March 2022
Here’s what you can see on U.S. stages this month.
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.
Arizona
Nina Simone: Four Women
By: Christina Ham
Directed by: Tiffany Nichole Greene
Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson and Phoenix
Event Date(s): Sat Feb 26 - Sun Apr 10
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Temple of Music and Art and Herberger Theater Center - Center Stage
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://arizonatheatre.org/show/nina-simone-four-women/
Description:
A musical evening with the fiery genius, activist, and musician that is Nina Simone. She rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four little girls lost in the 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
By: Created by Jonathan Rockefeller, Based on Eric Carle’s Books
Childsplay Theatre
Phoenix
Event Date(s): Sat Feb 05 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Herberger Theatre Center
Price: $Starting at $13
Reference Link: https://www.childsplayaz.org/caterpillar
Description:
This critically acclaimed production features a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets and faithfully adapts four stories by author/illustrator Eric Carle.
Arkansas
School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play
By: Jocelyn Bioh
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Little Rock
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 01 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Price: Varies
Reference Link: https://therep.org
Description:
As the reigning queen bee of Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school, Paulina has her sights on the 1986 Miss Universe pageant. But the arrival of a new transfer student from America changes the game. This fearless comedy confronts our conceptions of self-esteem and beauty.
Alexander Who Is Not, Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Going to Move
By: Judith Viorst, with music by Shelly Markham
Directed by: Julie Gable
Tricycle Theatre for Youth
Bentonville
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sat Mar 19
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Tricycle Theatre
Description:
Alexander has just received some really bad news from his parents. His dad has taken a job in a city a thousand miles away, which means that he and his mom and his dad and his bossy older brothers, Nick and Anthony, are going to have to move to a whole new city.
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.”
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: L. Peter Callender
6th Street Playhouse
Santa Rosa
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 03 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Monroe Stage
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://6thstreetplayhouse.com
Description:
Hansberry wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, her first, at age 27. It was the first by a Black playwright to be produced on Broadway and to receive a Critic’s Circle award. We are proud to bring you this iconic American story, presented by a talented and professional cast.
All’s Well That Ends Well
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Nike Doukas
A Noise Within
Pasadena
Event Date(s): Sun Feb 06 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Price: $25-79
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/alls-well-that-ends-well/
Description:
What’s a woman to do with a runaway groom? Hatch a scheme, of course. Roping in a fantastic cast of fools, romantics, and cynics, the clever Helen pursues the crusty Bertram in a clash of wits and deception in Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy.
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 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.
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.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
By: Dwayne Hartford (adaptor) and Kate DiCamillo (book)
Directed by: Darryl B. Hovis
Chance Theater
Anaheim
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 04 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: TYA Play
Venue: Chance Theater @ Bette Aitken theater arts Center
Price: $24-30
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com
Description:
Based on the award-winning book about a very dapper china rabbit, who loves himself more than anything else. However, when he gets lost at sea, Edward finds he has a lot to learn, including a thorough lesson about the transformative power of love.
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.
CVRep Presents: Closer Than Ever!
By: Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire
Directed by: Ron Celona
Coachella Valley Repertory
Cathedral City
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 01 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Musical Theater
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
Price: $58
Description:
A look into the private song vault of Richard Maltby Jr., and David Shire (Big; Starting Here, Starting Now; Baby), the revue Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever is filled to the brim with the brilliance for which these musical theatre giants are known.
Best Lesbian Erotica 1995
By: Miranda Rose Hall
Directed by: Kym Pappas
Diversionary Theatre
San Diego
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 17 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Diversionary Theatre
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/azul
Description:
In this triptych of love, lust, and domestic terrorism, a joyous romp through lesbian erotic fiction collides with one of the darkest hours in U.S. history. A thrilling new play from the author of The Hour of Great Mercy.
Assassins
By: Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman
Directed by: S
East West Players
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 17 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center of the Arts at 120 Judge John Aiso Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Price: $$50 to $75
Reference Link: https://tinyurl.com/ewp-assassins
Description:
A darkly comic Tony award winner that examines the motives of the nine notorious Americans who took their shot at the President of the United States, Assassins is the 12th Sondheim musical mounted by East West Players in its 56-year history of producing theatre in L.A.
Power of Sail
By: Paul Grellong
Directed by: Weyni Mengesha
Geffen Playhouse
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 01 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Geffen Playhouse
Price: $65+
Reference Link: https://https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/tickets/25th-anniversary-season/
Description:
Distinguished Harvard professor Charles Nichols (Emmy and Tony Award-winner Bryan Cranston) finds himself in hot water after inviting an incendiary white nationalist to speak at his annual symposium.
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.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: TBA
L.A. Theatre Works
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Live in performance audio theatre recording
Venue: James Bridges Theater
Price: $65.00
Reference Link: https://latw.org
Description:
L.A. Theatre Works records Shakespeare’s delightful, gender-bending rom-com about looking for love in all the wrong places. Each of the four performances will be recorded in front of an audience for radio, CD, digital download, and online 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.
The Homecoming
By: Harold Pinter
Directed by: David Ellenstein
North Coast Repertory Theatre
Solana Beach
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 02 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: North Coast Rep
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/
Description:
Often regarded as Nobel laureate Harold Pinter’s most enduring play, this masterwork of family warfare is set in an all-male household that relies on fantasy and one-upmanship for its very existence.
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.
As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Emily Trask
PCPA - Pacific Conservatory Theatre
Santa Maria
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 17 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marion Theatre
Price: $19.25-50.00
Reference Link: http://pcpa.org/AsYouLikeIt/
Description:
All the world’s a stage in one of Shakespeare’s most musical of masterpieces, inspiringly envisioned for today’s audiences, where foolish lovers and lovely fools seek freedom in the forest and discover lively romance and lasting redemption.
Mother Road
By: Octavio Solis
Directed by: Robert Ramirez
PCPA - Pacific Conservatory Theatre
Santa Maria
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 10 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Severson Theatre
Price: $19.25-50.00
Reference Link: http://pcpa.org/MotherRoad/
Description:
Octavio Solis’s visionary play, inspired by John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, picks up 90 years after Steinbeck’s masterpiece.
The Great Khan
By: Michael Gene Sullivan
San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 03 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: San Diego Repertory Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.sdrep.org/show-detail.php?id=658
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Description:
Jayden, an African American teenager, saves a girl, Ant, from a sexual assault, which forces him and his mother to move to keep him safe from the boys who attacked her. Following the attack, Jayden and Ant are left trying to figure out how to define themselves.
