• Minetta Lane Theatre
• Opening: May 9, 2024
• Playwright: Laura Benanti
• Director: Annie Tippe
• Cast: Laura Benanti
Laura Benanti's solo show: "A love letter to ingenues, and recovering ingenues, and moms, and anybody working on themselves."
A FINAL TOAST
• Chain Theatre
• Opening: May 10, 2024
• Playwright: Michele A. Miller
• Director: Kathy Curtiss
• Cast: Jana Robbins, Jolie Curtsinger, Diane J. Findlay, Sachi Parker
Focusing on four women, A Final Toast explores the influence of our past—personal, familial, and our heritage—on our identity. The plot follows two women in their eighties who are helped by their adult daughters to clear out their homes before moving to a Senior Living Center. Along the way they must distinguish what is really of value, separate true memories from beliefs, and come to terms with their mother-daughter relationships. Once at the Senior Living the two older women are shut in together due to the pandemic and uncover a brief encounter they had years before—one with longstanding consequences for their future lives, their relationships with their families and ultimately each other.
JUST ANOTHER DAY
• Theater 555
• First Preview: May 3, 2024
• Opening: May 12, 2024
• Playwright: Dan Lauria
• Director: Eric Krebs
• Cast: Dan Lauria, Patty McCormack
In Just Another Day, a comedy writer and a sophisticated poet in their seventies meet daily on a park bench to exchange wits and barbs, and wax nostalgic about old movies, all the while trying to figure out how they know – and love – each other. At least for that day.
HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES
• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: April 17, 2024
• Opening: May 13, 2024
• Playwright: Amanda Gronich, Moisés Kaufman
• Director: Moisés Kaufman
• Cast: Scott Barrow, Nemuna Ceesay, Kathleen Chalfant, Noah Keyishian, Jonathan Raviv, Erika Rose, Anna Shafer, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Charlie Thurston, Grant Varjas
An album of never before seen World War II-era photographs arrives at the desk of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist Rebecca Erbelding. As Rebecca and her team of historians begin to unravel the shocking story behind the images, the album soon makes headlines around the world. In Germany, a businessman sees the album online and recognizes his own grandfather in the photos. He begins a journey of discovery that will take him into the lives of other Nazi descendants – in a reckoning of his family’s past and his country’s history. Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these photographs – what they reveal about the Holocaust and our own humanity.
ALL OF ME
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: April 23, 2024
• Opening: May 14, 2024
• Playwright: Laura Winters
• Director: Ashley Brooke Monroe
• Cast: Madison Ferris, Danny J. Gomez, Lily Mae Harrington, Brian Morabito, Kyra Sedgwick
It’s your classic romantic comedy. Boy meets girl. Boy uses a wheelchair, girl uses a scooter, and they both use text-to-speech technology to connect to the world around them. They come from different worlds, but love pulls them together when their families push them apart. All of Me is a boldly humorous and candid love story exploring class and disability in America today.
INVASIVE SPECIES
• Vineyard Theatre
• First Preview: May 7, 2024
• Opening: May 15, 2024
• Playwright: Maia Novi
• Director: Michael Breslin
• Cast: Maia Novi, Raffi Donatich, Sam Gonzalez, Alexandra Maurice, Julian Sanchez
Following the journey of an Argentinean actor as she tests the limits of her American dream, Invasive Species is an outrageous dark comedy about how immigrating to the US may be the role of a lifetime.
• Alchemical Theatre
• Opening: May 16, 2024
• Playwright: Gordon Farrell
• Director: Kurt Roediger and Chelsea LeSage
• Cast: Dasja Amenze, Ron Barba, Veronica Vale Duffy, Liza Giangrande, Chelsea LeSage, Daniel Jordano, Adam P. Murphy, Zane Michael. Leslie C. Nemet, Gayle Petri, Melissa Xiaolan Warren
Four stories adapted from the lives of young women who followed dangerous paths and struggled against the odds to find family and freedom. Girls Who Walked on Glass divides the audience into separate groups and guides them through multiple rooms and corridors to experience pivotal moments in each woman’s life.
THE LONELY FEW
• The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Newman Mills Theater
• First Preview: April 26, 2024
• Opening: May 20, 2024
• Book: Rachel Bonds
• Music and Lyrics: Zoe Sarnak
• Director: Trip Cullman and Ellenore Scott
• Cast: Damon Duanno, Taylor Iman Jones, Peter Mark Kendall, Lauren Patten, Helen J Shen, Thomas Silcott
Lila and her band, The Lonely Few, have a standing gig at Paul’s Juke Joint in their small Kentucky town. When an established musician, Amy, gives them a chance to join her on tour, they take it. Love blossoms between Lila and Amy on the road, but can it endure?
