Opens March 1.
Abigail Breslin stars in Erica Schmidt’s play at the New Group, in which two teen-age girls in nineteen-eighties South Carolina pursue their crushes and grapple with adulthood.
Pershing Square Signature Center
Opens March 1.
Bryna Turner’s comedy, directed by Lee Sunday Evans for LCT3, follows forty years in the lives of the women’s-education pioneer Mary Woolley and her partner, Jeannette Marks.…
In previews.
The Canadian duo Irene Sankoff and David Hein wrote this new musical, about a tiny Newfoundland town that was forced to accommodate thousands of stranded passengers on September 11, 2001.…
Through Feb. 26.
The Royal Court Theatre’s production of the Caryl Churchill comedy alternates between scenes of women chatting in a back yard and monologues recounting apocalyptic disasters.
In previews. Opens Feb. 21.
In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest work, a modern spin on the fifteenth-century morality play “Everyman,” the actor playing the main character is assigned by lottery each night. Lila Neugebauer…
Pershing Square Signature Center
In previews.
Sally Field plays the redoubtable Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield in Sam Gold’s revival of the Tennessee Williams drama, opposite Joe Mantello, as Tom.
Previews begin Feb. 23.
How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
Lincoln Center Theatre stages Sarah Ruhl’s play, featuring Lena Hall, Brian Hutchison, and Marisa Tomei, in which two married couples take an interest in a polyamorous woman.
Opens Feb. 22.
The Roundabout presents Steven Levenson’s play, directed by Daniel Sullivan, about a professor of Jewish studies who clashes with his sisters on their father’s birthday. With…
In previews.
David Byrne and Alex Timbers follow up their Imelda Marcos disco musical, “Here Lies Love,” with this rock-concert retelling of the rise of Joan of Arc (Jo Lampert)…
Opens Feb. 22.
Liesl Tommy directs a new musical by John Kander and Greg Pierce, in which a teen-ager returns to his Kansas home town after a mysterious yearlong absence.
In previews.
The Debate Society’s latest piece, written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen and directed by Oliver Butler, is set at a theatrical spectacle at the 1893 Chicago World’…
In previews. Opens Feb. 28.
In Penelope Skinner’s play, directed by Lynne Meadow for Manhattan Theatre Club, a senior executive pitches a radical idea to change how women her age are viewed.
Previews begin Feb. 27.
Jen Silverman’s play, a dark comic spin on Victorian novels, follows two sisters in the English countryside whose lives are upended by a governess and a hen; Mike Donahue…
In previews. Opens Feb. 19.
Marin Ireland plays a professor whose life is upended by gun violence in Martín Zimmerman’s play, directed by Leigh Silverman for Roundabout Underground.
Black Box, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
Previews begin Feb. 23.
Ethan Lipton wrote this musical, directed by Leigh Silverman and performed by Lipton and his three-person “orchestra,” about a couple who leave Earth in search of sustainable living in space.…
In previews. Opens Feb. 27.
Neil Pepe directs a new play by David Mamet, in which a psychiatrist faces a professional and moral crisis when he refuses to testify on behalf of a patient in…
In previews.
Mark Ruffalo, Danny DeVito, Jessica Hecht, and Tony Shalhoub star in the Roundabout’s revival of the 1968 Arthur Miller play, about a man who returns to his childhood…
Previews begin Feb. 17. Opens Feb. 21.
Broken Box Mime Theatre presents short works of modern mime, covering everything from political protest to film noir.
In previews. Opens March 2.
Joshua Harmon’s angsty comedy moves to Broadway, starring Gideon Glick as a gay New Yorker searching for a life partner as his female friends keep finding husbands. Trip Cullman…
In previews. Opens Feb. 28.
Theatre for a New Audience stages Thornton Wilder’s 1942 comic allegory, which traces humankind from prehistory to twentieth-century New Jersey and beyond. Arin Arbus directs.
In previews. Opens Feb. 23.
Sunday in the Park with George
Jake Gyllenhaal plays the pointillist master Georges Seurat and Annaleigh Ashford is his muse, in a limited run of the 1984 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical.
Previews begin Feb. 28.
WP Theatre and Ars Nova present Rachel Bonds’s play, featuring songs by the indie duo the Bengsons and starring Lilli Cooper and Eboni Booth, as twins who return home…
In previews. Opens Feb. 9.
Glenn Close returns to the role of Norma Desmond in the 1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, based on Billy Wilder’s classic portrait of Hollywood desuetude. Lonny Price directs.…
In previews.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet…
London’s Tooting Arts Club transfers its version of the Stephen Sondheim musical thriller, staged in an immersive pie-shop environment where the audience is served pie and mash.
In previews. Opens Feb. 28.
This new musical by Max Vernon, directed by Scott Ebersold, revisits the New Orleans gay bar that was the site of a deadly arson attack in 1973.
In previews. Opens Feb. 27.
Michael Emerson (“Lost”) and January LaVoy star in the latest existential comedy by Will Eno (“The Realistic Joneses”), directed by the playwright.
Pershing Square Signature Center
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