Jul. 31, 2024 to Aug. 31, 2025
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Alaska
Dial M for Murder
By: Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher (from original by Frederick Knott)
Directed by: Gregg Brevoort
Event Date(s): May 09 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Murder mystery theatre
Venue: Cyrano's Theatre Company
City: Anchorage
Price: $30-35
Reference Link: https://www.cyranos.org
Description: A new version of the celebrated murder mystery that inspired Hitchcock’s masterpiece! Tony is convinced that his wife Margot has been cheating on him. Now it seems that the affair is over, but jealousy spins a web of suspicion and deception that will tighten around them all.
Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: J. David Dahl
Event Date(s): Aug 15 2025 - Sep 07 2025
Type of Event: Classical Theatre
Venue: Cyrano's Theatre
City: Anchorage
Price: $30-35
Reference Link: https://www.cyranos.org
Description: Get ready for Shakespeare’s most hilarious family reunion at the Cyrano’s Theatre! In a whirlwind of mistaken identities and madcap mis-up’s, two sets of twins, separated at birth, find themselves unknowingly in the same city, setting off a cascade of confusion.
Arizona
Frankenstein
By: Nick Dear
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Screening
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://https://atc.org/national-theatre-live/frankenstein/
Description: Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle, Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles.
Present Laughter
By: Noel Coward
Directed by: Matthew Warchus
Event Date(s): Sep 07 2024 - Sep 07 2024
Type of Event: Screening
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://https://atc.org/national-theatre-live/present-laughter/
Description: Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic, and soul-searching.
Dial M For Murder
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Frederick Knott
Directed by: Michael John Garcés
Event Date(s): Sep 22 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/dial-m-for-murder/
Description: Frederick Knott’s nail-biting 1952 play has been newly adapted for a modern audience by ATC favorite playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Dial M For Murder
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Frederick Knott
Directed by: Michael John Garcés
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/dial-m-for-murder/
Description: Frederick Knott’s nail-biting 1952 play has been newly adapted for a modern audience by ATC favorite playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Scrooge!
By: Leslie Bricusse
Directed by: Matt August
Event Date(s): Nov 03 2024 - Nov 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: 330 S. Scott Ave., Tucson, AZ 85701
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: atc.org/show/scrooge-2024/
Description: Get whisked away in the holiday spirit with ATC's musical extravaganza Scrooge! Create a holiday tradition and celebrate a twist on a beloved classic with your family.
Scrooge!
By: Leslie Bricusse
Directed by: Matt August
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Tempe Center for the Arts
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/scrooge-2024/
Description: Get whisked away in the holiday spirit with ATC's musical extravaganza Scrooge! Create a holiday tradition and celebrate a twist on a beloved classic with your family.
Blues in the Night
By: Sheldon Epps
Directed by: Ricardo Khan
Event Date(s): Jan 26 2025 - Feb 15 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/blues-in-the-night/
Description: This toe-tapping revue features 26 of the hottest torch numbers by blues and jazz icons like Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and more. Follow the stories of three women and one man as they navigate life.
Blues in the Night
By: Sheldon Epps
Directed by: Ricardo Khan
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/blues-in-the-night/
Description:
This toe-tapping revue features 26 of the hottest torch numbers by blues and jazz icons like Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and more. Follow the stories of three women and one man as they navigate life.
Bob & Jean: A Love Story
By: Robert Schenkkan
Directed by: Matt August
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2025 - Apr 12 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/bob-jean-a-love-story/
Description: A new play written by Pulitzer- and Tony-winning and Emmy-nominated playwright Robert Schenkkan, Bob & Jean: A Love Story is a stirring and romantic world premiere.
Bob & Jean: A Love Story
By: Robert Schenkkan
Directed by: Matt August
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/bob-jean-a-love-story/
Description: A new play written by Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated playwright Robert Schenkkan, Bob & Jean: A Love Story is a stirring and romantic world premiere.
Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Event Date(s): May 18 2025 - Jun 07 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Arizona Theatre Company
City: Tucson
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/ms-holmes-and-ms-watson-apt-2b/
Description: This twist on Doyle’s cherished Sherlock Holmes characters delivers non-stop laughter inside a rollicking murder mystery that promises fun for everyone.
Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Event Date(s): Jun 14 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
City: Tempe
Price: Starting at $33
Reference Link: https://atc.org/show/ms-holmes-and-ms-watson-apt-2b/
Description: This twist on Doyle’s cherished Sherlock Holmes characters delivers non-stop laughter inside a rollicking murder mystery that promises fun for everyone.
Birds of North America
By: Anna Ouyang Moench
Directed by: Gretchen Wirges
Event Date(s): Sep 01 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/birds-of-north-america/
Description: John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they witness the changing seasons and the shifting patterns of bird migration, they also confront their own personal transformations, revealing deeper truths about love, loss, and the passage of time.
High Tea, an event honoring Tucson’s own SUZ
By:
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): Oct 20 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: Tucson Jewish Community Center
City: Tucson
Price: $150
Reference Link: https://
Description: Invisible Theatre will host a special event on Oct. 20 to honor Susan Claassen, the outgoing managing artistic director, for her extraordinary contributions over the past decades. Susan Claassen has been a cornerstone of Invisible Theatre for 50 years.
Almost, Maine
By: John Cariani
Directed by: Nancy David Booth
Event Date(s): Nov 10 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/almost-maine/
Description: One cold, clear winter night, as the Northern Lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways.
Sweet Spot
By: Germaine Shames
Directed by: Fred Rodriguez
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: The fleeting glory of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton.
Aren’t You…?
By: Fred. Pitts
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 11 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Solo-show
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/arent-you/
Description: Fred found himself on a mission to explore every California Mission. This became a study of his fellow tourists and Mission personnel: some experts on the Catholic Church, a few experts on Native American history, all experts on which famous Black person Fred resembles!
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Carrie Cole
Event Date(s): Jan 19 2025 - Feb 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: The Invisible Theatre
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/what-the-constitution-means-to-me/
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationships among four generations.
Small Domestic Acts
By: Joan Lipkin
Directed by: Fred Rodriguez
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: A new play by Joan Lipkin.
Good Morning, Good Mother
By: Kathleen Clark
Directed by: Susan Claassen
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: A new play by Kathleen Clark.
Tevye in New York
By: Tom Dugan
Directed by: Tom Dugan
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Berger Performing Arts Center
City: Tucson
Price: $47
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/tevye-in-new-york/
Description: Tevye In New York picks up where the original stories left off. Follow Tevye as he fights for his piece of the American dream in the crowded streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1914.
Truth
By: Marilyn Harris Kriegel
Directed by: Susan Claassen
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Play Reading
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.invisibletheatre.com
Description: A new play by Marilyn Harris Kriegel.
Winston Churchill: Man of the Century
By: Randy Otto
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Berger Performing Arts Center
City: Tucson
Price: $47
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/winston-churchill-man-of-the-century/
Description: Journey with Winston from his 18th-century upbringing through careers as a soldier, journalist, politician, and statesman, then ultimately explore Churchill’s lasting legacy of leadership and its meaning to us in the 21st century. Randy Otto brings Churchill to life.
The Garbologists
By: Lindsay Joelle
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): Apr 22 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: invisibletheatre.com/shows/the-garbologists/
Description: Danny’s a white, blue-collar, New York City sanitation worker. Marlowe’s the Black, Ivy-educated newbie. As their lives become increasingly intertwined, these two essential workers discover there’s more that binds them than picking up the trash.
Going It Alone
By: Various playwrights
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Monologue Series
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/going-it-alone-2/
Description: A collection of monologues by local playwrights celebrating the unique challenge of writing for a solo performer and performing solo.
Hopscotch to Infinity
By: Alejandro Canelos
Directed by: Betsy Kruse Craig
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Invisible Theatre Co
City: Tucson
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://invisibletheatre.com/shows/hopscotch-to-infinity-by-alejandro-canelos/
Description: Relive schooldays through the “peeps” at Plinkett Elementary, who delight in magical powers, holidays, and whether stepping on a crack will break your mother’s back. Through a series of vignettes that are funny, ironic, and poignant, Hopscotch captures the joy of childhood.
Arkansas
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: Dexter J. Singleton
Event Date(s): Aug 21 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $43-76
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/raisin-in-the-sun
Description: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun paints a vivid portrait of the Younger family's struggle to retain dignity amidst a harsh and ever-changing world. With poignant depth, Hansberry's work continues to resonate as a searing testament of hope and inspiration.
twenty50
By: Tony Meneses
Directed by: Rebecca Rivas
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $29-62
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/twenty50
Description: Prosperous Southwestern rancher Andres Salazar is in a brutally challenging race for Congress in the year 2050, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Is compromising his sense of identity worth the potential benefits?
A Christmas Carol
By: Amy Herzberg & Robert Ford, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Steven Marzolf
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $43-76
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/christmas-carol
Description: The inventive, magic-filled T2 original—a new Northwest Arkansas family tradition. Three spirits come to visit the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and take him on a fantastic journey through past, present, and future. But will it be enough to save him? For all ages.
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: vickie washington
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $31-65
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/primary-trust
Description: Primary Trust follows mild-mannered Kenneth, a 36-year-old, set-in-his-ways bookstore worker, who spends most evenings sipping Mai Tais with his best friend at the local tiki bar. When he’s suddenly laid off, his world turns upside down—in more ways than one.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare, in a modern verse translation by Alison Carey
Directed by: Aneesha Kudtarkar
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $43-76
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/twelfth-night
Description: With lively music, captivating swordplay, and a fresh perspective, TheatreSquared's reimagining of this "most wonderful" romantic comedy promises an unforgettable live theatre experience. In partnership with the National Asian American Theatre Company.
In the Grove of Forgetting
By: Robert Ford
Directed by: Damon Kiely
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/in-the-grove-of-forgetting
Description: Summer, 1938. Ilona, a concert pianist known for her sharp wit as much as her musical passion, refuses to be ruled by fear, even as fellow Jewish artists and academics flee Hungary. Surely Budapest is safe from the growing Nazi fervor—isn’t it?
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
By: Robert L. Freedman (book & lyrics), Steven Lutvak (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Amy Herzberg & James Taylor Odom
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $43-76
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/gentlemans-guide
Description: Follow Monty Navarro, a low-born man who discovers he's eighth in line for an earldom in the D'Ysquith family. Featuring unforgettable music, endless laughs, and a standout performance by one actor playing all eight doomed heirs, this comedic romp guarantees an evening of fun.
The Three Musketeers
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Rick Sordelet
Event Date(s): Aug 20 2025 - Sep 07 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
City: Fayetteville
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://theatre2.org/tickets
Description: This adaptation is based on the timeless swashbuckler by Alexandre Dumas, a tale of heroism, treachery, close escapes, and above all, honor.
California
4 Guys Named José… and Una Mujer Named María
By: Dolores Prida
Directed by: Erin Rose Solario
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: 6th Street Playhouse GK Hardt Theatre
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $29-$55.95 including all applicable fees
Reference Link: https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/shows/2024-25/four-guys-named-jose-and-una-mujer-named-maria/
Description: A passionate, vibrant, and hilarious musical celebrating Latin music and culture! Four guys named José add some spice to their lives in Omaha by staging a revue of the Latin hits they grew up with. Performed in English and Spanish.
Lizzie, the Musical
By: Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, Alan Stevens Hewitt
Directed by: Pat Nims
Event Date(s): Oct 05 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: 6th Street Playhouse Monroe Stage
City: Santa Rosa
Price: $29-$47.95 including all applicable fees
Reference Link: https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/shows/2024-25/lizzie-the-musical/
Description: In 1892, Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her father and stepmother. Based on the historical record, Lizze: The Musical has searing rock score that explores the heated days leading up to the murder and Lizzie’s controversial acquittal.
The Skin of Our Teeth
By: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott
Event Date(s): Sep 01 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $50-$120
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/the-skin-of-our-teeth/
Description: This Pulitzer-winning comedic masterpiece is a time-bending romp that catapults audiences into the lives of the Antrobus family. Various cataclysmic events serve as a backdrop for a hilarious and thought-provoking exploration of human resilience.
The Piano Lesson
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Gregg T. Daniel
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $45 - $100
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/the-piano-lesson/
Description: A captivating story set in 1930s Pittsburgh, where siblings are locked in a dispute over a precious family heirloom. This Pulitzer-winning play weaves together elements of history and spirituality, creating a haunting story about reckoning with a complicated past.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Directed by: Julia Rodriguez-Elliot & Geoff Elliot
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $50 - $130, not including Pay What You Choose events
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/a-christmas-carol-2024/
Description: This timeless story of redemption is filled to the brim with music and merriment. Create cherished memories with your whole family by witnessing Ebenezer Scrooge’s joyful transformation. It is a perfect burst of boundless good cheer for the season---and beyond!
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Andi Chapman
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $45 - $100, not including Pay What You Choose events
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/macbeth/
Description: Set in a world of political intrigue and supernatural forces, we land in a divided nation at the edge of tearing itself apart. Delve deep into the psychological turmoil of a king tortured by guilt, fate, and the corrupting influence of his own desires.
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Andi Chapman
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: performance / production
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $51 - $105
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/macbeth/
Description: Immerse yourself in Andi Chapman’s haunting Macbeth, set in 19th–20th century New Orleans. This gripping production explores ambition, guilt, and fate amid ancestral rituals and supernatural forces. Witness a king’s psychological unraveling in a dark tale of power and conscience.
Jane Eyre
By: Elizabeth Williamson
Directed by: Geoff Elliot
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $45 - $100, not including Pay What You Choose events
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/jane-eyre/
Description: Facing societal expectations and personal challenges, Jane navigates betrayal and injustice with inexhaustible courage. This bold and dynamic production offers audiences a compelling portrayal of one woman’s quest for freedom and fulfillment in the face of devastating adversity.
Jane Eyre
By: Elizabeth Williamson, Adapted from the novel by Charlotte Brontë
Directed by: Geoff Elliott
Event Date(s): Mar 23 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: performance / production
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $51 - $105
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/jane-eyre/
Description: Experience Jane Eyre’s journey of resilience, love, and independence. From hardship to self-determination, this bold production brings mystery, romance, and courage to life as Jane defies societal expectations and overcomes betrayal in her quest for freedom and fulfillment.
A Man of No Importance
By: Terrence McNally
Directed by: Julia Rodriguez-Elliot
Event Date(s): May 04 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $45 - $100, not including Pay What You Choose events
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/a-man-of-no-importance/
Description: In 1960s Dublin, bus driver Alfie Byrne attempts to stage an Oscar Wilde play, but encounters religious objections and is pushed into facing the stigma and shame over a love “that dare not speak its name.” This musical is a hard-fought journey of self-discovery.
A Man of No Importance
By: Book by Terrence McNally Music by Stephen Flaherty Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Based on a Film “A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE”
Directed by: Julia Rodriguez-Elliott
Event Date(s): May 04 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: musical production
Venue: A Noise Within
City: Pasadena
Price: $51 - $105
Reference Link: https://www.anoisewithin.org/play/a-man-of-no-importance/
Description: Step into 1960s Dublin, where bus driver Alfie Byrne leads a theatre group to stage Salome against all odds. A Man of No Importance is a heartfelt musical of love, courage, and redemption, celebrating identity, acceptance, and the transformative power of theatre.
Private Lives
By: Nöel Coward
Directed by: KJ Sanchez
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$130
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/private-lives
Description: Bay Area favorite KJ Sanchez directs Coward’s hysterical classic tale of the tempestuous dance that is marriage. Reset in 1930s Argentina and featuring sensual tango dancing, Coward’s iconic, wry comedy sings with spiky repartee.
Nobody Loves You
By: Itamar Moses and Gaby Alter
Directed by: Pam MacKinnon
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$130
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/NLY
Description: Bay Area hometown heroes Itamar Moses and Gaby Alter provide an uproarious book, witty lyrics, and a winsome pop score in this madcap musical comedy helmed by Tony winner and A.C.T. artistic director Pam MacKinnon.
Two Trains Running
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Lili-Anne Brown
Event Date(s): Apr 15 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$130
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2024-25-season/two-trains-running/
Description: From the author of The Piano Lesson and Fences comes the story of Memphis Lee, a diner owner in a historically black neighborhood in Pittsburgh at the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, who must decide if he should allow the government to take over his building or sell the property to a ruthless businessman.
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare, in a modern verse translation by Christina Anderson
Directed by: Devin Brain
Event Date(s): Apr 22 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$130
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2024-25-season/comedy-of-errors/
Description:
Shakespeare’s quintessential comedy, this farcical tale of separated families and mistaken identities delights audiences young and old.
Co-Founders
By: Ryan Nicole Austin, Beau Lewis, and Adesha Adefela
Directed by: Jamil Jude
Event Date(s): May 29 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Strand Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$130
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org
Description: Co-Founders is the story of brilliant young coder, Esata, chasing her entrepreneurial dreams, even as the influx of wealth transforming her hometown of Oakland threatens to push her community out.
The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Gigi Bermingham
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Nov 18 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/productions/the-importance-of-being-earnest/
Description: When bachelors Jack and Algernon both create alter egos named Earnest, the lies quickly spiral into chaos, hilarity, cucumber sandwiches, and Victorian handbags.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Armin Shimerman
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Mar 17 2025
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/show-details/twelfth-night
Description: Separated from her twin brother in a shipwreck, Viola is forced to make her own way in the kingdom of Illyria—where, disguised as a man, she discovers unrequited passion, double-crossings, hilarity, and yellow stockings.
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Carolyn Ratteray
Event Date(s): Apr 27 2025 - Jun 02 2025
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/show-details/theglassmenagerie
Description: Tennessee Williams's indelible portrait of the dysfunctional Wingfield family. Fading Southern belle Amanda and her two grown children—aspiring poet Tom and desperately shy Laura—pin their hopes on the long-awaited appearance of a Gentleman Caller in this unsparing study.
God Will Do the Rest
By: Nicholas Pilapil
Directed by: Fran de Leon
Event Date(s): Aug 29 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: World premiere play (comedy)
Venue: The Los Angeles Theatre Center
City: Los Angeles
Price: $10-38
Reference Link: https://www.latinotheaterco.org/godwilldotherest
Description: Strong, glamorous family matriarch Maggie is celebrating a milestone birthday, and the de Dios family has gathered to celebrate in true FilAm style. God Will Do the Rest is a warm, funny new play that shares the joy and tension of a multigenerational Filipino American household.
Fallen Angels
By: Noël Coward
Directed by: Tom Ross
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Alafi Auditorium
City: Berkeley
Price: $38-61
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/fallen-angels
Description: Jane and Julia’s perfect polished lives are thrown into delightful disarray when an old flame returns. Passions and desires---along with generous helpings of champagne---send the two friends into a frenzy of anticipation, jealousy, and determination to choose their own destinies.
Fallen Angels
By: Noël Coward
Directed by: Tom Ross
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Aurora Theatre Company
City: Berkeley
Price: $10-$60
Reference Link: https://www.auroratheatre.org/fallen-angels
Description: Jane and Julia’s perfect polished lives are thrown into delightful disarray when an old flame returns. Passions and desires – along with generous helpings of champagne – send the two friends into a frenzy of anticipation, jealousy, and determination to choose their own destinies.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jennifer Chang
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Northern California Premier
Venue: Alafi Auditorium
City: Berkeley
Price: $38-61
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/heart-sellers
Description: Can you find a new way to make a home when you know your heart is somewhere else? Two lonely immigrant wives bond over hopes and heartaches as they attempt to celebrate their first American Thanksgiving.
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Elizabeth Carter
Event Date(s): Apr 26 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue:
City: Berkeley
Price: $38-61
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/crumbs
Description: In the shifting social politics of 1950s America, the Crump family relocates the family from Pensacola to Brooklyn. Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage weaves the era's themes into a colorful poignant story of one family’s heartbreak, resilience, and joy.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
By: Jane Wagner
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue:
City: Berkeley
Price: $38-61
Reference Link: https://auroratheatre.org/search-for-signs
Description: The celebrated and hilarious one-woman show that asks the biggest questions of all. One woman plays a cast of quirky and unforgettable characters in this brilliant and hilarious celebration of humanity’s beauty, chaos, and contradiction.
Mexodus
By: Brian Quijada & Nygel D. Robinson
Directed by: David Mendizábal
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/mexodus/
Description: History meets hip-hop in Mexodus, an electrifying live-looping musical, composed in real time by multitalented writer/performers Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson. Mexodus explores the often-untold stories of the Underground Railroad that led south into Mexico.
The Matchbox Magic Flute
By: Mary Zimmerman, adapt. from Mozart
Directed by: Mary Zimmerman
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Roda Theatre
City: Berkeley Rep
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-matchbox-magic-flute/
Description: Theatrical powerhouse Mary Zimmerman triumphantly returns to Berkeley Rep with a mesmerizing adaptation of Mozart’s iconic Magic Flute, using only 10 singers and five musicians. Join Tamino on a daring quest to rescue the captive princess Pamina.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Whitney White
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/jaja-s-african-hair-braiding/
Description: Step into the vibrant world of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a beloved Harlem hotspot where West African immigrant braiders work their magic on the locals’ locks. Jaja’s African Hair Braiding is “a play that is equally affecting as it is hilarious,” raves Entertainment Weekly.
The Thing About Jellyfish
By: Keith Bunin, adapt. from Ali Benjamin
Directed by: Tyne Rafaeli
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Roda Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-thing-about-jellyfish/
Description: Adapted from the best-selling novel, The Thing About Jellyfish is a visually stunning and deeply emotional coming-of-age tale about love, loss, friendship, and the profound expansiveness of the human spirit.
Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekov, adapt. by Conor McPherson
Directed by: Simon Godwin
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/uncle-vanya/
Description: When the distinguished elderly owner of a rural estate returns with a new young wife, chaos erupts. Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) plays Uncle Vanya in this heartbreaking comedy about the eternal battle between futility and change.
Here There Are Blueberries
By: Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich
Directed by: Moisés Kaufman
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Roda Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/here-there-are-blueberries/
Description: In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs— what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust and our own humanity.
the aves
By: Jiehae Park
Directed by: Knud Adams
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-aves/
Description: In summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain...but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. The ordinary turns into the extraordinary as the seasons shift, meditating on themes of human connection, memory, and growing older.
