Jul. 10, 2024 to Aug. 31, 2025
Alabama
Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
By: Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Alabama Shakespeare Festival
City: Montgomery
Price: $26-70
Reference Link: https://asf.net
Description: One of the most enduring shows of all time, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a humorous retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph, his 11 brothers, his father Jacob, and the coat of many colors. This delightful and merry musical will have you dancing in your seat.
California
Private Lives
By: Nöel Coward
Directed by: KJ Sanchez
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Toni Rembe Theater
City: San Francisco
Price: $25-$130
Reference Link: https://www.act-sf.org/private-lives
Description: Bay Area favorite KJ Sanchez directs Coward’s hysterical classic tale of the tempestuous dance that is marriage. Reset in 1930s Argentina and featuring sensual tango dancing, Coward’s iconic, wry comedy sings with spiky repartee.
The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Gigi Bermingham
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Nov 18 2024
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/productions/the-importance-of-being-earnest/
Description: When bachelors Jack and Algernon both create alter egos named Earnest, the lies quickly spiral into chaos, hilarity, cucumber sandwiches, and Victorian handbags.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Armin Shimerman
Event Date(s): Feb 09 2025 - Mar 17 2025
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/show-details/twelfth-night
Description: Separated from her twin brother in a shipwreck, Viola is forced to make her own way in the kingdom of Illyria—where, disguised as a man, she discovers unrequited passion, double-crossings, hilarity, and yellow stockings.
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Carolyn Ratteray
Event Date(s): Apr 27 2025 - Jun 02 2025
Type of Event: Production
Venue: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
City: Glendale
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://antaeus.org/show-details/theglassmenagerie
Description: Tennessee Williams's indelible portrait of the dysfunctional Wingfield family. Fading Southern belle Amanda and her two grown children—aspiring poet Tom and desperately shy Laura—pin their hopes on the long-awaited appearance of a Gentleman Caller in this unsparing study.
Mexodus
By: Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson
Directed by: David Mendizábal
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Peet's Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: starting at $22.50
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org
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
Directed by: Mary Zimmerman
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Roda Theatre
City: Berkeley
Price: starting at $22.50
Reference Link: https://www.berkeleyrep.org
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.
Clue
By: Sandy Rustin; Additional Material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price; Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn; Original Music by Michael Holland
Directed by: Casey Hushion
Event Date(s): Jul 30 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ahmanson Theatre
City: Los Angeles
Price: $35-160
Reference Link: https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ahmanson-theatre/2023-24/clue/
Description: Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget! Based on the cult movie and inspired by the classic board game, Clue is the ultimate whodunit that will keep you guessing and leave you dying of laughter.
Sweeney Todd
By: Book by Hugh Wheeler, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Based on an adaptation by Christopher Bond
Directed by: Oanh Nguyen
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: An infamous tale of Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to 19th-century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.
Gloria
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
City: Anaheim
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn 30.
Jane Austen’s Emma, The Musical
By: Paul Gordon (book, lyrics, and music)
Directed by: Casey Long
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center, 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA
City: Anaheim
Price: $59
Reference Link: https://chancetheater.com/emma
Description: Jane Austen’s enduring love story is brought to life as a romantic comedy musical. The story revolves around Emma, a well-meaning but disaster-prone matchmaker, who ignores her own romantic feelings while setting out to find a suitor for her friend Harriet.
The Rocky Horror Show
By: Richard O'Brien
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 18 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: San Jose
Price: $27-49
Reference Link: https://cltc.org/event/the-rocky-horror-show/
Description: Complete with sass from the audience, this deliberately kitschy rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical is more fun than ever. City Lights had hit productions of Rocky Horror in 2003 and 2013, and we can’t wait to do the Time Warp with you again!
Broadway Barbara!
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Jul 11 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://www.cvrep.org
Description: Stage legend, social media sensation (@BroadwayBarbaraOfficial), subtly understated international entertainment titan. Broadway Barbara returns to the Desert, making her Coachella Valley Repertory debut.
Brett Barrett & Bernie Blanks
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 18 2024 - Jul 18 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue:
City: Cathedral City
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://www.cvrep.org
Description: Broadway veteran and leading man Brett Barrett and singer/actor/producer Bernie Blanks create a powerhouse musical experience in CVRep’s Summer Cabaret Series.
David Burnham: Mostly Broadway (But So Much More!)
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 25 2024 - Jul 25 2024
Type of Event: Cabaret
Venue: Coachella Valley Repertory
City: Cathedral City
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://www.cvrep.org
Description: Broadway's award-winning David Burnham entertains his audiences with humorous tales from the Great White Way using his powerhouse vocals to bring to life some of the greatest songs from Broadway and film as well as favorites from the American songbook.
The Rocky Horror Show
By: Music, book and lyrics by Richard O’Brien
Directed by: Directed by Sean Murray
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical/ Play
Venue: Old Town Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $30 - 87
Reference Link: https://www.cygnettheatre.com/season/season-20/the-rocky-horror-show-2024/
Description: A satirical tribute to the science fiction and B-list horror movies of the 20th century, the show centers around two naïve lovers seeking shelter from a thunderstorm in an old castle. Reality, fiction, and camp collide in this mash-up of comics, rock and roll, and late-night horror.
Pacific Overtures
By: Stephen Sondheim (songs), 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.”
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.
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.”
As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: David Melville
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Independent Shakespeare Co
City: Los Angeles
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://iscla.org
Description: Independent Shakespeare's 21st season of free outdoor theatre in Griffith Park.
Anita Berber is Dead
By: Melissa Chalsma, David Melville & Jim Lang
Directed by: Melissa Chalsma
Event Date(s): Oct 10 2024 - Nov 17 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Independent Shakespeare Co
City: Los Angeles
Price: $35 - 75
Reference Link: https://iscla.org
Description: World premiere of a musical: While the winds of fascism are rising in 1920s Germany, and the progressive forces are staking their claim in the Weimar Republic, one openly bisexual nude professional dancer leads a one-woman rebellion against the stiff German patriarchy.
The Double V
By: Carole Eglash-Kosoff
Directed by: caryn desai
Event Date(s): Aug 21 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Long Beach Convention & Performance Center
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-55
Reference Link: https://InternationalCityTheatre.org
Description: In 1942, sparked by a letter to the editor, The Pittsburgh Courier kicked off the “Double V” campaign, the first Black civil rights movement that used the popular "V for Victory" motto of World War II in its fight for racial equality in the military and across the United States.
Murder on the Links
By: Steven Dietz from the novel by Agatha Christie
Directed by: Jamie Torcellini
Event Date(s): Oct 16 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center
City: Long Beach
Price: $37-55
Reference Link: https://www.InternationalCityTheatre.org
Description: Detective Hercule Poirot receives an urgent letter from Paul Renauld, summoning him to France. But when he arrives, Poirot finds he’s too late—M. Renauld now lies dead, face down in a grave on the edge of the golf course he was building. But certain facts do not add up…
Derecho
By: Noelle Viñas
Directed by: Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Event Date(s): Jul 23 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: World-Premiere Play
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: Eugenia Silva is a rising politician whose ambitions crash into her sister Mercedes’s need to reconnect with their roots. On the night of an intense storm, tensions reach a boiling point as the personal and political collide.
Velour: A Drag Spectacular
By: Sasha Velour and Moisés Kaufman
Directed by: Moisés Kaufman
Event Date(s): Jul 23 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: World-Premiere Play
Venue: La Jolla Playhouse
City: San Diego
Price: Tickets start at $25
Reference Link: https://lajollaplayhouse.org
Description: A new theatrical experience about the rise and rise of a superstar. Part memoir, part manifesto, inspired by Sasha Velour’s own origin story and the history of drag. Expect sumptuous couture, an irresistible soundtrack, and a visually magical pop-art universe. A co-production with Tectonic Theatre Project.
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.
The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare, adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan
Directed by: Michael Gene Sullivan
Event Date(s): Aug 16 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Forest Meadows Amphitheatre
City: San Rafael
Price: $15-40
Reference Link: https://www.marinshakespeare.org
Description: Michael Gene Sullivan's adaptation of this classic Shakespearean comedy imagines a group of women in Elizabethan England bravely performing an underground version of the play to satisfy their artistic longings.
Ride the Cyclone
By: Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
Directed by: Stephanie Temple
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: New Conservatory Theatre Center
City: San Francisco
Price: $35.50-$72.50 (inclusive of fees)
Reference Link: https://nctcsf.org/ride-the-cyclone
Description: Reach for the skies takes on a whole new meaning when six members of a Canadian chamber choir take a fateful rollercoaster ride to the great beyond. Both madly hilarious and surprisingly introspective, this award-winning musical poses the question of what makes a life well-lived.
Don’t Dress for Dinner
By: Marc Camoletti; Adapted by Robin Hawdon
Directed by: Christopher Williams
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: North Coast Repertory Theatre
City: Solana Beach
Price: $54-65
Reference Link: https://northcoastrep.org/production/dont-dress-for-dinner/
Description: The most requested return engagement of the past 20 years, Don't Dress for Dinner is written in the style of a classic French farce, full of mistaken identities, rapid-fire dialogue, and unexpected twists.
Cabaret
By: Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 18 2024 - Jul 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre & Solvang Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria/ Solvang
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. In Berlin as the 1920s draw to a close and as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich, you can forget your troubles at the cabaret.
The Agitators
By: Mat Smart
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 23 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Marian Theatre & Solvan Festival Theater
City: Santa Maria/Solvang
Price: Starting at $25
Reference Link: https://pcpa.org/
Description: Young abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony are full of dreams and seemingly common purpose when they meet in Rochester, N.Y., in the 1840s and form an unexpected friendship.
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.
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.
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.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken, Based on the Film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 20 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Outside SCR at Mission San Juan Capistrano
City: San Juan Capistrano
Price: $25-60
Reference Link: https://www.scr.org/plays/productions/23-24-season/little-shop-of-horrors/
Description: What better place to experience a musical creature feature about a killer plant than among the extraordinary foliage of the Mission San Juan Capistrano?
Duel Reality
By:
Directed by: Shana Carroll
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: A blend of acrobatics, theatre, and music
Venue: Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
City: San Diego
Price: $29-118
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/duelreality
Description: The triumphant return of the 7 Fingers, the company that brought Globe audiences last summer’s smash hit Passengers. Love, honor, and betrayal come to life through a blend of acrobatics, theatre, and music in this one-act romp perfect for all ages. Two feuding families engage in a battle of skill, each competition more daring than the last.
Henry 6 One: Flowers and France
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Barry Edelstein (also adapter)
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Sep 14 2024
Type of Event: World premiere adaptation
Venue: Lowell Davies Festival Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $40-121
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/henry-6-one/#?startDate=2024-07-01&%3FendDate=2024-07-31
Description: In One: Flowers and France, King Henry VI inherits the crown of England as a child. Absent the strong leadership of his father, who conquered France in a surprise victory, the English court is reduced to petty squabbles.
Henry 6 Two: Riot and Reckoning
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Barry Edelstein (also adapter)
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Lowell Davies Festival Theatre
City: San Diego
Price: $40-121
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/henry-6-two/#/calendar?startDate=2024-07-01&%3FendDate=2024-07-31
Description: In Two: Riot and Reckoning, England descends into a bloody civil war. The York family is intent on overthrowing King Henry VI and claiming the throne for themselves.
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: James Vásquez
Event Date(s): Jul 27 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Old Globe
City: San Diego
Price: $33-125
Reference Link: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/24-season/ms-holmes-ms-watson-apt-2b/#?startDate=2024-07-01&%3FendDate=2024-07-31
Description: In present-day Baker Street, steampunk hipster Shirley Holmes and her spunky new roommate Joan Watson become entangled in a series of cases all related to the same supervillain, who always seems to be one step ahead of them.
Murder on the Orient Express
By: Agatha Christie, adapted by Ken Ludwig
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.
Tartuffe: Born Again
By: Freyda Thomas (adapted and translated), from the original French by Molière
Directed by: Melora Marshall
Event Date(s): Jul 13 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Los Angeles
Price: $15-60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/tartuffe-born-again/
Description: Through the brilliant storytelling of Molière and Freyda Thomas’s clever adaptation in rhyming couplets, we watch a Southern family in the 1980s begin to recognize a taker in their midst in the form of televangelist, Tartuffe. Hilarious mayhem ensues as they rise up against him.
