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Autumn Preview
Theater to Encounter This Season Afterwards a Very Long Intermission
Timely plays tackle tough subjects, while musicals get the royal treatment, thanks to a princess ("Diana"), queens ("Six") and the King of Popular ("MJ").
In another season, the chance to see "Wicked" or "The King of beasts King" once again subsequently and so long wouldn't be such thrilling news. But this isn't any other theater season. So while in these listings we detail plenty of world premieres ("Flight Over Sunset," "The Bedwetter"); inventive revivals (a gender-swapped "Company"); and at least seven plays by Black writers on Broadway, nosotros might too have a await at the one-time reliables. Welcome back.
Dates are subject to change.
September
SANCTUARY CITY Immigrant dreamers try to establish their place in America in this play by the Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok ("Toll of Living"). The show, along with many others on and Off Broadway, was in previews when the pandemic closed theaters in March 2020. The same bandage members who prepared for that opening will render: Jasai Hunt-Owens, Sharlene Cruz and Austin Smith. Rebecca Frecknall directs. (In previews, Sept. 21-Oct. x, New York Theater Workshop)
THE GARDEN Charlayne Woodard digs into the complicated relationship between an older woman and her middle-anile daughter, who haven't spoken in years and attempt to reconcile, in this new play. The Baltimore Heart Phase and La Jolla Playhouse coproduction is directed by Patricia McGregor and Delicia Turner Sonnenberg. (Sept. 21-October 17, La Jolla Playhouse)
PERSUASION The imaginative people at Bedlam return with an adaptation of Jane Austen's romantic novel about a woman who turns away the man who may be the dearest of her life, and tries to win him dorsum eight years later. Sarah Rose Kearns wrote the play, adapted from Austen's novel, and Eric Tucker directs. (In previews, Sept. 21-Oct. 31. The Connelly Theater)
Messages OF SURESH Friends, strangers and family seek connection through letters sent across the globe in Rajiv Joseph's new play, directed past May Adrales, who is also the new artistic director of the play development lab The Distraction. The bandage includes Ali Ahn, Ramiz Monsef, Kellie Overbey and Thom Sesma. The play is a companion piece to Joseph's "Animals Out of Newspaper" (in which Overbey also appeared). (In previews, Oct. 4-24. Second Stage Theater)
LACKAWANNA BLUES Ruben Santiago-Hudson's autobiographical play virtually growing up in a boardinghouse in upstate New York and the generous adult female who raised him, features more than 20 characters, all portrayed past Santiago-Hudson, who also directs this Manhattan Theater Club season opener. (In previews; Sept. 28-Oct. 31. Samuel J. Friedman Theater)
A COMMERCIAL JINGLE FOR REGINA COMET Ii unknown commercial jingle writers take a shot at the large time when they become the chance to help a pop star sell her new perfume. Tin can they capitalize on the moment and write her a hitting song besides? The book, music and lyrics are past Alex Wyse, a co-creator of the funny web serial "Indoor Boys," and Ben Fankhauser ("Newsies"), who besides star as the jingle writers. Bryonha Marie Parham ("Prince of Broadway") is Regina, and Marshall Pailet ("Who'due south Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War") directs. (Previews begin Sept 17; Sept. 27-November. 14, DR2 Theater)
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6 The extremely unfortunate wives of King Henry Viii tell their stories of marital misery in vocal, competing to be she who was dealt the worst manus. The show, which was hours from opening when Broadway close down, was written past Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, and Moss directs with Jamie Armitage. (Previews begin Sept. 17; opens Oct. iii, Brooks Atkinson Theater)
CHICKEN & BISCUITS Afterwards a brief run at Queens Theater, this new play by Douglas Lyons, about a family funeral at which a undercover surfaces, moves to Broadway. Norm Lewis and Michael Urie are among the cast of the comedy, directed by Zhailon Levingston (an associate director of "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical"). (Previews brainstorm Sept. 23; Oct. 10-Jan. two, Circle in the Square Theater)
