Spooky Action Theater begins FREE readings in their New Works in Action program highlighting new plays on Sunday, October 20 3pm with “The Behavior of Other Animals” by Mark J. Costello, directed by Rebecca Wahls. A talk-back with the artists follows. Other readings follow on Oct 27 (The Storyteller), Nov 3 (Paper Dream), Nov 10 (The Guitarist, The Mamzer and The Bar Mitzvah).

Check out Pay-What-You-Can Previews October 18-20 (Fri & Sat @ 7pm and Sun @ 3:30pm) at The Atlas for Rorschach Theatre's site-specific production of SHE KILLS MONSTERS, a dramatic comedy about the world of fantasy role-playing games.

Creative Cauldron announced an open call for submissions for their "Bold New Voices Musical Theater Festival" (April 27-May 6, 2020), aimed at supporting musical theater works by women and women-identifying writers and composers. 3 to 5 new works will be selected and have their piece work-shopped and staged by professional actors and musicians throughout the festival run. One final musical will be chosen to have a fully funded production staged as part of Creative Cauldron’s 2020-2021 season. Submissions accepted NOW til January 10, 2020.

InterAct Story Theatre’s FREE performing arts series kicks off again Sat, October 19 at Highland Elementary School with a special performance of "Bobtail BONG BONG: A Monkey's Tail Tale." Part of the Wheaton Family Theatre Series They'll start with arts and crafts at 10:30am and a special performance of "Bobtail BONG BONG: A Monkey's Tail Tale" at 11:00am.

As part of their Boiler Room Series, Keegan Theatre has launched a Playwright in Residence Series - with the first playwright featured in the series Brandon McCoy (his West By God is now playing through Oct 20). Readings of some of McCoy's other works will take place at Keegan on Saturday afternoons in October and are FREE and open to the public. The first event took place last weekend, but you can still catch Getting In, a dark comedy directed by Matt Ripa, on Saturday, October 12, and A Band in Search of a Name, a musical directed by Ricky Drummond, on October 19.

Constellation Theatre Company presents "Little Shop of Horrors" by Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriting duo Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney's Beauty and the Beast) - starting with a PayWhatYouCan performance
Thurs, October 17 at 8pm and running til November 17. Tickets sold at the door starting 1 hour before show, first come, first served. No advance sale tickets. NOTE: There will be a photographer in the theatre for this performance.