April 2022
Spring is here with a full slate of stage offerings.
Alabama
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Music by Alan Menken | Lyrics and a Book by Howard Ashman
Directed by: Rick Dildine
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Montgomery
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 03 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Theatre Performance — Musical
Venue: Octagon Stage
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://asf.net/Little-Shop-2022
Description:
Meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names “Audrey II” (after his coworker crush). This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivorous plant promises unending fame and fortune to the down-and-out Seymour…as long as he keeps feeding it.
Freedom Rider (World Premiere)
By: Written by Ricardo Khan in collaboration with Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, Murray Horwitz, Nathan Louis Jackson, and Nikkole Salter
Directed by: Ricardo Khan
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Montgomery
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Festival Stage
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://asf.net/freedom-rider-2022
Description:
When four students boarded a southbound bus in Washington, D.C., in 1961, to challenge segregated spaces in interstate travel, they changed themselves and the nation forever. Inspired by real events, this powerful and uplifting play celebrates their heroic watershed journey.
Until the Flood
By: Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by: TBD
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Montgomery
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 14 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Octagon Stage
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://asf.net/until-the-flood-2022
Description:
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith explores the social uprising in Ferguson, Mo., following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown. Pulling from her extensive interviews with Missouri residents, Orlandersmith crafts a stunning theatrical experience that must be seen.
Alaska
No More Harveys
By: Chantal Bilodeau
Directed by: Codie Costello
Cyrano's Theatre Company
Anchorage
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Live Performance and tour
Venue: Cyrano's Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://cyranos.org
Description:
World premiere at Cyrano’s! No More Harveys follows the migration of females, both human and animal, against a backdrop of climate change. It’s a world in flux where women emerge not as victims but as survivors.
Arizona
Justice
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Melissa Crespo
Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson and Phoenix
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 09 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Temple of Music and Art and Herberger Theater Center - Center Stage
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://arizonatheatre.org/show/justice/
Description:
It is 1993 and Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just joined the United States Supreme Court; the first and only other woman there, Sandra Day O’Connor, is ready to welcome her and get to work. An epic three-person musical built of songs and urgent conversations of equality and justice.
Schoolhouse Rock Live!
By: Book by Scott Ferguson, George Keating and Kyle Hall Music and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, Kathy Mandry, George Newall and Tom Yohe
Childsplay Theatre
Phoenix
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 23 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Herberger Theatre Center
Price: $Starting at $13
Reference Link: https://www.childsplayaz.org/index.php/shows/21-22season/spring-show22
Description:
A pop culture phenomenon returns to the musical stage with songs you loved updated for a whole new generation! Schoolhouse Rock Live! is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Arkansas
Into the Woods
By: Stephen Sondheim
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Little Rock
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 19 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Price: Varies
Reference Link: https://therep.org
Description:
Stephen Sondheim’s most popular musical turns the world of fairy tales topsy-turvy, reminding us that granted wishes often bring complications. Filled with exquisite music and lyrics, this innovative new production is sure to enchant as it ventures beyond “happily ever after.”
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
By: Kristoffer Diaz
Directed by: Dexter Singleton
TheatreSquared
Fayetteville
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: In-Person and Streaming
Venue: TheatreSquared
Price: $10-58
Reference Link: https://theatre2.org
Description:
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity slams together thrilling spectacle, incredible characters, and geopolitical allegory into an invigorating theatrical experience you can’t find on pay-per-view.
Mariposa/Butterfly
By: José Casas and Sandy Asher
Tricycle Theatre for Youth
Bentonville
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Fri May 20
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Tricycle Theatre (and the Trike Theatre Truck tour)
Description:
A low fence separates neighbors but much more divides them. Even the arrival of a caterpillar causes disagreement — until mariposa/butterfly and its eventual departure unites them in wonder, sadness, and a new understanding of their shared, beautiful world.
California
Rapunzel Alone
By: Mike Kenny
Directed by: Debbie Devine
24th Street Theatre Company
Beverly Hills and Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Lovelace Theatre at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and 24th Street Theatre
Price: $TBD
Description:
Rapunzel Alone follows the story of Lettie, a young mix-raced girl from London, sent to the countryside for her own safety during the daily bombings of WWII. On an isolated country farm, she faces her own battles with a strict new guardian and a very fowl goose. Produced in association with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Free audio version playing online at thewallis.org Oct. 2-April 30, 2022.
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
By: Randal Myler and Mark Harelik
Directed by: Micheal Butler
6th Street Playhouse
Santa Rosa
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 31 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: GK Hardt Theatre
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://6thstreetplayhouse.com
Description:
This unforgettable musical tribute will remind you of what Williams did best: Casting the simple spell of his yearning songs on adoring fans. You’ll hear more than twenty, including “I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Jambalaya,” “Hey, Good Lookin’,” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart.”
Anna in the Tropics
By: Nilo Cruz
Directed by: Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx
A Noise Within
Pasadena
Event Date(s): Sun Mar 20 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Play
Price: $25-79
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/anna-in-the-tropics/
Description:
This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama weaves the tale of a Cuban American cigar factory in 1929 Florida. As a new lector reads Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, the workers’s lives parallel the novel as longing, love, and betrayal spark a flame that signals the end of an era.
Fefu and Her Friends
By: María Irene Fornés
Directed by: Pam MacKinnon
American Conservatory Theater
San Francisco
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 24 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Strand Theater
Price: $25–60
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/20202122-season/fefu-and-her-friends/
Description:
An innovation of immersive theater, Cuban American playwright María Irene Fornés’s rapturous comedy-drama allows the audience to be a fly on many walls as they move through A.C.T.’s Strand Theater in this unconventional tale of 8 women gathering at a New England country home.
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Adapted by Ben Power from Stefano Massini
Directed by: Sam Mendes
American Conservatory Theater
San Francisco
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 20 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Geary Theater
Price: $25–130
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/20202122-season/the-lehman-trilogy/
Description:
A.C.T. presents the National Theatre and Neal Street Productions’ international theatrical sensation, The Lehman Trilogy. This critically-acclaimed modern theatrical classic about a family and a company that changed the world is told in three epic parts over one evening.
The Zip Code Plays, Season Three
By: Peppur Chambers, Diana Burbano, Daniel Hirsch, Ann Noble, Alex Goldberg, and Steve Apostolina
Directed by: Rondrell McCormick, Cameron Watson, Sara Lyons, Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx, Lisa Sanaye Dring, and Gregg T Daniel
Antaeus Theatre Company
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Thu Dec 02 - Fri Dec 02
Type of Event: Audio Play Series
Venue: Zipcodeplays.info or wherever you get your podcasts
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/plays-events/the-zip-code-plays-season-three/
Description:
Celebrate the diverse culture and history of Los Angeles neighborhoods from the safety of your home with The Zip Code Plays, Season Three, a new series of six original audio plays written by Playwrights Lab members and recorded by Antaeus Actors.
Pass Over
By: Antionette Nwandu
Directed by: TBD
Capital Stage
Sacramento
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 16 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Capital Stage
Price: $25-49
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/pass-over/
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.
Our Town
Directed by: Markus Potter
Center REPertory Company
Walnut Creek
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 15 - Sat May 07
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
Price: $
Reference Link: https://lesherartscenter.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1500
Description:
Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.”
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Ben Power from Stefano Massini
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Center Theatre Group
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 03 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ahmanson-theatre/2021/the-lehman-trilogy/
Description:
Directed by Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy is the story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening.
Hadestown
By: Music, Lyrics and Book by Anaïs Mitchell, Developed with Rachel Chavkin
Directed by: Rachel Chavkin
Center Theatre Group
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 26 - Sun May 29
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ahmanson
Price: $subject to change
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ahmanson-theatre/2021/hadestown/
Description:
Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the 2020 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show by celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin is a love story for today… and always.
Cry It Out
By: Molly Smith Metzler
Directed by: Elina de Santos
Chance Theater
Anaheim
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Chance Theater
Price: $29-39
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/cry/
Description:
This comedy with dark edges takes a sharp and honest look at the power of female friendship, the dilemma of going back to work after being home with a newborn, and the effect that economic and social class has on parenthood in America.
Crimson Lit – Scarlet Letter Setlist: Staged Singing
Directed by: Jocelyn A. Brown
Chance Theater
Anaheim
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 27 - Wed Apr 27
Type of Event: Staged Singing
Venue: Chance Theater
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/otr-crimson/?referrer=4
Description:
You’re not going to want to miss the staged reading of this brand new pulpy riot grrrl musical adaptation of The Scarlet Letter written by singer-songwriter Jill Sobule (“I Kissed a Girl”) and our 2020 resident playwright Krista Knight!
NOTE: This show contains adult language.
Cry It Out
By: Molly Smith Metzler
Chance Theater
Anaheim
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Chance Theater @ Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com
Description:
Dirty diapers, breast pumps, and 2 a.m. feedings are enough to give anyone sleepless nights—not to mention the need for a strong cup of coffee. This comedy takes a sharp and honest look at the power of female friendship and the impact of social class on parenthood in America.
Vietgone
By: Qui Nguyen
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
City Lights Theater Company
San Jose
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 24 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: In Person
Price: $25-49
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/explore-our-2021-22-season/
Description:
It’s 1975, Saigon has fallen, and Quang and Tong should be grateful they’ve made it to the United States. In this irreverent comedy told in Qui Nguyen’s audacious style, these two Vietnamese refugees try to find their way home, wherever that is.
Native Gardens
By: Coachella Valley Repertory
Directed by: Michael Matthews
Coachella Valley Repertory
Cathedral City
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 12 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Theatre Play
Price: $53-$63
Reference Link: https://https://cvrep.org/
Description:
Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house next door to community stalwarts Virginia and Frank. But a disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out war.
American Son
By: Christopher Demos-Brown
Directed by: Jonathan Fox
Ensemble Theatre Company
Santa Barbara
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 07 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The New Vic
Price: $
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/american-son/
Description:
This nail-biting story takes place in real time in the waiting room of a police station where, in the middle of the night, the parents of a Black teenager anxiously await news of their son, who may have been picked up by the police.
Trayf
By: Lindsay Joelle
Directed by: Maggie Burrows
Geffen Playhouse
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 01 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Geffen Playhouse
Price: $65+
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/tickets/25th-anniversary-season/
Description:
Zalmy lives a double life. By day, he drives a Chabad “Mitzvah Tank” through 1990s New York City, performing good deeds with his best friend Shmuel. By night, he sneaks out of his Orthodox community to roller-skate and listen to rock-and-roll.
The Sun Also Rises
By: Adapted by Kate McAll from the novel by Ernest Hemingway
Directed by: TBA
L.A. Theatre Works
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Live in performance audio theatre recording
Venue: James Bridges Theater
Price: $65.00
Reference Link: https://latw.org
Description:
A group of friends decamp from 1920s Paris for the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona. In the week of drinking, bullfighting, and jealousy that follows, friendships are upended and hopes for love dashed. Recorded before an audience for radio, CD, digital download, and streaming.
Bhangin’ It
By: Book by Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza; Music by Sam Willmott, with additional music by Deep Singh
Directed by: Directed by Amy Anders Corcoran, Choreographed by Rujuta Vaidya
La Jolla Playhouse
San Diego
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 08 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: World-Premiere Musical
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org/
Description:
Winner of the Richard Rodgers Award, Bhangin’ It is an exhilarating new musical that celebrates the traditions we inherit from yesterday and those we create for tomorrow.
Hotter Than Egypt
By: Yussef El Guindi
Directed by: John Langs
Marin Theatre Company
Mill Valley
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 31 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boyer Theatre
Price: $25-$60
Reference Link: https://www.marintheatre.org/
Description:
This dramedy set in the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution explores the uneven power dynamics between Western tourists and the locals, as an American couple travels to Cairo for their 24th wedding anniversary. A world premiere co-production with a Contemporary Theatre in Seattle.
Dot
By: Colman Domingo
Directed by: ShawnJ West
New Conservatory Theatre Center
San Francisco
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Decker Theatre
Price: $25-55
Reference Link: https://www.nctcsf.org/21-22-Season/Dot
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Description:
The Shealys are barely holding it together in this twisted and touching dramedy. Back in their West Philly home for the holidays, one thing’s for sure: The only way they’re getting through this is together. Dot is a loving look at the ties that bind — and drive us crazy.
PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute
By: Yilong Liu
New Conservatory Theatre Center
San Francisco
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Walker Theatre
Price: $25-55
Reference Link: https://www.nctcsf.org/21-22-Season/PrEP-Play
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Description:
Erik’s world is thrown into free-fall when he’s pulled into a wondrously bizarre time-traveling journey by Agent 701 (AKA his now-sentient PrEP pill). Landing in the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, Erik finds himself in a race against history to save a life lost decades ago.
Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits
By: Gerard Alessandrini
Directed by: William Selby
North Coast Repertory Theatre
Solana Beach
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 20 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: North Coast Rep
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org
Description:
Celebrate Broadway’s unforgettable musical legends! Experience Broadway’s greatest satirist in this hilarious, loving, and endlessly entertaining tribute to some of the theatre’s most cherished stars and songwriters. Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits parodies Broadway musicals.
An Iliad
By: Lisa Peterson & Denis O'Hare
Directed by: David Ellenstein
North Coast Repertory Theatre
Solana Beach
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 31 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: play
Venue: North Coast Rep
Price: $39
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org
Description:
An Iliad is a dynamic tour-de-force adaptation of Homer’s classic poem about the Trojan War. A war-weary poet recalls the nobility, savagery, and valor of the battles and warriors, while deftly exploring the human costs of war through the centuries.