IS THIS A ROOM and DANA H. In an unusual organization, 2 productions will play in rotation on the same Broadway stage this fall, both making the motion uptown after acclaimed runs at the Vineyard Theater in 2019 and 2020. Conceived and directed by Tina Satter, "Is This a Room" re-enacts the F.B.I. interrogation of Reality Winner, the former Air Forcefulness linguist and intelligence contractor who was arrested in 2017 and charged with leaking a top-hole-and-corner government report about election interference to the media. Emily Davis will revisit her role as Winner, making her Broadway debut. Lucas Hnath's "Dana H." tells the story of his mother's experience being kidnapped and held captive for several months. The production's unique arroyo to storytelling features a recording of Hnath's mother, Dana Higginbotham, telling her story, with Deirdre O'Connell onstage mouthing the words. Les Waters directs. ("Room": Previews begin Sept. 24; Oct. 11-Jan. sixteen. "Dana H.": Previews brainstorm Oct. 1.; Oct. 17-Jan. 16; Lyceum Theater)
WHAT TO SEND Upward WHEN Information technology GOES Downwardly Aleshea Harris's production, a sort of play cum ritual with a dash of trip the light fantastic party, looks at the many means Black people have suffered racist violence, misrepresentation and stereotyping. The show had a well-received run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this summer, following its 2018 premiere at A.R.T./New York Theaters, and at present is getting another run this autumn in a BAM/Playwrights Horizons coproduction, in association with the Motility Theater Company. Whitney White directs. (Sept. 24-Oct. 17, Playwrights Horizons)
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THE LEHMAN TRILOGY The story of the rise and fall of the financial firm Lehman Brothers, written by Stefano Massini and adapted by Ben Power, was in previews pre-shutdown and will finally accept a real Broadway opening, later acclaimed productions at the National Theater in London and the Park Avenue Armory. Simon Russell Beale and Adam Godley will return from the original cast, aslope Adrian Lester, making his Broadway debut. Sam Mendes ("The Ferryman") directs. (Previews resume Sept. 25; October. 14-Jan. 2, Nederlander Theater)
October
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THOUGHTS OF A COLORED Man Post-obit runs at Syracuse Stage and Baltimore Eye Stage, Keenan Scott 2's fusion of spoken give-and-take, rhythm and slam poetry — telling the stories of vii Black men over the form of one twenty-four hours in Brooklyn — makes information technology to Broadway. Steve H. Broadnax Three ("The Hot Wing King") directs. (Previews brainstorm Oct. 1; Oct. 31-March 20, John Gilt Theater)
BY Centre This is a tough 1 to describe, but here goes: The Portuguese playwright and performer Tiago Rodrigues, who was recently appointed the next director of the prestigious Avignon Festival, enlists 10 people to memorize a Shakespearean sonnet onstage each nighttime. He also name-checks Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury and Boris Pasternak, among others, but really he is sharing a personal story most his grandmother, who was going blind and wanted to memorize a tale to give it, and possibly herself, something similar immortality. (Oct. 5-17, BAM Fisher Theater)
THE Visitor Walter Vale, a widower and college professor, discovers that the Manhattan apartment he rarely uses has been rented to a Syrian drummer and his Senegalese girlfriend in the world premiere of this musical based on the 2007 film starring Richard Jenkins. The compassionate professor tries to help the two, who are living in the United States illegally. The bear witness is the first production in what looks to be an exciting season at the Public Theater. Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (lyrics), who memorably teamed up on "Next to Normal," are together again, and Kwame Kwei-Armah, the British actor and playwright, wrote the book with Yorkey. David Hyde Pierce and Ari'el Stachel ("The Band'due south Visit") star, and Daniel Sullivan directs. (Previews begin Oct. 7; Nov. four-21, Public Theater)
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CAROLINE, OR CHANGE Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's musical nigh the human relationship betwixt a Black maid and a young Jewish male child in 1960s Louisiana was slated to land on Broadway before the pandemic striking. Thankfully, the Roundabout Theater is forging alee with this revival, and Sharon D. Clarke will reprise the function that won her an Olivier Award in 2019. Michael Longhurst directs. (Previews begin Oct. eight; Oct. 27-Jan. nine, Studio 54)
THE CHINESE LADY Lloyd Suh's piercing, intimate and gently comical drama is based on the story of Afong Moy, who was a teenager when she arrived in this state in 1834 to be put on brandish, spending decades performing a distorted version of Chinese identity for white American audiences. Directed by Ralph B. Peña at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn. (Oct. 12-31), so in a dissimilar production at the Public Theater in New York (February).
