Luxury Calendar October Entertainment

Film.

• The Hamptons International Film Festival will see Julie Andrews receive a lifetime achievement award – Oct 5-9
• Blade Runner 2049 is the sequel to the 1982 sci-fi flick from Warner Brothers; Jared Leto, Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford star – Oct 6
• The Mountain Between Us stars Kate Winslet and Idris Elba as strangers stranded on a desolate mountain range after their charter plane crashes – Oct 6
• Faces Places is a journey through small towns in France to shine a light on overlooked professions and activities, directed by Agnes Varga – Oct 6
• The Florida Project, directed by Sean Baker (Tangerine), centers on a seedy motel near Disney World, where the 6-year old heroine lives and manages to find joy – Oct 6
• Marshall is a courtroom thriller about a seminal case early in the career of future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, directed by Reginald Hudlin and starring Chadwick Boseman – Oct 13
• Goodbye Christopher Robin stars Margot Robbie in a film about the true story behind the beloved children’s book series written by A.A. Milne – Oct 13
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), written and directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, is a comedy about a dysfunctional family – Oct 13
• Breathe is the directorial debut of Andy Serkis (Caesar in Planet of the Apes), a biopic about Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), who became an advocate for the disabled after contracting polio – Claire Foy plays his wife, Diana– Oct 13
• Human Flow is a documentary directed by artist Ai Weiwei examining the refugee crisis in over 20 countries – Oct 13
• Wonderstruck, directed by Todd Haynes with a screenplay by Brian Selznick, alternates between the parallel journeys of two kids in New York – in 1927, a deaf girl searches for a movie star; in 1977, a deaf boy seeks his father – Oct 20
• In the thriller The Snowman, Michael Fassbender brings Jo Nesbo’s detective to life – Oct 20
• Dealt is a documentary portrait of card magician Richard Turner, who happens to be blind – Oct 20
• Same Kind of Different as Me stars Greg Kinnear and Djimon Hounsou as an art dealer and the homeless man he befriends; Renee Zellweger and Jon Voight co-star – Oct 20
• Novitiate, the story of a young woman who decides to become a nun, stars Melissa Leo and is directed by Maggie Betts – Oct 27
• In All I See is You, Blake Lively plays a woman blinded in her youth who regains her sight from an operation and learns that her husband isn’t the man she thought he was – Oct 27
• Suburbicon, written by the Coen brothers and directed by George Clooney, is reportedly not a comedy; Matt Damon plays a man who gives into dark impulses after his wife is killed – Oct 27
• In Thank You for Your Service, Miles Teller portrays a returning Iraq war veteran; Amy Schumer co-stars and Jason Hall (American Sniper) directs – Oct 27

Television.

• Curb Your Enthusiasm returns to HBO for Season 9 – Oct 1
• Ten Days in the Valley is a 10-episode crime thriller on ABC starring Kyra Sedgwick as a TV producer and single mom whose daughter goes missing – Oct 1
• Ghosted is a new sitcom on Fox that plays comedic homage to the X-Files – Oct 1
• From the from the creators of The Crown and Outlander, The Halcyon makes its premiere on Ovation – set in a luxury hotel during the Blitz, the show revolves around not only the drama amongst the well-to-do guests, but also the goings-on of the staff – Oct 2
• The CW reboots Dynasty, the Aaron Spelling prime-time soap classic, relocating the crazy from Denver to Atlanta; Elizabeth Gillies is Fallon, and Nathalie Kelley is Cristal – Oct 11
• Robot returns for season three on USA, with Bobby Cannavale joining the cast – Oct 11
• I Love You, America on Hulu is an interview show hosted by Sarah Silverman – Oct 12
• The Walking Dead returns for its 8^th season on AMC – Oct 22
• The Last O.G. on TBS stars Tracy Morgan as an ex-con adjusting to life in Brooklyn – Tiffany Haddish plays his ex-girlfriend, now married to a wealthy man – Oct 24
• The 29^th season of the Simpsons starts on Fox this month
• Stranger Things season 2 on Netflix drops – Oct 27

Theater.

