Reviews for ‘Other Desert Cities,’ ‘Rhinoceros’ replaces ‘Full Monty’ on Broadway, ‘The Baby-Sitter’s Club’ musical sets world premiere

Every week, Matt Tamanini will bring you the biggest news from across the theatrical landscape and will prepare you for what’s ahead over the next seven days.

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1) Critics weigh in on ‘Other Desert Cities’ Broadway revival
https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/other-desert-cities-2/

2) Maslany, Shalhoub, Turturro to bring ‘Rhinoceros’ to Broadway, replacing ‘Full Monty’
https://deadline.com/2026/10/rhinoceros-broadway-tatiana-maslany-tony-shalhoub-john-turturro-1237158434/

3) Show and casting news

Ghee will not return to ‘Oh, Mary!’ tour to focus on illness
https://deadline.com/2026/10/j-harrison-ghee-oh-mary-john-andrew-morrison-1237165698/

Buettel, Dickerson to join ‘Just in Time’ this fall
https://playbill.com/article/tristen-buettel-and-sadie-dickerson-will-join-just-in-time-on-broadway

Bakula to lead L.A. Opera’s ‘Candide’
https://deadline.com/2026/10/scott-bakula-la-opera-candide-1237157559/

‘The Baby-Sitter’s Club’ musical sets world-premiere dates, venue
https://deadline.com/2026/10/the-baby-sitters-club-stage-musical-los-angeles-1237156844/

Vivino to lead world premiere Off-Broadway musical ‘Kilgallen’
https://playbill.com/article/donna-vivino-will-be-dorothy-kilgallen-in-world-premiere-of-kilgallen-musical-off-broadway

Barrett Doss joins ‘Wild Rose’ Off-Broadway
https://playbill.com/article/barrett-doss-joins-wild-rose-at-new-york-theatre-workshop

4) This week’s theatrical schedule

Monday, Oct. 19
Opening: ‘Copperfield! The New Musical’ Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street
https://www.copperfieldthemusical.com/ 

Opening: ‘King of the Yees’ Off-Broadway at Signature Center
https://signaturetheatre.org/show/king-of-the-yees/ 

Previews: ‘Aftermath’ Off-Broadway at A.R.T./New York Theatres

https://aftermaththeplay.com

Tuesday, Oct. 20
Previews: ‘Downstate’ on Broadway
https://downstateonbroadway.com/

‘Downstate’ pushes back first preview again
https://deadline.com/2026/10/downstate-broadway-opening-date-1237155592/

Previews: ‘2:22 – A Ghost Story’ Off-Broadway at Lucille Lortel Theatre
https://lortel.org/222-ghost-story/ 

Previews: ’Slanted Floors’ Off-Broadway at Astor Place Theatre
https://astorplacetheatre.com/production/slanted-floors/ 

Performances: ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Tour at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando
https://www.drphillipscenter.org/show/buena-vista-social-club-c231 

Wednesday, Oct. 21
Opening: ‘860’ on Broadway
https://billycrystal860.com/ 

Opening: ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ Off-Broadway at the Public Theater
https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2627/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button/ 

Previews: ‘the ripple, the wave that carried me home’ Off-Broadway from Playwrights Horizons
https://www.playwrightshorizons.org/shows/production-history/2020s/2627/the-ripple-the-wave-that-carried-me-home 

Previews: ‘The Visitors’ Off-Broadway at Signature Center
https://2st.com/shows/the-visitors 

Post-show Q&A hosted by Grace Aki: ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ on Broadwayhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DehuRmsF8y0/?mdxt=c3pkNnNlN2loczlx 

Thursday, Oct. 22
Opening: ‘The Imaginary Invalid’ on Broadway
https://roundabouttheatre.org/production/2026-2027-season/the-imaginary-invalid/ 

Previews: ‘The Fantasticks’ on Broadway
https://2st.com/shows/the-fantasticks 

Saturday, Oct. 24
Closing: ‘Kramer/Fauci’ Off-Broadway at St. Ann’s Warehouse
https://stannswarehouse.org/show/kramer-fauci/ 

Sunday, Oct. 25
Previews: ‘We’ll See’ Off-Broadway at the Public Theater
https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2627/well-see/ 

Closing: ‘Good Time Charlie’ Off-Broadway at the Public Theater
https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2627/good-time-charlie/ 

James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson talk about Other Desert Cities, Anon @ MCC, Slam Frank @ Orpheum Theatre, A Ghost in Your Ear @ Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, Good Time Charlie @ The Public, Memoirs Of Amorous Gentlemen @ The Night Egg at The Culture Club, and The Hairy Ape @ the Irish Rep.

