Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows
By David Gewirtzman
Due to the expansive nature of Off-Broadway, this list is not comprehensive.
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SUMMER 2009
NIGHTINGALE
Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1 First Preview: October 15, 2009 Opening: November 3, 2009 Director: Joseph Hardy Cast: Lynn Redgrave The New York premiere of Lynn Redgrave's solo play inspired by her maternal grandmother, Beatrice Kempson.
THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS PART 1 & 2
Public Theater First Preview: October 21, 2009 Opening: November 17, 2009 Director: Tina Landau (Part 1), Robert O'Hara (Part 2) Cast: Andre Holland, Marc Damon Johnson, Heather Alicia Simms and The world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy about an extended family and community in the Bayou.
MADE IN HEAVEN
SoHo Playhouse First Preview: October 22, 2009 Opening: November 2, 2009 Director: Andrew Shaifer Cast: Alex Anfanger, Kevin T. Collins, Maia Madison, Steve Wilder Jay Bernzweig's comedy about conjoined twins who plan to propose marriage to their mutual girlfriend.
LOVE CHILD
New World Stages First Preview: October 23, 2009 Opening: October 31, 2009 Director: Carl Forsman Cast: Daniel Jenkins, Robert Stanton A return engagement of Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton's comedy about a night a classic play spoke so loudly to its audience that they felt compelled to talk back.
THE STARRY MESSENGER
The New Group First Preview: October 24, 2009 Opening: November 16, 2009 Director: Kenneth Longergan Cast: Matthew Broderick, Stephanie Cannon, Kieran Culkin, Jonathan Hadary, Catalina Sandino Moreno, J. Smith-Cameron, Grant Shaud, Missy Yager The world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's play about a forty-something married man who meets a pretty young single mother, forcing him to come to terms with the inertia that is his life.
WHAT ONCE WE FELT
LCT3 at the Duke on 42nd Street First Preview: October 26, 2009 Opening: November 9, 2009 Director: Ken Rus Schmoll Cast: Opal Alladin, Mia Barron, Ellen Parker The world premiere of Ann Marie Healy's play about a writer's journey through the political world of publishing, as her novel becomes the last print published novel ever.
IDIOT SAVANT
Public Theater First Preview: October 27, 2009 Opening: November 4, 2009 Director: Richard Foreman Cast: Willem Dafoe The world premiere of Richard Foreman's philosophical comedy.
THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE
Signature Theatre Company First Preview: October 29, 2009 Opening: TBA Director: Michael Wilson Cast: Hallie Foote A three-part cycle of nine plays by Horton Foote.
THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN
The Actors Company Theatre at the Beckett Theatre First Preview: November 1, 2009 Opening: November 11, 2009 Director: Jenn Thompson Cast: TBA Sidney Howard's 1932 comedy about what happens when a celebrated painter's early works are traced to the humble home of a country doctor.
THE AGE OF IRON
Classic Stage Company First Preview: November 6, 2009 Opening: TBA Director: Brian Kulick Cast: Craig Baldwin, Tina Benko, Bill Christ, Mark H. Dold, Jennifer Ikeda, Andrew McGinn, Dylan Moore, Luis Moreno, Dion Mucciacito, Michael Potts, Steven Rattazzi, Steven Skybell, Elliot Villar, Graham Winton, Finn Wittrock Brian Kulick's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Thomas Heywood's Iron Age .
THIS
Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater First Preview: November 6, 2009 Opening: December 2, 2009 Director: Daniel Aukin Cast: Louis Cancelmi, Eisa Davis, Glenn Fitzgerald, Julianne Nicholson, Darren Pettie The world premiere of Melissa James Gibson's play about the joys — and disappointments — of entering your forties.
LOADED
Lion Theatre First Preview: November 7, 2009 Opening: November 15, 2009 Director: Michael Unge Cast: Scott Kerns, Kevin Spirtas Elliot Ramón Potts' play about two men exploring whether or not their casual sexual relationship has the potential to be something more.
SHALOM ALECHEIM: LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS
Folksbiene Theater at the Baruch Performing Arts Center First Preview: November 8, 2009 Opening: November 17, 2009 Director: Derek Goldman Cast: Theodore Bikel The New York premiere of Theodore Bikel's play with music about writer Shalom Alecheim.
POST NO BILLS
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater First Preview: November 11, 2009 Opening: TBA Director: Michael Ray Escamilla Cast: TBA The world premiere of Mando Alvarado's play about a girl who flees the Texas border town she grew up in to become a singer/songwriter.
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
New York Theatre Workshop First Preview: November 13, 2009 Opening: December 3, 2009 Director: Doug Hughes Cast: Jimonn Cole, Bob Braswell, Michael Cullen, Cristin Milioti, Randall Newsome, Roslyn Ruff, John Sierros, Henry Stram, Andrew Weems Rebecca Gilman's stage adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel.
ZERO HOUR
Theatre at Saint Clement's First Preview: November 14, 2009 Opening: November 22, 2009 Director: Piper Laurie Cast: Jim Brochu Jim Brochu's one-man play about Zero Mostel.
SO HELP ME GOD!
Mint Theater Company at the Lucille Lortel Theatre First Preview: November 18, 2009 Opening: December 7, 2009 Director: Martin Platt Cast: Anna Chlumsky, Kristen Johnston A revival of Maurine Dallas Watkins' backstage farce .
