Today’s Highlights:
The Good Thief, by Conor McPherson, directed by Justin Waldman, featuring Christopher Fitzgerald, opens at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep.
Romeo and Juliet: Time Enough for Love, conceived, written & directed by Christian Lebano, featuring Allana Barton, Samantha Bennett, Luke Bolle, Sam Cowan, Emma Fassler, Hutchins Foster, James Fowler, Paul Ganus, Matthew Goodrich, Gabrielle Grant, Natalia Jofre, Daniel Lench, Elijah Reyes, Melanie Rockwell, Stephen Rockwell, Barbara Schofield, Sebastian Senatore, Maliyah Tejada and Richard Van Slyk, previews at LA’s Open Fist Theatre Company.
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Pre-Existing Condition, by Marin Ireland, will continue through Jan. 8, 2027 at the Greenwich House Theatre, directed by Maria Dizzia.
Rotating: Hari Nef, Edie Falco, Greg Keller, Dael Orlandersmith, and Susannah Perkins, with Sarin Monae West, and Josh Tobin.
The play centers on an unnamed woman named A, exploring the quiet challenges and everyday indignities of moving forward after a life-altering relationship. A starry group of actors are alternating in the role of A over the run.
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The original cast recording of “Night Side Songs,” by the Lazours, will be released Nov. 20 on most platforms.
Robin de Jesús, Brooke Ishibashi, Jonathan Raviv, Dris Satin-Louis, and Mary Testa.
The album gives voice to everyone drawn into the orbit of an illness: patients, caregivers, doctors, family and strangers, reaching for one another in ways both imperfect and profound. It is a portrait of care, and also of connection: how we hold on to each other, to faith or doubt, to memory, meaning and music. These are the things that help us endure. Sometimes alone. Often together. Night Side Songs gathers audiences in the space where life shifts suddenly and irrevocably, inviting them to sing their way through it.
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A View From The Bridge, by Arthur Miller, directed by Neil Pepe, will run Nov. 27 – Feb. 27, 2027 (opening Dec. 13) at La MaMa.
Sam Rockwell (Eddie), Marin Ireland (Beatrice), and Alfred Molina (Alfieri).
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A reading of The Unofficial Witches of Los Angelis, by members of LA’s Rogue Artists Ensemble, will take place Friday Nov. 13 at 7 PM at LA’s LGBT Center.
Chelsea Sutton, Stephanie O’Neill, Keiana Richard, Eric Fagundes, Jobeth Wagner and Sarah Kay Peters.
An aspiring TikTok witch moves into a fairytale cottage in Los Angeles, where she encounters a hidden history and quirky clients that unearth not only the deep magic of the land, but the spiritual powers she never knew she had. The new play – presented here as a staged reading – is a magical-realism story melding comedy, mythos, and the history of the occult & spiritualism in Los Angeles to unpack modern isolation, religious extremism & exploitation, and spiritual reclamation.
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Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon will close Nov. 29 at Off-Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, directed by David Zippel.
Hilary Kole, Ava Locknar, Meecah, John Pagano, and Julia Danielle Smulson.
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Awake and Sing, by Clifford Odets, will begin previews Nov. 15 and open Jan. 7, 2027 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed by Tyne Rafaeli.
Richard Schiff (Jacob Berger), Jessica Hecht (Bessie Berger), Jeremy Shamos (Myron Berger), Danny Burstein (Uncle Morty), Micaela Diamond (Hennie Berger, and Will Pullen (Ralph Berger).
It’s the 1930s, and the Bronx is a furnace. New ideas clash with the old amidst the poverty and shattered promises of the Great Depression. And three generations of the Berger family, trapped inside their cramped tenement, struggle to hold different visions of an American dream and the Jewish experience. Directed by Tyne Rafaeli, this classic battle between hope and disillusionment returns to Broadway, speaking thrillingly to the present
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Divine: Beyond the Flamingos will run Dec. 3 – Jan. 17, 2027 (opening Dec. 8) at Off-Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, directed by Donnie.
O’Hara transforms herself into Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine, the fierce, filthy, fabulous drag queen and ultimate muse of filmmaker John Waters.
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La Mama‘s production of A View from the Bridge will begin previews Nov. 27 and open Dec. 13, directed by directed byNeil Pepe.
Erick Betancourt (Mike), Lou Liberatore (Louis), Benj Mirman (Tony), Jordan Lage First Immigrant Officer), and Matthew J. Harris (Second Immigration Officer Officer), with Taylor Dunbar, Allen Tedder, and Carly Zien jRockwell (Eddie Carbone), Carla Gugino (Beatrice), Tony, Olivier, and Emmy Award nominee Alfred Molina (Alfieri), Fred Hechinger (Rodolpho), Tom Pecinka (Marco), and Riley Prior (Catherine).
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A staged reading of Charming, by Pia, Sandy Comstock, Parkwild & A J Smith will take place at CA’s La Mirada Theatre, directed by Kenneth Ferrone.
Noah J. Ricketts, Analise Scarpaci, James Olivas, Aish Jackson, Dillon Klena, Kevin Chamberlin, Jenifer Leigh Warren, Lena Deja, Peyton Crim, Amanda Dayhoff, Bella Hicks, Janaya Mahealani Jones, Lan McKissack, Shanon Mari Mills, Louis Pardo, and Triston J. Shuler.
A bold, romantic, and wickedly funny new musical featuring a cinematic contemporary pop score. Set in a world where familiar fairy tales converge. The musical follows a reluctant heir and a sharp-witted princess whose lives become entwined through a carefully constructed arrangement. As their plan takes hold, a legend begins to form, drawing others into its orbit and testing the boundaries between illusion and truth. Both are eventually forced to confront the roles placed upon them and consider what kind of ending they are willing to choose.