The Marvelous Wonderettes
By: Roger Bean
Directed by: Kevin Harris
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
San Luis Obispo
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 04 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
Price: $40-60
Reference Link: https://
Description:
Meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy: four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their bouffants! We laugh and learn about their lives and loves in this must-take musical trip down memory lane.
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.
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.
The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor
By: Madison Wetzell
Directed by: Ciera Eis
Shotgun Players
Berkeley
Event Date(s): Mon Mar 28 - Tue Mar 29
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Ashby Stage
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://http://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/30th-csrs
Description:
This comedy, a modern Les Misérables, follows a well-meaning A.I. robot, who accidentally provides four seemingly harmless office objects with consciousness. As they gain awareness and develop their own personalities, they begin to question their status as subordinates.
Fluff
By: Sigrid Gilmer
Directed by: TBA
Skylight Theatre Company
Los Angeles
Event Date(s): Sat Feb 12 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Skylight Theatre
Price: $35-40
Reference Link: https://skylighttheatre.org/
Description:
An absurdist “disaster film” play about the dark carnival of our current political climate, the hell of other people, and killer pillows. Presented with Playwrights’ Arena.
Sense and Sensibility
By: Paul Gordon
Directed by: Robert Kelley
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Palo Alto
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 02 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lucie Stern Theatre
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://theatreworks.org/season51/sense-and-sensibility/
Description:
TheatreWorks presents the Regional Premiere of Sense and Sensibility, a musical by Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre). Based on the Jane Austen novel, this charming work follows two sisters after their father’s death and through romantic trials, events that test and affirm their bond.
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.
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.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
DCPA Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 07 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Singleton Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf/
Description:
Welcome to George and Martha’s. This funny and darkly unsettling duo invites you into their living room, along with young couple Honey and Nick. But with every drink poured, the conversation descends into all-out marital warfare.
Rattlesnake Kate
By: Music and lyrics by Neyla Pekarek; Book by Karen Hartman
Directed by: Chris Coleman
Denver Center Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 04 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wolf Theatre
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/rattlesnake-kate/
Description:
A new musical celebrating the true story of a Colorado woman the world wasn’t ready for.
In the Upper Room
By: Beaufield Berry
Directed by: Gregg T. Daniel
Denver Center Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 11 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
Price: TBD
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/in-the-upper-room/
Description:
A new play about family, secrets, and the power of the stories we grow up hearing.
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.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
Directed by: Rose Riordan
Denver Center Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 07 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Drama, Comedy
Venue: The Singleton Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf/
Description:
There is no dysfunctional stage couple quite like George and Martha, and there is no better way to experience this powder keg drama than up close in the intimate Singleton Theatre.
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.
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
Change Agent
By: Craig Lucas
Directed by: Craig Lucas
Arena Stage
Washington
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 21 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kogod Cradle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/
Description:
This provocative tale, written and directed by Craig Lucas, dramatically conjures celebrated, controversial, and unsung figures in American history surrounding pivotal events in the 1960s.
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.”
La llamada de Sylvia Mendez: Separate Is Never Equal
By: Cornelia Cody
Directed by: Elena Velasco
GALA Hispanic Theatre
Washington
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sat Mar 26
Type of Event: Children's theatre
Venue: GALA Hispanic Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.galatheatre.org/post/sylvia-mendez
Description:
At age eight, Sylvia Méndez took a simple action that changed the world for thousands of Latinx students. This bilingual play explores her role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster decision, a landmark case focused on the desegregation of Mexican and Latinx students in California.
United States of Amnesia: From Fugitive Slave Act to Zero Tolerance
By: José Torres-Tama
GALA Hispanic Theatre
Washington
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 25 - Sat Mar 26
Type of Event: Play
Venue: GALA Hispanic Theatre
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.galatheatre.org/post/the-united-states-of-amnesia
Description:
With poetry, humor, and wit, this Ecuadoran-born artist who resides in St. Louis serves us a decolonized history lesson, chronicling the legislative decisions that have historically disenfranchised Black and Brown people.
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
Flight
By: Vox Motus
Directed by: Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds
Studio Theatre
Washington
Event Date(s): Thu Dec 16 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Studio Theatre
Price: $42-52
Reference Link: https://www.studiotheatre.org/plays/play-detail/2021-2022/flight
Description:
The story of two orphaned brothers on an epic cross-continental odyssey to freedom and safety plays out in breathtaking miniature in Flight. The immersive theatrical installation uses spectacularly detailed dioramas to tell this story of hope and survival.
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
Seven methods of killing kylie jenner
By: Jasmine Lee-Jones
Directed by: Milli Bhatia
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington
Event Date(s): Thu Nov 11 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Price: $Starting at $29
Reference Link: https://https://www.woollymammoth.net/event/killing-kylie-jenner/
Description:
Through a digital world of GIFs, memes, and #cancelculture, seven methods offers a Gen Z analysis of Black womanhood, colorism, and the politics of social media activism. A Royal Court Theatre production.
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.
Florida
Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Desdemona Chiang
Asolo Repertory Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Wed Jan 12 - Sat Mar 26
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mertz Theatre
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/ourtown
Description:
As another ordinary day begins, a small American town goes about its daily business: Newspapers are delivered, people go to work, gardens are tended. And a boy and girl fall in love. But as life’s events unfold, one question remains: “Do humans realize life as they live it?”
Grand Horizons
By: Bess Wohl
Directed by: Celine Rosenthal
Asolo Repertory Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Wed Jan 19 - Fri Apr 01
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mertz Theatre
Reference Link: https://www.asolorep.org/events/detail/grandhorizons
Description:
What if you learn that the person you’ve been married to for 50 years is making you miserable? Sophisticated, funny, delightfully— and sometimes provocatively — honest, this new Broadway hit comedy takes an intimate look at the unpredictable and enduring nature of love.
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.
The Marvelous Wonderettes
By: Musical by Roger Bean
Directed by: Vincent Pelligrino
Emerald Coast Theatre Company
Miramar Beach
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 21 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Professional Theatre Performance
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
Price: $29.00-35.00
Reference Link: https://www.emeraldcoasttheatre.org/on-stage
Description:
This smash Off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom, where we meet four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! Featuring over 30 classic ’50s and ’60s hits, The Marvelous Wonderettes is a must-take musical trip down memory lane.
Into the Breeches!
By: George Brant
Directed by: Eleanor Holdridge
Florida Repertory Theatre
Fort Myers
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 08 - Wed Mar 02
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Historic Arcade Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description:
A vibrant and patriotic new comedy about perseverance and sisterhood, set in WWII, about a troupe of women determined to prove the show must go on.
