Today’s Highlights:
Our Sinatra, a musical celebration, directed by Kurt Stamm, featuring Eric Comstock, Christopher Gines, and Hilary Kole, closes at Off-Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre
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The Cenci, by Perci Bysshe Shelley, will take place live Nov. 5 & on-demand (through Nov.15) at 7 PM at NYC’s Symphony Space, directed by Eleanor Holdridge.
Blaize Adler-Ivanbrook, Amir Arison, Robert Cuccioli, Carol Halstead, Anthony Michael Lopez, Ella Loudon, Jason Sanchez, David Ryan Smith, Derek Smith, and Raphael Nash Thompson.
The great English Romantic poet Percy Shelley transports us to corrupt and sumptuous Renaissance Rome with a ripped-from-the-headlines verse drama, set within the noble household of Count Cenci, a tyrannical patriarch with a virtuous daughter Beatrice. After two of his sons are brutally killed, Cenci celebrates by throwing a banquet, toasting their spilled blood with wine. Fearful for her own life, when Beatrice pleads protection from their guests and is denied—and when she finds out her lover Orsino has betrayed her for the priesthood—she concocts a desperate plot to take control of her own destiny.
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Passing Strange, byStew & Heidi Rodewald, will run Nov. 4-29 at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Zhailon Levingston.
Brittany Campbell, Johnny Laveie, Devere Rogers, and Tanerélle.
young artist is searching for the real, but he can’t seem to find it at home in South Central LA. He sets out on a cross-continental journey of self-discovery full of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll in search of a life that’s bigger, louder, and entirely his own.
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You Will be Found concert, in support of NAMI Greater Los Angeles, will take place Sun. Nov. 1, at 7:30 PM at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club, with music direction by Brad Ellis, and hosted by Carla Renata
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Eydie Alyson, Terron Brooks, Robin DeLano, Kate Flannery, Dianne Fraser, Caitlin Gallogly, Shelly Goldstein, Valerie Perri, Hayley Silver and James Snyder.
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LA OPera‘s production of Carmen, conucted by Domingo Hindoyan, continues through Nov. 7 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Rihab Chaieb (Carmen), Joshua Guerrero (Don José), Kathleen O’Mara ( Micaëla), and James Karai (Escamillo).
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A performance of Broke Bitch Got Rich, written & perofromed by Betsy Cox, will take place Wed. Nov. 6 at 9 PM at Santa Monica Playhouse.
In this hilarious and moving memoir, comedienne Betsy Cox escorts the audience through her impoverished Louisiana childhood, bringing her crazy family to life through punchline-packed character work and raw storytelling. From poverty to the humiliation of her undiagnosed ADHD, she spins tragedy into comedy that’s brutally honest, wildly funny, and unexpectedly empowering — a fearless solo show that’s as inspiring as it is balls-out.
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The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles will present A Very Dolly Holliday Dec. 12-13 at the Beverly Hills Saban Theatre.
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Anon, by Ann Washburn, directed by Anne Kauffman, continues through Nov. 1 at MCC Theatre.
eJremy Sahamos, Crystal Finn, Jeff Bieh. Ander Garman, and Pzabel Mar.
The play takes place in Antonio, Texas, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 presidential election.
When a gay pride flag is unfurled across the street from Jeanie, an increasingly online TikToker in a suburb in Texas, two seemingly different households…freak out. How well do you know the people you live among, and with, in an America where the line between fantasy and reality has become increasingly optional?
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Five Star Theatricles will present Kris Lythgoe’s Rapunzel and Her Holiday Wish Dec. 11 – 27 at Thousand Oak’s Bank of America’s Performing Ars Center, directed by Becky Lythgoe.
Darcy Rose Byrnes (Rapunzel,), Zachary Young (Prince Sebastian), Missi Pyle (Prince Sebastian), tom Lenk (Simon), Johan Shartzer (Sniville), and Ceron Jones (B B Bouffant), with Maya Consiglio, Deven Fuller, Jules Mckelvey, Layla Krugh, Alice Kiloron and Madison North.
A magical new adventure full of laughter, music, audience participation, and outrageous fun. Join Rapunzel on a tangled journey filled with pop hits, larger-than-life characters, and plenty of holiday surprises.
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Simply Barbara Celebrates A Star is Born 50th Anniversary will take place Sat. Nov. 14 at 8 PM at NYC’s Hunt and Fish Club (125 W 44th St.), starring Steven Brinberg.