I hadn’t planned it, but somehow we came up with a list of 13 shows for this scary month. In order not to upset the ghosts, maybe you’d better check out all 13 – just to be sure.
In the order of the start date, 13 local shows can be seen this month:
Disclosure
Pizza Chapel Theater Company, 1.-9. October
The truth is out there and Noah is looking for it. While camping in the Texas desert, hoping that the stars will shed some light on personal affairs at night, Noah is surprised by unexpected visitors and some manipulation of the space-time continuum. Pizza Chapel will use unusual staging techniques and storytelling methods to create an original play that blends the familiar and the foreign in a way that is both haunting and homemade. Audiences are invited to join in the fun and bring their own camping chair or picnic blanket to gather around the campfire.
Fabulation or the re-education of the undine
Jubilee theater, October 1st to October 24th
Written by Lynn Nottage and directed by Ayvaunn Penn, Fabulation tells the saga of Undine Barnes Calles, an ambitious and extremely confident (perhaps overconfident) celebrity, businesswoman, wife, and mother-to-be who has climbed her way to the pinnacle of success. When a big, cold dose of betrayal and reality hits her face, she falls desperately to the bottom. To get her life back on track, Undine has to go back to her urban roots: Brooklyn’s die-hard Walt Whitman projects.
Small horror shop
Theater three, 6.-31. October
Little Shop of Horrors is a deliciously devious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical that has devoured theatergoers for over 30 years. Meek flower assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles upon a new breed of plants called “Audrey II” – after their crush for colleagues. As the plant grows, Seymour begins to see how the plant that gave them everything wants to take everything (and everyone) back. Performed in the Samuell Grand Amphitheater.
In the heights
The Firehouse Theater, October 7-17
If you’ve seen the movie, now is the time to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton musical about a congregation at the top of Manhattan live and on stage. It is a community on the verge of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the greatest difficulty can be deciding which traditions to take with you and which to leave behind.
JQA
Stage West, 7.-31. October
John Quincy Adams lived his life backwards: brilliant diplomat in his youth, passionate congressman as a man, ineffectual president in his prime. This unique and contemporary piece – a regional premiere – introduces a kaleidoscope of confrontations between JQA and some of its most important contemporaries.
Good latimer
Kitchen dog theater, 8.-24. October
The play is a world premiere by Dallas-born playwright Angela Hanks and follows Dallasites Ravinia and Good, who come to a crossroads in their 35-year relationship. Ravinia has a sudden revelation: she is no longer in love with Good. And good? Far from accepting his fate, he is determined to regain it, even if it means negotiating a sky full of armadillos, a rare earthquake in north Texas and Dallass’s ever-evolving landscape.
The taming
Water Tower Theater, 13.-24. October
A patriotist Miss Georgia kidnapped a Republican senator’s campaign manager and a liberal activist fighting to save the endangered panda crew and held them hostage in her hotel room the night before the big Miss America Pageant. Contestant Katherine has political ambitions to live up to her beauty pageant ambitions in this hilarious, raw, all-female “power game” inspired by Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
The hairy monkey
The Classics Theater Company, October 13th – November 6th
Adapted and staged by Joey Folsom, with original music created and performed live by Braden Socia and Petra Milano, the ensemble explores O’Neill’s conception of expressionism in this work, which directly and powerful challenges examines the effects of alienation in the modern world.
Come away
Broadway on bass, 19.-24. October
On September 11th the world stopped. On September 12th, we were all moved by their stories. Come From Away is the true story of the small town that welcomed the world. The musical takes the audience to the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 passengers stranded and the small Newfoundland town that welcomed them.
St. Nicholas
Undermain Theater, October 20th – November 7th
Undermain is bringing back its most watched and nationally acclaimed streaming production for live performances with a lively soundscape and lighting design. A cynical and jaded playwright falls in love with a beautiful young actress. One weekend on a drunken weekend he follows her to London, where he ends up in a circle of modern vampires. Is it a drunken fairy tale or his own vision of a higher truth? Storytelling comes to life at its spooky best in this haunting solo story performed by Undermain Artistic Director Bruce DuBose.
The glass circus
District theater, October 28th – November 20th
In her cramped apartment in St. Louis, Amanda Wingfield dreams of her days as a debutante from the South as she worries about the future of her aimless son Tom and her unmarried daughter Laura. With their father absent and the Great Depression underway, the siblings find solace in their weaknesses – alcohol, movies, and writing for Tom and a collection of glass animals for Laura – which only adds to Amanda’s fear. When a gentleman caller arrives for dinner, the Wingfields are flooded with hope. But it’s unclear whether his presence will change things for the better or destroy their fragile illusions.
The earnings system
Dallas theater, October 29th – November 13th
Edwin Sanchez’s play, the second production at the Latino Cultural Center’s new black box theater, revolves around Ray Rivers (Danny Lovelle), a young Puerto Rican on his way up. Everything is going well for him except that he thinks he doesn’t deserve it. He struggles with the cost of assimilation and walks a tightrope both at the factory where he was recently promoted to management and with his fiancée. When a recently divorced Cuca (Dolores Godinez) joins the assembly line to earn enough money to return to her beloved Puerto Rico, an unexpected friendship develops between Ray and Cuca that allows him to finally accept the part of himself long no.
Exit
Amphibious stage, October 29th – November 14th
This world premiere is a psychological thriller that explores how spaces can protect or trap us. Imagine this: You are an architecture professor who specializes in exit routes. You are trying to teach your students to care about safe passage through rooms and they write about doors and windows. You write about transparent open spaces versus closed systems without entrances and exits. You don’t sleep soundly at night because you startle and wonder what was just in the room with you. You know it was something big and cold and wet and it just came in like it was his. What do you expect to find you? How do you get away
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