A Doll’s House, Part 2
By: Lucas Hnath
Directed by: Chris Clavelli
Florida Repertory Theatre
Fort Myers
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 22 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: ArtStage Studio Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description:
Audiences will be in the center of the action as Nora Helmer confronts her past, her ex-husband, her now-grown daughter, and their long-suffering housekeeper. This time when the sparks fly, audiences will have a front-row seat.
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 Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis, Johnathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
Florida Studio Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Wed Jan 19 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Mainstage Play
Venue: FST's Gompertz Theatre
Price: $36+
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/play-goes-wrong
Description:
It’s the opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are going from bad to utterly disastrous. Will these accident-prone performers beat the odds and make it to their final curtain call?
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.
Friends in Low Places
By: Rebecca Hopkins and Richard Hopkins
Directed by: Catherine Randazzo
Florida Studio Theatre
Sarasota
Event Date(s): Wed Nov 17 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: FST Original Musical Revue
Venue: FST's Goldstein Cabaret
Price: $36+
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/friends-low-places
Description:
Friends in Low Places celebrates the contemporary country artists like Garth Brooks and Miranda Lambert, who transformed their genre and rocketed to the top of the charts. Featuring such songs as “Could I Have This Dance,” “Bluebird,” and “Good Hearted Woman.”
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.
Me Before You
By: Janece Shaffer, with music by Kristian Bush and lyrics by Bush and Shaffer
Directed by: Bari Newport
GableStage
Coral Gables
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 25 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: GableStage @ the Biltmore Hotel & Resort
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: http://www.gablestage.org/production/
Description:
With a book by Atlanta-based playwright Janece Shaffer, Me Before You is a world premiere featuring music by Grammy Award winner Kristian Bush of Sugarland fame. Join us for a new musical that explores how the politics of a nation can impact the politics of a marriage.
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow
Directed by: Peter Amster
Gulfshore Playhouse
Naples
Event Date(s): Sat Feb 12 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Norris Center
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org/2021-2022-season/39-steps/
Description:
A Hitchcock masterpiece meets spy novel in this hilarious whodunit. Richard Hannay, trapped in a boring life, encounters a woman who claims to be a spy. Soon thereafter, she is murdered and Hannay finds himself entangled in a nationwide manhunt.
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?
A Clockwork Orange: A Play With Music
By: By Anthony Burgess, adapted from his novel
Directed by: TBA
Jobsite Theater
Tampa
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 02 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center
Price: $19.50+
Reference Link: https://jobsitetheater.org
Description:
Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange lures audiences into the glass-edged, testosterone-filled underworld of a dystopian future. A Clockwork Orange remains an unapologetic celebration of the human condition and individual freedoms.
Sweet Charity
By: Neil Simon, with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Directed by: Marcos Santana
Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Jupiter
Event Date(s): Sat Feb 19 - Wed Mar 09
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Price: $66+
Reference Link: https://www.jupitertheatre.org
Description:
This high-energy, dance-filled, Tony-nominated musical features unforgettable classics such as “If My Friends Could See Me Now” and “Big Spender,” and captures all the humor and heartbreak of life in the Big Apple.
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.
When Monica Met Hillary
By: Winter Miller
Miami New Drama
Miami Beach
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 24 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Reference Link: www.miaminewdrama.org
Description:
World premiere play!
Orlando Shakes 33rd Season Valentine Gala
Orlando Shakes
Orlando
Event Date(s): Sun Mar 27 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Gala
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
Price: $300 per person with table sponsorships available
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/upcoming-shows/season-gala
Description:
Join us for a sumptuous meal and an unforgettable evening to benefit Orlando Shakes! Broadway star Rita Harvey will perform her “Heart Like A Wheel” Linda Ronstadt Tribute, that celebrates one of the most beloved and versatile pop singers of the past five decades.
Jeff Rupert Jazz Quartet
Orlando Shakes
Orlando
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 03 - Sat Mar 05
Type of Event: Cabaret/Concert
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
Price: $60 for table for two
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/jeff-rupert-jazz-quartet/
Description:
One of Central Florida’s most talented musicians, Jeff Rupert, performs a swinging evening of jazz standards with a few special guests, only under the stars at Orlando Shakes. Don’t miss out on this amazing night of music!
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.
The Duration
By: Bruce Graham
Palm Beach Dramaworks
West Palm Beach
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 18 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Price: $59-94
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/program/groupevent
Description:
Can two strong women with very different coping strategies on the journey from grief to release meet each other somewhere in the middle—out in the middle of nowhere?
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.
Camelot
By: Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe
Directed by: Mark Danni
TheatreZone
Naples
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 10 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: G&L Theater
Price: $50 - 85
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description:
The legendary love triangle of King Arthur, Guenevere, and Sir Lancelot leaps from the pages of T.H. White’s novel in Lerner and Loewe’s award-winning, soaring musical.
Camelot
By: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Directed by: Mark Danni
TheatreZone
Naples
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 10 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: G&L Theater
Price: $50 - 85
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description:
An idealistic young King Arthur hopes to create a kingdom built on honor and dignity, embodied by his Knights of the Round Table.
Broadway and Back
By: Larry Alexander
Directed by: Larry Alexander
TheatreZone
Naples
Event Date(s): Mon Mar 14 - Mon Mar 14
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: G&L Theater
Price: $50 - 85
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description:
The story of how a boy from Tampa gets to New York and ends up in one the greatest musicals in Broadway history.
Mack Is Back: The Music of Bobby Darin and More
By: Chaz Esposito
Directed by: Chaz Esposito
TheatreZone
Naples
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 24 - Thu Mar 24
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: G&L Theater
Price: $50 - 85
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description:
There’s not much the talented Bobby Darin couldn’t do. Enjoy this special trip through his iconic career, with music spanning genres and generations.
The Mersey Beatles
By: Various
Directed by: The Mersey Beatles
TheatreZone
Naples
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 22 - Tue Mar 22
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: G&L Theater
Price: $50 - 85
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description:
These fan favorite concerts include beautifully designed costumes, as well as replica guitars, amplifiers, and drums, creating an authentic look and sound of the Beatles.
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
Bina’s Six Apples
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Eric Ting
Alliance Theatre
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
Price: $15 - 65
Reference Link: https://alliancetheatre.org/production/2021-22/binas-6-apples
Description:
Bina’s family grows the finest apples in Korea. But when war forces her to flee, Bina is alone with just six apples to her name. Can these meager possessions help her find her family? Mesmerizing and heartwarming, this play shows Bina discovering that she’s not the only one on a quest for home.
