In previews.
The Babylon Line
Richard Greenberg’s new play, set in 1967, follows a Greenwich Village writer (Josh Radnor) who connects with a student (Elizabeth Reaser) while teaching an adult-ed class in Levittown.…
Mitzi E. Newhouse
In previews.
The Band’s Visit
David Cromer directs a new musical by David Yazbek and Itamar Moses, based on a 2007 Israeli film about an Egyptian rock band that gets stranded in the Negev Desert.…
Atlantic Theatre Company
In previews.
A Bronx Tale
Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks co-direct a musical adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s semi-autobiographical one-man show, set in his native borough in the sixties and featuring a doo-wop…
Longacre
In previews.
The Dead, 1904
Kate Burton stars in Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz’s adaptation of the Joyce tale; the Irish Rep’s production roams three floors of a historic town…
American Irish Historical Society
In previews. Opens Nov. 17.
Dead Poets Society
Jason Sudeikis plays a nonconformist teacher at an all-boys school, in Tom Schulman’s adaptation of his screenplay for the 1989 film, directed by John Doyle.
Classic Stage Company
In previews.
Dear Evan Hansen
Ben Platt plays an antisocial teen-ager who finds himself in a moral quandary after a classmate’s death, in a new musical by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Steven…
Music Box
In previews. Opens Nov. 13.
The Death of the Last Black Man…
Suzan-Lori Parks’s comedy, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, explores the archetypes of the African-American experience in absurdist vignettes.
Pershing Square Signature Center
In previews.
In Transit
This new a-cappella musical, directed by Kathleen Marshall and written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth, traces the intertwining lives of New York commuters.
Circle in the Square
Nov. 17-20.
Memory Rings
At the Next Wave Festival, Phantom Limb Company stages a piece about five thousand years of environmental change, using puppetry, projections, and fairy tale.
BAM Harvey Theatre
Previews begin Nov. 9. Opens Nov. 13.
Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought
The British comedian and existential raconteur Daniel Kitson returns, with a story about a rodent and a phone call.
St. Ann’s Warehouse
In previews. Opens Nov. 14.
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of…
Josh Groban and Denée Benton star in Dave Malloy’s electro-pop adaptation of a section of “War and Peace.” Rachel Chavkin directs the immersive production, which originated at Ars Nova.…
Imperial
Previews begin Nov. 22.
Othello
David Oyelowo plays the title role in Sam Gold’s production of the Shakespeare tragedy, opposite Daniel Craig’s Iago.
New York Theatre Workshop
Opens Nov. 16.
Othello: The Remix
The Q Brothers (“The Bomb-itty of Errors”) perform their five-person, eighty-minute hip-hop retelling of the Shakespeare tragedy.
Westside
In previews. Opens Nov. 15.
Party People
The Universes ensemble stages this piece about the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, based on interviews with veterans…
Public
In previews.
Rancho Viejo
In Dan LeFranc’s comedy, directed by Daniel Aukin, the residents of a Southwestern suburb gossip and fret over the separation of an unseen married couple.
Playwrights Horizons
In previews.
Ride the Cyclone
MCC Theatre presents a musical by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, in which a chamber choir involved in a tragic roller-coaster accident meets a magical fortune-teller.
Lucille Lortel
Opens Nov. 16.
The Servant of Two Masters
Theatre for a New Audience revives the 1745 Carlo Goldoni comedy, directed by Christopher Bayes and featuring Steven Epp as Truffaldino, the double-dipping servant.
Polonsky Shakespeare Center
In previews.
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
The National Theatre of Scotland stages this immersive musical fable at the home of “Sleep No More,” transforming its speakeasy space, the Heath, into a Scottish pub.
McKittrick Hotel
In previews. Opens Nov. 3.
Sweat
Kate Whoriskey directs a new play by Lynn Nottage, about a group of friends from an assembly line who find themselves at odds amid layoffs and pickets.
Public
In previews. Opens Nov. 20.
Sweet Charity
Sutton Foster stars as a dance-hall hostess in the New Group’s revival of the 1966 musical, by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields. Leigh Silverman directs.
Pershing Square Signature Center
Opens Nov. 16.
Terms of Endearment
Molly Ringwald stars in Dan Gordon’s play, based on the Larry McMurtry novel and the 1983 film, which follows a mother and daughter coping with love and tragedy over…
59E59
In previews. Opens Nov. 21.
This Day Forward
Mark Brokaw directs a new play by Nicky Silver (“The Lyons”), in which a wife’s confession in a honeymoon suite has ramifications fifty years later.
Vineyard
In previews.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Nia Vardalos stars in a stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s book, about her stint writing the advice column “Dear Sugar.” Thomas Kail directs.
Public
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