - 46.20
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1205546?performanceId=11489209
Description: Inspired by Langston Hughes’s 1960 Broadway production, Black Nativity returns with hand-clapping, toe-tapping, and finger-snapping theatrical wonderment for our 20-year anniversary.
The Stamped Project
By: Various authors
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 20 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $21.20 - $36.20 including fees
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1205547?performanceId=11489227
Description: A collection of short plays penned by six local playwrights, inspired by Jason Reynolds's searing book Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, adapted from the work of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi.
A Dallas Hedda
By: Franky D. Gonzalez
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $21.20 - $36.20 including fees
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1205551?performanceId=11489252
Description: A Dallas Hedda is Bishop Arts Theatre Center’s playwright-in-residence Franky D. Gonzalez's reimagining of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, exploring the psyche of a woman with a labyrinthine soul and a longing for freedom from a world that always sought to control her.
Grace for President
By: Kelly DiPucchio
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 28 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Dallas Children's Theater
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description: Adapted from the book by Kelly DiPucchio, Grace Campbell runs for class president after learning there are no female presidents in U.S. history. Join Mrs. Barrington’s class for a fun-filled school election with lessons on leadership and 3rd grade politics!
A Charlie Brown Christmas
By: Charles M. Schulz
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical, Holiday
Venue: Dallas Children's Theater
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description: The beloved holiday tradition returns! Fill your heart with music, merriment, and warmth, as you remember the true meaning of this holiday season with Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts Gang! The holidays wouldn’t be the same without this Charles Schulz classic.
Pete the Cat
By: Sarah Hammond, based on the book series by Kimberly and James Dean
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Dallas Children's Theater
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description: Based on the groovy popular book series by Kimberly and James Dean, Pete the Cat meets The Biddles family, helping young Jimmy conquer second-grade art in an adventure of friendship, to Paris and back in a VW Bus!
Dino-Light
By: Ian Carney and Corbin Popp, presented by Lightwire Theater
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Light Show
Venue: Dallas Children's Theater
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description: In this limited-time special engagement from Lightwire Theater, a famous scientist with magic powers brings a friendly dinosaur to life. This visually stunning glow-in-the-dark adventure has been praised worldwide for its cutting-edge blend of puppetry, technology, and dance!
James and the Giant Peach
By: David Wood, adapted from the book by Roald Dahl
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2025 - May 24 2025
Type of Event: Play, Non-Musical
Venue: Dallas Children's Theater
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description: Based on the beloved Roald Dahl novel, young James Henry Trotter's life changes when he accidentally grows a giant peach. With some new oversized friends, he goes on an epic adventure to New York City on a quest for happiness.
Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors
By: Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen
Directed by: Blake Hackler
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dallas Theater Center
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors/
Description: A fang-tastic comedy! This laugh-out-loud, gender-bending romp is what happens when you take Bram Stoker’s legendary story and put it into a blender with Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and The 39 Steps!
A Christmas Carol
By: Kevin Moriarty, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Alex Organ
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: AT&T Performing Arts Center
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/a-christmas-carol-2024/
Description: Brimming with joyful songs, magical spirits, and holiday cheer, this holiday classic embodies a story of joy, redemption, and the spirit of Christmas.
Shane
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Blake Robison
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kalita Humphreys Theater
City: Dallas
Price:
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/shane/
Description: One of the greatest Westerns of all time finds new life on the stage! Playwright Karen Zacarías brings an exciting, fresh perspective to an extraordinary American genre.
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: Sasha Maya Ada
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bryant Hall at the Kalita Humphreys Theatre
City: Dallas
Price:
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/primary-trust/
Description: Primary Trust is a touching story of new beginnings, old friends, and finding the courage to see the world for the first time.
Waitress
By: Jessie Nelson (book), Sara Bareilles (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Ashley Wells
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Theater Play
Venue: Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre
City: Dallas
Price: $40 - $99
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/waitress/
Description: Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, is stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, Jenna may have to abandon the dream of opening her pie shop…until a baking contest and the town’s handsome new doctor offer a tempting recipe for happiness.
Joseph and The Technicolor Dreamcoat
By: Tim Rice (lyrics), Andrew Lloyd Webber (music)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Theater Musical
Venue: Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre
City: Dallas
Price: $40-$99
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat/
Description: The Broadway classic by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, based on the Bible’s Book of Genesis, tells the story of Joseph, son of Jacob, his 12 brothers, and his coat of many colors. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a story told through music, dance, and family.
Amy and the Orphans
By: Lindsey Ferrentino
Directed by: Maryanna Tolemache
Event Date(s): Aug 15 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $0 - $45
Reference Link: https://www.groundfloortheatre.org/2025season
Description: A crowded car, 100 miles, three newly orphaned siblings, a chatty stranger, and a whopper of a family secret make for an extraordinarily uncomfortable road trip.
Pass Over
By: Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by: Simone Alexander
Event Date(s): Aug 15 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $0 - $45
Reference Link: https://www.groundfloortheatre.org
Description: Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner, talking shit, passing the time, and hoping that maybe today will be different. As they dream of their promised land, a stranger wanders into their space with his own agenda and derails their plans.
Falsettos
By: William Finn (music & lyrics), James Lapine (book)
Directed by: Trace Turner
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $0 - 50
Reference Link: https://www.groundfloortheatre.org/2024season
Description: Falsettos is a contemporary musical about family, relationships, bar mitzvahs, baseball, and AIDS. When Marvin leaves his wife Trina and son Jason to be with his lover Whizzer, tempers flare, problems escalate and everyone learns to grow up.
Fairview
By: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 20 2025 - Mar 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $0 - $45
Reference Link: https://www.groundfloortheatre.org/2025season
Description: At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread, her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager.
I Wanna Be a F*cking Princess
By: Jenny Connell Davis
Directed by: Patti Neff-Tiven
Event Date(s): May 08 2025 - May 24 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $0 - $45
Reference Link: https://www.groundfloortheatre.org/2025season
Description: This play follows five friends from preschool into their 60s. The friendships fray, some stay close, some enter decades-long periods of dormancy.
Lyric & the Keys
By: Book By Roxanne Schroeder-Arce; Music and Lyrics by Jenn Hartmann Luck
Directed by: Anthony Runfola
Event Date(s): Sep 28 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Magik Theatre
City: San Antonio
Price: $20-$25
Reference Link: https://www.magiktheatre.org/lyric-and-the-keys/
Description: With catchy melodies and a folk guitar score, Lyric & the Keys is a new musical celebrating what it means for young people to believe in themselves enough to do anything---even learn to read. The key has always been inside!
