A Salute to the Women: Madison Lyric Stage is presenting Maidens, Witches and Femme Fatales: The Women of Opera on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 14 and 15. The cast of seven will perform some of the greatest arias and scenes, including selections from The Marriage of Figaro, Camen, Tosca, and more. Performances are in an enclosed tent on the grounds of the historic Deacon John Grave House in Madison. For tickets, visit MadisonLyricStage.org.

Touring Connecticut: Pa’lante Theater Company, Connecticut’s only Afro-Latine theater company, will present the play Calling Puerto Rico: For the Island and to Hope in four Connecticut cities. The drama is about a Puerto Rican family dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria both on the island and in New York. The schedule includes the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury (Friday & and Saturday, Oct. 6 and 7), Klein Auditorium in Bridgeport (Saturday, Oct. 21), Cabaret on Main in East Haven (Friday & and Saturday, Nov. 3 and 4), and Autorino Hall at The Bushnell in Hartford on Friday, Nov. 17. For tickets, visit PalanteTheater.org

A Connecticut Legend: Joan Joyce was a legend in Connecticut and the softball world. She has been called the “greatest female athlete of all time.” A musical about her life will play at Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury through Sunday, Oct. 22. The show premiered in 2022 at the Legacy Theatre. For tickets, visit SevenAngelsTheatre.org.

Broadway to Waterbury: The Broadway musical Pretty Woman, based on the Richard Gere and Julia Roberts film, will be at the Palace Theatre in Waterbury Tuesday to Thursday, Oct. 10 to 12. Information and tickets are available at PalaceTheaterCt.org.

Don’t Miss Out: It pays to plan ahead. If you missed the marvelous production of To Kill a Mockingbird last June at the Bushnell where it basically sold out, you have another opportunity to see the show. It will be at the Palace Theater in Waterbury Friday, Nov. 3 to Sunday, Nov. 5.

Back on Stage: The Connecticut Repertory Theatre at UConn is returning to a full season after the pandemic. It opens with A Hundred Words for Snow, which plays through Sunday, Oct. 15. It tells the story of a teen girl who decides to carry on with the trip her late father planned for them to the North Pole. For tickets, visit crt..uconn.edu

Women Playwright Festival: Ivoryton is presenting its sixth annual Women Playwrights Festival on Saturday, Oct. 23. It features readings of four new short plays as well as talks with the playwrights, directors, and actors. Also planned is a roundtable discussion led by the Dramatists Guild. The plays were selected from among 200 submissions. For information and tickets, visit IvorytonPlayhouse.org.

NY Notes: The musical version of Days of Wine and Roses, which had a sold-out run off-Broadway this spring, will open on Broadway for a limited engagement in January. The original stars–Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James, will reprise their roles. The Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine recently had the American premiere of an adaptation of The DaVinci Code. Aiming for Broadway is Hippest Trip–The Soul Train Musical, which opened in San Francisco in September. The Elton John musical The Devil Wears Prada was enroute to Broadway when it was slammed by critics in Chicago last year. John admitted the show needed work. It will now open in London in 2024. We’ll see.

Karen Isaacs is an East Haven resident. To check out her reviews for New York and Connecticut shows, visit 2ontheaisle.wordpress.com. She’s a member of the Connecticut Critics Circle, New York’s Outer Critics Circle, the League of Professional Theater Women, and the American Theatre Critics Association.