Ann
By: Holland Taylor
Directed by: Benjamin Endsley Klein
Pasadena Playhouse
Pasadena
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 23 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Pasadena Playhouse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/ann/
Description:
Emmy Award winner Holland Taylor brings the legendary Governor of Texas, Ann Richards, to the stage in this dynamo, Tony-nominated performance that captures the fire, heart, and brains of Ann herself.
Into the Woods
By: James Lapine, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by: Roger DeLaurier
PCPA - Pacific Conservatory Theatre
Santa Maria
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 28 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
Price: $19.25-50.00
Reference Link: http://pcpa.org/IntoTheWoods/
Description:
When the Baker and his wife learn that a witch’s curse has left them childless, the two set off on a journey into the woods to break the spell. Wishes are granted, but the consequences follow closely behind.
Steel Magnolias
By: Robert Harling
Directed by: Kevin Harris
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
San Luis Obispo
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Comedy/Drama
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
Price: $20-38
Reference Link: https://
Description:
Get to know the lives and loves of six Louisiana women who gather under the hair dryers at their local beauty salon to share gossip, laughter, and the bond of friendship.
The Children
By: Lucy Kirkwood
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
San Luis Obispo
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
Price: $20-38
Reference Link: https://
Description:
Two retired nuclear scientists reside in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Together they are going to live forever on yogurt and yoga, until an old friend arrives with a frightening request.
Passing Strange
By: Stew & Heidi Rodewald
Directed by: William Hodgson
Shotgun Players
Berkeley
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 05 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Ashby Stage
Price: $0-40
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/passing-strange
Description:
A young bohemian charts a course for “the real” through sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Loaded with soulful lyrics and overflowing with passion, this show takes us from Black middle-class America to Amsterdam, Berlin and beyond on a journey towards personal and artistic authenticity.
Passing Strange
By: Stew
Directed by: William Hodgson
Shotgun Players
Berkeley
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 05 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ashby Stage
Price: $8-40
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/passing-strange
Description:
A young bohemian charts a course for “the real” through sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Loaded with soulful lyrics and overflowing with passion, this show takes us from Black middle-class America to Europe and beyond on a journey towards personal and artistic authenticity.
Apartment Living
By: Boni B. Alvarez
Directed by: Jon Lawrence Rivera
Skylight Theatre Company
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 23 - Sun Jun 05
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Skylight Theatre
Price: $35-40
Reference Link: https://skylighttheatre.org/
Description:
Behaviors change in forced captivity during the pandemic in Los Angeles. Do we like what we learn about the people we love? Presented with Playwrights’ Arena.
Gem of the Ocean
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Tim Bond
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Mountain View
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 06 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://theatreworks.org/season51/gem-of-the-ocean/
Description:
TheatreWorks artistic director Tim Bond helms this work, part of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle exploring the African American experience. In this lyrical epic, a Black man goes on a mystical voyage toward a mythical city, learning the truth of his ancestors’ history.
Colorado
The Liar
By: Adapted by David Ives from Pierre Corneille
Directed by: Geoffrey Kent
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
Arvada
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 04 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arvada Center Black Box Theatre
Price: $45-50
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/the-liar
Description:
Fiendishly clever and a bit naughty, this updated adaptation of the classic French farce weaves wordplay and swordplay into a wild 17th-century romp.
Animal Farm
By: Adapted by Nelson Bond from George Orwell
Directed by: Jessica Robblee
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
Arvada
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 25 - Sat May 21
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arvada Center Black Box Theatre
Price: $45-50
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/animal-farm
Description:
All animals are created equal — or are they? Animal Farm is a timely fable of power and corruption revealing sharp insights and relevant questions about today’s society.
Stick Fly
By: Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by: Jada Suzanne Dixon
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
Arvada
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 18 - Thu May 19
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arvada Center Black Box Theatre
Price: $45-50
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/stick-fly
Description:
What should be a relaxing summer weekend on Martha’s Vineyard goes south when the LeVay brothers bring new girlfriends home to meet their wealthy and imposing parents. Lydia Diamond’s refreshing and bold story grapples with race, class, and cultural expectations.
Kinky Boots
By: Harvey Fierstein, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper
Directed by: Rod A. Lansberry
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
Arvada
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arvada Center Main Stage Theatre
Price: $53-77
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/kinky-boots
Description:
A struggling factory owner encounters a vivacious entertainer and together they brew up a high-heeled, bedazzled, and brilliant idea to save the family business. This joyous story of unexpected friendship finds the fabulous in everyone.
Refuge
By: Created by Satya Jnani Chavez and Andrew Rosendorf, with transcreation by Marialuisa Burgos
Directed by: Dee Covington
Curious Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 05 - Sat Apr 09
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
Price: $28-$45
Reference Link: https://www.curioustheatre.org/event/refuge/
Description:
Refuge combines original music with puppetry to tell a bilingual tale of determination, grit, and hope. Refuge chronicles the harrowing journey of one young Honduran girl as she crosses the U.S. border into the inhospitable, barren land of Texas.
Fireflies
By: Donja R. Love
Curious Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sat May 28
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
Price: $$28-$45
Reference Link: https://www.curioustheatre.org/event/fireflies/
Description:
A church bombing has shaken the Civil Rights Movement to its core and Reverend Charles Grace now must galvanize his followers to continue their journey. Meanwhile, he and his wife Olivia struggle with too many secrets, regrets, and uncertainty about the future of Black Americans.
Refuge
By: Satya Jnani Chavez, Andrew Rosendorf & Marialuisa Burgos
Directed by: Dee Covington
Curious Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 03 - Sat Apr 09
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
Price: $20-45
Reference Link: https://www.curioustheatre.org/event/refuge/
Description:
The theatrical event of the season, Refuge weaves passionate and driving original music with the charm of artistic puppetry to share a bilingual tale of determination, grit, and hope. Chronicling the harrowing journey of a young Honduran girl as she crosses the U.S. border into Texas.
Fireflies
By: Donja R. Love
Directed by: TBA
Curious Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 28 - Sat May 28
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Curious Theatre Company
Price: $20-45
Reference Link: https://www.curioustheatre.org/event/fireflies/
Description:
A church bombing has shaken the Civil Rights Movement to its core, and the Rev. Charles Grace now must galvanize his followers to continue their journey onward. However, it is his wife, Olivia, who authors his fiery speeches while playing the role of the supportive partner at home.
Choir Boy
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sun May 29
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/choir-boy/
Description:
Despite embodying the strong morals his school promotes, being gay has made Pharus an outsider. Featuring gorgeous gospel music, this soaring coming-of-age drama was created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight).
Choir Boy
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by: Jamil Jude
Denver Center Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sun May 29
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
Price: TBD
Reference Link: https://https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/choir-boy/
Description:
Featuring gorgeous gospel music, this stunning coming-of-age drama was created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney of Moonlight.
Until the Flood
By: Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by: Neel Keller
Denver Center Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Sat Aug 07 - Thu Nov 30
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Online
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/until-the-flood/
Description:
After the death of Michael Brown, the Ferguson Unrest shook the nation to its core and put a spotlight on the police brutality and discrimination that plague our institutions. Dael Orlandersmith created eight fictional characters to represent the broad spectrum of perspectives.
Local Lab new play festival
Directed by: Pesha Rudnick
Local Theater Company
Boulder
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Dairy Arts Center
Price: $15—30
Reference Link: https://thedairy.org/local-lab
Description:
Plays, parties, and so much more. Engage with some of the most exciting theatre being created today with Local Theater Company’s Local Lab, Boulder’s premier festival of new American plays. Meet the artists at the Lab parties.
Full lineup of events: localtheaterco.org/springlab
Spring Local Lab: A Festival of New American Plays
Local Theater Company
Boulder
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Live festival of new American plays, parties, post-show conversations, and workshops
Venue: Dairy Arts Center
Price: $$11 - 22 (individual tickets) $99-$134 (all-access passes)
Reference Link: https://www.localtheaterco.org/callfornewplays
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Description:
Local Lab is a three-day festival of new American plays that features some of the most innovative works being written today. Be the first to hear ground-breaking material and participate in conversations with the artists who create them. Workshops and parties round out the event.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
By: John Cameron Mitchell, with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask
Directed by: Sydney Parks Smith
OpenStage Theatre & Company
Fort Collins
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 26 - Sat Apr 23
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lincoln Center Magnolia Theatre
Price: $17-$45
Reference Link: https://https://www.openstage.com/events/49th-season/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/
Description:
Winner of four Tony Awards, Hedwing and the Angry Inch is a cabaret, a rock ’n’ roll gig, and a stand-up act rolled into a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience. An adult, thought-provoking, and inspiring musical about the quest for individuality, love, and acceptance.
The Bluest Eye
By: Adapted by Lydia R. Diamond from Toni Morrison
Theatreworks Colorado
Colorado Springs
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 21 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ent Center for the Arts
Price: $32.00
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/theatreworks/events
Description:
A longing to be loved dwells in all of us. This story follows a young Black girl’s coming of age in 1940s Ohio, in a beautiful staging of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s classic novel.
Connecticut
Dream Hou$e
By: Eliana Pipes
Directed by: Laurie Woolery
Long Wharf Theatre
New Haven
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 15 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Venue: the Claire Tow Stage in the C. Newton Schenck III Theatre
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/dream-house/
Description:
What’s the cultural cost of progress in America—and is cashing in always selling out?
Choir Boy
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by: Christopher D. Betts
Yale Repertory Theatre
New Haven
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 31 - Sat Apr 23
Type of Event: Play
Venue: University Theatre
Price: $10-65
Reference Link: https://yalerep.org
Description:
Brimming with soul-stirring a cappella singing, the joyously life-affirming play Choir Boy, written by Yale Rep’s Academy Award-winning Playwright-in-Residence, Tarell Alvin McCraney, will be directed by Yale School of Drama MFA candidate Christopher D. Betts.
District-of-Columbia
Catch Me If You Can
By: Based on the Dreamworks Motion Picture, Book by Terrence McNally
Directed by: Molly Smith
Arena Stage
Washington
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Fichandler Stage
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/
Description:
Corbin Bleu returns to Arena to step into the role of the notorious con man Frank Abagnale Jr. in this high-flying musical sensation, based on true events and the hit film, which features the songs “Don’t Break the Rules”, “Live in Living Color,” and “Doctor’s Orders.”
Cambodian Rock Band
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by: Chay Yew
Arena Stage
Washington
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 12 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue: Kreeger Theater
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/
Description:
Arena will kick off the first North American tour of New York’s Signature Theatre’s production of Lauren Yee’s acclaimed play. Thrilling mystery meets rock concert in this passionate story about survivors, family and the enduring power of music.
English With an Accent
By: Migguel Anggelo
Directed by: Sarah O'Gleby
GALA Hispanic Theatre
Washington
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Fri Apr 01
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: GALA Hispanic Theatre
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.galatheatre.org/post/english-with-an-accent
Description:
A newly emigrated Monarch Butterfly in NYC explores the promise of the American Dream: freedom, safety, and democracy. Allegory, abstraction, and alignment with movement poetically narrate a work inspired by Migguel Anggelo’s own story as a gay artist and a Venezuelan immigrant.
Private
By: Mona Prinot
Directed by: Knud Adams
Mosaic Theater Company of DC
Washington
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 23 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: In-person/live theater
Venue: Atlas Performing Arts Center - Sprenger Theatre
Price: $50 - 68
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/private
Description:
In this explosive and comedic drama, Georgia’s husband, Corbin, has been offered his dream job. But there’s a catch. In an all-too-near future where privacy is a commodity, one married couple grapples with which secrets they’re willing to reveal—especially to each other.
District-Of-Columbia
John Proctor Is the Villain
By: Kimberly Belflower
Directed by: Marti Lyons
Studio Theatre
Washington
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 27 - Sun Jun 05
Type of Event: Theatre Play
Venue: Studio Theatre
Price: $50-95
Reference Link: https://www.studiotheatre.org/plays/play-detail/2021-2022-john-proctor-is-the-villain
Description:
In this world premiere by a major new voice, the students of Helen County High are dealing with sex ed, group projects for The Crucible, and a small town scandal that might not actually be a total witch hunt after all.
District-of-Columbia
Nathan the Wise
By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Directed by: Adam Immerwahr
Theater J
Washington, DC
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 16 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: EDCJCC
Price: $35-70
Reference Link: https://theaterj.org/2021-2022-season/nathan-the-wise-21-22/
Description:
In Jerusalem, Jews, Christians, and Muslims live in peace—or so they hope. This funny and timely Shakespearean play is chock full of mistaken identities, foiled romances, and relationships across cultural and religious divides, celebrating the common humanity that unites us all.
District-Of-Columbia
Hi, Are You Single?
By: Ryan J. Haddad
Directed by: Laura Savia
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington
Event Date(s): Mon Mar 28 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Price: $Starting at $29
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/event/hi-are-you-single/
Description:
Join Ryan, a gay man with both a high sex drive and cerebral palsy, on a journey through gay bars, hookups, and lots of margaritas in search of romance.
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
By: Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon
Directed by: Eric Ting
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 28 - Fri Apr 29
Type of Event: Fully Staged Opera
Venue: Strathmore Music Center
Price: $Starting at $34
Reference Link: https://www.strathmore.org/what-s-on/21-22-strathmore-season/parable-of-the-sower/
Description:
Parable of the Sower is a triumphant, mesmerizing work of rare power and beauty that illuminates deep insights on gender, race, and the future of human civilization. This fully staged opera recreates Butler’s Afrofuturist masterpiece live onstage. Co-presented by Strathmore.