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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day desk calendar – A SHOW TUNE FOR TODAY – 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year – is available at finer retailers!

Larry, The Big-Time Broadway Producer @ The Hopkinton Center for the Arts (HCA)
October 9 – 18, 2026

Showtune for Today:

Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE has been a theater journalist for more than 50 years. The founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. Additionally, Michael is known as a producer and director of shows at the Laurie Beechman Theatre and other venues.

Jennifer Simard Will Be Schmigadoon!’s New Mildred Layton on Broadway

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James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
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Jan Simpson | [email protected] | Facebook | Twitter
Broadway & Me
Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the theater blog Broadway & Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts “All the Drama” and “Stagecraft.” She has served three times as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and currently sits on the executive board of the Outer Critics Circle, is a nominator for the Lortel Awards and is a member of the Drama Desk and the American Theatre Critics Association.

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JS: Other Desert Cities @ Hudson Theatre, through January 17, 2027
11-time Emmy Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut alongside Tony Award nominee and four-time Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, and two-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award winner, and seven-time Emmy Award winner Allison Janney, Actor Award winner Joe Keery, and Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe in the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony Award-winning play Other Desert Cities, directed by Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey.

MP + JS: Anon @ MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater, through November 1, 2026
by Anne Washburn
directed by Anne Kauffman
When a gay pride flag is unfurled across the street from Jeanie, an increasingly online TikToker in a suburb in Texas, two seemingly different households…freak out. How well do you know the people you live among, and with, in an America where the line between fantasy and reality has become increasingly optional?

The cast of ANON will include Jeff Biehl (The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire), Crystal Finn (Cold War Choir Practice), Andrew Garman (The Holdovers), Izabel Mar (Family), and Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park).

JS: Slam Frank @ Orpheum Theatre, through November 30, 2026
The Anne-Frank Afro-Latin Hip-Hop Musical
Music and Lyrics by ANDREW FOX
Book by ​ JOEL SINENSKY

MP: A Ghost in Your Ear @ Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, through December 12, 2026 (extended!)
written and directed by Jamie Armitage
featuring sound design by the duo Ben & Max Ringham
starring Lucas Iverson and Owen Campbell

JS + MP: Good Time Charlie @ The Public’s Martinson Hall, through October 25, 2026
written by Ryan J. Haddad
directed by Danny Sharron
As a young man, Charlie dreamt of a life on the stage, but his parents thought dentistry sounded better, so he channeled his passion for culture into his nephew Ryan—a fellow theater-loving gay kid with Broadway ambitions. Spanning more than three decades, GOOD TIME CHARLIE is a multigenerational story of gay men growing up, falling in love, and cherishing the arts. This comedic, theatrical love letter celebrates the people who teach us how to dream. 

The complete ensemble-cast of GOOD TIME CHARLIE includes Sherz Aletaha (Understudy), Timothy Bagley (Lou), Nicholas Barrón (Understudy), Michael Cristofer (Sheldon), Ryan J. Haddad (Ryan), Beth Malone (Janice), Nael Nacer (Charlie Sr./Bob), Artemis Pebdani (Joan/Judy), Jonathan Raviv (Charlie), and Doug Shapiro (Understudy).

JS: Memoirs Of Amorous Gentlemen @ The Night Egg at The Culture Club, through January 3, 2027
Based on the manga graphic novel “Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen” by Moyoco Anno
music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik
book by Leah Nanako Winkler
directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford

JS: The Hairy Ape @ the Irish Rep, through November 15, 2026
Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly
Starring Jon Beavers, Jonathan Crimeni, Nayib Felix, Joanna Glushak, Ariyan Kassam, John Keating, Hassiem Muhammad, Adam Petherbridge, Elizabeth Teeter, Harrison Tipping, Audrey Cardwell, Richard Hollis

Discussion:

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Peter’s Brainteaser:

These five Broadway productions are listed in a sequence that brings to mind a mega-hit Tony winning musical.
Next Time I’ll Sing to You
The Flip Side
Fire
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Moose Murders

Michael’s Musical Moments

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On today’s episode, Matt Tamanini is in conversation with the writers of the new Off-Broadway musical “The King’s Critique,” Nat Zegree and Eric Holmes. The pair began working on the show about a decade ago and are finally bringing it to the stage beginning on Nov. 3 at the Pershing Square Signature Center.

