Jan. 1, 2024 to Dec. 31, 2024
Alabama
Blues in the Night
By: Sheldon Epps
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Alabama Shakespeare Festival
City: Montgomery
Price: $26-70
Reference Link: https://asf.net
Description: This scorching, Tony-nominated musical tells of the sweet, sexy, and sorrowful experiences three women have with the lying, cheating snake of a man who does them wrong. Featuring songs from Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Alberta Hunter and more.
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alabama Shakespeare Festival
City: Montgomery
Price: $26-70
Reference Link: https://asf.net
Description: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must crack the mystery of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Can our heroes discover the truth in time? Join the fun as they face a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit.
Zelda In the Backyard
By: Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alabama Shakespeare Festival
City: Montgomery
Price: $26-70
Reference Link: https://asf.net
Description: When Libby inherits a wrecked 1961 Rolls Royce, she sets off on a journey to reassemble the car and pieces of the past her father left behind. From the playwright of Gee’s Bend and White Lightning, Zelda in the Backyard is a story of love and loss, and all the roads in between.
Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
By: Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Alabama Shakespeare Festival
City: Montgomery
Price: $26-70
Reference Link: https://asf.net
Description: One of the most enduring shows of all time, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a humorous retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph, his 11 brothers, his father Jacob, and the coat of many colors. This delightful and merry musical will have you dancing in your seat.
Alaska
Indecent
By: Paula Vogel
Directed by: Hannah Wolf
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Juneau and Anchorage
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Set in the early 20th century, Indecent follows the true story of Sholem Asch's controversial play, God of Vengeance. As this groundbreaking Yiddish work journeys from the stages of Europe to Broadway, it faces censorship and fierce opposition due to its lesbian protagonists.
Arizona
Intimate Apparel
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Oz Scott
Event Date(s): Jan 20 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue:
City: Tucson and Tempe/Phoenix
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Two-time Pulitzer-winning author Lynn Nottage’s play Intimate Apparel tells the story of a successful African American seamstress who makes revolutionary undergarments for an array of women---from high-society socialites to enterprising ladies of the night.
Master Class
By: Terrence McNally
Directed by: Marcia Milgrim Dodge
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue:
City: Tucson and Tempe/Phoenix
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Master Class, the Tony-winning play by Terrence McNally, tells the story of the uncompromising opera diva Maria Callas as she delivers a life altering master class to students at an elite opera training program.
True West
By: Sam Shepard
Directed by: Jenn Thompson
Event Date(s): Apr 27 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Tucson and Tempe/Phoenix
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer finalist and Tony-nominated play True West is a Cain and Abel story of brotherly love and sibling rivalry set against the dreams of the American West.
The Diary of Anne Frank
By: Wendy Kesselman, based on Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's play
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 01 2024 - Jan 31 2024
Type of Event: Touring Production
Venue: Schools
City: Scottsdale
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.childsplayaz.org/index.php/shows/Season2324/AnneFrank2324
Description: The beautiful story of a young Jewish girl keeping a diary about her life while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam will be available for school field trips in January 2024. A co-production with the Bridge Initiative and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.
Eric and Elliot
By: Dwayne Hartford
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Feb 29 2024
Type of Event: Touring Production
Venue: Schools
City: Phoenix
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.childsplayaz.org/index.php/schools/childsplayazdotorgslashschools/23-24-ISP/EricandElliot
Description: Brothers Eric and Elliot set out on a journey seeking help for their mother, who has spiraled into a debilitating depression. Only by facing their own past and the tragic events of a particular day the previous summer can they find help for their mother, and for them. Grades 6-12.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Feb 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Mesa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Enter a whimsical realm where fairies meddle, lovers entangle and mischief reigns supreme. An enchanted forest is the playground for Puck, the magical fairy who spins a web of chaos with his delightful pranks and unpredictable tricks.
The School for Lies
By: Moliere
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Mesa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s 1666 and the brightest, wittiest salon in Paris is that of Célimène, a beautiful young widow so known for her satiric tongue that she’s being sued for it.
Unbossed and Unbowed
By: Ingrid Griffith
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 20 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Solo Play
Venue: The Berger Performing Arts Center
City: Tucson
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: Shirley Chisholm is back...to tell it like it really is! Ingrid Griffith's award-winning production is the largely unheard story of Shirley St. Hill Chisholm, the first African American woman to win a seat in the U.S. Congress and run for the presidency of the United States.
The Bookstore
By: Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: The future of a whimsical, almost magical bookstore is uncertain after the owner dies and leaves the shop to her niece, who doesn't want to run it and is offered a huge amount of money to sell. But as the shop works its magic on her she begins to wonder if she should sell or not.
Come Fly With Me – Tales of Being a Pan Am Flight Attendant
By: Wendy Knecht
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Special Event-Solo Performance
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: Wendy Knecht transports audiences to the rarefied atmosphere of being an international flight attendant with the iconic airline Pan American. Based on her memoir, Life, Love and Hijacking, in this play Wendy proves a very engaging schmoozer, and her authentic voice is first class in every way!
A Conversation With Edith Head
By: Susan Claasen and Paddy Calistro
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: Susan Claassen, along with host Stuart Moulton, stars in her internationally acclaimed, award-winning portrayal of legendary costume designer, Edith Head, winner of eight Oscars. Hollywood’s Golden Age comes to life in an evening of wit, wisdom, and a whisper of gossip!
From Broadway to Hollywood
By: Richard Glazier
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Concert/Multi-Media
Venue: The Berger Performing Arts Center
City: Tucson
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: From Broadway to Hollywood features award-winning pianist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Glazier in a multi-media musical tour-de-force from the Tin Pan Alley to Tinsel Town!
Thriller of the Year
By: Glyn Jones
Directed by: Susan Claassen
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Mystery
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: Gillian, a successful crime novelist, returns home late after having received the award for Thriller of the Year. She soon finds out that someone is trying to kill her using methods from her own book. Gillian faces a race against time to discover the killer's identity!
The Shadow of Her Smile
By: Ann Talman
Directed by: Lina Koutrakos and Alex Rybeck
Event Date(s): May 17 2024 - May 18 2024
Type of Event: Concert/Multi-Media
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: Ann Talman portrayed Elizabeth Taylor’s daughter on Broadway in The Little Foxes, beginning a lifelong friendship that lasted for the rest of Taylor’s life. The Shadow of Her Smile is the story of this amazing bond, filled with hilarious stories and American songbook gems.
Woody’s Order
By: Ann Talman
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 19 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Solo Play/Film
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: Woody’s Order is a one-woman show written and performed by Ann Talman. Family legend has it that Ann was “ordered” into this world in 1956 by Woody, her then 8-year-old brother with severe cerebral palsy, to tell his story.
Under Milk Wood
By: Dylan Thomas
Directed by: Christopher Johnson
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Mesa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A rich and delightful story of a day in the life of a small Welsh fishing village by one of Wales’s most famous poets.
An Iliad
By: Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, adapted from Homer
Directed by: Cynthia Meier
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Tucson
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A modern retelling of Homer’s ancient tale of the Trojan War. A one-person show featuring artistic associate Patty Gallagher.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Joseph McGrath
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Tucson
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Four young men pledge to study for three years, avoiding all contact with women. Then the Princess of France and her court arrives.
Something Rotten!
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Peoria Center for the Performing Arts
City: Peoria
Price: $
Reference Link: https://theaterworks.org/events/rotten/
Description: Something Rotten! is the musical extravaganza you didn’t know you needed! Not content to let William Shakespeare get all the attention, the conniving but clueless Bottom brothers hatch a plan to cook up the next big stage hit.
Sondheim Tribute Revue
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Peoria Center for the Performing Arts
City: Peoria
Price: $
Reference Link: https://theaterworks.org/events/revue/
Description: This revue highlights the great Stephen Sondheim, widely acknowledged as the most innovative, influential, and important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history.
Frozen Jr.
By:
Directed by: Meribeth Reeves
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Peoria Center for the Performing Arts
City: Peoria
Price: $
Reference Link: https://theaterworks.org/events/disneys-frozen-jr/
Description: Frozen Jr. is sure to melt the coldest of hearts. The enchanting modern classic from Disney is based on the 2018 Broadway musical, and brings Elsa, Anna, and the magical land of Arendelle to life onstage.
Peter and the Starcatcher
By: Rick Elice
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Valley Youth Theatre
City: Phoenix
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The Tony-winning play upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan boy becomes the legendary Peter Pan.
The World According to Snoopy
By: Charles M. Schulz (original book), Larry Grossman (music), Hal Hackady (lyrics), Kaitlin Hopkins, Adam Cates, Larry Grossman (revised book)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Valley Youth Theatre
City: Phoenix
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang sing, dance and celebrate their unique outlook on the world in this brand new revision of Snoopy!!! The Musical.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
By: Alan Menken (music), Stephen Schwartz (lyrics), Peter Parnell (book)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Herberger Theater Center
City: Phoenix
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is an epic story of love, acceptance, and what it means to be a hero.
Arkansas
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schrek
Directed by: Amy Herzberg
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $20-64
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/constitution
Description: 15-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition and a love of the Constitution by winning debate competitions. All grown up, she reimagines how this living document served four generations of women and what it will mean for the future of America.
Cambodian Rock Band
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by: Nelson T. Eusebio III
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $20-64
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/cambodian-rock-band
Description: Backed by a live band playing contemporary Dengue Fever hits and classic Cambodian oldies, this electric, darkly funny new play tells the story of a father who escaped a murderous regime returning home after 30 years in search of his wayward daughter.
Laughs in Spanish
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Rebecca Rivas
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $20-64
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/laughs-in-spanish
Description: Mariana, the director of a swanky modern art gallery, has a problem: Her showroom is an active crime scene. Part caper comedy and part telenovela, Laughs in Spanish shows how far Mariana will go to save the show—even if it means accepting help from her telenovela star mother.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Monteze Freeland
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $20-64
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/fat-ham
Description: Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this deliciously funny send-up of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set at an uproarious Southern family cookout is a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy, revenge and karaoke.
Responders
By: Joseph Scott Ford
Directed by: vickie washington
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $20-64
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/responders
Description: World premiere. Two small-town paramedics are the first to arrive at a macabre scene. Since the cops got a flat, all they can do is wait—until they realize every school bus in the county is about to drive by. When a reporter arrives, things go from bad to ridiculous.
California
Fences
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Jourdan Olivier-Verde
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In segregated 1950s Pittsburgh, a former Negro League baseball star scrapes by as a sanitation worker. Bitter that race kept him from the major leagues, he asserts control over his life in his relationships with his wife and son.
She Loves Me
By: Book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by: Emily Cornelius
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A charming, sentimental, and romantic musical comedy set in an elegant 1930s parfumerie in Budapest. Inside the jewel-box shop, love is in the air, but it doesn’t always smell like roses.
The Book of Will
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Libby Oberlin
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s 1619, three years since Shakespeare’s death. His friends realize that most of his brilliant plays exist only in the fragile memories of aging actors. They become hell bent on immortalizing his work in what becomes the first printed collection of his plays.
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: There wasn’t a plan for Elvis, Johnny, Carl, and Jerry Lee to meet up in a Memphis recording studio on December 4, 1956, but as fate would have it, they did.
Native Gardens
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 24 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Well-meaning neighbors quickly grow into anything but in this hot-button comedy. When an upwardly mobile Latino couple moves next door to the prize-winning garden of a prominent family, feuding over fences and flora spiral into territorial turmoil.
Kinky Boots
By: Music & lyrics by Cindy Lauper, book by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by: Pat Nims
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A young businessman is desperately trying to save the near-bankrupt gentlemen’s shoe factory he suddenly, reluctantly, inherited. A chance encounter with a drag diva in need of a boot repair unites the two in a business venture.
Sweeney Todd
By: Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by: Julia Rodriguez Elliott
Event Date(s): Feb 11 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Pasadena
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A classic masterpiece by the legendary Stephen Sondheim, this heart-pounding thriller will shock the senses with diabolical comedy, stunning terror, and razor-sharp wit.
King Hedley II
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Gregg T. Daniel
Event Date(s): Mar 31 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Pasadena
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: King Hedley II continues the stories of characters first introduced in Seven Guitars and shows the tragic realities for Black men in 1980s, Reagan-era Pittsburgh.
Misalliance
By: George Bernard Shaw
Directed by: Guillermo Cienfuegos
Event Date(s): May 12 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Pasadena
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: One summer day, an early 20th century English undergarment mogul and his family entertain friends and unexpected visitors at their country estate.
Pipeline
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Nataki Garrett
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: After two incidents at his public school which culminated in two suspensions, Nya, a public-school teacher, takes her son, Omari, out of the inner-city public school and enrolls him at Fernbrook, a private school far from home.
The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Giulio Cesare Perrone
Event Date(s): May 11 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The Merchant of Venice takes a satirical look at the rules and standards upheld by the predominant religious society of Venice.
A Boarding School Play
By: Blossom Johnson
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Jan 01 2024 - May 31 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: TBD
City: VARIOUS - SF bay area
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.altertheater.org/
Description: A Boarding School Play is set in a modern boarding school that offers a reclaiming of traditions: The girls are learning their culture, as part of a traditional song and dance group, with the teachings woven in through a delicious comedy about teenagers being teenagers.
Big Data
By: Kate Attwell
Directed by: Pam MacKinnon
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2023-24-season/big-data/
Description: ACT artistic director Pam MacKinnon and playwright Kate Attwell reunite to realize the world premiere of this revolutionary piece, inspired by Attwell’s experience touring Mozilla’s “Glass Room” pop-up interactive exhibit in San Francisco.
Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
By: Kristina Wong
Directed by: Chay Yew
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Strand Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2023-24-season/kristina-wong-sweatshop-overlord/
Description: 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristina Wong will bring her award–winning solo show, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, to ACT.
A Strange Loop
By: Michael R. Jackson
Directed by: Stephen Brackett
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org
Description: Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning, blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Event Date(s): May 25 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2023-24-season/the-lehman-trilogy/
Description: ACT will close out their 2023/24 season with the National Theatre and Neal Street Productions’ critically acclaimed, five-time Tony-winning production of The Lehman Trilogy.
The Winter’s Tale
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Elizabeth Swain
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2024 - Mar 11 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/productions/the-winters-tale/
Description: “I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush and tyranny Tremble at patience…” When Leontes, King of Sicilia, falsely accuses his wife of an affair with his best friend he sets into motion a series of events that catapult two kingdoms into disarray.
Nora
By: Adapted from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House by Ingmar Bergman Translated and Adapted by Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker
Directed by: Cameron Watson
Event Date(s): Apr 21 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/productions/nora/
Description: “I’ve got to find out which view is the right one, society’s or mine…” On Christmas Eve, Nora Helmer, whose world is built entirely around her domineering husband, must confront blackmail, financial ruin, the consequences of her past actions, and the unsettling truth about her life.
The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Gregg T. Daniel
Event Date(s): Jul 14 2024 - Aug 19 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.
Manahatta
By: Mary Kathryn Nagle
Directed by: Shannon Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre Performance
Venue: Aurora Theatre Company
City: Berkeley
Price: Single Tickets ($38-$75) | Flex Passes & Subscriptions ($200-$385)
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/index.php/shows-events/20232024-season/Manahatta
Description: History repeats itself in 1626 and 2008 when the Lenape people confront European notions of property and finance in the compelling Manahatta.
Blue Door
By: Tanya Barfield
Directed by: Darryl V. Jones
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre Performance
Venue: Aurora Theatre Company
City: Berkeley
Price: Single Tickets ($38-$75) | Flex Passes & Subscriptions ($200-$385)
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/index.php/shows-events/20232024-season/blue-door
Description: Ancestral visitations call upon joy and pain, suffering and resiliency, music and song to celebrate a lineage of Black men from enslavement and Jim Crow to Black Power in Blue Door.
The Lifespan of a Fact
By: Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, based on the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
Directed by: Jessica Holt
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre Performance
Venue: Aurora Theatre Company
City: Berkeley
Price: Single Tickets ($38-$75) | Flex Passes & Subscriptions ($200-$385)
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/index.php/shows-events/20232024-season/the-lifespan-of-a-fact
Description: In The Lifespan of a Fact, facts battle with truth in a hilarious misadventure about journalistic integrity.
Artists in Residence: Ruey Horng Sun and Wu-Kang Chen
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 04 2024 - Mar 22 2024
Type of Event: Workshop
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Artists Ruey Horng Sun and Wu-Kang Chen will develop a new work titled Closed Tomorrow, a structured improvisation video, dance, sound, and light.
American Fast
By: Kareem Fahmy
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage
City: Sacramento
Price: $25-49
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/2023-24-season/
Description: College basketball sensation Khady Salama makes it to March Madness during Ramadan. Khady must choose between observing the traditional fast or breaking it to keep herself in top shape to compete.
Fade
By: Tanya Saracho
Directed by: Dena Martinez
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage
City: Sacramento
Price: $25-49
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/2023-24-season/
Description: A Mexican-born novelist gets her first TV writing job. She feels a bit out of place but befriends Abel, the janitor. Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core.
Cry It Out
By: Molly Smith Metzler
Directed by: Judith Moreland
Event Date(s): May 01 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage
City: Sacramento
Price: $25-49
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/2023-24-season/
Description: A comedy with dark edges that takes an honest look at the absurdities of motherhood, 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.
Now Circa Then
By: Carly Mensch
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
Event Date(s): Jun 19 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage
City: Sacramento
Price: $25-49
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/2023-24-season/
Description: Meet Julian and Josephine, an immigrant couple on New York’s Lower East Side, circa 1890. Meet Gideon and Margie, an unlikely pair of historical reenactors, circa now. A museum tour goes off the rails in this jaunty tale of old places, new beginnings, and timeless questions.
Mystic Pizza
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: Casey Hushion
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lesehr Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $0 - 88
Reference Link: https://www.lesherartscenter.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/15635/3094
Description: Hailed by critics as “unabashedly fun, ecstatically buoyant" and "an amusingly sassy, smile-inducing delight" (BroadwayWorld), Center REP's upcoming Northern California premiere of the hit new musical Mystic Pizza is the theatrical event of the season, and tickets are going fast.
Every Brilliant Thing
By: Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo and Markus Potter
Event Date(s): Jan 06 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.lesherartscenter.org/programs/center-repertory-company
Description: This surprising and immersive theatrical experience openly discusses depression, mental illness, and suicide. With poignant humor and joy, Every Brilliant Thing takes us on a journey through grief, healing, falling in love, and (re)discovering all that life has to give.
Mystic Pizza
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: Casey Hushion
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.lesherartscenter.org/programs/center-repertory-company
Description: Based on the beloved 1988 MGM rom-com, Mystic Pizza is a new musical about three working-class girls who navigate the complexities of life, love and family in a small-town pizza joint. The infectious score features megahits of the 80s and 90s.
Mystic Pizza
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: Casey Hushion
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $0 - 88
Reference Link: https://www.lesherartscenter.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/15635/3094
Description: Based on the beloved 1988 MGM rom-com, Mystic Pizza is a new musical about three working-class girls who navigate the complexities of life, love and family in a small-town pizza joint. The infectious score features megahits of the '80s and '90s.
The Great Leap
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by: Nicholas C. Avila
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.lesherartscenter.org/programs/center-repertory-company
Description: When an American basketball team travels to Beijing for an exhibition game in 1989, the drama goes deeper than the strain between countries. For two men with a past and one teen with a future, the game is a chance to claim personal victories on and off the court.
Cabaret
By: Joe Masteroff
Directed by: Markus Potter
Event Date(s): May 25 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.lesherartscenter.org/programs/center-repertory-company
Description: In this provocative, multiple Tony Award-winning musical, the euphoria of free expression, new relationships, and the seedy nightclub scene slowly fades away against the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet
By: Music by Terry Davies based on the original score by Sergei Prokofiev
Directed by: Matthew Bourne
Event Date(s): Jan 28 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Dance Theatre
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: $35-160
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ahmanson-theatre/2023-24/romeo-juliet/
Description: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet gives Shakespeare’s timeless story of forbidden love a scintillating injection of raw passion and youthful vitality. A masterful retelling of an ageless tale, Romeo and Juliet garnered universal acclaim when it premiered in 2019.
Funny Girl
By: Book by Isobel Lennart from an original story by Miss Lennart; Revised by Harvey Fierstein; Music by Jule Styrne; Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Directed by: Michael Mayer
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: $40-169
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ahmanson-theatre/2023-24/funny-girl/
Description: The sensational Broadway revival dazzles with classic songs, including “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” “I’m the Greatest Star,” and “People.” This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage.
Clue
By: Sandy Rustin; Additional Material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price; Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn; Original Music by Michael Holland
Directed by: Casey Hushion
Event Date(s): Jul 30 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: $35-160
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ahmanson-theatre/2023-24/clue/
Description: Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget! Based on the cult movie and inspired by the classic board game, Clue is the ultimate whodunit that will keep you guessing and leave you dying of laughter.
A Strange Loop
By: Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by: Stephen Brackett
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: $35-160
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ahmanson-theatre/2023-24/a-strange-loop/
Description: The winner of every Best Musical award on Broadway, as well as the Pulitzer Prize, bursts onto the stage for a limited engagement. This blisteringly funny show is a heartfelt and thought-provoking masterwork that uses humor and honesty to explore themes around race and sexuality.
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
By: John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Matthew McCray
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $59
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/hedwig
Description: This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash that took Broadway by storm tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation.
Tiny Beautiful Things
By: Nia Vardalos, Cheryl Strayed
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Tiny Beautiful Things is a play about reaching when you’re stuck, healing when you’re broken, and finding the courage to take on the questions that have no answers.
Alma
By: Benjamin Benne
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Working mom Alma has singlehandedly raised her daughter, Angel, on tough love, home-cooked comida, and lots of prayers. But on the eve of the all-important SAT, Alma discovers her daughter isn’t at home studying.
Sweeney Todd
By: Book by Hugh Wheeler, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Based on an adaptation by Christopher Bond
Directed by: Oanh Nguyen
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: An infamous tale of Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to 19th-century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.
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.
The Last Five Years
By: Jason Robert Brown
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 05 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Petaluma
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The Last Five Years follows Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress, and Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, who recant their five year relationship and doomed marriage.
Dream Hou$e
By: Eliana Pipes
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Petaluma
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Dream Hou$e follows two Latinx sisters who start on an HGTV-style reality show where they sell the family home. The sisters each deal with their own desires and struggles while trying to capitalize on the gentrification of a “changing neighborhood.”
Shipwrecked! an Entertainment
By: Donald Margulies
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Petaluma
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Inspired by a true story, Shipwrecked! an Entertainment tells the grand tale of Louis De Rougemont, a famous adventurer who gets lost on the high seas and ultimately ends up seeing fantastic things and meeting exotic people.
Nora: A Doll’s House
By: Stef Smith, after Henrik Ibsen
Directed by: Kirsten Brandt
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Jose
Price: $27-49
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/nora/
Description: The more things change, the more they stay the same in this bold new retelling of the classic A Doll’s House, which sets the story in 1918, 1968, and 2018.
King Liz
By: Fernanda Coppel
Directed by: Kinan Valdez
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Jose
Price: $27-49
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/king-liz/
Description: Veteran sports agents know they have to fight to stay on top. With an elite client roster and a nearly unbeatable drive, Liz Rico is poised to take over the agency that she’s helped build. Then she takes on high school basketball superstar Freddie Luna.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Aldo Billingslea
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Jose
Price: $27-49
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/clydes/
Description: Past the long line of truckers waiting outside, Clyde’s Sandwich Shop is more than a greasy spoon. Owner Clyde may be a devil of a boss, but the workers discover purpose in their lives as they find themselves banding together—and sharing a quest to create the perfect sandwich.
The Rocky Horror Show
By: Richard O'Brien
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 18 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: San Jose
Price: $27-49
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/the-rocky-horror-show/
Description: Complete with sass from the audience, this deliberately kitschy rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical is more fun than ever. City Lights had hit productions of Rocky Horror in 2003 and 2013, and we can’t wait to do the Time Warp with you again!
Cabaret
By: John Kander & Fred Ebb
Directed by: Adam Karsten
Event Date(s): Jan 07 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $50-$68
Reference Link: https://www.cvrep.org
Description: In this immersive, one-of-a-kind production, you will step off the street and into a world none of us could have imagined---or wanted to. CVRep presents this timeless masterpiece as it has never been seen before, and invites you to come on this journey of risks and consequence.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Filinger
Directed by: Courtney Young
Event Date(s): Feb 11 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $50-$68
Reference Link: https://www.cvrep.org
Description: A first-rate modern-day political farce in time for election season! Just another day in the Oval Office. The president's chief of staff and press secretary try desperately to minimize looming threats due to the reckless behavior by the POTUS.
Nice Work If You Can Get It
By: Ira & George Gershwin, Joe DiPietro
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Cathedral City Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $50-68
Reference Link: https://www.cvrep.org
Description: Nice Work If You Can Get It is a classic Broadway blockbuster filled with actors, singers, dancers, and beloved Gershwin songs, including "S'Wonderful," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Fascinatin' Rhythm," and "Lady Be Good." CVRep's biggest show ever caps the 2023-24 season.
Variety
By: Various
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: New works festival
Venue:
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Join Cutting Ball for a micro-festival of New Works, bold risks, and unexpected discoveries! Featuring the Short Cuts director series: 5-6 directors working with one repertory cast and set pieces creatively string together their distinct styles through a series of short plays.
The Soul Never Dwells in a Dry Place
By: Rotimi Agbabiaka, inspired by the work of Romare Bearden
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The Soul Never Dwells in a Dry Place uses theatrical collage to tell the story of a young Black curator, newly hired by a major American museum to mount a retrospective of 1960s artist Romare Bearden.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
By: Lanie Robertson
Directed by: Wren T. Brown
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical/ Play
Venue: Old Town Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $30 - 87
Reference Link: https://www.cygnettheatre.com/season/season-20/lady-day-at-emersons-bar-grill/
Description: Through her poignant voice and moving songs, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time shares her loves and her losses.
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
By: Book, Lyrics and Music by Dave Malloy
Directed by: Directed by Sean Murray
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Musical/ Play
Venue: Old Town Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $30 - 87
Reference Link: https://www.cygnettheatre.com/season/season-20/natasha-pierre-the-great-comet-of-1812/
Description: An electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. This award-winning musical expands the possibilities for the genre with its daring score and bold storytelling.
tick, tick…BOOM!
By: Music, book and lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Directed by: Directed by TBA
Event Date(s): Jul 03 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical/ Play
Venue: Old Town Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $30 - 87
Reference Link: https://www.cygnettheatre.com/season/season-20/tick-tick-boom/
Description: Set in 1990 and scored by the music that redefined a genre, Tick, Tick… Boom! cracks open the ticking-time-bomb world of creating theatre to celebrate the power of finding your voice and holding on to a dream.
The Rocky Horror Show
By: Music, book and lyrics by Richard O’Brien
Directed by: Directed by Sean Murray
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical/ Play
Venue: Old Town Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $30 - 87
Reference Link: https://www.cygnettheatre.com/season/season-20/the-rocky-horror-show-2024/
Description: A satirical tribute to the science fiction and B-list horror movies of the 20th century, the show centers around two naïve lovers seeking shelter from a thunderstorm in an old castle. Reality, fiction, and camp collide in this mash-up of comics, rock and roll, and late-night horror.
Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members
By: Mara Vélez Meléndez
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 05 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/season-38
Description: Lolita finds herself in the Wall Street office of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board, but she is here in the name of La Revolución!
TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix
By: EllaRose Chary, Brandon James Gwinn
Directed by: Sherri Eden Barber
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Diversionary Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/season-38
Description: Aided by a kick-ass riot grrrl band, Thelma and Louise attempt to sort out their new identities as they drive their 1966 Ford Thunderbird off the edge of the Grand Canyon. A co-production with MOXIE Theatre.
The Pianist of Willesden Lane
By: Hershey Felder, based on the book by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen
Directed by: Hershey Felder
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue:
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitz, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the true and inspirational story of Lisa Jura, a young Jewish pianist who is dreaming about her concert debut at Vienna’s storied Musikverein concert hall.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
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.
Alice, Formerly of Wonderland
By: Mark Saltzman
Directed by: Meredith McDonough
Event Date(s): May 30 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Based on the true story of the secret romance of the real Alice (Alice Liddell), who as a child was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s immortal story, and her British prince, Leopold, the youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, during the four years he spent at Oxford.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Jennifer Chambers
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Geffen Playhouse
Price: TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/potus/
Description: A derogatory comment, a summit gone awry, an anal abscess—it’s a bad day at the White House. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, it inevitably falls on the seven women he relies on most to clean up the mess.
Black Cypress Bayou
By: Kristen Adele Calhoun
Directed by: Tiffany Nichole Greene
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Geffen Playhouse
City: Los Angeles
Price: TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/black-cypress-bayou/
Description: The richest, meanest man in town is dead, and the Manifold women know more than they’re saying. As secrets begin to surface, the bonds between the women, their town, and the legacy of their ancestors all come to a head.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Saheem Ali
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Geffen Playhouse
City: Los Angeles
Price: TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/fat-ham/
Description: Meet Juicy, a young, queer Black man with a Shakespearean-sized dilemma. When the ghost of his dead father shows up at his family’s BBQ wedding reception demanding his murder be avenged, does he have it in him to do the deed, or will he “to thine own self be true?"
The Hope Theory
By: Helder Guimarães
Directed by: Frank Marshall
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/the-hope-theory/
Description: As a Portuguese immigrant, storyteller, and sleight-of-hand magician, Helder Guimarães arrived in America at age 29. Wide-eyed and full of ideas, he discovers a fascinating puzzle of cultural and professional challenges to solve while he tries to build a home.
tiny father
By: Mike Lew
Directed by: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2024 - Jul 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Geffen Playhouse
City: Los Angeles
Price: TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/tiny-father/
Description: When a “friends with benefits” relationship unexpectedly results in the early arrival of a baby girl, Daniel must choose between being a biological parent or becoming a father, in this funny and heartfelt new play where growth is measured in more than grams.
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.
What Do the Women Say? 2024: Expressions of Joy
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2024 - Mar 08 2024
Type of Event: multi-disciplinary
Venue: Brava Theater Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-100
Reference Link: https://https://goldenthread.org/productions/what-do-the-women-say-2024/
Description: This year’s What Do the Women Say? event honors the resilience and richness of Palestinian traditions and culture through the works of Palestinian women artists, presenting song, dance, play readings, textile art exhibit, food, and discussion. Hybrid format, in person and online.
Returning to Haifa
By: Ghassan Kanafani, adapted for the stage by Naomi Wallace and Ismail Khalidi
Directed by: Samer Al-Saber
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Potrero Stage
City: San Francisco
Price: $30 - $100. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Reference Link: https://goldenthread.org/productions/returning-to-haifa/
Description: In the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War, with borders finally open after two decades, Palestinian couple Said and Safiyya return to Haifa in search of a home they were forced to abandon during the Nakba in 1948. But are they ready for the encounter that awaits them upon their return?
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.”
Hamlet Solus
By: William Shakespeare - adapted by David Melville
Directed by: Cary Reynolds
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Los Angeles
Price: $25 - 45
Reference Link: https://iscla.org
Description: A one-person exploration of Hamlet performed by David Melville.
Happy Days
By: Samuel Beckett
Directed by: Melissa Chalsma
Event Date(s): May 23 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Independent Shakespeare Co
City: Los Angeles
Price: $25-45
Reference Link: https://iscla.org
Description: Samuel Beckett's classic play featuring Monica Horan and Tim Durkin.
As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: David Melville
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Independent Shakespeare Co
City: Los Angeles
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://iscla.org
Description: Independent Shakespeare's 21st season of free outdoor theatre in Griffith Park.
Anita Berber is Dead
By: Melissa Chalsma, David Melville & Jim Lang
Directed by: Melissa Chalsma
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Independent Shakespeare Co
City: Los Angeles
Price: $35 - 75
Reference Link: https://iscla.org
Description: World premiere of a musical: While the winds of fascism are rising in 1920s Germany, and the progressive forces are staking their claim in the Weimar Republic, one openly bisexual nude professional dancer leads a one-woman rebellion against the stiff German patriarchy.
Marilyn, Mom & Me
By: Luke Yankee
Directed by: Luke Yankee
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2024 - Mar 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: The son of Broadway actress Eileen Heckart, who played best friend to Marilyn Monroe in the film Bus Stop, Yankee exposes a side of Monroe no one has seen before as he confronts his own relationship with his mother in this deeply personal comic drama.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: caryn desai
Event Date(s): May 01 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-55
Reference Link: https://www.InternationalCityTheatre.org
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition winning Constitutional debate competitions across the U.S. In this play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the document that shaped their lives.
The Outsider
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: Todd Nielsen
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-55
Reference Link: https://www.InternationalCityTheatre.org
Description: Ned Newly is terrified of public speaking, and his poll numbers are abysmal. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things a bit differently. Sure, Ned might just be the worst candidate to ever run for office—but what if that’s exactly what the public is looking for?
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 from the novel by 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…
The Lion in Winter
By: James Goldman
Directed by: Susan Myer Silton
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Colligan Theater
City: Santa Cruz
Price: $27 to $50
Reference Link: https://jeweltheatre.net/
Description: A family feud of imperial proportions. “Well---what shall we hang? The holly or each other?” Set during Christmas 1183, Lion tells the wickedly amusing tale of King Henry II, his imprisoned queen (released only for the holiday), and their three entitled sons vying for the throne.
Under Ben Bulben
By: Kate Hawley
Directed by: Paul Mullins
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Colligan Theater
City: Santa Cruz
Price: $27 to $50
Reference Link: https://jeweltheatre.net/
Description: Greeted by the quirky manager, Mrs. Brennen, a variety of guests from around the world pass through a shabby Ireland hotel sorting out the baggage of their lives, spending the night on their way to their next destination. One hotel room, nine stories, and an incomparable landlady.
Always…Patsy Cline
By: Ted Swindley
Directed by: Julie James
Event Date(s): May 08 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Colligan Theater
City: Santa Cruz
Price: $27 to $50
Reference Link: https://jeweltheatre.net/
Description: This show pays tribute to an incredible performer in a true story about Patsy Cline’s friendship with hilarious Houston housewife Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk. The two women struck up a friendship that lasted until Cline’s untimely death.
Redwood
By: Book by Tina Landau; Music by Kate Diaz; Lyrics by Kate Diaz and Tina Landau; with Additional Contributions by Idina Menzel
Directed by: Tina Landau
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: World-Premiere Musical
Venue:
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org/show/redwood/
Description: Broadway icon Idina Menzel makes her La Jolla Playhouse debut in the world premiere of Redwood, a moving new musical exploring one woman’s love, courage, and healing.
The Ballad of Johnny and June
By: Robert Cary and Des McAnuff
Directed by: Des McAnuff
Event Date(s): May 28 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: World-Premiere Musical
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: Johnny Cash and June Carter had one of the most iconic love stories in music history. This whole-hearted and clear-eyed musical told through the eyes of their son covers it all—complete with a soundtrack of hits, including "I Walk the Line," "Ring of Fire," and more.
Derecho
By: Noelle Viñas
Directed by: Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Event Date(s): Jul 23 2024 - Aug 18 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: Eugenia Silva is a rising politician whose ambitions crash into her sister Mercedes’s need to reconnect with their roots. On the night of an intense storm, tensions reach a boiling point as the personal and political collide.
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.
Velour: A Drag Spectacular
By: Sasha Velour and Moisés Kaufman
Directed by: Moisés Kaufman
Event Date(s): Jul 23 2024 - Sep 08 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: A new theatrical experience about the rise and rise of a superstar. Part memoir, part manifesto, inspired by Sasha Velour’s own origin story and the history of drag. Expect sumptuous couture, an irresistible soundtrack, and a visually magical pop-art universe.
Ain’t Misbehavin’
By: Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr.
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Laguna Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s 1930s Harlem, and the joint is jumpin’! Nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom are the playgrounds of high society, and dive bars on Lenox Avenue pulse with piano players. Featuring the music of Thomas "Fats" Waller.
A Shayna Maidel
By: Barbara Lebow
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Laguna Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Transcending grief and rekindling hope, A Shayna Maidel tells one family’s story of survival and resiliency following the Holocaust. Separated for almost 20 years, two sisters are reunited in America after World War II.
Tartuffe
By: Moliere
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Laguna Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Acknowledged as one of most enduring comedic masterpieces in the theatrical canon, TARTUFFE is given an astonishingly clever translation by two-time Pulitzer Prize poet Richard Wilbur.
Holmes & Watson
By: Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Laguna Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Prepare yourself for a fast-paced, thrilling, suspenseful story that will keep you guessing until it’s final moments. Sherlock Holmes is dead...or so it is assumed.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-50
Reference Link: https://www.moxietheatre.com/shows/
Description: A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them under her thumb, the staff members are given purpose and permission to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-43
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35605/production/1164460
Description: A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop's callous owner tries to keep them under her thumb, the staff members are given purpose and permission to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Board Members
By: Mara Vélez Meléndez
Directed by: Andréa Agosto
Event Date(s): May 05 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-43
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35605/production/1164462
Description: Lolita finds herself in the Wall Street office of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board. Like a Boricua Lolita before her, she is here in the name of La Revolución!
Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Board Members
By: Mara Vélez Meléndez
Directed by: Andréa Agosto
Event Date(s): May 05 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-50
Reference Link: https://www.moxietheatre.com/shows/
Description: Lolita finds herself in the Wall Street office of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Board. Like a Boricua Lolita before her, she is here in the name of La Revolución! She’s got glamour, glitter, and a gun, but is she really ready? A co-production with Diversionary Theatre.
Bees & Honey
By: Guadalís Del Carmen
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: West Coast Premiere
Venue:
City: Mill Valley
Price: $Contact the Box Office for more info
Reference Link: https://www.marintheatre.org/subscriptions-23-24/23-24-shows
Description: What does it take to survive as a couple? Inspired by the Juan Luis Guerra song “Como Abeja Al Panal," Bees & Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen is a two-actor portrait of a Dominican couple's love and dreams in New York City, featuring pivotal moments in a year of their lives.
Torch Song
By: Harvey Fierstein
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Revival of a Landmark Play
Venue:
City: Mill Valley
Price: $Contact the Box Office for more info
Reference Link: https://www.marintheatre.org/subscriptions-23-24/23-24-shows
Description: Torch Song, Harvey Fierstein’s newly revised two-act version of Torch Song Trilogy, is a seminal work celebrating gay culture and its evolution over the span of the late '70s and ‘80s that follows the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing Jewish drag queen living in NYC.
Unpacking in P’Town
By: Jewelle Gomez
Directed by: Kimberly Ridgeway
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/event/unpacking-in-ptown/
Description: Every summer, former vaudevillians Buster, Lydia, Minty, and Scottie reunite in Provincetown to drink, dance, and forget about the real world. But this year is different.
Unpacking in P’Town
By: Jewelle Gomez
Directed by: Kimberly Ridgeway
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Every summer, former vaudevillians Buster, Lydia, Minty, and Scottie reunite in Provincetown to drink, dance, and forget about the real world. But this year is different.
The Tutor
By: Torange Yeghiazarian
Directed by: Sahar Assaf
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/event/the-tutor/
Description: Things are looking up for Kayvon. He’s just married Baran, a beautiful young Iranian woman, and brought her back to his Bay Area home. But when he asks his lifelong friend Azar to tutor Baran, all three lives begin to unravel as the two women fall into a passionate love affair.
The Tutor
By: Torange Yeghiazarian
Directed by: Sahar Assaf
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - May 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A study of preconceived notions and the hypocrisies that drive them, The Tutor is a provocative look at the cost of owning one's truth.
tick, tick…BOOM!
By: Jonathan Larson
Directed by: Cindy Goldfield
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/event/tick-tick-boom/
Description: From the creator of Rent comes the story of Jon, a young composer struggling to write the next great American musical on the eve of his 30th birthday. As the people he loves move on to new careers and new places, Jon is faced with a choice: find security or follow his destiny.
tick, tick…BOOM!
By: Jonathan Larson
Directed by: Cindy Goldfield
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: San Francisco
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: From the creator of Rent, the musical that defined a generation, comes the story of a young composer on the eve of his 30th birthday.
Fun Home
By: Music by Jeanine Tesori, Bookand Lyrics by Lisa Kron, Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel
Directed by: Kym Pappas
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center
City: Carlsbad
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://newvillagearts.org/season-22/
Description: Fun Home follows a woman, Alison, as she delves into her past and seeks to come to terms with the life and legacy of her father. This Tony-winning musical invites us as an audience to a fuller understanding of the journey of coming out and stepping into yourself.