THE Mother A poor, uneducated Russian mother becomes a revolutionary in this Bertolt Brecht play, which premiered in Berlin in 1932. Elizabeth LeCompte directs the Wooster Group's version, an accommodation that draws parallels to political unrest in America today. The cast includes Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Gareth Hobbs, Erin Mullin and Kate Valk as the mother. (Previews begin Oct. 12; October. 26-Nov. ; the Performing Garage)
Forenoon SUN Blair Brown, Edie Falco and Marin Republic of ireland play 3 generations of women living together in Greenwich Village in this new play about mothers and daughters, by Simon Stephens ("Heisenberg"). Lila Neugebauer ("The Waverly Gallery") directs. (Previews begin Oct. 12; opens Nov. 3, New York Metropolis Center, Stage i)
TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 Anna Deavere Smith's landmark play is based on interviews she conducted afterwards the uprisings that followed the acquittal of Los Angeles constabulary officers in the fell, caught-on-tape beating of a Black motorist, Rodney King. In Taibi Magar'south production, what Smith originally performed as a multicharacter solo show volition be an ensemble piece. (Oct. 12-Nov. 14, Signature Theater)
FAIRYCAKES Douglas Carter Beane took "A Midsummer Night'southward Dream" and a bunch of fairy tales as his inspiration for this new comedy about mismatched lovers and mischief on a starry dark in the wood. Mo Rocca, Jackie Hoffman and Julie Halston are among the starry cast of a show that sounds as if it's going to be a zany good time. (Oct. 14-Jan. 2, Greenwich Business firm Theater)
URSULA EAGLY: THE NATURE OF Physical REALITY I'm both intrigued and intimidated by this solo prove for an audience of one, in which the performer aims to create the experience of synesthesia in the viewer, bending our perception and using distance Reiki — a contact-free version of the alternative therapy technique sometimes chosen free energy healing. Mayhap nosotros'll be able to meet music? (October. fifteen-Dec. 18, Abrons Arts Center)
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL This annual festival of dance, music, performance art and theater always gathers many creative people from effectually the earth. A combination of indoor, outdoor and online performances, the festival plan includes, in addition to more than two dozen artists and ensembles from the Bay Area, the Bons Tempos Theater Company of Mexico City with its production of "Qaddafi's Cook" and the English language-language world premiere of "Operation in a Field," a tribute to Tolstoy performed outside by Pop-Up Theater of Saint petersburg. (Oct. 18-24, various venues at Fort Mason)
Morning time'S AT Seven Paul Osborn'south 1939 comedy about iv crumbling sisters who alive close to i another — peradventure too close — in a minor Midwestern boondocks volition feature a starry cast, including Judith Ivey, Dan Lauria, Tony Roberts and John Rubinstein. Dan Wackerman, the artistic manager of Peccadillo Theater Visitor, directs. (Previews begin Oct. xx; Nov. 4-January. nine, Theater at St. Clement's)
NOLLYWOOD DREAMS A young woman dreams of existence a star and might get her big intermission in the burgeoning film industry in 1990s Lagos, Nigeria, in this one-act by the playwright and player Jocelyn Bioh ("Merry Wives," "School Girls; Or, the African Hateful Girls Play"). Saheem Ali directs. (Previews begin October. 21; Nov. 11-28, MCC Theater)
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MRS. DOUBTFIRE Based on the 1993 Robin Williams movie about a father who will do annihilation, including disguising himself as a nanny(!?), to continue his kids shut, this musical is coming to Broadway following its 2019 premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater. "Mrs. Doubtfire" was created by the team backside "Something Rotten!" — the book is by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, and the music and lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick. Jerry Zaks directs, and Rob McClure plays the title role. (Previews begin Oct. 21;opens Dec. v, Stephen Sondheim Theater)
