Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows
By David Gewirtzman
04 Feb 2010
Due to the expansive nature of Off-Broadway, this list is not comprehensive.
4PLAY
- Minetta Lane Theatre
- First Preview: February 8, 2010
- Director: Paul Magid
- Cast: Stephen Bent, Mark Ettinger, Rod Kimball, Paul Magid
- The Flying Karamazov Brothers perform a blend of music, comedy, dance, theatre and juggling.
- Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1
- First Preview: February 9, 2010
- Opening: March 2, 2010
- Director: Garry Hynes
- Cast: Remy Auberjonois, Michael Countryman, David Furr, John Pankow, Charlotte Parry, David Pittu
- The Off-Broadway premiere of Bill Cain's play about Shakespeare's acting troupe and the writer's attempt to write about current events, circa 1605.
- Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
- First Preview: February 11, 2010
- Opening: March 8, 2010
- Director: David Cromer
- Cast: Victoria Clark, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Topol
- The American premiere of Andrew Bovell's drama that traces a family's history over 80 years.
- Transport Group Theatre Company
- First Preview: February 12, 2010
- Opening: February 19, 2010
- Director: Jack Cummings III
- Cast: Jonathan Hammond, Christopher Innvar, Graham Rowat
- A 40th anniversary production of Mart Crowley's play about a group of gay men who hire a hustler as a birthday present for their friend, but wind up spending the night of the party airing their pleasures and miseries.
- Vineyard Theatre
- First Preview: February 12, 2010
- Opening: March 10, 2010
- Director: Susan Stroman
- Cast: John Cullum, Brandon Victor Dixon, Colman Domingo
- The world premiere of John Kander, Fred Ebb and David Thompson's new musical about the 1930's "Scottsboro Case," in which a group of innocent African-American teenagers were falsely accused of a terrible crime.
- Cherry Lane Theatre
- First Preview: February 13, 2010
- Opening: February 17, 2010
- Director: Wayne Kasserman
- Cast: Amanda Detmer, Stefanie E. Frame, James Roday, Michael Weston
- The Off-Broadway premiere of Gabe McKinley's drama about an annual outing for two college buddies that goes off course.
- York Theatre Company
- First Preview: February 16, 2010
- Opening: February 24, 2010
- Director: Igor Goldin
- Cast: Bobby Steggert
- The Off-Broadway premiere of David and Joseph Zellnik's musical about a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted for World War II in 1943, and becomes a photographer for Yank Magazine.
- Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
- First Preview: February 18, 2010
- Opening: February 25, 2010
- Director: Lucie Tiberghein
- Cast: Veanne Cox, Seth Numrich, Danielle Slavick
- The world premiere of Craig Wright's contemporary re-telling of Oedipus.
- New World Stages
- First Preview: February 18, 2010
- Opening: February 28, 2010
- Director: Jonathan Silverstein
- Cast: Sam Breslin, Arnie Burton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Matthew Schneck, Michael Urie
- Jon Marans' play about the dawn of the American gay rights movement.
- Downstairs Theatre at Sofia's
- First Preview: February 23, 2010
- Opening: March 7, 2010
- Director: James Hart
- Cast: Paul Perroni
- Rob Becker's solo play about the ways men and woman fight, laugh and love.
- Irish Repertory Theatre
- First Preview: February 24, 2010
- Opening: March 7, 2010
- Director: Tony Walton
- Cast: Xanthe Elbrick, Melissa Errico, Josh Grisetti, Brian Murray, Ciaran O'Reilly, Sam Underwood
- George Bernard Shaw's play about a reverend whose comfortable marriage is shaken by the arrival of a young poet.
- New York Theatre Workshop
- First Preview: February 24, 2010
- Opening: March 9, 2010
- Director: John Rubinstein
- Cast: Larry Bryggman, Roberta Maxwell, Larry Pine, Peter Strauss
- Leroy Aarons and Geoffrey Cowan's play is an inside look at The Washington Post's decision to publish the classified study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
- Public Theater
- First Preview: March 2, 2010
- Opening: March 16, 2010
- Director: James Macdonald
- Cast: Amari Cheatom, John Doman, Elizabeth Marvel
- The world premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' play about a young man who returns home to South Texas to confront his father.
- Playwrights Horizons - Peter Jay Sharp Theater
- First Preview: March 4, 2010
- Opening: March 28, 2010
- Director: Chay Yew
- Cast: Keith Eric Chappelle, William Jackson Harper, Joshua King, Kianné Muschett, Myra Lucretia Taylor
- The world premiere of Kia Corthron's play about an African preacher-in-training who is taken in by a family in the American South.
- Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
- First Preview: March 5, 2010
- Opening: March 24, 2010
- Director: Gordon Edelstein
- Cast: Patch Darragh, Judith Ivey, Keira Keeley, Michael Mosley
- A revival of Tennessee Williams' classic drama.
- The Actors Company Theatre at the Beckett Theatre
- First Preview: March 7, 2010
- Opening: March 17, 1010
- Director: Scott Alan Evans
- Cast: Cynthia Harris, Simon Jones, Jack Koenig
- T.S. Eliot's play about a fashionable party where the hostess is nowhere to be found, and a strange man, who knows no one, seems right at home.
- New World Stages
- First Preview: March 8, 2010
- Opening: March 22, 2010
- Director: Bob Cline
- Cast: Peter Scolari
- Ben Andron's comedy about a bachelor whose mother's dying wish is to have a grandchild.
