Today’s Highlights:
Little Bear Ridge Road, by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Joe Mantello, featuring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, opens at Broadway’s Booth Theatre.
A Celtic Christmas, by A Taste of Ireland, directed & choreographed by Brent Pace, featuring Gavin Shevlin, Julia O’Rourke, Alliyah O’Hare, Megan McGinley and Patrick O’Keeffe, Youngh Cian Walsh, Liam Fitzgerald, Isaac Loxley, Michael Roberson, Dillon D’Amore, Enda Keane, Brittany Pymm, Ella Giammichele, Jessica Miller, Fiona Shanley and Natalie Wagner, opens at Off-Broadway’s Sheen Center.
The Chirstine Jorgensen Show, by Donald Steven Olson’s & Mark Nadler, directed by Michael Barakiva, featuring Augustine Lorrie (Christine) and Scott Ahearn (Myles Bell), opens at Cleveland Playhouse.
Arrest the Clowns — Insolent Until Proven Guilty, by Megan Stogner, directed by Chas Harvey, featuring Chas Harvey, Megan Stogner, Willa Fossum, Cihan Sahin, and Zoe Molina, opens at LA’s The Actors Gang.
Oedipus, newly adapted by & directed by Robert Icke, featuring Mark Strong (Oedipus) and Lesley Manville (Jocasta), begins previews at Broadway’s Studio 54.
Vape! The Grease Parody, by Catie Hogan, Leanna Adams, John D. Babcock III, Casey Holloway, Julie Shaer & Brian Troxell, featuring Lara Strong (Sandy), Scott Silagy (Danny), SLee (Rizzo), Rayan Avoux (Kenickie), Krisn Amanda Smith (Frenchy), Meg Guiney (Marty), Dante Brattelli (Sonny), and Jen Clark (Jan) begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre 555.
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Reviews for Liberation at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre.
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London’s Royal Court Theatre has announced its 2026 season:
Guess How Much I Love You? (Jan. 16 – Feb. 21), world premiere by Luke Norris, directed by Jeremy Herrin, featuring Robert Aramayo and Rosie Sheehy. 
An expectant couple wait in a hospital room as the future they had planned unravels. A story about impossible choices and enduring love.
John Proctor is the Villain (Mar. 20 – Apr. 25), by Kimberly Belflower, directed by Danya Taymor. Five young women running on pop music, optimism, and fury, are about to shed light on the darkest secrets in their small town.
Godot’s To-Do List (May 8 – 26), by Leo Simpe-Asante, directed by Aneesha Srinivvsan. A bewildered person wrestles with an endless series of surreal tasks dictated by a snarky, persistent mystery voice.
Krapp’s Last Tape (May 8 -26), by Samuel Beckett, directed by Gary Oldman. Belgrade, 1914. Three hungry young men are offered something to eat (and the chance to change the course of history).
Archduke (June 20 – 25), by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Lyndsey Turner. Belgrade, 1914. Three hungry young men are offered something to eat (and the chance to change the course of history).
Man to Man (Sept. 5 0 Oct. 24), by Manfred Karge, directed by Stephen Unwin, In 1930s Germany, a woman puts on her dead husband’s trousers and never takes them off.
The Afronauts (Nov. 24 – Dec. 19), by Ryan Calais Cameron. Zambia, 1964: the space race has a new contender.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Oct. 26
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Ins Choi’s Kim’s Convenience has extended its run through Nov. 30 at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, directed by Weyni Mengesha.
Ins Choi (Appa), Esther Chung (Umma), Ryan Jinn (Jung), Kelly J. Seo (Janet), and Brandon McKnight (Rich).
Mr. Kim works hard to support his wife and children with his Toronto convenience store. As he evaluates his future, he faces both a changing neighborhood landscape and the gap between his values and those of his Canada-born children.
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LA’s Open-Door Playhouse will present Cyber Witch beginning Oct. 31, directed by Bernadette Armstrong.
Camille Ameen (Cyber Witch), Jon Paul Burkhart (Jax,) and Goreti da Silva (Lana).
A mysterious witch arrives at a suburban Halloween party with cupcakes and a purpose: collecting human fears. As guests fall under her spell, two friends must uncover her secret and stop her.
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Red Bull Theatre will present an in person & simulcast reading of Lope De Vega’s The Travels of Teodor, to take place Mon. Nov. 17 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Symphony Space, directed by Melissa Crespo. The on-demand option will be available Nov. 18-23. In person tickets here. Streaming tickets here.
Isabel Arraiza, Jordan Bellow, Rajesh Bose, Darryl Gene Daughtry, Andy Grotelueschen, Melissa Mahoney, David Mattar Merten, Ajay Naidu, Alfredo Narciso, Randolph Curtis Rand, and more.
From the Hispanic Golden Age comes an extraordinary young woman. When Teodor’s father tries to marry her off, she flees with her true love Félix, only to be captured by Barbary pirates. Teodor’s wits and cunning keep her from slavery or drowning, until she finds herself up against the scholars of Persia, debating for her freedom and the right to marry the one she loves. Master dramatist Lope de Vega weaves together Byzantine romances and Middle Eastern folk tales to create a story of unwavering heart and globetrotting adventure, presented for the first time in English.
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Caroline, by Preston Max Allen, will continue through Nov. 16 at the 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.
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Steve Ross: Sondheim and Before will take place Mon. Nov. 17 at 7 PM at NYC’s Birdland Jazz Club.
Benjamin Weil.