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Sunday, October 20, 2024

Sunday Scoop Week of 10/20/24 What's Happening This Week and More

A) Beginning Performance 

In New Jersey

1) Soul Samurai

In NewYork

2) Death Becomes Her

3) Music City

4) Reconstructing (Still Working But the Devil Might Be Inside)

5) Tammy Faye 

6) Tin Church

In Pennsylvania

7) )Intimate Apparel

8) Red

9) Venus in Fur

B) Cast Changes

10) Little Shop of Horrors

11) Hadestown

12) Hell's Kitchen

C) Closing Soon

13) That Parenting Musical

D) What Else is Happening This Week and More

14) The Acting Company's Louann O. Carlin & John McDonald 2024/2025 Reading Series

15) Archtober Family Day
Flushing Town Hall 10/26

16) BAM Upcoming Events

17) Bergen Celebrates 20th Annual Gala With Diana Ross
10/27

18) Brooklyn Children's Museum to Celebrate An Anime-themed Halloween Celebration
10/27

19) Classic Stage Company Rediscovery Readings
01/21 & 12/2

20) Epic Players Presents Epic Does the 90s a Neuro-inclusive Cabaret
at Joe's Pub 10/24

21) Feejee Mermaid Halloween Horror Doub Feature
10/24 - 10/31

22) Halloween at the South Street Seaport Museum

23) I AM: Una Celebracion de Doreen Montalvo: A Special Cabaret 
10/21

24) I Put a Spell on You: Aliive at Webster Hall Streams on Broadway on Demand
10/27 - 10/31

25) Lorna Dallas to Debut New Show Snapshots
at Chelsea Table & Stage 10/26 & 11/3

26) NJPAC Presents Liz Cheney
10/27

27) Philadelphia School of Circus Presents Haunted Circus Weekend
10/25 & 10/26

28) Playland to Host Costume Parade for Kids 
10/27

29) Playing With Fire Concept Album To Be Released
10/25

30) Romeo & Juliet Floor Seats, Rush & Digital Lottery

31) Street Theater ASL-Interpreted Performance
10/21

32) Sunset Blvd: The Album to Be Released
10/26

33) Tammy Faye Announces Digital Lottery & Student Rush Ticket Policy

34) TSOS Theater Company Free Halloween-Themed Queer Spooky Shorts Readings
10/28

A) Beginning Performance 

In New Jersey

Courtesy of Centenary Stage Company

1) Soul Samurai

After avenging the death of her lover, a young samurai girl named Dewdrop, along with her faithful sidekick Cert, must now battle through vampire-infested Brooklyn to make it back home. A classic Qui Nguyen play, Soul Samurai blends a spaghetti western with vampire-infested Brooklyn, adding in martial arts, puppetry, and comic book camp.

Lackland Performing Arts Center of the Centenary University campus  (715 Grand Ave., Hackettstown)
10/24 - 11/1

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.centenarystageco.org.

In New York

Courtesy of Polk and Co. PR

2) Death Becomes Her

Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies… until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that’s to die for.

After one sip of Viola’s magical potion, Madeline and Helen begin a new era of life (and death) with their youth and beauty restored…and a grudge to last eternity.

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th St.)
Beginning Performances 10/23
Opening Night 11/21

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit deathbecomesher.com

3) Music City

Set in the early 2000s, in a Nashville fractured by the American methamphetamine crisis and the Global War on Terror, Music City’s hardscrabble band of songwriters struggle to leave their mark on one of America’s wildest music scenes.

West End Theatre (263  W. 86th St)
10/27 - 12/1

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  www.bedlam.org

4) Reconstructing (Still Working But the Devil Might Be Inside)

Helmed by a writing collective of 21 artists ranging in age from 28 through 98, Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside) is a new work from Brooklyn-based theater collective, The TEAM. Exploring intimacy between Black-, POC-, and white-identifying Americans, this singular meta-theater experiment wrestles with the question of how, in the aftermath of slavery, we might move through history together.

This is a Work-in-progress showing of a new play created by The TEAM

BAM Fisher (321 Ashland Pl.)
10/24 - 10/27

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://tickets.bam.org/production/?pid=43337.

Courtesy of Polk and Co. PR

5) Tammy Faye 


Palace Theatre (160 West 47th St.)
Performances Beginning 10/19
Opening Night 11/14

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit tammyfayebway.com.

6) Tin Church

The Magnolia smells sweet on the evening breeze, and then it falls and sours, like a secret kept too long. Tin Church is an unsettling, Southern Gothic exploration of generational trauma and the secrets families keep. The dream and waking world collide in this intensely dark comedy where demons come out to play in the low country south. Mary is the oldest of three sisters. It seems she has escaped her small southern town and the monotony of it all for the big city life. Mildred, her mother, has a successful marriage, a big family, and an even larger front porch. She spends her days stirring up sweet tea and gossip. Younger sisters Linda and Sue are well woven into the intricate quilt of secrets this family keeps. One remembers. The other spends her days and nights trying to forget. Through a maze of memories, letters, dreams, and the waking world, TIN CHURCH  takes us on a thrilling psychological exploration of things unsaid. Is Mildred as perfect as she insists? Did Mary truly escape after all? What is the secret that binds them?

Chain Theatre (312 W 36th St, 3rd Fl.)
10/23 - 11/23
Opening Night 10/25

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.ticketor.com/carnegiestage/tinchurch.

In Pennsylvania

7) )Intimate Apparel

Intimate Apparel is based on the life of  Lynn Nottage’s great-grandmother, a seamstress at the turn of the 20th century. 

