In previews. Opens Oct. 24.
In Adam Bock’s play, directed by Anne Kauffman, David Hyde Pierce plays a man who recovers from a breakup by looking for answers in astrological charts.READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Oct. 30.
Red Bull Theatre presents Shakespeare’s politically minded tragedy, directed by Michael Sexton and starring Dion Johnstone as the Roman general.READ MORE »
In previews.
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.READ MORE »
In previews.
The Death of the Last Black Man in…
Suzan-Lori Parks’s comedy, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, explores the archetypes of the African-American experience in absurdist vignettes.READ MORE »
Pershing Square Signature Center
Through Nov. 6.
SoHo Rep presents a new piece—part vaudeville, part gospel show—created by the performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones and featuring his soul-singing alter ego, Jomama Jones.READ MORE »
In previews.
James Lapine directs a revival of the 1992 musical, with a score by William Finn, in which an unconventional family navigates gay life, AIDS, and bar mitzvahs in Koch-era Manhattan.…READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Nov. 6.
Melissa Errico stars in the 1947 musical, about an Irish father and daughter who escape to the Jim Crow South after stealing a pot of gold from a leprechaun.READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Oct. 20.
Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson Mays, Sherie Rene Scott, Holland Taylor, and Robert Morse star in Jack O’Brien’s revival of the 1928 comedy, about Chicago newspapermen…READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Nov. 6.
Robin De Jesús and Michael Urie portray a couple whose life is complicated by a violent crime in Jordan Seavey’s play, directed by Mike Donahue for Labyrinth Theatre Company.…READ MORE »
Opens Nov. 2.
In Jenny Rachel Weiner’s play, directed by Kip Fagan for Roundabout Underground, two women venture under false identities into the world of Internet dating.READ MORE »
Black Box, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
In previews. Opens Oct. 30.
Janet McTeer, Liev Schreiber, and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen star in Josie Rourke’s revival of the Christopher Hampton drama, depicting the seductive games of aristocrats in pre-Revolutionary France.READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Nov. 7.
“Master Harold” . . . and the Boys
Athol Fugard directs his 1982 drama, set in a tea shop in South Africa in 1950, where two black men and a white boy face the cruelties of apartheid.READ MORE »
Pershing Square Signature Center
In previews.
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
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.…READ MORE »
Opens Nov. 2.
Anna Deavere Smith’s new solo work, based on more than two hundred and fifty interviews, explores issues of education, inequality, and criminal justice.READ MORE »
In previews.
The Q Brothers (“The Bomb-itty of Errors”) perform their five-person, eighty-minute hip-hop retelling of the Shakespeare tragedy.READ MORE »
In previews.
The Universes ensemble stages this piece about the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, based on interviews with veterans…READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Oct. 20.
In David Leveaux’s revival of the David Hare drama, last seen at the Public in 1982, Rachel Weisz plays a British secret agent adjusting to everyday life after working…READ MORE »
Oct. 26-29.
At the Next Wave Festival, the Latvian director Yana Ross stages Franz Xaver Kroetz’s play, which consists of only stage directions and depicts a woman (Danuta Stenka) alone in…READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Oct. 31.
The National Asian American Theatre Company presents MJ Kaufman’s play, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, in which a transgender man returns home to central Oregon as his father’s…READ MORE »
Oct. 24-26. Closing soon
Sunday in the Park with George
Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford star in a special concert performance of the 1984 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical, to benefit New York City Center.READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Nov. 3.
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.READ MORE »
In previews.
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…READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Oct. 23.
A. R. Gurney premières a pair of short plays: “Squash,” about a college professor grappling with a student’s provocative take on Plato, and “Ajax,” in which an actress turned…READ MORE »
In previews. Opens Oct. 25.
Manhattan Theatre Club stages a play by Qui Nguyen, directed by May Adrales, about two Vietnam War refugees (based on the playwright’s parents) in a relocation camp in Arkansas.…READ MORE »
Opens Oct. 26.
En Garde Arts presents a multimedia piece about the pressures of addiction, trauma, and sexual identity, based on interviews with young adults and accompanied by a folk score.READ MORE »
