Today’s Highlights:
Mystic Pizza, world premiere by Sandy Rustin, with pop songs from 1977, directed by Casey Hushion, featuring Kyra Kennedy (Kat), Krystina Alabado (Daisy), and Gianna Yanelli (JoJo), Rayanne Gonzales (Leona), Joel Perez (Tim), Garrett Marshall (Bill), and Corey Mach (Charles), with Becca Petersen, Isabella De Souza Moore, Nicole Paloma Sarro, Jesse Swimm, Jake Swain, Graham Stevens, Forest VanDyke, Elaine Cotter and Joshua Bess, opens at ME’s Ogunquit Playhouse.
Jay Armstrong Johnson’s Jay’s Birthday Bash: There is No Place like Home concert, with special guests Allison Robinson and Amanda Williams Ware, streams at 9:45 PM ET at 54 Below.
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GRACE NOTES Quote of the Week: “Words…deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” ~ Tom Stoppard
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Video: Stars in the House, a Fosse Reunion with guest host Ruthie Fierberg, and special guests Blankenbuehler, Sergio Trujillo and Parker Esse. (1:17:42).
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The Hollywood Fringe Festival has announced the HOLLYWOOD ENCORES PRODUCERS’ AWARDS 2021 Encore Shows (the best of the festival), which will be available in person and virtually:
Actors Company
* Black Woman in Deep Water (date TBA)
* Dirty Chai (date TBA)
* Ivory Thread (date TBA)
Asylum Theatre – Stephanie Feury Studio
* Queer: Drag, Drugs, and a Tick Tock Clock (Sept. 12 at 2 PM PT)
* Authenticity (Sept. 12 at 4 PM PT)
* NATURE VS. (Sept. 12 at 6 PM PT)
Asylum – Thymele Arts
* Cheater (Sept. 11 at 4:30 PM PT)
* Mayhem of the Music Meister! (Sept. 11 at 5:15 PM PT)
Studio/ Stage
* (It’s Been 76 Years and We’re) Still Waiting for Lefty (Sept. 9 at 7 PM PT)
* Durang! (Sept. 8 at 8 PM PT)
* TransSetter (Sept. 3 at 8 PM PT)
* She Stoops to Scandal (Sept. 7 at 7 PM PT)
The Hudson Theatres
* Once Upon A Tango (Sept. 11 at 7 PM PT)
* I Hear So Extremely Loud (Sept. 11 at 8:30 PM PT)
The Griff
* The Big Crash (Sept. 10 at 8 PM PT
The Wren Theater
* Layers of Tom Lehrer (Sept. 4 at 8 PM PT
Zephyr Theatre
* Junk Girls (Sept 9 at 8 PM PT & Sept. 11 at 9 PM PT)
Re-STREAMING plays. Click here for the full schedule.
* A Love Song (Sept. 23 at 8 PM PT)
* Caminos: A Mother’s Journey (Sept. 10 at 8 PM PT)
* Confessions of a Former Boy Detective (date TBA)
* EGG (Sept. 16 at 7 PM PT)
* Funny Bonz, the Humerus Solution (Sept. 12 at 7 PM PT)
* Gideon and the bBundersnorp (Sept. 5 at 2 PM PT)
* Happily Ever After (Sept. 17 at 8 PM PT)
* HOT! (now through Sept. 23 at 6:30 PM PT)
* Ikigai: A Purpose for Living (Sept. 25 at 6:30 PM PT)
* Japanese Pop Culture Showcase (Sept. 25 at 5 PM PT)
* Lies, Anger and Forgiveness (Sept. 16 at 1 PM PT)
* Lockdown Love Story (Sept. 7 at 7 PM PT
* Now, Now, Now… (Sept. 18 at 8 PM PT)
* Postcards from a Bench (Sept. 18 at 6:30 PM PT)
* Pulse of the City (Sept. 25 at 8 PM PT)
* Reichstag is Burning (Sept. 16 at 8:30 PM PT)
* The Easter Bunny (Sept. 11 at 6 PM PT)
* TOSHANISHA – The New Normals (Sept. 18 at 3:30 PM PT
* Vice (TBA)
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A U.K. tour of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming will launch Mar. 30, 2022 at Theatre Royal Bath (link TBA), directed by Jamie Glover.
Matthew Horne (Lenny) and Keith Allen (Max), with more TBA.
A professor in an American university returns to his childhood home with his wife to find his father, uncle, and brothers still living there. In the subsequent series of encounters, life becomes a barely camouflaged battle for power and sexual supremacy.
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Lincoln Center will present Into the Woods in concert, with selections performed in ASL, on Wed. Sept. 15 at 8 PM ET NYC’s Damrosch Park. Walk-ins will be available if the concert is not sold out. 
on TodayTix.
Joshua M. Castille (Jack/Steward(, Shelly Guy (Cinderella/Granny), Dickie Hearts (Rapunzel’s Prince/Florinda), Amelia Hensley (Baker’s Wife), John McGinty (Cinderella’s Prince/Lucinda/Wolf), Malik Paris (Baker), Anjel Piñero (Little Red/Rapunzel), Gabriel Silva (Narrator/Mysterious Man), Anne Tomasetti (Jack’s Mother/Stepmother), and Alexandria Wailes (the Witch).
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Video: Highlights from Chicago at the St. Louis Muny, featuring J. Harrison Ghee, Emily Skinner, and Ali Ewoldt.
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Play-PerView presents a reunion of “The Medievalists” TV series, by Bill Corbet, will stream Sept. 18-22, directed by Casey Stangl.
Episode: “The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage”
Paget Brewster, Jason Ritter, Rhea Seehorn, and James Urbaniak.
