Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga featured in Manhattan Theatre Club's 2024-25 season

The nonprofit theatre company has set the first three productions in its upcoming season, including two shows from London on Broadway and a play off Broadway.

UPDATE: Manhattan Theatre Club has completed its 2024-25 season with three additional Off-Broadway productions, in addition to three previously announced productions. This article has been updated with the complete MTC season.

Manhattan Theatre Club has set its 2024-25 season, encompassing two Broadway and four Off-Broadway shows.

The first production to be announced for the season is the world premiere if Erika Sheffer's Vladimir, playing off Broadway at New York City Center. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the show follows a Russian journalist covering Vladimir Putin's first term in office, wondering whether the explosive story she's uncovered is worth risking her safety for. Performances begin September 24.

Additionally, MTC will co-produce the previously announced Bad Kreyol with Signature Theatre, which will perform in fall 2024 at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Dominique Morriseau's play follows a Haitian American woman and her Haitian-born and -raised cousin, who reunite following their grandmother's death and must reconcile their differing worldviews. Tiffany Nichole Greene directs.

The next fall production will play on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Beginning performances on November 25 is the 2018 play Eureka Day, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The fictional private elementary school must reassess its lax vaccination policy when a mumps outbreak occurs, causing backlash from various sides.

The show played in London in fall 2022. London Theatre's critic wrote in a four-star review, "Eureka Day is incredibly funny [...] It’s easily the most I’ve laughed in a theatre this year."

In winter 2025 off Broadway is the world premiere of Dakar 2000, written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by May Adrales. The thriller play follows a Peace Corps volunteer who survives a car accident and meets a State Department operative in charge of his safety. As they develop a relationship, they discover the darker side of public service and equally dark secrets of each other's.

In spring 2025 is the Broadway premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, with Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga once again set to star after headlining the show's London premiere in 2023. The show is a concert-style celebration of late composer Stephen Sondheim's most beloved shows and songs.

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends is devised by Cameron Mackintosh, directed and staged by Matthew Bourne alongside Julia McKenzie, and choreographed by Stephen Mear. All the music and lyrics in the show are by Sondheim.

The revue premiered in London in 2023. A five-star London Theatre review reads, "A sense of community, not competition, is on full view throughout a glorious ensemble."

Finally, set to open at an unspecified date in 2025, is Joshua Harmon's world-premiere play We Had a World off Broadway. Directed by Trip Cullman, the show follows a dying woman who asks her grandson to write a play about their family — but to “make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible." The result is a chronicle of 30 years' worth of cruelty, fights, and love.

Additional cast and creative team members for all MTC productions have yet to be announced.

Photo credit: Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga. (Photos courtesy of production)