The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote
By: Bernardo Cubría
Directed by: Bernardo Cubría and Willow Geer
Event Date(s): Aug 24 2024 - Oct 19 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
City: Los Angeles
Price: $15-60
Reference Link: https://theatricum.com/the-vote/
Description: When the Political Party offers University Professor Paola Aguilar a large paycheck to help them understand the Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote, she reluctantly takes the job. Can she help? Or will her own journey ultimately be more important than who wins the vote?
Delaware
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.
Florida
The Figs
By: Doug Robinson
Directed by: Helen R. Murray
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: World Premiere Play
Venue: Raymond James Theatre
City: St. Petersburg
Price: $50
Reference Link: https://www.americanstage.org/shows/the-figs
Description: The king that rules the magical, ludicrous, kingdom of The Figs is quite actually addicted to figs, mah lord. His more publicly well-received daughter is in love with an inn keeper in a sort of star-crossed lovers situation.
Die, Mommie, Die!
By: Charles Busch
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 29 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Wilton Manors
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Charles Busch’s comic melodrama evokes the 1960s "Grande Dame Guignol" films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner.
The Rocky Horror Show
By: Richard O'Brien
Directed by: David M. Jenkins
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Straz Center, Jaeb Theater
City: Tampa
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/rocky-horror/
Description: The antici…pation is over for Jobsite’s spin on the OG kitschy rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical! Straightlaced Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter as they look for a phone to call for help.
The Smuggler: A Thriller in Verse
By: Ronan Noone
Directed by: David M. Jenkins
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Straz Center, Shimberg Playhouse
City: Tampa
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/smuggler/
Description: Irish immigrant Tim Finnegan wants to be a writer but struggles to find his path. That all changes when a stranger arrives with a plan to make people “disappear and reappear.” In this mischievous one-man, rhyming-verse dark comedy, Tim learns the price to become American.
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: TBD
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.
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: Brickman, Elice, Gaudio, and Crewe
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: Rubin, Stewart and Ballard
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.
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
A Dog Story
By: Book by Eric H. Weinberger, music and lyrics by Gayla D. Morgan
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 25 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Stone Mountain
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: This charming new musical comedy is about Roland, who thinks he must be married in order to get the law firm partnership he desperately wants. So he gets a puppy named Cupid as a “chick magnet” for his Hamptons vacation.
Cabaret
By: Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Joe Masteroff
Directed by: Freddie Ashley
Event Date(s): Jul 25 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Actor’s Express transforms into the Kit Kat Club, a decadent hotspot in anything-goes 1929 Berlin. An idealistic young American meets an eclectic circle of Berliners, most notably Sally Bowles, the outrageous chanteuse determined to keep the party going at all costs.
A Third Way
By: Lee Osorio
Directed by: Lauren Morris
Event Date(s): Oct 03 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Atlanta
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Nico and Matt’s marriage is on shaky ground. When they decide to open their relationship, they test the boundaries of love, sex, intimacy and fidelity. Will they discover a new way to strengthen their bond…or will three become too much of a crowd?
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.
Idaho
Into the Woods
By: Stephen Sondheim (music), James Lapine (book), Jonathan Tunick (orchestrations)
Directed by: Victoria Bussert
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning music and lyrics will transport you to a land where there is a giant in the sky, a wolf in the woods, a curse reversed, and a wish in everyone’s heart. This magical tapestry of woven fables amuses and enlightens.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: Jeff Whitty, translating Shakespeare, in partnership with Play On Shakespeare
Directed by: Sara Bruner
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: An exhilarating night of midsummer madness, this magical comedy brims with mistaken identity, mismatched lovers, and mischief-making fairies. This modern verse translation of Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece is a joyful celebration of love lost, transformed, and restored.
Always… Patsy Cline
By: Created and originally directed by Ted Swindley
Directed by: Victoria Bussert
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve
City: Boise
Price: $14-56
Reference Link: https://idahoshakespeare.org/
Description: A musical celebration of the country legend. Enjoy the touchingly true story of Patsy Cline’s friendship with a fan, Louise Seger, which started in 1961 and continued until the premature death of the renowned country star, told through Cline’s music.
Illinois
The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale
By: Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus (book & lyrics), A.R. Rahman, Värttinä, and Christopher Nightingale (music), adapt. from J.R.R. Tolkien
Directed by: Paul Hart
Event Date(s): Jul 23 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Yard
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/the-lord-of-the-rings/
Description: Journey to the magical realms of Middle-earth as J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy of books are brought to the stage in a U.S. premiere musical.
Henry V
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Edward Hall
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Courtyard Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-henry-v/
Description: From the evocative opening line, “O for a Muse of fire,” Henry V includes some of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches and stirring poetry. Artistic director Edward Hall explores the thrill and destructive power of war, examining nationalism at its most dangerous and seductive.
Pericles
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Tamara Harvey
Event Date(s): Oct 20 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Courtyard Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-pericles/
Description: The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Chicago for the first time in 30 years as part of a new ongoing partnership with CST, with a major new production of Shakespeare’s moving tale of love, hope, and miracles.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Whitney White
Event Date(s): Jan 14 2025 - Feb 02 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Yard
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/jajas-african-hair-braiding/
Description: Straight from a twice-extended Broadway run, making its regional premiere, this comedic play offers a glimpse into the lives of a group of West African immigrant women who find community in a Harlem hair salon. A co‑production of CST, Arena Stage, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Avaaz
By: Michael Shayan
Directed by: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Event Date(s): Jan 21 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Upstairs Studio
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/avaaz/
Description: Michael Shayan plays the role of his own larger-than-life mother, Roya, who welcomes audiences into her home to celebrate the Iranian New Year and shares her quintessential American journey from Tehran to “Tehrangeles,” Calif., formerly known as Westwood.
Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Edward Hall
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Courtyard Theater
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-ss-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
Description: A perfect 75-minute introduction to Shakespeare’s beloved romantic comedy. Adapted and directed by Edward Hall, it captures the exhilaration, foolishness, and delight of young love, as the chaos of magic and enchantment turns the world upside down.
Teatro La Plaza’s Hamlet
By: Chela De Ferrari
Directed by: Chela De Ferrari
Event Date(s): Mar 13 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Upstairs Studio
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-hamlet/
Description: From Peru, a joyful celebration of self-expression. Blending Shakespeare’s text with personal anecdotes from their lives, a group of young performers with Down syndrome take the stage in a lively and profound theatrical experience.
Sunny Afternoon
By: Joe Penhall, with original story, music, and lyrics by Ray Davies
Directed by: Edward Hall
Event Date(s): Mar 21 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Yard
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/sunny-afternoon/
Description: In its North American premiere, this winner of four Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, tells the story of the rise to stardom of The Kinks through their own prolific catalog of chart-topping songs.
Hymn
By: Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 29 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Courtyard Theater
City:
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/2425-hymn/
Description: Lolita Chakrabarti reframes her acclaimed play to be set in Chicago. This soul-affirming story charts the lives of two middle-aged Black men as they form a deep bond in an intimate exploration of the loyalties and betrayals of brothers, fathers, and sons.
Berlin
By: Mickle Maher, adapt. from Jason Lutes
Directed by: Charles Newell
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2024-2025-season/berlin/
Description: Berlin is an unforgettable mosaic of intersecting narratives set amidst the decline of Weimar Germany. Fascism is taking hold; revolutionaries are organizing; and, as everything falls apart, everyone is faced with a choice: Abandon Berlin or fight to survive.
An Iliad
By: Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, adapt. from Homer, trans. by Robert Fagles
Directed by: Charles Newell
Event Date(s): Jun 04 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Court Theatre
City: Chicago
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2024/2025-season/an-iliad-2025/
Description: A timely and gripping retelling of Homer’s epic poem, An Iliad returns to Court’s stage, illuminating the human cost of conflict with breathtaking urgency. Timothy Edward Kane reprises his role as the Poet.
Louisiana
A Doll’s House
By: Henrik Ibsen, a new version by Amy Herzog
Directed by: Jana Mestecky
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Marquette Theatre at Loyola
City: New Orleans
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.crescentcitystage.com/adollshouse
Description: A seemingly perfect life unravels as Nora, a charming wife and mother, grapples with a shocking secret. Herzog's thrilling, compact and devastatingly contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s classic drama makes its regional premiere in September.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens, in a new adaptation by Patrick Barlow
Directed by: Elizabeth Elkins Newcomer
Event Date(s): Dec 05 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Marquette Theatre at Loyola
City: New Orleans
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.crescentcitystage.com/a-christmas-carol-2024
Description: Patrick Barlow, writer of the Broadway and West End hit The 39 Steps, has retold Charles Dickens’ holiday classic. This thrilling adaptation uses only five actors to bring some of Dickens's most beloved characters to life.
A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Augustin J Correro
Event Date(s): Jul 19 2024 - Aug 24 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Marigny Opera House
City: New Orleans
Price: $20-60
Reference Link: https://www.twtheatrenola.com
Description: Next, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for as we head down to Elysian Fields Avenue to present the play that made New Orleans the most fascinating destination in America: A Streetcar Named Desire.
Penny Dreadfuls: The Remarkable Rooming-House of Madame Le Monde
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Augustin J Correro
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: The Lower Depths Theatre
City: New Orleans
Price: $20-48
Reference Link: https://www.twtheatrenola.com
Description: In the fall we explore some of Williams’ most queer and frightful feats of horror and social commentary (you read that correctly) in Penny Dreadfuls: The Remarkable Rooming-House of Madame Le Monde…with a few extra surprises.
Maine
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: Over the course of 84 birthdays, we experience the impossible, heartbreaking, joyful wonder of what makes up a life.
A Christmas Carol
By: Lavina Jadhwani, adapted from Dickens
Directed by: Jonathan Berry
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: With music, dance, Dickensian charm and theatrical spectacle, this holiday treat will delight the entire family and warm the heart of us all.
Dial M For Murder
By: Jefferey Hatcher, adapted from Frederick Knott
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 30 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: Who can be trusted when your very survival is at stake? This masterpiece of suspense will have you on the edge of your seat till the final thrilling moment.
Matinicus
By: Jenny Connell Davis
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2025 - Apr 06 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: Inspired by the true story of Maine folk heroine Abigail Burgess, this is a story of community, isolation, and resilience in the face of forces far greater than ourselves.
Mother Russia
By: Lauren Yee
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: Two hapless Russian comrades find themselves in dead-end jobs, part of a mistaken-identity love triangle, and pursued by the jealous leader of the KGB.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
By: Richard O’Brien
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2025 - Jul 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Bangor
Price: $45
Reference Link: https://www.penobscottheatre.org/
Description: The long-awaited return of this cult classic. On a stormy night, the newly engaged Brad and Janet find themselves out of gas and on the doorstep of one Dr Frank-N-Furter.
Massachusetts
Rough Magic
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Jul 13 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Jackie Libergott Black Box, Paramount 559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
City: Boston
Price: $10-25
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/rough-magic/
Description: Chris and Elektra love each other, but they each define love quite differently. He thinks a successful love is “’til we die.” She thinks it’s “until the candle burns out.” The one thing they agree on is that they’re not good for each other.
Fight Night
By: Ontroerend Goed
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 20 2024 - Sep 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre performance
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/fight-night/
Description: Five contenders. Five rounds. Your vote.
In the Same Tongue
By: Dianne McIntyre Group
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 26 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Cutler Majestic Theatre
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/in-the-same-tongue/
Description: A dance legend and a celebrated composer collaborate to explore the powerful connections between and across forms, languages, and histories.
On the Eve of Abolition
By: Papel Machete
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 31 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/on-the-eve-of-abolition/
Description: A radical imaginary sci-fi story set in 2047 about survival, struggle, and the people's liberation movement that made abolition possible.
Life & Times of Michael K
By: Lara Foot (adapted from J.M. Coetzee)
Directed by: Lara Foot
Event Date(s): Jan 31 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/life-times-of-michael-k/
Description: Intricate marionettes come alive to depict the trials and tribulations faced by Michael K and his mother as they seek to escape political turmoil. Presented in collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company.
Prison Dancer: The Musical
By: Romeo Candido (songs), Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus (book)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 22 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Cutler Majestic Theatre
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/prison-dancer-the-musical/
Description: Inspired by a legendary YouTube viral video, this Broadway-ready musical by award-winning Filipino creators Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus will delight and inspire.
