Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

By David Gewirtzman
June 4, 2013

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



SPRING 2013

THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY

  • New World Stages
  • First Preview: June 10, 2013
  • Opening: June 19, 2013
  • Director: Gene David Kirk
  • Cast: Brad Dourif, Amanda Plummer
  • The Off-Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams' play about two actors on tour who, deserted by their troupe and faced by an audience expecting a performance, enact The Two-Character Play.

     

BUYER & CELLAR

  • Barrow Street Theatre
  • First Preview:June 18, 2013
  • Opening: June 24, 2013
  • Director: Stephen Brackett
  • Cast: Michael Urie
  • A return engagement of Jonathan Tolins' play about a struggling Los Angeles actor who takes a job working in the basement of a beloved superstar.

     

CHOIR BOY

  • Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage II
  • First Preview: June 18, 2013
  • Opening: July 2, 2013
  • Director: Trip Cullman
  • Cast: Nicholas L. Ashe, Kyle Beltran, Grantham Coleman, Chuck Cooper, Austin Pendleton, Jeremy Pope, Wallace Smith/li>
  • The American premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's play with music about the gospel choir at the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys.

     

NOBODY LOVES YOU

  • Second Stage Theatre
  • First Preview: June 20, 2013
  • Opening: July 18, 2013
  • Director: Michelle Tattenbaum
  • Cast: Heath Calvert, Bryan Fenkart, Roe Hartrampf, Autumn Hurlbert, Leslie Kritzer, Lauren Molina, Rory O'Malley, Aleque Reid
  • The New York City premiere of Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses' musical about a philosophy grad student who auditions for, and is cast on, a reality TV dating show.

     

SUMMER 2013

THE DESIGNATED MOURNER

  • Theatre for a New Audience/The Public Theater at The Public Theater
  • First Preview: June 21, 2013
  • Opening: July 14, 2013
  • Director: André Gregory
  • Cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn
  • The first New York revival of Wallace Shawn's 1996 monologue-triptych in which three artist-intellectuals describe their experiences as their once-liberal country sinks into totalitarianism.

     

MURDER FOR TWO

  • Second Stage Theatre at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre
  • First Preview: July 10, 2013
  • Opening: July 25, 2013
  • Director: Scott Schwartz
  • Cast: Jeff Blumenkrantz, Brett Ryback
  • The New York premiere of Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair's musical murder mystery about a great American novelist who is shot at his surprise birthday party.

     

HARBOR

  • Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  • First Preview: July 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Mark Lamos
  • Cast: TBA
  • Chad Beguelin's new comedy about what happens when fifteen-year-old Lottie and her mother Donna drop in unannounced on the Sag Harbor home of Donna's brother and his new husband.

     

PAGEANT

  • New World Stages
  • First Preview: August 9, 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Matt Lenz
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of Albert Evans, Frank Kelly and Bill Russell's musical about six contestants vying for the title of Miss Glamouresse.

     

THE OLD FRIENDS

  • Signature Theatre - The Irene Diamond Stage
  • First Preview: August 20, 2013
  • Opening: September 12, 2013
  • Director: Michael Wilson
  • Cast: Betty Buckley, Hallie Foote, Lois Smith
  • The world premiere of Horton Foote's play about old friends on opposing sides who are forced to confront issues that have hounded them for generations.

     

MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY

  • Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
  • First Preview: August 23, 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Steve Cosson
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Anne Washburn's dark comedy with music by Michael Friedman that explores how the pop culture of one era might evolve into the mythology of another.

     

WOMEN OR NOTHING

  • Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
  • First Preview: August 28, 2013
  • Opening: September 16, 2013
  • Director: David Cromer
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Ethan Coen's comedy about two women so desperate to have a child that one of them agrees to sleep with a man.

     

STOP. RESET.

  • Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewelbox Theatre
  • First Preview: August 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Regina Taylor's play about a book publisher who faces the challenge of how to adapt his business in the rapidly changing digital age.

     

YOU NEVER CAN TELL

  • Gingold Theatrical Group/The Pearl Theatre Company at The Pearl Theatre Company
  • First Preview: September 3, 2013
  • Opening: September 15, 2013
  • Director: David Staller
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of George Bernard Shaw's comedy about lives turned upside down over the course of a summer's day at an English seaside hotel.

     

ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON

  • The Public Theater
  • First Preview: September 5, 2013
  • Opening: September 15, 2013
  • Director: Jean-Michele Gregory
  • Cast: Mike Daisey
  • The world premiere of Mike Daisey's new work has him telling a story over the course of a lunar month, with a new monologue every night.

     

ARGUENDO

  • Elevator Repair Service/The Public Theater at The Public Theater
  • First Preview: September 10, 2013
  • Director: John Collins
  • Cast: Elevator Repair Service
  • The world premiere of Elevator Repair Service's exploration of the 1991 Supreme Court case Barnes v. Glen Theatre, in which a group of exotic dancers challenged a ban on public nudity.