• Desperate Measures is a comedy set in 1890 at the York Theater Company; in a lawless territory out west, a hot-tempered young cowboy finds himself sentenced to hang for killing a man in a bar fight. His sister, a novice nun, is persuaded to plead with a corrupt governor to spare her brother’s life; the governor promises a pardon if she’ll “do his bidding” for the night. Hilarity ensues – Oct 1
• In London, acclaimed Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón makes his Royal Court Theater debut with the world premiere of his playB, about three friends who turn to political violence in a quest to be heard – Oct 2-21
• Following its critically-acclaimed and sold-out run last season, Tiny Beautiful Things opens at the Public Theater with Academy Award-nominee Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) reprising the role of Sugar; thousands of people wrote letters asking for advice from an anonymous online columnist named Sugar, who was later revealed to be Cheryl Strayed, author of the best-selling memoir Wild – Oct 2
• Springsteen on Broadway will see The Boss making his debut on the Great White Way at age 67 with a solo production that will run 5 shows per week at the Walter Kerr Theater – Oct 3 (preview), opening Oct 12 for run until Nov 26
• At the Chichester Festival Theater, Blanche McIntyre will direct a revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy of interconnecting plays The Norman Conquests; the plays, set over a summer weekend at an English country house, show family life from distinctly differing perspectives, performed by one ensemble of actors. – Oct 3-28.
• London’s Vaults, the subterranean venue beneath Waterloo Station, will be transformed into an immersive ‘60s venue for a new production of the musical Hair; originally seen at Manchester’s Hope Mills Theatre last year, the production will include ‘60s-themed pop up restaurants and themed drinks, and stalls selling vintage and tie dye clothes, pins, and memorabilia – Oct 4
• Actor and playwright NSangou Njikam brings Syncing Ink, a semi-autobiographical story about a young man discovering his passion for rap, to the Flea Theater in TriBeCa – Oct 8-29z
• Tony and Olivier-Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle makes its West End premiere at Wyndham’s Theatre in a production starring Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham; when two strangers meet by chance amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, their lives are changed forever – Oct 9-Jan 6, 2018
• Chekhov’s The Seagull is rejuvenated in a new adaptation by Olivier-award winning playwright Simon Stephens, directed by Sean Holmes and starring Lesley Sharp as Irina Arkadina at London’s Lyric Hammersmith – Oct 10-Nov 4
• On Broadway, Time and the Conways is the story of a British family seen first in 1919, and again at the end of WW2; Elizabeth McGovern stars in this limited run – Oct 10-Nov 26
• Measure for Measure is interpreted by Elevator Repair Service as a Marx Brothers-inspired farce at The Public Theater – Oct 10-Nov 5
• Director Thomas Ostermeier will stage a German-language version of Richard III at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival – Lars Eidinger plays the man who would be king – Oct 11-14
• In Torch Song, opening at the Second Stage Theater, Moises Kaufman directs a condensed version of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy: it’s 1979 in New York City and Arnold Beckoff (Michael Urie) is a drag queen on a quest for love, purpose and family – Oct 19
• The Last Match at the Laura Pels Theater sees a seasoned American tennis star facing a hotshot Russian rival at the US Open; Gaye Taylor Upchurch directs – Oct 24-Dec 24
• John Patrick Shanley’s latest, The Portuguese Kid, at the Manhattan Theater Club Stage 1 is set in Providence, Rhode Island; a habitually widowed woman pays a visit to her second-rate lawyer (played by Jason Alexander) to settle her latest husband’s affairs – Oct 24-Nov 26
• Set in South Central LA, Oedipus El Reyat the Public Theater is a new take on the Greek tragedy written by Luis Alfaro; Oedipus is reimagined as a troubled Latino ex-con – Oct 24
• The Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang’s Tony-winning drama Butterfly, based on Puccini’s opera, will begin previews Oct 7 at the Cort Theater; the production, directed by Julie Taymor and starring Clive Owen and Jin Ha, features new music – opening Oct 26
• Young Marx at London’s Bridge Theater reunites the creative team behind Richard Bean’s smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors, with direction by Nicholas Hytner; Rory Kinnear portrays the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary living on the run in the streets of 1850s’ London as “a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy,” and Oliver Chris is his despairing friend Engels – Oct 26-Dec 31
• Romantics Anonymous is a new musical about what it takes to survive and love in the modern world; adapted by Emma Rice from the French-Belgian film Les Émotifs Anonymes, with lyrics and music by Christopher Dimond and Michael Kooman; it plays in London at the Shakespeare Globe Theater’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse – Oct 27-Jan 6, 2018
• Red Roses, Green Gold at the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village is a musical inspired by the Grateful Dead, featuring music and lyrics by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia – other founding members of the band will provide additional music; the show is set in Maryland in the 1920s is a comedic tale of a swindler and his family – opens Oct 29
• Illyria is a play about Joseph Papp, founder of The Public Theater – the title refers to Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s comedy of love and identity – previews Oct 22, opening Oct 30

Popular Music.