The 39 Steps
By: Adapted by Patrick Barlow, From the novel by John Buchan, From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by: AJ Knox
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Performance
Venue: The Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center
City: Carlsbad
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://newvillagearts.org/season-22/
Description: The 39 Steps is a feat of incredible comedic acting that will have audiences rolling with laughter and thrilled at the ingenuity of turning this Alfred Hitchcock story into something completely different. Amid the laughter, audiences will experience a swoon-worthy romance!
The Color Purple
By: Based on the novel written by Alice Walker and the Warner Bros./Amblin Entertainment Motion Picture, Book by Marsha Norman, Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray
Directed by: Kandace Crystal
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center
City: Carlsbad
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://newvillagearts.org/season-22/
Description: This uplifting musical brings Alice Walker’s remarkable coming-of-age book to life, touching on such themes as domestic violence, female identity, and the power of love, which can overcome hatred and selfishness.
Intimate Apparel
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Jasmine Bracey
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $54-65
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/intimate-apparel/
Description: Two-time Pulitzer-winning dramatist Lynn Nottage has stitched together a powerful tale with an array of characters whose intertwining relationships are told with humor, heartbreak, and resiliency.
Tartuffe
By: Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur
Directed by: Richard Baird
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2024 - Mar 31 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $54-65
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/tartuffe/
Description: Molière’s Tartuffe, acknowledged as one of the most enduring comedic masterpieces in the theatrical canon, is given an astonishingly clever translation by two-time Pulitzer-winning poet Richard Wilbur.
Sense of Decency
By: Jake Broder
Directed by: David Ellenstein
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $54-65
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/sense-of-decency/
Description: Jake Broder has crafted a surprise-filled exploration into what makes us tick, filled with unexpected revelations, magic, and insight. A world premiere theatrical foray into this historical meeting promises intrigue and theatrical sparks.
Camelot
By: Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe; Based on "The One and Future King" by T.H. White; Book adapted by David Lee
Directed by: Jeffrey B. Moss
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $54-65
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/camelot/
Description: Prepare for an evening of enchantment in Camelot, brilliantly adapted for intimate theatres. Written by Lerner & Loewe, this Tony-winning fairy tale musical resounds with such memorable songs as “I Loved You Once in Silence,” “If Ever I Would Leave You,” and "Camelot."
Don’t Dress for Dinner
By: Marc Camoletti; Adapted by Robin Hawdon
Directed by: Christopher Williams
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $54-65
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/dont-dress-for-dinner/
Description: The most requested return engagement of the past 20 years, Don't Dress for Dinner is written in the style of a classic French farce, full of mistaken identities, rapid-fire dialogue, and unexpected twists.
Henry V
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: Attempting to leave behind his rowdy and unpredictable past, Henry lays claim to certain parts of France through familial roots and ancient land laws. When his claim and new reign are insulted by the Dauphin of France, Henry begins a war that whisks us from England to France.
Wolf at the Door
By: Marisela Treviño Orta
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: After Isadora and Septimo suffer an unthinkable loss, an unexpected visitor changes the course of their life. When the brutal Septimo forces the very pregnant stranger, Yolot, to stay against her will, Isadora and Yolot start making a plan of their own.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre & Solvang Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria/ Solvang
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: Mushnik’s flower shop on Skid Row is about to go under, until Seymour, a tragically shy assistant, stumbles upon a new breed of plant with an unusual appetite---for blood.
The Play that Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 27 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre & Solvang Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria/ Solvang
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to disastrous.
Cabaret
By: Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 18 2024 - Jul 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre & Solvang Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria/ Solvang
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. In Berlin as the 1920s draw to a close and as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich, you can forget your troubles at the cabaret.
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.
Kate
By: Kate Berlant
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue:
City: Pasadena
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In her widely celebrated one-woman show, revered comedian Kate Berlant explores the events of her life that have brought her to this moment.
One of the Good Ones
By: Gloria Calderón Kellett
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue:
City: Pasadena
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The ultimate family showdown is on in the world premiere of this new comedy commissioned by Pasadena Playhouse.
Jelly’s Last Jam
By: Book by George C. Wolfe, music by Jelly Roll Morton, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, adaptation and additional composition by Luther Henderson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 28 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Pasadena
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: When legendary musician Jelly Roll Morton’s soul is forced to face the music, the self-proclaimed “inventor of jazz” is left at the ultimate crossroads.
Suite Surrender
By: Michael McKeever
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $15 - 25
Reference Link: https://slorep.org
Description: It’s 1942, and two of Hollywood’s biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel — assistants, luggage, and legendary feud with one another in tow. Everything seems to be in order …that is, until they are somehow assigned to the same suite.
The Revolutionists
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Jill Turnbow
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Jan 27 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $15-$25
Reference Link: https://www.slorep.org/shows/the-revolutionists/
Description: Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. This grand comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, and how we actually go about changing the world.
BEEHIVE – The 60s Musical
By: Larry Gallagher
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20 - 45
Reference Link: https://slorep.org
Description: A loving, rockin’ celebration of the 1960s and the powerful female voices whose music stands the test of time. The show takes you on a song-filled journey told from the perspective of six women coming of age during this unforgettable time.
Constellations
By: Nick Payne
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 16 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $15-$25
Reference Link: https://www.slorep.org/shows/constellations/
Description: This spellbinding romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. It defies boundaries of the world we think we know, delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20 - 42
Reference Link: https://slorep.org
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful & achingly human play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between 4 generations of women.
Ubu’s Other Shoe: World Premiere
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $15-$25
Reference Link: https://www.slorep.org/shows/ubu-world-premiere/
Description: Experience being a part of the creative process as we present the world premiere of a brand new play!
9 to 5: The Musical
By: Dolly Parton
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20 - 45
Reference Link: https://
Description: Set in the late 1970s, this story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought provoking and even a little romantic. Pushed to the boiling point, three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with their egotistical, lying, hypocritical boss.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: William Thomas Hodgson
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: $0 - 40
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/article/midsummer
Description: The warrior queen, Hippolyta, is compelled to marry her captor, Theseus. A comical group of mechanics decides to gift the couple with a play performed at the wedding. Rehearsals are interrupted by a group of lovers in a chase of one another and hilarity ensues!
Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone
By: Hershey Felder
Directed by: Joel Zwick
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Play with music, featuring a full performance of "Rhapsody in Blue" and many other Gershwin hits
Venue: South Coast Repertory - Argyros Stage
City: Costa Mesa
Price: $60-100
Reference Link: https://www.scr.org/plays/productions/23-24-season/hershey-felder-as-george-gershwin-alone/
Description: As the only individual granted permission by the Gershwin heirs to create the role of George Gershwin on the stage, Hershey Felder comes to South Coast Repertory with this world-renowned play featuring George Gershwin's greatest works and the stories behind them.
Alice’s Wonderland
By: Book, music and lyrics by Julia Riew and J. Quinton Johnson. Conceived by Linda Chichester and David Coffman
Directed by: Rob Salas
Event Date(s): Feb 10 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Play
Venue: Julianne Argyros Stage
City: Costa Mesa
Price: $30-$48
Reference Link: https://www.scr.org/plays/productions/23-24-season/alice-s-wonderland/
Description: In this pop and hip-hop musical inspired by the Lewis Carroll classic, Alice is a brilliant, passionate teen who creates a video game called “Wonderland.” When a virus shuts it down, Alice leaps into an unforgettable adventure.
Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical
By: Craig Lucas (book), Sean Hartley (lyrics) and Daniel Messé (music and lyrics)
Directed by: David Ivers
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - May 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Segerstrom Stage
City: Costa Mesa
Price: $34-$112
Reference Link: https://www.scr.org/plays/productions/23-24-season/prelude-to-a-kiss-the-musical/
Description: “For better or worse” takes on new meaning when a mysterious guest requests a kiss at Peter and Rita’s wedding—and their lives are forever changed. Originally a South Coast Repertory world premiere, the Tony-winning play returns as a musical.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken, Based on the Film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 20 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Outside SCR at Mission San Juan Capistrano
City: San Juan Capistrano
Price: $25-60
Reference Link: https://www.scr.org/plays/productions/23-24-season/little-shop-of-horrors/
Description: What better place to experience a musical creature feature about a killer plant than among the extraordinary foliage of the Mission San Juan Capistrano?
English
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Arya Shahi
Event Date(s): Jan 27 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $29-98
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/english
Description: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, the Obie Award, and the Lucille Lortel Award. In a classroom near Tehran, four adult students prepare for an English proficiency exam. They each have a reason for being there: a chance at opportunity, access, or a new calling.
The Age of Innocence
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Chay Yew
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Globe-commissioned world premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $29-118
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/ageofinnocence
Description: A Globe-commissioned world premiere based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. When the glamorous Countess Ellen Olenska sweeps into town, she upends the lives of everyone around her, especially the dashing lawyer Newland Archer.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Justin Emeka
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/kingjames
Description: The breathtaking career of NBA icon LeBron James is the backdrop for this energetic and funny play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph. Shawn is Black and Matt is white, and they couldn’t be more different—except for their love of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Ride
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $29-118
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/ride
Description: Ready, set, ride! The smash-hit London musical makes its U.S. premiere. It’s 1895, and Annie Londonderry wants to discover if a woman can ride a bicycle around the world. The problem? She’s only ridden one twice!
Stir
By: Melinda Lopez and Joel Perez
Directed by: Marcela Lorca
Event Date(s): May 04 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Globe-commissioned world premiere
Venue: Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $29-118
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/sitr
Description: Two siblings, separated by distance and circumstance, meet to share their mother’s favorite recipe. What starts as a simple project leads to surprising connection as they reminisce and reveal secrets of their own.
Mercury
By: Steve Yockey
Directed by: Ann Hearn Tobolowsky
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Road Theatre Company
City: North Hollywood
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://roadtheatre.org/
Description: A pitch-black comedy with an illicit affair, a couple hanging on by a thread, bears at the window, the worst curiosity shop on the West Coast, and an adorable missing dog. This mashup of myth, missing empathy, and "good neighbors" explores what happens when the mercury rises.
High Maintenance
By: Peter Ritt
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Road Theatre Company
City: North Hollywood
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://roadtheatre.org/
Description: A disgraced actor makes her comeback opposite a robot that may bring about the end of the acting profession. The play raises questions about the relationship between art and AI, and how the status quo can turn both against each other, but really, it’s just funny! A world premiere!
Singularities or the Computers of Venus
By: Laura Stribling
Directed by: Laura Stribling
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Road Theatre Company
City: North Hollywood
Price: $15-39
Reference Link: https://roadtheatre.org/
Description: The stars? The past? The future? Our own limits? Set in three different time periods, Singularities or the Computers of Venus looks at the lives of women astronomers in three different time periods as they grapple with light, love and the infinite. World premiere!
Babes in Ho-lland
By: Deneen Reynolds-Knott
Directed by: Leigh Rondon-Davis
Event Date(s): Jan 13 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: $10-40
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/babes
Description: In the sunless Pittsburgh winter of 1996, two co-eds connect over a shared love for R&B girl groups but quickly discover something deeper. While attending a predominantly white college, these two Black students create their own bubble of self-discovery, music, and sanctuary.
How I Learned What I Learned
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Tim Bond
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: Starting at $30
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: Originally performed by August Wilson himself, this show charts one man’s journey of self-discovery through adversity and what it means to be a Black artist in America, celebrating Wilson’s necessary voice and gorgeous poetry. Starring Steven Anthony Jones, directed by Tim Bond.
Queen
By: Madhuri Shekar
Directed by: Miriam A. Laube
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lucie Stern Theatre
City: Palo Alto
Price: Starting at $30
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: In this high-stakes environmental drama, Ph.D. candidates Sanam and Ariel research the collapse of bee colonies, dreaming they might collapse the glass ceiling of academia. When a flaw emerges in their research, their friendship, careers, and even an arranged marriage are at risk.
Tiger Style!
By: Mike Lew
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: Starting at $30
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: This hilarious, razor-sharp satire explores tiger parenting, as thirtysomething siblings Albert and Jennifer wrestle with dissatisfactions with life despite ultra-achievements. When their lives fall apart, they blame their parents and run away to China, where calamity ensues.
Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration
By: Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Conceived by Robert Kelley and William Liberatore
Directed by: Robert Kelley
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: Starting at $30
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: Robert Kelley returns to TheatreWorks, collaborating with William Liberatore to conceive this musical celebration of the legacy of one of Broadway’s greatest composers. In this world premiere, Stephen Sondheim’s profound understanding of the human heart takes centerstage.
Hills Like White Elephants
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - May 17 2024
Type of Event: Classical Music Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Topanga
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/under-the-oaks/
Description: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum’s Under the Oaks salon series kicks off the summer season with three evenings of classical music under the stars in rustic Topanga Canyon. Hills Like White Elephants is an interdisciplinary adaptation of the short story by Ernest Hemingway.
The Winter’s Tale
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Ellen Geer
Event Date(s): Jun 01 2024 - Sep 30 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Los Angeles
Price: $15-60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/the-winters-tale/
Description: Out of a winter plagued by jealousy and torment emerges the glorious rebirth of spring in high humor of the countryside. One of the Bard’s final plays, The Winter’s Tale is a romance that concludes in one of the most extraordinarily written scenes of magical redemption.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Willow Geer
Event Date(s): Jun 02 2024 - Sep 23 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Los Angeles
Price: $15-60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/a-midsummer-nights-dream/
Description: Theatricum returns with its signature production that infuses Shakespeare’s language with music and song. To dream at Theatricum is to enter a world of wonder, magic, and romance where comical misunderstandings and the pain of unrequited love are resolved.
Wendy’s Peter Pan
By: Ellen Geer, a retelling of the play by J.M. Barrie
Directed by: Ellen Geer
Event Date(s): Jun 22 2024 - Oct 04 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Los Angeles
Price: $15-60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/wendys-peter-pan/
Description: Ellen Geer’s pondering of J.M. Barrie’s beloved fairy tale of a boy who never wanted to grow up frames the original script through the eyes of Wendy and her children, encouraging the next generation to never lose the innocence of belief in other worlds and other ways.
Tartuffe: Born Again
By: Freyda Thomas (adapted and translated), from the original French by Molière
Directed by: Melora Marshall
Event Date(s): Jul 13 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Los Angeles
Price: $15-60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/tartuffe-born-again/
Description: Through the brilliant storytelling of Molière and Freyda Thomas’s clever adaptation in rhyming couplets, we watch a Southern family in the 1980s begin to recognize a taker in their midst in the form of televangelist, Tartuffe. Hilarious mayhem ensues as they rise up against him.
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?
Colorado
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
By: Dave Malloy
Directed by: Lynne Collins
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
City: Arvada
Price: $
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/natasha-pierre-and-the-great-comet-of-1812
Description: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 was nominated for 12 Tony Awards when it premiered in 2012. Expect to find the Black Box Theatre transformed into a raucous Russian dinner club with cabaret tables, immersive seating, and an unforgettable musical experience.
Noises Off
By: Michael Frayn
Directed by: Geoffrey Kent
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
City: Arvada
Price: $
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/noises-off
Description: Take a trip behind the scenes as everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong. Noises Off gives audiences a voyeuristic view into the inner workings of theatre, and how the real drama happens when the actors leave the stage.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Savoy Denver
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://betc.org/event/constitution/
Description: In this smart and timely comedy, Schreck resurrects her 15-year-old self, who traveled the country competing in American Legion speech competitions to save money for college. Also runs May 3-19 at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder.
MAD LIBrarians
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 27 2024 - Feb 10 2024
Type of Event: Improv
Venue:
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://betc.org/event/mad-librarians/
Description: BETC’s new monthly improv series for kids and families! The Savoy Denver, Denver (January-February 2024), Grace Gamm Theater, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder (May 2024).
Water by the Spoonful
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by: Elise Santora
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Fine Arts Center Theatre
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $20-45
Reference Link: https://fac.coloradocollege.edu/theatre/#currentseason
Description: Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. In a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents and cyberspace as birth families splinter and online families collide.
Rent
By: Book & Music by Jonathan Larson | Lyrics by Jonathan Larson and Billy Aronson
Directed by: Marisa D. Hebert
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Theatre - Musical
Venue: Fine Arts Center Theatre
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $20-45
Reference Link: https://fac.coloradocollege.edu/theatre/#currentseason
Description: Jonathan Larson’s Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Truth Be Told
By: William Cameron
Directed by: Christy Montour-Larson
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2024 - Feb 10 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
City: Denver
Price: $25 - $54
Reference Link: https://www.curioustheatre.org/event/truthbetold/
Description: A teenage boy carries an automatic weapon into his workplace. When the smoke clears, 14 people are dead. But what really happened? A true crime writer comes to town to conduct an interview for a book on the shooting with the grief-stricken mother.
Truth Be Told
By: William Cameron
Directed by: Christy Montour-Larson
Event Date(s): Jan 13 2024 - Feb 10 2024
Type of Event: Gritty Drama
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.curioustheatre.org/season26info/
Description: Exploring the nature of objective truth and the ways we manipulate it to serve our own ends, this world premiere is about mothers who care as deeply about their sons as the truth.
Cost of Living
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Ben Ranaan
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: Regional Premeire
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
City: Denver
Price: $25 - $54
Reference Link: https://www.curioustheatre.org/event/costofliving/
Description: Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, this surprisingly funny and very human play from an exciting new voice is about the forces that bring people together, the realities of facing the world with physical disabilities, and how deeply we all need each other.
Cost of Living
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Ben Raanan
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: Bittersweet Drama
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.curioustheatre.org/season26info/
Description: Featuring Phamaly Theatre Company, this surprisingly funny and very human play from an exciting new voice is about the forces that bring people together, the realities of facing the world with physical disabilities and how deeply we all need each other.
Cullud Wattah
By: Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Directed by: Jada Suzanne Dixon
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - Jun 15 2024
Type of Event: Regional Premeire
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
City: Denver
Price: $25 - $54
Reference Link: https://www.curioustheatre.org/event/culludwattah/
Description: This time-bending play takes on the Flint water crisis and dives deep into the poisonous choices of the outside world, the contamination within, and how we make the best decisions for our families’ futures when there are no real present options.
Cullud Wattah
By: Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Directed by: Jada Suzanne Dixon
Event Date(s): May 18 2024 - Jun 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.curioustheatre.org/season26info/
Description: This regional premiere of song and ritual takes on the Flint Water Crisis and dives deep into the poisonous choices of the outside world, the contamination within, and how we make the best decisions for our families’ futures when there are no real, present options.
Cebollas
By: Leonard Madrid
Directed by: Jerry Ruiz
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Comedy, World Premiere
Venue: Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Singleton Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/cebollas/
Description: Three sisters, one dead body, and a 10-hour road trip…New Mexican culture and the immutable bond of sisterhood take centerstage in this outlandish comedy, which garnered stellar audience response at the 2022 Colorado New Play Summit. Join us for the world premiere of Cebollas!
Rubicon
By: Kirsten Potter
Directed by: Chris Coleman
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Drama, World Premiere
Venue: Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Kilstrom Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/rubicon/
Description: Starting in the years leading up to World War II, the plot follows Elizabeth “Betty” Pack as she transitions from society wife and mother to steely, seductive agent for British and American intelligence. Based on a true story, Rubicon is an engaging portrait of an unsung heroine.
Emma
By: Kate Hamill, adapted from Jane Austen
Directed by: Meredith McDonough
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Comedy, Romance
Venue: Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Wolf Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/emma/
Description: This rendition of Emma is a joyous, irreverent take in conversation with the Regency novel. In a new adaptation that’s a bit zany and refreshingly contemporary, playwright Kate Hamill infuses the language and perspectives of today into Austen’s beloved characters.
Where Did We Sit on the Bus?
By: Brian Quijada
Directed by: Matt Dickson
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Nontraditional, Comedy, Drama
Venue: Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Singleton Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/where-did-we-sit-on-the-bus/
Description: Where Did We Sit on the Bus? captures both the innocence of youth and the pressures that come with being the child of immigrants. It asks, “What is my place? Where do I fit in?” It builds from the ground up, one step at a time, taking audiences on a soulful musical journey.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini; Ben Power
Directed by: Margot Bordelon
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Kilstrom Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/the-lehman-trilogy/
Description: Winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play, this extraordinary feat of storytelling uses only three actors to trace 163 years of family history and business. Until one day, in 2008, when it all comes crashing down…
acts of faith
By: david yee
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Boulder
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Acts of faith follows a young, unapologetically witty woman from Zambia as she looks for her opportunity for justice. Mistaken for a prophet, she begins to use her "gift" through unexpected "divine" interventions. Starring Local Theater Company's co-artistic director Betty Hart.
Local Lab New Play Festival
By: N/A
Directed by: Various
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: New Play Festival
Venue: The Dairy Arts Center
City: Boulder
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.localtheaterco.org/season13
Description: Be a part of cutting-edge theatre! At Local, we support new plays in all forms of development. Local Lab is where you get to be a part of the new-play development cycle. This is a hub for innovation in Boulder, Colo., where audience participation is emphasized.
Sweat
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Kenny Moten
Event Date(s): Jan 13 2024 - Feb 10 2024
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: Fort Collins Lincoln Center - Magnolia Theatre
City: Fort Collins
Price: $29-34
Reference Link: https://openstagesweat.com
Description: The 2017 Pulitzer-winning Sweat is a humorous, heart-wrenching, and honest look at the decline of the working class in modern America.
Big Fish (Small Cast Edition)
By: Book by John August, Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Directed by: Noah Racey
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: Fort Collins Lincoln Center - Magnolia Theatre
City: Fort Collins
Price: $42-47
Reference Link: https://openstagebigfish.com
Description: An extraordinary musical that celebrates the magic of theatre and the power of a great story. Based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film by Tim Burton, Big Fish is a story of a father's love and his quest to make life magical for his son and everyone he meets.
Dance Nation
By: Clare Barron
Directed by: Heather Ostberg Johnson
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - May 25 2024
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: TBD
City: Fort Collins
Price: $15-22
Reference Link: https://openstagedance.com
Description: Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. Dance Nation by Clare Barron is a play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Debbie Swann
Event Date(s): Jun 08 2024 - Jul 13 2024
Type of Event: Outdoor Live Performance (In Person)
Venue: Park at Columbine Health Systems
City: Fort Collins
Price: $29-34
Reference Link: https://openstage12night.com
Description: In a rambunctious story of hidden identities and misplaced love, the witty, resourceful, and inventive Viola turns tragedy and loss into a life-changing experience for herself and everyone she touches.
Connecticut
The Doctor’s Dilemma
By: Tlaloc Rivas, adapted from George Bernard Shaw
Directed by: Tlaloc Rivas
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Nafe Katter Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $10 - 35
Reference Link: https://crt.uconn.edu
Description: A doctor who has discovered a life-saving cure must make an impossible decision. With only one dose remaining and two people in need, whom should he save? A scalpel-sharp satirical examination of the medical establishment, love, and the value of art.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
By: Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin, Conceived by Rebecca Feldman
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $10 - 45
Reference Link: https://crt.uconn.edu
Description: Cheer on six eclectic mid-pubescent bee contestants as they vie for the coveted county championship and struggle to avoid the soul-crushing "ding" of the bell. Winning isn’t everything and losing does not necessarily make you a loser. A hilarious and endearing evening.
Simona’s Search
By: Martín Zimmerman
Directed by: Melia Bensussen
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/simonas-search
Description: World premiere. Simona’s Search is a riveting exploration of the bond between fathers and daughters, love and sacrifice, nature and nurture.
The Hot Wing King
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Christopher D. Betts (Joyce C. Willis Fellow)
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/the-hot-wing-king
Description: In association with Baltimore Center Stage. Secret recipe? Check. Cooking crew? Check. Emergency situation? Uh oh.
All My Sons
By: Arthur Miller
Directed by: Melia Bensussen
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/all-my-sons
Description: A timely revival that weighs the cost of the American dream.
2.5 Minute Ride
By: Lisa Kron
Directed by: Zoë Golub-Sass
Event Date(s): May 30 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/2.5-minute-ride
Description: From Tony-winning playwright Lisa Kron (Fun Home) comes a surprising tragicomedy about coming to terms with where—and who—you come from.
The Garbologists
By: Lindsay Joelle
Directed by: Rob Ruggiero
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/the-garbologist/
Description: This outside-the-box comedy pairs Danny, a gruff male blue-collar NYC sanitation worker hiding a heart of gold, and Marlowe, a determined female, Ivy-League-educated “newbie” who is assigned to his route. This unlikely pair unexpectedly find common ground in uncommon times.
Sanctuary City
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Co-directed by Jacob G,. Padrón and Pedro Bermúdez
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/sanctuary-city/
Description: Pulitzer winner Martyna Majok brings us this compelling story of two teenagers, young DREAMers who are fighting to establish a place for themselves in America. This Obie-winning play illuminates how much they are willing to risk when they have everything to lose.
Sandra
By: David Cale
Directed by: Jared Mezzocchi
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/sandra/
Description: In this boldly theatrical thriller, Sandra seeks to get to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance of her closest friend, a young pianist and composer. Her search for clues takes her on a dangerous journey that ultimately asks how far would you go for the people you love?
Escaped Alone
By: Caryl Churchill
Directed by: Liz Diamond
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: New Haven
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Three old friends and a neighbor. A verdant backyard on a summer afternoon. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill’s convention-defying play sets in comic and devastating counterpoint the consolations of a good chat and the looming weight of disasters both intimate and global.
The Far Country
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Eric Ting
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: New Haven
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act, an unlikely family carries invented biographies and poems of longing on an arduous journey from rural Taishan to Angel Island Detention Center, in hopes of landing in San Francisco Bay.
Delaware
Always…Patsy Cline
By: Ted Swindley
Directed by: Jennie Eisenhower
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Wilmington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This crowd-pleasing musical, full of down-home country humor and heartfelt emotion, is based on the true story of the friendship between Patsy and a devoted fan. The show features many of Cline’s beloved hits, such as “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces,” and “Crazy."
The Flatlanders
By: Bruce Graham
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Wilmington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A Poconos blizzard puts a chill on a couple’s relationship in this brisk comedic romp. Stuck in a cabin belonging to total strangers, “flatlanders” Ronnie and Michael uncover truths, secrets, and new ways to heat things up between them.
Pass Over
By: Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu
Directed by: Hassan El-Amin
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts
City: Newark Delaware
Price: $15 - $20
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/pass-over
Description: Emotionally charged with poetic and humorous riffs, this play asks, “What is the value of a young Black man’s life?”
Pass Over
By: Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by: Hassan El Amin
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Newark
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Emotionally charged with poetic and humorous riffs, this play asks, “What is the value of a young black man’s life?”
Deathtrap
By: Ira Levin
Directed by: Michael Gotch
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts
City: Newark Delaware
Price: $39 with discounts for seniors/faculty/staff/student
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/deathtrap
Description: Hugely popular on stage and screen, this dark comedy thriller is a perfect blend of schemes, plot twists, and outrageous humor.
Deathtrap
By: Ira Levin
Directed by: Michael Gotch
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Newark
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Hugely popular on stage and screen, this dark comedy thriller is a perfect blend of schemes, plot twists, and outrageous humor.
District Of Columbia
Mindplay
By: Vinny DePonto and Josh Koenigsberg
Directed by: Andrew Neisler
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: New Theatrical Event
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington, D.C.
Price: From $41 plus applicable fees
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/2023-24-season/mindplay
Description: A “warmly inviting, nostalgia-ridden, gem of a performance” (BroadwayWorld), Mindplay masterfully blurs the line between illusion and reality. Escape into the expansive beauty of imagination and bask in the ephemeral and surprising nature of memory.
Tempestuous Elements
By: Kia Corthron
Directed by: Psalmayene 24
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington
Price: $56-95
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/2023-24-season/tempestuous-elements/
Description: Born into slavery in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper was a visionary Black feminist and educator in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Tempestuous Elements shines a light on Anna Julia Cooper’s tumultuous tenure as principal of Washington, D.C.’s historic M Street School.
Unknown Soldier
By: Daniel Goldstein
Directed by: Trip Cullman
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater
City:
Price: $76 - $95
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/2023-24-season/unknown-soldier/
Description: Cleaning out her grandmother’s home, Ellen Rabinowitz discovers the photograph of an anonymous soldier. A sweeping, elegiac musical from Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman on a woman’s journey to unearth the secrets of her family’s past…which will chart her future.
Unknown Soldier
By: Daniel Goldstein
Directed by: Trip Cullman
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington
Price: $56-95
Reference Link: https://tickets.arenastage.org/events/34956
Description: Cleaning out her grandmother’s home, Ellen Rabinowitz discovers the photograph of an anonymous soldier tucked away in a box of keepsakes. And so begins Unknown Soldier, a sweeping, elegiac musical from Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman on a woman’s journey.
The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence
By: Step Afrika!
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2024 - Jul 14 2024
Type of Event: Dance-Theater
Venue: Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater
City:
Price: $76 - $95
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/2023-24-season/the-migration-reflections-on-jacob-lawrence/
Description: Inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s iconic 60-panel “The Migration Series,” this signature work from the award-winning dance company uses the images, color palette, and motifs in the painting series to tell this astonishing story through pulsating rhythms and visually stunning movement.
Where We Belong
By: Madeline Sayet
Directed by: Mei Ann Teo
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-85
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/theatre
Description: In 2015, Mohegan theatremaker Madeline Sayet travels to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare, where she finds a country that refuses to acknowledge its ongoing role in colonialism. In this stirring solo piece, Madeline echoes a journey to England braved by Native ancestors.
Metamorphoses
By: Mary Zimmerman
Directed by: Psalmayene 24
Event Date(s): May 07 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-85
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/theatre
Description: Ovid’s classic tales come to astonishing life in Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation where Gods and mortals experience love, loss, invention, and transformation. Juxtaposing the mythic and the modern, these stories remind us of the joys, follies, and heartbreaks of being human.
Las hermanas Palacios (The Palacios Sisters)
By: Cristina García
Directed by: Adrián Alea
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Dive into the vibrant chaos of 1985 Miami as Cristina García's gripping play, The Palacios Sisters, which catapults Chekhov's "Three Sisters" forward to Florida in the 1980s.
Más aventuras de Don Quijote (More Adventures of Don Quixote)
By: Patricia Suárez
Directed by: Claudio Aprile
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2024 - Mar 23 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Brimming with lively music and uproarious laughter, this bilingual play follows the gentleman from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they embark on a fresh series of misadventures.
Momia en el clóset (Mummy in the Closet)
By: Book by Gustavo Ott, lyrics by Mariano Vales and Gustavo Ott, music by Mariano Vales
Directed by: Mariano Caligaris
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: With tantalizing lyrics and the seductive allure of tango, waltz, and salsa, this wicked musical seamlessly blends history and fantasy. Follow the afterlife of Eva Perón when her preserved corpse ignites political scandals, clandestine affairs, and mysterious murders.
Zavala-Zavala
By: Music by Brian Arreola, libretto by Anna Deeny Morales
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Opera
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This chamber opera in five cuts delves into the moving story of Natividad Zavala-Zavala, a Honduran woman torn apart from her 7-year-old grandson after their treacherous crossing of the Río Grande in 2017. Experience her heart-wrenching journey.
The Other Side
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Directed by: Hope Boykin
Event Date(s): Jan 13 2024 - Jan 14 2024
Type of Event: Dance
Venue: Kennedy Center Family Theater
City: Washington
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/young-audiences/2023-2024/the-other-side/
Description: Education artist-in-residence Jacqueline Woodson’s simple yet powerful book comes to life in an evening-length dance piece from choreographer and Kennedy Center artistic advisor for dance education Hope Boykin. Don’t miss this special return engagement!
The Girl Who Became Legend
By: Sarah Saltwick
Directed by: Liz Fisher
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Kennedy Center Family Theater
City: Washington
Price: $20
Description: Come along with Raina to bring a cloud back home in this modern-day feminist folktale with music! This captivating journey takes the stage in a world premiere co-commission and co-production with ZACH Theatre.
Through the Sunken Lands
By: Tim J. Lord
Directed by: Cara Phipps
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Kennedy Center Family Theater
City: Washington
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/young-audiences/2023-2024/through-the-sunken-lands/
Description: Tim J. Lord’s radio play transforms into a heartening world premiere musical that amplifies the voice of a commonly overlooked community. Follow Artemis, a girl born with cerebral palsy, determined to fight to save her dying town with the help of Aunt Maggie…and a talking heron!
Nancy
By: Rhiana Yazzie
Directed by: Ken-Matt Martin
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Atlas Performing Arts Center
City: Washington
Price: $42-70
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/plays/2023-2024-nancy
Description: It’s 1985 in Washington, D.C., and two women are trying to steer their futures: Nancy Reagan from the White House, orchestrating her husband “Ronnie’s” political career according to daily astrological trends, and Esmeralda, a Navajo mother advocating for her community.
Mexodus
By: Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson
Directed by: David Mendizábal
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Atlas Performing Arts Center
City: Washington
Price: $42-70
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/plays/2023-2024-mexodus
Description: History meets hip-hop in this groundbreaking theatrical experience that explores the often untold stories of enslaved people in the United States who sought freedom in Mexico, rather than looking North.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
Directed by: Arin Arbus
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Meet the Lehman brothers—immigrants building an American dream that crumbles into a chaotic nightmare for future generations.
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Simon Godwin
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare’s most poetic examination of evil. With Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma.
The Matchbox Magic Flute
By: Adapted by Mary Zimmerman from the opera by Mozart
Directed by: Mary Zimmerman
Event Date(s): May 21 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In her acclaimed signature style, Mary Zimmerman conceives a brand new theatrical adaptation of Mozart’s beloved opera. Playful and imaginative, it’s big music in a small space.
Love, Love, Love
By: Mike Bartlett
Directed by: David Muse
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s London, 1967, and the sixties are in full swing when we meet Ken and Sandra, two carefree spirits in a world that belongs to the young. Love, Love, Love drops in with them over the next 44 years, from free love to middle-class comfort to well-compensated retirement.
At the Wedding
By: Bryna Turner
Directed by: Tom Story
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Carlo crashes her ex’s wedding with three simple goals: Don’t get drunk. Don’t make any kids cry. Don’t try to win back the bride, no matter how boring the groom is. (She’ll ultimately fail at all three.)
Problems Between Sisters
By: Julia May Jonas
Directed by: Sivan Battat
Event Date(s): May 08 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Two pregnant sisters—one visual artist, one con artist—converge on a remote family cabin in Vermont. Jess races to finish her long-awaited solo show; Rory sees a new audience for her latest scam.
The Colored Museum
By: George C. Wolfe
Directed by: Psalmayene 24
Event Date(s): Jul 03 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A provocative and seriously funny tour of eleven “exhibits”—toxic narratives about Black American experiences. From confrontational to aspirational, morbid to triumphant, Wolfe’s satiric sketches target America’s most pernicious stereotypes of Black culture.
How to Be a Korean Woman
By: Sun Mee Chomet
Directed by: Zaraawar Mistry
Event Date(s): Jan 04 2024 - Jan 14 2024
Type of Event: Solo show
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: How to Be a Korean Woman is a hilarious, heartfelt, and personal telling of Korean American adoptee Sun Mee Chomet‘s search for her birth family in Seoul, South Korea.
This Much I Know
By: Jonathan Spector
Directed by: Hayley Finn
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: n the midst of a lecture, a psychology professor’s marriage fractures, sparking a theatrical study of three characters as they become entangled in a search for self-discovery.
Hester Street
By: Sharyn Rothstein, with music by Joel Waggoner
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This theatrical adaptation of the beloved 1975 film by Joan Micklin Silver marks the largest production Theater J’s stage has seen in years.
The Hatmaker’s Wife
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by: Dan Rothenberg
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Magic and realism collide in this modern fable about learning to love. A young woman moves in with her boyfriend, and when she has trouble getting comfortable, her strange new home seems determined to help out, literally.
Where We Belong
By: Madeline Sayet
Directed by: Mei Ann Teo
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-84
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/where-we-belong/#book
Description: Where We Belong returns to D.C. after a national tour. In 2015, a Mohegan theatremaker moves to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare, grappling with the question of what it means to remain or leave, as the Brexit vote threatens to further disengage the U.K. from the wider world.
The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes
By: Vivian J.O. Barnes
Directed by: Taylor Reynolds
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes are days away from their Homecoming half-time dance performance and the pressure is on. The student body, the administration, the alumni, their families—everyone is expecting perfection.
Where We Belong
By: Madeline Sayet
Directed by: Mei Ann Teo
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Solo show
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Returning to D.C. after a national tour! In 2015, a Mohegan theatremaker moves to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare, grappling with the question of what it means to remain or leave, as the Brexit vote threatens to further disengage the UK from the wider world.
Amm(I)gone
By: Adil Mansoor
Directed by: Lyam B. Gabel
Event Date(s): Apr 20 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Solo show
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Creator and performer Adil Mansoor invites his Pakistani mother to translate Antigone into Urdu as means of exploring the tensions between family and faith. Should he keep his queerness buried from his devout Muslim mother?
Rose: You Are Who You Eat
By: John Jarboe
Directed by: MK Tuomanen
Event Date(s): Jun 03 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Solo show
Venue:
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister in the womb, but that John consumed her: “You ate her. That’s why you are the way you are.” This was a lot for John to swallow!
Florida
The Chinese Lady
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Gregory Keng Strasser
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Raymond James Theatre
City: St. Petersburg
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://www.americanstage.org/shows/the-chinese-lady
Description: Her feet are bound, her freedom is non-existent. The first Chinese woman to step foot in America was treated as a sideshow act in the darkest parts of the 1800s.
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in the Park
By: Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Book by Linda Wolverton
Directed by: Kenny Moten
Event Date(s): Apr 07 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Demens Landing Park
City: St. Petersburg
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.americanstage.org/shows/disneys-beauty-and-the-beast-in-the-park
Description: Talking teapots and clocks, an emotionally stunted beast, a whimsical princess---you know the story. American Stage's park show is the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
By: Book by John Cameron Mitchell Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask
Directed by: Kirsten Kelly
Event Date(s): May 15 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Raymond James Theatre, Jannus Live!
City: St. Petersburg
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://www.americanstage.org/shows/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch
Description: Welcome to a euphoric night on a rock ‘n’ roll rollercoaster with our transgender icon and protagonist Hedwig---a hedonistic genderqueer anti-heroine seemingly hellbent on destruction.
The Figs
By: Doug Robinson
Directed by: Helen R. Murray
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Raymond James Theatre
City: St. Petersburg
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://www.americanstage.org/shows/the-figs
Description: The king that rules the magical, ludicrous, kingdom of The Figs is quite actually addicted to figs, mah lord. His more publicly well-received daughter is in love with an inn keeper in a sort of star-crossed lovers situation.
Inherit the Wind
By: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Directed by: Peter Rothstein
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2024 - Feb 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Asolo Repertory Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/inherit-the-wind
Description: Feel the heat of the courtroom in the sizzling American classic Inherit the Wind, an explosive drama inspired by the most important trial of the 20th century.
Born With Teeth
By: Liz Duffy Adams
Directed by: Rob Melrose
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Mar 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Asolo Repertory Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/born-with-teeth
Description: Grab a drink with William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe as you get an inside peek at the tumultuous relationship of two of history’s greatest playwrights, each harboring momentous secrets.
Intimate Apparel
By: LYNN NOTTAGE
Directed by: AUSTENE VAN
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2024 - Apr 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Asolo Repertory Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/intimate-apparel
Description: Be seduced by the story of Esther, a Black seamstress in 1905 New York seeking love and companionship. Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage returns to Asolo Rep with Intimate Apparel, a searing, sensual, and powerful story of forbidden romance.
Dial ‘M’ For Murder
By: Frederick Knott
Directed by: Céline Rosenthal
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2024 - Apr 25 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Asolo Repertory Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/dial-m-for-murder
Description: Hang on to the edge of your seat through the twists and turns of a gripping cat-and-mouse game in Dial 'M' for Murder.
Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical
By: David Simpatico
Directed by: Peter Rothstein
Event Date(s): May 11 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical Theatre
Venue: Asolo Repertory Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/twelve-angry-men-a-new-musical
Description: Seek out the truth through the haze of confusion in the breathtaking and powerful Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical. Propelled by a jazz-infused score, one of America’s greatest dramas reaches new heights in this searing story.
The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns
By:
Directed by: Vincent Pelligrino
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36093
Description: We’re back in 1958, and it’s time for the Wonderettes to graduate in this delightful sequel to the smash Off-Broadway hit! Join Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy as they sing about their final year in high school.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Salyers, Henry Shields
Directed by: Nathanael Fisher
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36093
Description: Called “the funniest play Broadway has ever seen," this classic murder mystery by award-winning Mischief is chock-full of mishaps and madcap mania! Welcome to the opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous.
I Only Have Eyes For You: Valentine’s Day Musical Revue
By:
Directed by: Nathanael Fisher
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2024 - Feb 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $75 per person
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36093
Description: Share this evening or afternoon event with the ones you love. Enjoy beautiful love songs from yesteryear performed by our top vocalists and ECTC’s live musicians. This very special evening can be complemented with a bottle of wine and a sweet or savory charcuterie box.
