Today’s Highlights:
Gingold Theatrical Group‘s The Devil’s Disciples, adapted & directed by David Staller, featuring Nadia Brown, Susan Cella, Tina Chilip, Teresa Avia Lim, and Folami Williams, with Fiona Maguire, and Lauren Zbylski, opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
Kimberly-Akimbo, by David Lindsay-Abaire & Jeanine Tesori, directed by Lear deBessonet, featuring Carolee Carmello (Kimberly), Miguel Gil (Seth), Jim Hogan (Buddy), Emily Koch (Debra), Dana Steingold (Pattie), Grace Capeless (Delia), Sky Alyssa Friedman (Teresa), Darron Hayes (Martin), and Pierce Sheeler (Aaron), with Sarah Lynn Marion, Regene Seven Odon, Marcus Phillips, Bailey Ryon, aBrandon Springman., with Valerie Wright (Kimberly’s standby), opens at LA’s Pantages Theatre.
I’ll be with You Shortly, world premiere by Michael Merton, directed by Carol Becker, featuring Alexis C. Martino, Rebecca O’Brien, Janet Hoskins, Debra Kay Lee, Jerry Weil, Jason Paul Evans, Patrick Thofson, Amanda Lynne, Alex De Rita, Nick Benson, Brittany De Leon, Andrea Sojo, Andrew Neaves, and Starr Shapiro, with Joan Kubice, opens at North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble Theatre.
Red Bull Theater‘s “Kate Burton – in Conversation” with Randy Cohen, at 6:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Sheen Center.
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The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop will showcase several new works on Thurs. Oct. 24 at 3 & 6 PM at Off-Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater. 
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Amber Treadway & Sarah Nelson … Asher Muldoon & Joel Chapman … Celine Snippe & Jensen Krall … Diallo Adams & Chris Blacker … Diana Lawrence, George Merrick, Ginny Mohler & Connor Marsh … Jack Coen, Lauren Gundrum & Brandon Lambert … Mason McDowell, Pance Pony & Ernie Bird … Ray Bokhour & Simon Gray … Rick Rea, RJ Christian, Sair Kaufman & George Luton, and Tia DeShazor & Derrick Byars.
Performers TBA.
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Puttin’ On the Ritz: Steve Ross Sings Fred Astaire and Friends will take place in 2 locations:
Nov. 1-2 at the UK’s Phesantry.
Dec. 11 at 7 PM at NYC’s Birdland Jazz Club.
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John C. Introcaso & Michael Colby’s Dangerous will be workshopped Oct. 17 & 18 in NYC, directed & choreographed by Denis Jones, with music direction by music Phil Reno. Click here to learn more about the musical.
Jared Zirilli (Jake), Jill Paice (Rose), N’Kenge (Jazz), Preston Truman Boyd (Klaus von Schuler), Nicholas Cortazzo (Meyer Lansky/Simon Ben-Ezra), Henry Gainza (Percival Bouchard), Danny Gardner (Inspector Kittering), Nigel Jamal Hall (Dolsy Davis), Candice Hatakeyama (Olga Chikalov), Trisha Jeffrey (Monique), Kuppi Alec Jessop (Gregor Lawaich), Kaitlyn Mayse (Senator Rosland Pike), Jon J. Peterson (Jilly/Nelson), Alex Pouloutides (Reva Akkerman), Yash Ramanujam (Abbu Mussad), James Rana (Qasif Halim), Megan Sikora (Myrtle, Bobby Underwood (Monk Genna/Hornbeck), and Stuart Zagnit (Professor Zweben).
A love letter to the Golden Age of Hollywood set against the backdrop of the late 1930s, Dangerous: A Noir Musical follows saloon owner Rose McSweeney and her lover, gangster Jake Kinberg, who find themselves entangled in a deadly game when a mobster is murdered on opening night of Rose’s nightclub in Shubert Alley.
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Video: Katie Brayben Sings “Empty Hands” from Broadway’s Tammy Faye.
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Joshua Harmon’s We Had a World will begin previews Feb. 25, 2025 and open Mar. 19 at Manhattan Theatre Club, directed by Trip Cullman.
Joanna Gleason & Jeanine Serralles.
