OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
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THE BRIDGE PROJECT’S RICHARD III
The Bridge Project, along with the Old Vic, BAM, and Neal Street, presents the Shakespeare play, directed by Sam Mendes, with Kevin Spacey in the title role. Opens Jan. 18. (BAM’s Harvey Theatre, 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn. 718-636-4100.)
CULTUREMART
A festival of works presented by HERE includes “The Strangest,” by Betty Shamieh, inspired by the Arab who was killed in Camus’s novel “The Stranger.” Opens Jan. 24. (145 Sixth Ave., near Spring St. 212-352-3101.)
THE FALL TO EARTH
InProximity Theatre Company presents this play by Joel Drake Johnson, in which a woman and her mother travel to an unfamiliar town in search of the truth about their family. Joe Brancato directs. Opens Jan. 18. (59E59, at 59 E. 59th St. 212-279-4200.)
HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE
Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Reaser star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paula Vogel, from 1997, a dark story following the relationship between a girl and her uncle as she learns to drive. Kate Whoriskey directs. Previews begin Jan. 24. (Second Stage, 305 W. 43rd St. 212-246-4422.)
INSTINCT
Michael Kimmel directs a new play by Matthew Maguire, in which four epidemiologists who live together try to prevent an outbreak of a contagious disease. Opens Jan. 18. (Lion, 410 W. 42nd St. 212-279-4200.)
IONESCOPADE
York Theatre Company presents a revival of this 1974 musical, with music and lyrics by Mildred Kayden, a composite of the works of Eugene Ionesco in the form of music, playlets, and poetry. Bill Castellino directs. Previews begin Jan. 23. (York Theatre at St. Peter’s, Lexington Ave. at 54th St. 212-935-5820.)
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Sam Gold directs John Osborne’s seminal play from 1956, set in England in the fifties, in which four working-class people face challenges while living together. Presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. In previews. (Laura Pels, 111 W. 46th St. 212-719-1300.)
THE PHILANDERER
The Pearl presents this play by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Gus Kaikkonen. In previews. Opens Jan. 22. (City Center Stage II, 131 W. 55th St. 212-581-1212.)
RUSSIAN TRANSPORT
Janeane Garofalo stars in a new play by Erika Sheffer, about a Russian family in Brooklyn that welcomes an uncle who has come to pursue the American Dream. Scott Elliott directs the New Group production. In previews. (Acorn, 410 W. 42nd St. 212-239-6200.)
RX
Kate Fodor’s romantic comedy follows a woman who enters a drug trial for a pill that purports to end her depression and then falls in love with her doctor. Ethan McSweeny directs the Primary Stages production. Previews begin Jan. 24. (59E59, at 59 E. 59th St. 212-279-4200.)
WIT
Cynthia Nixon stars in Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1995, about a poetry professor undergoing experimental cancer treatment. Lynne Meadow directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production. In previews. (Samuel J. Friedman, 261 W. 47th St. 212-239-6200.)
YOSEMITE
At the Rattlestick, Pedro Pascal directs a new play by Daniel Talbott, in which three siblings head to the Sierra Nevada in an attempt to outrun their past. In previews. (224 Waverly Pl. 212-868-4444.)