Arden Theatre Company's (40 N. 2nd St., Philadelphia)
10/24 - 12/1
Opening Night 10/30

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit tickets.ardentheatre.org

8) Red

RED captures a volatile mentorship between the aging Rothko and his ambitious assistant, Ken, set against the backdrop of Rothko's largest commission, a series of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant. With themes that mirror generational and cultural shifts, the play is a powerful commentary on the cost of remaining relevant in a rapidly evolving world. Scott Greer’s commanding portrayal of Rothko, and the chemistry between him and Valdez creates an intense onstage dynamic that makes this production a gripping must-see experience for art lovers and theatergoers alike.

Theatre Exile (1340 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia)
10/24 - 11/10 
Opening Night 11/1

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.theatreexile.org/2024-25-red

9) Venus in Fur

Set in a fully transformed black-box space, the intimacy intensifies the psychological cat-and-mouse game between the play’s two characters, Vanda Jordan (Lea DiMarchi) and Thomas Novachek (Atticus Shaindlin). Directed by BRT’s Producing Director Ken Kaissar, the thrilling intersection of power, desire, and seduction explores themes of dominance and submission, where the lines between reality and performance blur. In the play, Novachek is wrapping up auditions for the day for his upcoming production based on an erotic novel when confronted with his greatest challenge, a very late and fierce contender, Vanda. Exploding with unpredictable agency, the actress turns the tables on the unsuspecting director, inciting a seductive struggle to command the room and each other. DiMarchi and Shaindlin present brilliant wit from start to finish in this two-person 90-minute production with no intermission, enhancing the suspenseful momentum.

Bristol Riverside Theatre (120 Radcliffe St.)
10/22 - 11/10
Opening Night 10/24

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit brtstage.org/shows/venus-in-fur

B) Cast Changes

Courtesy of Vivacity Media Group

10) Little Shop of Horrors

Sherie Rene joins the cast as Audrey 10/22
Nicholas Christopher joins the cast as Seymour 10/22

West Side Theatre (407 W. 43rd St.)

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://littleshopnyc.com

Courtesy of DKC/O&M

11) Hadestown

Lillas White rejoins the cast as Hermes

Walter Kerr Theatre (219 W. 48th St.)

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.hadestown.com

Courtesy of Polk and Co. PR

12) Hell's Kitchen

Phillip Johnson Richardson joins the cast Nuck 

Shubert Theatre (225 W. 44th St.)

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit HellsKitchen.com

C) Closing Soon

13) That Parenting Musical 

Dive into the hilarious, chaotic world of a new Mom and Dad with That Parenting Musical. Laugh along as two sleep-deprived parents navigate their new reality, juggling a danger-prone toddler, an overlooked younger sibling, and the ever-present "official mom uniform"—yoga pants. This new musical explores the joys, challenges, and absurdities of parenthood, and so much more. Written by real-life Mom and Dad team, Graham and Kristina Fuller, and directed and choreographed by Jen Wineman (Dog Man The Musical, FIVE: The Parody Musical), the show features an original score with songs like The Most Dangerous Thing in the RoomToddler Travel Travesty, and Second Child Blues that will make you say, “That’s so us.”

Theatre Row, Theatre 3 (410 W. 42nd St.) 
Closing 11/3

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit thatparentingmusical.com

D) What Else is Happening This Week and More

14) The Acting Company's Louann O. Carlin & John McDonald 2024/2025 Reading Series

Each season, The Acting Company hosts a series of staged readings. A mixture of new texts, classics of the canon, and forgotten favorites, these readings are a showcase of The Acting Company's alumni and a chance to explore other works by playwrights and directors featured in the company’s National Tours. The Acting Company gratefully recognizes the generous supporters of The Louanna O. Carlin and John McDonald Reading Series, including Ann C. James (Underwriter, Spell #7), Ro Spaziani, (Underwriter, Orlando and Virginia) and Richard J. Reilly, Jr. (Series Producing Sponsor).

The Acting Company’s Louanna O. Carlin & John McDonald 2024-2025 Reading Series includes:

 

Spell #7

By Ntozake Shange

Directed by Ann C. James

Produced in association with Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre as part of Expand the Canon’s 4th Season


Monday, October 21, 2024

7:00 pm

The Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York

 

A striking choreopoem by the playwright of for colored girls..., this bold play examines the irony of Black performers in a white-led entertainment industry. Written in the 1960s, its language, rhetoric, and intent are blisteringly relevant to this day.

 

The Shadow of a Gunman

By Seán O’Casey

Directed by Ian Belknap

 

Monday, November 4, 2024

7:00 pm

The Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York

 

Set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, this is a tale of a young poet who lets the rumor that he is an IRA assassin run wild as he enjoys the mysterious allure this lends him in the eyes of his neighbors, including a young woman. Moving from the comedic to the tragic, this is one of O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, exploring conflict, national identity, and the human cost of revolution.

 

The Tragedy of Hoffman, or Revenge for a Father

By Henry Chettle

Directed by Nathan Winkelstein

Produced in association with Red Bull Theater

 

Monday, January 27, 2025

7:30pm

Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre

2537 Broadway (at 95th St), New York

 

The captivating story of a young man seeking to avenge the murder of his father with the help of a diabolical servant. He joins the household of his enemies, enacting convoluted plots of deceit, betrayal, poisoning and violence to pursue his ends. But unchecked vengeance has a way of catching up with you. This is a gripping tale of revenge, and betrayal that sweeps an audience along to a conclusion not to be missed.

