Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

By David Gewirtzman
October 13, 2009

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

SUMMER 2009

NIGHTINGALE

• Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1
  
• First Preview: October 15, 2009
  
• Opening: November 3, 2009
  
• Director: Joseph Hardy
  
• Cast: Lynn Redgrave
  
• The New York premiere of Lynn Redgrave's solo play inspired by her maternal grandmother, Beatrice Kempson.

• Public Theater
  
• First Preview: October 21, 2009
  
• Opening: November 17, 2009
  
• Director: Tina Landau (Part 1), Robert O'Hara (Part 2)
  
• Cast: Andre Holland, Marc Damon Johnson, Heather Alicia Simms and
  
• The world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy about an extended family and community in the Bayou.

• SoHo Playhouse
  
• First Preview: October 22, 2009
  
• Opening: November 2, 2009
  
• Director: Andrew Shaifer
  
• Cast: Alex Anfanger, Kevin T. Collins, Maia Madison, Steve Wilder
  
• Jay Bernzweig's comedy about conjoined twins who plan to propose marriage to their mutual girlfriend.

• New World Stages
  
• First Preview: October 23, 2009
  
• Opening: October 31, 2009
  
• Director: Carl Forsman
  
• Cast: Daniel Jenkins, Robert Stanton
  
• A return engagement of Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton's comedy about a night a classic play spoke so loudly to its audience that they felt compelled to talk back.

• The New Group
  
• First Preview: October 24, 2009
  
• Opening: November 16, 2009
  
• Director: Kenneth Longergan
  
• Cast: Matthew Broderick, Stephanie Cannon, Kieran Culkin, Jonathan Hadary, Catalina Sandino Moreno, J. Smith-Cameron, Grant Shaud, Missy Yager
  
• The world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's play about a forty-something married man who meets a pretty young single mother, forcing him to come to terms with the inertia that is his life.

• LCT3 at the Duke on 42nd Street
  
• First Preview: October 26, 2009
  
• Opening: November 9, 2009
  
• Director: Ken Rus Schmoll
  
• Cast: Opal Alladin, Mia Barron, Ellen Parker
  
• The world premiere of Ann Marie Healy's play about a writer's journey through the political world of publishing, as her novel becomes the last print published novel ever.

• Public Theater
  
• First Preview: October 27, 2009
  
• Opening: November 4, 2009
  
• Director: Richard Foreman
  
• Cast: Willem Dafoe
  
• The world premiere of Richard Foreman's philosophical comedy.

• Signature Theatre Company
  
• First Preview: October 29, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Michael Wilson
  
• Cast: Hallie Foote
  
• A three-part cycle of nine plays by Horton Foote.

• The Actors Company Theatre at the Beckett Theatre
  
• First Preview: November 1, 2009
  
• Opening: November 11, 2009
  
• Director: Jenn Thompson
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Sidney Howard's 1932 comedy about what happens when a celebrated painter's early works are traced to the humble home of a country doctor.

• Classic Stage Company
  
• First Preview: November 6, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Brian Kulick
  
• Cast: Craig Baldwin, Tina Benko, Bill Christ, Mark H. Dold, Jennifer Ikeda, Andrew McGinn, Dylan Moore, Luis Moreno, Dion Mucciacito, Michael Potts, Steven Rattazzi, Steven Skybell, Elliot Villar, Graham Winton, Finn Wittrock
  
• Brian Kulick's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Thomas Heywood's Iron Age.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater
  
• First Preview: November 6, 2009
  
• Opening: December 2, 2009
  
• Director: Daniel Aukin
  
• Cast: Louis Cancelmi, Eisa Davis, Glenn Fitzgerald, Julianne Nicholson, Darren Pettie
  
• The world premiere of Melissa James Gibson's play about the joys — and disappointments — of entering your forties.

• Lion Theatre
  
• First Preview: November 7, 2009
  
• Opening: November 15, 2009
  
• Director: Michael Unge
  
• Cast: Scott Kerns, Kevin Spirtas
  
• Elliot Ramón Potts' play about two men exploring whether or not their casual sexual relationship has the potential to be something more.

• Folksbiene Theater at the Baruch Performing Arts Center
  
• First Preview: November 8, 2009
  
• Opening: November 17, 2009
  
• Director: Derek Goldman
  
• Cast: Theodore Bikel
  
• The New York premiere of Theodore Bikel's play with music about writer Shalom Alecheim.

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
  
• First Preview: November 11, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Michael Ray Escamilla
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Mando Alvarado's play about a girl who flees the Texas border town she grew up in to become a singer/songwriter.

