Today’s Highlights:
The Other Americans, by John Leguizamo, directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson, featuring John Legguizamo (Nelson), Lauren Velez (Patti), Bradley James Teje (Eddie), and Sara Nina Hayhon (Veronica, with Juan Francisco Villa, Johnny Anthony, and Odette Gutiérrez de Arroyo), with Rosa Evangelina Arredondo, Kimberli Alexis Flores, Sarah Nina Hayon, Jaime José Hernández, Rebecca Jimenez, John Leguizamo, Trey Santiago-Hudson, and Bradley James Tejeda, begins previews at Off Broadway’s Public Theater.
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The world premiere of Reggie D. White’s Fremont Ave. will run Oct. 8 – Nov. 23 (opening Oct. 16) at DC’s Arena Stage, directed by Lili-Anne Brown.
Doug Brown, Bradley Gibson, Jerrika Hinton, Stanley Andrew Jackson, Kevin Mambo, Wildlin Pierrevil, Jeffrey Rashad, Galen J. Williams, Eli El, Dominique Gray, and Raven Lorraine.
A searing and soulful new dramatic-comedy where three generations of Black men face off against masculinity, identity, and the weight of silence passed down. Shuffling through time with the force of memory and the rhythm of Spades, Fremont Ave. meets young love and big dreams with buried resentment and unmet expectations. Around the card table, George, Robert, and Joseph confront quiet wounds and the weight of unspoken emotional truths. At the heart of it all sits Audrey, the family’s formidable matriarch: beloved, feared, and never forgotten. Served with the sharp wit and laugh-out-loud honesty only a card game could unleash, Fremont Ave. lays all cards on the table and dares audiences to do the same.
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Wallace Shawn’s What We Did Before Our Moth Days will begin previews Feb. 4 2026 and open Mar. 5 at the Greenwich House Theatre (27 Barrow St.), directed by André Gregory.
Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early, and Josh Hamilton.
Set in an urban world of intelligent and somewhat gentle middle-class people, a father, mother, son, and the long-time mistress of the father tell the intimate story of their lives. Wallace Shawn, a student of morality whose plays have brought us frank truths about politics and sexuality, here takes on the subject of love — suffocating and freeing — and the kaleidoscopic journeys we make through remorse, sorrow, resentment, and joy.
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LA’s Musical Theatre Guild will present An Evening with the Maestro: MTG Sings Bernstein benefit concert, will take place Sun. Sept. 21 at 7 PM at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage, written by Michael Kostroff and directed by Jason Graae, with music direction by Darryl Archibald.
Carol Lawrence
Eydie Alyson, Eileen Barnett, Anastasia Barzee, Roger Befeler, Jennifer Bennett, Patrick Beller, Jill Marie Burke, Melissa Lyons Caldretti, Will Collyer, Matthew Patrick Davis, Susan Edwards Martin, Melissa Fahn, Joshua Finkel, Zachary Ford, Julie Garnye, Bruno Koskoff, Maura M. Knowles, Valerie Larsen, Ashley Fox Linton, Dana Meller, Tonoccus McClain, Ashley Moniz, Taubert Nadalini, Gabriel Navarro, Domonique Paton, Trisha Rapier, Glenn Rosenblum, Brent Schindele, Trance Thompson, and Mary VanArsdel.
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Red Bull Theater will present Richard II, adapted & directed by Craig Baldwin, Oct. 8 – Nov. 30 (opening Oct. 10) at the Astor Place Theatre.
Michael Urie, and Grantham Coleman, with Ron Canada, Kathryn Meisle, David Mattar Merten, Lux Pascal, James Seol, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Ryan Spahn, Emily Swallow, and Sarin Monae West.
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Lincoln Center Theatre 2025-26 season:
Ragtime, (begins Sept. 26 ), directed by Lear deBessonet, featuirng Joshua HenryCaissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, and Shaina Taub.
Kyoto (begins Oct. 8) , by Joe Murphy& Joe Robertson, directed by Stephen Daldry, abd directed by Stephen Daldry & Justin Martin., featuring Jorge Bosch, Peter Bradbury, Kate BurtonFeodoe Chin, Erin Darke, Natalie Gold, and Daniel Jenkins.
The Comedy Series (begins Oct. 29) Details TBA.
Amahl and the Night Visitor (begins Nov. 16). Details TBA.
Night Side Songs (begins Feb. 14, 2026). Details TBA.
A Woman Among Women (begins May 16). Details TBA.
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A one-night reading of Steve Lawson’s The Fitzgeralds: A Reading with Music will take place Sat. Sept. 27 at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse. directed by Stephen Hamilton.
Stephanie Zimbalist and Alec Baldwin.
At the heart of this performance lies the extraordinary correspondence between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald — letters that reveal a relationship shaped by ambition, artistry, and emotional complexity. Through their own words, we encounter two singular voices whose love and conflict fueled some of the most iconic writing of the 20th century.
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York Theatre s world premiere of This is Not a Drill, by Holly Doubet, Kathy Babylon, John Vester & Joseph McDonough, directed by Gabriel Barre, continues through Oct. 11 at Theatre at St. Jeans, directed by Gabriel Barre.
Caitlin Burke, Victor E. Chan, Bill Coyne, Matthew Curiano, Gary Edwards, Felicia Finley, Kelvin Moon, Sam Poon, Lukas Poost, Marianne Tatum, and Aurelia Williams, with Xavier Reyes and T. Shyvonne Stewart.
The piece takes audiences inside the surreal chaos of a morning in 2018, when an emergency alert warned Hawaii residents and visitors of an incoming missile attack. As fear grips the island, strangers and loved ones alike are forced to confront their mortality and their humanity. Set to a soaring and heartfelt score, this powerful new musical tells the story of connection, compassion, and what truly matters when time stands still.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will run Oct. 21 – Nov. 2 at Houston’s TUTS, directed by Dan Knechtges.
Kevin Cahoon (Vice Principal Douglas Panch), Mark Ivy (William Barfee), Michael Alonzo (Chip Tolentino), Gemini Quintos (Marcy Park), Julia Krohn (Rona Lisa Peretti), JD Houston (Mitch Mahoney), Marco Camacho (Leaf Coneybear), Abigail Bensman (Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre), JD Houston (Mitch Mahoney), and Adell Ehrhorn (Olive Ostrovsky), with John Ryan, Del Bosque, and Rebecca Russell.