Openings and Previews
Beware of Young Girls: Kate Dimbleby Sings the Dory Previn Story
59E59
Amy Rosenthal wrote this play with music, about Dory Previn, who is famous for being the woman whom André Previn left for Mia Farrow but was also an accomplished songwriter. Cal McCrystal directs. Previews begin Dec. 16.
Christmas with the Crawfords
Abrons Arts Center
Donna Drake directs this camp classic, created by Richard Winchester. Joey Arias plays Joan Crawford in a re-creation of a famous radio broadcast from Crawford’s home on Christmas Eve in 1949. Opens Dec. 10.
Constellations
Samuel J. Friedman
Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson star in a new play by Nick Payne, which imagines the possibilities of the relationship between a man and the physicist he falls in love with. Michael Longhurst directs. Previews begin Dec. 16.
Howie the Rookie
BAM Fisher
Mark O’Rowe wrote this two-man play, about working-class Dublin, which he directs in a one-man staging, starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor. Dec. 10-14.
Pocatello
Playwrights Horizons
Davis McCallum directs the world première of a new play by Samuel D. Hunter ("The Whale"), about the manager of an Italian chain restaurant in a changing city in Idaho. Starring T. R. Knight.