The Velveteen Rabbit
By: Adapted for the stage by Michelle Hoppe-Long. Based on the book by Margery Williams.
Directed by: Rosa Gardner
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Magik Theatre
City: San Antonio
Price: $20-$25
Reference Link: https://www.magiktheatre.org/the-velveteen-rabbit/
Description: This beloved and inspiring story is set in a cozy and magical world, full of inspiring moments that will leave audiences feeling uplifted. Don’t miss this magical play that captures the spirit of the holiday season!
Elephant & Piggie’s ‘We Are in a Play!’
By: Based on the Elephant & Piggie books by Mo Willems. Published by Hyperion Books for Children. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma.
Directed by: Jenny Lavery
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Magik Theatre
City: San Antonio
Price: $20-$25
Reference Link: https://www.magiktheatre.org/elephant-and-piggies-we-are-in-a-play/
Description: Grab your “bestus” friends and join Elephant and Piggie, the dynamic duo from Mo Willems’ award-winning, best-selling children’s books, in a rollicking musical adventure, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”
¡Lotería: Game On!
By: Mabelle Reynoso
Directed by: Ricky Araiza
Event Date(s): May 03 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Magik Theatre
City: San Antonio
Price: $20-$25
Reference Link: https://www.magiktheatre.org/loteria-game-on/
Description: Experience the enchanting world of Lotería in this captivating, family-friendly, play! This bilingual production ensures that both English and Spanish speakers can enjoy the adventure.
The Year of Magical Thinking
By: Joan Didion
Directed by: Rebecca Greene Udden
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
City: Houston
Price: $45 - $64
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/year-of-magical-thinking/
Description: In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and the prolonged illness of her only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.
Sleeping Beauty The Musical
By: Ian Curran (book & lyrics), Simon Hanson & Peter Vint (music)
Directed by: Jimmy Phillips
Event Date(s): Nov 17 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Street Theater @ the MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $31 - $44
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/sleeping-beauty-the-musical/
Description: Cursed as a child, Aurora has been raised in hiding until the day comes when she can return to the kingdom and take her rightful place as Princess of Australis. Join us this holiday season for the enchanting musical of courageous Aurora and her handsome prince.
Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”
By: Mo Willems (book & lyrics), Deborah Wicks La Puma (music)
Directed by: Laura Moreno
Event Date(s): Jan 13 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: On Tour and at Main Street Theater @ the MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $various
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/elephant-and-piggie/
Description: An elephant named Gerald and a pig named Piggie are best, best, “bestest” friends. Get ready for a musical experience, ripped from the pages of Mo Willems’s beloved, award-winning, best-selling children’s books, that will leave you doing the “Flippy Floppy Floory” dance!
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
By: Joe Tracz (book, adapt. from Rick Riordan), Rob Rokicki (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Vivienne M. St. John
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Street Theater @ the MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $31 - $44
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/the-lightning-thief-the-percy-jackson-musical-2025/
Description: When Percy Jackson discovers he’s a demigod, he joins his Camp Half-Blood friends, Annabeth and Grover, on a quest to find Zeus’s missing lightning bolt. Don’t miss this dynamic rock musical worthy of the gods!
Seven Assassins Walk Into a Bar
By: Dain Geist
Directed by: Dain Geist
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play (World Premiere)
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
City: Houston
Price: $40 - $63
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/seven-assassins-walk-into-a-bar/
Description: Six fellow assassins have gathered to pay their respects and raise a glass to Bartleby, who happens to be “laid out” right there in the bar. A hilarious dark comedy---and swift-moving world premiere---about morality, camaraderie, and what it means just to get by in life.
The Wind in the Willows
By: Joseph Baldwin, adapt. from Kenneth Grahame
Directed by: Robin Robinson
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2025 - Apr 05 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater @ the MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $24 - $34
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/wind-in-the-willows/
Description: Friendly Rat, mild-mannered Mole, wise Badger, and kind—but conceited—Toad live on the banks of the Thames. While Mole and Rat are content to go out in a rowboat, Toad prefers the excitement of motor cars! Follow the adventures of four friends as they learn about friendship and loyalty.
Memoriam
By: Noga Flaishon
Directed by: Julia Oppenheim
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Play (World Premiere)
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
City: Houston
Price: $40 - $63
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/memoriam/
Description: In the near future, Memoriam Inc. buys and sells memories, digitizing them for mass viewership. Rachel, a buyer for Memoriam, is going for the most important and personal memory acquisition ever: the memories of the last Holocaust survivor on earth---who happens to be her grandmother.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Musical
By: Kevin Del Aguila (book, adapt. from Jeff Kinney), Michael Mahler & Alan Schmuckler (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Jimmy Phillips
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2025 - May 10 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Street Theater @ the MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $24 – $36
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/dairy-of-a-wimpy-kid/
Description: Middle school's the worst! Greg is determined not to be at the bottom of the popularity chart. Will Greg’s plans to become popular lead him to sacrifice his one true friend? Jeff Kinney’s popular character takes center stage in this hilarious and heartfelt musical.
Kim’s Convenience
By: Ins Choi
Directed by: Peter Ton
Event Date(s): May 17 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
City: Houston
Price: $45 - $64
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/kims-convenience/
Description: Mr. Kim, a Korean immigrant, dispenses fatherly wisdom, history lessons, and potato chips while navigating his strong-willed family and the needs of his community. Humor and heart find their way onto every aisle in this award-winning play, now a hit series on Netflix.
The Snowy Day and Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats
By: Jerome Hairston, adapt. from Ezra Jack Keats
Directed by: Daria Allen
Event Date(s): Jun 09 2025 - Jun 14 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater @ the MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $24 - $34
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/snowy-day/
Description: The wonder of a fresh snowfall, the delight of whistling for the first time, the awe in finding a special treasure…Follow Peter as he explores life while he grows up! Join us as we celebrate the 2025 Fade To Black Festival with these beautiful calming yet vibrant stories.