THE FIRES
• SoHo Repertory Theater
• First Preview: May 8, 2024
• Opening: May 21, 2024
• Playwright: Raja Feather Kelly
• Director: Raja Feather Kelly
• Cast: Beau Badu, Sheldon Best, Phillip James Brannon, Janelle McDermoth, Ronald Peet, Jon-Michael Reese, Jason Veasey, Michelle Wilson
In 1971, 1998, and 2021, three different men in a South Brooklyn railroad apartment write, read, fuck, flirt, eat, and fight at the same time.
THREE HOUSES
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: April 30, 2024
• Opening: May 22, 2024
• Book, Music, Lyrics: Dave Malloy
• Director: Annie Tippe
• Cast: J.D. Mollison, Mia Pak, Margo Seibert, Scott Stangland, Henry Stram, Ching Valdes-Aran
Susan is in Latvia. Sadie is in New Mexico. Beckett is in Ireland. All three are alone; all three are haunted by their grandparents; all three hear the Big Bad Wolf scratching at the door. Three Houses is a post-pandemic open mic night parable about magic, madness, and the end of the world.
• Irish Repertory Theatre
• First Preview: May 15, 2024
• Opening: May 23, 2024
• Playwright: Brian Friel
• Director: Charlotte Moore
• Cast: Rufus Collins, John Keating, Sarah Street
Molly has happily experienced the world differently since she was ten months old. When Frank, her restless, unemployed, and enthusiastic husband, makes her blindness his latest cause, he recruits Dr. Rice, a once-famous surgeon who, despite his struggles, agrees to attempt to restore Molly’s sight. When the bandages come off, Molly, Frank, and Dr. Rice discover the differences between seeing and understanding as they face the consequences of a medical miracle.
BREAKING THE STORY
• Second Stage Theatre/Tony Kiser Theatre
• First Preview: May 15, 2024
• Opening: June 4, 2024
• Playwright: Alexis Scheer
• Director: Jo Bonney
• Cast: Tala Ashe, Geneva Carr, Julie Halston, Louis Ozawa, Gabrielle Policano, Matthew Saldívar, Maggie Siff
As a foreign war correspondent, Marina has put her life on the line to illuminate the darkest corners of humanity. Having just returned from a particularly bloody conflict, she flirts with staying home for good—alongside her cameraman turned lover. With her closest friends and family gathered on the eve of her lifetime achievement award ceremony, she decides to cap this glorious moment with an elopement. But as Marina tries to take hold of her life, she’s forced to reckon with the hold war has on her.
WHAT BECAME OF US
• Atlantic Theater Company/Stage 2
• First Preview: May 17, 2024
• Opening: June 4, 2024
• Playwright: Shayan Lofti
• Director: Jennifer Chang
• Cast: Rosalind Chao, BD Wong, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Tony Shalhoub
Two siblings.
One born there. One born here.
How do they maintain their connections to The Old Country, and to This Country, and to each other?
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MICKI GRANT
• WP Theater
• First Preview: May 31, 2024
• Opening: June 6, 2024
• Music, Lyrics, Prose: Micki Grant
• Adaptation: Nora Cole
• Director: Nora Cole
• Cast: Matelyn Alicia, April Armstrong, Patrice Bell, Shawn Bowers
We enter into the personal realm of the iconic Micki Grant through her unpublished poems, lyrics, written musings on love, politics, family, and historical figures loved and lost; featuring music rarely heard, accented with songs from her award-winning work: Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, So Nice To Be Civilized, & Working, and more!
DARK NOON
• St. Ann's Warehouse
• Opening: June 7, 2024
• Playwright: Tue Biering
• Director: Tue Biering and Nhlanhla Mahlangu
• Cast: TBA
In Dark Noon, a cast of South African actors and members of the audience re-enact the story of the American wild, wild west through the lens of Hollywood Westerns. This incendiary spectacle turns American history on its head — from the land rush to the gold rush, to gunfights and gunslingers, the territorial conflicts between the European settlers and the indigenous natives are all there. It’s an absurd and vicious game – playful until it isn’t.
DAVID
• AMT Theater
• First Preview: June 1, 2024
• Opening: June 9, 2024
•Music: Al Tapper
•Book and Lyrics: Al Tapper, Martha Rosenblatt, Gary Glickstein
• Director: Kyle Pleasant
• Cast: Danny Arnold, Jay Aubrey Jones, Jacob Louchheim, Caleb Mathura, Kenny Morris, Timothy Warmen, Olivia Vadnais, Ethan Zeph, Ashley Marie Arnold, Blair Alexis Brown, Bruce Blanchard, Scott Harrison, Garland Ray, Jodi Snyder
The story of the biblical King David, who looks back on his decisions as he nears the end of his life.