In the show, King Benjamin (Justin Collette) decrees that women are strictly forbidden from performing onstage. Josephine (Taylor Iman Jones) is determined to change that, and she hatches an elaborate plan with fckboy tenor Sebastian (Sky Lakota-Lynch)… but if you’ve ever seen theater people try to execute any sort of plan, you can guess what happens next. And there’s a fckboy tenor involved — so whatever chaos you’re imagining, double it.

The press materials compare it to if “Bridgerton” and “South Park” had a baby, call it “more infectious than the plague and more fun than a magnificent ship full of gay men and Patti LuPone,” and it draws on the traditions of “Spamalot,” “The Book of Mormon,” and “Something Rotten!”

Learn more about “The King’s Critique” and purchase tickets:
https://kingscritiquemusical.com/

Breaking down the Broadway grosses and major theatre news

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1) Last week’s Broadway grosses:
https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/grosses-broadway-nyc/

2) Broadway revival of ‘Three Days of Rain’ announces house, dates
https://deadline.com/2026/10/three-days-of-rain-broadway-opening-date-1237153700/

3) Reece Weaver extends run in Chicago for final time
https://playbill.com/article/americas-sweethearts-reece-weaver-announces-final-extension-in-broadways-chicago

4) ‘Downstate’ postpones first preview due to illness in cast
https://deadline.com/2026/10/downstate-broadway-opening-date-1237155592/

5) Ovation Rights purchases rights to ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Broadway run, paying investors immediately
https://deadline.com/2026/10/hells-kitchen-alicia-keys-ovation-rights-broadway-1237155626/

On today’s episode, Matt Tamanini is in conversation with two of the stars of the upcoming Off-Broadway play “Aftermath,” Steven Skybell and Jill Stern. Not only do the two play a married couple in the show, but they have been friends for nearly five decades, and it was Jill who got Steven on board the project, as she is not only an actor in the show but also a producer.

“Aftermath” — which begins performances on Monday, Oct. 19, at the Mezzanine Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theatres — follows 28-year-old freelance journalist Josh Goldman (played by Danny Kornfeld), who has just survived a Taliban kidnapping in Afghanistan and is now recovering in his childhood home with his parents (Skybell and Stern).

As Josh struggles to reconnect with his family and make sense of what he’s endured, we learn how the young journalist found the courage to take on his most dangerous assignment, and at what cost. This timely drama examines questions of moral responsibility, privilege, and sacrifice in the context of global political conflict and family ties. 

Get more information about “Aftermath” and purchase tickets:
https://aftermaththeplay.com/

‘Chicago’ stars join 30th anniversary, Gugino joins ‘A View From the Bridge,’ busy week in New York

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1) Neuwirth, Naughton, other alums join ‘Chicago’ 30th anniversary celebration
https://deadline.com/2026/10/chicago-broadway-anniversary-bebe-neuwirth-whitney-leavitt-1237149959/

2) Gugino, Pecinka, more join ‘A View From the Bridge’
https://deadline.com/2026/10/view-from-the-bridge-off-broadway-cast-1237150022/

3) ‘Paranormal Activity’ extends on Broadway
https://deadline.com/2026/10/paranormal-activity-broadway-closing-date-1237150533/

4) Lili Cooper, George Abud join Off-Broadway’s ‘Spring Awakening’
https://playbill.com/article/lilli-cooper-and-george-abud-join-spring-awakening-off-broadway-revival

5) Chilina Kennedy, Max Monnig to join ‘The Great Gatsby’
https://playbill.com/article/chilina-kennedy-sets-return-to-broadways-the-great-gatsby-max-monnig-will-join-cast

6) Intimate Off-Broadway show ‘Slanted Floors’ to return
https://playbill.com/article/slanted-floors-starring-kyle-beltran-and-adam-chanler-berat-sets-off-broadway-run

7) This week’s theatrical schedule

Tuesday, Oct. 13
Previews: ‘Rope’ Off-Broadway from The New Group
https://thenewgroup.org/events/rope-2026-10-13-700-pm/ 

