OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
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. Opens March 12.
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.…
In previews. Opens March 12.
Obi Abili plays a despotic monarch who rules over a Caribbean island, in Ciarán O’Reilly’s revival of the Eugene O’Neill drama.
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. Opens March 9.
Sally Field stars as 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.
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)…
In previews. Opens March 13.
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.
In previews.
Cameron Mackintosh remounts the 1989 mega-musical, by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr., an update of “Madame Butterfly” set during the Vietnam War.
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…
Opens March 8.
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.
Previews begin Feb. 28.
Ars Nova and WP Theatre 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…
Previews begin March 4.
A transfer of Lynn Nottage’s drama, directed by Kate Whoriskey, in which a group of factory workers in Reading, Pennsylvania, find themselves at odds amid layoffs and pickets.
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
Previews begin March 7.
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole play the rival cosmetics entrepreneurs Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, in this new musical by Scott Frankel, Michael Korie, and Doug Wright.
Previews begin March 5.
Delaware Theatre Company presents Bruce Graham’s play, about a white businessman (Robert Cuccioli) and a black single mother (Danielle Leneé) who share a commute.