Today’s Highlights:
The Crucible, directed by Lyndsey Turner, featuring Brendan Cowell (John Proctor), Erin Doherty (Abigail), Eileen Walsh (Elizabeth Proctor), Fisayo Akinade (Reverend Hale), Karl Johnson (Giles Corey), and Matthew Marsh (Danford), with David Ahmad, Nathan Amzi, Zoë Aldrich, Stephanie Beattie, Raphael Bushay, Sophia Brown, Halle Brown, Anushka Chakravarti, Grace Cooper Milton, Rachelle Diedericks, Hero Douglas, Henry Everett, Nick Fletcher, Jersey Blu Georgia, Aoife Haakenson, Colin Haigh, Una Herrmann, Martin Johnston, Evie Marner, Gracie McGonigal, Alastair Parker, Joy Tan, Ami Tredrea, Tilly Tremayne, and Cadence Williams, opens at London’s Olivier Theatre.
All of Me, world premiere by Laura Winters, directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe, featuring Madison Ferris (Lucy), Danny Gomez (Alfonso), Alexandra Seal (Jackie), Leah Hocking (Connie), Maggie Bofill (Elena), and Jack Fellows (Moose), opens at MA’s Barrington Stage Company.
Blues for an Alabama Sky, by Pearl Cleage, directed by Lynette Linton, featuring Samira Wiley (Angel Allen), Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo (Delia Patterson), Osy Ikhile (Leland Cunningham), Sule Rimi (Sam Thomas), and Giles Terera (Guy Jacobs) with Lincoln Conway, Eddie Elliott, Kimberley Okoye, and Helena Pipe, begins previews at London’s National Theatre.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, by Jane Wagner, directed by Leigh Silverman, starring Cecily Strong, begins previews at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.
Kim’s Convenience, by Ins Choi, directed by Lawrence Rivera, featuring Young Im (Appa), Gavin Lee (Jung), Susane Lee (Janet), Clinton Lowe (Alex), and Janet Song (Umma), with Joe Alanes, Peter Laboy, Pamela Lee Paek, and Chris Yim, begins previews at Laguna Playhouse.
How to Dance in Ohio, world premiere by Jacob Yandua & Rebekah Greer Melocik, directed by Sammi Cannold, featuring Desmond Edwards, Amelia Fei, Madison Kopec, Liam Pearce, Imani Russell, Conor Tague, and Ashley Wood, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Haven Burton, Darlesia Cearcy, Carlos L. Encinas, Nick Gaswirth, Melina Kalomas, Nick Gaswirth, Melina Kalomas, and Marina Pires, with Elana Babbitt, Corinne Ferrer, Zach Simpson, Imri Leshed, and Nicole Fazia, begins previews at Syracuse Stage.
Miss Maude, world premiere by Martin Casella, directed by Sheldon Epps, featuring Rosalyn Coleman (Maude Callen) and Robert Eli (Eugene Smith), begins previews at Houston’s The George Theater.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Sept.18.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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GRACE NOTES Quote of the Week: “I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.” ~ Benicio del Toro
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Paul Rudd’s 9th Annual All-Star Bowling Benefit, in support of SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young, will take place Mon. Oct. 24 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Bowlero Chelsea Piers. 
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David Alan Basche, Everett Bradley, Alex Brightman, Cara Buono, Geneva Carr, Alec Chambers, Maddie Corman, Dominic Fumusa, Jenna Leigh Green, Seth Herzog, Andy Karl, Richard Kind, Tom Kitt, Ilana Levine, Greg Naughton, Kelli O’Hara, Orfeh, Alysia Reiner, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Ben Shenkman, and more TBA.
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Video: Clip of Intimate Apparel on PBS, featuring Kearstin Piper Brown and Krysty Swann performing “No One Does It For Us.”
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Edie Brickell’s 38 Minutes will receive an industry workshop Sept. 27 & 28 in NYC, directed by Josh Rhodes, with music direction by Rob Berman.
Carmen Cusack, Faith Prince, Philippe Arroyo, Jonah Ho’okano, Sarah Hunt, Gizel Jiménez, Mynor Luken, Arianna Rosario, and Marco Zunino.
An original musical about a family on vacation in Hawaii on Jan. 18, 2018, when the nuclear missile alert turns their lives upside down and inside out, revealing more about each other than they’d previously known.
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Audio: Michael Ball and Alfie Boe perform “A Man Without Love,” from their forthcoming album “Together in Vegas,” which will be released Oct. 18 on Decca Records.
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“Banned Together: An Anti-Censorship Podcast” is available only through Sept. 24 on the Broadway Podcast Network, hosted by Lydia Diamond and Cheryl Davis.
The complete list of plays and musicals included on the podcast:
* An Octoroon, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
* Indecent, by Paula Vogel
* Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
* Rent, by Jonathan Larson
* The Vagina Monologues, by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
* The Laramie Project, by Moisés Kaufman
* My Name is Rachel Corrie, by Rachel Corrie
* Fat Free Chicana and Snow Cap Queen, by Elaine Romero
* Fun Home, by Lisa Kron & Jeanine Tesori
* Anna and the Tropics, by Nilo Cruz.
Bryan Cranston, Raúl Esparza, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Richard Kind, Lisa Kron, the Stonewall chorale, and more…
The right to free speech is being threatened, now more than ever. To raise awareness of the dangers of censorship for the theatre industry.
