Today’s Highlights:
Burn, by Alan Cumming & Steven Hoggett, starring Alan Cumming, opens at Off-Broadway’s Joyce Theatre.
Ain’t Misbehavin, directed by Monique Midgette, featuring Ashley Tamar Davis (Charlaine), Will Mann (Ken), Melrose Johnson (Armelia), David LaMarr (Andre), and Paris Bennett (Nell), with Sterling Lovett, Regina Hearne, Anthony Boggess-Glover, and Ambi Anuh-Ndumu, opens at Houston’s TUTS.
Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Bob Richard, featuring Montgomery Coleman (Seymour), Kim Sava (Audrey), Ed Romanoff (Mr. Mushnik), Ryan Knowles (Orin Scrivello), Tarra Conner-Jones (Audrey II), Charlotte Odusanya (Crystal), Erica Durham (Ronnette), and Maria Sylvia Norris (Chiffon), with Janaysia Gethers, Ross Griffin, TJ Lamando, Marissa Parness, Joseph Spieldenner, and Alyssa Watkins, opens at MA’s North Shore Music Theatre.
Titanic The Musical, directed by Mark Clements, featuring Mark Aldrich (Murdoch), Emma Rose Brooks (Kate McGowan), Matt Daniels (Pitman/Etches), Kelly Faulkner (Caroline), Cooper Grodin (Andrews), David Hess (Captain Smith), Carrie Hitchcock (Ida Straus), Alex Keiper (Alice), Stavros Koumbaros (Fleet), Jeffrey Kringer (Barrett), Brian Krinsky (Jim Farrell), Steve Pacek (Bride), Tim Quartier (Charles), Andrew Varela (Ismay), Joe Vincent (Isidor Strauss), and Steve Watts (Edgar), with Rána Roman, Jamey Feshold, Jared Brandt Hoover, Kyle Johnson, George Lorimer, Kelty Morash, Sophie Murk, Max pink, Ogunde Snelling Jr., and Vivian Yaeth, opens at Milwaukee Rep.
Jews. In Their Own Words, by Jonathan Freedland, directed by Vicky Featherstone & Audrey Sheffield, featuring Debbie Chazen, Louisa Clein, Steve Furst, Rachel-Leah Hosker, Alex Waldmann, and Hemi Yeroham, begins previews at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, written and performed by Wong, directed by Chay Yew, begins previews at La Jolla Playhouse.
Jenn Colella, Petrina Bromley, and Josh Breckenridge return to Come From Away at Broadway’s Schoenfield Theatre.
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Doug Wright’s Good Night, Oscar will run Apr. 7 – Aug. 27, 2023 (opening Apr. 24) at the Belasco Theatre, directed by Lisa Peterson.
Sean Hayes (Oscar Levant), Emily Bergl, Peter Groxa, and John Zdrojeski.
It’s 1958 and Jack Paar is hosting “The Tonight Show.” He’s booked his favorite guest, a pundit as hilarious as he is unpredictable: Oscar Levant, who one famously proclaimed, “There’s a fine line between genius and insantiy, and I have erased that line.” In 90 short minutes, Oscar will have audiences howling, censors scrambling, and – when it’s all over – American will be just a little less innocent than she was before.
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Off-Broadway’s York Theatre will present Love Online, conceived & written by Diane Love, on Oct. 19 & Nov. 2 (both at 7 PM ET) at Off-Broadway’s Laurie Beechman Theatre, directed by Joseph Hayward, with music direction by Gerry Dieffenbach. 
Oct. 19 here. … and Nov. 2 here.
Diane Love and Jay Nickerson
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The world premiere of Rick Elice & Pigpen Theatre Company’s Water for Elephants will run June 4 – July 9, 2023 at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, directed by Jessica Stone.
Casting and additional details TBA.
Jacob Jankowski is running towards a new life when he hitches a ride on a mysterious train. He finds himself in the heart of a traveling circus, the Benzini Bros Most Spectacular Show On Earth, with a new job, a new home, and a new family. When charismatic ringmaster August brings Rosie the elephant on as the new star attraction, Jacob and August’s wife Marlena join forced to train her. As Jacob and Marlena’s shared compassion develops into love, August’s cruel nature surfaces, threatening to derail Jacob’s life once more.
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Rogue Machine Theatre‘s production of Samuel D. Hunter’s A Great Wilderness will run Oct. 8-24 at the Matrix Theatre, directed by Elina de Santos.
Jeffrey Delfin (Daniel), John Perrin Flyn (Walt), Tony Pasqualini (Tim), Jacquelin Lorraine Schofield (Eunice), Rachel Sorsa (Abby), and Tania Verafield (Janet).
Walt has devoted his life to “curing” teenage boys of their homosexuality at his remote Idaho wilderness camp. Pressured to accept one last client, his life begins to unravel with the arrival of Daniel.