The Seasons
By: Antonio Vivaldi (music), Sarah Ruhl (libretto), Anthony Roth Costanzo (co-conceiver)
Directed by: Zack Winokur
Event Date(s): Mar 12 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Robert J. Orchard Stage, Paramount
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/the-seasons/
Description: Vivaldi’s best known work collides with a modern, urgent libretto addressing creativity in a time of climate crisis.
It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure
By: FlawBored
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 02 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Jackie Libergott Black Box, Paramount
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/its-a-motherfing-pleasure/
Description: If you don’t love this show you’re going to get cancelled.
Utopian Hotline
By: Theater Mitu
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 01 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Theatre Performance
Venue: Museum of Science, Planetarium
City: Boston
Price: $
Reference Link: https://artsemerson.org/events/utopian-hotline/
Description: Speak your message into the future with Theater Mitu’s revolutionary experimental performance.
Moon Man Walk
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Elise Joyner
Event Date(s): Jul 23 2024 - Jul 23 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $15
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1208440
Description: Come see this staged reading of Moon Man Walk by Pulitzer-winning playwright James Ijames, which tells the story of a man rediscovering his past upon the death of his mother.
Wish You Were Here
By: Sanaz Toosi
Directed by: Melory Mirashrafi
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1188138?_ga=2.246160644.1219110954.1711060202-40263266.1707507701
Description: A circle of tight-knit girlfriends gather to plan weddings, trade dirty jokes, and try to hang onto a sense of normalcy as protests are breaking out all around them.
The Hombres
By: Tony Meneses
Directed by: Armando Rivera
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Live Theater
Venue: Gloucester Stage Company
City: Gloucester
Price: $70
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34549/production/1189481?_ga=2.6837938.1219110954.1711060202-40263266.1707507701
Description: A macho crew of construction workers clash with the clientele of the next door yoga studio in this new comedy exploring the complexity and intimacy of male friendships.
Laughs In Spanish
By: Alexis Scheer
Directed by: Mariela López-Ponce
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavillion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $$25-$85
Reference Link: https://https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2024/09/laughs-in-spanish/
Description: A cafecito-infused comedy set in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, about mothers and daughters and art and success: part telenovela, part whodunit, and 100 percent fun.
Pru Payne
By: Steven Drukman
Directed by: Paul Daigneault
Event Date(s): Oct 18 2024 - Nov 16 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2024/10/pru-payne/
Description: An aging, outspoken scholar finds love just as he memory begins to fade in the East Coast premiere of this tender drama about family, identity, and connection.
Ain’t No Mo’
By: Jordan E. Cooper
Directed by: Dawn M. Simmons
Event Date(s): Jan 10 2025 - Feb 08 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2025/01/aint-no-mo/
Description: A heady, no-holds-barred look at Black American life, history, and culture, told through a series of sharply funny vignettes. A co-production with Front Porch Arts Collective.
A Man Of No Importance
By: Terrence McNally (book), Stephen Flaherty (music), Lynn Ahrens (music)
Directed by: Paul Daigneault
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2025 - Mar 22 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2025/02/a-man-of-no-importance/
Description: A reimagining of the acclaimed McNally/Ahrens/Flaherty musical about a Dublin bus conductor who learns a life-changing lesson about self-acceptance and love.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by: Summer L. Williams
Event Date(s): May 02 2025 - May 31 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center For The Arts
City: Boston
Price: $25-$85
Reference Link: https://speakeasystage.com/shows/2025/05/jajas-african-hair-braiding/
Description: A joyous and timely tale about sisterhood and community set on a sweltering summer day in a Harlem hair-braiding shop.
Michigan
School of Rock: The Musical
By: Music and lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book by Julian Fellowes
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Kalamazoo
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Down-on-his-luck failed rocker Dewey Finn turns a class of awkward straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band---sensationally performed live by the production’s young actors every night.
Strangers on a Train
By: Craig Warner
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Chilling Mystery
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Guy and Charles meet on a train and, because they are strangers, they think they can say anything while chatting. Bruno suggests that they could get away with murder---he could kill Guy’s unfaithful wife, while Guy could eliminate Bruno's hated father.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens, Charles Nolte (adapt.)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Holiday Classic
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $40-50
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Everyone's favorite holiday classic captivates audiences for the 42nd year with the tale of a mean-spirited miser and the ghosts that haunt him.
Footloose: The Musical
By: Tom Snow (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Feb 02 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: The explosive movie musical bursts onto the live stage! With dynamic new songs augmenting the powerhouse hits from its bestselling Oscar-nominated score, Footloose celebrates the exhilaration of youth, the wisdom of listening to one another, and the power of forgiveness.
The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Feb 12 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: New Comedy
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: It’s 1948 in a ritzy Newport mansion populated by playwrights, actors, a young starstruck author, and the housekeeper who would like all of them to leave. When their weekend getaway goes horribly awry, only a play within the play can save the day.
Vanities: The Musical
By: Jack Heifner (book), David Kirshenbaum (songs)
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Mar 19 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Heartfelt musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Vanities: The Musical chronicles the life-affirming journey of three vivacious Texas teens from cheerleaders to sorority sisters to housewives to liberated women and beyond. This musical captures a snapshot of the lives, loves, disappointments, and dreams of these young women.
The Rat Pack Lounge
By: James Hindman & Ray Roderick, Musical Arrangements by John Glaudini
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Heavenly Musical
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: Frank, Dean, and Sammy are up in heaven, but God tells them they left some unfinished business back on Earth. It seems Frank made an unfulfilled promise to Vic, the owner of the Rat Pack Lounge. Now he and the boys have one night to make things right.
Shear Madness
By: Paul Portner
Directed by: Travis W. Walter
Event Date(s): May 28 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Hilarious Whodunit
Venue: Meadow Brook Theatre
City: Rochester
Price: $39-49
Reference Link: https://www.mbtheatre.com/20242025-season
Description: This unique comedy whodunit takes place today in the Shear Madness hair salon and is chock full of up-to-the minute spontaneous humor. During the course of the action, a murder is committed and the audience gets to spot the clues, question the suspects, and solve the case.
Minnesota
Moya
By: Zip Zap Circus, Josh Hawks (original soundtrack)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/zip-zap-circus-moya/
Description: Soar into the visual spectacle of this pulsating acrobatic performance that explores the spirit and vitality of township life, backed by the energetic beat of South African pop music!
Zip Zap Circus: Moya
By: Zip Zap Circus
Directed by: Zip Zap Circus
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Circus Performance
Venue: United Health Group Stage
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15 - 80
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/zip-zap-circus-moya/
Description: Soar into the visual spectacle of this pulsating acrobatic performance set against the Cape Town skyline! Comic jugglers, unicycle dancers, and an authentic gumboot dance will take you on a freewheeling journey that explores the spirit and vitality of township life.
Drawing Lessons
By: Michi Barall
Directed by: by Jack Tamburri
Event Date(s): Oct 08 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/drawing-lessons/
Description: Experience the energy of a graphic novelist’s imagination at work as you’re drawn into this innovative story that magically takes place both onstage and on screen! Co-commissioned by Ma-Yi Theater Company (NYC) and Children’s Theatre Company.
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By: Timothy Mason (book & lyrics), Mel Marvin (music)
Directed by: Dean Holt
Event Date(s): Nov 05 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/the-grinch-24-25/
Description: In this CTC holiday favorite, filled with music and Seussian rhymes, everyone’s favorite grouchy green Grinch plots the greatest heist imaginable—stealing the very thing the joyful Whos love the most!
Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster
By: Inspired by the Books Leonardo, The Terrible Monster and Sam, The Most Scaredy-Cat Kid in the Whole World by Mo Willems / Adaptation by Sarah Fornace and Drew Dir / Music, Lyrics & Sound Design by Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter
Directed by: Sarah Fornace
Event Date(s): Jan 08 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/leonardo/
Description: Nationally acclaimed theatre company Manual Cinema breathes innovative life into this beloved story by Mo Willems, using hundreds of puppets to magically create a movie right before your very eyes!
Milo Imagines the World
By: Book by Terry Guest / Lyrics and Music by Christian Albright and Christian Magby / Based on the Book by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
Directed by: Mikael Burke
Event Date(s): Feb 04 2025 - Mar 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children's Theatre Company
City: Minneapolis
Price: $15+
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/milo/
Description: Don’t miss this new musical, featuring dynamic new songs ranging from hip-hop and pop to country as Milo learns that real life can sometimes be even more incredible than an imaginary one! A joint commission by the Rose Theater (Omaha, Neb.), Chicago Children’s Theatre, and Children’s Theatre Company.
Rumors
By: Neil Simon
Directed by: Jaclyn Johnson
Event Date(s): Jul 20 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Commonweal Theatre Company
City: Lanesboro
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://commonwealtheatre.org/our-season/rumors/
Description: An outrageous farce.
Doubt: A Parable
By: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: Jen Shook
Event Date(s): Sep 14 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Commonweal Theatre Company
City: Lanesboro
Price: $38
Reference Link: https://commonwealtheatre.org/our-season/doubt/
Description: A searing drama.
English
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Hamid Dehghani
Event Date(s): Jul 13 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: McGuire
City: Minneapolis
Price: $29 - $95
Reference Link: www.guthrietheater.org
Description: A beautifully crafted comedy that explores the realities of the language-learning process and the parts of our identities that are lost and found along the way.
Behind the Sun
By: Stanley Kipper and Laura Drake
Directed by: Richard D. Thompson
Event Date(s): Sep 21 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: History Theatre
City: St. Paul
Price: $25-67
Reference Link: https://www.historytheatre.com/2024-2025/behind-sun
Description: Behind the Sun is the personal story of Obie Kipper and his dream for the future of his family, featuring the sensational scheme concocted for him to purchase a home outside his redlined neighborhood in an all-white neighborhood. Based on the playwright's family.
I Am Betty
By: Cristina Luzárraga (book & additional lyrics), Denise Prosek (music & lyrics)
Directed by: Maija García
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: History Theatre
City: St. Paul
Price: $30-82
Reference Link: https://www.historytheatre.com/2024-2025/i-am-betty
Description: Betty Crocker has helped shape America’s homes, kitchens, and recipes for over a century. Surprising to many, she was not a real person! You will be singing along and craving to bake with Betty as it examines the lives of women and society throughout the past 100 years.
Secret Warriors
By: Rick Shiomi
Directed by: Lily Tung Crystal
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: History Theatre
City: St. Paul
Price: $25-64
Reference Link: https://www.historytheatre.com/2024-2025/secret-warriors
Description: Inspired by stories of the Japanese Americans who served as translators and interrogators for the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. Discover the compelling personal journeys and heartfelt love stories set against the backdrop of the war and the incarceration of their families
The Root Beer Lady
By: Kim Schultz
Directed by: Addie Gorlin-Han (original production), Jess Yates (remounting)
Event Date(s): Jan 25 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: History Theatre
City: St. Paul
Price: $25-69
Reference Link: https://www.historytheatre.com/2024-2025/root-beer-lady
Description: Experience the story of the indomitable Dorothy Molter, the last legal non-Indigenous resident of the Boundary Waters. The story reflects the beauty and hardships of Molter’s solitary yet satisfying life beginning in 1934. Dorothy’s story will delight all, young and old.
Whoa, Nellie! The Outlaw King of the Wild Middle West
By: Josef Evans (book, music & lyrics)
Directed by: Laura Leffler
Event Date(s): May 17 2025 - Jun 08 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: History Theatre
City: St. Paul
Price: $30-74
Reference Link: https://www.historytheatre.com/2024-2025/whoa-nellie
Description: The whirlwind tale of "Nellie King," whose countless criminal exploits and penchant for male attire made her a Minnesota media sensation in the late 1800s. A fast-paced, funny, and surprisingly moving new musical about historical realities around gender, mental health, and more.
The Dandelion Seed
By: Joseph P. Anthony and Cris Arbo
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 07 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Theatre For The Very Young / Interactive
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/dandelion-seed/
Description: Theatre for the Very Young began its life at Stages 10 years ago with The Dandelion Seed and we’re celebrating how far we’ve come by bringing it back. One tiny dandelion seed is happy in its cozy home until a wind carries it away.
