Pedro Almodóvar called Chavela Vargas "a volcano." She was a Costa Rican immigrant who dared to sing ranchera, the Mexican country music that was supposed to belong to men, and she became one of Mexico’s greatest voices. She fought alcoholism, disappeared from the stage for years, and then came back. BECOMING CHAVELA tells that story through songs of lust and longing and through her friendships with Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Elizabeth Taylor, and Almodóvar himself.
The show is set in mid-century Mexico City, back when the city was the center of Latin American culture. Chavela was well ahead of her time, and her story takes on gender, gay rights, immigration, and Mexican culture without ever feeling like a lecture.
Trudeau plays both Chavela and herself. The play starts with her own family: a Puerto Rican mother who arrived in New York as a little girl, and a Bronx childhood full of Spanish, Puerto Rican food, and Latin music. That music is what led her to Chavela.
Teatro Latea (107 Suffolk St.)
10/23 - 10/25
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit teatrolatea.org/events/list/?tribe-bar-date=2026-10-23.
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5) George Bernard Shaw's Village Wooing
Written by Shaw in 1933, Village Wooing is one of his most intimate, romantic, and quietly profound works. A sparkling two-hander about two people determined to remain single who meet aboard a pleasure ship and find their lives transformed in the most unexpected ways. Filled with Shaw's characteristic wit, intelligence, and emotional surprise, the play has rarely been seen in New York in a fully realized presentation.
For this special engagement, GTG presents a new gender-neutral adaptation of Shaw's text. The adaptation opens the roles designated simply as A and Z in Shaw's original to performers of any gender, bringing the play into vivid dialogue with the present moment while honoring the full wit and intelligence of Shaw's language.
The House of the Redeemer (7 E. 95thSt.)
10/22 - 10/25
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.gingoldgroup.org
6) The Kick Inside
The Kick Inside is a Kate Bush-inspired exquisite corpse of a play written by thirteen New York City based playwrights, Penny Arcade, Jess Barbagallo, Ethan Fishbane, the late Richard Foreman, Hillary Gao, Nazareth Hassan, John Jesurun, Marvin Just, Dhari Noel, Normandy Sherwood, Hayley Stahl, and Fiona Templeton, conceived and directed by Nicolás Noreña.
The story follows Alenka, a woman who grows awfully tired of the way that people talk to one another and begins experimenting with language in every scene of this one-and-a-half-act play.. Visually rich and littered with strange phenomena, action sequences, dogs, algorithm possessions, hitmen, and a world that speaks back, The Kick Inside uncovers a lost city that tilts language to ask where words come from within us, and how deeply we transform each other's emotional fabrics.
HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave.)
10/21 - 11/7
Opening Night 10/23
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit here.org/shows/the-kick-inside.
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7) The Mikado
The Mikado, which was first performed at London's Savoy Theatre in 1885, pokes fun at topical aspects of Victorian society, but Gilbert & Sullivan cleverly cloak their satirical barbs behind a charming love story set in an imagined town in Japan, and NYGASP continues the time-honored tradition of topical updating for a modern audience. You're sure to recognize someone on the "Lord High Executioner's" comical list of people who "never would be missed".
The show abounds with absurdity and astounding wit, clever wordplay, memorable tunes and endearing characters. The romantic love story follows Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado (the Japanese emperor), who has fled his father's court in disguise as a "Wand'ring Minstrel" to avoid marrying Katisha, an elderly suitor, and to find and marry his own beloved, the delicious maiden Yum-Yum, one of "Three Little Maids From School". Yum-Yum, however, is the ward of Ko-Ko, the "Lord High Executioner", and has become betrothed to him against her will. As usual in a Gilbert & Sullivan imaginative plot, the tangled web unravels and everyone (well, almost everyone) lives happily ever after.
Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College (68th St. between Park & Lexington)
10/23 - 10/25
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.nygasp.org/
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8) Queeney Todd The Demon Bottom of Fleet Street
A Genre-Bending Drag Opera Revenge Fantasy
Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Sq. S.)
