Hershey Felder is the star of Saturday night’s benefit concert for Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theatre. He’ll play a sing-a-long of 100 years of Broadway music. Tickets for the show are still available and start at $29. … Writers’ Theatre artistic director Michael Halberstam is readying a December production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida” at the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre in New York. … Gary Griffin’s Broadway production of “The Color Purple” is now in previews. The marquee features a prominent mention of “Oprah Winfrey presents.”… The Court Theatre production of “The Man of La Mancha” is negotiating for an extended life on the East Coast. … The Bailiwick Arts Center is sponsoring a new comedy contest wherein comics and improvisers compete for prizes sponsored by a local restaurant. Performances are in the Bailiwick Studio Theater at 11 p.m. on Saturdays through Dec. 17 — and it’s the audience that picks the winners. … Bea Arthur has rescheduled her engagement at Governors State for March 19; the first date was canceled due to illness. … Nicole Hollander, creator of the syndicated comic strip “Sylvia,” has a new, one-woman show; “Return to Lust” will be performed at the Pegasus Players on Dec. 9.
