by TwiHardPotterFan » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:58 pm
FOLLIES
Theatre: Marquis Theatre
First Preview: August 7
Opening: September 12
Director: Eric Schaeffer
Cast: Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines, Danny Burstein
The Kennedy Center's critically-acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical Follies will transfer to Broadway this summer for a limited engagement at the Marquis Theatre.
MAN AND BOY
Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
First Preview: September 9
Opening: October 9
Closing: November 27
Director: Maria Aitken
Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Siberry, Adam Driver, Zach Grenier, Francesca Faridany, Brian Hutchison
In Terence Rattigan's play, Frank Langella is Gregor Antonescu, a calculating businessman who reunites with his alienated son in order to solve financial issues in a time of economic turmoil.
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
Theatre: Brooks Atkinson Theatre
First Preview: September 20
Opening: October 20
Director: John Turturro
Cast: Caroline Aaron, Bill Army, Lisa Emery, Ari Graynor, Steve Guttenberg, Danny Hoch, Julie Kavner, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud, Marlo Thomas, Katherine Borowitz, Jason Kravits, Richard Libertini, Mark Linn-Baker, Patricia O'Connell
An evening one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May
THE MOUNTAINTOP
Theatre: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
First Preview: September 22
Opening: October 13
Director: Kenny Leon
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett
The play reimagines the events of the night before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in Memphis in 1968, following the delivery of his iconic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
CHINGLISH
Theatre: Longacre Theatre
First Preview: October 11
Director: Leigh Silverman
Cast: TBA
In David Henry Hwang's new work, "Daniel, a Midwestern American businessman who's desperately looking to score a lucrative contact for his family's sign-making firm, travels to the provincial capital of Guiyang, only to learn how much he doesn't understand: his translators are unreliable, his Australian-born consultant, Peter, may be a fraud, and he is captivated by Xu Yan, the beautiful, seemingly supportive government official who talks the talk — but what is she saying, anyway?"
OTHER DESERT CITIES
Theatre: Booth Theatre
First Preview: October 12
Opening: November 3
Director: Joe Mantello
Cast: Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths, Judith Light, Stacy Keach, Thomas Sadoski
Jon Robin Baitz's drama about a wealthy Republican family attempting to kick sand over its past will arrive on Broadway at the Booth Theatre this fall.
VENUS IN FUR
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
First Preview: October 13
Opening: TBA
Director: Walter Bobbie
Cast: Nina Arianda
In David Ives' play, Nina Arianda plays Vanda, a gifted young actress eager to win a role in a new play based on the classic erotic novel, "Venus in Fur." According to MTC, "Her emotionally charged audition for [writer] Thomas... becomes an electrifying game of cat and mouse blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex."
GODSPELL
Theatre: Circle in the Square
First Preview: October 13
Opening: November 7
Director: Daniel Goldstein
Cast: Hunter Parrish
Revival of the Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak musical based on "The Gospel According to St. Matthew."
PRIVATE LIVES
Theatre: The Music Box Theatre
First Preview: November 6
Opening: November 17
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Simon Paisley Day, Anna Madeley
The Noël Coward classic comedy concerns divorced Amanda (Cattrall) and Elyot (Gross) meeting again on adjoining hotel balconies while they are on their honeymoons with their respective new spouses.
LYSISTRATA JONES
Theatre: Walter Kerr Theatre
First Preview: November 12
Opening: December 14
Director: Dan Knechtges
Cast: TBA
In the new musical by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, "The Athens University basketball team hasn't won a game in 30 years. But when spunky transfer student Lysistrata Jones dares the squad's fed-up girlfriends to stop 'giving it up' to their boyfriends until they win a game, their legendary losing streak could be coming to an end."
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER
Theatre: St. James Theatre
First Preview: November 12
Opening: December 11
Director: Michael Mayer
Cast: Harry Connick Jr., Jessie Mueller, David Turner
The musical has been reconceived by Tony-winning director Michael Mayer, with a new book by Peter Parnell. The Tony Award-nominated score by Burton Lane (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) is enhanced by classics from their film scores for "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1970) and "Royal Wedding" (1951). The new libretto is based on the original book by Lerner.
AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN
Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: November 16
Opening: November 21
Cast: Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
The concert performance reunites these Tony Award-winning stars. "Much more than a concert, this is a unique musical love story told entirely through a masterful selection of the greatest songs ever written for the stage."
STICK FLY
Theatre: Cort Theatre
First Preview: November 18
Opening: December 8
Director: Kenny Leon
Cast: TBA
Lydia R. Diamond's play "follows the LeVays, an affluent African American family who 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. Food, drink and Trivial Pursuit tangle with class, race and identity politics in this contemporary comedy of manners."
DETROIT
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Fall 2011
Director: Austin Pendleton
Cast: TBA
The new American play by Lisa D'Amour received its world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. "In a 'first ring' suburb outside a mid-sized American city," press notes state, "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. Shining a light on middle class American Dream, Detroit looks at what happens when we open ourselves up to something new."
SEMINAR
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Fall 2011
Director: Sam Gold
Cast: Alan Rickman
Theresa Rebeck's play is about "four young writers who are thrilled to be participating in a private seminar taught by the brilliant but unpredictable Leonard (Rickman), an international literary legend. But as Leonard deems some students more promising than others, tensions arise. Sex is used as a weapon, alliances are made and broken, and it's not just the wordplay that turns vicious…"
BONNIE AND CLYDE
Theatre: Schoenfeld Theatre
First Preview: TBA
Opening: December 2011
Director: Jeff Calhoun
Cast: TBA
Frank Wildhorn's new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws.
THE ROAD TO MECCA
Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
First Preview: December 16
Opening: January 17, 2012
Director: Gordon Edelstein
Cast: Rosemary Harris, Jim Dale, Carla Gugino
Here's how Roundabout Theatre Company bills the Athol Fugard work: "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. The reclusive Miss Helen (Rosemary Harris) has become depressed and appears increasingly unable to care for herself. Pastor Marius Byleveld, who embodies the village's conservative values, is determined to get Miss Helen into an old-age home. Her friend Elsa (Carla Gugino), a young teacher from Cape Town who is deeply suspicious of the patriarchal traditions Byleveld represents, is just as determined that Miss Helen remain free."
PORGY AND BESS
Theatre: Richard Rodgers Theatre
First Preview: December 17
Opening: January 12, 2012
Director: Diane Paulus
Cast: Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier, Joshua Henry, Nikki Renee Daniels, Phillip Boykin, Bryonha Marie Parham, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Cedric Neal, J.D. Webster, Heather Hill, Phumzile Sojola, Nathaniel Stampley
A new production of the classic musical comes to Broadway following a late summer run at American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts. Set in the fictional Catfish Row, SC, Porgy and Bess tells of the crippled beggar Porgy and his love for Bess. With music by George Gershwin, lyrics by his brother Ira and a book by DuBose Heyward, the work includes such songs as "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," "I Loves You, Porgy," "My Man's Gone Now," "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York," "Summertime," "I Got Plenty o' Nothin'" and "It Ain't Necessarily So."
WIT
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
First Preview: January 5, 2012
Opening: January 26, 2012
Director: Lynne Meadow
Cast: Cynthia Nixon
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play receives its Broadway premiere. Here's how MTC bills the work: "Exquisitely written, affecting and often humorous, Wit follows a brilliant and exacting poetry professor (Nixon) 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."
FAT PIG
Theatre: Belasco Theatre
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: TBA
Neil LaBute 's Fat Pig, according to press notes, "tells the story of Tom, 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. Tom shrugs off their objections but eventually the cruel jabs of his acerbic friend Carter and Jeannie, a former flame, force him to question his own values and the importance of conventional good looks."
PICNIC
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: Sam Gold
Cast: TBA
William Inge's play about passions of Midwesterners aroused when a stranger comes to town over a hot Labor Day holiday originally opened in 1953, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture in 1955.
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: Peter DuBois
Cast: TBA
A new dramatic adaptation of Manuel Puig's novel is being adapted by Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera ("Motorcycle Diaries") and Allan Baker.
THE OLD MASTERS
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: Michael Rudman
Cast: Brian Murray and Sam Waterston
Simon Gray's work premieres at Long Wharf in January prior to a Broadway transfer.
YANK!
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: David Cromer
Cast: TBA
Yank! A WWII Love Story has music by Joseph Zellnik with book and lyrics by David Zellnik. Set during World War II, Yank!, according to press notes, "chronicles the relationship between two servicemen long before Don't Ask Don't Tell was part of the national discussion. With a lively score inspired by the pop sounds of the 1940s, Yank! captures the spirit and exuberance of the era as it explores questions of prejudice, courage and survival."
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: March 2012
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield, Linda Emond
Hoffman takes on the iconic role of downtrodden American businessman Willy Loman in this Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's classic.
