Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

By David Gewirtzman
March 13, 2013

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

SPRING 2013

BUYER & CELLAR

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
• First Preview: March 20, 2013
• Opening: April 3, 2013
• Director: Stephen Brackett
• Cast: Michael Urie
• The world premiere of Jonathan Tolins' play about a struggling Los Angeles actor who takes a job working in the basement of a beloved superstar.

   

THE CALL

• Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• First Preview: March 22, 2013
• Opening: April 14, 2013
• Director: Leigh Silverman
• Cast: Kelly AuCoin, Kerry Butler, Eisa Davis, Crystal A. Dickinson, Russell G. Jones
• The world premiere of Tanya Barfield's play about a couple that decides to adopt a child from Africa.

   

HERE LIES LOVE

• Public Theater
• First Preview: April 2, 2013
• Opening: April 23, 2013
• Director: Alex Timbers
• Cast: Jose Llana, Ruthie Ann Miles
• The world premiere of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's musical about Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos.

   

KAFKA'S MONKEY

• Theatre for a New Audience/Young Vic at Baryshnikov Arts Center
• First Preview: April 3, 2013
• Opening: April 4, 2013
• Director: Walter Meierjohann
• Cast: Kathryn Hunter
• The New York premiere of Colin Teevan's adaption of Franz Kafka's 1917 story "A Report to an Academy."

   

NIKOLAI AND THE OTHERS

• Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse
• First Preview: April 4, 2013
• Opening: May 6, 2013
• Director: David Cromer
• Cast: Betsy Aidem, Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, Anthony Cochrane, Lauren Culpepper, Alvin Epstein, Kathryn Erbe, John Glover, Jennifer B. Grace, Katie Kreisler, Stephen Kunken, Haviland Morris, Dale Place, John Procaccino, Gareth Saxe, Alan Schmuckler
• The world premiere of Richard Nelson's play about a 1948 gathering that includes choreographer George Balanchine, composer Igor Stravinsky, conductor Serge Koussevitsky, painter/set designer Sergey Sudeikin and composer Nikolai Nabokov.

   

BUNTY BERMAN PRESENTS...

• The New Group
• First Preview: April 10, 2013
• Opening: May 9, 2013
• Director: Scott Elliott
• Cast: Erick Avari
• The world premiere of Ayub Khan Din and Paul Bogaev's musical set in a failing 1950s Bollywood studio.

   

THE MEMORY SHOW

• Transport Group at The Duke on 42nd Street
• First Preview: April 16, 2013
• Opening: April 30, 2013
• Director: Joe Calarco
• Cast: Catherine Cox, Leslie Kritzer
• A new production of Sara Cooper and Zach Redler's musical about a daughter who comes home to care for her ailing mother.

   

THIS SIDE OF NEVERLAND

• The Pearl Theatre Company
• First Preview: April 19, 2013
• Opening: May 5, 2013
• Director: J.R. Sullivan
• Cast: TBA
• A new production of two one-act plays by J. M. Barrie: Rosalind and The Twelve Pound Look.

   

FRAGMENTS

• Theatre for a New Audience/C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord at Baryshnikov Arts Center
• First Preview: April 21, 2013
• Opening: April 21, 2013
• Director: Peter Brook & Marie-Hélène Estienne
• Cast: Kathryn Hunter, Jos Houben, Marcello Magni
• A return engagement of five short plays by Samuel Beckett: Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, Act without Words II, Neither and Come and Go.

   

OLD FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE)

• Ontological-Hysteric Theater/Public Theater at the Public Theater
• First Preview: April 30, 2013
• Opening: May 7, 2013
• Director: Richard Foreman
• Cast: Stephanie Hayes, Alenka Kraigher, Nicolas Norena, Rocco Sisto, David Skeist
• The world premiere of Richard Foreman's fairy-tale play about a coquette who brings a man to his knees.

   

BASILICA

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater at the Cherry Lane Theatre
• First Preview: May 1, 2013
• Opening: May 16, 2013
• Director: Jerry Ruiz
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Mando Alvarado's play about the Catholic Church and Texas pride.

   

SOMEWHERE FUN

• Vineyard Theatre
• First Preview: May 1, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Anne Kauffman
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Jenny Schwartz's play about two women who reunite after thirty-five years.

   

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE

• Classic Stage Company
• First Preview: May 2, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Brian Kulick
• Cast: Christopher Lloyd
• A new production of Bertolt Brecht's play about the adventures of a simple kitchen maid and a defenseless infant across a war-torn country.

