WINTER 2012

HAND TO GOD

• Ensemble Studio Theatre
• First Preview: February 29, 2012
• Director: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
• Cast: Stephen Boyer, Geneva Carr, Bobby Moreno, Megan Hill, Scott Sowers
• A return engagement of Robert Askins' comedy about a possessed Christian-ministry puppet.

   

THE BIG MEAL

• Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
• First Preview: March 1, 2012
• Opening: March 21, 2012
• Director: Sam Gold
• Cast: David Wilson Barnes, Griffin Birney, Tom Bloom, Anita Gillette, Jennifer Mudge, Rachel Resheff, Cameron Scoggins, Phoebe Strole
• The New York premiere of Dan LeFranc's play tracing five generations of a modern family.

   

A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN

• Pearl Theatre Company at New York City Center - Stage 2
• First Preview: March 6, 2012
• Opening: March 18, 2012
• Director: J.R. Sullivan
• Cast: Dan Daily, Kim Martin-Cotten, Andrew May
• A new production of Eugene O'Neill's classic drama.

   

NOW. HERE. THIS.

• Vineyard Theatre
• First Preview: March 7, 2012
• Opening: March 28, 2012
• Director: Michael Berresse
• Cast: Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jeff Bowen
• The world premiere of Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwelland Jeff Bowen's autobiographical "theatri-concert" celebrating living in the present.

   

REGRETS

• Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 1
• First Preview: March 8, 2012
• Opening: March 27, 2012
• Director: Carolyn Cantor
• Cast: Adriane Lenox
• The world premiere of Matt Charman's play about a ramshackle retreat in the Nevada desert where men go to secure a quick divorce.

   

LOST IN YONKERS

• TACT/The Actors Comany Theatre at the Beckett Theatre
• First Preview: March 13, 2012
• Opening: March 22, 2012
• Director: Jenn Thompson
• Cast: Finnerty Steeves, Dominic Comperatore, Stephanie Cozart, Matthew Gumley, Cynthia Harris, Russell Posner
• A revival of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about brothers who are dropped off at their immigrant grandmother's home to witness the tension between Grandma and Aunt Bella.

   

4000 MILES

• Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
• First Preview: March 15, 2012
• Opening: April 2, 2012
• Director: Daniel Aukin
• Cast: Gabriel Ebert, Mary Louise Wilson
• Amy Herzog's play about a 21-year-old who visits his 91-year-old grandmother in her West Village apartment, after losing his best friend while on a cross-country bike trip.

   

GATZ

• The Public Theater
• First Preview: March 15, 2012
• Director: John Collins
• Cast: Scott Shepherd
• A return engagement of Elevator Repair Service's six-and-a-half-hour staging of the entire text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

   

SPRING 2012

THE MORINI STRAD

• Primary Stages at 59E59
• First Preview: March 20, 2012
• Opening: April 3, 2012
• Director: Casey Childs
• Cast: Michael Laurence, Mary Beth Peil, Hanah Stuart
• The New York premiere of Willy Holtzman's play inspired by the true story of concert violinist Erica Morini and her legendary Stradivari violin.

   

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

• Classic Stage Company
• First Preview: April 4, 2012
• Opening: April 29, 2012
• Director: Tony Speciale
• Cast: Bebe Neuwirth, Christina Ricci
• A new production of William Shakespeare's comedy-fantasy.

   

JUDITH OF BETHULIA

• Theater for the New City
• First Preview: March 30, 2012
• Director: Carl Andress
• Cast: Charles Busch
• The world premiere of Charles Busch's new comedy based on the 1914 silent Hollywood Biblical epic.

   

THE CITY CLUB

• Minetta Lane Theatre
• First Preview: April 3, 2012
• Opening: April 23, 2012
• Director: Mitchell Maxwell
• Cast: TBA
• The American premiere of James Compton, Tony Demeur, Tim Brown and Glenn M. Stewart's muscial the son of a crime family who opens a jazz club.

