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By David Gewirtzman
20 Jun 2008

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

SUMMER 2008

KICKING A DEAD HORSE

• The Public Theater
  
• First Preview: June 25, 2008
  
• Opening: July 14, 2008
  
• Director: Sam Shepard
  
• Cast: Stephen Rea, Elissa Piszel
  
• The U.S. premiere of Sam Shepard's new play about the myth of the West, a Manhattan art dealer and a dead horse.

• Soho Playhouse
  
• First Preview: June 26, 2008
  
• Opening: July 9, 2008
  
• Director: Hal Brooks
  
• Cast: James Braly
  
• A return engagement of James Braly's solo play about the idiosyncrasies of married life.

• St. Luke's Theatre
  
• First Preview: June 26, 2008
  
• Opening: July 20, 2008
  
• Director: Robert Kalfin
  
• Cast: Samantha Ives, Amanda Jones, Jonathan Kells Phillips, Hugo Salazar, Jr.
  
• A return engagement of Joey Gross' drama about a fictionalized love triangle between Queen Marie Antoinette, her portraitist Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun, and aristocrat and political radical Count Alexis de Ligne.

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: June 26, 2008
  
• Opening: July 15, 2008
  
• Director: Gordon Edelstein
  
• Cast: Emily Bergl, Tom Cavanagh, Halley Feiffer, Anthony Rapp
  
• Richard Nelson's comedy about a group of pretentious American college students who go on a literary tour of England.

• Theatreworks USA at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: July 16, 2008
  
• Opening: August 22, 2008
  
• Director: John Simpkins
  
• Cast: Patty Jenkins, Lorinda Lisitza, Lauren Marcus, Jeffrey Omura, Kilty Reidy, Lance Rubin, Jason Williams
  
• Joe Iconis' musical based on Nancy McArthur's children's book about a sock-eating plant.

• New World Stages
  
• First Preview: July 17, 2008
  
• Opening: July 31, 2008
  
• Director: Steven Yuhasz
  
• Cast: Jamie Farr, Anita Gillette
  
• Three one-act comedies by Luigi Creatore about the residents of Flamingo Court, a South Florida apartment complex.

• Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  
• First Preview: July 22, 2008
  
• Opening: August 5, 2008
  
• Director: Mark Lamos
  
• Cast: Mark Blum, Carmen M. Herlihy, Jennifer Regan, Susan Sullivan, James Waterston, Dathan B. Williams
  
• The New York premiere of A.R. Gurney's play about a faded television personality who returns home to Buffalo to star in a production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

• Signature Theatre Company at the Peter Norton Space
  
• First Preview: August 5, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Leslie Lee's play about the struggles of three generations of a family over the course of one weekend.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage
  
• First Preview: August 22, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Wilson Milam
  
• Cast: Aya Cash, Brian J. Smith, Maura Tierney
  
• The world premiere of Nicky Silver's play about Nate and Laurel, an Upper West Side couple, who are visited by Nate's brother Hal, who had been living in Hollywood.

• Classic Stage Company
  
• First Preview: September 3, 2008
  
• Opening: September 18, 2008
  
• Director: Brian Kulick
  
• Cast: Mandy Patinkin
  
• A new production of the classic Shakespeare drama.

• Atlantic Theater Company - Stage 2
  
• First Preview: September 3, 2008
  
• Opening: September 10, 2008
  
• Cast: David Pittu
  
• The world premiere of David Pittu and Randy Redd's musical satire about the career of an eternally up-and-coming musical theater composer.

• Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
  
• First Preview: September 16, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Maria Mileaf
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Lee Blessing's play about a man and a woman who wake up in an unfamiliar house, and have no memory of who they are or how they got there.

ROMANTIC POETRY

• Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 1
  
• First Preview: October 1, 2008
  
• Opening: October 28, 2008
  
• Director: John Patrick Shanley
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger's musical about three couples whose lives intersect.

• Second Stage Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 2, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Michael Greif
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A 20th Anniversary production of Howard Korder's play about three college friends who make their way to the big city.

• Roundabout Underground
  
• First Preview: October 3, 2008
  
• Opening: October 29, 2008
  
• Director: Alex Timbers
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Steven Levenson's new play about an American translator who is sent to a U.S. war zone in the Middle East, and the friendly neighbor who volunteers to help out his wife and young son.

• Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
  
• First Preview: October 16, 2008
  
• Opening: November 10, 2008
  
• Director: Nicholas Martin
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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.

• Atlantic Theater Company - Main Stage
  
• First Preview: October 22, 2008
  
• Opening: November 12, 2008
  
• Director: Doug Hughes
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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.

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

• Signature Theatre Company at the Peter Norton Space
  
• First Preview: November 11, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Samm-Art Williams' play about a man who leaves his family farm in North Carolina to find prosperity in the North.

• 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.

• Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 2
  
• First Preview: Fall 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Daniel Aukin
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The New York premiere of Itamar Moses' play about three teammates in baseball's steroid era.

• The Public Theater - Joe's Pub
  
• First Preview: Fall 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• 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.

• Playwrights Horizons - Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  
• First Preview: Fall 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Adam Rapp
  
• Cast: Annette O’Toole, Ray Anthony Thomas, Katherine Waterston
  
• The world premiere of Adam Rapp's play about an ailing mother and her teenage son who flee from Illinois to a midtown Manhattan hotel.

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage
  
• First Preview: Fall 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Bartlett Sher
  
• Cast: Cassie Beck, Jonathan Groff, 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.

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

• Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: Fall 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Tina Landau
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's play about two competing houses of drag queens.

UNCLE VANYA

• 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: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Lynn Nottage's play about a businesswoman in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

THINGS OF DRY HOURS

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• 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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