Previews: ‘The Unbelievers’ Off-Broadway from Manhattan Theatre Club
https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/shows/2026-27-season/the-unbelievers/ 

Wednesday, Oct. 14
Opening: ‘ANON: a tempest at our kitchen table’ Off-Broadway at MCC
https://mcctheater.org/tix/anon/ 

Thursday, Oct. 15
Previews: ‘Wanted’ on Broadway
https://wantedmusical.com/ 

Opening: ‘The Ask’ Off-Broadway at Theater 555
https://theaskplay.com/ 

Opening: ‘Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen’ Off-Broadway at The Culture Club
https://www.memoirsmusical.com/ 

Opening: ‘MIDNIGHT’ Off-Broadway at Daryl Roth Theatre
https://www.midnightoffbway.com/ 

Previews: ‘Ms. Blakk for President’ Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre
https://vineyardtheatre.org/shows/msblackforpresident/ 

Previews: ‘Waiting for Lefty’ Off-Broadway from Classic Stage Company
https://www.classicstage.org/lefty/ 

Friday, Oct. 16
Previews: ‘I Became We’ Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company
https://atlantictheater.org/production/i-became-we/ 

Previews: ‘Sea Wall’ Off-Broadway at Studio Seaview’
https://studioseaview.com/show/sea-wall/ 

Sunday, Oct. 18
Opening: ‘Other Desert Cities’ on Broadway
https://otherdesertcitiesbroadway.com/ 

Opening: ‘Two Girls’ Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre
https://cherrylanetheatre.org/shows/two-girls 

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Slam Frank @ Orpheum Theatre, A Celebration of Rodgers and Hart @ Carnegie Hall, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Out of the Box Theatrics’ production of Soon @ St. Luke’s Theatre, and Apricot Sky Productions’ Kill Goofy @ The Grove Street Theatre.

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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day desk calendar – A SHOW TUNE FOR TODAY – 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year – is available at finer retailers!

Larry, The Big-Time Broadway Producer @ The Hopkinton Center for the Arts (HCA)
October 9 – 18, 2026

Showtune for Today: Give The Little Lady (A Great Big Hand) from Goldilocks

Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE has been a theater journalist for more than 50 years. The founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. Additionally, Michael is known as a producer and director of shows at the Laurie Beechman Theatre and other venues.

James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
BroadwayStars

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All the Drama: “Clybourne Park”, 2011 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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54 LOVES CAST ALBUMS! THIRD EDITION
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PF: Slam Frank @ Orpheum Theatre, through November 30, 2026
The Anne-Frank Afro-Latin Hip-Hop Musical
Music and Lyrics by ANDREW FOX
Book by ​ JOEL SINENSKY

Slam Frank imagines what happens when a progressive theater company asks themselves that same question, applying the rules and tropes of progressive theater to The Diary of Anne Frank.
Transcending all taste and decency, they transform Anne Frank’s true story into an intersectional, multi-ethnic, genderqueer, decolonized, anti-capitalist, hyper-empowering Afro-Latin hip-hop musical.
This play-within-a-play is one of the most shocking and talked-about theatrical satires to hit off-Broadway in generations. And you, the audience, have the privilege of witnessing it.

MP: A Celebration of Rodgers and Hart @ Carnegie Hall, Presented by singforyoursupper LLC, Monday, October 5, 2026

PF: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, through November 15, 2026
written by Tony Award nominee Jocelyn Bioh, and directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Whitney White

PF: Out of the Box Theatrics’ production of Soon @ St. Luke’s Theatre, through November 8, 2026
A New Musical by Nick Blaemire
Presented by Out of the Box Theatrics in association with Bella Vita Entertainment, Dru Margolis, and Red Horse LLC
Directed by Will Blum
Music Supervision by Wiley DeWeese
Music Direction by Andy Collopy

PF: Apricot Sky Productions’ Kill Goofy @ The Grove Street Theatre in Montclair, NJ, Through October 25, 2026

Kill Goofy is a full-length play by playwright Eric Alter and directed by David C. Neal, premiering at The Grove Street Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey

Freddy is forty-three, unemployed, and living in the same bedroom he grew up in, surrounded by the same Disney posters. His mother has met someone in Florida and is trying to work out whether she’s allowed to have a life. Barney, his best friend from childhood, is a psychologist in Ohio with a wife, a daughter, and a practice full of people who think he has the answers.