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!
Alabama Story
By: Kenneth Jones
Directed by: TBA
Georgia Ensemble Theatre
Roswell
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 17 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Drama/Comedy
Venue: Roswell Cultural Arts Center
Price: $32-50
Reference Link: https://get.org
Description:
Political foes, star-crossed childhood friends, and one feisty state librarian take the stage for a uniquely poetic love letter to reading. We all have more in common than we imagine. A drama based on true events.
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.
TBA
By: TBA
Directed by: TBA
Horizon Theatre Company
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 28 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Atlanta or Southeastern premiere
Venue: Horizon Theatre Company
Price: $$25-$45
Reference Link: https://www.horizontheatre.com/
Description:
Horizon’s 2022 season opening play.
Raisin
By: Book by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg; Music by Judd Woldin; Lyrics by Robert Brittan
Directed by: Kelly Foster-Warder
Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 08 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Southwest Arts Center
Price: $25-55
Reference Link: https://truecolorstheatre.org/event/raisin/
Description:
The “American Dream” of home ownership and self-determination drives Lena and Walter Younger in different directions as each struggles with how to achieve it. Race, class, generational aspirations and family dynamics combine for an emotional climax in this still relevant work.
Calf
By: Levi Jelks
Directed by: Marlon Andrew Burnley
Out of Hand Theater
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 28 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Online
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://outofhandtheater.kindful.com/register/calf
Description:
Calf follows Eli “Bull” Willis in the months after he’s released from incarceration as he attempts to overcome obstacles to building a new life and connecting with his son. In Calf, we address the prison industrial complex and recidivism in Atlanta.
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.
See You
By: Lee Osorio + Gabrielle Fulton Ponder
Directed by: Lee Osorio + Gabrielle Fulton Ponder
Out of Hand Theater
Atlanta
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 01 - Mon Mar 07
Type of Event: Film
Venue: Online
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://www.outofhandtheater.com/community-collaborations
Description:
Trapped inside a mysterious maze of mirrors, three kids find the following spell written in golden letters on the walls: “To escape this maze of mirrors, You must learn to see you clearer.” See You is a film about sex trafficking awareness and prevention.
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.
Illinois
The Notebook
By: Adapted by Bekah Brunstetter from the novel by Nicholas Sparks, with music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson
Directed by: Michael Greif and Schele Williams
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 15 - Thu Mar 24
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare
Price: $49-$90
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/notebook
Description:
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and Bekah Brunstetter, writer and producer for NBC’s This Is Us, create a deeply moving portrait of the enduring power of love, based on the best-selling novel that inspired the one of the most romantic films of all time.
The Lady from the Sea
By: Henrik Ibsen, in a new translation by Richard Nelson
Directed by: Shana Cooper
Court Theatre
Chicago
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 03 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2021-2022-season/the-lady-from-the-sea-2/
Description:
When a sailor returns to fulfill their promise, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter must choose between her landlocked marriage and the mesmerizing allure of the sea. Hailed as a watershed moment in Ibsen’s writing, The Lady from the Sea dissects issues of duty, marriage, and agency.
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?
Beautiful Thing
By: Jonathan Harvey
Directed by: Mikael Burke
Raven Theatre Company
Chicago
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 09 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: East Stage
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.raventheatre.com/stage/beautiful-thing/
Description:
Two London boys struggle to carve out their own space in a constricting world. With the pressures of their divergent lives mounting, the boys find solace in each other. Nightly refuge evolves into something more, something transformative: something beautiful.
1919
By: Eve L. Ewing, adapted by J. Nicole Brooks
Directed by: Gabrielle Randle-Bent & Tasia A. Jones
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 01 - Sat Mar 05
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Price: $44-110
Reference Link: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/seasons/2021-22/1919/
Description:
A bold, lyrical world premiere adaptation of Eve L. Ewing’s 1919, which tells the story of the killing of 17-year-old Eugene Williams in treacherous waters off the segregated 1919 Lake Michigan shoreline.
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.
Queen of the Night
By: travis tate
Directed by: Victory Gardens artistic director Ken-Matt Martin
Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago
Event Date(s): Sat Jan 29 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Victory Gardens Theater
Price: $29-62
Reference Link: https://victorygardens.org/
Description:
A divorced father and his queer son head to the Texas woods to relive the camping trips of easier days. But even without cell service, certain things are inescapable. Playwright travis tate explores masculinity and queerness through the lens of multi-generational Blackness.
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.
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.
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.
Detroit ’67
By: Dominique Morriseau
Directed by: Ray Hatch
Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Frederick
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 11 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Stageplay
Venue: Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Price: $28
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35900/production/1065750
Description:
A thought-provoking play about siblings trying to make ends meet by starting an after-hours club, set against the turmoil of the 1967 Detroit riots.
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.
Massachusetts
Ocean Filibuster
By: Lisa D'Amour
Directed by: Katie Pearl
American Repertory Theater
Cambridge
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 18 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Loeb Drama Center
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/ocean-filibuster/
Description:
A world-premiere, genre-crashing music theatre experience created PearlDamour and featuring Jennifer Kidwell that fuses myth, song, video, stand-up, and science to explore the vast depths crucial to our daily survival.
Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends
By: Charlotte Meehan
Directed by: Tara Brooke Watkins
ArtsEmerson
Boston
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center Jackie Liebergott Black Box 559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/everyday-life-and-other-odds-and-ends/
Description:
World premiere. This multimedia play with dance takes audiences into the inner life of those living with and affected by Parkinson’s disease, spotlighting the reality that being able-bodied is, like life itself, temporary. Produced by Sleeping Weazel
Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends
By: Charlotte Meehan
Directed by: Tara Brooke Watkins
ArtsEmerson
Boston
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Jackie Liebergott Black Box
Price: $60
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/everyday-life-and-other-odds-and-ends/
Description:
The beauty and fragility of the human condition collide to tell a story of resilience, courage, and love. From the Boston-based theatre company Sleeping Weazel.
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.
Michigan
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.
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.
Minnesota
Something Happened in Our Town
By: Cheryl L. West
Directed by: Timothy Douglas
Children's Theatre Company
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Sun Feb 27 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Production-Play
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
Price: $15-63
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/shows-and-tickets/2021-2022-season/
Description:
Friendships challenged, a world changed, and two young people struggling to make sense of it all. Follow friends and neighbors Josh and Emma as they navigate their way through an experience beyond their control and understanding.