  

Orlando and Virginia

Adapted and Directed by Kevin Kuhlke

Music is by Heather Christian

 

Monday, February 17, 2025

7:00pm

The Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York


This music infused, open hearted play interfaces aspects of the novel Orlando with the life of Virginia Woolf. While staging an open rehearsal, Virginia’s characters from Orlando take over and lead her on a wild, joyous and loving adventure. Fact and fiction collide in a play that celebrates theater’s ability to embrace the fluidity of identity, location and time and the ways in which an artist both creates and is created by her art.

 

A Clockwork Orange

By Anthony Burgess

Directed by Artistic Director Kent Gash


Monday, March 17, 2025

7:00pm

The Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York

 

A theatrical adaptation of the controversial and provocative book by the author, Anthony Burgess, himself, this authoritative theatrical text is filled with "ultra-violence," capturing the chaotic tone of the novella in a dramatic experience both dystopian and satirical.

 

Series ticket packages and single tickets for The Shadow of a Gunman are now available. Seating is subject to availability. Visit theactingcompany.org/reading-series or call 212-258-3111 to learn more and reserve tickets.


For more information, visit www.theactingcompany.org.


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15) Archtober Family Day


Designing the Future for Kids: Family Day Architecture Workshops

October 26, 2024

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM


Attendees at the October 26 Archtober Family Day can look forward to a three-hour program of hands-on workshops from 10 AM to 1 PM for children and families to learn about the built world. Kid-focused activities will range from building blocks for toddlers, as well as LEGO sets, Jenga towers, drawing stations, and paper skyscraper accordion  book activities for elementary and middle schoolers. 


To RSVP, visit https://www.flushingtownhall.org/archtober-family-day. Admission is FREE.
https://www.bam.org/

Courtesy of BAM

16) BAM Upcoming Programming

Emerging Works 

Oct 24—27                

Preview performances of a new play, Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside) directed by Rachel Chavkin and Zhailon Levingston 

  

Next Wave 2024 

Oct 25—27                 Music engagement (to be announced June 26) 

Oct 30—Nov 2            Bill T. Jones’ Still/Here 

Nov 5—9                     Hanif Abdurraqib’s I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long poetry                                     series 

Nov 8 & 9                    Dana Gingras’ Frontera 

Nov 13—23                 Guillermo Cacace’s Gaviota  

Nov 13—17                 Tiago Rodrigues’ Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists 

Nov 18 & 19                Liquid Music’s Sun Dogs with Alarm Will Sound 

Nov 23                        Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens’ American Railroad 

Dec 3—8                     Modesto Jimenez’s Mercedes, Part 1  

Dec 6 & 7                    Journey LIVE with American Composers Orchestra

Jan 4—19                   ONX Studio’s TECHNE 

  

Holiday Offerings 

Dec 12—22                 Mark Morris Dance Group’s The Hard Nut 

TBD                             Music engagement 

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.bam.org

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Courtesy of Prana PR

17) AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH THE LEGENDARY DIANA ROSS
AT BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
CELEBRATING THEIR 20TH ANNUAL GALA

Sunday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m.

 
Beautiful Love Performances
Legacy Tour
bergenPAC
30 North Van Brunt Street
Englewood, New Jersey

www.bergenpac.org

Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), a leading performing arts center in northern New Jersey, will host their twenty-year annual gala celebration with an intimate performance by the legendary, Diana Ross. This is a rare chance to see Diana Ross, who has been captivating audiences worldwide with her elegance and timeless hits for decades, in a personal setting. She will be performing classics "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Stop! In the Name of Love," "I'm Coming Out"  and more as part of her Beautiful Love Performances Legacy Tour at bergenPAC, in Englewood, N.J., on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at 7:00 PM, with the private Gala reception starting at 5 PM. 

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18) Brooklyn Children’s Museum to Host an Anime-Themed Halloween Celebration on Sunday, October 27

Visitors to the event are also invited to enter the Museum’s Creepy Crawly Contest to name its three tarantulas! 

 Celebrate Halloween early at Brooklyn Children’s Museum on Sunday, October 27. Along with the Museum’s usual Halloween activities like trick-or-treating, this year the Museum presents its first-ever manga and anime-themed event, curated by AniTOMO Con.


Families are encouraged to come in costume to trick-or-treat around the exhibits, meet creepy crawlies from BCM’s animal collection, and participate in a kids’ costume contest. On the Museum’s rooftop, visitors will dive into the world of anime at the inaugural Kawaii Kreature Festival. Snap photos with professional cosplayers, participate in Japanese-inspired art workshops, and enjoy a free screening of Okko’s Inn presented by GKIDS in the Museum’s movie theater.

Due to the event’s popularity, the Museum is offering three separate sessions throughout the day to ensure ample space for all who wish to come play:
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
4:00 PM – 6:30 PM

While on site, visitors are encouraged to submit their ideas for naming the Museum’s three, live tarantulas! This creepy crawly contest runs throughout the month of October, and the October 27 Halloween celebration is the last day to drop name ideas into the Museum’s collection box. BCM will announce the top finalists via Instagram (@bcmkids) on October 31, Halloween Day, inviting New Yorkers to vote in a poll for their favorites. The winning names will be announced on November 1, when Brooklyn Children’s Museum reintroduces its newly christened tarantulas to their legions of young fans.

