By David Gewirtzman
04 Feb 2010

Due to the expansive nature of Off-Broadway, this list is not comprehensive.

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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.