Today’s Highlights:
Come From Away, featuring De’Lon Grant, Joel Hatch, Caesar Samayoa, James Seol, Q. Smith, Pearl Sun, Rachel Tucker, Astrid Van Wieren Emily Walton, Jim Walton, Sharon Wheatley, Paul Whitty, Josh Breckenridge, John Jellison, Tony LePage, Monette McKay, Happy McPartlin, and Julie Reiber. Note: beginning Oct. 8, Petrina Bromley will return to the production as Bonnie), re-opens at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
Blithe Spirit, by Noël Coward, directed by Richard Eyre, featuring Jennifer Saunders (Madame Arcati), Geoffrey Streatfeild (Charles Condomine), Lisa Dillon (Ruth Condomine), Simon Coates (Dr. Bradman), Lucy Robinson (Mrs. Bradman), and Rose Wardlaw (Edith), opens at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre.
Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Michael Mayer, featuring Jeremy Jordan (Seymour), Tammy Blanchard (Audrey), Christian Borle (Orin Scirvello, D.D.S.), Tom Alan Robbins (Mushnik), Aaron Arnell Harrington (Voice of Audrey II), Salome Smith (Ronnette), Joy Woods (Chiffon), and Aveena Sawyer (Crystal), with Eric Wright, Teddy Yudain, Stephen Berger, and Chelsea Turbin, re-opens at Off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre.
Persuasion, adapted by Sarah Rose Kearns, directed by Eric Tucker, featuring Sarah Rose Kearns, Rajesh Bose, Caroline Grogan, Nandita Shenoy, Jamie Smithson, Randolph Curtis Rand, Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, Claire Hsu, Annabel Capper, and Yonatan Gebeyehu, opens at Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater.
New York Theatre Workshop‘s Sanctuary City, by Martyna Majok, directed by Rebecca Frecknall, featuring Jasai Chase-Owens, Sharlene Cruz, and Austin Smith, opens at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Tony Yazebek in concert, with special guests Michelle Dorrance and Phillip Attamore, opens at 54 Below.
The Garden, world premiere by Charlayne Woodard, directed by Patricia McGregor & Delicia Sonnenberg, featuring Charlayne Woodard (Cassandra) and Stephanie Berry (Rose), begins previews at La Jolla Playhouse.
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Video: Stars in the House Celebrates Trans and Non-Binary Artists, with special guests Peppermint, Jax Jackson and Sis. (1:27:55)
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Dear Evan Hansen will resume performances on Dec. 11 at the Music Box Theatre.
Jordan Fisher (Evan Hansen), Gabrielle Carrubba, Jessica Phillips, Christiane Noll, David Jeffery, Ivan Hernandez, Jared Goldsmith, and Phoebe Koyabe, and Zachary Noah Piser, Reese Sebastian Diaz, Nathan Levy, Dan Macke, Jane Pfitsch, Talia Simone Robinson, Asa Somers, Josh Strobl, and Nicole Van Giesen, with Linedy Genao and Mateo Lizcano.
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Dear Evan Hansen will re-launch on Dec. 7 at Greensboro, NC’s Tanger Center Theatre. Click here for the complete tour schedule.
Stephen Christopher Anthony (Evan Hansen), Nikhil Saboo (Connor), Stephanie La Rochelle, Jessica E. Sherman, Claire Rankin, John Hemphill, Alessandro Costantini, and Ciara Alyse Harris, with Sam Primack, Alaina Anderson, Matthew Edward Kemp, Mark Quackenbush, Coleen Sexton, Daniel Robert Sullivan and Kelsey Venter.
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Dear Evan Hansen will re-open Oct. 26 at the Noël Coward Theatre.
Sam Tutty (Evan Hansen), Lucy Anderson, Rebecca McKinnis, Lauren Ward, Doug Colling, Rupert Young and Jack Loxton, with Iona Fraser joining the company as Alana. They’re joined by Marcus Harman, Tricia Adele-Turner, Haydn Cox, Hannah Lindsey, Mark Peachey and James Winter, Ellis Kirk, Samantha Mbolekwa, Hannah Qureshi and Mitchell Zhangazha.
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Carter Calvert: Walkin’ After Midnight will run Oct. 14-24 at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse.
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Frank DiLella’s “Broadway is Back” conversation with Stephen Schwartz will take place Mon. Oct. 18 at 7:30 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y.
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Joseph Leo Bwarie, Lori Marshall & Rachael Lawrence’s The Root Beer Bandits — A Rootin’ Tootin’ Wild West Musicale will return Oct. 2-31 to Burbank’s Garry Marshall Theatre, with choreography by Christine Lakin and music direction by Ryan Whyman.
Kelly Brandeburg, Tiffany Daniels, Josey Montana McCoy, Clayton Snyder, Cloie Wyatt Taylor, and Travis Leland
The story of a woman with dreams of becoming a songwriter in 1860. In an effort to prove that women are capable of anything, she disguises herself to ride for the Pony Express.