Florida
Footloose
By: Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie, with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Pitchford and additional music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins, and Jim Steinman
American Stage
St. Petersburg
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 06 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Demens Landing Park
Price: $21-53
Reference Link: https://americanstage.org
Description:
Based on the explosive rock-n-roll musical movie, this Broadway hit tells the story of Ren McCormack, a big city teen who finds himself out of place in a rural town where dancing has been outlawed. Footloose celebrates the spirit and optimism of young people fighting for change.
The Great Leap
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by: Vanessa Stalling
Asolo Repertory Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 09 - Sat Apr 02
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mertz Theatre
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/thegreatleap
Description:
Born in the United States but inextricably tied to far off and forbidden China, Manford Lum finds his home on the basketball courts of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Smart, feisty and hilarious, The Great Leap is about family, history, and learning that every game is a second chance.
Knoxville
By: Frank Galati, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens
Directed by: Frank Galati
Asolo Repertory Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 15 - Wed May 11
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Mertz Theatre
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/knoxville-1
Description:
This innovative world premiere musical reunites the Tony Award-winning creative team of Ragtime and is based on the novel A Death in the Family. A powerful illumination of the forces that shape who we are, Knoxville is a coming-of-age story about family, faith, and love.
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
By: Alan Janes
Directed by: Jason Parrish
Florida Repertory Theatre
Fort Myers
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Professional Theatre
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
Price: $$59 - $75
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/the-season/buddy-the-buddy-holly-story/
Description:
Sixty years ago, a young man with thick black glasses changed the face of popular music. Buddy tells the story of the three years when Buddy Holly became the world’s top recording artist and a musical legend. Buddy is the original rock ‘n’ roll sensation!
Maytag Virgin
By: Audrey Cefaly
Directed by: Greg Longenhagen
Florida Repertory Theatre
Fort Myers
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 12 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Professional Theatre
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/the-season/maytag-virgin/
Description:
This heartwarming new comedy is an old-fashioned romance about two people who thought they’d never find love again. A funny and heartwarming romance from the author of Alabaster! Voted Best Comedy by ArtsAtlanta.
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
By: Alan Janes
Directed by: Jason Parrish
Florida Repertory Theatre
Fort Myers
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 15 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Musical Theatre
Venue: Historic Arcade Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description:
Before the Beatles, before the Stones, rock and roll was born. Buddy will have you dancing in the aisles. If you loved Million Dollar Quartet and Always…Patsy Cline, this is for you!
The Legend of Georgia McBride
By: Matthew Lopez
Directed by: Kate Alexander
Florida Studio Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 30 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Mainstage Play
Venue: FST's Gompertz Theatre
Price: $36+
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/legend-georgia-mcbride
Description:
He’s young, he’s broke, and he’s just found out his wife is pregnant. To make matters more desperate, Casey is struggling with his gig as an Elvis impersonator. When his boss brings in a B-level drag show to replace his act, Casey finds that he has a whole lot to learn.
Laughing Matters
By: Rebecca Hopkins, Kevin Allen, Stephan deGhelder, Sarah Durham, and Jim Prosser
Directed by: Richard Hopkins
Florida Studio Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 09 - Sun Jun 19
Type of Event: FST Original Musical Revue
Venue: FST's Court Cabaret
Price: $36+
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/laughing-matters-0
Description:
Laughing Matters, FST’s hit musical sketch comedy show, is back for round six! And this time, nothing and no one is safe from a good-spirited roast. Laughing Matters delivers fast-paced comedy inspired by the culture and politics of today.
The Grandma That Eats Everything & Other Winning Plays
By: Winning Young Playwrights
Directed by: Jason Cannon
Florida Studio Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 26 - Sat Apr 16
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences
Venue: FST's Keating Theatre
Price: $5-10
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/grandma-eats-everything-other-winning-plays
Description:
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors.
Boca
By: Jessica Provenz
Directed by: Julianne Boyd
GableStage
Coral Gables
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: GableStage @ the Biltmore Hotel & Resort
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: http://www.gablestage.org/production/
Description:
Celebrate our Sunshine State by traveling to Boca Raton, where the lawns and residents are perfectly maintained. This not-to-be-missed comedy follows a group of retirees who — between golf, bridge, and Botox — can be found bickering, gossiping, and living it up like they’re teens anew.
The Invisible Hand
By: Ayad Akhtar
Directed by: Kristen Coury
Gulfshore Playhouse
Naples
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 26 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Norris Center
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org/2021-2022-season/invisible-hand/
Description:
American investment banker Nick Bright is held for ransom by a militant group in Pakistan, and nobody is coming to his aid. In exchange for a shot at freedom, Nick strikes a risky deal with his captors, but is the price of freedom something he’s willing to pay?
Another Revolution
By: Jacqueline Bircher
Directed by: Lisa Rothe
Gulfshore Playhouse
Naples
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Norris Center
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org/2021-2022-season/another-revolution/
Description:
Two graduate students are forced to share a lab at Columbia University and find they are opposed in more ways than just their scientific disciplines. Amid the chaotic and uncertain year 1968, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
By: Jeffrey Lane, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek
Directed by: Mark Martino
Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Jupiter
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 22 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Price: $66+
Reference Link: https://www.jupitertheatre.org
Description:
This long-awaited musical features a touching story, emotional scenes, and a score spanning two decades of hits! Chronicling the struggles and triumphs of making it big, this Broadway sensation is a treat for all ages to enjoy.
The Cuban Vote
By: Carmen Pelaez
Miami New Drama
Miami Beach
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 07 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Reference Link: www.miaminewdrama.org
Description:
World premiere play!
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jim Helsinger
Orlando Shakespeare
Orlando
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 09 - Sat Apr 02
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Margeson Theater
Price: $32-56
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/much-ado-about-nothing/
Description:
Lies and deceit threaten to bring lovers together or tear them apart in Shakespeare’s sharp-tongued romcom.
Bare Bard: Henry IV, Part 2
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: N/A
Orlando Shakespeare
Orlando
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Margeson Theater
Price: $32-56
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/bare-bard-henry-iv-part-2/
Description:
See William Shakespeare stripped down to a lively, raw, rambunctious performance like nothing you’ve experienced before.
Intimate Apparel
By: Lynn Nottage
Palm Beach Dramaworks
West Palm Beach
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Play
Price: $59-94
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/program/groupevent
Description:
A lyrical exploration of loneliness and longing, sweet dreams and bitter truths, determination and resiliency.
Mary Poppins
By: Julian Fellowes, with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, and new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and co-creation by Cameron Mackintosh
Directed by: Dawn Lebrecht Fornara and Charles Fornara
The Naples Players
Naples
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 02 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Naples Players, Blackburn Hall
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://https://naplesplayers.org/show/mary-poppins/
Description:
Mary Poppins flies before your eyes in this classic musical based on the much-loved children’s books by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney film of the same name. Julian Fellowes’ book blends the original stories with the acclaimed film to create a new and iconic stage adventure.
When We Were Young and Unafraid
By: Sarah Treem
Directed by: Hester Kamin
The Naples Players
Naples
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 30 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Naples Players, Tobye Studio
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://https://naplesplayers.org/show/when-we-were-young-and-unafraid/
Description:
This powerful play takes us inside the story of a quiet bed and breakfast turned into a secret women’s shelter in the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, and before women had places to turn in times of distress.
The Bridges of Madison County
By: Book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Directed by: Mark Danni
TheatreZone
Naples
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 21 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: G&L Theater
Price: $50 - 85
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description:
Winner of the 2014 Tony Award for best score and orchestration, this sweeping romance about the roads we travel, the doors we open, and the bridges we dare to cross will leave audiences breathless.
The Bridges of Madison County
By: Jason Robert Brown & Marsha Norman
Directed by: Mark Danni
TheatreZone
Naples
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 21 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: G&L Theater
Price: $50 - 85
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description:
When ruggedly handsome photographer Robert Kincaid pulls into Francesca’s driveway, it may very well alter the course of Francesca’s life.
A Skeptic and a Bruja
By: Rosa Fernandez
Directed by: Patrice Amon
Urbanite Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Urbanite Theatre
Price: $5-35
Reference Link: https://www.urbanitetheatre.com/askepticandabruja
Description:
Priscilla buys a home in the middle of nowhere with the hopes of turning it into a bed and breakfast. When she starts having paranormal experiences, she calls Sam and Jess from the hit ghost-hunting show A Skeptic and a Bruja to help her.
Broadway in Black
By: Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 10 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://westcoastblacktheatre.secure.force.com/ticket#/events/a0S5a00000FHLzpEAH
Description:
Sing along with your favorite songs from award-winning shows and breakthrough roles that helped launch the careers of such African American artists as Melba Moore in Purlie, Ben Vereen in Pippin, Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls, and Nell Carter in Ain’t Misbehavin’.
Georgia
In My Granny’s Garden
By: Based on the book by Pearl Cleage and Zaron Burnett, Jr., and illustrated by Radcliffe Bailey
Directed by: Rosemary Newcott
Alliance Theatre
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 16 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Selig Family Black Box at Alliance Theatre
Price: $Free for kids under 5, $5 for kids 6 - 17, $10 for adults
Reference Link: https://alliancetheatre.org/production/2021-22/my-grannys-garden
Description:
In My Granny’s Garden invites our youngest audiences to explore the glory of growing your own food. Step into a visual feast inspired by world renowned artist Radcliffe Bailey’s original paintings, and discover the one superpower that fuels Granny’s garden.
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
By: Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Book adapted by Douglas Carter Beane from Hammerstein
Aurora Theatre
Lawrenceville
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 10 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Aurora Theatre- 128 E Pike St, Lawrenceville GA, 30046
Description:
This contemporary take on the timeless fairytale features beloved songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, while adding new characters and surprising twists. Step into the magic and celebrate the future of possibility!
The Pretty Pants Bandit
By: Chase Peacock & Jessica De Maria
Directed by: James Donadio; musical direction by Alli Lingenfelter
Georgia Ensemble Theatre
Roswell
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 31 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Roswell Cultural Arts Center
Price: $39-65
Reference Link: https://get.org
Description:
In 1930s Miami, Marie Baker, her gang, and an infamous pair of guns made headlines by leaving the men she robbed with their pants down. A thrilling true story inspired this vibrant, fun world-premiere musical.
Southbound: True Life Tales from the ATL and Beyond
By: Various
Directed by: Megan Hayes, Brittani Minnieweather producers
Horizon Theatre Company
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Mon Sep 13 - Thu Jun 30
Type of Event: Performance virtual/live
Venue: Horizon Theatre Company, on location and virtual
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://www.horizontheatre.com/southbound-true-life-tales-from-the-atl-and-beyond/
Description:
From the depths of the ATL, an original show of short-form performances based on true-life tales told from the heart by writers, musicians, actors, journalists, leaders. Story, song, spoken word, film, and more, once a month on Monday nights—virtual and eventually live.
The Light
By: Loy Webb
Directed by: Marguerite Hannah
Horizon Theatre Company
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Horizon Theatre
Price: $25-40
Reference Link: https://https://www.horizontheatre.com/plays/the-light/
Description:
A surprise proposal takes an unexpected turn that upends the world of Genesis and Rashad, forcing them to confront a secret from the past. Featuring two of Atlanta’s most dynamic actors, Enoch King and Cynthia D. Barker.
Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice
By: Various Playwrights
Directed by: Various Directors
Out of Hand Theater
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Sun Sep 19 - Sun Jun 19
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Virtual Via Zoom
Price: $0.00
Reference Link: https://www.equitabledinners.com
Description:
A new play every month. Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice is a free monthly, online series featuring art, experts, and conversation. Every month, we address a different racial equity topic—with a guest speaker, a 10-minute play, and small-group conversations.
The Wolf at the End of the Block
By: Ike Holter
Directed by: Addae Moon
Theatrical Outfit
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 30 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Balzer Theater at Herren's
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/shows/the-wolf/
Description:
Abe, a resident of the Rightlynd neighborhood of Chicago, seeks justice after a mysterious late-night attack at a boarded-up bar. In the next 48 hours, the neighborhood digs deep into escalating mystery, working against time to separate fact from fiction.
Idaho
The Show on the Roof
By: Book by Tom Ford, Music/Lyrics by Alex Syiek
Directed by: Rory Pelsue
Boise Contemporary Theater
Boise
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sat May 07
Type of Event: World Premiere Musical
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
Price: $$10-38
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org/the-show-on-the-roof-2/
Description:
There’s a nightly floor show at the local drive-in, on the roof! Join us for a journey through the turbulent times of 1955 in Boise, Id., where no one is safe from suspicion. This hilarious and heartbreaking world premiere examines the “homosexual panic” that swept through the city.
Illinois
Last Hermanos
By: Exal Iraheta
A Red Orchid Theatre
Chicago
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 21 - Sun Jun 12
Type of Event: World
Venue: A Red Orchid Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://aredorchidtheatre.org/
Description:
Reunited and on the run, Miguel and Julio are fleeing an America where being Latinx is a life sentence. Sequestered in a Texas state park, the arrival of a sympathetic deserter brings the conflict between Julio’s desire for revolution and Miguel’s longing for normalcy into focus.
Laced
By: Samantha Mueller
Directed by: Lexi Saunders
About Face Theatre
Chicago
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 16 - Sat Apr 16
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Den Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://aboutfacetheatre.com/show/laced/
Description:
The night after a queer bar outside of Tampa, Fla, is vandalized, three 20-something bartenders gather to grieve, riot, and above all, piece together the events of the night before.
