Today’s Highlights:
Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth, directed by Taylor Reynolds, featuring Julius Thomas III (Kenneth), Frank Britton (Bert), Yesenia Iglesias (Corinna), and Craig Wallace (Clay), with Ezinne Elele and Jeremy Keith Hunter, opens at DC’s Signature Theatre.
Prelude to a Kiss, world premiere by Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé & Sean Hartley, directed by Kenneth Ferrone, featuring Karen Ziemba (Rita’s Mom) Andrew Montomery Coleman (Taylor), Jonathan Gillard Daly (Julius), Julie Garnyé (Leah), Caitlin Houlahan (Rita), Chris McCarrell (Peter), and James Moye (Rita’s Dad), with Bella Hicks, Caroline Pernick, and Robert Zelaya, opens at Milwaukee Rep.
A Face in the Crowd, by Elvis Costello & Sarah Ruhl, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, featuring Ramin Karimloo (Lonesone), Anoushka Lucas (Marcia Jeffries), Stavros Demetraki (Joey D), Olly Dobson (Mel Miller), and Emily Florence (Betty Lou), with Howard Gossington, Andrew Coshan, Sadie-Jean Shirley, Chris Jenkins, Durone Stokes, Vicki Lee Taylor, Annie Wensak, Jasmin Colangelo and Bobby Windebank, begins previews at London’s Young Vic.
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Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now will run Nov. 2 – Dec. 8 (opening Nov. 13) at New World Stages, with music direction by Andrew Byrne.
Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, and Marissa Jaret Winokur.
A musical journey about the 3 performers, sharing their origins, friendships, careers, and becoming mamas themselves .
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Amy Heckerling, KT Tunstall & Glenn Slater’s Clueless, The Musical will run Feb. 15 – June 14, 2025 at the Trafalgar Theatre, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh,
TBA.
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Jay Martel’s Parents in Chains will have two developmental workshop presentations in Los Angeles, on Sept. 30 & Oct. 1 (both at 8 PM) at Hollywood’s Whitley Theatre, directed by Andy Fickman.
TBA.
Six L.A. parents exchange texts as their 17-year-old daughters drive home from San Francisco with a hurricane looming. The trip and the inclement weather bring out the best and the worst in the parents as they confront what it means to let go of their kids.
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A live & livestreamed staged concert of Gracie Hyland & Gretchen Cryer’s House on Fire will take place on Sun. Sept. 15 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, directed by DeMone Seraphin, with music direction by Jody Shelton.
Kenita Miller, Michael McCorry Rose, Gabriella Joy Rodriguez,and Tyley Ross.
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The world premiere of Olivia Haller’s Lonelliness Was a Pandemic will run Nov. 1-24 at Theaterlab (357 W. 36th St.), directed by Alex Kopnick.
TBA
In a world where the only humans left alive are artists, an isolated and imprisoned surviving painter is forced to teach a robot how to create real art.**********************
Putting It Together, the Sondheim revue, will run Oct. 4-6 at Hollywood’s Broadwater Mainstage.
Casting, creative team, and additional information TBA.
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Additional items have been announced for Broadway Cares‘ Broadway Flea Mark & Grand Auction, which will take place Sun. Sept. 22 from 10 AM – 7 PM in NYC’s Shubert Alley & Times Square.
Opening-night tickets to upcoming Broadway shows, including English, Gypsy, The Hills of California, The Last Five Years, Left on Tenth, Maybe Happy Ending, Our Town, Sunset Boulevard, Swept Away, Tammy Faye, A Wonderful World, and Yellow Face
Musical phrases handwritten and signed by Jason Robert Brown from The Last Five Years …. Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss from Six …. Anaïs Mitchell from Hadestown …. Alan Menken from Aladdin …. and Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin from The Prom.
Converse sneakers worn onstage by Daniel Radcliffe in Merrily We Roll Along, signed by Radcliffe.
Opportunities to conduct the exit music at Hell’s Kitchen and Wicked; shadow a stage manager and watch the show from their calling booth at Moulin Rouge! The Musical; and sit in the orchestra pit during performances of Back to the Future: The Musical and Suffs.