END OF THE RAINBOW
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: March 2012
Director: Terry Johnson
Cast: Tracie Bennett
Peter Quilter's West End drama with music traces the final months of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
THE COLUMNIST
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
First Preview: April 3, 2012
Opening: April 25, 2012
Director: Daniel Sullivan
Cast: John Lithgow
David Auburn's latest drama portrays the dilemma faced by powerful Washington columnist Joseph Alsop, who publicly hosted the Kennedy Camelot circle while keeping hidden deep parts of himself.
BIG FISH
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Susan Stroman
Cast: TBA
The fanciful new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will be directed and choreographed by Stroman (Contact, Crazy for You, The Producers), with music and lyrics by Tony nominee Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, The Addams Family) and a libretto by August.
EVITA
Theatre: Marquis Theatre
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Michael Grandage
Cast: Elena Roger, Ricky Martin, Michael Cerveris
The Michael Grandage-directed production of Evita — which opened at London's Adelphi Theatre in June 2006 starring Argentine actress Elena Roger — comes to Broadway spring 2012, with Roger repeating her work for New York audiences.
FUNNY GIRL
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Bartlett Sher
Cast: Lauren Ambrose
"Six Feet Under" star Lauren Ambrose will inhabit legendary vaudeville comedienne Fanny Brice in a Center Theatre Group production that will premiere at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre prior to an intended Broadway transfer.
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Kathleen Marshall
Cast: Matthew Broderick
The new show "features some of George and Ira Gershwin's most beloved songs as well as some unknown gems in the Gershwin catalog. This screwball romantic comedy takes place in the 1920s and centers around a wealthy playboy who gets mixed up with a hilarious trio of bootleggers."
REBECCA
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Michael Blakemore and Francesca Zambello
Cast: TBA
The musical, based on the classic Daphne du Maurier novel, "is the story of Maxim de Winter, his new wife [simply, 'I,' as in the first-person] and Mrs. Danvers, the controlling and manipulative housekeeper of Maxim's West Country estate of Manderley — where the memory of his first wife, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, still casts a shadow." Having premiered in Vienna in 2006, Rebecca features original book and lyrics by Michael Kunze, music by Sylvester Levay, English book adaptation by two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Hampton (Sunset Boulevard) and English lyrics by Hampton and Kunze.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Emily Mann
Cast: Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker
Blair Underwood will make his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' classic.
THE BEST MAN
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Michael Wilson
Cast: James Earl Jones
Gore Vidal's 1960 play about a contentious election, varied candidates and rocky marriages returns to Broadway.
FOLLIES
Theatre: Marquis Theatre
First Preview: August 7
Opening: September 12
Director: Eric Schaeffer
Cast: Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines, Danny Burstein
The Kennedy Center's critically-acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical Follies will transfer to Broadway this summer for a limited engagement at the Marquis Theatre.
MAN AND BOY
Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
First Preview: September 9
Opening: October 9
Closing: November 27
Director: Maria Aitken
Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Siberry, Adam Driver, Zach Grenier, Francesca Faridany, Brian Hutchison
In Terence Rattigan's play, Frank Langella is Gregor Antonescu, a calculating businessman who reunites with his alienated son in order to solve financial issues in a time of economic turmoil.
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
Theatre: Brooks Atkinson Theatre
First Preview: September 20
Opening: October 20
Director: John Turturro
Cast: Caroline Aaron, Bill Army, Lisa Emery, Ari Graynor, Steve Guttenberg, Danny Hoch, Julie Kavner, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud, Marlo Thomas, Katherine Borowitz, Jason Kravits, Richard Libertini, Mark Linn-Baker, Patricia O'Connell
An evening one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May
THE MOUNTAINTOP
Theatre: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
First Preview: September 22
Opening: October 13
Director: Kenny Leon
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett
The play reimagines the events of the night before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in Memphis in 1968, following the delivery of his iconic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
CHINGLISH
Theatre: Longacre Theatre
First Preview: October 11
Director: Leigh Silverman
Cast: TBA
In David Henry Hwang's new work, "Daniel, a Midwestern American businessman who's desperately looking to score a lucrative contact for his family's sign-making firm, travels to the provincial capital of Guiyang, only to learn how much he doesn't understand: his translators are unreliable, his Australian-born consultant, Peter, may be a fraud, and he is captivated by Xu Yan, the beautiful, seemingly supportive government official who talks the talk — but what is she saying, anyway?"
OTHER DESERT CITIES
Theatre: Booth Theatre
First Preview: October 12
Opening: November 3
Director: Joe Mantello
Cast: Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths, Judith Light, Stacy Keach, Thomas Sadoski
Jon Robin Baitz's drama about a wealthy Republican family attempting to kick sand over its past will arrive on Broadway at the Booth Theatre this fall.