10/22 - 10/31
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.universe.com/events/queeney-todd-heartbeat-operas-11th-annual-drag-opera-extravaganza-tickets-WT1C6R
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9) True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl
True Confessions is a mélange of monologues, characters, music, dance, and images culled from Jill Morley’s metamorphosis from tomboy to top-ranked bikini dancer in the 1990s. Jill likens it to stepping through the looking glass – only her Wonderland consists of seedy go-go bars off the Jersey Turnpike. Several characters based on real dancers she met make appearances, as well as her gay male roommate, who got her in touch with her femininity, and the bouncer who taught her how to “hump air.” Through it all, Jill wonders how this new trade affects her personal life and examines the rewards and dangers of the go-go business.
The Triad Theatre(158W. 72nd St.)
10/14 - 12/11 (Fourteen performances)
Opening Night 10/29
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10) User Agreement
“User Agreement” is a deeply urgent play that asks, in an age of technological wonders often fueled by greed, can something as fundamentally human as true love survive hand-in-hand with late stage capitalism?” says playwright Ben Holbrook. “One of many questions we have to ask daily as private equity and tech we didn’t ask for continues to clash with our values and compromise our agency. ”
The Maker's Space (281 N. 7th St., Brooklyn)
10/22 - 11/8
B) Cast Changes
In New York
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11) Buena Vista Social Club
Bernie William joins the cast from 10/22 - 11/29.
Jose "Candelita" Iglesias extends his run to 11/15.
Step into the heart of Cuba, beyond the glitz of the Tropicana, to a place where blazing trumpets and sizzling guitars set the dance floor on fire. Here, the sound of Havana is born—and one woman's remarkable journey begins.
Schoenfeld Theatre (236 W. 45th St.)
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.buenavistamusical.com
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12) Just in Time
Matthew Morrison makes a strictly limited 3-week return to the role of Bobby Darin beginning 10/20.
Tristan Buettel takes on the role of Sandra for 3 weeks from 10/20 through 11/8.
JUST IN TIME is the exhilarating new musical about Bobby Darin, the legendary singer whose short but remarkable life took him from teen idol to global sensation, inspiring generations of performers who followed. JUST IN TIME transports audiences into an intimate, swinging nightclub complete with a live band, a stellar ensemble cast, and iconic Bobby Darin hits including “Beyond the Sea,” “Mack the Knife,” “Splish Splash," and “Dream Lover.” Discover the man behind the music who pushed back against the record labels to chart a new course for himself on the charts – a once-in-a-lifetime talent who knew his time was limited and was determined to make a splash before it was too late.
Circle in the Square Theatre (235 W. 50th St.)
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.JustInTimeBroadway.com.
13) Maybe Happy Ending
Savy Jackson will take on the role of Claire full time beginning 10/20.
Stella Cole steps into the role of Gil Brentley on 10/20 for a limited 4-week run.
Maybe Happy Ending is the story of a chance encounter that sparks connection, adventure, and maybe even love. It is the offbeat and captivating story of two outcasts near the end of their warranty who discover that even robots can be swept off their feet. Helmed by visionary director and Tony Award- winner Michael Arden with a dazzling scenic design by Tony Award-winner Dane Laffrey and book, music, and lyrics by the internationally acclaimed duo, Tony Award-winners Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending is a fresh, original musical that reminds us what it means to be human and that love is never obsolete.
Belasco Theatre (111 W. 44th St.)
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.maybehappyending.com
C) Concerts
In New York
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14) All Things You Are: Love, Laughter,
and the Music of Jerome Kern
Shana Farr and Craig Rubano, with Jon Weber at the piano, present All the Things You Are: Love, Laughter, and the Music of Jerome Kern at Chelsea Table + Stage on Monday, October 26 and Thursday November 19 at 7:00 PM. The cover charge is $25–$35, with an additional $25 food/beverage minimum. Doors open for food and beverages one (1) hour before showtime. Chelsea Table + Stage is located downstairs in the Hilton Fashion District Hotel (152 W 26th St., just west of Seventh Ave., NYC 10001). https://ChelseaTableandStage.com.
15) New School Studio Orchestra
to perform landmark 1977 album Heavy Weather
New School Studio Orchestra (NSSO) revives the music of Weather Report,
one of the most influential jazz fusion groups of the '70s.
