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Three Sisters
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Classic Stage Company
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Chekhov's play receives a fine production starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Marin Ireland, Jessica Hecht, and Juliet Rylance.
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The Piano Lesson
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Yale Repertory Theatre,New Haven
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August Wilson's Pulitzer-winning play returns to Yale Rep, where it premiered in 1987, this time with direction by Liesl Tommy.
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The Momentum
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Laurie Beechman Theatre
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CollaborationTown brings its latest award-winning production to midtown on the heels of a successful Fringe run.
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The Walk Across America for Mother Earth
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La MaMa E.T.C.
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Taylor Mac's latest play follows a group of roving misfits on a walk across the country to shut down a nuclear test site.
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John Gabriel Borkman
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BAM Harvey Theater
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Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman, and Fiona Shaw star in Frank McGuinness's adaptation of Ibsen's penultimate play.
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Blood From a Stone
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Acorn Theatre
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First-time playwright Tommy Nohilly evokes familial fireworks in a new work starring Ethan Hawke.
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Malfi, Inc.
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Theatre 54
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Bethany Larsen's plays is a Gossip Girl-style adaptation of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.
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Pieces
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59E59 Theaters
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Welsh playwright Hywel John's play concerns a fractured family in the wake of a tragedy.
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A Delicate Balance
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Yale Repertory Theatre
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Yale Rep artistic director James Bundy helms Albee's Pulitzer-winner, starring Edward Herrmann and Kathleen Chalfant.
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The Memorandum
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Beckett Theatre
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This 1966 play by Vaclav Havel receives its first professional New York City revival at TACT.
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The Scottsboro Boys
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Lyceum Theatre
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Kander and Ebb's minstrelsy-inflected musical arrives on Broadway, directed by Susan Stroman.
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Driving Miss Daisy
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Golden Theatre
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James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave star in a revival of Alfred Uhry's 1987 Pulitzer-winner.
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Futura
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TBG Theatre
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Jordan Harrison's latest play, inspired by fonts, focuses on a futuristic world without books.
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La Bete
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The Music Box Theatre
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David Hyde Pierce, Joanna Lumley, and Mark Rylance star in Matthew Warchus's production of this rhyming-verse comedy.
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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
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Bernard B. Jacobs Tehatre
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Benjamin Walker stars as our seventh president in Alex Timbers and Michael Friedmna's emo-rock take on history.
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A Life in the Theatre
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Schoenfeld Theatre
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Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight star in this revival of David Mamet's 1977 two-actor backstage comedy.
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Time Stands Still
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Cort Theatre
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Donald Marguiles's refreshingly intelligent play returns to Broadway, this time featuring Christina Ricci.
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In Transit
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59E59 Theaters
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Primary Stages presents this brand new a capella musical, focusing on life in the New York subway system.
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Brief Encounter
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Studio 54
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U.K. company Kneehigh Theatre's adaptation of Noel Coward's screenplay of the same name, makes its Broadway debut.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Yale Repertory Theatre
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Adam Bock and Todd Almond's new musical takes its cue from the gothic Shirley Jackson novel of the same name.
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Office Hours
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The Flea
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A.R. Gurney's latest play explores the place of great literature on college campuses in the 1970s.
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Orange, Hat & Grace
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Soho Rep
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Gregory S. Moss's troubling new play has the feel of a contemporary folk tale, featuring a fine three-member cast.
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Orlando
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Classic Stage Company
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Sarah Ruhl's partly successful adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel stars the thrilling Francesca Faridany.
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The Little Foxes
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New York Theatre Workshop
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Elizabeth Marvel stars in avant garde director Ivo van Hove's daring new take on Lillian Hellman's now-classic play.
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Me, Myself, & I
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Playwrights Horizons
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Albee's latest play, starring Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Murray, opens off-Broadway under the direction of Emily Mann.
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Exit/Entrance
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59E59 Theaters
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Aiden Mathews's play about the beginnings end ends of lives is presented as part of the First Irish Festival.
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underneathmybed
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Rattlestick Theater
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Florencia Lozano's new fantastical, political play premieres at the Rattlestick off-Broadway.
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The Revival
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Lion Theatre
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Samuel Brett Williams's new play about gays in the Southern Baptist community impresses off-Broadway.
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Secrets of the Trade
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59E59 Theaters
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Jonathan Tolins's backstage play, starring John Glover, makes its New York premiere at 59E59 Theaters.
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Nunsense
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Cherry Lane Theatre
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Dan Goggin's now-classic musical returns for an updated twenty-fifth anniversary production.