A Going Away Party Play
By: Keyanna Khatiblou
Directed by: James Fowler
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boston Court Pasadena
City: Pasadena
Price: $19-59
Reference Link: https://bostoncourtpasadena.org/events/agoingawaypartyplay/
Description: A Going Away Party Play is a world premiere play celebrating multicultural identities and exploring what it means to leave or lose your home country.
Fairview
By: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by: Anthony D'Juan
Event Date(s): Aug 28 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/fairview/
Description: Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this birthday party is perfect for Grandma. A standard family dramedy that takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jennifer Chang
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/the-heart-sellers/
Description: Jane and Luna run into each other in the grocery store on Thanksgiving in 1973 and find they have much in common: Each are recent Asian immigrants, a bit homesick and lonely with hard-working absentee husbands, and adjusting to a new country filled with new opportunities.
Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley
By: Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
Directed by: Janis Stevens
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/georgiana-kitty-christmas-at-pemberley-2024/
Description: Meddlesome families and outmoded expectations won’t stop these determined friends, Georgiana and Kitty, from forging their own way in a holiday tale filled with music, ambition, sisterhood, and forgiveness in the third and final play in the Christmas at Pemberley trilogy.
English
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Torange Yeghiazarian
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/english/
Description: It’s 2008 and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj, Iran. As the class slowly devolves into a linguistic mess, some students cling tighter to their mother tongue while others embrace the possibilities of a new language.
Everything Beautiful Happens at Night
By: Ted Malawer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/everything-beautiful-happens-at-night/
Description: World premiere. Ezra is a successful children’s book writer. Nancy is his longtime editor. They are always on the same page, until someone new threatens to disrupt their friendship and influence Ezra’s next book.
Unseen
By: Mona Mansour
Directed by: Benjamin T. Ismail
Event Date(s): May 07 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/unseen/
Description: Conflict photographer Mia wakes up in the Istanbul apartment of her on-again, off-again girlfriend after being found unconscious at the scene of a massacre she was photographing. Mia can’t even remember being there, but she wired photos of the site hours before she was found.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Michael Stevenson
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2025 - Jul 27 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Capital Stage Company
City: Sacramento
Price: $30-50
Reference Link: https://capstage.org/the-plays/king-james/
Description: Shawn and Matt are in an unlikely friendship forged by fandom of LeBron James. Over 12 years, from LeBron’s rookie season to an NBA Championship, the men navigate their turbulent friendship through their shared love of basketball.
Arsenic and Old Lace
By: Joseph Kesselring
Directed by: Matt M. Morrow
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $65-85
Reference Link: https://www.lesherartscenter.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/17293/3899
Description: The grandmother of dark comedies gets a mischievous and campy makeover as artistic director Matt M. Morrow makes her Center REP directorial debut. Deliciously macabre, classically winsome, and queerishly delightful---a new vision for one of theatre's most enduring comedies.
Dragon Lady
By: Sara Porkalob
Directed by: Andrew Russell
Event Date(s): Oct 27 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $66.00
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: Broadway powerhouse Sara Porkalob takes Center REP by storm in her acclaimed one-woman musical adventure!
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens Adaptation by Cynthia Caywood & Richard L. James
Directed by: Scott Denison
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $37.00-70.00
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: “THE Christmas Carol to see in the Bay Area!”
Froggy
By: Jennifer Haley
Directed by: Matt M. Morrow
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $66.00
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: Nearly a decade in the making, this sensory-rich rollercoaster of a thriller springs theatre into the future in this altogether wild new work from a team of today’s groundbreaking theatere-artists.
The Roommate
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Vanessa Stalling
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: Who says being single, middle-aged, and an empty nester has to be a bummer? Now in her mid-50’s—and recently ‘liberated’ from her child and husband—Sharon needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn, also in her mid-50s, seeks a refuge and a chance to reboot.
Happy Pleasant Valley
By: Min Kahng
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
Event Date(s): Jun 01 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts
City: Walnut Creek
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://LCATickets@lesherartscenter.org
Description: When internet influencer Jade Park is cancelled online, she seeks redemption by taking on a precarious challenge—helping her rebellious grandmother June, who has the raised eyebrows of many in her senior residential community following a string of mysterious deaths of her lovers.
Fake It Until You Make It
By: Larissa FastHorse
Directed by: Michael John Garcés
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mark Taper Forum
City: Los Angeles
Price: Start at $40.25
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/shows-tickets/taper/2024-25/fake-it-until-you-make-it/
Description: A bold world premiere comedy about being whoever you want to be, even when it’s not who you are. In this uproarious new comedy, a collision of friends and foes within the non-profit sector sets the stage for a whirlwind of competition, chaos, and comedic revelation.
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
By: Devised by Cameron Mackintosh
Directed by: Direction & Musical Staging by Matthew Bourne Side by Side with Julia McKenzie
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: Starts at $52
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/shows-tickets/ahmanson/2024-25/stephen-sondheims-old-friends/
Description: Celebrate the life and work of Stephen Sondheim with an irresistible company headlined by Tony winners Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga. Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends comes to us from the West End, where it was hailed by The Times as “unmissable musical theatre.”
El Otro Oz
By: Book by Mando Alvarado and Tommy Newman, Music & Lyrics by Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman
Directed by: Elena Araoz
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Kirk Douglas Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: Starts at $34.50
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/shows-tickets/douglas/2024-25/el-otro-oz/
Description: As her 15th birthday approaches, Dora struggles with her family’s ideas about tradition and dreads her impending quinceañera. But, when Dora gets swept away to a strange new land, she learns how to celebrate her unique rhythm and embrace her cultural identity.
Life of Pi
By: Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by: Max Webster
Event Date(s): May 06 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: Starts at $40.25
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/shows-tickets/ahmanson/2024-25/life-of-pi/
Description: After a shipwreck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi survives on a lifeboat with four other companions—a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. What happens next leads them on an edge of your seat unforgettable journey.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare, adapted by Robert O'Hara
Directed by: Robert O'Hara
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mark Taper Forum
City: Los Angeles
Price: Starts at $34.50
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/shows-tickets/taper/2024-25/hamlet/
Description: A rich entitled Prince goes on a rampage that leads to a massacre in the living room. Is he a tragic hero as we’ve been told? Or a royal blooded serial killer? In this adaptation, step into a Shakespearian noir through a forensic investigation of the ultimate crimes of passion.
Parade
By: Book by Alfred Uhry, Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, Co-Conceived by Harold Prince
Directed by: Michael Arden
Event Date(s): Jun 17 2025 - Jul 12 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: Starts at $40.25
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/shows-tickets/ahmanson/2024-25/parade/
Description: Winner of the 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, Parade has been proclaimed as “a work of art! As commanding as any musical revival to hit Broadway in years” (Deadline). Riveting and gloriously hopeful, Parade reminds us that to love, we must truly see one another.
Gloria
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn 30.
Jane Austen’s Emma, The Musical
By: Paul Gordon (book, lyrics, and music)
Directed by: Casey Long
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center, 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA
City: Anaheim
Price: $59
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/emma
Description: Jane Austen’s enduring love story is brought to life as a romantic comedy musical. The story revolves around Emma, a well-meaning but disaster-prone matchmaker, who ignores her own romantic feelings while setting out to find a suitor for her friend Harriet.
Tick, Tick… Boom!
By: Jonathan Larson
Directed by: H. Adam Harris
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Cripe Stage at Bette Aitken theater arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $51
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/boom/
Description: Before Jonathan Larson revolutionized Broadway, he was a young man struggling to make his mark. This autobiographical musical, set in 1990, is a raw, humorous, and heartfelt journey of a composer on the brink of turning 30.
Such Small Hands
By: Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by: James Michael McHale
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Fyda-Mar Stage at Bette Aitken theater arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/smallhands/
Description: This hilarious and moving world premiere play about love, aging, selfishness, and selflessness from Chance Theater’s 2011 resident playwright Adam Szymkowicz, is sure to resonate with audiences with its laughter and heart.
The Chinese Lady
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Shinshin Yuder Tsai
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cripe Stage at Bette Aitken theater arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/thechineselady/
Description: Inspired by a true story, Lloyd Suh’s critically acclaimed play, The Chinese Lady, is a poetic, whimsical tale that paints a unique portrait of the United States as seen through the eyes of this remarkable young Chinese girl.
Spring Awakening
By: Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater
Directed by: Jocelyn A. Brown
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Cripe Stage at Bette Aitken theater arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $51
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/production/springawakening/
Description: Based on Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking play, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s brilliant rock score and searingly emotional book bring the story of sexual awakening, youth revolt, and self-discovery into a new century.
Gutenberg! The Musical!
By: Scott Brown and Anthony King
Directed by: Jacob Russell-Snyder
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Sonoma State University
City: Petaluma
Price: $35-55
Reference Link: https://cinnabartheater.org/show/gutenbergthemusical/
Description: Gutenberg! The Musical!, by Scott Brown and Anthony King, follows Bud Davenport and Doug Simon as they pitch their musical about Johannes Gutenberg to potential Broadway producers in a hilarious backer's audition.
Bright Star
By: Steve Martin & Eddie Brickell
Directed by: Nathan Cummings
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Warren Theater @ Sonoma State University
City: Petaluma
Price: $35-$65
Reference Link: https://www.cinnabartheater.org
Description: Bright Star is a musical written and composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945–46 with flashbacks to 1923. The musical is inspired by their Grammy-winning collaboration.
An Inspector Calls
By: J.B. Priestley
Directed by: Mark Anderson Phillips
Event Date(s): Sep 26 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/inspector/
Description: As the well-to-do Birlings celebrate an engagement in the family, the festive evening is suddenly punctured by an uninvited visitor: an inspector looking into the death of a young woman.
Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War
By: Kit Wilder
Directed by: Angie Higgins
Event Date(s): Nov 21 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/truce/
Description: Set in the trenches of France, this story follows soldiers on both sides who embraced a spontaneous ceasefire to celebrate Christmas in 1914.
In Love and Warcraft
By: Madhuri Shekar
Directed by: Kimberly Ridgeway
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/warcraft/
Description: Level up your laughter and your heart with this hilarious, raunchy, R-rated take on intimacy and love in the digital age.
The Mousetrap
By: Agatha Christie
Directed by: Kimberly Ridgeway
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/mousetrap/
Description: A police detective arrives on skis to interrogate the diverse mix of suspects, who include the newlyweds running the house, the peculiar young architect, the haughty old pensioner, the retired general, the weary traveler, and the mysterious stranger.
The Cake
By: Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by: Lisa Mallette
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/the-cake/
Description: Della and her North Carolina bakery are renowned for creating the most beautiful, delicious cakes. So it’s no surprise that when the girl she helped raise returns to the South, she asks Della to make her wedding cake. The surprise? There are two brides.
Head Over Heels
By: Jeff Whitty and James Magruder
Directed by: Jeffrey Bracco
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: City Lights Theater Company
City: San Jose
Price: $38-63
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/heels/
Description: This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the infectious music of the iconic ’80s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, featuring hit songs including “Vacation” and “Our Lips Are Sealed."
Next to Normal
By: Brian Yorkey & Tom Kitt
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $80-$125
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: Nominated for 11 Tonys, Next to Normal became the eighth musical in history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Heartbreaking and moving, Next to Normal depicts a family’s struggle with depression and mental health through powerful songs, comedic and chaotic setting.
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 11 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $55-$115
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: Mix a Hitchcock movie masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, then add a dash of Monty Python craziness, and you have The 39 Steps. It’s a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award winner is packed with nonstop laughter.
The Light in the Piazza
By: Adam Guettel & Craig Lucas
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Palm Springs
Price: $65-$125
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: With six Tonys and five Drama Desk Awards, The Light in the Piazza takes us to Tuscany where a beautiful, endearing yet surprisingly childish young woman loses her hat in a sudden gust and lands at the feet of a handsome young Florentine man. A love story unlike any other unfolds.
Jesus Christ Superstar
By: Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice
Directed by: Adam Karsten
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $65-$125
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: Jesus Christ Superstar tells of the struggles between Jesus, Judas Iscariot, Mary Magdalene, his disciples, his followers, and the Roman Empire entirely through song. CVRep will present a semi-immersive version of this masterpiece in a way that has never been seen before.
Other Desert Cities
By: Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $55-$115
Reference Link: https://www.CVRep.org
Description: When a young lady arrives at her parents’ Palm Springs manor on Christmas Eve with a copy of her "tell-all" memoir in tow, she uncovers a devastating family secret---launching her parents into a panic that threatens to rip the clan apart.
Macabre Cabaret
By: n/a
Directed by: Cleo DeOrio
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Theater, Variety
Venue: Carlo Theater, Dell'Arte
City: Blue Lake
Price: $30-100
Reference Link: https://dellarte.com/onstage/
Description: As the veil between worlds thins, the Macabre Cabaret crosses the boundary to confront patrons with an evening of clowns juggling knives, disembodied voices, goth drag sensations, monsters in the shadows, haunting electronic melodies, and more.
Midnight at the Never Get
By: Mark Sonnenblick
Directed by: Stephen Brotebeck
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Diversionary Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/midnight
Description: It’s 1965 in Greenwich Village. In an illegal backroom cabaret called the Never Get, lovers Trevor and Arthur perform an act that unabashedly celebrates gay romance for like-minded audiences. As they croon their way toward the end of a revolutionary decade, facing the conflicting promises of professional success and personal liberation, will their relationship survive?
we are continuous
By: Harrison David Rivers
Directed by: Kian Kline Chilton
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Diversionary Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-60
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/we-are-continuous
Description: Simon and his mother, Ora, have always been close. She’s been his champion, his defender, and his friend. But when a life-changing secret comes to light, can their bond survive?
Merry Me
By: Hansol Jung
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 08 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Diversionary Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $25-60
Reference Link: https://www.diversionary.org/merry-me
Description: While a mysterious blackout leaves a navy stranded near enemy territory, the libidinous Lieutenant Shane Horne puts her very specific talents to use, including with the general’s wife. Meanwhile, a famed Angel sends the Navy’s psychiatrist on an epic quest to save humanity.
Pacific Overtures
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), John Weidman (book)
Directed by: Tim Dang
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 01 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: David Henry Hwang Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $39-$69 (not including access $15, PWYC Night, or obstructed view $24)
Reference Link: https://www.eastwestplayers.org/pacific24
Description: 🌊🗾⚓ It's 1853 and it’s the end of the world! When two emissaries are tasked with meeting Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s gunboat docked on the coast of isolationist Japan, little could they know that they would irreversibly change the “Floating Kingdom.”
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
By: Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Directed by: Jamie Torcellini
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors/
Description: Ever wondered what would happen if you took Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire tale and put it into a blender with the comedic influences of Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and The 39 Steps? That’s just what happens in this lightning-fast, laugh-out-loud, gender-bending magical romp.
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Directed by: Brian McDonald
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/million-dollar-quartet/
Description: This Tony-nominated musical is set on Dec. 4, 1956, when an extraordinary twist of fate brought Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley together at Sun Records in Memphis for what would be one of the greatest jam sessions ever.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Margaret Starbuck
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/hamlet/
Description: The most famous thriller ever written is given a visceral, frightening, and moving new modern-dress production. This production will reinvent Shakespeare’s tragedy for the 21st century, drawing new resonance from this 400-year-old play.
Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone
By: Hershey Felder
Directed by: Joel Zwick
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/hershey-felder-as-george-gershwin-alone/
Description: George Gershwin Alone tells the story of America’s great composer who, with the groundbreaking “Rhapsody in Blue,” made a “lady out of jazz.” The show incorporates the composer’s best-known songs from “The Man I Love” and “Someone to Watch Over Me” through Porgy & Bess.
Justice
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Jenny Sullivan
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The New Vic
City: Santa Barbara
Price: $94 - 40
Reference Link: https://etcsb.org/production/justice/
Description: Justice features the “firsts” of the Supreme Court justices, exploring the first women on the U.S. Supreme Court---Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor---at the height of their power.
The Brothers Size
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by: Bijan Sheibani
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/the-brothers-size/https://
Description: A modern-day fable. Ogun, the elder brother, embodies hard work and reliability, while Oshoosi, formerly incarcerated, is seemingly carefree and unpredictable. Their relationship is tested when the charismatic Elegba arrives, tempting Oshoosi back to his old habits.
Dragon Lady
By: Sara Porkalob
Directed by: Andrew Russell
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/dragon-lady/
Description: On the eve of her 60th birthday, Maria Porkalob Sr. fires up her new karaoke machine to regale her granddaughter Sara with her astonishing life story. Broadway star and storyteller Sara Porkalob embodies dozens of characters in a trigenerational tour-de-force performance.
Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
Directed by: Judy Hagarty Lovett
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $TBD
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/waiting-for-godot/
Description: As Vladimir and Estragon wait and wait for the arrival of the elusive Godot, a cast of mysterious misfits interrupt their endless vigil in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterpiece that has captivated audiences for decades. Featuring Conor Lovett and Rainn Wilson.
Noises Off
By: Michael Frayn
Directed by: Anna D. Shapiro
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $36–139
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/noises-off/
Description: Chaos reigns for a troupe of floundering actors whose forgotten lines, misplaced props, and steamy romantic entanglements make it nearly impossible for the show to go on. A co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Furlough’s Paradise
By: a.k. payne
Directed by: Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $36–139
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/furloughs-paradise/
Description: While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship.
The Reservoir
By: Jake Brasch
Directed by: Shelley Butler
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2025 - Jul 20 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gil Cates Theater
City: Los Angeles
Price: $36–139
Reference Link: https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/the-reservoir/
Description: Desperate for camaraderie, Josh decides to bring his four lovable grandparents on his road to recovery. Served up with outrageous humor and truth, The Reservoir reminds us that sometimes the path forward isn’t the one we expect.
11 Reflections: San Francisco
By:
Directed by: Andrea Assaf
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: multi-disciplinary
Venue: Brava Theater Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25 - $100. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Reference Link: https://goldenthread.org/productions/11-reflections-san-francisco/
Description: 11 Refections: San Francisco illuminates our collective experience in a post-9/11 world, from the fall of the Twin Towers to the U.S. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan to the Muslim ban to the funding of genocide in Palestine, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty.”
11Reflections: San Francisco
By: Andrea Assaf & ensemble
Directed by: Andrea Assaf
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: devised theatre performance
Venue: Brava! for Women in the Arts
City: San Francisco
Price: $30-100
Reference Link: https://goldenthread.org
Description: 11Reflections: San Francisco is the newest devised performance in a national series, co-created with local artists and community, reflecting on a post-9/11 world and illuminating our collective experiences, from the fall of the Twin Towers to the funding of genocide in Palestine.
Alaa: a Family Trilogy
By: Adam Ashraf Elsayigh, w/ generative dramaturgy by Salma Zohdi
Directed by: Evren Odcikin
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: A script-in-hand workshop production
Venue: Z Space
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-100
Reference Link: https://goldenthread.org
Description: ALAA: a Family Trilogy is an epic dramatization of the life and times of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a leading voice of the Egyptian Revolution, unlawfully held today by Egypt's military regime. The trilogy weaves writings and personal testimonials from Alaa and his family's matriarchs.
AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf)
By: Sona Tatoyan in collaboration with Jared Mezzocchi
Directed by: Jared Mezzocchi
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Potrero Stage
City: San Francisco
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://goldenthread.org/productions/azad/
Description: After unearthing a trunk full of century old Karagöz shadow puppets, Sona Tatoyan finds herself tangled in a quantum dialogue between her ancestors, a genocide, and a healing journey. Will the Karagöz puppets help her find her story?
The Fantasticks
By: Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
Directed by: Frank Minano
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Musical theatre
Venue: Morgan auditorium at the University of La Verne
City: La Verne
Price: $50-60
Reference Link: https://www.ivrt.org/seasonmembership
Description: The Fantasticks is a delightful and enchanting musical that weaves together humor and romance. It tells the story of a boy and a girl whose loving fathers conspire to keep them apart. The audience is invited into a magical realm filled with moonlight and wonder.
The Double V
By: Carole Eglash-Kosoff
Directed by: caryn desai
Event Date(s): Aug 21 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Long Beach Convention & Performance Center
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-55
Reference Link: https://InternationalCityTheatre.org
Description: In 1942, sparked by a letter to the editor, The Pittsburgh Courier kicked off the “Double V” campaign, the first Black civil rights movement that used the popular "V for Victory" motto of World War II in its fight for racial equality in the military and across the United States.
Murder on the Links
By: Steven Dietz, adapt. from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Jamie Torcellini
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-55
Reference Link: https://www.InternationalCityTheatre.org
Description: Detective Hercule Poirot receives an urgent letter from Paul Renauld, summoning him to France. But when he arrives, Poirot finds he’s too late—M. Renauld now lies dead, face down in a grave on the edge of the golf course he was building. But certain facts do not add up…
Desperate Measures
By: Music by David Friedman, book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical Comedy
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: A foot-stompin’, knee-slappin’ musical with a nod to Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
Desperate Measures
By: Music by David Friedman, book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg
Directed by: Todd Nielsen
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical Comedy
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: A foot-stompin’, knee-slappin’ musical with a nod to Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
Desperate Measures
By: Book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg, music by David Friedman
Directed by: Todd Nielsen
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Beverly O'Neill Theater
City: Long Beach
Price: $44-$59
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/desperatemeasures/
Description: Desperate Measures is a foot-stompin’, knee-slappin’ musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Like Shakespeare’s unconventional comedy about ethics, sexuality, and deception on which it’s loosely based, Desperate Measures manages to ponder the true nature of love and justice.
The Violin Maker
By: Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Drama with music
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: An Israeli violin maker wrestles with family ghosts, devoting his life to repairing “stringed survivors,” ruined instruments rescued from the ashes of the Holocaust, the voices of which can now heard in concerts around the world.
The Violin Maker
By: Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak
Directed by: caryn desai
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Drama with Music
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: An Israeli violin maker wrestles with family ghosts, devoting his life to repairing “stringed survivors,” ruined instruments rescued from the ashes of the Holocaust, the voices of which can now heard in concerts around the world.
The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: Cate Caplin
Event Date(s): Jun 11 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: A rollicking romantic comedy about a writer commissioned to adapt his novel, The Angel Next Door, for the stage. When it turns out that the “angel” may not be angelic, only the power of theatre can save the play, the novel, and---perhaps most importantly---the writer’s heart.
