Today’s Highlights:
Let’s Love, by Ethan Coen, directed by Neil Pepe, featuring Aubrey Plaza, Crhis Bauer, Dylan Gelula, Dion Graham, Mary McCann, Nellie McKay, Noah Robbins, CJ Eilson, and Mary Wiseman, opens at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre Company.
Lost and Found, by Angelica Gorga, directed by Christine Cirker, featuring Angelica Gorga (Found), Ivàn Marcel Hernandez (Lost), and Nelly Saviñon (Neighbor), opens at Off-Broadway’s AMT Theatre.
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, closes at OffBroadway’s Public Theater.
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Complete casting has been announced for Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels, to run Nov. 21 – Feb. 21, 2026 (opening Dec. 2) at the Menier Chocolate Factory, directed by Christopher Luscombe.
Janie Dee (Julia Steroll), Alexandra Gilbreath (Jane Banbury), Christopher Hollis (Bill Banbury), Richard Teverson (Fred Steroll), Sarah Twomey (Saunders), and Graham Vick (Maurice Duclos).
Two married best friends whose shared ex-boyfriend unexpectedly reappears and reignites passions. Menier’s revival will be the work’s first in London in 25 years.
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Billy Stritch All For You will take place Oct. 5 at 6 PM at Las Vegas’ Myron’s (in the Smith Center).
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Here Lies Love, by David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, will run Feb. 1 – Mar. 2, 2026 at the Mark Taper Forum, directed by Snehal Desai.
Arielle Jacobs (Imelda Marcos), Jose Llana (Ferdinadnd Marcos), Conrad Ricamora (Ninoy Aquino), and Lea Sal0nga (Aquino’s Mother), and more TBA.
A groundbreaking musical about former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos and her family’s rise to power and subsequent fall at the hands of the Philippine People Power Revolution.
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Amas Musical Theatre will present Dare To Be Different, a festival of New Musicals & special events, to take place Nov. 7-30 at Off Broadway’s A.R.T. New York Theatre (502 W. 53rd St).
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Hello Dolly will preview Oct. 17, open Oct. 18 and close Oct. 17, at CA’s Musical Theatre West, directed by Cheryl Baxter.
Tami Tappan Damiano (Dolly), David Engel (Horace Vandergelder (Horace Vandergelder), Robert Pieranunzi (Cornelius Hackl), Anita Mintzer (Irene Molloy), Benjamin Raanan (Barnaby Tucker), Natalie Holt McDonald (Minnie Fay), Dominque Paton (Ermengarde, Landen Startman (Amborse Kember), Jane Papageorge (Ernestina Money), Ricky Bulda (Judge), Janna Cardia (Mrs. Rose), and Roger Castellano (Rudolphf), with Ryan Cody, Bar Daniel, Sydney DeMaria, Brandon Halvorsen, Camryn Hamm, Corinne Miller, Stefan Miller, Micah Nicholson, Rasha Willes Samaha, Michalis Schinas, Grace Simmons, Helen Tait, Matt Wiley, Andy Wissink, Rachel Beard, Ryan Bohmholdt, Grace Catron, Savanna Cezus, Kacie Dillon, Jameson Hollar, Talia Landau, Drew Larsen, Samantha Lelesi, Charley Rowan McCain, and Zachary Veeh.
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Megan Hilty in concert will take place May 24, 2026 at 7 PM at London’s Royal Drury Lane.
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Video: Cynthia Erivo performs “No Good Deed” from the film trailer of “Wicked: For Good”
The conclusion of the screen version of the Broadway musical will be in movie theatres in November (release date TBA). The two-part film stars Erivo (Elphaba) and Ariana Grande (Glind), Jonathan Bailey (Fiyero), Ethan Slater (Boq), Peter Dinklage (Dr. Dillamond), Michelle Yeoh (Madame Morrible), Jeff Goldblum (The Wizard), and Marissa Bode (Nessarose),
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Hello Dolly will run Oc.t 17 – Nov. 2 at Long Beach’s Musical Theater West, directed by Cheryl Baxter.
Tami Tappan Damiano (Dolly Levi), with Camren Hamm, Brandon Halvorsen, Sydney DeMaria, Bar Daniel, Ryan Cody, Roger Castellano, Janna Cardia, Ricky Bulda, Jane Papageorge, Landen Starkman, Rachel Beard, Andy Wissink, Matt Wiley, Helen Tait, and Grace Simmons.
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The next Hudson Valley Dance Festival will take place Oct. 11 (at both 2 & 5 PM) at the Historic Catskill Point in Catskill, NY. The event will benefit Dancers Responding to AIDS.
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All These Women, written & directed by Melanie MacQueen, will now open on Oc.t. 31 and continues through Oct. 19 at Theatre Forty.
April Audia, Lary Ohlson, Kristin Towers-Rowles, Todd Andrew Ball, Daniel Leslie, Michele Schultz, Anica Petrovi´c, Jessica Kent.
This world premiere play examines the almost insurmountable struggle women faced to get the right to vote in America. It is 1913, and women in America have been fighting for suffrage since 1848. Now that a new Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson presides over a Democratic Congress, has the time finally come for women to win the right to vote? Hopes are high until a World War looms, and divisions among the women themselves threaten to unravel it all. If they are to succeed, it’s time for desperate measures …
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Brian Stokes Mitchell a& Laura Benanti in Concert will take place Fri. Oct. 10 at 7 PM at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will continue through Oct. 19 at Stages St. Louis.
Sars Sheperd (Carole King), Steve Good (Gerry Goffin), Jackie Burns (Cynthia Weil ), Jarod Spector (Mattman), Noah Weisberg (Don Kirshner), and Sharon Hunter (Genie Klein), with Tatania Bahoque, Maya Thalia Bishop, and many more.
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A benefit staged reading of Dennis Bailey & David Mixner’s Jacob’s Ladder, in support of The David Mixner Memorial Fund (at The Ali Forney Center), will take place Oct. 6 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Theater 555, directed by Jim Cooney. 
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Ephraim Birney, Melissa Errico, Mark Mackillop, Mary Page Nance, and Rob Sutton.
The play is set in spring 1944 when an unassuming young staffer to FDR, Jacob Greenstein (Birney), discovers a daring and controversial proposal that has been set forth to divert Allied forces to bomb the concentration camps in Eastern Europe. Jacob is then thrust into a moral firestorm that pits politics against humanity, loyalty against conscience, and silence against action.
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The world premiere of Rudi Goblen’s Little Boy Little Man will run Oct. 1 – Nov. 2 (opening Oct. 9) at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Nancy Medina.
Alex Hernandez, Dee Simone, Tonya Sweets, and Marlon Alexander Vargas.
When Nicaraguan brothers Fíto and Bastian clash over their visions of the American Dream, their choices send them on a collision course with fate—risking not just their futures, but their bond. Fíto, a poet, is impulsive and ambitious, willing to take risks to get what he wants. Bastian, a telemarketer, is steady and principled, holding onto caution as a guide. Blending poetry, live music, and ritual, this electrifying tale of brotherhood and belonging pulses with rhythm and emotion, pulling us into a world where family is everything, but dreams come at a cost.
Video: Sneak preview