Señorita Mariposa
By: Ben Gundersheimer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 19 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Musical Theatre
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/senorita-mariposa/
Description: A bilingual adventure across America! Take flight and discover just how big Señorita Mariposa’s mundo maravilloso is as we follow the monarch butterfly's journey from Canada to Mexico on this beautiful English and Spanish adventure across the continent.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
By: Dwayne Hartford
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/the-miraculous-journey-of-edward-tulane/
Description: Based on the award-winning book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, this is an adventure that will capture your heart. When Edward Tulane, a china rabbit with a strong personality, falls into the ocean, he embarks on a remarkable journey of discovery.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical
By: Robert L. May
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $18-26
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-the-musical/
Description: Celebrating 60 years on TV! The Stages Theatre Company classic is back to celebrate 60 years of the beloved animated movie! Join Rudolph as he navigates being a little different from the others on a mission to save Christmas.
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!
By: Mo Willems and Mr. Warburton
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-the-bus-the-musical/
Description: With a hilariously funny script written by Mo Willems, the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling, Caldecott Honor award-winning Pigeon picture books, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical! is a silly, laugh-out-loud musical.
When You Trap a Tiger
By: Tae Keller
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Mar 14 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/when-you-trap-a-tiger/
Description: What stories do you keep with you? Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on an adventure to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book. A co-production with Theater Mu.
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
By: Joe Tracz, Rob Rokicki
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/the-lightning-thief-the-percy-jackson-musical/
Description: Rock out in this mythical adventure! When teenager Percy Jackson discovers he's a demigod, he and his friends embark on an epic journey to find Zeus's missing lightning bolt and prevent a war among the gods. Adapted from the best-selling book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Madagascar – A Musical Adventure TYA Edition
By: Kevin Del Aguila
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2025 - Aug 03 2025
Type of Event: 16-18
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/madagascar-a-musical-adventure/
Description: "Move It' into summer with Madagascar! With outlandish characters, adventures galore, and an upbeat score, Madagascar will leave you with no choice but to “Move It, Move It!”
Tell Me Your Dreams
By: Amanda Kloots
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 06 2025 - Aug 24 2025
Type of Event: Musical, Play
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
City: Hopkins
Price: $16-18
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/tell-me-your-dreams/
Description: Going to sleep becomes the biggest adventure yet. From soaring across clouds of vanilla ice cream to driving a train across the ocean, you can do anything! Tell Me Your Dreams is based on the book of the same name by bestselling author of Live Your Life, Amanda Kloots.
Missouri
The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Tom Ridgely
Event Date(s): Jul 30 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Free Shakespeare in the Park
Venue: Various
City: Saint Louis
Price: $FREE
Reference Link: https://stlshakes.org/tourco
Description: A larger-than-life presentation of Shakespeare's most enchanting romance set on an island full of mischief, magic, and plots of revenge in epic proportions.
New Jersey
The Bookstore
By: Michael Walek
Directed by: William Carden
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Co
City: Long Branch
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://njrep.org/show/the-bookstore/
Description: January. New York City. A small independent bookstore. A year later, everything changes. Or does it?
The Other American
By: D.W. Gregory
Directed by: James Glossman
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: New Jersey Repertory Co
City: Long Branch
Price: $65
Reference Link: https://njrep.org/show/the-other-american/
Description: Paris 1952. After tangling over politics with an American tourist, a promising art student spirals into a mental breakdown that derails his life. Thirty years later he discovers why: The tourist was a CIA operative, and the student an unwitting participant in a dark conspiracy.
Still
By: Benjamin V. Marshall
Directed by: Marshall Jones III
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Premiere Stages at Kean University
City: Union
Price: $15-$100
Reference Link: https://premierestagesatkean.com/still/
Description: In this new play based on true events in 1850s New Jersey, Peter has arrived at an abolitionist office seeking help from its director, William, an African American leader in the Underground Railroad. As the two men learn more about each other’s lives, they realize their vastly different pasts will lead them to a deeply connected future.
Diversion
By: Scott Organ
Directed by: John J. Wooten
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Premiere Stages at Kean University
City: Union
Price: $15-$50
Reference Link: https://premierestagesatkean.com/diversion/
Description: A group of devoted and hard-working nurses in an ICU unit see their world turned upside down when it is discovered that someone is diverting (stealing) medicine on the unit. The nurses grow even more unsettled when a consultant shows up to investigate the diversion.
New York
Wipeout
By: Aurora Real de Asua
Directed by: Josie DiVincenzo
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/wipeout
Description: Claudia, Wynn, and Gary are three best friends, celebrating their golden years with the ultimate challenge: learning to surf in Santa Cruz. Trading their comfort zones for surfboards, the three friends navigate the choppy waters of their changing relationships and identities.
The Cottage
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: David E. Shane
Event Date(s): Nov 08 2024 - Nov 30 2024
Type of Event: Comedy/Farce
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/cottage
Description: It’s 1923, and Sylvia wants more than simply to be whisked away to this charming English countryside cottage for her stale annual tryst, dammit! When her lover (and brother-in-law) Beau hesitates to commit, Sylvia throws a wrench into their carefully constructed secret in this old-fashioned farce.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Directed by: Neal Radice
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 23 2024
Type of Event: Holiday Family Classic
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/christmas2024
Description: For 43 years, West New York families have returned again and again for Alleyway’s heartwarming holiday treat. With a pre-show quartet of carolers, hot chocolate, and all the trimmings. The story of A Christmas Carol is a holiday tradition.
A Kidman Carol
By: Kevin Zak
Directed by: Kevin Zak
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/kidman
Description: When Cate Blanchett says “Tár Humbug!” to all things Oscars, she’s visited by three spirits of fellow Australian movie star Nicole Kidman. Can Cate learn the meaning of the season in time for the Oscars broadcast? Who knohrs?! An inappropriate, irreverent and truly bananas parody.
Black Bear Island
By: Karissa Murrell Myers
Directed by: Daniel F. Lendzian
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Mar 08 2025
Type of Event: World Premiere
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/black-bear-island
Description: Following the mysterious death of her estranged childhood sweetheart, Amitra returns home for the first time in 16 years and is plunged into a nightmare of secrets and lies in this gripping psychological thriller.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
By: Heidi Armbruster, adapt. from Agatha Christie
Directed by: Chris J Handley
Event Date(s): Apr 11 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: Mystery
Venue: Alleyway Theatre
City: Buffalo
Price: $44
Reference Link: https://www.alleyway.com/show/oger-ackroyd
Description: With clockwork precision, just seven actors play all the characters in this highly theatrical adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1926 masterpiece---a twisty tale which delves deep into the human psyche’s intricate dance with truth and deception.
Little Shop of Horrors
By: Howard Ashman (book & lyrics), Alan Menken (music)
Directed by: Michelle Storrs-Ryan
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $10 - 25
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/
Description: Bridge Street Theatre's annual all-student summer musical production. A "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space" in the form of an otherworldly houseplant uses a Skid Row Florist Shoppe as home base in its nefarious plot to conquer the Earth.
Griswold
By: Angela J. Davis
Directed by: M. Burke Walker
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/
Description: Inspired by the untold story of Estelle Griswold, the driving force behind Griswold vs Connecticut, the Supreme Court contraceptive case which established legal precedence for the right to sexual privacy.
Out of Order
By: Carl Holder
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 29 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre Speakeasy
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/out-of-order/
Description: 50 index cards in a bowl: Some are confessions, characters, stories; others prompt weird group activities in the room. One card at a time is removed and performed in whatever order the universe dictates. It’s a game. It’s a play. It’s an intimate experience with other people.
ChipandGus
By: John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 26 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/chipandgus/
Description: The two loneliest men in upstate New York meet once a month in the grungy back room of a rundown Schenectady sports bar to do the one thing they love most---play ping pong---and discover that their lives intertwine in ways they couldn’t possibly have imagined. Produced in collaboration with Fat Knight Theatre.
The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord
By: Scott Carter
Directed by: Carmen Borgia
Event Date(s): Nov 14 2024 - Nov 24 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Bridge Street Theatre
City: Catskill
Price: $15-$30
Reference Link: https://bridgest.org/discord/
Description: A Founding Father, a Victorian novelist, and a Russian revolutionary walk into---stop me if you’ve heard this one. It's a blistering battle of wits when three famous thinkers are brought together in Purgatory and forced to collaborate on a new translation of the Bible.
Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 27 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Bratton Theater
City: Chautauqua
Price: $45-55
Reference Link: https://www.chq.org/chautauqua-theater-company/ctc-2024-season/fabulation/
Description: Fabulation is a sharp-witted satirical comedy that takes us from riches to rags, through twists and turns, and reveals the unexpected joys within chaos.
The Light and the Dark
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Jade King Carroll
Event Date(s): Aug 10 2024 - Aug 23 2024
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Bratton Theater
City: Chautauqua
Price: $45-55
Reference Link: https://www.chq.org/chautauqua-theater-company/ctc-2024-season/the-light-and-the-dark/
Description: The Light and the Dark delves into the profound impact of art in assuaging trauma and explores the transformative power of female rage in reshaping societal paradigms.
Ragtime: The Musical
By: Stephen Flaherty (music), Lynn Ahrens (lyrics), Terrence McNally (book)
Directed by: Michael Lluberes
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Jul 20 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Hangar Theatre
City: Ithaca
Price: $22 to $66
Reference Link: https://hangartheatre.org/event/ragtime-the-musical/
Description: Based on E. L. Doctorow’s sweeping novel, this timeless musical masterpiece celebrates the soaring sounds and can-do spirit of America at the dawn of the last century. FlexPass subscriptions, group discounts, and other ways to save are available! A co-production with FIM Flint Repertory Theatre (Michigan).
Todd vs. The Titanic
By: Scott Rothman (book), Joe Kinosian (music), Kellen Blair (lyrics)
Directed by: Meredith McDonough
Event Date(s): Jul 27 2024 - Aug 03 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Hangar Theatre
City: Ithaca
Price: $22 to $55
Reference Link: https://hangartheatre.org/event/todd-vs-the-titanic/
Description: In this hilarious and heartfelt new comedy, a member of a theatre troupe doing a show about the Titanic suddenly finds himself as possibly the last person on earth---so will the show go on? Todd vs. The Titanic is an Adirondack Theatre Festival world premiere production.
Medea: Re-Versed
By: Luis Quintero, adapted from Euripides
Directed by: Nathan Winkelstein
Event Date(s): Sep 12 2024 - Oct 15 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: heen Center Frank Shiner Theatre
City: New York
Price: $
Reference Link: https://www.redbulltheater.com/medea-re-versed-2024
Description: An ice-cold, high-octane adaptation of Euripides's play written in battle rap verse, this brand-new hip-hop version of Medea sheds contemporary light on the classic tragedy of family, power, and revenge---as terrifying and shocking today as it was 2,000 years ago. A co-production with Bedlam.
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment—The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
By: Donald Margulies
Directed by: John Hurley
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Productions
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/shipwrecked
Description: The adventurous Louis de Rougemont invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity that left 19-century England spellbound. Shipwrecked! examines how far we’re willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world.
Witch
By: Jen Silverman
Directed by: Scott Behrend
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Productions
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/witch
Description: A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, as the village outcast, but her soul is not so readily bought. An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, and a sharp, subversive fable.
Our Lady of 121st Street
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by: Scott Behrend & Mike Doben
Event Date(s): Feb 20 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Productions
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/our-lady-of-121st-street
Description: The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room. Waiting for her return are some of the city's most life-challenged individuals, trying to find a place for their grief, checkered pasts, and uncertain futures.
Burn This
By: Lanford Wilson
Directed by: Robyn Horn
Event Date(s): Apr 17 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Road Less Traveled Productions
City: Buffalo
Price: $50-55
Reference Link: https://www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org/burn-this
Description: Anna shares her Manhatten loft with her two gay roommates: the world-weary young Larry and Robbie, who has just been killed in a freak accident. When Robbie’s older brother, Pale, comes to collect his brother's belongings, he transforms the play's action and the lives of all.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Jamil Jude
Event Date(s): Feb 26 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/king
Description: Basketball makes and breaks a friendship in this snappy drama about two die-hard fans living in the shadow of LeBron James’s reign in Cleveland.
Sense and Sensibility
By: Kate Hamill, adapt. from Jane Austen
Directed by: Jason O’Connell
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/sense
Description: Jane Austen’s Dashwood sisters find the courage to let love triumph over tradition in this joyously whirlwind adaptation of the treasured classic.