Featuring a rare, live performance of the complete 1977 landmark album
Heavy Weather with its iconic hit "Birdland"
Tishman Auditorium at the New School (63 5th Ave.)
This is a free event.
To register, visit event.newschool.edu/nssoheavyweather
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16) The Yale Spizzwinks
The Yale Spizzwinks(?), the world’s oldest underclassman a cappella group, have announced two New York concert dates this October. The performance series serves as a special "hometown tour" celebrating member Clementine Kline, Yale Class of ’29, a NYC native with a background in professional musical theater and acting, including past performances at the local Mac-Haydn Theatre, on Sesame Street, and on the Broadway National Tour of A Christmas Story, The Musical.
St. James Catholic Church (117 Hudson Ave., Chatham)
Wednesday, October 21, at 7:00PM
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit Chatham Ticketbud Page
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields (487 Hudson St., NYC)
Saturday, October 24, at 7:00 PM
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit NYC Ticketbud Page
D)Dance
In New York
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17) Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre Fall 2026 Open Rehearsal
The artists and board of Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre will share an intimate first look at the creative process of their developing work, Exposed.
The open rehearsal will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.
Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio (412 Broadway, 2nd Fl.)
Wednesday, October 21, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Tickets are free and can be reserved here.
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18) Dancing Into Roses
Mystical Feet Company presents the New York premiere of Dancing Into Roses. In 1983, a New York City dancer is hired to bring the latest, hottest disco dances to Germany. In 2018, the same dancer returns to Germany and performs a dance protest on the site of a synagogue burned down on Kristallnacht and turned into a recreational party site. Yehuda L. Hyman is that dancer. Using dance, comedy, and pathos, Hyman tells the true story of his quest to find the dance that transforms pain into happiness.
JACK in Brooklyn (20 Putnam Ave.)
10/23 - 11/1
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/dancing-into-roses
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19) Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
at American Dance Guild 70th Anniversary Festival
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, one of the nation’s leading contemporary dance ensembles, founded by Chinese-American choreographer Nai-Ni Chen and now led by Artistic Director Greta Campo and Executive Director Andy Chiang, will be part of the American Dance Guild’s 70th Anniversary Festival
The opening night of the four-day Festival will feature a tribute to choreographer Nai-Ni Chen, whose work was deeply rooted in both Chinese and American dance traditions. The evening will also include works by Mireille Nina Buisson, Beth Jucovy/Dance Visions NY, Lola Rose Jenkins, Dances We Dance/Performing Ensemble, Ishmael Konney, The Bang Group, West Devaney and the Murray Louis Foundation. The evening will be followed by a reception at 9:30pm.
Alley Citigroup Theater (405 W. 55th St.)
October 22 at 7:30 PM
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www
.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/70th-anniversary-festival
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20) New Yorkers for Dance
Dance/NYC announces full program details for NEW YORKERS FOR DANCE, the organization's annual celebration in support of its work advancing equity and opportunity across the New York City dance field.
The evening will celebrate Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles, Tony Award-winning Co-Choreographers of Broadway's CATS: The Jellicle Ball, with the 2026 NEW YORKERS FOR DANCE Award. The event will feature music by DJ Ali Coleman, New York City–based DJ, producer, and cultural organizer whose relationship with DJ culture emerged from early disco, block parties, and club spaces. Pop-up installations will feature Dance/NYC grantees, including Bengali-American director, choreographer, educator, and iconoclast Ishita Mili (IMGE) and French-Vietnamese dance artist, curator, and educator Mai Lê Hô (LayeRhythm), as well as local artists including Brooklyn-based, multi-genre Afrocentric global dance and drum collective Home & Abroad BK Drumming Group.
26 Bridge in Dumbo (Brooklyn)
Wednesday, October 21, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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21) Paul Taylor Dance Company
Celebrated globally for its athletic rigor and emotional depth, Paul Taylor Dance Company brings a captivating showcase of modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor’s work to the Lehman Center stage for one incredible performance! Celebrated globally for its athletic rigor and emotional depth, Paul Taylor Dance Company brings a captivating showcase of modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor’s work to the Lehman Center stage for one incredible performance!
