Today’s Highlights:
Dream Girls, directed by Lili-Anne Brown, featuring Ta-Tynisa Wilson (Deena), Keirsten Hodgens (Lorrell), Trejah Bostic (Effie), Evan Tyrone Martin (Curtis), Jos N. Banks (CC), Mykal Kilgore (Jimmy), and Robert Cornelius (Marty), with Chuckie Benson, Shantel Cribbs, Arnold Harper II, Alia Hodge, Alfred E. Jackson, Diva LaMarr, Melanie Loren, Kwame M. Remy, Aalon Smith, Montria Walker, Jalisa Williams, Joel Oliver and Sierra Wilson, opens at CT’s Goodspeed.
Christmas on the Rocks, conceived & directed by Rob Ruggiero, featuring Harry Bouvy (The Man), Jen Cody (The Woman), and Richard Kline (The Bartender), opens at Theatreworks Hartford.
Huntington Theatre‘s The Heart Sellers, by Lloyd, directed by May Adrales, featuring Jenna Agbayani and Judy Song, opens at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion.
Appropriate, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Lila Neugebauer, featuring Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, Natalie Gold, Elle Fanning, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Graham Campbell, Lincoln Cohen, Michael Esper, and Everett Sobers, begins previews at Broadway’s Haye’s Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Nov. 26. Click here for the complete analysis.
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Sam Holcroft’s A Mirror will run Jan. 22 – Apr. 20, 2024 (opening Feb. 1) at the Trafalgar Theatre, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
Jonny Lee Miller (Čelik), Tanya Reynolds (Mei), Geoffrey Streatfeild (Bax). and Samuel Adewunmi (Adem).
Would the congregation please stand and swear the Oath of Allegiance. The play takes audiences on a surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking journey. When creativity and corruption collide, who decided what is art and what is truth
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A Swinging Birdland Christmas will run Dec. 21-25 at NYC’s Birdland, all at 5:30 PM.
Klea Blackhurst, Jim Caruso, and Billy Stritch.
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The Wooster Group will present the world premiere of Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, to run Jan. 4 – Feb. 3 at the Performing Garage, directed by Kate Valk.
Eric Berryman
The piece explores a distinctive genre of Black American storytelling called Toasts, which are rhyming epic poems that tell fantastical and bawdy stories about legendary street heroes.
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Off-Broadway’s York Theatre will present industry readings of Gary William Friedman, Stevie Holland, Robert Lorick & Mel Shapiro’s Merton of the Movies: The Musical on Mon. Dec. 4, directed by Joseph Hayward, with music direction by Griffin Strout. 
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Oliver Prose (Merton), Lauren Molina (Beulah Baxter), Hana Culbreath (Sarah), Nina Hennessey (Helen Montague), John Hillner (Henry Montague), Alan M-L Wager (Amos Gashwiler/Henny Henshaw), Courtney Dease (Jeff Baird), Ariana Valdes (Tessie Kearns), Trevor Martin (Harold Parmalee), Blair Brown (Fione), and Drew Tanabe (Tommy Tilbert/Ziggy Rosenblatt).
A small-town lad fantasizes about making it big in Tinseltown during the silent film era.
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Shoshana Bean in concert will take place Mon. Dec. 4 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Apollo Theater.
Kristin Chenowith, Betty Who, and Alex Newell.
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The world premiere of Jen Silverman, Dane Laffrey & Mike Donahue’s Highway Patrol will run Jan. 20 – Feb. 18, 2024 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, directed by Donahue.
Dana Delany (Dana), Don-Marie Jones (Andi), and Thomas Murphy Molony (Cam).
TIMESTAMP: October, 2012: “@DanaDelany, Are you married? If not, I’d marry you.” When Cam, a 13-year-old fan in a desperate medical situation captures actress Dana Delany’s attention on Twitter, she’s quickly swept into an intense, around-the-clock online friendship. But when Cam starts receiving messages from beyond, Dana is thrust into a world where unexpected revelations raise the question of how far we go to love and be loved.
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BroadwayHD will stream the world premiere of Titanic: the Musical beginning Dec. 15, directed by Thom Southerland. The production was filmed at England’s New Victoria Theatre this past summer.