KRISTINA WONG, SWEATSHOP OVERLORD A bear witness that contemplates building community and imagining the future, it grew out of Kristina Wong's sewing project in the early days of the pandemic: making masks out of old sheets and bra straps, which evolved into enlisting hundreds of mask-making volunteers, all working from home. Directed past Chay Yew. (Previews begin Oct. 25.; opens Nov. 4, New York Theater Workshop)
TREVOR This sweet tale about a gay teenager struggling to express himself is based on a story past Celeste Lecesne, which became a 1995 Oscar-winning short film and led to the creation of The Trevor Projection, a crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization serving L.Thousand.B.T.Q. people. This new musical version features a book and lyrics by Dan Collins and music past Julianne Wick Davis, with Marc Bruni directing. (Previews begin October. 25; opens Nov. x, Phase 42)
UNITED SOLO THEATER FESTIVAL This annual festival has, over more than 10 years, brought hundreds of solo productions to New York stages from around the world. Theater, trip the light fantastic, improv and other forms volition be presented live onstage but the festival will also include additional offerings through a virtual platform, United Solo Screen. (Oct. 26-Nov. 21, Theater Row)
Problem IN Heed The Tony and Emmy Award winner LaChanze ("The Color Purple") stars in Alice Childress's play about a Black phase actress navigating the world of New York theater in the 1950s. The play ran Off Broadway in 1955 but wasn't able to make the jump to Broadway until at present. Charles Randolph-Wright ("Motown: The Musical") directs. (Previews begin Oct. 29; Nov. 18-Jan. 9, American Airlines Theater)
Nov
CULLUD WATTAH Three generations of Blackness women are living through the water crisis in Flint, Mich., in Erika Dickerson-Despenza's play, which examines the physical and psychological effects of the ordeal on real people. The Public Theater had intended to present it in the summertime of 2020, only the pandemic upended that programme. Regardless, Dickerson-Despenza won the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the play, which is now getting its delayed world premiere. Candis C. Jones directs. (Previews begin Nov. 2; Nov. 17-Dec. 5, Public Theater)
DIANA: THE MUSICAL A loveless marriage and media obsession fabricated life hard for Diana Spencer, an assistant kindergarten teacher who became the Princess of Wales, adored by multitudes. This musical comes from the writers Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, creators of the Tony-winning show "Memphis," and is directed by Christopher Ashley (a Tony winner for "Come From Away"). The cast features Jeanna de Waal ("Kinky Boots") and Roe Hartrampf, who played Diana and Prince Charles in the La Jolla Playhouse premiere in 2019. (Previews resume Nov. ii; opens Nov. 17, Longacre Theater)
CLYDE'S The staff making sandwiches at a truck stop restaurant are formerly incarcerated and seeking redemption in this play by the two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage ("Ruined," "Sweat"). The bandage includes Uzo Aduba, Ron Cephas Jones, Reza Salazar, Edmund Donovan and Kara Young, and Kate Whoriskey, who directed "Sweat," is collaborating with Nottage once more. (Previews begin Nov. iii; Nov. 22-January. 16, Hayes Theater)
HOLIDAYS ONSTAGE "Christmas Spectacular," starring the famous loftier-kicking dancers of the Radio City Rockettes, will render this vacation season (Nov. 5-Jan. 2, Radio City Music Hall) forth with other vacation-themed shows in express runs. Amid them: "'Twas the Night Before …," Cirque du Soleil'southward acrobatic vacation romp, at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden from December. nine-27 (post-obit a run at the Chicago Theater, November. 26-Dec. five); and "A Jolly Holiday with Disney on Broadway," at the Paper Mill Playhouse, featuring Broadway stars performing hit songs from "The Lion Rex," "Mary Poppins" and other shows (December. 1-Jan. two).