All’s Well That Ends Well
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Shana Cooper
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sun May 29
Type of Event: Play
Venue: CST's Courtyard Theater
Price: $49-$90
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/allswell
Description:
Besotted with a man who does not return her love, the intelligent, resourceful young Helena navigates the complexities of unrequited romance, courtly drama, and the pesky meddling of her elders — only to discover that happy endings are never as simple as they seem in fairy tales.
Emma
By: Adapted by Phil Timberlake from Jane Austen
First Folio Theatre
Oak Brook
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 23 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mayslake Peabody Estate
Reference Link: https://firstfolio.org/?production=jane-austens-emma
Description:
Good-hearted Emma cannot resist inserting herself into the love lives of her neighbors, leaving a tangle of heartbreak in her wake. Can her dearest friends and family help Emma swallow her pride and learn to value the needs of others over her own desires?
Enough to Let the Light In
By: Paloma Nozicka
Directed by: Kimberly Senior
Jackalope Theatre Company
Chicago
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 28 - Sun Jun 05
Type of Event: World Premiere Play Production
Venue: Jackalope Theatre in the Broadway Armory
Price: $15-35
Reference Link: https://jackalopetheatre.org
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Description:
A couple spends the night celebrating a milestone, but it quickly devolves into chaos as buried secrets are revealed and lives are irrevocably changed. Enough to Let the Light In is a full-length psychological thriller about love, truth, and the ghosts that won’t let us go.
Intimate Apparel
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Tasia A. Jones
Northlight Theatre
Skokie
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 14 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Northlight Theatre
Price: $30-$89
Reference Link: https://northlight.org/events/intimate-apparel/
Description:
In 1905, a Black seamstress named Esther sews her way out of poverty stitch by delicate stitch, creating fine lingerie for her Manhattan clientele while longing for more. But as her new marriage quickly leads to regret, Esther turns back to her sewing machine to rebuild her life.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 24 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Price: $44-110
Reference Link: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/seasons/2021-22/king-james/
Description:
“King” LeBron James’s reign in Cleveland brings promise, prosperity, and renewal to a city in desperate need of all three. King James is an intimate exploration of hope, spotlighting two childhood friends who communicate best when they are talking and arguing about sports.
Seagull
By: Yasen Peyankov from Anton Chekhov
Directed by: Yasen Peyankov
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 28 - Sun Jun 12
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Price: $44-110
Reference Link: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/seasons/2021-22/seagull/
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Description:
In a giant country house filled to overflow on a long summer weekend in the Russian countryside, three generations collide in Yasen Peyankov’s extraordinarily funny and magical adaption of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. This all-ensemble cast will open our new Round Theater.
In Every Generation
By: Ali Viterbi
Directed by: Devon de Mayo
Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 02 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Victory Gardens Theater
Price: $29-62
Reference Link: https://victorygardens.org/
Description:
Each Passover, for four millennia, we ask: why is this night different from all other nights? And each year, the Levi-Katz clan has answered, while grappling with questions of race and religion that never seem to get resolved.
Wife of a Salesman
By: Eleanor Burgess
Writers Theatre
Glencoe
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 03 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Writers Theatre - Gillian Theatre
Reference Link: https://www.writerstheatre.org/wife-of-a-salesman
Description:
Playwright Eleanor Burgess (The Niceties) brings her gift for sharp dialogue and spirited debate to Wife of a Salesman, influenced by interviews with her grandmothers in addition to the work of Arthur Miller. This must-see world premiere is co-presented with Milwaukee Rep.
Indiana
The Reclamation of Madison Hemings
By: Charles Smith
Directed by: Ron OJ Parson
Indiana Repertory Theatre
Indianapolis
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 22 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Play World Premier
Venue: One American Stage
Price: $26-$67.50
Reference Link: https://
Description:
It’s 186, and the Civil War has ended. Madison Hemings, son of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and Israel Jefferson, formerly enslaved footman, return to Monticello in search of Israel’s brother.
The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin
By: Jessica Huang
Directed by: Jaki Bradley
Indiana Repertory Theatre
Indianapolis
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 19 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: IRT Upperstage
Price: $26-$67.50
Reference Link: https://www.irtlive.com
Description:
Despite the U.S. ban against Chinese immigrants, Harry Chin forged a new identity to earn precious American dollars to send home to his starving village. A hauntingly theatrical tale from our overlooked history considers the repercussions of making a group of people illegal.
Kentucky
When I Read My Daughter Rudyard Kipling
By: Adapted by Manik Choksi from Rudyard Kipling
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Fri Sep 03 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Animated play
Venue: Virtual
Price: $Free with Membership
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/when-i-read-my-daughter-rudyard-kipling/
Description:
In this brief animated series reminiscent of Charlie Brown, a daughter’s perceptive questions prompt her father to see Kipling’s tales in a new light. With humor and warmth, When I Read My Daughter Rudyard Kipling illuminates how a child’s curiosity can catalyze fresh insight.
Finding Black Boy Joy
By: Lance G. Newman II
Directed by: Featuring Isiah Fish, Nipsey Green, David Moore, Lance G. Newman II, and DeepSea Rice
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Fri Sep 03 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Streaming Performance
Venue: Virtual
Price: $Free with Membership
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/finding-black-boy-joy/
Description:
Finding Black Boy Joy is an exploration of the nature of existing in this nation as a Black man. It spans politics to love to introspections on race, class, and masculinity. These selections were written at various stages of Newman’s 16-year career writing and performing poetry.
Plague Doctor: Contagion 430 BCE–2020 AD
By: Robert Barry Fleming and Jenni Page-White
Directed by: Game design by Alex Bezuska
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Fri Oct 15 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Video Game
Venue: Virtual
Price: $5
Reference Link: https://bit.ly/PlagueDoctorGame
Description:
Athens, 430 BCE. Marseille, 1720. Philadelphia, 1918. Louisville, 2020. In this first-person narrative game, explore four deadly epidemics and the choices that save—or cost—the lives of countless people. A gripping story of greed, compassion, and courage in times of crisis.
Unscripted
Directed by: curated by Erica Denise
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Fri Sep 03 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Conversation Series
Venue: Virtual
Price: $Free with Membership
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/unscripted/
Description:
Launched in 2020 as a series of live broadcasts, this responsive discussion series brings together panelists across the community to investigate an array of topics—from the protests and reckoning with systemic racism in Louisville to questions of equity in the American theatre.
Still Ready: Originals
By: Created and performed by Christina Acosta Robinson and Ken Robinson
Directed by: Robert Barry Fleming
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Mon Sep 27 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Musical Celebration of Black Artistry
Venue: Virtual
Price: Pay what you choose, starting at $10
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/still-ready/
Description:
Still Ready shares the creative partnership between the Robinsons, together for more than a decade. Blending Ken’s gorgeous musical compositions and Christina’s stunning artwork and poetry, this production celebrates love, joy, and expansive Black artistry.
Romeo & Juliet: Louisville 2020
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Robert Barry Fleming
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Wed Sep 01 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Digital play
Venue: Virtual
Price: Pay what you choose, starting at $10
Reference Link: https://https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/romeo-juliet-louisville-2020/
Description:
A global pandemic and social unrest embroil the nation in conflict as the children of sworn enemies dare to imagine a world where hearts are not ruled by hatred. This interpretation explores the divisions that animate contemporary culture — and the tragic costs of intolerance.
Ali Summit
By: Idris Goodwin
Directed by: Robert Barry Fleming in collaboration with Crux Cooperative, with graphic art by Andy Perez
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Thu Sep 02 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Play and virtual reality experience
Venue: Virtual
Price: Pay what you choose, starting at $10
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/ali-summit/
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Description:
Inspired by the 1967 summit of prominent Black athletes who met to question Muhammad Ali about his conscientious objection to military service, this project is a collaboration between Idris Goodwin, Robert Barry Fleming, and the extended reality storytellers of Crux Cooperative.
Where Did We Sit on the Bus?
By: Brian Quijada
Directed by: Matt Dickson, with digital creation by Satya Chávez and Dickson
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Thu Sep 02 - Tue May 31
Type of Event: Play and virtual
Venue: Virtual
Price: Pay What You Choose Starting at $10
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/where-did-we-sit-on-the-bus/
Description:
During a lesson on Rosa Parks, a Latinx kid begins searching for her own people’s place in American history. Infused with a mix of rap, hip-hop, and spoken word, this exploration delves into the experience of growing up in an immigrant family and finding identity in making art.
COVID Classics: One-Act Plays for the Age of Quarantine
By: Guillaume Apollinaire, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, August Strindberg, and Thucydides
Directed by: Robert Barry Fleming
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Thu Sep 02 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Streaming Short Plays
Venue: Virtual
Price: $Pay What You Choose Starting at $10
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/covid-classics/
Description:
Reimagining works by master dramatists—and the first surrealist—this vibrant assortment of short plays brings together tales from trailblazing writers whose creative experiments redefined the possibilities of theatre in moments of seismic change.
The Yellow Wallpaper
By: Adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Directed by: Cinematography and editing by Christopher Gerson, with associate producing by Tarah Flanagan and costume coordinator by Margaret E Weedon
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Thu Sep 02 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Animated play
Venue: Virtual
Price: Pay What You Choose Starting at $10
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/the-yellow-wallpaper/
Description:
Cut off from intellectual stimulation and coddled by her doctor husband, a woman with a “nervous condition” begins to notice troubling things hiding in the bedroom wallpaper. This animated suspense-thriller breathes new life into Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s feminist masterpiece.
Okolona Habla (okolona speaks)
By: Marcos Morales
Directed by: performed by Alexa Echeverria, Marcos Morales, and Sassa Rivera
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Fri Sep 03 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Streaming Spoken Word Performance
Venue: Virtual
Price: $Free with Membership
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/okolona-habla/
Description:
It’s political. It’s hopeful. Written by poet Marcos Morales, Okolona Habla (okolona speaks) is a bilingual exploration of being a child of immigrants in Louisville, Ky. This event celebrates remembering where you came from and claiming space where you are.
Fix It, Black Girl
By: Hannah L. Drake
Directed by: Performed by Erica Denise, Hannah L. Drake, Janelle Renee Dunn, Robin G, Sujotta Pace, and Kala Ross
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Fri Sep 03 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Virtual
Price: Free with Membership
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/shows/2020-2021/fix-it-black-girl/
Description:
Hannah L. Drake, nationally recognized poet and author, presents an original curation of spoken word poetry, essay, and song. Performed by Drake and other Louisville artists, this virtual event celebrates resilience and the power generated by collective action.
Louisville Sessions
By: sessions by Bridge 19, Chanson Calhoun, Coyia, JONJOHN, Rob Lee, Sasha Renee, Kiana & the Sun Kings, Tez of 2Deep, Tiny Tiny, and Unusual Heat
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Fri Sep 03 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Music Series
Venue: Virtual
Price: $Free with Membership
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/louisville-sessions/
Description:
This series celebrates the vast sound, feel, and artistry of Kentucky’s dynamic music scene. Each session features a local band or solo artist responding to the moment through an original song and video. The first 10 sessions are available to watch in our Member Library.
Borrowed Wisdom With Robert Barry Fleming
By: featuring guests from many different disciplines
Directed by: Robert Barry Fleming
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Louisville
Event Date(s): Fri Sep 03 - Sat Dec 31
Type of Event: Podcast
Venue: Virtual
Price: $Free with Membership
Reference Link: https://www.actorstheatre.org/borrowed-wisdom/
Description:
Theatre is an inherently interdisciplinary craft, and Robert Barry Fleming, Actors Theatre’s executive artistic director, finds inspiration everywhere. In each episode, he talks with an unrivaled expert in their field, full of ideas, strategies, and challenges around their work.
Maryland
The Folks at Home
By: R. Eric Thomas
Directed by: Stevie Walker-Webb
Baltimore Center Stage
Baltimore
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 17 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mainstage
Price: $20-40
Reference Link: https://www.centerstage.org/plays-and-events/the-folks-at-home/
Description:
From the hilarious mind of Baltimore’s own R. Eric Thomas and directed by Obie Award winner Stevie Walker-Webb, The Folks at Home is a contemporary riff on the beloved family sitcoms of the 1970s.
Dream Hou$e
By: Eliana Pipes
Directed by: Laurie Woolery
Baltimore Center Stage
Baltimore
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 21 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Baltimore Center Stage
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.centerstage.org/plays-and-events/dream-house/
Description:
Two Latinx sisters guest star on an HGTV-style reality show to sell their family home in rapidly gentrifying Hilo Villa, California. While on camera, one sister grapples with turmoil in the family’s past while the other learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the future. In partnership with Alliance Theatre and Long Wharf Theatre.
Sense and Sensibility
By: Based on the Novel by Jane Austen, Adapted by Kate Hamill
Directed by: Susanna Gellert
Everyman Theatre
Baltimore
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 05 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: mainstage
Price: $Starting at $29
Reference Link: https://everymantheatre.org/sense+sensibility
Description:
Hilarious and heartbreaking, this fun, fast, and playful adaptation of Austen’s beloved classic follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father’s sudden death leaves them penniless and vulnerable.
Mother Goose
By: Debbie Jacobson
Directed by: Kathryn Chase Bryer
Imagination Stage
Bethesda
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Price: $12
Reference Link: https://imaginationstage.org/2021-2022-season/
Description:
Mother Goose leads the audience through some of her most beloved nursery rhymes, using puppets and props to bring to life Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, the Eensy Weensy Spider, and more. The magical Mother Goose invites your little ones to join in with each rhyme’s story.