VIP house seats and meet-and-greets with the stars of Death Becomes Her; The Great Gatsby; Oh, Mary!; Once Upon a Mattress, The Outsiders and more.
One-of-a-kind show memorabilia autographed by Orlando Bloom, Wayne Brady, Darren Criss, Ariana DeBose, Danny DeVito, Jane Fonda, Boy George, Savion Glover, Jonathan Groff, James Earl Jones, Tony Kushner, Nathan Lane, Jessica Lange, Angela Lansbury, Huey Lewis, Gaten Matarazzo, Rachel McAdams, Lindsay Mendez, Laurie Metcalf, Bette Midler, Lea Michele, Liza Minnelli, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jim Parsons, Ben Platt, Eddie Redmayne, Chita Rivera, Stephen Schwartz, Aaron Tveit, and more.
…and much more TBA…
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Video: Carrie Hope Fletcher performs “Journey to the Past” from Anastasia.
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The world premiere of Simon Rich’s All In: Comedy About Love will open Dec. 11 and continue through a date TBA at the Hudson Theatre, directed by Alex Timbers, featuring a rotating cast of 4 actors for 10 weeks.
(For the first 5 weeks) John Mulaney Fred Armisen, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry (12/11 – 12/30), Chloe Fineman (1/2 – 1/12), and Richard Kind. Additional casting through the rest of the run TBA.
A series of hilarious stories about dating, heartbreak, marriage and that sort of thing.
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Gretchen Cryer’s House on Fire will be availalbe both live and livestreamed on Sun. Sept. 15 at 7 PM at NYC’s Green Room 42, directed by DeMone Seraphin, with music direction by Jody Shelton.
Kenita Miller, Michael McCorry Rose, Gabriella Joy Rodriguez, and Tyley Ross.
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Dear Evan Hansen continues through Sept. 18 at the UK’s Nottingham Playhouse, directed by Adam Penford. 
This new staging is the first to feature an ensemble.
Ryan Kopel (Evan Hansen), Lauren Conroy (Zoe Murphy), Alice Fearn (Heidi), Helen Anker (Cynthia Murphy), Richard Hurst (Larry Murphy), Killian Thomas Lefevre (Connor Murphy), Tom Dickerson (Jared Kleinman), Vivian Panka (Alana Beck), and Sonny Monaghan (alternate Evan), with Lara Beth-Sas, Will Forgrave, Daniel Forrester, Jessica Lim, Sonny Monaghan, and Shakira Simpson.
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Douglas Lyons & Zhailon Levintston’s Table 17 continues through Sept. 29 at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater, directed by Levingston.
Kara Young, Biko Eisen-Martin, and Michael Rishawn
If your ex wanted to meet up again, would you? Previously engaged, Jada and Dallas reunite for dinner to hash out the good, the bad, and the ugly from their romantic past. Despite the intrusion of sassy waiters, complicated memories, and their best efforts to keep things casual, the estranged couple find themselves cornered by the truth.
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A staged reading of Susan Charlotte’s Someone Is Sending A Message will take place Thurs. Sept. 26 at 2 PM at NYC’s Ethical Culture Society (2 West 64th St. ( in the Ceremonial Hall), directed by Anthony Marsellis.
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Roberta Wallach, Penny Fuller, and James Naughton.
The staged reading based on a true story. A story that deals with persistence in the face of adversity and hope. A story that revolves around a courageous young man named Nick. It’s also the story of an artist named Sheila, a friend of Nick’s who is at a crossroads with her art and her life. Suddenly she receives a phone call, “Nick! What do you mean Nick is dead?” This was the same Nick she spoke to two weeks ago; who she had known since he was 13; who had contracted Meningitis when he was in camp; and despite quadruple amputations, became a Paralympic Gold Medalist, an international advocate for life, survival, vaccination and everyone’s hero. Nick did not let any obstacle get in his way. Until now…. while swimming in a friend’s pool his heart gave out.
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The 2024 Horton Foote Prize has been awarded to Jocelyn Bioh for her play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.
Ms. Bioh will be honored at a private celebration on Mon. Oct. 7 at New York’s Lotos Club.