Today’s Highlights:
Relax … let go …. let fly…
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Masquerade, an immersive off-Broadway reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera, has announced its LOTTO666, a live lottery event on Sun. Nov. 16 for $66.60 tickets.
In addition to Lotto 666, Masquerade has created the Black Tie Standby Line, offering a limited number of $170 tickets to each performance, subject to availability from any returned or canceled tickets. 
Attending in proper attire is essential to the Masquerade experience, and is required in order to join the Black Tie Standby Line.
Alaska, Lee H. Alexander, Laura Lee Anderson, Baby Byrne, Matthew Curiano, Nicholas Edwards, Gabriella Enriquez, Nicole J. Fergeson, Haile Ferrier, Nkrumah Gatling, Francisco Javier González, Cooper Grodin, Maxfield Haynes, Bryan Hernandez-Luch, Satomi Hofmann, Kody Jauron, Maree Johnson, Tia Karaplis, Nathan Keen, Joseph Kerr, Jeff Kready, Michael Kuhn, Jacob Lacopo, Rawb Lane, Eryn LeCroy, Telly Leung, Claire Leyden, Francesca Mehrotra, Georgia Mendes, Sami Merdinian, Anna Monoxide, Betsy Morgan, Dario Natarelli, Riley Noland, Charles Osborne, Hugh Panaro, Alex Ross, Chris Ryan, Kyle Scatliffe, Paul Adam Schaefer, Clay Singer, Phumzile Sojola, Cooper Stanton, Jeremy Stolle, Jack Sullivan, Olivia Tarchick, Kaley Ann Voorhees, Nik Walker, Andrew Wojtal, Nikita Yermak, Kevin Zambrano, and Anna Zavelson.
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Rob Elk’s Bob’s Holiday Office Party will run Dec. 5-21 at the Odyssey Theatre, directed by Matt Roth.
Joe Keyes, Rob Elk, Mark Fite, Judy Heneghan, Johanna McKay, Peter Breitmayer, Andrea Hutchman, Sirena Irwin, Johanna McKay & Pat Towne.
The play is set in the office of insurance salesman Bob Finhead in Neuterburg, Iowa (population 382). Every year, insurance agent Bob Finhead’s whacked out friends and clients stop by his small-town Iowa office for their annual holiday bash. The town mayor, the sheriff, the twin farmer sisters, the stoner, the town floozy and the pastor’s wife have already RSVP’d for this year’s event. But Bob has dreams of a bigger life and wants to escape their narrow-minded thinking. Will he be able to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional inventor and move to the big city, or will he come to realize how much he is the heart and soul of the town?
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Jason Robert Brown benefit concert, in support of Projecto Faro (a nonprofit organization devoted to serving and protecting Rockland County’s immigrant communities devoted to serving and protecting Rockland County’s immigrant communities) will take place Sat. Dec. 6 at 8 PM at Nyack, NY’s The Angel Nyack
Joy Woods and Sierra Boggess.
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Gingold theatrical Group‘s 20th Anniversary Grand Celebration will take place Mon. Dec 1 at 6 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players, directed by David Staller, with music direction by Patrick Vaccariello.
Danny Burstein, Donna McKechnie, and Gray Coleman, with the Golden Shamrock Award.
A Charles Busch, John-Andrew Morrison, Christine Pedi, and Thom Sesma, with a special performance by Stephen Schwartz, and surprise guests.
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Amari Amai, Dom Martello & Oscar K’s Trans Lineage: Rites of Passage will run Dec. 4-13 at Greenway Court Theatre, directed by Nico Pang.
Lee Baladejo , Phi Kenzie, Olabisi Kovabel, Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors, and Alex Song-Xia.
Across cultures and histories, rites of passage mark life’s turning points: birth, death, coming of age, initiation, embodiment, exile, return. For trans people, these rites are often erased, denied, invented, and reimagined. This year’s exciting new works invite us to explore the moments and thresholds that shape us and our lineages, whether personal, cultural, spiritual, or historical. From a Black transmasculine griot reclaiming ancestral memory, to a transfeminine nun confronting faith and isolation during the bubonic plague, to a gay Korean trans man facing aging and “twink death,” this electric trilogy of one-acts spans centuries and continents to explore lineage, ritual, and transformation.
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MCC Theater will present The Bridges of Madison County in concert on Mon. Dec. 15 at 7 PM at Carnegie Hall, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale, with other members of the original Broadway cast, including Ephie Aardema, Whitney Bashor, Charlie Franklin, Kevin Kern, Caitlin Kinnunen, Katie Klaus, Derek Klena, Luke Marinkovich, Michael X. Martin, Cass Morgan, Aaron Ramey, and Dan Sharkey.
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An in-person & simulcast reading of Lope De Vega’s The Travels of Teodor will take place Mon. Nov. 17 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Symphony Space, directed by Melissa Crespo. The reading will also be available on-demand Nov. 18-23.
In person tickets here. Streaming tickets here.
Isabel Arraiza, Jordan Bellow, Rajesh Bose, Darryl Gene Daughtry, Francesca Fernandez, Andy Grotelueschen, Jesse Cao Long, Melissa Mahoney, David Mattar Merten, Ajay Naidu, Alfredo Narciso, and Randolph Curtis Rand.
From the Hispanic Golden Age comes an extraordinary young woman. When Teodor’s father tries to marry her off, she flees with her true love Félix, only to be captured by Barbary pirates. Teodor’s wits and cunning keep her from slavery or drowning, until she finds herself up against the scholars of Persia, debating for her freedom and the right to marry the one she loves. Master dramatist Lope de Vega weaves together Byzantine romances and Middle Eastern folk tales to create a story of unwavering heart and globetrotting adventure, presented for the first time in English.
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Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg, now in previews, will open Nov. 22 and continue though Dec. 21 at the Skylight Theatre, directed by Cameron Watson.
Paul Eiding (Alex Priest), and Juls Hoover (Georgie Burns).
A love story of two people who have relinquished the possibility of ever truly being known. Through observing and sharing space and time, they alter each other’s trajectories and evolve away from the safety of stasis. Comments playwright Simon Stephens. “I tried to tell a story that dramatized the way that paradox played out in humanity. I have always been, and remain, astonished by the remarkable, sad, frightening, beautiful things human beings can do to each other. More than in many plays that I have written, Georgie and Alex are characters who surprise me. I wrote them often not knowing what they were going to say next. That spirit still defines them.