THE WELKIN
• Atlantic Theater Company / Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: May 16, 2024
• Opening: June 12, 2024
• Playwright: Lucy Kirkwood
• Director: Sarah Benson
• Cast: b, Tilly Botsford, Paige Gilbert, Ann Harada, Jenn Kidwell, Mary McCann, Emily Cass McDonnell, MacKenzie Mercer, Sandrah Oh, Dale Soules, Danny Wolohan, Haley Wong
Rural England, 1759. As the country awaits the return of Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to death. When she tries to escape the noose by claiming she is pregnant, twelve ordinary women are gathered to decide whether she is telling the truth. A dark, fierce, funny play about democracy and housework.
TITANIC
• New York City Center
• Opening: June 12, 2024
• Book: Peter Stone
• Music: Maury Yeston
• Lyrics: Maury Yeston
• Director: Anne Kauffman
• Cast: Bonnie Milligan, Chuck Cooper, Eddie Cooper, Drew Gehling, Ramin Karimloo, Emilie Kouatchou, Judy Kuhn, Brandon Uranowitz, Samantha Williams, Shereen Ahmed, Ashley Blanchet, Adam Chanler-Berat, Andrew Durand, Alex Joseph Grayson, Jo Lampert, Conrad Ricamora, Nathan Salstone, A.J. Shively, Chip Zien
Epic and majestic, with moments of heartbreaking intimacy - the musical play examines the causes, the conditions and the characters involved in this ever-fascinating drama. This is the factual story of that ship–of her officers, crew and passengers – and the tragic story of the beautiful ship herself.
CATS: "THE JELLICLE BALL"
• Perelman Performing Arts Center
• First Preview: June 13, 2024
• Opening: June 20, 2024
• Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Lyrics: T.S. Eliot
• Director: Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch
• Cast: Baby, Jonathan Burke, Emma Sofia Caymares, Tara Lashan Clinkscales, André De Shields, Sydney James Harcourt, Antwayn Hopper, Dava Huesca, Dudney Joseph, Jr., Capital Kaos, Junior LaBeija, Dominique Lee, Robert "Silk" Mason, "Tempress" Chasity Moore, Shereen Pimentel, Primo, Nora Schell, Kendall G. Stroud, Frank Viveros, Garnet Williams, Teddy Wilson, Jr.
A radical reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic dance musical based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Inspired by the Ballroom culture that roared out of New York City over 50 years ago and still rages on runways around the world. Staged as a spectacularly immersive competition by Zhailon Levingston and PAC NYC Artistic Director Bill Rauch, with all new Ballroom and club beats, runway ready choreography, and an edgy eleganza makeover that moves the action from junkyard to runway. Come one, come all, and celebrate the joyous transformation of self at the heart of Cats and Ballroom culture itself.
FROM HERE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: June 27, 2024
• Opening: June 29, 2024
• Book, Music, Lyrics: Donald Rupe
• Cast: Blake Aburn, Becca Southworth, Omar Cardona
Set in 2016, From Here tells the story of Daniel, a 30-something gay man on his journey through life, love, and family when the horrific shooting at Pulse Nightclub changes his hometown, and him, forever.
CLOWNS LIKE ME
• DR2 Theatre
• First Preview: June 21, 2024
• Opening: June 30, 2024
• Playwright: Jason Cannon
• Director: Jason Cannon
• Cast: Scott Ehrenpreis
In his deeply personal and universally resonant one-man show, seasoned actor and master storyteller Scott Ehrenpreis tells his humorous yet profound story of living with mental illness. Like, lots of mental illness.
Clowns Like Me fearlessly confronts the challenges of living with autism spectrum disorder, OCD, bipolar disorder, social anxiety, and depression, weaving a tale that is as heartbreaking as it is inspiring. Through his journey, Scott uncovers a remarkable truth: the stage becomes his sanctuary, a place where, if only for a few hours, he can emerge from the shadows of his struggles into the spotlight of empowerment and self-expression.
THE GHOST OF JOHN MCCAIN
• SoHo Playhouse
• First Preview: August 27, 2024
• Opening: TBA
• Book: Scott Elmegreen
• Music and Lyrics: Drew Fornarola
• Director: Catie Davis
• Cast: TBA
When John McCain, the late solider-turned-senator awakens in the afterlife, he finds himself trapped inside the mind of President Donald Trump, alongside a quasi-Greek Chorus of other public figures, including Hillary Clinton, Roy Cohn, Eva Perón, Teddy Roosevelt, Robert Jordan, and Lindsey Graham. In order to escape, the motley crew is forced to engage in a high-stakes debate over life, legacy, and 'American values.'
