Today’s Highlights:
Illene Graff: Travelin’ thru: A Roadmap of Gratitude concert at 7 PM at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending Oct. 25.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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Little Women, directed by Cate Caplin, will run Nov. 6-22 at CA’s Musical theatre West.
Jenna Lea Rosen (Jo Marsh), Katie roche (Meg March), Haven Watts (Beth March), Jordan Cruz (Amy March), Tammi Tappan Damiano (Marmee March), Ariel Neydavoud (Theodore “Laurence), Jonathan Mering (Prfessor Bhaer), Araon Gibbs (Mr. John Brooke), Barabara Carlton Heart IAunt March), and Martin Kildare (Mr. Laurence.
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Due to a cast illness,Broadway’s Down State, directed by Joe Mantello, will now begin previews Oct. 28 and open Nov. 15 at the Booth Theatre. The closing date remains on Jan. 10, 2027.
K. Todd Freemann Francis Guinan, Cassie Beck, Adrian Martinez, Al’Jaleel McGhee, Thomas Sadoski, Ivy Wolk, and Liza Colón-Zayas.
Four men, living together uneasily in the pressure-cooker of a state-sanctioned group home, have been convicted of sex crimes against minors. They have served their prison sentences, but enjoying the freedom they believe they have earned proves both elusive and treacherous. When a survivor unexpectedly arrives and demands to confront his abuser, the encounter triggers a catastrophic chain reaction that cannot be contained.
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Annie will run Oct. 30 – Dec. 27 at CT’s Goodspeed, directed by Jenn Thompson.
Emily Skinner (Miss Hannigan), and more TBA.
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The recent Hudson Valley Dance Festival has raised $236,189 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
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Anon, by Ann Washburn, continues through Nov. 1 at MCC Theatre., directed by Anne Kauffman.
Jeremy Sahamos, Crystal Finn, Jeff Bieh. Ander Garman, and Pzabel Mar.
Jeanie, a Texas housewife and mother whose reality is increasingly warped by social media rabbit holes and QAnon/right-wing conspiracy theories.
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Video: Highlights from Rock of Ages at Bucks County Playhouse.
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Listen here to Emily Bear’s new song “God forbid a Girl Gets Used to This”
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Romeo and Juliet: Time Enough for Love, conceived, written & directed by Christian Lebano, will run Nov. 12 – Dec. 19 (opening Nov. 13) at the Open Fist Theatre Company.
Allana Barton, Samantha Bennett, Luke Bolle, Sam Cowan, Emma Fassler, Hutchins Foster, James Fowler, Paul Ganus, Matthew Goodrich, Gabrielle Grant, Natalia Jofre, Daniel Lench, Elijah Reyes, Melanie Rockwell, Stephen Rockwell, Barbara Schofield, Sebastian Senatore, Maliyah Tejada and Richard Van Slyke.
Theeternal tale of lovers caught between their families and their love—with a new twist. What happens when Romeo and Juliet fall in love at 75 instead of 14? With Shakespeare’s original language intact, the play transforms Shakespeare’s Verona into Verona Village, a South Florida retirement community for active seniors, where star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet must navigate romance, family interference and social expectations later in life — revealing how Shakespeare’s words resonate differently when spoken by older adults.
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Passing Strange, by Stew & Heidi Rodewald, will run Nov. 4 – 29 (opening Nov. 8) at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Zhailon Leveingston.
Taylor (Narrator), Britton Smith (Youth), Saycon Cenbloh (Mosther), Brtittany Campbell (Desi/Sherry/renata), Johnny Lavie (Christophe/hugo Terry Reverend Jones), Devere Rogers (Mar. Franklin Jones/Joop/Mr. Venus), and Tanerélle (Edwina Williams, Marianna, Sudabey).
A young artist is searching for the real, but he can’t seem to find it at home in South Central LA. He sets out on a cross-continental journey of self-discovery full of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll in search of a life that’s bigger, louder, and entirely his own.
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Small Mouth Sounds, by Bess Wohl, will begin previews Feb. 10, 2027, and open Mar. 11 at the Barrymore Theatre, directed by Joe Mantello.
Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd, Sarah Paulson, Martin Freeman, Greta Lee, and Isaac Powell.
Six strangers arrive at an upstate spiritual retreat determined to escape their problems, turn inward, and transform their lives. Spoiler: it does not go according to plan. As personal baggage spills everywhere, personalities clash, and unexpected desires take hold, Bess Wohl’s play is revealed as both a startlingly original and profoundly affecting work about the search for wholeness in a broken world.