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By David Gewirtzman
26 Dec 2008

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

WINTER 2008/09

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• SoHo Playhouse
  
• First Preview: January 13, 2009
  
• Opening: January 22, 2009
  
• Director: George Demas
  
• Cast: Michael Laurence
  
• Michael Laurence's solo play about an actor whose obsession with Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape compels him to examine his own life on his 39th birthday.

• MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 14, 2009
  
• Opening: February 2, 2009
  
• Director: Carl Andress
  
• Cast: Charles Busch, Kathleen Turner
  
• The New York premiere of Charles Busch's comedy combines the stories of a mother and son screenwriting team in 1940's Hollywood, a princess who makes a deal with an ancient witch, and a first lady of the mob who forms an alliance with a cloning scientist.

• SoHo Playhouse
  
• First Preview: January 15, 2009
  
• Opening: January 25, 2009
  
• Director: Todd Parmley
  
• Cast: Mark Sam Rosenthal
  
• Mark Sam Rosenthal's solo play imagines Blanche DuBois in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

• Irish Repertory Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 16, 2009
  
• Opening: January 25, 2009
  
• Director: Charlotte Moore
  
• Cast: Orlagh Cassidy, Rufus Collins, Sean Gormley, Lynn Hawley, John Keating, Laura Odeh, Ciarán O'Reilly, Geddeth Smith
  
• A new production of Brian Friel's 1979 play about a family gathering for the wedding of the youngest sister.

• Classic Stage Company
  
• First Preview: January 17, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Austin Pendleton
  
• Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mamie Gummer, Denis O'Hare, Peter Sarsgaard, Louis Zorich
  
• A new production of the classic Chekhov play.

• Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 1
  
• First Preview: January 21, 2009
  
• Opening: February 10, 2009
  
• Director: Kate Whoriskey
  
• Cast: Saidah Arrika Ekulona
  
• The world premiere of Lynn Nottage's play about a businesswoman in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• St. Luke's Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 23, 2009
  
• Opening: February 5, 2009
  
• Director: Joseph Bologna
  
• Cast: Mike Burstyn
  
• The New York premiere of Joseph Bologna and Richard Krevolin's play about the efforts of Jewish gangster and gambler Meyer Lanky to become an Israeli citizen.

• The New Group at The Acorn Theater
  
• First Preview: January 27, 2009
  
• Opening: February 19, 2009
  
• Director: Scott Elliot
  
• Cast: Mark Blum, Robert Hogan, Jena Malone, Lili Taylor
  
• A new production of Eugene O'Neill's trilogy of plays based on Aeschylus' The Oresteia.

• Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  
• First Preview: January 27, 2009
  
• Opening: February 8, 2009
  
• Director: Lisa Peterson
  
• Cast: Jeremy Bobb, Michael Countryman, Donnetta Lavinia Grays
  
• The New York premiere of Donald Margulies' play about would-be explorer Louis de Rougemont.

• The Civilians at the Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: February 3, 2009
  
• Opening: February 22, 2009
  
• Director: Steven Cosson
  
• Cast: Emily Ackerman, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Brad Heberlee, Brandon Miller, Stephen Plunkett, Alison Weller
  
• The New York premiere of Steven Cosson, Jim Lewis and Michael Friedman's play with music about the growth of the evangelical movement in Colorado Springs.

• Mint Theater Company
  
• First Preview: February 4, 2009
  
• Opening: March 1, 2009
  
• Director: Stuart Howard
  
• Cast: Eric Martin Brown, Allyn Burrows, Julia Coffey, Nick Cordileone, Randy Danson, Dalton Harrod, Emma Kantor, Arthur Lazalde, Amanda Roberts, Sheila Stasack, James Warke, Lance Wertz, Pilar Witherspoon
  
• A new production of D.H. Lawrence's play about a troubled family in a coal mining village.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater
  
• First Preview: February 6, 2009
  
• Opening: March 3, 2009
  
• Director: Walter Bobbie
  
• Cast: Reed Birney, Marylouise Burke, Dana Ivey, Kellie Overbey
  
• The New York premiere of Evan Smith's play about a Catholic spinster who admits a door-to-door Pentecostal missionary into her home.

• The Roundabout Theatre Company at the Laura Pels Theater
  
• First Preview: February 7, 2009
  
• Opening: March 4, 2009
  
• Director: Mark Brokaw
  
• Cast: Cynthia Nixon
  
• The New York premiere of Lisa Loomer's play about a mother's attempts to figure out if Attention Deficit Disorder is the root of her son's problems.