The National Pastime
By: Rogelio Martinez
Directed by: Johanna McKeon
Event Date(s): Jun 11 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Syracuse Stage
City: Syracuse
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://www.syracusestage.org/pastime
Description: Baseball and espionage are the weapons of choice in this Syracuse Stage-commissioned world premiere, filled with paranoia and post Cold War tension.
Newsies
By: Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Jack Feldman. Book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on the Disney film written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White.
Directed by: Brett Smock
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Jul 27 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $42-77
Reference Link: https://therevtheatre.com/2024season/
Description: Jack Kelly and his ragtag team of newsies make a meager living selling newspapers on the streets of NYC. But when the prices of “papes” are hiked, hanging the newsies out to dry, there is nothing left to do but "seize the day!" Inspired by the real-life newsboys strike of 1899.
Bandstand
By: Music by Richard Oberacker. Book and lyrics by Robert Taylor and Richard Oberacker.
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 14 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $42-77
Reference Link: https://therevtheatre.com/2024season/
Description: Bandstand tells the story of musician Donny Novitski, who is about to take on the mission of his life: leading his band of fellow veterans into competition for America’s next swing band sensation. Bandstand is a patriotic tribute to our veterans and the nostalgia of the 1940s.
May We All
By: Revised book by Eric Ulloa based on the original script by Troy Britton Johnson, Todd Johnson, and Eric Pfeffinger. Orchestrations and arrangements by: Brian Usifer.
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
City: Auburn
Price: $42-77
Reference Link: https://therevtheatre.com/2024season/
Description: Set in Harmony, Tenn., May We All is about rebuilding in the face of adversity and never giving up on your dreams. Featuring hit songs made famous by Florida Georgia Line, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Dolly Parton, Little Big Town, Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, Reba McEntire, and more!
Ohio
Dial M for Murder
By: Frederick Knott
Directed by: Tatiana Pandiani
Event Date(s): Aug 17 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: The iconic, plot-twisting thriller about suspicion, deception, and murder receives a clever new treatment for the stage.
Mr. Parent
By: Melinda Lopez, Emanuel Parent and Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Directed by: Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Event Date(s): Sep 17 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: A writer-performer tells real-life personal stories about being a struggling actor-turned-urban public school teacher in a hilarious, deeply felt solo performance.
Rutka: The Musical
By: Neena Beber
Directed by: Wendy C. Goldberg
Event Date(s): Oct 13 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Musical Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: A powerful new indie-rock musical and world premiere based on a real diary that a 14-year-old girl hid in the war-torn Jewish Ghetto in 1943 Poland.
The Second City 65th Anniversary Show
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 24 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: The Second City returns to celebrate 65 years of legendary laughs with some all-time favorite songs, sketches, and characters hand-picked from their iconic comedy archive.
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Directed by: Bridget Leak
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: The holiday story you love unfolds in spectacular fashion with dazzling set, costume, and lighting designs for a magical holiday experience!
Primary Trust
By: Eboni Booth
Directed by: Timothy Douglas
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this recent Off-Broadway hit is an achingly beautiful tale that will restore your faith in others.
English
By: Sanaz Toossi
Directed by: Kimberly Senior
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: The 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, about the human desire to belong as four Iranian adults navigate the mechanics of language with humor and vulnerability.
The Book Club Play
By: Karen Zacarías
Directed by: Blake Robison
Event Date(s): Mar 22 2025 - Apr 20 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: A comedy about books and the people who love them. When a book club accepts a provocative new member, long-standing relationships take a hilarious turn.
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by: Joanie Schultz
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue:
City: Cincinnati
Price: Starting at $35
Reference Link: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/2024-25-season
Description: Birthday Candles will warm the soul as it tenderly explores motherhood, family, love, loss, and finding your place in the universe.
Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Candice Handy
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $0
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/hamlet
Description: The 2024 free Shakespeare in the Park tour presents Hamlet in over 30 parks in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. This summer, become immersed in the intrigue and riveting blend of passion, ghosts, and royal drama that promises to heat up your summer nights with gripping intensity.
Kindred Spirits
By: Alice Scovell, based on characters and story created by Noël Coward
Directed by: Brian Isaac Phillips
Event Date(s): Aug 02 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/kindred-spirits
Description: In this world premiere sequel to Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine, haunted by past loves, struggles to finish his book and pursue a new romance. Kindred Spirits blends romance, jealousy, and witty repartee with Coward’s beloved characters and a few new ones.
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by: Darnell Pierre Benjamin
Event Date(s): Sep 06 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/fat-ham
Description: The Cincinnati premiere of this sweet and spicy reimaging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet serves up a feast of drama, with loyalty, identity, and power dynamics on the menu.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
By: David Catlin
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Nov 02 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/frankenstein
Description: A new spin on the gothic tale from the mother of science fiction promises to be a spine-tingling encounter with one of literature's most iconic monsters. Presented in partnership with Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Mass.
Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 15 2024 - Dec 07 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/twelfth-night
Description: Shakespeare's delightful comedy of mistaken identities and romantic entanglements, is a family-friendly spectacle that promises laughter and joy for all. Presented in partnership with Prague Shakespeare Company in the Czech Republic.
Every Christmas Story Ever Told
By: Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald, and John K. Alvarez
Directed by: Jeremy Dubin
Event Date(s): Dec 13 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/every-christmas-2024
Description: What begins as another annual production of A Christmas Carol, soon devolves into a slightly irreverent look at all of our favorite "beloved holiday classics” including pop culture favorites like It’s a Wonderful Life, Rudolph, Charlie Brown, and more.
A Room in the Castle
By: Lauren M. Gunderson
Directed by: Kaja Dunn
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/a-room-in-the-castle
Description: World premiere. In this parallel retelling of Hamlet from Ophelia and Gertrude's perspectives, the focus shifts to their emotional journey amidst the chaos of the Danish court. Presented in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Dalloway
By: Lindsey Augusta Mercer (book, lyrics, and music), inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel
Directed by: Sara Clark
Event Date(s): May 23 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
City: Cincinnati
Price: $14-$76
Reference Link: https://cincyshakes.com/on-stage/mrs-dalloway
Description: World premiere musical with a neo-Golden Age score and contemporary folk pop music. In 1923, Clarissa Dalloway throws London's grandest party amid post-WWI and pandemic chaos. As she prepares, past reunions challenge her façade, rekindling old connections, and unspoken desires.
Pride and Prejudice
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Michael Barakiva
Event Date(s): Sep 07 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: Comedic Play
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/pride-and-prejudice
Description: Jane Austen’s most beloved work! The outspoken and independent Elizabeth Bennet is determined to remain single, despite mounting pressure from her hovering and meddlesome mother. This classic love story is a hilarious, modern romcom that celebrates finding your perfect match.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Oct 12 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Dramatic Play
Venue: Outcalt Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://
Description: Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking, Obie Award-winning play breathes new life into the United States Constitution and imagines how it can shape the next generation of Americans.
A Christmas Story
By: Phillip Grecian
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Comedic Play
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/a-christmas-story
Description: One boy. One holiday wish. And a world conspiring to make sure it doesn’t come true. The record-breaking show returns to the Allen Theatre in all its pink-bunny-suit, glowing-leg-lamp, triple-dog-daring glory. The perfect holiday treat for the entire family!
Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Comedic Play
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/fat-ham
Description: Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been invited to the backyard barbeque! Get your plate ready for a slab of smokin’ hot revenge, served with a hefty scoop of vengeance, and a side of karaoke. A visit from beyond the grave reveals family secrets and scandalous generational trauma.
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Monteze Freeland
Event Date(s): Mar 01 2025 - Mar 23 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Outcalt
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/king-james
Description: In the world of basketball, LeBron James is the king. But to die-hard Clevelanders like Shawn and Matt, “King James” is a god, and their fandom forges their bond. In a play filled with humor and great poignancy, the men navigate their turbulent friendship through the love of the game.
Fiddler on the Roof
By: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein
Directed by: Michael Barakiva
Event Date(s): May 03 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Allen Theatre
City: Cleveland
Price: $15-95
Reference Link: https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2024/fiddler-on-the-roof
Description: “Tradition!” The word immediately invokes the venerated pillars of faith, family, and friendship. But in the Russian shtetl of Anatevka, Tevye the milkman and his wife, Golde, must walk the fine line of balancing tradition with progressiveness. A heart-warming tale filled with love.
POTUS, or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Carrie Williams
Event Date(s): Oct 04 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/potus
Description: When the president unwittingly turns a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Peter/Wendy
By: Jeremy Bloom
Directed by: Nathan Motta
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/peter-wendy
Description: When the boy that never grew up arrives at Wendy’s nursery window one star-filled night, the magical Peter Pan helps her to fly away to the enchanted world of Neverland. There she joins his adventures with Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily, and the menacing Captain Hook.
The Hot Wing King
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Sheffia Randall-Nickerson
Event Date(s): Jan 24 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/hot-wing
Description: Cordell’s kitchen is flurry of activity as his boyfriend Dwayne and their close friends are busy marinating, frying, and carrying on in a bid to make him a winner at the annual hot wing competition in Memphis, Tenn., until Dwayne’s troubled nephew shows up at the front door.
The Wolves
By: Sarah DeLappe
Directed by: Leighann Delorenzo
Event Date(s): Mar 07 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/wolves
Description: A girls' indoor soccer team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of warriors. From the safety of their stretch circle, nine young women discover things about themselves and see each other for who they really are.
RUST: a memoir of steel and grit
By: George Brant, adapt. from Eliese Colette Goldbach
Directed by: Laura Kepley
Event Date(s): Apr 25 2025 - May 18 2025
Type of Event: Play (World Premiere)
Venue: Dobama Theatre
City: Cleveland Heights
Price: $1-42
Reference Link: https://www.dobama.org/rust
Description: This is the true story of one woman's experience in the steel industry, her struggle to find peace, and the courage to rebuild her life. What she uncovers in the belly of a Cleveland steel mill is much more than molten metal and grueling working conditions.
The Garbologists
By: Lindsay Joelle
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 14 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Comedy Play
Venue: Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/the-garbologists/
Description: Two essential workers from different worlds discover there’s more that binds them than taking out the trash in this offbeat buddy comedy. When thrown together to pick up what the world has discarded, they learn that some things are easier to toss than others.
Alice in Wonderland
By: Joseph McDonough (book), David Kisor (songs)
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 30 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+ for adults; $24 for kids
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/alice-in-wonderland/
Description: Ain’t no party like a Wonderland party… Based on the beloved, imaginative tale by Lewis Carroll, this modern retelling is the toe-tapping story of a lost girl, a cool cat, a wild hare, and the original “dancing queen.”
I Need That
By: Theresa Rebeck
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Feb 08 2025 - Mar 02 2025
Type of Event: Comedy Play
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/i-need-that/
Description: Meet Sam, an obsessive pack rat bordering on hoarder lost in his own possessions .Faced with the threat of eviction unless he cleans up his property, Sam is forced to reckon with what’s trash, what’s treasure, and whether we can ever know the difference between the two.
The Sound Inside
By: Adam Rapp
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Apr 05 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/the-sound-inside/
Description: Bella Baird is a brilliant writer and Ivy League professor who prizes her solitude. But when she faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with a talented and enigmatic student, Christopher, asking an unthinkable favor of him—but is it undoable?
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
By: Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by:
Event Date(s): May 31 2025 - Jun 22 2025
Type of Event: Dramedy
Venue: Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $30+
Reference Link: https://ensemblecincinnati.org/calendar/jajas-african-hair-braiding/
Description: Welcome to Jaja’s bustling hair braiding shop in Harlem, where every day a lively and eclectic group of West African immigrant hair braiders are creating masterpieces on the heads of neighborhood women.
Camp Siegfried
By: Bess Wohl
Directed by: Bridget Leak
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theater of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: First Love. Third Reich. Two teenagers fall in love at Summer Camp on Long Island, while slowly being indoctrinated by the political right. It's 1938, the world is on the brink of war, and this wholesome summer camp is exclusively for American youth of German descent.
