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By David Gewirtzman
11 Jun 2009

Due to the expansive nature of Off-Broadway, this list is not comprehensive.

SPRING 2009

ARCHBISHOP SUPREME TARTUFFE

• Classical Theatre of Harlem at the Clurman Theatre
  
• First Preview: June 12, 2009
  
• Opening: June 25, 2009
  
• Director: Alfred Preisser
  
• Cast: André De Shields
  
• Alfred Preisser & Randy Weiner's new play with music, inspired by Molière's Tartuffe.

• Roundabout Theatre Company at the Laura Pels Theatre
  
• First Preview: June 12, 2009
  
• Opening: July 14, 2009
  
• Director: Stafford Arima
  
• Cast: Michael Boatman, Michael Therriault
  
• The New York City premiere of Mark Saltzman's musical about the lives of and music of Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin.

VANITIES

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: July 2, 2009
  
• Opening: July 16, 2009
  
• Director: Judith Ivey
  
• Cast: Lauren Kennedy, Sarah Stiles, Anneliese van der Pol
  
• Jack Heifner and David Kirshenbaum's new musical, based on Heifner's popular play about a trio of Texas cheerleaders and how they change (or don't) over the years.

• Second Stage Theatre at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre
  
• First Preview: July 13, 2009
  
• Opening: July 30, 2009
  
• Director: Giovanna Sardelli
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Lila Rose Kaplan's play about a woman and her troubled son who escape to a small town where they encounter a curious girl, a forest ranger, and an ex-drag queen.

• Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  
• First Preview: July 28, 2009
  
• Opening: August 11, 2009
  
• Director: Pam MacKinnon
  
• Cast: Raul Castillo, Isabel Keating, Christine Kirk, Jennifer Westfeldt
  
• The world premiere of Cusi Cram's dark comedy about a trust fund darling who is exposed after writing a tell-all "memoir" based on an imaginary, less privileged background.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater
  
• First Preview: August 21, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Leigh Silverman
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's romantic thriller about a band of Jewish freedom fighters who attempt to avenge a society's wrongs.

• York Theatre Company
  
• First Preview: September 8, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Akin Babatunde
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde's new musical, based on more than 60 Blind Lemon Jefferson songs, is set in New York City in 1948 at the last recording session of the legendary Huddie Ledbetter.

• Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
  
• First Preview: September 10, 2009
  
• Opening: October 5, 2009
  
• Director: Thomas Kail
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The Off-Broadway premiere of Nathan Louis Jackson's play about two brothers who are called home to take care of their ailing father.

• Public Theater/LAByrinth Theater Company at NYU Skirball Center
  
• First Preview: September 12, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Peter Sellars
  
• Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz
  
• A new production of the classic Shakespeare drama.

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: September 15, 2009
  
• Opening: October 2009
  
• Director: Leonard Foglia
  
• Cast: Anna Deavere Smith
  
• Anna Deavere Smith's new solo play about medicine and health care.

THE NIGHT WATCHER

• Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  
• First Preview: September 22, 2009
  
• Opening: October 6, 2009
  
• Director: Daniel Sullivan
  
• Cast: Charlayne Woodard
  
• The New York premiere of Charlayne Woodard's solo play about the ways she has mentored the children in her life.

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: September 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Jessica Blank
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's play based on interviews with Iraqis about what happened to their lives after March 20, 2003 - the day the Americans arrived in their country.

• Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: September 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Tony Kelly
  
• Cast: Colman Domingo
  
• Colman Domingo's new solo play explores the experiences of a young man and hisfamily in 1970s and 80s Philadelphia.

• Roundabout Theatre Company - Black Box Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 2, 2009
  
• Opening: October 25, 2009
  
• Director: Marc Bruni
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Adam Gwon's musical about four young New Yorkers whose lives are unexpectedly interconnected by circumstance.

• Cherry Lane Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 7, 2009
  
• Opening: October 14, 2009
  
• Director: B.J. Jones
  
• Cast: Judith Ivey
  
• David Rambo's play about advice columnist Ann Landers.

• Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1
  
• First Preview: October 15, 2009
  
• Opening: November 3, 2009
  
• Director: Joseph Hardy
  
• Cast: Lynn Redgrave
  
• The New York premiere of Lynn Redgrave's solo play inspired by her maternal grandmother, Beatrice Kempson.

• Public Theater
  
• First Preview: October 21, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Tina Landau (Part 1), Robert O'Hara (Part 2)
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy about an extended family and community in the Bayou.

• Public Theater
  
• First Preview: October 27, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Richard Foreman
  
• Cast: Willem Dafoe
  
• The world premiere of Richard Foreman's philosophical comedy.

• Signature Theatre Company
  
• First Preview: October 29, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Michael Wilson
  
• Cast: Hallie Foote
  
• A three-part cycle of nine plays by Horton Foote.

• Transport Group Theatre Company
  
• First Preview: October 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Jack Cummings III
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A 40th anniversary production of Mart Crowley's play about a group of gay men who hire a hustler as a birthday present for their friend, but wind up spending the night of the party airing their pleasures and miseries.

• The New Group
  
• First Preview: October 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: Matthew Broderick
  
• The world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's play about a forty-something married man who meets a pretty young single mother, forcing him to come to terms with the inertia that is his life.

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: November 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Doug Hughes
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Rebecca Gilman's stage adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel.

• Public Theater
  
• First Preview: December 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Jean-Michele Gregory
  
• Cast: Mike Daisey
  
• The New York premiere of Mike Daisey's story of his time on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants worship America at the base of a constantly erupting volcano.

• Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
  
• First Preview: Fall 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: Julie White
  
• The New York premiere of Theresa Rebeck's play takes place backstage during the Broadway run of a long-lost Kafka play.

HAPPY NOW?

• Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  
• First Preview: January 26, 2010
  
• Opening: February 9, 2010
  
• Director: Liz Diamond
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Lucinda Coxon's play about about a woman who struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a demanding job.

• The New Group
  
• First Preview: January 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Ethan Hawke
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A revival of the Sam Shepard's play.

• Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Adam Rapp
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Adam Rapp's play about a New York writer who travels to a small American town to defend one of his young adult novels which had been banned by the local school board.

• York Theatre Company
  
• First Preview: February 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The Off-Broadway premiere of David and Joseph Zellnik's musical about a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted for World War II in 1943, and becomes a photographer for Yank Magazine.

• Public Theater
  
• First Preview: March 2, 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: James Macdonald
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' play about a young man who returns home to South Texas to confront his father.

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: Winter 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Scott Ellis
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about two gossip columnists who find that when the social circuit no longer provides any scandalous news, great celebrity can appear out of thin air.

THAT FACE

• Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage 1
  
• First Preview: April 29, 2010
  
• Opening: May 18, 2010
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Polly Stenham's play about a disturbed mother whose school-age children have to become parents to her.

• Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: May 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Erica Schmidt
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Mariana Elder, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen's new musical about a group of teenagers coming of age in West Virginia coal country in 1962, and their life-transforming odyssey.

• Playwrights Horizons - Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  
• First Preview: Spring 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Chay Yew
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Kia Corthron's play about an African preacher-in-training who is taken in by a family in the American South.

• The New Group
  
• First Preview: Spring 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Scott Elliott
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Jack Lechner, Andy Monroe and Michael Zam's new musical based on Dan Savage's "The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant."

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: Spring 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: John Rubinstein
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Leroy Aarons and Geoffrey Cowan's play is an inside look at The Washington Post's decision to publish the classified study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

TRUST

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: Summer 2010
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Paul Weitz
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Paul Weitz's new play about a rich married man who is dissatisfied with his life.

CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION

• Playwrights Horizons - Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Sam Gold
  
• Cast: Reed Birney, Peter Friedman, and Deirdre O’Connell
  
• The world premiere of Annie Baker's play about four lost New Englanders who enroll in a community center drama class experiment.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Pam MacKinnon
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Bruce Norris's play about the issue of gentrification in our communities.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Daniel Aukin
  
• Cast: Parker Posey, Eisa Davis, and Glenn Fitzgerald
  
• The world premiere of Melissa James Gibson's play about the joys — and disappointments — of entering your forties.

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