VENUS IN FUR
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
First Preview: October 13
Opening: TBA
Director: Walter Bobbie
Cast: Nina Arianda
In David Ives' play, Nina Arianda plays Vanda, a gifted young actress eager to win a role in a new play based on the classic erotic novel, "Venus in Fur." According to MTC, "Her emotionally charged audition for [writer] Thomas... becomes an electrifying game of cat and mouse blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex."
GODSPELL
Theatre: Circle in the Square
First Preview: October 13
Opening: November 7
Director: Daniel Goldstein
Cast: Hunter Parrish
Revival of the Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak musical based on "The Gospel According to St. Matthew."
PRIVATE LIVES
Theatre: The Music Box Theatre
First Preview: November 6
Opening: November 17
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Simon Paisley Day, Anna Madeley
The Noël Coward classic comedy concerns divorced Amanda (Cattrall) and Elyot (Gross) meeting again on adjoining hotel balconies while they are on their honeymoons with their respective new spouses.
LYSISTRATA JONES
Theatre: Walter Kerr Theatre
First Preview: November 12
Opening: December 14
Director: Dan Knechtges
Cast: TBA
In the new musical by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, "The Athens University basketball team hasn't won a game in 30 years. But when spunky transfer student Lysistrata Jones dares the squad's fed-up girlfriends to stop 'giving it up' to their boyfriends until they win a game, their legendary losing streak could be coming to an end."
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER
Theatre: St. James Theatre
First Preview: November 12
Opening: December 11
Director: Michael Mayer
Cast: Harry Connick Jr., Jessie Mueller, David Turner
The musical has been reconceived by Tony-winning director Michael Mayer, with a new book by Peter Parnell. The Tony Award-nominated score by Burton Lane (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) is enhanced by classics from their film scores for "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1970) and "Royal Wedding" (1951). The new libretto is based on the original book by Lerner.
AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN
Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: November 16
Opening: November 21
Cast: Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
The concert performance reunites these Tony Award-winning stars. "Much more than a concert, this is a unique musical love story told entirely through a masterful selection of the greatest songs ever written for the stage."
STICK FLY
Theatre: Cort Theatre
First Preview: November 18
Opening: December 8
Director: Kenny Leon
Cast: TBA
Lydia R. Diamond's play "follows the LeVays, an affluent African American family who 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. Food, drink and Trivial Pursuit tangle with class, race and identity politics in this contemporary comedy of manners."
DETROIT
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Fall 2011
Director: Austin Pendleton
Cast: TBA
The new American play by Lisa D'Amour received its world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. "In a 'first ring' suburb outside a mid-sized American city," press notes state, "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. Shining a light on middle class American Dream, Detroit looks at what happens when we open ourselves up to something new."
SEMINAR
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Fall 2011
Director: Sam Gold
Cast: Alan Rickman
Theresa Rebeck's play is about "four young writers who are thrilled to be participating in a private seminar taught by the brilliant but unpredictable Leonard (Rickman), an international literary legend. But as Leonard deems some students more promising than others, tensions arise. Sex is used as a weapon, alliances are made and broken, and it's not just the wordplay that turns vicious…"
BONNIE AND CLYDE
Theatre: Schoenfeld Theatre
First Preview: TBA
Opening: December 2011
Director: Jeff Calhoun
Cast: TBA
Frank Wildhorn's new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws.
THE ROAD TO MECCA
Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
First Preview: December 16
Opening: January 17, 2012
Director: Gordon Edelstein
Cast: Rosemary Harris, Jim Dale, Carla Gugino
Here's how Roundabout Theatre Company bills the Athol Fugard work: "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. The reclusive Miss Helen (Rosemary Harris) has become depressed and appears increasingly unable to care for herself. Pastor Marius Byleveld, who embodies the village's conservative values, is determined to get Miss Helen into an old-age home. Her friend Elsa (Carla Gugino), a young teacher from Cape Town who is deeply suspicious of the patriarchal traditions Byleveld represents, is just as determined that Miss Helen remain free."
PORGY AND BESS
Theatre: Richard Rodgers Theatre
First Preview: December 17
Opening: January 12, 2012
Director: Diane Paulus
Cast: Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier, Joshua Henry, Nikki Renee Daniels, Phillip Boykin, Bryonha Marie Parham, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Cedric Neal, J.D. Webster, Heather Hill, Phumzile Sojola, Nathaniel Stampley
A new production of the classic musical comes to Broadway following a late summer run at American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts. Set in the fictional Catfish Row, SC, Porgy and Bess tells of the crippled beggar Porgy and his love for Bess. With music by George Gershwin, lyrics by his brother Ira and a book by DuBose Heyward, the work includes such songs as "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," "I Loves You, Porgy," "My Man's Gone Now," "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York," "Summertime," "I Got Plenty o' Nothin'" and "It Ain't Necessarily So."