Die Hard Is a Christmas Movie
By: A.J. Baldwin & Alexx Rouse
Directed by: Tatiana Godfrey
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: A shot-for-shot remake of the perennial action classic, set inside the suburban home of a family on the brink of collapse. This holiday season, one family will risk it all to make it to Christmas morning together... or die hard trying.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Piper N. Davis
Event Date(s): Feb 07 2025 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: In a cubicle in small-town Idaho, two single dads unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds. A story of hope in a world that feels out of control.
Blerds
By: J. Corey Buckner
Directed by: Derek Snow
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - Apr 19 2025
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $15-38
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: Blerds follows three Black middle school nerds as they set off across Washington, D.C., on a quest to reach a Star Wars Convention and meet the coolest Jedi in the galaxy: Samuel L. Jackson. Not so long ago... three young teens set out on a quest to meet their idol.
The 22nd Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival
By: Various
Directed by: Various
Event Date(s): May 30 2025 - Jun 14 2025
Type of Event: Live Performance
Venue: Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Art Academy of Cincinnati
City: Cincinnati
Price: $20
Reference Link: https://www.knowtheatre.com/
Description: A 15-day celebration of curated new work and uncensored live performance from local, national, and international indie theatre artists. The Cincy Fringe is Cincinnati’s summer theatre party.
Oregon
Ann
By: Holland Taylor
Directed by: Don Horn
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Sep 29 2024
Type of Event: live theater, drama, comedy, two act, historical
Venue: The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza
City: Portland
Price: $20-$40
Reference Link: https://www.trianglepro.org/ann-1
Description: An encore performance starring Margie Boule. Ann is an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary late governor of Texas. This inspiring and hilarious play brings us face to face with a complex, colorful, and captivating character.
J.C. (a gospel according to an Angel)
By: Donnie (book & lyrics), Michael Allen Harrison (additional book & lyrics)
Directed by: Don Horn
Event Date(s): Feb 06 2025 - Feb 22 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza
City: Portland
Price: $20-$40
Reference Link: https://www.trianglepro.org/jc-gospel-according-to-an-angel
Description: This new stage musical asks the question, Why do you believe what you believe? Just because it is written in a book---a book that has over the years been translated from one language to another? Is it the stories in the book---is that why so many people believe?
That’s No Lady
By: Donnie (book & lyrics), w/ additional book & lyrics by Storm Large, Tom Grant, Jonathan Quesenberry, and Marv & Rindy Ross
Directed by: Brandon Wooley
Event Date(s): Jun 12 2025 - Jun 29 2025
Type of Event: biographical musical
Venue: The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza
City: Portland
Price: $20-$40
Reference Link: https://www.trianglepro.org/darcelle-thats-no-lady
Description: True story of a run-down tavern on Skid Row becoming a renowned, world-class drag performance venue, and of the world's oldest female impersonator and the venue being honored by being the first Oregon LGBTQ business on the National Register. Dedicated to Walter W Cole/Dracelle.
Pennsylvania
The Velveteen Rabbit
By: Adapted by Philip Grecian
Directed by: Amy Rene Byrne
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $16
Reference Link: https://www.bte.org
Description: Margery Williams's beloved children's book comes to life in this enchanting tale for young and old alike. Through the eyes of a young child, the Velveteen Rabbit discovers the true meaning of being loved and cherished.
A Christmas Carol
By: Amy Rene Byrne, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Amy Rene Byrne
Event Date(s): Nov 29 2024 - Dec 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: www.bte.org
Description: A brand new adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic work.
Misery
By: William Goldman
Directed by: Nora Gair
Event Date(s): Jan 23 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: www.bte.org
Description: An edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller.
A Wrinkle in Time
By: John Glore, adapt. from Madeleine L'Engle
Directed by: Aaron White
Event Date(s): Apr 03 2025 - Apr 27 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Alvina Krause Theatre
City: Bloomsburg
Price: $35
Reference Link: www.bte.org
Description: One of literature's most enduring young heroines, Meg Murry is joining forces with Mrs. Whatsit, Charles Wallace, Calvin O'Keefe, and more to battle the forces of evil so she can rescue her father, save humanity, and find herself.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Selina Fillinger
Directed by: Meredith McDonough
Event Date(s): Sep 21 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94446/potus-or-behind-every-great-dumbass-are-seven-women-trying-to-keep-him-alive
Description: An uproariously funny feminist satire lands in time for election season! A crude comment, a problematic paramour, and an unfortunate medical mess turn a PR nightmare into a global crisis---and it’s all dumped upon the seven women responsible for keeping the president presidential.
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley
By: Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
Directed by: Kyle Haden
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94447/the-wickhams-christmas-at-pemberley
Description: The Darcys and Bennets return to City Theatre in a delightful companion piece to last season’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. The uninvited husband of Lydia appears in the middle of the night. The Wickhams is a charming holiday tale that celebrates forgiveness.
The Real James Bond…Was Dominican
By: Christopher Rivas
Directed by: Daniel Banks
Event Date(s): Jan 18 2025 - Feb 16 2025
Type of Event: play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94448/the-dnaworks-production-of-the-real-james-bond-dot-dot-dot-was-dominican
Description: The Real James Bond…Was Dominican is a young man’s guide to love, color, code-switching, white-washing, fake-it-till-you-make-it, and the roller coaster of finding one’s true self. A DNAWORKS production.
Birthday Candles
By: Noah Haidle
Directed by: Marc Masterson
Event Date(s): Mar 08 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94449/birthday-candles
Description: Birthday Candles examines one woman’s life, one birthday at a time, and asks where our place in the universe is, and what would you risk for the perfect gift?
King James
By: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Monteze Freeland
Event Date(s): Apr 19 2025 - May 11 2025
Type of Event: play
Venue: City Theatre
City: Pittsburgh
Price: $20 and up
Reference Link: https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/94451/king-james
Description: King James is a buddy comedy that tracks the unlikely friendship of two super fans and examines the bonds that sports can create in an “intensely watchable and astutely observed” (The New York Times) new play.
Decompositions
By: Tannis Kowalchuk
Directed by: Mimi McGurl
Event Date(s): Sep 15 2024 - Sep 15 2024
Type of Event: Alone Together Solo Play Festival
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: Theatre artist and organic farmer Tannis Kowalchuk writes and performs a series of fiercely personal stories, dances, and songs that explore decomposition as a metaphor for living a full life. Kowalchuk’s dynamic duet with a pile of compost is a brave new work of live intimate theatre.
Fool
By: Clown Daddy
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 13 2024
Type of Event: Alone Together Solo Play Festival
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: Clown Daddy, a.k.a. Ellie J, performs a solo clown play about a clown trapped in a living space. As they attempt to get out, the profundity of human existence is explored.
Dora’s Gently Used Dream Store
By: Morgan McKenzie Kauffman
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 14 2024 - Sep 14 2024
Type of Event: Alone Together Solo Play Festival
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: Dora’s secret collection---the dreams and nightmares donated by past customers---is what writer and performer Morgan McKenzie Kauffman merges to tell the story of Dora and the patrons who make up this mysterious market. A pop-up performance that changes nightly.
Lucy-Joseph
By: Farm Arts Collective (devised)
Directed by: Mimi McGurl
Event Date(s): Dec 07 2024 - Dec 07 2024
Type of Event: Staged Reading
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: A staged reading of a new work in development inspired by the life of L.A. Lobdell, featuring Jess Beveridge, Tannis Kowalchuk, Doug Rogers, and the Farm Arts Collective band.
Dream on the Farm
By: Farm Arts Collective
Directed by: Tannis Kowalchuk
Event Date(s): Aug 07 2025 - Aug 17 2025
Type of Event: Dream on the Farm
Venue: Farm Arts Collective Inc
City: Damascus
Price: $35
Reference Link: https://www.farmartscollective.org/calendar
Description: Play #6 of Dream on the Farm, a decade-long series of performances about climate change. Staged at the new Agri-Cultural Center on Willow Wisp Organic Farm. Created collectively and performed by the artists, farmers, activists, and musicians of Farm Arts Collective.
Snow White and the Two Dwarfs
By: Don Bridge
Directed by: Melissa Nicholson
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Aug 17 2024
Type of Event: Children's Theatre
Venue: Gamut Theatre Group
City: Harrisburg
Price: $10
Reference Link: https://www.gamuttheatre.org
Description: Obsessed with being the fairest in the land, the Evil Queen banishes young Snow White to the forest to fend for herself. Snow White happens upon a little cottage in the woods where she finds two dwarfs… Wait, what? Yep, that’s two dwarfs!
The Wanderers`
By: Anna Ziegler
Directed by: Jesse Bernstein
Event Date(s): Sep 05 2024 - Oct 06 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/plays/the-wanderers.html
Description: From the writer of Lantern hits Photograph 51 and The Last Match comes this moving exploration of estrangement and the great human yearning for connection, told with keen humor and deep empathy for these flawed and fascinating characters.
American Moor
By: Keith Hamilton Cobb
Directed by: Kash Goins
Event Date(s): Nov 07 2024 - Dec 08 2024
Type of Event: Drama
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/plays/american-moor.html
Description: An actor auditions for the title role in Othello. From this simple scenario springs a rich and penetrating exploration of Shakespeare, race, and art in modern America.
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Charles McMahon
Event Date(s): Feb 13 2025 - Mar 15 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/plays/much-ado-about-nothing.html
Description: Through a dizzying web of misdirection and deceits both malign and benign, Beatrice's and Benedick's steadfast refusal to love is put to the test in Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy. Will they go on with their merry single lives or fall in love despite themselves?
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow, adapted from the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by: Charles McMahon
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - Jun 15 2025
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Lantern Theater Company
City: Philadelphia
Price: $25 and up
Reference Link: https://www.lanterntheater.org/plays/the-39-steps.html
Description: A spy thriller or a rollicking comedy? Why not both! In this riotous adaptation of the classic adventure novel and Hitchcock film, we travel from London to the Scottish Highlands and back again as a social dandy tries to thwart the theft of state military secrets.
The Color Purple
By: Marsha Norman (book), Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, & Stephen Bray (music and lyrics)
Directed by: Amina Robinson
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/shows/the-color-purple/
Description: The epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker comes to life in an emotional tour de force musical infused with a score of jazz, gospel, ragtime, and blues. This Tony-winning musical is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
Cymbeline
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: “Extreme” Shakespeare - no directors. no designers.
Event Date(s): Jul 24 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://pashakespeare.org/shows/cymbeline/
Description: Shakespeare meets The Princess Bride in this romantic adventure seamlessly weaving elements of the Bard’s comedy, tragedy, and history into one epic fairy tale of magic and power. When Imogen’s father unjustly banishes her beloved, she embarks on a mythic quest toward a happy ending.
Shakespeare for Kids
By: Erin Sheffield
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Event Date(s): Jul 24 2024 - Aug 03 2024
Type of Event: Children’s Play
Venue: Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
City: Center Valley
Price: $25+
Reference Link: https://https://pashakespeare.org/shows/shakespeare-for-kids-2024/
Description: A high-energy one-hour production designed for children ages 4-10 to actively experience Shakespeare’s vibrant language and characters. Using a combination of songs, puppets, and scenes from Twelfth Night, S4K provides families the opportunity to introduce children to Shakespeare.
The Porch on Windy Hill
By: Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse & David M. Lutken
Directed by: Sherry Stregack Lutken
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: play
Venue: People's Light
City: Malvern
Price: $49
Reference Link: https://www.peopleslight.org/whats-on/20242025-season/the-porch-on-windy-hill-a-new-play-with-old-music/
Description: David Lutken (Woody Sez, The Road, Ring of Fire) returns to the People’s Light stage! A young couple’s journey to North Carolina explores the roots of Appalachian music in a heartwarming tale of family heritage and human connection.
Peter Panto: A Musical Panto
By: Jennifer Childs (book), Alex Bechtel (music & lyrics & arrangements)
Directed by: Bill Fennelly
Event Date(s): Nov 20 2024 - Jan 05 2025
Type of Event: musical
Venue: People's Light
City: Malvern
Price: $54
Reference Link: https://tickets.peopleslight.org/overview/90535
Description: The creative team behind Alice in Wonderland: A Musical Panto invites you to explore the whimsical world of Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, and Captain Hook! Cheer the heroes, boo the villains, and sing along with this playful twist on a fairy tale classic.