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow, adapt. from John Buchan
Directed by: Kara Greenberg
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
City: Houston
Price: $45 - $64
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/the-39-steps/
Description: Hitchcock masterpiece + juicy spy novel + a dash of Monty Python = The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit about a man with a boring life who meets a woman who says she’s a spy---who then gets murdered! Now a mysterious organization, “The 39 Steps,” is hot on the man's trail...
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Marcus McQuirter
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mary Moody Northen Theatre at St. Edward's University
City: Austin
Price: $28
Reference Link: https://www.stedwards.edu/MMNT
Description: A brave soldier named Macbeth receives a prophecy that he will one day be King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth carries out a murderous plot, allowing him to seize the throne.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields
Directed by: Anna Skidis Vargas
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mary Moody Northen Theatre at St. Edward's University
City: Austin
Price: $28
Reference Link: https://www.stedwards.edu/MMNT
Description: Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award-winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
Cry It Out
By: Molly Smith Metzler
Directed by: Rhett Martinez
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cone Man Running/ 1824 Spring Street, Houston TX 77007
City: Houston
Price: $Pay as you Can
Reference Link: https://MILDREDSUMBRELLA.com
Description: A comedy with dark edges, Cry It Out takes an honest look at the absurdities of being home with a baby, the power of female friendship, the dilemma of going back to work, and the effect class has on parenthood in America.
The Wanderers
By: Anna Zeigler
Directed by: Jennifer Decker
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: play
Venue: Joe Frank Theatre at Evelyn Rubenstien JCC
City: Houston
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://mildredsumbrella.com
Description: Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews navigating strictly defined rules and roles, while Sophie and Abe are secular and free to make their own choices. But both couples are growing apart as they strive to balance their individual identities/families.
I’m Proud of You
By: Tim Madigan and Harry Parker
Directed by: Steven Pounders
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 26 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Penfold Theatre
City: Round Rock
Price: $19-39
Reference Link: https://www.penfoldtheatre.org/event/im-proud-of-you/2024-10-26/
Description: Based on the best-selling memoir, I’m Proud of You chronicles the extraordinary bond between Tim Madigan, a Texas author and reporter, and Fred Rogers, the iconic TV host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
I’m Proud of You
By: Tim Madigan & Harry Parker
Directed by: Steven Pounders
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 26 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Penfold Theatre
City: Round Rock
Price: $19-39
Reference Link: https://www.penfoldtheatre.org/event/im-proud-of-you/2024-10-26/
Description: Explore the transformative bond between a Texas newspaper reporter and the iconic TV host Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in I'm Proud of You, a poignant portrayal of friendship, healing, and the enduring legacy of kindness.
It’s a Wonderful Life
By: Nathan Jerkins, adapt. from Goodrich, Hackett, and Capra
Directed by: Ryan Crowder
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Penfold Theatre
City: Round Rock
Price: $19-39
Reference Link: https://www.penfoldtheatre.org/event/its-a-wonderful-life/2024-12-28/
Description: In this new fully staged adaptation, you'll fall in love with George Bailey and his timeless tale of despair, redemption, and hope all over again.
Ordinary Days
By: Adam Gwon (music & lyrics)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Mar 01 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Penfold Theatre
City: Round Rock
Price: $19-39
Reference Link: https://www.penfoldtheatre.org/event/ordinary-days/2025-03-01/
Description: A refreshingly frank and funny musical about four young New Yorkers seeking fulfillment, happiness, love, and taxicabs in the city that never sleeps.
Anton Chekhov Is a Tasty Snack
By: Jenny Connell Davis
Directed by: Liz Fisher
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2025 - Jun 28 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Penfold Theatre
City: Round Rock
Price: $19-39
Reference Link: https://www.penfoldtheatre.org/event/anton-chekhov-is-a-tasty-snack-2/2025-06-28/
Description: The world premiere of a hilarious new comedy adapted loosely from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull about the beauty of theatre and the ridiculous people who make it.
Spring Awakening
By: Steven Sater (book & lyrics), Duncan Sheik (music), adapt. from Frank Wedekind
Directed by: Matt Hune
Event Date(s): Sep 07 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical, Play
Venue: Rec Room Arts
City: Houston
Price: $20-50
Reference Link: https://www.recroomarts.org/spring-awakening
Description: A story of adolescent anarchy, of teenagers silenced and controlled by a censoring society, and the devastating consequences of the freedom students find outside of the classroom. The much-loved rock score will be brought to life in an intimate and powerful restaging at Rec Room.
Winter Solstice
By: Roland Schimmelpfennig (trans. David Tushingham)
Directed by: Bradley Michalakis
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Rec Room Arts
City: Houston
Price: $15-40
Reference Link: https://www.recroomarts.org/winter-solstice
Description: A razor-sharp holiday comedy that plays with liberalism's inability to immunize itself against fascism’s rhetorical power in this wildly theatrical and inventive production.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Dana Schultes
Event Date(s): Oct 17 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stage West Theatre
City: Fort Worth
Price: $35 - 50
Reference Link: https://stagewest.org/what-the-constitution-means-to-me
Description: Earnest and polite high schooler Heidi put herself through college by winning debates about the Constitution. Now an adult, she revisits her teenage self to trace the generational impact America’s founding document has had on her life.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, Jonathan Sayer
Directed by: Harry Parker
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stage West Theatre
City: Fort Worth
Price: $35 - 50
Reference Link: https://stagewest.org/the-play-that-goes-wrong-2024
Description: Welcome to the opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to horrible. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), the evening is a disastrous smash!
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: Sasha Maya Ada
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stage West Theatre
City: Fort Worth
Price: $35 - 50
Reference Link: https://stagewest.org/primary-trust
Description: Kenneth lives in a small town in upstate New York. By day he works at a local bookstore; by night, he sips Mai Tais with his best friend, Bert. But when Kenneth is unexpectedly laid off, the life he knows is thrown into a tailspin as he sets out on a journey of self-discovery.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
By: John Cameron Mitchell (book), Steven Trask (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Sarah Gay
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stage West Theatre
City: Fort Worth
Price: $35 - 50
Reference Link: https://stagewest.org/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch
Description: From East Berlin to Junction City comes an electric tale of glitter, grit, and gnosis. On a revenge tour across the nation, punk goddess Hedwig Robinson, born Hansel Schmidt, recounts her high-octane journey in search of her other half.
