THE BIG MEAL
Sam Gold directs Dan LeFranc’s play, about an eighty-year romance, set in the suburban restaurant where it began. Opens March 21. (Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St. 212-279-4200.)
CLYBOURNE PARK
Bruce Norris wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which expands on Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” Pam MacKinnon directs the original cast, which includes Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos, and Frank Wood. Previews begin March 26. (Walter Kerr, 219 W. 48th St. 212-239-6200.)
END OF THE RAINBOW
Tracie Bennett stars as Judy Garland in this play, by Peter Quilter, set in December, 1968, less than a year before her death. Also starring Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey, and Jay Russell. Terry Johnson directs. In previews. (Belasco, 111 W. 44th St. 212-239-6200.)
EVITA
Ricky Martin (as Che), Michael Cerveris (as Juan Perón), and Elena Roger (as Eva Perón) star in a revival of the 1978 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Michael Grandage directs. In previews. (Marquis, Broadway at 46th St. 877-250-2929.)
4000 MILES
Lincoln Center Theatre presents this play by Amy Herzog, about a young man who comes to stay with his ninety-one-year-old former activist grandmother in her Greenwich Village apartment. Mary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert star; Daniel Aukin directs. In previews. (Mitzi E. Newhouse, 150 W. 65th St. 212-239-6200.)
GHOST THE MUSICAL
The musical based on the movie, with a book and lyrics by Bruce Joel Rubin and music and lyrics by Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard, comes to Broadway via London’s West End. Matthew Warchus directs. In previews. (Lunt-Fontanne, 205 W. 46th St. 877-250-2929.)
GORE VIDAL’S THE BEST MAN
James Earl Jones, Candice Bergen, Angela Lansbury, Kerry Butler, John Larroquette, Eric McCormack, Jefferson Mays, and Michael McKean star in this revival of the 1960 play, set at a Presidential nominating convention. Michael Wilson directs. In previews. (Schoenfeld, 236 W. 45th St. 212-239-6200.)
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Des McAnuff directs the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of the 1971 musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. In previews. Opens March 22. (Neil Simon, 250 W. 52nd St. 877-250-2929.)
LOST IN YONKERS
Jenn Thompson directs the TACT production of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic drama by Neil Simon, set in 1942, about the turmoil in a dysfunctional family. In previews. Opens March 22. (Beckett, 410 W. 42nd St. 212-239-6200.)
MAGIC/BIRD
Eric Simonson (“Lombardi”) wrote this play, based on conversations with Earvin (Magic) Johnson and Larry Bird. Thomas Kail directs; starring Kevin Daniels (as Magic) and Tug Coker (as Bird). Produced in association with the N.B.A. In previews. (Longacre, 220 W. 48th St. 212-239-6200.)
THE MORINI STRAD
Casey Childs directs this Primary Stages production of Willy Holtzman’s play, based on the true story of a former child prodigy who prepares to sell her beloved Stradivarius violin. In previews. (59E59, at 59 E. 59th St. 212-279-4200.)
NEWSIES
Disney presents this musical, directed by Jeff Calhoun, adapted from the film based on the Newsboys Strike of 1899. With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Jeremy Jordan stars. In previews. (Nederlander, 208 W. 41st St. 866-870-2717.)
NO PLACE TO GO
Leigh Silverman directs this musical comedy by Ethan Lipton, in which a newly unemployed man has questions for the universe. Lipton also stars. Opens March 21. (Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St. 212-967-7555.)
NOW. HERE. THIS.
The Vineyard presents a musical from the group that produced “[title of show],” with a book by Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell and music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen, based on a collaboration with Heidi Blickenstaff, Larry Pressgrove, and Michael Berresse, who directs. In previews. (108 E. 15th St. 212-353-0303.)
REGRETS
Matt Charman wrote this play, set in the nineteen-fifties, in which a young man goes to Nevada for a quick divorce. The cast includes Adriane Lenox, Alexis Bledel, and Richard Topol. Carolyn Cantor directs, for Manhattan Theatre Club. In previews. Opens March 27. (City Center Stage I, 131 W. 55th St. 212-581-1212.)
THE SOAP MYTH
National Jewish Theatre presents Jeff Cohen’s new play, in which a Holocaust survivor and a journalist investigate the accusation that Nazi soldiers produced soap from Jewish corpses. Directed by Arnold Mittelman. Previews begin March 23. Opens March 26. (Black Box, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, 111 W. 46th St. 212-352-3101.)
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Theatre for a New Audience presents this play, directed by Arin Arbus and starring Maggie Siff and Andy Grotelueschen, about a travelling theatre troupe that brings the Shakespeare play to the American frontier in the late nineteenth century. In previews. (The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 W. 42nd St. 646-223-3010.)
‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE
Cheek by Jowl presents the U.S. première of this 1633 drama by John Ford, in which a brother and sister’s incestuous relationship ends in tragedy. Declan Donnellan directs. Preview on March 20. Opens March 21. (BAM’s Harvey Theatre, 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn. 718-636-4100.)