Theatre People or The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Jun 11 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: A rollicking romantic comedy about a writer commissioned to adapt his novel, The Angel Next Door, for the stage. When it turns out that the “angel” may not be angelic, only the power of theatre can save the play, the novel, and---perhaps most importantly---the writer’s heart.
Masala Dabba
By: Wendy Graf
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Aug 27 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: In the newest family drama from Los Angeles-based playwright Wendy Graf, members of a mixed race family see themselves reflected in stories from the past, each inspired by a spice in their grandmother’s Indian spice box ("masala dabba").
Masala Dabba
By: Wendy Graf
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Aug 27 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: International City Theatre
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-$52
Reference Link: https://ictlongbeach.org/
Description: In the newest family drama from Los Angeles-based playwright Wendy Graf, members of a mixed race family see themselves reflected in stories from the past, each inspired by a spice in their grandmother’s Indian spice box ("masala dabba").
A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Martin Jenkins
Event Date(s): Apr 01 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Audio Theater
Venue: In Your Home & In Your Car
City: Los Angeles
Price: $4.95
Reference Link: https://www.audiobooksnow.com/audiobooks/a-streetcar-named-desire/10345707/?srsltid=AfmBOoqaiyNspjg2RYB8EmDEE9DP0XD6Ch_UdP5Lhstf4tKO5lJn3JQi
Description: Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer-winning masterpiece is one of the most enduring, explosive works in theatre. Blanche DuBois, once a well-heeled Southern belle but now alcoholic and destitute, arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brutish brother-in-law Stanley. And as Stanley terrorizes the fragile Blanche, reality slips slowly away from her.
Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays
By: Amanda Quaid
Directed by: Anna Lyse Erikson
Event Date(s): Apr 01 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Audio Theater
Venue: At Home and In Your Car
City: Los Angeles
Price: $4.99
Reference Link: https://streaming.latw.org/
Description: You may not know her name, but amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote made groundbreaking discoveries about the greenhouse effect back in the 1850s. Emily Swallow and Geoffrey Arend head the cast of the newest state-of-the-art audio theatre recording from L.A. Theatre Works.
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Gordon House
Event Date(s): Apr 01 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Audio Theater
Venue: In your home or in your car
City: Los Angeles
Price: $4.95
Reference Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Glass-Menagerie-Audiobook/B0DNNNMNQ5
Description: L.A. Theatre Works audio production reunited the cast of the Roundabout Theatre’s celebrated revival: Julie Harris, Calista Flockhart (in her Broadway debut), Kevin Kilner, and Zeljko Ivanek, and features John Goodman as the narrator.
Zeni: Dean of the Diamond
By: Mas Moriya
Directed by: Anna Lyse Erikson
Event Date(s): Apr 01 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Audio Theatre
Venue: At Home or In Your Car
City: Los Angeles
Price: $4.99
Reference Link: https://streaming.latw.org/
Description: L.A. Theatre Works presents a state-of-the-art audio theatre recording based on the true-life story of the man who broke records and barriers, building a baseball field and organizing a league behind the barbed wire fence of a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
The Rose Tattoo
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Richard Masur
Event Date(s): Apr 08 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Audio Theater
Venue: In you home & in your car
City: Los Angeles
Price: $4.95
Reference Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Rose-Tattoo-Audiobook/B0DNNMCD27
Description: Mercedes Ruehl and Anthony LaPaglia, who starred in the 1995 Broadway production of The Rose Tattoo that earned a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play and Drama Desk Awards for both actors, reunited to record the play for L.A. Theatre Works in front of a live audience.
Summer and Smoke
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Michael Hackett
Event Date(s): May 06 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Audio Theater
Venue: In your home & in your car
City: Los Angeles
Price: $4.95
Reference Link: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Summer-and-Smoke/dp/B0DNNLTYN7
Description: Recorded before a live audience, the L.A. Theatre Works audio production stars Ann Gee Byrd, Kristen Frazier, Mark Kudisch, Carlos Lacamara, Gabriel Olds, Tina Sánchez, David Selby, Tegan West, Armin Shimerman, Kitty Swink, and Sarah Zimmerman.
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: Knud Adams
Event Date(s): Sep 24 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: When the award-winning Primary Trust premiered, The Daily Beast said it’s “pretty darn near to perfect.” A transformative and heart-warming story of new beginnings, old (and new) friends, and finding the courage to see the world for the first time.
Your Local Theatre Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again
By: Anna Ouyang Moench
Directed by: Les Waters
Event Date(s): Nov 19 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: World-Premiere Play
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: Gather ‘round for a very Playhouse take on Christmas. Eddie is a young actor ready to make his mark on the American theatre. First he’s just going to do this production of A Christmas Carol. This comedic play is a love letter to artists and dreamers of all professions.
3 Summers of Lincoln
By: Joe DiPietro (book and lyrics), Daniel J. Watts (lyrics), Crystal Monee Hall (music)
Directed by: Christopher Ashley
Event Date(s): Feb 18 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: World-Premiere Musical
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: Summer, 1862. President Lincoln must find a way to end the Civil War. Enter powerful abolitionist Frederick Douglass. This new musical tells the inspirational story of one of the most important friendships in our nation’s history, and that of a divided country coming together.
3 Summers of Lincoln
By: Joe DiPietro
Directed by: Christopher Ashley
Event Date(s): Feb 18 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: La Jolla
Price: Tickets from $30
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org/show/3-summers-of-lincoln/?utm_source=listings&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=P25LIN
Description: This epic new musical tells the inspirational story of one of the most important friendships in our nation’s history, and a divided country coming together.
WOW Festival 2025
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Immersive Theatre Festival
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse/UC San Diego
City: San Diego
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: La Jolla Playhouse's 2025 WOW Festival of immersive and site-inspired work will feature four action-packed days of theatre, dance, music, puppetry, spectacle events, and more, presented in partnership with UC San Diego.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Whitney White
Event Date(s): May 17 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mandell Weiss Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: Direct from Broadway, this dazzling production features humor as entertaining as its characters. This extraordinary play by Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh celebrates courage, community, and the indomitable spirit of women.
Indian Princesses
By: Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
Directed by: Miranda Cornell
Event Date(s): Jun 10 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: World-Premiere Play
Venue: Mandell Weiss Forum
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: Both laugh-out-loud funny and delicately tender, this delightful new play delves into the quirky, messy, and magical moments of growing up, while exploring the complexities of race, heritage, and family.
The Heart
By: Based on "Réparer les Vivants" by Maylis de Kerangal; book and additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan; Music and Lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath
Directed by: Christopher Ashley
Event Date(s): Aug 19 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: World-Premiere Musical
Venue: Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: When a young surfer’s life is cut short, it means a second chance for a woman who had been making peace with her terminal illness. Over the course of 24 suspenseful hours in San Diego, we follow one precious heart on its vital, life-saving journey from donor to recipient.
Cleopatra
By: Joy Yvonne Jones
Directed by: Andréa Agosto
Event Date(s): Aug 11 2024 - Sep 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $5-90
Reference Link: https://www.moxietheatre.com/shows/cleopatra/
Description: Skin of pure gold and stories untold; Cleopatra awakens the original diva in a one-woman, interactive performance in this retelling of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Written and starring San Diego Critics Circle Award-winning actor Joy Yvonne Jones.
Little Women
By: Allan Knee, Jason Howland, Mindi Dickstein / Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Leigh Scarritt / Desireé Clarke Miller
Event Date(s): Nov 10 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Two productions in rep
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $5-90
Reference Link: https://moxietheatre.com
Description: In rep with Our Dead Drug Lord. Internationally celebrated Broadway musical meets jaw-droppingly controversial and terrifyingly funny thriller about high school girls having seemingly "harmless" fun. A genre defying combination of two productions performed by a cast of San Diego’s most fiercely talented women.
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Desireé Clarke Miller
Event Date(s): Nov 10 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Two productions in rep
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $5-90
Reference Link: https://moxietheatre.com
Description: In rep with Little Women. Internationally celebrated Broadway musical meets jaw-droppingly controversial and terrifyingly funny thriller about high school girls having seemingly "harmless" fun. A genre-defying combination of two productions performed by a cast of San Diego’s most fiercely talented women.
Lamoise New Works Festival: Bridging the Gender Gap
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 15 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Staged Readings Festival
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://moxietheatre.com
Description: The first edition of MOXIE's Lamoise New Works Festival, dedicated to developing new plays and musicals by women+ playwrights. At the culmination of a two-week workshop, audiences will be invited to join in celebrating new and exciting works over one weekend of staged readings.
Do You Feel Anger?
By: Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Directed by: Yari Cervas
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: MOXIE Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $5-90
Reference Link: https://moxietheatre.com
Description: A hardcore comedy about empathy (or the lack thereof!). When a debt collection agency is forced to hire an empathy coach, absurdity ensues in this powerfully funny new play. Maybe someone will keep getting mugged in the kitchen, but at least they can talk about their feelings!
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare, adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan
Directed by: Michael Gene Sullivan
Event Date(s): Aug 16 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Forest Meadows Amphitheatre
City: San Rafael
Price: $15-40
Reference Link: https://www.marinshakespeare.org
Description: Michael Gene Sullivan's adaptation of this classic Shakespearean comedy imagines a group of women in Elizabethan England bravely performing an underground version of the play to satisfy their artistic longings.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: Shakespeare
Directed by: Bridgette Loriaux
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Forest Meadows Amphitheatre
City: San Rafael
Price: $15 - 49
Reference Link: https://www.marinshakespeare.org
Description: Shakespeare's magical comedy reimagined by Bridgette Loriaux through a musical and movement-driven contemporary lens, offers a celebration of love, connection, and the endless possibilities for transformation on this earth.
Seeds of Time Festival
By: Various
Directed by: Various
Event Date(s): Jul 19 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: A developmental festival of six plays
Venue: Marin Shakespeare Company
City: San Rafael
Price: $15 - 40
Reference Link: https://www.marinshakespeare.org
Description: In collaboration with Play On Shakespeare, this groundbreaking festival will present six teams of artists exploring and reenvisioning world classics culminating in interactive public events, inviting audiences to engage in conversations about the relevance of the classics today.
The Tempest
By: Shakespeare
Directed by: Graham Smith
Event Date(s): Aug 15 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Forest Meadows Amphitheatre
City: San Rafael
Price: $15 - 49
Reference Link: https://www.marinshakespeare.org
Description: Nationally renowned artist Matthew Graham Smith directs and adapts this profound tale of power, magic, and the possibility of second chances.
Ride the Cyclone
By: Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
Directed by: Stephanie Temple
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $35.50-$72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/ride-the-cyclone
Description: Reach for the skies takes on a whole new meaning when six members of a Canadian chamber choir take a fateful rollercoaster ride to the great beyond. Both madly hilarious and surprisingly introspective, this award-winning musical poses the question of what makes a life well-lived.
The Gulf
By: Audrey Cefaly
Directed by: Tracy Ward
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Jun 06 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-72.50 including fees
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/the-gulf
Description: Betty wants change. Kendra likes the status quo. On a small fishing boat on the Alabama Delta, a tranquil evening of playful banter takes a volatile turn as two lovers witness the weight of their unspoken words. West Coast premiere of the winner of the 2018 Lammy for LGBTQ Drama.
Deep Inside Tonight
By: Kinsey Sicks
Directed by: Kinsey Sicks
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $35.50-$72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: nctcsf.org/deep-inside-tonight
Description: The Kinsey Sicks bring their glorious, award-winning harmonies to the NCTC stage where it all began in celebration of their 30th anniversary tour. Tune in for outrageous highjinks, the wittiest of parodies, and a performance as delightful and legendary as the girls themselves.
Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend
By: Nathan Tylutki
Directed by: Nathan Tylutki
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $35-40 including fees
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/francis-grey-and-the-case-of-his-dead-boyfriend/
Description: A world premiere one-man whodunnit written by and starring Nathan Tylutki. When Francis Grey’s boyfriend is murdered on the eve of his birthday, he opens up a not-so-official investigation and discovers more than he bargained for in this audaciously cheeky one-man whodunnit. Joined by a host of not-so-perfect and incredibly suspicious family members, everyone is a suspect. Just how far will Francis go to crack the case in his topsy-turvy quest for truth?
Wild With Happy
By: Colman Domingo
Directed by: ShawnJ West
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/wild-with-happy
Description: A wondrous dramedy from the mind of Colman Domingo: When the process of grieving his mother involves an overly enthusiastic funeral director, and a demanding Aunt Glo, there’s nowhere for Gil to turn but a wild grab-an-urn-and-go road trip to find his fairy tale ending.
To My Girls
By: JC Lee
Directed by: Ben Villegas Randle
Event Date(s): Mar 09 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/to-my-girls
Description: A tight-knit group of gay men reunite in the dreamy town of Palm Springs, only to discover they've packed some "baggage" with their baggage. A heartwarming and vivacious story explores what happens when the inflatable swans are tossed aside and the truth is laid bare.
Simple Mexican Pleasures
By: Eric Reyes Loo
Directed by: Evren Odcikin
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $30-72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/simple-mexican-pleasures
Description: It’s hard to enjoy a post-breakup pozole in peace when the spirits of your ancestors are squabbling in both ears. Eric’s impulsive trip to Mexico City turns into a mystical journey of discovering his identity, need for familial ties, and a deeper connection to his roots.
The Thanksgiving Play
By: Larissa FastHorse
Directed by: Daniel Jáquez
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center
City: Carlsbad
Price: $30-60
Reference Link: https://newvillagearts.org/thanksgiving-play/
Description: Four (very) well-intentioned theatre people walk into an elementary school. The work at hand: a Thanksgiving pageant that won’t ruffle any feathers. What could possibly go wrong? In MacArthur Genius Larissa FastHorse’s skewering and satirical comedy, well, just about everything.
A View From the Bridge
By: Arthur Miller
Directed by: David Ellenstein
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/a-view-from-the-bridge/
Description: Season 43 blazes onto the stage with Arthur Miller’s Tony-winning play, A View From the Bridge. Set in a tight-knit Italian-American community in 1950s Brooklyn, the play explores the lives of its characters with raw emotion and powerful storytelling.
Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help
By: Katie Forgette
Directed by: Jenny Sullivan
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/incident-at-our-lady-of-perpetual-help/
Description: Embark on a delightful journey down memory lane with the San Diego premiere of Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1970s, Katie Forgette’s charming comedy unfolds within the confines of a working-class family home.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Kat Yen
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Feb 02 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/the-heart-sellers/
Description: The Heart Sellers makes its San Diego premiere, offering a compelling portrayal of intelligent, curious, and creative women navigating the challenges of a new country, and highlighting the Asian immigrant experience.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Shana Wride
Event Date(s): Feb 26 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/what-the-constitution-means-to-me/
Description: What the Constitution Means to Me is an emotionally charged theatrical experience exploring the U.S. Constitution’s profound significance in contemporary America. Crafted by playwright Heidi Schreck, it is a deeply personal and introspective journey.
Peril in the Alps
By: Steven Dietz
Directed by: Steven Dietz
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/peril-in-the-alps/
Description: The twin sister of Captain Hastings's wife Dulcie has been kidnapped—and Hercule Poirot rightly expects not only extortion to follow, but murder! Using elements of Agatha Christie’s Poirot Investigates, Steven Dietz creates a sequel to his wildly popular Murder on the Links.
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by: David Ellenstein
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/birthday-candles/
Description: Birthday Candles is a touching journey of the human experience, filled with laughter, tears, and moments of reflection that make up one woman’s ordinary life. The play explores the passing of time, the evolution of relationships, and the profound changes that occur in life.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
By: Robert L. Freedman (book & lyrics), Steven Lutvak (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Noelle Marion
Event Date(s): Jul 16 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/a-gentlemans-guide-to-love-and-murder/
Description: Winner of the 2014 Tony for Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is an endlessly entertaining foray into a charming man’s relentless quest for a bountiful inheritance that will change his life forever.
Once on this Island
By: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
Directed by: Kevin "Blax" Burroughs
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Sunshine Brooks Theatre
City: Oceanside
Price: $20 - 50
Reference Link: https://oceansidetheatre.org/once-on-this-island/
Description: The captivating Caribbean-set retelling of The Little Mermaid. Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl, this poignant story follows Ti Moune, a peasant girl who rescues and falls in love with Daniel, a boy from the wealthier side of the island.
Latin History for Morons
By: John Leguizamo
Directed by: Herbert Siguenza
Event Date(s): May 23 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: One Person Show
Venue: Sunshine Brooks Theatre
City: Oceanside
Price: $20 - 45
Reference Link: https://oceansidetheatre.org/2025-subscription-season/
Description: A hilarious and insightful exploration inspired by the glaring absence of Latinos in American history textbooks. In this uproarious show, John Leguizamo embarks on a frenetic quest to uncover a Latin hero for his son’s school project.
Spring Awakening
By: Steven Slater and Duncan Sheik
Directed by: Gerilyn Brault
Event Date(s): Aug 29 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Sunshine Brooks Theatre
City: Oceanside
Price: $20 - 50
Reference Link: https://oceansidetheatre.org/2025-subscription-season/
Description: The powerful story of young people in 1890s Germany on the cusp of adulthood, grappling with their emerging identities, desires, and the oppressive forces around them. The musical’s blend of rock and emotional intensity explores themes of sexuality, rebellion, and self-discovery.
The Agitators
By: Mat Smart
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 23 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre & Solvan Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria/Solvang
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: Young abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony are full of dreams and seemingly common purpose when they meet in Rochester, N.Y., in the 1840s and form an unexpected friendship.
Blast Off
By: Maya Malan-Gonzalez
Directed by: Marilet Martinez
Event Date(s): Nov 02 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Severson Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Never let fear hinder your pursuit of knowledge and big dreams! Join Valentina and her imaginary best friend, astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa, as they defy stereotypes and discover the harmonious synergy between science and art.
Beauty and the Beast
By: Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice, Book by Linda Woolverton
Directed by: Erik Stein
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: In Disney's enchanting "tale as old as time," Belle, a young woman trapped in her provincial life, encounters a prince trapped under a curse that has turned him into a terrifying beast. But the key to their freedoms might lie in each other.
El Ermitaño
By: by Miguel Sabido
Directed by: Gerardo Gutierrez
Event Date(s): Dec 14 2024 - Dec 14 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Severson Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: El Ermitaño (The Hermit) is a captivating 60-minute play in Spanish, rich with music, humor, and tradition, embodying the time-honored elements of a Pastorela. Miguel Sabido's Mexican Christmas tale explores the eternal conflict of good versus evil within the human experience.
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Andy Philpot
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: In Shakespeare's cherished comedy, love, wit, and mischief entwine, and the results are hilarious and heart-aching in this timeless battle of the sexes.
Sanctuary City
By: Martyna Majok
Directed by: Sara Rademacher
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Severson Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: In this powerful coming-of-age story, two teens forge a deep bond amid the complexities of immigration, identity, belonging, and love.
Waitress
By: Book Jessie Nelson, Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Directed by: Kitty Balay
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Waitress serves up a heartfelt tale of love, liberations, and the pursuit of dreams, as Jenna finds inspiration in her pies and embarks on a journey of self-discovery amidst steadfast friendship and sweet melodies.
Waitress
By: Book Jessie Nelson, Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Directed by: Kitty Balay
Event Date(s): Jun 19 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Solvang Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Waitress serves up a heartfelt tale of love, liberations, and the pursuit of dreams, as Jenna finds inspiration in her pies and embarks on a journey of self-discovery amidst steadfast friendship and sweet melodies.
Holmes and Watson
By: Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Michael Brusasco
Event Date(s): Jun 26 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Join Dr. Watson in a twisty, tantalizing mystery as he navigates a deadly guessing game to uncover the truth behind three men claiming to be Sherlock Holmes, in Jeffrey Hatcher's gripping adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's original tale, Holmes and Watson.
Holmes and Watson
By: Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Michael Brusasco
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Solvang Festival Theater
City: Solvang
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Join Dr. Watson in a twisty, tantalizing mystery as he navigates a deadly guessing game to uncover the truth behind three men claiming to be Sherlock Holmes, in Jeffrey Hatcher's gripping adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's original tale, Holmes and Watson.
Something Rotten
By: Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick
Directed by: Keenon Hooks and Roger DeLaurier
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Join the Bottom Brothers on a riotous quest to outshine Shakespeare in this uproariously entertaining musical romp. Something Rotten blends 16th century wit, with 21st century Broadway flair to prove that stardom requires kicking up your heels and staying true to yourself.
Something Rotten
By: Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick
Directed by: Keenon Hooks and Roger DeLaurier
Event Date(s): Aug 01 2025 - Aug 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Solvang Festival Theater
City: Solvang
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Join the Bottom Brothers on a riotous quest to outshine Shakespeare in this uproariously entertaining musical romp. Something Rotten blends 16th century wit, with 21st century Broadway flair to prove that stardom requires kicking up your heels and staying true to yourself.
Songs for Nobodies
By: By Joanna Murray-Smith, Orchestrations by Andra Velis Simon
Directed by: Rob Lindley
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2025 - Aug 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Marian Theatre
City: Santa Maria
Price: $25-65
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Step into the mesmerizing world of Songs for Nobodies, where the paths of some of the most legendary singers of all time intersect with those of everyday women in a tour de force of inspiration and resilience.
Songs for Nobodies
By: By Joanna Murray-Smith, Orchestrations by Andra Velis Simon
Directed by: Rob Lindley
Event Date(s): Aug 28 2025 - Sep 07 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Solvang Festival Theater
City: Solvang
Price: $25-70
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org
Description: Step into the mesmerizing world of Songs for Nobodies, where the paths of some of the most legendary singers of all time intersect with those of everyday women in a tour de force of inspiration and resilience.
Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand, freely adapted by Martin Crimp
Directed by: Mike Donahue
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play - Drama
Venue: Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $40 and up
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/cyrano-de-bergerac/
Description: One of the greatest plays ever written is radically reborn in this critically acclaimed adaptation. Modern poetry and sizzling rhythm collide in a scorching love triangle when Cyrano discovers the love of his life has eyes for another man. Don't miss this epic romantic adventure.
Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand, freely adapt. by Martin Crimp
Directed by: Mike Donahue
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/cyrano-de-bergerac/
Description: One of the greatest plays ever written is radically reborn in this critically acclaimed adaptation. Modern poetry and sizzling rhythm collide in a scorching love triangle when Cyrano discovers the love of his life has eyes for another man.
La Cage aux Folles
By: Jerry Herman (music & lyrics), Harvey Fierstein (book)
Directed by: Sam Pinkleton
Event Date(s): Nov 12 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: Tickets start at $44
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/la-cage-aux-folles/
Description: Beautiful. Bawdy. Bizarre. Welcome to La Cage aux Folles, the hottest drag club in St. Tropez and one of theater’s all-time biggest hits. The Tony Award-winning musical comes to life in this all-new Playhouse extravaganza.
La Cage aux Folles
By: Jerry Herman (music & lyrics), Harvey Fierstein (book)
Directed by: Sam Pinkleton
Event Date(s): Nov 12 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/la-cage-aux-folles/
Description: Beautiful. Bawdy. Bizarre. Welcome to La Cage aux Folles, the hottest drag club in St. Tropez and one of theatre’s all-time biggest hits. The Tony Award-winning musical comes to life in this all-new Playhouse extravaganza.
Anything Goes: In Concert
By: Cole Porter (music & lyrics)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Jan 25 2025
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price:
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/special-concert-events/
Description: Anything Goes in concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. One of the most iconic shows in Broadway history, featuring some of American musical theatre’s most beloved songs, performed with full orchestrations.
Follies: In Concert
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), James Goldman (book)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 01 2025
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/special-concert-events/
Description: One of the most iconic shows in Broadway history, featuring some of American musical theatre’s most beloved songs performed with full orchestrations.
Topdog/Underdog
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 31 2025
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: The Pasadena Playhouse
City: Pasadena
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/topdog-underdog/
Description: Two brothers in free fall struggle to find their footing as they hustle their way through life. Haunted by the past, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their fate. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Suzan-Lori Parks’s darkly comic fable is poetic, gripping, and unforgettable.
Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
By:
Directed by: Suzy Newman
Event Date(s): Aug 16 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $27-37
Reference Link: https://www.slorep.org
Description: The basic plot of all five shows: June is an ingenue who can’t pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? From Sondheim’s tortured artistic genius to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock musical, don’t miss this delightful comic vehicle.
Misery
By: William Goldman, adapt. from Stephen King
Directed by: Lawrence Lesher
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has as killed off her favorite character.
A Christmas Story
By: Philip Grecian, adapt. from Jean Shepherd
Directed by: Kevin Harris
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Holiday Show
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher, and even Santa Claus himself!
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Colin Escott
Directed by: Kevin Harris
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $35-60
Reference Link: https://www.slorep.org
Description: On a Tuesday night shortly before Christmas 1956, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley gathered at Sun Records in Memphis, Tenn. This was their only performance together, a cultural flashpoint that caught rock ‘n’ roll at the moment of creation.
The Cake
By: Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by: Kerry DiMaggio
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: Della makes cakes, not judgment calls---those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down.
I Hate Hamlet
By: Paul Rudnick
Directed by: R. Michael Gros
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: In Paul Rudnick’s hilarious dramatic comedy, when television star Andrew Rally moves back to New York and finds himself cast as Hamlet, nothing seems right.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
By: Clark Gesner
Directed by: Suzy Newman
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
City: San Luis Obispo
Price: $20-37
Reference Link: www.slorep.org
Description: Happiness is great musical theatre! With charm, wit, and heart, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and his friends in the Peanuts gang.
Choir Boy
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by: Darryl V. Jones
Event Date(s): Sep 24 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Shotgun Players, The Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: $28 - 40
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/choir-boy
Description: Nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Play, and winner of two including Best Vocal Arrangements, Choir Boy is a coming-of-age story with African American spirituals and step choreography. This is not a coming-out story. It's a story about the power of self-love.
Thirty-Six
By: Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by: Michelle Talgarow
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: $0-40
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/thirty-six
Description: This show will flirt its way into your heart and hit like a one night stand! A hot and loaded experience brings the new age of dating to life onstage. Opposites who attract, David and Jenny ask and answer the New York Times "36 Questions That Lead to Love."
Art
By: Yasmina Reza
Directed by: Emilie Whelan
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: Free - $80 (sliding scale - new this year)
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/show/art/
Description: A long friendship between three men implodes when one purchases an expensive piece of modern art. What is it all worth? Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, Art is well known for its celebrated wordplay.
The Champagne Staged Reading Series: How to Defend Yourself
By: Liliana Padilla
Directed by: Gracie Brakeman
Event Date(s): Mar 31 2025 - Apr 01 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: Three readings for $50
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/show/champagne/
Description: Seven college students at a DIY self-defense workshop fight back against the insidious ways rape culture steals one’s body and sense of belonging. With sharp humor and brutal honesty, this play explores what we want, how to ask for it, and the autonomy we can cultivate despite it all.
Yellow Face
By: David Henry Hwang
Directed by: Daniel J. Eslick
Event Date(s): May 10 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: Free - $80 (sliding scale - new this year)
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/show/yellow-face/
Description: Inspired by the real life controversy over the yellow face casting in Broadway’s Miss Saigon, this comedic faux documentary pokes at our own privilege and prejudice.
The Champagne Staged Reading Series: A Black-billed Cuckoo
By: Mat Smart
Directed by: Mary Ann Rogers
Event Date(s): Jun 09 2025 - Jun 10 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: Three readings for $50
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/show/champagne/
Description: Brooklyn birdwatchers unite at Prospect Park in a close-knit group that is turned upside down over a rare bird sighting. A comedy that explores the complexities of loss, the power of wonder, and how to move on after missing out.
The Magnolia Ballet
By: Terry Guest
Directed by: AeJay Antonis Marquis
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2025 - Aug 10 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: Free - $80 (sliding scale - new this year)
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/show/magnolia/
Description: The Magnolia Ballet is a tale of four men: a son, a lover, an ancestor, and a father. With expansive poetry and whispered prose, this piece births resilience underneath the bloom of fresh magnolias.
The Champagne Staged Reading Series: Glitter in the Glass
By: R. Eric Thomas
Directed by: Elizabeth Carter
Event Date(s): Aug 04 2025 - Aug 05 2025
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Ashby Stage
City: Berkeley
Price: Three readings for $50
Reference Link: https://shotgunplayers.org/show/champagne/
Description: Chelle, a Black artist, is running out of time to deliver on a grant: an artwork to replace a Confederate monument in Baltimore. As her brother plans a Juneteenth festival in the park where the monument once was, Chelle catapults on a journey between the past, present, and future.
Hair
By: Gerome Ragni & James Rado (book & lyrics); Galt MacDermot (music)
Directed by: Jerry Lee
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park
City: Columbia
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://www.sierrarep.org/
Description: Celebrate the 1960s counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded, and fringed glory.
Into the Woods
By: James Lapine (book), Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Scott Viets
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: East Sonora Theatre
City: Sonora
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://www.sierrarep.org/
Description: When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a witch’s curse, the two set off on a magical journey to break the curse.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
By: Robert Penola (adaptation), Johnny Marks (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Scott Viets
Event Date(s): Nov 21 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park
City: Columbia
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://www.sierrarep.org/
Description: Because of his shiny nose, Rudolph doesn’t feel like he belongs in Christmastown and sets off to find a place that accepts him. Along his journey, he encounters fellow misfits, only to realize that home is where he has belonged the whole time.
Legally Blonde the Musical
By: Book by Heather Hach ;Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin ;Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture
Directed by: Jerry Lee
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: East Sonora Theatre
City: Sonora
Price: $30-55
Reference Link: https://www.sierrarep.org
Description: Harvard's beloved blonde takes the stage by pink storm in this fun, upbeat story of self-discovery.
The Marvelous Wonderettes
By: Written and created by Roger Bean
Directed by: Jerry Lee
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park
City: Sonora
Price: $30-55
Reference Link: https://sierrarep.org
Description: This smash Off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom, where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy: four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts!
The Wizard of Oz
By: By L. Frank Baum With Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg; Background Music by Herbert Stothart; Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard / Orchestration by Larry Wilcox; Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Based upon the Classic Motion Picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by Warner Bros.
Directed by: Jerry Lee and Scott Viets
Event Date(s): Jun 27 2025 - Jul 20 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Fallon House Theatre at Columbia State Historic Park
City: Sonora
Price: $30-55
Reference Link: https://sierrarep.org
Description: We're off to see the wizard! This beloved tale, in which a Kansas farm girl travels over the rainbow to discover the magical power of home, has entertained audiences for generations.
Some Enchanted Evening – The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein
By: Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Concept by Jeffrey B. Moss for Jerry Kravat Entertainment Services, Inc.
Directed by: Scott Viets
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: East Sonora Theatre
City: Sonora
Price: $30-55
Reference Link: https://sierrarep.org
Description: An enthralling revue of some of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most stunning compositions.
Macario
By: adapted for the stage by Evelina Fernández and Teatro Visión with original music by Russell Rodríguez
Directed by: Rodrigo García
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave., San José, CA 95148
City: San José
Price: $10 -40
Reference Link: https://www.teatrovision.org/macario
Description: Macario is the classic story of a poor woodcutter who dreams of a day without hunger. When his wife makes that dream come true, he is given a healing power that could change his family and his community’s lives forever.
No llegamos aquí solos
By: Yosimar Reyes
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Dec 07 2024
Type of Event: Staged reading
Venue: TBA
City: San José
Price: $10-40
Reference Link: https://www.teatrovision.org/shows
Description: Teatro Visión and Santa Clara County poet laureate Yosimar Reyes are embarking on a collaborative, community-centered new play development project focusing on East San José and the Mayfair District's immigrant communities.
The House on Mango Street
By: adapted by Amy Ludwig from the novel by Sandra Cisneros
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave., San José, CA 95148
City: San José
Price: $10-40
Reference Link: https://www.teatrovision.org/shows
Description: Twelve-year-old Esperanza's house is small and dark; she shares a room with her parents and her three siblings. But her dreams are so much bigger and stronger and full of hope than narrow Mango Street.
Murder on the Orient Express
By: Ken Ludwig, adapt. from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Peter Amster
Event Date(s): Sep 07 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/murder-on-the-orient-express/#?startDate=2024-09-01&%3FendDate=2024-09-30
Description: On a train traveling through Europe, a wealthy American tycoon is found dead in his compartment, the door locked from the inside. Enter world-famous detective Hercule Poirot, who must navigate a train full of suspects and solve the murder before the killer strikes again.
Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors
By: Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Directed by: Gordon Greenberg
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: West Coast premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors/#?startDate=2024-09-01&%3FendDate=2024-09-30
Description: Famed vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing and her motley crew chase Count Dracula around the English countryside in a madcap race to save his innocent victims.
Globe for All Tour of ‘As You Like It’
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Emil Weinstein
Event Date(s): Oct 29 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: San Diego
Price: $0
Description: Banished from the court by her distrustful uncle, the Duke, Rosalind, and her cousin Celia journey to the magical Forest of Arden to escape from their world of oppression.
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By:
Directed by: James Vásquez
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Dec 31 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $33-94
Description: Back for its 27th incredible year, the family favorite features the songs “Santa for a Day,” “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” and “Welcome, Christmas (Fah Who Doraze),” the delightful carol from the popular animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Sam White
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $10-15
Description: With no male heir and the weight of the nation on his shoulders, King Henry VIII seeks to divorce his wife Katherine so he can marry Anne Boleyn. But Henry’s trusted advisors have plans of their own, and the consequences of his decisions will change their lives.
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Told by Jefferson Mays
By: Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons, and Michael Arden
Directed by: Barry Edelstein
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $29-118
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/a-christmas-carol-a-ghost-story/#?startDate=2024-12-01&%3FendDate=2024-12-31
Description: This holiday, season, Mays will return to The Old Globe after his San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award–winning performance in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder in 2013. He will portray over 50 beloved characters from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Appropriate
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Steve H. Broadnax III
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: San Diego premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/appropriate/#?startDate=2024-10-01&?endDate=2024-10-31
Description: A ferociously funny look at family secrets and hidden truths.
Empty Ride
By: Keiko Green
Directed by: Sivan Battat
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Globe-commissioned world premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/empty-ride/
Description: A poignant story set in 2011 Japan that explores how love can transcend loss.
Regency Girls
By: Book by Jen Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan; Music by Curtis Moore; Lyrics by Amanda Green
Directed by: Josh Rhodes
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: World premiere musical
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/regency-girls/
Description: A group of best friends take a rebellious road trip through 19th century England in this riotous new musical.
House of India
By: Deepak Kumar
Directed by: Zi Alikhan
Event Date(s): May 10 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: World premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/house-of-india/
Description: A family restaurant's legacy hangs in the balance in this heartwarming play.
One of the Good Ones
By: Gloria Calderón Kellett
Directed by: Kimberly Senior
Event Date(s): May 24 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: San Diego premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/one-of-the-good-ones/
Description: A tightknit family figures out what it truly means to be Latin American in this laugh-out-loud comedy.
All’s Well That Ends Well
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Peter Francis James
Event Date(s): Jun 08 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/alls-well-that-ends-well/
Description: Shakespeare's delightful comedy of love, laughter, and adventure.
The Janeiad
By: Anna Ziegler
Directed by: Tyne Rafaeli
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: World premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/the-janeiad/
Description: Modern love and ancient myth converge in this moving world premiere play.
Noises Off
By: Michael Frayn
Directed by: Gordon Greenberg
Event Date(s): Jul 06 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/noises-off/
Description: A brilliant and uproarious backstage comedy that pulls back the curtain on a theatre company struggling to keep its production from falling apart.
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: James Vásquez
Event Date(s): Jul 27 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/the-comedy-of-errors/
Description: Double the fun and double the chaos in this classic Shakespearean comedy.
Deceived
By: By Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson
Directed by: Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: West Coast premiere
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/deceived/
Description: Bella Manningham’s new husband seems the doting partner, but when she sees the gaslights dim and he claims they have not, she begins to suspect the strange occurrences aren’t just in her head.
Robbin, From the Hood
By: Marlow Wyatt
Directed by: Chuma Gault
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Road Theatre Company
City: North Hollywood
Price: $17-39
Reference Link: https://roadtheatre.org/event/robbin-from-the-hood/
Description: In this reimagined classic tale, corporate greed dominates the deceptive game of capitalism until 17-year-old math genius Robbin Woods discovers how to level the playing field. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for the right reason.
Sleeping Giant
By: Steve Yockey
Directed by: Ann Hearn Tobolowsky
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Road Theatre Company
City: North Hollywood
Price: $17-39
Reference Link: https://roadtheatre.org/
Description: When a firework-filled marriage proposal goes very wrong, the accompanying explosions wake up something very old that’s been sleeping in the nearby lake for thousands of years. What follows are intimate, darkly comic, and sometimes startling vignettes about the lengths people go to when they desperately want to believe in something.
The Totality of All Things
By: Erik Gernand
Directed by: Taylor Nichols
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Road Theatre Company
City: North Hollywood
Price: $39
Reference Link: https://roadtheatre.org
Description: Judith Benson is “teacher-famous” for the award-winning student newspaper she proudly oversees at her small Indiana high school, a program that extols truth and integrity in journalism. But when an anti-gay hate crime occurs one fall, everything Judith believes about inspiring the next generation of reporters, and the definition of truth itself, is called into question.
Last Night at Mikell’s
By: Larry Muhammad
Directed by: Ben Guillory
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre Four
City: Los Angeles
Price: $25-40. Students, seniors, veterans, groups of ten or more, $25. Half-price tickets ($20) on April 10, 11, 17 and 24. All seats on Opening Night April 12 are $50, no discounts (includes reception).
Reference Link: https://therobeytheatrecompany.org
Description: James Baldwin meets up with his brother David, Maya Angelou, and Miles Davis on the closing night of Mikell's, an iconic New York jazz bar. It's time to par-taaay!
Last Night at Mikell’s
By: Larry Muhammed
Directed by: Ben Guillory
Event Date(s): Apr 12 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Los Angeles Theatre Center
City: Los Angeles
Price: $25-40
Reference Link: https://therobeytheatrecompany.org
Description: James Baldwin meets his brother David at the iconic Mikell's jazz club, where they will also encounter Maya Angelou and Miles Davis.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
By: Alan Menken (music), Stephen Schwartz (lyrics), Peter Parnell (book)
Directed by: M. William Shiner
Event Date(s): Aug 10 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical Production
Venue: Hartnell College Mainstage Theater
City: Salinas
Price: $5-30
Reference Link: https://westernstage.com
Description: Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney film. Originally developed by Disney Theatrical Productions. A tragic tale of isolation, love, rejection and acceptance and how the unlikeliest of us can be a hero.
The Last Five Years
By: Jason Robert Brown (book, music, lyrics)
Directed by: Dennis Beasley
Event Date(s): Oct 05 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical Production
Venue: Hartnell College Studio Theater
City: Salinas
Price: $5-28
Reference Link: https://westernstage.com
Description: Backwards and forwards in time and in love. Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress, tells the story of her marriage from breakup to first meeting. Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, tells his story of their marriage from first meeting to breakup.
Emilia
By: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Directed by: Rebecca Clark and Kristin Kusanovich
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartnell College Mainstage Theater
City: Salinas
Price: $5-30
Reference Link: https://www.westernstage.com/emilia
Description: The amazing, speculative, true story of Emilia Lanier née Bassano, purported to be the “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets. This Olivier Award-winning play was first commissioned for Shakespeare’s Globe before heading to London’s West End in 2019.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Giovanna Sardelli
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: Superfans Matt and Shawn forge a friendship through their shared love of the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James. Over 12 years, tensions mount both on and off the court for the duo in this exploration of love, grace, and the power of a good game to bring people together.
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
By: Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lucie Stern Theatre
City: Palo Alto
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: For the holidays, TheatreWorks presents this heartwarming Pride and Prejudice sequel. This charming romantic comedy stars a different Bennet sister: bookish Mary. A new guest’s arrival at Pemberley for the holidays offers Mary the chance to take control of her story.
Hershey Felder: Rachmaninoff and the Tsar
By: Hershey Felder
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: In this mesmerizing play full of Sergei Rachmaninoff's rich romantic melodies, the Russian composer remembers his mother country. Pianist/performer Hershey Felder will be joined onstage by Jonathan Silvestri as Tsar Nicholas II in this mystical journey. Regional premiere.
Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical
By: Min Kahng
Directed by: Jeffrey Lo
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Lucie Stern Theatre
City: Palo Alto
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: This lively musical comedy explodes misconceptions about sexuality and aging. Vlogger Jade discovers a murderous mystery at her grandmother June’s senior living community. Inspired by their favorite crime-solving heroines, Jade and June join forces to crack the case.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jennifer Chang
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: This humorous and heartwarming play takes its title from the Hart-Celler Act, which helped thousands become U.S. citizens. Set in 1973, Luna from the Philippines and Jane from South Korea start as strangers and find common ground navigating their first American Thanksgiving.
5 & Dime
By: Ashley Robinson, Dan Gillespie Sells, Shakina
Directed by: Giovanna Sardelli
Event Date(s): Jun 18 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City: Mountain View
Price: $34-115
Reference Link: https://www.theatreworks.org/
Description: Based on the play and film Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk, this rockin’ country musical spotlights the reunion of a James Dean fan club. As the women reminisce, they are joined by a stranger who threatens to unearth secrets.
The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote
By: Bernardo Cubría
Directed by: Bernardo Cubría and Willow Geer
Event Date(s): Aug 24 2024 - Oct 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Los Angeles
Price: $15-60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/the-vote/
Description: When the Political Party offers University Professor Paola Aguilar a large paycheck to help them understand the Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote, she reluctantly takes the job. Can she help? Or will her own journey ultimately be more important than who wins the vote?
Under the Oaks Presents Hills Like White Elephants
By: Adapted by Kellen McDaniel & Berber Heerema, based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway
Directed by: Kellen McDaniel
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 13 2024
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: Under the Oaks
City: Topanga
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/under-the-oaks/
Description: An interdisciplinary adaptation of the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Experience this evening of musical drama featuring acting, singing and a live string quartet performing gripping music by renowned composers such as Caroline Shaw, Philip Glass, and Louis Andriessen.
Composer Collective
By: Multiple
Directed by: Marshall McDaniel
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Sep 20 2024
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: Under the Oaks
City: Topanga
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/under-the-oaks/
Description: Experience the magic of Hollywood’s musical masterminds at an exclusive concert showcasing some of L.A.’s hottest film and TV composers. Featuring both world premieres and selections from recent scores, this concert celebrates the artistry behind the scenes.
Under the Oaks Presents A Tribute to Bob Dylan
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Sep 27 2024
Type of Event: Concert
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga CA 90290
City: Topanga
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/under-the-oaks/
Description: Under the Oaks presents a Theatricum Cabaret celebrating the genius and music of Bob Dylan. Members of Theatricum's company gather under the stars beneath the old-growth oak trees on the main stage to perform favorites like "Mr. Tamborine Man," "Blowin' In the Wind," and more.
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry
By: Joe Landry
Directed by: Ellen Geer
Event Date(s): Dec 14 2024 - Dec 14 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance and Festival
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Topanga
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/holiday-family-faire/
Description: It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is a stage play adaptation of Frank Capra's film classic, presented at 5 p.m. after the Holiday Family Faire at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum (11 a.m.-5 p.m.).
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Ellen Geer
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2025 - Sep 13 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Topanga
Price: $15-$60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com
Description: Beatrice and Benedick’s witty and sharp verbal jousts are pointedly calculated to wound. Yet beneath their animosity lies a mutual attraction that neither dares confess—until circumstances unite them to rescue young friends and unmask their own true love.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Willow Geer
Event Date(s): Jun 08 2025 - Sep 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Topanga
Price: $15-$60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com
Description: The surrounding Topanga woods morph into the magical forest of the Bard’s most entertaining and beguiling comedy, where comical misunderstandings and the pain of unrequited love are resolved through midsummer night revelries and the enduring power of nature.