Meteor Shower
By: Steve Martin
Directed by: Tad Janes
Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Frederick
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Price: $28
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35900/production/1066208
Description:
Two couples gather to watch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. As the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, it becomes clear that there might be more to these couples than meets the eye, in this new play by Steve Martin.
it’s not a trip it’s a journey
By: Charly Evon Simpson
Directed by: Nicole A. Watson
Round House Theatre
Bethesda
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 05 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Round House Theatre
Price: $refer to website
Reference Link: https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/
Description:
June needs a journey. Like, now. So she convinces her friends to ditch New York City (and their cellphones) for an impromptu road trip to the Grand Canyon.
“We declare you a terrorist…”
By: Tim J. Lord
Directed by: Ryan Rilette & Jared Mezzocchi
Round House Theatre
Bethesda
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 07 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Round House Theatre
Price: $refer to website
Reference Link: https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/
Description:
Moscow, 2002, halfway through Putin’s first official term as president. After he brutally crushes a rebellion in the territory of Chechnya, a group of Chechen insurgents hijack a blockbuster musical and take the entire audience, including the playwright, hostage.
Massachusetts
Burgerz
By: Travis Alabanza
ArtsEmerson
Boston
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center Jackie Liebergott Black Box 559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/burgerz/
Description:
A trans reclamation story, served with a side of fries. Produced by Travis Alabanza
Burgerz
By: Travis Alabanza
Directed by: Sam Curtis Lindsay
ArtsEmerson
Boston
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Jackie Liebergott Black Box
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/burgerz/
Description:
A trans reclamation story, served with a side of fries. Presented with Hackney Showroom.
Back Together Again: The Music of Robert Flack and Donny Hathaway
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 30 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Concert Performance
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.mrt.org
Description:
Broadway performers (and real-life husband and wife) Christina Acosta Robinson and Ken Robinson will bring the love together again for a concert of the pair’s iconic hits. Music direction by Emmy nominee David Dabbon.
Once on This Island
By: Book & Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Music by Stephen Flaherty, Based upon the novel 'My Love, My Love' by Rosa Guy
Directed by: Pascale Florestal, Music Direction by David Freeman Coleman
SpeakEasy Stage Company
Boston
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sat Apr 16
Type of Event: Theatre - Musical
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
Price: $25+
Reference Link: http://www.speakeasystage.com/2021-22-season/
Description:
Powered by a pulsating Calypso beat, this delightful musical fable tells the sweeping story of Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl who, guided by the mighty island gods, sets out on a remarkable journey to follow her heart and find her place in the world.
The Inheritance Parts 1 & 2
By: Matthew Lopez
Directed by: Paul Daigneault
SpeakEasy Stage Company
Boston
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sat Jun 11
Type of Event: Theatre - Play - Drama
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
Price: $25+
Reference Link: http://www.speakeasystage.com/2021-22-season/
Description:
Inspired by E.M. Forster’s Howards End, The Inheritance is an epic two-part play that follows three generations of gay men as they grapple with the tragedy of the past and what it means for their future.
Michigan
Night Blooming
By: Joseph Zettelmaier
Detroit Repertory Theatre
Detroit
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 14 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Theatrical Play
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.detroitreptheatre.com
Description:
The transcendent power of a mother’s love that ever blooms, even in the darkest of nights.
Asking Strangers the Meaning of Life
By: William Missouri Downs
Detroit Repertory Theatre
Detroit
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 24 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Theatrical Play
Venue: Detroit Repertory Theatre
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.detroitreptheatre.com
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Description:
A trippy interaction with James Baldwin sets off a series of encounters asking strangers the eternal question.
The Revolutionists
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Dee Dee Batteast
Farmers Alley Theatre
Kalamazoo
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 18 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Farmers Alley Theatre
Price: $10-40
Reference Link: http://www.farmersalleytheatre.com/shows/2021-22/revolutionists
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Description:
Under the direction of Dee Dee Batteast, this grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
By: Lainie Robertson
Directed by: Shanisia Davis
Farmers Alley Theatre
Kalamazoo
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Farmers Alley Theatre
Price: $10-40
Reference Link: http://www.farmersalleytheatre.com/shows/2021-22/lady-day-emersons-bar-grill
Description:
Farmers Alley Theatre is honored to once again partner with the Gilmore Piano Festival for a moving production about the last days of Billie Holiday.
Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
Directed by: Michael Lluberes
Flint Repertory Theatre
Flint
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://flintrep.org/death-of-a-salesman/
Description:
Widely considered to be one of the best plays of the 20th century, Arthur Miller’s gripping American classic about fathers and sons, promise and anguish, loyalty and loss is as relevant today as ever. Featuring two-time Tony Award nominee Lewis J. Stadlen as Willy Loman.
New Works Festival
By: Various
Directed by: Various
Flint Repertory Theatre
Flint
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Festival
Venue: Flint Repertory Theatre
Price: $10-25
Reference Link: https://flintrep.org/new-works-festival/
Description:
Flint Rep’s annual New Works Festival brings cutting-edge playwrights and composers from all over the country to Flint for a week of staged readings of thrilling new plays and musicals.
Minnesota
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Musical
By: Kevin Del Aguila
Directed by: Jenn Thompson
Children's Theatre Company
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sat Jun 18
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
Price: $15-63
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/shows-and-tickets/2021-2022-season/
Description:
Grab a hall pass and don’t be late for this hilarious musical, familiar to anyone who survived middle school!
Once
By: Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard, and Markéta Irglová
Directed by: Amanda White
DalekoArts
New Prague
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Prague Theater
Price: $15-25
Reference Link: https://www.dalekoarts.com/c/tickets-season/once
Description:
On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, an unexpected friendship and collaboration quickly evolves into a powerful but complicated love story.
The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Joe Dowling
Guthrie Theater
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Sat Feb 26 - Sat Apr 16
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Wurtele Thrust Stage
Price: $15-$80
Reference Link: https://www.guthrietheater.org
Description:
Former artistic director Joe Dowling returns to the Guthrie to direct one of Shakespeare’s final and most heartfelt plays, which shines a spotlight on family relationships, justice, and forgiveness.
Destiny of Desire
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Guthrie Theater
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sun Jun 05
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: McGuire Proscenium Stage
Price: $15-$80
Reference Link: https://www.guthrietheater.org
Description:
The joys, tribulations, and plot twists of epic love are bursting onstage in Karen Zacarías’ brilliantly funny and Broadway-bound homage to the telenovela.
Dirty Laundry
By: Mathilde Dratwa
Directed by: TBA
Playwrights' Center
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Mon Apr 25 - Fri May 13
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center & Online
Price: $Free
Reference Link: https://pwcenter.org/playlabs-festival
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Description:
Following the unexpected loss of her mother and subsequent discovery of her father’s infidelity, an adult daughter alternates between grief and anger. In Dirty Laundry, Mathilde Dratwa explores the absurdity and messiness of life and death.
The Percy Meacham Dance Experience
By: Darren Canady
Directed by: TBA
Playwrights' Center
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 26 - Fri May 13
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Playwrights' Center & Online
Price: $Free
Reference Link: https://pwcenter.org/playlabs-festival
Description:
The Percy Meacham Dance Experience is known the world over as a vibrant, propulsive ambassador for Black life and culture. But new times demand new dreams…and apparently new bodies.
Trapt
By: Stacey Rose
Directed by: TBA
Playwrights' Center
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Thu May 12
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Playwrights' Center and Online
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://pwcenter.org/playlabs-festival
Description:
Trapt, part fable, part documentary theatre with an ensemble cast, explores the world of trap music, its artists, and its culture. Inspired by the events surrounding the legal woes of Soundcloud rapper Tay K 47, Trapt seeks to understand the motivation behind the music.
Two Jews Walk Into A War…
By: Seth Rozin
Six Points Theater (formerly Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company)
St. Paul
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Highland Park Community Center, 1978 Ford Parkway St. Paul, MN, 55116:
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://mnjewishtheatre.org/two-jews-walk-into-a-war
Description:
Zeblyan and Ishaq are the last two Jews living in Kabul. Against a backdrop of explosions and bullets, the two men must reconcile their theological differences. Inspired by true events, this play balances humor and poignancy in a touching look at cultural continuity.
All American Boys
By: Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Stages Theatre Company
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Capri Theater
Price: $14-16
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/all-american-boys/
Description:
The lives of two high school boys, one Black and one white, powerfully intersect after a violent act of racially motivated police brutality. A co-production with the Capri Theater.
The North Star
By: Peter H. Reynolds
Directed by: Sandy Boren-Barrett and Ann Marie Omeish
Stages Theatre Company
Hopkins
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 14 - Mon Feb 13
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
Price: $14-16
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/north-star/
Description:
From the award-winning author of The Dot and Ish comes an encouraging tale of self-determination, creativity, and hope. Chart a meaningful path through constellations, in collaboration with Escalate Dance.
What Do You Do With An Idea?
By: Based on the book by Kobi Yamada
Stages Theatre Company
Hopkins
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
Price: $14-16
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/what-do-you-do-with-an-idea/
Description:
Our idea was to create a new musical based on this award-winning book and in April 2022, our idea will unfurl on our main stage. “What do you do with an idea?” the boy asks, and at first, it seems the best thing to do is ignore it.
All American Boys
By: Adapted by Jody Drezner Alperin and Vicky Finney Crouch from Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Stages Theatre Company
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Capri Theater
Price: $14-15
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/all-american-boys/
Description:
The lives of two high-school boys, one Black and one white, powerfully intersect after a violent act of racially-motivated police brutality. Unfolding through the boys’s alternating perspectives, the story follows their journey as they grapple with the devastating impact of racism. Presented with the Capri Theater.
Thunder Knocking on the Door
By: Keith Glover
Directed by: Marcela Lorca
Ten Thousand Things Theater
Twin Cities
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 31 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Live, in person performance
Venue: Plymouth Congregational Church - Guild Hall
Price: $0-$35
Reference Link: https://tenthousandthings.org/season/thunder-knocking-on-the-door
Description:
Featuring Ronnie Allen, Brian Bose, Rajané Katurah, Thomasina Petrus, T. Mychael Rambo. This mythical tale takes place at the crossroads of “here and there,” where Marvell Thunder, a mysterious shapeshifter, challenges Glory, a blind songstress, to a magical duel on the guitar.
Jelly’s Last Jam
By: George C. Wolfe
Directed by: Kelli Foster Warder
Theater Latté Da
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 30 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ritz Theater
Price: $$35 and up
Reference Link: https://www.latteda.org/jellys-last-jam
Description:
From the back alleys of New Orleans to the dance halls of Chicago and the clubs of New York, the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning Jelly’s Last Jam tells the troubled story of the self-proclaimed inventor of jazz with spectacular dance breaks and a smokin’ jazz score.
Missouri
Pete the Cat
By: Adapted by Sarah Hammond from James and Kimberly Dean, with music by Will Aronson
Directed by: Jeff Church
The Coterie Theatre
Kansas City
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 29 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Coterie Theatre
Price: $14.00-$18.00
Reference Link: https://thecoterie.org/performance/pete-the-cat
Description:
With its Beach Boys musical vibe and ’60s feel, Pete the Cat will have everyone in the family strumming and strutting along with the grooviest guitar-slinging cat in town.
Behind the Sheet
By: Charly Evon Simpson
Directed by: Ron Himes
The St. Louis Black Repertory Company
University City
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 16 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Catherine B. Berges Theatre
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://theblackrep.org
Description:
In 1840s Alabama, Philomena assists a doctor, her owner, through experimental surgeries on her fellow slave women in search of treatment for a common post-childbirth complication. This compelling work reframes the very origin story of a great medical breakthrough.
Nebraska
Giraffes Can’t Dance
By: Based on the bestselling book by Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees Script And Lyrics By Gloria Bond Clunie Music By Elton Bradman & Lila Oleszkiewicz
Directed by: Denise Chapman
Omaha Theater Company
Omaha
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Theatrical Performance
Venue: Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center
Price: $20.00
Reference Link: https://www.rosetheater.org/shows/giraffes/
Description:
Gerald the giraffe has a problem. With his long neck and skinny legs, thinks he cannot dance. Based on the bestselling book, this new musical will remind you that we all can dance when we find music that we love.
New-Jersey
Ride the Cyclone: The Musical
By: Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
Directed by: Sarah Rasmussen
McCarter Theatre Center
Princeton
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sun May 29
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Berlind Theater
Price: $65-$85
Reference Link: https://www.mccarter.org/cyclone
Description:
Part comedy, part tragedy, and wholly unexpected, this wildly imaginative story delivers surprises at every turn and reveals the resilience of the human spirit in spite of senseless tragedy.
The Forest
By: Lia Romeo
Directed by: SuzAnne Barabas
New Jersey Repertory Company
Long Branch
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 17 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Co
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://http://www.njrep.org/plays/forest.htm
Description:
What to do when life gives you lemons? Build a forest in your living room. A play about life, love, and fairy tales.
Starring Jenny O’Hara, Armando Acevedo, Dana Brooke, and Chris Grant.
Performances: Thursdays: 8PM, Fridays: 8PM, Saturdays: 3PM & 8PM, Sundays: 2PM
The Hombres
By: Tony Meneses
Directed by: Annie Tippe
Two River Theater
Red Bank
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Two River Theater
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://tworivertheater.org/2021-22-season-announcement/
Description:
Set in New Jersey, the play follows Julián, a gay Latino yoga teacher, as he clashes with the straight and macho Latino construction workers outside his studio — particularly the older head of the crew, Héctor.