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Broadway On Demand will stream the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s BEAM2021 Oct. 21 – Nov. 5.
This year, NAMT will film live presentations of all Festival musicals. Those presentations will then be screened at an in-person event on Oct. 21 & 22. Members of the industry are invited to attend the screening, where they can also meet the writers, or they can view a livestream of the presentations, which will be presented in collaboration with Broadway On Demand.
BEAM is the UK’s biggest showcase of new musical theatre, and BEAM2021 will be a hybrid, digital and live event, happening live a Hackney Empire and live streamed. There will be pitches from 38 new musicals in development, so pre-filmed, with ideas ranging from daytime bhangra raves, to climate change told as a love story, from challenging the UK’s hostile environment policy to singing lesbian pirates, as well as panel discussions and networking.
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The 2020 Tony Award winners will be announced on Sun. Sept. 26 at 7 PM ET on CBS, Paramount Plus, and the CBS app, hosted by Audra McDonald. In addition, the Broadway’s Back concert will livestream at 9 PM ET exclusively on Paramount Plus, hosted by Leslie Odom Jr.
(concert): Annaleigh Ashford, Kerry Butler, Kristin Chenoweth, André De Shields, Jake Gyllenhaal, Christopher Jackson, Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Ruthie Ann Miles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bebe Newirth, Leslie Odon Jr., Kelli O’Hara, Ben Platt, Jeremy Pope, Chita Rivera, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and BD Wong, and more TBA.
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North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company has announced Week 2 of its Under Construction: The Full Lengths play reading series, to run Sept. 30 – Oct. 3.
The Caregiver’s Guide (Sept. 30 at 7:30 PM PT), by Jami Brandli, directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky. A family dramady about evolving heroes, truth tellers, memory keepers, and early onset Alzheimers.
Adaptation Resilience (Oct. 1 at 7:30 PM PT), by Jennie Webb, directed by Susan Vanita Diol. Jess and Bev have been together longer that either of them thought they would be. An in their respective fields — Climate Change and Emergency Management — things are definitely heating up, affecting them in ways they didn’t see coming.
Whiskey and Hooch (Oct. 2 at 1 PM PT), written & directed by Carlos Lacámara. Life is what happens to you while you’re waiting for something to happen.
Derelict in Fairville (Oct. 2 at 7:30 PM PT), by Steve Apostolina, directed by Jennifer Chambers. When a horrific event thrusts Fairville, Ohio into the National media, the entire town is devastated. A chaing reaction of judgement, hate, sadness and disillusionment tragically follows. In Fairville, you don’t have be wrong to face consequences.
Stories/Shadows (Oct. 3 at 1 PM PT), by Cory Hinkle, directed by Jessica Hanna. Haley’s Grandma is dying, at least that’s what her Mom says, which sends Haley home to attempt a relationship with a woman she never really knew. Grandma saves three stories for the end of her life, and after Haley hears the final story, it forces her to confront a past she didn’t know existed.
Setting the Table (Oct. 3 at 7:30 PM PT), by Velina Hasu Houston, directed by Stewart J. Zully. A young Japanese woman marries a Black man and moves with him to Kansas where she becomes stepmother to her two teenage children.
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Micki Grant: A Celebration of Life will take place Mon. Oct. 11 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Riverside Church.
Grant died on Aug.21 at age 92 after a lifetime of firsts. With her hit show Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope she became the first woman to write the book, music, and lyrics of a Broadway musical, also being the first female composer to win a Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album.
In-person RSVP HERE.
Livestream HERE.
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Complete casting has been announced for Karey Kirkpatrick, John O’Farrell & Wayne Kirkpatrick’s Mrs. Doubtfire, to begin previews Oct. 21 and open Dec. 5 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Lorin Latarro, and music supervision by Ethan Popp.
Rob McClure (Mrs. Doubtfire), Jenn Gambatese (Miranda Hillard), Peter Bartlett (Mr. Jolly), Charity Angél Dawson (Wanda Sellner), Mrk Evans (Stuart Dunmire), J. Harrison Ghee (Andre Mayem), Analise Scarpavi (Lydia Hillard), Jake Ryan Flynn (Christopher Hillard), Avery Sell (Natalie Hillard), and Brad Oscar (Frank Hillard), with Cameron Adams, Calvin L. Cooper, Kaleigh Cronin, Maria Dalanno, Casey Garvin, David Hibbard, KJ Hippensteel, Aaron Kaburick, Jodi Kimura, Erica Mansfield, Brian Martin, Alexandra Matteo, Sam Middleton, LaQuet Sharnell Pringle, Akilah Sailers, Jaquez André Sims, Travis Waldschmidt, and Aléna Watters.
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The Link Theatre‘s concert presentation of Ragtime, with the Delta Symphony Orchestra, will run Oct. 16-17 at the Arkansas State University, directed by Matt Cavenaugh and conducted by Dr. Neal Bartee.
Robert Petkoff (Tateh), Jenny Powers (Mother), and Ezekiel Andrew (Coalhouse Walker, Jr.), and university students.