Tickets for Halloween at BCM grant access to all of the day’s activities and are $15 general admission, $14 for grandparents, and free for children under one year-old. To reserve a session and purchase tickets, visit: https://www.brooklynkids.org/events/halloween-at-bcm/

 

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ANNOUNCES CASTING AND

PROGRAMMING DETAILS FOR

 

REDISCOVERY READINGS

 

AMPLIFYING VOICES OF THE WOMEN

WHO SHAPED AMERICAN THEATER

 

 

INCLUDING

 

TRIFLES AND OTHER PLAYS:

AN EVENING OF SHORT PLAYS

FEATURING

TRIFLES BY SUSAN GLASPELL

FLORENCE BY ALICE CHILDRESS

SOLDADERA BY JOSEFINA NIGGLI

DIRECTED BY CRISTINA ANGELES

MONDAY OCTOBER 21 AT 7PM

 

THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING

BY CARSON MCCULLERS

DIRECTED BY FRANCESCA SABEL

MONDAY DECEMBER 2 AT 7PM

 

Classic Stage Company (Jill Rafson, Producing Artistic Director) is pleased to announce casting and future programming for The Rediscovery Readings series, featuring plays by female playwrights who shaped American theater.

 

Trifles and Other Plays: An Evening of Short Plays will feature Trifles by Susan Glaspell (CSC’s The Verge), Florence by Alice Childress (Wine in the Wilderness), and Soldadera by Josefina Niggli (Cry of Hidalgo). The evening will be directed by Cristina Angeles (¡GAìRGOLA!) and take place on Monday October 21 at 7pm.

 

The Rediscovery Readings series will continue with The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) and directed by Francesca Sabel on Monday December 2 at 7pm.

 

All readings will be held in CSC’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater (136 East 13th Street). Tickets are $20, or $12.50 as a member, and are available now at https://www.classicstage.org/the-rediscovery-readings/. To learn more about CSC’s membership programs, please visit www.classicstage.org/members.

 

CSC is also thrilled to share that two of the Evening of Short PlaysFlorence and Soldadera, are directly from Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre's latest Expand the Canon list for 2024, which is focusing on short plays for the first time. The full list of 16 will be announced on October 21, at a brief celebratory event just before the reading, and is open to both ticket holders and the public. More information can be found below and at expandthecanon.com.


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Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR 

20) EPIC Players Theatre

presents

EPIC Does the 90s: A Neuro-inclusive Cabaret

at Joe's Pub

Saturday, October 26, 2024


New York's Premiere Neurodiverse Theater Company, presents a neuro-inclusive October Cabaret: EPIC Does the 90s on Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 6pm (Doors at 5:30pm) & 8:30pm (Doors at 8:00pm) at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St. NYC. Tickets are $65 / $35 (exclusive of service fee) with a 2 drink or 1 food item minimum, per person. Both shows will be ASL interpreted for Deaf and Hard of Hearing audience members. Please use code EPICASL for accessible seating.


All tickets can be purchased online at https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2024/e/epic-players-90s/.


Get ready to relive the 90s in style with EPIC Players' Neuro-inclusive 90s Cabaret! Join us for a night of iconic hits and unforgettable performances as our talented neurodivergent artists share the stage with special Broadway guests. This one-of-a-kind cabaret blends nostalgia with empowerment, showcasing the incredible talents of our inclusive theater company. Don’t miss out on a night of music, fun, and celebration that will have you dancing in your seat and singing along to all your favorite 90s tunes! Broadway actors Keri René Fuller (Six the Musical), Molly Hager (Waitress), Sandra Okuboyejo (Hamilton), and Stephanie Torns (Waitress, Wicked) are confirmed as guest performers, with more Broadway friends to follow.


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Courtesy of Spincycle NYC

21) FEEJEE MERMAID ANNOUNCES HALLOWEEN HORROR
DOUBLE FEATURES

October 24, 25 & 31 at The Flea Theater

Drops in the Vase will present the World Premiere of FEEJEE MERMAID, a new play by Clay McLeod Chapman (The Pumpkin Pie Show, Hostage Song) about a taxidermy competition, October 16 - November 2 at The Flea. They will also present 3 special Halloween-themed DOUBLE FEATURE nights that include the 7:30pm performance of FEEJEE MERMAID, followed immediately by selections from these masters of horror:
 
October 24, 2024
Clay McLeod Chapman
Clay McLeod Chapman digs into the dusty steamer trunk of mono-stories from his cult indie theater fave The Pumpkin Pie Show, resuscitating some old faves to send chills down the audience's spine... along with fresher yarns, to boot. Tales of madness, murder and mayhem are all on the menu, performed in direct address to drag hapless ticket buyers into the campfire.
 
October 25, 2024
Nat Cassidy
Killer children . . . amorous robots . . . ghostly visitations . . . and tappin' toes. Come join Nat Cassidy and his guitar for a special evening of dark, twisted storysongs.
 
October 31, 2024
Short Films by Laura Moss and Brendan J. O’Brien
First up is RISING UPa 'ground-breaking' documentary about the origins of the oft-neglected Zombie Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This 27-minute short from 2009 won Best Director at Boston International Film Festival. Narrated by Phil LaMarr, it stars Kevin Allison, Kirk Larsen, and Rae C. Wright.  It will be followed by FRY DAY, in which an adolescent girl comes of age against the backdrop of serial killer Ted Bundy's execution in 1989. This 16-minute short from 2017 premiered SXSW and is currently featured on the Criterion Channel.
 
DOUBLE FEATURES are $60, available www.dropsinthevase.com.

