Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

By David Gewirtzman
October 6, 2008

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

FALL 2008

THE FOURPOSTER

• Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 7, 2008
  
• Opening: October 19, 2008
  
• Director: Blake Lawrence
  
• Cast: Jessica Dickey, Todd Weeks
  
• A new production of Jan de Hartog's 1952 Tony-winning play about the ups and downs of a couple's 35-year marriage.

• St. Luke's Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 7, 2008
  
• Opening: October 19, 2008
  
• Director: Charles Tolliver
  
• Cast: Peter Mac, Elyse Beyer, Jean Ann Kump, Chris McCabe, Basil Meola
  
• Peter Mac's play about a 16-year old boy whose only escape from his miserable life is the music of Judy Garland.

• New World Stages
  
• First Preview: October 7, 2008
  
• Opening: October 10, 2008
  
• Director: Michael Barnard
  
• Cast: Kristy Cates
  
• Eric Coble, Kevin Fisher and Todd Schroeder's musical about a workaholic who is diagnosed with breast cancer.

• Irish Repertory Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 10, 2008
  
• Opening: October 19, 2008
  
• Director: Ciaran O'Reilly
  
• Cast: James Naughton
  
• The world premiere of Frank McGuiness' adaptation of the classic 1892 Henrik Ibsen drama.

• Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
  
• First Preview: October 16, 2008
  
• Opening: November 10, 2008
  
• Director: Nicholas Martin
  
• Cast: Rosie Benton, Robert Eli, John McMartin, James Rebhorn
  
• The New York premiere of Noah Haidle's play about a radiologist, and his relationships with his wife, his daughter and his nurse.

• The Roundabout Theatre Company at the Laura Pels Theater
  
• First Preview: October 17, 2008
  
• Opening: November 11, 2008
  
• Director: Scott Ellis
  
• Cast: Hale Appleman, Larry Clarke, Ato Essandoh, Brad Fleischer, Charlie Hewson, John Sharian, J.D. Williams
  
• A revival of David Rabe's play about four young soldiers soldiers in 1965 Virginia, watching the Vietnam conflict escalate.

• The New Group at The Acorn Theater
  
• First Preview: October 20, 2008
  
• Opening: November 6, 2008
  
• Director: Mark Brokaw
  
• Cast: Christopher Abbot, David Cale, Lisa Emery, Elizabeth Jasicki, Darren Goldstein, Richard Topol
  
• The American premiere of Kevin Elyot's play about a gay writer living with AIDS, who attends a party at his best girlfriend's house to celebrate the return of her teenage son from abroad.

• Atlantic Theater Company - Main Stage
  
• First Preview: October 22, 2008
  
• Opening: November 12, 2008
  
• Director: Doug Hughes
  
• Cast: Dan Bittner, Kate Blumberg, John Gallagher, Jr., Chris Noth, Otto Sanchez, Olivia Thirlby, Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
  
• The world premiere of Beau Willimon's play about a press secretary who has to deal with backroom politics and his one night stand with a teenage staffer, during a tight presidential primary.

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: October 22, 2008
  
• Opening: October 29, 2008
  
• Director: Peter Brook
  
• Cast: Bruce Myers
  
• The New York premiere of Marie-Hélène Estienne's adaptation of the Inquisitor section of Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov."

• Primary Stages at 59E59
  
• First Preview: October 12, 2008
  
• Opening: October 26, 2008
  
• Director: Carl Forsman
  
• Cast: Daniel Jenkins, Robert Stanton
  
• Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton's new comedy about the night a classic play spoke so loudly to its audience that its audience felt compelled to talk back.

• The Public Theater - Joe's Pub
  
• First Preview: October 15, 2008
  
• Opening: October 27, 2008
  
• Director: Jean-Michele Gregory
  
• Cast: Mike Daisey
  
• The New York premiere of Mike Daisey's solo play about the history of the Department of Homeland Security.

• Bleecker Street Theater
  
• First Preview October 17, 2008
  
• Opening: November 11, 2008
  
• Director: Seth Barrish
  
• Cast: Mike Birbiglia
  
• Mike Birbiglia's new solo play tells stories of his life and bouts with sleepwalking.

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: October 28, 2008
  
• Opening: November 18, 2008
  
• Director: John Doyle
  
• Cast: Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani
  
• Stephen Sondheim and John Wediman's new musical about the adventures of brothers Addison and Wilson Mizner.

• Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 2
  
• First Preview: October 30, 2008
  
• Opening: November 18, 2008
  
• Director: Daniel Aukin
  
• Cast: Jeremy Davidson, James Martinez, Michael Mosley
  
• The New York premiere of Itamar Moses' play about three teammates in baseball's steroid era.