A dying woman calls her playwright grandson to make an unusual request. She wants him to write a play about their family, but she asks him to promise to “make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible.”
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Hugh Jackman: From New York With Love will run Jan. 24-25, 2025, April 18-19, May 23-24, June 20-21, July 18-19, and August 15-16, at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall.
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Elton John, Shaina Taub & Kate Wetherhead’s The Devil Wears Prada opens Oct. 24 at the Dominion Theatre, directed & choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.
Vanessa Williams (Miranda Priestly), Georgie Buckland (Andy), Amy Di Bartolomeo (Emily), James Darch (Christian), Matt Henry (Nigel), and Rhys Whitfield (Nate), with Debbie Kurup (Miranda Standby).
Video: Trailer
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Ragtime will run Oct. 30 – Nov. 10 at NY City Center, directed by Lear deBessonet, with choreography by Ellenore Scott, and music direction by James Moore.
Joshua Henry (Coalhouse), Nichelle Lewis (Sarah), Caissie Levy (Mother), Brandon Uranowitz (Tateh), and Tabitha Lawing (Little Girl), with John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Colin Donnell, Matthew Lamb, Ben Levi Ross, Stephanie Styles, Shaina Taub, Nicholas Barrón, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Billy Cohen, Rheaume Crenshaw, Aerina DeBoer, Nick Gaswirth, Ta’Nika Gibson, Olivia Hernandez, Jana Djenné Jackson, David Jennings, Marina Kondo, Jeff Kready, Kai Latorre, Tiffany Mann, Morgan Marcell, Kane Emmanuel Miller, Tom Nelis, Ramone Nelson, Kent Overshown, John Rapson, Destinee Rea, Deandre Sevon, Kathy Voytko, Jacob Keith Watson, Alan Wiggins, Sharrod Williams, and Henry Witcher.
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Janet Krupin’s “Sunset Road” is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Janet Krupin (Etta Campbell), Diana Milton (Oryn Montgomery), Santino Fontana (Lawyer), Sam Shick (Papa Campbell), Dara Quinn (Mama Montgomery), and Halley Greg (playing herself).
A twist on Romeo and Juliet, the film is set in Washington’s vibrant wine country as two rival wine-making families—one known for its Merlot, the other for its Cabernet—go head to head.
Video: Trailer
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The world premiere of Jerry Herman, Alexis Scheer & Mark Saltzman’s Mrs. Santa Claus will run Nov. 14 – Dec. 28, 2025 at CT’s Goodspeed, with the creative team TBA.
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The story of Santa’s wife Anna Claus, who seeks adventure by testing out a new sleigh route for her husband. A sudden storm strands her on Manhattan’s Lower East Side circa 1910, where she joins the women’s suffrage movement and ends child labor practices in a corrupt toy factory.
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A staged reading of Jason Wright Downs’s An Odd Mourning will take place Sat. Nov. 16 at LA’s Theatre Forty (241 S, Moreno Drive), directed by Aliah Whitmore. Link NA.
Anthony Foux, David Hunt Stafford, Terry Davis, Aliah Whitmore, and Jason Wright Downs.
Judith Child was a complicated woman who came from a wealthy British family and married the brilliant, charismatic Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Benjamin Child. They have a son, Dorian, who never quite grew into the man that Benjamin hoped. Upon her death Benjamin and Dorian are left rudderless. Without Judith’s strong and guiding presence they cut themselves off from the world and fall into an unusual way of keeping her spirit alive, thus delaying their grief. When Benjamin injures himself during a fall, the two men are forced to allow an East Indian medical professional to tend the wound, disrupting the routine, challenging their mental and physical capacities, and breaking the spell the house is under.
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Janet Krupin’s “Sunset Road” is now streaming on Amazon Prime, directed by Krupin.
Janet Krupin, (Etta Campbell), Diana Milton, (Oryn Montgomery), Santino Fontana ((lawyer) Sam Shick (Papa Campbell), Dara Quinn (Mama Montgomery), and Halley Greg, (who plays herself).
A twist on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the film is set in Washington’s vibrant wine country as two rival wine-making families—one known for its Merlot, the other for its Cabernet—go head to head.
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Simply Barbra: The Book Tour, starring Steven Brinberg, will take place Wed. Oct. 16 at 8:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.