Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

By David Gewirtzman
01 Feb 2012

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



WINTER 2012

ASSISTANCE

  • Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
  • First Preview: February 3, 2012
  • Opening: February 28, 2012
  • Director: Trip Cullman
  • Cast: Michael Esper, Sue Jean Kim, Virginia Kull, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Bobby Steggert
  • The New York premiere of Leslye Headland's play about young assistants to a hellacious boss who wonder what they're working toward.

     

HURT VILLAGE

  • Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
  • First Preview: February 7, 2012
  • Opening: February 27, 2012
  • Director: Patricia McGregor
  • Cast: Ron Cephas Jones, Tonya Pinkins, Saycon Sengbloh
  • The world premiere of Katori Hall's play about life and change in a Memphis housing project.

     

EDWARD ALBEE'S THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE

  • Signature Theatre - The End Stage Theatre
  • First Preview: February 14, 2012
  • Opening: March 5, 2012
  • Director: David Esbjornson
  • Cast: Jane Alexander
  • A new production of Edward Albee's play about a late night party interrupted by two unexpected guests.

     

PAINTING CHURCHES

  • Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre
  • First Preview: February 14, 2012
  • Opening: March 6, 2012
  • Director: Carl Forsman
  • Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, John Cunningham, Kate Turnbull
  • The first New York revival of Tina Howe's play about the changing dynamics in the parent-child relationship later in life.

     

AN ILIAD

  • New York Theatre Workshop
  • First Preview: February 15, 2012
  • Opening: March 6 & 7, 2012
  • Director: Lisa Peterson
  • Cast: Denis O'Hare, Stephen Spinella
  • The New York premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Paterson's adaptation of Homer's epic poem.

     

TRIBES

  • Barrow Street Theatre
  • First Preview: February 16, 2012
  • Opening: March 4, 2012
  • Director: David Cromer
  • Cast: Russell Harvard, Jeff Perry, Mare Winningham
  • The American premiere of Nina Raine's play about a young deaf man raised in a dysfunctional family.

     

HAND TO GOD

  • Ensemble Studio Theatre
  • First Preview: February 29, 2012
  • Director: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
  • Cast: Stephen Boyer, Geneva Carr, Bobby Moreno, Megan Hill, Scott Sowers
  • A return engagement of Robert Askins' comedy about a possessed Christian-ministry puppet.

     

THE BIG MEAL

  • Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
  • First Preview: March 1, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Sam Gold
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Dan LeFranc's play tracing five generations of a modern family.

     

NOW. HERE. THIS.

  • Vineyard Theatre
  • First Preview: March 7, 2012
  • Opening: March 28, 2012
  • Director: Michael Berresse
  • Cast: Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jeff Bowen
  • The world premiere of Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwelland Jeff Bowen's autobiographical "theatri-concert" celebrating living in the present.

     

REGRETS

  • Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 1
  • First Preview: March 8, 2012
  • Opening: March 27, 2012
  • Director: Carolyn Cantor
  • Cast: Adriane Lenox
  • The world premiere of Matt Charman's play about a ramshackle retreat in the Nevada desert where men go to secure a quick divorce.

     

LOST IN YONKERS

  • TACT/The Actors Comany Theatre at the Beckett Theatre
  • First Preview: March 13, 2012
  • Opening: March 22, 2012
  • Director: Jenn Thompson
  • Cast: Finnerty Steeves, Dominic Comperatore, Stephanie Cozart, Matthew Gumley, Cynthia Harris, Russell Posner
  • A revival of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about brothers who are dropped off at their immigrant grandmother's home to witness the tension between Grandma and Aunt Bella.

     

4000 MILES

  • Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
  • First Preview: March 15, 2012
  • Opening: April 2, 2012
  • Director: Daniel Aukin
  • Cast: Gabriel Ebert, Mary Louise Wilson
  • Amy Herzog's play about a 21-year-old who visits his 91-year-old grandmother in her West Village apartment, after losing his best friend while on a cross-country bike trip.

     

GATZ

  • The Public Theater
  • First Preview: March 15, 2012
  • Director: John Collins
  • Cast: Scott Shepherd
  • A return engagement of Elevator Repair Service's six-and-a-half-hour staging of the entire text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

     

SPRING 2012

THE MORINI STRAD

  • Primary Stages at 59E59
  • First Preview: March 20, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Casey Childs
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York premiere of Willy Holtzman's play inspired by the true story of concert violinist Erica Morini and her legendary Stradivari violin.

     

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

  • Classic Stage Company
  • First Preview: March 28, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Tony Speciale
  • Cast: Bebe Neuwirth, Christina Ricci
  • A new production of William Shakespeare's comedy-fantasy.

     

JUDITH OF BETHULIA

  • Theater for the New City
  • First Preview: March 30, 2012
  • Director: Carl Andress
  • Cast: Charles Busch
  • The world premiere of Charles Busch's new comedy based on the 1914 silent Hollywood Biblical epic.