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: November 13, 2009
  
• Opening: December 3, 2009
  
• Director: Doug Hughes
  
• Cast: Jimonn Cole, Bob Braswell, Michael Cullen, Cristin Milioti, Randall Newsome, Roslyn Ruff, John Sierros, Henry Stram, Andrew Weems
  
• Rebecca Gilman's stage adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel.

• Theatre at Saint Clement's
  
• First Preview: November 14, 2009
  
• Opening: November 22, 2009
  
• Director: Piper Laurie
  
• Cast: Jim Brochu
  
• Jim Brochu's one-man play about Zero Mostel.

• Mint Theater Company at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: November 18, 2009
  
• Opening: December 7, 2009
  
• Director: Martin Platt
  
• Cast: Anna Chlumsky, Kristen Johnston
  
• A revival of Maurine Dallas Watkins' backstage farce .

• Flea Theatre
  
• First Preview: November 20, 2009
  
• Opening: December 10, 2009
  
• Director: Ethan McSweeny, Kip Fagan, Davis McCallum, Jim Simpson, Michelle Tattenbaum, Adam Rapp
  
• Cast: The Bats
  
• A collection of six world premiere ten-minute plays by Thomas Bradshaw, Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Will Eno, Itamar Moses and Adam Rapp, that explore the impact of the current economic crisis on the younger generation.

• DR2 Theatre
  
• First Preview: December 11, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Timothy McDonald
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A return engagement of Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler's kid-friendly musical about a 13-year-old girl with a special talent for giving advice.

• Little Shubert Theatre
  
• First Preview: December 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Paul Alexander
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A revival of Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston's 1927 stage adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel.

• Public Theater
  
• First Preview: December 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Jean-Michele Gregory
  
• Cast: Mike Daisey
  
• The New York premiere of Mike Daisey's story of his time on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants worship America at the base of a constantly erupting volcano.

AGES OF THE MOON

• Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
  
• First Preview: January 9, 2010
  
• Opening: January 27, 2010
  
• Director: Jimmy Fay
  
• Cast: Sean McGinley, Stephen Rea
  
• The American premiere of Sam Shepard's play about two old friends who sit, reflect, bicker, and put 50 years of love, friendship and rivalry to the test at the barrel of a gun.

• Classic Stage Company
  
• First Preview: January 13, 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Walter Bobbie
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• David Ives' new play goes behind the scenes to an audition for a play in which the lines between fantasy and reality blur.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater
  
• First Preview: January 24, 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Pam MacKinnon
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Bruce Norris's play about the issue of gentrification in our communities.

• Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  
• First Preview: January 26, 2010
  
• Opening: February 9, 2010
  
• Director: Liz Diamond
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Lucinda Coxon's play about about a woman who struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a demanding job.

• MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 27, 2010
  
• Opening: February 16, 2010
  
• Director: Joe Mantello
  
• Cast: Hugh Dancy, Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw
  
• The American premiere of Alexi Kaye Campbell's play about a complex love triangle that jumps from 1958 to the present and back.

• The New Group
  
• First Preview: January 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Ethan Hawke
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A revival of the Sam Shepard's play.

• Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 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.

• Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1
  
• First Preview: February 9, 2010
  
• Opening: March 2, 2010
  
• Director: Garry Hynes
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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: TBA
  
• The American premiere of Andrew Bovell's drama that traces a family's history over 80 years.

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
  
• First Preview: February 18, 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Craig Wright's contemporary re-telling of Oedipus.

• Flea Theatre
  
• First Preview: February 25, 2010
  
• Opening: February 28, 2010
  
• Director: Jim Simpson
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Henri Brecque's two-part play exposes everything from human avarice to institutional fraud.

• Transport Group Theatre Company
  
• First Preview: February 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Jack Cummings III
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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.

• York Theatre Company
  
• First Preview: February 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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.

• Public Theater
  
• First Preview: March 2, 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: James Macdonald
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' play about a young man who returns home to South Texas to confront his father.

• 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
  
• 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: TBA
  
• 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.

• Playwrights Horizons - Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  
• First Preview: March 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Chay Yew
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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.

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: Winter 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Scott Ellis
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about two gossip columnists who find that when the social circuit no longer provides any scandalous news, great celebrity can appear out of thin air.

FAMILY WEEK

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1
  
• First Preview: April 29, 2010
  
• Opening: May 18, 2010
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Polly Stenham's play about a disturbed mother whose school-age children have to become parents to her.

• Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
  
• First Preview: April 2010
  
• Opening: May 2010
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The American premiere of Moira Buffini's play set around the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II.

• 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.

• Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: May 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Erica Schmidt
  
• 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.

• The New Group
  
• First Preview: Spring 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Scott Elliott
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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."

• 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.

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: Spring 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: John Rubinstein
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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.

TRUST

• 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.

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.