- The Wooster Group at the Baryshnikov Arts Center
- First Preview: March 10, 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Elizabeth LeCompte
- Cast: Steve Cuiffo, Ari Fliakos, Koosil-ja Hwang, Paul Lazar, Frances McDormand, Zachary Oberzan, Jenny Seastone Stern, Scott Shepherd, Maura Tierney, Kate Valk
- James Strahs' satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period.
I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER
- Keen Company at Theatre Row
- First Preview: March 23, 2010 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Jonathan Silverstein
- Cast: Keir Dullea, Matt Servitto
- Robert Anderson's 1968 play about a son's struggle to balance his own happiness with the needs of his aging parents.
- MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
- First Preview: April 7, 2010
- Opening: April 26, 2010
- Director: Jonathan Demme
- Cast: Rosemarie Dewitt, Sarah Jones
- Beth Henley's play about a woman who checks herself into a recovery center to help her cope with the death of her son, and what happens when her mother, daughter and sister arrive for "family week."
- Classic Stage Company
- First Preview: April 14, 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: TBA
- Cast: Diane Wiest
- Kathleen Tolan's adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's romantic romp about two vagabond actors who crash an estate posing as gentry.
- Theatre St. Clement's
- First Preview: April 14, 2010 2010
- Opening: April 21, 2010
- Director: Will Pomerantz
- Cast: Michael Shawn Lewis, Maureen Mueller
- Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz's new musical about the relationship of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
- First Preview: April 15, 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Sam Gold
- Cast: TBA
- The world premiere of Annie Baker's play about two angry young men who decide to teach a lonely high school student everything they know.
- Westside Theatre
- First Preview: April 15, 2010
- Opening: May 3, 2010
- Director: Jeffrey Fiske
- Cast: Max McLean, Karen Eleanor Wight
- Jeffrey Fiske and Max McLean's adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel.
- Flea Theatre
- First Preview: April 16, 2010
- Opening: May 6, 2010
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
- Bathsheba Doran's play about two parents who confront their conflicted views about parenting and the boundaries of love.
- Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
- First Preview: April 21, 2010
- Opening: May 2010
- Director: David Esbjornson
- Cast: TBA
- The American premiere of Moira Buffini's play set around the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II.
- Second Stage Theatre
- First Preview: April 27, 2010
- Opening: May 20, 2010
- Director: Edward Torres
- Cast: TBA
- The New York premiere of Kristoffer Diaz's play about a wrestling rivalry that is used to exploit racial stereotypes in the name of ratings.
- Epic Theatre Ensemble at the Irondale Center
- First Preview: April 27, 2010
- Opening: May 12, 2010
- Director: Mark Wing-Davey
- Cast: TBA
- The New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's three-play cycle inspired by the historic festivals where everyday citizens came together to stage the life and death of Christ.
- Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1
- First Preview: April 29, 2010
- Opening: May 18, 2010
- Director: Sarah Benson
- Cast: Elizabeth Marvel
- The New York premiere of Polly Stenham's play about a disturbed mother whose school-age children have to become parents to her.
- The New Group
- First Preview: April 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Scott Elliott
- Cast: Christopher Sieber
- Jack Lechner, Andy Monroe and Michael Zam's new musical based on Dan Savage's "The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant."
- Vineyard Theatre
- First Preview: April 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Adam Rapp
- Cast: TBA
- The world premiere of Adam Rapp's play about a New York writer who travels to a small American town to defend one of his young adult novels which had been banned by the local school board.
- stageFARM at The Cherry Lane Theatre
- First Preview: May 8, 2010
- Opening: May 17, 2010
- Director: Evan Cabnet
- Cast: TBA
- Elizabeth Meriwether's dark comedy about best friends 17-year old Oliver and 60-year old Jasper.
- Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
- First Preview: May 27, 2010
- Opening: June 24, 2010
- Director: Mark Lamos
- Cast: TBA
- The world premiere of A.R.Gurney's play about his experience going backstage to meet Katherine Cornell after a performance of Antony and Cleopatra.
- East Fourth Street Theater
- First Preview: May 27, 2010
- Opening: June 4, 2010
- Director: Karen Malpede
- Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, André De Shields
- The American premiere of Karen Malpede's play about a marriage and the legacy of the wars in Iraq and Vietnam.
- Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theatre
- First Preview: May 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Joe Calarco
- Cast: TBA
- Mariana Elder, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen's new musical about a group of teenagers coming of age in West Virginia coal country in 1962, and their life-transforming odyssey.
- New York Theatre Workshop
- First Preview: Spring 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Christopher Ashley
- Cast: Claudia Shear
- Claudia Shear's play about Giulia Alfani, a once-rising star in the world of art restoration, who secures an interview with L'Accademia in Florence for the job of refreshing' the 'David' in preparation for its 500th birthday.
A NEW MUSICAL
- New York Theatre Workshop
- First Preview: August/September 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
- A new musical by "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and Avenue Q composer/lyricist Robert Lopez.
- Second Stage Theatre
- First Preview: Summer 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Paul Weitz
- Cast: TBA
- Paul Weitz's new play about a rich married man who is dissatisfied with his life.
THE LITTLE FOXES
- New York Theatre Workshop
- First Preview: September/October 2010
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Ivo Van Hove
- Cast: Elizabeth Marvel
- A new production of Lillian Hellman's classic drama.
ANGELS IN AMERICA
- Signature Theatre Company
- First Preview: 2010-11
- Opening: 2010-11
- Director: Michael Greif
- Cast: TBA
- The first New York City revival of Tony Kushner's epic two-part play.