Crimes of the Heart
By: Beth Henley
Directed by: Sherry Landrum
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36093
Description: Beth Henley's Pulitzer winner is a deeply touching and funny play about three sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge and overcome their family.
Comedy on the Boulevard
By:
Directed by: Jason Hedden
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2024 - Mar 09 2024
Type of Event: Stand Up Comedy
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $27-40
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36093
Description: Come for an uproarious night of laughs! ECTC presents some of the Southeast’s most hilarious comedians. Hosted by resident funny guy Jason Hedden.
Mother Goose on the Loose
By:
Directed by: Heath Carroll
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Theatre For Very Young Audiences
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $12-20
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36093
Description: Join her children as they try to find their beloved Mother Goose and sing and dance along the way! It's an "ECTC Theatre for the Very Young TM" production. Big fun for the very little! We'll see you on the stage!
Mary Poppins
By:
Directed by: Nathanael Fisher
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 12 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36093
Description: Sprinkle a spoonful of sugar on your spring with the delightful and enchanting Mary Poppins! This show is “practically perfect in every way” for all ages and feels like a “jolly holiday” with friends and family. Don’t miss this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious show!
Beehive: The ’60s Musical
By: Larry Gallagher
Directed by: Greg Longenhagen
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Historic Arcade Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/beehive-the-60s-musical/
Description: From Aretha Franklin to Janis Joplin, countless powerful female voices left their unforgettable mark on the turbulent 1960s! Beehive: The '60s Musical is a non-stop, energetic celebration of these iconic women and the music that became a soundtrack for a decade of change.
The Gin Game
By: D.L. Coburn
Directed by: Maureen Heffernan
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: ArtStage Studio Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/the-gin-game/
Description: “Extremely intelligent…A fine bittersweet comedy…Funny, sad, profane, eloquent, touching, beautiful.” ---WABC-TV
A Comedy of Tenors
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Chris Clavelli
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Comdey
Venue: Historic Arcade Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/ken-ludwigs-a-comedy-of-tenors/
Description: Prepare for an uproarious ride, full of mistaken identities, bedroom hijinks, and madcap delight. A side-splitting sequel to Lend Me a Tenor! “Playwright Ken Ludwig has hit the jackpot again with his fast-paced, over-the-top farce.” ---Beacon Journal
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
By: Randal Myler & Mark Harelik
Directed by: Jason Parrish
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Historic Arcade Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/hank-williams-lost-highway/
Description: Follow Williams’ rise from humble beginnings on the Louisiana Hayride to triumphs on the Grand Ole Opry---and his eventual self-destruction at the age of 29. “The best example of a musician’s bio put on stage that I’ve ever seen. Wonderful…delightful…marvelous!” ---New York Post
Oleanna
By: David Mamet
Directed by: Chris Clavelli
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: ArtStage Studio Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/oleanna/
Description: Florida Rep takes on Pulitzer-winning playwright David Mamet, with his most controversial drama! “Oleanna is likely to provoke more arguments than any play this year!” ---NY Times
Red Riding Hood
By: Allison Gregory
Directed by: Ben Liebert
Event Date(s): Jan 07 2024 - Feb 10 2024
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: FST's Keating Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $5-10
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/events-and-tickets/childrens-theatre-series-2023-24/red-riding-hood/
Description: A wildly inventive adaptation that puts a spin on the popular fairy tale.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini. Adapted by Ben Power.
Directed by: Richard Hopkins
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Play
Venue: FST's Gompertz Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $25-39
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/events-and-tickets/winter-mainstage-series-2023-24/the-lehman-trilogy/
Description: Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Play. The story of the Lehman brothers, whose company dramatically crumbled into bankruptcy, sparking the largest financial crisis in human history.
The Flip Side
By: Rebecca Hopkins and Richard Hopkins. Musical Arrangements by Jim Prosser.
Directed by: Catherine Randazzo
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: FST's Court Cabaret
City: Sarasota
Price: $18-39
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/events-and-tickets/winter-cabaret-series-2023-24/the-flip-side/
Description: Sardonic, ironic, and even histrionic, these witty tunes are full of moronic characters and sophisticated lyrics that reveal the present state of our world—the good, the bad, and the funny. Featuring songs like “I’m My Own Grandpa” and “Still Gonna Die."
The Power of Peanut Butter & Other Winning Plays
By: Winning Young Playwrights
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2024 - May 04 2024
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: FST's Keating Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $5-10
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/events-and-tickets/childrens-theatre-series-2023-24/the-power-of-peanut-butter-and-other-winning-plays/
Description: Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates creativity and imagination! Top plays written by elementary school students from our community and around the world are brought to life by a cast of professional actors.
Troubadour
By: Story By Janece Shaffer. With Original Music by Sugarland’s Kristian Bush
Directed by: Kate Alexander
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Musical
Venue: FST's Gompertz Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $25-39
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/events-and-tickets/winter-mainstage-series-2023-24/troubadour/
Description: Florida premiere. Country music legend Billy Mason is on the eve of his retirement. Can his soft-spoken son, Joe, step into the spotlight and carry on his legacy?
Old Wicked Songs
By: Jon Marans
Directed by: Jon Marans
Event Date(s): Jan 13 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Live Production
Venue: The Historic Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables
City: Coral Gables
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473/production/1159864
Description: As this play unfolds through the poetry of Heinrich Heine and the music of Robert Schumann, secrets are revealed and two men from different generations find they have much more in common than they think.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
Directed by: Bari Newport
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Live Production
Venue: GableStage
City: Coral Gables
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473/production/1160502
Description: In this epic piece of storytelling, three actors triumphantly journey through 163 years of history. The spectacular rise and fall of Lehman Brothers is both an intimate family saga and a colossal exposé of unquenchable capitalism.
Laughs in Spanish
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Victoria Collado
Event Date(s): May 18 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Live Production
Venue: GableStage
City: Coral Gables
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473/production/1160645
Description: It’s Art Basel and the stakes are high for the gallery Mariana runs in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami. And when Mariana’s movie-star mother tries to help out, things get even more complicado. A fast paced, cafecíto-induced comedy about art, success, and mothers and daughters.
Which Way to the Stage
By: Ana Nogueira
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A playful yet profound comedy about friendship, ambition, and what happens when dreams fall just out of reach.
Pulp
By: Patiricia Kane, music by Amy Warren & Andre Pluess
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: July 1956. A hot and humid Chicago. Enter Terry Logan-tough-talking, rebellious, seductive. When she takes up residence at The Well, a club run by women who love women, the trouble really begins. Nominated for four Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best New Work.
Skintight
By: Joshua Harmon
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 30 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Reeling from her ex-husband’s engagement to a much younger woman, Jodi Isaac turns to her famous fashion-designer dad for support. Instead, she finds him wrapped up in his West Village townhouse with Trey. Who’s twenty. And not necessarily gay. But probably an adult film star.
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.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: David M. Jenkins
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Straz Center, Jaeb Theater
City: Tampa
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/twelfth-night/
Description: “If music be the food of love, play on!” Jobsite’s Shakespeare tradition has become an annual centerpiece of the region’s cultural offerings. “No one ‘Rocks the Bard’ as hard, as daring, or as relevant as Jobsite and their players,” according to BroadwayWorld.
The Beauty Queen of Leenance
By: Martin McDonagh
Directed by: Paul J. Potenza
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Straz Center, Shimberg Playhouse
City: Tampa
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/beauty-queen-of-leenane/
Description: Set in a small town in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a woman who feels like anything but a beauty queen.
El Maleficio de la Mariposa
By: A spectacle based on the work by Federico Garcia Lorca
Directed by: David M. Jenkins
Event Date(s): May 15 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical cabaret
Venue: Straz Center, Shimberg Playhouse
City: Tampa
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/el-maleficio-de-la-mariposa/
Description: Following in the footsteps of Jobsite's Alice and Shockheaded Peter, the company fuses theatre, dance, aerial and circus arts, puppetry, and good ol' fashioned theatre magic in an evening audience's won't soon forget.
The Rocky Horror Show
By: Richard O'Brien
Directed by: David M. Jenkins
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Straz Center, Jaeb Theater
City: Tampa
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/rocky-horror/
Description: The antici…pation is over for Jobsite’s spin on the OG kitschy rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical! Straightlaced Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter as they look for a phone to call for help.
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.
Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
By: Book by Douglas McGrath, words and music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Jupiter
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Follow the inspiring true story of Carole King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history.
Plaza Suite
By: Neil Simon
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 11 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Jupiter
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Check into suite 719 at New York’s Plaza Hotel in the swinging 1960s and meet three comical couples.
42nd Street
By: Music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Al Dubin, book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Jupiter
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This love letter to Broadway is the ultimate showbiz fairy tale of the chorus kid who becomes an overnight star. A 1930s backstage musical packed with plenty of pizazz, it will set your heart pounding with its rhythmically tapping feet and a hit parade of songs.
Henry VI Part I: Joan of Arc
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $35-58
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/2023/03/10/35thseasonannouncement/
Description: In this raw “Bare Bard," the world whirls out of control in the thrilling tale of France’s Joan of Arc, the English warrior Talbot, and the young King Henry VI. Shakespeare’s epic, powerful beginning of the Wars of the Roses is riveting storytelling that never lets up.
Venus in Fur
By: David Ives
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mandell Studio Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $35-58
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/2023/03/10/35thseasonannouncement/
Description: Sexy. Provocative. Hilarious. Hailed as “seriously smart and very funny” by The New York Times, Venus in Fur is a laugh-out-loud study of the politics of sex and power that’s guaranteed to charm and mesmerize.
Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey
By: Debra Ann Byrd
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mandell Studio Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $35-58
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/2023/03/10/35thseasonannouncement/
Description: Interspersed with verses from Othello and dynamic multimedia elements, this show has Byrd baring her soul in a vulnerable, personal, and resonant story of perseverance, discovery, and unconditional love.
Ain’t Misbehavin’
By: Conceived by Murray Horwitz and Richard Malby, Jr.
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Edyth Bush Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $39-72
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/2023/03/10/35thseasonannouncement/
Description: This Tony-winning Best Musical also won the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Musical. A sizzling celebration of Fats Waller’s music---songs that he made famous in a career that ranged from uptown clubs to downtown Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood and concert stages.
Henry VI, Part 1: Joan of Arc
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $Varies
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/upcoming-events/
Description: The world whirls out of control in the thrilling tale of France’s Joan of Arc, the English warrior Talbot, and the young King Henry VI. Shakespeare’s epic, powerful beginning of the Wars of the Roses is riveting storytelling that never lets up.
The Vocalitas: Cowabunga Cabaret!
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Jan 27 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $Varies
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/upcoming-events/
Description: This bilingual Florida-based female vocal trio will dazzle you with the sounds of the swing era and mid-century merriment fused with today's popular hits. Their modern, jazzy, close harmony style is influenced by classic vintage girl trios of past eras.
Venus in Fur
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $Varies
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/upcoming-events/
Description: When Vanda arrives several hours late to her audition for a play based on a 19th-century erotic novel, the director is less than impressed. But Vanda’s masterful performance flips the script, and the audition turns into a tango for dominance between actress and director.
Ebony Carlson: Rhythm & Fantasy
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $Varies
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/upcoming-events/
Description: Join Ebony Carlson as she performs songs from musical legends through the ages. Filled with a rhythm of soul and rock fantasy, the show will include hits from great names such as Ella Fitzgerald, Tina Turner, Sade, Kate Bush, Doris Day, and many more.
Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $Varies
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/upcoming-events/
Description: From her ancestral lineage to her arrival at a metaphorical crossroad, Debra Ann Byrd presents a tour-de-force journey of her living memoir in Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey.
Ain’t Misbehavin’
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $Varies
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/upcoming-events/
Description: A sizzling celebration of Fats Waller’s music---songs that he made famous in a career that ranged from uptown clubs to downtown Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood and concert stages around the world.
The Cancellation of Lauren Fein
By: Christopher Demos-Brown
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/
Description: Lauren Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a prestigious American university. They live with Dylan, their 16-year-old African American foster son whom they've cared for since he was a baby. When Professor Fein's actions run afoul of the university's "diversity, equity, and inclusion" policies, her groundbreaking research, her career, and her family are all put in danger.
Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This Pulitzer Prize-winning, groundbreaking play changed American theatre in the person of its everyman tragic hero, Willy Loman, a dime a dozen, disappointed, disillusioned, and delusional traveling salesman with a skewed vision of the American Dream. All he wanted, the playwright wrote in his memoir, was "to count." Or as Willy's wife, Linda, implores, "Attention must be paid."
Trying
By: Joanna McClelland Glass
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 24 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/
Description: In 1967, feisty Sarah Schorr, a 25-year-old from rural Canada, goes to work as secretary for 81-year-old Francis Biddle, the patrician former US Attorney General. The brilliant Biddle is now frail, sometimes befuddled, and always irascible. Inspired by the playwright’s experiences as Biddle’s secretary, the piece is a tender yet unsentimental portrait of two disparate people navigating their vast differences to form a bond of mutual admiration, consideration, and respect.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2024 - Feb 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Key West
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: One four-letter word is about to rock the White House into a global crisis. Seven brilliant and beleaguered women risk life and sanity to keep POTUS out of trouble in this gleefully filthy and outrageously funny farce. A recent Broadway smash hit!
The Thanksgiving Play
By: Larissa FastHorse
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Key West
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A group of terminally "woke" teaching artists scramble to create a pageant that somehow celebrates both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month. A hilarious, clever, and delicious roasting of good intentions and absurd assumptions.
The Lifespan of a Fact
By: Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 09 2024 - May 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Key West
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: With a deadline looming, a talented writer, a desperate magazine editor and a young, aggressive fact checker go head to head in this oh-so-funny and gripping dispute over factual truth vs. the beauty of literary dishonesty.
I Am My Own Wife
By: Doug Wright
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Tampa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews by the playwright over several years, I Am My Own Wife tells the fascinating tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive both the Nazi onslaught and the repressive East German regime.
The Immigrant
By: Mark Harelik
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Tampa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The Immigrant is the story of a young Russian-Jewish couple and the local Protestant couple that take them in, as religion meets religion, culture meets culture, fear meets fear, and love meets love.
Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder, with translations by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Tampa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Thornton Wilder’s iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning play is reimagined for the 21st century. With new layers of language and culture, Our Town expands to encompass everyone in a quintessentially American---and human---story.
Falsettos
By: Music and lyrics by William Finn, book by James Lapine
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Tampa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Falsettos revolves around the life of a charming, intelligent, neurotic gay man named Marvin, his wife, lover, about-to-be-bar-mitzvahed son, their psychiatrist, and the lesbians next door.
Bonnie & Clyde
By: Frank Woldhorn, Don Black, & Ivan Menchell
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50-$65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: The musical centers on Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the ill-fated lovers and outlaws whose story has been infamous since they achieved folk hero status during the Great Depression.
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50-$65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: In December 1956, at the legendary Sun Records in Memphis, an extraordinary twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley together for one of the greatest jam sessions ever at the studio where they all launched their careers.
Little Me
By: Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50-$65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: Belle Poitrine is born in humble circumstances but determined to gain wealth, culture, and social position. She achieves diva status through advantageous marriages and love affairs, bringing her the stature she seeks when the men meet unfortunate and comic ends at opportune moments.
Carrie: The Musical
By: Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford and Lawrence D. Cohen
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50-$65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: The story portrays the horrifying consequences when highschooler Carrie White is bullied by the popular crowd and is virtually invisible to everyone else. What no one knows is that she has special powers, and if pushed too far, is not afraid to use them.
Judith
By: Katie Bender
Directed by: Brendon Fox
Event Date(s): Jan 05 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Sarasota
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Dressed in drag, Judith heads to London to save her brother’s reputation. In a patriarchal, politically charged, and deeply divided nation, she pursues work as a poet and discovers the pleasures and pitfalls of passing as the Bard himself.
Westminster
By: Brenda Withers
Directed by: Summer Wallace
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Sarasota
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: When Pia is gifted a surprise rescue dog by an old friend, Krys, the women and their partners face off over issues of class, accountability, and good breeding.
Oak
By: Terry Guest
Directed by: Mikael Burke
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Sarasota
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s 7 p.m. Do you know where your children are? It’s snatching season, and town-wide curfew regulations have fostered a culture of fear in the community along Odella Creek.
A Soldier’s Play
By: Charles Fuller
Directed by: Chuck Smith
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $40-50/adults, $20/students and active military
Reference Link: https://westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: In 1944, on a Louisiana Army base, two shots ring out. A Black sergeant is murdered. And a series of interrogations triggers a gripping barrage of questions about sacrifice, service, and identity in America. This drama—a fascinating "whodunit"—won a Pulitzer Prize.
Ruby
By: Book by Nate Jacobs and Michael Jacobs, lyrics by Michael Jacobs, music by Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $40-50/adults, $20/students and active military
Reference Link: https://westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: In 1952, the unthinkable happened: A Black woman murdered a white doctor in Live Oak, Fla., guaranteeing a conviction for the woman bold enough to commit such a shocking crime and bringing celebrated writer Zora Neale Hurston to town to cover the story for a northern newspaper.
Marvin Gaye: Prince of Soul
By: Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $40-50/adults, $20/students and active military
Reference Link: https://westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: This not-to-be-missed original show begins in the 1950s at the start of Gaye’s career with Motown and follows its twists and turns until his untimely death in the mid-1980s. Come see why Rolling Stone declared Gaye one of America’s greatest entertainers.
Wicked Child
By: David Rosenberg
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center
City: Miami
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2023-2024/theater-up-close/wicked-child/
Description:
Cabaret
By: Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center
City: Miami
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2023-2024/theater-up-close/cabaret/
Description:
Cuban Chicken Soup When There’s No More Café
By: Elena Maria Garcia and Stuart Meltzer
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center
City: Miami
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2023-2024/theater-up-close/cuban-chicken-soup/
Description:
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
By: Alan Menken & Howard Ashman with Dennis Green
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: Experience an outrageously funny fantasy about people, their pleasures and pains, a penetrating satire on insanity---a millionaire’s private lunacy. Featuring an infectious score by the Oscar- and Tony-winning team of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.
Nollywood Dreams
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: It’s the '90s in Lagos, Nigeria, and the “Nollywood” film industry is exploding as the second-highest producing film industry in the world. This laugh-out-loud romantic comedy follows the story of Ayamma, a young woman who works with her sister at their parent’s agency.
Georgia
Eunice in Paris
By: Amina S. McIntyre
Directed by: Thandi DeShazor
Event Date(s): Jan 27 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Play (in development)
Venue: 7 Stages
City: Atlanta
Price: $FREE
Reference Link: https://www.7stages.org/shows/eunice-in-paris-2024/
Description: Nina Simone is confronted with her choices and relives experiences with James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, her parents, and others in a piece that crescendos with an existential look into her mental health and the motivations behind her music and songwriting. A work in development by Hush Harbor Lab.
True North
By: Lee Nowell
Directed by: Heidi S Howard
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Immersive theatre
Venue: 7 Stages Theatre
City:
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.7stages.org/shows/true-north-march-2024/
Description: This scientific theatrical experience asks audiences to consider the things around them that they can’t see, like electromagnetic energy and the way we interact with it, in addition to the ways it may affect our morals, navigation, and communication.
2024 Apprentice Showcase
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 20 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: Free performance
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://www.7stages.org/shows/7-stages-2024-apprentice-showcase/
Description: Join us for a night of celebrating young and emerging artists at the 7 Stages 2024 Apprentice Showcase, on April 20th at 6:00 p.m.
Defending Liberty
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Stone Mountain
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Randy Otto portrays Winston Churchill, who warns humanity not of a Nazi threat, not of Soviet Iron Curtain Communism, but rather of the Digital Iron Curtain that has fallen across all of humanity, against which action this day is necessary to defend liberty and freedom.
The Wild Women of Winedale
By: Jones Hope Wooten
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Stone Mountain
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The feisty and fun-loving sister trio, Virginia, Fanny and Willa---along with their frustratingly quirky sister-in-law Johnnie Faye---have supported and cheered one another through life’s highs and lows through the years, including the early demise of two of their husbands.
I Do! I Do!
By: Book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Mar 11 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Stone Mountain
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: An intimate, nostalgic, and touching love story of two soul mates navigating the perils of 50 years of love, quarrels, and marriage.
A Dog Story
By: Book by Eric H. Weinberger, music and lyrics by Gayla D. Morgan
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 25 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Stone Mountain
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This charming new musical comedy is about Roland, who thinks he must be married in order to get the law firm partnership he desperately wants. So he gets a puppy named Cupid as a “chick magnet” for his Hamptons vacation.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
By: Book and lyrics by Tom MacRae, music by Dan Gillespie Sells
Directed by: Freddie Ashley
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A smash hit direct from London’s West End! Working class teenager Jamie New dreams of becoming a glamorous drag queen. With his supportive mum by his side, he sashays over the bullies and bigots in his quest to grab the spotlight he knows he’s destined for.
Mercury
By: Steve Yockey
Directed by: Melissa Foulger
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Revenge is a dish best served…bloody. In this savagely hilarious comedy-thriller, three different stories converge through a strange curiosity shop in Portland, Ore.
Blues for an Alabama Sky
By: Pearl Cleage
Directed by: Amanda Washington
Event Date(s): May 30 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Amid the creative swirl of the Harlem Renaissance, a close-knit group of friends find themselves at a crossroads.
Cabaret
By: Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Joe Masteroff
Directed by: Freddie Ashley
Event Date(s): Jul 25 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Actor’s Express transforms into the Kit Kat Club, a decadent hotspot in anything-goes 1929 Berlin. An idealistic young American meets an eclectic circle of Berliners, most notably Sally Bowles, the outrageous chanteuse determined to keep the party going at all costs.
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?
Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard
By: Pearl Cleage
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 05 2024 - Jan 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Award-winning author and playwright Pearl Cleage explores the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first Black mayor, from the vantage point of a historian and insider (Cleage served as Jackson’s press secretary during and following his campaign).
Furlough’s Paradise
By: A.K. Payne
Directed by: Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Winner of the 20th annual Alliance/Kendeda National Graduation Playwriting Competition, Furlough’s Paradise is a poignant new play examining the dynamics that shape our lives and lead us to where we make our homes.
Roob and Noob
By: Andy Gaukel
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 10 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Meet Roob and Noob: two overly curious scientists who love nothing more than discovering something new. Join them on an interactive adventure, as they build machines from simple objects.
A Tale of Two Cities
By: Brendan Pelsue, adapted from Charles Dickens's novel
Directed by: Leora Morris
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s the best of times and the worst of times. The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. The oppressed call for revolution. Despots threaten global war. Sound familiar? It’s Paris and London, 1787.
The Curious Cardinal
By: Based on the animated short and book by Mark Valdez, illustrated by Nicole Kang Ahn
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2024 - Apr 27 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for the Very Young
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: As the seasons come and go in this Georgia forest, so too do all the varied wildlife. Except, of course, for the curious cardinal, “CC”, who stays put the entire year, curiously exploring all the changes that the seasons bring.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Stevie Walker-Webb
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Fat Ham, the deliciously funny, Pulitzer-winning new play, makes its Atlanta debut at Alliance Theatre following its critically acclaimed Broadway run.
The Preacher’s Wife
By: Book by Azie Dungey, music and lyrics by Titus Burgess
Directed by: Michael Arden and Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Event Date(s): May 11 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In their fast-gentrifying Harlem neighborhood, Preacher Henry and his wife Julia struggle to keep their congregation going in the face of development. When all seems lost, Henry asks God for help, and receives it in the form of an angel.
Knead
By: Mary Lynn Owen
Directed by: David De Vries
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Metro Waterproofing Main Stage
City: Lawrenceville
Price: $28-35
Reference Link: https://www.auroratheatre.com/productions-and-programs/view/knead/
Description: On the eve of a significant birthday, the granddaughter of Cuban immigrants mixes the ingredients of her past---love, loss, and Cuban food---into a spectacular night that rises and falls with loaves that somehow end up in the oven.
Greener Pastures
By: Lori Fischer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Clide & Sandra Strickland Grand Stage
City: Lawrenceville
Price: $32-44
Reference Link: https://www.auroratheatre.com/productions-and-programs/view/greener-pastures/
Description: Greener Pastures is a Golden Girls meets The Odd Couple crowd-pleasing comedy. The life of Maxine, a wise-cracking, curmudgeonly senior citizen at Greener Pastures Retirement Center, is upended when the administrator mistakenly allows Dorothy, a 48-year-old, to move in as a roommate.
Sister Act: A Divine Musical Comedy
By: Music by Alan Menken / Lyrics by Glenn Slater / Book by Cheri Steinkellner & Bill Steinkellner / Additional Book Material by Douglas Carter Beane
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 23 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Clyde & Sandra Strickland Grand Stage
City: Lawrenceville
Price: $32-44
Reference Link: https://www.auroratheatre.com/productions-and-programs/view/sister-act/
Description: Lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder and is in fear for her life. The cops answer her prayers, sort of… They put her in protective custody in a convent! She finds her place turning the stoic choir into a heavenly chorus, but her joyful noise could prove deadly!
Black Pearl Sings
By: Frank Higgins
Directed by: Thomas W. Jones II
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: play with music
Venue: Jennie T. Anderson Theatre
City: Marietta
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://get.org/black-pearl-sings
Description: Susannah and Pearl couldn't be more different. One is a musicologist conducting research for the Library of Congress; the other is in prison accused of murder. One has access to the national spotlight; the other has nothing but a song. And Pearl's song is what Susannah wants.
Queen of the Falls
By: Topher Payne
Directed by: Shannon Eubanks
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Jennie T. Anderson Theatre
City: Marietta
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://get.org/queen-of-the-falls
Description: When a retired schoolteacher finds herself in dire financial straits, she hatches a plan guaranteed to bring fame and fortune: She’s going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. This world premiere tells the life of unlikely adventurer Annie Edson Taylor in bold vaudevillian fashion.
Shows in Homes on Classroom Censorship
By: Paris Crayton III
Directed by: Nikki Young
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - May 31 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: 36 to 50 living rooms across Metro Atlanta
City: Atlanta
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.outofhandtheater.com/shows-in-homes
Description: A 60-minute solo show about classroom censorship and other attempts to silence and erase marginalized communities through voter restrictions, book bannings, and dismantling affirmative action, paired with cocktail parties and conversations with the ACLU of Georgia.
Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski
By: Clark Young and Derek Goldman
Directed by: Derek Goldman
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Theatrical Outfit
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/remember-this/
Description: This dazzling tour-de-force solo performance tells the story of Jan Karski, a Polish diplomat and freedom fighter during WWII who battled his way across war-torn Europe to bring news of the Holocaust to Western governments.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: January Lavoy
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Theatrical Outfit
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/clydes/
Description: Clyde's is a sweet and salty new Broadway comedy from Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
Directed by: Matt Torney
Event Date(s): May 15 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Theatrical Outfit
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/virginia-woolf/
Description: Join Theatrical Outfit for a stunning new production of Edward Albee’s timeless masterpiece of miscommunication, starring Atlanta stage and film legend Tess Malis Kincaid.
Idaho
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Chanel Bragg
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Feb 17 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://www.bctheater.org
Description: A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the callous 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 quest to create perfection.
Silent Sky
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Tracy Sunderland
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 04 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://www.bctheater.org
Description: Based on a true story of exploring a woman's place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries and the women's suffrage movement. Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers' dedication forever changed how we understand the heaven and Earth.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Teri McMahon
Event Date(s): May 24 2024 - Jun 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: Get ready for an uproarious battle of the sexes. Meet the rotund rascal Sir John Falstaff and the wise wives of Windsor in one of Shakespeare’s most raucous comedies. With an ego as big as his voracious appetite, Falstaff conspires to woo the two wealthiest married ladies in town.
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
By: Agatha Christie (author), Ken Ludwig (adaptation)
Directed by: Charles Fee
Event Date(s): Jun 14 2024 - Jul 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: Hold on to your mustache and get ready for a wild ride with Hercule Poirot. In this comedic twist on the famous mystery, Poirot must solve the crime of a man stabbed in his locked compartment on the opulent Orient Express—where every passenger is a suspect.
Into the Woods
By: Stephen Sondheim (music), James Lapine (book), Jonathan Tunick (orchestrations)
Directed by: Victoria Bussert
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning music and lyrics will transport you to a land where there is a giant in the sky, a wolf in the woods, a curse reversed, and a wish in everyone’s heart. This magical tapestry of woven fables amuses and enlightens.
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: Created and originally directed 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
In Quietness
By: Anna Ouyang Moench
Directed by: dado
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Red Orchid Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $20-30 previews, $35-45 regular run
Reference Link: https://aredorchidtheatre.org/shows/in-quietness/
Description: Chicago Premiere featuring Sadieh Rifai. A former consultant follows her born-again husband to a Southern Baptist seminary. She enrolls at the Homemaking House, a training ground for future homemakers, where marital bliss means never having to say thank you for cleaning the toilet.
Turret
By: Levi Holloway
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - Jun 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Chopin Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $60-70
Reference Link: https://aredorchidtheatre.org/shows/turret/
Description: Featuring Michael Shannon and Travis A. Knight. In an underground bunker with something terrible looming outside, two men live in a loop of endless tomorrows. They discover the wolf isn’t at the door---he’s already inside. Turret is an excavation of masculinity, love, loss, and isolation.
The Brightest Thing in the World
By: Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by: Keira Fromm
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Charmingly free-spirited barista Lane is determined to win over her new regular, the reserved and intellectual Steph. Delightful romantic comedy ensues with poetry, homemade desserts, and sparks flying.
The Brightest Thing in the World
By: Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by: Keira Fromm
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 13 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: The Den Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: Pay-what-you-can tickets ($5 – $35)
Reference Link: https://aboutfacetheatre.com/
Description: What happens when the giddy romance wears off and we must do the work of building a lasting relationship out of honesty, compassion, and courage? The Brightest Thing in the World is a funny, heartfelt play delving into the people we think we know and the people we know we love.
Lavender Men
By: Roger Q. Mason
Directed by: Lucky Stiff
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - Jun 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Taffeta is a fat, multi-racial femme with a unique form of queer magic: She can conjure dead historical figures. In this energetic and surreal play, Taffeta invites audiences along as she summons none other than President Abraham Lincoln and his handsome young law clerk Elmer Ellsworth to her stage.
Illinois
By: music & lyrics by Sufjan Stevens | based on the album Illinois | story by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by: directed and choreographed by Justin Peck
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Music-Theater
Venue: Chicago Shakespeare Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/2324_illinois
Description: A mighty journey through the American heartland in a world premiere music-theatre work. Tony winner Justin Peck and Pulitzer winner Jackie Sibblies Drury unite to transform Sufjan Stevens’s acclaimed concept album Illinois into a full-length theatrical performance.
Richard III
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Edward Hall
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Chicago Shakespeare Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/2324_richard
Description: Tony nominee, Paralympic champion, and bilateral above-knee amputee Katy Sullivan stars as the ruthless king in director Edward Hall’s take on Shakespeare’s infamous tale. A divided kingdom is fertile ground for a tyrant’s climb to power.
Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Mikael Burke
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2024 - Mar 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Chicago Shakespeare Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/2324_ssromeo
Description: Verona burns under summer's heat—and the division of two families. Against a backdrop of violence and vengeance, Shakespeare sets his tale of young love found—and tragically lost. This 75-minute abridgement of the famed romantic tragedy is a perfect introduction to the Bard.
Judgment Day
By: Rob Ulin
Directed by: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Play, Comedy
Venue: Chicago Shakespeare Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Emmy and Tony winner Jason Alexander makes his Chicago stage debut in an irreverent new comedy. After a near-death experience, morally bankrupt lawyer Sammy Campo is threatened with eternal damnation and forms an unlikely bond with a priest having his own crisis of faith.
The Enigmatist
By: written and performed by David Kwong
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Theater and Magic
Venue: Chicago Shakespeare Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/2324_enigmatist
Description: An immersive experience of puzzles and cryptology from renowned magician and New York Times crossword constructor David Kwong—hailed as “breathtaking as a Houdini escape” (LA Times). Clues are everywhere, so be ready for surprises behind every illusion.
Antigone
By: Sophocles
Directed by: Gabrielle Randle-Bent
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $30-88
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2023-2024-season/antigone-2/
Description: As Antigone mourns her brothers who have murdered each other, she must decide if she'll sacrifice her life for justice. Situating Sophocles's timely Antigone in our modern conversation about the price of democracy, Gabrielle Randle-Bent asks if it's a price we're willing to pay.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard
Directed by: Charles Newell
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $30-88
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2023-2024-season/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead/
Description: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead spotlights two of Shakespeare’s minor characters as they wrestle with questions of identity, fate, and the absurdity of existence. Charles Newell turns his expert eye to Tom Stoppard once more, unveiling the emotional in the existential.
Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution
By: Nambi E. Kelley
Directed by: Tasia A. Jones
Event Date(s): May 24 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $30-88
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2023-2024-season/stokelythe-unfinished-revolution/
Description:
Tasia A. Jones makes her Court directorial debut with playwright and Prince Prize winner Nambi E. Kelley’s evocative world premiere about civil rights activist Kwame Ture, born Stokely Carmichael.
Highway Patrol
By: Dana Delany, Mike Donahue, Dane Laffrey and Jen Silverman
Directed by: Mike Donahue
Event Date(s): Jan 20 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Goodman Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/highway-patrol/?utm_source=American+Theatre&utm_medium=Publication&utm_campaign=Highway+Patrol
Description: Emmy winner Dana Delany (China Beach, Desperate Housewives) stars in this new thriller—part love story, part ghost story—crafted from hundreds of tweets and DMs.
The Matchbox Magic Flute
By: Adapted by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by: Mary Zimmerman
Event Date(s): Feb 10 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Goodman Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/the-magic-flute/?utm_source=American+Theatre&utm_medium=Publication&utm_campaign=Magic+Flutehttps://
Description: In her acclaimed signature style, Mary Zimmerman conceives a brand new theatrical adaptation of Mozart’s beloved opera.
The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
Directed by: Susan V. Booth
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Goodman Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/the-penelopiad/?utm_source=American+Theatre&utm_medium=Publication&utm_campaign=Penelopiad
Description: An unexpected remix of Homer’s The Odyssey, told by the celebrated and subversive author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale).
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Chuck Smith
Event Date(s): Apr 13 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Goodman Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/joe-turners-come-and-gone/?utm_source=American+Theatre&utm_medium=Publication&utm_campaign=Joe+Turner
Description: A journey of self-discovery leads to salvation in this major revival of the Pulitzer-winning playwright's masterwork.
English
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Hamid Dehghani
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - Jul 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Goodman Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/english/?utm_source=American+Theatre&utm_medium=Publication&utm_campaign=English
Description: This smash Off-Broadway hit and Obie-winning “rich new play, contemplative and comic” (New York Times, Critic's Pick) makes its Chicago premiere.
Female Troubles
By: Music by Curtis Moore, Lyrics by Amanda Green; Book by Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Goodman Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/female-troubles/?utm_source=American+Theatre&utm_medium=Publication&utm_campaign=Female+Troubles
Description: An original musical comedy from the Emmy-winning writers of Veep and Seinfeld and the Tony- and Grammy-nominated lyricist for Mr. Saturday Night.
27th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival
By: Various
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: festival
Venue:
City: Chicago
Price:
Description:
Celebrating the breadth of Chicago’s enduring storytelling and live lit scene, Lifeline brings more than a dozen storytelling collectives and numerous solo performers together for a three-week selection of powerful personal stories. Full details, participants, and locations to be announced.
Skunk and Badger
By: based on the book by Amy Timberlake, illustrated by Jon Klassen, adapted by Alan Donahue
Directed by: Brian Tochterman Jr.
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: KidSeries play
Venue:
City: Chicago
Price:
Reference Link: https://lifelinetheatre.com/performances/2023-2024/skunk-and-badger/
Description:
Badger loves nothing more than studying his rock collection in peace and quiet in his brownstone home. Or rather his Aunt Lula’s brownstone, he is reminded, when she sends her new friend Skunk to share her town home. Doesn’t she understand? Not everyone wants a skunk!
Native Son
By: based on the novel by Richard Wright, adapted by Nambi E. Kelley
Directed by: Ilesa Duncan
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Chicago
Price:
Reference Link: https://lifelinetheatre.com/performances/2023-2024/native-son/
Description:
Suffocating in rat-infested poverty on Chicago’s South Side during the 1930s, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas struggles to find a place for himself in a world whose prejudice has shut him out. After taking a job in a wealthy white man’s house, Bigger unwittingly unleashes a series of events that violently and irrevocably seal his fate.
Selling Kabul
By: Sylvia Khoury
Directed by: Hamid Dehghani
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Northlight Theatre
City: Skokie
Price: $39-89
Reference Link: https://northlight.org
Description: A former interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Taroon now spends his days in hiding, a target of the increasingly powerful Taliban. On the eve of his son’s birth, he must choose between staying safe or risking his life to see his child.
Brooklyn Laundry
By: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: BJ Jones
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Northlight Theatre
City: Skokie
Price: $39-89
Reference Link: https://northlight.org
Description: Fran is chronically single, has piles of bills, and finds Owen obnoxious. Owen has a bad back, runs a laundry, and thinks Fran is gloomy. And then he asks her out. After years of putting the rest of her family first, Fran is ready to make the leap toward her own romantic dreams.
2 Pianos 4 Hands
By: Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra
Directed by: Rob Lindley
Event Date(s): Jul 05 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Northlight Theatre
City: Skokie
Price: $39-89
Reference Link: https://northlight.org
Description: A talented duo of would-be concert pianists trade stories of pushy parents, eccentric teachers, endless practice, and dreams of stardom. Piano wizardry and roaring comedy combine as “piano nerds” Ted and Richard play classical, pop, and everything in between.
brother sister cyborg space
By: Paul Michael Thomson
Directed by: Terry Guest
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Drama/Comedy
Venue: Johnson Stage
City: CHICAGO
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.raventheatre.com/stage/bscs-2/
Description: An environmental justice organizer, Giselle, and her billionaire brother, Elon, are at odds. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly accelerating climate crisis, this play explores divisions within families, the definition of humanity, and what we’ll do when time runs out.
The Prodigal Daughter
By: Joshua Allen
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Comedy/Drama
Venue: Johnson Stage
City: Chicago
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.raventheatre.com/stage/gbt/
Description: In the Red Summer of 1919, Virginia Bass makes a visit home with her business partner. However, Virginia finds the welcome not nearly as warm as the weather outside, especially from her estranged father, leaving her wondering if it's ever possible to truly come home.
a home what howls (or the house what was ravine)
By: Matthew Paul Olmos
Directed by: Laura Alcalá Baker
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Mar 02 2024
Type of Event: Steppenwolf for Young Adults
Venue: Ensemble Theater
City: Chicago
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/seasons-/202324/a-home-what-howls/
Description:
A coyote howling. A home in disarray. A young woman alone. In Matthew Paul Olmos’s world premiere, Soledad Vargas is in the city, fighting for her family’s right to live on their land.
Purpose
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Phylicia Rashad
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Downstairs Theater
City: Chicago
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/seasons-/202324/purpose/
Description:
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American politics: Civil Rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface.
The Thanksgiving Play
By: Larissa FastHorse
Directed by: Jess McLeod
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ensemble Theater
City: Chicago
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/seasons-/202324/the-thanksgiving-play/
Description:
Four 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?
[Untitled]
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Joe Mantello
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Downstairs Theater
City: Chicago
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/seasons-/202324/untitled/
Description:
Here’s what we know: Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale, Bright New Boise) is writing. Tony winner Joe Mantello (Wicked, Airline Highway) is directing. Emmy-winning ensemble member Laurie Metcalf (The Conners, Hacks) is starring. They want to do a show together at Steppenwolf. Who are we to get in their way?
Flood
By: Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Directed by: Kenneth Prestininzi
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Mar 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A comedy for the end of the world, produced by Shattered Globe Theatre.
Love Song
By: John Kolvenbach
Directed by: Marti Lyons
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A quick-witted exploration of the countless complexities of love and the endless capacity of the heart. A Remy Bumppo Theatre production.
Jump
By: Charly Evon Simpson
Directed by: AmBer Montgomery
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - Jun 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Fay gives Hopkins hope and Hopkins helps Fay grieve her mother and the loss of her childhood home. JUMP is a play full of flickering lights, vapes that fall from the sky, and love that recycles. A production of Shattered Globe Theatre.
Notes from the Field
By: Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by: Mikael Burke
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production - Play
Venue: TimeLine Theatre Company
City: Chicago
Price: $35 - $67
Reference Link: https://www.timelinetheatre.com/notes-from-the-field
Description: Hailed by The New York Times as "a searing and urgent work," this innovative documentary piece utilizes verbatim dialogue pulled from more than 250 real accounts to shine a spotlight on the stories of those caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline.
