Today’s Highlights:
860, starring Billy Crystal, directed by Scott Ellis, opens at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre.
The The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttton, by Jethro Compton & Darren Clark, directed by Compton, featuring Andrew Durand (Benjamin Button / Reberthi.), Kelsee Kimmel (Elowen Keene / Sterenow), Britney Coleman (Gwyns), Matt Wolpe (Tir), Andrew Durand (Benjamin Button/Reverthi), Kelsee Kimmel with Trevor Lindley Craft Craft, Brandon J. Ellis, and Andrew Furand (Elowen Keene / Sterenow), opens at Off-Broadway’s Public Theatre.
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Ragtime, directed by Scott Lapp, featuring, Carter Michael (Coalhouse Walker J.), Danny Becker (Tatah),Chelle Denton (Mother), and Chelle Denton (Mother), with Hillary Boyd, Chance Challen, Deja Fields, Angela Griswold, Jacob Haren, Christopher James Hester, Anna Melendrez, Ben Michael, and Guy Noland, opens at Venice, CA’s Rubicon Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Sunday, Oct. 18.
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The 39 Steps, adapted by Patrick Barlow, will run Oct. 27 – Nov. 22 at Laguna Playhouse, directed by Hunter Foster.
Jon Root (Richard Hannay), Ashley Margaret Morton (Woman), Jennifer Cody (Clown #2) and Jeremy Webb (Clown #1), with Caitlin Gallogly, Johnny DiGiorgio Emily Nash.
The play takes the intrigue and suspense of a spy thriller and turns it into a wildly inventive night of live theatre. When an ordinary man is suddenly swept into an international espionage plot, he finds himself racing across England and Scotland while trying to outrun danger, deception and mistaken identity.
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Our Sinatra, The 25th Anniversary Original Cast Reunion continues through Nov. 29 at the The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, directed by David Zippel.
Eric Comstock, Christopher Gines and Hilary Kole.
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The 39 Steps will continue through Nov. 22 at Laguna Playhouse, directed by Hunter Foster.
Jon Root (Richard Hannay), Ashley Margaret Morton (Woman), Jennifer Cody (Clown #2) and Jeremy Webb (Clown #1), with Caitlin Gallogly, Johnny DiGiorgio and Emily Nash.
The play akes the intrigue and suspense of a spy thriller and turns it into a wildly inventive night of live theatre. When an ordinary man is suddenly swept into an international espionage plot, he finds himself racing across England and Scotland while trying to outrun danger, deception and mistaken identity.
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Group Rep’s Motel 66 Oct.continues throughNov. 22 at North Hollywood’s Lonny Chapman Theatre, offering short one-act plays.
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Dolly: A True Original Musical, by DollyParton & Maria S. Schlatter, will begin previews Dec. 7 and open Jan. 19, 2027 at the St. James Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Katie Rose Clarke (Dolly Parton), Carrie St. Louis (Dolly), Norah Nunes (Little Dolly), Crystal Kellogg (Judy Ogle), John Behllmann (Carl Dean), Gabriel Ebert (Porter Waggoner), Crystal Kellogg (Judy Ogle), Norah Nunes (Little Dolly), John Behlmann as ‘Carl Dean,’ and Gabriel Ebert as ‘Porter Wagoner, with Piper Allen, Bill Army, Josh Canfield, Lincoln Cohen, Ryan Demoville, Haley Fish, Sarah Hunt, Erin Kei, Evan Kinnane, Ryland J. Mar, Jenny Mollet, James Moye, Julian Ramos, Larkin Reilly, Maddie Robert, Alex Ross, and Quinn VanAntwerp. Swings for the production are Sarah Bockel, Sadie Daniels, Tiffany Engen, Michael Milkanin, and Rixey Terry.
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To Kill a Mockingbird will run Nov. 9-29 at Long Island’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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Spring Awakening, by Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik, will run Nov. Nov. 27 – Apr. 4, 2027 (opening Dec. 13) at Studio Seaview, directed by Danya Taymor.
George Abud ( Adult Men), Jack Bateman (Georg,), Jada Simone Clark Thea), Leif Coomer (‘Ernst), Lilli Cooper (The Adult Women), Ryo Kamibayashi ( Moritz),n Ashlyn Maddox (Wendla), Nando Morland )Otto) Antonio Porciello ( Hanschen), Khadija Sankoh (‘Martha), Grace Slear (Anna), Tyler Jordan Wesley (Melchior), and Amalia Yoo (Ilse), with a Acoba, Christiana Clark, Lilly David, EriHouck, Hennessy Winkler,and Sam Yousuf Lilly David.