Strife
By: John Galsworthy
Directed by: Ellen Geer
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2025 - Oct 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Topanga
Price: $15-$60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com
Description: What compromise is possible when human dignity and health are on the line, along with a business’s survival, and the economy it supports? A corporation and its workers must consider untenable options at the climactic peak of a labor strike.
The Seagull: Malibu
By: Adapted by Ellen Geer from "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov
Directed by: Ellen Geer
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2025 - Oct 05 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Topanga
Price: $15-$60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com
Description: In the aftermath of the civil rights movement, a disillusioned young writer is haunted by the rise of a consumer-driven, plasticized world and the early warning signs of climate change.
Wine in the Wilderness
By: Alice Childress
Directed by: Gerald C. Rivers
Event Date(s): Aug 24 2025 - Oct 19 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Topanga
Price: $15-$60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com
Description: In 1964, as race riots blaze on the streets outside his Harlem home, a painter works feverishly to complete a triptych depicting his vision of Black womanhood. But his artistic vision is challenged by an unexpected muse who refuses to be bound by his shallow assumptions.
Colorado
Waitress
By: Jessie Nelson
Directed by: Lynne Collins
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Stage Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $56+
Reference Link: https://https://arvadacenter.org/events/waitress
Description: Jenna is a waitress and expert pie-maker trapped in a small town and a rocky marriage. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, Jenna fears her dreams are out of reach---until a baking contest and a handsome doctor offer up a sweet taste of happiness.
Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Carolyn Howarth
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Black Box Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $47+
Reference Link: https://https://arvadacenter.org/events/dracula-a-feminist-revenge-fantasy-really
Description: One part horror, one part humor, playwright Kate Hamill upends the sexism in Bram Stoker’s vampire classic in a thrilling, gory, and funny new adaptation.
Once Upon a Mattress
By: Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, Marshall Barer (book), Mary Rodgers (music), Marshall Barer (lyrics)
Directed by: Kenny Moten
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Stage Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $56+
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/once-upon-a-mattress
Description: A laugh-out-loud musical version of the Princess and the Pea, Once Upon a Mattress redefines what it takes to be a princess. Perfect for the whole family, this hilarious tale, zany enough to launch the Broadway career of Carol Burnett, celebrates the uniqueness in all of us.
Clybourne Park
By: Bruce Norris
Directed by: Kenny Moten
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Black Box Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $47+
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/clybourne-park
Description: Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race, housing, and gentrification.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
By: Robert L. Freedman (book & lyrics), Steven Lutvak (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Geoffrey Kent
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Main Stage Theatre
City: Arvada
Price: $56+
Reference Link: https://arvadacenter.org/events/a-gentlemans-guide-to-love-and-murder
Description: Monty Navarro discovers he’s eighth in line for an earldom in the aristocratic D'Ysquith family. Monty plots to speed up the line of succession through any means necessary, all while juggling his mistress, his fiancee, his reputation, and an increasing body count.
Xanadu
By: Book by Douglas Carter Beane, Music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne & John Farrar.
Directed by: Emily Van Fleet
Event Date(s): May 24 2025 - Sep 07 2025
Type of Event: Musical Comedy
Venue: Creede Repertory Theatre - Mainstage Theatre
City: Creede
Price: Tickets start at $38
Reference Link: https://creederep.org/show/xanadu/
Description: Xanadu follows the electrifying tale of Kira, a magical Greek muse who descends from the heavens of Mount Olympus to Venice Beach in 1980 on a quest to inspire struggling artist, Sonny, to achieve the greatest artistic creation of all time---the first roller disco!
The 39 Steps
By: By Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan.
Directed by: Christy Montour-Larson
Event Date(s): May 31 2025 - Sep 20 2025
Type of Event: Comedy, Mystery, Farce
Venue: Creede Repertory Theatre - Ruth Humphreys Brown Theatre
City: Creede
Price: Tickets start at $38
Reference Link: https://creederep.org/show/39steps/
Description: Richard Hannay’s life is pretty dull, but when a mysterious woman appears in his apartment one stormy night, he gets pulled into an epic caper of murder and mayhem. This thriller hits the ground running with a cast of four portraying 150 characters. This is live theatre at its best!
The Fantasticks
By: Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt.
Directed by: Kate Gleason
Event Date(s): Jun 21 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: Musical, Romance
Venue: Creede Repertory Theatre - Ruth Humphreys Brown Theatre
City: Creede
Price: Tickets start at $38
Reference Link: https://creederep.org/show/thefantasticks/
Description: This classic fable about a boy, a girl, their parents, and a love that grows with each season returns to CRT for its 60th Season. The Fantasticks inspires us all to return to a time when we allowed ourselves to be overcome with hope and enchantment.
Silent Sky
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Tara Falk
Event Date(s): Jun 28 2025 - Sep 06 2025
Type of Event: Drama, STEM
Venue: Creede Repertory Theatre - Mainstage Theatre
City: Creede
Price: Tickets start at $38
Reference Link: https://creederep.org/show/silent-sky/
Description: Silent Sky follows the true story of 19th Century scientist Henrietta Leavitt, whose breakthroughs in astronomy profoundly impacted the way we see the universe. An inspirational drama bursting with smart, infectious humor.
BOOMTOWN! Improv Comedy
By: N/A
Directed by: N/A
Event Date(s): Jul 13 2025 - Sep 20 2025
Type of Event: Improvisation, Comedy
Venue: Creede Repertory Theatre - Ruth Humphreys Brown Theatre
City: Creede
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://creederep.org/show/boomtown/
Description: Get ready for pure chaos, no cap. Expect mad energy, insane moments, and a whole lotta “WTF just happened?” vibes.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Chris Coleman
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wolf Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/hamlet/
Description: Arguably one of the greatest plays of all time, Hamlet is a psychological revenge thriller, political epic, and family saga that’s both grand and deeply human.
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By: Isaac Gómez
Directed by: Laura Alcalá Baker
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/i-am-not-your-perfect-mexican-daughter/
Description: This vibrant and poignant adaptation of Erika L. Sánchez’s New York Times bestseller follows Júlia, a Chicago high schooler who is definitely not your perfect Mexican daughter (that’s her older sister Olga’s role).
Avaaz
By: Michael Shayan
Directed by: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Singleton Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/avaaz/
Description: Meet Roya, our fabulous hostess, as she welcomes you into her home to celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. She’s preparing a feast, but the main attraction is Roya sharing her great American journey from Tehran to “Tehran-geles,” Calif.
The Reservoir
By: Jake Brasch
Directed by: Shelley Butler
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Singleton Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/the-reservoir/
Description: Josh’s life is a mess. He’s come home to Denver from NYU to get his life together but can’t manage to stay sober. Struggling with fogginess, memory loss, shame, and regret, he finds unlikely allies in his four loveable grandparents.
The Suffragette’s Murder
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: Margot Bordelon
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/the-suffragettes-murder/
Description: On the morning of July 5, 1857, an eclectic group of tenants bustle about their Manhattan boarding house, arranging the final details of a clever scheme they hope to pull off in the name of the budding women’s suffrage movement.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Howard Ashman (book & lyrics), Alan Menken (music)
Directed by: Chris Coleman
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Wolf Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/little-shop-of-horrors/
Description: Feast on the Denver Center’s production of a beloved sci-fi musical that has rocked the globe for generations! The meek yet nurturing Seymour Krelborn is perennially down on his luck. One day, Seymour chances upon a strange and mysterious new plant cutting, which he nurses back to health.
The Hot Wing King
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Timothy Douglas
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Kilstrom Theatre
City: Denver
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/the-hot-wing-king/
Description: On the eve of the annual “Hot Wang Festival” in Memphis, Tenn., Cordell Crutchfield thinks he has finally found a recipe that will land him the coveted title of Hot Wang King.
Hadestown: Teen Edition
By: Anaïs Mitchell
Directed by: Shabazz Green
Event Date(s): Jul 24 2025 - Jul 27 2025
Type of Event: Highschool Educational Program
Venue: Fine Arts Center Mainstage
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://
Description: This four-performance show is a fully staged culmination of a five-week intensive. It has both performance and design/technical tracks and provides tuition assistance.
October Surprise
By: Miguel Muñoz
Directed by: Miguel Muñoz
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: TBA
City: Fort Collins
Price: $27
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/october-surprise/
Description: In the midst of a high-tension Texas Senate race, a political crisis at the border, and a sibling rivalry, October Surprise is a heart-wrenching look at the disparity between family loyalty and personal convictions in America.
Reefer Madness
By: Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney (book, music, lyrics)
Directed by: Kenny Moten
Event Date(s): Nov 02 2024 - Nov 30 2024
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: The Lincoln Center - Magnolia Theatre
City: Fort Collins
Price: $42-47
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/reefer-madness/
Description: Inspired by the 1936 propaganda film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy is full of camp, hilarity, and mayhem. If you get high on laughter, you have come to the right place!
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow, adapt. from John Buchan
Directed by: Jessica Jackson
Event Date(s): Jan 11 2025 - Feb 08 2025
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: The Lincoln Center - Magnolia Theatre
City: Fort Collins
Price: $34-39
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/39-steps/
Description: A Hitchcock masterpiece. A juicy spy novel. A colossal dash of Monty Python. Shake it all up…It’s The 39 Steps! A cast of four actors plays over 150 characters in this Tony-winning, laugh-out-loud, lightning-paced whodunit!
The Minutes
By: Tracy Letts
Directed by: Sydney Parks Smith
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: The Lincoln Center - Magnolia Theatre
City: Fort Collins
Price: $34-39
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/minutes/
Description: This razor-sharp comedy by the Pulitzer-winning author of August: Osage County, exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers.
Agnes of God
By: John Pielmeier
Directed by: Jessica Emerling Crow
Event Date(s): May 09 2025 - May 24 2025
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: TBA
City: Fort Collins
Price: $27
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/agnes-god/
Description: The murder of a newborn in a convent warrants the expertise of Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, to determine the mental state of the accused novice. Agnes of God examines where science, religion, fact, and devotion intersect.
Pride and Prejudice
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Heather Ostberg Johnson
Event Date(s): Jun 07 2025 - Jul 12 2025
Type of Event: Live performance (in person)
Venue: The Park at Columbine Health Systems
City: Fort Collins
Price: $34-39
Reference Link: https://openstage.com/show/pride-prejudice/
Description: This isn’t your great auntie’s Austen! Literature’s classic romance has never felt so full of life as it does in this effervescent adaptation. In the park and under the stars! Walk in, bike in, or drive in! Featuring nightly food trucks.
Pippin
By: Music by Stephen Schwartz, Book by Roger O. Hirsorn
Directed by: Robert Michael Sanders
Event Date(s): Aug 07 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Denver Center for the Performing Arts
City: Denver
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://phamaly.org/show/pippin/
Description: A journey of self-discovery featuring Stephen Schwartz’s unforgettable music and the timeless theme of finding your “corner of the sky.”
Promise on the Hill: A West Colfax Memory
By: Anthony J. Garcia and Max Appel
Directed by: Anthony J. Garcia
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play with music
Venue: Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center
City: Denver
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.suteatro.org
Description: The Fiddler's children escaped the "pograms" of Eastern Europe, bringing their hope and determination to the U.S., eventually moving to Colorado. Their children, transforming it. Philanthropist/entrepreneur Max Appel's life chronicles their dreams and contributions.
The Book Club Play
By: Karen Zacharias
Directed by: Steve Wilson
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play/Comedy
Venue: Theatre SilCo
City: Silverthorne
Price: $38 - 55
Reference Link: https://www.thesilco.org
Description: A hit comedy about books and the people who love them. When the members of a devoted book club become the subjects of a documentary filmmaker, their long-standing group dynamics take a hilarious turn. Add a provocative new member, some eyebrow-raising new book titles, and this gathering of six bibliophiles is about to spiral out of control.
Steel Magnolias
By: Robert Harling
Directed by: Missy Moore
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2025 - Jul 30 2025
Type of Event: Play/Comedy
Venue: Theatre SilCo
City: Silverthorne
Price: $38-55
Reference Link: https://www.thesilco.org
Description: Truvy’s salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana is the place for a beauty fix with a hearty side of gossip. People gather from all over as Truvy pampers her small-town clients with hairdos, manicures and all kinds of unsolicited advice.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schrek
Directed by: TBA
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theatre SilCo
City:
Price: $38-55
Reference Link: https://www.thesilco.org
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
Escape to Margaritaville
By: Book by Garcia & O'Malley, music and lyrics by Jimmy Buffett
Directed by: Dir: Chris Alleman, Chor: Ian Coultur-Buford
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Theatre SilCo
City:
Price: $38-55
Reference Link: https://www.thesilco.org
Description: Imagine a place where the sun is hot, the ocean’s warm, and the drinks are as cold as they are plentiful. Welcome to Margaritaville, the island paradise where city folk gather to get away from it all and stay to find something they never expected!
Henry IV & V
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Max Shulman
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/henry-iv-v
Description: From throne room to tavern to the battlefield and back, witness this epic interrogation of the steep cost of power to those who wield it, those who lose it and the nation that must choose its leaders wisely. This sweeping production promises an explosive opening to the season!
Sense & Sensibility
By: Kate Hamill, adapt. from Jane Austen
Directed by: Caitlin Lowans
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theatre, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/sense-and-sensibility
Description: Sisterhood and scandal, romance and rumors, high society and...horses? Jane Austen's Dashwood family bubbles with wit and warmth in this energetic, family-friendly adaptation of the classic novel.
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jenna Moll Reyes
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/heart-sellers-theatreworks
Description: Thanksgiving dinner looms over a grocery store in 1970s America, when Luna and Jane, immigrants from the Philippines and Korea and both medical student wives, strike up a conversation over matching coats and matching challenges.
Turn of the Screw
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Henry James
Directed by: Kristin Skye Hoffmann
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/turn-screw-theatreworks
Description: An isolated manor on the windswept moors, an unsuspecting governess, her two enigmatic young charges, secrets lurking around every corner. Henry James's classic novella has terrified audiences for over a hundred years, and this new stage adaptation heightens the mystery!
Silent Sky
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Caitlin Lowans
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/silent-sky-theatreworks
Description: The year is 1900 and the Harvard Observatory is no place for a woman...unless of course she's crunching numbers for a man. Not to be dissuaded, Henrietta Leavitt begins to record her observations of Cepheid stars, and changes the way we see the night sky the universe forever.
Flyin’ West
By: Pearl Cleage
Directed by: Marisa Hébert
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2025 - Jul 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, Ent Center for the Arts
City: Colorado Springs
Price: $30.50-49.00 including fees, limited $10 tickets
Reference Link: https://entcenterforthearts.org/events/flyn-west-theatreworks
Description: In 1890s Kansas, the homesteading Dove sisters are proud of their land and of the all-Black town of Nicodemus. Soon they find themselves contending with speculators attempting to buy up their town from outside and an unsavory brother-in-law who might break up their family.
Connecticut
The Moors
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Kristen Palmer
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Nafe Katter Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $12 - 35
Reference Link: crt.uconn.edu
Description: Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a governess and a moor-hen set them on a strange, dangerous path. A deliciously dark comedy about desperation and visibility. "Eminently entertaining" -- The Guardian
The Old Man and the Old Moon
By: Book, Music and Lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co.
Directed by: Matthew Sorensen
Event Date(s): Nov 14 2024 - Nov 23 2024
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $12 - 40
Reference Link: crt.uconn.edu
Description: The Old Man is the moon's sole caretaker. When his wife is lured away by a mysterious melody, he must decide between duty and love. An imaginative seafaring epic encompassing storms, civil wars, a giant fish, and grouchy ghosts. A glorious music- and puppet-filled adventure.
Pocatello
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Paul Mullins
Event Date(s): Mar 27 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $12 - 35
Reference Link: crt.uconn.edu
Description: Eddie manages an Italian chain restaurant in a city being paved over with strip malls and franchises. As pressures mount he strives to keep his hometown feeling like home, one soup and salad special at a time. A heartbreaking comedy about love and connection in a shifting world.
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Vince Tycer
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Nafe Katter Theatre
City: Storrs
Price: $12 - 45
Reference Link: crt.uconn.edu
Description: CRT celebrates our 75th season with Shakespeare’s joyful 15th century rom-com, replete with intrigue, hijinks, mistaken identity, and a conniving ne’er-do-well. Can true love triumph over deceit, and will Beatrice and Benedick discover the spark beneath their sparring? Come see!
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By: Jeffrey Hatcher, adapt. from Robert Louis Stevenson
Directed by: Melia Bensussen
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/jekyll-and-hyde38d
Description: When the well-respected Dr. Jekyll investigates the mayhem being wrought on the streets of London, he becomes suspicious of the mysterious Mr. Hyde. In pursuing this shady figure, Jekyll’s life begins to unravel. To what lengths will we go to hide our true selves?
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
By: Michael Wilson, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Michael Wilson
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/a-christmas-carol
Description: Hartford's beloved holiday tradition is back! Join Scrooge and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future on this journey of redemption in a mesmerizing display of theatrical magic and wonder.
Two Trains Running
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Gilbert McCauley
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/two-trains-running
Description: Amid the economic turbulence of Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1969, diner owner Memphis Lee finds himself at a juncture: He can either maintain his much-beloved neighborhood spot or sell it, changing the lives of its big-hearted regulars.
Laughs in Spanish
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Lisa Portes
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/laughs-in-spanish
Description: Ay, dios mío! It’s the eve of Art Basel in Miami and gallery director Mari is freaking out. Stylish and hilarious, Laughs in Spanish is a vibrant collage of chaos, cultura, and connection.
Romeo & Juliet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Melia Bensussen
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/romeo-and-juliet
Description: An intoxicating blend of tragedy and hope, the spark of young love is ignited in Romeo & Juliet. Artistic Director Melia Bensussen brings this Shakespeare classic to life, in a romantic production rife with desire (and sword fighting!).
Hurricane Diane
By: Madeleine George
Directed by: Zoë Golub-Sass
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hartford Stage
City: Hartford
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.hartfordstage.org/hurricane-diane
Description: The cosmic clock is ticking and at the eleventh hour, Diane discovers the fate of humanity is buried in a New Jersey suburb and that – oh, gods! – only the housewives can save us.
Artistic Congress
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Conference
Venue: Yale Schwarzman Center
City: New Haven
Price: $100.00
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/artistic-congress/
Description: Join Long Wharf Theatre and Yale Schwarzman Center for a weekend conference on theatre's role in democracy. Featuring artists, scholars, and neighbors, we'll explore how art bridges civic spaces and activates community stories. Let's humanize and impact positive change together.
Black Trans Women at the Center: A New Play Festival
By: Various
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 19 2024 - Nov 19 2024
Type of Event: New Play Festival
Venue: Online/Virtual
City: Online/Virtual
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/5th-black-trans-women-at-the-center/
Description: Experience the fifth annual Black Trans Women at the Center: Virtual New Play Festival at Long Wharf Theatre, led by Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi. Witness new works from Black trans women in a digital showcase, including her latest piece, Shapeshifter. Don't miss this powerful event.
She Loves Me
By: Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), Joe Masteroff (book)
Directed by: Jacob G. Padrón
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The LAB at ConnCORP
City: New Haven
Price: $10-$53
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/she-loves-me/
Description: Step into 1934 Budapest as Long Wharf Theatre transforms the Lab at ConnCORP. Artistic director Jacob G. Padrón and Grammy-nominated Andy Einhorn present a stripped-down She Loves Me, focusing on raw emotion. Join us for a journey of romance, connection, and hope.
El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom
By: Matt Barbot
Directed by: Kinan Valdez
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Lyman Center at Southern CT State University
City: New Haven
Price: $10-$53
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/el-coqui-espectacular/
Description: Meet El Coquí Espectacular, the Puerto Rican superhero from Brooklyn! Follow Alex, a comic book artist battling self-doubt and the lure of a steady job. Long Wharf Theatre presents an action-packed, heartwarming story of heroism both on and off the page. Don't miss it!
Unbecoming Tragedy: A Ritual Journey Toward Destiny
By: Terrence Riggins
Directed by: Cheyenne Barboza
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Off Broadway Theatre
City: New Haven
Price: $10-$53
Reference Link: https://longwharf.org/shows-events/unbecoming-tragedy/
Description: In a solitary prison cell, a failed actor transforms his confinement into an unlikely stage. Long Wharf Theatre and Collective Consciousness Theatre present Unbecoming Tragedy, a world premiere exploring vulnerability, resilience, and the human spirit.
Fever Dreams (of Animals on the Verge of Extinction)
By: Jeffrey Lieber
Directed by: Rob Ruggiero
Event Date(s): Oct 03 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Subscription Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/fever-dreams/
Description: A steamy, decades-long affair. A remote cabin. An unexpected visitor. This is only the beginning for the exciting new play from the mind of writer Jeffrey Lieber, co-creator of the hit television series Lost.
Christmas on the Rocks
By: John Cariani, Judy Gold, Jenn Harris, Jeffrey Hatcher, Jacques Lamarre, Edwin Sánchez, Matthew Wilkas
Directed by: Rob Ruggiero
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Holiday Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/christmas-on-the-rocks-24/
Description: Connecticut's favorite twisted holiday tradition returns! It’s Christmas Eve in a rundown local bar. Expecting a silent night, the bartender finds himself mixing drinks for a parade of surprising (and familiar) guests who come to pour out their Christmas woes in this parody.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Rob Ruggiero
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Subscription Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/king-james/
Description: From Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph comes a celebration of friendship and fandom. It's 2004. LeBron James is just the hero Cleveland needs. Two strangers eat, sleep, and dream in the language of basketball while forging a deep bond over their worship of "The King."
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Subscription Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $25-78
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/primary-trust/
Description: Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize, this heartfelt new play is a touching and inventive tale of lost dreams, new beginnings, and old friends. When Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker, is suddenly laid off, he is forced to face a world he's long avoided.
Your Name Means Dream
By: José Rivera
Directed by: José Rivera
Event Date(s): Jun 03 2025 - Jul 06 2025
Type of Event: Subscription Play
Venue: TheaterWorks Hartford
City: Hartford
Price: $45-70
Reference Link: https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/your-name-means-dream/
Description: An evocative new play from Academy Award nominee José Rivera. We’re in the not-too-distant future. Aislin is old and isolated in her messy New York City walk-up. She pines for a simpler analog past, when her son sends a sensational new caretaker who is not quite...human.
