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In a back street in the west village, Jacob Towney tries to save the restaurant that has been his home for longer than he can remember and release his daughter to the life he dreams she can have. His
In a back street in the west village, Jacob Towney tries to save the restaurant that has been his home for longer than he can remember and release his daughter to the life he dreams she can have. His place is a home for the odd ghosts of the village. It is running out of luck,
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Every Brilliant Thing
By: By Duncan Macmillan with Johnny Donahoe
Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Little Rock
Event Date(s): Tue Sep 13 – Sun Oct 23
Type of Event: Live Theatre
Venue: Regional Theatre
Price: $25-75
Reference Link: https://www.therep.org/our-season/
Description:
You’re six years old. Mom’s in the hospital. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s “brilliant” about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. Soon the list will take on a life of its own. Tickets go on sale January 6, 2023.
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Kim’s Convenience
By: Ins Choi
Directed by: Nelson Eusebio
TheatreSquared
Fayetteville
Event Date(s): Wed Jan 25 – Wed Feb 15
Type of Event: Play
Venue: TheatreSquared
Price: $17-54
Reference Link: https://www.theatre2.org/kims-convenience
Description:
At Mr. Kim’s corner variety store, the only thing that isn’t for sale is his family legacy—but with big-dollar projects moving in, does everyone have a price?
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In Every Generation
By: Ali Viterbi
Directed by: Michael Barakiva
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Mountain View
Event Date(s): Wed Jan 18 – Sun Feb 12
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Price: $Starting at $30
Reference Link: https://theatreworks.org/season52/in-every-generation/
Description:
TheatreWorks presents the West Coast premiere of Ali Viterbi’s imaginative play, which takes a time-traveling voyage through millennia of Passover seders past, present, and future, and examines tradition, family, and identity. Winner of the National Jewish Playwriting Contest.
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Until the Flood
By: Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by: Neel Keller
Denver Center Theatre Company
Denver
Event Date(s): Sat Aug 07 – Thu Nov 30
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Online
Price: Free
Reference Link: https://https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/until-the-flood/
Description:
After the death of Michael Brown, the Ferguson Unrest shook the nation to its core and put a spotlight on the police brutality and discrimination that plague our institutions. Dael Orlandersmith created eight fictional characters to represent the broad spectrum of perspectives.
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Freud’s Last Session
By: Mark St. Germain
Florida Repertory Theatre
Fort Myers
Event Date(s): Tue Dec 13 – Sun Jan 15
Type of Event: Professional Theatre
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
Price: $$39 – $69
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/the-season/season-25/
Description:
On the eve of World War II, Dr. Sigmund Freud, the legendary psychoanalyst, invites a young Oxford student, C.S. Lewis, to his home in London. Over the course of one evening, these two great minds clash about love, sex, the existence of God, and the meaning of life.
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Ripcord
By: David Lindsay-Abaire
Florida Repertory Theatre
Fort Myers
Event Date(s): Tue Jan 10 – Sun Jan 29
Type of Event: Professional Theatre
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
Price: $$36 – $69
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/the-season/season-25/
Description:
From the twisted, brilliant mind of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning author of Rabbit Hole and Good People, comes a high-stakes comedy about two women of a certain age locked in a no-holds-barred battle to the death! “Vastly entertaining!” — Deadline Hollywood
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The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Florida Repertory Theatre
Fort Myers
Event Date(s): Tue Jan 31 – Sun Mar 05
Type of Event: Professional Theatre
Venue: Florida Repertory Theatre
Price: $$39 – $69
Reference Link: https://www.floridarep.org/the-season/season-25/
Description:
Oscar Wilde’s wildly entertaining comic classic sparkles with dazzling wordplay and hilariously unlikely situations. This “trivial comedy for serious people” features two carefree bachelors, Jack and Algernon, each with a carefully hidden double life.
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Mud Row
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Marshall Jones III
Gulfshore Playhouse
Naples
Event Date(s): Thu Jan 05 – Sun Jan 29
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Gulfshore Playhouse
Price: $45-80
Reference Link: https://gulfshoreplayhouse.org/shows-events/mud-row/
Description:
Regine must decide the fate of a house she never wanted, the same house where Toshi’s been squatting for three months. Elsie is willing to do anything to move up in the world, while her sister Frances is willing to risk her life to change it.