     

BAD JEWS

  • Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
  • First Preview: September 20, 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Daniel Aukin
  • Cast: Tracee Chimo, Philip Ettinger, Molly Ranson, Michael Zegen
  • A return engagement of Joshua Harmon's comedy about two cousins fighting over their grandfather's Chai necklace.

     

BRONX BOMBERS

  • Primary Stages at The Duke on 42nd Street
  • First Preview: September 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Eric Simonson
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Eric Simonson's play about the history of the New York Yankees.

     

THE MODEL APARTMENT

  • Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  • First Preview: September 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Evan Cabnet
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of Donald Margulies' 1995 black comedy about two Holocaust survivors who retire to Florida.

     

FALL 2013

FUN HOME

  • The Public Theater
  • First Preview: October 1, 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Sam Gold
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's musical based on Alison Bechdel's book about a graphic novelist who dives into her past when her father unexpectedly dies.

     

GRASSES OF A THOUSAND COLORS

  • Theatre for a New Audience/The Public Theater at The Public Theater
  • First Preview: October 8, 2013
  • Opening: October 28, 2013
  • Director: André Gregory
  • Cast: Emily McDonnell, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Tilly/li>
  • The American premiere of Wallace Shawn's play about a doctor who believes he has solved world hunger by causing animals to tolerate eating their own kind.

     

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

  • Second Stage Theatre
  • First Preview: October 15, 2013
  • Opening: Mid-November 2013
  • Director: James Lapine
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of William Finn and James Lapine's new musical based on the film about a family making an 800 mile trek to a pre-teen pageant.

     

GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN

  • The Foundry Theatre at The Public Theater
  • First Preview: October 18, 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Lear deBessonet
  • Cast: Taylor Mac
  • A return engagement of The Foundry Theatre's production of Bertolt Brecht's play about a good-hearted, penniless, cross-dressing prostitute who is forced to disguise herself as a savvy businessman.

     

THE PATRON SAINT OF SEA MONSTERS

  • Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  • First Preview: October 18, 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Lisa Peterson
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Marlane Meyer's comedy about a determined romantic who believes she’s met her soul-mate in a boozing womanizer.

     

THE APPLE FAMILY PLAYS: SCENES FROM LIFE IN THE COUNTRY

  • The Public Theater
  • First Preview: October 22, 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Richard Nelson
  • Cast: TBA
  • A return engagement of Richard Nelson's three plays about the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York that originally premiered on the nights they are set (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry), presented along with the world premiere of the fourth and final play in the series, Regular Singing.

     

THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA

  • Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage I
  • First Preview: October 22, 2013
  • Opening: November 21, 2013
  • Director: Lynne Meadow
  • Cast: Blythe Danner, Sarah Jessica Parker
  • The world premiere of Amanda Peet's play about a family weathering a major financial crisis.

     

SMALL ENGINE REPAIR

  • MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
  • First Preview: October 30, 2013
  • Opening: November 18, 2013
  • Director: Jo Bonney
  • Cast: Jon Bernthal, John Pollano
  • The New York premiere of John Pollano's play about three long-time friends who meet off-hours in an out-of-the-way repair shop, and the preppy college jock whose arrival ignites an explosion of long-simmering resentment and rage.

     

THE LANDING

  • Vineyard Theatre
  • First Preview: October 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Walter Bobbie
  • Cast: David Hyde Pierce, Julia Murney, Paul Anthony Stewart
  • The world premiere of Greg Pierce and John Kander's musical consisting of three thematically-connected tales of desire, love, and loss.

     

AND AWAY WE GO

  • The Pearl Theatre Company
  • First Preview: November 12, 2013
  • Opening: November 24, 2013
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Terrence McNally's play that time travels from ancient Athens to London's Globe Theatre, from Versailles's Royal Theater to the first reading of a new play by Chekhov, and to the American premiere of Waiting for Godot.

     

CHERI

  • Signature Theatre - The Irene Diamond Stage
  • First Preview: November 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Martha Clarke
  • Cast: Herman Cornejo, Alessandra Ferri, Suzanne Bertish, Sarah Rothenberg
  • The world premiere of Martha Clarke and Tina Howe's fusion of theatre, live music, and dance, based on Colette's novella about the forbidden love between a young man and an older woman in Belle Époque Paris.

     

THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE

  • Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  • First Preview: November 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Leigh Silverman
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Madeleine George's time-jumping play about four Watsons: a sidekick to Sherlock Holmes, an engineer who built Bell's first telephone, a super-computer "Jeopardy!" champ, and a present-day techno-dweeb.

     

HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED

  • Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
  • First Preview: November 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Todd Kreidler
  • Cast: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  • The New York premiere of August Wilson's autobiographical solo play.

     

FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN

  • New York Theatre Workshop
  • First Preview: Early Fall 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Des McAnuff
  • Cast: TBA
  • Will Power's play about the unlikely friendship between heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay and controversial Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit.

