MONSOON WEDDING
• St. Ann's Warehouse
• First Preview: May 6, 2023
• Opening: May 22, 2023
• Book: Sabrina Dhawan, Arpita Mukherjee
• Music: Vishal Bhardwaj
• Book: Susan Birkenhead, Masi Asare
• Director: Mira Nair
• Cast: Anisha Nagarajan, Alok Tewari, Namit Das, Sharvari Deshpande, Gagan Dev Riar, Salena Qureshi, Deven Kolluri, Palomi Ghosh
The perfect storm starts brewing when family members from around the world descend on Delhi for a nonstop four-day celebration of an arranged marriage between a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter and an American guy she’s never met. But the bride is having an affair, her father’s financial troubles deepen, and dark family secrets surface. The forecast calls for drama, love, hope, laughs, and a whole lot of rain.
ORLANDO
• 59E59 Theater C
• Opening: May 23, 2023
• Playwright: Lucy Roslyn
• Director: Josh Roche
• Cast: Lucy Roslyn
Lucy Roslyn's play is the story of a person looking for escape - just as Virginia Woolf imagined her own freedom in the pages of "Orlando," a book which strains at the boundaries of identity: are we any one thing? Or are our selves “stacked like dinner plates,” one on top of the other?
PRIMARY TRUST
• Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: May 4, 2023
• Opening: May 25, 2023
• Playwright: Eboni Booth
• Director: Knud Adams
• Cast: William Jackson Harper, April Matthis
Meet Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker who spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he’s suddenly laid off, Kenneth finally begins to face a world he's long avoided – with transformative and even comical results.
BEING MR. WICKHAM
• 59E59 Theater B
• Opening: May 25, 2023
• Playwright: Adrian Lukis, Catherine Curzon
• Director: Guy Unsworth
• Cast: Adrian Lukis
Join Pride and Prejudice’s most roguish gentleman, George Wickham, on the eve of his sixtieth birthday, to lift the sheets on what exactly happened thirty years from where we left him and discover his own version of some very famous literary events. What really happened with Mr. Darcy? Were his feelings for Lizzie real? What about Georgina and Lydia?
LOVE LETTERS
• Irish Repertory Theatre
• Opening: May 30, 2023
• Playwright: A.R. Gurney
• Director: Ciarán O’Reilly
• Cast: Matthew Broderick, Laura Benanti
Told through a lifetime of letters, we meet Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III who have been writing to each other since childhood. For more than 50 years, they’ve grown together, confiding their hopes, dreams, triumphs, and disappointments in one another. They share a deep closeness that is at once charmingly funny and a poignant portrait of human connection.
DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: May 5, 2023
• Opening: June 5, 2023
• Book: Craig Lucas
• Music and Lyrics: Adam Guettel
• Director: Michael Greif
• Cast: Kelli O'Hara, Brian d'Arcy James, Sharon Catherine Brown, Bill English, Olivia Hernandez, Byron Jennings, David Jennings, Ted Koch, Ella Dane Morgan, Steven Booth, Nicole Ferguson, Scarlett Unger, Kelcey Watson
A searing new musical about a couple falling in love in 1950’s New York and struggling against themselves to rebuild a family.
WET BRAIN
• Playwrights Horizons/Mainstage Theater
• First Preview: May 17, 2023
• Opening: June 6, 2023
• Playwright: John J. Caswell, Jr.
• Director: Dustin Wills
• Cast: Frankie J. Alvarez, Ceci Fernández, Florencia Lozano, Julio Monge, Arturo Luis Soria
In a crumbling house in Arizona, a family haunted by addiction — and hardened into smart-asses — wrestles with the alcoholic ruin of its patriarch… who may or may not be repeatedly abducted by aliens.
THE DOCTOR
• Park Avenue Armory
• First Preview: June 3, 2023
• Opening: June 13, 2023
• Playwright: Robert Icke, adapted from Arthur Schnitzler
• Director: Robert Icke
• Cast: Juliet Stevenson
On an ordinary day, at a private hospital, a young woman fights for her life. A priest arrives to save her soul. Her doctor refuses him entry.
In a divisive time, in a divided nation, a society takes sides.
CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS
• 59E59 Theater B
• Opening: June 13, 2023
• Playwright: Alex Howarth
• Director: Alex Howarth
• Cast: Alex Brain, Emily McGlynn, Michaela Murphy, Helen Chong
Can kids be parents? Three sisters in foster care wrestle with that question as they try to write the next chapter in their story after important pages are torn out in this new play from Patch of Blue. Based on real life events and interviews with children in foster care, the show incorporates live music and video projection to transport audiences between the adult world and the at once more honest and more fantastical world of childhood, where much is mysterious but everything is possible.
INVISIBLE
• 59E59 Theater C
• Opening: June 13, 2023
• Playwright: Nikhil Parmar
• Director: Georgia Green
• Cast: Nikhil Parmar
Meet Zayan, an under-employed actor and over-employed dealer who sees himself as the hapless lead in the sitcom that is his life. Everyone else sees him as lazy, self-centered, and useless – if they even notice him at all. As Zayan attempts to transition from being neglected to being notorious, we see how a man whose brushes with oppression, grief, and the sneaking suspicion that he’s become invisible have driven him to the unforgivable.
EISENHOWER: THIS PIECE OF GROUND
• Theatre At St. Clement's
• First Preview: June 13, 2023
• Opening: June 20, 2023
• Playwright: Richard Hellesen
• Director: Peter Ellenstein
• Cast: John Rubinstein
LIZ KINGSMAN: ONE WOMAN SHOW
• Park Avenue Armory
• First Preview: June 14, 2023
• Opening: June 20, 2023
• Playwright: Liz Kingsman
• Director: Adam Brace
• Cast: Liz Kingsman
ROCK AND ROLL MAN: THE ALAN FREED STORY
• New World Stages
• First Preview: June 2, 2023
• Opening: June 21, 2023
• Playwright: Larry Marshak, Rose Caiola
• Music: Gary Kupper
• Director: Randal Myler
• Cast: Constantine Maroulis, Joe Pantoliano, Bob Ari, Valisia Lekae, Jamonte D. Bruten, Andy Christopher, AJ Davis, Autumn Guzzardi, Anna Hertel, Matthew Morgan, Dominque Scott, Eric B. Turner, Joe Barbara, Natalie Kaye Clater, Lawrence Dandridge, Chase Peacock, Brownyn Tarboton
Rock & Roll Man takes place on the last day of Alan Freed’s life during a fever dream in which J. Edgar Hoover (as prosecutor) and Little Richard (as defense attorney) face off in a fantasy courtroom with Freed’s legacy on trial. Freed brought the sound of rock & roll to the world, popularizing Black artists including legends Chuck Berry and Little Richard. He played their music, produced their concerts, and found an audience coast to coast, becoming “the voice” of a generation. For the first time in history, Black and white artists performed together on stage, for multi-racial audiences. Freed risked everything to integrate the airwaves and unite audiences across America through their love of music.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HEATHER
• Theater 555
• First Preview: June 14, 2023
• Opening: June 22. 2023
• Book, Music, and Lyrics: Paul Gordon
• Director: Rachel Klein
• Cast: Katey Sagal, Lauren Elder, Badia Farha, Maria Habeeb, Darron Hayes, Jeremy Kushnier, Maya Lagerstam, Carson Stewart, Wayne Wilson, Brittany Nicole Williams, Zach Rand, Sarita Amani Nash
Heather Krebs wants a boyfriend, but how can she navigate her way through high school if she might be the new Messiah? A small town in Ohio grapples with politics, religion, and teenage romance in this pop musical featuring a book, music, and lyrics by Tony nominee Paul Gordon.
TRIPLE THREAT
• Theatre Two @ Theatre Row
• First Preview: June 17, 2023
• Opening: June 23. 2023
• Playwright: James T. Lane
• Director: Kenny Ingram
• Cast: James T. Lane
Triple Threat recounts the actor, James T. Lane's, moving, redemptive journey – from his against-all-odds rise in entertainment to near death cataclysmic fall, and his extraordinary return to the top. Acting, singing, and dancing his way through pivotal scenes from his life, Lane reveals that he is, indeed, a triple threat – just not always the kind he or anyone else ever envisioned.