When they were thirteen, both boys were sexually abused by the same teacher. It became the biggest scandal the town had ever had. Barney’s family moved away. Freddy stayed.

Thirty years later Barney is back, and the two men finally have to face the strangest part of it: they were best friends the whole time, and they never told each other.

Discussion:

Future Episodes:

Peter’s Brainteaser:

What Frank Loesser song could apply to Audra McDonald and Heidi Blickenstaff?

Michael’s Musical Moments

54 LOVES CAST ALBUMS! THIRD EDITION – GUYS AND DOLLS, featuring Ben Jones and Josie de Guzman

Music Opener: “My Time of Day,” Ben Jones

Music Closer: “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” Ben Jones and Josie de Guzman

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All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris

Credit: Nathan Johnson Photography

Clybourne Park Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Clybourne_Park

Bruce Norris Wikipedia page:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Norris_(playwright)

Clybourne Park script
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/13190/clybourne-park

“A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/2794/a-raisin-in-the-sun

Beneatha’s Place by Kwame Kwei-Armah
https://a.co/d/0d7SzIRx

“In Chicago’s ‘Clybourne Park,’ everything and nothing seem to change,” original Chicago production review by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/09/19/in-chicagos-clybourne-park-everything-and-nothing-seem-to-change-2/

“Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors” original off-Broadway review by Ben Brantley, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/theater/reviews/22clybourne.html

“Slashing the Tires on the Welcome Wagon,” review by Ben Brantley, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/theater/reviews/clybourne-park-by-bruce-norris-at-walter-kerr-theater.html

Bruce Norris wins Pulitzer for set-in-Chicago ‘Clybourne Park’, Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/04/18/bruce-norris-wins-pulitzer-for-set-in-chicago-clybourne-park/

“Everybody Loves Bruce Norris” by Tony Adler, Chicago Magazine
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/06/19/everybody-loves-bruce-norris/

“Bruce Norris in the Danger Zone” by Beatrice Basso and Dan Rubin, American Theatre
https://www.americantheatre.org/2011/10/01/bruce-norris-in-the-danger-zone/

“In the Form of an Argument: The Plays of Bruce Norris” by Chad Dexter Kinsman
https://www.studiotheatre.org/plays/play-detail/2024-2025/downstate/the-plays-of-bruce-norris

“Hansberry’s long shadow in ‘Raisin Cycle’” by Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/hansberrys-long-shadow-in-raisin-cycle/2013/04/04/4ffaf0ae-9baa-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html

Guthrie Theater’s smug and offensive “Clybourne Park” perpetuates the illusion of a “post-Civil-Rights” society” by Peter Rachleff, Twin Cities Daily Planet
https://spokesman-recorder.com/2013/07/02/guthrie-theaters-smug-and-offensive-clybourne-park-perpetuates-the-illusion-of-a-post-civil-rights-society/

“The Wrath of Run” by Michael Riedel, The New York Post
https://nypost.com/2012/02/01/the-wrath-of-rudin/

Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park, Kurt Andersen, Studio 360
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/studio/segments/213445-bruce-norris-clybourne-park

Conversation: Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer-winning Play ‘Clybourne Park’, PBS NewsHour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M43MBAwD34A

CLYBOURNE PARK, Mammoth Lakes Repertory Theatre production video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AIQWuul6gs

For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the episode name.

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Broadway & Me
Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.

Breaking down the Broadway grosses and major theatre news

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For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the episode name.

1) Last week’s Broadway grosses:
https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/grosses-broadway-nyc/

2) Anthony Mackie to lead ‘Macbeth’ on Broadway this spring
https://deadline.com/2026/10/anthony-mackie-macbeth-broadway-avengers-star-1237146358/

3) ‘Dirty Dancing’ tour to stop in Broadway in February
https://deadline.com/2026/10/dirty-dancing-musical-broadway-lionsgate-1237147780/

Matt’s 2016 review of ‘Dirty Dancing’ national tour:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/orlando/article/BWW-Review-DIRTY-DANCING-is-a-Disappointing-Disservice-to-Original-Film-20160330

4) ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ announces Broadway cast
https://deadline.com/2026/10/here-there-are-blueberries-broadway-cast-1237145879/