Black Sunday
By: Dolores Díaz
Directed by: Sandra Marquez
Event Date(s): May 08 2024 - Jun 29 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production - Play
Venue: TimeLine Theatre Company
City: Chicago
Price: $35 - $67
Reference Link: https://www.timelinetheatre.com/black-sunday
Description: This world premiere play developed through TimeLine’s Playwrights Collective offers a startling look at conflicts of climate change, race, and gender in the days leading up to an infamous dust storm in 1930s Texas.
Monsieur Chopin
By: Hershey Felder
Directed by: Joel Zwick
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Writers Theatre
City: Glencoe
Price: $35-90
Reference Link: https://writerstheatre.org
Description: Days after the February 1848 revolution, Fryderyk Chopin is teaching a piano lesson in Paris. Chopin shares with his students secrets about the piano and secrets about himself—as well as playing some of his most beautiful and enduring compositions.
The Hot Wing King
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Lili-Anne Brown
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Theatre
City: Glencoe
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.writerstheatre.org/the-hot-wing-king
Description: When it comes to wings, Cordell is king! Supported by his beau Dwayne and the best friends who serve as his fry crew, the group embarks on a fun night of pre-competition prep for Memphis’s Annual “Hot Wang Festival.” But then a family emergency throws Dwayne’s nephew into the house on prep night, one of his crew starts messing with the seasoning, and suddenly Cordell’s future is in danger of going up in flames.
The Hot Wing King
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Lili-Anne Brown
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Writers Theatre
City: Glencoe
Price: $35-90
Reference Link: https://writerstheatre.org
Description: When it comes to wings, Cordell is king! When his beau Dwayne's troubled nephew unexpectedly needs a place to stay, it quickly becomes a recipe for disaster. This 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner is a fierce comedy about the risks and rewards of celebrating who you are.
The Band’s Visit
By: Itamar Moses, David Yazbek
Directed by: Zi Alikhan
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Writers Theatre
City: Glencoe
Price: $35-90
Reference Link: https://www.writerstheatre.org
Description: In a small Israeli desert town where every day feels the same, a lost bus arrives carrying an Egyptian police band. With no hotel and no buses until morning, the musicians are taken in for the night by the locals. These misplaced musicians bring everyone together.
Indiana
Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Cheryl West
Directed by: Henry Godinez
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: One America Stage
City: Indianapolis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://irtlive.com
Description: The daughter of a Mississippi sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer became a leader in the struggle for voting rights at time when Civil Rights were far from secure. You'll be clapping and singing along with a show that is part theatre, part gospel revival, and all inspiration.
Iowa
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Iowa City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://riversidetheatre.org
Description: Inside a small office in southern Idaho, two men meet to go through the confusing and often maddening application process for a loan. The complex choices of modern life are soon brought to the fore.
The Mountaintop
By: Katori Hall
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 23 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Iowa City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://riversidetheatre.org
Description: On a stormy night in Memphis, Dr. King has just delivered his seminal “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. When he retires to the Lorraine Motel, a mysterious stranger arrives, pressing him to confront his destiny---and what his legacy will mean for America.
Herein Lies the Truth
By: Aaron Pang
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Iowa City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://riversidetheatre.org
Description: Thi autobiographical story of an accident that changed the trajectory of the playwright’s life chronicles recovery and finding intimacy.
Something Rotten!
By: Karey Kirkpatrick, John O'Farrell, Wayne Kirkpatrick
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Theatre Cedar Rapids Main Auditorium
City: Cedar Rapids
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Welcome to the Renaissance! Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as The Bard. When a local soothsayer foretells the future of theatre, the brothers set out to write the very first MUSICAL!
Fairview
By: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Grandon Studio Theatre
City: Cedar Rapids
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: When the play opens, we meet the Frasiers, a middle class Black American family trying desperately to make everything perfect for Grandma’s birthday celebration. But not too far into the festivities, we see the Frasiers’ story through a whole new lens.
School of Rock
By: Julian Fellowes, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Glenn Slater, Mike White
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Theatre Cedar Rapids Main Auditorium
City: Cedar Rapids
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Dewey Finn turns a class of straight–A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. But can he get them to the Battle of the Bands without their parents and the school’s headmistress finding out?
In The Next Room (or the vibrator play)
By: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Grandon Studio Theatre
City: Cedar Rapids
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented a new device for treating 'hysteria' in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. While his wife tends to their newborn, a new patient and her husband force the couple to examine their marriage and the meaning of love
Kentucky
Loving and Loving
By: Beto O'Byrne
Directed by: Amelia Acosta Powell
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Victor Jory Theater
City: Louisville
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/2023-2024-in-person-productions/
Description: Loving and Loving is inspired by the lives of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple from Virginia arrested in 1958 for the crime of being married. The play weaves together their landmark civil rights struggles with interviews in the Kentuckiana community.
I Am Delivered’t
By: Jonathan Norton
Directed by: Robert Barry Fleming
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Pamela Brown Auditorium
City: Louisville
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/2023-2024-in-person-productions/
Description: This joyful new comedy introduces theatre audiences to the world of Church Usher Board culture and celebrates same-gender-loving church folks and the power and joy of being your authentic self. These are the announcements. Let us govern ourselves accordingly.
Cows Don’t Fly and other known facts
By: Larry and Vivian Snipes
Directed by: Heather Branham
Event Date(s): Feb 10 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Lexington Children's Theatre
City: Lexington
Price: $15 - 20`
Reference Link: https://www.lctonstage.org/event/cows-dont-fly/
Description: Between a flying cow, a driving pig, and a goose who wants to join the circus, there’s never a dull moment at Miss Rosemary’s farm! Head just up the holler a bit and join the story yourself in this interactive play based on three books by Kentucky author Paul Brett Johnson.
Circle and Square
By: Rhonda Bell, JaneMarie Erickson, Elizabeth Ingram, Jeremy Kisling, and Meredyth Pederson
Directed by: Jeremy Kisling
Event Date(s): Apr 27 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Lexington Children's Theatre
City: Lexington
Price: $10 - 15
Reference Link: https://www.lctonstage.org/event/circle-and-square/
Description: When Circle and Square meet for the first time, they realize they are very different from each other. Circle likes blowing bubbles and twirling, while Square is happiest stacking blocks. Will the two be able to find a way to play together, despite their differences?
Louisiana
The Cake
By: Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by: Elizabeth Elkins Newcomer
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Marquette Theater at Loyola
City: New Orleans
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.crescentcitystage.com
Description: In Bekah Brunstetter's touching and topical dramatic comedy, a vivacious, conservative North Carolina baker named Della faces a crisis of conscience when Jen---whom she loves like a daughter---asks her to bake a cake for Jen's lesbian wedding.
Kingdom of Earth
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Augustin J Correro
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Apr 06 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Marquette Theatre
City: New Orleans
Price: $20-50
Reference Link: https://www.twtheatrenola.com
Description: We open our Season of Desire with one of Williams’ most sensual plays returning to the Ravenstock House in Kingdom of Earth—celebrating a revival to our first ever production for new audiences and longtime devotees.
The Felt Menagerie – A Tennessee Williams Puppet Play
By: Augustin J Correro
Directed by: Augustin J Correro
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Various
City: New Orleans
Price: $20-48
Reference Link: https://www.twtheatrenola.com
Description: A Tennessee-Style Puppet Comedy, which was previously streamed during the all-virtual 2021 Tennessee Williams Festival. Come find out all the drama from Blanche Dubious and Violet Vengeable, and a whole other cast of off-kilter Southern puppets.
A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Augustin J Correro
Event Date(s): Jul 19 2024 - Aug 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Marigny Opera House
City: New Orleans
Price: $20-60
Reference Link: https://www.twtheatrenola.com
Description: Next, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for as we head down to Elysian Fields Avenue to present the play that made New Orleans the most fascinating destination in America: A Streetcar Named Desire.
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
Constellations
By: Nick Payne
Directed by: Jerrell L. Henderson
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Penobscot Theatre Company
City: Bangor
Price: $20-$45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/project/constellations/
Description: Roland (a bee-keeper) and Marianne (a theoretical physicist) meet at a barbecue. There’s a spark, but where might it lead? Across a universe of possibilities, these two connect or fracture, deal with a tragic illness or live happily ever after---each potential is outcome explored.
My Story Is Gluskabe
By: Carol Dana and other story-keepers of the Penobscot Nation
Directed by: Jorden Charley-Whatley
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Penobscot Theatre Company
City: Bangor
Price: $20-$45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/project/my-story-is-gluskabe/
Description: Through a series of remarkable adventures, Gluskabe grows into the Penobscot Nation’s cultural hero, still remembered and revered today. With music, dance and theatrical spectacle, we reimagine a production first produced in our DA program as Transformer Tales.
Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play
By: Anne Washburn
Directed by: Jonathan Berry
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Penobscot Theatre Company
City: Bangor
Price: $20-$45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/project/mr-burns-a-post-electric-play/
Description: The electric grid has failed, society has crumbled, and, to stave off the darkness, a group of survivors gathers around a fire and recreate their fallen world through the brave act of storytelling. Out of the darkness, they find connection.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Howard Ashman (book and lyrics), Alan Menken (music)
Directed by: Matt Hawkins
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2024 - Jul 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Penobscot Theatre Company
City: Bangor
Price: $20-$45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/project/little-shop-of-horrors/
Description: When you live on Skid Row, nothing comes easy. Your job is drudgery, your love life’s a joke, and your bills are all overdue. But for meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn, all of that is about to change when he discovers a strange and unusual plant.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
Directed by: Kevin R. Free
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Portland Stage Company
City: Portland
Price: $5-70
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/50th-anniversary-season/
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.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Todd Brian Backus
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Portland Stage Company
City: Portland
Price: $5-70
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/50th-anniversary-season/
Description: Funny, thought-provoking, and heartwarming, this explosive piece culminates in a live debate to be judged by the audience: Should we keep our centuries-old Constitution or start fresh? Heidi takes us through our nation’s highs and lows and ultimately delivers a hopeful message.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Dominique Rider
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Portland Stage Company
City: Portland
Price: $5-70
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/50th-anniversary-season/
Description: It may seem like a run-down truck stop diner, but for the formerly incarcerated staff of Clyde’s, it’s a place where they can find community, support, and a second chance at life. A savory comedy that shows us what we can achieve with patience, dedication, and a little thyme.
Angels in America, Part One
By: Tony Kushner
Directed by: Keith Powell Beyland and Peter Brown
Event Date(s): May 01 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Portland Stage Company
City: Portland
Price: $5-70
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/50th-anniversary-season/
Description: Six New Yorkers' lives intertwine at the height of the AIDS crisis. Confronting politics, spirituality, and sexuality with sharp humor and a sage observational eye, this great American epic shows us how community and connection can be forged in even the darkest of times. A production by Dramatic Repertory Company.
Manning
By: Benjamin Benne
Directed by: Alex Keegan
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Portland Stage Company
City: Portland
Price: $5-70
Reference Link: https://www.portlandstage.org/50th-anniversary-season/
Description: After the death of their mother, two boys return home to find their father has lost the will to live, and a giant zucchini (that seems to have a heartbeat) sprouts overnight. They begin to understand loss through the supernatural vegetable, but can they relate to each other?
Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual
By: Katie Forgette
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Lewiston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Whether you grew up Catholic, lived through the 1970s, or your family resembles the “fun” in dysfunctional[--this nostalgic and heartfelt new comedy is for you!
Secret Hour
By: Jenny Stafford
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Lewiston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Like most married couples, Kate and Ben hold back being completely honest with each other to avoid conflict and feel loved. For fun, they invent a game called “Terrible Secret Hour” where they each confess an unflattering truth and promise to love one another regardless.
Lunenberg
By: Norm Foster
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Lewiston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s the perfect combination of mystery, comedy, and romance. When Iris’s husband is unexpectedly killed in a plane crash, her lawyer reveals she has inherited a beautiful home in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia---that she never knew existed!
Maryland
Mexodus
By: Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue:
City: Baltimore
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A live-looped musical, composed in real time, that explores the often-untold stories of enslaved people in the United States who sought freedom in Mexico.
The Hot Wing King
By: Katori Hall
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Baltimore
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Cordell Crutchfield finds himself balancing caring for his nephew after a family tragedy and competing in Memphis's prestigious annual Hot Wang Festival.
The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Baltimore
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This reimagined version of Oscar Wilde’s classic tells the witty and humorous story of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrief, who must come to terms with their true identities after creating alter egos to escape the monotony of their lives.
Cinderella: A Salsa Fairy Tale
By: Karen Zacarias, Deborah Wicks La Puma
Directed by: Nadia Guevara
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: TYA show
Venue: Imagination Stage
City: Bethesda
Price: $12-39
Reference Link: https://www.imaginationstage.org
Description: What will happen to Cinderella at the ball...game? That's the surprising question in this contemporary Latin-American Cinderella musical that weaves subtle lessons on empathy, sportsmanship, and respect into an exciting, high-stakes story.
Miss Nelson is Missing!
By: Joan Cushing based on the book by Harry Allard
Directed by: Janet Stanford
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2024 - Aug 10 2024
Type of Event: TYA show
Venue: Imagination Stage
City: Bethesda
Price: $12-39
Reference Link: https://www.imaginationstage.org
Description: Meet the fifth graders at Smedly, ES, whose poor behavior drives away their sweet teacher, Miss Nelson. Her substitute, the dreaded Viola Swamp, is so strict that she motivates the kids to search for Miss Nelson and try to make amends.
Intimate Apparel
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Sierra Young
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Performance
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $32
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/intimate-apparel/
Description: In 1905, Esther, a proud but shy Black seamtress, sews intimates for her clientele. She’s saved quite a bit making beautiful undergarments for both posh Fifth Avenue boudoirs and upscale bordellos, all while daydreaming of romance and new beginnings.
Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!
By: Mo Willems
Directed by: Julie Herber
Event Date(s): Feb 24 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Family Theatre
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/elephant-piggies-were-in-a-play/
Description: In this vaudevillian romp, Elephant and Piggie sing and dance their way through plenty of pachydermal peril and swiney suspense. An elephant named Gerald and a pig named Piggie are best, best, “bestus” friends, but Gerald worries that something could end their friendship.
The Squirrels
By: Robert Askins
Directed by: Julie Herber
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Performance
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $32
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/the-squirrels/
Description: The patriarch of a family of grey squirrels has stowed away enough nuts for 10 winters, but the fox squirrels near the 7-11 want in on his stash. In this fiercely funny and provocative play, the writer of Hand to God exposes the way we use power and domination to mask our own insecurities and fears.
The Borrowers
By: Maryland Ensemble Theatre's FUN Co. based on the book by Mary Norton
Directed by: Shea-Mikal Green
Event Date(s): Apr 20 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Family Theatre
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/the-borrowers/
Description: An imaginative new retelling of the delightful classic tale about three tiny people who are big heroes. When the Human Beans move in above the Clock family’s tiny home under the floor boards, their life is about to get a whole lot bigger.
Head Over Heels
By: James Magruder
Directed by: Gené Fouché
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Performance
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
City: Frederick
Price: $32
Reference Link: https://marylandensemble.org/head-over-heels/
Description: In this joyous musical featuring the music of '80s band The Go-Gos, Princess Pamela, a headstrong and adventurous young woman, embarks on a quest to save her kingdom from a prophecy of doom.
Next to Normal
By: Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey; Music by Tom Kitt
Directed by: Alan Paul
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Round House Theatre
City: Bethesda
Price: $46-83
Reference Link: https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/On-Stage/Explore/Next-to-Normal
Description: A masterpiece of modern musical theatre and a powerful depiction of the ripple effects of mental illness, the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is “brave, breathtaking… [and] much more than a feel-good musical: it is a feel-everything musical” (The New York Times).
A Jumping Off Point
By: Inda Craig-Galván
Directed by: Jade King Carroll
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Round House Theatre
City: Bethesda
Price: $46-83
Reference Link: https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/On-Stage/Explore/A-Jumping-Off-Point
Description: Leslie Wallace is a promising Black writer who has just landed her first deal with HBO. Her celebration is cut short when she gets a surprise visit from Andrew, a white man from her grad school cohort, who accuses her of plagiarizing his script.
Crumbs From the Table of Joy
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Reginald L. Douglas
Event Date(s): Jan 28 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Baltimore
Price: $
Reference Link: https://everymantheatre.org/2023-2024/
Description: In Everyman’s fifth Lynn Nottage production, 17-year-old Ernestine Crump adjusts to her new life in 1950s Brooklyn after the passing of her mother. This poignant and gripping story offers a look at what it truly means to find strength in unity.
The Book Club Play
By: Karen Zacarias
Directed by: Laura Kepley
Event Date(s): Mar 17 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Baltimore
Price: $
Reference Link: https://everymantheatre.org/2023-2024/
Description: The Book Club Play is a playful testament to the power of literature and its ability to bring people together. By the end, you’ll feel like you’re a member of the book club yourself!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Noah Himmelstein
Event Date(s): May 12 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Baltimore
Price: $
Reference Link: https://everymantheatre.org/2023-2024/
Description: With its memorable characters and witty dialogue, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a timeless masterpiece that continues to captivate audiences. Whether you’re a fan of the Bard or simply looking for a light-hearted escape into a world of spectacle and fantasy, it will not disappoint.
Massachusetts
Becoming a Man
By: P. Carl
Directed by: Diane Paulus and P. Carl
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: World-Premiere Play
Venue: Loeb Drama Center
City: Cambridge
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/becoming-a-man/
Description: Adapted from P. Carl’s acclaimed memoir and co-directed by P. Carl and Diane Paulus, Becoming a Man is a story about the courage—and the community—we need to become ourselves.
Gatsby
By: Music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, Lyrics by Florence Welch, Book by Martyna Majok
Directed by: Rachel Chavkin
Event Date(s): May 25 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: World-Premiere Musical
Venue: Loeb Drama Center
City: Cambridge
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/gatsby/
Description: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel The Great Gatsby comes to new life in this world-premiere musical.
Moby Dick
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage
City: Boston
Price: $10-92.50
Reference Link: https://https://artsemerson.org/events/moby-dick/
Description: Moby Dick is, on its surface, the simple tale of a whaling expedition, but the story’s haunting themes of unparalleled obsession lead us all to question the unexplained mysteries of life and of the human heart.
Duel Reality
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
City: Boston
Price: $10-92.50
Reference Link: https://https://artsemerson.org/events/duel-reality/
Description: An epic love story that echoes Romeo and Juliet. Competition can be playful at times, but it can also be dangerously serious. Is it a game? Is it a war? Is it love? Duel Reality has all the answers.
Mrs. Krishnan’s Party
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre
City: Boston
Price: $10-92.50
Reference Link: https://https://artsemerson.org/events/mrs-krishnans-party/
Description: This is an immersive experience like no other. Join the party with music, dancing, and more. Watch as the cast juggles cooking, music, and welcoming guests in an unfolding drama where no two performances are ever the same.
Book of Mountain and Seas
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage
City: Boston
Price: $10-92.50
Reference Link: https://https://artsemerson.org/events/book-of-mountains-and-seas/
Description: An ensemble of massive puppets as beautiful as they are intimidating, and the chorus of Ars Nova Copenhagen, harness music and a stunning visual tableau to offer a portrait of the natural world and our vital yet tenuous relationship to it.
Machine Learning
By: Francisco Mendoza
Directed by: Gabriel Vega Weissman
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Central Square Theater
City: Cambridge
Price: $24-93
Reference Link: https://www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/machine-learning/
Description: “Arnold” (named after the Terminator) is a nursing application created by wunderkind computer scientist Jorge to provide personalized treatment to Gabriel, his estranged and ailing father. Jorge must confront his responsibility as a son and accountability as a creator.
Beyond Words
By: Laura Maria Censabella
Directed by: Cassie Chapados
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Central Square Theater
City: Cambridge
Price: $24-78
Reference Link: https://www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/beyond-words/
Description: This offbeat, highly theatrical new work tracks Irene Pepperberg’s groundbreaking research in animal cognition and communication as she breaks through the skepticism of her male colleagues.
Next to Normal
By: Music by Tom Kitt, Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by: Pascale Florestal
Event Date(s): May 30 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Central Square Theater
City: Cambridge
Price: $24-98
Reference Link: https://www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/next-to-normal/
Description: A typical American family. Except Mom’s been battling bipolar disorder for 16 years. With the Front Porch Arts Collective, we bring you the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning pop-rock musical through the lens of a Black upper middle-class family.
Water’s Rising: Festival of New Climate Action Plays
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: New Works Festival
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://gloucesterstage.com/waters-rising-festival/
Description: Three new play finalists have been selected from over 400 submissions in 2024. Each play will be presented once during the festival; A Few Fun Facts About Greenland by Maximilian Gill, Cincinnati by the Shore by Hannah Vaughn, and If nobody does remarkable things by Emma Gibson.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
By: Christopher Durang
Directed by: Rebecca Bradshaw
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $47
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1188118?performanceId=11405581
Description: Artistic director Rebecca Bradshaw directs this comedic masterpiece filled with eccentric characters, unexpected romances, and hilarious twists---all while paying homage to the works of Chekhov.
Wipeout
By: Aurora Real de Asua
Directed by: Shana Gozansky
Event Date(s): Jul 05 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1185066?performanceId=11390570https://
Description: Three 70-plus-year-old friends decide to learn surfing for the first time. Taking place on surfboards in the middle of the ocean, the ladies are guided by their friendship and a hotrod teenage surf instructor.
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 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.
Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight
By: John Kolvenbach
Directed by: John Kolvenbach
Event Date(s): Jan 20 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Huntington Theatre, Maso Studio, 264 Huntington Ave
City: Boston
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/stand-up-if-youre-here-tonight/
Description: Jim Ortlieb delivers a tour-de-force performance as a man desperate for connection, bent by isolation, and deeply in love with the audience itself. After sold-out runs in L.A., Chicago, and Paris, this thoroughly unique, interactive theatrical experience comes to the Huntington.
John Proctor Is the Villain
By: Kimberly Belflower
Directed by: Margot Bordelon
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, 527 Tremont St
City: Boston
Price: $30-120
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/john-proctor-is-the-villain/
Description: At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens explore The Crucible while navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. With a contemporary lens on the American classic, the young women begin to discover their power and agency in this new comedy.
Toni Stone
By: Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by: Lydia R. Diamond
Event Date(s): May 17 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave
City: Boston
Price: $30-150
Reference Link: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/toni-stone/
Description: Toni Stone is an ace ballplayer who knows her stats, plus she’s got a great arm. Rejected by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League because of her race, she becomes the first woman to play pro baseball on a man’s team in the Negro Leagues, shattering expectations.
Red Riding Hood
By: Allison Gregory
Directed by: Courtney Sale
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Merrimack Repertory Theatre
City: Lowell
Price:
Reference Link: https://mrt.org/Red
Description: Wolfgang, the greatest actor in the world, is interrupted while performing his "one-man extravaganza” by a delivery person with a mysterious package. But the show must go on, and the two of them take on all the roles in this fast, funny, and surprising adaptation. Ages 5+
Dishwasher Dreams
By: Alaudin Ullah
Directed by: Chay Yew
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Merrimack Repertory Theatre
City: Lowell
Price:
Reference Link: https://mrt.org/show/dishwasher-dreams
Description: From Bangladesh to New York City, from graffiti crews to baseball games, courageous honesty to emotive humor, Dishwasher Dreams explores the complicated realities of dreams we make for ourselves.
The Porch on Windy Hill
By: Written by Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse and David M. Lutken
Directed by: Sherry Stregack Lutken
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Merrimack Repertory Theatre
City: Lowell
Price:
Reference Link: https://mrt.org/show/porch-windy-hill-0
Description: A bi-racial Korean classical violinist, Mira, and her music history grad-student boyfriend, Beck, escape months of Covid-isolation to the mountains of North Carolina.
Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance
By: Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by: Neel Keller
Event Date(s): May 08 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Merrimack Repertory Theatre
City: Lowell
Price:
Reference Link: https://mrt.org/show/spiritusvirgil%E2%80%99s-dance
Description: In this exploration of the realities of death through the eyes of a watchful and troubled individual, we meet Virgil -- a kid who used to hang out in cemeteries with friends. As an adult, Virgil wonders: what does it mean to live a fulfilled life?
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Melinda Lopez
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 17 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
City: Boston
Price: $25-$75
Reference Link: https://www.SpeakEasyStage.com
Description: In a cubicle inside a bank in Twin Falls, Idaho, single dads Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a factory worker, unexpectedly invite the other into their fragile worlds in this wry and heartwarming story that feels both big and small at the same time.
Cost of Living
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Alex Lonati
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
City: Boston
Price: $25-$75
Reference Link: https://www.SpeakEasyStage.com
Description: In this stunning, Pulitzer-winning play, author Martyna Majok interweaves the stories of four lonely souls to examine the forces that bring people together, the complexity of caring and being cared for, and "the various tendernesses of simply being human." (Daily Beast)
A Strange Loop
By: Book, Music & Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by: Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion for the BCA
City: Boston
Price: $25-$75
Reference Link: https://www.SpeakEasyStage.com
Description: Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for Best Musical, Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. A co-production with Front Porch Arts Collective.
Exception to the Rule
By: Dave Harris
Directed by: Donovan Holt
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Modern Theatre at Suffolk University
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Stuck in detention in the worst high school in the city, six Black students try to make it through, fighting, flirting, and teasing.
A Strange Loop
By: Michael R. Jackson
Directed by: Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: SpeakEasy Stage Company
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny masterwork A Strange Loop exposes the heart and soul of a young black queer artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. A co-production with SpeakEasy Stage Company.
Next to Normal
By: Music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by: Pascale Forestal
Event Date(s): Jun 02 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Central Square Theater
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A typical American family. Except Mom’s been battling bipolar disorder for 16 years. A co-production with Central Square Theater.
Michigan
Blues for an Alabama Sky
By: Pearl Cleage
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play Performance
Venue: Detroit Public Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $47
Reference Link: https://detroitpublictheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S5Y00000XGCYuUAP
Description: This modern classic by celebrated native Detroit playwright Pearl Cleage has profound relevance to our current times even, as it is set during the Harlem Renaissance on the cusp of the Great Depression.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Play Performance
Venue: Detroit Public Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $47
Reference Link: https://detroitpublictheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S5Y00000XGCYzUAP
Description: Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage serves up a savory story of resilience, redemption, and the healing powers of food in Clyde’s. The formerly incarcerated kitchen staff of a truck-stop sandwich joint are on a mission to create the perfect sandwich—and to move forward with their lives.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Lynch Travis
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $25 advance
Reference Link: https://www.detroitreptheatre.com/
Description: The second play in August Wilson's American Century Cycle. A stunning story of spiritual and emotional resurrection. At a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911, Herald Loomis arrives in search of his lost wife---but first he must regain a sense of his own heritage and identity.
Annabella in July
By: Richard Strand
Directed by: Leah Smith
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $25 advance
Reference Link: https://www.detroitreptheatre.com/
Description: A comedic fantasy about identity and perception. At a ski resort in the off season, shy, mousy librarian Vanessa is mistaken for Annabella, described as amazing, vivacious, and magical. While trying to assert she is in no way like Annabella, she discovers her own magical powers.
Between Riverside and Crazy
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by: Jeff Nahan
Event Date(s): May 17 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
City: Detroit
Price: $25 advance
Reference Link: https://www.detroitreptheatre.com/
Description: A punchy dramedy about ex-cop Walter “Pops” Washington trying to hold on to his great rent-stabilized apartment. But the landlord wants him out, the NYPD wants more than his signature, the liquor store is closed—and the church won’t leave him alone.
Native Gardens
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Kalamazoo
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Sharpen those garden shears! In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies that spiral into an all-out border dispute, exposing two couples’ notions of race, class, privilege...and taste.
Skeleton Crew
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Kalamazoo
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In 2008 Detroit, a small automotive factory is on the brink of foreclosure, and a tight knit family of workers hangs in the balance. With uncertainty everywhere, the line between blue collar and white collar becomes blurred.
Sondheim on Sondheim
By: Stephen Sondheim
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Revue
Venue:
City: Kalamazoo
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In an intimate portrait of the famed songwriter in his own glorious words and music as well as through the use of exclusive interview footage, audiences will get an inside look at the personal life and artistic process of the father of the modern musical, Stephen Sondheim.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
By: Concieved by Rachel Feldman and Jay Reiss, with music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Kalamazoo
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime, while candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives. In this beloved musical, six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion!
School of Rock: The Musical
By: Music and lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book by Julian Fellowes
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Kalamazoo
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Down-on-his-luck failed rocker Dewey Finn turns a class of awkward straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band---sensationally performed live by the production’s young actors every night.
Into the Side of a Hill
By: James Anthony Tyler
Directed by: Ken-Matt Martin
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
City: Flint
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://thefim.org/event/side-of-a-hill/
Description: World premiere play. This explosive drama explores the lives of six fraternity brothers at a historically Black university while they rehearse for a homecoming step show. Developed in Flint Rep’s 2022 New Works Festival.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
City: Flint
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://thefim.org/event/virginia-woolf/
Description: A modern American classic. An unblinking portrait of two American marriages. Edward Albee’s explosively comedic and harrowingly profound masterpiece stars Flint Rep associate artists Janet Haley and Rico Bruce Wade.
2024 New Works Festival
By: Various
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
City: Flint
Price: $
Reference Link: https://thefim.org/event/new-works-festival/
Description: A three-day event featuring staged readings and workshops of bold new plays and musicals by some of American theatre’s most exciting playwrights and composers.
Spring Awakening
By: Book & Lyrics by Steven Sater, Music by Duncan Sheik
Directed by: Derek Van Barham
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
City: Flint
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://thefim.org/event/spring-awakening/
Description: A bold new production of the trailblazing rock musical, directed and choreographed by Derek Van Barham. This daring, remarkable show is an electrifying celebration of teenage sexuality, self-discovery, and rebellion.
Father of the Bride
By: Caroline Francke, adapted from the book by Edward Streeter
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A suburban dad's life is turned upside down when his daughter gets engaged.
A Little More Alive
By: Nick Blaemire
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A new folk-pop musical about the reunion of two brothers.
Native Gardens
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: New neighbors clash over a fence between their properties.
Route 66
By: Roger Bean
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A musical tour of the 1950s and '60s.
Ella, the First Lady of Song
By: Conceived by Maurice Hines Jr., written by Lee Summers
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue:
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A bio-musical about the great jazz singer.
Maytag Virgin
By: Audrey Cefaly
Directed by: Tony Caselli
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Williamston Theatre
City: Williamston
Price: $22-44
Reference Link: https://www.williamstontheatre.org
Description: A classic second-chance love story featuring WT co-founders/real-life husband and wife John Lepard and Emily Sutton-Smith. When the unflappable Jack moves in next door to the endearingly neurotic Lizzy, sparks fly. A romantic comedy about moving forward with courage and a ready heart.
Bright Half Life
By: Tanya Barfield
Directed by: Megan Buckley-Ball
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Williamston Theatre
City: Williamston
Price: $22-44
Reference Link: https://www.williamstontheatre.org
Description: Bright Half Life shares the four-and-a-half-decade story of Vicky and Erica, who meet, fall in love, and go through the trails and tribulations of marriage and building a family. A theatrical, time-bending play about love, heartbreak, and the infinite moments that make a relationship.
Predictor
By: Jennifer Blackmer
Directed by: Billicia Charnelle Hines
Event Date(s): Jun 27 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Williamston Theatre
City: Williamston
Price: $22-44
Reference Link: https://www.williamstontheatre.org
Description: Predictor follows the real-life story of Margaret Crane, who, in 1967, defied all odds and expectations to become the inventor of the first home pregnancy test. An inspirational, heartfelt comedy that sets the historical record straight as we journey with this innovative inventor.
Minnesota
The Carp Who Would Not Quit and Other Animal Stories
By: Reiko Ho and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth Ensemble
Directed by: Reiko Ho
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/the-carp-who-would-not-quit/
Description: Live music and artful puppetry come together in this energetic and interactive retelling of traditional fables from Japan and Okinawa!
Alice in Wonderland
By: Sharon Holland
Directed by: Peter C. Brosius
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/alice-in-wonderland/
Description: Enter this wonderfully wacky world of rhymes and ridiculousness, checkerboards and cheeky cats, Mad Hatters and mayhem as Alice chases the White Rabbit through the audience, attends the most absurd tea party in history, and faces off with the ragingly red Queen of Hearts!
Alice in Wonderland
By: Adapted for the stage by Sharon Holland
Directed by: Peter C. Brosius
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/alice-in-wonderland/
Description: In this wildly creative version of Lewis Carroll’s timeless classic, Alice chases the White Rabbit through the audience, attends the most absurd tea party in history, and faces off with the ragingly red Queen of Hearts.
Babble Lab
By: Autumn Ness
Directed by: Sarah Agnew
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Show
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/babble-lab/
Description: Strap on your safety goggles and clean out your ears! When an experiment goes awry, a concoction of sneaky, sprightly L E T T E R S takes over a weird and wondrous science lab, springing from drawers and bouncing around the room in this one-of-a-kind explosion of language!
Babble Lab
By: Autumn Ness
Directed by: Sarah Agnew
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Solo Performance
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $17+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/babble-lab/
Description: When an experiment unexpectedly goes awry, a concoction of sneaky, sprightly L E T T E R S takes over a weird and wondrous science lab. Enjoy the blubbering and blibbering exploration of spoken blurbbles as they spring forth in this one-of-a-kind, gee-gaw-filled laboratory.
Disney’s Frozen
By: Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (music & lyrics), Jennifer Lee (book)
Directed by: Tiffany Nichole Greene
Event Date(s): Apr 15 2024 - Jun 15 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/frozen/
Description: Don’t miss the Children’s Theatre Company production of the hit Broadway musical! Sing along with Elsa, Anna, and Olaf, a snowman who melts your heart. You won’t want to let it go!
A Year With Frog and Toad
By: Music by Robert Reale / Book and Lyrics by Willie Reale
Directed by: Peter C. Brosius
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/frog-toad/
Description: Meet Frog and Toad, best friends who embark upon a year’s worth of adventures and joyful song-singing. Join them in the only show from Minnesota ever to be nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Musical! Based on the books by Arnold Lobel.
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: 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!
The Effect
By: Lucy Prebble
Directed by: Hal Cropp
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2024 - Mar 23 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Commonweal Theatre Company
City: Lanesboro
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://https://commonwealtheatre.org/our-season/the-effect/
Description: When Connie and Tristan meet as patients in a medical trial, their attraction to each other is undeniable. Can their infatuation be attributed to an organic connection, or is it a result of pharmaceutically released dopamine?
Rumors
By: Neil Simon
Directed by: Jaclyn Johnson
Event Date(s): Jul 20 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Commonweal Theatre Company
City: Lanesboro
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://commonwealtheatre.org/our-season/rumors/
Description: An outrageous farce.
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.
Dial M for Murder
By: adapted by Jeffrey Hatched from the original by Frederick Knott
Directed by: Tracy Brigden
Event Date(s): Jan 20 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wurtele Thrust Stage
City: Minneapolis
Price: $29 - $95
Reference Link: www.guthrietheater.org
Description: Originally produced as a BBC TV production, then a stage play and finally a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder is a minutely crafted work in which the audience sees the story wind up and then watches it unspool.
On Beckett
By: Samuel Beckett
Directed by: Bill Irwin
Event Date(s): Feb 17 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: McGuire Proscenium Stage
City: Minneapolis
Price: $29 - $95
Reference Link: www.guthrietheater.org
Description: Based on the writings of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and conceived, performed and directed by Tony Award-winning actor and master clown Bill Irwin.
A Brittle Glory
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Joseph Haj
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2024 - May 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wurtele Thrust Stage
City: Minneapolis
Price: $29 - $95
Reference Link: www.guthrietheater.org
Description: In an epic three-part theatrical event, the Guthrie will produce A Brittle Glory, William Shakespeare’s History Cycle (Richard II, Henry IV [Parts I and II as one play], and Henry V) in rotating repertory.
Skeleton Crew
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Austene Van
Event Date(s): May 04 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: McGuire Proscenium Stage
City: Minneapolis
Price: $29 - $95
Reference Link: www.guthrietheater.org
Description: In the final chapter of Morisseau’s acclaimed Detroit trilogy, Skeleton Crew wrestles with questions of grief, loyalty and self-preservation while exploring the monumental impact of the Recession-era economy on middle-class life.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken
Directed by: Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Event Date(s): Jun 22 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Wurtele Thrust Stage
City: Minneapolis
Price: $29 - $95
Reference Link: www.guthrietheater.org
Description: A hilarious mashup of science fiction, horror, and musical theatre, this cult classic about a blood-thirsty plant in a Skid Row florist shop boasts Motown-inspired hits like “Feed Me (Git It),” “Suddenly, Seymour” and “Little Shop of Horrors.”
English
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Hamid Dehghani
Event Date(s): Jul 13 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: McGuire
City: Minneapolis
Price: $29 - $95
Reference Link: www.guthrietheater.org
Description: A beautifully crafted comedy that explores the realities of the language-learning process and the parts of our identities that are lost and found along the way.
Handprints
By: Written and performed by Greta Oglesby
Directed by: Directed by Richard D. Thompson
Event Date(s): Jan 27 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: History Theatre
City: St. Paul
Price: $30-64
Reference Link: https://www.historytheatre.com/2023-2024/handprints
Description: A powerful and vibrant autobiographical story written and performed by one of the Twin Cities' most renowned theatre artists. Experience the gift of Greta’s story with unique storytelling, including the gorgeous music that has inspired the person she is today.
A Unique Assignment
By: Harrison David Rivers
Directed by: Richard D. Thompson
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: History Theatre
City: St. Paul
Price: $30-64
Reference Link: https://www.historytheatre.com/2023-2024/unique-assignment
Description: Two men---Henry Gallagher, white, and James Meredith, Black---are thrust into each other’s lives in the aftermath of the Ole Miss Riot. Explore this milestone moment in Civil Rights history through Gallagher and Meredith’s own words and perspectives on their shared experience.
Blended 和 (Harmony): The Kim Loo Sisters
By: book & lyrics by Jessica Huang | music by Jacinth Greywoode
Directed by: Lily Tung Crystal
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Theater Musical
Venue: History Theatre
City: Saint Paul
Price: $12+
Reference Link: http://theatermu.org/blended-harmony
Description: Making their way from Minneapolis to Broadway, the Kim Loo Sisters singing quartet gained popularity during the swing era and performed across the country, on the silver screen of Hollywood, and overseas at USO shows. Don't miss this world premiere musical! A co-production with Theater Mu.
Blended 和 (Harmony): The Kim Loo Sisters
By: Book and lyrics by Jessica Huang Music by Jacinth Greywoode
Directed by: Lily Tung Crystal
Event Date(s): May 04 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: History Theatre
City: St. Paul
Price: $30-74
Reference Link: https://www.historytheatre.com/2023-2024/blended-harmony
Description: Experience the story of the remarkable Kim Loo Sisters as they make their way through the flashing lights of Broadway in the '30s. This new musical is an homage to family, love, their Chinese/Polish American heritage, and the bond of these talented sisters through their lives on- and offstage. A co-production with Theater Mu.
The Carp Who Would Not Quit and Other Animal Stories
By: Reiko Ho and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth Ensemble
Directed by: Reiko Ho
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/the-carp-who-would-not-quit/
Description: Could YOU climb up a waterfall??! See a heroic carp who tries just that in this energetic retelling of traditional fables from Japan and Okinawa featuring artful puppetry, masks, three incredibly imaginative actors, and live music played on the koto and taiko drum.
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trail of Miz Martha Washington
By: James Ijames
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue:
City: Minneapolis
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://mixedblood.com
Description: Alone and gravely ill, the "Mother of America" is tended to by her slaves, who will be freed upon her death. Through a fever dream, we unflinchingly look at America's broken systems and promises in this fantastical and hilarious play by Pulitzer winner James Ijames.
The Iron Range Project
By: Alison Carey
Directed by: Mark Valdez
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue:
City: Virginia
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://mixedblood.com
Description: Celebrating the people and stories of Minnesota's Iron Range region, from hockey winters to boating summers, with characters from local history and down the street, this world-premiere play is created with/for/about Rangers and invites residents dream their future.
3rd Annual Reclaiming Our Identities Two Spirit Powwow
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 22 2024 - Jun 22 2024
Type of Event: Out door
Venue:
City: Minneapolis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://newnativetheatre.org
Description: The 3rd Annual Reclaiming Our Identities Two-Spirit Powwow is a safe and secure space for the Native community to gather, embrace, and honor our Indigenous and 2S communities and the fullness of our identities.
