Westport Country Playhouse announced its 2026-27 season featuring six productions, including two world premieres, under artistic director Mark Shanahan, with works by Ken Ludwig and Charlotte Booker and a cast including Judith Ivey.
Hunter College will present a reading of Kev Berry's ON A SMALL STRIP OF LAND ON THE GREAT SOUTH BAY, an experimental work exploring the Long Island Serial Killer case, directed by Mike Donahue at the Loewe Theater.
The Adrienne Arsht Center announced its 2026-27 Theater Up Close season in collaboration with Zoetic Stage, featuring GOD OF CARNAGE, THE INHERITANCE PART TWO, PIPPIN, and JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN.
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has revealed the 2025 Season Award winners. Award recipients, finalists, and the greater Los Angeles professional theatre community will take part in a live reception event. See the full list of winners here.
What did our critic think of SOME LIKE IT HOT at Walton Arts Center?
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has revealed the Finalists for its 2025 Season Awards honoring significant achievements in each of the Circle’s season award categories.
At first glance, SOME LIKE IT HOT might seem to fall into the “If it’s not broken, don’t try to fix it” category of entertainment. The traveling musical production runs Nov. 18-23 at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State Street in downtown Columbus).
The Denver Center Theatre Company has announced playwrights, dates, and details for the 2026 Colorado New Play Summit (CNPS). The 20th annual festival will take place over one weekend on February 14-15.
Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance Part Two opened the 2025–26 season at The Bent in Palm Springs on Friday, October 17. This follows The Inheritance Part One, which closed the 2024–25 season.
Dylan Mulvaney's The Least Problematic Woman in the World, an autobiographical solo play, directed by Tim Jackson has officially opened Off-Broadway. See photos from opening night here!
The Bent has announced the regional premiere of The Inheritance Part II. Learn more about the show here!
Everyone will like the top drawer national tour of SOME LIKE IT HOT, currently playing at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City. The classy design, tight choreography, and pastiche score recall the musicals of yesteryear to perfection while casting light on the story’s themes and dialogue through a stirring contemporary lens.
Broadway Sacramento’s new season is sizzling with the arrival of the first national tour of Some Like it Hot. Based on the classic 1959 film of the same name, its reimagination on Broadway in 2022 garnered four Tony Award wins out of thirteen nominations. Now, it’s bringing the Golden Age to Sacramento for an unforgettable experience of glitz and glamour.
It’s clever and smart but not smirking. It’s romantic and sweet, but never saccharine. Everything about SOME LIKE IT HOT fires on all cylinders, gleaming like a brass band.
Against a backdrop of cultural tensions and renewed challenges to LGBTQ+ rights nationwide, The Bent —one of only a handful of exclusively LGBTQ+ focused theater companies in Southern California—announces its 25/26 season: a rich tapestry of plays, musicals, cabarets, and staged readings that shine a light on the complexity, resilience, and vibrancy of queer life.
Hundreds of lovers of new theatre will gather this summer for an advance look at tomorrow’s hits at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 22nd Annual New Works Festival. Learn more!
New York Theatre Workshop has revealed the individuals selected for the 2025/26 Season 2050 Administrative and Artistic Fellowships. Learn more about the artists here!
L.A. Theatre Works, the world’s foremost producer of audio theater, has launched a monthly subscription service offering global access plays in its catalog of classic, contemporary and original plays, with additional titles added every month.
The movie, Some Like It Hot, has long been a favorite of mine. As a kid growing up in Dayton and then Cincinnati, Ohio, I loved seeing Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon don women’s clothing, outrun the bad guys, and the line that Lemmon says, ‘now look what you did – you tore off one of my chests!’ struck me then and now as hilarious.
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