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Complete casting has been announced for Matthew López, Amber Ruffin, Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman’s Some Like it Hot, to begin previews Nov. 1 and open Dec. 11 at the Shubert Theatre, directed & choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with music direction by Darryl Archibald.
Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee, Adrianna Hicks, Kevin Del Aguila, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Adam Heller, and Mark Lotito, with Tia Altinay, TyNia René Brandon, Ian Campayno, DeMarius Copes, Casey Garvin, Devon Hadsell, Ashley Elizabeth Hale, Jenny Hill, K.J. Hippensteel, Abby Matsusaka, Jarvis B. Manning Jr., Brian Thomas Martin, Amber Owens, Kayla Pecchioni, Richard Riaz Yoder, Angie Schworer, Charles South, Brendon Stimson, Raena White, and Julius Williams.
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Article: Maria Friedman on why Daniel Radcliffe was born to play Charley Kringas in Merrily We Roll Along.
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Monet’s Garden The Immersive Experience will run Nov. 1 – Jan. 8, 2023 (opening Nov. 4) at NYC’s Seamen’s Bank Building (30 Wall Street). here.
The exhibition thrusts visitors into a multi-sensory and multimedia voyage that reveals the inspiration and history behind some of the world’s greatest masterpieces. Employing an unprecedented range of visual, phonic, and olfactory stimuli, this enchanting exhibition provides complete and total immersion into the work and world of Claude Monet (1840 – 1926).
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RIP: Marva Hicks passed away on Sept. 16 at the age of 66.
In additional to her numerous albums, her Broadway credits include Motown the Musical … The Lion King … Caroline or Change … and Lena Horne, The Lady and Her Music.
Off-Broadway and regional credits include her most recent appearance include Sophisticated Ladies and Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Feb. 2022 at Hartford Stage).
Film & TV credits include “Mad About You,” “Star Trek Voyager,” “One Life to Live,” “L.A. Law,” “Assunder,” “Preaching to the Choir,” and “Virtuosity.”
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Steven Levenson’s If I Forget (which is now on a brief hiatus through Oct. 28), has extended again, now through Dec. 18 at LA’s Fountain Theatre, directed by Jason Alexander,
Leo Marks (Michael Fischer), Síle Bermingham (Ellen Fischer), Valerie Perri (Holly), Samantha Klein, (Sharon), Jerry Weil (Howard), Jacob Zelonky (Joey), and Matt Gottlieb (Lou Fischer).
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Stephen Schwartz & Caridad Svich’s bio-musical about the life of Pablo Picasso in the in the works, with Antonio Banderas set to start.
Stay tuned for updates…
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A Little Sondheim Music will take place Sun. Oct. 2 at 3 PM CT at the St. Louis Muny, hosted by Mike Isaacson, with musical staging by Michael Baxter, and conducted by Ben Whitely.
Ben Davis, Bryonha Marie, Matthew Scott, Emily Skinner, Elizabeth Stanley, and Ken Page.
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Albee/Pinter, a retrospective of two early one acts by Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, will run Sept. 22 – Oct. 30 (opening Sept. 24) at Venice, CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Elina De Santos & Marilyn Fox.
Fam and Yam, by Edward Albee. Set in an Upper East Side penthouse, the play examines an encounter between two unnamed playwrights.
The Dumb Waiter, by Harold Pinter. Two hitmen are waiting in a basement for their next assignment.
Jason Downs, Brad Greenquist, and Anthony Foux.
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Bernstein on Broadway: A Celebration will take place Tues. Sept. 27 at 7 PM ET both live & livestreamed, at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Matthew Martin Ward, and hosted by Michael Portantiere. The evening will commemorate the 65th anniversary of West Side Story.
Live show tickets here. 
Livestream tickets here.
Chita Rivera
Nikita Burshteyn, Samantha Rose Cárdenas, Alex Getlin, Ben Jones, Jay Aubrey Jones, Albert Nelthropp, and Megan Styrna.
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NY’s Hudson Valley Dance Festival, in support of Dancers Responding to AIDS, will take place Sat. Oct. 8 at 2 & 5 PM ET at the Historic Catskill Point.
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John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra continues through Oct. 5 at San Francisco Opera, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. The production is also available on through Sept. 21.
Amina Edris (Cleopatra), Gerald Finley (Antony), Paul Appleby (Young Caesar/Ocravius, Alfred Walker (Enobarbus), Elizabeth DeShong (Octavia), Hadleigh Adams (Agrippa), Brenton Ryon (Eros), Philp Skinner (Lepidus), Taylor Raven (Charmian), Patrick Blackwell (Maecenas), Gabrielle Beteag (Iras), and Tomothy Murry (Scarus).
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The Los Angeles engagement of Harry Connick, Jr. – A Holiday Celebration 2022 Tour will run Dec. 15-17 at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre.
Click here for the complete tour schedule.