South Carolina
Something Rotten
By: Wayne Kirkpatrick, Karey Kirkpatrick, and John O’Farrell
Directed by: Whitaker Gannon
Event Date(s): Sep 25 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $63
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: Welcome to the Renaissance---and to the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce Something Rotten. Lauded by audiences and critics alike, this big song-and-dance comedy phenomenon was hailed as "the funniest musical in at least 400 years."
42nd Street
By: Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble
Directed by: David Grindrod
Event Date(s): Dec 04 2024 - Dec 29 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $63
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: Come along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway! 42nd Street celebrates the magic of showbiz! Songs like "We're in the Money" and " Shuffle Off to Buffalo" make this show a fan favorite.
The Cottage
By: Sandy Rustin
Directed by: Blake White
Event Date(s): Jan 29 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $55
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: This ridiculously funny romantic comedy calls into question fate and faith, identity and infidelity, and love and marriage as a surprising and riotous web of secrets unravels. Hilarious from start to finish!
Waitress
By: Sara Bareilles (songs), Jessie Nelson (book)
Directed by: Tara Jeanne Vallee
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - Jun 01 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Is
Price: $63
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, is stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna must weigh her commitments against a rare shot at freedom. Amazing score and a heartwarming story!
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
By: Colman Domingo, Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff
Directed by: Patdro Harris
Event Date(s): Jul 09 2025 - Aug 17 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
City: Hilton Head Is
Price: $63
Reference Link: https://www.artshhi.com/theater-series
Description: A Boston girl with a voice from heaven, Donna Summer soared to the stars from her beginnings in her church gospel choir to the pinnacle of fame as a dance floor diva. The Summer score, featuring more than 20 classic hits, is a moving tribute to the Queen of Disco!
Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
By: Book by Douglas McGrath, words and music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 18 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Greenville
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: The inspiring true story of Carole King’s remarkable journey from teenage songwriter to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
A Year with Frog and Toad
By: Robert Reale (music), Willie Reale (book & lyrics), adapted from Arnold Lobel
Directed by: Rylee Coppel
Event Date(s): Jul 20 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Family Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/a-year-with-frog-and-toad
Description: A heartwarming and whimsical musical that brings to life the charming adventures of the two best friends, Frog and Toad, based on Arnold Lobel's beloved children's books. With catchy tunes and endearing characters, the musical unfolds as a series of vignettes and toe-tapping fun!
Fiddler on the Roof
By: Joseph Stein (book), Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics)
Directed by: Marybeth Clark
Event Date(s): Aug 28 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$91
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/fiddler-on-the-roof
Description: Featuring an unforgettable score that includes “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” and “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” Fiddler on the Roof, winner of nine Tony Awards, weaves a powerful tapestry of emotions and human experiences that continue to captivate audiences today.
Purlie Victorious
By: Ossie Davis
Directed by: Henry Clay Middleton
Event Date(s): Oct 09 2024 - Oct 27 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$85
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/purlie-victorious
Description: Ossie Davis delivers a comedic triumph in Purlie Victorious, the Tony-winning production recently headlined by Leslie Odom Jr. on Broadway. This uproarious narrative follows the charismatic preacher, Purlie, as he returns to his Georgia hometown to reclaim his inheritance.
A Christmas Carol
By: Julian Wiles, adapted from Charles Dickens
Directed by: Sam Henderson
Event Date(s): Nov 30 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $49-$96
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/a-christmas-carol
Description: With a delightful score of classic carols and a cast portraying more than 50 iconic characters, from Scrooge to Tiny Tim, this spirited musical brings the heartfelt wonder of Christmas to life once more. Experience the enchantment of the holiday season with A Christmas Carol.
The 39 Steps
By: Patrick Barlow, adapted rom the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by: Marybeth Clark
Event Date(s): Jan 22 2025 - Feb 09 2025
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$85
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/the-39-steps
Description: The Tony and Olivier Award-winning The 39 Steps is a thrilling and comedic theatrical adaptation that pays homage to the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. With its clever staging and witty dialogue, this theatrical masterpiece promises an exhilarating, laughter-filled experience.
Last Stop on Market Street
By: Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson, adapted for the Stage by Cheryl L. West, with songs by Lamont Dozier and Paris Ray Dozier; digital recording and underscoring by Paris Ray Dozier
Directed by: Rylee Coppel
Event Date(s): Feb 01 2025 - Feb 08 2025
Type of Event: Family Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $40
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/last-stop-on-market-street
Description: Last Stop on Market Street is a captivating and uplifting musical adaptation of Matt de la Peña's acclaimed children's book. Centered around the curious and imaginative CJ, the story takes audiences on a journey through a vibrant and diverse cityscape. Originally co-commissioned and produced by Chicago Children’s Theatre and Children’s Theatre Company, Produced by special arrangement with Plays for New Audiences.
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Julian Wiles
Event Date(s): Feb 26 2025 - Mar 16 2025
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$85
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/the-glass-menagerie
Description: Tennessee Williams's timeless, Tony-winning American classic. With its rich characters and hauntingly beautiful narrative, this classic play remains a powerful and resonant exploration of the complexities of the human experience that has entranced audiences for generations.
Legally Blonde
By: Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin (songs), Heather Hach (book), adapted from the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film
Directed by: Marybeth Clark
Event Date(s): Apr 09 2025 - May 04 2025
Type of Event: MainStage Series
Venue: Dock Street Theatre
City: Charleston
Price: $47-$91
Reference Link: https://charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/legally-blonde
Description: The high-energy and empowering theatrical extravaganza Legally Blonde brings the beloved story of Elle Woods to the stage with a vibrant burst of pink and a whole lot of heart. Based on the hit film starring Reese Witherspoon, and winner of 3 Olivier Awards!
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Maegan McNerney Azar
Event Date(s): Oct 31 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theater
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations.
A Christmas Carol
By: Matt Mundy from Charles Dickens
Directed by: Blake White
Event Date(s): Dec 12 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theater
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: A brand-new take on the standard---home grown, faithful to the source material, and adapted in a way only Lean Ensemble Theater can do it. While five actors take you through Ebenezer Scrooge’s Christmas, Lean takes you on a holiday journey.
Summer, 1976
By: David Auburn
Directed by: Peggy Trecker White
Event Date(s): Jan 16 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Type of Event: theatre
Venue: HHSO SoundWaves
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: A deeply moving, tenderly insightful play about friendship, memory, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives forever. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana and Alice.
Skeleton Crew
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Katherine LeRoy-Lawson
Event Date(s): Mar 20 2025 - Mar 30 2025
Type of Event: theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theater
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under.
Master Class
By: Terrance McNally
Directed by: Whitaker Gannon
Event Date(s): May 15 2025 - May 25 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theater
City: Hilton Head Island
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description: Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience: us. She’s glamorous, commanding, larger than life—and drop-dead funny.
Dandelion
By: Colleen Francis, Jessica Francis Fichter, Sean Riehm
Directed by: Jessica Francis Fichter
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Aug 24 2024
Type of Event: musical
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $30-35
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/dandelion/
Description: Jane and Delilah are forced to confront profound questions of guilt, responsibility, and sacrifice as Jane must decide between attending college in pursuit of her lifelong dreams or staying home to care for Delilah, who is locked in a desperate battle with severe mental illness.
People, Places, and Things
By: Duncan Macmillan
Directed by: Dewey Scott-Wiley
Event Date(s): Sep 27 2024 - Oct 12 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $30-33
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/people-places-and-things/
Description: An exhilarating new play about surviving in the modern world. The story focuses on Emma, a 30-something actress who thinks she is having the time of her life, until she finds herself in rehab.
What the Constitution Means to Me
By: Heidi Schreck
Directed by: Ginny Ives
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Nov 09 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-25
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/what-the-constitution-means-to-me/
Description: Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human play, she resurrects her teenage self to trace the profound relationship between the people and the founding document.
The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical
By: David Nehls and Betsy Kelso
Directed by: Robin Gottlieb
Event Date(s): Nov 22 2024 - Dec 21 2024
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $35-40
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/the-great-american-trailer-park-christmas-musical-2/
Description: Back by popular demand! It’s holiday time down in Armadillo Acres.
The Revolutionists
By: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Martha Hearn
Event Date(s): Jan 17 2025 - Feb 01 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-25
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/the-revolutionists/
Description: Playwright Olympe De Gouge, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, lose their heads, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in the Paris of 1793.
Ain’t Misbehavin’
By: Richard Maltby Jr., Murray Horwitz, and Luther Henderson
Directed by: Terrance Henderson
Event Date(s): Feb 21 2025 - Mar 22 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $35-40
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/aint-misbehavin/
Description: Five performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and reflect Waller’s view of life as a journey meant for pleasure and play.
Clyde’s
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Erin Wilson
Event Date(s): Apr 18 2025 - May 03 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $30-33
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/clydes/
Description: Clyde’s is a truck stop sandwich shop frequented by truckers making the long journey across Pennsylvania. The kitchen is staffed exclusively by formerly incarcerated individuals on a shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
A Case for the Existence of God
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by: Jonathan Monk
Event Date(s): May 16 2025 - May 31 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $22-25
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/a-case-for-the-existence-of-god/
Description: A Case for the Existence of God unfolds in a cubicle where two seated people choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds. At this desk, loan talk opens up into a discussion about the chokehold of financial insecurity and a bond over the precariousness of parenthood.
Aida
By: Tim Rice and Elton John
Directed by: Jessica Francis-Fichter
Event Date(s): Jun 20 2025 - Jul 26 2025
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Trustus Theatre
City: Columbia
Price: $35-40
Reference Link: https://trustus.org/event/elton-john-and-tim-rices-aida/
Description: An enslaved Nubian princess, Aida, finds her heart entangled with Radames, an Egyptian soldier who is betrothed to the Pharaoh’s daughter, Amneris. Aida is forced to weigh her heart against the responsibility that she faces as the leader of her people.
Tennessee
Waitress
By: Sara Bareilles (music & lyrics), Jessie Nelson (book)
Directed by: Lauren Shouse
Event Date(s): Sep 13 2024 - Sep 22 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $58-96
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: Jenna is stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, Jenna fears she may have to abandon the dream of opening her own pie shop...until a baking contest and the town's handsome doctor offer her a tempting recipe for happiness!
Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Micah-Shane Brewer
Event Date(s): Oct 25 2024 - Nov 03 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $58-86
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: This Pulitzer-winning play tells the story of two young neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance and then culminates in marriage. The occurrences of everyday life reveal universal truths about love, family, and community.
A Christmas Carol
By: Micah-Shane Brewer, adapt. from Dickens
Directed by: Micah-Shane Brewer
Event Date(s): Dec 06 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play with Music
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $58-96
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future as they lead the miserly prosperous curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey of transformation and redemption.
The Mountaintop
By: Katori Hall
Directed by: Alicia Haymer
Event Date(s): Feb 14 2025 - Feb 23 2025
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $58-86
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: The Mountaintop is a gripping reimagination of what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night on earth could have been. King is visited by a mysterious maid at the Lorraine Motel and their conversation progresses into a soul-searching discussion of King's humanity.
Sunday in the Park with George
By: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), James Lapine (book)
Directed by: Micah-Shane Brewer
Event Date(s): Apr 04 2025 - Apr 13 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Tennessee Performing Arts Center
City: Nashville
Price: $52-106
Reference Link: https://www.nashvillerep.org
Description: Inspired by Georges Seurat’s famous painting, Sunday peaks into the life of the artist who is struggling to make meaningful art while maintaining a relationship. A poignant and glorious exploration of what it takes, and what it costs, to be an artist.
Texas
Jet Fuel
By: Amy Evans
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Theater Performance
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $18 - $60
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1172837
Description: Embark on an unforgettable journey through the world of elite sports with Amy Evans' groundbreaking new play. Inspired by the story of Olympic sprinter Caster Semenya, Jet Fuel is an original play about sex, gender, and the construct of “fairness” in elite sports.
Jet Fuel
By: Amy Evans
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Bishop Arts Theatre Center
City: Dallas
Price: $18-35
Reference Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36177/production/1172837
Description: Jet Fuel is an original play about sex, gender, and the construct of “fairness” in elite sports, inspired by the story of Olympic sprinter Caster Semenya.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid
By:
Directed by: Kevin Moriarty
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre
City: Dallas
Price: $
Reference Link: https://dallastheatercenter.org/shows/disneys-the-little-mermaid/
Description: A large-scale DTC Public Works version of the Disney classic, in a production uniquely created for the people of Dallas, with the people of Dallas, and by the people of Dallas, featuring 200 community members of all ages, many appearing onstage for the first time.