Fools’ Paradise
By: Jonathan Winn
Directed by: James Dean Palmer
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Crystal Theatre
City: Norwalk
Price: $15-$79
Reference Link: https://thrownstone.org/fools-paradise
Description: Two couples embark on the getaway of a lifetime at an opulent Caribbean resort when a sudden emergency derails their plans. As the situation unfolds, rifts in worldview threaten their bonds of friendship, their self-conception, and ultimately, their survival.
Delaware
Shrek
By: Jeanine Tesori (music), David Lindsay-Abaire (book)
Directed by: David Button
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 10 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Celebration Hall Theatre
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.clearspacetheatre.org/shows/shrek/
Description: One of your favorite animated films comes to life! "Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek...." And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue.
Venus in Fur
By: David Ives
Directed by: David Button
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Celebration Hall Theatre
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $34.50
Reference Link: https://https://www.clearspacetheatre.org/shows/venus-in-fur/
Description: A crackling exploration of sexual control and desire, Venus in Fur combines David Ives’s legendary rigor, wit, and wild humor.
Sweeney Todd
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), Hugh Wheeler (book)
Directed by: David Button
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Celebration Hall Theatre
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $34.50
Reference Link: https://https://www.clearspacetheatre.org/shows/sweeney-todd/
Description: Sweeney Todd, an unjustly imprisoned barber, returns to London seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.
White Christmas
By: Irving Berlin (music & lyrics), David Ives & Paul Blake (book)
Directed by: David Button
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Theatrical Production
Venue: Celebration Hall Theatre
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $34.50
Reference Link: https://www.clearspacetheatre.org/shows/white-christmas/
Description: A holiday tradition on the big screen since 1954, the stage musical will warm your heart once more. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II ends.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
By: Book and lyrics by Tom MacRae, music by Dan Gillespie Sells, from an idea by Jonathan Butterall
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://clearspacetheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/events/a0SVt000000KCOPMA4
Description: At 16, Jamie New knows what he wants to be when he grows up: a drag queen. But in industrial Sheffield England, he has a mountain to climb to make his dreams come true. But with his loving mum, a steadfast teacher, and his friends on his side, Jaime overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies, and steps out of the darkness into the spotlight.
Oklahoma!
By: Music by Richard Rogers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $38.50
Reference Link: https://clearspacetheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/events/a0SVt000000H56XMAS
Description: At the turn of the century, only one stretch of land in America remained untamed: the territory that would become the state of Oklahoma. Living on the unspoiled land were farmers and their families---and the cowmen looking to find a future.
Beetlejuice, JR
By: Music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect, book by Scott Brown and Anthony King
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $21.50
Reference Link: https://clearspacetheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/events/a0SVt000000HGErMAO
Description: A Spotlight on Young performers production, Beetlejuice Jr. brings the ghost-with-the-most in this irreverent musical comedy based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film.
Spring Awakening
By: Book and lyrics by Steven Slater, music by Duncan Sheik
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $38.50
Reference Link: https://clearspacetheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/events/a0SVt000000H64DMAS
Description: In every era, there comes a moment when the next generation changes the narrative, rips away the mistakes of the past, and tries to build a new future on their own terms.
Buyer & Cellar
By: By Jonathan Tolins
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 29 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Musical Drama
Venue:
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $38.50
Reference Link: https://clearspacetheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/events/a0SVt000000H6DtMAK
Description: A tour-de-force one man play that took New York by storm comes to Clear Space headlined by audience favorite Christopher Decker. This hit comedy imagines what might transpire when an unemployed Hollywood actor goes to work in Barbara Streisand’s basement: an underground private shopping mall beneath her Malibu home.
Hairspray
By: Music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the John Waters film
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 24 2025 - Aug 30 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $38.50
Reference Link: https://clearspacetheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/events/a0SVt000000H6PBMA0
Description: Tracy Turnblad may be a bigger girl than the usual teen heartthrobs who dance on the Corny Collins Show, but when she gets her chance to shine, she does more than light up the stage---she changes lives…her mother’s, her community’s, and even her own.
Beautiful The Carole King Musical
By: Words and music by Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, book by Douglas McGrath
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 27 2025 - Aug 28 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $28.50
Reference Link: https://clearspacetheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/events/a0SVt000000HFHBMA4
Description: Carole King is the voice of a generation---but before she was a hit-maker and a household name, she was a spunky, young songwriter from Brooklyn with a unique voice.
Rent
By: Book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Larsen
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 02 2025 - Aug 26 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Rehoboth Beach
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://clearspacetheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/events/a0SVt000000HFNdMAO
Description: It was a moment when anything seemed possible in New York City: art, love, and fame. It was a time when young artists created the beating heart of the city, ready to find the untapped potential for joy and passion.
Every Brilliant Thing
By: Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Directed by: Matt Silva
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/every-brilliant-thing
Description: “Ice cream.” “Water fights.” “Staying up past your bedtime.” A handwritten list of the small joys that make life worth living becomes immersive storytelling, providing a life-affirming jolt of humanism and reminding us that hope comes from life’s smallest miracles.
Home for the Holidays in the 302
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/home-for-the-holidays
Description: White Christmas meets The Ed Sullivan Show in DTC’s first annual holiday extravaganza! Celebrate community and family with this dazzling mix of local talent, song, dance, and cheer. Sure to be the holiday event in Wilmington this year!
Tuesdays With Morrie
By: Jeffrey Hatcher & Mitch Albom, adapt. from Albom
Directed by: Matt Silva
Event Date(s): Feb 19 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/tuesdays-with-morrie
Description: Prof. Morrie Schwartz and his former student Mitch Albom reunite for one final lesson: The meaning of life. Based on the best-selling memoir of all-time, Tuesdays With Morrie is a powerful, emotional exploration of humanity, compassion, and enduring friendship.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
By: Phaedra Michelle Scott & Alan Govenar (book, adapt. from Alan Govenar)
Directed by: Tamara Tunie
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/stompin-at-the-savoy
Description: Ida Moore dreams of being a dancer at the Savoy Ballroom in 1930s Harlem, but learns life on the dance floor is simpler than reality. Inspired by the Queen of Swing dance, Norma Miller, this world premiere musical electrifies the stage with the timeless rhythm of big-band jazz.
Kinky Boots
By: Cyndi Lauper (music & lyrics), Harvey Fierstein (book, adapt. from Geoff Deane & Tim Firth)
Directed by: Lena Mucchetti
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Delaware Theatre Company
City: Wilmington
Price: $32-70
Reference Link: https://www.delawaretheatre.org/kinky-boots
Description: This Tony-winning musical celebrates the power of true acceptance with a joy that will “raise you up!” Featuring a sensational score, knockout dancing, and a story with a huge heart, this show is filled with glitter, glam, and a whole lot of sole!
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Stephen Pelinski
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Gore Recital Hall
City: Newark
Price: $15-20
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/what-the-constitution-means-to-me
Description: Challenging, hopeful, and funny---this groundbreaking play makes a sharp analysis of the biases inherent in the Constitution and imagines how this founding document could shape the next generation of Americans.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]
By: Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield
Directed by: Steve Tague
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Thompson Theatre
City: Newark
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/the-complete-works-of-william-shakespeare
Description: This fast-paced comedy is guaranteed to have both lovers and haters of Shakespeare in stitches as it covers all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in just one night.
Rough Crossing
By: Tom Stoppard
Directed by: Ian Belknap
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Thompson Theatre
City: Newark
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/rough-crossing
Description: A hilarious farce in which two playwrights, one jealous composer, and most of the cast of a Broadway-bound show attempt to simultaneously finish writing and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner.
Misery
By: William Goldman, adapt. from Stephen King
Directed by: Michael Gotch
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Thompson Theatre
City: Newark
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/misery
Description: This terrifying psychological thriller follows the disturbed mind of a former nurse as she holds her favorite author captive. As the author struggles to escape, he realizes that the biggest challenge of his life will be surviving the wrath of his “number one fan."
King Lear
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jackson Gay
Event Date(s): Apr 10 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Roselle Center for the Arts- Thompson Theatre
City: Newark
Price: $20-39
Reference Link: https://www.rep.udel.edu/presentations/king-lear
Description: King Lear has decided to end his reign and divide his country among his three daughters. Loyalties are misjudged and Lear soon finds himself stripped of everything that once defined him. A classic tale full of betrayal and chaos that only the Bard could weave.
District Of Columbia
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Whitney White
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/2024-25-season/jajas-african-hair-braiding/
Description: Follow the uproarious escapades of Marie, Bea, Miriam, Aminata, Ndidi, Jaja, and others as they navigate life and laughter in Jaja's bustling hair braiding salon.
The Other Americans
By: John Leguizamo
Directed by: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/2024-25-season/the-other-americans/
Description: Emmy winner John Leguizamo stars as Nelson Castro, a Colombian-American laundromat owner grappling with a failing business and buried secrets.
Data
By: Matthew Libby
Directed by: Margot Bordelon
Event Date(s): Oct 31 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/2024-25-season/data/
Description: Matthew Libby's intriguingly suspenseful and relevant new play Data takes you behind the locked doors of Silicon Valley.
Death on the Nile
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Hana S. Sharif
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/nile/
Description: In Ken Ludwig's thrilling adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot becomes entangled in a web of deceit and desire aboard a cruise ship on the Nile River.
The Bedwetter – A New Musical
By: Sarah Silverman
Directed by: Anne Kauffman
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arena Stage
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/bedwetter
Description: Meet sarah. She's funny. She's foul-mouthed. She's 10. Sarah faces a new school, her parents’ divorce, and an embarrassing secret you’ll never guess (unless you read the title) as Emmy winner Silverman’s bestselling memoir comes to life in The Bedwetter - A New Musical.
The Age of Innocence
By: By Edith Wharton, adapted for the stage by Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Hana S. Sharif
Event Date(s): Feb 28 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington, D.C.
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/innocence
Description: Against the lavish backdrop of 1870s New York, where hypocrisy thrives and hidden passions simmer, Karen Zacarías brings Edith Wharton's timeless masterpiece, The Age of Innocence, to the stage.
Fake It Until You Make It
By: Larissa FastHorse
Directed by: Michael John Garcés
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington, D.C.
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/fake
Description: A door-slamming, mistaken identity satirical farce from Larissa FastHorse. In this uproarious comedy, a collision of friends and foes within the non-profit sector sets the stage for a whirlwind of competition, chaos, and comedic revelation.
We Are Gathered
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington D.C
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/gathered
Description: A new play about queer love and forest magic from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonlight. Wilson and Free met in a dark park searching for fun not expecting to find love, light, and each other. Now a milestone anniversary has got them wondering if they have met Mr. Right or a long one-night stand with a lovely Mr. Maybe?
A Wrinkle in Time – A New Musical
By: Book by Lauren Yee Music and lyrics by Heather Christian Based on the novel written by Madeleine L'Engle
Directed by: Lee Sunday Evans
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2025 - Jul 20 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arena Stage
City: Washington, D.C.
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.arenastage.org/wrinkle
Description: Meg Murry's father was experimenting with time travel and the fifth dimension when he mysteriously disappeared. Now, Meg, her friend Calvin, and her younger brother Charles Wallace must race to rescue him.
Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Raymond O. Caldwell
Event Date(s): Oct 01 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-84
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/romeo-and-juliet/
Description: In a violent world, two young people from warring families fall in love. How can they safeguard their future when the systems meant to protect them fail?
A Room in the Castle
By: Lauren M. Gunderson
Directed by: Kaja Dunn
Event Date(s): Mar 04 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-84
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/a-room-in-the-castle/
Description: This world premiere retelling of Hamlet from the perspective of the women of the story offers up what it's like to be on the other end of a wild prince's antics while delivering a message of defiant hope.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Mei Ann Teo
Event Date(s): May 13 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Folger Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-84
Reference Link: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/twelfth-night/
Description: Viola washes up on the shore after losing her twin brother in a shipwreck. A playful interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy that brings gender fluidity, mistaken identities, and what it means to move between worlds into a joyful discovery of love.
Fuenteovejuna
By: Lope de Vega (Version by Juan Mayorga)
Directed by: José Luis Arellano
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: GALA Hispanic Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-55
Reference Link: https://www.galatheatre.org/post/fuenteovejuna
Description: One of the most famous plays by Spain's Golden Age master, Fuenteovejuna tells the true story of a town where women lead an uprising against a tyrannical leader, taking up arms and confronting the abuse of power.
Once Upon A Time… And Two Are Three (Érase una vez… ¡y dos son tres!
By: Manuel Chapuseaux
Directed by: Esteban Marmolejo
Event Date(s): Mar 15 2025 - Mar 29 2025
Type of Event: Play for children
Venue: GALA Hispanic Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $10-12
Reference Link: https://www.galatheatre.org/post/%C3%A9rase-una-vez
Description: In this bilingual show with colorful puppets, folktales from Spain, Africa, and pre-Columbian America reveal the diversity of who we are today.
Choke (Sucede hasta en las mejores familias)
By: Emilio Infante
Directed by: Rebecca Aparicio
Event Date(s): Apr 24 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: GALA Hispanic Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-55
Reference Link: https://www.galatheatre.org/post/sucede-hasta-en-las-mejores-familias
Description: Esperanza & Gonzalo worked hard to give an opportunity to their daughter, a professional living in L.A. But a medical problem unleashes intergenerational and racial conflict in the family, parallel to an environmental battle against a corporation. A portrait of today's America.
Columbia Heights Bolero Bar (Botiquín de boleros)
By: Rubén León
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Jun 11 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Cabaret-style musical
Venue: GALA Hispanic Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $20-55
Reference Link: https://www.galatheatre.org/post/botiqu%C3%ADn-de-boleros
Description: In this cabaret-style immersive musical featuring famous boleros, patrons attend the reopening of a Columbia heights bar and share their stories of heartbreak. Audiences are invited to participate with their own love stories, as they enjoy beloved bolero music.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
By: Lanie Robertson
Directed by: Reginald L. Douglas
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $42-80
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/lady-day-at-emersons-bar-and-grill
Description: Journey back to 1959 for an unforgettable rendezvous with Lady Day herself—the incomparable Billie Holiday, performed by D.C. legend Roz White in the role she was born to play.
Postmortem
By: Marilyn Ness
Directed by: Sheryl Kaller
Event Date(s): Sep 08 2024 - Sep 12 2024
Type of Event: Workshop
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $25
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/202425-season
Description: Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Marilyn Ness’ playwriting debut, Postmortem, combines true crime with family drama to tell a story about one woman’s reckoning with her difficult childhood.
The Art of Care
By:
Directed by: Derek Goldman
Event Date(s): Oct 31 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $42-70
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/the-art-of-care
Description: One of the most profound experiences we all share is how we care for, and are cared for by, others. The Art of Care is an innovative world premiere theatrical event exploring this common thread of our humanity at a time in our world when care often feels in short supply.
Out of Character
By: Ari'el Stachel
Directed by: Tony Taccone
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington DC
Price: $11.99-49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/out-of-character/
Description: Tony winner Ari’el Stachel’s one-man show brings to life a full ensemble of characters from his past, availing uproarious laughter, insight, and transformative performance to illuminate what it means to pursue---and accept---our complex identity. A co-production with Theater J.
cullud wattah
By: Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Directed by: Danielle A. Drakes
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $40-70
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/cullud-wattah
Description: This powerful new play by Princess Grace Award winner Erika Dickerson-Despenza deconstructs the linear passage of time to ponder the choices we make for the sake of our survival. cullud wattah honors the people behind the headlines.
Andy Warhol in Iran
By: Brent Askari
Directed by: Serge Seiden
Event Date(s): May 29 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Mosaic Theater Company of DC
City: Washington DC
Price: $42-70
Reference Link: https://mosaictheater.org/andy-warhol-in-iran
Description: In 1976, pop artist Andy Warhol travels to Tehran to paint a portrait of the Shah of Iran’s wife. Amid taking in the Crown Jewels and indulging in room-service caviar, Warhol encounters a young Persian revolutionary who throws his plans into turmoil.
How To Be A Korean Woman
By: Sun Mee Chomet
Directed by: Zaraawar Mistry
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $69.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/how-to-be-a-korean-woman-24-25-season/
Description: Sun Mee's poignant and hilarious one-woman show is a personal tale of the artist's search for her birth mother in Seoul, Korea. This heartfelt performance uses text, music, and movement to explore themes of family, love, adulthood, and the universal longing to know one’s past.
Prayer for the French Republic
By: Joshua Harmon
Directed by: Hayley Finn
Event Date(s): Oct 30 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/prayer-for-the-french-republic/
Description: A new-play favorite on Broadway and 2024 Best Play Tony nominee, Joshua Harmon’s Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award-winning epic family drama breaks open the global question: Where are we safe?
Out of Character
By: Ari'el Stachel
Directed by: Tony Taccone
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/out-of-character/
Description: Tony Award-winner Ari’el Stachel’s one-man show brings to life a full ensemble of characters from his past, availing uproarious laughter, insight, and transformative performance to illuminate what it means to pursue---and accept---our complex identity. A co-production with the Mosaic Theater Company.
Your Name Means Dream
By: José Rivera
Directed by: José Rivera
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $11.99-$49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/your-name-means-dream/
Description: Internationally acclaimed playwright José Rivera directs his edge-of-our-current-time, profoundly intimate tragicomedy that asks what it means to be human as we embrace the technology of our future---and it embraces us.
The Berlin Diaries
By: Andrea Stolowitz
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Theater J
City: Washington
Price: $11.99-$49.99
Reference Link: https://www.edcjcc.org/theater-j/show/the-berlin-diaries/
Description: Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy that propels her on a search for home, heritage, and repairing her own story within the Jewish diaspora.
The Comeuppance
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Morgan Green
Event Date(s): Sep 08 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: Washington
Price: $35-47, PWYW
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/productions/the-comeuppance
Description: On the night of their 20th high school reunion, the self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” reconnects while they pregame in Prince George’s County, Md. But amid the flow of reminiscing, an otherworldly presence forces these former classmates to face the past.
The Ford/Hill Project
By: Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel
Directed by: Lee Sunday Evans
Event Date(s): Oct 07 2024 - Oct 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: Washington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/whats-on/fall-and-summer-lineup/
Description: This excavation of the testimonies of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford is revisited in the nation’s capital in a special debut presentation of a new play.
The Second City’s Dance Like There’s Black People Watching
By:
Directed by: Rob Wilson
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Improv
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: Washington
Price: $35-47, PWYW
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/productions/dance-like-theres-black-peopl/
Description: From the creators of Black Side of the Moon and She the People, The Second City returns to Woolly Mammoth, now delivering a dose of brilliant Black Joy. The hilarious brand-new show, created exclusively for Woolly Mammoth, features the troupe's world-renowned improv.
GUAC
By: Manuel Oliver and co-written by James Clements
Directed by: Michael Cotey
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Theatrical Piece
Venue: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
City: Washington
Price: Tickets start at $30
Reference Link: https://www.woollymammoth.net/productions/guac/
Description: Fearless and pulling zero punches, GUAC is a one-man tour-de-force theatrical experience about a father turned activist, his undying love for his son, and the story of an immigrant family in search of the American Dream, instead to be confronted by a uniquely American nightmare.
Hand to God
By: Robert Askins
Directed by: Josh Sticklin
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Keegan Theatre
City: Washington
Price: $44-54
Reference Link: https://keegantheatre.com/portfolio/hand-to-god/
Description: After the death of his father, meek Jason finds an outlet for his anxiety at the Christian Puppet Ministry, in the devoutly religious, relatively quiet small town of Cypress, Texas. Jason’s complicated relationships with the town pastor, the school bully, the girl next door, and—most especially—his mother are thrown into upheaval when Jason’s puppet, Tyrone, takes on a shocking personality all its own.
Florida
Ring of Fire
By: Richard Maltby Jr. & John Cash
Directed by: Helen R. Murray
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Arts and Culture
Venue: The Raymond James Theatre
City: Saint Petersburg
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://www.americanstage.org/shows/ring-of-fire
Description: A toe-tapping tribute to the Man in Black. Picture this: It's a hot summer night in the heart of the American South. The air is thick with anticipation as the stage lights dim and the first chords of a familiar tune ring out. That's the scene set for "Ring of Fire."
Anna in the Tropics
By: Nilo Cruz
Directed by: Marcela Lorca
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2025 - Mar 13 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue:
City: Sarasota, Florida
Price: Starting at $35.00
Reference Link: https://asolorep.org
Description: Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer-winning masterpiece has been hailed by The New York Times as "a hymn to the transforming and potentially dangerous powers of art."
Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
Directed by: Joe Dowling
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Asolo Repertory Theatre
City: Sarasota, Florida
Price: Starting at $35.00
Reference Link: https://asolorep.org
Description: Music and memory draw you back to the 1930s in this lyrical, effervescent portrait of five fierce sisters holding onto each other through the joys and sorrows of life in rural Ireland.
Good Night, Oscar
By: Doug Wright
Directed by: Peter Amster
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - Apr 26 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Asolo Repertory Theatre
City: Sarasota, Florida
Price: Starting at $35.00
Reference Link: https://asolorep.org
Description: A multi-hyphenate talent famous for his film appearances in An American in Paris and The Band Wagon, Levant was a fearless truth teller, a brilliant pianist, and an over-medicated neurotic mess---a unique cocktail that made him a difficult person and a brilliant talk show guest.
Jesus Christ Superstar
By: Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Tim Rice, Music Direction by Jenny Kim-Godfrey
Directed by: Directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes
Event Date(s): May 17 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Asolo Repertory Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: Starting at $35.00
Reference Link: https://asolorep.org
Description: Love, betrayal, and redemption. Under the hot Judean sun, tempers fray and a rogue apostle questions his Messiah, who in turn questions his God. The choices they make will change the course of the world---forever.
Always A Bridesmaid
By: Jones Hope Wooten
Directed by: Anna Fisher
Event Date(s): Feb 20 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $30-55
Reference Link: https://www.emeraldcoasttheatre.org/
Description: In this comedic romp a la Golden Girls, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their senior prom: to be in each other’s weddings…no matter what. More than 30 years later, these friends-for-life are still determined to honor that vow.
Legally Blonde The Musical
By: Music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and a book by Heather Hach.