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Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

22) Halloween at the 
South Street Seaport Museum

South Street Seaport Museum announces a full roster of Halloween-inspired events throughout the month of October to celebrate the 2024 spooky season. Visit the Seaport Museum this October for family fun and Halloween activities! seaportmuseum.org/halloween


HalloWeekend Neighborhood Celebration

October 26 | 11am–5pm | Free General Admission

Get ready for all treats and no tricks as the Seaport Museum comes alive with Halloween fun! From 11am to 5pm on Saturday, enjoy free General Admission to the Museum, which will be packed with festive activities for all ages. Throughout the day take part in the sailors’ superstitions spooky scavenger hunt throughout the 1885 tall ship Wavertree, and try your hand at pumpkin or gourd decorating inspired by maritime scrimshaw techniques, while supplies last. You can even BYOP––bring your own pumpkin––to decorate if you have a special pumpkin in mind! And, from 2pm to 4pm, venture into the captain’s saloon for a tarot card reading. Readings are first come, first served. Plus, during the all-ages Seaport Kids x Halloween Block Party on Seaport Square, stop by the Seaport Museum’s table to make paper chain decorations and create your own spooky Halloween card with stamps inspired by the printing collection at Bowne & Co. The block party is hosted by Mommy Poppins, Brooklyn Bridge Parents, and the Seaport. Don’t miss out on this frightfully fun day! While we encourage pre-registration, we warmly welcome walkups to join in the Halloween fun.


HalloWeekend Aboard Wavertree

October 27 | 11am–5pm | Pay What You Wish General Admission

The Halloween fun continues on Sunday from 11am to 5pm with Pay What You Wish General Admission to the Seaport Museum! Step aboard Wavertree for a spooky scavenger hunt through sailors’ superstitions and descend into the cargo hold to experience a Halloween-inspired soundscape that adds a seasonal touch to the ship’s expansive interior. Continue the haunting creativity with Halloween paper chain decorations and card-making activities. Try your hand at the October Sailors Scrimshaw family activity using recycled plastic, or bring your own pumpkin to carve to add a spooky, maritime twist to a traditional jack o’lantern. Pre-registration is encouraged for General Admission, but walkups are always welcome to join in the festive family fun!


Trick-or-Treating

October 31 | 4–6pm | Free

On Thursday for Halloween evening, stop by the introduction galleries at 12 Fulton Street and Bowne & Co. Stationers at 211 Water Street to show off your costume and get your treats! From 11am to 5pm, the Museum will be open for you to enjoy Pay What You Wish General Admission and continue the Halloween fun with the October Sailors Scrimshaw activity, paper chain making, and card crafting. Feel free to bring your own pumpkin for more festive fun! All Museum spaces and Bowne & Co. will close at 5pm with trick-or-treating continuing outside at the entrance. No registration is needed for trick-or-treating—just drop by in your best costume!


Get More Halloween Fun at the Seaport Museum Throughout the Month


Halloween Origami Folding and Letterpress Printing

October 12 | 12–2pm | 207 Water Street | Free

Embrace spooky season and unleash your creativity at Bowne & Co.’s Halloween-inspired drop-in workshop on Saturday, October 12, 2024, from 12pm–2pm, at 207 Water Street, NYC. Admission is free, and pre-registration is encouraged, but walk-ups will be accommodated as possible. Visit anytime between 12pm and 2pm for a free hands-on experience in crafting origami bats, and other spooky folded-paper creatures, along with Halloween-themed paper chains. For an extra thrill, skilled Bowne designers will be on hand to guide you through crafting your own letterpress-printed broadside posters using a 19th century printing press from the Seaport Museum’s working collection. seaportmuseum.org/halloween-crafts


Sinister Secrets of the Seaport

Ongoing | Lower Manhattan | $30–$40

Spooky season is upon us! Now is the perfect time to get your ticket to join a 90-minute walking tour that will take you on a winding journey that unravels the darker past of the South Street Seaport Historic District and Lower Manhattan. This entertaining tour tells the scandalous, dubious, and sinister tales lurking in the cobblestone streets, historic buildings, and waterfront. Throughout the tour, your guide will share historical stories ripped from the headlines of newspapers and publications from the 1790s to the 1990s that provide a new perspective on the history of the area that helped to make New York a global metropolis. You’ll also be able to test your “Ear for Crime” in an interactive game throughout the walk, which even has a prize for the winner at the end of the tour. Registration is required for this Halloween treat. seaportmuseum.org/sinister-secrets


Seaport Museum Book Club: The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by Alex Hortis

October 28 | 6:30pm | 207 Water Street | Free

Sign up today to join the Seaport Museum for the October session of the Seaport Museum Book Club, which will take place at 207 Water Street instead of McNally Jackson Seaport. This month, we will be reading The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice.


Independently, they will read the first narrative history about the dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen, and shameless hucksters who turned the Polly Bodine case into America’s formative tabloid trial. At the end of the month we will come together to discuss how this became an origin story of America’s addiction to sensationalized reporting of criminal trials and how The Witch of New York vividly reconstructs an epic mystery from Old New York—and uses the Bodine case to challenge our system of tabloid justice of today. seaportmuseum.org/bookclub


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23) Broadway Artists Join I AM: Una Celebración de Doreen Montalvo: A Special Cabaret Honoring an Artist, Producer, and Activist

On October 21st 


R.Evolución Latina will be honoring the life and contributions of Doreen Montalvo with a special cabaret, I Am: Una Celebración de Doreen Montalvo. This special cabaret will pay tribute to Doreen's incredible journey as an artist, producer, and activist, reflecting her passion for the performing arts and her unwavering commitment to uplifting others in the community. The cabaret will be held on October 21st at 7PM at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre – 304 W 47th St. New York, NY 10036. 

Doreen was also deeply committed to activism, particularly in support of the Latinx community. From the beginning of R.Evolución Latina, she championed initiatives that empowered artists and fostered a sense of community. Her legacy is marked by her boundless joy and dedication to making a positive impact through art, inspiring countless individuals to strive for change.