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Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Yilong Liu’s Good Enemy, to run Oct. 25 – Nov. 27 (opening Nov. 6) at the Minetta Lane Theatre, directed by Chay Yew.
Francis Jue, Ron Domingo, Tim Liu, Geena Quintos, Alec Silver, Ryan Spahn, and Jeena Yi.
When Howard makes a surprise cross-country trip to visit his college-age, Tik Tok-loving daughter, he’s forced to confront the realities of their relationship and the rift between them – a rift caused by Howard’s refusal to face memories of his life as a young man in China. In a smart, thrilling story that deftly weaves two generations and two continents amidst sweeping social changes, the play explores the power of human connections…affirming that no one lives an “ordinary” life, no matter how hard they might try.
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Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, by Greig Sargeant & Elevator Repair Service, will now run Sept. 24 – Oct. 23 (opening Oct. 2) at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater, directed by John Collins.
Daphne Gaines (Lorraine Hansberry, through Oct. 16), Stephanie Weeks (Lorraine Hansbery, beginning Oct. 18) Gavin Price (Mr. Heycock), Greig Seageant (James Baldwin), Christopher-Rashee Stevenson (Mr. Burford), Ben Jalosa Williams (William F. Buckely, Jr.), and Matthew Russell (Mr. Heycock at select performances)at select performances)
The work recreates an infamous 1965 debate between Black writer James Baldwin and staunch conservative William F. Buckley, Jr., ending with an imagined scene between Baldwin and playwright Lorraine Hansberry, researched and written by April Matthis and Sargeant.
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Off-Broadway’s Amas Musical Theatre has announced the 5th year of the Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists.
Submission are open now and will be accepted through Dec. 2 here.
The award is a juried cash and production grant to be given annually to support the early work and career of a deserving musical theatre librettist.
The winner will receive $2,000 to help pay cost-of-living expenses, as well as receive developmental assistance in the 2024 New Works Developmental Program, which will culminate in the work being rehearsed and performed in an Amas Lab production.
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Elevator Repair Service’s Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge will now run Sept. 24 – Oct. 23 (opening Oct. 2) at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater, directed by John Collins.
Daphne Gaines (Lorraine Hansberry, through Oct. 16), Stephanie Weeks (Lorraine Hansbery, beginning Oct. 18) Gavin Price (Mr. Heycock), Greig Seageant (James Baldwin), Christopher-Rashee Stevenson (Mr. Burford), and Ben Jalosa Williams (William F. Buckely, Jr.), and Matthew Russell (Mr. Heycock at select performances).
In 1965, two of America’s intellectual giants, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, were invited to debate whether “the American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro,” bringing into focus our country’s deepest divisions.
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Manhattan Theatre Club presents Jeff Augustin & The Bengsons’ Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, which will begin previews Oct. 11 and open Nov. 2 at NY Center Stage 1, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody.
Abigail Bengson, Shaun Bengson, Billy Eugene Jones, and Chris Myers.
A timely story of a son’t quest to connect with this father. A Haitian immigrant travels from Miami to California on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. Years later, his son make the same journey in reverse. Along the way, blurring the lines of time, these two finally discover common ground and make a connection that has eluded them for decades.
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Complete casting has been announced for Guys and Dolls, to run Oct. 7-16 at the Kennedy Center, directed by Marc Bruni, with music direction by Kevin Stites, and choreography by Denis Jones.
James Monroe Iglehart (Nathan Detroit), Jessie Mueller (Miss Adelaide), Steven Pasquale (Sky Masterson), Phillipa Soo (Sarah Brown), Kevin Chamberlin (Nicely-Nicely, Rachel Dratch (Big Jule), Jacqueline Antaramian (General Cartwright), Fred Applegate (Arvide), Eden Marryshow (Lt. Brannigan), Matthew Saldivar (Benny), Jimmy Smagula (Harry the Horse), Jacqueline Antaramian (General Cartwright), Fred Applegate (Arvide), Eden Marryshow (Lt. Branigan), Matthew Saldivar (Benny), Jimmy Smagula (Harry the Horse), Akron Watson (Rusty Charlie), Allison Blackwell (Agatha), Colin Cunliffe (Sorrowful Jones), Michael Fatica (Liverlips Louie/Calvin), Tommy Gedrich (The Greek), Julia Harnett (Allison), Nathan Lucrezio (Scranton Slim), Kristen Faith Oei (Mimi), Lizz Picini (Ferguson), Deon Ridley (Society Max), Anthony Wayne (Angie the Ox), Tanner Wilson (Brandy Bottle Bates), and Kristin Yancy (Martha/Vernon).
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Broadway’s Beetlejuice will close Jan. 8, 2023 at the Marquis Theatre, after 27 previews and 366 regular performances.
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Roundabout will present the world premiere of Noah Diaz’s You Will Get Sick, to run Oct. 14 – Dec. 11 (opening Nov. 6) at the Laura Pels Theatre, directed by Sam Pinkleton.
Linda Lavin, Marinda Anderson, Daniel K. Isaac, Nate Miller, and Dario Ladani Sanchez.
A young man receives a life-changing diagnosis. He hires an older woman to tell the news to his loved ones, a decision that reshapes both of their lives.