     

MASSACRE (SING TO THE CHILDREN)

  • Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Theatre
  • First Preview: April 3, 2012
  • Opening: April 12, 2012
  • Director: Brian Mertes
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of José Rivera's play about seven friends who conspire to murder their mysterious neighbor.

     

AN EARLY HISTORY OF FIRE

  • The New Group at The Acorn Theatre
  • First Preview: April 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Jo Bonney
  • Cast: Lily Rabe
  • The world premiere of David Rabe's play set in a Midwestern town in the early 1960s, about a man intrigued by a woman who went to college in the east, but stuck in the grip of his immigrant father.

     

MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!

  • Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
  • First Preview: May 1, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of Athol Fugard's play about a teacher in South Africa who forms a debate team with a spirited student.

     

THE COMMON PURSUIT

  • Roundabout Theatre Company Laura Pels Theatre
  • First Preview: May 4, 2012
  • Opening: May 24, 2012
  • Director: Moisés Kaufman
  • Cast: TBA
  • A new production of Simon Gray's comedy chronicling twenty years in the lives of six friends.

     

TITLE AND DEED

  • Signature Theatre - The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
  • First Preview: May 8, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Judy Hegarty Lovett
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Will Eno's play about a nameless traveler from a far off place who searches for connection and solace in an unknown country.

     

RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN

  • Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
  • First Preview: May 11, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Peter DuBois
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's play about two friends who took opposite paths after grad school, and now covet each other's lives.

     

A NEW PLAY BY KENNETH LONERGAN

  • Signature Theatre - The End Stage Theatre
  • First Preview: May 15, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of a new play by Kenneth Lonergan.

     

FOOD AND FADWA

  • NOOR Theatre/New York Theatre Workshop at New York Theatre Workshop
  • First Preview: May 18, 2012
  • Opening: June 7, 2012
  • Director: Shana Gold
  • Cast: TBA
  • Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader's play about 30-something Palestinian woman living in the West Bank who insists on continuing the preparations for the wedding of her younger sister, despite her politically volatile surroundings.

     

FEBRUARY HOUSE

  • Public Theater
  • First Preview: May 8, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Davis McCallum
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's musical about a boardinghouse in 1940s Brooklyn with residents including Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden and Gypsy Rose Lee.

     

3C

  • Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Theatre
  • First Preview: June 6, 2012
  • Opening: June 14, 2012
  • Director: Jackson Gay
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of David Adjmi's play about an ex-serviceman who winds up trashed in a kitchen in L.A. after a wild night of partying.

     

UNCLE VANYA

  • Soho Rep
  • First Preview: June 7, 2012
  • Opening: June 17, 2012
  • Director: Sam Gold
  • Cast: Reed Birney
  • Annie Baker's new adaptation of the Chekhov play.

     

LONELY, I'M NOT

  • Second Stage Theatre
  • First Preview: Spring 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Paul Weitz's play about a man who has been married and divorced, earned seven figures and had a nervous breakdown, and is ready to try again after not having had a job or a date for four years.

     

STOREFRONT CHURCH

  • Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
  • First Preview: Spring 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of John Patrick Shanley's play about a Bronx Borough President who is forced by the mortgage crisis into a confrontation with a local minister.

     

CHIMICHANGAS AND ZOLOFT

  • Atlantic Theater Company - Stage 2
  • First Preview: Late Spring 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Fernanda Coppel's play about a woman who leaves her family to go on a Zoloft and chimichangas binge following her 40th birthday, and her daughter and best friend's attempt to bring her home.

     

SLOWGIRL

  • Lincoln Center Theater - Claire Tow Theater
  • First Preview: June 4, 2012
  • Opening: June 18, 2012
  • Director: Anne Kauffman
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Greg Pierce's play about a young woman who flees to her reclusive uncle's retreat in the Costa Rican jungle to escape the aftermath of a horrific accident.

     

SUMMER 2012

 

THE TRAIN DRIVER

  • Signature Theatre - The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
  • First Preview: August 14, 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Athol Fugard
  • Cast: TBA
  • Athol Fugard's play about a train driver searching for the identities of a mother and child he unintentionally killed with his train.

     

DOGFIGHT

  • Second Stage Theatre
  • First Preview: Summer 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Joe Mantello
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Peter Duchan's musical based on the 1991 film.

     

FALL 2012

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH MAN

  • Public Theater
  • First Preview: November 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: Barry Edelstein
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of Nathan Englander's play, based on his short story of the same name, about a Soviet roundup of the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia.

     

DETROIT

  • Playwrights Horizons
  • First Preview: Fall 2012
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's Pulitzer Prize finalist play about neighbors in the suburbs of a mid-sized city.

     

WINTER 2013

 

PASSION

  • Classic Stage Company
  • First Preview: February 2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: John Doyle
  • Cast: TBA
  • A revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical about an ugly, broken, grasping woman who pursues a handsome soldier who is already in love with another woman.

     

2012-2013 - NO DATES ANNOUNCED

 

DOMESTICATED

  • Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
  • First Preview: 2012-2013
  • Opening: TBA
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA
  • The world premiere of a new play by Bruce Norris.