5) ‘Phantom’ to be filmed in London for cinema release in 2027
https://deadline.com/2026/10/andrew-lloyd-webber-phantom-of-the-opera-live-cinemas-1237148845/

6) Nicholas Christopher to lead ‘Just in Time’ on Broadway
https://playbill.com/article/nicholas-christopher-will-lead-just-in-time-on-broadway

7) Savy Jackson to play Claire full time in ‘Maybe Happy Ending’
https://playbill.com/article/savy-jackson-will-be-maybe-happy-endings-full-time-claire-hannah-kevitt-sets-final-bow

On today’s episode, Matt Tamanini is in conversation with composer and lyricist Timothy L. Michuda. Along with Ben Ward, the pair have written the musical “Turing,” based on the life of legendary mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing. Not only was Turing instrumental in the Allied Powers’ fight against the Nazis in World War II, but later in life, he was put on trial for being gay during an era when homosexuality was criminalized.

In their conversation, Matt and Timothy discuss why Turing’s complicated life called out to be musicalized and why the writers chose to divide his life into three distinct chapters, but rather than tell them chronologically, to interweave them to bring attention to patterns and puzzles found in his history.

The first three songs from the “Turing” EP are available now wherever you get your music, with three more tracks being released on Friday, Oct. 9.

Listen to the “Turing” tracks here:
https://www.turingmusical.com/

Hilty and Rannells to lead ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ ‘Dolly’ announces leads, Matty Morrison to return to ‘Just in Time’

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1) Rannels, Hilty, Burgess to lead ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ on Broadway
https://deadline.com/2026/10/its-a-wonderful-life-a-live-radio-play-broadway-megan-hilty-1237144438/

2) ‘Dolly’ musical announces principal Broadway cast
https://deadline.com/2026/10/dolly-parton-broadway-musical-lead-cast-katie-rose-clarke-1237145459/

3) Show and casting news

Matthew Morrison to return to ‘Just in Time’ for another limited engagement
https://playbill.com/article/matthew-morrison-will-return-to-broadways-just-in-time

Public adds multiple shows to 2026-27 season
https://playbill.com/article/the-public-adds-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank-new-york-premiere-wendell-pierce-led-henry-iv-more-to-upcoming-season

Tina Benko, Rebecca Naomi Jones to lead ‘Elektra’ Off-Broadway
https://playbill.com/article/the-public-adds-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank-new-york-premiere-wendell-pierce-led-henry-iv-more-to-upcoming-season

Playwrights Horizons extends ‘Degenerates’ Off-Broadway
https://playbill.com/article/else-wents-incel-themed-degenerates-extends-again-off-broadway-at-playwrights-horizons

4) This week’s theatrical schedule

Monday, Oct. 5
Opening: ‘Soon’ Off-Broadway at St. Luke’s Theatre
https://www.ootbtheatrics.com/soon 

Closes: ‘September L. Davis: The Apology Tour’ at Studio Seaview
https://studioseaview.com/show/september-davis/ 

Tuesday, Oct. 6
Previews: ‘The Ask’ Off-Broadway at Theater 555
https://theaskplay.com/ 

Previews: King of Yees’ Off-Broadway at Signature Center
https://signaturetheatre.org/show/king-of-the-yees/ 

Thursday, Oct. 8
Previews: ‘A Few Good Men’ on Broadway
https://lct.org/shows/a-few-good-men/

Previews: ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ Off-Broadway at the Public Theater
https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2627/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button/ 

Previews: ‘The Heart’ Off-Broadway from Roundabout Theatre Company
https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/production/2026-2027-season/the-heart/ 

Friday, Oct. 9
Opening: ‘A Ghost in Your Ear’ Off-Broadway at Minetta Lane Theatre
https://audiblexminetta.com/shows/a-ghost-in-your-ear 

Opening: Good Time Charlie Off-Broadway at the Public Theater
https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2627/good-time-charlie/ 

Sunday, Oct. 11
Closing: ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages
https://spellingbeenyc.com/ 

Closing: ‘Fish’ Off-Broadway at the WP Theater
https://wptheater.org/show/fish/ 

Closing: ‘Garry Starr: Classic Penguins’ Off-Broadway at Studio Seaview
https://studioseaview.com/show/garry-starr-classic-penguins/ 

Closing: ‘Heathers: The Musical’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages
https://heathersthemusical.com/new-york/