Today’s Highlights:
Pygmalion, directed by David Staller, featuring Carson Elrod (Colonel Hugh Pickering), Mark Evans (Henry Higins), Synnove Karlesn (Eliza Doolittle), Teresa Avia Lim (Clara Eynsford-Hill), Lizan Mittchell (Mros. Higgin/Mrsl. Pearce), and Matt Wolpe (Freddy Eynsford Hill/Alfred Doolittle), opens at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
The Great Emu Wars, by Cal Silberstein and Paul Hodge, directed &choreographed by Amy Anders Corcoran, featuring LaRaisha DiEvelyn Dionne, Claire Saunders Ethan Peterson, Taylor Matthew (Meredith), Jeremy Davis (Enoch), Morgan Cowling (McMurray), opens at CT’s Goodspeed.
Emma, by Kate Hammill, directed by Tom Quaiantance, featuring Anna Vrivelli (Emma Woodhouse), Rishan Dhanjja (George Knightly), Amelia Kenworghty, and more, opens at Virginia Stage.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Oct. 19.
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Jeanine Tesori & Lisa Kron’s Fun Home will run Nov. 14 – Dec. 14 at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, directed by Logan Ellis.
Sara Bockel (Alison), Maya Jacobson (Medium Alison), Lyla Randall (Small Alison), Nick Duckart (Bruce Bechdel), Jennifer Ellis (Helen Bechdel), Odin Vega 9Christian Bechdel), Caleb (John Bechdel), Wyatt Anton (Roy/Mark/Pete/Bobby Jereny), and Sushma Saha (Joan), with Maren Phifer, Maya Bea Scott-Luib, Ryan Spry, and Nick Sulfaro.
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LA Opera will present Puccini’s La La Bohème Nov. 22 – Dec. 14 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson.
Kamao Brigger (Mimi), Oreste Cosimo (rodolfo), Heidi Stober (Musetta), Lucas Meachem (Marcello), JongPark (Jongmin Park), Sean Michael Plumb (Scharnard).
The story behind the opera: When the composer Giacomo Puccini first discovered a book titled Scenes of Bohemian Life, it was a lightbulb moment that would create one of the most popular operas in history. Sky-high rent, living paycheck to paycheck, and friends facing relationship drama were all universal experiences, and his opera became an instant success.
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Years to the Day, written & directed by Allen Barton, will run Nov. 1- 20 at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Jeff LeBeau and Peter Zizzo.
In a time set parallel to our current world, two old friends, Dan and Jeff, meet for coffee — it’s been six years to the day since their last in-person meeting. What unfolds is an 80-minute single conversation between them, where the topics of friendship, family, marriage, health, kids and politics intertwine to make them question the nature of friendship, and whether the bond they made in the first week of college can withstand the increasing stress of different opinions across all those topics. Have the intervening years made them more tolerant of these different views? Or have they become calcified under a form of “maturity” that would say, “There are some opinions that simply cannot be tolerated anymore”?
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Ragtime continues through Jan. 4, 2026 at Lincoln Center, directed by Lear deBessonet.
Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Shaina Taub, Anna Grace Barlow, John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Nick Barrington, and Tabitha Lawing, with Nicholas Barrón, Lauren Blackman, Allison Blackwell, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Jordan Chin, Eean Sherrod Cochran, Billy Cohen, Kerry Conte, Rheaume Crenshaw, Ellie Fishman, Jason Forbach, Nick Gaswirth, Ta’Nika Gibson, Jackson Parker Gill, David Jennings, Kaleb Johnson, Marina Kondo, Morgan Marcell, Kane Emmanuel Miller, Jenny Mollet, Tom Nelis, Kent Overshown, Kayla Pecchioni, John Rapson, Matthew Scott, Ellie May Sennett, Deandre Sevon, Jacob Keith Watson, and Alan Wiggins.
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Video: New trailer
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A reading of Ramona Pilar’s Cowboy Elektra will take place Thurs. Oct. 23 at 6 PM atLA’s Autry Museum of the American West (4700 Western Heritage Way), directed by TBA.
Dawn Anderson, Jennifer Bobiwash, Carlos Chavez, McCristol Harris III and Marta Portillo.
The play reimagines Greek tragedy through an early Californian lens, exploring the definition of justice, revenge, cycles of trauma, and women’s experience in the “Old West.” Set against the backdrop of late 1800s California, when the railroad was on the verge of reaching Los Angeles, the Rogue’s Elektra must fight for her freedom and identity within the borders of a wild and ever-changing young city.
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Ben Platt: Live at the Ahmanson will run Dec. 12-21, directed by Michael Arden. 
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A celebrity list of special guests has not yet been revealed.
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Marc Shaiman, Terrence McNally & Scott Wittman’s Catch Me If You Can will run in 2026 (dates TBA) at Burbank’s Colony Theatre (link TBA), directed by Michael Donovan.
TBA.
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New York Stage & Film has announced a benefit reading of John Patric Shanley’s Moonstruck on Mon. Nov. 10 at 8 PM at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre, directed by dough Hughes, and hosted by Peter Sagal.
Steve Buscemi (Raymond Cappomaggi), Rose Byrne (Loretta) Castorini, Bobby Cannavale (Ronny Cammareri), Stephen DeRosa ( Dez Duron (Crooner), Patti LuPone (Rose Castorini,) Mary Lou Rosato (Crone), John Turturro (Cosmo Castorini), Stevie Van Zandt (Johnny Cammareri), and more TBA.
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Foundation for New American Musicals presents Kander & Ebb’s Woman of the Year in concert, directed by Glenn Casale, on Sun. Oct. 19 at 6:30 PM at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage.
Sandy Bainum (Tess), Jason Graae (Gerald), Vicki Lewis (Jan), and Norm Lewis (Sam Craig), with Joe Abraham, Sarah Chaney, Jared Certner, Gordon Goodman, Mark Miller, Kevin Simons, and Michael James.