OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
BURIED CHILD
Pershing Square Signature Center
The New Group revives Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama from 1978, directed by Scott Elliott and featuring Ed Harris and Amy Madigan as a rural Illinois couple with a family secret.
THE GRAND PARADISE
The Grand Paradise
In this immersive work devised by Third Rail Projects, audiences are transported to a disco-era tropical resort that claims to house the Fountain of Youth. Previews begin Jan. 28. Opens Jan. 30.
THE HUMANS
Helen Hayes
Stephen Karam's disquieting family drama moves to Broadway with its original cast, including Reed Birney and Jayne Houdyshell. Joe Mantello directs.
I AND YOU
59E59
Lauren Gunderson's play, directed by Sean Daniels, follows a pair of teen-agers collaborating on a school project about Walt Whitman. Opens Jan. 27.
LABAPALOOZA!
St. Ann's Warehouse
St. Ann's Puppet Lab presents its annual festival of experimental puppetry, with works covering everything from Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray's friendship to the adventures of a tiny dot. Jan. 28-31.
MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THANK GOD FOR JOKES
Lynn Redgrave Theatre
The comedian and monologist ("Sleepwalk With Me") performs a new solo show, about the dangers of going too far with humor. Seth Barrish directs. Previews begin Feb. 2.
O, EARTH
HERE
The Foundry Theatre presents a play by Casey Llewellyn, which touches on transgender politics, gay pop culture, and Thornton Wilder’s "Our Town." In previews. Opens Jan. 31.
PRODIGAL SON
City Center Stage I
Manhattan Theatre Club premières a play written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, about a teen-age boy from the Bronx who transfers to a private school in New Hampshire; the cast includes Robert Sean Leonard.
SENSE & SENSIBILITY
Gym at Judson
Bedlam revives its minimalist staging of the Jane Austen novel, adapted by Kate Hamill and directed by Eric Tucker.
SMART PEOPLE
Second Stage
Kenny Leon directs Lydia R. Diamond’s play, which follows four Harvard intellectuals on the eve of the 2008 Presidential election.
SOJOURNERS
Peter Jay Sharp
In Mfoniso Udofia’s play, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, a Nigerian immigrant longs to return to Africa, while her husband is seduced by the American dream. In previews. Opens Jan. 28.
UTILITY
Rattlestick
The Amoralists stage Emily Schwend’s play, directed by Jay Stull, about a woman who is overwhelmed by her two jobs and three children. Previews begin Jan. 28. Opens Feb. 1.
WASHER/DRYER
Beckett
Ma-Yi Theatre Company presents a farce by Nandita Shenoy, directed by Benjamin Kamine, about a Manhattan couple who have just eloped in Las Vegas. In previews. Opens Feb. 2.
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN
City Center Stage II
The Mint produces Hazel Ellis’s little-known play from 1938, set in the teachers’ lounge of an Irish girls’ school and performed by an all-female cast. Jenn Thompson directs.
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