KIMBERLY AKIMBO The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire teams up with the Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori ("Fun Home") to adapt his darkly comic play into a new musical well-nigh a charming, lonely 16-year-one-time with a vividly dysfunctional family and an obscure illness that has anile her into an old woman. (Nov. five-Dec. 26, Atlantic Theater Company)
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MEDICINE St. Ann'southward Warehouse presents the American premiere of Enda Walsh's meditation on the way mentally ill people are treated. Partly inspired by stories about abuse in psychiatric institutions, as well equally by the playwright'south female parent'due south experience living in a retirement home while suffering from Alzheimer'due south, "Medicine" premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival terminal month. In her review for The Scotsman, the critic Joyce McMillan called it "a heartbreaking yet hugely energizing and thrilling journey." Domhnall Gleeson stars, with Walsh directing. (Previews begin Nov. 11; Nov. 16-Dec. 5, St. Ann's Warehouse)
FLYING OVER Sunset This new musical imagines the actor Cary Grant, the writer Aldous Huxley ("Brave New World") and the playwright Clare Boothe Luce, who became a congresswoman and an ambassador, tripping on acid. A strange journey, indeed. The book is by James Lapine, who besides directs, with music past Tom Kitt and lyrics by Michael Korie. The cast of this Lincoln Center Theater production features Tony Yazbeck ("On the Town") as Grant, Carmen Cusack ("Bright Star") as Luce and Harry Hadden-Paton ("My Off-white Lady") as Huxley. (Previews brainstorm November. 11; opens Dec. 13, Vivian Beaumont Theater)
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COMPANY The Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott'southward production, which inverse the primal character of Bobby, the available with commitment issues, to a female Bobbie, gave this 1970 musical from Stephen Sondheim and George Furth a twist that landed with critics in London, where it opened in 2018. In previews when Broadway close downwards, the show will choice upwardly again this fall, with Katrina Lenk ("The Band'due south Visit") as Bobbie, leading a bandage that likewise includes Patti LuPone, Matt Doyle, Christopher Fitzgerald, Christopher Sieber and Jennifer Simard. (Previews resume Nov. 15; opens December. 9, Bernard B. Jacobs Theater)
SELLING KABUL Abandoned by the Americans who promised to protect him in Afghanistan, a former interpreter for the United States war machine goes into hiding from the Taliban in this drama by Sylvia Khoury ("Power Strip"). Directed by Tyne Rafaeli. (Nov. 17-Dec. 23, Playwrights Horizons)
In one case UPON A 1 MORE Time It seems like an odd fit, only allow's go with it: The Shakespeare Theater Visitor in Washington, D.C., will phase the earth premiere of a new musical inspired by the songs of the pop star Britney Spears. Absolutely, information technology does sound intriguing, as it's too inspired by fairy tales similar Cinderella and Snow White. Directed and choreographed by Keone and Mari Madrid, the show features a volume by Jon Hartmere. (Nov. 30-Jan. ii, Shakespeare Theater Company)
ASSASSINS John Wilkes Berth, Lee Harvey Oswald and other infamous men and women who killed or tried to kill American presidents tell their stories in this 1990 Stephen Sondheim musical, which studies the concept of the American dream from a very different perspective. The book, by John Weidman, is based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr. The director, John Doyle, the artistic director of Classic Phase Company, who is set to retire after this flavour, has assembled an impressive cast, including Adam Chanler-Berat, Tavi Gevinson, Steven Pasquale, Ethan Slater, Will Swenson and Wesley Taylor. (Previews begin Nov. 2; Nov. xiv-January. nine, Classic Stage Company)
December
MJ Lynn Nottage wrote the volume for this musical inspired past the life of Michael Jackson, and the prove features more than 25 of his hits. Christopher Wheeldon (a Tony winner for "An American in Paris") is the director and choreographer, and Myles Frost makes his Broadway debut equally the King of Pop. (Previews begin Dec. half-dozen; opens Feb. i, Neil Simon Theater)
THE MUSIC MAN Hugh Jackman stars as the con man Harold Hill and Sutton Foster is the River City local who captures his middle in this revival of Meredith Willson's 1957 musical. Directed by Jerry Zaks, and featuring choreography by Warren Carlyle, the show's cast also includes Jayne Houdyshell, Jefferson Mays, Marie Mullen and Shuler Hensley. (Previews begin Dec. 20; opens Feb. ten, Winter Garden Theater)
SKELETON Coiffure This drama well-nigh a group of Detroit autoworkers at a small-scale plant during the Bang-up Recession is coming to Broadway, several years afterward a well-received run at the Atlantic Theater Company. The play, by Dominique Morisseau, is part of a trilogy that includes "Detroit '67" and "Paradise Blue." Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who directed at Atlantic, will take the helm in one case over again for this Manhattan Theater Club production; Phylicia Rashad stars. (Previews begin Dec. 21; opens January. 12, Samuel J. Friedman Theater)
January
