Today on Broadway: Monday, October 7, 2019

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Critics Review “Slave Play” on Broadway, Two Legends Pass Away, ATG to Go Up for Sale!

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This Week on Broadway for October 6, 2019: The Great Society

1) Reviews are in for “Slave Play” on Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-What-Did-the-Critics-Think-of-SLAVE-PLAY-on-Broadway-Updating-Live-20191006

2) This Week’s Theatrical Schedule

Monday, October 7^th

Opening: “The Wrong Man” Off-Broadway from MCC

https://mcctheater.org/tix/the-wrong-man/

Tuesday, October 8^th

Previews: “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” Off-Broadway from the Public Theatre

https://publictheater.org/productions/season/1920/for-colored-girls/

Previews: “Only Human” Off-Broadway

http://www.onlyhumanmusical.com/

Wednesday, October 9^th

Performances: “Footloose” Broadway Center Stage Production at the Kennedy Center

https://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/TUTSK

Thursday, October 10^th

Opening: “Linda Vista” on Broadway from Second Stage

https://2st.com/shows/linda-vista

Opening: “Georgia Mertching Is Dead” Off-Broadway from Ensemble Studio Theatre

https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20192020/2019/10/2/georgia-mertching-is-dead

Previews: “Macbeth” Off-Broadway from the Classic Stage Company

http://classicstage.org/shows/macbethcsc/

Saturday, October 12^th

Previews: “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” on Broadway

https://tinathemusical.com/

Previews: “Cyrano” Off-Broadway from the New Group

Performances: “The Light in the Piazza” at L.A. Opera

https://www.laopera.org/performances/201920-season/the-light-in-the-piazza/

Closing: “Kiss My Aztec!”

Sunday, October 13^th

Closing: “Novenas for a Lost Hospital”

https://www.rattlestick.org/20192020-season/2019/8/15/novenas-for-a-lost-hospital-e9flc

Closing: “Sunday”

https://atlantictheater.org/production/sunday/

Closing: “runboyrun” and “In Old Age”

3) Two Stage and Screen Stars Pass Away

Tony Winner Diahann Carroll Passes Away at 84

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Tony-Winner-Diahann-Carroll-Passes-Away-at-84-20191004

Star of Stage and Screen Rip Taylor Dies

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Star-of-Stage-and-Screen-Rip-Taylor-Dies-20191006

4) In Other News

Ambassador Theatre Group Reportedly to Go up for Sale

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/curtain-up-for-500m-sale-of-ambassador-theatre-group-7q33wgqz0

Michael Jackson Musical Changes Title, Workshop Underway

http://www.playbill.com/article/michael-jackson-musical-gets-new-title-ahead-of-broadway-debut

Cast Announced for “Sing Street” Adaptation at NYTW

https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Full-Cast-Announced-for-SING-STREET-20191004