• Ash is the second album from Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz, the Parisian-Cuban duo behind the electro-soul Ibeyi – Oct 1
• I Tell a Fly is singer and pianist Benjamin Clementine’s concept record about a friendship between two flies; he’s favorably being compared to Nina Simone and Edith Piaf – Oct 2
• Katy Perry plays Madison Square Garden – Oct 2 & 6
• Bruno Mars is at the Barclay’s Center – Oct 4
• Singer Kelela makes her official debut with Take Me Apart, a record about a breakup – Oct 6
• San Francisco rapper Antwon releases his new album, Sunnyvale – Oct 6
• Tony Bennett celebrates his 90^th birthday in performance at Radio City Music Hall – Oct 6
• The Austin City Limits music festival takes place over two weekends this month; Solange, Chance the Rapper, Tove Lo, The Killers and Gorillaz are set to headline both weekends, while up-and-coming artists Jamila Woods and Bibi Bourelly will likely make household names for themselves (ACL is known for being one of the best festivals for discovering new talent) – Oct 6-8 and Oct 13-15
• Pink releases her latest album, Beautiful Trauma – Oct 13
• The 2^nd annual Festival of Disruption at the Ace Hotel in LA is curated by filmmaker David Lynch and includes music, lectures, film screenings and group meditation – Oct 14-15
• Jessie Ware drops her third album, Glasshouse, with contributions from Ed Sheeran and Julia Michaels – Oct 20
• The Breakin’ Convention, a hip-hop dance festival, returns to the Apollo Theater – Oct 27-29
• The Voodoo Music and Arts Experience in New Orleans is the perfect place to celebrate Halloween weekend: the festival encourages the creepy, weird and wonderful to “join the ritual” by jamming to more than 70 acts, hanging out in a haunted cemetery and other large-scale art installations, dressing up in costume and sampling signature cuisine. This year’s headliners include Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, The Killers, LCD Soundsystem and DJ Snake – Oct 27-29
• Kelly Clarkson’s 8th album, Meaning of Life, drops Oct 27
• Jay-Z launches his North American tour for 4:44 in one of the most anticipated music tours of the year – Oct 27-Dec 21
• Soul singer Curtis Harding drops his latest album, Face Your Fear – Oct 27

Books.

• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression, then leaps ahead to WW2; the protagonist is Anna, who works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. Described as “mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller,” this promises to be one of the important new works of the fall – Oct 3
• The Prague Sonata by novelist Bradford Morrow travels from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript – Oct 3
• Fresh Complaint is Jeffrey Eugenides’ first collection of short stories; there are tales of aesthetic and romantic failures, including one featuring an embezzling poet – Oct 3
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a book of new and collected essays in which the author considers race in American history from Reconstruction through the Obama years – Oct 3
• The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen traces the past 30 years of Russian history – Oct 3
• Nasty Women is an essay collection by women writers on how to unite, survive and resist under current conditions in the US – Oct 3
• I’m Fine . . . And Other Lies by comedian and creator of Two Broke Girls Whitney Cummings is a tell-all/memoir about her struggles with an anxiety disorder– Oct 3
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado is a collection of stories, each of which has an unusual and surprising idea that communicates the experience of living inside a woman’s body – Oct 3
• Dunbar is a reimagining of King Lear by British novelist Edward St. Aubyn, best known for his Patrick Melrose novels, which are bleak portraits of family life – Oct 3
• The Secret Life by Andrew O’Hagan is comprised of three case studies on Julian Assange, bitcoin, and digital personas, intended to provoke thought about the internet – Oct 10
• The Apparitionists by Peter Manseau is a historical account of the way in which fraudulent photographers preyed upon grieving mourners – including Lincoln’s widow – with séances and ghost portraits – Oct 10
• The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman is the prequel to Practical Magic – Oct 10
• Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver is a personal selection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s best work spanning more than five decades – Oct 10
• In The Power by Naomi Alderman, suddenly all over the world, teenage girls develop the ability to send an electric charge from the tips of their fingers; they pass this ability on to older women, and the world ultimately becomes ruled by females. Is this chronicle of the early days of matriarchy’s rise a horror story or wish fulfillment? You decide – Oct 10
• At the Blenheim Palace Literary Festival in Oxfordshire, there will be a series of lectures and parties – Oct 12-15
• Uncommon Type is a collection of short stories penned by actor Tom Hanks – Oct 17
• Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe, with whom the artist cooperated, covers the singer’s childhood in Canada, early marriage and stellar musical career; it includes interviews with Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen – Oct 17
• The Floating World by C. Margan Babst is a debut novel set in New Orleans that tracks the experiences of five multiracial family members from the pre-Katrina evacuation of the city through late November 2005, 93 days after landfall – Oct 17
• Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly – Oct 17
• The 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will be commemorated by the British Library, where wizardry books and manuscripts will be on display – Oct 20-Feb 28, 2018
• Vacationland by John Hodgeman is the comedian’s account, via a collection of essays, of his experience of middle age, fatherhood, and the joys of New England – Oct 24
• The King is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcon is a series of meditations on struggle, loss and redemption – Oct 31

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