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen Soufflé
By: David MacGregor
Directed by: Jay Duffer
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stage West Theatre
City: Fort Worth
Price: $35 - 50
Reference Link: https://stagewest.org/sherlock-holmes-souffle
Description: It’s the eve of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, but her son, the playboy Prince of Wales, and French chef Auguste Escoffier have just turned up at 221B Baker Street in the thick of scandal. Royal vice, priceless gems, and gourmet food abound in this new action-packed whodunit.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: vickie washington
Event Date(s): Aug 28 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stage West Theatre
City: Fort Worth
Price: $35 - 50
Reference Link: https://stagewest.org/fat-ham
Description: Juicy’s got a lot on his plate: His mom just married his uncle. All he wants is to make his own way as a queer Black man in a Southern family. But here’s the rub: His father’s ghost just turned up at a backyard barbecue demanding vengeance.
Spirits to Enforce
By: Mickle Maher
Directed by: Jason Nodler
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: MATCH - Midtown Arts &Theater Center Houston
City: Houston
Price: Pay-What-You-Can! ($35 suggested)
Reference Link: https://catastrophictheatre.com/production/spirits-to-enforce/
Description: Telefundraisers attempt to raise money for Shakespeare’s The Tempest, to be performed by local superhero team “The Fathom Town Enforcers.” They haven’t raised a dime and rehearsals are a disaster. How far will they go to pull off this seemingly doomed-for-sure production?
LOVE BOMB
By: Brian Jucha and the Catastrophic ensemble
Directed by: Brian Jucha
Event Date(s): Nov 15 2024 - Dec 07 2024
Type of Event: Devised theatre
Venue: MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston
City: Houston
Price: Pay-What-You-Can! ($35 suggested)
Reference Link: https://catastrophictheatre.com/production/love-bomb/
Description: There’s nothing people won’t do to find love. Catastrophic is a “make your own meaning” theatre, and nobody exemplifies that ethic better than Brian Jucha, who employs found text, pop culture, music, and intensive ensemble work to mystify, surprise, and enthrall audiences.
Miss LaRaj’s House of Dystopian Futures
By: Candice D’Meza
Directed by: Candice D’Meza and T Lavois Thiebaud
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Mar 01 2025
Type of Event: play
Venue: MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston
City: Houston
Price: Pay-What-You-Can! ($35 suggested)
Reference Link: https://catastrophictheatre.com/production/miss-larajs-house-of-dystopian-futures/
Description: When civilization and the environment has been decimated by human-made cruelties, the question remains: Will humans ever learn? In this post-apocalyptic Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Nature is now the main character. Enter Miss LaRaj—a wisecracking MUTHA of the New World Order.
The Frozen Section (a comedy on aisle 9)
By: Lisa D’Amour
Directed by: Jason Nodler
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston
City: Houston
Price: Pay-What-You-Can! ($35 suggested)
Reference Link: https://catastrophictheatre.com/production/frozen-section/
Description: In a liminal, existential grocery store, a disorganized collection of bewildered shoppers and workers find comfort in the carefully organized aisles, in the feeling of cold air on one’s face when opening a door in the frozen section.
Another Ding-Dang Tamarie Show
By: Tamarie Cooper & Patrick Reynolds
Directed by: Tamarie Cooper
Event Date(s): Jun 27 2025 - Aug 02 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston
City: Houston
Price: Pay-What-You-Can! ($35 suggested)
Reference Link: https://catastrophictheatre.com/production/another-ding-dang-tamarie-show/
Description: For 28 straight years, Tamarie Cooper has created all-new smash-hit musicals. How does she do it? This year Tamarie’s taking you behind the scenes and sharing all her secrets about how the tap-dancing sausage gets made. Think of it as Catastrophic’s Noises Off.
ANN
By: Holland Taylor
Directed by: Melissa Utley
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Classic Theatre at the San Pedro Playhouse
City: San Antonio
Price: $20 - 50
Reference Link: https://www.sanpedroplayhouse.org/shows/ann/
Description: This riveting performance brings the fearless persona of Texas Governor Ann Richards, a woman known for her tenacity and iron-willed spirit to the stage. The play captures the essence of Richards’ resilience, her sharp wit, and her unwavering commitment to public service.
The Frosty Follies
By:
Directed by: J. Robert “Jimmy” Moore
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret/Concert
Venue: The Classic Theatre at the San Pedro Playhouse
City: San Antonio
Price: $20 - 50
Reference Link: https://www.sanpedroplayhouse.org/shows/the-frosty-follies/
Description: Welcome to a showcase where local talent shines bright in a cozy setting adorned with twinkling lights and holiday cheer! Join us for festive evenings in December filled with beloved classic musical numbers performed by actors we know and love from our community.
Amadeus
By: Peter Shaffer
Directed by: J. Robert “Jimmy” Moore
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Classic Theatre at the San Pedro Playhouse
City: San Antonio
Price: $20 - 50
Reference Link: https://www.sanpedroplayhouse.org/shows/amadeus/
Description: Enter the dazzling world of genius and envy with a gripping tale of rivalry, obsession, and the pursuit of artistic excellence set against the backdrop of 18th-century Vienna.
Malum Malus Burlesque: Lammas
By:
Directed by: Blaise Ricin
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 10 2024
Type of Event: Burlesque
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble.
Sunny Days
By: Reina Hardy
Directed by: Rudy Ramirez
Event Date(s): Aug 22 2024 - Sep 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: National New Play Network rolling world premiere by playwright Reina Hardy. Directed by Rudy Ramirez with puppet design by Caroline Reck, this play incorporates live actors and puppets. It’s set in three broken worlds: war-torn Kosovo, the Texas-Mexico border, and the climate-ravaged future.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 31 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Topfer at ZACH Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $25 & up
Reference Link: https://tickets.zachtheatre.org/overview/14602
Description: Relive the incredible journey of Carole King, from writing pop classics for renowned artists to her chart-topping success with Tapestry, in the captivating musical Beautiful.
Vermont
Sisters
By: Matthew Libby
Directed by: Aileen Wen McGroddy
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: New Work
Venue: Northern Stage, Barrette Center for the Arts
City: White River Junction
Price: $34 - 74
Reference Link: https://northernstage.org/sisters/
Description: Told over the course of 90 years, Sisters tracks Matilda and Greta, a pair of sisters growing up, learning from each other, dealing with responsibility and loss, fighting viciously, drifting apart, and eventually coming back together. One of them just happens to be AI.