IN CORPO
• THEATRE ROW
• First Preview: June 21, 2023
• Opening: June 26, 2023
• Book and Lyrics: Ben Beckley, Nate Weida
• Music: Nate Weida
• Director: Jess Chayes
• Cast: RJ Christian, Zoe Siegel, Jessica Frey, Austin Owens Kelly, Monica Ho, Wesley Zurick, Ben Beckley, Ben Caplan, Devon Meddock
There's only one corporation left on the planet. Everything seems to be sunshine and rainbows—until a survivor from the outside world named K arrives and challenges the efficient and numbing status quo. Inspired by Franz Kafka's The Castle, Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, and the artists' own experiences, In Corpo looks at the the seductiveness of technology and how corporations and bureaucracies limit autonomy and self-expression. And it's all set to an electro-folk-funk score.
HAMLET
• Delacorte Theater
• First Preview: June 8, 2023
• Opening: June 28, 2023
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Kenny Leon
• Cast: Ato Blankson-Wood, John Douglas Thompson, Solea Pfeiffer, Lorraine Toussaint, Daniel Pearce, Nick Rehberger, Brandon Gill, Mitchell Winter, Warner Lewis, Tyrone Mitchell Henderson, Greg Hildreth, Colby Lewis, Mikhail Calliste, Liam Craig, Safiya Kaijya Harris, Lauryn Hayes, LaWanda Hopkins, Jaylon Jamal, TrÍ Lê, Cornelius McMoyler, Laughton Royce, Lance Alexander Smith, Myxolydia Tyler, William Oliver Watkins, Lark White, Bryce Michael Wood
When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is visited by the ghost of his father, who instructs his son to "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" at the hands of the late King's brother Claudius, the young Prince is struck with uncertainty, and hems and haws his way through Shakespeare's classic tragedy, often considered the bard's greatest masterpiece.
ORPHEUS DESCENDING
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• Opening: July 9, 2023
• Playwright: Tennessee Williams
• Director: Erica Schmidt
• Cast: Christopher Abbott, Maggie Siff
Tennessee Williams’s steamy and lyrical Orpheus Descending is a love story and a tragedy, telling of the passion of a storekeeper’s wife and a wandering guitar player and their doomed escape attempt from a hell of small-mindedness. Set in a dry-goods store in the 1950s deep South, the play’s toxic brew of Jim Crow, xenophobia, and provincialism evokes an American past that unfortunately is not the past, with open acceptance of hatred leading inevitably to violence.
THE SAVIOUR
• Irish Repertory Theatre
• First Preview: July 1, 2023
• Opening: July 13, 2023
• Playwright: Deirdre Kinahan
• Director: Louise Lowe
• Cast: Marie Mullen and Jamie O'Neill
On the morning of her 67th birthday, Máire sits up in bed enjoying a cigarette. She has recently been swept off her feet by a stranger and hasn’t felt this alive in years, but a visit from her son with dark revelations challenges the euphoria.
FLEX
• Lincoln Center Theater @ Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
• First Preview: June 23, 2023
• Opening: July 20, 2023
• Playwright: Candrice Jones
• Director: Lileana Blain-Cruz
• Cast: Brittany Bellizeare, Christiana Clark, Renita Lewis, Erica Matthews, Ciara Monique, Tamera Tomakili
Flex tells the story of a girls’ high school basketball team from Plainnole, Arkansas. It’s 1997, and the women of the Lady Train team are inspired by the successes of the WNBA. With aspirations of going pro, they must first navigate the pressures of being young, Black, and female in rural Arkansas. Will their fouls off the court tear their team apart? Or can they keep their pact to stick together through hell or high water?
I'M GONNA MARRY YOU TOBEY MAGUIRE
• The Cell Theatre
• First Preview: June 8, 2023
• Opening: July 12, 2023
• Playwright: Samantha Hurley
• Director: Tyler Struble
• Cast: Tessa Albertson, Janae Robinson, Brian Fiddyment
Dealing with an absent father, a neglectful mother, and mean-spirited classmates, Shelby Hinkley's eighth grade is proving to be a hard time. To cope with it all, Shelby focuses on the best thing about 2004: Spiderman. When leading an online fan club is no longer enough, she decides to kidnap and marry Tobey Maguire; but will the actor live up to her happily-ever-after fantasies?