Wine in the Wilderness
By: Alice Childress
Directed by: Lou Bellamy
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Penumbra Center For Racial Healing
City: Saint Paul
Price: $45.00
Reference Link: https://penumbratheatre.org/event/wine-in-the-wilderness/#3
Description: As an uprising rocks his neighborhood, Bill Jameson is focused on finishing paintings representing Black womanhood. But the arrival of an unexpected muse reveals his shallow assumptions. With humor and heart, Childress takes on class, patriarchy, and the artist’s role in community.
Flex
By: Candrice Jones
Directed by: Tiffany Nichole Greene
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Penumbra Center For Racial Healing
City: Saint Paul
Price: $45.00
Reference Link: https://penumbratheatre.org/event/flex/#1
Description: It’s 1997. High school champion Starra Jones and her teammates are leaving childhood behind as they make their full-court press into adulthood. In her funny and deeply moving play, Jones channels the true voice of teenagers pinning everything on a game they can’t afford to lose.
The Gentle Jewess of Venice
By: Martin Coren
Directed by: JC Cutler
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Highland Park Community Center Theater
City: St. Paul
Price: $26-40
Reference Link: https://www.sixpointstheater.org/the-gentle-jewess-of-venice
Description: In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Shylock renounces his Judaism and is estranged from his daughter. In this world premiere, a year later, Jessica's married and a Christian, and she allows her father back into her life, and together they begin a journey of rediscovery.
Torch Song
By: Harvey Fierstein
Directed by: Craig Johnson
Event Date(s): May 04 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Highland Park Community Center Theater
City: St. Paul
Price: $26-40
Reference Link: https://www.sixpointstheater.org/torch-song
Description: Arnold Beckoff, a NYC drag queen, wants a husband, a child, and respect from his Jewish mother! Torch Song Trilogy helped set the stage for the emergence of gay rights and the fight for human dignity. Updated in 2017, Torch Song reminds us how fragile those rights remain.
Dragons Love Tacos: The Musical
By: Adam Rubin
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/dragons-love-tacos/
Description: Stages Theatre Company brings you a new musical adaptation of the wildly popular, laugh-out-loud funny Dragons Love Tacos. Join us for the party of the year, because after all, the only thing dragons love more than parties, or tacos, is TACO PARTIES!
The Name Jar
By: Yangsook Choi
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/name-jar/
Description: Celebrate the meaning behind your name! Unhei has moved from Korea to America with her family and has started a new school. When the kids struggle with her name, she wonders if she should choose a new one to fit in. A co-production with Theater Mu.
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical Jr.
By: Dennis Kelly
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/matilda/
Description: Rebellion is near in Matilda Jr., a gleefully witty ode to the anarchy of childhood and the power of imagination. With the help of the students at her new school, Matilda’s about to teach some grown ups that "even if you’re little you can do a lot."
Disney’s Finding Nemo Jr.
By: Lindsay Anderson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/disneys-finding-nemo/
Description: Disney’s Finding Nemo Jr. is a celebration of true friendship, bravery, and the love between father and son. Nemo and Marlin remind us to "Just Keep Swimming" in this epic adventure through the ocean.
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.
The Hatmaker’s Wife
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by: Joel Sass
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue:
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15-$35
Reference Link: https://tenthousandthings.org/season/hatmakers-wife
Description: Featuring Michelle de Joya, Nathan Keepers, Jim Lichtscheidl, Clay Man Soo, Kimberly Richardson. A young woman moves in with her boyfriend expecting domestic bliss, but instead finds discomfort. This whimsical and surreal story bends time and space to redefine the idea of family,
The Spitfire Grill
By: Music and Book by James Valcq, Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley, Based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff
Directed by: Marcela Lorca
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue:
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15.00
Reference Link: https://tenthousandthings.org/season/spitfire-grill
Description: Featuring Michelle Barber, Tyson Forbes, Katherine Fried, Sheena Janson Kelly, George Keller, Tom Reed and Dominic Schiro. Percy Talbot has just been released from a five-year prison sentence. In search of a fresh start, she travels to the small town of Gilead, Wisc.
Stones in His Pockets
By: Marie Jones
Directed by: Marcela Lorca
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Theater Latte Da
City: Minneapolis
Price: $35-63
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/stones-in-his-pockets
Description: A rural Irish village is turned upside down by the arrival of an American film crew. When Charlie and Jake are cast as extras in the movie, they discover that Hollywood’s romanticized Ireland stands in stark contrast to the reality of their daily lives.
The Color Purple
By: Book by Marsha Norman; Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: musical (co-production with Geva Theatre Center)
Venue: Theater Latte Da
City: Minneapolis
Price: $35-63
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/the-color-purple
Description: Based on the novel by Alice Walker and adapted for the stage by Marsha Norman, this stirring family chronicle follows the inspirational Celie as she journeys from childhood through joy and despair, anguish and hope, to discover her unique voice and place in the world.
Johnny Skeeky; or, The Remedy for Everything
By: Libretto by Bradley Greenwald and Steven Epp; Music by Giacomo Puccini
Directed by: Bradley Greenwald and Steven Epp
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: opera (world premiere)
Venue: Theater Latte Da
City: Minneapolis
Price: $35-63
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/johnny-skeeky
Description: First love and old friendship face off against greed and hypocrisy aboard a tricked-out yacht anchored off the coast of Miami in Bradley Greenwald and Steven Epp’s witty, contemporary libretto, sung to Puccini’s glorious score.
The Nosebleed
By: Aya Ogawa
Directed by: Aya Ogawa
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Jan 27 2024
Type of Event: Theater Play
Venue: Walker Art Center
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://theatermu.org/the-nosebleed
Description: Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of our parents? Through a series of absurd autobiographical vignettes, innovative playwright, performer, translator, and director Aya Ogawa’s Obie-winning hit show irreverently and boldly delves into what it takes to forgive.
Hells Canyon
By: Keiko Green
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theater Play
Venue: Jungle Theater
City: Minneapolis
Price: $10+
Reference Link: https://theatermu.org/hells-canyon
Description: Five friends have arranged a weekend trip in Eastern Oregon. One is pregnant, two are married, and two have a decision to make. When old grudges and new betrayals simmer to the surface, will the mysterious force trying to break in consume them all?
The Name Jar
By: Susan H. Pak (original story by Yangsook Choi)
Directed by: Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Theater Play
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $5+
Reference Link: https://theatermu.org/the-name-jar
Description: In this world premiere based on the timeless book by Yangsook Choi, Unhei has moved from Korea to America with her family and has started a new school. When the kids struggle with her name, she wonders if she should choose a new one to fit in. A collaboration with Stages Theatre Company.
Blended 和 (Harmony): The Kim Loo Sisters
By: book & lyrics by Jessica Huang | music by Jacinth Greywoode
Directed by: Lily Tung Crystal
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Theater Musical
Venue: History Theatre
City: Saint Paul
Price: $12+
Reference Link: https://theatermu.org/blended-harmony
Description: Making their way from Minneapolis to Broadway, the Kim Loo Sisters singing quartet gained popularity during the swing era and performed across the country, on the silver screen of Hollywood, and overseas at USO shows. Don't miss this world premiere musical! A co-production with History Theatre.
Mississippi
The Secret Garden: Spring Version
By: Music and Lyrics by Marsha Norman; Music by Lucy Simone; Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: In-Person Performance
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: The enchanting classic children's book of hope and perseverance comes to life onstage in a brilliant reimagined musical that reminds us that we can always find home and family where we least expect it.
Chicken & Biscuits
By: Douglas Lyons
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 09 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: In-Person Performance
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: Rival sisters Baneatta and Beverly are trying to bury their father without killing each other first in this laugh-out-loud celebration of Black joy, love, and, laughter. After all, funerals bring out the tastiest of secrets...
Beautiful, The Carole King Musical
By: Book by Douglas McGrath; Words and Music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 28 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: In-Person Performance
Venue: New Stage Theatre
City: Jackson
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://newstagetheatre.com/
Description: Beautiful follows the inspiring true story of Carole King's remarkable rise to stardom. Featuring a stunning array of beloved songs, Beautiful is filled with songs you remember---and a story you'll never forget. Ready to feel the Earth move?
Missouri
The Session
By: Harvey Williams
Directed by: Lewis Morrow
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 17 2024
Type of Event: Stage Play
Venue: Just Off Broadway Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $25
Reference Link: http://kcmeltingpot.com/
Description: The Session is an engaging play written by Harvey Williams from Kansas City, Mo. It takes place in a small town and focuses on a therapy session where five people with different backgrounds come together.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
Directed by: Ile Haggins
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 11 2024
Type of Event: Stage Play
Venue: Just Off Broadway Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $25
Reference Link: http://kcmeltingpot.com/
Description: Edward Albee's classic play follows a middle-aged couple as they manage the vulnerabilities of their marriage. George, a college professor, and his wife, Martha, return to their home after a university faculty party where much alcohol was ingested.
Gaslight (Angel Street)
By: Patrick Hamilton
Directed by: Cinnamon Schultz
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Kansas City Actors Theatre - City Stage in Union Station
City: Kansas City
Price: $20-48
Reference Link: https://www.kcactors.org/shows/gaslight/
Description: This incredible 1938 Victorian thriller, famous for its Oscar-winning adaptation to the big screen, details the dark tale of a marriage based on deceit, and a husband committed to driving his wife to the brink of insanity. Fans of Agatha Christie won’t want to miss this!
Nina Simone: Four Women
By: Christina Ham
Directed by: Malkia Stampley
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Copaken Stage
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/nina-simone-four-women/
Description: Described as “riveting, relevant, and oh so real” (Broadway World), this deeply personal play with music imagines how the iconic chanteuse forged her true calling---and gave voice to countless other Black women fighting to overcome stereotypes and racism.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Howard Ashman, Alan Menken
Directed by: Stuart Carden
Event Date(s): Apr 30 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Spencer Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/little-shop-of-horrors/
Description: Feed the need for musical hilarity with this delicious sci-fi smash about a man-eating plant. A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatregoers for over 30 years.
Nina Simone: Four Women
By: Christina Ham
Directed by: Malkia Stampley
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: Copaken Stage
City: Kansas City
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/nina-simone-four-women/
Description: Described as “riveting, relevant and oh so real” (Broadway World), this deeply personal play with music imagines how the iconic chanteuse gave voice to countless Black women fighting to overcome stereotypes and racism.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Book and lyrics by: Howard Ashman, Music by: Alan Menken
Directed by: Stuart Carden
Event Date(s): Apr 30 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Spencer Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $35-79
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/event/little-shop-of-horrors/
Description: Feed the need for musical hilarity with this delicious sci-fi smash about a man-eating plant. A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatregoers for over 30 years.
A Year With Frog and Toad (TYA Version)
By: Robert and Willie Reale
Directed by: Julia Flood
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Show
Venue: The Grandel Theater
City: St. Louis
Price: $0-38
Reference Link: https://www.metroplays.org/
Description: Even though Frog and Toad find joy and wonder in very different things, their year together is filled with adventure. Dive into the delight of Arnold Lobel’s award-winning books in this three-time Tony-nominated musical.
The Greatest Love for Whitney: A Whitney Houston Tribute
By: Mark Clements
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: St. Louis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Whitney Houston's breathtaking voice skyrocketed her to stardom. Through her powerful anthems to her glamorous elegance on the silver screen, she became an unparalleled icon. The Greatest Love for Whitney celebrates her amazing career and legacy.
Moby Dick
By: David Catlin, adapted from Herman Melville
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: St. Louis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Madness, obsession and bloodlust take harrowing flight in a thrilling revision of Melville’s masterpiece.
The Lion
By: Benjamin Scheuer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: St. Louis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: One man, six guitars and a transformative story. Benjamin Scheuer brilliantly weaves together heartfelt monologues and original songs to take audiences on his own true coming-of-age story.
August: Osage County
By: Tracy Letts
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: St. Louis
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This Pulitzer- and Tony-winning family drama paints a stark and often unflattering picture of the Midwestern family. In this tableau: the pill-popping and manipulative matriarch, a vanished patriarch, and three daughters with secrets of their own.
Hold On!
By: Paul Webb
Directed by: Ron Himes
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Edison Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: theblackrep.org
Description: In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground for suffrage. Hold On!, the inspiration behind the award-winning 2014 feature film Selma, explores the conflict between two extraordinary men, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Fly
By: Joseph Edwards
Directed by: Joseph Edwards
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hotchner Studio Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description: The story centers around an African American man who believes he will receive the power to fly on the night of a special celestial event. As he prepares for the event on a Brooklyn rooftop, he shares the comic, dramatic, and tragic experiences that have pushed him to the edge.
Wedding Band
By: Alice Childress
Directed by: Geovonday Jones
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Catherine B Berges Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description: Set in the Deep South at the end of World War I during the flu epidemic, Alice Childress's unforgettable drama about the romance between Julia, a Black seamstress, and Herman, her white lover, searingly addresses prejudice and ignorance in early 20th-century America.
Timbuktu!
By: Luther Davis
Directed by: Ron Himes
Event Date(s): May 15 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Edison Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description: The story follows Marsinah and the Mansa of Mali, Bobo. While wandering incognito, Bobo meets Marsinah and instantly falls in love. Still, the twisted twine of fate must unravel in many thrilling and exciting ways before the two lovers can finally tie the knot.
King Hedley II
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Ron Himes
Event Date(s): Jun 19 2024 - Jul 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Edison Theatre
City: St. Louis
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description: Peddling stolen refrigerators hoping to open a video store one day, King Hedley, an ex-con, toils with self-worth. Drawing on characters established in Seven Guitars, Wilson shows how shadows of the past can darken the present as King seeks retribution for his mother's lies.
Confluence New Play Festival
By: Various
Directed by: Various
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: New Work Festival
Venue: 3333 Washington
City: St. Louis
Price: $10-30
Reference Link: https://stlshakes.org/confluence
Description: Three new festival-commissioned plays from St. Louis Shakespeare's Missouri and Illinois emerging writers program will premiere as staged readings in a one-weekend celebration. Featured playwrights: Maiya A. Corral (Chicago), Charlie Meyers (St. Louis) and Cameron Noel (Carbondale, Ill.).
As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Nancy Bell
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Free Shakespeare in the Park
Venue: Shakespeare Glen
City: Saint Louis
Price: Free-$50
Reference Link: https://stlshakes.org
Description: Fall in love with Shakespeare’s pastoral romantic comedy featuring the brilliant and resourceful heroine Rosalind. Exiled from the confines of city life to the Forest of Arden, she and her friends are free to explore new identities, friendships, and (of course) love.
The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Tom Ridgely
Event Date(s): Jul 30 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Free Shakespeare in the Park
Venue: Various
City: Saint Louis
Price: $FREE
Reference Link: https://stlshakes.org/tourco
Description: A larger-than-life presentation of Shakespeare's most enchanting romance set on an island full of mischief, magic, and plots of revenge in epic proportions.
A God-Sib’s Tale
By: book and music by Pam Watson, additional lyrics by Nedra Dixon
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://brtkc.org
Description: Tells the story of eight Black women who gather in the sanctuary of their church to confront the chaos that ensues when it is revealed that a child of the town's white benefactors is Black. Set in 1957 during race riots in the fictional Floyd County, Ohio.
Hi-Hat Hattie
By: Larry Parr
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Solo musical
Venue:
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://brtkc.org
Description: This solo musical tour-de-force takes place backstage of an old theatre where Hattie McDaniel recalls the incredible events of her storied show business life. Exact show dates.
Blues in the Night
By: Sheldon Epps
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 13 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://brtkc.org
Description: Co-produced with the White Theatre at the J, this musical revue features 26 hot and torchy numbers that take audiences on a journey through the sweet, sexy, and sorrowful experiences of three women.
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
By: Book by Joe Tracz, music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki, adapted from the book by Rick Riordan
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Featuring a thrilling original rock score, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is an action-packed mythical adventure "worthy of the gods" that stormed Broadway in 2019.
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience
By: Mo Willems, music by Deborah Wicks LaPuma
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Based on the beloved children's book by Mo Willems, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience is a charming rock 'n roll parable that uses energetic songs and quirky characters to encourage young audiences to embrace their originality.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By: Book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman, based on the book by Roald Dahl
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening his marvelous and mysterious chocolate factory… but only to a lucky few!
Poor Clare
By: Chiara Atik
Directed by: Andi Meyer
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Levin Stage | Unicorn Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/poor-clare/
Description: Heart. Humanity. Ye Olde Humor. Clare is a medieval Kardashian with a bright future. In fact, she slays. But when her entourage dismisses her new friend Francis as a clown, she sees something different and quickly realizes the injustice of the world.
Backwards Forwards Back
By: Jacqueline Goldfinger
Directed by: Logan Black
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere Drama
Venue: Jerome Stage | Unicorn Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/backwards-forwards-back/
Description: Healing. Hope. Strength. War changes a person forever. When a soldier returns from Afghanistan carrying the ghosts of their tour, they face the decision to seek help for their PTSD. This electric, one-person play explores the transformative power of virtual reality therapy.
H.O.T. the Musical
By: Shelly Verden & Sarah Crawford
Directed by: Sarah Crawford
Event Date(s): May 08 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Musical
Venue: Levin Stage | Unicorn Theatre
City: Kansas City
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/hot-the-musical/
Description: Epic. Explosive. Empowering. The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships… is just an ambitious young girl named Helen with big dreams. So, what happens when what you want and who you think you are do not fit the expectations of those in charge of your fate?
Don’t Wait for the Marlboro Man
By: Olivier Garofalo, translated by Philip Boehm
Directed by: Philip Boehm
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kranzberg Arts Center
City: St Louis
Price: $25-35
Reference Link: https://www.upstreamtheater.org
Description: Sarah has just received news of her partner's accident and rushed to the hospital, where she encounters the man’s biker buddy. Their ensuing conversation reveals a collision of lifestyles that touches on larger issues—all in an intriguingly theatrical frame.
Nebraska
The Flick
By: Annie Baker
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Lincoln
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Annie Baker's Pulitzer-winning modern classic.
Big Fish
By: John August (book), Andrew Lippa (music), adapted from Daniel Wallace's novel
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - May 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Lincoln
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A musical that celebrates the magic of theatre and the power of a great story, Big Fish is a story of a father's love and his quest to make life magical for his son and everyone he meets.
Night at the Farm: A Bedtime Party
By: Adapted by Jackie Kappes
Directed by: Suzanne Withem
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production
Venue: Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center
City: Omaha
Price: $30.00
Reference Link: https://rosetheater.org/shows/nightfarm/
Description: A young goat named Kid finally gets to attend his first bedtime party. From baking giant pies with Uncle Horse to having a dress up party with Sheep, experience all the musical fun alongside Kid. This world premiere promises to bring out the young party animal in you!
Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds
By: Based on a story by Cedella Marley Music & Lyrics by Bob Marley Adapted for the stage by Michael J. Bobbitt
Directed by: Kathy Tyree
Event Date(s): Feb 23 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production
Venue: Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center
City: Omaha
Price: $30.00
Reference Link: https://rosetheater.org/shows/3littlebirds/
Description: Featuring Bob Marley classics, "Three Little Birds" transports you to a tropical paradise for this modern musical folk tale. Ziggy is afraid to leave the house. With the help of a feathered friends, Ziggy will learn that “every little thing is gonna be all right!”
Red Riding Hood
By: Allison Gregory
Directed by: Suzanne Withem
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production
Venue: Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center
City: Omaha
Price: $30.00
Reference Link: https://rosetheater.org/shows/redridinghood/
Description: Two actors take on all the roles in this furiously fast, funny, and surprising adaptation that asks what it means to bravely write your own story. Like an unexpected package, when you open up a fairy tale, you never know what you’re going to find.
Charlotte’s Web
By: Adapted from the book by E.B. White By Joseph Robinette
Directed by: Stephanie Jacobson
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production
Venue: Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center
City: Omaha
Price: $30.00
Reference Link: https://rosetheater.org/shows/charweb24/
Description: Revisit the timeless magic of a story that’s touched the hearts of generations of families with its universal themes of friendship and selflessness.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By: Book by David Greig. Music by Marc Shaiman. Lyrics by Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman. Based on the novel by ROALD DAHL
Directed by: Matt Gutschick
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production
Venue: Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center
City: Omaha
Price: $32.00 - 37.00
Reference Link: https://rosetheater.org/shows/charlie/
Description: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is your golden ticket to a sweet performance of “Pure Imagination.” Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious candy factory. Young Charlie Bucket and four other winners will embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka’s world.
The Great Leap
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Omaha
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: When a Chinese-American basketball player from the streets of San Francisco lands in Beijing in 1989, he is caught in the middle of a cultural and political battle on and off the court.
More of a Heart
By: Dave Osmundsen
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Omaha
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: As Zachary, an autistic teenager, comes of age in a world that rewards him for neurotypical behavior, he begins to question his feelings about his upbringing.
POTUS: Or Behind Every Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 23 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Omaha
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: When the president unwittingly spins a sexist PR nightmare into a global crisis, seven brilliant and beleaguered women must risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to save the world.
New Jersey
Genesis Festival of New Plays and Voices
By:
Directed by: Sydne Mahone
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: festival of new play readings
Venue: New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
City: New Brunswick
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org/
Description: Genesis is the acclaimed festival from Crossroads that features curated readings of new plays and new voices in the American theatre as well as International. Curated by Sydné Mahone.
Fences
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Ricardo Khan
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
City: New Brunswick
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org/
Description: August Wilson's classic Fences, with a cast from South Africa and the United States.
Our Heritage in Jazz and Blues
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
City: New Brunswick
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org/
Description: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the new South Africa, Crossroads' Jazz and Blues series will feature the music of Miriam Makeba, High Masekela, and more.
Ibsen’s Ghost
By: Charles Busch
Directed by: Carl Andress
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
City: New Brunswick
Price: $
Reference Link: https://georgestreetplayhouse.org/shows/show/ibsens-ghost/
Description: Based on a few irrefutable facts, Ibsen's Ghost tells a tall (and hilarious) tale of the legendary Norwegian playwright's wife Suzannah the week after the great man's state funeral.
The Club
By: Chris Bohjalian
Directed by: David Saint
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
City: New Brunswick
Price: $
Reference Link: https://georgestreetplayhouse.org/shows/show/club/
Description: Chris Bohjalian’s The Club is rich with biting wit and startling twists as it explores racism, marriage, and the lies we tell ourselves daily. And though the play is set in 1968, it’s eerily timely.
tick, tick…BOOM!
By: Jonathan Larson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
City: New Brunswick
Price: $
Reference Link: https://georgestreetplayhouse.org/shows/show/tick-tick-boom2024/
Description: Tick, Tick...Boom!, is the captivating musical masterpiece by the late, great Jonathan Larson (Rent). Set in the bustling streets of New York City, this electrifying production ignites the stage with raw emotion and unyielding passion.
Caroline, or Change
By: Book and lyrics by Tony Kushner, Music by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by: Lili-Anne Brown
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: McCarter Theatre Center
City: Princeton
Price: $25-100
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/season/2023-2024/theater/caroline-or-change/
Description: In 1963, Caroline is a Black woman working as a maid, and Noah is a Jewish boy coming of age after personal tragedy. Their lives intertwine in this powerful musical set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, as two families make sense of the world and each other.
Choice
By: Winnie Holzman
Directed by: Sarah Rasmussen
Event Date(s): May 08 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: McCarter Theatre Center
City: Princeton
Price: $25-60
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/season/2023-2024/theater/choice/
Description: In this comic, surreal, and thought-provoking play, journalist Zipporah Zunder has landed the story of her life: investigating a controversial social phenomenon that could reframe the way we think about the right to choose.
Esspy
By: Nandita Shenoy
Directed by: Peter J. Kuo
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Comic-Drama
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Company
City: Long Branch
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://njrep.org
Description: A comic drama about a young medical student embarking on a journey he never expected.
The Two Hander
By: Julia Blauvelt
Directed by: SuzAnne Barabas
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Co
City: Long Branch
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://njrep.org/show/the-two-hander/
Description: Therapy first-timer Claire feels immediately understood by Diana, her sharp and witty therapist. But there are obstacles in the room as patient and doctor come to rely on each other in a way that transcends the office.
The Two Hander
By: Julia Blauvelt
Directed by: SuzAnne Barabas
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: MainStage
City: Long Branch
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://njrep.org/show/the-two-hander/
Description: Therapy first-timer Claire is reluctant to undergo psychotherapy. But after a few sessions with Diana, her unorthodox, sharp-witted therapist, a sort of trust begins to form between the two. But there are obstacles in the room as patient and doctor dig deeper.
The Bookstore
By: Michael Walek
Directed by: William Carden
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Co
City: Long Branch
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://njrep.org/show/the-bookstore/
Description: January. New York City. A small independent bookstore. A year later, everything changes. Or does it?
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.
Premiere Play Festival
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: New Play Reading Festival
Venue: Bauer Boucher Theatre Center
City: Union
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://premierestagesatkean.com/
Description: The Premiere Play Festival is an annual competition for unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to playwrights with strong affiliations to New York, New Jersey, and surrounding states. Four playwrights will each receive professional readings over the four days.
Still
By: Benjamin V. Marshall
Directed by: Marshall Jones III
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: New Play Premiere
Venue: Bauer Boucher Theatre Center
City: Union
Price: $15-$35
Reference Link: https://premierestagesatkean.com/
Description: In 1850s New Jersey, Peter has arrived at an abolitionist office seeking help from its director, William, a leader in the Underground Railroad. As the two men learn more about each other's lives, their vastly different pasts will lead them to a deeply connected future.
Diversion
By: Scott Organ
Directed by: John J. Wooten
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: New Play Premiere
Venue: Bauer Boucher Theatre Center
City: Union
Price: $15-$35
Reference Link: https://premierestagesatkean.com/
Description: Emilia is a devoted nurse in an ICU unit, highly regarded by her boss and peers. When it’s discovered that someone is diverting (stealing) medicine on the unit, the nurses are unsettled, particularly when a consultant shows up, effectively placing them all under a microscope.
The Scarlet Letter
By: By Kate Hamill, Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Directed by: Shelley Butler
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Two River Theater Co
City: Red Bank
Price: $50.00-80.00
Reference Link: https://tworivertheater.org/whats-on/the-scarlet-letter/
Description: Hester Prynne dares to strive for a better life for herself and her daughter. Kate Hamill (Pride and Prejudice, Little Women), one of American theatre’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, reimagines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale of courage.
A Thousand Maids
By: by Tony Meneses
Directed by: Directed by May Adrales
Event Date(s): Apr 06 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: World premiere comedy
Venue: Two River Theater Co
City: Red Bank
Price: $50.00-80.00
Reference Link: https://tworivertheater.org/whats-on/a-thousand-maids/
Description: Cordelia’s stuck. Cordelia needs to design a maid’s costume, but she can’t stop thinking about The Help and Maid in Manhattan and Gone with the Wind and As Good As It Gets and… and… and… How can she find a way to show these women for who they really are?
Gem of the Ocean
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Event Date(s): Jun 08 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Two River Theater
City: Red Bank
Price: $50.00-80.00
Reference Link: https://tworivertheater.org/whats-on/gem-of-the-ocean/
Description: Citizen Barlow is looking for peace. To get it, he’ll knock at Aunt Ester’s door every day if that’s what it takes. Set in 1904, the opening installment in August Wilson’s The American Century Cycle includes the playwright’s most fantastical journey.
New Mexico
Two Artists in Person
By: Theater Grottesco
Directed by: John Flax
Event Date(s): May 23 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Teatro Paraguas Second Space, 3205 Calle Marie Suite A
City: Santa Fe
Price: $20-100
Reference Link: https://www.theatergrottesco.org/tickets
Description: In an imagined near future where teachers, journalists, artists and all who are “different” are imprisoned, two artists must tell a story every day to appease the guards. Today, the story is Beowulf and one of the prisoners doesn’t know the story.
Two Artists in Prison
By: The Ensemble
Directed by: John Flax
Event Date(s): May 23 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: original premiere
Venue: Paraguas Theater
City: Santa Fe
Price: pay what you wish - $35
Reference Link: https://theatergrottesco.org
Description: In an imagined near future, two artists are in prison. Each day they receive a slip of paper from the guards with the name of a story the guards want to hear. Today the story is Beowulf. Only one of the prisoners knows the story. Physical theatre in a 10' x 10' cell.
New York
The Folks at Home
By: R. Eric Thomas
Directed by: Daniel F. Lendzian
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 02 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/folks
Description: A sitcom about what happens when *all* the in-laws move in. Roger and Brandon are an interracial couple living in South Baltimore and doing the best they can. A late mortgage, months of unemployment, and a possible ghost in the attic make things...complicated.
Particle
By: Selda Sahin, Derek Gregor, Autumn Reeser
Directed by: Chris J Handley
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 18 2024
Type of Event: New Musical
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/particle
Description: When 17-year-old Cora is recruited by a professional eSports gaming team, she leaves her twin brother at home in New Mexico to set out on a brave new adventure. A brand new gamer musical about growing up, meeting your heroes, and what it takes to level up!
Mirele Lernt Zich Yiddish
By: Miryam Coppersmith
Directed by: Elijah J. Jones
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $10 - $25
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/solofest-2024
Description: She’s a one-woman cabal out to reclaim a rich cultural heritage nearly erased by persecution and assimiliation. Dancing, songs, improv, puppets (and a bisl Yiddish)---it’s a klezmer dance party! And you’re invited!
Top Drawer
By: Adelaide Mestre
Directed by: Coco Cohn
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $10 - $25
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/solofest-2024
Description: From pre-revolutionary Cuba to Manhattan’s Upper East Side and back again, Adelaide Mestre spins an autobiographical tale of family, trauma, triumph, and the search for a lost piano that will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even…sing! Show #2 in BST's 2024 SoloFest
The Great Divide
By: Amy Crossman
Directed by: Scott Ebersold
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $10 - $25
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/solofest-2024
Description: Everything is fine! No, seriously, no one’s got a drinking problem, and the panic attacks are just, no, they’re---it’s fine, everything’s fine! A tragicomic roller coaster ride through love, heartbreak, and choosing life in the face of incalculable loss. 2024 SoloFest show #3
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Steven Patterson
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org
Description: A revival of BST's criticallyacclaimed 2023 production of Tennessee Williams's classic drama of family ties, lost dreams, and shattered illusions.
Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
Directed by: John Sowle
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org
Description: The U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson's adaptation of Chekhov's classic tragicomic masterpiece.
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 05 2024 - Jul 21 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/birthday-candles/
Description: Originally developed as a new play workshop during the 2017 season and then performed around the country, Chautauqua will finally mount its own full production of Birthday Candles. What a fitting way to open CTC’s mainstage season and celebrate Chautauqua Institution’s 150th!
Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 27 2024 - Aug 04 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/fabulation/
Description: Fabulation is a sharp-witted satirical comedy that takes us from riches to rags, through twists and turns, and reveals the unexpected joys within chaos.
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.
Ernie’s Secret Life
By: Renee Philippi
Directed by: Renee Philippi
Event Date(s): Jan 04 2024 - Jan 27 2024
Type of Event: Theatre/Puppetry
Venue: Dixon Place
City: New York
Price: $15 - $25
Reference Link: https://dixonplace.org/
Description: An episodic odyssey sparked by the isolation and devastation of our time, Ernie's Secret Life blends puppetry, humor, and a raw understanding of our profound collective reality. Unfolding alongside ever-changing puppetry and stagecraft techniques, it is a story of discovery.
Packrat
By: Renee Philippi
Directed by: Renee Philippi
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre/Puppetry
Venue: The Center for Puppetry Arts
City: Atlanta
Price: $17.60-$22
Reference Link: https://puppet.org/programs/?location=center
Description: Packrat is a visually stunning puppet-forward play that contemplates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Inspired by the classic adventure novel Watership Down, Packrat follows one peculiar rodent on his journey to discover the interconnectedness of life.
Las Borinqueñas
By: Nelson Diaz-Marcano
Directed by: Rebecca Aparicio
Event Date(s): Apr 01 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ensemble Studio Theatre
City: New York
Price: $30
Reference Link: estnyc.org
Description: This is the story of the birth control pill and the women who sacrificed everything for a chance to live free. Presented in collaboration with the Latinx Playwrights Circle.
Dial M for Murder
By: Frederick Knott, Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Rachel Alderman
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Geva Theatre Center
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/dial-m-for-murder/
Description: Betrayal, deception, and murder. This gripping adaptation of the classic mystery Dial M for Murder sparks a thrilling web of suspicion. A co-production with Dallas Theater Center.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
By: Lanie Robertson
Directed by: Jeffrey L. Page
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Geva Theatre Center
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/lady-day/
Description: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill recounts Billie Holiday’s life story through the songs that made her famous. In a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that, unbeknownst to her audience, will leave them witnesses to one of the last performances of her lifetime.
Sanctuary City
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Geva Theatre Center
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://gevatheatre.org/show/sanctuary-city/
Description: From Pulitzer winner Martyna Majok comes this poignant and invigorating drama. Two Dreamers, one unbreakable friendship, and a fight to stay in the only home they’ve known: America. A Kitchen Theatre Company production.
Newtown
By: Dan O'Brien
Directed by: Elizabeth Williamson
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/newtown/
Description: Unflinching and lyrical, Newtown portrays four parents whose lives have been changed forever as they search for hope and healing.
The Color Purple
By: Alice Walker; Book by Marsha Norman
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 28 2024 - Jun 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Geva Theatre Center
City: Rochester
Price: $
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/show/the-color-purple/
Description: Follow Celie’s journey as she finds her voice and discovers the power of love in this beloved musical. This intimate version of this landmark musical celebrates life, love, and the strength to stand up for who you are and what you believe in. A co-production with Theatre Latté Da.
Terce: A Practical Breviary
By: Heather Christian
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Feb 02 2024
Type of Event: Opera theatre
Venue: HERE
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A radical rethinking of a monastic 9:00 a.m. mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the “Holy Spirit” through the lens of the Divine Feminine.
Medea: Re-Versed
By: Luis Quintero
Directed by: Nathan Winkelstein
Event Date(s): Jun 11 2024 - Sep 02 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Outdoor Tent
City: Garrison
Price: $10-100
Reference Link: https://hvshakespeare.org
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 Red Bull and Bedlam.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
By: Heidi Armbruster, Adapted from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Ryan Quinn
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Outdoor Tent
City: Garrison
Price: $10-100
Reference Link: https://hvshakespeare.org
Description: “Everyone has something to hide.” The murder of Roger Ackroyd sends shockwaves through the tight-knit community of King’s Abbot, a drowsy village now awash with suspicion and secrecy. Not to fear—a certain mustachioed Belgian detective is on the case!
By the Queen
By: Whitney White, Adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Richard III
Directed by: Shana Cooper
Event Date(s): Jun 15 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Outdoor Tent
City: Garrison
Price: $10-100
Reference Link: https://hvshakespeare.org
Description: What does it take to survive? Everything. It takes everything. By the Queen is a sharp, humorous, and of-the-moment look at Shakespeare’s story of the War of the Roses, through the lens of one extraordinary woman’s reflections on her remarkable life.
Faith Healer
By: Brian Friel
Directed by: Josephine Hogan
Event Date(s): Jan 05 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $12-$45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/
Description:
Betrayal
By: Harold Pinter
Directed by: Greg Natale
Event Date(s): Feb 23 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $12-$45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/
Description:
The Price
By: Arthur Miller
Directed by: Fortunato Pezzimenti
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $12-$45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/the-price/
Description:
Private Lives
By: Noël Coward
Directed by: Chris Kelly
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Andrews Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $12-$45
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/private-lives/
Description:
Sanctuary City
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Sara Lampert Hoover
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production
Venue: Kitchen Theatre Company
City: Ithaca
Price: $15-$42
Reference Link: https://www.kitchentheatre.org
Description: In post-9/11 Newark, N.J., two teenagers who were brought to America as children find solace in each other as they navigate barriers to reaching the American dream.
The Turnaway Play
By: Lesley Lisa Greene
Directed by: Rachel Lampert
Event Date(s): May 08 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Production
Venue: Kitchen Theatre Company
City: Ithaca
Price: $15-$42
Reference Link: https://www.kitchentheatre.org
Description: With honesty and humor, the play reaches beyond our polarizing political conversation to look deeply into one of the most important issues of our time: women's health.
Brooklyn Laundry
By: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: John Patrick Shanley
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Off-Broadway
Venue: City Center Stage 1
City: Manhattan
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/shows/2023-24-season/brooklyn-laundry/
Description: Sometimes big things start from little things; in this case, a bag of laundry. Shanley’s latest is about three sisters and a guy who runs a laundry in Brooklyn, and the sometimes savage tricks life plays on them. Tragic and funny by turns, this story will remind you what is important in life... and the sorrow and joy of fully embracing adulthood.
Packages O’ the Things We Deliver
By: Oya Mae Dxtchxss-Davis
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Chelsea Factory
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Packages O’ The Things We Deliver is about brotherhood, redemption, and the threat that police violence has in the Black community.
The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout
By: Jonathan McCrory
Directed by: Jonathan McCrory
Event Date(s): Jun 01 2024 - Jun 01 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue: Kennedy Center
City: Washington, D.C.
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout is a one-night-only musically-driven theatrical performance centering the soul of Black folks and the heart of America's brilliant and bitter present through orchestral and choral music.
Bloodwork
By: Kristen Adele Calhoun
Directed by: vickie washington
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2024 - Jun 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Chelsea Factory
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Bloodwork takes us on a journey of 12 generations of women converging in this epic journey across time and space in the name of deep healing.
Hilma
By: Kate Scelsa, music by Robert M. Johanson
Directed by: Morgan Green
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The early-20th-century queer mystic and artist Hilma af Klint channeled hundreds of paintings through messages from otherworldly forces, hoping to communicate the mysteries of the universe. A coproduction of New Georges and the Wilma.
The Infinite Wrench
By: New York Neo-Futurists
Directed by: New York Neo-Futurists
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Dec 21 2024
Type of Event: Weekly Variety Show
Venue: 154 (formerly the Neo Ohio)
City: New York
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://nynf.org/tiw
Description: The Infinite Wrench is a barrage of 30 short plays the ensemble attempts to perform in an hour. Each play offers something different---some are funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or a song. To date, the NY Neos have created over 7,000 plays.
Warrior Sisters of Wu
By: Damon Chua
Directed by: Jeff Liu
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A.R.T./NY Mezzanine Theatre
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Adapted from the Chinese classic "Romance of Three Kingdoms" and inspired in part by "Pride and Prejudice" and "Much Ado About Nothing," this play follows the romantic exploits and comic misadventures of two young couples.
Teeth
By: Book by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson Music by Anna K. Jacobs Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by: Choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly Directed by Sarah Benson
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Feb 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Playwrights Horizons
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.playwrightshorizons.org/shows/seasons/202324/
Description: Dawn O’Keefe is an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret not even she understands– when men violate her, her body bites back. Literally.
Staff Meal
By: Abe Koogler
Directed by: Morgan Green
Event Date(s): Apr 01 2024 - Apr 30 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Playwrights Horizons
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.playwrightshorizons.org/shows/seasons/202324/
Description: Outside, the world is breaking apart. But in here, a group of lonely city dwellers gather to find comfort and connection.
The Imaginary Invalid
By: Molière, Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Jesse Berger
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2024 - Feb 19 2024
Type of Event: Reading - Online and In Person
Venue: Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute Alliance Française
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/all-events
Description: From the team that brought you the acclaimed romp The Alchemist and the hit version of inane corruption à la Gogol, The Government Inspector.
The Revenge
By: Edward Young
Directed by: Nathan Winkelstein
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2024 - Jan 22 2024
Type of Event: Reading - Online and In Person
Venue: Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/all-events
Description: Zanga vows revenge on his master who killed his father and enslaved him. He turns Alonzo against his best friend Don Carlo and his love Leonora with the help of his lover Leonora's maid. It has many similarities to Shakespeare's Othello and is said to be based on a true story.
Antony & Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 25 2024 - Mar 25 2024
Type of Event: Reading – In Person Only
Venue: Playwrights Horizons Mainstage
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/all-events
Description: Shakespeare's classic tragedy, presented in partnership with the Acting Company.
The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jesse Berger
Event Date(s): Apr 29 2024 - Apr 29 2024
Type of Event: Reading – In Person & Online
Venue: Playwrights Horizons Mainstage
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/all-events
Description: Set on a remote island, where Prospero lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants, Caliban and Ariel. The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes, including magic, betrayal, revenge, and family.
Medea: Re-Versed
By: Luis Quintero, adapted from Euripides
Directed by: Nathan Winkelstein
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: heen 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 Light Fantastic
By: Ike Holter
Directed by: Scott Behrend & John Hurley
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Theater
City: Buffalo
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/the-light-fantastic
Description: In an unremarkable town in rural Indiana, on an uneventful evening, something truly terrible occurs, and a small family is thrust into a tit-for-tat game of survival against inhuman forces. Equal parts drama and comedy, it brings old school horror into the now and new.