COUNTING AND CRACKING
• NYU Skirball Center
• First Preview: September 6, 2024
• Opening: September 12, 2024
• Playwright: S. Shakthidharan
• Director: Eamon Flack
• Cast: Rodney Afif, Prakash Belawadi, Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Nadie Kammallaweera, Ahi Karunaharan, Abbie-Lee Lewis, Gandhi MacIntyre, Radhika Mudaliyar, Shiv Palekar, Dushan Philips, Sukhbir Singh Walia, Nipuni Sharada, Kaivu Suvarna, Raj Velu, Sukania Venugopal
The multi-generational journey of a Sri-Lankan Australian family from 1956-2004. Radha fled Sri Lanka with her unborn child as the nation struggled with conflict. Two decades later, her son Siddhartha, now an Australian man who knows little of his family’s background, receives a call from the past that changes everything he thought he knew, and who he thought he was.
VLADIMIR
• Manhattan Theater Club @ New York City Center Stage I
• First Preview: September 24, 2024
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Erika Sheffer
• Director: Daniel Sullivan
This haunting world premiere unfolds in Moscow, where an independent journalist covering Putin’s first term struggles to maintain sanity and hope in increasingly hostile circumstances. She finds herself on the brink of an explosive story -- but as danger mounts for her and her sources, she questions whether her bravery will make any difference at all.
THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE
• Orpheum Theatre
• First Preview: September 14, 2024
• Opening: October 1, 2024
• Book: Marla Mindelle, Jonathan Parks-Ramage
• Music and Lyrics: Marla Mindelle, Philip Drennen
• Director: Conor Gallagher
• Cast: TBA
Stacey wakes up after a night of heavy drinking and finds herself trapped in an Off-Broadway Golden Age musical. Forced to put her musical theatre degree in action, Stacey has to figure out how to escape this singing and dancing prison in front of a live audience.
GOOD BONES
• The Public Theater
• First Preview: September 19, 2024
• Opening: October 1, 2024
• Playwright: James Ijames
• Director: Saheem Ali
• Cast: TBA
A work opportunity to revitalize the blighted neighborhood she grew up in has led Aisha and her chef husband Travis to buy and renovate a charming old house. But as everyone knows, renovation is expensive and stressful—both for buildings and the communities that surround them. Aisha’s young contractor Earl grew up in the area too, but his memories are of more than just dangerous streets and hollowed-out homes. When their purely professional relationship gives way to heated debate about who gets to stay and who must go, Aisha is forced to reckon with the choices she’s made to get ahead and the painful, joyful, complicated ghosts that haunt her dreams… and her dream house.
DEEP HISTORY
• The Public Theater
• First Preview: October 5, 2024
• Opening: October 10, 2024
• Playwright: David Finnigan
• Cast: David Finnigan
At the end of 2019, in the English countryside, Australian playwright David Finnigan began writing a play about the six turning points that have brought us to this moment in time—our ecosystems transformed, our planet on the brink of unthinkable climate disaster. But then Finnigan's hometown of Canberra was hit by bushfires. As an area the size of England burned and one billion animals perished, he started to receive texts from loved ones racing to evacuate amid the devastation. In a performance that interweaves 75,000 years of humanity with the incredibly personal account of his best friend’s escape, Finnigan calls on scientific research, phone footage, and a very personal story to illuminate the transforming planet and how we’ve arrived here.
GATZ
• The Public Theater
• Opening: Novembe 1, 2024
• Playwright: Elevator Repair Service
• Director: John Collins
• Cast: Laurena Allan, Jim Fletcher, Ross Fletcher, Maggie Hoffman, Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Aaron Landsman, Annie McNamara, Scott Shepherd, Pete Simpson, Susie Sokol, Tory Vazquez, Ben Jalosa Williams
One morning in the office of a mysterious small business, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk. He starts to read it out loud and doesn’t stop. At first his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences, it’s no longer clear whether he’s reading the book, or the book is transforming him.
KING LEAR
• The Shed
• First Preview: October 26, 2024
• Opening: November 14, 2024
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Kenneth Branagh
• Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Mara Allen, Deborah Alli, Raymond Anum, Melanie-Joyce Bermudez, Doug Colling, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Eleanor de Rohan, Chloe Fenwick-Brown, Joseph Kloska, Corey Mylchreest, Caleb Obediah, Hughie O'Donnell, Jessica Revell
Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the barbarous landscape of Ancient Britain. Featuring a cast of rising stars from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art directed by Branagh, this production releases the play’s power and turmoil in a fast-paced staging.
