Trouble in Mind will offer 300 discounted tickets for each of its preview performances, in partnership with R&B radio station 107.5 WBLS-FM. The Roundabout Theatre production will offer the tickets at a price point of $19.57, the date of the play’s intended Broadway debut, in each section of the 740-seat theater. The tickets will be offered through a promotion with the radio station, which bills itself as “the nation’s most recognized Black radio station,” in an effort to broaden accessibility on Broadway. “Trouble in Mind,” written by Alice Childress, follows a Black stage actor (LaChanze), as she deals with racism and egoism in the theater world. Charles Randolph-Wright directs the production. RoundaboutTheatre.org

The Public Theater announced complete casting for the world premiere of CULLUD WATTAH, written by 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner Erika Dickerson-Despenza and directed by Candis C. Jones. CULLUD WATTAH will begin performances in the Martinson Theater with a Joseph Papp Free Performance on Thursday, November 2. The new play will run through Sunday, December 5, with an official press opening on Wednesday, November 17. The complete cast ofCULLUD WATTAH features Crystal Dickinson (Marion), Jennean Farmer (Marion/Ainee Understudy),Lizan Mitchell (Big Ma), Ta’Neesha Murphy (Plum/Reesee Understudy), Andrea Patterson (Ainee), Alicia Pilgrim (Plum), Chavez Ravine (Big Ma Understudy), and Lauren F. Walker (Reesee). www.publictheater.org

Showstoppers! Spectacular Costumes from Stage & Screen, the interactive costume exhibition in the heart of Times Square, will reopen and has extended its residency at 234 West 42nd Street a second time due to popular demand, and will now run through December 5, 2021 when it absolutely must close. Showstoppers! benefits the Costume Industry Coalition, a new group created in 2020 to advocate for the survival of New York City’s custom costume industry. ShowStoppersNYC.com

Rehearsals have begun for the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning musical Jersey Boys which will play at New York City’s New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) Stage 1. Performances begin November 15, 2021. Jersey Boys stars Jonathan Cable as Nick Massi, Aaron De Jesus as Frankie Valli, CJ Pawlikowski as Bob Gaudio and John Rochette as Tommy DeVito. The production also includes Dianna Marie BargerTristen BuettelAlex Dorf, Andrew FraceWes Hart, Rory Max KaplanJoey LaVarco, Austin OwenMichelle Rombola and Paul Sabala. written byMarshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Sergio Trujillo. Tickets are on sale at the New World Stages box office or by visiting Telecharge.com

Playwrights Horizons announced the cast for Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul, running November 17 through December 23 at Playwrights’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The cast includes Dario Ladani Sanchez as Taroon, Francis Benhamou as Leyla, Mattico David as Jawid, and Marjan Neshat as Afiya. PlaywrightsHorizons.org

Classic Stage Company has partnered with TodayTix to offer a limited number of $15 tickets for all performances (except opening night) of Assassins, which runs November 2, 2021 through January 8, 2022. ClassicStage.org

Flying Over Sunset announces new cast members for Broadway run – Nehal Joshi and Kanisha Marie Feliciano have joined the cast of Lincoln Center Theater’s Flying Over Sunset.… Erika Henningsen and Jeremy Kushnier will not return to the show. FlyingOverSunset.com

Oscar-Winning Songwriter Leslie Bricusse Dead at 90  – working with Anthony Newley, he wrote the musical Stop the World—I Want to Get Off in 1961. The two also wrote The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd in 1965 and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971. Bricusse received five Tony nominations:.

Vocalist and composer Andromeda (formerly Andromeda Turre) will host a brand new concert experience, entitled EMERGING, for one performance only on Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 2:00 PM (Doors at 1:00 PM) at NYC’s The Cutting Room (44 E. 32nd St. New York, NY 10016). Tickets ($30) are available now at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/andromeda-tickets-189327763437