Today’s Highlights:
The Dog Show: Come Sit Stay, by David Javerbaum, directed by Richard Israel, featuring Seth Rudetsy Gizel Jiménez, Angela Reed, and .J. Shively, opens at NYC’s The Triad.
The 24 Hours Plays on Broadway, by Eboni Booth, Sarah Burgess , Julia Jordan (Murder Ballad), Steven Levenson, David Lindsay-Abaire, and Jonathan Marc Sherman, directed by Eden Barber, Nichole Greene, David Ruttura, Tiffany Kate Sullivan, Patrick Vassel, and Deanna Weiner, featuring Justin Bartha, David Burtka, Chris Chalk, David Cross, Hugh Dancy, Crystal Dickinson, Jin Ha, Josh Hamilton, Alano Miller, Keith Nobbs, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Amber Tamblyn, and Nia Vardalos, at 7:30 PM at the Todd Haimes Theatre.
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Open-Door Playhouse will present a free podcast of Larry Crane’s The Ghost of 33rd & Ninth beginning Nov. 4, directed by Bernadette Armstrong.
DAvid Purdham (Tom Cooney), and Dennis Gerston (Rodney Clinkscales).
Two septuagenarians encounter each other one Sunday morning on an island off the coast of Maine. It turns out that years ago they had connection to an office building on 33rd Street in Manhattan. They are still haunted by the ghosts of who they were then.
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Annie continues through Dec. 27 at Connecticut’s Goodspeed Musicals, directed by Jenn Thompson.
Laiken Jules (Annie), Emmily Sinner (Miss Hannigan), Christopher Oliver Warbucks), Jlulia Nicole Hinter (Grace Farrell), Rhett Guter (Rooster Hannigan), Kelly Berman (Lily St. REgis), Kelly Berman (Lily St. Regis), with Angali Roa, Sadie Jean Williams, Skyla Joy Ward, Adalyn Bickley, Iss Gonzalez, Ava Fernandez, Alicia Babin, Kailee Railee, Regan Brandt, Andy Golden, Devin Holloway, Daelyn Carter Jorif, Stfanie Londino Ryan Mulvaney, Joel Newsome, Charles Osborne, Mark Woodard, Laura Elizabeth Flanagan, and Abigail Grace.
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Handle with Care will run on various dates from Nov. 28-20 at various locations in LA. Click here to learn more … and read the the next paragraph.
A theatre performance in a box. No actors, no director, no technicians, no production team. Just a box. And you. A box is mailed to the theatre. The instructions are clear: Invite a group of people, on a specific night, at a specific time. Let the audience take their seats. Place the box at the center of the stage. The audience is waiting. And then an audience member stands up and opens the box. The show has started.
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MCC Theater will present The Heart Sellers, by Lloyd Suh, to run Jan. 8, 2027 – Feb. 14, (opening Jan. 21) and directed by May Adrales.
Eva Novezada and Juyeon Song.
When Jane and Luna, two immigrant strangers, meet on Thanksgiving in 1973, they decide to spend this strange, new holiday together over an evening full of shared laughs, dreams, and a frozen turkey that refuses to thaw.
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Sandra Bernhard: Caught Off Guard will take place Sat. Dec. 5 at 7 & 9:30 PM at LA’s The Wallis.
These are crazy times, and Sandy doesn’t like that vibe! But she’s rising to the occasion, even when she’s Caught Off Guard, which is on a daily basis. If you like staying high, getting carried away on perfumed breezes… Or if your setting is continental, a little sentimental, then Sandy is your girl. She’s there to guide you through these treacherous times, with a groove, beat and style you’ve become accustomed to.
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A free reading of Deepfake, by Alisa Zhulina, will take place Sun. Nov. 8 at 7:30 PM at LA’s Echo Theater Company.
Nicole Duporte, Donte Green and more TBA.
The play is set in a near-future where LNM (Lonely No More) sells lifelike companions. Two new lovers, two old flames and a family collide—testing whether artificial intimacy can heal the very human wounds it exposes.|
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The world premiere of I Became We, by Mona Pirnot, continues through Nov. 22 at Atlantic Theatre Company, directed by Sarah Benson.
Alison Cheeseman, Paul Chew MinChul, Oliver Holt, Heather Jones, Helen Karloski, Chad Kranak, Katie McCreary, Neil Netherly, Logan Pitts, Carrie Quarquesso, AnnMarie Sandy, Michael Steinberger, Gergorio Taniguchi, Tyler Tejada, Elizabeth van Os, and Jen Wu, with more TBA.
A first-person monologue performed by a 16-person choir, centers on a woman in her mid-30s wrestling with one of life’s most important decisions. The work will feature plainspoken, contemporary language sung in the stylings of classical choral music.