Today’s Highlights:
Paranormal Activity, by Levi Holloway, directed by Felix Barrett, featuring Cher Álvarez (Lou), Travis A. Knight (James), Shannon Cochran (Carolanne), and Andrea Syglowski (Etheline Cotgrave,) with Caron Buinis, Caroline Hendricks, and Michael Holding, opens at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre.
Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Matthew Gardiner, featuring Jason Gotay (Franklin Shepard), Melanie Field (Mary Flynn), and Jake Loewenthal (Charly Kringas), opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
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Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, by Duncan Sheik & Leah Nanako Winkler, will begin previews Sept. 25 and open Oct. 1 at, directed & choreographed by Rob Ashford at The Night Egg at the Culture Club (530 W. 27th St.).
Anne Caruso (Colette,) Cory Jeacoma Léon Nkeki Obi-Melekwe (Nana), Andy Bakun (Sakae), and Jenny Powers (Madame), with Leanne Antonio, Kailin Brown, Michael Everett, Elsa Keefe, Jaedynn Latter, Austin Lesch, Nika Lindsay, Caleb Marshall, Jessie Peltier, Michael Starr, and Thomas Winter.
A daring new musical about Colette, a witty young dreamer in 20th-century Paris, who finds her power through writing. While working at an elusive maison close called Night Egg, she begins chronicling the fantasies, confessions, and private sorrows of her eccentric clients, slowly transforming herself from object to observer—turning perversions into art. But underneath her sharp intelligence and growing independence, Colette has her own perversion she cannot outrun: a lingering, destructive attachment to Léon (Jeacoma), her childhood love, whose toxic hold on her continues to blur the line between devotion and self-destruction.
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September 10, by Art Sheman, directed by by Art Shulman, will run Sept 11 – Oct 4 at Studio City’s Two Roads Theatre.
Michael Berckart, Ezra Black, Jane Bonem, Andrew Edmondson, Jillian McWhirter, Tammy Mora, Skel Osmani, Morry Schorr, Sandra Tucker, Marcia Woodridge and Harout Yesayan.
One evening a woman confesses to her husband that she’s been unfaithful. The date is September 10, 2001. The next morning, their private crisis is eclipsed by a national tragedy — best known as 9/11. As the couple watches coverage on television, and works through their relationship, we meet various ordinary people affected by the event: a sportswriter, a firefighter, a woman rediscovering her faith, a graffiti artist, a street vendor selling American flags, an evangelist, and others.
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The world premiere of Ann Washburn’s Anon will run Sept. 25 – Nov. 21 at MCC Theatre, directed by Anne Kauffman.
Jeremy Sahamos, Crystal Finn, Jeff Bieh. Ander Garman, and Pzabel Mar.
When a gay pride flag is unfurled across the street from Jeanie, an increasingly online TikToker in a suburb in Texas, two seemingly different households…freak out. How well do you know the people you live among, and with, in an America where the line between fantasy and reality has become increasingly optional?
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LA’s Actors’ Gang has announced it’s 2026-27 season:
Casting & additional information TBA.
Two Gentlebots of Verona (continues through Aug. 30)
The women of Lockerbie (Sept. 10-27), by Deborah Brevoort, directed by Chirstin Harris
Children of the Winter Kingdom (Nov. 19 – Dec. 19), by Adam Dugas and Mary Eileen O’Donnell
The Adding Machine (Jan. 21 – Mar. 13, 2027), by Elmer Rice.
Further Fractured Fables (Apr. 17 – May 29)
The Exonerated (May 6 – Jun 19)
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The Great Gatsby is offering 2-for-1 tickets Dec. 8-20 at the Broadway Theatre.
Use code 241BSHOW for for standard 2-for-1 tickets, or code UPBWSHOW if you want to select upgraded seating options.
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Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon will run Sept 9 – Nov.. 2 at Amas Musical Theatre, directed by directed by David Zippel. (Froth),
Hilary Kole, John Pagano and Ava Locknar.
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Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon will return Sept. 16 – Nov. 29 (opening Sept. 16) at the Margorie S. Deane Lilttle Theater, directed by David Zippel.
Hilary Kole, John and Pagano, Tay-Tynisa Wilson.
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Measure for Meaure will run Sept. 22–Nov. 1 at DC’s Folger Theatre, directed by Psalmayene 24.
Renea S. Brown (Isabella), Nathan Darrow (The Duke), JaBen Early (Claudio), Jonathan Feuer (Lucio), Sean Fri (Provost), Maryanne Henderson (Juliet),Ahmad Kamal (Pompey), Lee Osorio (Angelo), Chinai Routté (Mistress Overdone/Francisca), Ryan Sellers (Elbow), John Sygar (Froth), Holly Twyford (Escalus), and Renee Elizabeth Wilson (Mariana).
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Video: Matt Werner’s Burning Man the Musical is now avaialble to watch for free.
. Morgan Siobhan Breen (Molly), Tally Sessions (Bill the Billionaire), aMax Crum (Chad), Michelle Duffy (Hazel the Hippie), and Troy Iwata (joe).
Follow Molly, a promising young tech grad, as she returns to the playa of Black Rock City – this time employed by the very tech company that, unbeknownst to her, seeks to destroy it. After being given the task of acquiring drugs for her boss’s exclusive party, Molly finds herself on a journey inward – and through the community of Burning Man – finds her truest self.
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My apologies for the unusually short newsletter today. Tech issuses.