   

THREE KINDS OF EXILE

• Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: May 15, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Neil Pepe
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of John Guare's new play about three exiles from Czechoslovakia and Poland who forged complicated lives in the West.

   

REASONS TO BE HAPPY

• MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: May 16, 2013
• Opening: June 2, 2013
• Director: Neil LaBute
• Cast: Leslie Bibb, Jenna Fischer, Josh Hamilton, Fred Weller
• The world premiere of Neil LaBute's play about a two people wondering whether to get back together, three years after their break-up.

   

FAR FROM HEAVEN

• Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
• First Preview: May 8, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Michael Greif
• Cast: Kelli O'Hara
• 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.

   

GOOD TELEVISION

• Atlantic Theater Company - Atlantic Stage 2
• First Preview: May 22, 2013
• Opening: June 4, 2013
• Director: Bob Krakower
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Rod McLachlan's play about a reality television show that chronicles families staging interventions to help loved ones battle addiction.

   

THE TUTORS

• Second Stage Theatre at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre
• First Preview: May 22, 2013
• Opening: June 5, 2013
• Director: Thomas Kail
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Erica Lipez's play about three friends — two high school tutors, and one who anonymously writes college admissions essay — whose work with students starts to invade their lives.

   

THE EXPLORER'S CLUB

• Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage I
• First Preview: May 28, 2013
• Opening: June 20, 2013
• Director: Marc Bruni
• Cast: Steven Boyer, Richard Easton
• The world premiere of Nell Benjamin's comedy about the crisis in the Explorers Club when their president wants to admit a woman.

   

SONTAG: REBORN

• The Builders Association/New York Theatre Workshop at New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: May 28, 2013
• Opening: June 6, 2013
• Director: Marianne Weems
• Cast: Moe Angelos
• Moe Angelos' adaptation of the first volume of Susan Sontag's journals (1947-1963) looks at the prolific essayist before she was a world-renowned author and activist.

   

VENICE

• The Public Theater
• First Preview: May 28, 2013
• Director: Eric Rosen
• Cast: TBA
• The New York premiere of Eric Rosen, Matt Sax and Curtis Moore's musical tracing a young man's rise as he fights for what's right against a backdrop of deceit and sibling betrayal.

   

CHARLES IVES TAKE ME HOME

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
• First Preview: May 29, 2013
• Opening: June 13, 2013
• Director: Daniella Topol
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Jessica Dickey's play about the clash between a father's love of music and his daughter's passion for basketball.

   

THE UNAVOIDABLE DISAPPEARANCE OF TOM DURNIN

• Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: May 31, 2013
• Opening: June 30, 2013
• Director: Scott Ellis
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Steven Levenson's play about a man trying to win back respect after doing time for a white-collar crime

   

A KID LIKE JAKE

• LCT3 - Claire Tow Theater
• First Preview: June 2, 2013
• Opening: June 17, 2013
• Director: Evan Cabnet
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Daniel Pearle's play about a couple applying to get their precocious four year-old into an elite New York private school.

   

CHOIR BOY

• Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage II
• First Preview: June 18, 2013
• Opening: July 2, 2013
• Director: Trip Cullman
• Cast: TBA
• The American premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's play with music about the gospel choir at the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys.

   

NOBODY LOVES YOU

• Second Stage Theatre
• First Preview: June 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Michelle Tattenbaum
• Cast: TBA
• The New York City premiere of Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses' musical about a philosophy grad student who auditions for, and is cast on, a reality TV dating show.

   

A FAMILY FOR ALL OCCASIONS

• LAByrinth Theater Company
• First Preview: Spring 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Bob Glaudini's play about a father whose life is throw off-course when his promiscuous daughter's latest suitor drops by.

   

SUMMER 2013

THE DESIGNATED MOURNER

• Theatre for a New Audience/The Public Theater at The Public Theater
• First Preview: June 21, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: André Gregory
• Cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn
• The first New York revival of Wallace Shawn's 1996 monologue-triptych in which three artist-intellectuals describe their experiences as their once-liberal country sinks into totalitarianism.

   

MURDER FOR TWO, A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY

• Second Stage Theatre at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre
• First Preview: July 10, 2013
• Opening: July 25, 2013
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The New York premiere of Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair's musical murder mystery about a great American novelist who is shot at his surprise birthday party.

   

A NEW PLAY BY STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS

• LAByrinth Theater Company
• First Preview: Summer 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

   

BAD JEWS

• Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: September 20, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Daniel Aukin
• Cast: Tracee Chimo, Philip Ettinger, Molly Ranson, Michael Zegen
• A return engagement of Joshua Harmon's comedy about two cousins fighting over their grandfather's Chai necklace.

