Openings and Previews
American Psycho
Schoenfeld
Benjamin Walker plays the murderous financier Patrick Bateman, in Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel. Rupert Goold directs. In previews. Opens April 21.
Cirque du Soleil—Paramour
Lyric
The Canadian circus company mounts its newest acrobatic spectacle, which tells the story of a starlet choosing between love and art during Hollywood’s golden age. In previews.
Dear Evan Hansen
Second Stage
Michael Greif directs a new musical by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Steven Levenson, in which a lonely teen-ager (Ben Platt) becomes the accidental subject of viral Internet fame. In previews.
The Father
Samuel J. Friedman
Frank Langella stars in a play by the French writer Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Doug Hughes for Manhattan Theatre Club, about an eighty-year-old man who is losing his grip on his life story. In previews. Opens April 14.
Fully Committed
Lyceum
Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays nearly forty characters at a trendy New York restaurant, in this one-man comedy by Becky Mode, directed by Jason Moore. In previews. Opens April 25.
Long Day's Journey Into Night
American Airlines Theatre
Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, John Gallagher, Jr., and Michael Shannon play the dysfunctional Tyrone family, in the Roundabout’s revival of the Eugene O’Neill drama, directed by Jonathan Kent. In previews.
Shuffle Along
Music Box
Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Billy Porter star in a musical about the making of a popular African-American stage show from the nineteen-twenties. Directed by George C. Wolfe and choreographed by Savion Glover. In previews.
Tuck Everlasting
Broadhurst
Casey Nicholaw directs a musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 children’s novel, about a family that accesses eternal life from a magical spring. The cast includes Carolee Carmello, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and Terrence Mann. In previews. Opens April 26.
Waitress
Brooks Atkinson
Jessie Mueller stars in a new musical based on the 2007 film, about a small-town waitress who enters a baking contest, with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles. Diane Paulus directs. In previews. Opens April 24.