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
By: Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman & Tim Rice (lyrics), Linda Woolverton (book)
Directed by: Carol Dunne
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Jan 01 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Northern Stage, Barrette Center for the Arts
City: White River Junction
Price: $34 - 94
Reference Link: https://northernstage.org/beauty-and-the-beast/
Description: This romantic “tale as old as time” follows Belle, a bookish young woman from a provincial town, and her unlikely captor the Beast, who is really a Prince under an enchantress’s spell. A new vision of the classic tale by artistic director Carol Dunne.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: abigail jean-baptiste
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Northern Stage, Barrette Center for the Arts
City: White River Junction
Price: $34 - 74
Reference Link: https://northernstage.org/king-james/
Description: LeBron James’s extraordinary tenure with the Cleveland Cavaliers brought hope to a city that had lost its sense of promise. In Rajiv Joseph’s powerful new play, superfans Matt and Shawn are brought together through their shared worship of “King” James.
Waitress
By: Jessie Nelson (book), Sara Bareilles (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Carol Dunne
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Northern Stage, Barrette Center for the Arts
City: White River Junction
Price: $34 - 94
Reference Link: https://northernstage.org/waitress/
Description: In this Broadway hit, Jenna is caught in a dead-end marriage and a dead-end job, where making pies is her one source of joy. An unexpected pregnancy jolts her into action, and she starts making big changes. Jenna bakes a new life, one pound of butter, sugar, and flour at a time.
The Vermont Farm Project
By: Tommy Crawford (music & lyrics), Jessica Kahkoska (book)
Directed by: Sarah Elizabeth Wansley
Event Date(s): May 07 2025 - May 25 2026
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Northern Stage
City: White River Junction
Price: $34 - 74
Reference Link: https://northernstage.org/vermont-farm-project/
Description: The Vermont Farm Project: A Farm to Table Musical: A brand new indie folk musical about farming in Vermont, inspired by two years of interviews with farmers in the Upper Valley and beyond. A heartwarming show, developed right here at Northern Stage.
The Porch on Windy Hill
By: Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse, & David M. Lutken
Directed by: Sherry Stregack Lutken
Event Date(s): Aug 22 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Walker Farm @ Weston Theater Company
City: Weston
Price: $59-$79
Reference Link: https://westontheater.org/the-porch-on-windy-hill
Description: With gloriously authentic old-time and bluegrass music, this heartwarming and uplifting piece tells the timely tale of a family reuniting against great odds. This new play with old music is sure to hit all the right notes.
Virginia
Seth’s Big Fat Broadway Show
By: Seth Rudetsky
Directed by: Seth Rudetsky
Event Date(s): Aug 15 2024 - Aug 16 2024
Type of Event: Comedy; Cabaret
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: It's a 90-minute hysterical romp featuring Seth Rudetsky’s trademark “deconstructions,” in which he uses his amazing audio/video collection to break down brilliant performances from beloved Broadway divas, from Patti LuPone to Barbra Streisand.
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche
By: Evan Linder & Andrew Hobgood
Directed by: Kelsey Dodson-Cordrey
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: RTP's Robert B. Moss Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: It’s 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. As the assembled “widows” await the announcement of the society's prize-winning quiche, the atomic bomb sirens sound! Has the Communist threat come to pass?
With Bells On and Who’s Holiday
By: Darrin Hagan and Matthew Lombardo
Directed by: Joe Pabst
Event Date(s): Nov 13 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: RTP's Robert B. Moss Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: A very campy Christmas celebration to make your spirits bright! We open with an accountant and a drag queen stick in an elevator on Christmas Eve, and then Cindy Lou invites you to her home to spill the tea on what happened after she met the Grinch.
Which Way to the Stage
By: Ana Nogueira
Directed by: Lucian Restivo
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 17 2025
Type of Event: Play; Comedy
Venue: RTP's Robert B. Moss Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: In this playful yet profound comedy all about friendship and ambition, Broadway superfans Jeff and Judy eagerly await their idol Idina Menzel at the stage door every night. This funny and touching play centers around the roles we perform and transcending one’s “type.”
A Strange Loop
By: Michael R. Jackson
Directed by: Katrinah Carol Lewis
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2025 - Aug 02 2025
Type of Event: Play; Musical
Venue: RTP's Robert B. Moss Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: The ground-breaking and critically acclaimed winner of every "Best Musical" award on Broadway, plus the Pulitzer Prize, is a heartfelt and thought-provoking masterwork that uses humor and honesty to explore themes around race and sexuality.
Misery
By: William Goldman, adapt. from Stephen King
Directed by: Rick Hammerly
Event Date(s): Aug 31 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marjorie Arenstein Stage at the Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $39-58
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/_misery-november.html
Description: Based on the Stephen King novel, Misery follows famed novelist Paul Sheldon, who wakes up in the secluded home of Annie Wilkes, his self-proclaimed “number one fan.” With Annie enraged over the death of her favorite character, Misery, Paul finds himself in a fight for his life.
Grace for President
By: Joan Cushing (book, music, lyrics), adapt. from Kelly S. DiPucchio
Directed by: Emily Dandridge
Event Date(s): Oct 12 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Musical, Family
Venue: Jessie Bogese Theatre at The Virginia Rep Center for Arts and Education
City: Richmond
Price: $21
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/_grace-for-arts-and-education.html
Description: Learning from her teacher that America has never had a female president, Grace decides she wants to be president and inspires a school election. This timely story gives a fun introduction to the American electoral system, teaching the value of hard work, courage, and thought.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By: Marc Shaiman (music & lyrics), Scott Wittman (lyrics), David Greig, adapt. from Roald Dahl (book)
Directed by: Paul Takács & Todd D. Norris
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Musical, Family
Venue: Marjorie Arenstein Stage at The Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $39-58
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/season_signature.html
Description: When Charlie Bucket finds one of the five golden tickets to the Wonka Chocolate Factory, he and the other winners embark on an extraordinary journey through Willy Wonka’s marvelously madcap mind, but soon discover that nobody leaves this factory the same way that they arrived.
Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Irene Kuykendall
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Jan 19 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hanover Tavern
City: Richmond
Price: $50-60
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/season_hanover.html
Description: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are back on the case! With world peace at stake, Holmes and Watson join forces with American actress Irene Adler to take down cunning criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. Five actors play over 40 roles in this brand new, dangerous adventure.
