Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

By David Gewirtzman
February 1, 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.