Today’s Highlights
Purpose, by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Phylica Rashad, featuring Alan Arenas, Glenn DAvis, Jon Michael Hill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, Nija Okofo, and Kara Young, begins previews at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Nov. 7 .
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Songs of Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley will take place Sat. Nov.14 at 2 PM at NYC’s Grace & St. Paul Church (123 West 71st Street (between Broadway and Columbus), with music directed by Michael Levine. Tix here.
Eric Michael Gillett, Jon Peterson, Steve Ross, Karen Akers, Bryce Edwards, Jennifer Sanchez, Goldie Dver, Mark William, Ethan Mathias. and Will Friedwald.**********************
The world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Mountain Girl continues through Nov. 22 at 154 Theatre (154 Christopher Street), directed by Ivette Dumeng.
Tonya Cornelisse, Sophia DeMornay-O’Neal, and Joey Welsh.
A whacked, cracked comic fable about Connie, an aspiring writer whose failing marriage and increasingly chaotic life sends her back to Colorado to confront the mother with whom she shares a Byzantine relationship. Their reunion reopens old wounds, including Connie’s abandoned literary ambitions and a childhood spent in the shadow of her parents’ troubled marriage. At the center of it all is Mountain Girl, a story Connie has never managed to finish and one her mother has never forgotten.
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LA’s El Capitan Theatre will present Road to the Holidays, a series of Holiday readings on various dates.
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LA Opera‘s Candide, conducted by Lina González-Granados, currently in previews, opens Nov. 21 and continues through Dec. 13,, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by Lina González-Granados.
Duke Kim (Candide), Meghan Picerno (Cunegonde), Patti LuPone (Old Lady), Mario Manzo ( (Maximilian / Father), Kristen Choi (Paquette), Katie Trigg (Baroness Vanderdendur), Vinícius Costa (James / Martin), Samuel Wallace (Cacambo), and Bernard Holcomb (Barron/Don Issachar/Govenor), with Erin Alford, Erin Alford, Andrea Beason, Julia Harnett, Amber Liekhus, Peter Murphy, and David Prottas.
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LA’s Sky Pilot Theatre will present its 2026 One-Act Festival Dec. 2-4 & 11-13 at the Moving Arts Theatre (s91 Casitas Ave). This year’s festival is “It’s the holiday season.”
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Classic Stage Company‘s Waiting for Lefty, by Clifford Odets, continues through Nov. 29 at theLynn F. Angelson Theater, directed by Steven Pasquale.
Tala Ashe, Raffi Barsoumian, Adam Chanler-Berat, Greg Hildreth, Doireann Mac Mahon, Zach McNally, Sahar Milani , Conrad Ricamora, Cameron Scoggins and Thom Sesma.
Exploited, exhausted, and pushed to the edge, the taxi drivers of Depression-era New York City gather to make a choice that will change their lives forever. But as they wait for their leader, the tension reaches a fever pitch. Marking the directing debut of acclaimed actor Steven Pasquale, this innovative production uses music and movement to breathe fresh life into Clifford Odets’ 1935 masterpiece, transforming the theater into a high-stakes union hall.
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Peter Pan Goes Wrong, by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, will run Nov. 13 – Dec. 31 at Boston’s Lyric Stage, directed by Paul Melone.
(rotating): Kelby T Akin (Rebert), Margaret Clark (Annie), and Nora Eschenheimer (Sandra), Nora Eschenheimer (Sandra), Brit Garner (Gill), Madeline Finkelman, Gabriel Graetz (Francis), Jenine Florence Jacinto (Lucy), and Chris Kandra (Trevor), with David Keohane (Dennis), John Kuntz (Chris), Marc Pierre (Max), Jon Vellante (Jonathan), and uderstudies Miki Grubic, Liam McCarron, and Michelle Moran.
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Our Sinatra: A Musical Celebration continues through Nov. 29 at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater (10 West 64th Street), directed by Kurt Stamm.
Eric Comstock, Christopher Gines, and Hilary Kole.
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To Kill a Mockingbird, newly adapted by Aaron Sorkin, continues through Nov. 29 at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre, directed by Stephen Hamilton.
Kendra Foster McBride (Scout Finch), Ryan Schaeffer (Jem Finch), Matthew Schiavoni (Dill Harris), and J.Stephen Brantley (Atticus Finch), with Judah Josiah Alexander Fabre as Tom Robinson, Erin Margaret Pettigrew as Calpurnia, Hope Hamilton as Mayella Ewell, Mitchell Cetuk as Bob Ewell, Matthew Conlon as Judge Taylor, Joe Pallister as Sheriff Heck Tate, Michael Santora as Horace Gilmer and Dr. Reynolds, and Kirk Koczanowski as Mr. Cunningham, Link Deas, and Boo Radley.
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LA’s Open Fist Theatre Company‘s production of Romeo and Juliet: Time Enough for Love has been extended though Dec. 19 at LA’s Atwater Village Theatre, adapted & directed by Christian Lebano.
Alan Blumenfeld, Katherine James, James Fowler, Emma Fassler, Sam Bennett, Sam Cowan, Natalia Jofre, Stephen Rockwell, Hutchins Foster, Paul Ganus, Barbara Schofield, Melanie Rockwell, Allana Barton, Richard Van Slyke, Daniel Lench, Matthew Goodrich, Luke Bolle, Elijah Reyes, Sebastian Senatore, Olivia O’Neill, & Maliyah Tejada
An aged-reversed Romeo and Juliet set in Verona Village – a retirement community for active seniors in South Florida.