   

MASSACRE (SING TO THE CHILDREN)

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Theatre
• First Preview: April 3, 2012
• Opening: April 12, 2012
• Director: Brian Mertes
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of José Rivera's play about seven friends who conspire to murder their mysterious neighbor.

   

AN EARLY HISTORY OF FIRE

• The New Group at The Acorn Theatre
• First Preview: April 5, 2012
• Opening: April 30, 2012
• Director: Jo Bonney
• Cast: Deema Aitken, Gordon Clapp, Erin Darke, Jonny Orsini, Devin Ratray, Dennis Staroselsky, Theo Stockman, Claire Van Der Boom
• The world premiere of David Rabe's play set in a Midwestern town in the early 1960s, about a man intrigued by a woman who went to college in the east, but stuck in the grip of his immigrant father.

   

NINTH AND JOANIE

• LAByrinth Theater Company at the Bank Street Theater
• First Preview: April 5, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Mark Wing-Davey
• Cast: Kevin Corrigan, Bob Glaudini
• The world premiere of Brett C. Leonard's drama about a prodigal son and grieving father living in South Philadelphia in 1986.

   

LONELY, I'M NOT

• Second Stage Theatre
• First Preview: April 10, 2012
• Opening: May 7, 2012
• Director: Trip Cullman
• Cast: Topher Grace, Olivia Thirlby
• The world premiere of Paul Weitz's play about a man who has been married and divorced, earned seven figures and had a nervous breakdown, and is ready to try again after not having had a job or a date for four years.

   

MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!

• Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: May 1, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
• Cast: TBA
• A new production of Athol Fugard's play about a teacher in South Africa who forms a debate team with a spirited student.

   

THE COMMON PURSUIT

• Roundabout Theatre Company Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: May 4, 2012
• Opening: May 24, 2012
• Director: Moisés Kaufman
• Cast: TBA
• A new production of Simon Gray's comedy chronicling twenty years in the lives of six friends.

   

FEBRUARY HOUSE

• Public Theater
• First Preview: May 8, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Davis McCallum
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's musical about a boardinghouse in 1940s Brooklyn with residents including Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden and Gypsy Rose Lee.

   

TITLE AND DEED

• Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: May 8, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Judy Hegarty Lovett
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Will Eno's play about a nameless traveler from a far off place who searches for connection and solace in an unknown country.

   

RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN

• Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
• First Preview: May 11, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Peter DuBois
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's play about two friends who took opposite paths after grad school, and now covet each other's lives.

   

MEDIEVAL PLAY

• Signature Theatre - The End Stage Theatre
• First Preview: May 15, 2012
• Opening: June 7, 2012
• Director: Kenneth Lonergan
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's new play about two French mercenary knights who set out on a quest for moral redemption against late 14th century ecclesiastical politics.

   

STOREFRONT CHURCH

• Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: May 16, 2012
• Opening: June 12, 2012
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of John Patrick Shanley's play about a Bronx Borough President who is forced by the mortgage crisis into a confrontation with a local minister.

   

FOOD AND FADWA

• NOOR Theatre/New York Theatre Workshop at New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: May 18, 2012
• Opening: June 7, 2012
• Director: Shana Gold
• Cast: TBA
• Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader's play about 30-something Palestinian woman living in the West Bank who insists on continuing the preparations for the wedding of her younger sister, despite her politically volatile surroundings.

   

THE BAD GUYS

• Second Stage Theatre at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre
• First Preview: May 22, 2012
• Opening: June 4, 2012
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Alena Smith's play about five childhood friends who reunite on a late summer afternoon for some beer, grilling and weed.

   

CHIMICHANGAS AND ZOLOFT

• Atlantic Theater Company - Stage 2
• First Preview: May 23, 2012
• Opening: June 3, 2012
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Fernanda Coppel's play about a woman who leaves her family to go on a Zoloft and chimichangas binge following her 40th birthday, and her daughter and best friend's attempt to bring her home.