Love That Dog
By: Andrew Frank & Jason Howard, adapt. from Sharon Creech
Directed by: Todd D. Norris
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play, Family
Venue: Jessie Bogese Theatre at The Virginia Rep Center for Arts and Education
City: Richmond
Price: $21
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/season_childrens.html
Description: Based on the best-selling kids' book by Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech, this compelling one-person show tells the story of a boy and his dog as he discovers the power of his own voice, weaving in poetry by Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Walter Dean Myers.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Jerrell Henderson
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marjorie Arenstein Stage at the Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $39-58
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/season_signature.html
Description: What if the hero of the story wasn’t who everyone expected? Step aside, Hamlet. Meet Juicy, a young Southern queer college boy grappling with grief, identity…and now the ghost of his father demanding vengeance for his murder?! Hamlet set with the backdrop of a Southern barbecue.
Dial M for Murder
By: Frederick Knott, adapt. by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Mel Rayford
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play, Mystery
Venue: Hanover Tavern
City: Richmond
Price: $50-60
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/season_hanover.html
Description: Former writer Tony Wendice concocts a plan to murder his wealthy wife, Margot. When the deadly scheme goes awry, Margot, with the help of a sharp-witted detective, fights to clear her name and reveal the truth about her husband’s lethal intentions.
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
By: Mo Willems (book & lyrics), Deborah Wicks La Puma (music)
Directed by: Paul Takács
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Musical, Family
Venue: Jessie Bogese Theatre at The Virginia Rep Center for Arts and Education
City: Richmond
Price: $21
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/season_childrens.html
Description: It’s not easy being the Pigeon—you never get to do anything! But when the Bus Driver has a crisis that threatens to make her passengers late, maybe that wily bird can do something. Featuring an innovative mix of songs, this musical is sure to get everyone’s wings flapping.
Waitress
By: Jessie Nelson (book), Sara Bareilles (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Rick Hammerly
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2025 - Aug 03 2026
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marjorie Arenstein Stage at The Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $39-58
Reference Link: https://va-rep.org/season_signature.html
Description: Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, finds herself stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a nearby baking contest offers her the chance of escape, Jenna begins to find the courage to take her long-abandoned dream off the shelf.
Arsenic and Old Lace
By: Joseph Kesselring
Directed by: Nicolas Minas
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wells Theatre
City: Norfolk
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.vastage.org/arsenic-and-old-lace
Description: Every family has secrets, and the eccentric Brewster family is no exception. When theatre critic Mortimer Brewster comes home to announce his engagement, he discovers his two spinster aunts’ macabre secret: their penchant for poisoning lonely old men as an act of mercy!
Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Melissa Mowry
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wells Theatre
City: Norfolk
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.vastage.org/dracula
Description: A feast for the eyes and the mind. Take a bite out of this Victorian horror story reimagined through the sharp, contemporary humor of Kate Hamill. This story of Dracula is unlike any you’ve ever seen.
A Sherlock Carol
By: Mark Shanahan
Directed by: Steve Pacek
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wells Theatre
City: Norfolk
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://www.vastage.org
Description: Murder, mystery, music, and merriment meet on the Wells stage this holiday season with Mark Shanahan’s joyful and clever A Sherlock Carol. Moriarty is dead, to begin with, and Sherlock is a haunted man. Then a grown Tiny Tim comes knocking on his door asking for an investigation.
A Merry Little Christmas Carol
By: Mark Shanahan
Directed by: Jordan Setzer (adapt. from Tom Quaintance)
Event Date(s): Dec 08 2024 - Dec 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wells Theatre
City: Norfolk
Price: $80
Reference Link: https://www.vastage.org
Description: The time-honored holiday tradition returns to the Wells to bring a heartfelt holiday to Hampton Roads once again! Dance and sing your way with Scrooge as he journeys through his life alongside the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future to find the real Christmas spirit.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Jerrell Henderson
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wells Theatre
City: Norfolk
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://www.vastage.org
Description: What if the hero of the story wasn’t who everyone expected? Step aside, Hamlet. Meet Juicy, a young Southern queer college boy grappling with grief, identity…and now the ghost of his father demanding vengeance for his murder!? Hamlet set with the backdrop of a Southern barbecue.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Howard Ashman (book & lyrics), Alan Menken (music)
Directed by: Tom Quaintance
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Wells Theatre
City: Norfolk
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://www.vastage.org
Description: Seymour is a meek wallflower taking care of a wilting flower shop in Skid Row. That is, until a plant of otherworldly origins appears with the answer to all of his troubles. But when this plant begins to crave more than sunlight, will Seymour be able to keep Audrey II fed?
Washington
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
By: Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Directed by: Aaron Lamb, conducted by Alexandra Arrieche
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Washington Center for the Performing Arts
City: Olympia
Price: $59 - 99
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/show/sweeney-todd/
Description: Attend the dark, witty, and Tony-winning tale of love, murder, and revenge set against the backdrop of 19th-century London. A bloody worldwide success since being awarded eight Tonys, this musical must be heard with a full orchestra, organ, and choir! A co-production with Olympia Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt 2B
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $48
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/
Description: An irreverent, darkly comic modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick---a fast-paced romp that reexamines the classic adventure stories you love with a bold new female lens.
Is This A Room
By: Tina Satter
Directed by: Aaron Lamb
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $48
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/
Description: A true story, still unfolding. June 3, 2017. A 25-year-old former Air Force linguist named Reality Winner is surprised at her home by the FBI, interrogated, then charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in U.S elections.
Romeo & Juliet
By: William Shakespeare, adapt. by Aaron Lamb
Directed by: Aaron Lamb
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $48
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/
Description: Now, in a nation divided like no other time in recent history, the question posed by these two young people rings loud and long: Can true love survive in a divided community? This fresh new adaptation by artistic director Aaron Lamb seeks to find modern parallels.
Rent
By: Jonathan Larson
Directed by: Aaron Lamb
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2025 - Jul 27 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $53
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/
Description: Set in the East Village of New York City during the previous pandemic, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today.