   

YOU NEVER CAN TELL

• Gingold Theatrical Group/The Pearl Theatre Company at The Pearl Theatre Company
• First Preview: September 3, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: David Staller
• Cast: TBA
• A new production of George Bernard Shaw's comedy about lives turned upside down over the course of a summer's day at an English seaside hotel.

   

LAYING AN EGG

• Signature Theatre - The Irene Diamond Stage
• First Preview: Summer 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: David Esbjornson
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Edward Albee's play about a middle-aged woman who renews her vow to get pregnant.

   

---- AND POTATOES

• Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewelbox Theatre
• First Preview: Summer 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of Regina Taylor's play about a book publisher who faces the challenge of how to adapt his business in the rapidly changing digital age.

   

FALL 2013

GRASSES OF A THOUSAND COLORS

• Theatre for a New Audience/The Public Theater at The Public Theater
• First Preview: October 8, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: André Gregory
• Cast: Emily McDonnell, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Tilly/li>
• The American premiere of Wallace Shawn's play about a doctor who believes he has solved world hunger by causing animals to tolerate eating their own kind.

   

AND AWAY WE GO

• The Pearl Theatre Company
• First Preview: November 11, 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Jack Cummings III
• Cast: Stanley Bahorek, Joanne Camp, Sean McNall
• The world premiere of Terrence McNally's play that time travels from ancient Athens to London's Globe Theatre, from Versailles's Royal Theater to the first reading of a new play by Chekhov, and to the American premiere of Waiting for Godot.

   

FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN

• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: Early Fall 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Des McAnuff
• Cast: TBA
• Will Power's play about the unlikely friendship between heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay and controversial Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit.

   

CHERI

• Signature Theatre - The Irene Diamond Stage
• First Preview: Fall 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Martha Clarke
• Cast: Herman Cornejo, Alessandra Ferri, Suzanne Bertish, Sarah Rothenberg
• The world premiere of Martha Clarke and Tina Howe's fusion of theatre, live music, and dance, based on Colette's novella about the forbidden love between a young man and an older woman in Belle Époque Paris.

   

HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED

• Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: Fall 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Todd Kreidler
• Cast: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
• The New York premiere of August Wilson's autobiographical solo play.

   

ROMEO AND JULIET

• Classic Stage Company
• First Preview: Fall 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: TBA
• Cast: Elizabeth Olsen
• A new production of the William Shakespeare tragedy about star crossed lovers.

   

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?: BACHARACH REIMAGINED

• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: Late Fall 2013
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Steven Hoggett
• Cast: Kyle Riabko
• A celebration of the music of Burt Bacharach with Kyle Riabko performing his unique, soulful arrangements of the Bacharach songbook backed by an eclectic group of young performers.

   

WINTER 2013/14

LOVE AND INFORMATION

• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: Winter 2014
• Opening: TBA
• Director: James MacDonald
• Cast: TBA
• The American debut of Caryl Churchill's play exploring our rapidly-changing world, where non-stop streams of information threaten the very essence of our humanity.

   

KUNG FU

• Signature Theatre - The Irene Diamond Stage
• First Preview: Winter/Spring 2014
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Leigh Silverman
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of David Henry Hwang's drama about a young martial artist who comes to American from Hong Kong in the 1960’s with dreams of becoming the biggest movie star in the world.

   

A NEW PLAY BY WILL ENO

• Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: Winter/Spring 2014
• Opening: TBA
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The New York premiere of a new play by Will Eno.

   

A NEW PLAY BY BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS

• Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: Winter/Spring 2014
• Opening: TBA
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The New York premiere of a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

   

2013-2014 - NO DATES ANNOUNCED

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

• The Royal Shakespeare Company/The Public Theater/GableStage at The Public Theater
• First Preview: January 2014
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Tarell Alvin McCraney
• Cast: TBA
• Tarell Alvin McCraney's new adaptation of the Shakespeare play, set on the eve of the Haitian Revolution against the French.

   

THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA

• Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage I
• First Preview: 2013-14
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Lynne Meadow
• Cast: Blythe Danner, Sarah Jessica Parker
• The world premiere of Amanda Peet's play about a family weathering a major financial crisis.

   

DOMESTICATED

• Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
• First Preview: 2013-2014
• Opening: TBA
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The world premiere of a new play by Bruce Norris.