New-York
Berserker
By: Bruce Walsh
Directed by: Chris J Handley
Alleyway Theatre
Buffalo
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 31 - Sat Apr 23
Type of Event: Play
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/berserker
Description:
A man. A boy. A bear. And Led Zeppelin. An idealistic teacher comes face-to-face with a bear in the wilderness and finds himself spiraling into a mid-life crisis, forming an unlikely friendship with a young boy as they help each other step forward into a brave new future.
Clarkston
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Daniel Elihu Kramer
Bridge Street Theatre
Catskill
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 28 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
Price: $$10-$25
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/clarkston/
Description:
In a small town on the Snake River in Washington, two young men from wildly different backgrounds discover a common connection while stocking shelves together on the night shift at Costco.
Somewhere Over the Border
By: Brian Quijada
Directed by: Rebecca Martinez
Geva Theatre Center
Rochester
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 30 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wilson Stage
Price: $25-$69
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/season-49/
Description:
Inspired by the real-life journey of the writer’s mother from El Salvador to the U.S. and by L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Somewhere Over the Border embraces the factual and the fantastical in its depiction of one young girl’s pursuit of the American dream.
The Chinese Lady
By: Lloyd Suh
Geva Theatre Center
Rochester
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 20 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Fielding Stage
Price: $25-$69
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/season-49/
Description:
In 1834, a 14-year-old girl is brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province. Allegedly the first Chinese women to set foot in the U.S., for over 45 years, she is toured around the country as a sideshow act. Based on the true story of Afong Moy.
Stage Kiss
By: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: Fortunato Pezzimenti
Irish Classical Theatre Company
Buffalo
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Andrews Theatre
Price: $49
Reference Link: https://irishclassical.com/stage-kiss/
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Description:
Two actors and ex-lovers find themselves starring opposite each other in an off-off-Broadway 1930s melodrama. It doesn’t take long for the lines between life and art to blur, while the farcical antics of the play-within-a-play make for an unforgettable romantic comedy.
The Chinese Lady
By: Lloyd Suh
Kitchen Theatre Company
Ithaca
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 22 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: 417 West State Street
Price: $45 per regular ticket
Reference Link: https://www.kitchentheatre.org/the-chinese-lady
Description:
Upon arrival as the first Chinese woman on U.S. soil, Afong Moy has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” She believes herself an ambassador to life in her native China. However, to her visitors, she becomes their entertainment.
How I Learned to Drive
By: Paula Vogel
Directed by: Mark Brokaw
Manhattan Theatre Club
New York
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 29 - Sun May 29
Type of Event: Broadway Play
Venue: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/
Description:
The thrilling Broadway premiere of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece reunites the two original stars with their award-winning director for a new production.
Golden Shield
By: Anchuli Felicia King
Directed by: Danya Taymor
Manhattan Theatre Club
New York
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 26 - Sun Jun 12
Type of Event: Off-Broadway Play
Venue: MTC at New York City Center - Stage I
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/
Description:
From international playwright Anchuli Felicia King comes a riveting new play about loyalties, intrigue, and the delicate art of translation. Directing this fast-paced production is Danya Taymor (Heroes of the Fourth Turning).
Wish You Were Here
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Playwrights Horizons
New York
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Playwrights Horizons
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.playwrightshorizons.org/shows/plays/wish-you-were-here/
Description:
With breathtaking humanity and cutting wit, Wish You Were Here chronicles a decade of life during war, as best friends forever become friends long lost, scattered and searching for home.
Quarter Rican
By: Gabriel Hernández
Directed by: Jorge B. Merced
Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 14 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Performances
Venue: Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://pregonesprtt.org/quarter-rican-2/
Description:
A fast-talking new comedy about the ins and outs of new parenting, mixed heritage, and what makes or breaks your child’s Latinx identity. Written by actor, voiceover artist, burlesque performer, and proud father Gabriel Hernández. Workshop production. In English.
Until the Flood
By: Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by: Neel Keller
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Sun Nov 15 - Sun Oct 15
Type of Event: Virtual Screening of Recorded Live Performance
Venue: All Arts TV
Price: $Free
Reference Link: https://allarts.org/programs/all-arts-performance-selects/until-the-flood-wtcesv/
Description:
Writer-performer Dael Orlandersmith’s one-woman show explores Ferguson following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown. Based on extensive interviews, this theatrical event gives voice to a community grappling with injustice and yearning for change.
Little Women…Now
By: Donna Hoke
Directed by: Doug Weyand
Road Less Traveled Productions
Buffalo
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 21 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Road Less Traveled Theater
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/little-womennow
Description:
Little Women…Now brings the beloved March sisters to life in this contemporary adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic story by RLTP Ensemble member Donna Hoke.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: David Cromer
Signature Theatre
New York City
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 22 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Irene Diamond Stage
Price: $
Reference Link: https://signaturetheatre.org/shows-and-events/Productions/2021-2022/A-Case-for-the-Existence-of-God.aspx
Description:
Inside a cubicle in a small office in southern Idaho, two men struggle to balance the confounding terms on a loan. Departing from his recent string of acclaimed epics, MacArthur Fellow Samuel D. Hunter launches his residency with this thoughtful meditation on human resilience.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
Directed by: Robert Hupp
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Syracuse Stage
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://syracusestage.org/showinfo.php?id=117
Description:
Winner of London’s Olivier Award for Best Comedy and a New York Times critic’s pick for comedies, The Play That Goes Wrong follows in the grand tradition of plays that go farcically awry.
The Vagrant Trilogy
By: Mona Mansour
Directed by: Mark Wing-Davey
The Public Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sat Apr 30
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Public Theater
Price: $
Reference Link: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2122/the-vagrant-trilogy/
Description:
Mona Mansour, award-winning playwright and alum of the Public’s Emerging Writers Group, delves into the Palestinian struggle for home and identity in The Vagrant Trilogy, a single epic story told in three parts. Exact Dates TBA.
Sandra
By: David Cale, Music by Matthew Dean Marsh
Directed by: Leigh Silverman
Vineyard Theatre
New York City
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sat May 14
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Vineyard Theatre, 108 East 15th Street, NY, NY 10003
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.vineyardtheatre.org/sandra/
Description:
In this new one-woman thriller, Sandra seeks to get to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance of her closest friend, a young pianist and composer, who went on a trip to Mexico and never returned. From the team behind Harry Clarke (2018 Lucille Lortel Award).
The Pipeline Festival 2022
By: Various
Directed by: Various
WP Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sat Apr 23
Type of Event: New Play Festival
Venue: WP Theater
Price: $25.00
Reference Link: https://wptheater.org/show/the-pipeline-festival/
Description:
Want to catch the best new work by the most exciting new artists in town? Wondering where to meet the next generation of incredible Women+ theatremakers? Don’t miss WP’s Pipeline Festival, a unique opportunity to see five new plays, created by five collaborative teams from WP Theater’s celebrated two-year Lab residency.
North-Carolina
The Life of Galileo
By: Bertolt Brecht, adapted by David Edgar
Directed by: Jerome Davis
Burning Coal Theatre Company
Raleigh
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 07 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Live theatre
Venue: Burning Coal Theatre
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://burningcoal.org/mainstage/
Description:
The Life of Galileo tells the story of a man of science who was willing to challenge the most powerful structures on earth…up to a point. Was he right to do so? Should he have gone further? What are we to take from his story?
One Noble Journey: A Box Marked Freedom
Children's Theatre of Charlotte
Charlotte
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 26 - Sat Apr 02
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
Price: $Starting at $15
Reference Link: https://ctcharlotte.org
Description:
Mike Wiley’s one-man show brings audience members onstage to help propel the historic action. (For ages 9 and up)
Shrek the Musical – TYA Version
Children's Theatre of Charlotte
Charlotte
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
Price: $Starting at $15
Reference Link: https://ctcharlotte.org
Description:
Shine bright, and “let your freak flag fly!” (For all ages)
Ohio
Steel Magnolias
By: Robert Harling
Directed by: Laura Gordon
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 19 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marx Theatre
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/productions/steel-magnolias
Description:
Visit Truvy’s Salon! With beloved characters, heartwarming dialogue, and snappy repartee, Steel Magnolias revels in the power and grace of female friendship.
Becoming Dr. Ruth
By: Mark St. Germain
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 09 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/productions/becoming-dr-ruth
Description:
This heartwarming portrait is a humorous and illuminating one-woman show about America’s favorite sex therapist, Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Candis C. Jones
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marx Theatre
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/productions/school-girls
Description:
This biting comedy explores the universal challenges of teenage girlhood and all the drama that comes with it.
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jeremy Dubin
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sat Apr 30
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Otto M. Budig Theater
Price: $14-68
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/event/comedy-errors/
Description:
What do you get when you mix love triangles, a jealous wife, a vindictive mistress, a deranged doctor, and not one but two sets of identical twins separated at birth? Well, it can only be The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s silliest, screwiest, and slapstickiest comedy!
The Three Musketeers
By: Catherine Bush, Adapted from the Dumas novel
Directed by: Laura Kepley, Director | Rod Kinter, Fight Director
Cleveland Play House
Cleveland
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Allen Theatre
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2021/the-three-musketeers
Description:
Get ready for exhilarating action that will have you cheering “All for One and One for All!” This fast, fun, and fresh reimagining of the timeless novel is jam-packed with secret plots, sweeping romance, treacherous spies, and dazzling swordplay.
How the Baby Died
By: Tori Keenan-Zelt
Directed by: Beth Wood
Cleveland Public Theatre
Cleveland
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 18 - Sat Apr 09
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Gordon Square Theatre
Price: $Choose What You Pay
Reference Link: https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatre-announces-2021-2022-season/
Description:
How the Baby Died is a darkly visceral, absurdly comic play about parenting, pregnancy, abortion, and women’s physical self-agency. Contemporary comedy and Grand Guignol (a.k.a. French Horror Theatre) collide, and the only prop available is a baby. And baby, it gets bloody.
The Absolutely Amazing and True Adventures of Ms. Joan Evelyn Southgate
By: Nina Domingue, 2019 Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellow
Directed by: Nathan Henry
Cleveland Public Theatre
Cleveland
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sat May 14
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Gordon Square Theatre
Price: $Choose What You Pay
Reference Link: https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatre-announces-2021-2022-season/
Description:
In 2002, Joan Southgate, a retired social worker and Cleveland-area activist, stepped off from the small town of Ripley, Ohio, with a simple goal: to highlight the courage and resourcefulness of freedom seekers and conductor families who risked everything on the Underground Railroad.
Candlelight Hypothesis
By: Text by Raymond Bobgan, Candlelight Hypothesis jointly created by Raymond & Cleveland CORE Ensemble
Directed by: Raymond Bobgan
Cleveland Public Theatre
Cleveland
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sat May 21
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: CPT Campus
Price: $Choose What You Pay
Reference Link: https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatre-announces-2021-2022-season/
Description:
Raymond Bobgan creates new bold, multilayered, and highly physical performances through an ever-evolving ensemble process. The ensemble’s performances are characteristically layered with powerful physical action, poetic texts, and original music.
Life Sucks.
By: Aaron Posner from Anton Chekhov
Directed by: Nathan Motta
Dobama Theatre
Cleveland Heights
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
Price: $1-38
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/life-sucks
Description:
In this raw and hilarious reimagining of Chekhov’s timeless classic Uncle Vanya, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-laws, and lifelong enemies gather to grapple with life’s thorniest questions — and each other. What could possibly go wrong? Cleveland premiere.
Your Negro Tour Guide / I Shall Not Be Moved
By: Kathy Y. Wilson and Isaiah Reaves
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 23 - Sat Apr 23
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
Reference Link: https://https://ensemblecincinnati.org/21-22-season/
Description:
Two incredibly powerful one-act plays about the lives and experiences of Black women in America.
The Twunny Fo’
By: AJ Baldwin
Directed by: TBD
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 15 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati and virtual
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/the-twunny-fo/
Description:
The overnight shift of a neighborhood 24-hour convenience store — recently taken over by corporate overlords — fights to keep the last vestiges of neighborhood identity safe from gentrifiers. Whose bricks are these?
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Alan Menken
Directed by: Thom Christopher Warren
Short North Stage
Columbus
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 17 - Sat Apr 16
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Garden Theater
Price: $40-55
Reference Link: https://ShortNorthStage.org
Description:
Don’t feed the plants! This timeless cult-hit musical comedy has been passed from generation to generation and remains one of the most produced musicals in America.
Oregon
The Children
By: Lucy Kirkwood
Directed by: Luan Schooler
Artists Repertory Theatre
Portland
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 09 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Ellyn Bye Studio: Portland Center Stage @ The Armory
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://artistsrep.org/performance/the-children/
Description:
A nearby nuclear power station melts down. Retired nuclear physicists Robin and Hazel are visited by an old friend and former colleague with a frightening request. A timely and tantalizing look at the cost of climate change and what, if anything, does one generation owe the next.
Blast Off!
By: Maya Malán-González
Directed by: Mandy Khoshnevisan
Milagro
Portland
Event Date(s): Thu Sep 16 - Thu Jun 30
Type of Event: Teatro Milagro Virtual Tour
Venue: Milagro
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://https://milagro.org/event/blast-off/
Description:
This youth play for K-8 audiences tells the story of the first Latina astronaut, Ellen Ochoa. Blast Off! is paired with the STEAM curriculum from Milagro’s new Unidad Mas Alla (going higher with unity) curriculum.
¡Huelga!