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: November 7, 2008
  
• Opening: November 23, 2008
  
• Director: Tony Taccone
  
• Cast: Danny Hoch
  
• The New York premiere of Danny Hoch's solo play about the gentrification of New York City.

• Signature Theatre Company at the Peter Norton Space
  
• First Preview: November 11, 2008
  
• Opening: December 7, 2008
  
• Director: Ron OJ Parson
  
• Cast: Tracey Bonner, Kevin T. Carroll, January LaVoy
  
• Samm-Art Williams' play about a man who leaves his family farm in North Carolina to find prosperity in the North.

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
  
• First Preview: November 12, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Lucie Tiberghien
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Stephen Belber's new play about an investment banker-turned-Marine sniper recently returned from Iraq, and a Saudi-American who just wants to get laid.

• Aquila Theatre at Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: November 14, 2008
  
• Opening: November 23, 2008
  
• Director: Peter Meineck
  
• Cast: John Lavelle
  
• The world premiere of Peter Meineck's adaptation of Joseph Heller's classic novel.

• DR2 Theatre
  
• First Preview: November 14, 2008
  
• Opening: November 16, 2008
  
• Director: Timothy McDonald
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler's musical about a 13-year-old girl who would do anything to be a part of the Kalamazoo Advice-a-palooza Festival.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage
  
• First Preview: November 14, 2008
  
• Opening: December 9, 2008
  
• Director: Bartlett Sher
  
• Cast: Cassie Beck, Victoria Clark, Jonathan Groff, Michele Pawk, Skipp Sudduth
  
• The New York premiere of Craig Lucas' play about two childhood friends who are reunited on the eve of one's first tour of duty in Baghdad.

• Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre
  
• First Preview: December 2, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Carl Forsman
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Booth Tarkington's play about a curious journalist and his unusual next door neighbors.

• 59E59 - Theater B
  
• First Preview: December 3, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Alan Hruska
  
• Cast: Sam Coppola, Chris Eigeman, Jessica Hecht
  
• The world premiere of Alan Hruska's play about two married couples who reunite in the town where they all grew up.

• Theatre for a New Audience at The Duke on 42nd Street
  
• First Preview: December 5, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Robert Woodruff
  
• Cast: Stephanie Roth Haberle
  
• The New York premiere of Edward Bond's play about an Orwellian world where a woman bringing a chair to a soldier waiting for a bus has unimaginable consequences

• The Naked Angels at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
  
• First Preview: December 7, 2008
  
• Opening: December 17, 2008
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Geoffrey Nauffts' new play about an atheist who falls in love with a Christian.

• Atlantic Theater Company - Main Stage
  
• First Preview: December 9, 2008
  
• Opening: December 18, 2008
  
• Director: Garry Hynes
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A production of Martin McDonagh's play about a Hollywood filmmaker who decides to film a movie on the island of Inishmore.

THE BREAK OF NOON

• MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 14, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Neil LaBute's new play about a man whose friends have trouble accepting his newfound faith.

• Classic Stage Company
  
• First Preview: January 14, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Austin Pendleton
  
• Cast: Denis O'Hare
  
• 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: Adriane Lenox
  
• The world premiere of Lynn Nottage's play about a businesswoman in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• The New Group at The Acorn Theater
  
• First Preview: January 27, 2009
  
• Opening: February 19, 2009
  
• Director: Scott Elliot
  
• Cast: John Cullum, 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: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Donald Margulies' play about would-be explorer Louis de Rougemont.

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 2009
  
• Opening: Mid-February 2009
  
• Director: Peter DuBois
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's play about a newlywed couple who fix up two of their romantically challenged friends.

• 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: TBA
  
• Director: Arin Arbus
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A new eight actor, two hour long production of the classic Shakespeare drama.

• 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.

• The Roundabout Theatre Company at the Laura Pels Theater
  
• First Preview: February 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• 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.

• Signature Theatre Company at the Peter Norton Space
  
• First Preview: March 3, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• 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.

• Theatre for a New Audience at The Duke on 42nd Street
  
• First Preview: March 14, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• 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.

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: Winter 2008/09
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: George C. Wolfe
  
• Cast: Mos Def, Jeffrey Wright
  
• The world premiere of John Guare's play about America's coming of age in 1802 New Orleans.

• The Civilians at the Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: Winter 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Steven Cosson
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage Theater
  
• First Preview: Winter/Spring 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Walter Bobbie
  
• Cast: Dana Ivey
  
• The New York premiere of Evan Smith's play about a Catholic spinster who admits a door-to-door Pentecostal missionary into her home.

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.

• 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 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.

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: Spring 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.

• Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
  
• First Preview: Spring 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• 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.

• Playwrights Horizons - Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  
• First Preview: Spring 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Kate Whoriskey
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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.

• 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.

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

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: Spring 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.

• 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.

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: Spring 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.