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.
Traces
By: Rachel Jendrzejewski
Directed by: TBA
Playwrights' Center
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Fri Mar 11
Type of Event: Experimental Theater
Venue: Playwrights' Center
Price: $Free
Reference Link: https://pwcenter.org/lab
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Description:
Made in collaboration with WaxFactory (New York), Traces is an immersive play inspired by French artist Sophie Calle, who often engages in controversial, “famously first-person” feats, such as impersonating fictional characters in real-life situations.
Things With Friends
By: Kristoffer Diaz
Directed by: TBA
Playwrights' Center
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 18 - Fri Mar 18
Type of Event: Online Reading
Venue: Online
Price: $Free
Reference Link: https://pwcenter.org/lab
Description:
Manhattan. Burt and Adele are hosting a dinner party. Steak is on the stove. The George Washington Bridge has collapsed into the Hudson. Kristoffer Diaz has written a play about it. I’ve already said too much.
New Play Reading Festival
Directed by: Robert Dorfman
Six Points Theater (formerly Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company)
St. Paul
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 23 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Highland Park Community Center, 1978 Ford Parkway St. Paul, MN, 55116:
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://mnjewishtheatre.org/new-play-reading-festival
Description:
Three new plays, hand-picked and not yet seen by the public, will be presented in onstage readings.
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.
Tuck Everlasting
By: Adapted by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle
Stages Theatre Company
Hopkins
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
Price: $14-16
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/tuck-everlasting/
Description:
Accompany Winnie Foster and the immortal Tuck family on their unforgettable journey. This TYA version of the popular Broadway musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s classic novel graces our main stage with live music.
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.
Man of God
By: Anna Ouyang Moench
Directed by: Katie Bradley
Theater Mu
Saint Paul
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 18 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mixed Blood Theatre
Price: Pay As You Are
Reference Link: https://www.theatermu.org/man-of-god
Description:
During a mission trip to Bangkok, four girls discover that their revered pastor has hidden a camera in their hotel bathroom. Their communal rage and disillusionment fuels increasingly violent revenge fantasies amidst the no-holds-barred, neon bubblegum sex tourism mecca of Bangkok.
Missouri
The Royale
By: Marco Ramirez
Directed by: Steph Paul
Kansas City Repertory Theatre (KCRep)
Kansas City
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 08 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Copaken Stage
Price: $35-65
Reference Link: https://kcrep.org/21-22-season
Description:
A knockout award-winning new play inspired by real world boxer Jack Johnson will come to life on our Copaken Stage before going on tour throughout the community.
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.
Only One Day a Year
By: Michelle Tyrene Johnson
Directed by: Nedra Dixon
The Coterie Theatre
Kansas City
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 08 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Coterie Theatre
Price: $12-$15
Reference Link: https://thecoterie.org/performance/only-one-day-year
Description:
The Coterie presents the world premiere of Only One Day a Year, commissioned by the Coterie and inspired by overlooked Kansas City history. This NEA award-winning play intertwines present day with the last segregated days of Fairyland amusement park in the early 1960s.
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.
Tiny Beautiful Things
By: Nia Vardalos and Cheryl Strayed
Directed by: Sidonie Garrett
Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 09 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Unicorn Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://unicorntheatre.org/tiny-beautiful-things/
Description:
A bright and beautiful narrative about growing, healing, finding courage and unexpected human connection.
New-Jersey
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
Buffalo Quickies
Directed by: Chris J Handley
Alleyway Theatre
Buffalo
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 10 - Sat Mar 05
Type of Event: Play
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/buffalo-quickies-31
Description:
Another year of brand-new short plays comes to Alleyway! This festival features premiere works from some of today’s best new playwrights both in Western New York and around the country.
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.
How to Catch Creation
By: Christina Anderson
Directed by: Daniel J. Bryant
Geva Theatre Center
Rochester
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 22 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Wilson Stage
Price: $25-$69
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/season-49/
Description:
Griffin, Stokes, Riley, and Tami are four artists whose lives become entangled with each other as they experiment with new ways to express themselves. An encounter with the writings of a 1960s queer Black feminist challenges their understandings of justice, love, and loyalty.
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.
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.
Intimate Apparel
By: Music by Ricky Ian Gordon, libretto by Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Bartlett Sher
Lincoln Center Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Thu Jan 13 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Theater, opera, Off-Broadway
Venue: Mitzi E. Newhouse
Price: $82-92
Reference Link: https://https://www.lct.org/shows/intimate-apparel/
Description:
Intimate Apparel, an opera with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Lynn Nottage, based on her acclaimed play, tells the story of Esther, a lonely seamstress who creates ladies’ undergarments, and seeks love through a letter-writing relationship with a mysterious suitor.
At the Wedding
By: Bryna Turner
Directed by: Jenna Worsham
Lincoln Center Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Sat Feb 12 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Theater, Off-Broadway
Venue: Claire Tow Theater
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://https://www.lct.org/
Description:
Playwright Bryna Turner’s new comedy follows the worlds loneliest (and wittiest) single woman, Carlo, as she crashes her ex-girlfriend’s wedding to a man. Profound and hilarious, At the Wedding is a timely story of loss, love, and redemption.
The Chinese Lady
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Ralph B. Pena
Ma-Yi Theater Company
New York
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 22 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Live Play
Venue: Public Theater
Price: $25 to 40
Reference Link: http://ma-yitheatre.org/shows/the-chinese-lady/
Description:
Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to step foot in the United States, where she was put on display for a paying audience mesmerized and appalled by her bound feet. Winner of the 2020 Horton Foote Prize for playwriting.
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.
First Down
By: SEVAN
Directed by: Johanna Mckeon
Noor Theatre
New York
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 18 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Description:
Montana native George Berri has become a national sports sensation, beloved hometown hero, and one of the NFL’s best players. But he’s about to create a perfect storm of personal, professional, and political conflict as he wrestles with the decision to come out as an Arab-Muslim during the Superbowl.
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.
Breadcrumbs
By: Jennifer Haley
Directed by: Scott Behrend
Road Less Traveled Productions
Buffalo
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 03 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Road Less Traveled Theater
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/breadcrumbs-2021
Description:
A brilliant, reclusive writer is diagnosed with dementia and must rely on an untrustworthy caretaker to tell her final story — an autobiography.
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.
Confederates
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Kamilah Forbes
Signature Theatre
New York City
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 22 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://signaturetheatre.org/shows-and-events/Productions/2021-2022/Confederates.aspx
Description:
This New York premiere leaps through time in order to trace the identities of these two black American women and explore the reins that racial and gender bias still hold on American educational systems today.