By: Maya Malán-González
Directed by: Mandy Khoshnevisan
Milagro
Portland
Event Date(s): Thu Sep 16 - Thu Jun 30
Type of Event: Teatro Milagro Virtual Tour
Venue: Milagro
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://milagro.org/event/huelga-tour/
Description:
Written in El Teatro Campesino’s “actos” style, this show travels back in time to 1962 to share the beginning of the farmworkers movement and highlight the amazing journey of labor organizer Dolores Huerta.
Gem of the Ocean
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Chip Miller
Portland Center Stage
Portland
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 05 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://https://www.pcs.org/august-wilsons-gem-of-the-ocean
Description:
Pittsburgh, 1904: Amidst boiling racial tensions, Citizen Barlow arrives at the home of Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old healer, who helps him seek redemption from a mistake that’s cost another man his life. Gem of the Ocean is the first chronological work in August Wilson’s 10-play cycle.
Freestyle Love Supreme
By: Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale
Directed by: Thomas Kail
Portland Center Stage
Portland
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Musical
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://https://www.pcs.org/freestyle-love-supreme
Description:
The performers take suggestions from the audience and spin them into instantaneous riffs and full-length musical numbers. See it for the first time — each time — as no two shows are ever the same.
Titus Andronicus
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Tina Packer and Brian Weaver
Portland Playhouse
Portland
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 18 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Portland Playhouse
Reference Link: https://portlandplayhouse.org/season-14/
Description:
One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays and the most wildly popular hit of his lifetime, the story follows Titus and his triumphant return to Rome from ten years of war with the intent to live out his final days in peace and tranquility.
MODELMINORITY
Directed by: Rebby Yuer Foster
Shaking the Tree Theatre
Portland
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 27 - Sat Apr 30
Type of Event: Performance Art, Installation Art
Price: $5-33
Reference Link: https://https://www.shaking-the-tree.com/modelminority.html
Description:
Audiences will have 60 minutes to wander and exist in Shaking the Tree’s warehouse space as the 4 performances simultaneously occur. MODELMINORITY is structured as a vigil honoring all those who have been affected by the ongoing hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Chick Fight: A Reckoning in 9 Movements
By: Devised by Shaking the Tree, Words by Sara Jean Accuardi
Directed by: Samantha Van Der Merwe
Shaking the Tree Theatre
Portland
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 05 - Sat Apr 02
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Shaking the Tree Theatre
Price: $$5-$33
Reference Link: https://www.shaking-the-tree.com/chick-fight.html
Description:
Part installation, part smackdown. Two terrifying femme fatales find themselves center ring, battling it out for the victorious title of Most Diabolical Woman of All Time. Who will win, who will die, who will join her sisters in the infernal halls of disgrace?
#ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence
By: multiple
Directed by: multiple
Third Rail Repertory Theatre
Portland
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 20 - Wed Apr 20
Type of Event: staged reading
Venue: TBA
Price: $donations encouraged to organizations working to end gun violence
Reference Link: https://www.enoughplays.com
Description:
#ENOUGH’s mission is to empower teens to confront gun violence by creating new works of theatre that will ignite critical conversations and inspire meaningful action. Third Rail is proud to be a producing partner for the nationwide reading on April 20, 2022.
Pennsylvania
Witch
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Amy Rene Byrne
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble
Bloomsburg
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 31 - Sat Apr 16
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
Price: $7.00-$30.00
Reference Link: https://www.bte.org/index.php
Description:
In Witch, a wicked dark comedy that explores power dynamics, desires, and what it means to be content, the devil arrives in Edmonton, looking to make a deal. Will village outcast Elizabeth take the devil’s deal or will the devil have to get creative if he wants to buy her soul?
Paradise Blue
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Kent Gash
City Theatre Company
Pittsburgh
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre
Price: $29-50
Reference Link: https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/paradise-blue/
Description:
Returning to City Theatre for a third time, Dominique Morisseau (Pipeline, Sunset Baby) takes us to a gentrifying Detroit for a haunting drama laced with jazz and intrigue.
The Garbologists
By: Lindsay Joelle
Directed by: Monteze Freeland
City Theatre Company
Pittsburgh
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre
Price: $29-50
Reference Link: https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/the-garbologists/
Description:
An unconventional buddy comedy follows first time sanitation worker Marlowe and lifer Danny in the cab of a nineteen-ton garbage truck in New York City. Tasked with picking up what the world has discarded, they learn that some things are easier to toss than others.
The Emperor’s New Clothes
By: Clark Nicholson
Directed by: Clark Nicholson
Gamut Theatre Group
Harrisburg
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sat Apr 30
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://gamuttheatre.org/php
Description:
In this co-production with Popcorn Hat Players, a ridiculous and self-important Emperor believes he is always right and the smartest ruler in the land. He is mesmerized by a stranger who comes to town and makes the claim that she weaves cloth that “can only be seen by smart people.”
Panchatantra Tales
By: Sean Adams
Directed by: Melissa Nicholson and Rachita Menon
Gamut Theatre Group
Harrisburg
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://gamuttheatre.org/season29
Description:
A noble king in ancient India has three big problems: His children, the reckless and lazy royal princes. Fearing for the future of his people, the king consults with a wise guru, who agrees to teach the young princes through a series of animal stories and folk tales. Presented by the Young Acting Company.
A Man for All Seasons
By: Robert Bolt
Directed by: Peter DeLaurier
Lantern Theater Company
Philadelphia
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 10 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Plays & Players Theatre
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org
Description:
When Henry VIII puts aside Queen Catherine, he fears opposition from Sir Thomas More, his own Lord Chancellor, even more than from the Pope. A man of principle and politics, More tries to thread a vanishingly small needle to uphold his principles and to keep his head.
Hold These Truths
By: Jeanne Sakata
Directed by: Desdemona Chiang
People's Light
Malvern
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 06 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: People's Light (Steinbright Stage)
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.peopleslight.org
Description:
Steven Eng plays real-life activist Gordon Hirabayashi (and 37 other characters!) in this critically acclaimed solo play. Gordon’s journey of resistance ultimately leads to the famous Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States — a legacy that continues to resonate today.
Where We Belong
By: Madeline Sayet
Directed by: Mei Ann Teo
Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 15 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Suzanne Roberts Theatre
Reference Link: https://philatheatreco.org/where-we-belong/
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Description:
An Indigenous theatremaker journeys across geographic borders, personal history, and cultural legacies in search of a place to belong. Written and performed by Madeline Sayet.
Studio X-hibition 2022: Saturday Mourning Cartoons
By: Iraisa Ann Reilly
Directed by: Tamanya M. M. Garza
Theatre Exile
Philadelphia
Event Date(s): Mon Apr 04 - Mon Apr 04
Type of Event: Virtual
Venue: Theatre Exile
Price: $Free
Reference Link: https://theatreexile.org/on-stage-original/studio-xhibition/
Description:
While dealing with the death of their younger brother, Jessica and Benny have a falling out over whether to put their abuela, Yolanda, in a nursing home. This reading will be presented without subtitles in English and Spanish.
Who Wants to Be Matt?
By: Matt Prideaux
Directed by: Matt Prideaux
Touchstone Theatre
Bethlehem
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 23 - Sat Apr 23
Type of Event: Interactive Live Performance
Venue: Touchstone Theatre
Price: $Pay What You Will
Reference Link: http://www.touchstone.org/events/who-wants-to-be-matt/
Description:
A one-night-only interactive, semi-competitive theatrical performance. Exploring ideas of identity, sexuality, mental health, suicide, and getting covered in slime. (The first two rows might get wet.) Warning: This show contains explicit and disturbing material. Ages 16+
Wish You Were Here: Zion
By: Sara Group
Directed by: Sara Group
Touchstone Theatre
Bethlehem
Event Date(s): Mon Apr 04 - Sat Jun 04
Type of Event: Online
Venue: saragroupprojects.com
Price: $Free
Reference Link: http://www.touchstone.org/events/wish-you-were-here-zion/
Description:
Available online April 4-June 4 at saragroupprojects.com: Sara Group in collaboration with Touchstone Theatre presents a new audio experience called Wish You Were Here: Zion, which takes listeners to, through, and around Zion National Park.
Latinx Block Party/¡Fiesta Latina!
Touchstone Theatre
Bethlehem
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 30 - Sat Apr 30
Type of Event: Community Celebration / Concert
Venue: Touchstone Theatre
Price: $Free
Reference Link: http://www.touchstone.org/events/fiesta-latina/
Description:
Touchstone Theatre celebrates spring with a party for the community of Bethlehem, and all of our neighbors are invited! Join us for an evening of homemade food, music by Mambo Kaliente, and a celebration of Latinx culture and community. Food and drink available for purchase.
The Cherry Orchard
By: Anton Chekhov
Directed by: Dmitry Krymov
Wilma Theater
Philadelphia
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 12 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wilma Theater
Price: $Various
Reference Link: https://wilmatheater.org/event/the-cherry-orchard/
Description:
The New York Times recently called Dmitry Krymov “one of the world’s finest theatremakers.” For this new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, the world-renowned Russian director collaborates with the Wilma’s acclaimed HotHouse Acting Company.
Rhode-Island
Ironbound
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Rachel Walshe
The Gamm Theatre
Warwick
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 17 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamm Theatre
Price: $30-69
Reference Link: https://www.gammtheatre.org/s37
Description:
Over the course of 22 years and three relationships, Polish immigrant Darja negotiates for her future with men who can offer her love or security, but never both, in this darkly funny, heartbreaking portrait of a tough woman for whom love is a luxury—and a liability.
AntigonX
By: Shey Rivera Ríos
The Wilbury Theatre Group
Providence
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 17 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Wilbury Theatre Group
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description:
A magical realism project, tentatively-titled AntigonX, explores themes of latinidad and gender in the classic play by Sophocles.
Sueño
By: Translated and adapted by José Rivera from Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Directed by: Tatyana-Marie Carlo
Trinity Repertory Company
Providence
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 07 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dowling Theater
Price: Starts at $27
Reference Link: https://www.trinityrep.com/show/sueno/
Description:
Years after a Spanish prince is imprisoned at birth based on astrological predictions, the young man is released to test the prophecy. Once freed, his actions could either earn him the throne or return him to a lifetime of isolation to question the very nature of reality.
South-Carolina
Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody
By: Tin Sniffen
Directed by: Blake White
Lean Ensemble Theater
Hilton Head Island
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 21 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: live theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theatre
Price: $$15-$40
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description:
This hilarious result of collaboration between Writers Theatre and Chicago’s world-renowned comedy theatre, the Second City, asks the intriguing question: What happens when the most recognizable characters from some of the greatest American plays find themselves together onstage?
Honoria Quietly Drawing Strength From Her Truth
By: Clifton Campbell
Directed by: Sharon Graci
PURE Theatre
Charleston
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 21 - Sat May 14
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Cannon Street Arts Center
Price: $28-40
Reference Link: https://puretheatre.org
Description:
A social activist, a Vietnam vet, and a progressive theatre artist, each eager to tell their stories to the world, vie for a valuable piece of property donated by an affluent Southern family with their own complicated past.
The Wolves
By: Sarah DeLappe
Directed by: Anne Tromsness
The Warehouse Theatre
Greenville
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sat May 07
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Warehouse Theatre
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/the-wolves/
Description:
A pack of teenage girls gear up for their next indoor soccer match. Tensions are high, game faces are on, and inner-team battles are raging wild during this week’s warm-up, which offers a rare glimpse into the tumultuous and complex world of female adolescence.
Tennessee
She Kills Monsters
By: Qui Nguyen
Directed by: Casey Sams
Clarence Brown Theatre
Knoxville
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 23 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Carousel Theatre
Price: Prices vary
Reference Link: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com
Description:
Agnes, the “average” sister, finds a fantasy gaming notebook written by Tilly, her “anything-but-average” sister, offering unexpected clues into Tilly’s life. To know Tilly better, Agnes enters the world of Dungeons & Dragons and discovers things she never imagined.
Always, Patsy Cline
By: Ted Swindley
Directed by: Lianne Kressin
Clarence Brown Theatre
Knoxville
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 20 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Clarence Brown Theatre
Price: Prices vary
Reference Link: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com
Description:
Back by popular demand, this fabulous musical is based on the true story of Patsy’s long friendship with fan Louise Seger, and features 27 classic songs.
Mary Poppins
By: Anthony Julian Fellowes, with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, new music by George Stiles and Anthony Drew, and co-conception by Cameron Mackintosh
Directed by: Micah-Shane Brewer
Nashville Repertory Theatre
Nashville
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 28 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Price: $50-65
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description:
Mary Poppins flies into the home of the Banks family to bring them the adventure, discipline, and affection they crave. Mary Poppins uses adventure, and a spoonful of sugar, to teach the entire Banks family to love each other and their supercalifragilisticexpialidocious lives.
Texas
Gloria
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: James Black
4th Wall Theatre Company
Houston
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 24 - Sat Apr 16
Type of Event: play
Venue: 1824 Spring Street, Studio 101, Houston TX 77007
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.4thwalltheatreco.com
Description:
This funny, trenchant, and powerful Pulitzer Prize finalist 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.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: Brandon Weinbrenner
Alley Theatre
Houston
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 15 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hubbard Theatre
Price: $16-$91
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/production-detail/dead-mans-cell-phone
Description:
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative comedy by MacArthur “Genius” grantee Sarah Ruhl.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
By: Adapted by Joseph Robinette; Based on the book by C.S. Lewis
Directed by: Directed by Artie Olaisen
Dallas Children's Theater
Dallas
Event Date(s): Sun Apr 03 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Show/Performance
Venue: Rosewood Center for the Performing Arts
Price: $23-30
Reference Link: https://dct.org
Description:
Our fourth show provides a little winter in spring. It’s the beloved The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe! Join young adventurers Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy as they step into the mythical land of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia. On sale Oct. 4.
