This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, Oct. 23
American Sound Takes Flight – from Aaron Copland to Paul Simon, with music direction by Rachael Worby, featuring Brandon Victor Dixon, and Liv Redpatth, opens at LA’s The The Wallis.
Saturday, Oct. 24
Thelma & Louise, world premiere reimagined by Raphael Amahl Khouri, directed by Trip Cullman, featuring Amy Lennox (Thelma) and Rachel Tucker Louise),with Trevor Dion Nicholas, Jordan Luke Gage, Samuel Edwards, Alex Gibson-Giorgio, Letita Hector, Tamlyn Henderson and Jack Butterworth, closes at London’s Young Vic.
American Sound Takes Flight – from Aaron Copland to Paul Simon, with music direction by Rachael Worby, featuring Brandon Victor Dixon, and Liv Redpatth, closes at LA’s The The Wallis.
Sunday, Oct. 25
Goodtime Charlie, by Ryan J. Haddad, directed by Danny Sharron, featuring Sherz Aletaha, Timothy Bagley (Lou), , Nicholas Barrón, Michael Cristoferr (Sheldon), Ryan J. Haddad (Ryan), Beth Malone (Janice), Nael Nacer (Charlie Sr./ Bob), Artemis Pebdani (Joan / Judy), and Jonathan Raviv (Charlie), with Doug Shapiro, closes at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.
All My Sons, directed by Scott Edmiston, featuring Bill Mootos (Joe Keller), Laura Marie Duncan (Kate Keller), Mark Souza (Chris Keller), Ann Ceever (Josephine Morshiri Elwood), Quinton Kappel (Geroge Deever), Allison Beauregard (Sue Bayliss), Chris Heuisler (Dr. Jim Bayliss), Cara Clough (Lidia Lubey), Eric mcGowan Frank Lubey), and Julian Hirshfield (Bert), closes at Boston’s Lyric Stage.
Buyer and Cellar, by Jonathan Tolins, directed by Jamie Torcellini, featuring Brian McDonald, closes at Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre.
Gingold Theatrical Group‘s readings of Bernard Shaw’s Village Wooing, directed by David Staller, featuring Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders, concludes at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space.
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The Dog Show: Come. Sit. Stay, by David Javerbaum, directed by Richard Israel, continues through Feb. 2, 2027 at the TheTriad.
Seth Rudetsky, Gizel Jiménez, Angela Reed, and .J. Shively.
Actors perform a series of monologues from the dogs’ perspective, giving voice to the thoughts, feelings, opinions, and obsessions that humans can only imagine. How do dogs really feel about taking baths? Sticking their heads out of car windows? Working as police dogs? And, most importantly, sniffing another dog’s behind? Trhough these imaginded
canine perspectives, The Dog Show explores the wonderfully strange world of dogs, and the very human tendency to see ourselves in them through loyalty, love, and zest for life.
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North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre celebrates 100 years with a Star-studded Birthday Spectacular, directed by Jason Graae, on Sat. Nov. 28 at 7 PM.
Frank Ferrante, Jason Graae, Heather Lee, Beth Malone, Lesli Margherita, Faith Prince, Jenna Lea Rosen and Natalie Wachen, with Aunt Chippie, Ed Begley, Jr., Fritz Coleman, Ruta Lee, Jo Anne Worley and more.
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Red Bull Theater’s How Shakespeare Saved My Life, written & performed by Jacob Ming-Trent, directed by Tony Taccone, continues through Oct. 25 at the Theater.
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A free reading of Michael Fishman’s The Bird is Done will take place Mon. Nov. 7 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Theater for the New City, followed by a talk-back.
Donations will be greatly appreciated.
Marilyn Chris, Mitch Poulos and Liz Keifer.
What happens when a family gathers for Thanksgiving hoping to bury old grudges, only to discover that some wounds run deeper than anyone imagined? This new family dramedy serves up a holiday feast of combustible personalities, long-simmering resentments, uncomfortable revelations and unexpected tenderness.
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Elysians Fields – A New Musical, world premiere by Steve Fisher & Marc Fliedner, continues through Nov. 1 at the American Theatre of Actors (Cullum Theatre), directed by Andrew Coopman.
Anthony Wayne (Black-Eyed Suzie), Harrison Drake (Abe/Lincoln), and Alexander Ullian (Josh/Speed), with Matt Allen, Kobe Brown, Melanie Gertzman, Dinanda Klaassen, Ethan Mathias, Madison Merlenti, and Franca Vercelloni, and ensemble members Charley Bazz, Kim Hale, Jaymi Horn, Ryan John, Casey Johnson, Jillian Mustillo, Jeff Parsons, Elizabeth Rose, and Rew Starr.
The pice tells two love stories across two centuries: the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Fry Speed in 19th-century America, and a modern-day couple, Abe and Josh, preparing to marry in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2016, the year marriage equality reached all 50 states. Black-Eyed Suzie, the larger-than-life drag queen hostess of the Blue Moon Kentucky Club, guides audiences between eras.
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Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will open Nov. 19 at the Wintergarden Theatre.
Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell, with Mason Alexander Park.