SWEPT AWAY Four men survive the sinking of their whaling send in an 1888 storm off the coast of Massachusetts in this globe premiere musical. How far are they willing to get to stay alive? John Logan ("Moulin Rouge! The Musical," "Red") wrote the book; the music and lyrics are by the Avett Brothers; and Michael Mayer will direct. (Jan. 9-February. xiii, Berkeley Repertory Theater)
LONG DAY'S Journey INTO NIGHT Fifty-fifty if we have a bleak wintertime it will be difficult to resist spending time with Eugene O'Neill's securely troubled Tyrone family. Elizabeth Curiosity will play Mary, the morphine addicted female parent of Edmund (Ato Blankson-Forest) and Jamie, and Bill Camp is her married man James. Robert O'Hara directs. (Previews begin Jan. eleven; Jan. 23-February. 20, Minetta Lane Theater)
TAMBO & Basic The title characters, trapped inside a minstrel prove, try to find a way to leave, and get even, in this look at racism in America, hip-hop fashion. The Playwrights Horizons and Eye Theater Group production is a earth premiere by Dave Harris, directed by Taylor Reynolds ("Plano"). (January. 12-Feb. 20; Playwrights Horizons)
INTIMATE Dress The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage adapts her loveliest, nearly contemplative play into an opera with music by Ricky Ian Gordon. Inspired by the life of Nottage's corking-grandmother, it tells the story of a single Black seamstress in search of romance in early 20th-century New York. Directed by Bartlett Sher. (Resumes previews Jan. 13; opens January. 31, Lincoln Center Theater)
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EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE This commemoration of cocky expression and the power of a mother-son bond volition make its North American premiere in Los Angeles following a boom run that began in 2017 on the Westward End. Jamie (Layton Williams) is a teenager who definitely doesn't fit in with his peers, but courageously finds himself through drag, and with assist from his mom and an older elevate performer, to exist played by Roy Haylock (the "RuPaul's Drag Race" Flavor 6 winner Bianca Del Rio). The evidence features music by Dan Gillespie Sells, a volume and lyrics by Tom MacRae and is directed by Jonathan Butterell. (Jan. 16-Feb. twenty, Ahmanson Theater)
Change AGENT Craig Lucas imagines vital conversations amidst figures during important times in American history, including the Cuban Missile Crunch, the civil rights movement and the Cold State of war. The playwright will also direct this earth premiere production at Loonshit Stage in Washington, D.C. (January. 21-March vi, Loonshit Stage)
DREAM HOU$E Ii Latinx sisters decide to cash in on the gentrification of their neighborhood by selling the family unit home, and performing on a reality television show while they do information technology, in this earth premiere play by Eliana Pipes that considers the toll of progress in America. Laurie Woolery directs. The show will run at Alliance Theater in Atlanta, where it was the winner of the 2021-22 Brotherhood/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, from Jan. 22-February. 13, then at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, from March fifteen-Apr iii.
February
ENCORES! This almanac series that semi-stages underappreciated and lesser-known musicals is back at New York City Center with three productions and a new artistic director, Lear deBessonet. "The Tap Dance Child," with music by Henry Krieger, lyrics past Robert Lorick, and a book by Charles Blackwell, is outset up (Feb. 2-6), directed past Kenny Leon. "The Life," with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Ira Gasman, and a volume by David Newman, Gasman and Coleman, follows, with Billy Porter directing (March 16-twenty). And "Into the Woods," Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine's (volume) Tony-winning musical, directed by deBessonet, volition close out the season (May 4-15).
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PARADISE SQUARE I caught this production, which had its premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theater, while passing through the area in Jan 2019. The musical, nigh freeborn Black people and newly arrived Irish immigrants coexisting peacefully, for a fourth dimension, in Five Points, a New York slum, during the Ceremonious War, focuses on a fascinating American story. Information technology seemed Broadway jump when I saw it, and the moment will soon get in: Following some other pre-Broadway run at the James M. Nederlander Theater in Chicago (November. 2-Dec. five), "Paradise" will go far in New York in the spring. Moisés Kaufman directs the show, with a book past Christina Anderson, Marcus Gardley, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan; music and lyrics past Jason Howland, Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare; and choreography by Bill T. Jones. (Previews begin February. 22; opens March 20, Barrymore Theater)
PLAZA SUITE Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker star in a revival of Neil Simon'due south 1968 one-act, made upwards of three i-act farces about three different couples — all played by the same actors — staying in the same hotel room at different times. Information technology volition be the first time the actors accept worked together on Broadway since 1996, a twelvemonth before they were married. John Benjamin Hickey directs. (Previews begin Feb. 25; March 28-June 12, Hudson Theater)