THE GREAT RECESSION
Flea Theatre First Preview: November 20, 2009 Opening: December 10, 2009 Director: Ethan McSweeny, Kip Fagan, Davis McCallum, Jim Simpson, Michelle Tattenbaum, Adam Rapp Cast: The Bats A collection of six world premiere ten-minute plays by Thomas Bradshaw, Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Will Eno, Itamar Moses and Adam Rapp, that explore the impact of the current economic crisis on the younger generation.
DEAR EDWINA
DR2 Theatre First Preview: December 11, 2009 Opening: TBA Director: Timothy McDonald Cast: TBA A return engagement of Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler's kid-friendly musical about a 13-year-old girl with a special talent for giving advice.
DRACULA
Little Shubert Theatre First Preview: December 2009 Opening: TBA Director: Paul Alexander Cast: TBA A revival of Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston's 1927 stage adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel.
THE LAST CARGO CULT
Public Theater First Preview: December 2009 Opening: TBA Director: Jean-Michele Gregory Cast: Mike Daisey The New York premiere of Mike Daisey's story of his time on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants worship America at the base of a constantly erupting volcano.
WINTER 2009/10
AGES OF THE MOON
Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater First Preview: January 9, 2010 Opening: January 27, 2010 Director: Jimmy Fay Cast: Sean McGinley, Stephen Rea The American premiere of Sam Shepard's play about two old friends who sit, reflect, bicker, and put 50 years of love, friendship and rivalry to the test at the barrel of a gun.
VENUS IN FUR
Classic Stage Company First Preview: January 13, 2010 Opening: TBA Director: Walter Bobbie Cast: TBA David Ives' new play goes behind the scenes to an audition for a play in which the lines between fantasy and reality blur.
CLYBOURNE PARK
Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater First Preview: January 24, 2010 Opening: TBA Director: Pam MacKinnon Cast: TBA The world premiere of Bruce Norris's play about the issue of gentrification in our communities.
HAPPY NOW?
Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters First Preview: January 26, 2010 Opening: February 9, 2010 Director: Liz Diamond Cast: TBA The New York premiere of Lucinda Coxon's play about about a woman who struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a demanding job.
THE PRIDE
MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre First Preview: January 27, 2010 Opening: February 16, 2010 Director: Joe Mantello Cast: Hugh Dancy, Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw The American premiere of Alexi Kaye Campbell's play about a complex love triangle that jumps from 1958 to the present and back.
A LIE OF THE MIND
The New Group First Preview: January 2010 Opening: TBA Director: Ethan Hawke Cast: TBA A revival of the Sam Shepard's play.
THE METAL CHILDREN
Vineyard Theatre First Preview: January 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.
EQUIVOCATION
Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1 First Preview: February 9, 2010 Opening: March 2, 2010 Director: Garry Hynes Cast: TBA 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.
WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING
Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater First Preview: February 11, 2010 Opening: March 8, 2010 Director: David Cromer Cast: TBA The American premiere of Andrew Bovell's drama that traces a family's history over 80 years.
BLIND
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater First Preview: February 18, 2010 Opening: TBA Director: TBA Cast: TBA The world premiere of Craig Wright's contemporary re-telling of Oedipus.
THE VULTURES
Flea Theatre First Preview: February 25, 2010 Opening: February 28, 2010 Director: Jim Simpson Cast: TBA Henri Brecque's two-part play exposes everything from human avarice to institutional fraud.
THE BOYS IN THE BAND
Transport Group Theatre Company First Preview: February 2010 Opening: TBA Director: Jack Cummings III Cast: TBA 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.
YANK! THE NEW MUSICAL
York Theatre Company First Preview: February 2010 Opening: TBA Director: TBA Cast: TBA 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.
SNAKE
Public Theater First Preview: March 2, 2010 Opening: TBA Director: James Macdonald Cast: TBA The world premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' play about a young man who returns home to South Texas to confront his father.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
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 A revival of Tennessee Williams' classic drama.
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
The Actors Company Theatre at the Beckett Theatre First Preview: March 7, 2010 Opening: March 17, 1010 Director: Scott Alan Evans Cast: TBA 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.
A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK
Playwrights Horizons - Peter Jay Sharp Theater First Preview: March 2010 Opening: TBA Director: Chay Yew Cast: TBA 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.
MR. AND MRS. FITCH
Second Stage Theatre First Preview: Winter 2010 Opening: TBA Director: Scott Ellis Cast: TBA The world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about two gossip columnists who find that when the social circuit no longer provides any scandalous news, great celebrity can appear out of thin air.
SPRING 2010
FAMILY WEEK
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."
THE FOREST
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.
THE ALIENS
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.
THE PARENTS' EVENING
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.
THAT FACE
Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1 First Preview: April 29, 2010 Opening: May 18, 2010 Director: TBA Cast: TBA The New York premiere of Polly Stenham's play about a disturbed mother whose school-age children have to become parents to her.
GABRIEL
Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater First Preview: April 2010 Opening: May 2010 Director: TBA Cast: TBA The American premiere of Moira Buffini's play set around the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II.
THE GRAND MANNER
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 .
THE BURNT PART BOYS
Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theatre First Preview: May 2010 Opening: TBA Director: Erica Schmidt 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.
THE KID
The New Group First Preview: Spring 2010 Opening: TBA Director: Scott Elliott Cast: TBA 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."
RESTORATION
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.
TOP SECRET: THE BATTLE FOR THE PENTAGON PAPERS
New York Theatre Workshop First Preview: Spring 2010 Opening: TBA Director: John Rubinstein Cast: TBA 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.
SUMMER 2010
TRUST
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.
2010/2011 SEASON - NO DATES ANNOUNCED
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.
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