Today’s Highlights:
Ragtime, directed by Lear deBessonet, featuring Joshua Henry (Coalhouse), Nichelle Lewis (Sarah), Caissie Levy (Mother), Brandon Uranowitz (Tateh), and Tabitha Lawing (Little Girl), with John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Colin Donnell, Matthew Lamb, Ben Levi Ross, Stephanie Styles, Shaina Taub, Nicholas Barrón, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Billy Cohen, Rheaume Crenshaw, Aerina DeBoer, Nick Gaswirth, Ta’Nika Gibson, Olivia Hernandez, Jana Djenné Jackson, David Jennings, Marina Kondo, Jeff Kready, Kai Latorre, Tiffany Mann, Morgan Marcell, Kane Emmanuel Miller, Tom Nelis, Ramone Nelson, Kent Overshown, John Rapson, Destinee Rea, Deandre Sevon, Kathy Voytko, Jacob Keith Watson, Alan Wiggins, Sharrod Williams, and Henry Witcher, opens at NY City Center.
View From the Bridge, directed by David Ellenstein, featuring Richard Baird (Eddie Carbone), Lowell Byers ((Marco), Frank Corrado (Alfieri), Steve Froehlich (Mike/Tony/ Immigration Officer), Coby Rogers (Rodolpho), Matthew Salazar-Thompson (Louis/First Immigration Officer), Margot White (Beatrice), and Marie Zolezzi (Catherine), begins previews at Laguna Playhouse.
Left on Tenth in-person & live-streaming conversation, with playwright Delia Ephron, Julianna Margulies, Peter Gallagher, and Daryl Ross, at 7:30 PM at NYC’s 92NY.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Oct. 27:
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Roundabout Theatre‘s 2025 Gala will take place Mar. 10 at NYC’s Ziegfeld Ballroom. A gala auction will also be available.
Danny DeVito
Performers, special guests and additional information TBA.
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George Clooney & Grant Heslov’s Good Night, and Good Luck will begin previews Mar. 12, 2025 and open Apr. 3 at the Winter Garden Theatre, directed by David Cromer. The limited engagement has not yet announced its closing date.
George Clooney (Edward R. Murrow), and more TBA.
An electrifying stage adaptation of the critically acclaimed film. Tune in to the golden age of broadcast journalism and Edward R. Murrow’s (Clooney) legendary, history-altering, on-air showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy. As McCarthyism casts a shadow over America, Murrow and his team at CBS choose to confront the growing tide of paranoia and propaganda, even if it means turning the federal government and a worried nation against them. This is a time in American history when truth and journalistic integrity stood up to fearmongering and disinformation—and won.
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Sarah Brightman: A Christmas Symphony will launch a U.S. tour this holiday season.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is looking forward to his next new musical, The Illusionist, loosely adapted from the 2006 film of the same name.
The project is reportedly in early stages, with just a few songs being finished. Lloyd Webber is planning for director Jamie Lloyd to helm this new musical. Though Lloyd Webber’s musical reportedly has very little to do with the source material’s plot, The Illusionist centers on a turn-of-the-century Viennese magician and his love for a woman from a higher social class
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Concert readings of Kris Lythgoe’s To Sir with Love will take place Nov. 8-10 at Burbank’s Garry Marshall Theatre, directed bySheldon Epps, with music direction by Kenny Seymour.
Wayne Brady, John O’Hurley, Rachael Harris, Kelley Jakle, and Darcy Rose Byrnes, with Josh Adamson (Mr. Bell), Pat Towne (Mr. Weston), Nick Apostolina (Jackson), Isabella Blake-Thomas (Joseph), L.J. Benet (Denham), Anthony Carro (Sapiano), Jahbril Cook (Seals), Caiden Falstrup-Finney (Potter), Gus Pappas (Buckley), Rena Strober (Mrs. Dare) and Haley Wolff (Pegg).
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Pericles continues through Dec. 7 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Tamara Harvey.
Miles Barrow (Thaliard/Boult), Philip Bird (Helicanus), Jacqueline Boatswain (Cerimon/Bawd), Rachelle Diedericks (Marina), Alfred Enoch (Pericles), Chyna-Rose Frederick (Antiochus’ Daughter/Lychorida/Diana), Sasha Ghoshal (Ensemble), Leah Haile (Thaisa), Felix Hayes (Anitochus/Pander), Kel Matsena (Lysimachus), Miriam O’Brien (Ensemble), Emmanuel Olusanya (Ensemble), Chukwuma Omambala (Cleon), Sam Parks (Escanes, Leonine), Christian Patterson (Simonides) and Gabby Wong (Dionyza).