Somewhere Over the Border
By: Brian Quijada
Directed by: Rebecca Martinez
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 23 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Syracuse Stage
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://syracusestage.org/showinfo.php?id=116
Description:
World premiere. Inspired by the real-life journey of the author’s mother from El Salvador to the U.S. and by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the musical embraces the factual and the fantastical in its depiction of one young girl’s pursuit of the American Dream.
The Wetsuitman
By: by Freek Mariën (Belgium); translated by David McKay
Directed by: Samuel Buggeln
The Cherry Arts
Ithaca
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Cherry Artspace
Price: $25-35
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35407/production/1074057
Description:
The Wetsuitman begins as a Scandinavian crime thriller, and unpeels like an onion, switching between perspectives and genres to become a profound and interlayered meditation on identity, expectation, race, and migration.
Suffs
By: Shaina Taub and Raja Feather Kelly
Directed by: Leigh Silverman
The Public Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 01 - Thu Mar 31
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Public Theater
Price: $
Reference Link: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2122/suffs/
Description:
A musical event one hundred years in the making, Suffs brings to life a complicated chapter in the ongoing battle for the right to vote: the American women’s suffrage movement. Exact Dates TBA.
sandblasted
By: Charly Evon Simpson
Directed by: Summer L. Williams
Vineyard Theatre
New York City
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 03 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Vineyard Theatre, 108 East 15th Street, NY, NY 10003
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.vineyardtheatre.org/sandblasted/
Description:
Angela and Odessa are on a sandy search for something that might not be real but they are determined to make a way out of no way. When they stumble upon ADAH—that’s right, the Celebrity-turned-Wellness-Maven Adah—they decide to follow her lead. A coproduction with WP Theater.
sandblasted
By: Charly Evon Simpson
Directed by: Summer L. Williams
WP Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 03 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Vineyard Theater
Price: $59.00
Reference Link: https://wptheater.org/show/sandblasted/
Description:
From the award-winning playwright of Behind the Sheet, sandblasted is a deeply stirring, funny, theatrically daring story of waiting and hoping, time and healing.
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
Dragons Love Tacos
Children's Theatre of Charlotte
Charlotte
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 11 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
Price: $Starting at $15
Reference Link: https://ctcharlotte.org
Description:
A humorous dragon tale with fiery consequences. (For ages 4 and up)
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)
Ohio
Rooted
By: Deborah Zoe Laufer
Directed by: Noah Himmelstein
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Sat Feb 12 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/productions/rooted
Description:
People can be so weird. In this quirky world-premiere comedy, a reclusive amateur botanist unwittingly becomes a New Age YouTube messiah.
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.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: TBD
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 25 - Sat Mar 26
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Otto M. Budig Theater
Price: $14-68
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/event/hamlet/
Description:
Hamlet, thy name is woman. Incest and intrigue, murder and madness, triumph and treachery all combine to paint one of the most complex and compelling portraits in all of English literature. Featuring Sara Clark in the titular role of Hamlet like you’ve never seen her before.
Teatro Público de Cleveland (TPC) Spring Production
Cleveland Public Theatre
Cleveland
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 10 - Sat Mar 26
Type of Event: Full Production
Venue: James Levin Theatre
Price: $Choose What You Pay
Reference Link: https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatre-announces-2021-2022-season/
Description:
Teatro Público de Cleveland is a collective of Latino theatre artists and produces performances that preserve and promote the cultures of Cleveland Latinos for Spanish-speaking audiences and the broader public.
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.
Kill Move Paradise
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Nathan Henry
Dobama Theatre
Cleveland Heights
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
Price: $1-38
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/kill-move-paradise
Description:
Dobama Theatre presents the regional premiere of Kill Move Paradise. James Ijames’ award-winning play tells the story of Isa, Daz, Grif, and Tiny, four Black men who find themselves stuck in a cosmic purgatory in the afterlife. A biting, hilarious, hopeful requiem for Black lives.
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 Mountaintop
By: Katori Hall
Karamu House
Cleveland
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 10 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Karamu House
Reference Link: https://www.karamuhouse.org
Description:
A gripping reimagination of events the night before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After delivering one of his most memorable speeches, Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel, when a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news.
Harpers Ferry 2019
By: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Directed by: Tamara Winters
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: New Play - Dark Comedy
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati and online
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/harpers-ferry-2019/
Description:
A love triangle of park rangers preps for the 160th anniversary of John Brown’s bloody raid on the national armory at Harpers Ferry. Tensions reach a breaking point between lovers/friends, and conflicting ideas of what justice or redemption mean. Will history repeat itself?
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.
Oklahoma
Laughing Wild
By: Christopher Durang
Directed by: David Allen-Lawrence
American Theatre Company
Tulsa
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sat Mar 19
Type of Event: Comedy play
Venue: Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Doenges Theatre
Price: $24 - $32
Reference Link: https://AmericanTheatreCompany.org
Description:
Laughing Wild is by the legendary observer of human nature, Christopher Durang, and his absurdist nervous breakdown of a play is a provocative, inventive, and a very funny study of the perils of modern life in urban America.
Oregon
Antigone at the Border
By: Marc Pinate
Directed by: Nelda Reyes
Milagro
Portland
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sat Mar 26
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Milagro
Price: $10, 20, 30
Reference Link: https://https://milagro.org/event/antigone-at-the-border/
Description:
A contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, set near the U.S.-Mexico border. This world premiere production centralizes themes of immigration and families affected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.
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.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
By: John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask
Directed by: Chip Miller
Portland Center Stage
Portland
Event Date(s): Sat Jan 22 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Musical
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://https://www.pcs.org/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch
Description:
Hedwig, a German emigrant, is out to set the record straight about her life, her loves, and the operation that left her with that “angry inch.” Part rock concert, part cabaret, part stand-up comedy routine, this one-of-a-kind musical can’t ever be tied down.
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.
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.
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?
Rooms (Working Title)
By: Conceived by Jennifer Lin & Cynthia Shur Petts
Third Rail Repertory Theatre
Portland
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 18 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: installation
Venue: CoHo Theatre
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://www.thirdrailrep.org
Description:
A Company Innovation Project that invites individuals or small groups to move through a series of rooms filled with objects, light, sound, and text.