The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence
By: Madeleine George
Directed by: Katie Mallinson
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Theater
City: Buffalo
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/the-curious-case-of-the-watson-intelligence
Description: Sherlock Holmes’s trusty companion. Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell. The supercomputer Jeopardy! champ. And a Dweeb Team everyman. Four Watsons in three centuries tell one tale in this playful, time-traveling drama about the human heart and the technology on which it relies.
Sunset Baby
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Steve H. Broadnax III
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Signature Theatre
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://signaturetheatre.org/2024-season/https://
Description: East New York, Brooklyn. Nina’s estranged father Kenyatta, a former Black revolutionary and political prisoner, reappears to obtain a coveted piece of her late mother's legacy. While Kenyatta had visions of changing the world, his daughter became everything he feared.
Orlando
By: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: Will Davis
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Signature Theatre Company
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://signaturetheatre.org/2024-season/
Description: Playwright Sarah Ruhl adapts Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, once called “the longest and most charming love letter in literature,” written by Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West. This theatrical, wild, fantastical trip features the one and only Taylor Mac in the title role.
Three Houses
By: Dave Malloy
Directed by: Anne Tippe
Event Date(s): Apr 30 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Signature Theatre Company
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://signaturetheatre.org/2024-season/
Description: Susan is in Latvia. Sadie is in New Mexico. Beckett is in Ireland. All three are alone; all three are haunted by their grandparents; all three hear the Big Bad Wolf scratching at the door.
The Fires
By: Raja Feather Kelly
Directed by: Raja Feather Kelly
Event Date(s): May 08 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In 1971, 1998, and 2021, three different men in a South Brooklyn railroad apartment write, read, fuck each other (or don’t), eat, drink, diet, breakup, make up, fight, and flirt at the same time.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Chip Miller
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $40+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/clydes
Description: This masterful and delicious new dramedy has it all: wit, heart, snappy dialogue, big surprises, and the search for the perfect sandwich. Deeply felt, quirky, and urgent.
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
By: Agatha Christie | Adapted by Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Robert Hupp
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $40+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/murder
Description: Wherever famed detective Poirot goes, murder is never far behind! An avalanche stops the famed Orient Express, and Poirot must solve the on-board murder before the killer strikes again!
Once
By: Book by Enda Walsh | Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
Directed by: Melissa Crespo
Event Date(s): May 01 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $40+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/once
Description: The exuberant spirit of a lively pub session meets an out-of-the-ordinary love story in this irresistible musical based on the beloved indie film. Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
Jersey Boys
By: Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice. Music by Bob Gaudio. Lyrics by Bob Crewe.
Directed by: Brett Smock
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2024 - Jun 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $42-77
Reference Link: https://therevtheatre.com/2024season/
Description: Jersey Boys is the international musical phenomenon that takes you behind the scenes—and behind the music—of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
Newsies
By: Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Jack Feldman. Book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on the Disney film written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White.
Directed by: Brett Smock
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Jul 27 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $42-77
Reference Link: https://therevtheatre.com/2024season/
Description: Jack Kelly and his ragtag team of newsies make a meager living selling newspapers on the streets of NYC. But when the prices of “papes” are hiked, hanging the newsies out to dry, there is nothing left to do but "seize the day!" Inspired by the real-life newsboys strike of 1899.
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: Revised book by Eric Ulloa based on the original script by Troy Britton Johnson, Todd Johnson, and Eric Pfeffinger. Orchestrations and arrangements by: Brian Usifer.
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!
Public Obscenities
By: Shayok Misha Chowdhury
Directed by: Shayok Misha Chowdhury
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Brooklyn
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Public Obscenities explores the pleasures and pitfalls of living in translation as it follows a queer studies PhD student returning to his family home in Kolkata with his Black American boyfriend. A coproduction among Woolly Mammoth, Soho Rep., NAATCO National Partnership Project
Macbeth (an undoing)
By: Zinnie Harris
Directed by: Zinnie Harris
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Brooklyn
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: When Zinnie Harris’ Macbeth (an undoing) made its world premiere at Royal Lyceum Theatre earlier this year, The Guardian praised the “audacious conjuring” of Macbeth and the “superb” Nicole Cooper in her turn as Lady Macbeth (which she’ll reprise for TFANA).
Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy
By: Sarah Gancher
Directed by: Darko Tresnjak
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Off-Broadway Play
Venue: Vineyard Theatre
City: New York City
Price: Tickets start at $35
Reference Link: https://vineyardtheatre.org/showsevents/
Description: Office comedy meets political satire in Sarah Gancher’s shape-shifting, funny, and incisive examination of the power, seduction, and danger of a good story, set in Russia's infamous (real-life) Internet Research Agency during the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Fish
By: Kia Corthron
Directed by: Adrienne D. Williams
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2024 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Four in Theatre Row
City: New York City
Price: $20-80
Reference Link: https://www.keencompany.org/
Description: Through the interconnected stories of one vibrant high school senior and her extraordinary educator, Fish thoughtfully explores the challenges facing the New York City school system and celebrates the powerful bond between teacher and student. A co-production with Keen Company.
North Carolina
Hymn
By: Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by: marcus d. harvey
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Burning Coal Theatre Co
City: Raleigh
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://burningcoal.org
Description: Rollickingly elegiac story of two adult brothers who meet for the first time at their father's funeral and discover a part of themselves they thought did not exist.
A Little Night Music
By: Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Directed by: Jerome Davis
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Burning Coal Theatre Co
City: Raleigh
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://burningcoal.org
Description: Sondheim's ode to the mysteries of love and nature.
School House Rock Live!
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 13 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
City: Charlotte
Price: Starting at $17.10
Reference Link: https://bit.ly/2324schoolhouserock
Description: Get ready to rock as the pop culture phenomenon hits the stage. The alarm clock rings and Tom awakens, nervous to start his first day of teaching. He turns on the TV to relax and is surprised when the voices he hears in his head come to life as characters in the television set!
Pinocchio
By: Greg Banks
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 03 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
City: Charlotte
Price: Starting at $17
Reference Link: https://bit.ly/2324pinocchio
Description: The classic tale takes on new life in a fast-paced fun-filled farce. High among the scaffolding, a group of painters begin the day’s work. Using the objects around them, they bring the story of Pinocchio to life in real-time, creative fashion.
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
City: Charlotte
Price: Starting at $17.10
Reference Link: https://bit.ly/2324catchingthemoon
Description: Inspired by the true story of Toni Stone, the first woman to play for an all-male professional baseball team, this musical follows young Marcenia Lyle on her journey on the diamond and at home. This production is part of The Kindness Project.
Djembe Fire
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2024 - Mar 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
City: Charlotte
Price: Starting at $17
Reference Link: https://bit.ly/djembefire
Description: Master drummers and dancers combine the fire of the djembe (drum) with colorful costumes and high-energy music that will make you want to get up and dance. Feel the heartbeat of Africa come to life in this powerhouse performance.
Elephant & Piggie’s ‘We Are in a Play!’
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 13 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
City: Charlotte
Price: Starting at $22
Reference Link: https://bit.ly/2324elephantandpiggie
Description: Celebrated author Mo Willem’s beloved characters come to life in a jazzy musical based on the award-winning, best-selling children’s books. After fumbling and breaking their new toy, bestest friends Gerald and Piggie realize they are in a play.
Danny, King of the Basement
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 20 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
City: Charlotte
Price: Starting at $17.10
Reference Link: https://bit.ly/2324danny
Description: A powerful story that proves home is more than simply where you live.
Pigs is Pigs
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
City: Charlotte
Price: Starting at $11
Reference Link: https://bit.ly/2324pigs
Description: Cuteness is on overload in this humorous story where guinea pigs steal the show.
Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help
By: Katie Forgette
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Asheville
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s 1973 and 19 year old Linda O’Shea has been tasked by her mother with explaining the birds and the bees to her little sister. Things quickly snowball into crisis after the conversation is overheard by the parish priest.
Witch
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Asheville
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
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. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a “witch” and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought.
Thurgood
By: George Stevens Jr.
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Asheville
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: From his landmark victory in Brown v. Board of Education to becoming the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall devoted his life to the pursuit of a more just world. This captivating one-man play explores his work and life.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Jade King Carroll
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Show
Venue: Paul Green Theatre
City: Chapel Hill
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://playmakersrep.org/show/fat-ham/
Description: Your typical Southern family cookout just got anything but. Juicy gets a visit from his father’s ghost seeking revenge for his death by his brother—now married to his mother! Sound familiar? Pass the napkins, because things are about to get messy...
Murder on the Orient Express
By: Ken Ludwig, based on the novel by Agatha Christie
Directed by: Tracy Bersley
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Show
Venue: Paul Green Theatre
City: Chapel Hill
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://playmakersrep.org/show/murder-on-the-orient-express/
Description: A luxurious train ride comes to a halt when a passenger is found dead. With a murderer on the loose, the passengers of the Orient Express must band together before the body count goes up. All aboard for this fast-paced ride inspired by Agatha Christie’s classic novel.
The Game
By: Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by: Vivienne Benesch
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Paul Green Theatre
City: Chapel Hill
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://playmakersrep.org/show/the-game/
Description: Alyssa and Homer are in a marriage that’s hit a glitch. And it’s all due to the massively engrossing online game that’s wreaking havoc on the lives of couples everywhere. When she puts together a support group for other women in a similar situation, the game enters a new level.
Ohio
Dracula
By: Vanessa Severo in collaboration with Joanie Schultz
Directed by: Joanie Schultz and Vanessa Severo
Event Date(s): Feb 03 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Moe and Jack's Place — The Rouse Theatre
City: Cincinnati
Price: $Starts at $35 depending on seat location and performance day, and they are subject to change.
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/productions/dracula
Description: Pulsing with humor, humanity, and blood-curdling thrills, this bold and highly theatrical world premiere breathes new life and new blood into the most famous vampire story of all time.
Stew
By: Zora Howard
Directed by: Stori Ayers
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starts at $35 depending on seat location and performance day, and they are subject to change.
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/productions/stew
Description: Three generations of Black women gather in Mama’s kitchen to cook an important meal, and closely held details of their lives rise slowly to the surface.
The Chosen
By: Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok
Directed by: Aaron Posner
Event Date(s): Apr 13 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Moe and Jack's Place – The Rouse Theatre
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starts at $35 depending on seat location and performance day, and they are subject to change.
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/productions/the-chosen
Description: This thought-provoking adaptation of Chaim Potok’s classic novel is a heartfelt exploration of Jewish culture and the human ability to reach out across differences.
Vietgone
By: Qui Nguyen
Directed by: Joanie Schultz
Event Date(s): Apr 27 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starts at $35 depending on seat location and performance day, and they are subject to change.
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/productions/vietgone
Description: This all-American love story about two very new Americans reinvents the romantic comedy genre and captures your heart.
The Amen Corner
By: James Baldwin
Directed by: Candice Handy
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$74
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/event/amencorner/
Description: James Baldwin’s scalding and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theatre proves that it is faith, and the love we have for our community, that sees us through.
Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Brian Isaac Phillips
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2024 - Mar 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$74
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/event/caesar/
Description: In this contemporary view of a ferocious tale of power and loyalty, these infamous characters face the consequences of betrayal and the brutal nature of tyranny.
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jeremy Dubin
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$74
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/event/muchado/
Description: No romantic comedy is complete without a couple of lovers, their group of scheming friends, and a destination wedding. You’re invited to this witty rom-com complete with rumors, enemies-to-lovers, and saucy gossip.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
Directed by: Brian Isaac Phillips
Event Date(s): May 22 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$74
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/event/wrongplay/
Description: In this fantastic, farcical fiasco of a show, an Off-Broadway and West End comedic hit, the age-old adage is true: “The show must go wrong!” Oops, sorry, we mean, “The show must go on!”
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer
Directed by: Melissa Rain Anderson
Event Date(s): Feb 10 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2023/the-play-that-goes-wrong
Description: A troupe of actors presents a 1920s murder mystery with disastrous results, where everything---literally---goes wrong. An international hit that’s equal parts Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes, The Play That Goes Wrong is full of mishaps, mischief, and madcap mania!
Amadeus
By: Peter Shaffer
Directed by: Laura Gordon
Event Date(s): Apr 06 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Outcalt Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2023/amadeus
Description: A fictitious examination of the rivalry between renowned Italian composers Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Musical history is enlivened and reimagined in Peter Shaffer’s award-winning parable about malice, madness, and the love of music.
In the Heights
By: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiera Alegría Hudes
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 11 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2023/in-the-heights
Description: The unbearable July heat has the denizens of NYC’s Washington Heights neighborhood in the streets shouting, “Que calor!” The once vibrant community must rally together to preserve their culture and their way of life. A music-filled story of hope, heritage, and healing love.
Pride and Prejudice
By: Kate Hamill
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!
Y-Haven Theatre Project
By: Members of Y-Haven, a branch of the YMCA and Cleveland Public Theatre artists
Directed by: Melissa Crum
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Workshop Reading
Venue: Gordon Square Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatres-making-waves-in-their-2023-2024-season/
Description: Y-Haven Theatre Project, a 25-year partnership between Cleveland Public Theatre and Y-Haven, a branch of the YMCA, clients create an original theatre production that shares powerful stories of recovery and personal triumph. Show also tours to substance abuse treatment centers.
Alter
By: Tania Benites
Directed by: Kari Barclay
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: James Levin Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: Choose What You Pay
Reference Link: https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatres-making-waves-in-their-2023-2024-season/
Description: Using a self-help book titled Hypnosis for Self-Confidence, customer service representative Maria seeks ultimate self-improvement to succeed in the corporate world. However, she soon discovers that the best version of herself may be her worst enemy.
Test Flight 2024
By: Various Northeast Ohio Playwrights
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: A New Play Festival
Venue: James Levin Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: Choose What You Pay
Reference Link: https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatres-making-waves-in-their-2023-2024-season/
Description: A multi-week series showcasing new work by new and seasoned playwrights on its way to full production. The series provides artists the opportunity to co-produce original works-in-progress. Works by alum of the program have gone on to have NNPN Rolling World Premieres.
DanceWorks 2024
By: Various
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 11 2024
Type of Event: Dance
Venue: Gordon Square Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: Choose What You Pay
Reference Link: https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatres-making-waves-in-their-2023-2024-season/
Description: Every year, Cleveland Public Theatre welcomes Northeast Ohio’s most adventurous dance companies to the CPT stage for remarkable premiere performances featuring a mix of groups and styles including ballet, modern, African, Indian, liturgical/praise, and more.
At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen
By: Terry Guest
Directed by: Preston Crowder
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $22-$42 PWYC available at the door
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/drag-queen
Description: This is a play about the art of drag, from African gods to Whitney Houston. This irreverent, funny, and moving new play uses storytelling, drama, and drag to celebrate Blackness and Southern queerness while exploring identity, illness, and self-identity. Come party at the wake.
Something Clean
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Shannon Sindelar
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $22-$42 PWYC available at the door
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/something-clean
Description: The line between love and complicity isn’t clean. Charlotte is a devoted mother, wife, and respectable member of the community. But when an act of violence is committed by a member of her own home, she must confront a new reality as her once immaculate world is tainted forever.
Significant Other
By: Joshua Harmon
Directed by: Colin Anderson
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $22-$42 PWYC available at the door
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/significant-other
Description: From the acclaimed writer of Bad Jews is a comedy about companionship, loneliness, and love. How do you make life work for yourself when you feel that you’re not living the life you’re supposed to be living or want to be living, and how do you deal with the things you can't control?
How I Learned What I Learned
By: August Wilson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 17 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/how-i-learned-what-i-learned/
Description: You know August Wilson's iconic work. Now know him. Discover how a community created one of America’s most legendary writers in this intimate tour-de-force.
How I Learned What I Learned
By: August Wilson, co-conceived by Todd Kreidler
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 17 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This autobiographical tour-de-force chronicles Wilson’s days as a struggling young writer.
The Match Game
By: Steven Strafford
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 13 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/the-match-game/
Description: This hilarious world premiere comedy sees a family upside-down as they do everything but tell the truth to get what they need.
The Match Game
By: Steven Strafford
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 13 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Steph has typical mid-life woes on her plate: a precocious daughter about to graduate high school and an absentee father who just moved in, who may or may not be faking dementia. Oh, and did we mention she has a little bit of cancer?
Hands on a Hardbody
By: Book by Doug Wright | Lyrics by Amanda Green | Music by Trey Anastasio & Amanda Green
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 08 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/hands-on-a-hardbody/
Description: Start your engines. The American dream is close enough to touch for 10 hard-luck Texans in the revival of this favorite rock musical.
Hands on a Hardbody
By: Book by Doug Wright, lyrics by Amanda Green, music by Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 08 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Based on the 1997 documentary film of the same name, Hands on a Hardbody follows 10 hard-luck Texans for whom a new lease on life is so close they can touch it.
Kairos
By: Lisa Sanaye Dring
Directed by: Rebecca Wear
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/kairos
Description: A budding relationship is tested by the advent of a procedure that grants immortality to a select few. What happens to commitment, meaning, and care when linear time breaks open?
The Light Chasers
By: Music & lyrics by Craig Minowa
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/the-light-chasers
Description: With her father 10 years into an improbable mission to the stars, a teenage girl vows to find a way to reach him across the lightyears to reunite her family. The Light Chasers is a world premiere theatrical adventure based upon the album Light Chasers by Cloud Cult.
Pillow Talk
By: Shadowbox Live
Directed by: Julie Klein
Event Date(s): Jan 04 2024 - Apr 27 2024
Type of Event: Original comedy shorts and music performances
Venue: Shadowbox Live
City: Columbus
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://shadowboxlive.org
Description: An original collection of comedy shorts and music performances dedicated to the fun we have between the sheets.
The Dream and Beyond
By: Jimmy Mak
Directed by: Julie Klein
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Original meta-media production
Venue: Shadowbox Live
City: Columbus
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://shadowboxlive.org
Description: Shadowbox Live's original meta-media production The Dream and Beyond celebrates the modern struggles and victories of the modern Civil Rights Era through an anthology of stories, dance, and music.
Evolutionaries: The Stories and Music of David Bowie and Prince
By: Shadowbox Live
Directed by: Julie Klein
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Music Tribute
Venue: Shadowbox Live
City: Columbus
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://shadowboxlive.org
Description: Evolutionaries: The Stories and Music of David Bowie and Prince, pays tribute to two changelings who revolutionized music, fashion, and pop culture.
Behind Closed Doors
By: Shadowbox Live
Directed by: Julie Klein
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Original comedy shorts and music performances
Venue: Shadowbox Live
City: Columbus
Price: $
Reference Link: https://shadowboxlive.org
Description: This original collection of comedy shorts and music performances shouts the sweet nothings and bares all the dirty little secrets we keep.
The Color Purple
By: book by Marsha Norman, music & lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, Stephen Bray
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Garden Theatre
City: Columbus
Price: $34-66
Reference Link: https://www.shortnorthstage.org/the-color-purple
Description: Adapted from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the musical gives insight into the healing power of love and a downtrodden young Black woman’s personal awakening over 40 years.
The Prom
By: book & lyrics by Chad Beguelin, book by Bob Martin, music by Matthew Sklar
Directed by: Dionysia Williams and Edward Carignan
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Garden Theatre
City: Columbus
Price: $34-66
Reference Link: https://www.shortnorthstage.org/the-prom
Description: The Prom follows a group of Broadway actors who travel to a conservative town to support an LGBTQ+ teen's fight to attend her high school prom with her girlfriend.
Hair
By: Jerome Ragni, James Radio (book & lyrics), Galt McDermott (music)
Directed by: Edward Carignan
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Garden Theatre
City: Columbus
Price: $34-66
Reference Link: https://www.shortnorthstage.org/hair
Description: An iconic rock musical featuring chart-topping hits, Hair is the musical story of a group of hippies in 1967 who celebrate peace and love in the shadow of the Vietnam War.
The Worries of Wesley (Or: How I Learned to Stop Having Anxiety, or Not Really, But I Am Trying)
By: Jessica Moss
Directed by: Alan Tyson
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Riffe Center Studio Theatres
City: Columbus
Price: $1/26 @ 7pm & 1/27 @ 2pm: Pay What You Want. General Admission: $25 Adult/$15 Child
Reference Link: https://www.thecontemporaryohio.org/2023-24/wesley/
Description: Meet Wesley, a curious kid who faces anxiety but learns to cope. Join their heartwarming journey of self-discovery, understanding emotions, and seeking support. The Worries of Wesley empowers young and adult audiences, leaving them ready to face life's challenges with confidence.
Skeleton Crew
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Raymond O. Caldwell
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Riffe Center Studio Theatres
City: Columbus
Price: $2/29 & 3/1: Pay What You Want. General Admission: $48
Reference Link: https://www.thecontemporaryohio.org/2023-24/skeleton-crew/
Description: In Detroit's changing auto industry, four co-workers forge an unbreakable bond in the break room. As the factory's closure looms, tensions escalate, alliances are tested, and the play delves into the complexities of factory work in America and survival in a challenging economy.
Ride the Cyclone
By: Music & Lyrics by Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell, Book by Jacob Richmond
Directed by: Leda Hoffmann
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Riffe Center Studio Theatres
City: Columbus
Price: $4/18 & 4/19: Pay What You Want. General Admission: $48
Reference Link: https://www.thecontemporaryohio.org/2023-24/ride-the-cyclone/
Description: Tragic rollercoaster accident leads high school choir students to the afterlife carnival. The Amazing Karnak holds their fate in his hands, as they compete for a second chance at life. Hilarious and touching performances unveil their hopes and fears. Get ready for this wild, twisted ride!
Oklahoma
All the King’s Women
By: Luigi Jannuzzi
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 09 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue:
City: Tulsa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A play that affects the senses---heart, mind, and soul. One doesn't have to be an Elvis fan going in, to walk away with a deep appreciation for "The King" at the conclusion.
Under the Skin
By: Michael Hollinger
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Tulsa
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Lou needs a kidney. Yesterday. His daughter Raina's got one to spare, but she's also got issues. (Plenty of these.)
Under the Radar: On the Road
By: TBA
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Te Ata Theater at Oklahoma Contemporary
City: Oklahoma City
Price: $20-60 or Pay-What-You-Can
Reference Link: https://www.okcrep.org/
Description: OKC Rep’s annual collaboration with the Public Theater in New York brings a show directly from the NYC festival to Oklahoma City. Show selection to be announced this fall.
Vietgone
By: Qui Nguyen
Directed by: Nikki DiLoreto
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Te Ata Theater at Oklahoma Contemporary
City: Oklahoma City
Price: $20-60 or Pay-What-You-Can
Reference Link: https://www.okcrep.org/
Description: It’s 1975. Saigon has fallen. He lost his wife. She lost her fiancé. But now in a new land, they just might find each other.
Of A Mind: Oklahoma City
By: Kelly Kerwin, Emily Zemba, and Listen&Breathe
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Audio-Guided Theatrical Walking Tour
Venue: Downtown Oklahoma City
City: Oklahoma City
Price: $20-60 or Pay-What-You-Can
Reference Link: https://www.okcrep.org/
Description: Put on your headphones and join OKC Rep for a remount of Of a Mind: Oklahoma City, the audio-guided theatrical walking tour that originally delighted audiences in Spring 2022. Movement direction by OKC's Hui Cha Poos.
Oregon
Encore: A Festival of Staged Readings
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 21 2024 - May 24 2024
Type of Event: Staged readings, Performing Arts
Venue: Artists Repertory Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://artistsrep.org/current-season/
Description: Artists Repertory Theatre is coming home! Each night, join us for one of the decades with ART Encore: A Festival of Staged Readings, launching at 1515 SW Morrison! The four readings include Replay: An '80s Flashback, Keely & Du, Speech & Debate, and Skeleton Crew.
World Builders
By: Johnna Adams
Directed by: Scott Palmer
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play - Drama
Venue: The Vault Theater
City: Hillsboro
Price: $20-35
Reference Link: https://bagnbaggage.org/event/world-builders/2024-02-16/
Description: Whitney and Max, who both build incredibly detailed and fantastical worlds in their minds, have been invited to partake in a clinical drug trial that could cure them of their schizoid personality disorders and find new worlds and love in one another.
Tartuffe
By: Molière
Directed by: Nik Whitcomb
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 22 2024
Type of Event: Play - Comedy
Venue: The Vault Theater
City: Hillsboro
Price: $FREE
Reference Link: https://bagnbaggage.org/event/tartuffe/2024-06-07/
Description: This classic French comedy by Molière invites us into the home of a wealthy family caught in the trap of the new money and intriguing character in town, Tartuffe. Tartuffe is a textbook on modern comedy that forces us to take a good look at the most pious among us.
Spear
By: CN Smith
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: White fragility simmers in the wake of Black success.
From a Hole in the Ground
By: Ken Yoshikawa
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Something stirs on the Other Side and comes knocking…
Huelga!
By: Maya Malan-Gonzalez
Directed by: Lawrence Siulagi
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Jan 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Milagro Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $22-30
Reference Link: https://milagro.org/event/huelga/
Description: This “Super Acto,” inspired by Teatro Campesino, will travel back in time to 1962 with Dolores Huerta to the farmworker’s movement and share her co-founding of the UFW with Cesar Chavez.
Veronica Princesa
By: Alicia Dogliotti
Directed by: Ivan Torres
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 02 2024
Type of Event: Spanish Musical Play
Venue: Milagro Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $22-30
Reference Link: https://milagro.org/event/veronica-princesa/
Description: Verónica is a pre-adolescent who, faced with traditional tales, questions the roles of different "princesses" as she learns to put herself in the shoes of others, and especially those of her mother.
Borderline
By: Andrew Siañez-De La O
Directed by: Luis Enrique Najera
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Milagro Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $22-30
Reference Link: https://milagro.org/event/borderline/
Description: Set in the old cotton fields of Socorro, Texas, where four Latino teens, threatened by a mysterious creature, will have to rely on each other to escape the desert alive.
Every Brilliant Thing
By: Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Directed by: Brian Haimbach
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/everybrilliantthing
Description: A seven-year-old tries to help his mom’s sadness by making a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. Hilarious and heart-wrenching, this critically acclaimed play is a unique theatrical experience you will never forget.
Ride the Cyclone
By: Book, music & lyrics by Brooke Maxwell & Jacob Richmond
Directed by: Craig Willis, with Musical Direction by Delos Leo Erickson
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/ridethecyclone
Description: This hilarious and outlandish new musical follows six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir whose lives are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortuneteller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other...
Predictor
By: Jennifer Blackmer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 17 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Oregon Contemporary Theatre
City: Eugene
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.octheatre.org/predictor
Description: Follow the real-life story of Margaret Crane, who, in 1967, defied all odds and expectations to become the inventor of the first home pregnancy test.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schrek
Directed by: Marissa Wolf
Event Date(s): Jan 20 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Center Stage
City: Portland
Price: $25-93
Reference Link: https://www.pcs.org/what-the-constitution-means-to-me
Description: Filled with humor and history, this Pulitzer Prize finalist asks what the U.S. Constitution truly means. As a 15-year-old, Heidi Schreck won debate competitions defending the Constitution across the country. The show culminates in a live debate with an actual teen!
Quixote Nuevo
By: Octavio Solis
Directed by: Lisa Portes
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Center Stage
City: Portland
Price: $25-93
Reference Link: https://www.pcs.org/quixote-nuevo
Description: The story of Don Quixote comes alive with a modern twist! In the fictional town of La Plancha, Texas, a brilliant professor battling dementia imagines himself as Cervantes’s titular hero. Features vibrant, Spanish-infused music and language, celebrating Tejano culture.
Nassim
By: Nassim Soleimanpour
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Center Stage
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: From Iranian playwright and creator of the Off-Broadway smash hit White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, comes an audacious new theatrical experiment. Each night a new, unrehearsed local performer joins the playwright onstage, while the script waits, unseen, in a sealed box... A co-production with Boom Arts.
Coriolanus
By: William Shakespeare, Translation by Sean San José
Directed by: Rosa Joshi
Event Date(s): Apr 20 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Center Stage
City: Portland
Price: $25-93
Reference Link: https://www.pcs.org/coriolanus
Description: As civil unrest stirs political upheaval, and famine threatens Rome, war hero Coriolanus is driven to defend then destroy his own country. This modern translation updates the language while lifting the story—and reminds us that democracy is fragile and always worth defending.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Chip Miller
Event Date(s): Jun 01 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Center Stage
City: Portland
Price: $25-93
Reference Link: https://www.pcs.org/clydes
Description: Two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage serves up this delicious comedy that centers laughs, redemption, and restorative justice. The formerly incarcerated kitchen staff at Clyde’s are navigating their new lives on the outside and their tough-as-nails boss, Clyde herself.
Notes From the Field
By: Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by: Jackie Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
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. But amidst the darkness, there are rays of light.
Passing Strange
By: Book and lyrics by Stew, music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Set against the backdrop of the 1970s and '80s, the story takes you on a wild ride from the gospel churches of South Central L.A. to the punk rock clubs of Amsterdam and Berlin---sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, anyone?
Reggie Hoops
By: Kristoffer Diaz
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Imago Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://profiletheatre.org/reggiehoops/
Description: Between a mother with a secret past, an unemployed brother, and an audacious wife, Reggie is on edge. When an acquaintance from the past appears with an unbelievable job offer, Reggie finds her family has their own agendas in regards to her career.
our orange sky
By: christopher oscar peña
Directed by: Evren Odcikin
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Imago Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://profiletheatre.org/orangesky/
Description: With a successful career, adoring boyfriend, and money to burn Orlando seems to have achieved a dream life. And yet he feels more empty than ever. So he decides returns to his childhood home with a big announcement to share, but finds he’s not the only one with shocking news!
Sanctuary City
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Cristi Miles
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: CoHo Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $25-47
Reference Link: https://thirdrailrep.org/mission-production-history/season-18/sanctuary-city-by-martyna-majok/
Description: Two young undocumented immigrants negotiate the promise of safety and the weight of responsibility, as they fight to establish a place for themselves and each other in America, the only country they know as home.
Middletown Mall
By: Lava Alapai
Directed by: Isaac Lamb
Event Date(s): May 24 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: CoHo Theatre
City: Portland
Price: $25-47
Reference Link: https://thirdrailrep.org/mission-production-history/season-18/middletown-mall-by-lava-alapai/
Description: A group of 20-somethings who work in a 1990's mall navigate the everyday fun and tension of friendships, food courts, bosses, family, and karaoke—until a much bigger challenge suddenly interrupts their lives. A world premiere.
Eleanor
By: Mark St. Germain
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Feb 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Playwright Mark St. Germain brings to life Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential First Lady the world has ever seen. From her “Ugly Duckling” upbringing to her unorthodox marriage to Franklin, she was both cousin and wife to the 32nd president of the United States.
Perfect Arrangement
By: Topher Payne
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Step back in the 1950s. There were so many “hidden” truths, if any were found out many lives would be destroyed. For now, meet the happy couples and their "friends."
Flo
By: donnie
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2024 - Jun 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Portland
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Florence Ballard was 14 years old when she joined The Primettes with her friend Mary Wilson and Betty McGlown. Mary’s other friend, Diane Ross, joined soon after. The Primettes were the "girl group" to the Primes, which became the Temptations.
Pennsylvania
The Flatlanders
By: Bruce Graham
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Plays and Players Theatre
City: Philadelphia
Price: $36-52
Reference Link: https://www.1812productions.org/the-flatlanders
Description: A Poconos blizzard puts a chill on a couple’s relationship in this brisk comedic romp. Stuck in a cabin belonging to total strangers, “flatlanders” Ronnie and Michael uncover truths, secrets, and new ways to heat things up between them. Will their relationship weather the storm?
Torch Song
By: Harvey Fierstein
Directed by: Bill Fennelly
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - May 19 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Plays and Players Theatre
City: Philadelphia
Price: $36-52
Reference Link: https://www.1812productions.org/torch-song
Description: Hilarious and heart-wrenching, Torch Song follows Arnold Beckoff's odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.
Tea for Three: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty
By: Eric H. Weinberg and Elaine Bromka
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Ambler
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Join three First Ladies of the United States for tea---Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford---and learn their incredible stories!
It’s Only a Play
By: Terrence McNally
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Ambler
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: It’s opening night of Broadway’s biggest show, but the real opening jitters come as the cast and crew await the first reviews in Terrence McNally’s razor-sharp comedy!
Forever Plaid
By: Stuart Ross
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 21 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Ambler
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Sparky, Smudge, Jinx, and Frankie have started their own band, The Plaids, and promise an evening full of the greatest hits of the '50s.
Once on This Island
By:
Directed by: Amina Robinson
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Musical Production
Venue: Arden Theatre
City: Philadelphia
Price: $30-$60
Reference Link: https://ardentheatre.org/production/once-on-this-island/#tickets
Description: Once on This Island is a radiant musical reminding audiences that a beautiful story simply told has the power to help us weather the storm and allow our spirits to sing.
Ladysitting
By: Lorene Cary
Directed by: Zuhairah McGill
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This world premiere play, by acclaimed Philadelphia writer Lorene Cary, explores the life and last year of Lorene’s Nana – a fiercely strong and independent woman, who now needs the care of others.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
Directed by: Terrence J. Nolen
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
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.
Once on This Island
By: Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty
Directed by: Amina Robinson
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In search of her place in the world with guidance from the island gods, Ti Moune, a fearless young woman of the French Antilles, risks it all on a remarkable journey to reunite with the one who has captured her heart.
Overwinter
By: Mackenzie Raine Kirkman
Directed by: Reva Stover
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Two bee researchers discover that one of their bees might have intelligence far beyond the norm.
An Army of Lovers
By: R. Eric Thomas
Directed by: Kash Goins
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: An aging queer activist is invited to the sleek, enclosed campus of a global communications company to give a speech for their first Pride celebration. She does not come in peace.
Sanctuary City
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Dante Green
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.bte.org
Description: Pulitzer winner Martyna Majok delivers a powerful tale of two young DREAMers fighting for their place in the only home they've ever known.
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Nora Gair
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.bte.org
Description: Kate Hamill's irreverent reimagining sets familiar characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson into a modern-day London, transformed by the pandemic. Prepare for a thrilling and hilarious adventure with witty banter, slapstick comedy, and clever nods to the original stories!
Annapurna
By: Sharr White
Directed by: Aaron White
Event Date(s): May 23 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.bte.org
Description: Playwright Sharr White takes us into the lives of Ulysses and Emma, two broken souls seeking redemption. Set in a Colorado trailer, their reunion uncovers secrets, reopens wounds, and reminds us of the power of forgiveness and love.
The Velveteen Rabbit
By: Adapted by Philip Grecian
Directed by: Amy Rene Byrne
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $16
Reference Link: https://www.bte.org
Description: Margery Williams's beloved children's book comes to life in this enchanting tale for young and old alike. Through the eyes of a young child, the Velveteen Rabbit discovers the true meaning of being loved and cherished.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Mainstage Performances
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
City: Bristol
Price: $50 - 60
Reference Link: https://www.brtstage.org/shows/a-raisin-in-the-sun/
Description: 1950s Chicago. The five members of the Younger family are each looking for ways to improve their lot through education, business, real estate, and sheer self-determination. Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun.
Big: The Musical
By: John Weidman
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
City: Bristol
Price: $55 - 65
Reference Link: https://www.brtstage.org/shows/big-the-musical/
Description: 12 year-old Josh Baskin knows one thing: Being a scrawny 12 year-old boy stinks. But when a rusty arcade machine magically grants his wish to be grown up he discovers that there’s more to being an adult than he bargained for. Based on the 1988 smash hit film.
One Night in Memphis
By: John Mueller
Directed by: John Mueller
Event Date(s): May 01 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
City: Bristol
Price: $20-63
Reference Link: https://www.brtstage.org/shows/one-night-in-memphis/
Description: One Night in Memphis is a rocking concert tribute to legendary Sun Records recording artists Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley. Over 90 minutes of rockabilly, country, gospel, and pure 1950s rock and roll music performed live.
The Second City: Comedian Rhapsody
By: The Second City
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 14 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Improv Comedy Troupe
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
City: Bristol
Price: $50-60
Reference Link: https://www.brtstage.org/shows/the-second-city-comedian-rhapsody/
Description: Come see why The Second City has been the first name in laughter for over sixty years! Since 1975, they’ve been a direct pipeline for the cast of Saturday Night Live. Comedian Rhapsody is a brand-new revue featuring their best sketch comedy, songs and, their trademark improv!
The Second City: Comedian Rhapsody
By:
Directed by: Anne Libera
Event Date(s): May 14 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Sketch comedy
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
City: Philadelphia
Price: $50-$60, Child/Student-$15
Reference Link: https://brtstage.org/shows/the-second-city-comedian-rhapsody/
Description: Bristol Riverside Theatre presents The Second City: Comedian Rhapsody, a brand-new revue featuring their best sketch comedy, songs, and, of course, their trademark improvisation.
Buses
By: Denise Nichols
Directed by: Al Simpkins
Event Date(s): May 14 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Mary Ellen Pleasant in 1866 refused to give up her seat on a San Francisco trolley and Rosa Parks did the same on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Buses brings these women together in an imagined dialogue that illuminates their extraordinary pace in history.
Phantom of the 87th St. Playground
By: Clyde Santana and Gail Davis
Directed by: Al Simpkins
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Spirits of the past meet children who cannot reconcile their differences in this enchanting musical fantasy where hope blossoms and dreams never die.
South Side Stories Revisited
By: Tami Dixon
Directed by: Matt M. Morrow
Event Date(s): Jan 13 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre Company
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $29 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/south-side-stories-revisited/
Description: World premiere. In 2012, Tami Dixon sat on the sidewalks of the South Side of Pittsburgh asking residents to tell her stories. The resulting one-woman play delighted audiences and was described as “dazzling” and “a big, fat evening of bliss” (City Paper). Ten years later, Dixon revisits those streets.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Monteze Freeland
Event Date(s): Mar 02 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre Company
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $29 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/fat-ham/
Description: A co-production with TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Ark. This uproariously funny, Pulitzer-winning new play comes to City Theatre straight from Broadway! A modern revamp of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Fat Ham follows Juicy, a queer, pensive, young Black man finding his way in the world.
Andy Warhol in Iran
By: Brent Askari
Directed by: Marc Masterson
Event Date(s): Apr 20 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre Company
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $29 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/andy-warhol-in-iran/
Description: In 1976, celebrity artist Andy Warhol traveled to Iran to take Polaroid pictures of the Shah’s wife. This imagined experience of an encounter with a young Iranian radical is a fiery, thought-provoking drama about art, revolution, and discovering a world beyond yourself.
Ramayana
By: Valmiki
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2024 - Jun 16 2025
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: A large tent at the Swedish Museum Lawn, FDR Park
City: Philadelphia
Price: Free!
Reference Link: https://egopo.org/ramayana
Description: EgoPo presents a world-premiere adaptation of the ancient Hindu epic in collaboration with two of Indonesia’s leading performing arts companies. The play integrates puppetry, dance, music, and theatre to tell one of the world’s oldest stories.
Tales From Ancient Greece
By: J. Clark Nicholson & Melissa Nicholson
Directed by: J. Clark Nicholson
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2024 - Jan 27 2024
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://www.gamuttheatre.org
Description: Old stories are made new in this hilarious adaptation of classic Greek myths. Meet famous characters such as Hercules, Pandora, Zeus, Persephone, and King Midas with his golden touch! Laugh and learn about some of the most famous stories from our past!
The Jackson Rooming House: Music’s Resting Place
By: Sharia Benn & J. Clark Nicholson
Directed by: Sharia Benn & J. Clark Nicholson
Event Date(s): Feb 10 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $38/26/14
Reference Link: https://www.gamuttheatre.org
Description: What starts as a search for the perfect burger and a lost little brother leads a group of young friends on a journey of musical exploration and personal self-discovery. They are led to reflect upon the legacy of Black musicians and the Harrisburg hospitality network.
Pride and Prejudice
By: Kate Hamill based on the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by: Francesca Amendolia
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $38/26/14
Reference Link: https://www.gamuttheatre.org
Description: Elizabeth Bennet is clever and judgmental—traits that don’t always help her on the battlefield of the ballroom. Yet with the urging of their fearless (and tactless) mother, Lizzie and her sisters set out to secure their futures and fortunes by finding wealthy husbands.
Cinderella
By: Sean Adams
Directed by: Melissa Nicholson
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $38/26/14
Reference Link: https://www.gamuttheatre.org
Description: Gamut Theatre’s Young Acting Company presents Cinderella written by Sean Adams, an original work based on the traditional folk tale by French author Charles Perrault. This much-beloved folk tale has been adapted into a full-length play performed by students, ages 6 through 18.
Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Melissa Nicholson
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $38/26/14
Reference Link: https://www.gamuttheatre.org
Description: One of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, this tale of star-crossed lovers follows the exuberant and volatile story of Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague as their young love rises above the contempt of their feuding families.
The Brementown Musicians
By: Don Bridge & J. Clark Nicholson
Directed by: J. Clark Nicholson
Event Date(s): May 04 2024 - May 23 2024
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://www.gamuttheatre.org
Description: Four misfit animals---a Donkey, a Dog, a Cat, and a Rooster---leave their respective homes and former lives to go and become famous musicians. Along their journey, they meet with a wicked robber, and all band together to teach him a lesson in manners.
Snow White and the Two Dwarfs
By: Don Bridge
Directed by: Melissa Nicholson
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Aug 17 2024
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://www.gamuttheatre.org
Description: Obsessed with being the fairest in the land, the Evil Queen banishes young Snow White to the forest to fend for herself. Snow White happens upon a little cottage in the woods where she finds two dwarfs… Wait, what? Yep, that’s two dwarfs!
Step Mom, Step Mom, Step Mom
By: Jahna Ferron-Smith
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Kaila (a Black woman) and Louis (a white man) have a healthy, progressive marriage. At least, until they try to introduce a little kink into their sex life, when race politics prove to be more challenging and complicated than either of them anticipated.
The Last Yiddish Speaker
By: Deborah Zoe Laufer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In the years following a successful Jan. 6 insurrection, a white supremacist regime has come into power. Paul and his teenage daughter, Sarah, live under the radar in a small town upstate as Christian-passing, despite being Jews who fled New York City.
The Climb
By: C.A. Johnson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Marge is a celebrated professor of photography whose only subject for the past seven years has been her wife (and former student), Tiffany. When Tiffany embarks on a month-long silent hike without Marge, both artist and muse try to fill the void left by the other.
Faith Healer
By: Brian Friel
Directed by: Peter DeLaurier
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/
Description: From the rich imagination of the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, Faith Healer is a deep dive into the psyche of an inspired performer – but is he really a shaman, an artist, or a con man?
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Charles McMahon
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/
Description: The story of a bereaved merchant searching for his lost son in a hostile city turns into an unrivaled comedy of mistaken identities, twins separated at birth, and love lost and won. When all of Ephesus is thrown into chaos, only the genius of Shakespeare can put it right again.
Mean Girls the Musical: High School Version
By: Book by Tina Fey, Music by Jeff Richmond, Lyrics by Nell Benjamin
Directed by: Rachel Landon
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2024 - Jan 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Open Stage
City: Harrisburg
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.openstagehbg.com/show/mean-girls
Description: Based on the cult classic movie, Mean Girls the Musical tells the hilarious tale of Cady Heron, a teenage girl who enters the dangerous world of high school cliques after years of home schooling in Africa.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
By: Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by: Stuart Landon
Event Date(s): Feb 24 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Open Stage
City: Harrisburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.openstagehbg.com/show/sweeney
Description: Witness the tale of a barber seeking revenge against those who have wronged him, and the gruesome consequences that follow. With hauntingly beautiful music and a gripping storyline, Sweeney Todd is the ultimate macabre masterpiece.
The Diary of Anne Frank
By: Adapted by Wendy Kesselman from the play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on the memoir Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Directed by: Stuart Landon
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Mar 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Scottish Rite
City: Harrisburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.openstagehbg.com/show/daf
Description: One of the most famous and haunting stories to emerge from the 20th century, this adaptation draws from previously unpublished parts of Anne Frank’s real-life diary, allowing the audience to experience Anne in a way that breathes life into this passionate, complex young woman.
Mary Speaks
By: Angela Polite
Directed by: Angela Polite
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Open Stage
City: Harrisburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://
Description: Drawing striking parallels between the story of Jesus Christ and the lives of innocent African American boys and men who have been unjustly taken from us, Mary Speaks illuminates the struggles and resilience of Black mothers whose sons' mere existence is perceived as a threat.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Youth Edition
By: Dramatized by Richard R. George, based on the book by Roald Dahl
Directed by: Rachel Landon
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Open Stage
City: Harrisburg
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.openstagehbg.com/show/chocolate
Description: Follow Charlie Bucket as he embarks on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious candy factory, where he and a group of lucky children will discover sweet surprises, mischievous Oompa Loompas, and the most delicious chocolate in the world.
Disney’s Winnie the Pooh
By: Music and lyrics by Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Music adapted & arranged and additional music & lyrics by Will Van Dyke book and additional lyrics by Cheryl Davis. Based on the stories of A.A. Milne and the 2011 Disney Animated feature film
Directed by: Rachel Landon
Event Date(s): Jun 28 2024 - Jun 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Open Stage
City: Harrisburg
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.openstagehbg.com/show/pooh
Description: Welcome to the Hundred Acre Wood! Winnie the Pooh and his friends discovered that Christopher Robin has been kidnapped by the mysterious Backson. As they prepare for a rescue operation, the animals learn about teamwork, friendship, and, of course...sharing snacks.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, & Jonathan Sayer
Directed by: Jennifer Childs
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/shows/the-play-that-goes-wrong/
Description: Philadelphia’s all-comedy theatre company, 1812 Productions, present their smash hit as the opener on PSF’s mainstage. In this Agatha-Christie-meets-Monty-Python farce, The Play That Goes Wrong will have you laughing all the way to the final curtain call.
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jessica Bedford
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Touring regionally (exact venues announced early 2024)
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://https://pashakespeare.org/shows/play-on-community-tour-the-comedy-of-error/
Description: A Play On Shakespeare tour. The Comedy of Errors follows the entertaining escapades of two sets of identical twins separated at birth and residing in the same town. Mistaken identities make for hilarious complications until chaos gives way to clarity. Free to attend; dates and locations coming soon.
The Last Five Years
By: Jason Robert Brown
Directed by: Jason King Jones
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/shows/the-last-five-years/
Description: There are two sides to every story, and both will captivate you in this stirring musical following two aspiring artists in NYC who fall in and out of love over five years. With music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, this almost fully sung-through musical captivates its audience.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Jun 26 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/shows/the-merry-wives-of-windsor/
Description: In this merry romp, Sir John Falstaff hatches a scheme to woo two wealthy wives in hopes to secure their fortunes. Unbeknownst to him, these merry wives craft clever retaliations to rebuke his advances. The result: a whirlwind of misadventures and belly-aching laughter.
Winnie the Pooh & Friends
By: Jason King Jones
Directed by: Jenna Place
Event Date(s): Jul 05 2024 - Aug 03 2024
Type of Event: Children’s Play
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/shows/winnie-the-pooh-friends/
Description: Step into the enchanting world of the Hundred Acre Wood in this heartwarming story inspired by A.A. Milne’s timeless tales. Whether you’re a youngster or young at heart, Winnie the Pooh & Friends will leave you with newfound appreciation for the imagination and bonds of friendship.
The Color Purple
By: Marsha Norman (book), Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, & Stephen Bray (music and lyrics)
Directed by: Amina Robinson
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/shows/the-color-purple/
Description: The epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker comes to life in an emotional tour de force musical infused with a score of jazz, gospel, ragtime, and blues. This Tony-winning musical is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
Cymbeline
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: “Extreme” Shakespeare - no directors. no designers.
Event Date(s): Jul 24 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/shows/cymbeline/
Description: Shakespeare meets The Princess Bride in this romantic adventure seamlessly weaving elements of the Bard’s comedy, tragedy, and history into one epic fairy tale of magic and power. When Imogen’s father unjustly banishes her beloved, she embarks on a mythic quest toward a happy ending.
Shakespeare for Kids
By: Erin Sheffield
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Jul 24 2024 - Aug 03 2024
Type of Event: Children’s Play
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://https://pashakespeare.org/shows/shakespeare-for-kids-2024/
Description: A high-energy one-hour production designed for children ages 4-10 to actively experience Shakespeare’s vibrant language and characters. Using a combination of songs, puppets, and scenes from Twelfth Night, S4K provides families the opportunity to introduce children to Shakespeare.
Small
By: Robert Montano
Directed by: Jessi D. Hill
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Steinbright Stage
City: Malvern
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.peopleslight.org/whats-on/20232024-season/
Description: Bullied for his size, a horse jockey from Long Island finds purpose and respect atop a racehorse in this wild autobiographical ride by stage and TV star Robert Montano (Cats on Broadway, Barcelona at People’s Light).
the ripple, the wave that carried me home
By: Christina Anderson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: People's Light
City: Malvern
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.peopleslight.org/whats-on/20232024-season/the-ripple-the-wave-that-carried-me-home/
Description: Janice Collen grew up the daughter of prominent activists in the movement to desegregate local swimming pools. An unspoken distance grows within the family as Collen grows older, and faces personal decades later when Janice is asked to speak at a ceremony honoring her father.
Hurricane Diane
By: Madeleine George
Directed by: Molly Rosa Houlahan
Event Date(s): May 01 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical production
Venue: People's Light
City: Philadelphia
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://peopleslight.org/whats-on/20232024-season/hurricane-diane/
Description: Meet Diane: a charming butch permaculture gardener with a mission. Secretly Dionysus—the god of wine, revelry, and vegetation—Diane returns to Earth to rally followers for an environmental revolution.
Cost of Living
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Suzanne Roberts Theatre
City: Philadelphia
Price: $20-$73
Reference Link: https://philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/cost-of-living/
Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Cost of Living traces two relationships: one between a wealthy graduate student with cerebral palsy and his female caregiver, the other between a woman recovering from a terrible accident being tended to by her ex-husband.
Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune
By: Terrence McNally
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Suzanne Roberts Theatre
City: Philadelphia
Price: $20-$73
Reference Link: https://philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/frankie-johnny/
Description: Written by four-time Tony winner Terrence McNally with humor and sensitivity, this enduring portrait of middle-aged love and desire takes place over the course of one night: tracking two blue collar romantics as they search for emotional intimacy.
The Duat
By: Roger Q Mason
Directed by: Taibi Magar
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Suzanne Roberts Theatre
City: Philadelphia
Price: $20-$73
Reference Link: https://philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/the-duat/
Description: Taking its title from the mythical Egyptian afterlife, The Duat is a psychological portrait of Cornelius Johnson, a FBI counterintelligence officer, in a battle for his very soul. This one-person world premiere is a poetic and virtuosic story of redemption.
Dragon Lady
By: Sara Porkalob
Directed by: Andrew Russell
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Pittsburgh Public Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $32.00-80.00
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/87715/dragon-lady
Description: Sara Porkalob of Broadway's 1776 brings her transformational one-woman cabaret musical to Pittsburgh, tracing her family's history and tales of her grandmother's life and legacy, all while guided by the beats of a karaoke machine.
The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Jenny Koons
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Pittsburgh Public Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $32.00-80.00
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/87739/the-importance-of-being-earnest
Description: Enjoy this timeless comedy in Oscar Wild'es 'trivial comedy for serious people,' adapted and directed by acclaimed playwright and director Jenny Koons. The plot twists and turns will at once keep you on the edge of your seat and doubled over in fits of laughter.
The Coffin Maker
By: Mark Clayton Southers
Directed by: Monteze Freeland
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Pittsburgh Public Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $32.00-80.00
Reference Link: https://ppt.org/production/87764/the-coffin-maker
Description: In this world premiere play by August Wilson mentee Mark Clayton Southers, free man Lawrence Ebitts and his wife Eula live peacefully preparing bodies for burial until their world is turned upside down by a bounty hunter and a fugitive who get more than they bargained for.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
By: Susan Greenberg
Directed by: Linda Haston
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Hazlett Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $14 - $39
Reference Link: https://primestage.com/events/rosa-parks/
Description: Imagine you were told to give up your seat for someone else! This compelling story of Rosa Parks, an upstanding citizen of the community, takes you inside the events that sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank
By: James Still
Directed by: Art DeConciliis
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Hazlett Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $14 - $39
Reference Link: https://primestage.com/events/remembering-anne-frank/
Description: Immerse yourself in this inspiring multimedia story based on the true life of Anne Frank and her childhood friends, Eva Schloss and Ed Silberberg, who survived the Holocaust during World War II.
Witness for the Prosecution
By: Agatha Christie
Directed by: Ponny Conomos Jahn
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Hazlett Theater
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $14 - $39
Reference Link: https://primestage.com/events/witness/
Description: Be one of the jurors and experience the shocking testimony and impassioned outbursts from witnesses as a young man and his attorney fight to escape a final verdict.
Scenes From an Execution
By: Howard Barker
Directed by: Andrew Smith
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Apr 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: 16th century Venice is the setting for a fearless exploration of sexual politics and the tension between personal ambition and moral responsibility, as the rebel painter Galactia is commissioned by the Doge to paint a vast canvas celebrating a triumphant battle.
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Alex Burns
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Sedgwick Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 - $65
Reference Link: https://www.quintessencetheatre.org/macbeth
Description: A kingdom at war. A celebrated soldier and his ambitious wife look to their future. Three witches promise power and prophesy greatness. Steeped so far in blood, screw courage to the sticking place, and allow vaulting ambition to reign…the Macbeths are back in town.
Father Comes Home From the Wars
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by: Raelle Myrick-Hodges
Event Date(s): May 29 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Sedgwick Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 - $65
Reference Link: https://www.quintessencetheatre.org/fathercomeshomefromthewars
Description: Hero, an enslaved Texan, is offered a deal: Join the Confederate Army with a promise of emancipation—or remain with his true love and work the plantation. Creating a new Black American history cycle, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks dramatizes the events leading up to Juneteenth.
An Evening With Me
By: John Lloyd Young
Directed by: John Lloyd Young
Event Date(s): May 20 2024 - May 20 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Rittenhouse Grill
City: Philadelphia
Price: $75-180
Reference Link: https://rittenhousegrill.com/cabaret-series
Description: Rittenhouse Grill's Cabaret Series is dinner and a show, elevated. Enjoy distinguished Broadway talent and a delectable meal at An Evening with Me, featuring John Lloyd Young.
Pinocchio
By:
Directed by: Rebecca Wright
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - May 02 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Arden Theatre Co
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://ardentheatre.org/production/pinocchio/
Description: Arden Children’s Theatre invites families to follow a wooden puppet as he embarks on a journey to become a real boy in the new imaginative adaption of the classic story Pinocchio.
My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion
By: Sasha Denisova
Directed by: Yury Urnov
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Wilma Theater & Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $15 - 55
Reference Link: https://wilmatheater.org/2023-24-season/
Description: Sasha’s 82-year-old mother lived in Kyiv during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Sasha copes with her fears by imagining her mother in increasingly fantastical situations. Playwright Sasha Denisova’s online chats inspired this darkly funny and deeply heartfelt new play. A co-production with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
The Good Person of Seztuan
By: Bertolt Brecht
Directed by: Justin Jain
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $15 - 55
Reference Link: https://wilmatheater.org/2023-24-season/
Description: Three gods search for one good person in Setzuan amid changing rules in this 21st-century Philly-like shantytown. Director Justin Jain, with playwright Tony Kushner's adaptation, brings this parable to life with live music and Wilma HotHouse Company.
Hilma
By: Kate Scelsa | Robert M. Johanson (Composer)
Directed by: Morgan Green
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $15 - 55
Reference Link: https://wilmatheater.org/2023-24-season/
Description: The early 20th century queer mystic and artist Hilma af Klint is coming to the Wilma Theater. This contemporary opera---with a score that mixes genres from opera, rock, pop, and musical theatre---wrestles with the hubris and humility that fueled one woman’s spiritual quest.
A Case for The Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Jan 04 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Exile
City: Philadelphia
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://theatreexile.org/
Description: With humor, empathy, and wrenching honesty, this play unfolds in an office cubicle where two seated people unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds. Keith and Ryan discuss the chokehold of financial insecurity and bond over the precariousness of fatherhood.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Jan 04 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre Exile
City: Philadelphia
Price: $10-$40
Reference Link: https://www.theatreexile.org/about-tcfeog
Description: With humor, empathy and wrenching honesty, A Case for the Existence of God unfolds in an office cubicle where two seated people unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds.
Broccoli, Roosevelt, and Mr. House
By: The Berserker Residents - Justin Jain, David Johnson, and Bradley K. Wrenn
Directed by: Trey Lyford
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theatrehorizon.org/
Description: Can broccoli make you giggle? How much dance is too much dance? And does your house have feelings? Three wacky characters encourage interaction and elicit pure joy with this original, fun, and vibrant show. Recommended for children ages 5+ with their families.
tick, tick…BOOM!
By: Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson; David Auburn, Script Consultant; Vocal Arrangements and Orchestrations by Stephen Oremus
Directed by: Nell Bang-Jensen and Robi Hager
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theatrehorizon.org/
Description: From Jonathan Larson comes this autobiographical musical about Jon, an aspiring musical theatre composer turning 30 and at a crossroads: Should he keep pursuing his dreams of creating the next Broadway musical or abandon them entirely for a more lucrative career?
A One-Woman Show by Priyanka Shetty
By: Priyanka Shetty
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Solo Performance
Venue: Theatre Horizon
City: Norristown
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theatrehorizon.org/
Description: Acclaimed solo performer and playwright Priyanka Shetty will return home to the Philly region to perform a one-woman show. With humor, insight, and raw energy, her plays pose questions about contemporary issues, engender dialogue, and call for solidarity and collective action.
Hilma
By: Kate Scelsa, music by Robert M. Johanson
Directed by: Morgan Green
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Wilma Theater
City: Philadelphia
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The early-20th-century queer mystic and artist Hilma af Klint channeled hundreds of paintings through messages from otherworldly forces, hoping to communicate the mysteries of the universe. A coproduction of New Georges and the Wilma.
Rhode Island
La Cooperativa (The Cooperative)
By: Francis Parra
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret/musical
Venue: Teatro ECAS
City: Providence
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36348/production/1177664
Description: This exciting cabaret performance, named for a popular phrase in Latin America, will make you forget about the daily grind and delight you with its theatrical surprises. This play is performed in Spanish, with English translations simulcast as supertitles.
Rhode Island
La Ternura (Tenderness)
By: Alfredo Sanzol
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Teatro ECAS
City: Providence
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36348/production/1177669
Description: La Ternura is a captivating tale of magic and destiny. Envision a life of freedom, away from men---that's the Emerald Queen's dream---but destiny has other plans. This play is performed in Spanish, with English translations as simulcast supertitles.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
Directed by: Steve Kidd
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Gamm Theatre
City: Warwick
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://www.gammtheatre.org
Description: After a faculty party, middle-aged professor George and his wife, Martha, invite campus newcomers Nick and Honey over for drinks. The evening escalates into a full night of vicious, booze-fueled barbs, as the young couple is drawn into their hosts' all-out marital warfare.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Tony Estrella and Rachel Walshe
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Gamm Theatre
City: Warwick
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://www.gammtheatre.org
Description: Mistaken identities, gender bending, and twins lost at sea! Love unrequited and love triumphant! This buoyant comedy, populated by some of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters, explores the mutable nature of gender, sexuality, and social standing with heart and humor.
Doubt: A Parable
By: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: Rachel Walshe
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Gamm Theatre
City: Warwick
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://www.gammtheatre.org
Description: St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, the school’s principal, starts to question Father Flynn's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young man—the school's first Black student. This riveting psychological drama raises more questions than it answers.
La Broa’ (Broad Street)
By: Orlando Hernández, Inspired by "Latino History of Rhode Island: Nuestras Raíces" by Marta V. Martínez
Directed by: Tatyana-Marie Carlo
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dowling Theater
City: Providence
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.trinityrep.com/show/la-broa-broad-street
Description: La Broa’ (Broad Street) draws from the true tales of Latine Rhode Islanders who have made this place their home, as documented by Marta V. Martínez in the oral history Nuestras Raíces (Our Roots). This world premiere is joyful and touching, and presented in Spanish and English.
Fences
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Christopher Windom
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dowling Theater
City: Providence
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.trinityrep.com/show/august-wilsons-fences
Description: What is perhaps August Wilson’s most well-known play may also be his most powerful. A devastating look at a man and his family’s strained relationships, Fences is a must-see Pulitzer-winning drama, returning to the Trinity Rep stage for the first time in over 30 years.
La Cage aux Folles
By: Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman, Book by Harvey Fierstein, Adapted from "La Cage aux Folles" by Jean Poiret
Directed by: Taavon Gamble
Event Date(s): May 30 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Dowling Theater
City: Providence
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.trinityrep.com/show/la-cage-aux-folles/
Description: This Best Musical Tony winner follows Georges, the proprietor of a drag club, and his husband, Albin, the star attraction. La Cage aux Folles is funny, genuine, and full of show-stopping numbers. It is sure to lead to “The Best of Times"!
Hir
By: Taylor Mac
Directed by: Brien Lang
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Wilbury Theatre Group
City: Providence
Price: $PWYC
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description: Taylor Mac's Hir is on a crusade to shake up the patriarchy that is disarmingly funny, absurd, and surprising as it looks at an American family forced to build a new world out of the pieces of the old.
Wolf Play
By: Hansol Jung
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Wilbury Theatre Group
City: Providence
Price: $PWYC
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description: From South Korean playwright Hansol Jung, one of the most imaginative storytellers in the field, comes a wild new play employing puppetry, boxing, and crackling dialogue to tell the affecting story of trust, love, identity, and the families we choose.
Once
By: Book by Edna Walsh, Music & Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Directed by: Josh Short
Event Date(s): May 23 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Wilbury Theatre Group
City: Providence
Price: $PWYC
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description: On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their love of music. Over the course of a fateful week, an unexpected friendship evolves into a powerful but complicated love story.
South Carolina
Fences
By: August Wilson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Feb 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Is
Price: $53
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: In the 1950s, Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball star, is scraping by as a sanitation worker. A towering figure facing thwarted aspirations, Troy attempts to assert control over his wife and son. Fences explores the walls we build around ourselves and our loved ones.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
By: Douglas McGrath
Directed by: Tara Jeanne Vallee
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2024 - May 26 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: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a Tony- and Grammy-winning production that takes audiences on a thrilling musical ride through the life and career of one of America's most beloved songwriters. Filled with the songs you remember and a story you’ll never forget.
Chicago
By: Bob Fosse & Fred Ebb
Directed by: Russell Garrett
Event Date(s): Jun 26 2024 - Aug 18 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: Chicago is the one musical with everything that makes theatre shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one showstopping song after another and iconic dance numbers. Pure razzle-dazzle!
Fences
By: August Wilson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Greenville
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Excluded as a black man from the major leagues during his prime, Troy’s bitterness takes its toll on his relationships with his wife and his son, who now wants his own chance to play ball. While society is changing, has the change come too late for Troy?
Rockin’ Boots: Country Hits Through the Ages
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Greenville
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Centre Stage’s annual hit rock show has gone country! Put on your dancin’ boots and join us for an unforgettable evening of the top country hits of the century.
Legally Blonde The Musical
By: Heather Hoch (book), Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin (songs)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 23 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Greenville
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Harvard’s beloved blonde takes the stage by pink storm in this fun, upbeat story of self-discovery.
Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
By: Book by Douglas McGrath, words and music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 18 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Greenville
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The inspiring true story of Carole King’s remarkable journey from teenage songwriter to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Chicken & Biscuits
By: Douglas Lyons
Directed by: Crystin Gilmore
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Charleston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In a hilarious new comedy that sizzled its way onto Broadway in 2021, the contentious Jenkins clan arrives for a family reunion to eulogize their father’s passing, in hopes that they can pay tribute to him without coming to blows.
Junie B., Toothless Wonder
By: Allison Gregory, based on books by Barbara Park
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 03 2024 - Feb 10 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Charleston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Junie B. has a lost tooth—what if she ends up looking like her toothless Uncle Lou? And what’s up with this Tooth Fairy thing? Amidst all these worries, Junie is wondering why she is the only kid in Room 9 who is left out of Jim’s birthday party.
The Trip to Bountiful
By: Horton Foote
Directed by: Julian Wiles
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Charleston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This warm, moving play tells the story of 80-year-old Carrie Watts, who longs to leave the cramped, urban apartment she shares with her son and daughter-in-law in Houston, in hopes of journeying back to her childhood home of Bountiful, Texas.
Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
By: Book by Douglas McGrath, words and music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
Directed by: Marybeth Clark
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Charleston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This award-winning musical follows the whirlwind career of the legendary Carole King from her early years writing songs as a Brooklyn teenager to penning hit after hit for legendary groups and then triumph as a singer/songwriter.
Around the World in 80 Days
By: Mark Brown
Directed by: Libby Ricardo
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2024 - Jan 21 2024
Type of Event: live theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theatre
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: Phineas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk. With his resourceful servant Passepartout, Fogg sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. But his every step is dogged by a detective who thinks he's a robber on the run.
Fun Home
By: Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron
Directed by: West Hyler
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: live theater, musical
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theatre
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: A refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.
Proof
By: David Auburn
Directed by: Blake White
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theatre
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: A burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draws Catherine, a 25-year-old woman, into her most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini Adapted by Ben Powers
Directed by: Sharon Graci
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2024 - Feb 10 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Cannon Street Arts Center
City: Charleston
Price: $10 - 53
Reference Link: https://puretheatre.org
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.
Septima
By: Patricia Williams Dockery
Directed by: Sharon Graci
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2024 - Mar 02 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Cannon Street Arts Center
City: Charleston
Price: $47.00
Reference Link: https://puretheatre.vbotickets.com/event/Septima/114846
Description: Septima is a dynamic and moving play celebrating the life and work of Civil Rights leader and educator Septima P. Clark. Told through monologues, stories, and music, the play honors the moments of Septima’s life that shaped her into one of the most important figures in history.
Caroline, or Change
By: Book and lyrics by Tony Kushner Music by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by: Nakeisha Daniel
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - May 04 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Cannon Street Arts Center
City: Charleston
Price: $10 - 53
Reference Link: https://puretheatre.org
Description: Set in Louisana in 1963 as the Civil Rights movement gains steam above, Carolina, or Change tells the story of Caroline Thibodeaux, who works below, doing laundry in the Gellman's basement, and figuring out how to turn small change into the biggest difference.
The Roommate
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Nakeisha Daniel
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 27 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Cannon Street Arts Center
City: Charleston
Price: $47.00
Reference Link: https://puretheatre.vbotickets.com/event/The_Roommate/94447
Description: PURE Theatre is proud to announce the South Carolina premiere of Jen Silverman’s comedy two-hander. The show will run April 4-27 at the Cannon Street Arts Center.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini / Adaptation by Ben Power
Directed by: Jay Briggs
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
City: Greenville
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/lehman/
Description: On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – collapses.
Trouble in Mind
By: Alice Childress
Directed by: Amanda Washington
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
City: Greenville
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/trouble-mind/
Description: Set during rehearsals for a major Broadway production, Trouble in Mind illuminates the inner life of a Black actress struggling with her career. This play is a funny, moving, and heartbreaking look at racism, identity, and ego in the high-stakes world of New York theatre.
Assassins
By: Book by John Weidman / Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by: Andrew Scoville
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
City: Greenville
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/assassins/
Description: A journey through the dark side of the American dream exploring the lives of nine men and women who either killed (or tried to kill) one of the Presidents of the United States. Assassins is a powerful, yet unnervingly funny look at some of the most shocking moments in U.S. history.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Ginny Ives
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Jan 27 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Trustus Side Door
City: Columbia
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/season-39/
Description: Nan has decided to teach her abusive husband Kyle a lesson. With the help of her friend Simon (acting as her emotional, and actual, cheerleader) and a stripper named Sweetheart, she tapes Kyle to a chair and forces him to watch as they reenact scenes from their painful past.
Stupid F##king Bird
By: Aaron Posner
Directed by: Jessica Francis Fichter
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Feb 24 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-27
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/stupid-fucking-bird/
Description: Everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. An irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull.
Blues for an Alabama Sky
By: Pearl Cleage
Directed by: Terrance Henderson
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-27
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/blues-for-an-alabama-sky/
Description: In a Depression-era Harlem apartment building, a close-knit group of friends has become a chosen family. Their lives are upturned when Southern newcomer Leland arrives and falls hard for Angel, who is torn between a stable life in Manhattan and an exhilarating overseas adventure.
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
By: Terrence McNally
Directed by: Erin Wilson
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Trustus Side Door
City: Columbia
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/season-39/
Description: Two lonely souls meet for a one-night-stand but discover a connection deeper than they ever expected. Over a night filled with intimate thoughts and outlandish coincidences, they realize that making love is easy—falling in love is hard.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Asshole Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Abigail McNeely
Event Date(s): May 03 2024 - May 18 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-27
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/potus/
Description: One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. When the President unwittingly 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 the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
The Prom
By: Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin, and Bob Martin
Directed by: Dewey Scott-Wiley
Event Date(s): Jun 14 2024 - Jul 13 2024
Type of Event: musical
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $30-35
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/the-prom/
Description: Four fading Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town Indiana prom—and the press is involved—they know that it’s time to put a spotlight on the issue…and themselves.
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.
Tennessee
The Giver
By: Lois Lowry, adapted by Eric Coble
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: CBT Mainstage
City: Knoxville
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/
Description: At age 12, Jonas is chosen to be The Giver, the keeper of memories in a community that chooses to push them away---good and bad. As Jonas begins to experience these memories, he is faced with a decision: conform to society's expectations or control his own destiny.
Anon(ymous)
By: Naomi Iizuka
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: CBT Lab Theatre
City: Knoxville
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/
Description: Separated from his mother while fleeing their war-torn country, a young refugee, Anon, journeys throughout the United States. On his quest to find home and family, he dodges enemies, finds friendship, and experiences help from a goddess. A modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey.
Kinky Boots
By: Book by Harvey Fierstein; Music and Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: CBT Mainstage
City: Knoxville
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/
Description: Looking to save the family business, Charlie turns to his new friend Lola, a drag queen, who gives him an idea that could change both of their destinies. Soon this duo creates the most fantastic footwear ever to rock the runways, giving the family factory a sparkling new future.
Indecent
By: Paula Vogel
Directed by: Micah-Shane Brewer
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $55-60
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: A powerful and poignant play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance. Indecent explores the impact of censorship on art and is a moving tribute to the resilience of artists and the power of theatre.
The Color Purple
By: Book by Marsha Norman; Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray
Directed by: Reggie Law
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $50-70
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple is a stirring musical that tells the story of Celie, a young woman who endures years of hardship and finds her power and voice. An inspiring story of hope and a celebration of the human spirit.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Lauren Shouse
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: When the President of the United States spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven women he relies on must risk everything to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. POTUS is a hilarious feminist farce about the absurdity of contemporary politics.
Texas
The Thanksgiving Play
By: Larissa FastHorse
Directed by: Philip Lehl
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2024 - Mar 23 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: An elementary school teacher assembles a group of four well-meaning white creatives to write and produce a Thanksgiving play that is both historically accurate and culturally sensitive.
The Father
By: Florian Zeller
Directed by: Elizabeth Bunch
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2024 - May 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Andre is an elderly man who is struggling with memory loss and confusion as he ages. Through shifting perceptions of reality, he grapples with the loss of his sense of self and the people around him.
Steel Magnolias
By: Robert Harling
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Truvy’s Beauty Salon is a place of comfort, warmth, love, and a smidge of back-handed bickering for the women of Chinquapin, La.
Kingdom Undone
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: When revolution spins out of control, Judas Iscariot and a young Zealot named Isaac rush toward their ultimate liberation. But freedom for their people doesn’t look remotely the way they expect it to.
Driving Miss Daisy
By: Alfred Uhry
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Deep in the heart of Georgia, 1948. Having recently demolished another car, the aging Daisy Werthan, a Jewish woman, must rely on the services of a chauffeur to help her get around. Her son hires Hoke, a thoughtful and good-natured Black man to do the job.
Fiddler on the Roof
By: Book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 26 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In the early 1900s in the small Jewish village of Anatevka in Imperial Russia, Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman, tries to maintain his religious and cultural traditions while dealing with the challenges of poverty, anti-Semitism, and the changing times.
Pictures From Home
By: Sharr White
Directed by: Rob Melrose
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alley Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/pictures-from-home/
Description: From the 2020 All New Festival to a Broadway success last winter, this memory play is a must-see. Photographer Larry Sultan delves into his parents' truths through home movies in the late 1980s. A touching and funny exploration of family dynamics.
The Nerd
By: Larry Shue
Directed by: Brandon Weinbrenner
Event Date(s): Feb 23 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alley Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/the-nerd/
Description: An up-and-coming architect invites into his home the hero who saved his life…who also happens to be a total stranger! The visitor is a hopeless nerd who outstays his welcome, leading to one riotous incident after another.
The World Is Not Silent
By: Don X. Nguyen
Directed by: Marya Mazor
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alley Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/the-world-is-not-silent/
Description: Part of the Alley All New Festival 2022, this play traces Don and his deaf father as they mend their bond post-hearing loss. Words divide and heal as they grasp the essence of true connection, revealing how language both separates and unites.
Jane Eyre
By: Elizabeth Williamson
Directed by: Eleanor Holdridge
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - May 05 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alley Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/jane-eyre/
Description: From the beloved classic novel by Charlotte Brontë, this play follows the heroine who struggles for freedom and fulfillment on her own terms. She survives poverty, injustice, and the discovery of a bitter betrayal before she decides to follow her heart.
Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium
By: Thornton Wilder, completed by Kirk Lynn
Directed by: Rob Melrose
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - Jun 12 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alley Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/the-emporium/
Description: A young man from an orphanage is adopted by a farmer but runs away to the big city only to discover all this is only a metaphor. Maybe life is really an elaborate job interview to determine if we even qualify for our own existence. Adapted from Thornton Wilder's unfinished script.
Dial M for Murder
By: Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Tatiana Pandiani
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alley Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/dial-m-for-murder/
Description: Money, fear, jealousy, revenge…protecting someone you love. All motives for murder, all here in this sharp new adaptation of a classic thriller. This version weaves a whole new tangled web when Tony plots to have his wife Margot killed after he discovers her affair.
The Spitfire Grill
By: James Valcq and Fred Alley
Directed by: Lara Toner Haddock
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Performance - Musical
Venue: Austin Playhouse
City: Austin
Price: $22 to $44
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com
Description: A heartwarming and inspirational musical tale of redemption. Ex-convict Percy Talbott moves to Gilead, Wisc., a tiny town that has seen better days. What she finds will help both town and outsider find their way to renewal.
Born With Teeth
By: Liz Duffy Adams
Directed by: Ben Wolfe
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Austin Playhouse
City: Austin
Price: $22 to $44
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com
Description: The great Kit Marlowe and the up-and-comer Will Shakespeare meet to collaborate on a play cycle, navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and flirt like young men with everything to lose. One may well be the death of the other.
Every Brilliant Thing
By: Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Austin Playhouse
City: Austin
Price: $22 to $44
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com
Description: A heart-wrenching and hilarious one-man play told with the help of the audience. Together, they achieve hope by focusing on the smallest miracles of life.
Emma
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Lara Toner Haddock
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Austin Playhouse
City: Austin
Price: $22 to $44
Reference Link: https://www.austinplayhouse.com
Description: With screwball comedy and surprises aplenty, this fresh, fast-paced new adaptation interprets the Jane Austen classic with delightfully unconventional flair.
The Sum Of Us One-Act Festival
By:
Directed by: Michael Childs
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $18 - $60
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1172835
Description:
Join us for the 3rd annual banned books festival as we present The Sum of Us One-Act Festival, a collection of short plays by six local playwrights inspired by Heather McGhee's brilliant analysis, exploring the far-reaching costs of racism and the path to healing as a community.
Fannie: The Life and Music of Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Cheryl West
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $18 - $60
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1172836
Description: Dallas Theater Center's Brierley Resident Acting Company member Liz Mikel returns to Dallas after a year performing on Broadway to play the legendary 1960s Civil Rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in this regional premiere. This performance is in association with DTC.
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.
Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are In A Play!”
By: Based on the "Elephant & Piggie" books by Mo Willems, Published by Hyperion Books for Children, Script and Lyrics by Mo Willems, Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma, Originally commissioned and produced by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Directed by: Nancy Schaeffer
Event Date(s): Jan 21 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Dallas Children's Theater
City: Dallas
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description: Mo Willems, author and creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling, Caldecott Honor award-winning Elephant & Piggie and Pigeon picture books, is at it again with Elephant & Piggie's “We Are In A Play!”.
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me: I Am Fearless Royalty
By: By Paige Hernandez with Music by Kris Funn, Based on “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Dr. Maya Angelou, From the book "And Still I Rise," Used with permission of Caged Bird Legacy, LLC
Directed by: Paige Hernandez
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Mar 30 2024
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: Dallas Children's Theater
City: Dallas
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description: With original music from Grammy-nominated Kris Funn and themes inspired by actual students across the country, this show is a moving multicultural performing arts experience that reminds everyone that Life Doesn't Frighten Me: I Am Fearless Royalty.
The Magician’s Nephew
By: Dramatization by Aurand Harris, Adapted from the story by C.S. Lewis
Directed by: Artie Olaisen
Event Date(s): Apr 27 2024 - May 25 2024
Type of Event: Non-Musical
Venue: Dallas Children's Theater
City: Dallas
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description: In this prequel to C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, young Digory wants nothing more than to save his ailing mother. Realism and fantasy collide in this classic adventure story of good versus evil. Mythical kingdoms and deep magic await, and Narnia is born!
I Am Delivered’T
By: Jonathan Norton
Directed by: Robert Barry Fleming
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Comedy
Venue: Kalita Humphreys Theater
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/i-am-deliveredt/
Description: This joyful world premiere comedy by DTC's resident playwright, Jonathan Norton, introduces audiences to the world of church usher board culture and celebrates same-gender-loving church folks, and the power and joy of being your authentic self.
Every Brilliant Thing
By: Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe
Directed by: Sally Nystuen Vahle
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre Rehearsal Studio
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/every-brilliant-thing/
Description: Every Brilliant Thing is an intimate, immersive theatrical experience that takes the audience on a journey through grief, healing, falling in love, and rediscovering all that life has to give.
Dial M for Murder
By: Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Rachel Alderman
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Mystery/Thriller
Venue: Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/dial-m-for-murder/
Description: A new version of the celebrated murder mystery that inspired Hitchcock’s masterpiece.
Fannie: The Music & Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Cheryl L West
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/fannie/
Description: Dallas Theater Center resident acting company member Liz Mikel plays the legendary 1960s Civil Rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, in this regional premiere. Produced by Bishop Arts Theatre Center and presented in association with Dallas Theater Center.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid
By:
Directed by: Kevin Moriarty
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/disneys-the-little-mermaid/
Description: A large-scale DTC Public Works version of the Disney classic, in a production uniquely created for the people of Dallas, with the people of Dallas, and by the people of Dallas, featuring 200 community members of all ages, many appearing onstage for the first time.
Always a Boy
By: Jo Ivester & Jeremy Ivester
Directed by: Lisa Scheps
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2024 - Mar 02 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $0 - $45
Reference Link: https://www.groundfloortheatre.org/boy
Description: Always a Boy centers on Joshua and his mother as they prepare for another big family wedding day. They reminisce about when Joshua began his gender journey. Gender, binary thinking, and previously unspoken pain come to a head as the pair face the truth of Joshua's struggle.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Carl Gonzales & Lacey Cannon Gonzales
Event Date(s): May 16 2024 - Jun 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $0 - $45
Reference Link: https://www.groundfloortheatre.org
Description: A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated 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 and become inspired to dream by their quest to create the perfect sandwich.
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.
The Woman in Black
By: Stephen Mallatratt and Susan Hill
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 13 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice VIllage
City: Houston
Price: $39 - $59
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/the-woman-in-black/
Description: Arthur Kipps is obsessed with a curse he believes has been cast over him and his family by the specter of a “Woman in Black,” for it is believed that anyone who sees her will die. Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story is alive and well in this spine-tingler of a play!
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
By: Based on the book by Doreen Cronin with pictures by Betsy Lewin; Adapted by James E. Grote and George Howe
Directed by: Robin Robinson
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2024 - May 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TOUR
City: various
Price: $1,000.00 for a single performance; $1,500.00 for back-to-back performances
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/on-tour-click-clack-moo-cows-that-type/
Description: Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type! And when they start using the typewriter to make demands and stand up for their rights, he has his hands full. Join the Duck and the cows in the barnyard with this hilarious musical about cooperation!
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
By: Dramatized by Joseph Robinette; from the story by C.S. Lewis
Directed by: Vivienne M. St. John
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater at MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $18 – $30
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/lion-witch-wardrobe/
Description: Four inquisitive British siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, find a wardrobe that mysteriously leads to a fantasy world of Narnia---a land frozen in eternal winter and bound to the powers of the White Witch. A story of bravery, friendship, and hope!