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Puttin’ On the Ritz: Steve Ross Sings Fred Astaire and Friends will take place in 2 locations:
Nov. 1-2 at 8 PM at London’s The Pheasantry
Nov. 11 at 7 PM at NYC’s Birdland Jazz Club
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Christmas with C.S. Lewis will run Nov. 29 – Dec. 15 at Missouri’s Stages St. Louis.
Gregory Williams Welsch.
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Karen Akers: Feels Like Home will take place Mon. Nov. 18 at 7 PM at NYC’s Birdland, with music direction by Alex Rybeck.
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Lourd Lane’s Super You continues through Nov. 9 at the Curve Theatre, directed & choreographed by JoAnn M. Hunter, with music direction Jenny Deacon.
Vicki Manser (Katie), Lane as (Rise), Aaliyah Monk (Young Katie/Lightning Girl), Will Bozier (Mi Roar), Kingsley Morton (Courtney Stapleton (Blast), B. Noel Thomas (Seven), Damien Walsh (Jay), Owen Lloyd (Matty), Belinda Lee Chapman (Mom), with Lu Anthony SuperYouman, Elizabeth Chalmers, Ellen Eckersley (Snow White) as Alternate Rise, Jacob Fisher, and Matty, Bayley Hart.
The musical follows the journey of a woman who reconnects with her dreams when her superheroine creations come to life.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, re-scripted by Shannon Woo & Mikey Mulhearn, will run Nov. 22 – Dec. 13 at Hollywood’s Actors Co-op, directed by Mikey Mulhearn.
Libby Wahlmeir (Lady Sneerwell), Shannon Woo (Lady Teazle), Michael Kachingwe (Sir Peter Geazle), Nick Molari (Joseph Surface), Mac Rogers (Rowley), Linden Waddell (Mrs. Candour), Gavin Michael Harris (Backbite), Sarah Hinchcliff (Crabtree), Daria Good (Maria), Ben Raanan (Snake), and Mikey Juhlearn (Charles Surface.
In 1770s London, Lady Sneerwell and her devious friends thrive on ruining reputations and her latest target is the eligible young bachelor Charles Surface. With the help of her accomplice Snake and Charles’ scheming brother Joseph, Sneerwell spreads a scandalous rumor of an affair between Charles and the newly married Lady Teazle threatening his relationship with Maria. Can this scandal be stopped?
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John Farrar, Kara DioBuardi,Don Black,Mark Lonson & Kris Lythgoe’s To Sir with Love will present invitation-only developmental musical concerts Nov. Nov. 8-10 at Burbank’s Garry Marshall Theatre, directed by Sheldon Epps, with music direction by Kenny Seymour.
Wayne Brady (Rick Braithwaite), John O’Hurley (Headmaster Florian), Rachael Harris (Miss Dale-Evans), Kelley Jakle (Miss Blanchard), Darcy Rose Byrnes (Pamela Dare), Josh Adamson (Mr. Bell), Pat Towne (Mr. Weston), Nick Apostolina (Jackson), Isabella Blake-Thomas (Joseph), L.J. Benet (Denham), Anthony Carro (Sapiano), Jahbril Cook (Seals), Caiden Falstrup-Finney (Potter), Gus Pappas (Buckley), Rena Strober (Mrs. Dare), and Haley Wolff (Pegg).
To Sir, With Love, which was inspired by Braithwaite’s autobiographical novel, is the true story of Rick Braithwaite, a Cambridge-educated engineer and former RAF fighter pilot who battles societal prejudices. Braithwaite engages his students not as troublesome youths, but as emerging adults preparing for the challenges of the real world.
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13 Going on 30, adapted by Alan Zachary & Michael Wiener, will begin performances Sept. 21, 2025 at the UK’s Manchester Opera House (link TBA), directed by Andy Fickman. No production timeline or plans for a premiere location have yet been reported.
Casting TBA.
Jenna Rink is an adorably awkward 13-year-old girl who wishes she could skip over the misery of high school, magically waking up to find herself “30, flirty, and thriving” as the editor of a fashion magazine with a seemingly perfect life.
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Vocal Ease‘s annual benefit performance will take place Thurs. Nov. 14 at 8 PM at Off-Broadway’s The Players, hosted by Telly Leung.
Performcers and additional information TBA.
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