March
TAKE ME OUT Richard Greenberg's 2002 play about a star major league baseball game player who comes out of the closet, opening himself upwards to hostility and prejudice, returns to Broadway in a revival directed past Scott Ellis. The cast includes Jesse Williams, Patrick J. Adams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. (Previews begin March ix; opens April 4, Hayes Theater)
THE WANDERER Dion DiMucci, the heartthrob singer-songwriter ("Runaround Sue") improve known every bit simply Dion, is the bailiwick of this new biographical musical most a troubled kid from the Bronx who made his way to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. (He's all the same at it, also: "Blues With Friends," featuring collaborations with Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and others, came out in 2020.) Charles Messina wrote the book, Kenneth Ferrone will direct, and Michael Wartella, who every bit a bratty genius provided most of the memorable moments in the "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" musical, stars equally Dion. (March 24-April 24, Paper Manufactory Playhouse)
HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama near sexual abuse finally gets to Broadway, with its original lead performers — Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse. Marker Brokaw ("Heisenberg"), who oversaw the 1997 Off Broadway premiere for the Vineyard Theater, will once once again straight. Previews begin (March 29; opens April nineteen, Samuel J. Friedman Theater)
Apr
THE MINUTES Tracy Letts'southward play about greed and ambition in the world of small-town politics was in previews pre-shutdown last year. Thankfully, we may finally get a chance to figure out why some of Big Ruddy's Metropolis Council minutes are being kept secret. Anna D. Shapiro directs the Steppenwolf production, which had its premiere at the theater's Chicago home in 2017. (Previews begin in March; opens Apr 7, Studio 54)
OUR DAUGHTERS, Like PILLARS A female parent and her daughters plan a relaxing vacation of antiquing, eating well and fugitive cellphones, but will all of this togetherness actually bind them? This new play past Kirsten Greenidge ("Milk Like Sugar") will have its premiere at the Huntington Theater in Boston, with Kimberly Senior ("Disgraced") directing. April 8-May eight. The Huntington volition follow it upwards with Greenidge'south "Common Ground Revisited," an adaptation of "Common Basis," J. Anthony Lukas's Pulitzer-winning book well-nigh desegregation in the Boston school system, which was set up to be staged last year. It was conceived by Greenidge and Melia Bensussen, adapted by Greenidge, and Bensussen directs. (May 27-June 26, Huntington Theater Company)
Hymeneals Ring: A LOVE/HATE STORY IN Black AND WHITE When this Alice Childress play opened at the Public Theater in 1972, Ruby Dee played i half of its central couple — a Black adult female and a white man in 1918 Due south Carolina, loving each other despite laws and a racist culture that said they couldn't. The play hasn't been seen in New York since that product, which Childress directed with Joseph Papp. Now Theater for a New Audience is bringing it back, directed by Awoye Timpo. (April 23-May 15, Theater for a New Audition)
THE BEDWETTER The comedian Sarah Silverman's memoir, subtitled "Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee," is the footing for this new musical nearly a x-year-onetime named Sarah, who has an embarrassing secret. Silverman wrote the show'southward songs with Adam Schlesinger, a founder of Fountains of Wayne, who died terminal year of complications of the coronavirus, and its book with the playwright Joshua Harmon ("Bad Jews"). Directed by Anne Kauffman, it was originally slated to make its premiere in spring 2020. (April 30-June 19, Atlantic Theater Company)
FUNNY GIRL Beanie Feldstein ("Booksmart") stars every bit the comedian and actress Fanny Brice in the outset revival of this Jule Styne and Bob Merrill classic since Barbra Streisand originated the role on Broadway in 1964. To say this is highly anticipated is an understatement. Harvey Fierstein will revise the original book past Isobel Lennart, and Michael Mayer directs. Previews are fix to brainstorm in the bound at a theater yet to be announced.
May
A MONSTER CALLS Based on a 2011 immature adult novel past Patrick Ness, about a 13-year-former male child, his terminally sick mother and a monster with tales to tell, this new play, adapted and directed by Sally Cookson, comes to the Kennedy Center from the One-time Vic in London. (May 25-June 12, John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts)
THE OUTSIDERS Does Ponyboy sing and dance? Audiences in Chicago volition be the first to find out in Adam Rapp, Jamestown Revival and Justin Levine'south new musical based on S.E. Hinton's classic immature developed novel about rival gangs from different social classes, and on Francis Ford Coppola'due south 1983 film accommodation of it. Directed by Liesl Tommy ("Respect"), with choreography past Lorin Latarro ("Waitress"). (May 27-July x, Goodman Theater)
Laura Collins-Hughes contributed reporting.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/theater/broadway-theater-plays-musicals.html
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