Today’s Highlights:
Dodi & Diana, world premiere by Kareem Fahmy, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, featuring Rosaline Elbay and Peter Mark Kendall, opens at Off-Broadway’s HERE.
Ink’dWell, by Erin E. Adams, directed by Tabatha Gayle, featuring Britney Nicole Simpson (Kendra), Starr Kirkland (Ember), Tai Leshaun (Nia), Cherene Snow (Maya), and Landon G. Woodson (Isaac), opens at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theatres.
42nd Street, directed & choreographed by Randy Skinner, featuring Max von Essen (Julian Marsh), Kate Baldwin (Dorothy Brock), Blake Stadnik (Billy Lawlor), Carina-Kay Louchiey (Peggy Sawyer), David Jennings (Abner Dillon), Patrick Oliver Jones (Pat Denning), E. Clayton Cornelious (Bert Barry), Lisa Howard (Maggie Jones), Eloise Kropp (Annie Reilly), and Lamont Brown (Andy Lee), with Willie Clyde Beaton II, Sarah Dearstyne, Berklea Going, Candice Hatakeyama, Danielle Jackman, Edward Juvier, Taylor Lane, Brian Shimasaki Liebson, Brady Miller, Christian Probst, and Christopher Shin with swings Kirsty Fuller and Derek Luscutoff, opens at CT’s Goodspeed Musicals.
All Things Equal – The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg national tour, by Rupert Holmes, directed by Laley Lippard, starring Michelle Azar, launches at St. Petersburg’s Free Fall Theatre. 
Click here for the complete tour schedule.
Good, by CP Taylor, directed by Dominick Cook, featuring David Tennant (Haler), Elliot Levey (Maurice), and Sharon Small (Helen), begins previews at London’s Harold Pinter Theater.
Gingold Theatrical Group‘s Candida, directed by David Staller, featuring Avanthika Srinivasan (Candida), R.J. Foster (James Mavor Morell), Avery Whitted (Eugene Marchbanks), David Ryan Smith (Burgess), Amberber Reuchean Williams (Prosperine), and Peter Romano (Lexy Mill), with Alton Alburo, Fernando Lamberty, and Matenin Sangare, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row.
Tim Murray Is WITCHES cabaret, with special guest Jenna Leigh Green, closes at NYC’s Green Room 42.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Zippel & Emerald Fennel’s Cinderella musical has a new title and a new home. Bad Cinderella will begin previews Feb. 17, 2023 and open Mar. 23 at the Imperial Theatre, directed by Laurence Connor, with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter.
Linedy Genao (Cinderella) and more TBA.
Video: Andrew Lloyd Webber introduces the new musical.
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Natalie Lander: Legally Brunette! The Search For Myself will run Oct. 21 & 23 at NYCs’ 54 Below, directed by Matthew Leavitt, with music direction by Drew Wutke.
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The world premiere of Eric Courtney & Max Vernon’s The Tattooed Lady will run (Oct. 29 – Nov. 20, opening Nov. 4) at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, directed by Ellie Heyman, with choreography by Mayte Natalio.
Jackie Hoffman (Ida Gibson), Kim Blanck, James Dybas, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Anastacia McCleskey, Jessie Shelton, Katie Thompson, Grace Slear, Sophia Ramos, and Maya Lagerstam.
The story highlights one of sideshow’s biggest stars, Ida Gibson, in a fantastical take that reveals the generational chasms and connections between Ida and her granddaughter Joy. A parade of beguiling characters appear, on a mission to liberate Ida from her self-imposed exile and help Joy find freedeom and forgiveness.
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Video: Funny Girl‘s Lea Michele and Ramin Karimloo perform “You Are Woman I Am Man”
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Irish Rep has announced its final 2 productions of the 2022 season:
Jack Was Kind (Nov. 9 – Dec. 18, opening Nov. 17), written & performed by Tracy Thorne, directed by Nicholas A. Cotz. In this intimate 70-minute monologue, a privileged woman defends and explores her role in her husband’s illicit behavior. Click here for details.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Dec. 1-31, opening Dec. 8), by Dylan Thomas, adapted & directed by Charlotte Moore, with music direction by John Bell. Casting TBA. Click here for details.
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Joey Arias in concert will take place Wed. Oct. 19 at 7 PM at Palm Springs’ Oscar’s and Thurs. Oct. 20 at 8:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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Mark Linn-Baker will replace Jefferson Mays as Mayor Shinn on Oct. 25 in Broadway’s The Music Man at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Mays will depart the production on Oct. 23.
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RIP: Playwright Charles Fuller died Oct. 3 in Toronto with his wife Claire Prieto-Fuller by his side.
Fuller received the Dramatists Guild’s Flora Roberts Award for his extensive body of work, with included theatre, film and television. He was a member of The Negro Ensemble Company, where is plays Zooman and The Sign won him and Obie Award. But Fuller is best known for A Soldier’s Play, which won him a Pulitzer Prize, Best American Play, and an Edgar Award.