WIT
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
First Preview: January 5, 2012
Opening: January 26, 2012
Director: Lynne Meadow
Cast: Cynthia Nixon
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play receives its Broadway premiere. Here's how MTC bills the work: "Exquisitely written, affecting and often humorous, Wit follows a brilliant and exacting poetry professor (Nixon) 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."
FAT PIG
Theatre: Belasco Theatre
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: TBA
Neil LaBute 's Fat Pig, according to press notes, "tells the story of Tom, 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. Tom shrugs off their objections but eventually the cruel jabs of his acerbic friend Carter and Jeannie, a former flame, force him to question his own values and the importance of conventional good looks."
PICNIC
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: Sam Gold
Cast: TBA
William Inge's play about passions of Midwesterners aroused when a stranger comes to town over a hot Labor Day holiday originally opened in 1953, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture in 1955.
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: Peter DuBois
Cast: TBA
A new dramatic adaptation of Manuel Puig's novel is being adapted by Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera ("Motorcycle Diaries") and Allan Baker.
THE OLD MASTERS
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: Michael Rudman
Cast: Brian Murray and Sam Waterston
Simon Gray's work premieres at Long Wharf in January prior to a Broadway transfer.
YANK!
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: 2011-2012 Season
Director: David Cromer
Cast: TBA
Yank! A WWII Love Story has music by Joseph Zellnik with book and lyrics by David Zellnik. Set during World War II, Yank!, according to press notes, "chronicles the relationship between two servicemen long before Don't Ask Don't Tell was part of the national discussion. With a lively score inspired by the pop sounds of the 1940s, Yank! captures the spirit and exuberance of the era as it explores questions of prejudice, courage and survival."
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: March 2012
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield, Linda Emond
Hoffman takes on the iconic role of downtrodden American businessman Willy Loman in this Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's classic.
END OF THE RAINBOW
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: March 2012
Director: Terry Johnson
Cast: Tracie Bennett
Peter Quilter's West End drama with music traces the final months of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
THE COLUMNIST
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
First Preview: April 3, 2012
Opening: April 25, 2012
Director: Daniel Sullivan
Cast: John Lithgow
David Auburn's latest drama portrays the dilemma faced by powerful Washington columnist Joseph Alsop, who publicly hosted the Kennedy Camelot circle while keeping hidden deep parts of himself.
BIG FISH
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Susan Stroman
Cast: TBA
The fanciful new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will be directed and choreographed by Stroman (Contact, Crazy for You, The Producers), with music and lyrics by Tony nominee Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, The Addams Family) and a libretto by August.
EVITA
Theatre: Marquis Theatre
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Michael Grandage
Cast: Elena Roger, Ricky Martin, Michael Cerveris
The Michael Grandage-directed production of Evita — which opened at London's Adelphi Theatre in June 2006 starring Argentine actress Elena Roger — comes to Broadway spring 2012, with Roger repeating her work for New York audiences.
FUNNY GIRL
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Bartlett Sher
Cast: Lauren Ambrose
"Six Feet Under" star Lauren Ambrose will inhabit legendary vaudeville comedienne Fanny Brice in a Center Theatre Group production that will premiere at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre prior to an intended Broadway transfer.
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Kathleen Marshall
Cast: Matthew Broderick
The new show "features some of George and Ira Gershwin's most beloved songs as well as some unknown gems in the Gershwin catalog. This screwball romantic comedy takes place in the 1920s and centers around a wealthy playboy who gets mixed up with a hilarious trio of bootleggers."
REBECCA
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Michael Blakemore and Francesca Zambello
Cast: TBA
The musical, based on the classic Daphne du Maurier novel, "is the story of Maxim de Winter, his new wife [simply, 'I,' as in the first-person] and Mrs. Danvers, the controlling and manipulative housekeeper of Maxim's West Country estate of Manderley — where the memory of his first wife, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, still casts a shadow." Having premiered in Vienna in 2006, Rebecca features original book and lyrics by Michael Kunze, music by Sylvester Levay, English book adaptation by two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Hampton (Sunset Boulevard) and English lyrics by Hampton and Kunze.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Emily Mann
Cast: Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker
Blair Underwood will make his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' classic.
THE BEST MAN
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: Spring 2012
Director: Michael Wilson
Cast: James Earl Jones
Gore Vidal's 1960 play about a contentious election, varied candidates and rocky marriages returns to Broadway.
