By David Gewirtzman
01 Feb 2012
WINTER 2012
ASSISTANCE
- Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
- First Preview: February 3, 2012
- Opening: February 28, 2012
- Director: Trip Cullman
- Cast: Michael Esper, Sue Jean Kim, Virginia Kull, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Bobby Steggert
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The New York premiere of Leslye Headland's play about young assistants to a hellacious boss who wonder what they're working toward.
HURT VILLAGE
- Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
- First Preview: February 7, 2012
- Opening: February 27, 2012
- Director: Patricia McGregor
- Cast: Ron Cephas Jones, Tonya Pinkins, Saycon Sengbloh
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The world premiere of Katori Hall's play about life and change in a Memphis housing project.
EDWARD ALBEE'S THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE
- Signature Theatre - The End Stage Theatre
- First Preview: February 14, 2012
- Opening: March 5, 2012
- Director: David Esbjornson
- Cast: Jane Alexander
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A new production of Edward Albee's play about a late night party interrupted by two unexpected guests.
PAINTING CHURCHES
- Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre
- First Preview: February 14, 2012
- Opening: March 6, 2012
- Director: Carl Forsman
- Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, John Cunningham, Kate Turnbull
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The first New York revival of Tina Howe's play about the changing dynamics in the parent-child relationship later in life.
AN ILIAD
- New York Theatre Workshop
- First Preview: February 15, 2012
- Opening: March 6 & 7, 2012
- Director: Lisa Peterson
- Cast: Denis O'Hare, Stephen Spinella
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The New York premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Paterson's adaptation of Homer's epic poem.
TRIBES
- Barrow Street Theatre
- First Preview: February 16, 2012
- Opening: March 4, 2012
- Director: David Cromer
- Cast: Russell Harvard, Jeff Perry, Mare Winningham
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The American premiere of Nina Raine's play about a young deaf man raised in a dysfunctional family.
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
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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: TBA
- Director: Sam Gold
- Cast: TBA
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The New York premiere of Dan LeFranc's play tracing five generations of a modern family.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: TBA
- Director: Casey Childs
- Cast: TBA
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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: March 28, 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Tony Speciale
- Cast: Bebe Neuwirth, Christina Ricci
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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
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The world premiere of Charles Busch's new comedy based on the 1914 silent Hollywood Biblical epic.
MASSACRE (SING TO THE CHILDREN)
- Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Theatre
- First Preview: April 3, 2012
- Opening: April 12, 2012
- Director: Brian Mertes
- Cast: TBA
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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 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Jo Bonney
- Cast: Lily Rabe
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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.
MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!
- Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
- First Preview: May 1, 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
- Cast: TBA
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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
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A new production of Simon Gray's comedy chronicling twenty years in the lives of six friends.
TITLE AND DEED
- Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
- First Preview: May 8, 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Judy Hegarty Lovett
- Cast: TBA
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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
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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.
A NEW PLAY BY KENNETH LONERGAN
- Signature Theatre - The End Stage Theatre
- First Preview: May 15, 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
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The world premiere of a new play by Kenneth Lonergan.
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
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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.
FEBRUARY HOUSE
- Public Theater
- First Preview: May 8, 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Davis McCallum
- Cast: TBA
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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.
3C
- Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Theatre
- First Preview: June 6, 2012
- Opening: June 14, 2012
- Director: Jackson Gay
- Cast: TBA
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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
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Annie Baker's new adaptation of the Chekhov play.
LONELY, I'M NOT
- Second Stage Theatre
- First Preview: Spring 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
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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.
STOREFRONT CHURCH
- Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
- First Preview: Spring 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
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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.
CHIMICHANGAS AND ZOLOFT
- Atlantic Theater Company - Stage 2
- First Preview: Late Spring 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
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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.
SLOWGIRL
- Lincoln Center Theater - Claire Tow Theater
- First Preview: June 4, 2012
- Opening: June 18, 2012
- Director: Anne Kauffman
- Cast: TBA
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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
THE TRAIN DRIVER
- Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
- First Preview: August 14, 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Athol Fugard
- Cast: TBA
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Athol Fugard's play about a train driver searching for the identities of a mother and child he unintentionally killed with his train.
DOGFIGHT
- Second Stage Theatre
- First Preview: Summer 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Joe Mantello
- Cast: TBA
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The world premiere of Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Peter Duchan's musical based on the 1991 film.
FALL 2012
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH MAN
- Public Theater
- First Preview: November 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Barry Edelstein
- Cast: TBA
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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.
DETROIT
- Playwrights Horizons
- First Preview: Fall 2012
- Opening: TBA
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
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The New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's Pulitzer Prize finalist play about neighbors in the suburbs of a mid-sized city.
WINTER 2013
PASSION
- Classic Stage Company
- First Preview: February 2013
- Opening: TBA
- Director: John Doyle
- Cast: TBA
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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.
2012-2013 - NO DATES ANNOUNCED
DOMESTICATED
- Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
- First Preview: 2012-2013
- Opening: TBA
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
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The world premiere of a new play by Bruce Norris.