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Henry V
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Carolyn Howorth
Orlando Shakes
Orlando
Event Date(s): Wed Jan 18 – Sun Feb 05
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
Price: $$25-57
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/show/henry-v/
Description:
King Henry V of England wages war with France in an attempt to claim his throne—against all odds. Don’t miss this epic, thrilling, and powerful conclusion to the rise of Henry V—packed with battles, betrayals, comedy, and love!
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Make Someone Happy Starring Rebecca Fisher
Orlando Shakes
Orlando
Event Date(s): Thu Jan 26 – Sun Jan 29
Type of Event: Cabaret/Concert
Venue: Orlando Shakespeare Theater
Price: $$35
Reference Link: https://www.orlandoshakes.org/cabaret-series/
Description:
Celebrated actor and vocalist Rebecca Fisher brings her love of the standards with a nod to Broadway, featuring songs in a spirited cabaret that will lift your heart and tap your toes. Enjoy this musical evening of joy that will make you want to “make someone happy!”
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The Game’s Afoot
By: Ken Ludwig
Directed by: James Duggan
The Naples Players
Naples
Event Date(s): Wed Jan 11 – Sun Feb 05
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Blackburn Hall
Price: $47.00
Reference Link: https://naplesplayers.org/on-stage/current-season/
Description:
William Gillette has invited his fellow cast members to his castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous.
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Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By: Book and lyrics by Timothy Mason
Directed by: Peter C. Brosius
Children’s Theatre Company
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Tue Nov 08 – Sun Jan 08
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Children’s Theatre Company
Price: $15-68
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org
Description:
Don’t miss this holiday spectacle, filled with catchy songs, Seussian rhymes, and everyone’s favorite cantankerous Grinch!
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Locomotion
By: Written and adapted for the stage by Jacqueline Woodson
Directed by: Talvin Wilks
Children’s Theatre Company
Minneapolis
Event Date(s): Tue Jan 24 – Sun Mar 05
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Children’s Theatre Company
Price: $15-68
Reference Link: https://childrenstheatre.org
Description:
Uprooted from his family, Lonnie couldn’t feel more alone. But as he discovers his poetic voice, he learns how poetry can bring him closer to others, and to himself.
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Maybe
By: Cristina Pippa
Directed by: Sandy Boren-Barrett
Stages Theatre Company
Hopkins
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 13 – Mon Feb 13
Type of Event: Musical / Dance Performance
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
Price: $14-16
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/maybe/
Description:
An expansive portrayal of the endless potential in us all! A dance-inspired original musical about the magical, immeasurable possibilities that make up who we are and what we can do. From the award-winning author Kobi Yamada, staged in conjunction with Escalate Dance.
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The North Star
By: Peter H. Reynolds
Directed by: Sandy Boren-Barrett and Ann Marie Omeish
Stages Theatre Company
Hopkins
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 14 – Mon Feb 13
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Stages Theatre Company
Price: $14-16
Reference Link: https://www.stagestheatre.org/north-star/
Description:
From the award-winning author of The Dot and Ish comes an encouraging tale of self-determination, creativity, and hope. Chart a meaningful path through constellations, in collaboration with Escalate Dance.
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Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Fat’s Waller Musical Show
By: Conceived by Richard Maltby Jr. and Murray Horwitz
Directed by: Jeffrey L. Page
Geva Theatre Center
Rochester
Event Date(s): Tue Jan 17 – Sun Feb 12
Type of Event: Musical
Venue: Geva Theatre Center
Price: $$25-$69
Reference Link: https://gevatheatre.org/season-50/
Description:
Jeffrey L. Page brings a radical new approach to the musical celebration of Fats Waller’s extraordinary career, which reveals the masks the jazz pioneer and his musicians assumed while performing for white audiences—as they created the music of a new era.
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Until the Flood
By: Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by: Neel Keller
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
New York
Event Date(s): Sun Nov 15 – Sun Oct 15
Type of Event: Virtual Screening of Recorded Live Performance
Venue: All Arts TV
Price: $Free
Reference Link: https://allarts.org/programs/all-arts-performance-selects/until-the-flood-wtcesv/
Description:
Writer-performer Dael Orlandersmith’s one-woman show explores Ferguson following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown. Based on extensive interviews, this theatrical event gives voice to a community grappling with injustice and yearning for change.
