Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)
- Misery opened 11/15. Pike St. opened 11/15. Incident at Vichy opened 11/15.
- Nora began performances 11/16 at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
- Michelle Elliott's Promising, starring Jake Robards, opened 11/18. Steve opened 11/18.
- Lazarus began performances 11/18
TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)
- $20 onstage rush tickets for A View From the Bridge
- New York Theatre Workshop has announced that a limited number of extra tickets, as well as $25 CheapTix will be available for Lazarus
- Ensemble Studio Theatre's Unfiltered festival began Nov. 12 and will continue through April 23, 2016. Tickets to see plays in the Unfiltered series range from $15-20 and can be purchased by calling (866) 811-4111 or visiting ESTnyc.org.
- Tickets on sale for West Side Story March 4-6, 2016, at the Knockdown Center
- Tickets on sale for The BAM winter/spring season and the 2016 American Songbook series at Lincoln Center.
- Tickets on sale for Bright Star
- Free performances of Larger Than Life: The Supersized Plays will run Dec. 11-13 at The 52nd Street Project’s Five Angels Theater.
I Hope I Get It (CASTING)
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson will return to Broadway in Becky Mode's Fully Committed.
- Kelsey Grammer will begin a seven-week return engagement at Finding Neverland Jan. 19, 2016, continuing through Feb. 28.
- A Christmas Story at Papermill
- Will Swenson joins cast of Pericles
- Lea Salonga will play Helen in Fun Home in Manila
- Our Mother's Brief Affair
- Alfie Boe will play his final performance in Les Miserables on Broadway on Feb. 28, 2016
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (RUMORS)
- "Producers of NBC-TV's The Wiz Live! said Nov. 17 that their next project will be the promised stage adaptation of the Marilyn Monroe-inspired musical Bombshell."
Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)
- The Lena Horne Tribute Show, a benefit concert for Schools That Can, will feature Audra McDonald, Barbara Cook, Billy Porter, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Lindsay Mendez, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Telly Leung, and Justin Guarini, as well as two school choirs from VOICE Charter School and the Newark Boys Chorus School.
- The National Asian Artists Project is hosting a program of four staged readings of new short musicals Dec. 7 at the 47th Street Theatre in New York.
- Unattached at 54 Below 2/3/16-2/6/16 featuring Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner
A Musical (MUSICALS)
- Performances of Burnished by Grief will run Jan. 22-Feb. 7, 2016, at La MaMa's First Floor Theater.
- Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical will begin preview performances on September 1, 2016, and open officially on October 13, 2016, on Broadway at Studio 54
It’s Only a Play (PLAYS)
- "The Woodsman, the untold story of Oz's Tinman and the woman he loved, will receive a new Off-Broadway staging at New World Stages in January 2016. The Woodsman will begin performances Jan. 27, 2016, with an official opening night set for Feb. 7, 2016."
- Performances of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce will run Nov. 13-Jan. 3, 2016, at The Pearl Theatre, with an official opening night set for Dec. 3.
- Manhattan Theatre Club has announced two productions for the 2016-2017 season: Vietgone, by Qui Nguyen, and Sarah Jones' Sell/Buy/Date.
- Roundabout announces Love, Love, Love and a Steven Karam adaptation of The Cherry Orchard
- "Six new plays, including new works by Sarah Ruhl and Steven Dietz, will be featured in Actors Theatre of Louisville's 40th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays."
One Song Glory (ALBUMS)
- "Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz," which was originally scheduled for release in 1979 —will be available 11/27.
- Linda Eder Retro
- "Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 production of Preludes, the new musical by Dave Malloy, is being recorded by Ghostlight Records for release in digital and CD formats Jan. 8, 2016."
They Mean Chicago, Illinois (CHICAGO NEWS)
- Barry Shabaka Henley will star as both Louis Armstrong and his agent Joe Glaser in Satchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man show by Terry Teachout, Jan. 7- Feb. 7, 2016.
A Foggy Day in London Town (UK NEWS)
- "London's Barbican Centre is to present a film season featuring the RSC on screen as part of the Shakespeare400 Celebrations in 2016"
I Want to Go to Hollywood (MOVIE NEWS)
- George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, danced by the NYCB, will play in select movie theatres across the country Dec. 5 at 12:55 PM and Dec. 10 at 7 PM. Megan Fairchild plays the Sugarplum Fairy.
- A film based on Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again has started shooting in New York
Stop! Wait! What?! (EVERYTHING ELSE)
- "One hundred and twenty-nine former Rockettes are set to attend the Nov. 22 performance of ex-Rockette Joanna Rush's solo show Kick at St. Luke's Theatre."
- Four world premieres for the 2016-17 season at La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, CA.
- "The TimesTalks conversation series will continue Nov. 30 at 7 PM with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber at TheTimesCenter in New York." $45 general admission
- "New York City Center has partnered with The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space to present City Center Encores! Unscripted, a new "live-streamed series of conversations and performances about the glorious, complicated legacy of the Broadway musical.""
- Lion King Circle of Life 360 video
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