Pass Over
By: Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by: Simone Alexander
Event Date(s): Aug 15 2024 - Aug 31 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Ground Floor Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $0 - $45
Reference Link: https://www.groundfloortheatre.org
Description: Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner, talking shit, passing the time, and hoping that maybe today will be different. As they dream of their promised land, a stranger wanders into their space with his own agenda and derails their plans.
The Woman in Black
By: Stephen Mallatratt and Susan Hill
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 13 2024 - Aug 11 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Main Street Theater - Rice VIllage
City: Houston
Price: $39 - $59
Reference Link: https://mainstreettheater.com/the-woman-in-black/
Description: Arthur Kipps is obsessed with a curse he believes has been cast over him and his family by the specter of a “Woman in Black,” for it is believed that anyone who sees her will die. Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story is alive and well in this spine-tingler of a play!
Spring Awakening
By: Steven Sater (book & lyrics), Duncan Sheik (music), adapt. from Frank Wedekind
Directed by: Matt Hune
Event Date(s): Sep 07 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical, Play
Venue: Rec Room Arts
City: Houston
Price: $20-50
Reference Link: https://www.recroomarts.org/spring-awakening
Description: A story of adolescent anarchy, of teenagers silenced and controlled by a censoring society, and the devastating consequences of the freedom students find outside of the classroom. The much-loved rock score will be brought to life in an intimate and powerful restaging at Rec Room.
Winter Solstice
By: Roland Schimmelpfennig (trans. David Tushingham)
Directed by: Bradley Michalakis
Event Date(s): Nov 23 2024 - Dec 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Rec Room Arts
City: Houston
Price: $15-40
Reference Link: https://www.recroomarts.org/winter-solstice
Description: A razor-sharp holiday comedy that plays with liberalism's inability to immunize itself against fascism’s rhetorical power in this wildly theatrical and inventive production.
Once Upon a Mattress
By: Book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer, music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: San Antonio
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, this rollicking spin on the classic tale The Princess and the Pea provides some side-splitting shenanigans. For after all, a princess is a delicate thing.
Child of Aphrodite
By: Blaise Ricin
Directed by: Eva Margarita
Event Date(s): Jul 11 2024 - Jul 14 2024
Type of Event: Movement
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/36-child-of-aphrodite
Description: The VORTEX presents Child of Aphrodite, a new work-in-progress by Blaise Ricin, VORTEX Green New Theatre Resident Artist and artistic director of Malum Malus. As we enter the boudoir of Aphrodite, we hear Homeric and Orphic Hymns to Aphrodite and Eros, as well as Sappho’s Ode to Aphrodite, Blaise Ricin takes us into a world of luscious costume and movement.
Malum Malus Burlesque: Lammas
By:
Directed by: Blaise Ricin
Event Date(s): Aug 08 2024 - Aug 10 2024
Type of Event: Burlesque
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble.
Sunny Days
By: Reina Hardy
Directed by: Rudy Ramirez
Event Date(s): Aug 22 2024 - Sep 14 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The VORTEX
City: Austin
Price: $15-37
Reference Link: https://vortexrep.org/
Description: National New Play Network rolling world premiere by playwright Reina Hardy. Directed by Rudy Ramirez with puppet design by Caroline Reck, this play incorporates live actors and puppets. It’s set in three broken worlds: war-torn Kosovo, the Texas-Mexico border, and the climate-ravaged future.
Mary Poppins The Musical
By: Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, book by Julian Fellowes
Directed by: John De Los Santos
Event Date(s): Jul 17 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Addison
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical! Based on the books by P.L. Travers and the classic Walt Disney film.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
By:
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 31 2024 - Sep 08 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: The Topfer at ZACH Theatre
City: Austin
Price: $25 & up
Reference Link: https://tickets.zachtheatre.org/overview/14602
Description: Relive the incredible journey of Carole King, from writing pop classics for renowned artists to her chart-topping success with Tapestry, in the captivating musical Beautiful.
Vermont
Pippin
By: Roger O. Hirson (book), Stephen Schwartz (music)
Directed by: Susanna Gellert
Event Date(s): Jul 24 2024 - Aug 17 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Walker Farm @ Weston Theater Company
City: Weston
Price: $59-$79
Reference Link: https://westontheater.org/pippin
Description: Unleash your imagination and join the company of Pippin as they journey the world over to become extraordinary and ultimately discover their dream in life’s simplest joys. This unforgettable musical reminds us that sometimes, life's simplest moments are the most magical.
The Porch on Windy Hill
By: Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse, & David M. Lutken
Directed by: Sherry Stregack Lutken
Event Date(s): Aug 22 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Walker Farm @ Weston Theater Company
City: Weston
Price: $59-$79
Reference Link: https://westontheater.org/the-porch-on-windy-hill
Description: With gloriously authentic old-time and bluegrass music, this heartwarming and uplifting piece tells the timely tale of a family reuniting against great odds. This new play with old music is sure to hit all the right notes.
Virginia
Seth’s Big Fat Broadway Show
By: Seth Rudetsky
Directed by: Seth Rudetsky
Event Date(s): Aug 15 2024 - Aug 16 2024
Type of Event: Comedy; Cabaret
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: It's a 90-minute hysterical romp featuring Seth Rudetsky’s trademark “deconstructions,” in which he uses his amazing audio/video collection to break down brilliant performances from beloved Broadway divas, from Patti LuPone to Barbra Streisand.
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche
By: Evan Linder & Andrew Hobgood
Directed by: Kelsey Dodson-Cordrey
Event Date(s): Sep 11 2024 - Oct 05 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: RTP's Robert B. Moss Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: It’s 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. As the assembled “widows” await the announcement of the society's prize-winning quiche, the atomic bomb sirens sound! Has the Communist threat come to pass?
With Bells On and Who’s Holiday
By: Darrin Hagan and Matthew Lombardo
Directed by: Joe Pabst
Event Date(s): Nov 13 2024 - Dec 22 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: RTP's Robert B. Moss Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: A very campy Christmas celebration to make your spirits bright! We open with an accountant and a drag queen stick in an elevator on Christmas Eve, and then Cindy Lou invites you to her home to spill the tea on what happened after she met the Grinch.
Which Way to the Stage
By: Ana Nogueira
Directed by: Lucian Restivo
Event Date(s): Apr 23 2025 - May 17 2025
Type of Event: Play; Comedy
Venue: RTP's Robert B. Moss Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $15-50
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: In this playful yet profound comedy all about friendship and ambition, Broadway superfans Jeff and Judy eagerly await their idol Idina Menzel at the stage door every night. This funny and touching play centers around the roles we perform and transcending one’s “type.”
A Strange Loop
By: Michael R. Jackson
Directed by: Katrinah Carol Lewis
Event Date(s): Jun 25 2025 - Aug 02 2025
Type of Event: Play; Musical
Venue: RTP's Robert B. Moss Theatre
City: Richmond
Price: $15-55
Reference Link: https://www.rtriangle.org
Description: The ground-breaking and critically acclaimed winner of every "Best Musical" award on Broadway, plus the Pulitzer Prize, is a heartfelt and thought-provoking masterwork that uses humor and honesty to explore themes around race and sexuality.
Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand
Directed by: Vato Tsikurishvili
Event Date(s): Jul 27 2024 - Aug 13 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue:
City: Arlington
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant poet and soldier, possesses enormous wit, tremendous bravery, and an unmistakable feature---a nose that could rival mountains.
Dragons Love Tacos
By: Ernie Nolan, based on the book by Adam Rubin with illustrations by Daniel Salmieri
Directed by: Kära Ernst-Schalk
Event Date(s): Jul 12 2024 - Aug 04 2024
Type of Event: TYA play
Venue:
City: Richmond
Price: $
Reference Link: https://
Description: A boy and his dog are watching a TV show about dragons when they unexpectedly get caught up in the 'Dos and Don'ts' of what to feed dragons. Turns out they love tacos, but if they accidentally eat spicy salsa... watch out!
Washington
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
By: Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Directed by: Aaron Lamb, conducted by Alexandra Arrieche
Event Date(s): Oct 11 2024 - Oct 13 2024
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Washington Center for the Performing Arts
City: Olympia
Price: $59 - 99
Reference Link: https://harlequinproductions.org/show/sweeney-todd/
Description: Attend the dark, witty, and Tony-winning tale of love, murder, and revenge set against the backdrop of 19th-century London. A bloody worldwide success since being awarded eight Tonys, this musical must be heard with a full orchestra, organ, and choir! A co-production with Olympia Symphony Orchestra.
Sister Act
By: Music by Alan Menken | Lyrics by Glenn Slater | Book by Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Aug 09 2025
Type of Event: Musical
Venue:
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: A feel-good musical comedy like “nun” other! Delores dreams of fame and fortune, but after witnessing a murder she lands in protective custody. Being disguised as a nun can’t cramp her style, and soon she’s inspired the whole choir.
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by:
Event Date(s): Sep 18 2024 - Oct 19 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Jewell Mainstage
City: Seattle
Price: $
Reference Link: https://taproottheatre.org
Description: An American classic! A life insurance payout provides a path for Lena Younger to move her Black family from their cramped apartment to an affordable home in a historically white neighborhood. But racial intolerance threatens to turn their American dream into heartbreak.
Wisconsin
Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
Directed by: Brenda DeVita
Event Date(s): Aug 02 2024 - Sep 27 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/dancing-at-lughnasa
Description: In rural Ireland, the Mundy sisters seek solace in each other, and the radio that keeps them connected to their roots. As they navigate the challenges of family, love, and societal change, the women revisit their rituals and memories of happier times. A poetic memory play.
King Lear
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Tim Ocel
Event Date(s): Aug 09 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/king-lear
Description: Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece returns. A king is undone by his own vanity as his act of selfish folly sets his kingdom on a path toward betrayal, war and unspeakable loss from which few will emerge unscathed. Featuring Brian Mani as King Lear.
Constellations
By: Nick Payne
Directed by: Vanessa Stalling
Event Date(s): Aug 10 2024 - Sep 28 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/constellations
Description: A dazzling, mind-bending romance, Constellations investigates humanity from every different angle through the eyes of Marianne and Roland---a string theorist and a beekeeper. Each decision is a fork in the road that leads to everywhere. A play about infinite possibilities.
Nat Turner in Jerusalem
By: Nathan Alan Davis
Directed by: Tyrone Phillips
Event Date(s): Oct 17 2024 - Nov 10 2024
Type of Event: Play
Venue: American Players Theatre
City: Spring Green
Price: $
Reference Link: https://americanplayers.org/plays/nat-turner-in-jerusalem
Description: In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave uprising that has been credited with accelerating the onset of the Civil War. In Davis’ 2016 play, Turner's final night in jail is reimagined in a meditation on past deeds and future repercussions. Featuring Jim DeVita and Gavin Lawrence.
The Angel Next Door
By: Paul Slade Smith
Directed by: Linda Fortunato
Event Date(s): Jul 10 2024 - Jul 28 2024
Type of Event: Comedy
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/the-angel-next-door/
Description: An homage to 1940s screwball comedy that delivers a non-stop rollercoaster of laughs adapted from Ferenc Molnár's Play at the Castle.
Million Dollar Quartet
By: Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux Original concept and direction by Floyd Mutrux, inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins
Directed by: Christopher Chase Carter
Event Date(s): Jul 31 2024 - Aug 18 2024
Type of Event: Musical Theater
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $51, $53 & $56
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/million-dollar-quartet/
Description: The electrifying hit musical of four legends making rock ‘n’ roll history.
Mary’s Wedding
By: Stephen Massicotte
Directed by: Elizabeth Margolius
Event Date(s): Aug 21 2024 - Sep 01 2024
Type of Event: Theater
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/marys-wedding/
Description: A compelling love letter that pulls at the heartstrings.
The Stranger
By: Agatha Christie
Directed by: Maggie Kettering
Event Date(s): Sep 04 2024 - Oct 20 2024
Type of Event: Thriller/Mystery
Venue: Peninsula Players Theatre
City: Fish Creek
Price: $47, $50 & $53
Reference Link: https://peninsulaplayers.com/shows/agatha-christies-the-stranger/
Description: An intimate psychological thriller. Be careful what…or who you wish for.
