Very short issue, as I only learned the website was back up late yesterday afternoon.
Today’s Highlights:
Tony Yazbeck Music Mondays concert at 8 PM at Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre.
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The Stevens: Sondheim and Schwartz: A Broadway Cabaret will take place Sat. Sept. 27 at 7 PM at Mass’s Wellfleet, MA’s Preservation Hall (Link TBA), with music direction by Andy Lantz.
Producer Gregory Maguire.
Frankie Campofelice, Kevin McMahan, and Carolin Rogers.
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. Broadway producer Jack W. Batman passed away Aug. 1 at the age of 81. Batman was a Tony-winning producer for his work on Clybourne Park and the 2013 revival of Pippin, with his résumé also including , John Proctor is the Villain … The Roommate … New York, New York … and many more.
Click here for the complete article.
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David West Read &Max Martin’s & Juliet continues through Sept. 7 at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre.
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Our Town will run Sept. 7 – 28 (opening Sept. 12) at Cleveland Playhouse, directed by Mary Zimmerman.
Madalyn Baker (Emily Webb), Christopher Donahue (Stage Manager, Constable Warren, and Joe Stoddard) Byron Johnson as George Gibbs) Louise Lamson (Mrs. Gibbs), Brendan Lowry (Wally Webb) Meis (Joe Crowell, Jr & Si Crowell, Brianna Miller (Lady in Box), ( Derdriu Ring (Mrs. Webb) Lennon Rosiar (Rebecca Gibbs) Geoff Short (Mr. Webb) and Wai Yim (Simon Stimson /Professor Willard), with Meredith Nelson.
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LA’s Musical Theatre Guild will present An Evening with the Maestro: MTG Sings Bernstein on Sun. Sept. 21 at 7 PM at Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, written by Michael Kostroff, directed by Jason Graae, and with music direction by Darryl Archibald. 
Proceeds will benefit the Guild’s Youth Outreach programming.
Carol Lawrence.
Eydie Alyson, Eileen Barnett, Anastasia Barze, Roger Befeler, Jennifer Bennet, Jill Marie Burke, Will Collyer, Matthew Patrick Davis, Susan Edwards Martin, Melissa Fahn, Joshua Finkel, Zachary Ford, Julie Garnyé, Maura M. Knowles, Valerie Larsen, Ashley Fox Linton, Melissa Lyons Caldretti, Tonoccus McClain, Dana Meller, Ashley Moniz, Taubert Nadalini, Gabriel Navarro, Domonique Paton, Trisha Rapier,
Glenn Rosenblum, Brent Schindele, Trance Thompson, Mary VanArsdel, Diane Vincent, Paul Wong, Robert Yacko, and David Zack , with guest artists Patrick Beller, and Bruno Koskoff.
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Mint Theatre Company will present the world premiere pf Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross Sept. 20 – Nov. 1 (opening Oct. 9), at Theatre Row, directed by Jonathan Bank.
Samuel Adams, Liam Craig, Katie Firth, Lily Ganser, Jack Mastriani, Gavin Michaels, Ben Millspaugh, Douglas Rees, and Jakob Winter.
based on her 1934 novel Crooked Cross — the title refers to the Swastika — premiered in the U.K. at the Birmingham Rep in 1935 and was staged in London in 1937 but never seen again. The Times called the play “enthralling” while commending the young author’s “temperate wisdom… Through it all she never preaches, or loses touch, through hate or prejudice, with the human beings she represents.”