Martin Allanson (J. Bruce Ismay), Valda Aviks (Ida Straus), Graham Bickley (Captain Edward Smith), Sam Brown (Frederick Fleet), James Darch (Edgar Beane), David Delve (Isidor Straus), Adam Filipe (Frederick Barrett), Emily George (Kate Murphy), Luke Harley (Andrew Latimer), Emma Harrold (Lady Caroline Neville), Alastair Hill (Harold Bride), Abi Hudson (Maid), Barnaby Hughes (Herbert Pitman/Henry Etches), Paul Kemble (Joseph Boxhall), Niamh Long (Kate Mullins), Matthew McDonald (Charles Clarke), Ian McLarnon (Thomas Andrews), Danny Michaels (Joseph Bell), Janet Mooney (Head Maid), Chris Nevin (Jim Farrell), Jack North (Charles Lightoller), Joseph Peacock (Bellboy/Wallace Hartley), Billy Roberts (William McMaster Murdoch), Bree Smith (Alice Beane), and Lucie-Mae Summer (Kate McGowan).
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Christmas Countdown will take place Sun. Dec. 3 at 7 PM at Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
Nathan Madden and Brenna Yeary
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Kris Lythgoe’s A Cinderella Christmas will run Dec. 7-29 at Laguna Playhouse, directed by Bonnie Lythgoe, with music direction by Andy Street, and choreography by Becca Sweitzer.
Joely Fisher (Baroness), Veronica Dunne (Cinderella), Jennifer Leigh Warren (Fairy Godmother, Ben Giroux (Buttons), Patrick Ortiz (Prince), Austyn Myers (Dandini), and Jeff Summer & Mark Gagliardi (Sister), with Becky Lythgoe, Ashley Chavvaria, Alex Tho, and Alissa Wilsey.
The rags to riches fairytale, modernized with well-known pop songs.
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Hamlet, adapted by Mark Izzard, and starring Eddie Izzard, will run Jan. 25 – Mar. 3, 2024 (opening Feb. 11) at Off-Broadways Greenwich House Theater, directed by Selena Cadell.
The King of Denmark is dead, and Prince Hamlet is determined to take revenge, initiating a cascade of events that will destroy both family and state. Izzard will be portraying men, women, ghosts, scholars, tyrants, courtiers, lovers, fools, and poets.
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James Snyder: Merry Happy Christmukkah will take place Tues. Dec. 5 at 8:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club, with music direction by Michael Orland.
Emily Goglia
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“Hazbin Hotel,” a new adult animated musical comedy will premiere Jan. 19 on Amazon Prime.
Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Alex Brightman, Keith David, Kimiko Glenn, Blake Roman, Amir Talai, Christian Borle, and Joel Perez… with guest stars Darren Criss (Saint Peter), Jeremy Jordan (Lucifer Morningstar), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Carmilla Carmine), Patina Miller (Sera), and Jessica Vosk (Lute).
The series follows Charlie, the princess of Hell, as she attempts to rehabilitate demons to peacefully reduce overpopulation in her kingdom. After a yearly extermination imposed by angels, she opens a hotel in the hopes that patrons will be “checking out” into Heaven.
Video: Erika Henningsen performs “Happy Day in Hell”
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A Holiday Evening with John Lloyd Young will take place Tues. Dec. 5 at 7 PM at Oscar’s Palm Springs.
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Industry presentations of Douglas Lyons’ Table 17 will take place Thurs. Dec. 7 at Noon and 3 PM in NYC, directed by Zhailon Levingston. MarkCortale@gmail.com.
Kara Young, Biko Eisen-Martin, and Michael Rishawn.
Jada and Dallas haven’t spoken or seen each other since calling off their engagement two years ago—until tonight. Who’s moved on? Who’s still holding on?
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Classical Theatre of Harlem will present Brandon Victor Dixon: Here for the Holidays on Mon. Dec. 18 at 8 PM at Harlem’s Ginny’s Supper Club (310 Malcolm X Boulevard), hosted Ethan Hawke.
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Video: Alex Newell performs “Meadowlark.”