LAST CHANCE: What's Closing This Week in NYC

By Adam Hetrick
15 Dec 2009

Here's Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway, Off-Broadway and world-premiere productions before they take a final bow.

Concluding Dec. 19

  • The Starry Messenger (Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theatre). Tony winner Matthew Broderick plays an astronomy teacher opposite Catalina Sandino Moreno in the world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's play about an unexpected affair. For tickets, visit TheNewGroup.org.

  • Post No Bills (Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). Mando Alvarado's poignant play centers on a young female singer/songwriter who flees her Texas town for life in the big city. For tickets, visit Rattlestick.org.

  • POP! (World premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre). Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs penned the musical that asks "Who Shot Andy Warhol?" Randy Harrison leads a cast that also features Leslie Kritzer, Doug Kreeger, Brian Charles Rooney and Cristen Paige. For tickets, visit YaleRep.

    Concluding Dec. 20

  • A Streetcar Named Desire (Off-Broadway at BAM). Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett stars as Blanche DuBois in the Sydney Theater Company production of Tennessee Williams' acclaimed play. Liv Ullmann directs. For tickets, visit BAM.

  • The Brother/Sister Plays (Off-Broadway at the Public Theater). Tina Landau and Robert O'Hara stage Tarell Alvin McCraney's acclaimed Bayou-set trilogy that includes In The Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet. For tickets, visit PublicTheater.

  • Idiot Savant (Off-Broadway at the Public Theater). Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe stars in the title role of Richard Foreman's avant-garde theatrical odyssey into the absurd. For tickets, visit PublicTheater.

  • John and Juan (Off-Broadway at the Public Theater). The Public LAB offers Roger Gueneveur Smith's solo play about the feud between baseball players Juan Marichal and John Roseboro. For tickets, visit PublicTheater.

  • So Help Me God! (Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre). Kristen Johnston stars as a demanding stage diva in the Mint Theatre Company production of Maureen Dallas Watkins' 1920s backstage comedy. For tickets, visit TicketCentral.

  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop). Doug Hughes directs Rebecca Gilman's stage take on Carson McCullers' 1940 novel about a deaf man and the people who he meets in a Georgia town. For tickets, visit nytw.org.