Today’s Highlights:
Caroline, by Preston Max Allen, directed by David Cromer, featuring Veanne Cox, Jeffrey Carlson, Clea Lewis and Florencia Lozan, opens at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre.
The Acting Company‘s benefit reading of Alice Scovell’s Love’s Labour’s Won, directed by Isaac Phillips, featuring Steven Boyer, Conrad Ricamora, and Sarah Stiles, with Christian Conn and Ismenia Mendes Mendes, at 7 PM at NYC’s Hunter College Kaye Playhouse.
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Sunny Side Up by Jim Bernhard
Match these song lyrics about the sun with the shows they are from:
| 1. “Let the sun shine in” | A. Annie |
| 2. “I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.” | B. In the Heights |
| 3. “The sun has got his hat on and is coming out to play.” | C. Pippin |
| 4. “The sun’ll come out tomorrow.” | D. Annie Get Your Gun |
| 5. “Keep your sunny side up.” | E. A Little Night Music |
| 6. “I’m gonna shine like the sun when these clouds roll away from my door.“ | F. Hair |
| 7. “And if we all could spread a little sunshine” | G. Fiddler on the Rooof |
| 8. “Sunrise, sunset, swiftly flow the days” | H. Me and My Girl |
| 9. “The sun won’t set” | I. Good News |
| 10. “When the sun goes down, you’re gonna need a flashlight.” | J. 9 to 5 |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Helicline Fine Art continues its exhibit “Hirschfeld: Strokes of Genius” through Nov. 2 at NYC’s Algonquin Hotel (59 W 44th St.).
The event features more than four dozen original drawings and lithographs by the legendary artist. From Judy Garland to Stephen Sondheim, Charlie Chaplin to Cher, Hirschfeld’s pen brought the magic of performance in a way that no one else has captured.
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Chris Grace’s Sardines (a comedy about death) will run Sept. 30 – Nov. 16 at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, directed by Eric Michaud.
Chris Grace
The piece explores – with tremendous grace and humanity – the tragic, hilarious, and important questions of our time: Can we enjoy life if we know how it ends? Does making art actually help? And if Rihanna’s song is called ‘Don’t Stop the Music’, why does the music… stop?
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Amas Musical Theatre will present a benefit concert of Michael Colby & Gerald Jay Markoe’s Charlotte Sweet on Mon. Nov. 17 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s A.R.T., directed by Jeff Calhoun, with music supervision by Michael Lavine.
Darius De Haas, Ann Harada, Nicolas King, Michael McCoy, Mamie Parris, Stephanie Pope and Megan Styrna.
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Tim Blake Nelson’s And Then We Were No More will run Sept. 19 – Nov. 2 (opening Sept. 28) at La MaMa, directed by Mark Wing-Davey.
Elizabeth Marvel, Scott Shepherd, Jennifer Mogbock, Henry Stram, Elizabeth Yeoman, William Appiah, E.J. An, Kasey Connolly and Craig Wesley Divino.
In the not-too-distant future a lawyer is forced to represent a prisoner deemed ‘beyond rehabilitation’ and destined to perish in a newly developed machine designed to execute ‘without pain.’ The attorney must strive for justice in a system devoid of mercy.
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CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre will present First Light, a festival of new play readings from Sept. 25-28.
Click the link above for the plays that are included.
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“Future Boy,” featuring Michael J. Fox & Nelle Fortenberry, offers stories about Fox’s time-bending — and career defining stretch of work on Mon. Oct. 13 at at 6 PM both live and livestreamed at NYC’s 92NY.
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CA’s Ensemble Theatre Company & National Theatre Live will present screenings of London productions at various Santa Barbara locations during the 2025-26 season:
Inter Alia (Oct. 21): Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon.
The Importance of Being Earnest (Dec. 8) features actor Sharon D. Clarke in the role of Lady Bracknell.
War Horse (Feb. 23, 2026). A powerful storytelling about the bond between a boy and his horse during World War I.
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Amber Ruffin, David A. Schmoll & Kevin Sciretta’s Bigfoot! will open Feb. 11 at Manhattan Theatre Club, directed & choreographed by Danny Mefford.
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Set in thesmall town of Muddirt, a glow-in-the-dark oasis that exists somewhere between a chemical dump site and a nuclear power plant, BIGFOOT! is a larger-than-life musical tale of corrupt politicians, small town paranoia, and misunderstood youth. When that youth happens to be eight feet tall, innocent, and in dire need of electrolysis, it makes him more than a target. It makes him the subject of a can’t miss can’t-myth musical comedy.
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Our Town will run Sept. 19 – Oct. 19 at Boston’s Lyric Stage, directed byCourtney O’Connor.
Thomika Marie Bridwell (Mrs. Gibbs), Amanda Collins (Mrs. Webb), Josephine Moshiri Elwood (Emily Webb), Dan Garcia (George Gibbs), and De’Lon Grant (Mr. Webb).
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Preston Max Allen’s Caroline has been extended through Nov. 2 at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre, directed by David Cromer.
Veanne Cox, Jeffrey Carlson, Clea Lewis and Florencia Lozan.
When Maddie is forced to seek the help of her long-estranged mother, she finds herself unable to shield her daughter Caroline from the inescapable circumstances that fractured their family. A luminous and intimate story about the possibility of redemption and the complex relationships between generations of mothers and daughters.
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Answers: Sunny Side Up
1-F. “Let the sun shine in” – Hair
2-D. “I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.” – Annie Get Your Gun
3-H. “The sun has got his hat on and is coming out to play.” – Me and My Girl
4-A. “The sun’ll come out tomorrow.” – Annie
5-I. “Keep your sunny side up.” – Good News
6-J. “I’m gonna shine like the sun when these clouds roll away from my door .“ – 9 to 5
7-C. “And if we all could spread a little sunshine” – Pippin
8-G. “Sunrise, sunset, swiftly flow the days” – Fiddler on the Roof
9-E. “The sun won’t set” – A Little Night Music
10-B. “When the sun goes down, you’re gonna need a flashlight.” – In the Heights