 

This special evening will feature performances by a stellar lineup of artists, including Robin de Jesús, Afra Hines, Henry Gainza, Marcus Paul James, Taharqa Patterson, Ilda Mason, Amanda D'Archangelis and Doreen Montalvo scholarship recipients Joseph C. Townsend, Lillian Andrea De León, Carla Mongado, Francisca Muñoz, Chris Browne Valenzuela, and Monica Ho. Featuring new music by Jesse Sanchez with music direction by Alejandro Senior and Daniel Gutierrez. These performers will honor Doreen’s legacy through their artistry, celebrating the profound impact she had on their lives and the broader community. The cabaret will be directed by Doreen’s friend, fellow cast member and R.Evolución Latina founder/artistic director Luis Salgado. 


This celebration not only commemorates Doreen's journey but also reinforces the importance of community and the arts. Tickets will be $20 in advance and $25 at the door. For additional information please click here


FOR TICKETS TO I AM: Una Celebración de Doreen Montalvo, please click  Here 


Learn more about R.Evolución Latina scholarships and initiatives honoring Doreen Montalvo, including the 2024 DO IT ANYWAY Scholarship and Honoring Her Soul program. 


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24) Jay Armstrong Johnson’s I Put a Spell on You: ALiiVE at Webster Hall Streams into your home on Broadway On Demand Halloween Weekend

 

A Benefit for the Queer Youth of The Ali Forney Center


BOD Stream begins in your home on Sunday, October 27, at 8pm

 

Tickets at BroadwayOnDemand.com


It’s time for the biggest and best Broadway Halloween event of the year both live at Webster Hall and in the comfort of your own home! Jay Armstrong Johnson’s annual Halloween concert-meets-party I Put a Spell on You: ALiiVE at Webster Hall will stream on Broadway On Demand beginning at 8 pm Eastern on Sunday, October 27, 2024 and be available until October 31. Tickets for Broadway on Demand are $35 and available at broadwayondemand.com/events/i-put-a-spell-on-you-aliive-at-webster-hall.


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25) LORNA DALLAS
DEBUTS AN ALL-NEW SHOW

S N A P S H O T S
MUSICAL DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER DENNY
DIRECTED BY BARRY KLEINBORT

CHELSEA TABLE + STAGE
152 WEST 26TH STREET – NYC

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 7PM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 @ 7PM

After a successful London engagement this summer, Lorna Dallas, one of cabaret’s most acclaimed and cherished artists and the recipient of a 2020 Bistro Award for “Consummate Cabaret Artistry," returns to Chelsea Table + Stage for two nights – Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, November 3 at 7pm in ”Snapshots”, her latest collection of musical memories.

“Snapshots” is yet another dazzling display of Ms. Dallas’ formidable prowess as both an actress and a vocalist, interspersing soaring song with personal stories (snapshots) from her life and career on both sides of the Atlantic. Musically, the program is diverse and daring, offering well known gems along with rarities from some of the finest songwriters on either shore: Marvin Hamlisch, Kander and Ebb, Stephen Sondheim, Maury Yeston and Jerry Herman. And, because she has been hailed as one of his foremost interpreters, Ivor Novello.

The evening has been devised by her award-winning collaborators, director Barry Kleinbort and musical director Christopher Denny (who also serves as the show’s dexterous accompanist.) “Snapshots” is continuing musical proof of Ms. Dallas’ dedication to “consummate cabaret artistry” and should not be missed.

Lorna Dallas: Snapshots plays the Chelsea Table + Stage (152 West 26th Street) on Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, November 3 – both shows at 7:00pm. Tickets range from $23 cover charge for bar seating, $33 cover charge for general table seating, $44 for premium table seating, as well as a $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available here (for October 26) and here (for November 3). The November date will be live streamed.

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26) LIZ CHENEY SCHEDULED TO SPEAK
 AT NJPAC IN NEWARK, N.J.


Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.
$49.00 - $109.00

NJPAC
Prudential Hall
Betty Wold Johnson Stage
One Center Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102
www.njpac.org
 
 Tickets available at: www.NJPAC.org or 
Box Office 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722)

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney will be speaking at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.
 
Cheney served as the U.S. representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023. She chaired the House Republican Conference, the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership, from 2019 to 2021, and served as the Vice Chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. She was also a member of the House Armed Services Committee, China Task Force, Natural Resources Committee, and the House Committee on Rules. During her appearance at NJPAC, Cheney will discuss the path forward in a politically divided country and address critical questions about democracy, politics, and bipartisanship. With the election only days away, she will also share her reactions to current events and late-breaking news.
 
Tickets for A Conversation with Liz Cheney will go on sale on Friday, June 21 at 10:00 a.m. To reserve tickets, visit NJPAC.org, call 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722), or visit the NJPAC Box Office at 1 Center Street, Newark, New Jersey.

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27) PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL OF CIRCUS ARTS DOUBLES THE SCARES AND TRIPLES THE FUN WITH THE RETURN OF HAUNTED CIRCUS WEEKEND

Philadelphia School of Circus Arts (6452 Greene Street) presents playful frights and spooky entertainment during Haunted Circus Weekend, flying into town on Friday, October 25th and Saturday, October 26th. During this bewitching two-day event, PSCA's grand 26,000 square feet historic building will magically morph into a spooky circus interactive experience. Come ready for dazzling tricks, treats and feats that will keep you enchanted! This year, Haunted Circus Weekend expands to three delightfully different Halloween-themed shows.  Kids Haunted Circus Workshop & Show will take place on Friday, October 25th, with a 6:00pm workshop and 7:00pm show (rated G for giggles). Family Haunted Circus Show will take place on Saturday, October 26th at 2:30pm (for youth and adults). New this year Adult Haunted Circus Show will offer up spooky season fun for grown-ups only on Saturday, October 26th at 8:00pm. Tickets are $15/adults and $10/youth when purchased in advance, and $20/adults and $15/youth at the door. For tickets and more information, visit www dot phillycircus dot com.

