Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

By David Gewirtzman
August 18, 2008

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

SUMMER 2008

THREE CHANGES

• Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage
  
• First Preview: August 22, 2008
  
• Opening: September 16, 2008
  
• Director: Wilson Milam
  
• Cast: Aya Cash, Dylan McDermott, 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.

• Westside Theatre
  
• First Preview: August 26, 2008
  
• Opening: September 14, 2008
  
• Director: Roger Bean
  
• Cast: Farah Alvin, Beth Malone, Bets Malone, Victoria Matlock
  
• Roger Bean's musical about four girls preparing for the 1958 Springfield High School prom, features hit songs of the fifties and sixties including "Lollipop," "It's My Party" and "It's in His Kiss."

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
  
• First Preview: August 28, 2008
  
• Opening: September 8, 2008
  
• Director: Dexter Bullard
  
• Cast: David Wilson Barnes, Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks
  
• The New York premiere of Craig Wright's play about three childhood friends who come together for their annual hunting trip.

• New York Theatre Workshop
  
• First Preview: August 29, 2008
  
• Opening: September 15, 2008
  
• Director: Jo Bonney
  
• Cast: Raul Aranas, Jeremy Bobb, Lisa Joyce, Logan Marshall-Green, Larry Pine, Eileen Rivera, Corey Stoll
  
• Michael Weller's play about the comic road adventure of two Iraqi War veterans who make their way home from a military hospital in Germany.

• York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's Theatre
  
• First Preview: September 3, 2008
  
• Opening: September 10, 2008
  
• Director: Stuart Ross
  
• Cast: Jill Eikenberry, Josh Grisetti, George S. Irving, Michael Tucker
  
• Joseph Stein and Stan Daniels' musical based on Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical novel about a young aspiring actor in 1930s New York City.

• 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.

• Directors Company at the Baruch Performing Arts Center
  
• First Preview: September 7, 2008
  
• Opening: September 22, 2008
  
• Director: Michael Parva
  
• Cast: Tovah Feldshuh
  
• The world premiere of Dan Gordon's play about a housekeeper for a Nazi major who must decide whether to protect twelve Jewish refugees.

• MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
  
• First Preview: September 10, 2008
  
• Opening: September 28, 2008
  
• Director: Austin Pendleton
  
• Cast: Norbert Leo Butz, Elizabeth Marvel
  
• The world premiere of Michael Weller's new play about a young couple's evening a, after they send their young son off to a neighborhood sleepover.

• Vineyard Theatre
  
• First Preview: September 10, 2008
  
• Opening: September 30, 2008
  
• Director: Tina Landau
  
• Cast: Daniel T. Boothe, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Michael Kenneth Williams
  
• The world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's play about two competing houses of drag queens.

• 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.

ROCK OF AGES

• New World Stages
  
• First Preview: September 30, 2008
  
• Opening: October 16, 2008
  
• Director: Kristin Hanggi
  
• Cast: Constantine Maroulis
  
• Chris D'Arienzo's new muscial about a Hollywood rock club facing its demise at the hands of developers, features the songs of Journey, Bon Jovi and Styx.

• Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 1
  
• First Preview: September 30, 2008
  
• Opening: October 28, 2008
  
• Director: John Patrick Shanley
  
• Cast: Ivan Hernandez, Mark Linn-Baker, Patina Renea Miller
  
• 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.

• Cherry Lane Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 3, 2008
  
• Opening: October 11, 2008
  
• Director: Alex Kilgore and Evan Cabnet
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A collection of short plays by Adam Rapp, Gina Gionfriddo, Judith Thompson, Elizabeth Meriwether and Mark Schultz.

• Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 7, 2008
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Blake Lawrence
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• 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: TBA
  
• 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: John Gallagher, 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: TBA
  
• 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: TBA
  
• 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
  
• 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.

• 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.

• 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: TBA
  
• The world premiere of Peter Meineck's adaptation of Joseph Heller's classic novel.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA

• The New Group at The Acorn Theater
  
• First Preview: January 13, 2009
  
• Opening: February 4, 2009
  
• Director: Scott Elliot
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A new production of Eugene O'Neill's trilogy of plays based on Aeschylus' The Oresteia.

• 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.

• 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.