GRACE NOTES will return Mon. Sept. 8.
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This Weekend’s Highlights:
Friday, Aug. 29
Pericles: a Public Works Concert Experience, directed by Carl Cofield, featuring Denée Benton (Thaisa), Ato Blankson-Wood (Pericles), Lori Brown-Niang (Bawd), Kenneth Collins (Simonides), Allyson Kaye Daniel Gower/Thaisa/Diana), Amina Faye (Marina), Joel Frost (Cleon), Debra Harewood (Helicanus), Crystal Lucas-Perry (Gower), Erika Myers (Dionyza), Alex Newell (Diana), and Stephen Scott Wormley (Understudy Pericles), along with 100 New Yorkers from all five boroughs, opens at NYC’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam)
Just Another Day, by Dan Lauria, directed by Eric Krebs, featuring Patty McCormack and Dan Lauria, opens at LA’s Odyssey Theatre.
It’s a Graae Night for Singing concert, starring Jason Graae, opens at Hollywoods’ Gardenia.
Saturday, Aug. 30
Just Another Day, by Dan Lauria, directed by Eric Krebs, featuring Patty McCormack and Dan Lauria, opens at LA’s Odyssey Theatre.
Sober Songs, concert, by Michael Levin, directed by Chris Mackin, featuring Melani Carríe, Jason Fio, Bernard Holcmob, Merrill Mitchell, Henry Ryeder, and Jocelyn Darci Trimmer, with Lennie Disanto, Sara Sun Park, and Jake Kleve, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
It’s a Graae Night for Singing concert, starring Jason Graae, closes at Hollywoods’ Gardenia.
Sunday, August 31
Bonnie & Clyde, directed by Scott Schwartz, featuring Lyda Jade Harlan (Bonnie Parker), Charlie Webb (Clyde Barrow), Nick Bailey (Buck Barrow), Ashley Aslexandra (Brlanche Barrow), Jeremy Webb (Sheriff Schmid), Kathy Deitch (Govenor Miriam Ferguson), Gisela Adisa (Emma Parker), Amy Bodnar (Cumie Barrow), Anargha Pal Ted Hinton), and Vishal Vaidya (Captain Frank Hamer), with Mackenzie Germain and Anthony Cosetllo, closes at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater.
Dolly: An Original Musical, by Maria S. Schlatter, directed by Bartlett Sher, featuring Katie Rose Clarke, Carrie St. Louis, and Quinn Titcomb, closes at Nashville’s Belmont University.
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Screenings of “The Queen of Versailles” documentary (with talk-backs), starring Kristin Chenoweth, directed by Lauren Greenfield, will run Sept. 18-26 at NYC’s Angelika Film Center. 
Click here for reservations.
The upcoming Broadway musical will begin previews Oct. 8 and open Nov. 9 at the St. James Theatre. Kristin Chenoweth stars as socialite Jacqueline “Jackie” Siegel opposite F. Murray Abraham (David Siegel).
Updated Broadway casting: Melody Butiu (Sofia), Stephen DeRosa (John), Greg Hildreth (Gary), Tatum Grace Hopkins (Jonquil), Isabel Keating (Debbie), and Nina White (Victoria), and Sherie Rene Scott (standby for Jackie Siegel). with Yeman Brown, David Aron Damane, Drew Elhamalawy, Christopher Gurr, KJ Hippensteel, Cassondra James, Andrew Kober, Jesse Kovarsky, Pablo David Laucerica, Travis Murad Leland, Ryah Nixon, Shea Renne, Michael McCorry Rose, Grace Slear, Anne Fraser Thomas, and Jake Bentley Young.
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Three Decades Rewind will take place Sat. Oct. 11 at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre, featuring Jimmy Kuhn, David Katzman, Apoena Frota, Vasconcelos, Dorsey Sky Parker, John Isley, Mary Scott, and Stuart Mack.