Pennsylvania
Backing Track
By: R. Eric Thomas
Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 17 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arden Theatre Company
Price: $
Reference Link: https://ardentheatre.org/announcement2-2/
Description:
In this new play by acclaimed satirist R. Eric Thomas, a change is in the air for a family after an unexpected loss. Mel, mother of Avery and Jessica, tries to reclaim her place in a gentrified neighborhood while her kids learn firsthand how to balance their own lives.
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?
Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Amy Kaissar
Bristol Riverside Theatre
Bristol
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 08 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bristol Riverside Theatre
Price: $43
Reference Link: https://www.brtstage.org/shows/a-comedy-of-tenors/
Description:
The “Concert of the Century” is just hours away, there’s a stadium filled with screaming fans, but the three tenors have other concerns. What ensues is a whirlwind of misunderstandings, mistaken identity, and unabashed hilarity.
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.
3 Billy Goats Gruff
By: Clark Nicholson
Directed by: Clark Nicholson
Gamut Theatre Group
Harrisburg
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 16 - Sat Mar 05
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://gamuttheatre.org/php
Description:
Watch this not-so-scary bridge troll as he tries to file a police report against some very silly goats. This “crime drama” is performed in the style of the classic TV show Dragnet. Join Detective Saturday as he gathers the facts and solves the crime. Presented with Popcorn Hat Players.
Orlando
By: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: Francesca Amendolia
Gamut Theatre Group
Harrisburg
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://gamuttheatre.org/season29
Description:
Adapted from the novel Virginia Woolf wrote for her lover Vita Sackville-West, Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando is a hilarious, tender, and joyful celebration of queer love, gender, and the complicated and beautiful journey we all must take to discover our true selves.
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.
Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical
By: B. Jeffrey Madoff with Lloyd Price and music and lyrics by Price
Directed by: Directed by Sheldon Epps, with music direction by Shelton Becton and choreography by Edgar Godineaux
People's Light
Malvern
Event Date(s): Wed Mar 02 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: People's Light (Leonard C. Haas Stage)
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.peopleslight.org
Description:
The story of Lloyd “Mr. Personality” Price, one of the most resilient and influential entertainers of our time, has never been told onstage — until now. A world premiere musical featuring Price’s iconic hits including “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Stagger Lee,” and “Personality”.
Choir Boy
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by: Jeffrey L. Page
Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 18 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Suzanne Roberts Theatre
Price: $10+
Reference Link: https://www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org
Description:
For fifty years, the elite Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys has fostered a tradition of Black excellence. Pharus Young is determined to make his mark, but when his commitment to the school’s ethics code is questioned, he must fight for the respect he’s earned.
A Wrinkle in Time
By: Adapted by Brian Wongchaowart and Wayne Brinda from Madeleine L'Engle
Directed by: Sunny Disney Fitchett
Prime Stage Theatre
Pittsburgh
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Hazlett Theater
Price: $15-35
Reference Link: https://primestage.com/events/a-wrinkle-in-time/
Description:
Madeleine L’Engle’s fantastical journey that blends science fiction with family themes and spiritual growth has been re-imagined for our day. Join three youngsters as they experience a riveting adventure through space and time.
abSolution
By: Brenden Dahl
Theatre Exile
Virtual
Event Date(s): Mon Mar 14 - Mon Mar 14
Type of Event: Virtual Reading
Venue: Virtual
Price: $Pay-what-you-wish
Reference Link: https://theatreexile.org/on-stage-original/studio-xhibition/
Description:
Theatre Exile presents a one-night-only virtual reading of abSolution by Philadelphia playwright Brenden Dahl through its new-play development program, Studio X-hibition.
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.
God Talks to An Agnostic
By: Don Mays
Directed by: Don Mays
The Wilbury Theatre Group
Providence
Event Date(s): Sun Jan 02 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Audio-Play
Venue: The Public's Radio
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://www.thewilburygroup.org
Description:
Written and directed by Don Mays, this 12-part audio play is a compelling exploration of the impact of religion on race, Black culture, and a collective need for faith in something larger than ourselves.
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.
Gem of the Ocean
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Jude Sandy
Trinity Repertory Company
Providence
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 24 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Chace Theater
Price: Starts at $27
Reference Link: https://www.trinityrep.com/show/gem-of-the-ocean/
Description:
Racked with secret guilt, a desperate Citizen Barlow seeks refuge at the home of ancient Aunt Ester. Renowned for soul cleansing, Ester sends Citizen on an epic journey to the City of Bones to find redemption and renewed purpose. Part of Wilson’s American Century Cycle of plays.
South-Carolina
Mitchelville
By: Aurin Squire
Directed by: Christopher Windom
Lean Ensemble Theater
Hilton Head Island
Event Date(s): Thu Mar 17 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: live theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theatre
Price: $$15-$40
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description:
When a young man tries to save his Gullah family home, he dives into the history of his family lineage, the Civil War, and the first town of Black freedmen in America. Mitchelville is a story about learning from the past, saving for the future, and keeping a tradition going.
Native Gardens
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Patrick Torres
The Warehouse Theatre
Greenville
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 11 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Warehouse Theatre
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://warehousetheatre.com/shows/native-gardens/
Description:
During backyard renovations of their home, Pablo and his wife Tania discover a discrepancy with their property line—which apparently cuts through the prized garden of their neighbors. What begins as a civil disagreement turns into an all-out border war of hilarious proportions.
Tennessee
Blood at the Root
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Tracey Copeland Halter
Clarence Brown Theatre
Knoxville
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lab Theatre
Price: Prices vary
Reference Link: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com
Description:
A Black high school students sits under a tree seemingly reserved for whites. The next day, three nooses appear on the tree. Inspired by the true story of the Jena 6, this contemporary drama explores racial double standards and inequality in the criminal justice system.
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.
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.
Sense and Sensibility
By: Adapted by Kate Hamill from Jane Austen
Directed by: Adriana Baer
Alley Theatre
Houston
Event Date(s): Fri Mar 04 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hubbard Theatre
Price: $16-$91
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/production-detail/sense-and-sensibility
Description:
A playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters — sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne — after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable.
Amerikin
By: Chisa Hutchinson
Directed by: James Black
Alley Theatre
Houston
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 11 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Neuhaus Theatre
Price: $16-$91
Reference Link: https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/production-detail/amerikin
Description:
Jeff Browning, a new father desperate for community, casually follows his buddy’s advice and tries to join a white supremacist group — but the results of his ancestry test prove surprising.
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!