Directed by: Nathanael Fisher
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Emerald Coast Theatre Company
City: Miramar Beach
Price: $30-55
Reference Link: https://www.emeraldcoasttheatre.org/
Description: The musical follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. Very few people have faith in the blonde, pink-wearing sorority girl, but she manages to surprise them when she defies expectations while staying true to herself.
Forever Plaid
By: Written and Originally Directed and Choreographed by Stuart Ross; Musical Continuity Supervision and Arrangements by James Raitt
Directed by: Michael Marotta
Event Date(s): Sep 17 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: ArtStage Studio Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $67
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/forever-plaid/
Description: Celebrate the music of the 1950s in this nostalgic, funny---and heavenly---musical revue! When tragedy strikes on the way to their first big gig, four pals Sparky, Smudge, Jinx, and Frankie, united by their love of music, get to perform a show-stopping concert in the afterlife.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
By: Mark Shanahan, adapted from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Charles Morey
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Murder Mystery Play
Venue: Historic Arcade Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $67
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/agatha-christies-the-murder-of-roger-ackroyd/
Description: Hailed as one of Agatha Christie’s best-known stories and voted “best crime novel ever” by the British Crime Writers’ Association, this suspenseful whodunit features a mysterious cast of suspects guarding secrets about blackmail and murder---and only the great Hercule Poirot can sort it all out.
Fully Committed
By: Becky Mode
Directed by: Gus Kaikkonen
Event Date(s): Dec 10 2024 - Jan 12 2025
Type of Event: Comedy Play
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $67
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/fully-committed/
Description: This devastatingly funny one-man tour-de-force follows a day in the life of Sam, an out-of-work actor manning the red-hot reservation line at Manhattan’s No. 1 restaurant. Coercion, threats, bribes, and histrionics---these desperate callers will stop at nothing to score a table!
Lucky Stiff
By: Lynn Ahrens (book & lyrics), Stephen Flaherty (music)
Directed by: Jason Parrish
Event Date(s): Jan 07 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $71
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/lucky-stiff/
Description: Something funny is going on in this offbeat musical murder mystery filled with mistaken identities, misconstrued intentions, a $6 million inheritance to win, missing diamonds, dogs, and an omnipresent corpse.
Bloomsday
By: Steven Dietz
Directed by: Maureen Heffernan
Event Date(s): Jan 28 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Play - Drama
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $67
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/bloomsday/
Description: Dancing backward through time, Robert and Cait retrace their steps and discover their younger selves, Robbie and Caithleen. Told with wit, humor, and heartache, Bloomsday is a buoyant, moving story about making the most of the present before it becomes the past.
Boca
By: Jessica Provenz
Directed by: Chris Clavelli
Event Date(s): Feb 11 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Comedy Play
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $67
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/boca/
Description: This brand-new not-to-be-missed comedy follows a group of retirees who---between golf, bridge, and Botox---can be found dishing gossip and living it up like they’re teenagers again. Through it all, they find the key to happiness lies within their own community.
Shout! The Mod Musical
By: Phillip George & David Lowenstein, with continuity by Peter Morris
Directed by: Jason Parrish
Event Date(s): Mar 18 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $71
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/shout-the-mod-musical/
Description: The powerful women and smashing sounds that made England swing in the 1960s come to musical life in this non-stop revue! Shout! features the infectious, soulful pop anthems and ballads that made household names of Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Lulu, Shirley Bassey, and more.
Venus in Fur
By: David Ives
Directed by: Chris Clavelli
Event Date(s): Apr 15 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play - Drama
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $67
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/venus-in-fur/
Description: Venus in Fur is a laugh-out-loud study of the politics of sex and power that’s guaranteed to charm and mesmerize. This production references mature sexual topics such as S&M, bondage, pornography, prostitution, sexual abuse, and adultery, and has scantily clad characters.
2025 PlayLab: Festival of New Works
By: Playwrights Coming Soon!
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: New Works, Play Readings
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
City: Fort Myers
Price: $TBA
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/show/playlab-2025/
Description: PlayLab is an intensive weekend festival that showcases new plays and new voices in the American Theatre! Join us this spring for an action-packed weekend of readings, panel discussions, networking events, and more.
Waitress
By: Jessie Nelson (book), Sara Bareilles (music & lyrics)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Featuring music and lyrics by Grammy winner Sara Bareilles (“Love Song,” “Brave”), Waitress is the story of Jenna, a waitress and expert pie-maker who dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.
59th Street Bridge
By: Rebecca Hopkins & Richard Hopkins, arr. by Jim Prosser
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Apr 12 2025
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $37
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: In the '60s and '70s, a groovy new sound reshaped music, led by icons like John Denver, Simon & Garfunkel, and Carole King. This electrifying revue features timeless hits like “Mrs. Robinson” and “Annie’s Song.”
The Heart Sellers
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 17 2024 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Jane and Luna, two Asian immigrant women in their early 20s, spend Thanksgiving together in 1973. They discuss their dreams and struggles in America while they share an evening together.
The Cancellation of Lauren Fein
By: Christopher Demos-Brown
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Mar 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $42
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a top U.S. university, raising their 16-year-old foster son, Dylan. When Fein's actions clash with the university's DEI policies, her research, career, and family are jeopardized.
Divas: Time After Time
By: Richard Hopkins, arr. by Jim Prosser
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 12 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Florida Studio Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $37
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Embark on a musical journey with three powerhouse vocalists delivering timeless hits by legendary divas from the 1960s to the 1990s, including Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, and Barbra Streisand.
Off the Charts
By: Rebecca Hopkins, Richard Hopkins, Sarah Durham, arr. by Jim Prosser
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 27 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Keating Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $18-$42
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/events-and-tickets/winter-cabaret-2024-25/off-the-charts-revival
Description: Get ready to turn back the clock and rock out to the best chart-topping hits from the 1950s to the 1980s. From iconic classics like “Hound Dog” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” to unforgettable hits like “Billie Jean” and “True Colors."
Jersey Boys
By: Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice
Directed by: Ben Liebert
Event Date(s): Mar 26 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Gompertz Theatre
City: Sarasota
Price: $49-$69
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: Experience the Tony- and Olivier-winning musical Jersey Boys, tracing the rise and fall of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. From New Jersey roots to international stardom, this electrifying show reveals their groundbreaking sound and the personal struggles behind the fame.
Shedding a Skin
By: Amanda Wilkin
Directed by: Nancy Rominger
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2025 - Apr 25 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bowne's Lab
City: Sarasota
Price: $25-$46
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/events-and-tickets/2024-25-stage-iii-series/shedding-a-skin
Description: When Myah punches her boss in the nose and walks out of a soul-crushing corporate job, her life unravels in ways she never expected. Filled with raw emotion and poignant story-telling that captures the painful process of letting go, finding connection, and embracing change.
Comedy Roulette
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2025 - May 30 2025
Type of Event: Improv
Venue: Bowne's Lab
City: Sarasota
Price: $15-$18
Reference Link: https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/
Description: A show about chance, skill, and high stakes. Featuring a fast-paced mashup of short form, long form, and musical improv, audiences get the best of the artform when styles and techniques collide.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Ruben Carrazana
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: “King” LeBron James’s reign in Cleveland brings promise, prosperity, and renewal to a city in desperate need of all three. It also brings together two unlikely friends in a bond forged by fandom. The Miami premiere of a clever, fast-paced comedy by Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph.
Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen
By: Danielle Wertz and Robbie Schaefer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: This intimate theatrical cabaret, developed at Washington, D.C’s Signature Theatre, weaves together the lives and iconic music of longtime friends and one-time lovers Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. Featuring 13 songs that soundtracked generations of collective yearning.
Appropriate
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Bari Newport
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: Straight from Broadway, this darkly comic American drama by Pulitzer finalist and Obie Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins invites audiences to one helluva family reunion! Long hidden secrets and buried resentments can no longer be contained and the family is forced to face the ghosts of their past.
Summer, 1976
By: David Auburn
Directed by: Bari Newport
Event Date(s): Mar 28 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mother and a naïve young housewife. This deeply moving, insightful piece is about connection, memories, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Terrence Pride
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: GableStage Theatre Company
City: Coral Gables
Price: $40 -75
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/473
Description: Hamlet, but with more barbeque and disco. Swapping a Danish castle for a North Carolina BBQ pit, Fat Ham remakes Shakespeare’s story of murder and revenge into something hilarious and profound. A South Florida premiere.
Die, Mommie, Die!
By: Charles Busch
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 29 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Charles Busch’s comic melodrama evokes the 1960s "Grande Dame Guignol" films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: TM Pride
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Island City Stage, GableStage
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $50-75
Reference Link: https://islandcitystage.org
Description: The 2022 Pulitzer-winning play makes its debut in South Florida in a partnership of three theatre companies sponsored by the Warten Foundation: GableStage, Island City Stage, and Brevo Theatre.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Terrence Pride
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Full Production
Venue: Island City Stage
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $48
Reference Link: https://www.islandcitystage.org/season-13-1
Description: It’s Hamlet, but with barbeque and disco! Swapping a Danish castle for a Southern BBQ pit, Fat Ham remakes Shakespeare’s story of murder and revenge into something hilarious and profound. Juicy, a Black queer Southern kid, has a lot on his plate already when his father’s ghost shows up, demanding vengeance.
The Dying Gaul
By: Craig Lucas
Directed by: Michael Leeds
Event Date(s): May 22 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Island City Stage
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://islandcitystage.org
Description: Playwright Craig Lucas's modern American tragedy pivoting on the dramatic potential of the Internet---a blank slate where one can pretend to be anyone, though not without chilling and sometimes devastating consequences.
The Dying Gaul
By: Craig Lucas
Directed by: Michael Leeds
Event Date(s): May 22 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Island City Stage
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $48
Reference Link: https://www.islandcitystage.org/season-13-1
Description: Playwright Craig Lucas, whose most familiar work is Prelude to a Kiss, has written a modern American tragedy pivoting on the dramatic potential of the Internet---a blank slate where one can pretend to be anyone, though not without consequence.
At The Wedding
By: Bryna Turner
Directed by: Andy Rogow
Event Date(s): Aug 21 2025 - Sep 14 2025
Type of Event: Comedy/Play
Venue: Island City Stage
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $48
Reference Link: https://www.islandcitystage.org/season-13-1
Description: You are cordially invited to the best day of someone else's life…but what if it's also the worst day of yours? Follow Carlo as she navigates the highs and lows of attending her ex’s wedding to a man while dealing with her own heartbreak.
The Smuggler: A Thriller in Verse
By: Ronan Noone
Directed by: David M. Jenkins
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Straz Center, Shimberg Playhouse
City: Tampa
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/smuggler/
Description: Irish immigrant Tim Finnegan wants to be a writer but struggles to find his path. That all changes when a stranger arrives with a plan to make people “disappear and reappear.” In this mischievous one-man, rhyming-verse dark comedy, Tim learns the price to become American.
POTUS or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By:
Directed by: Summer Bohnenkamp
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/potus/
Description: When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
The Guys
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Sep 11 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Tampa Firefighters Museum
City: Tampa
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/guys/
Description: Jobsite is proud to support the Tampa Firefighters Museum through a special one-night fundraiser performance of Anne Nelson’s The Guys.
Gorey Stories
By:
Directed by: David Jenkins
Event Date(s): Oct 23 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/gorey-stories/
Description: Gorey Stories weaves together a changed-up compilation of stories, poems, and limericks from the late, great Edward Gorey. Full of wild creatures, weird characters, and humorous, horrid happenings, Gorey Stories is a play with music featuring live accompaniment.
Macbeth
By:
Directed by: David Jenkins
Event Date(s): Jan 15 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/macbeth/
Description: A tale of ambition, greed, and murder under the influence of supernatural forces, Macbeth is a haunting examination of one couple’s ruthless quest for power and its bloody aftermath.
The Pillowman
By:
Directed by: David Jenkins
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/pillowman/
Description: The Pillowman is an exhilarating comedy-drama about a fiction writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is interrogated when several bizarre incidents occurring in town resemble the gruesome content of their short stories.
The Butterfly’s Evil Spell
By:
Directed by: Developed by the Ensemble
Event Date(s): May 07 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/butterflys-evil-spell/
Description: This imaginative English-language adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play (El Maleficio de la Mariposa) fuses live music, visual art, puppetry, theater magic, and aerial and circus arts into a thrilling theatrical experience.
Puffs Or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
By:
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Jul 09 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/puffs/
Description: For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain school and conquered evil. You Know Who He Is. This is not his story, sorry, but that of those who also happened to be there, too. Puffs is a play for anyone who has never been destined to save the world!
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]
By:
Directed by: TBD
Event Date(s): Aug 13 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Straz Center
City: Tampa
Price: Single tickets start at $42
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/shakespeare-abridged/
Description: Having shrunk Shakespeare’s wit and wisdom into manageable morsels of madness, Jobsite returns to tear around the stage in doublets and Chuck Taylor’s on a riotous romp through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays plus the sonnets in 90 minutes.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Monica Long Tamborello
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Orlando Family Stage
City: Orlando
Price: $24+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/constitution/
Description: Follow playwright Heidi Schreck’s journey through the complexities of American democracy, gender equality, and the evolving interpretation of the United States Constitution! Don’t miss this funny, fast-paced, and warm production---that ultimately inspires hope.
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Irwin Appel
Event Date(s): Oct 07 2024 - Oct 17 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Orlando Family Stage, Orlando Museum of Art
City: Orlando
Price: $27+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/education/school-field-trips/
Description: Experience a visually striking modern production of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, featuring an arresting design, bold costumes, and modern choreography. Blind ambition and twisted prophecy lead Macbeth to murder the Scottish king and seize the throne.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Directed by: Jim Helsinger
Event Date(s): Nov 27 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play/Musical
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $24+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/christmas-carol-2024/
Description: The miserly and miserable Ebenezer Scrooge greets each Christmas with a “bah humbug,” until he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Come see this classic, heartwarming at Orlando Shakes---a magical and musical spectacle for the whole family!
Sleigh—It’s Christmas Actually!
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Concert/Cabaret
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/sleigh-its-christmas-actually/
Description: It’s Christmas actually! This contemporary pop a cappella group will delight with fresh, new arrangements of both current and classic holiday tunes. Their comic banter and unique guest interaction will put everyone in the holiday spirit.
Bare Bard: Henry VI Part 2: She Wolf of France
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Jan 19 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $27+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/henryvi_shewolfoffrance/
Description: A love triangle, a plot to murder, and a rebellion are all part of this thrilling tale---centered on the Wars of the Roses! In this raw, “Bare Bard/Original Practices” production, Orlando Shakes actors will perform the play with less than 40 hours of rehearsal with no director.
Mandi Jo John: Broadway My Way
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Concert/Cabaret
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/mandi-jo-john-broadway-my-way/
Description: Mandi Jo is an actor and singer trained at the UCF Conservatory of Theatre who has traveled the world performing. Mandi Jo was a youth artist at the Bangkok Opera and the winner of the Grady-Rayam Prize in sacred music. Notable credits include the Asia premiere of The Secret Silk (Schwartz) and the world premiere of the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World.
Cabaret
By: Joe Masteroff (book), Kander & Ebb (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Steve MacKinnon
Event Date(s): Feb 02 2025 - Mar 03 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $35+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/cabaret/
Description: Let Orlando Shakes take you back to Berlin in the late 1920 where, inside the Kit Kat Club, a spotlight shines on the colorful, gritty, and hedonistic lives found inside. Don’t miss this landmark musical that is filled with iconic songs and electrifying dance.
Chase Padgett: How to Play Guitar (Poorly)
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 20 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Concert/Cabaret
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/chase-padgett/
Description: Beloved Orlando musician and actor Chase Padgett (6 Guitars, Nashville Hurricane, 6 String Christmas) brings another solo comedic cabaret to the Orlando Shakes.
Welcome to Matteson
By: Inda Craig-Galván
Directed by: Roberta Emerson
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Goldman Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $24+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/welcome-to-matteson/
Description: Catch Inda Craig-Galván’s dark comedy from Orlando Shakes’ PlayFest 2020! In suburban Matteson, Patricia and Gerald’s dinner for new neighbors Regina and Corey—relocated from Cabrini Green—exposes classism and racism, straining relationships and threatening to ruin the evening.
Stuart Little
By: E.B. White
Directed by: Nick Bublitz
Event Date(s): Mar 26 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Margeson Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $22+
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/stuart-little-2025/
Description: The classic story of Stuart Little comes alive onstage! Stuart, a tiny mouse with a big heart, is adopted by the Littles and embarks on adventures with colorful characters, including his nemesis, the family cat Snowbell. He learns about family, loyalty, and friendship along the way.
Nat Zegree: Rock Concert
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 06 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: Concert/Cabaret
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/
Description: Orlando Shakes’ annual Concert Series (formerly named Cabaret Series) features four different concerts held in three different theatres. The series has become a beloved tradition in the community, allowing audiences to experience live music in intimate and unique settings.
Shakespeare in Paradise: Music of the Bahamas
By: N/A
Directed by: N/A
Event Date(s): Aug 02 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: Concert/Cabaret
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
City: Orlando
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/
Description: Orlando Shakes’ annual Concert Series (formerly named Cabaret Series) features four different concerts held in three different theatres. The series has become a beloved tradition in the community, allowing audiences to experience live music in intimate and unique settings.
Lost in Yonkers
By: Neil Simon
Directed by: Julianne Boyd
Event Date(s): Nov 01 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/lost-in-yonkers
Description: Set during World War II, this funny and heartbreaking Pulitzer-winning memory play is both an exploration of the wounds inflicted by family and a testament to the power of familial love and resilience.
The Dresser
By: Ronald Harwood
Directed by: J. Barry Lewis
Event Date(s): Dec 20 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Theatre play
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/the-dresser
Description: The co-dependent---if unequal---relationship between Sir, a renowned but fading actor, and Norman, his devoted, self-sacrificing dresser, is the heartbeat of this warts-and-all tragicomic valentine to the transcendent magic of theatre.
The Humans
By: Stephen Karam
Directed by: J. Barry Lewis
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: theatre play
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/the-humans
Description: "A family play that is sort of infected by my love of the thriller genre,” is how the playwright once described this Tony-winning comedy drama, in which the foibles, fears, and fragilities of an American family play out with great insight, humor, and compassion.
Camping With Henry and Tom
By: Mark St. Germain
Directed by: William Hayes
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Theatre play
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/camping-with-henry-and-tom
Description: A work of fiction inspired by an actual 1921 camping trip taken by Warren G. Harding, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison---three men with starkly different personalities and world views---the play deals with issues and ideas that remain as relevant today as they were 100 years ago.
Dangerous Instruments
By: Gina Montet
Directed by: Margaret Ledford
Event Date(s): May 23 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: theatre play
Venue: Palm Beach Dramaworks
City: West Palm Beach
Price: $72-107
Reference Link: https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/events/dangerous-instruments
Description: Laura, a single mother, finds herself thrust into a gripping battle against a broken system when her son, Daniel, spirals into darkness. She must confront a parent’s deepest fears and sacrifice everything to rescue Daniel from the brink of becoming America’s next tragic headline.
The Foreigner
By: Larry Shue
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Jan 11 2025
Type of Event: comedy
Venue: Red Barn Theatre
City: Key West
Price: $40-65
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: In this classic American comedy, a shy man adopts a persona as a non-English speaking foreigner. Hilarity ensues.
Christine Mild: A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock n Roll
By: Christine Mild
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 15 2025 - Jan 18 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: Red Barn Theatre
City: Key West
Price: $75.00
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: Christine Mild brings a brand new knockout country music show, featuring Jim Rice on the piano.
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt 2b
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Mimi McDonald
Event Date(s): Jan 28 2025 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: comedy
Venue: redbarntheatre.com
City: Key West
Price: $40-65
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: Cheerfully desecrating the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Brooklyn Laundry
By: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: Joy Hawkins
Event Date(s): Apr 08 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: drama
Venue: Red Barn Theatre
City: Key West
Price: $40-64
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: This remarkable comic drama about three sisters and a guy who runs a Brooklyn laundry will remind you of what is important in life.
Short Attention Span Theatre: 2025 Edition
By: Various
Directed by: Mimi McDonald, Gary McDonald, Amber Good, Jack McDonald
Event Date(s): Apr 08 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: comedy
Venue: Red Barn Theatre
City: Key West
Price: $40-65
Reference Link: https://redbarntheatre.com
Description: Fresh, new, pertinent, and funny 10-minute plays featuring some of Key West's favorite directors and actors. Always a big hit!
Home for the Holidays
By: Various
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Dec 19 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Revue
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: Home for the Holidays is a Southwest Florida tradition. Cast members perform energetic dance routines accompanied by a live orchestra, leaving the audiences filled with joy after every performance.
Once
By: Enda Walsh (book), Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová (songs)
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2025 - Jan 19 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: A story of passion for music, heartbreak, and intimacies between Guy, a songwriting guitar player, and Girl, whose encouragement lifts his spirits when he wants to quit. Take decisions of the heart that will keep the audience guessing about happy endings.
The Rink
By: Terrence McNally (book), Kander & Ebb (songs)
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: The Rink is one of 10 Kander & Ebb collaborations, which include Cabaret and Chicago. The heart of the plot is the relationship between a mother and her estranged daughter. John Kander said it was the most complete realization of his intentions of any production he had done.
Jersey Boys
By: Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice (book), Bob Gaudio (music), Bob Crewe (lyrics)
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Mar 06 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: Jersey Boys dramatizes the formation, success, and breakup of the 1960s group The Four Seasons. It is structured in four seasons, each narrated by a different member of the group who gives his own perspective on the history and music.
Ghost: The Musical
By: Bruce Joel Rubin (book), Dave Stewart & Glen Ballard (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Mark Danni
Event Date(s): Jun 05 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: TheatreZone
City: Naples
Price: $50 - 65
Reference Link: https://theatre.zone
Description: An adaptation of the 1990 hit film. Sam and Molly’s connection takes a shocking turn when Sam is killed To communicate with Molly, he turns to a storefront psychic who can communicate to Molly.
Soul Crooners Solid Gold Edition
By: Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: WBTT's Soul Crooners Solid Gold Edition is a celebration of the most renowned soul and R&B artists, such as Earth, Wind & Fire, The Commodores, James Brown, and more, and the hottest hit songs of the late 1960s through the 1970s.
