Today’s Highlights:
The Muppets and Magician Rob Lake opens at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre.
Nepo Baby, world premiere by Nick Bisa, directed by Beejan Land, featuring Theodore Bouloukos (Augustas Nepopoulos) and Nick Bisa (Baby), begins previews at Off-Broadway’s The New Stage.
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David Harrower’s Blackbird will run Dec. 2-7 at Theatre Row, directed by Tara Brown.
Melina Farahani and Miguel Perez.
A grown man knows what he’s doing. A young girl believes she knows love. Blackbird forces us to face what lies between them. This new staging of examines the play through a contemporary lens—foregrounding questions of identity, trauma, and power dynamics in the modern world. If the past comes knocking at your door, what will it say? Ray has a new identity, a new life, and is trying to put the past behind him, una thinks of nothing else. When Una arrives at Ray’s new office unannounced, raw emotions run high as they reexamine the relationship they had in the past. Never able to reconcile the brutal truth, Una is looking for answers, and the consequences are shattering.**********************
Mark Shanahan’s A Sherlock Carol will run Nov. 14 – Dec. 21 at Boston’s Lyric Stage, directed by Ilyse Robbins.
Leigh Barrett, Christopher Chew, Mark Linehan, Paul Melendy, Michelle Morand, and Jon Vellante.
Moriarity is as dead as a doornail. Sherlock Hoomes is depressed. Without his number one adversary, what’s the point of it all? Enter a grown-up Tiny Tim and the mysterious death of everyone’s favorite humbug, and it’s a festive leiterary mash-up with surprises around every corner. This fresh and charming reimagining of two of the most beloved literary characters is a “Dickens: of a yuletide detective story that’s as good as gold. Sic actors transform before your eyes in a playful, clever, and joyous holiday comedy.
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The world premiere of Pointy Scissors, written & directed by Carla Rodriguez, will run Nov. 7 – Dec. 7 at Theatre West.
Angela Bruning, Anibal Silverya, Richy Storrs, Monika Vidakovic, and Danielle Weeks.
When a barber with poor motor skills accidentally stabs a customer with his sharp, new pointy scissors, his sister and an unlikely stranger find themselves caught up in the chaos. Can they escape the mess they’ve found themselves in? This play is a wild ride where love, relationships, and personal values are tested in the most unexpected ways.
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Ten times I Should Have Known I Was Autistic, written & performed by Keith Varney, will take place Nov. 11 (7 PM) and Nov. 19 (2 PM) at the United Solo Theatre Festival at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row, directed by Derek Roland.
Keith should have known that he was autistic, but he didn’t figure it out until he had a divorce under his belt and a potbelly over it. Recounting ten obvious clues he ignored, Keith pieces together the ways that being a high-masking neurodivergent has shaped the course of his entire life – even if he was not-so-blissfully unaware of it.
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The world premiere of Emily Saliers, Beth Malone & Mary Ann Stratton’s Starstruck will run Feb. 20 – Mar. 21, 2026 (opening Feb. 28) at at Bucks County Playhouse link TBA), directed & choreographed by Lorin Latarro.
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Starstruck takes place in the small town of Sawtooth, Idaho, and follows Cyd DeBerg, as she crusades to create the first International Dark Sky Reserve in the United States. Against the wishes of her fellow townspeople — including bar owner and nemesis JD — Cyd’s efforts gain national attention, including that of NPR journalist Roxanne Cooley. Riffing on the story of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Cyd finds herself in an unlikely love triangle where the mysterious universe, truths hidden in darkness and the collision course of love all reveal themselves at once.
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Musical Theatre West has announced its selection for it Fifth Annual New Works Reading Festival, which is by invitation only, and will take place on Sat. Nov. 22.
The Postman’s Daughter (by Danielle Koenig & Justin D. Cook). A one-act, sung-through musical dramedy told entirely through written correspondence, with book and lyrics by Danielle Koenig and music by Justin D. Cook.
Rails (by Tom Kenaston & Tom Paitson Kelly). The story of a troubled man caring for his aging grandmother takes a wild ride through the stories of her past as he struggles to determine her future, with music and lyrics by Tom Kenaston and book and lyrics by Tom Paitson Kelly.
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The world premiere of Emily Saliers, Beth Malone & Mary Ann Stratton’s Starstruck will run Feb. 20 – Mar. 21, 2026 (opening Feb. 28), at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse (link TBA), directed & choreographed by Lorin Latarro.
TBA.
The musical takes place in the small town of Sawtooth, Idaho, and follows Cyd DeBerg, as she crusades to create the first International Dark Sky Reserve in the United States. Against the wishes of her fellow townspeople — including bar owner and nemesis JD — Cyd’s efforts gain national attention, including that of NPR journalist Roxanne Cooley. Riffing on the story of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Cyd finds herself in an unlikely love triangle where the mysterious universe, truths hidden in darkness and the collision course of love all reveal themselves at once.