POTUS (Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive)
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 22 2025 - Sep 07 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $48
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/
Description: When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical
By: Kevin Del Aguila (book), Brad Alexander (music), adapt. from Dav Pilkey
Directed by: Marlo Hunter
Event Date(s): Sep 26 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
City: Seattle
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/cat-kid-comic-clubthe-musical-2/
Description: From the team that brought us Dog Man: The Musical comes the much-awaited sequel Cat Kid Comic Club! Based on the wildly popular series by Dav Pilkey (Dog Man, Captain Underpants), this fast-moving, colorful and kinetic play will entertain the whole family!
Havana Hop
By: Paige Hernandez
Directed by: Danielle Drakes
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 16 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
City: Seattle
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/havana-hop-3/
Description: SCT is excited to welcome back former artistic resident Paige Hernandez with her inspired one-woman dance party tour de force, Havana Hop. Come meet young Yeila who visits her grandmother in Cuba to add a salsa flavor to her own hip-hop style! The audience gets to dance along.
The Snow Queen
By: Matt Opatrny
Directed by: Johamy Morales
Event Date(s): Nov 27 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
City: Seattle
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-snow-queen-2/
Description: Join Gerda on a harrowing journey in SCT’s The Snow Queen, a wildly original adaptation of the beloved Hans Christian Andersen tale. When her best friend Kay is taken by the Snow Queen to a world of numbing ice and snow, Gerda embarks on an unforgettable adventure across singing
The Hula Hoopin’ Queen
By: Gloria Bond Cunie, adapt. from Thelma Lynn Godin
Directed by: Jacole Kitchen
Event Date(s): Feb 12 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
City: Seattle
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-hula-hoopin-queen-2/
Description: “Around and around the hoops went that day. Circles connecting a community.” Three Harlem girls vie for the crown of the Hula Hoopin’ Queen, encouraged and mentored by the community elders in master playwright Gloria Bond Cunie’s spirited adaptation of Thelma Lynn Godin’s book.
Aesop’s Fantastic Family Fables
By: Idris Goodwin
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 26 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
City: Seattle
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/aesops-fantastic-family-fables-2/
Description: From the mind that brought you The Boy Who Kissed The Sky comes a new interactive ode to the art of storytelling. Aesop’s Fantastic Family Fables is a vibrant and interactive theatre experience that reimagines Aesop’s timeless tales. Won’t the real Aesop please stand up? Watch and see.
The Pa’akai We Bring
By: Moses Goods and the HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Moses Goods
Event Date(s): May 07 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-paakai-we-bring-2/
Description: SCT is proud to host Honolulu Theatre for Youth, presenting a one-of-a-kind experience steeped in history, culture, and the healing we all need right now. The Pa’akai We Bring follows multiple generations of salt farmers on Kauai, mixing in ancient stories, hula, live music, original songs, and plenty of audience participation into a tasty potluck of performance, joyously served up with aloha.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Jewell Mainstage
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: An American classic! A life insurance payout provides a path for Lena Younger to move her Black family from their cramped apartment to an affordable home in a historically white neighborhood. But racial intolerance threatens to turn their American dream into heartbreak.
My Lord, What a Night
By: Deborah Brevoort
Directed by: Bretteney Beverly
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Taproot Theatre Company
City: Seattle
Price: $20-62
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: Marian Anderson is denied lodging after delighting a sold-out Princeton audience. When her long-time fan Albert Einstein invites her to stay in his home, the two begin a lifelong friendship.
Happy Christmas, Jeeves!
By: Heidi McElrath and Nathan Kessler-Jeffrey
Directed by: Karen Lund
Event Date(s): Nov 27 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Taproot Theatre Company
City: Seattle
Price: $20-65
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: Longtime chum Bingo calls in a favor to help with romance, and nephew-crushing Aunt Agatha drops in, leaving her charge in his hands. Wooster's famous family code of never disappointing a chum is put to the test as Jeeves sets out to author a new plan of etiquette and romance.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
By: By Charles M. Schulz; Based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson; Stage Adaptation by Eric Schaeffer; By Special Arrangement with Arthur Whitelaw and Ruby Persson
Directed by: Jes Spencer
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Taproot Theatre Company's Isaac Studio
City: Seattle
Price: $20-35
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org/theatres/isaac/
Description: The all-ages holiday tradition is back! Charlie Brown is depressed by the never-ending commercialism surrounding the holidays. Thankfully, Linus is there to help him find the true meaning of Christmas in this musical adaptation of the cartoon classic.
Lewis and Tolkien
By: Dean Batali
Directed by: Karen Lund
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Taproot's Isaac Studio Theatre
City: Seattle
Price: $32-50
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: In the cozy Eagle and Child Pub, renowned authors C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien joust over pints and memories. In this fictional encounter, they delve into their personal and professional rivalries, igniting the stage with their wit and wisdom.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: Bretteney Beverly
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Taproot Theatre Company
City: Seattle
Price: $20-62
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: In this riveting drama, a life insurance payout provides a path for Lena Younger’s family to move from their cramped apartment to an affordable home in a historically white neighborhood. This 1959 masterpiece continues to inspire and resonate today.
Always…Patsy Cline
By: Ted Swindley
Directed by: Karen Lund
Event Date(s): May 14 2025 - Jun 14 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Taproot Theatre Company
City: Seattle
Price: $20-62
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: Journey through the joy and heartbreak of Patsy Cline’s groundbreaking career through her unlikely friendship with her biggest fan. Through unforgettable songs, including “Walkin’ After Midnight" and “Crazy,” you’ll experience the power of love, longing, and friendship.
Murder on the Links
By: Stephen Dietz, adapt. from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Karen Lund
Event Date(s): Jul 09 2025 - Aug 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Taproot Theatre Company
City: Seattle
Price: $20-62
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: After receiving an urgent plea from a stranger, Hercule Poirot whisks himself to the French seaside, only to arrive a day too late. Paul Renauld has been found dead, the scene of the crime a golf course. Poirot uncovers a web of deception, hidden identities, and old grudges.