This new show spans the greatest hits from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. The high energy performance pays tribute to legendary artists like The Eagles, Queen, The Beatles, ELO, Tears for Fears, Chicago, and more! With soaring harmonies, masterful musicianship, and a setlist packed with iconic anthems like “Hotel California’, “Mr. Blue Sky”, “Africa”, “25 or 6 to 4”, and more, this 2-hour show will have you singing, dancing, and reliving the soundtrack of your life.
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Ben Diskant’s The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story will run Sept. 16 – Oct. 12 (opening Sept. 21) at MA’s Barrington Stage, directed by Alan Paul.
Bill Army, Sasha Diamond, and Molly Jobe.
The work centers on a romantic getaway at a Stockbridge cabin between Beth and Tom that gets crashed by Tom’s brother Allan.
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LA Opera‘s West Side Story will run Sept. 20 – Oct. 12, directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by James Conlon with choreography by Joshua Bergasse.
Gabriella Reyes (Maria), Duke Kim (Tony), Amanda Castro (Anita), Taylor Harley (Riff), Yurel Echezarretz (Bernardo), David Prottas (Action), Juan Posada (Chino), Daniella Castoria (Rosalia), Daniella Castoria (Rosalia), and Julia Harnett (Consuelo)
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Road Theatre Company will present Otherkin, by N.T. Vandecar, Sept. 23 – Nov. 2 (opening Sept. 26) at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre on Magnolia, directed by Chistina Carlisi.
Nychelle Hawk (Olive), Stephany Erb (Vivian/Grael), Justin Lawrence Barnes (Lucax), Andre G. Brown (Darren/Fafnir), and Arthur Hanket (Howy/Naelyan).
14 year old Olive, who identifies as part of the subculture Otherkin, is compelled by strange forces to help prepare for humanity’s end. Olive and her family are thrust into a raucous ride of epic proportions, confronting their pasts, perilous futures and the possibility of a destiny far greater than themselves.
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Broadway in Battery Park City will take place Sat. Sept 6 at 7:30 PM, hosted by Jeff Hiller & Rachel Dratch. 
here.
Richard Kind, Mary Louise Parker, Adam Kantor (The Band’s Visit), Tamika Lawrence, Tony Yazbeck, Katie Finneran, Hunter Parrish, Darlesia Cearcy, John Clay III, Nathan Salstone , John Yi, Aubrey Matalon, Terrence Williams Jr., and more.
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Yellow Sound Label has released a studio cast album of Martin Charnin & Keith Levenson’s Winchell’s Winchell, with proceeds benefiting the Cleveland Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas.
Get a first listen to Jason Robert Brown as Walter Winchell and Kate Baldwin singing “Real Good Guy to Know.” Click here to listen.
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Workshops of Rick Elice’s jukebox musical British Invasion, directed by Jerry Mitchell, will run Sept. 18 & 19 in London.
Jonny Amies (TPeter Noone), Jenna Bonner (Suki), Daniel Bravo (Andrew), Stevie Doc (Marianne), Jordan Luke Gage (Mick), Melissa Jacques (Peter’s Mum), George Maguire (Paul McCartney), Kyle Taylor Parker (Geno), Ashley Samuels ((Dealer), and Taila Halford (ary Quaint), with Ying Ue Li, Tom Oliver, and Rachel Rawlinson.
The new musical puts an original ’60s-set story to a soundtrack of hit tunes made famous by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, and more. Before they were big, before Ed Sullivan introduced the Beatles, before British bands took over the world—they were making music for each other at The Bag O’ Nails. I love these songs, and I love that moment when no one yet knew the impact they would have,” says Mitchell in a statement. “With British Invasion, we get to re-live that explosion of possibility—the sound, the style, the spirit of a generation discovering itself through music. Developing this show in London, the birthplace of so much of that energy, feels exactly right. This city was the epicenter of a cultural revolution, and it’s thrilling to explore that legacy in the rehearsal room with this extraordinary company. The Bag of Nails, Carnaby, and Kingly Street is the heart of this story and much of that energy feels exactly right.
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Video: Aaron Tveit performs “One Night in Bangkok’” from Broadway’s upcoming production of Chess.