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A Grand Night for Singing: A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein will return to the Goodspeed Opera House Sept. 24 – Nov. 28, directed by Rob Ruggiero, with choreography by Lainie Sakakura, and music direction by Adam Souza.
Jasmine Forsberg, Mauricio Martínez, Jesse Nager, Mamie Parris, and Diane Phelan, with Kathryn Boswell and Kevin Schuering.
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CA’s La Mirada Theatre has announced its 2021-22 Season of Special Events:
Kenny Metcalf as Elton and the Early Years Band (Sept. 16-17 at 8 PM PT).
Englebert Humperdinck (Fri. Oct. 22 at 8 PM PT)
Margaret Cho (Oct. 23 at 8 PM PT)
The Atomic Punks —A Tribute To Early Van Halen (Jan. 8, 2022 at 8 PM PT).
Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Jan. 9 at 1 PM & 3:30 PM PT)
“Petite Fleur” Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s Nojo 7, featuring Cyrille Aimée (Jan. 14 at 8 PM PT)
Ray On My Mind (Jan. 15 at 8 PM PT), celebrating the music and the story of Ray Charles.
So Now You Know (Jan. 16 at 1 PM PT), which will bring together members of the La Mirada community to tell the personal stories of individual discovery in words and movement.
Brandon Heath (Feb. 18 at 8 PM PT).
Jay Leno (Feb. 19 at 8 PM PT).
Martin Barre performs Jethro Tull (Feb. 26 at 8 PM PT)
The Clairvoyants (Feb. 27 at 6:30 PM PT)
A Tribute to Johnny Cash (Mar. 12 at 8 PM PT), with James Garner.
Twinkle Time and Friends (Mar. 13 at 1 PM & 3:30 PM PT)
Dead Man’s Party – A Tribute to Oingo Boingo (Mar. 18 at 8 PM PT)
The Righteous Brothers – Bill Medley & Bucky Heard (Mar. 25 & 26 at 8 PM PT)
Led Zeppelin II (Mar. 31 at 8 PM PT)
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Chronicle” (Apr. 1 at 8 PM PT)
The Daily Show Writers Comedy Tour (Apr. 2 at 8 PM PT)
The Benny Goodman Tribute Orchestra (Apr. 3 at 2 PM PT), with special guests The Four Freshmen.
Symphonic Sinatra (Apr. 8 at 8 PM PT), with Matt Dusk.
Big Band of Brothers: A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band (Apr. 9 at 8 PM PT)
The Circus Science Spectacular (Apr. 10 at 3:30 PM PT).
Bossa Nova Wave (Apr. 14 at 8 PM PT).
Neil Berg’s 50 Years of Rock-N-Roll (May 20 at 8 PM PT).
!Viva Mexico, Vi America! (May 21 at 8 PM PT).
The Brubeck Brothers (May 26 at 7:30 PM PT)
Jim Curry’s Symphony Tribute to the Music of John Denver (May 27 at 8 PM PT)
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Play-Per View‘s re-play of Playing House, by Lennon Parham & Jessica St. Clair), continues through Sept. 14. The script reading is followed by a moderated discussion. The benefit supports Feeding America.
Brianne Howey, Sandy Martin, Brad Morris, Lindsay Sloane, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Zach Woods.
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CA’s La Mirada Theatre presents Sandy Rustin, Hunter Foster, Eric Price & Michael Holland’s CLUE, to run Sept. 24 – Oct. 17 (opening Sept. 25), directed by Casey Hushion.
Jeff Skowron (Wadsworth), Heather Ayers (Mrs. White), Ted Barton (Professor Plum), Mary Birdsong (Mrs. Peacock), Sarah Hollis (Miss Scarlet), John Shartzer (Mr. Green), Cassie Simone (Yvette), and Harrison White (Colonel Mustard), with Rachel McLaughlan, Michael Cavinder, and James Tolbert.
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Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep has announced its Fall 2021 season:
Angela’s Ashes (streams Sept. 9-22), by Adam Howell & Paul Hurt, directed by Thom Southerland, featuring Jacinta Whyte and Eoin Cannon. We follow Frank McCourt’s escapades and experiences in a Dickensian landscape peopled by a drunk father, a helpless mother, pompous priests, and bullying schoolmasters; money-lenders, dancing teachers, and charity workers, culminating in his escape from grinding poverty to the redemption of a new life in America.
Autumn Royal (Oct. 8 – Nov. 21, opens Oct. 18), by Kevin Barry, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, featuring Maeve Higgins (May) and John Keating Timmy). May and Timothy are looking after their father who has long since taken ill to bed. Their own lives are on hold, and they are not getting any younger. Should they stay and help? Or is it time for them to move on?
The Streets of New York (Dec. 4 – Jan. 20, opens Dec. 14), by Dion Boucicault, adapted & directed by Charlotte Moore. May and Timothy are looking after the father who has long since taken ill to bed. Their own lives are on hold and they’re not getting any younger. Should they stay and help? Or is it time for them to move on?
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Nov. 10 – Dec. 12, opens Nov. 18), by Eimear McBride, adapted by Annie Ryan, directed by Nicola Murphy, featuring Henn Murray. The play follows the inner narrative of a girl from birth until the age of twenty with vivid intensity and originality. This is a character of astonishing resilience and intelligence: someone determined to make sense of things amidst the crushing Catholicism and poverty of the Irish childhood.
Bikeman (a special audio event available on demand Sept. 11-18), by Thomas F. Flynn, directed by Joseph Discher, featuring Robert Cuccioli, Stephen Eng, April Ortiz, and Richard Topol. On Sept. 11, 2001, journalist Tom Flynn set off on his bike toward the World Trade Towers not knowing what he was riding into. This is one man’s journey back to the horrors of that day and to the humanity that somehow emerged from the dust and the death.