West Virginia
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by: Evan Buckley Harris
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Sep 07 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Greenbrier Valley Theatre
City: Lewisburg
Price: $20-34
Reference Link: https://www.gvtheatre.org/box-office
Description: The year is 1956 and four of the most talented musicians of the time get together for an unforgettable jam session. Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins spend one night performing some of their greatest hits, creating a celebration of rock and roll.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
By: John Heimbuch & Jon Ferguson
Directed by: Jenna Sulecki
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Greenbrier Valley Theatre
City: Lewisburg
Price: $20-34
Reference Link: https://www.gvtheatre.org/box-office
Description: In the village of Sleepy Hollow, there is the legend of the Headless Man who rides at night and the missing townsmen rumored to have crossed his path. When Ichabod Crane moves to town as the new schoolmaster, he tries to deny the story but slowly comes to fear the dark forest.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
By: John Heimbuch
Directed by: Mike Keller
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Greenbrier Valley Theatre
City:
Price: $36
Reference Link: https://www.gvtheatre.org/
Description: In the village of Sleepy Hollow, there is the legend of the Headless Man who rides at night and the missing townsmen rumored to have crossed his path. When Ichabod Crane moves to town as the new schoolmaster, he tries to deny the story but slowly comes to fear the dark forest.
A Tuna Christmas
By: Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
Directed by: Jenna Sulecki
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Greenbrier Valley Theatre
City: Lewisburg
Price: $20-34
Reference Link: https://www.gvtheatre.org/box-office
Description: A small Texas town’s Christmas celebration is thrown into chaos by the hijinks of an unknown vandal. When Christmas decorations start disappearing right before the big Christmas display contest, residents’ personal troubles become mixed up with the town crisis.
Wisconsin
Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
Directed by: Brenda DeVita
Event Date(s): Aug 02 2024 - Sep 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/dancing-at-lughnasa
Description: In rural Ireland, the Mundy sisters seek solace in each other, and the radio that keeps them connected to their roots. As they navigate the challenges of family, love, and societal change, the women revisit their rituals and memories of happier times. A poetic memory play.
King Lear
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Tim Ocel
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/king-lear
Description: Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece returns. A king is undone by his own vanity as his act of selfish folly sets his kingdom on a path toward betrayal, war and unspeakable loss from which few will emerge unscathed. Featuring Brian Mani as King Lear.
Constellations
By: Nick Payne
Directed by: Vanessa Stalling
Event Date(s): Aug 10 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/constellations
Description: A dazzling, mind-bending romance, Constellations investigates humanity from every different angle through the eyes of Marianne and Roland---a string theorist and a beekeeper. Each decision is a fork in the road that leads to everywhere. A play about infinite possibilities.
Nat Turner in Jerusalem
By: Nathan Alan Davis
Directed by: Tyrone Phillips
Event Date(s): Oct 17 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/nat-turner-in-jerusalem
Description: In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave uprising that has been credited with accelerating the onset of the Civil War. In Davis’ 2016 play, Turner's final night in jail is reimagined in a meditation on past deeds and future repercussions. Featuring Jim DeVita and Gavin Lawrence.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Mikael Burke
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Overture Center for the Arts
City: Madison
Price: $20-59
Reference Link: https://forwardtheater.com/show/king-james
Description: Set against the backdrop of LeBron James's basketball career, this comedy chronicles the bond between two die-hard fans whose intertwined fortunes are tied to those of their idol. A hilarious and heartfelt exploration of loyalty, legacy, and the shared moments that define us.
Murder Girl
By: Heidi Armbruster
Directed by: Jen Uphoff Gray
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Overture Center for the Arts
City: Madison
Price: $20-59
Reference Link: https://forwardtheater.com/show/murder-girl
Description: The crew at Marty’s supper club in the woods of Wisconsin have big fish to fry. They try to keep the family business afloat, but a little thing called murder gets in the way. A world premiere comedy about found family, old fashioneds, and where to stow the roadkill.
Summer, 1976
By: David Auburn
Directed by: Laura Gordon
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Overture Center for the Arts
City: Madison
Price: $20-59
Reference Link: https://forwardtheater.com/show/summer-1976
Description: Diana, an artist, and Alice, a professor’s wife, are thrown together through a faculty babysitting co-op at Ohio State. As they navigate migraines and marriage crises, they build an expansive and intimate friendship as full of possibility and as fleeting as summer.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Jen Uphoff Gray
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Overture Center for the Arts
City: Madison
Price: $20-59
Reference Link: https://forwardtheater.com/show/a-case-for-the-existence-of-god
Description: Two men find themselves bound together as they struggle to balance the terms on a loan. Through the hilarities and challenges of parenthood and personal dreams, their friendship becomes a profound exploration of human connection and the search for meaning in everyday life.
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
By: Kristoffer Diaz
Directed by: Michael Cotey
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Next Act Theatre
City: Milwaukee
Price: $15 - 48
Reference Link: https://nextact.org/show/the-elaborate-entrance-of-chad-deity/
Description: Behind every winner lies the story of a really excellent loser. Enter Macedonio “The Mace” Guerra: a wrestler paid to lose night after night. For the chance to tell his own story in the ring, he’ll do almost anything.
Almost, Maine
By: John Cariani
Directed by: Karen Estrada
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Next Act Theatre
City: Milwaukee
Price: $15 - 48
Reference Link: https://nextact.org/show/almost-maine/#tickets
Description: One cold, clear winter night, as the Northern Lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways.
The Children
By: Lucy Kirkwood
Directed by: Marie Kohler
Event Date(s): Feb 12 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Next Act Theatre
City: Milwaukee
Price: $15 - 48
Reference Link: https://nextact.org/show/the-children/
Description: Two retired nuclear scientists reside in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Together they are going to live forever on yogurt and yoga, until an old friend arrives with a frightening request.
Circle Mirror Transformation
By: Annie Baker
Directed by: Cody Estle
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Next Act Theatre
City: Milwaukee
Price: $15 - 48
Reference Link: https://nextact.org/show/circle-mirror-transformation/
Description: Four lost New Englanders enroll in Marty’s community center drama class to experiment with theatre games and try to find meaning in their lives. Over the course of six weeks, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won.
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux Original concept and direction by Floyd Mutrux, inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins
Directed by: Christopher Chase Carter
Event Date(s): Jul 31 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical Theater
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $51, $53 & $56
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/million-dollar-quartet/
Description: The electrifying hit musical of four legends making rock ‘n’ roll history.
Mary’s Wedding
By: Stephen Massicotte
Directed by: Elizabeth Margolius
Event Date(s): Aug 21 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/marys-wedding/
Description: A compelling love letter that pulls at the heartstrings.
The Stranger
By: Agatha Christie
Directed by: Maggie Kettering
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Thriller/Mystery
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/agatha-christies-the-stranger/
Description: An intimate psychological thriller. Be careful what…or who you wish for.