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28) Monster Mash-Up: Playland to Host Halloween Costume Parade for Kids
  
On Sunday, October 27 at 2:00 p.m., the Kiddyland Fall Fun October Weekends will celebrate a festive finale with the Halloween Costume Parade, welcoming kids to show off their ghoulish getups for the spooky season. 

WHAT: OSunday, October 27 at 2:00 p.m., Playland Amusement Park will celebrate the final day of Kiddyland Fall Fun October Weekends with a festive Halloween Costume Parade. Kids are encouraged to wear their favorite costumes on the Kiddyland stage and showcase their “spooktacular” outfits down the runway. Select food vendors will be open and there will be a 360-photo booth where guests can capture their creative costumes and purchase a digital photo for $10. In addition and throughout the day, there will be face painting with Halloween and Oktoberfest designs, a whimsical bubble cart, and craft tables that will offer opportunities for mask-making and pumpkin decorating. Kiddyland shows will also entertain audiences with performances by “Ol’ Gus Shivers” at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m.0 

For more information and a calendar of events, visit www.playland.com and follow Playland on FacebookInstagramTikTokTwitter and LinkedIn.

 

WHERE: Playland, 1 Playland Pkwy, Rye, NY 10580

 

WHEN:  Kiddyland Halloween Costume Parade: Sunday, October 27 at 2:00 p.m.


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29) JC CHASEZ AND JIMMY HARRY ANNOUNCE A CONCEPT ALBUM FOR THEIR MUSICAL PLAYING WITH FIRE 

WRITTEN BY JC CHASEZ AND JIMMY HARRY, THE ALBUM WILL BRING A MUSICALZIED FRANKENSTEIN TO LIFE

PLAYING WITH FIRE IS SET FOR RELEASE VIA CENTER STAGE RECORDS ON OCTOBER 25TH


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Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and producer, JC Chasez, and Golden Globe winning songwriter, producer and composer Jimmy Harry announce their groundbreaking new musical theater concept album, Playing With Fire. Inspired by Mary Shelly’s timeless novel Frankenstein, Playing with Fire marks Chasez’s first major musical theater recording project. Chasez is also featured as a vocalist alongside singers Cardamon Rozzi and Lily Elise.  The project comes on the heels of an exciting year for both Chasez and Harry respectively, following the highly anticipated *NSYNC reunion on the Trolls Band Together soundtrack where Chasez lent his vocals on the group’s first song in two decades, “Better Place,” and Harry’s recent work writing and producing “Take Me Back To The Party,” the latest single from B-52’s founding member Kate Pierson. Harry has previously worked with legends such as  Madonna, Pink, Britney Spears, Diplo, Kelly Clarkson, Weezer and more. Playing With Fire has already garnered early buzz ahead of Billboard’s exclusive announcement last night which you can view HERE. Chasez made a surprise appearance at this year’s Elsie Fest and joined festival host creator Darren Criss on stage where the project was announced. Watch a video of Chasez’s appearance at Elsie Fest HERE.

Featuring a collection of 16 original new tracks, Playing With Fire first came to fruition when Harry presented Chasez the script of his late mother’s (Barbara Field) theatrical adaptation of Shelley’s prescient sci-fi story.  Chasez was immediately intrigued with the play, and work on it immediately began, creating a heartfelt story of timely technological issues, love, responsibility, revenge, loss, and the human condition. 


This reimagining of the classic tale constructs a conversation between Frankenstein and his creation, The Creature, at the grave of Frankenstein’s wife, Elizabeth, ten years after her death. Through dynamic interplay of dialogue and shared flashbacks of key events in both their lives, the concept album plunges into the heart of their intertwined destinies. As they confront their past actions and the devastating impact they’ve had on one another, Frankenstein and The Creature gradually find understanding, sympathy, and forgiveness.  


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30) ANNOUNCING EXCLUSIVE FLOOR SEATS AND

$49 IN-PERSON RUSH AND DIGITAL LOTTERY TICKETS


A LIMITED NUMBER OF FLOOR SEATS WILL PUT AUDIENCES AT THE EDGE OF THE ACTION EVERY NIGHT

ROMEO + JULIET announces that a limited number of exclusive floor seats will be available for every performance of Sam Gold’s production starring Emmy Award winner Kit Connor (“Heartstopper”) and Golden Globe Award winner Rachel Zegler (Spielberg’s West Side Story), offering audiences an intimate, one-of-a-kind, theatrical experience at Circle in the Square Theatre (1633 Broadway). Floor seats are now available for purchase at www.romeoandjulietnyc.com or in person at the Circle in the Square box office. The strictly limited engagement begins performances next week, on Thursday, September 26, 2024, and officially opens Thursday, October 24, 2024.

 

A limited number of $49 tickets for ROMEO + JULIET will be available via both in-person Rush and a Digital Lottery, subject to availability. Rush tickets will be available for purchase beginning when the box office opens on the day of the performance and are available in-person only. The digital lottery opens at 12AM ET the day before the performance and winners are drawn at 10AM ET and 3PM ET that same day. For additional rules and to enter the digital lottery visit https://rush.telecharge.com. Lottery and Rush tickets are non-transferable, limited to 2 tickets per person and may be for any location, including standing room.