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
  
• First Preview: February 10, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Kip Fagan
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Sheila Callaghan's play about a man struggling with his ex-girlfriend, his conscience and everything else on his mind.

• Theatre for a New Audience at The Duke on 42nd Street
  
• First Preview: February 14, 2008
  
• Opening: February 22, 2008
  
• Director: Arin Arbus
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A new eight actor, two hour long production of the classic Shakespeare drama.

• Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 2
  
• First Preview: February 19, 2009
  
• Opening: March 10, 2009
  
• Director: Erica Schmidt
  
• Cast: Lorenzo Pisoni
  
• The world premiere of Lorenzo Pisoni and Erica Schmidt's solo play about Pisoni's upbringing as the youngest member of the Pickle Family Circus.

• Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre
  
• First Preview: February 24, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Carl Forsman
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Tom Stoppard's translation of Gérald Sibleyras' play about three World War I vets in a veterans home who plot a trip to a group of trees in the distance.

• Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
  
• First Preview: February 27, 2009
  
• Opening: March 30, 2009
  
• Director: Susan Stroman
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Michael Korie, Scott Frankel and John Weidman's new musical about a group of New Yorkeres caught on a subway train.

• Barrow Street Theatre
  
• First Preview: February 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: David Cromer
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A transfer of the acclaimed Hypocrites production of Thorton Wilder's classic play.

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: March 3, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Liesl Tommy
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson's play about the 1960's American Civil Rights Movement.

• Signature Theatre Company at the Peter Norton Space
  
• First Preview: March 3, 2009
  
• Opening: March 24, 2009
  
• Director: Stephen McKinley Henderson
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Charles Fuller's play about a random act of violence that threatens to tear a once caring community apart.

• Playwrights Horizons - Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  
• First Preview: March 5, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Kate Whoriskey
  
• Cast: LaChanze, Angela Lewis, Nana Mensah, Nikkole Salter
  
• The world premiere of Christina Anderson's play about a woman who enlists the aid of her sister to make the child that she and her husband cannot.

• Theatre for a New Audience at The Duke on 42nd Street
  
• First Preview: March 14, 2008
  
• Opening: March 26, 2008
  
• Director: David Esbjornson
  
• Cast: Christian Camargo
  
• A new production of the classic Shakespeare drama.

• Classic Stage Company
  
• First Preview: March 18, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Part 1 - Brian Kulick and Gisela Cardinas / Part 2 - Paul Lazar
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Anne Carson's two-part play about the fall of the house of Atreus, based on versions by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

• New World Stages
  
• First Preview: March 18, 2009
  
• Opening: April 6, 2009
  
• Director: John Rando
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Joe DiPietro's and David Bryan's new musical based on the 1985 cult film.

MR. & MRS. FITCH

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: Mid-March 2009
  
• Opening: Early April 2009
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's new comedy about two gossip columnists.

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: March 24, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Christopher Durang's play about a paranoid woman who wonders if her husband is a terrorist, and if her father is a government agent.

• Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  
• First Preview: March 25, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: Jane Alexander
  
• The world premiere of Tina Howe's play about two residents of the Mount Airy Nursing Home who plot to escape to Paris aboard the QE2.

• Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: March 27, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Peter Meineck
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Aquila Theatre's three-part adaptation of the Homer epic.

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: April 7, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Bartlett Sher
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Craig Lucas' play that intertwines today's world, Freud's inner circle in 1930's Vienna, and Paris at the end of World War II.

• The New Group at The Acorn Theater
  
• First Preview: April 27, 2009
  
• Opening: May 14, 2009
  
• Director: Ian Morgan
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's play about a quickly gentrifying neighborhood where a handball court is earmarked to become a dog run.

• MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: May 6, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Leigh Silverman
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Stephin Merritt and David Greenspan's new musical based on Neil Gaiman's novel about a lonely girl who steps through a door into a perfected replica of her own world.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage
  
• First Preview: May 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Michael Mayer
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Therea Rebeck's comedy about a reality show.

• Atlantic Theater Company - Main Stage
  
• First Preview: Spring 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Neil Pepe
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of three new one-act comedies by Ethan Coen.

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: Spring 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Naomi Wallace's play about Tife Hogan, a black Sunday school teacher and Communist Party leader, living in Depression-era Alabama.

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