Is it just us, or has the fall season gotten even busier? Among the multitude of attention-grabbing performances, here are the ones our contributors are most looking forward to this month.

From major tours to noteworthy premieres to Hollywood-inspired musicals (and one movie musical), here are 28 shows on our contributors’ must-see lists.

Focusing, as always, on beauty outside the mainstream, Pioneer Winter has mobilized his “tropical militia”—a recently expanded group of collaborators—to document the trajectory of overlooked queer people. As the director-choreographer’s most ambitious project to date, Birds of Paradise comes with an original score by Juraj Kojš and costume design by Chaplin Tyler—both firsts for Pioneer […]