Dragons Love Tacos
By: based on the book by Adam Rubin
Directed by: Jimmy Phillips
Main Street Theater Houston
Houston
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 15 - Fri Mar 18
Type of Event: play
Venue: Main Street Theater at the MATCH
Price: $24 - $14
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/dragons-love-tacos/
Description:
Dragons love tacos. Unfortunately, where there are tacos, there is also salsa. And if a dragon accidentally eats spicy salsa… well, watch out! The silly, dragon-dancing journey about first impressions and trying new things is a recipe for laughs and fun!
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.
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.
Peckin the Crown
Directed by: Chris Fontanes
The VORTEX
Austin
Event Date(s): Fri Feb 25 - Sat Mar 12
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Eloise Stage @ The VORTEX
Price: $15-35
Reference Link: https://www.vortexrep.org
Description:
A standalone work within the Farm Road Coven universe, Bottle Alley Theatre’s ongoing storyline since 2017. The play focuses on Gwendolyn Rai, one of the last remaining members of a coven of witches and her particular blend of both experimental magic and hallucinogenic drugs. Presented with Bottle Alley Theatre Company .
Whither Goest Thou America: Festival of New American Play Readings
By: Zander Pryor, Erin Malone Turner, Len Jenkin
Undermain Theatre
Dallas
Event Date(s): Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Readings
Venue: Undermain Theatre
Price: $$15 - $30
Reference Link: https://www.undermain.org
Description:
Undermain presents its fourth series of readings of new American plays examining the American Landscape. Audiences will have the opportunity to return each week of the series to experience a new work examining the American experience and asking the question, “Where are we going?”
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.
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
By: Kristoffer Diaz
ZACH Theatre
Austin
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 16 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Toper at ZACH
Price: $starting at $28
Reference Link: https://zachtheatre.org/chaddeity
Description:
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is a dramatic comedy following the life of wrestler Macedonio Guerra. As a lifelong fan, he has followed wrestling only to become a “jobber,” one who is paid to lose to bigger-name stars in the ring.
Dr. Suess’s The Cat in the Hat
By: Adapted by the National Theatre of Great Britain from Dr. Seuss
Directed by: Nat Miller
ZACH Theatre
Austin
Event Date(s): Tue Jan 25 - Sun Mar 27
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Kleberg at ZACH
Price: $12-$18+
Reference Link: https://zachtheatre.org/catinthehat
Description:
Everyone’s favorite cat comes to mischievous life in ZACH Theatre’s production of the Dr. Seuss classic. Sally and her brother are stuck home in the rain, when a Cat comes knocking at the windowpane!
Vermont
Heisenberg
By: Simon Stephens
Directed by: Sarah Wansley
Northern Stage
White River Junction
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 16 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Northern Stage
Price: $59
Reference Link: https://northernstage.secure.force.com/ticket#/events/a0S1Y00000T17xDUAR
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Description:
What starts with an electric encounter between two strangers grows, over six scenes, into a complex and life-changing relationship. Simon Stephens’s Heisenberg lays bare the beauty in the natural unpredictability of human connection.
Virginia
The Cake
By: Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by: TBA
Mill Mountain Theatre
Roanoke
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 24 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Waldron Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://millmountain.org/production/the-cake-2/
Description:
When Della, a North Carolina baker and devout Christian, is asked to bake a wedding cake for her best friend’s daughter, she is overjoyed—until she finds out that the intended is another bride. For the first time in her life, Della is forced to think for herself.
Stonewallin’
By: Kari Barclay
Richmond Triangle Players
Richmond
Event Date(s): Wed Feb 09 - Sat Mar 05
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Richmond Triangle Players' Robert B. Moss Theatre
Price: $10-$35
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description:
The witches are up to something in the small-town South. When Marsha moves back to Virginia to reconnect with her family’s roots, she finds a barista with an astrology obsession, a Confederate monument gone missing, and the makings of a bisexual love story — if she wants it.
The Servant of Two Masters
Synetic Theater
Arlington
Event Date(s): Mon Feb 21 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Synetic Theater at Crystal City
Price: $20-60
Reference Link: https://synetictheater.org/event_pages/the-servant-of-two-masters/
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Description:
This adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte masterpiece will be a madcap farce of mistaken identity and unparalleled physical comedy. Don’t miss this raucous closing to our 20th anniversary season!
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.
Red Riding Hood
By: Allison Gregory
Directed by: Steven Dietz
Seattle Children's Theatre
Seattle
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 01 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.sct.org/tickets-shows/
Description:
In this SCT commission and world premiere, Wolfgang, the greatest actor in the world, is preparing for the performance of his lifetime in the “true story” of Red Riding Hood when a delivery driver carrying a mysterious package interrupts his rehearsal.
Seedfolks
By: Adapted from the book by Paul Fleischman
Directed by: Leah Adcock-Starr
Seattle Children's Theatre
Seattle
Event Date(s): Tue Mar 01 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Seattle Children's Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://https://www.sct.org/tickets-shows/
Description:
Based on a popular book, the play is set in an abandoned lot in inner-city Cleveland where 9-year-old Kim plants a few lima beans from which astonishing social reform grows. A chain reaction of responses to the fledgling garden in this immigrant neighborhood brings unexpected results.
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.
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
The Mytilenean Debate
By: Quan Barry
Directed by: Mark H
Forward Theater Company
Madison
Event Date(s): Thu Feb 24 - Sun Mar 13
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Overture Center for the Arts
Price: $34-$49
Reference Link: https://forwardtheater.com/show/the-mytilenean-debate
Description:
Forward Theater’s writer in residence, Quan Barry, writes a play that raises questions about legacy and the responsibilities inherent in bringing a Black child into a complicated world.
As You Like it
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Daryl Cloran
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Milwaukee
Event Date(s): Tue Feb 15 - Sun Mar 20
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Quadracci Powerhouse
Price: $20+
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/as-you-like-it/
Description:
Its 1960s British Columbia and love is in the air as a handful of cross-dressing lovers lead to mistaken identities, hilarious mishaps, and loads of laughs. Interwoven into Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy, the production features over 20 Beatles songs.
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.
Antonio’s Song / I Was Dreaming of a Son
By: Dael Orlandersmith and Antonio Edwards Suarez
Directed by: Mark Clements
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Milwaukee
Event Date(s): Wed Jan 26 - Sun Mar 06
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stiemke Studio
Price: $20+
Reference Link: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/antonios-song-i-was-dreaming-of-a-son/
Description:
From the streets of Brooklyn to Russia’s ballet training studios, Antonio struggles to reconcile multiple ethnic identities. He wrestles with the legacy of stereotypes of masculinity while discovering the beauty of becoming a father.
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.