Teen Scene Players present 10 Seconds
By: Written by Miriam Gonzales
Dallas Children's Theater
Dallas
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 29 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Show/Performance
Venue: DCT Studio Theater
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://dct.org
Description:
Ray and Jimi are Washington, D.C., high school students who are navigating their young adult worlds and what it means to be young black men in the city. Ray tells the story of a day, and the 10 seconds inside that day, that they will never forget.
Dog Act
By: Liz Duffy Adams
Directed by: Andrew Ruthven
Main Street Theater Houston
Houston
Event Date(s): Sun Mar 20 - Sat Apr 16
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice Village
Price: $35-$59
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/dog-act/
Description:
Zetta, Dog, and their little vaudevillesque troupe are on their way to a gig in China, if they can find it! A theatrical, darkly comic variation on the doomsday genre that hysterically and poignantly celebrates the need for language and stories when civilization has fallen into chaos.
Pete the Cat
By: based on the books by Kimberly and James Dean
Directed by: Daria Allen
Main Street Theater Houston
Houston
Event Date(s): Sun Feb 27 - Sat Apr 02
Type of Event: play
Venue: Main Street Theater at the MATCH
Price: $30 - $18
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/pete-the-cat/
Description:
Everybody loves Pete, the groovy, guitar-playing cat. Everyone but Jimmy, the world’s most organized second grader. All that changes when Pete and Jimmy take a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. The whole family will love Pete’s hilarious, jazzy antics in this toe-tapping musical!
Charlotte’s Web
By: based on the book by E.B. White
Directed by: Robin Robinson
Main Street Theater Houston
Houston
Event Date(s): Sun Apr 24 - Sat May 07
Type of Event: play
Venue: Main Street Theater at the MATCH
Price: $30 - $18
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/charlottesweb/
Description:
The tender story of a wise and kind spider named Charlotte who devises a plan to save her friend, Wilbur the pig. Charlotte’s Web is the “just about perfect” tale of friendship, love, and life.
Amadeus
By: Peter Shaffer
Directed by: Liz Fisher
Penfold Theatre Co
Austin
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 24 - Sat Apr 09
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
Price: $16 and up
Reference Link: https://www.penfoldtheatre.org/event/amadeus/2022-04-09/
Description:
Music. Power. Jealousy. When a rowdy young prodigy named Mozart arrives in Vienna determined to make a splash, the court composer Salieri is awestruck by his genius and consumed by deadly jealousy.
Poster art credit: Corinna Browning
Is God Is
By: Aleshea Harris
Directed by: Destyne Miller
Rec Room Arts
Houston
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sat Apr 02
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Rec Room Arts
Price: $5-50
Reference Link: https://www.recroomarts.org/is-god-is
Description:
A modern myth about twin sisters who sojourn from the dirty South to the California desert to exact righteous revenge. Aleshea Harris collides the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the spaghetti Western, and Afropunk in this darkly funny and unapologetic new play.
What To Send Up When It Goes Down
By: Aleshea Harris
Directed by: Akin Babatunde
Stage West Theatre
Fort Worth
Event Date(s): Thu Apr 14 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Evelyn Wheeler Swenson Theatre
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://stagewest.org/season/what-send-when-it-goes-down
Description:
A truly unique experience, this play-pageant-ritual-homegoing-celebration is a unifying theatrical response to the physical and spiritual loss of Black lives. What to Send Up creates a space for catharsis, reflection, and healing, offering a way for community to move forward.
Witch
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Kara Lynn Vaeni
Stage West Theatre
Fort Worth
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 17 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Jerry Russell Theatre
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://stagewest.org/season/witch
Description:
Mischief lurks in the sleepy village of Edmonton as a slick young devil arrives in search of a few fresh souls. As the townsfolk reveal their deepest secrets and desires, bargains are struck, and tables are turned.
Selfie! The Musical
By: Rembert Block
Directed by: Bonnie Cullum
The VORTEX
Austin
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 01 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Eloise Stage @ The VORTEX
Price: $15-35
Reference Link: https://www.vortexrep.org
Description:
This whimsical and profound new musical by Rembert Block grapples with identity, image, and narcissism. Featuring live music by the Brooklyn-based band, Rembert and the Basic Goodness. Presented with Ethos.
How to Heal When the World is Killing You Harshly
By: Oktavea LaToi
Directed by: Simone Raquel Alexander
The VORTEX
Austin
Event Date(s): Sat Apr 23 - Sat May 07
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Eloise Stage @ The VORTEX
Price: $15-35
Reference Link: http://www.vortexrep.org
Description:
A solo work that tracks Oktavea LaToi’s personal journey towards communal healing, self love, and healthy relationships in a world that is killing us with racial violence, fetishism, climate crisis, rage, and a global pandemic. A fusion of art, poetry, music, and movement.
The Odd Couple
By: Neil Simon
Directed by: Ashley Puckett Gonzales
WaterTower Theatre
Addison
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 30 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Terry Martin Main Stage
Price: $39
Reference Link: https://watertowertheatre.org/event/the-odd-couple/2022-03-30
Description:
This Tony-winning classic comedy centers around two unlikely roommates, uptight neat Felix Ungar and easygoing, disheveled Oscar Madison. Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind when the clean freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together, with hilarious results.
Reunion ‘85
By: Conceived by Susan Draus; Created by Susan Draus, David Larson and Cody Jamison Strand; Written by Sarah Goeke
Directed by: Dave Steakley
ZACH Theatre
Austin
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: ZACH360 in The Topfer at ZACH
Price: $starting at $28
Reference Link: https://zachtheatre.org/reunion85
Description:
Party back to when we were living in a material world of scrunchies, shoulder pads, and parachute pants. Reunion ’85 is a totally immersive concert experience that starts when the Reunion Committee welcomes you with your name tag and new identity.
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
By: Adapted by Allen Robertson from Eileen Spinelli
Directed by: Allen Robertson
ZACH Theatre
Austin
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 26 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Whisenhunt at ZACH
Price: $12-$18+
Reference Link: https://zachtheatre.org/mrhatch
Description:
From the Emmy Award-winning creator of the PBS hit “The Biscuit Brothers,” Rob1n, and Tortoise and Hare comes a new musical based on the beloved children’s book. Mr. Hatch is a lonely man leading a ho-hum life, until one Valentine’s Day.
Vermont
Monty Python’s Spamalot
By: Eric Idle
Directed by: Carol Dunne
Northern Stage
White River Junction
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Northern Stage
Price: $$19-59
Reference Link: https://northernstage.org/spamalot/
Description:
Experience the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as you’ve never seen it before, complete with a bevy of beautiful showgirls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful showgirls?
Spamalot
By: Eric Idle & John Du Prez
Directed by: Carol Dunne
Northern Stage
White River Junction
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 13 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Northern Stage
Price: $59
Reference Link: https://northernstage.secure.force.com/ticket#/events/a0S1Y00000T186XUAR
Description:
Experience the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as you’ve never seen it before, complete with a bevy of beautiful showgirls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful showgirls?
Virginia
In the Heights
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by: TBA
Mill Mountain Theatre
Roanoke
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 06 - Sun Apr 24
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Trinkle MainStage
Price: $
Reference Link: https://millmountain.org/production/in-the-heights/
Description:
The Tony Award-winning musical transports audiences to a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, in a groundbreaking musical that tells a universal story of family, hope, and resilience.
Sugar in Our Wounds
By: Donja R. Love
Directed by: Keith Byron Kirk
Richmond Triangle Players
Richmond
Event Date(s): Wed Apr 06 - Sat Apr 30
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Richmond Triangle Players' Robert B. Moss Theatre
Price: $10-$35
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description:
On a plantation somewhere down south, a mystical tree reaches up toward heaven. Generations of slaves have been hanged on this tree. When a stranger arrives on the plantation, a striking romance emerges, inviting the couple and those around them into uncharted territory.
Ain’t Misbehavin’
By: Richard Maltby, Jr and Murray Horowitz, with music by Thomas "Fats" Waller
Directed by: Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
Virginia Repertory Theatre
Richmond
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 08 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The November Theatre
Price: $36-$67
Reference Link: https://https://va-rep.org/
Description:
Relive the Harlem Renaissance as we bring you the intoxicating music of celebrated jazz legend Thomas “Fats” Waller. It’s a vibrant, timeless journey into one of the most robust periods of creativity in American history.
Washington
Zen and the Art of an Android Beatdown
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
Directed by: Gin Hammond
Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle
Event Date(s): Tue Oct 12 - Fri Jul 01
Type of Event: Ply
Venue: Audio
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://book-it.org/events/zen-and-the-art-of-an-android-beatdown/
Description:
Cecile dreams of falling. Her work on the android keeps her grounded. This man, always battered and bruised, has dreams of his own, or maybe they’re someone else’s. Her attachment to him threatens to expose the truth of her, but she can’t seem to stay away.
The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas
Directed by: Lamar Legend
Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle
Event Date(s): Tue Nov 23 - Fri Jul 01
Type of Event: Audio play
Venue: Online
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://book-it.org/events/the-three-musketeers/
Description:
This audio adaptation of the swashbuckling buddy adventure is filled with intrigue and romance, villains and rogues, espionage and scandal.
Mrs. Caliban
By: Rachel Ingalls
Directed by: Kelly Kitchens
Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 23 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Center Theatre at Seattle Center
Price: $20-50
Reference Link: https://book-it.org/events/mrs-caliban/
Description:
Every day, Dorothy’s life is the same — until the day a mysterious sea creature shows up at her door. A delicious combination of social satire, fantasy, and feminist politics, this modern classic shows us the joy of finding yourself in your own heart.
Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
Directed by: Aaron Lamb
Harlequin Productions
Olympia
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sat Apr 02
Type of Event: Classic Drama
Venue: The State Theater
Price: $20-$35
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/show/endgame/
Description:
Harlequin opened its third season 28 years ago with Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting for Godot, and we continue this tradition of excellence in the classics with this later masterpiece.
The Best Summer Ever!
By: Kevin Kling
Directed by: Steven Dietz
Seattle Children's Theatre
Seattle
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 22 - Sun Apr 17
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.sct.org/tickets-shows/
Description:
Summer means sleepaway camps, days with friends by the pool, and late nights gazing at the stars. For 9-year-old Maurice Abernathy Anderson, a significant loss and one little lie means his summer just got more complicated. Explore childhood with storyteller Kevin Kling.
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus: The Musical!
By: Based on the Pigeon books by Mo Willems
Directed by: Script by Mo Williams and Tom Warburton. Lyrics by Mo Willems and Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma
Seattle Children's Theatre
Seattle
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 05 - Sun May 22
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.sct.org/tickets-shows/
Description:
The Pigeon really wants to drive the bus. He really, really, really wants to! When the bus driver has a small emergency, it looks as though our feathered friend’s dreams may come true. Featuring a combination of puppets, songs, and feathers.
The Spitfire Grill
By: Book and Music by James Valq, Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley, Based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff
Directed by: Scott Nolte
Taproot Theatre Company
Seattle
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sat Apr 30
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Taproot Theatre Company
Price: $
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description:
After Percy convinces Hannah to raffle off The Spitfire Grill, entries start pouring in from around the country and rumors and secrets swirl through the small town of Gilead. In this soul-stirring musical, forgiveness and a spirit of hope go a long way in pointing the way home.
Wisconsin
Russian Troll Farm
By: Sarah Gancher
Directed by: Jen Uphoff-Gray
Forward Theater Company
Madison
Event Date(s): Fri Apr 22 - Sun May 08
Type of Event: In person
Venue: Playhouse at the Overture Center
Price: $$10-$49
Reference Link: https://www.forwardtheater.com
Description:
At the infamous (real-life!) Internet Research Agency, professional internet trolls work for days at a time, creating tweets and posts to sow discord and doubt among Americans. What happens to your grasp on the truth when your whole job is lying?
My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra
By: David Grapes and Todd Olson
Directed by: Kelley Faulkner
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Milwaukee
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stackner Cabaret
Price: $20+
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/my-way/
Description:
From the king of swing to the Rat Pack, Ol’ Blue Eyes charmed his way into the hearts of millions. Celebrate the pivotal moments of Sinatra’s remarkable five-decade career with a journey through his greatest hits.
New Age
By: Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by: Jade King Carroll
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Milwaukee
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 22 - Sun May 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stiemke Studio
Price: $20+
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/new-age/
Description:
Told through music, movement, and lyrical storytelling, New Age follows four women at different junctures in life as they contend with their sexuality, insecurities, and legacies.
Titanic
By: Peter Stone, Maury Yeston, and Ian Weinberger
Directed by: Mark Clements
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Milwaukee
Event Date(s): Tue Apr 05 - Sun May 15
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Quadracci Powerhouse
Price: $20+
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/titanic-the-musical/
Description:
Winner of five Tony Awards, Titanic is a stirring and unforgettable account of the first and last days of the ship of dreams.
Actually
By: Anna Ziegler
Directed by: Mary MacDonald Kerr
Renaissance Theaterworks
Milwaukee
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sun Apr 03
Type of Event: Play
Venue: 255 S Water Street
Reference Link: https://www.r-t-w.com/
Description:
Tom and Amber are college freshmen at Princeton. They are overwhelmed, overstimulated, sleep-deprived, surrounded by strangers, uncertainty, and alcohol. What could possibly go wrong? A smart, profound exploration of the culture of sexual consent.