   

3C

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Theatre
• First Preview: June 6, 2012
• Opening: June 14, 2012
• Director: Jackson Gay
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of David Adjmi's play about an ex-serviceman who winds up trashed in a kitchen in L.A. after a wild night of partying.

   

UNCLE VANYA

• Soho Rep
• First Preview: June 7, 2012
• Opening: June 17, 2012
• Director: Sam Gold
• Cast: Reed Birney
• Annie Baker's new adaptation of the Chekhov play.

   

SLOWGIRL

• Lincoln Center Theater - Claire Tow Theater
• First Preview: June 4, 2012
• Opening: June 18, 2012
• Director: Anne Kauffman
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Greg Pierce's play about a young woman who flees to her reclusive uncle's retreat in the Costa Rican jungle to escape the aftermath of a horrific accident.

   

SUMMER 2012

WARRIOR CLASS

• Second Stage Theatre at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre
• First Preview: July 11, 2012
• Opening: July 23, 2012
• Director: Evan Cabnet
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Kenneth Lin's play about an Assemblyman running for Congress, who is haunted by the ghosts of his college days.

   

HARRISON, TX: THREE PLAYS BY HORTON FOOTE

• Primary Stages at 59E59
• First Preview: July 24, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Pam MacKinnon
• Cast: TBA
• A collection of three plays by Horton Foote: Blind Date, The One-Armed Man and The Midnight Caller.

   

THE TRAIN DRIVER

• Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: August 14, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Athol Fugard
• Cast: TBA
• Athol Fugard's play about a train driver searching for the identities of a mother and child he unintentionally killed with his train.

   

DETROIT

• Playwrights Horizons
• First Preview: August 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Anne Kauffman
• Cast: TBA
• The New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's Pulitzer Prize finalist play about neighbors in the suburbs of a mid-sized city.

   

DOGFIGHT

• Second Stage Theatre
• First Preview: Summer 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Joe Mantello
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Peter Duchan's musical based on the 1991 film.

   

FALL 2012

HIM

• Primary Stages at 59E59
• First Preview: September 21, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Evan Yionoulis
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Daisy Foote's drama about two siblings struggling to keep the family store afloat.

   

THE WHALE

• Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• First Preview: October 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Davis McCallum
• Cast: TBA/li>
• The New York premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's play about a a six hundred pound recluse who attempts to reconnect with his long-estranged daughter.

   

THE GREAT GOD PAN

• Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
• First Preview: November 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Carolyn Cantor
• Cast: TBA/li>
• The world premiere of Amy Herzog's play about a journalist whose life is thrown off track when a possible childhood trauma comes to light.

   

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH MAN

• Public Theater
• First Preview: November 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Barry Edelstein
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Nathan Englander's play, based on his short story of the same name, about a Soviet roundup of the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia.

   

WINTER 2013

ALL IN THE TIMING

• Primary Stages at 59E59
• First Preview: January 22, 2012
• Opening: TBA
• Director: John Rando
• Cast: TBA
• The 20th anniversary revival of David Ives' collection of comedic one-act plays.

   

THE FLICK

• Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
• First Preview: February 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Sam Gold
• Cast: TBA/li>
• The world premiere of Annie Baker's play about three underpaid employees in a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts.

   

PASSION

• Classic Stage Company
• First Preview: February 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: John Doyle
• Cast: TBA
• A revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical about an ugly, broken, grasping woman who pursues a handsome soldier who is already in love with another woman.

   

THE CALL

• Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• First Preview: March 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Leigh Silverman
• Cast: TBA/li>
• The world premiere of Tanya Barfield's play about a couple that decides to adopt a child from Africa.

   

SPRING 2013

FAR FROM HEAVEN

• Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
• First Preview: May 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Michael Greif
• Cast: TBA/li>
• The world premiere of Richard Greenberg, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie's musical based on the Todd Haynes film about a woman in in 1957 suburban Connecticut.

   

2012-2013 - NO DATES ANNOUNCED

DOMESTICATED

• Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
• First Preview: 2012-2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of a new play by Bruce Norris.