This Weekends’ Highlights:
Friday, Oct. 9
Rogue Machine‘s Saint Megan world by premiere by Joy Gregory, directed by Lina Patel, featuring Shannon Lee Clair (Megan) and Emily Jerez (Emily), with Cairy Z, Rachel Sorsa, Cordelia Leigh, Meg Marlene, and Zack rocklin-Waltch, opens opens at LA’s Matrix Theatre.
5-Star Theatricals‘ Les Miserables, directed by Doug Kreeger, featuring Richard Bermudez (Jean Valgean), Peyton Crim (Javert), Emma Hunton (Fantine), Maile Masako Brady (Eponine), Joey richter (Thénardier), Francesca Barletta (Madame Thénardier), Jenna Allen (Colette), Jefflorenz Barrido (Marius), Julian comeau (Enjolras), Santiago rodrigiruez (Cavoche), Julian Bomeau(Enjolras), Santiago rodriguez (Gavroche), Danica Caocino (Young Gosette), Brodie Cleventer (Young Éponine), Richard B. Rosales (The Bishop of Digne), Jena Allen (Cosette), Jefflorezo Garrico (Marius), Julian Comeau (Enjolras), Natiago Rodiguez (Gavroche), Danica Cosino (Young Éponine), and Richard B. Rosales (The Bishop of Digne), opens at CA’s CA’s Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center.
Saturday, Oct. 10
The Hudson Valley Dance Festival, in support of Dancers Responding to AIDS, at 5 PM at at the Historic Catskill Point.
Buyer and Cellar, by Jonathan Tolins, directed by Jamie Torcellini, featuring Brian McDonald, opens at Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre.
The Best Midicine, by Robin Gerber, directed by, featuring Caroline Aaron, opens at LA’s Odyssey Theatre.
Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy, by world premiere by Ava Pickett, directed by Lisa Spirling, featuring Michelle Dockery (Helen) and Laura Aikman (Cee), closes at London’s Stratford East.
Sunday, October 11
Musical Theatre Guild‘s Here’s to Us!—The Musical Theatre Guild Celebrates 30 Years concert presentation, directed by Kim Huber, conceived & created by Kim Huber & Michael Kostroff, at 7 PM at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage.
Begin Again, by Clark Embrey, Molly Beach Murphy, Pat Monahan and Train, directed by Lorin Latarro, featuring Emma Busse (Gretta) and Patrick Heusinger (Dan), with Charlotte MacLeod, Kevin William Paul, Adreienne Walker, Nick Walker, and Casey Whyland, closes at Diego’s Old Globe.
Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Michael Matthews, featuring Grace Stockdale (Audrey),Thomas Hobson (Seymour Krelborn), Jay Brian Winnick (Mr. Mushnik), Travis Joe Dixon (Orin Scrivello, DDS), Joslynn Cortes (Crystal), Janaya Mahealani Jones (Ronnette), Marisa Moenho (Chiffon), Wilkie Ferguson III (The Voice of Audrey II), and “The Puppeteer” is Betsy Zajko, withNick Lunetta, Erich Schroeder, Matthew Taylor Smith, and Rianny Vasquez, closes at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Rogue Artists ensemble‘s The Best Medicine, world premiere by Robin Gerber, directed by directed by Jane E. Unger, featuring Caroline Aaron, closes at LA’s Odyssey Ensemble.
Rogue Machine Theatre‘s A Case for the Existence of God, by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by John Perrin Flynn, featuring Carlo Mancasola and Nicholas Anthony Reid, closes at LA’s Matrix Theatre.
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Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik’s Off-Broadway’s revival of Spring Awakening has been extended through Apr. 24, 2027 at Off-Broadway’s Studio Seaview, directed by Danya Taymor.
Jack Bateman as (Georg,), Jada Simone Clark (Thea), Leif Coomer ( Ernst), Ryo Kamibayashi (Moritz), Ashlyn Maddox (Wendla),Nando Morland (Otto), Antonio Porciello (Hanschen,( Khadija Sankoh (Martha), Grace Slear ( Anna,’ Tyler Jordan Wesley (Melchior,and Amalia Yoo (Ilse).
To Kill a Mockingbird will run Nov. 9-29 at Long Island’s Bay Street Theatre, adapted by Arron Sorkin, and directed by Stephen Hamilton. TBA.
The Unbelievers, by Nick Payne, will run Oct. 13 – Nov. 29 (opening Nov. 5) at NYC Center Stage 1, directed by Knud Adams. Lauren Ambrose, Jaspal Binning, Brittany Bradford, Jack DiFalco, Marjan Neshat, Tom Riley, Nina Ross, Hadi Tabbal, Elizabeth Yeoman.
Faith means believing in something. As the years go by and the mystery of the sudden disappearance of Miriam and David’s teenage son remains unsolved, their blended family must figure out how to go on, relearing how to live through the ups and downs of ordinary days in their altered world.
Here There are Blueberries, by Moises Kaurman & Amanda Cronich, will run.Nov. 2 – Jan. 10, 2027 (opening Nov. 9 at the Barrymore Theatre, directed by Moises Kaufman. Scott Barrow, Michelle Beck Michael Cerveris, , Kathleen Chalfant, Delia Cunninghman, Brandon Flynn, Montego Glover, and Conrad Ricamora, with Jeanne Sakata, Anna Shafer, Marrick Smith and Grant James Varjas. n 2007, an album of Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. The photographs weren’t like any that had been seen before. As curators unraveled the truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs – what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity.