Alabama
Montgomery
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Holiday Memories
Nov. 17-Dec. 23
Truman Capote's stories of his boyhood adventures in Monroeville, Ala., have been adapted for the stage.
(334) 271-5353
California
San Diego
Old Globe Theatre
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Nov. 19-Dec. 31
The Grinch takes center stage for the third year at the Old Globe, in this holiday musical of the Dr. Seuss classic.
(619) 239-2255
www.oldglobe.org
San Francisco
American Conservatory Theater
Glengarry Glen Ross
Jan. 4-Feb. 4
David Mamet's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning play (later made into a movie) revels in the dark struggles for power and bucks at a real estate office.
(415) 749-2ACT
www.act-sfbay.org
Colorado
Denver
Denver Center Theatre Company
Tantalus
Oct. 21-Dec. 2
This 10-1/2-hour play, with a break for dinner, tells the story of the Trojan War and its aftermath.
(800) 641-1222
www.denvercenter.org
Connecticut
East Haddam
Goodspeed Opera House
Red, Hot and Blue!
Through Dec. 31
Cole Porter lyrics and tunes highlight this musical revue that starred Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope in its 1936 Broadway debut.
(860) 873-8668
www.goodspeed.org
District of Columbia
The Arena
Play On!
Nov. 3-Jan. 7
Vy wants to be a songwriter, and she especially wants to work with Duke Ellington. But the only way she can do it is by posing as a man.
(202) 488-3300
www.arena-stage.org
Georgia
Atlanta
Alliance Theatre Company
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Through Nov. 4
Eugene O'Neill's classic love tale tells of a father who hopes for a marriage between his daughter and a landowner.
www.alliancetheatre.org
Marietta
Theatre in the Square
The 1940s Radio Hour
Nov. 21-Dec. 31
How were radio broadcasts put together for US troops overseas during World War II? The 19th annual showing of this production gives a behind-the-scenes look.