Today’s Highlights:
The Unbelievers, by Nick Payne, directed by Knud Adams, featuring Lauren Ambrose, Jaspal Binning, Brittany Bradford, Jack DiFalco, Marjan Neshat, Tom Riley, Nina Ross, Hadi Tabbal, Elizabeth Yeoman, opens at NYC Center Stage 1.
Seven Guitars, by August Wilson, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, featuring Chanté Adams, Jason Dirden, Russell Hornsby, Kristolyn Lloyd, Michael potts, roslyn Ruff, and John Douglas Thompson, with Taylor Elise Jackson, Warner Miller, Simone Moore, and Kevyn Morrow, begins previews at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
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Private Lives continues through Nov. 22 at Cleveland Playhouse, directed by Christopher Liam Moore.
Madalyn Baker (Louise), Jordan Barbour (Elyot Chase), Kate A. Mulligan (Amanda Prynne), Mikhail Roberts (Victor Prynne, Fight Captain), and Jamie Ann Romero (Sibyl Chase).
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The Verge, by Susan Glaspell, continues through Nov. 22 at the Public Theater, directed by Jessie Austrian.
Noah Brody (Harry), Paul L. Coffey (Anthony/Dr. Emmons), Devin E. Haqq (Dick), Amara Leonard (Elizabeth), Miriam Silverman (Claire Archer), Paco Tolson (Tom), and Emily Young (Adalaide/Hattie).
Botanist Claire Archer is on a quest to create a new life: a plant unlike any that has ever come before. When her husband, lover, and soulmate each arrive in her greenhouse seeking heat in a snowstorm, chaos ensues. But as Claire pushes – sometimes violently—against the constraints of her own good breeding, she wonders if the only way to transcend boundaries is to destroy them. By turns witty farce, devastating philosophical debate, and scathing feminist cry.
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Annie has been extended through Jan. 2, 2027 at CT’s Goodspeed Musicals, directed by Jenn Thompson.
ALaiken Jules (Annie), Emmily Sinner (Miss Hannigan), Christopher Oliver Warbucks), Jlulia Nicole Hinter (Grace Farrell), Rhett Guter (Rooster Hannigan), Kelly Berman (Lily St. REgis), Kelly Berman (Lily St. Regis), with Angali Roa, Sadie Jean Williams, Skyla Joy Ward, Adalyn Bickley, Iss Gonzalez, Ava Fernandez, Alicia Babin, Kailee Railee, Regan Brandt, Andy Golden, Devin Holloway, Daelyn Carter Jorif, Stfanie Londino Ryan Mulvaney, Joel Newsome, Charles Osborne, Mark Woodard, Laura Elizabeth Flanagan, and Abigail Grace.
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Mountain Girl, a new play by John Patrick Shanley, currently in previews, will open Nov.6 at the 154 Theatre, directed by Ivette Eumeng.
Tonya Cornelisse, Sophia Demoarnay-O’Neal and Joey Welsh.
A whacked, cracked comic fable about a mother’s hold on her daughter and the general baggage that follows into marriage.
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Candide will run Nov. 21 – Dec. 10 at LA Opera, conducted by Lina González-Granados, and directed by Francesca Zambello.
Scott Bakula (Voltaire / Dr. Pangloss), Patty LuPone (The Old Lady), duke Kim (Candide), Meghan Picerno (Cunegonde), Kristen Choi (Paquette), Mario Manzo (Maximilian / Father), Bernard Holcomb (Baron / Don Issachar / Governor), Vinícius Costa da Silva (Vinicius Costa), and Katie Trigg (Baroness / Vanderdendur).
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Parcel from America, a new Irish Musical, by Jahnna Beecham, Malcolm Hillgartner, Michael J. Hum, Hillgartner and Kevin Corcoran, will continue through Nov. 22 at Theatre Row, directed by J.R. Sullivan.
Alex Sharpe, Clare O’Malley, Michael Grennell, Mick Mellamphy, Úna Clancy, Gregg Goodbrod, Andrea Lynn Green, and Ethan Jack Haberfield, with Danny Rothman, Riley Bocchicchio, Amy Bodnar, Dan Fenaughty, and Olivia Goosman.
The story of a young boy and a lonely widow in a remote parish in the west of Ireland, and the importance of one special parcel that changes the lives of the entire community, carrying them all into the true heart of Christmas. Inspired by the history of Irish emigration and the cherished parcels filled with gently used clothing and much-needed dollars sent by loved ones from across the Atlantic, this musical celebrates the old Irish adage that “it is only in the shelter of our neighbors that we all can live,” a theme that rings especially true in these fraught times.
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Video: Sneak peek at Candide at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, starring Scott Bakula.
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The Who’s Tommy continues through Nov. 15 at the Pantages Theatre, directed by Des McAnuff.
Collin Matthew Flanagan (Tommy Walker), Zach Fogel (Captain Walker), Mia Bergstrom (Ms. Walker), Peyton Cassity (Uncle Ernie), Myle McFalls (Cousin Kevin), Kris Lyons (Acid Queen), Audrey Fisher (Sally Simpson), and Mari Grossman (Little Tommy).