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Mlima’s Tale
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Ana Radulescu
Burning Coal Theatre Company
Raleigh
Event Date(s): Thu Jan 26 – Sun Feb 12
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Burning Coal Theatre Co
Price: $30
Reference Link: https://burningcoal.org/mainstage/
Description:
Mlima’s gone now, murdered by the poachers who care only for their own well being. But is that the end of Mlima’s tale? Or just the beginning.
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Faith Healer
By: Brian Friel
The Gamm Theatre
Warwick
Event Date(s): Thu Jan 12 – Sun Jan 29
Type of Event: Play
Venue: The Gamm Theatre
Price: $30-65
Reference Link: https://www.gammtheatre.org
Description:
From the acclaimed Irish author of Dancing at Lughnasa, Faith Healer weaves together the stories of an itinerant showman, his loyal wife, and his weary stage manager, revealing a terrible event at the story’s center.
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Lifespan of a Fact
By: Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell
Directed by: Blake White
Lean Ensemble Theater
Hilton Head Island
Event Date(s): Thu Jan 19 – Sun Jan 29
Type of Event: live theater
Venue: HHPS Main Street Theatre
Price: $15-45
Reference Link: https://leanensemble.org
Description:
D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, the two come head to head in a hilarious yet gripping battle over facts versus truth.
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Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
By: Anne Washburn
Directed by: Abigail McNeely
Trustus Theatre
Columbia
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 20 – Sat Feb 04
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Trustus Theatre
Price: $23-28
Reference Link: https://trustus.org
Description:
As we enter the world of Anne Washburn’s ingenious dark comedy, a group of survivors of a near-future global apocalypse has gathered around a campfire to piece together an episode of the television show The Simpsons from memory.
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The Sound Inside
By: Adam Rapp
Directed by: K. Lorrel Manning
4th Wall Theatre Company
Houston
Event Date(s): Thu Jan 19 – Sat Feb 11
Type of Event: Play
Venue: 1824 Spring Street, Studio 101, Houston TX 77007
Price: $$17-$53 (prices may vary)
Reference Link: https://www.4thwalltheatreco.com
Description:
A disillusioned Ivy League professor and a smart but presumptuous student begin an intense relationship filled with surprises. In this Tony nominee for Best Play, playwright Adam Rapp explores the limits of asking for a favor.
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Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!
By: Based on the book by Mo Willems Published by Hyperion Books for Children Script by Mo Willems & Mr. Warburton Lyrics by Mo Willems Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma Dramaturgy by Megan Alrutz
Directed by: Directed by Nancy Schaeffer
Dallas Children’s Theater
Dallas
Event Date(s): Sat Jan 28 – Sun Feb 19
Type of Event: Performance
Venue: Dallas Children’s Theater – Rosewood Center for the Performing Arts
Price: $18-37
Reference Link: https://www.dct.org/plays/
Description:
Written by Mo Willems, creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling, Caldecott Honor Award-winning Pigeon picture books, this zany show is ready to take audiences for the ride of their lives! View full summary at dct.org/plays.
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By: Isaac Gómez
Directed by: Juliette Carrillo
Seattle Rep
Seattle
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 13 – Sun Feb 05
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Bagley Wright Theater
Price: $
Reference Link: https://SeattleRep.org
Description:
As she grieves the death of her older sister, Julia Reyes faces pressure to put her own dreams of becoming a writer on hold. She finds herself caught between her family’s expectations and the less-than-perfect life she grapples with as a 15-year-old growing up in Chicago.
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Metamorphoses
By: Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas, and Sabrina Mahfouz
Directed by: Shana Cooper
Seattle Rep
Seattle
Event Date(s): Fri Jan 27 – Sun Feb 26
Type of Event: Theatre
Price: $
Reference Link: https://SeattleRep.org
Description:
A daring and intimate new production inspired by Ovid’s epic poems of transformation. This modern interpretation weaves together a collection of both well-known and rarely told myths that excavate the extremes of human experience through theatrical storytelling.
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Airness
By: Chelsea Marcantel
Directed by: Molly Rhode
Forward Theater Company
Madison
Event Date(s): Thu Jan 26 – Sun Feb 12
Type of Event: Play
Venue: Overture Center for the Arts
Price: $$35-$52
Reference Link: https://forwardtheater.com/show/the-2022-23-season
Description:
When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she discovers it’s more than playing pretend—it’s about finding yourself in your favorite songs, and performing with raw joy. Airness is an exuberant reminder that everything we need to rock is already inside us.
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