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Broadway Plays that are now open or due to open!
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A FREE MAN OF COLOR
by John Guare
Drama
at Lincoln Center / Vivian Beaumont
a freewheeling epic set in 1802 New Orleans. Jacques Cornet, the title character, is a new world Don Juan and the wealthiest inhabitant of this sexually charged and racially progressive city. Jacques thinks all is well in his paradise until history intervenes.
(from 21 Oct 2010 - Booking to tba)
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A LIFE IN THE THEATRE
by David Mamet
Comedy
at Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Fcuses on the relationship between two thespians: Robert, an older, experienced performer; and John, a relative newcomer. Though Robert's guidance is welcomed by John at first, as the play progresses Robert falters as an actor and mentor, and John emerges as a mature actor.
(from 21 Sep 2010 - Closing on 02 Jan 2011)
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER
by No‰l Coward, adapted by Emma Rice
Drama
at Studio 54
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband
(from 10 Sep 2010 - Closing on 05 Dec 2010)
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DRIVING MISS DAISY
by Alfred Uhry
Drama
at John Golden Theatre
When Daisy Werthan, a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, is deemed too old to drive, her son hires Hoke Colburn, an African American man, to serve as her chauffeur. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, soon blossoms into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them.
(from 07 Oct 2010 - Closing on 29 Jan 2011)
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GOOD PEOPLE
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Comic-Drama
at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo. where this month's paycheck covers last month's bills. and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Facing eviction and scrambling to catch a break, Margie thinks an old fling who has made it out of Southie might be her ticket to a fresh new start.
(from 08 Feb 2011 - tba)
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LA BETE
by Matthew Warchus
Comedy
at Music Box Theatre
The stoey is about Elomire, a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theater, and Valere, a low-brow street clown who loves only himself. When the fickle princess decides she's grown weary of Elomire's royal theatre troupe, he and Valere are left fighting for survival as art squares off with ego in a literary showdown for the ages.
(from 23 Sep 2010 - Booking to 13 Feb 2011)
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LEND ME A TENOR
by Ken Ludwig
Comedy/Farce
at Music Box Theatre
Tito Merelli, the fiery-tempered and world famous Italian superstar, arrives in Cleveland, Ohio to make his debut with the local opera and promptly goes missing. Chaos ensues as the show's presenters conspire to cover for Tito's absence.
(from 12 Mar 2010 - Closing on 15 Aug 2010)
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LOMBARDI
by Eric Simonson
Drama
at Circle in the Square
The life and times of one of America's most inspirational and mercurial personalities, Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi
(from 23 Sep 2010 - Booking to 20 Feb 2011)
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MOUNTAINTOP, THE
by Katori Hall
Drama
at tba
Taking place on April 3, 1968, The Mountaintop is a reimagining of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., as he retires to Room 306 in the now famous Lorraine Motel in Memphis, after delivering his legendary 'From the mountaintop' speech to a massive church congregation.
(from tba - tba)
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MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION
by George Bernard Shaw
Comedy
at American Airlines Theatre
Tells the story of Kitty Warren, a mother who makes a terrible sacrifice for her daughter Vivie's independence.
(from 03 Sep 2010 - Closing on 21 Nov 2010)
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RACE
by David Mamet
Drama
at Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Three attorneys, two black and one white, offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman.
(from 16 Nov 2009 - Booking to 21 Aug 2010)
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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 GREAT GAME
by D. Tucker Smith
Drama
at tba
For George Hayward and Safia Das, 1870 is rife with danger, espionage, and unexpected love. Their cultures collide as they each find themselves in the other's territory: he in the snow-swept mountains of Central Asia, she in the cobbled jungle of London.
(from Expected during the 2011/2012 season - tba)
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Oscar Wilde
Comedy
at American Airlines Theatre
Dashing men-about-town John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pursue fair ladies Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Matters are complicated by the imaginary characters invented by both men to cover their on-the-sly activities - not to mention the disapproval of Gwendolen's mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell.
(from 20 Dec 2010 - tba)
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
by William Shakespeare
Drama
at Broadhurst Theatre
The story centres on Portia, a young heriress, who finds herself in a life or death confrontation in a climactic courtroom trial with Shylock, a jewish money-lender.
(from 19 Oct 2010 - Closing on 09 Jan 2011)
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THE NORMAL HEART
benefit reading
by Larry Kramer
Drama
at Walter Kerr Theatre
Focuses on the terrifying early years of the AIDS epidemic in New York and the criminal silence of official America in dealing with it.
(from 18 Oct 2010 - Closing on 18 Oct 2010)
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THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW
by Paul Reubens and Bill Steinkellner, with additional material by John Paragon
Comedy
at Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Based on the Saturday morning television show that became a cultural phenomenon, The Pee-wee Herman Show reunites the one-and-only Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) with many of the original Playhouse cast of characters inncluding Miss Yvonne, Cowboy Curtis, Pterri the Pterodactyl, Jambi the Genie, and Chairry for an all new celeebration of sophisticated silliness.
(from 26 Oct 2010 - Closing on 05 Dec 2010)
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THE PITMEN PAINTERS
by Lee Hall, inspired by a book by William Feaver
Comic-Drama
at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favor of practice, the pitmen began to paint. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends and their work was acquired by prestigious collections; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine.
(from 14 Sep 2010 - Booking to 12 Dec 2010)
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TIME STANDS STILL
by Donald Margulies
Drama
at Cort Theatre
Are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there's misery in the world? James and Sarah (Linney), a journalist and a photographer, have been together for nine years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when injuries force them to return home to New York, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life.
(from 23 Sep 2010 - Booking to 23 Jan 2011)
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WAR HORSE
Based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford
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 tba)
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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 05 Nov 2010 - ?? ?? ??)
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