26 Miles
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by: Amelia Rico
Event Date(s): Feb 10 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
City: Houston
Price: $35 - $59
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/26-miles/
Description: The custody battle left them estranged for eight years. The road trip destination is 2,000 miles across the country. The mother’s skin is brown; the teenage daughter’s skin is white. This reunited pair runs frantically and hilariously from the secrets in their lives.
Stuart Little
By: Based on the book by E.B. White; Adapted by Joseph Robinette
Directed by: Daria Allen
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2024 - Apr 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater at MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $18 - $24
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/stuart-little/
Description: The endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary New York family. All the charm, wisdom & joy of the E.B. White original come to life with the marvelous maneuverings of a mild-mannered mouse who is trying to survive in the great, big world.
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
By: Based on the book by Doreen Cronin with pictures by Betsy Lewin; Adapted by James E. Grote and George Howe
Directed by: Robin Robinson
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2024 - Mar 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater at MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $16-$24
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/click-clack-moo-cows-that-type/
Description: Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type! And when they start using the typewriter to make demands and stand up for their rights, he has his hands full. Join the Duck and the cows in the barnyard with this hilarious musical about cooperation!
Stagolee and the Funeral of a Dangerous Word
By: Thomas Meloncon
Directed by: Errol Wilks
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
City: Houston
Price: $35 - $59
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/stagolee/
Description: World premiere. A small town in East Texas. The local NAACP office is planning a funeral for the “N word.” A close-minded white man is on his way to the office to have a frank discussion with the legendary Stagolee, a Black man known for his father’s legendary status and swagger.
Sherlock Holmes & The Mystery of the Crown Jewel
By: Based on the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Book, Music & Lyrics by Janet Yates Vogt & Mark Friedman
Directed by: Robin Robinson
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - May 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater at MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $18 - $28
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/sherlock-holmes/
Description: This original musical, based on the popular stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, leads you on a merry goose chase from 221B Baker Street all the way to the Tower of London.
Taking Steps
By: Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by: Andrew Ruthven
Event Date(s): May 18 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
City: Houston
Price: $35 - $59
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/taking-steps/
Description: A brilliant British farce by the inimitable Alan Ayckbourn.
Fancy Nancy The Musical
By: Based on the popular Fancy Nancy books by Jane O’Connor; Book and Lyrics by Susan Di Lallo; Music and Lyrics by Danny Abosch
Directed by: Jimmy Phillips
Event Date(s): Jun 15 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater at MATCH
City: Houston
Price: $18-$30
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/fancy-nancy/
Description: Bon jour! Fancy Nancy is ready for the spotlight! Along with her best friend, Bree, Fancy Nancy couldn’t be more excited about their upcoming dance show. After all, it’s all about mermaids, and who knows how to be a fancy, glamorous mermaid better than Fancy Nancy?
Peter and the Starcatcher
By: Rick Elice, adapted from the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Directed by: Ben Wolfe
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue:
City: Austin
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels.
Into the Woods
By: Stephen Sondheim (music), James Lapine (book)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Austin
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece... and a rare modern classic.
O: A Rhapsody in Divorce
By: Jami Brandli
Directed by: Jennifer Decker
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre production
Venue: Studio 101
City: Houston
Price: $pay as you can
Reference Link: https://mildredsumbrella.com
Description: A childless female neurologist in her 40s is blindsided when her husband wants a divorce but refuses to leave the house. With that, her life is upended and she’s thrown into an epic couch-hopping odyssey. Rolling world premiere.
Homegrown: New Works by Local Playwrights
By: Tony Faia, Jenny Connell Davis
Directed by: Molly Fonseca, Liz Fisher
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - Apr 19 2024
Type of Event: Play reading, Performance
Venue: Round Rock Public Library
City: Round Rock
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://tinyurl.com/penfold-homegrown2
Description: Join us as we nurture local voices, enjoy an up-close evening of laughter and surprise, and support Penfold’s new home in Round Rock set to open this fall! These two play readings are of Greyhound Famous by Tony Faia and Anton Chekhov Is a Tasty Snack by Jenny Connell Davis.
Proyecto Teatro
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Jan 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: Production presented by Proyecto Teatro.
Thunder Knocking on the Door
By: Keith Glover
Directed by: Guinea Bennett-Price
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue:
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A "bluesical" by Keith Glover with music by Keb' Mo', the piece takes place at the crossroads of “here and there." In the mythical tale, Marvell Thunder, a mysterious shapeshifter, challenges Glory, a blind songstress, to a magical duel on the Delta Blues guitar.
Sister’s Irish Catechism: Saints, Snakes, and Green Milkshakes
By: Maripat Donovan
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Stages Repertory Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://stageshouston.com/2023-24-season/
Description: By the luck of the Irish, Denise Fennell is back in the habit! Everyone’s favorite sassy nun leads a brand new catechism class—this time with a bit more green. Audience members become students in a hilarious classroom where Sister’s rules are all that matter.
Laughs in Spanish
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Stages Repertory Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://stageshouston.com/2023-24-season/
Description: Art Basel is about to begin and Mariana, director of a swanky modern gallery, has a big problem on her hands. Her showroom is an active crime scene. When Mariana’s movie star mother tries to save the show, everything gets hilariously complicado.
Othello: The Remix
By: Book & Music by the Q Brothers
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - Jun 09 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Stages Repertory Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://stageshouston.com/
Description: Shakespeare may be the O.G., but this crew takes The Tragedy of Othello to a whole new level in this lit hip-hop remix. The onstage DJ spins Shakespeare’s legendary masterpiece of jealousy, revenge, and passion over original bars and rhymes.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 30 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Stages Repertory Theatre
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://stageshouston.com/
Description: Winner of the 2022 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, A Case for the Existence of God is a transcendent work of empathy and catharsis by MacArthur Fellow Samuel D. Hunter, writer of the recent Oscar-nominated film The Whale.
XXI International Theatre Festival
By: N/A
Directed by: N/A
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2024 - Jun 04 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Festival
Venue: Latino Cultural Center
City: Dallas
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://teatrodallas.org/productions/
Description: Argentina - Mexico - Colombia - EE.UU. Artists and companies from all over the world will join together in Dallas to share their stories. The only requirement: The stories must explore life. Join our international community!
It Is Magic
By: Mickle Maher
Directed by: Jeff Miller
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MATCH (Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston), 3400 Main Street
City: Houston
Price: Pay-What-You-Can! ($35 suggested)
Reference Link: https://matchouston.org/events/2024/it-magic-0
Description: “Things are getting crazy at the local Playhouse…” Deb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in The Three Little Pigs, but there’s a mysterious haze in the basement and "the Scottish play" having its opening night upstairs is making things even hazier.
It Is Magic
By: Mickle Maher
Directed by: Jeff Miller
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Houston premiere
Cleansed
By: Sarah Kane
Directed by: Jason Nodler
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Regional premiere.
Tamarie’s Texas Toast
By: Tamarie Cooper and Patrick Reynolds
Directed by: Tamarie Cooper
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2024 - Aug 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Houston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: World premiere.
The Piano Lesson
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Eileen J. Morris
Event Date(s): Jan 20 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: The Ensemble Theatre Houston
City: Houston
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://ensemblehouston.com
Description: It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South wanting to sell the piano that has been in his family for generations. His sister has rejected several offers as Boy Willie tries to persuade her that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated.
Beatbox: A Raparetta
By: Tommy Shepherd & Dan Wolf
Directed by: Rachel Hemphill Dickson
Event Date(s): Mar 16 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Hip Hop Musical
Venue: The Ensemble Theatre Houston
City: Houston
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://ensemblehouston.com
Description: Beatbox: A Raparetta is a modern dramatic musical production written and performed in rhythm and rhyme with vocal drumbeats (also known as beatboxing), hip hop dance and a live DJ. The play is soaked in hip-hop culture built from equal parts of love, anger and hope.
On Midnight, Friday the 13th
By: Roger Furman
Directed by: Eileen J. Morris
Event Date(s): May 04 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: The Ensemble Theatre Houston
City: Houston
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://ensemblehouston.com
Description: Angus Black has finally made the transition and you don’t want to miss the reading of the will. The intriguing journey to hear the final wishes is hilarious for everyone, unless you are next to join Angus! Come, keep your wits about you, and help investigate who did it!
Pullman Porter Blues
By: Cheryl L. West
Directed by: Chuck Smith
Event Date(s): Jun 22 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Play With Music
Venue: The Ensemble Theatre Houston
City: Houston
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://ensemblehouston.com
Description: It’s 1937, and three generations of porters are hard at work on the luxurious Panama Limited train. Midwest blues songs flavor their journey from Chicago to New Orleans as the porters confront dark secrets from their past and tough truths about their future together.
Spring Awakening
By: Music by Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Steven Sater
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: San Antonio
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with a poignancy and passion that is illuminating and unforgettable.
Intimate Apparel
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Antonio
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: 1905, New York City. Esther, a Black seamstress, sews lingerie for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. When she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome Caribbean man working on the Panama Canal, it looks like her life may be about to change.
Once Upon a Mattress
By: Book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer, music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: San Antonio
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, this rollicking spin on the classic tale The Princess and the Pea provides some side-splitting shenanigans. For after all, a princess is a delicate thing.
AMAGING: Age isn’t just a number it’s a story
By: World Famous *BOB*
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: Workshop performance by drag queen World Famous *BOB*.
OUTsider Fest
By:
Directed by: OUTsider
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Festival
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: A queer transmedia festival produced by OUTsider.
UNDARK: A Radioactive Puppet Play
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 16 2024
Type of Event: Puppet Play
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: The story of the radium girls, produced by Trouble Puppet Theater Company. ASL interpretation March 7.
Garden Party
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 10 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Garden party
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: The annual renewal of the VORTEX garden and butterfly sanctuary featuring live music, a petting zoo, and gardening activities for all ages.
The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body
By: Dr. Lisa B. Thompson
Directed by: Rudy Ramirez
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2024 - May 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: A world premiere choreopoem by Lisa B. Thompson, this play is a spiritual mixtape, praise dance, community guide, self-help book, lullaby, road map, collective diary of prayers and lies, and love song for Black women and girls. It is co-commissioned through the National Performance Network.
Malum Malus Burlesque: Beltane
By:
Directed by: Blaise Ricin
Event Date(s): May 09 2024 - May 11 2024
Type of Event: Burlesque
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://the-vortex.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0S3m00000GWTcKEAX
Description: Ages 18+. Occult burlesque and contemporary dance celebrate the pagan holiday of Beltane.
Proyecto Teatro
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 25 2024 - Jun 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: Production presented by Proyecto Teatro.
Maebell’s Suitcase
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 14 2024 - Jun 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: Glass Half Full Theatre produces a warm, funny adaptation of Tricia Tusa’s tale of the love between 108-year-old Maebell and her dear bird friend, Binkle.
Queer Black Emancipation Open Mic
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 17 2024 - Jun 17 2024
Type of Event: Open Mic
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: Ages 18+. Hosted by Ebony Stewart.
Funny, Like an Abortion
By: Rachel Bublitz
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 06 2024 - Jul 20 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 play by Rachel Bublitz. Since abortions are illegal in the United States, Monroe throws herself a surprise abortion party, resulting in a comedy of unfortunate choices. ASL interpretation July 13. Ages 18+.
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.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
By: Book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro, music by Jimmie Roberts
Directed by: Alejandro Saucedo
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Presented as a series of vignettes, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a touching musical comedy about all of love’s greatest challenges: dating, sex, marriage and family.
God of Carnage
By: Yasmina Reza
Directed by: Christie Vela
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Two sets of Brooklyn parents meet to deal with a playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys and a calm and rational debate between grown-ups transforms into a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears.
The Seagull
By: Anton Chekhov, adapted by Blake Hackler
Directed by: Joel Ferrell
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In an isolated home in the countryside, an ensemble of family, artists and unsatisfied people gather to experience Konstantin’s new play on an outdoor stage.
Misery
By: William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King
Directed by: Christie Vela
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - Jun 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Romance novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While being forced to re-write his latest book at the favor of his captor, Paul realizes that he’s writing as if his life depends on it.
Pirates of Penzance
By: Libretto by W. S. Gilbert, music by Arthur Sullivan
Directed by: Joel Ferrell
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2024 - Jul 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious, hopeful musical follows young love-struck Frederic, who has mistakenly been apprenticed to a raucous band of pirates.
This Time
By: Brian Dang
Directed by: Gabrielle Kurlander
Event Date(s): Feb 29 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Undermain Theatre
City: Dallas
Price: $35-20
Reference Link: https://www.undermain.org/this-time
Description: Jane holds a knife. It's bloody. Hester lies on a table. Peregrine blows out a candle. Go back in time. Working as maids in a 1900s manor, unable to say what they want to say. Their love bubbles under their words. We hear their thoughts they aren't yet brave enough to say.
The Persians
By: Aeschylus, Translation by Ellen McLaughlin
Directed by: Kara-Lynn Vaeni
Event Date(s): May 02 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Undermain Theatre
City: Dallas
Price: $35-20
Reference Link: https://www.undermain.org/the-persians
Description: Considered the oldest surviving play in theatre history, The Persians is unique among extant ancient Greek tragedies in that it dramatizes recent history rather than events from the distant age of mythical heroes. Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin.
Ann
By: Holland Taylor
Directed by: Susan Sargeant
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2024 - Feb 25 2024
Type of Event: Solo show
Venue:
City: Addison
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: ANN is a no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary governor of Texas. This inspiring and hilarious new play brings us face to face with a complex, colorful and captivating character bigger than the state from which she hailed.
Annie Jr.
By: Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, Lee Adams
Directed by: Ashley Puckett-Gonzales
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Addison
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This production of ANNIE Jr. is a proud production of The Penguin Project.
Satchmo at the Waldorf
By: Terry Teachout
Directed by: Feleceia Wilson
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2024 - Apr 28 2024
Type of Event: Solo show
Venue:
City: Addison
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF is a one-man, three-character play in which the same actor portrays Louis Armstrong, the greatest of all jazz trumpeters; Joe Glaser, his white manager; and Miles Davis, who admired Armstrong’s playing but disliked his onstage manner.
Mary Poppins The Musical
By: Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, book by Julian Fellowes
Directed by: John De Los Santos
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Addison
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical! Based on the books by P.L. Travers and the classic Walt Disney film.
The Little Mermaid
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Family Play
Venue: The Whisenhunt at ZACH Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $22 & up
Reference Link: https://tickets.zachtheatre.org/overview/14813
Description: This original retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic combines modern technologies and the ancient art of storytelling to put a new twist on this well-loved fairy tale.
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
By: Dave Malloy
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Topfer at ZACH Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $25 & up
Reference Link: https://tickets.zachtheatre.org/overview/14590
Description: Based on a scandalous portion of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, this daring musical follows Natasha Rostova’s impulsive journey in Moscow and the efforts of family friend Pierre to salvage her reputation.
A Year With Frog and Toad
By: Willie Reale and Robert Reale
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 23 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Family Musical
Venue: The Kleberg at ZACH Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $22 & up
Reference Link: https://tickets.zachtheatre.org/overview/14842
Description: Based on Arnold Lobel’s beloved book, the Tony-nominated musical A Year with Frog and Toad celebrates enduring friendship and life’s lessons as Frog and Toad navigate the changing seasons together.
The Prom
By: Music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, and a book by Bob Martin and Beguelin, based on an original concept by Jack Viertel
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Topfer at ZACH Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $25 & up
Reference Link: https://tickets.zachtheatre.org/overview/14599
Description: In search of a new stage, four eccentric Broadway stars rally behind a small-town prom facing controversy. As they aim to bring attention to the issue and shine a light on themselves, they encounter a brave girl fighting for her right to bring her girlfriend.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 19 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Topfer at ZACH Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $25 & up
Reference Link: https://tickets.zachtheatre.org/overview/14593
Description: From their hopeful arrival in New York in 1844 to the dramatic collapse of Lehman Brothers 163 years later, this epic tale explores the rise and fall of the iconic firm, intertwining personal dreams with a global financial crisis.
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.
Utah
Native Gardens
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Timothy Douglas
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Jan 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Simmons Pioneer Theatre Company
City: Salt Lake City
Price: $42-$53
Reference Link: https://pioneertheatre.org/season/2023-2024-season/native-gardens/
Description: A contemporary comedy that reminds us we can’t always choose our neighbors.
Bonnie & Clyde
By: Book by Ivan Menchell. Lyrics by Don Black. Music by Frank Wildhorn.
Directed by: Gerry McIntyre
Event Date(s): Feb 23 2024 - Mar 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Simmons Pioneer Theatre Company
City: Salt Lake City
Price: $55-$79
Reference Link: https://pioneertheatre.org/season/2023-2024-season/bonnie-clyde/
Description: Adventure and romance await in the larger-than-life true tale of one of history’s most notorious couples.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, Adapted by Ben Power
Directed by: Karen Azenberg
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2024 - Apr 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Meldrum Theatre at the Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse
City: Salt Lake City
Price: $42-$53
Reference Link: https://pioneertheatre.org/season/2023-2024-season/the-lehman-trilogy/
Description: A not-to-be-missed American tale of epic proportions.
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
By: Dave Malloy. Adapted from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
Directed by: Karen Azenberg
Event Date(s): May 10 2024 - May 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre
City: Salt Lake City
Price: $55-$79
Reference Link: https://pioneertheatre.org/season/2023-2024-season/natasha-pierre-great-comet/
Description: An electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
Vermont
Constellations
By: Nick Payne
Directed by: Sarah Elizabeth Wansley
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: White River Junction
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: What if you’d made a different choice? What if you’d said the thing that popped into your head just after you walked away? Nick Payne’s Olivier Award-winning modern romance Constellations follows Roland, a beekeeper, and Marianne, a scientist, from their first meeting.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
Directed by: Peter Hackett
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: White River Junction
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Buckle up for a wild ride---things are about to go very wrong! Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things quickly unravel from bad to utterly disastrous.
Breakfalls
By: Gina Stevensen
Directed by: Delanté Keys
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: world premiere play
Venue: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
City: Burlington
Price: $24-64
Reference Link: https://www.vermontstage.org/breakfalls.html
Description: Romance blooms, ideologies clash, and community forms at a karate dojo in Burlington, Vt., as five strangers grapple with how to stay safe in an unsafe world. A world premiere by a Vermont playwright.
tick, tick…BOOM!
By: Jonathan Larson
Directed by: Cristina Alicea
Event Date(s): May 01 2024 - May 26 2024
Type of Event: musical
Venue: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
City: Burlington
Price: $24-64
Reference Link: https://www.vermontstage.org/tick-tick-boom.html
Description: An aspiring composer questions his life choices on the eve of his 30th birthday. This autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning composer of Rent, is the story of an artist and the sacrifices he makes to hold onto his dreams.
The Bake Off
By: TBD
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2024 - Jun 16 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
City: Burlington
Price: $24-64
Reference Link: https://www.vermontstage.org/the-bake-off-2024.html
Description: Take one play, break it into three parts, add three directors and three casts, and—voilà!—you've got the 12th Annual Bake Off, an engaging exploration of the “ingredients" different directors use to create the same play. More info about the chosen play and directors to come.
Jersey Boys
By: Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2024 - Jul 06 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Walker Farm @ Weston Theater Company
City: Weston
Price: $59-$79
Reference Link: https://westontheater.org/jersey-boys
Description: Oh, what a night! Rock out with four young men of the ‘60s as they rise from the streets of New Jersey to conquer the music industry and forge friendships that stand the test of time.
Junie B. Jones: The Musical
By: Book & Lyrics by Marcy Heisler
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Weston Theater Company's Walker Farm & Venues Across Southern VT
City: Weston
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://westontheater.org/junie-b-jones
Description: Based on the beloved children’s book series, this vibrant and hilarious musical adventure follows the unforgettable antics of that irrepressible first grader, Junie B., and her quirky, lovable friends through the ups and downs of elementary school.
Pippin
By: Roger O. Hirson (book), Stephen Schwartz (music)
Directed by: Susanna Gellert
Event Date(s): Jul 24 2024 - Aug 17 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Walker Farm @ Weston Theater Company
City: Weston
Price: $59-$79
Reference Link: https://westontheater.org/pippin
Description: Unleash your imagination and join the company of Pippin as they journey the world over to become extraordinary and ultimately discover their dream in life’s simplest joys. This unforgettable musical reminds us that sometimes, life's simplest moments are the most magical.
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
The Lake Effect
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Alex Levy
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: 1st Stage Theatre
City: Tysons
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://1ststage.org/season-20232024
Description: During a fierce Cleveland mid-winter storm, estranged siblings are reunited by their father's sudden death. In the midst of closing his failing Indian restaurant, they must confront the painful memories and secrets that drove them apart.
The Nance
By: Douglas Carter Beane
Directed by: Nick Olcott
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: 1st Stage Theatre
City: Tysons
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://1ststage.org/season-20232024
Description: This witty, Tony Award-winning play introduces us to Chauncey Miles, a gay burlesque performer at the Irving Place Theater. At a time when it was easy to play gay and dangerous to be gay, Chauncey’s uproarious antics on the stage stand out in marked contrast to his offstage life.
Postcards from Ihatov
By: Natsu Onoda Power
Directed by: Natsu Onoda Power
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: 1st Stage Theatre
City: Tysons
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://1ststage.org/season-20232024
Description: World premiere. Adapted from the works of Kenji Miyazawa, including the classic Night on the Galactic Railroad. This spellbinding tale of friendship, self-discovery, and the transcendent power of imagination takes audiences on a cosmic journey through the stars.
Torch Song
By: Harvey Fierstein
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2024 - Mar 09 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A new look at a ground-breaking comedy.
Airswimming
By: Charlotte Jones
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2024 - May 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Forgotten women who are not easy to forget.
Xanadu
By: Book by Douglas Carter Beane, music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the film
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2024 - Jul 13 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The musical that will roll right into your heart!
Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Paata Tsikurishvili
Event Date(s): Feb 16 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Arlington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Set amidst the whirring gears of a giant clock, Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-crossed lovers unfolds as a bitter family feud sends the pair on a race against an ill-fated destiny.
Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand
Directed by: Vato Tsikurishvili
Event Date(s): Jul 27 2024 - Aug 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Arlington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant poet and soldier, possesses enormous wit, tremendous bravery, and an unmistakable feature---a nose that could rival mountains.
Chasing George Washington: A White House Adventure
By: Karen Zacarías and writers from Young Playwrights Theatre, music by Deborah Wicks LaPuma
Directed by: Amber Martinez
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Field trips are fun, especially when your destination is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! Students Dee, José and Annie accidentally knock George Washington out of his portrait and into real life—turning their White House tour into an unexpected adventure.
Satchmo at the Waldorf
By: Terry Teachout
Directed by: Rick Hammerly
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Apr 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: In this one-man, three character play, Richmond favorite, Jerold Solomon, portrays Louis Armstrong, the greatest of all jazz trumpeters; Joe Glaser, his white manager; and Miles Davis, who admired Armstrong's playing, but detested his onstage manner.
On Air
By: Music and lyrics by Matt Conner, book and lyrics by Stephen Gregory Smith
Directed by: Todd D. Norris
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Amidst the turbulent 1920s, Frank and Flora Conrad were on the edge of discovering mass broadcasting. These two unsung radio pioneers broke through the static and established the first radio station in America within their own unassuming garage in East Pittsburgh.
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience
By: Mo Willems, music by Deborah Wicks LaPuma
Directed by: Todd D. Norris
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Dude! Kids and adults will love this rock 'n roll parable based on the hit children's book by Mo Willems.
9 to 5: The Musical
By: Music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, book by Patricia Resnick
Directed by: Debra Clinton
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Dolly Parton’s hilarious musical celebrates female friendship, and the ultimate revenge against their male boss. Pushed to the boiling point, three female co-workers take control of their office and learn there’s nothing they can't do, even in a man's world.
Dragons Love Tacos
By: Ernie Nolan, based on the book by Adam Rubin with illustrations by Daniel Salmieri
Directed by: Kära Ernst-Schalk
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A boy and his dog are watching a TV show about dragons when they unexpectedly get caught up in the 'Dos and Don'ts' of what to feed dragons. Turns out they love tacos, but if they accidentally eat spicy salsa... watch out!
Dial M for Murder
By: Frederick Knott
Directed by: Mark Shanahan
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Performance with Music
Venue: Virginia Stage Company
City: Norfolk
Price: $25 - 68
Reference Link: https://www.vastage.org
Description: Step into a world of deception, suspense, and betrayal as a retired tennis player plots to murder his unfaithful, wealthy wife---until his plan takes an unexpected turn. Dial M For Murder is guaranteed to keep audiences guessing, gasping, and smiling until the final curtain call.
The Three Musketeers
By: Adapted by Ken Ludwig Based on the Novel by Alexandre Dumas
Directed by: Tom Quaintance
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Performance
Venue: Virginia Stage Company
City: Norfolk
Price: $25 - 68
Reference Link: https://vastage.org
Description: A co-production with Norfolk State University Theatre Company. In this beloved tale, we follow the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan as he joins the king’s Musketeer of the Guard. Journey through scandal and intrigue in this swash-buckling adventure.
Washington
The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes
By: Vivian J.O. Barnes
Directed by: Taylor Reynolds
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2024 - Mar 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: DC
Price: $34-82
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/productions/the-sensational-sea-mink-ettes/
Description: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Virginia-born playwright Vivian J.O. Barnes play, which follows an HBCU dance team as they prepare for their homecoming performance.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Inside a small loan brokerage in Idaho, two men struggle to make a place for their family in the American dream, walking a tightrope while balancing parenthood, financial security, desire, and empathy.
Stew
By: Zora Howard
Directed by: Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Mama’s up early to prepare the perfect stew for a very important community meal. As the day rolls on, tempers go from a simmer to a boil, and secrets rise to the surface for three generations of Tucker women.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A thrilling Seattle debut after a triumphant run on London’s West End and Broadway. The Lehmans began as many American immigrants did in the 19th century: on a cold dock in New York City 1844 as a young Jewish man enters his new country for the first time.
Deathtrap
By: Ira Levin
Directed by: Aaron Lamb
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $28 - $43
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/show/deathtrap/
Description: Sidney Bruhl would do anything to publish the next great play. He would even kill for it. This dark comedy thriller will have audiences laughing one moment and screaming in terror the next, as Sidney discovers he may not be the only murderer in the room.
Deathtrap
By: Ira Levin
Directed by: Scott Nolte
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Feb 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $43/40/28
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/show/deathtrap/
Description: Sidney Bruhl would do anything to publish the next great play. He would even kill for it. This dark comedy thriller will have audiences laughing one moment and screaming in terror the next as Sidney discovers he may not be the only murderer in the room.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
By: Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
Directed by: Corey McDaniel
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $28 - 43
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/show/the-complete-works-of-william-shakespeare-abridged/
Description: An irreverent, hilarious, high-speed romp through all 37 of the Bard’s plays (and 154 sonnets) in under two hours! Titus Andronicus becomes a cooking show, all the histories are performed as a football game, and we go NUTS with Hamlet! All performed by three actors.
Cabaret
By: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff
Directed by: Aaron Lamb
Event Date(s): Jun 28 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: State Theater
City: Olympia
Price: $33 - 48
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/show/cabaret/
Description: “Leave your troubles at the door…” In a time when the world is changing forever, there is one place where everyone can be free. Welcome to the Kit Kat Klub. One of the most famous American musicals of all time, from the creators of Chicago.
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.
Luchadora!
By: Alvaro Saar Rios
Directed by: Johamy Morales
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
City: Seattle
Price: $35-55
Reference Link: https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/luchadora-2/
Description: Transport yourself to the world of lucha libre Mexican wrestling, with this inspired adaptation of the Chinese legend Hua Mulan. As we follow Lupita’s journey, we witness her daring tomboy life: bike riding with her friends, working at her father’s flower stand, and lucha libre.
A Tale of Peter Rabbit
By: Beatrix Potter adapted by Trista Baldwin
Directed by: Anita Montgomery
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
City: Seattle
Price: $35-55
Reference Link: https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/a-tale-of-peter-rabbit-2/
Description: What does it mean to be a good bunny? If everyone thinks you’re a bad bunny, can you ever be good? In this moving and adventurous reimagining of Beatrix Potter’s classic tale, Peter Rabbit and his three sisters come together to tell a story of their very own.
Quizote Nuevo
By: Octavio Solis
Directed by: Lisa Portes
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bagley Wright Theater
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.seattlerep.org/plays/202324-season/quixote-nuevo/
Description: Reality and fantasy blur in the Texas desert, as Jose dubs himself Don Quixote and embarks on a fantastic, death-defying journey to discover the truth of his past. Underscored by vibrant Tejano music, a humorous and heartfelt quest towards becoming the hero of your own story.
Sanctuary City
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Desdemona Chiang
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Leo K. Theater
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.seattlerep.org/plays/202324-season/sanctuary-city/
Description: This searing and captivating new play by Pulitzer-winning Martyna Majok asks what we’re willing to risk for those we love.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Timothy McCuen Piggee
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bagley Wright Theater
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.seattlerep.org/plays/202324-season/fat-ham/
Description: Fresh from its Broadway debut, this Pulitzer-winning play inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a sparkling and uproarious new comedy about seeking love and liberation.
Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales: Together Again, Again!
By: Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 31 2024 - Jun 23 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bagley Wright Theater
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.seattlerep.org/plays/202324-season/together-again-again/
Description: From the creators of 2014’s crowd favorite The Vaudevillians, experience the comedy, music, and saucy stylings of two of the Pacific Northwest’s standout entertainers.
The Book of Will
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2024 - Feb 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Jewell Mainstage
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: Shakespeare is dead. But in an act of undying devotion, his dearest friends rally to keep his plays alive by publishing every word he wrote, before time erases them forever. For book lovers and history buffs, and anyone whose love has inspired them to persevere.
How to Write a New Book for the Bible
By: Bill Cain
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2024 - Apr 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Jewell Mainstage
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: “Write what you know,” the saying goes. But when Bill Cain moves home to help his dying mother, he doesn’t have the words to capture the mystery of his own family. Amid doctor appointments and baseball games, he begins to see how seemingly ordinary details shape our lives.
Sherlock Holmes and the Precarious Position
By: Margaret Raether
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 15 2024 - Jun 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Jewell Mainstage
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: Based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Corsets, crowns, and a missing royal jewel set the stage for a battle of wits in this tale of deception, suspense, and deduction. Four actors play multiple characters, and the mystery turns deadly.
Sister Act
By: Music by Alan Menken | Lyrics by Glenn Slater | Book by Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Aug 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: A feel-good musical comedy like “nun” other! Delores dreams of fame and fortune, but after witnessing a murder she lands in protective custody. Being disguised as a nun can’t cramp her style, and soon she’s inspired the whole choir.
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.
Something’s Afoot
By: Book, music, and lyrics by James McDonald, David Voss, and Robert Gerlach, wit additional music by Ed Linderman
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2024 - Mar 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Prepare to laugh until it hurts with this musical spoof of the whodunit genre. Something’s Afoot pokes fun at Agatha Christie murder mysteries, with 10 people stranded in an isolated country estate during a raging thunderstorm.
Spring Awakening
By: Music by Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Steven Sater
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Jun 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: An electrifying journey through the trials and challenges of adolescence, with music by Duncan Sheik. Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
Clue
By: Sandy Rustin, with additional material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price, based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 09 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget!
Wisconsin
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Gavin Dillon Lawrence
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2024 - Sep 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/ma-raineys-black-bottom
Description: The second play in August Wilson's American Century Cycle. Legendary blues artist Ma Rainey is at the apex of the industry. As Ma and her entourage are delayed on the way to cut her new album, her band gets to talking about their pasts and their futures.
The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool
By: Michael Hollinger
Directed by: Aaron Posner
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2024 - Sep 19 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Performance
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/the-virgin-queen-entertains-her-fool
Description: A revered queen on her way to quitting this mortal coil ponders who will follow in her footsteps in this world premiere production. As those closest to her become more insistent that she makes her choice, long-hidden truths begin to emerge from the shadows in this tragicomedy.
Ring Round the Moon
By: Jean Anouilh, Christopher Fry
Directed by: Laura Gordon
Event Date(s): Jun 08 2024 - Sep 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/ring-round-the-moon
Description: Twins Hugo and Frederic may look identical, but could not be more different. Family tensions come to a head during a ball attended by all the very best people. Things go hilariously off the rails before the night is through in this lush and witty comedy.
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Robert Ramirez
Event Date(s): Jun 14 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/much-ado-about-nothing-2024
Description: Not only are Beatrice and Benedick content with their singleton status, it is their defining feature. Well, that and their piercing wit, which they put on hilarious display whenever they share space. The original will-they-won’t-they couple returns to the Hill Stage in 2024.
Wolf at the Door
By: Marisela Treviño Orta
Directed by: Melisa Pereyra
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2024 - Sep 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/wolf-at-the-door
Description: A second play in Orta’s ongoing cycle of Latinx fairy tales, Wolf at the Door leans into the darkness that can live inside marriage vows, and the strength, willpower, and support needed to break free from it. This gripping and powerful piece follows 2022's The River Bride at APT.
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.
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
By: Daniel Jamieson
Directed by: Brian Cowing
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Overture Center for the Arts
City: Madison
Price: $35-$52
Reference Link: https://forwardtheater.com/
Description: A sensual feast of music, dance, color, and light, Flying Lovers invites us into the sumptuous imaginations of Bella and Marc Chagall, from their first meeting in Vitebsk to the melancholy sweetness of their last days together in New York.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Jen Uphoff Gray
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2024 - Apr 21 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Overture Center for the Arts
City: Madison
Price: $35-$52
Reference Link: https://forwardtheater.com/
Description: Heidi Schreck won scholarships by participating in Constitutional debate competitions. Now she cannot help but weigh the earnest study, idealism, and hopeful wisdom of her youth against the complexities of being a citizen and a woman in the United States in the 21st century.
Guys on Ice
By: Book and lyrics by Fred Alley, music by James Kaplan
Directed by: Jeffrey Herbst
Event Date(s): Jan 12 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stackner Cabaret
City: Milwaukee
Price: $20-97
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/guys-on-ice/
Description:
Life on the lake is easy, especially when the fish are biting, the jokes are funny, there's a "couple two three" beers in the bucket, and the Green Bay Packers are on the field. From the warmth of their shanty "up north," old pals Marvin and Lloyd spin wit, wisdom, and hilarious songs about life, love, and the one that got away.
Little Women
By: Kate Hamill, adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Directed by: Marti Lyons
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Quadracci Powerhouse
City: Milwaukee
Price: $15-80
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/little-women/
Description:
During the years of the Civil War, ambitious 15-year-old Jo March and her sisters must navigate hardships, heartbreak, and humility as they come of age in a world bound by class and tragedy. Tender and playful, this production will help you fall in love all over again with these four young dreamers as they discover themselves in a country divided. Little Women is the third production in Milwaukee Rep's Classics Initiative.
Guys on Ice
By: Fred Alley (book & lyrics), James Kaplan (music)
Directed by: Jeffrey Herbst
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Milwaukee Repertory Theater
City: Milwaukee
Price: starting at $20
Reference Link: https:///www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/guys-on-ice/
Description: In a uniquely Wisconsin story, old pals Marvin and Lloyd enjoy a day fishing on the lake, sharing beers and talking about the Green Bay Packers in this hilarious musical.
Little Women
By: Kate Hamill, adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Directed by: Marti Lyons
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2024 - Feb 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Milwaukee Repertory Theater
City: Milwaukee
Price: starting at $20
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/little-women/
Description: This beloved classic allows audiences to adventure with the March sisters as they navigate friendship, family, love, and their dreams in a country divided.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Laura Braza
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2024 - Mar 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stiemke Studio
City: Milwaukee
Price: $38-57
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/what-the-constitution-means-to-me/
Description:
As a teenager, Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the country. In this hilarious, witty, and refreshingly honest new play, she revisits her 15-year-old self to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the lasting impact of the document that shaped their journey.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Laura Braza
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Milwaukee Repertory Theater
City: Milwaukee
Price: starting at $20
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/what-the-constitution-means-to-me/
Description: Follow Heidi as she breathes new life into the U.S. Constitution through debate competitions in this hilarious, witty, and refreshingly honest new play.
The Chosen
By: adapted by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok from the novel by Chaim Potok
Directed by: Aaron Posner
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Quadracci Powerhouse
City: Milwaukee
Price: $15-80
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/the-chosen/
Description:
In 1940s Brooklyn, two brilliant young Jewish boys grow up sharing a love of baseball. Although they live just five blocks from each other, the shadows of their fathers keep them a world apart. As they reach adulthood, their complicated friendship will test the bounds of belief, understanding and reconciliation.
The Chosen
By: Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok, adapted from Potok's novel
Directed by: Aaron Posner
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2024 - Mar 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Milwaukee Repertory Theater
City: Milwaukee
Price: starting at $20
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/the-chosen/
Description: In 1940s Brooklyn, two young Jewish boys grow up sharing passions for baseball, their faith, and their family, but will these bring them closer together or keep them worlds apart?
Piano Men 2
By: created by Mark Clements
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Stackner Cabaret
City: Milwaukee
Price: $20-90
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/piano-men-2/
Description:
Piano Men 2 transforms the Stackner Cabaret into a sizzling, anything-can-happen piano bar where the best of rock, pop, classical, Broadway, and more combine to create an unforgettable and unbelievably fun experience. No two shows are ever the same, so bring your song requests as this hit production makes its return by popular demand.
Piano Men 2
By: Mark Clements
Directed by: Mark Clements
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Music-filled production
Venue: Milwaukee Repertory Theater
City: Milwaukee
Price: starting at $20
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/piano-men-2/
Description: Come ready to laugh, clap, and sing along as two virtuoso pianists play dazzling renditions of your favorite hits, live! No two shows are ever the same, so bring your song requests as this hit production makes its return by popular demand.
Nina Simone: Four Women
By: Christina Ham
Directed by: Malkia Stampley
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue: Quadracci Powerhouse
City: Milwaukee
Price: $15-80
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/nina-simone-four-women/
Description:
The creator of some of our nation’s most powerful Civil Rights anthems, Nina Simone shook the world with her music. After the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Simone's tribute song "Four Women" transformed her from gifted pianist to trailblazing activist.
Nina Simone: Four Women
By: Christina Ham
Directed by: Malkia Stampley
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2024 - May 12 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: Milwaukee Repertory Theater
City: Milwaukee
Price: starting at $20
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/nina-simone-four-women/
Description: Civil Rights activist and talented musician Nina Simone shook the world with her impactful music, especially in hits like “Four Women,” which transformed her and the world.
Scarecrow
By: Heidi Armbruster
Directed by: Laura Gordon
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2024 - Mar 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Next Act Theatre
City: Milwaukee
Price: $46
Reference Link: https://nextact.org
Description: A big-city actress lands back at her family’s Wisconsin dairy farm to grieve herself back to life. But can she ever make enough meatloaf to feel a sense of purpose again now that her most important person is gone?
The Treasurer
By: Max Posner
Directed by: Cody Estle
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2024 - May 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Next Act Theatre
City: Milwaukee
Price: $46
Reference Link: https://nextact.org
Description: Ida Armstrong is broke, lonely, and fading fast. And she’s spending all of her children’s money, forcing her son to assume the unwanted role of the treasurer---an arrangement that becomes untenable the more he questions his devotion to her.
I Ought To Be in Pictures
By: Neil Simon
Directed by: Melanie Keller
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/i-ought-to-be-in-pictures/
Description: A poignant comedy about finding family through humor and heart
The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: Linda Fortunato
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/the-angel-next-door/
Description: An homage to 1940s screwball comedy that delivers a non-stop rollercoaster of laughs adapted from Ferenc Molnár's Play at the Castle.
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.
I Ought to Be in Pictures
By: Neil Simon
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2024 - Jul 07 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/i-ought-to-be-in-pictures/
Description: A poignant comedy about finding family through humor and heart.
The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/the-angel-next-door/
Description: An homage to 1940s screwball comedy that delivers a non-stop rollercoaster of laughs adapted from Ferenc Molnár's Play at the Castle.
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:
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:
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:
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.
The Wolves
By: Sarah DeLappe
Directed by: Elyse Edelman
Event Date(s): Jan 21 2024 - Feb 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Milwaukee
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Left quad, right quad, lunge. A girls' high school soccer warms up. From the safety of their suburban soccer field, the team navigates big questions and wages small battles with all the vigor of a pack of warriors. In partnership with First Stage Young Company.
L’Appartement
By: Joanna Murray-Smith
Directed by: Mallory Metoxen
Event Date(s): Mar 24 2024 - Apr 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Milwaukee
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Rooster and Meg are on their dream vacation---a decadent Paris getaway in a swanky AirBnB. All is well until they pick up the keys from their French hosts, Serge and Lea, sparking a week-long series of hilarious, wine-fueled arguments.