A Motown Christmas
By: Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Event Date(s): Nov 27 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Musical Revue
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $57
Reference Link: https://www.westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: During the holiday season, WBTT will present its Christmas card to the community, the exuberant musical revue A Motown Christmas, featuring favorite traditional carols as well as original Christmas songs written and recorded by Motown's most celebrated artists.
Fences
By: August Wilson
Directed by: Chuck Smith
Event Date(s): Jan 15 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://www.westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: This dramatic play tells the story of a responsible yet otherwise flawed Black garbage collector in pre-Civil Rights America. Fences is one of the most significant African American plays of the 20th century.
Five Guys Named Moe
By: Clarke Peters
Directed by: Jim Weaver
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://www.westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: An exuberant tribute to the music of rhythm & blues pioneer Louis Jordan, Five Guys Named Moe features incredible dance numbers and a wonderful musical score.
Syncopated Avenue
By: Nate Jacobs
Directed by: Nate Jacobs
Event Date(s): Apr 16 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Musical/Tap Revue
Venue: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
City: Sarasota
Price: $52
Reference Link: https://www.westcoastblacktheatre.org/
Description: WBTT produces its first tap revue, starring electrifying tap dancer Lamont Brown, in this musical journey through the captivating and entertaining world of tap dance.
The Pillowman
By: Martin McDonagh
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center - Carnival Studio Theatre
City: Miami
Price: $56-61
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2024-2025/theater-up-close/the-pillowman/
Description: Zoetic Stage returns to the horror genre with The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. This modern classic centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): Jan 09 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center - Carnival Studio Theatre
City: Miami
Price: $56-61
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2024-2025/theater-up-close/potus/
Description: When the president spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep him out of trouble. A regional premiere at Zoetic Stage, featuring a cast of South Florida's finest and funniest female actors!
Fiddler on the Roof
By: Joseph Stein (book), Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics)
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center - Carnival Studio Theatre
City: Miami
Price: $56-61
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2024-2025/theater-up-close/fiddler-on-the-roof/
Description: Artistic director Stuart Meltzer has a history of presenting fresh, bold interpretations of musical theater classics, focusing on the intimacy of performance and storytelling. In that tradition, Zoetic Stage will present Fiddler on the Roof with a cast of 11, alongside puppets.
The Comeuppance
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Stuart Meltzer
Event Date(s): May 08 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center - Carnival Studio Theatre
City: Miami
Price: $56-61
Reference Link: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/2024-2025/theater-up-close/the-comeuppance/
Description: A self-proclaimed "Multi-Ethnic Reject Group" reunites for their 20th high school reunion, trying to reconnect who they once were with who they've become. The Comeuppance focuses on millennials and their reckoning with the world they will soon inherit.
Fable
By: Doug DeVita
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: Who has the right to tell your story? Fable explores the nature of memory through the eyes of two very different show business siblings. When one sister wants her version of events made legendary on the Broadway stage, the other is pulled into a tug of war over the truth.
Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are back on the case! An investigation into the Bohemian king’s stolen letters cascades into an international mystery filled with spies, blackmail, and intrigue.
Road Show
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), John Weidman (book)
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: From the writing team that brought us Assassins and Pacific Overtures, Road Show is based on the true story of the Mizner brothers.
For Closure!
By: Hannah Benitez
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: In this farce set in a small Florida seaside town, Raven and Amanda are trying to keep the family real estate agency afloat in trying times.
The House of Future Memory
By: Eric Davis
Directed by: Eric Davis
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: freeFall Theatre Company
City: St Petersburg
Price: $$45-$55
Reference Link: https://freefalltheatre.com/
Description: This surprising and innovative performance will bring together the talents and imagination of the performers with the dreams, fears, and desires of the audience to create a unique evening of storytelling and theatre that can only happen once.
Georgia
What Are You?
By: Nicolette Emanuelle
Directed by: Nicolette Emanuelle
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Immersive theatre
Venue: 7 Stages
City: Atlanta
Price: $15-$35
Reference Link: https://www.7stages.org/shows/what-are-you-11-7-24-2024/
Description: What Are You? is an exploration of what it means to be multi-racial in America. This original production delves into the complexities of racial identity through a blend of movement, music, and personal testimonies, confronting the relentless question, “what are you?”
A Third Way
By: Lee Osorio
Directed by: Lauren Morris
Event Date(s): Oct 03 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Nico and Matt’s marriage is on shaky ground. When they decide to open their relationship, they test the boundaries of love, sex, intimacy and fidelity. Will they discover a new way to strengthen their bond…or will three become too much of a crowd?
Marie Antoinette
By: David Adjmi
Directed by: Donya K. Washington
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: The Conant Performing Arts Center
City: Atlanta
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://actors-express.com/play-page-marie-antoinette/
Description: Marie is a product of extravagance and indulgence. In this hilarious and audacious take on history’s most provocative icon , this young queen’s survival will hardly be a piece of a cake. Join Actor's Express and Oglethorpe University for Marie Antoinette this February!
Topdog/Underdog
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by: Eric J. Little
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: 887 West Marietta Street NW
City: Atlanta
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://actors-express.com/play-page-topdog-underdog/
Description: Lincoln and Booth, African American brothers, were named by their father as a sick joke. Cast in a life of poverty and violence, the legacy of their namesakes on their backs, these brothers battle more than mere sibling rivalry.
Doubt, A Parable
By: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: Freddie Ashley
Event Date(s): May 22 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: 887 West Mariette Street NW
City: Atlanta
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://actors-express.com/play-page-doubt-a-parable/
Description: Set in 1964 at St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx, the highly traditional Sister Aloysius Beauvier becomes suspicious of the charming, progressive Father Flynn’s intentions with a student.
A Strange Loop
By: Michael R. Jackson
Directed by: Amanda Washington
Event Date(s): Jul 24 2025 - Aug 31 2025
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: 887 West Marietta Street NW
City: Atlanta
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://actors-express.com/play-page-a-strange-loop/
Description: Frustrated with his day job ushering for Broadway musicals, a young, gay, Black writer decides to write a musical about a young, gay, Black writer who decides to write a musical about a young, gay, Black writer.
The Mountaintop
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Event Date(s): Aug 30 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 85
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/the-mountaintop
Description: A play that “pulses with a new sense of urgency” (Entertainment Weekly), The Mountaintop is a gripping reimagining of events the night before the assassination of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that encourages us to pick up the baton for change.
The Chinese Lady
By: Lloyd Suh
Directed by: Jess McLeod
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Hertz Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 55
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/the-chinese-lady
Description: Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy and described as "moving and often sharply funny” (The New York Times), Lloyd Suh's critically acclaimed play The Chinese Lady serves as an examination of the ongoing struggle for empathy and understanding across cultural divides.
A Christmas Carol
By: David H. Bell, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Caitlin Hargraves (orig. dir. Leora Morris)
Event Date(s): Nov 09 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 125
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/a-christmas-carol
Description: Alliance Theatre’s beloved production of A Christmas Carol returns to the Coca-Cola Stage with its new adaptation, featuring a magical set design and striking costumes. The timeless redemption story of Ebenezer Scrooge is told with beautiful live music and an all-star cast.
Business Ideas
By: Milo Cramer
Directed by: Matt Torney
Event Date(s): Nov 16 2024 - Dec 15 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Hertz Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 55
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/business-ideas
Description: Winner of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, Business Ideas is a comedy about getting rich. Inspired by playwright Milo Cramer’s experiences with his enterprising mom, Business Ideas looks at wealth---who has it and why---and the value we place on it.
Doctor De Soto
By: Idris Goodwin, adapt. from William Steig
Directed by: Mark Valdez
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Hertz Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $10-20
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/doctor-de-soto
Description: Award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin brings William Steig's tale of wit, wisdom, and whimsy to the stage with an eye-popping blend of live action, puppetry, music, and rhyme. This modern-day fable proves that even the smallest creatures can make a big difference with kindness.
Bust
By: Zora Howard
Directed by: Lileana Blain-Cruz
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 85
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/bust
Description: It’s not only hell that breaks loose in this ground-breaking, form-defying, laugh-out-loud, surreal new drama from Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Zora Howard. When Retta and Reggie's neighbor is pulled over by police, everything goes as expected—until it doesn't.
The Reservoir
By: Jake Brasch
Directed by: Shelley Butler
Event Date(s): Mar 29 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Hertz Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 55
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/the-reservoir
Description: Josh comes home from NYU to get his life together but can’t stay sober. Desperate for camaraderie, he drags his four loveable grandparents onto his road to recovery. Full of outrageous humor and truth, The Reservoir reminds that the path forward isn't always the one we expect.
Millions
By: Bob Martin (book, adapt. from Frank Cottrell Boyce), Adam Guettel (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Bartlett Sher
Event Date(s): May 10 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere Musical
Venue: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
City: Atlanta
Price: $25 - 85
Reference Link: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/2024-25/millions
Description: MILLIONS is a hilarious and heartwarming new musical about two brothers, their newly-widowed father, a train robber, and (possibly) a miracle. With soaring music and a story full of surprises, MILLIONS is a modern-day fable that will enchant and entertain the entire family.
Hairspray
By: Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell (book), Marc Shaiman (music), Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (lyrics), adapted from John Waters
Directed by: Justin Kalin
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Nov 09 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $30-40
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/hairspray/
Description: It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and the lovable plus-size teen, Tracy Turnblad, has only one desire: to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star.
Murder on the Polar Express
By: Ryan Landry
Directed by: Paul Conroy
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Holiday
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/murder-on-the-polar-express/
Description: “The World’s Foremost Drag Detective” Shirley Holmes boards the world’s most elegant train with her sidekick Dr. Jody Watley and 10 other unsavory characters, all en route to the North Pole for a much-needed Christmas vacation. But not so fast: There’s a psycho killer onboard!
At the Wedding
By: Bryna Turner
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Feb 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $20-30
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/at-the-wedding/
Description: You are cordially invited to the best day of someone else’s life…but what if it’s also the worst day of yours? Join Carlo as she attempts to make it through the night without drinking too much, talking too much, or trying to win back the bride.
Immediate Family
By: Paul Oakley Stovall
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Mar 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $20-30
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/immediate-family/
Description: The Bryant family reunion takes a comedic turn when the middle son brings home his Swedish boyfriend and tosses him into a stew of family dysfunctions.
Trick! The Musical
By: Jason Schafer (book & lyrics), David Gursky (music), adapted from screenplay by Jason Schafer
Directed by: Paul Conroy
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 17 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Out Front Theatre Company
City: Atlanta
Price: $30-40
Reference Link: https://outfronttheatre.com/event/trick-the-musical/
Description: When an office-temp and aspiring Broadway songwriter meets a hunky go-go dancer at a Manhattan gay club, their one-night stand turns into a series of complications. Amidst the chaos, they plunge into a world of dancers, piano bars, therapy sessions, and fierce drag queens.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by: Robert John Connor
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Balzer Theater at Herren's
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/raisin-sun/
Description: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun comes to Atlanta with a fresh look at an American classic that proves to be as provocative and powerful today as it was in 1959.
A Christmas Story
By: Phillip Grecian, adapt. from Jean Shepherd
Directed by: Rosemary Newcott
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Dec 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Balzer Theater at Herren's
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/christmas-story/
Description: Gather the entire family for the return of your favorite holiday theatrical tradition: A Christmas Story live onstage!
The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini, adapt. by Ben Power
Directed by: Matt Torney
Event Date(s): Feb 05 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Balzer Theater at Herren's
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/lehman-trilogy/
Description: Weaving together nearly two centuries of family history, The Lehman Trilogy charts the humble beginnings, outrageous successes, and devastating failure of the financial institution that would bring the global economy to its knees.
Launchpad
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 11 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Balzer Theater at Herren's
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/launchpad/
Description: Launchpad: A "Made in Atlanta" Festival is an exciting way to empower a new generation of theatre artists with the space, resources, development, and institutional support to create visceral, compact, innovative, and portable performance pieces that can be replicated in any space.
Young John Lewis
By: Book and Lyrics by Psalmayene 24, music by Eugene H. Russell IV
Directed by: Thomas W. Jones III
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Theatrical Outfit
City: Atlanta
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://www.theatricaloutfit.org/yjl/
Description: This new hip hop musical examines the 10 crucial years in the early life of the congressman, and his journey from student activist to major leader in the Civil Rights movement---all by the time he was 28. The time has come to make some good trouble!
Hawaii
Forest Flutter: A Bird-Day Party
By: Danica Rosengren & the HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Danica Rosengren
Event Date(s): Aug 10 2024 - Aug 17 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Very Young Audience Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Explore Hawai‘i’s forests and meet Hawai‘i’s native forest birds through smells, touch, and movement in this world premiere. The interactive show is created for our littlest audience members and is a collaboration with Capitol Modern - The Hawaiʻi State Art Museum.
Winnie-the-Pooh and Bunraku Too
By: HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Eric Johnson
Event Date(s): Aug 25 2024 - Sep 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Adapted from the classic stories of A. A. Milne by the HTY Ensemble, this world premiere will bring to life some of the most beloved characters in children’s literature. The production will draw on ancient Japanese puppeteering techniques, original music, and audience interaction.
The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
By: Reiko Ho
Directed by: Reiko Ho
Event Date(s): Sep 29 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Performance
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: This HTY original production was the recipient of a 2024 NEA grant. The show is centered around a familyʻs celebration of New Year and retells one of the most beloved tales in Chinese folklore. Featuring traditional Chinese music, kung fu, and Jīngjù movement.
Pā Ka Makani
By: Annie Cusick Wood & Lokomaikaʻi Lipscomb
Directed by: Annie Cusick Wood
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Oct 26 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: This original HTY production features hula (dance), oli (chant), and science to explore the winds of this place and our relationship to these winds. The production is an international collaboration.
Christmas Talk Story
By: Local Writer and the HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Eric Johnson
Event Date(s): Dec 08 2024 - Dec 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre for Families Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Enjoy stories and songs created by our community for our community around holiday traditions. From Thanksgiving chores to New Year’s fireworks, these stories bring humor and heart to our traditions in a brand new production.
Musubi Man
By: Lee Cataluna, adapt. from Sandi Takayama
Directed by: Reiko Ho
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Very Young Audience Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Adapted from the beloved book by Hawaiʻi author Sandi Takayama, this HTY favorite is the local version of the “Gingerbread Man” and follows a magical Musubi on the adventure of a lifetime.
The Paʻakai We Bring
By: Moses Goods & the HTY Ensemble
Directed by: Moses Goods and Eric Johnson
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Feb 15 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Families Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Helmed by Native Hawaiian theatremaker Moses Goods, the show returns to Tenney before heading out to finish a national tour. This original production introduces young audiences to Hawaiian ideas of balance and healing by exploring our relationship to Pa‘akai (salt).
Too Many Mangos and Other Stories
By: adapt. from Tammy Paikai
Directed by: Reiko Ho
Event Date(s): Mar 30 2025 - Apr 26 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Young Audiences Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: Join Kama and Nani as they learn valuable lessons from their grandpa about generosity and kindness. This original world premiere musical based on a local classic is sure to bring smiles as it teaches what it means to bring aloha to your family and your neighbors.
Joseph Kekuku and the Voice of the Steel Guitar
By: Moses Goods & Noa Gardner, w/ Kealakai Center for Pacific Strings
Directed by: Moses Goods
Event Date(s): May 11 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Theatre for Families Production
Venue: Tenney Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $15-30
Reference Link: https://www.htyweb.org/2024-2025-season/
Description: World premiere based on a true story. In 1889, Joseph Kekuku made a steel bar in his school’s machine shop and slid it across the strings of his guitar. He played his new "steel guitar" for royalty in Hawai‘i , across Europe and inspired musicians around the world.
Golden Gays
By: Ryan "OKI" Naka
Directed by: Denny Hironaga
Event Date(s): May 29 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Kumu Kahua Theatre
City: Honolulu
Price: $8-28
Reference Link: https://kumukahua.org
Description: Aunty Maria Lani Tunta is mother to a chosen family of queens facing their golden years. What does it mean for a drag queen to be in their 70s, for a sexual player to keep up his game, for a divorced man to explore being gay for the first time, for a widower to date again?
Nothing Micro About Micronesia
By: Leilani Chan, Ova Saopeng
Directed by: Leilani Chan
Event Date(s): Oct 19 2024 - Oct 25 2024
Type of Event: Public Theatrical Performance
Venue: Pacific Youth Empowerment for Success (PacYES) Summit in Hilo - October 19th - 12:30pm (FREE); UH Hilo Performing Arts Center - October 22 - 7pm; Maui Arts & Cultural Center - October 25 - 7:30pm
City: Kahului (Maui) and Hilo (Big Island)
Price: PacYES → FREE Admission; UH Hilo → $ 20 adult, $15 for seniors, faculty, staff, alum; $10 for youth (17 and under); Maui Arts & Cultural Center → Prices TBA
Reference Link: https://teada.org/nmam
Description: Coming of age story of three youth who meet in an unlikely place and through magic are transported to island adventures in Micronesia. Journey with these friends as they navigate between Hawai’i and the traditions of their ancestors, facing the rising tides of their uncertain futures.
Idaho
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 02 2024 - Oct 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human play, Heidi Schreck resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that helped shape their lives.
The Lion
By: Benjamin Scheuer
Directed by: Sean Daniels
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical Play
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: This Drama Desk Award-winning piece by Benjamin Scheuer, directed by Sean Daniels, has redefined the genre of musical theatre. His piece tells, sings, and plays the turbulent story of his family and his own brush with mortality, with one actor and a supporting cast of six guitars.
On the Other Hand We’re Happy
By: Daf James
Directed by: Cameron Watson
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: A single dad meets his adopted daughter for the first time. Then he agrees to meet her birth mother. When their two worlds collide, will what they have in common outweigh their differences? A one-off meeting. But three lives will be changed forever.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Benjamin Burdick
Event Date(s): Mar 05 2025 - Mar 22 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: At a desk in the middle of America, loan talk leads to a discussion of the chokehold of financial insecurity and a bond over the precariousness of parenthood. With humor, empathy, and wrenching honesty, Hunter commingles two lives and deftly bridges their disparate experiences.
The Life You Gave Me
By: Novid Parsi
Directed by: Hamid Dehghani
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 10 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Boise Contemporary Theater
City: Boise
Price: $10-45
Reference Link: https://bctheater.org
Description: A son tries to save his mother. She has other ideas. So do two mysterious strangers who watch the play—and ask the son to tell the story again and again until he gets it right, whatever right might be.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: Jeff Whitty, translating Shakespeare, in partnership with Play On Shakespeare
Directed by: Sara Bruner
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: An exhilarating night of midsummer madness, this magical comedy brims with mistaken identity, mismatched lovers, and mischief-making fairies. This modern verse translation of Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece is a joyful celebration of love lost, transformed, and restored.
Always… Patsy Cline
By: Ted Swindley
Directed by: Victoria Bussert
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: A musical celebration of the country legend. Enjoy the touchingly true story of Patsy Cline’s friendship with a fan, Louise Seger, which started in 1961 and continued until the premature death of the renowned country star, told through Cline’s music.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Sara Bruner
Event Date(s): May 23 2025 - Jun 07 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: A shipwreck throws lives into disarray, where mistaken identities lead to hilarious havoc and unexpected connections. This delightful gem brims with wit, wordplay, and whimsy to tell a timeless tale of love, loss, and the joyous absurdity of life.
Noises Off
By: Michael Frayn
Directed by: Christopher Liam Moore
Event Date(s): Jun 13 2025 - Jul 05 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-60
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: Doors slam, sardines fly, and love triangles tangle as this award-winning farce sneaks a hysterical backstage peek at a production that teeters on the precipice of pandemonium and tests the limits of the adage “the show must go on.”
Sunday in the Park with George
By: Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine. Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine. Ochestrations by Michael Starobin
Directed by: Victoria Bussert
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2025 - Aug 02 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-60
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: Inspired by the painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat, Sondheim and Lapine’s stunning masterpiece merges past and present into beautiful, poignant truths about life, love and the creation of art.
Dial M for Murder
By: By Frederick Knott, Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by: Sara Bruner
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2025 - Aug 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-60
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: Tony is convinced that his wife Margot has been cheating on him. Now it seems that the affair is over, but in his jealousy Tony spins a web of suspicion and deception that will tighten around them and ensnare them both in danger, recrimination, and murder.
Illinois
The Cave
By: Sadieh Rifai
Directed by: Alex Mallory
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: A Red Orchid Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $25-55
Reference Link: https://aredorchidtheatre.org/shows/the-cave/
Description: Amidst breaking news of the first Gulf War, tragedy forces a Palestinian-American family to move from Las Vegas to Columbus, Ohio, upending their lives. Jamil struggles to hold himself and his family together as the world becomes unbalanced and terror can no longer be buried.
Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin
By: Dianne Nora
Directed by: dado
Event Date(s): May 08 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: A Red Orchid Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $25-55
Reference Link: https://aredorchidtheatre.org/shows/six-men-dressed-like-joseph-stalin/
Description: Inspired by real-life events, two of Stalin's body doubles---clownish newcomer Soso and his Stanislavksy-trained instructor, Koba---prepare for the Conference at Tehran, when three so-called Great Men (or were they merely players?) decided the fate of the 20th century.
Blue-Eyed Soul Sung by Brown-Eyed People
By: Jackie Taylor
Directed by: Jackie Taylor
Event Date(s): Sep 21 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Black Ensemble Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $56.50 - $66.50
Reference Link: https://blackensembletheater.org/
Description: How many times have you heard a soulful song and just assumed that the singer was Black, only to find out they were not? Music is the common denominator that unites us all. Great music---is great music. This show will honor and celebrate the music that proves: We all have soul!
A Gamble On Huff: The Story of Gamble & Huff
By: Daryl D. Brooks
Directed by: Daryl D. Brooks
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Jan 19 2025
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Black Ensemble Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $56.50 - $66.50
Reference Link: https://blackensembletheater.org/
Description: Founded by songwriters Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff, Philadelphia International Records was a powerhouse in churning out soul hits by the biggest stars in the soul music industry. Join us as we tell the story of this dynamic duo from their humble beginnings to their biggest triumphs.