     

ROMEO AND JULIET

  • Classic Stage Company
  • First Preview: Fall 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: Elizabeth Olsen
  • A new production of the William Shakespeare tragedy about star crossed lovers.

     

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?: BACHARACH REIMAGINED

  • New York Theatre Workshop
  • First Preview: Late Fall 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Steven Hoggett
  • Cast: Kyle Riabko
  • A celebration of the music of Burt Bacharach with Kyle Riabko performing his unique, soulful arrangements of the Bacharach songbook backed by an eclectic group of young performers.

     

WINTER 2013/14

A WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY

  • Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  • First Preview: January 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Carl Andress
  • Cast: Charles Busch
  • The world premiere of Charles Busch's new comedy about an out-of-work female impersonator who, when his elderly landlady dies in her sleep, takes on her identity in order to hang on to her valuable Greenwich Village townhouse.

     

THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER

  • Atlantic Theater Company - Atlantic Stage 2
  • First Preview: January 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The American premiere of Roy Williams' adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's classic short story.

     

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

  • The Royal Shakespeare Company/The Public Theater/GableStage at The Public Theater
  • First Preview: February 18, 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Tarell Alvin McCraney
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's new adaptation of the Shakespeare play, set on the eve of the Haitian Revolution against the French.

     

NO EXIT

  • The Pearl Theatre Company
  • First Preview: February 25, 2014
  • Opening: March 9, 2014
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of Jean-Paul Satre's 1944 dark comedy exploring the cruelty of strangers and the concept that "Hell is other people."

     

APPROPRIATE

  • Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
  • First Preview: February 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play about a family that returns to their crumbling old plantation home to settle the accounts of their recently deceased patriarch.

     

ARLINGTON

  • Vineyard Theatre
  • First Preview: February 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Victor Lodato and Polly Pen's musical about a young wife who struggles when her husband is away at war.

     

KUNG FU

  • Signature Theatre - The Irene Diamond Stage
  • First Preview: February 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Leigh Silverman
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of David Henry Hwang's drama about a young martial artist who comes to American from Hong Kong in the 1960’s with dreams of becoming the biggest movie star in the world.

     

A NEW PLAY BY WILL ENO

  • Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
  • First Preview: February 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of a new play by Will Eno.

     

STAGE KISS

  • Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
  • First Preview: February 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Rebecca Taichman
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's play about two actors who lose touch with reality when they are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama.

     

A SECOND CHANCE

  • The Public Theater
  • First Preview: March 18, 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Jonathan Butterell
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Ted Shen's musical about a recent widower and a divorcée who meet in mid-life.

     

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

  • Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
  • First Preview: March 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Martha Clarke
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's classic musical.

     

LOVE AND INFORMATION

  • New York Theatre Workshop
  • First Preview: Winter 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: James MacDonald
  • Cast: TBA
  • The American debut of Caryl Churchill's play exploring our rapidly-changing world, where non-stop streams of information threaten the very essence of our humanity.

     

SPRING 2014

THE RIVALS

  • The Pearl Theatre Company
  • First Preview: April 22, 2014
  • Opening: May 4, 2014
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy.

     

YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA

  • Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  • First Preview: April 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Anne Kauffman
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Kirk Lynn's play about a couple that decides to break down the walls between them by reenacting their individual sexual histories.

     

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID

  • Manhattan Theatre Club - Stage I
  • First Preview: May 22, 2014
  • Opening: June 17, 2014
  • Director: Lynne Meadow
  • Cast: Cherry Jones
  • The world premiere of Sarah Treem's play about an underground women's shelter in the early 1970s.

     

BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY...

  • Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
  • First Preview: May 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis' play about an ex-cop/recent widower and his ex-con son's struggle to hold on to their rent stabilized apartment.

     

CINDERELLA/CENDRILLON

  • New York Theatre Workshop
  • First Preview: May 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Joël Pommerat
  • Cast: TBA
  • The American debut of Joël Pommerat's play about a young girl who becomes obsessed with her mother's final words.

     

FLY BY NIGHT: A NEW MUSICAL

  • Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  • First Preview: May 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick and Kim Rosenstock's musical about a melancholy sandwich maker whose hum-drum life is intersected by two entrancing sisters.

     

TOO MUCH SUN

  • Vineyard Theatre
  • First Preview: May 2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Mark Brokaw
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Nicky Silver's play about a celebrated actress who, after unraveling while preparing for a production of Medea, decides to spend the summer with her married daughter.

     

2013-2014 - NO DATES ANNOUNCED

CUTIE AND BEAR

  • Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
  • First Preview: 2013-2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Evan Cabnet
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s play about the relationship between a married man and financially strapped young woman.

     

DINNER WITH FRIENDS

  • Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
  • First Preview: 2013-2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Pam Mackinnon
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize–winning play about two couples who do everything together, until one marriage crumbles and their lives veer in opposite directions.

     

DOMESTICATED

  • Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
  • First Preview: 2013-2014
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of a new play by Bruce Norris.

     


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