Previewing what’s to come, we’re joined by Lindsay, David, and our newest contributor Shavanna Calder, the founder and editor of Arts in Color, a website celebrating artists of color on stage.

There is much to look forward this month. We’ve got previews from Broadway, Off Broadway, solo shows, and even a couple of holiday inspired events. So make sure to make some time for theater during this busy season.

These Paper Bullets!, Atlantic Theater (2:30)

Mother Courage and Her Children, Classic Stage Company (6:55)

Majorie Prime, Playwrights Horizons (8:40)

Once Upon A Mattress, The Transport Group at Abrons Art Center (10:40)

The Color Purple (13:35)

Daniel Kitson A Show for Christmas (16:05)

School of Rock (18:15)

The First Noel, Apollo Theater (20:55)

Siobhan O’Loughlin Broken Bone Bathtub (22:45)

The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is #GivingTuesday and many theater artists are raising money for their upcoming projects. We highlight two, The Amoralists ‘Wright Club, a new playwright development program in New York City, and Finish Line by Boston Theater Company, an upcoming documentary stage production about the 2013 Boston Marathon. If you have the resources send them a few dollars to support the ambitious work they’re creating.

And finally, Thursday is The Wiz Live on NBC. We’re genuinely (not sarcastically) excited for it.

What have we missed? What are you looking forward to this month? Let us know!

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The work we saw this week delves into some serious issues and welcome stage representations.  Hir looks at a mother who after a lifetime of abuse chooses to live her life by a new philosophy and her genderqueer teen is along for the ride.  Her older son returns from war to the chaos of his disrupted family.  First Daughter Suite explores mothers and daughters who have lived in the White House in a chamber-opera-esque musical format.  Allegiance is a new musical about the Japanese-American internment and life during WWII for Japanese-Americans.  Trapper addresses female celebrity, hysteria, and friendships.

We’re not all in agreement on each show but these shows offer unique perspectives on these ideas.

Hir (1:20)

First Daughter Suite (16:36)

Allegiance (34:15)

Trapper (45:00)

What did you think of these shows? Let us know on Twitter: Maxamoo, David, Liz, and Nicole.

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Isaac Butler is a friend and co-host on Maxamoo.  But in this episode he gets to share with us his project, Real Enemies, that is two years in the making.  Real Enemies is a multimedia music piece created in collaboration with Butler, jazz composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue, and video artist Peter Nigrini exploring the history of American conspiracy theories through music and imagery.  From the red scare to Iran-Contra, with the help of a Argue’s jazz band, The Secret Society, Real Enemies will look at the stories behind the conspiracies.

Nicole and Isaac talk on this episode about Real Enemies and how the show came to be.  In doing so they discuss shadowy cabals, the British monarchy, music as a subversive act, 70’s cinema, Sergei Eisenstein, Roland Barthes, communism, faith in systems, the Warren Commission, the history of the CIA, television spies, fat Hamlet, and The Good Wife.

Real Enemies runs November 18-22 at the BAM Harvey theater.  Tickets can be purchased here.

You can find us all on Twitter: Maxamoo, Isaac, and Nicole.

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Aurin, Jack, and Nicole discuss their picks for theater in November.  We’ve got a bunch of shows for $25 and under.   We’ve got new writers from the US and beyond.  We’ve got classic authors with lesser known works.   We’ve got award-winning writers doing interesting new things. We’ve got shows starring the youngest and the oldest among us.  And there’s one show which involves the Buttplug Gnome and maybe some bodily fluids.   Something for everyone, kids.

Looking for Paul (3:07)

Marjorie Prime (6:23)

Incident at Vichy (11:28)

Abyss (17:00)

Night is a Room (20:55)

Ripcord (26:32)

Before Your Very Eyes (29:31)

Imaging Justice for the Dark Divine (32:57)

Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (42:00)

Estuary (44:58)

Dead and Breathing (46:27)

Brooklyn Arts Exchange (46:45)

We don’t even talk about David Bowie-Enda Walsh-Ivo van Hove’s Lazarus at New York Theatre Workshop which starts in November since it’s sold out completely but you can try for cheap tickets for dates during the show’s extension via lottery.  They have not released info about the lottery yet but check back with NYTW.  And it slipped by us when we recorded the episode, but we mentioned it when we reviewed the NAATCO production of Awake and Sing, but Lloyd Suh’s new play Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery opens in November as well.

What did we miss that you’re looking forward to in November?  Let us know.  Find us on Twitter: Maxamoo, Aurin, Jack, and Nicole.

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