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Broadway Plays that are now open or due to open!
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
by Tennessee Williams
Drama
at Broadhurst Theatre
Set against the backdrop of New Orleans' gritty French Quarter. The play tells the tale of former school teacher and socialite Blanche DuBois, as she's forced to move in with her sister Stella and her animalistic husband Stanley.
(from 03 Apr 2012 - Closing on 22 Jul 2012)
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CLYBOURNE PARK
by Bruce Norris
Dark Comedy
at Walter Kerr Theatre
In 1959 a white family moves out. In 2009, a white family moves in. In the intervening years, change overtakes a neighborhood, along with attitudes, inhabitants and property values.
(from tba - Booking to tba)
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
by Arthur Miller
Drama
at Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Explores the strength, humor and musical genius of the legendary Ray Charles. One of the greatest pioneering musical artists of all time, Ray Charles mastered everything from soul and rhythm & blues to gospel, jazz, country and pop. Set in his last live recording session, Unchain My Heart reveals Charles' remarkable life story through his music.
(from 03 Feb 2012 - Closing on 02 Jun 2012)
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DETROIT
by Lisa D'Amour
Drama
at tba
In a 'first ring' suburb outside a mid-sized American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who've moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers out of control - with unexpected consequences.
(from Expected in fall 2011 - ?? ?? ??)
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DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER
by Marc Camoletti, adapted by Robin Hawdon
Comedy/Farce
at American Airlines Theatre
Bernard's plans for a romantic rendezvous with his mistress are complete with a gourmet caterer and an alibi courtesy of his friend, Robert. But when Bernard's wife learns that Robert will be visiting for the weekend, she decides to stay in town for a surprise tryst of her own.
(from 30 Mar 2012 - Closing on 17 Jun 2012)
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END OF THE RAINBOW
by Peter Quilter
Drama
at Belasco Theatre
Set in December 1968 and Judy Garland is about to make her comeback... again. In a London hotel room preparing for a series of concerts, with both her new young fianc‚ and her adoring accompanist, Garland struggles to get'beyond the rainbow' with her signature cocktail of talent, tenacity, and razor-sharp wit.
(from 19 Mar 2012 - Booking to 02 Sep 2012)
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FAT PIG
by Neil LaBute
Dark Comedy
at tba
Tells the story of Tom (Hamilton), a very eligible bachelor who falls for the beautiful, bright and plus-sized Helen. Tom is overjoyed with his new relationship but his shallow co-workers are less enthusiastic.
(from Expected 2011/2012 season - )
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HARVEY
by Mary Chase
Comedy
at Studio 54
Charming and kind, Elwood P. Dowd has only one character flaw: an unwavering friendship with a 6-foot-tall, invisible white rabbit named Harvey. In order to save the family's social reputation, Elwood's sister Veta takes Elwood to the local sanatorium.
(from 18 May 2012 - Closing on 05 Aug 2012)
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MAGIC/BIRD
by Eric Simonson
Drama
at Longacre Theatre
Two of the greatest basketball players of all-time battled for three championships, bragging rights, and the future of their sport in the 1980s. Johnson and Bird electrified the nation on the court, reinvigorated the NBA, and turned their rivalry into one of the greatest and most famous friendships in professional sports.
(from 27 Feb 2012 - tba)
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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
by Richard Bean, based on Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters
Comedy
at Music Box Theatre
Francis Henshall ('One Man') is always-famished and easily-confused, Henshall agrees to work for a local gangster as well as a criminal in hiding ('Two Guvnors'), both of whom are linked in a tangled web of schemes and romantic associations... none of which Francis can keep straight.
(from 06 Apr 2012 - Booking to 02 Sep 2012)
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OTHER DESERT CITIES
by Jon Robin Baitz
Drama
at Booth Theatre
Brooke Wyeth, a once promising novelist, returns home after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, former members of the Reagan inner-circle, her brother and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir focusing on an explosive chapter in the family's history, throwing the holiday reunion into turmoil.
(from 12 Oct 2011 - Closing on 17 Jun 2012)
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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
by Rick Elice
Drama
at Brooks Atkinson Theatre
How did Peter Pan become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?
(from 28 Mar 2012 - )
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RICHARD III
(Bridge Project)
by William Shakespeare
Drama
at BAM Harvey Theatre
The Duke of Gloucester who plots and butchers his way to the throne, murdering his own young nephews in the Tower.
