Today’s Highlights:
Noises Off, directed by Gordon Greenberg, featuring Erin Davie (Belinda Blair), Abby Leigh Huffstetler (Poppy Norton-Taylor), Nehal Joshi (Garry Lejeune, )Lesli Margherita (Dottie Otley), Orville Mendoza (Selsden Mowbray), James Joseph O’Neil (Frederick Fellowes,) Geoff Packard (Lloyd Dallas), Jennifer Sánchez (Brooke Ashton), and Evan Alexander Smith ((Tim Allgood), opens at MA’s Barrington Stage Company.
A new adaptation of An Enemy of the People, directed by Bart DeLorenezo, featuring Jay Paulson, Jason McBeth, Cara Mitsuko, Dennis Dun, DeJuan Christopher, Clay Hollander, and Lauren Campedelli, opens at LA’s Odyssey Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Aug.16.
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Arthur Miller’s All My Sons will run Sept. 18 – Oct. 18 at Lyric Stage Boston, directed by Scott Edmiston.
Laura Marie Duncan, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Allison Beauregard, Cara Clough, Julian Hirshfield, and Eric McGowan.
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All these Pretty Things, written & performed by Tracey Yarad, will run Sept. 29 – Oct. 1 at Theatre Row, directed by David Deblinger.
Mike Roche(Frank Bennett, the hotel keeper) Martin Revere (George Bennett, his father); Alyssa Simon (Heidi Murphy, the TV psychologist), Aaron Lamm (Sam Bennett, Frank’s son), and Haley Zale (Mildred Bennett, Frank’s wife).
When a 23-year marriage implodes, one woman turns heartbreak into a razor-sharp musical confession that’s as funny as it is fearless. #TrueStory Part memoir, part concert, part catharsis, All These Pretty Things is Tracey Yarad at her most vulnerable —and most powerful. What begins as a deeply personal unraveling becomes an outlandish, seemingly impossible dream brought to life. From Australia to New York City, this is a skin shedding story of reinvention, resilience, and radical honesty. Performed more than 80 times worldwide — including two seasons at Edinburgh — the show has left audiences floored, many moved to tears, others laughing out loud. Yarad’s ability to “bridge dreams into reality,” as one audience member described it, is one of her superpowers. Nuanced with razor wit and underscored by her skill as a world-class musician and songwriter, the evening unfolds like music itself: tension, release, resolution. A masterclass in turning poison into medicine and how to move on.
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Broadway’s Ragtime closing performance shattered the Lincoln Center Theatre box office shattered its own box office record for the fourth time at the Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, by grossing $1,963,666.00 for 8 performances for the week ending Aug. 26.
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Henry Feldman’s Shelter in Place will run Sept. 18 – Oct 4 at Theatre Row, directed by Joan Kane.
Mike roche (Frank Bennett, the inkeeper), Martin Revere (George Bennet, Frank’s Father), Alyssa Simon (Heidi Murphy (the TV psychologist), Aaron Lamm (Sam Bennet, Frank’s son), and Haley Zale (Mildred Bennett, Frank’s wife).
A category 3 hurricane is heading toward the Pelican Bay Bed and Breakfast, but the real storm is brewing inside. When it rains, it pours. Hurricane Claudia, a Category 3 monster, is heading toward the Pelican Bay Bed and Breakfast. Frank Bennett, its hapless, high-strung hotel manager, is preparing to both evacuate the place and sell it. An unexpected series of arrivals upends his carefully laid plans. His suicidal father comes to “help” but is quietly plotting to end his own life. A famous female TV psychologist, fleeing a professional and personal crisis, holes up in the room off the lobby, seeking solitude. Frank’s flamboyant ex-wife seeks refuge after discovering that the muscular young man she left Frank for has abandoned her. Their twenty-year-old son is desperately in love and must convince his fiancee that he “comes from a good home” by reuniting his divorced parents. With a mandatory shelter-in-place order in effect, all these ragtag characters, including Frank himself, areforced to confront emotional storms they have been avoiding. A lifelong people-pleaser, Frank has spent years putting everyone else’s needs before his own. Now he finds himself confronting a question many members of the “sandwich generation” eventually face: when does he get his own turn? “Shelter Inn Place” comically explores the process of starting over, accepting family members for who they are, and finding happiness even when there’s nowhere else to go.
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Out With A Bang, by Tony Pasqualini, continues through Sept. 6 at Venice, CA’s Pacific Resident Theatre, directed by Andy Weyman.
Brooke (Betty Amalfitano), Robert Lesser (Daniel Katzenberg), and Tony Pasqualini (Eddie Capiello).
Eddie Cappiello is trapped living out his life in the Out With A Bang Senior Living Community. When his ex-wife Betty – recently widowed from her second husband – arrives at his door one day and asks him to help her get revenge on a neighbor who has made her life intolerable, Eddie, longing to reawaken the love he and she once had, makes the fateful decision to help. He enlists his good friend and next-door neighbor, a former Israeli accountant and professional mourner, Daniel, and the three of them devise a dangerous and blatantly illegal plot to deal with her recalcitrant neighbor.**********************
Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, by Duncan Sheik & Leah Nanako Winkler, will run Sept. 25 – Jan. 3, 2027 (opening Oct. 15) at “The Night Egg” at the Culture Club, directed & choreographed by Rob Ashford.
Sophia Anne Caruso (Colette), Cory Jeacoma (Léon), Nkeki Obi-Melekwe (Nana), Andy Bakun (Sakae), and Jenny Powers (Madame), with Leanne Antonio, Kailin Brown, Michael Everett, Elsa Keefe, Jaedynn Latter, Austin Lesch, Nika Lindsay, Caleb Marshall),Jessie Peltier, Michael Starr, and Thomas Winter.
Colette is a young woman workking in a brothel (maison close) in early 20th century Parris. She navigates a difficult life of satisfying eccectric clients, finds solace in writing, and struggles with a toxic romance.