This mesmerizing performance weaves together three distinct Taylor masterworks:
Piazzolla Caldera (1997): Set to Astor Piazzolla’s fiery tango rhythms, this sultry work explodes with nocturnal passion, dark friction, and burning desire in a smoky, intoxicating dive bar.
Spindrift (1993): Set to Horatio Parker’s lush orchestral music, this wind-swept, buoyant work evokes ocean spray and rolling waves as a central soloist navigates the swirling currents of nature.
Cloven Kingdom (1976): Set to Baroque music mixed with driving percussion, this iconic comedy of manners peels back high society's polite facade to reveal the primitive animal nature lurking just beneath.
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts (250 Bedford Blvd., Bronx)
Saturday, October 24, 8:00 PM
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.lehmancenter.org/events/paul-taylor-dance
F) Festivals
In New York
22) Circle Theater Festival
RJ THEATRE COMPANY and TAL Media are pleased to announce the third annual CIRCLE THEATER FESTIVAL in a three-week limited engagement. Circle Festival reaffirms its commitment to raw, immediate storytelling without commercial dilution.
AMT Theatre (354 W. 45th St.)
10/26 - 11/15
23) CUNY Stages Festival
CUNY Stages the network of performing arts centers at CUNY (City University of New York) campuses in all five boroughs is America's largest venue consortium. From historic theatres to new recital halls, CUNY Stages’ 51 venues on 14 campuses serve all New Yorkers as accessible cultural hubs.
G) Run Extension
In New York
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24) Claws
CLAWS, a 60 minute phone call unlike any other drops audiences right into a terrifying scenario where they must survive the night in Candle House’s award-winning interactive psychological thriller performed entirely through a live phone call and available to anyone - anywhere.
CLAWS places participants directly inside the narrative as they assume the role of a volunteer operator for the fictional “Etcetera Helpline.” Moments into the call, a terrified teenager named Danny reaches out for help. He has a monster trapped in his closet, but as time goes on, you’ll have to decide which side of the closet door the danger is actually on.
The audience’s choices influence the outcome of the story in this suspenseful experience. What begins as a simple plea for help spirals into a series of high-stakes choices. Danny’s life depends on what you believe. Yours might too.
Now closing 11/30
H) What Else is Happening
In New Jersey
25) Kelsey Theatre Interactive Movie Events
WHITE CHRISTMAS - DEC 11
ELF - DEC 12
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS - DEC 13
THE NUTCRACKER - DEC 18 - 20
PLAY ALONG with the actors
SING ALONG with the movie
COME IN COSTUME for the Costume Contest
GOODY BAG Participation Kits for EVERYONE !!
Kelsey Theatre (1200 Old Trenton Rd., West Windsor)
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26) NJPAC Upcoming Events
Comedy Shows
Darren Fleet
Darren Fleet is making waves in the comedy circuit and you’ll want to catch the ride. With humorous rants on everyday life, Fleet has been headlining — and selling out — A-list rooms across the country. He has taken the stage at the BET Awards, Essence Festival, CIAA All-Star Weekend and Bronner Bros Hair Convention. See what attracts millions of social media fans to this comedic force.
Friday, October 23, 8:00 PM
Hablando Huevadas
Hablando Huevadas, the viral video podcast that became a Hispanic comedy phenomenon on YouTube, returns to the U.S. this fall. Ricardo Mendoza and Jorge Luna are hitting the road again following their historic 2024 tour where they became the first Spanish-speaking comedians to sell out Madison Square Garden. Originating in Peru, Hablando Huevadas has reached over 7 million subscribers and 5.1 billion views on YouTube. The 2026 tour, presented by Loud and Live, will feature a revamped version of the format that fans know and love — a blend of hilarious stand-up and improvisation that allows the audience to share the spotlight with the comedians. This show to be performed in Spanish.
Monday, October 26, 8:00 PM and Wednesday, October 28, 8:00 PM
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YOUNG MUSICIANS FROM THE ELISABETH MORROW SCHOOL TO OPEN FOR LEGENDARY VIOLINIST ITZHAK PERLMAN
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