Today’s Highlights:
Left on Tenth, by Delia Ephron, directed by Susan Stroman, featuring Julianna Margulies (Delia) and Peter Gallagher (Peter), with Peter Francis James and Kate MacCluggage, opens at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre.
Death Becomes Her, by Marco Pennette, Julia Mattison & Noel Carey, directed & choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, featuring Megan Hilty (Madeline Ashton), Jennifer Simard (Helen Sharp), Christopher Sieber (Ernest Menville), and Michelle Williams (Viola Van Horn), with Marija Abney, Lauren Celentano, Sarita Colon, Kaleigh Cronin, Natalie Charle Ellis, Taurean Everett, Michael Graceffa, Neil Haskell, Kolton Krouse, Josh Lamon, Sarah Meahl, Ximone Rose, Sir Brock Warren, Bud Weber, Ryan Worsing, Warren Yang. Kyle Brown, Lakota Knuckle, Johanna Moise, and Amy Quanbeck, begins previews at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
TDF’s Broadway Breakfast Benefit event, hosted by Frank DiLella & Irene Gandy, featuring Ana Gasteyer, Laura Benanti, and (Norm Lewis, at 8 AM at NYC’s City Winery.
Lucie Arnaz “I got the job”: Songs From My Musical Past concert closes at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Oct. 20
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I’ll Take You There: Stax Record Co. will run Nov. 12-24 at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Sean-Maurice Lynch, with music direction by De’Anté Haggerty-Willis.
Isaac “Deacon Izzy” Bell and Kanysha Williams.
Groove to the Southern soul with the smooth style of the Memphis recording company that discovered Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T & the M.G.’s, Carla Thomas and the Staple Singers.
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Second Stage will present Leslye Headland’s Cult of Love, to begin previews Nov. 20 and open Dec. 12 at the Helen Hayes Theatre, directed by Trip Cullman.
David Rashe, Mare Winningham, Molly Bernard, Roberta Colindrez, Barbie Ferreira, Rebecca Henderson, Christopher Lowell, Zachary Quinto, Christopher Sears, Shailene Woodley, Peter Bradbury, Billy Cohen, Vero Maynez, Rachel Prather, and Luisa Sermol.
The play centers on the four adult children of the Dahl family and their partners as they return home for a rocky holiday gathering.
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Troubies’ Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band! will run Dec. 5-22 (opening Dec. 7) at Burbank’s Colony Theatre, adapted & directed by Matt Walker.
Beth Kennedy, Rick Batalla, Mike Sulprizio, John Paul Batista, Dallys Newton, Philip McNiven, Suzanne Jolie, Benji Kaufman, Mark McCracken, and Matt Walker.
This year’s world premiere musical-comedy is a holiDAY IN THE LIFE of 6-year-old Kevin McAllister and his wacky family including mom, Kage. But soon she’s SHE’S LEAVING HOME (bye bye), and little Kevin has to say, “GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING!” to nobody, while FIXING A HOLE where the burglars get in! Instead, KATIE’S IN THE SKY with DIAMONDS in first class, while Kevin’s in the house with criminals, pondering life without his family, “WHEN I’M 64…” So don’t stay home alone this holiday season…visit the Colony Theatre and GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM YOUR FRIENDS, the Troubies!
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Mfoniso UdiFia’s Sojourners will run Oct. 31 – Dec. 1, (opening Nov. 6) at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, directed by Dawn M. Simmons.
Abigail C. Onwunali (Abasiama), Asha Basha Duniani (Moxie), Nomè SiDone (Ukpong), and Joshua Olumide (Disciple), with Aisha Akorede, Malik Mitchell, and Kiera Prusmack.
Marriage, migration, and the pursuit of education collide with surprising humor when a young and brilliant Nigerian couple arrives in Houston in 1978, looking to earn their degrees and bring insights back to their home country. But when Abasiama discovers that her husband has been seduced by Motown records and American culture, she begins a surprising friendship with a local woman named Moxie.
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An Afternoon with Heather Headley will take place Sun. Nov. 24 at 2 PM at NYC’s 92NY.
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300 Paintings, written by & starring Sam Kissajukian, will run Nov. 12 – Dec. 15 at the Vineyard Theatre.
Is art a joke? In 2021, over the course of five intense and unpredictable months, Sydney comedian Sam Kissajukian created 300 large-scale paintings, unknowingly documenting his mental states through an extended manic bipolar episode. In this hilarious, fascinating, and wildly original show, he examines that time and explores the ties between art, mental health, and creativity.
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The National Organization for Women (Hollywood Chapter), will present Lindsey Deaton’s The Trans Diaries on Nov. 8 & 9 at West Hollywood’s City Council Chambers.
Joshua Gershick, Shakina Nayfack, Lee Faelnar Te, Seth Gomez. B. Alexander and Jen Winslow.
For the record, no one has shared these stories. Trans folx have been forbidden to discuss them in public due to violence and politics. Any artistic performance, display, or exhibition of trans/intersex or non-binary peoples’ bodies has been just that. Private. Taboo. Shunned.
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300 Paintings, written by & starring Sam Kissajukian, will run Nov. 12- Dec. 15 at at the Vineyard Theatre.
Is art a joke? In 2021, over the course of five intense and unpredictable months, Sydney comedian Sam Kissajukian created 300 large-scale paintings, unknowingly documenting his mental states through an extended manic bipolar episode. In this hilarious, fascinating, and wildly original show, he examines that time and explores the ties between art, mental health, and creativity.
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Marla Mindelle, Jonathan Parks-Ramage & Philip Drennen’s Big Gay Jamboree has been extended through Mar. 23, 2025 at Off-Broadway’s Orpheum Theatre, directed & choreographed by Connor Gallagher.
Marla Mindelle (Stacey), Alex Moffat (Keith), Paris Nix (Clarence), Constantine Rousouli (Bert), Natalie Walker (Flora), with Jaden Dominique, Brad Greer, Jeremiah Ginn, Amanda Lee, Jillian Mueller, Olivia Puckett, Melvin Tunstall, Clyde Voce, Cortney Wolfson, and John Yi.
Stacey, who after blacking out from 18 Jägerbombs, wakes up hungover in the most terrifying place of all: an Off-Broadway musical. With no memory of how she got there, Stacey is forced to put her BFA in theater to use, belt her face off, and figure out how the hell she’s gonna escape this 1940’s golden age musical…while a live audience watches.
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Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, adapted by Mark Shanahan, will run. Nov.14 – Dec. 15 at Theatre 40 (tickets TBA), directed by Jules Aaron.
Michael Mullen, Matt Landig, Tood Andrew Ball, Michael robb, Joe Clabby, David Hunt Stafford, Rebecca Del Sesto, Anima Petrovic, Michele Schultz, Caroline Westheimer, Diane Linder, and RIley Intrcaso.
A thrilling tale of greed, blackmail and murder most foul. This ingenious 1926 novel cemented Christie’s reputation as the greatest mystery novelist of all time. The story’s shocking twist ending has thrilled readers for generations and has been called “the best and most cunning solution devised in her storied
career.