Today’s Highlights:
Relax … let go … let fly…
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Reviews for Paranormal Activity at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Aug. 26.
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The Lion King will run Dec. 17 – Feb. 13, 2027 at the Pantages Theatre, directed by Julie Taymor.
Peter Hargrave (Scar), David D’Lancy Wilson (Mufasa), Zama Magudulela (Rafiki), Nick Cordileone (Timon), Nick La Medica (Zazu), Danny Grumich (Pumbaa), Gilbert Comally )Simba), Thembelihle (Cele), Forest Van Dyke (Banzai), Martina Sykes (Shenzi), and Sam Linda (Ed).
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The Hope Theory, written & performed by Helder Guimarães, will run Sept. 9 – Dec. 6 at NY City Center, Stage 2, directed by Frank Marshall.
As a Portuguese immigrant, storyteller, and sleight-of-hand magician, Helder Guimarães arrived in America at age 29. Wide-eyed and full of ideas, he discovers a fascinating puzzle of cultural and professional challenges to solve while he tries to build a home, this riveting one-man show interweaves sleight-of-hand illusions and life stories from Guimarães’ experience immigrating to the U.S. and aspiring for a life in magic.
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Candide will run Nov. 21 – Dec. 13 at LA Opera, conducted by Lina González-Granados, and directed by Francesca Zambello.
Duke Kim (Candide), Meghan Picerno (Cunegonde), Patti LuPone (Old Lady), Mario Manzo ( (Maximilian / Father), Kristen Choi (Paquette), Katie Trigg (Baroness / Vanderdendur), Vinícius Costa (James / Martin), Samuel Wallace (Cacambo), and Bernard Holcomb (Barron/Don Issachar/Govenor), with Erin Alford, Erin Alford, Andrea Beason, Julia Harnett, Amber Liekhus, Peter Murphy, and David Prottas,
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Pacific Jazz Orchestra’s Benefit Concert will take place Sat. Oct. 10 at 8 PM at The Historic Private Estate in Toluca Lake, CA, with the Pacific Jazz Orchestra.
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The world premiere of Ava Pickett’s Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy will run Sept. 3 – Oct. 10 at Stratford East, directed by Lisa Spirling.
Michelle Dockery (Helen) and Laura Aikman (Cee).
Years after she walked out on her family, Helen has returned home after a war fought in her name. Her husband celebrates, her childhood friend Cee does not. Over the course of this first fragile night of peace time, wounds reopen, loyalties fracture and the true cost of a woman’s choice to leave her life is made clear. A play about friendship, motherhood, and what happens when the woman whose face started a war, returns home to finish it.
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The world premiere of Judd Lieberman’s Shells will run Sept. 19 – Oct. 11 at the Greenway Court Theatre, directed by Stephanie O’Neill.
Zachary Bones, Sol Marina Crespo, Eric Fagundes, Liesel Hanson, Caeden Healander, Sarah Mass and Napoleon Tavale.
Judd Lieberman’s personal experience with a neighbor who pulled a loaded gun and shot her, unprompted — and the lasting impact of that violation on her life and how gun violence affects the world around her. We are telling this story through an absurdist lens—the play is funny, playful, and surreal while being true and of this moment. In the aftermath of an unexpected encounter with a violent neighbor, Evvy is just trying to get back to work. But now she has a wound, and the world around her may never be normal again…or maybe it never was. Inspired by a true story, Shells is an absurdist dark comedy utilizing puppetry and physical humor about coping with the farce and devastation of gun violence in an increasingly chaotic reality.
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Theater for the New City‘s Dream Up! Festival will present John Harney’s Somewhere, Virginia, to run Sept. 8-12, directed by Anna Rebek.
Jake Steinberg, Janelle Clayton, Chase Cortland Erwin, and Laura Whittenberger.
Haunted by the past, Young Washingtonians confront the future.
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Pasadena Pops will present. Music of the Night: Andrew lloyd Webber & Friends will take place Sat. Aug. 29 at 7:30 PM at the LA county Arboretum, conducted by Hugh Panaro.
Hugh Panaro, Valeri Perri, and Scarlett Strallen.
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The world Premiere Engagement The Case-B00k of C. Auguste Dupin. Adapted and directed by John Strysik, will run Sept. 17- Oct. 18 at Theatre Forty.
Todd Andrew Ball, Randall Craig, Patrick Grant, Michael Mullen and Caroline Quigley.
With Edgar Allan Poe’s creation of the character of C. Auguste Dupin, the master of the macabre forever changed crime fiction. Dupin was the first modern detective. He was the archetype for literary sleuths Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, solving seemingly unsolvable crimes with logic and astonishing deductions. This play brings together Poe’s three spellbinding Dupin Mysteries: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter for an engrossing evening of murder, mayhem and meerschaum pipes.
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A Celebration of Rodgers & Hart will take place Mon. Oct. 5 at 7:30 PM at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium), directed by Danny Mefford
Lilli Cooper, Darren Criss, Michael Feinstein, Santino Fontana, Myles Frost, Elizabeth Gillies, Caissie Levy, Lizzy McAlpine, Molly Ringwald, Awa Sal Secka, and more TBA.
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The Snow Goose, world premiere by Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie, directed by Marshall Paile, will run Aug. 28 – Oct. 18 at CTs Goodspeed Musicals,
Eric Graise (Philip Rhayader), Ashlyn Maddox (Frith), Ally Bonino (Harper), Sam Sherwood (The Bard), Charlie Webb (Wilf), David Aron Damane (Garrick), Gabriel Marcus Omlor (Farley), Ayanna Nicole Thomas (Clara), Amy Nillner Larsen (Mrs. Frumsey), and Ayanna Nicole Thomas (Clara), with Alan Chandler, Matthew Davies, Leah Hofmann, Kiersten Kelly, Sophia Anna O’Brien, Patrick Tombs, John Viggiano, Sam Hoffman and Jessica Money, Alan Chandler, Matthew Davies, Leah Hofmann (Lead Puppeteer), Kiersten Kelly, Sophia Anna O’Brien, Patrick Tombs, John Viggiano, Sam Hoffman, and Jessica Mone.
On the windswept coast of England an unlikely bond forms between Philip, a reclusive artist shunned by society, and Frith, a resilient young woman, when they rescue a wounded snow goose. With World War II looming, their friendship allows her to imagine a life beyond her village, and him to confront his own humanity as he sets sail on a daring journey to save soldiers trapped at Dunkirk.