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31) The Other Side Of Silence (TOSOS) Announces ASL-Interpreted Performance of STREET THEATER

Monday, October 21, 2024 at The Flea Theater in NYC

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Iconic Gay Playwright’s Powerful Satire of the Historic Stonewall Uprising by New York City’s Oldest and Longest Producing LGBTQIA+ Theater Company Celebrating Its 50th Anniversary

Written by Doric Wilson

Directed by Mark Finley & Barry Childs

October 3-22, 2024 (13 performances)

The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, NYC / $40

October 17, 18, 21, 22 at 7:00 p.m.

October 19 at 3:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

October 20 at 3:00 p.m. 

Tickets can be purchased by visiting: https://www.redeyetickets.com/street-theater/

 Runtime: 90 minutes, plus one intermission


New York City’s oldest and longest producing LGBTQIA+ theater company TOSOS (Artistic Director Mark Finley) will present an ASL-interpreted performance of Street Theater, Doric Wilson's legendary, award-winning satire about the evening of the Stonewall riots. TOSOS is partnering with Inclusive Communication Services to sign the performance on Monday, October 21, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. at The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street in NYC.

Doric Wilson’s Set in Greenwich Village June 28, 1969, shortly before the first brick was thrown at the Stonewall Inn, Doric Wilson’s legendary satire Street Theater follows the exploits of the cruisers, drag queens, undercover cops, dykes, hippies, mobsters and bystanders (innocent and otherwise) as they catapult toward the moment that changed the course of history.

Upcoming performances at The Flea Theater are October 17, 18, 21, 22 at 7:00 p.m.; October 19 at 3:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.; and October 20 at 3:00 p.m. Past performances we staged at The LGBT Center and The Stonewall Inn.

Tickets are $40 and can be purchased by visiting https://www.tososnyc.org/. Direct ticketing link: https://www.redeyetickets.com/street-theater/

The running time is 90 minutes, plus one intermission.


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32) “SUNSET BLVD: THE ALBUM”

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW RECORDING


OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S ICONIC MUSICAL


STARRING NICOLE SCHERZINGER

 

TO BE RELEASED FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

 

“SUNSET BOULEVARD” THE TITLE TRACK


FEATURING OLIVIER AWARD WINNER TOM FRANCIS 


IS OUT NOW


LISTEN HERE

 

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO HERE


Following a multi-Olivier Award®-winning run in London, a stunning new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary Sunset Blvd., directed by two-time Tony Award® nominee and multiple Olivier Award® winner Jamie Lloyd, is one of Broadway’s most anticipated events of the fall.

 

To mark the show’s Broadway premiere at the St. James Theatre, starring Olivier Award winner and Grammy Award® nominee Nicole Scherzinger, a powerful new cast recording, SUNSET BLVD: THE ALBUM, will be released Friday, October 25 on The Other Songs label. Pre-order the physical and digital editions HERE.

 

Album cover art is available for download HERE (Credit: The Other Songs).

 

“Sunset Boulevard” the iconic title song, is out on all digital platforms. Listen HERE.

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33) TAMMY FAYE

ANNOUNCES DIGITAL LOTTERY AND STUDENT RUSH TICKETS


Producers Rocket Stage, Greene Light Stage, and James L. Nederlander have announced a digital lottery and student rush policy for the acclaimed Broadway-bound musical TAMMY FAYE.  Performances began Saturday, October 19 at the Palace Theatre (160 West 47th Street).

 

A limited number of in-person student rush tickets will be available for each performance with a valid student ID. Tickets will be available at $30 each when the box office opens the day of the performance at the Palace Theatre (160 West 47th Street). This is limited to two tickets per person. Tickets are subject to availability. A minimum of two tickets will be available for every performance. The Palace Theatre box office is open Monday through Saturday starting at 10AM EST.  Seats may be partial view.

 

TAMMY FAYE will launch a digital lottery powered by Broadway Direct. A limited number of $45 tickets will be available for each performance. The lottery will open at 9 AM ET the day before each performance and close at 3 PM ET that same day. The only exception is the first performance, where the lottery will open at 10AM EST on October 15. Once the lottery closes, winners will be notified within minutes and will have 60 minutes to claim and pay for tickets. Seat locations and number of tickets awarded by the lottery are subject to availability. Lottery seats may be partially obstructed. Limit one entry per person per day and limit of two tickets per entry. To enter and for more specifics, please visit https://lottery.broadwaydirect.com/show/tammy-faye-ny/.


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34) Queer Spooky Shorts 2024 

A Free Halloween-Themed Short Play Extravaganza Celebrating Five Playwrights and Their Original Works; Part of TOSOS’s Doric Wilson Playwrights Project Reading Series Amid the Company’s 50th Anniversary

Monday, October 28, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. 


In celebration of the Halloween season and the company’s 50th anniversary, New York City’s oldest and longest producing LGBTQIA+ theater company TOSOS (Artistic Director Mark Finley) today announced the five short plays to be presented at Queer Spooky Shorts 2024. Part of the company’s Doric Wilson Playwrights Project, five playwrights and their original plays will be featured as part of the free reading series celebrating new and classic works by queer voices for over a decade. Queer Spooky Shorts 2024 will be held on Monday, October 28, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. at The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street in NYC’s Tribeca neighborhood.

Playwrights and their original work to be featured include: Phase by Scott Mullen, Bowie by Barry Boehm, Southies by Jeffrey James Keyes, Practice by Caitland Winsett, and Land of 1000 Smiles by Joe Moe. The evening will be directed by Andrew Coopman, Cat Gillespie, and Rula A. Muñoz.

To RSVP for Queer Spooky Shorts 2024, visit:

https://tososnyc.squarespace.com/free-reading-series


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