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New York City Center has announced complete casting for its Annual Gala presentation of Parade (Nov. 1-6), directed by Michael Arden.
Micaela Diamond (Lucille Frank), Ben Platt (Leo Frank), Courtnee Carter (Angela), Eddie Cooper (Newt Lee), John Dossett (Old Soldier/Judge Roan), Erin Rose Doyle (Mary Phagan), Manoel Feliciano (Tom Watson), Brody Grant (Young Soldier), Alex Joseph Grayson (Jim Conley), Danielle Lee Greaves (Minnie McKnight), Christopher Gurr (Mr. Peavy), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Britt Craig), Sean Allan Krill (Governor Slaton), Douglas Lyons (Riley), Erin Mackey (Mrs. Phagan), Ashlyn Maddox (Factory Girl), Sophia Manicone (Iola Stover), Gaten Matarazzo (Frankie Epps), Howard McGillin (Luther Rosser), Grace McLean (Sally Slaton), Ashlyn Maddox (Factory Girl), Sophia Manicone (Iola Stover), Paul Alexander Nolan (Hugh Dorsey), and Sofie Poliakoff (Factory Girl), with Jackson Teeley, Florrie Bagel, Stacie Bono, Max Chernin, and William Michaels.
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Kurt Peterson’s Proud Ladies will take place Mon. Oct. 10 at 7 PM at NYC’s Merkin Concert Hall, directed by Lisa Asher, with music direction by Ian Herman, and musical staging by Joshua Bergasse.
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Complete casting has been announced for Patrick Pacheco, Erik Forrest Jackson, Jason Howland & Amanda Yesnowitz’s Christmas in Connecticut – a New Musical, which will run Nov. 18 – Dec. 30 (opening Dec. 7) at CT’s Goodspeed Musicals, directed by Amy Anders Corcoran, with choreography by Marjorie Failoni, and music direction by Adam Souza.
Audrey Cardwell (Liz Sandor), Ed Dixon (Alexander Yardley), Matt Bogart (Victor Beecham), Josh Breckenridge (Jefferson Jones), Raymond J. Lee (Dudley Beecham), James Judy (Felix Bassenak), Tina Stafford (Norah O’Connor), and Rashidra Scott (Gladys Higgenbottom, with Matthew Curiano, Rachel Fobbs, Julie Kavanagh, Emily Larger, Brendan McGrady, Melvin Tunstall III, Ty-Gabriel Jones, and Jamie Zeidman.
Smart Housekeeping columnist Liz Lane, a famous expert on marriage, cooking and homemaking, is asked by her publisher to host a war hero for Christmas dinner at her renowned Connecticut farmhouse. The only problem? She can’t cook, she isn’t married, and she lives in a tiny New York apartment.
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One Shubert Alley, the Broadway merchandise shop between the Booth and Shubert theatres, will no longer close, as previously announced.
The Shubert Alley storefront is expected to re-open before the end of 2022. The larger Theatre Circle store, which is next to the St. James Theatre on 44th Street, will remain open.
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Marcia Seligson’s “My Mother Would Hate This Book” is now available in hardcover, paperback & eBook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound, or order through your local bookstore. Check out Marcia’s website for more information.
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SpeakEasy Stage will present Sanaz Tossi’s English Oct. 21 – Nov. 19 at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion, directed by Melory Miraschrafi.
Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Lily Gilan James, Deniz Khateri, Leyla Modrizadeh, and Zaven Ovian.
The play takes place in Karaj, Iran, in 2008, and centers on Marian, an English teacher struggling to prepare her four students to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language. The exam has life-changing implications for each classmate.
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California Dreamin’: Jessica Vosk Sings the Songwriters of Laurel Canyon, by Jessica Vosk & James Darrah, will run Nov. 5-7 at NYC’s 92Y, directed by Darrah, with music direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell.
Marissa Rosen and Marty Thomas.
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Steve Ross: Autumn Serenades 2022 will take place Mon. Oct. 24 at 7 PM at NYC’s Birdland.
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North Carolina Theatre will present Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias Nov. 4-13 at Raleigh’s Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, directed by Lauren Kennedy.
Felicia Finley (Truvy), Alison Fraser (Clairee) Angela Pierce (M’Lynn), Meadow Nguy Shelby), Kathleen Garrett (Ouiser), and Carl Crissom (Annelle), with Bonnie Webster, Ali Evarts, and Susannah Hough.
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“Sheldon Epps: My Own Directions: A Black Man’s Journey in the American Theatre” is now available in Paperback and Kindle here.
Epps recounts his rollercoaster ride of a life in the theatre, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and the lows.
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Article: Director Patrick Marber on working with Tom Stoppard on his new play Leopoldstadt.