(from 10 Jan 2012 - Closing on 04 Mar 2012)
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SEMINAR
by Theresa Rebeck
Comedy
at John Golden Theatre
Four young writers are thrilled to be participating in a private seminar taught by the brilliant but unpredictable Leonard , an international literary legend. But as Leonard deems some students more promising than others, tensions arise.
(from 27 Oct 2011 - Booking to 18 Mar 2012)
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SHATNER'S WORLD: WE JUST LIVE IN IT
by William Shatner
Comedy
at Music Box Theatre
The two-hour show will take audiences on a voyage through Shatner's life and career, from Shakespearean stage actor to internationally known icon and raconteur, known as much for his unique persona as for his expansive body of work on television and film.
(from 14 Feb 2012 - Closing on 04 Mar 2012)
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STICK FLY
by Lydia R. Diamond
Comic-Drama
at Cort Theatre
LeVays, an affluent African American family come together to spend a summer weekend at their Martha's Vineyard home. The adult sons, aspiring novelist Kent and golden boy plastic surgeon Flip, have each brought their respective ladies (one Black and one White) to meet the parents.
(from 18 Nov 2011 - Closing on 27 May 2012)
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TALLEY'S FOLLY
by Lanford Wilson
Comic-Drama
at tba
A two-character comedy that unfolds on the 4th of July near the end of World War II in the romantic setting of a moonlit boat house in rural Missouri. Sally Talley is the daughter of a prominent local family who is being courted by an unlikely suitor, Matt Friedman, a Jewish accountant from St. Louis. Both are rebels against the conventions of the turbulent times, and finding each other may be their only chance for happiness.
(from tba - tba)
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THE ANARCHIST
by David Mamet
Drama
at tba
(from Expected in the Fall of 2012 - )
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THE BEST MAN
by Gore Vidal
Drama
at Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
William Russell and Joe Cantwell are the two leading candidates for the presidential nomination of an unspecified political party. Both have potentially fatal vulnerabilities.
(from 06 Mar 2012 - )
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THE COLUMNIST
by David Auburn
Drama
at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Columnists are kings in midcentury America and Joseph Alsop wears the crown. Joe is beloved, feared and courted in equal measure by the Washington political world at whose center he sits. But as the '60s dawn and America undergoes dizzying change, the intense political drama Joe is embroiled in becomes deeply personal as well.
(from 03 Apr 2012 - Booking to 03 Jun 2012)
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THE HEIRESS
by Ruth Goetz & Augustus Goetz
Drama
at tba
A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
(from Expected in the Fall of 2012 - )
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THE ROAD TO MECCA
by Athol Fugard
Drama
at American Airlines Theatre
Set in the region of South Africa known as the Karoo, The Road to Mecca tells the story of an elderly woman who has spent the years since her husband's death transforming her home into an intricate and dazzling work of art.
(from 16 Dec 2011 - Closing on 04 Mar 2012)
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VENUS IN FUR
by David Ives
Comic-Drama
at Lyceum Theatre
Inspired by the infamous erotic novel of the same name, Venus in Fur takes us behind the scenes of an audition, where a man and a woman blur the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex.
(from 07 Feb 2012 - Closing on 17 Jun 2012)
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WAR HORSE
Based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford in association with Handspring Puppet Company.
Drama
at Lincoln Center / Vivian Beaumont
At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a mission to find him and bring him home.
(from 17 Mar 2011 - Booking to 02 Sep 2012)
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WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
by Edward Albee
Drama
at tba
On the campus of a small New England college, George and Martha invite a new professor and his wife home for a nightcap. As the cocktails flow, the young couple finds themselves caught in the crossfire of a savage marital war where the combatants attack the self-deceptions they forged for their own survival.
(from tba - ?? ?? ??)
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WIT
by Margaret Edson
Drama
at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Follows a brilliant and exacting poetry professor as she undergoes experimental treatment for cancer. A scholar who devoted her life to academia, she must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research.
(from 05 Jan 2012 - Closing on 11 Mar 2012)
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YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
by Eric Simonson
Comedy
at tba
The life and times of one of America's most inspirational and mercurial personalities, Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi
(from expected Aug 2011 - ?? ?? ??)
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