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Ideal
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59E59 Theaters
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Ayn Rand's 1934 Hollywood-themed play is given a hilarious revival at 59E59 Theaters.
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When We Go Upon the Sea
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59E59 Theaters
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Lee Blessing's latest play, about an imagined war crimes trial for ex-President George W. Bush, plays 59E59 Theaters.
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Little Doc
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Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
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Dan Klores's debut play explores the lives of four small-time crooks in 1970s Brooklyn.
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Naked in a Fishbowl
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Soho Playhouse
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Four talented comedic women perform a live comedy show with a theatrical twist on Monday nights.
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Sister Myotis's Bible Camp
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Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
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Steve Swift brings a sense of Southern Christianity to the compelling character of Sister Myotis in his new drag-infused show.
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Reflections of a Heart
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Clurman Theatre
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Christopher G. Roberts wrote and stars in this historical play that chronicles the life of Civil Rights figure Isaac Woodard, Jr.
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Freed
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59E59 Theaters
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Charles Smith's new play tells the story of John Newton Templeton, the first free black man to attend college in the Midwest.
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A Night in Vegas
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Bleecker Street Theatre
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Joe Marshall's new comedy is an occasionally flawed gay romp heavily influenced by farce.
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The Metal Children
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Vineyard Theatre
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Adam Rapp's flawed new play starring Billy Crudup follows the banning of a young adult author's book in a Midwestern school.
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The Burnt Part Boys
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Playwrights Horizons
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This new musical about the citizens of a West Virginia mining town doesn't ultimately strike much of a chord.
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Restoration
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New York Theatre Workshop
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Claudia Shear's new play about Michaelangelo's David follows an American art restorer in Florence.
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This Wide Night
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Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater
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Edie Falco and Alison Pill star in Chloe Moss's Blackburn Prize-winner about former cellmates reconnecting on the outside.
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That Face
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Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
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Laila Robins stars as drug-addled mum Martha in Polly Stenham's Olivier-nominated drama, a success in London's West End.
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Oliver Parker!
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Cherry Lane Theatre
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Elizabeth Meriwether's play, produced by stageFARM, focuses on the relationship between a high schooler and his abuser.
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The Glass House
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Clurman Theatre
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June Finfer's new play focuses on the relationship between architect Miles van der Rohe and his alluring client, Dr. Farnsworth.
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The Master Builder
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Clurman Theatre
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Henrik Ibsen's expressionist play is revived by Resonance Ensemble, running in repertory with The Glass House.
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Passion Play
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Irondale Center
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Sarah Ruhl's sprawling three-part play makes its New York debut in a site-specific production in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood.
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Family Week
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Lucille Lortel Theatre
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Jonathan Demme directs Rosemarie DeWitt and Kathleen Chalfant in Beth Henley's drama, set in a rehabilitation center.
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Letters to the End of the World
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Theatre Row Studio Theatre
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Anton Dudley's new play, presented by At Hand Theatre Company, revolves around an unlikely pair of international penpals.
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Spend The Night in Jail
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American Theater of Actors
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William Saroyan's Hello Out There and Jean Genet's Deathwatch are presented in a double bill.
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Enron
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Broadhurst Theatre
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British playwright Lucy Prebble brings the rise and fall of Enron to the stage in a production directed by Rupert Goold.
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Collected Stories
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Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Donald Margulies's two-hander about a renowned author and her student stars Linda Lavin and Sarah Paulson.
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Bass for Picasso
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Kirk Theatre
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Kate Moira Ryan's new play about dysfunctional couples in the midst of a food-fueled crisis, premieres at Theatre Row.
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Parents' Evening
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Flea Theatre
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Bathsheba Doran's new play focuses on a couple preparing anxiously for a parent-teacher-conference.
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Promises, Promises
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Broadway Theatre
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Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in this 1968 musical, with a score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and book by Neil Simon.
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American Idiot
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St. James Theatre
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Green Day's 2004 rock album has become a Broadway musical helmed by Spring Awakening director Michael Mayer and featuring John Gallagher Jr.
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Creditors
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BAM Harvey Theatre
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Alan Rickman's sharp staging of Strindberg's late-nineteenth century play thrills and frustrates.
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The Aliens
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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
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Annie Baker's follow-up to last year's Circle Mirror Transformation is a frustrating play from a promising talent.
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Bloodsong of Love
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Ars Nova
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Composer-playwright Joe Iconis's new spaghetti Western musical is full of rock music and squirting blood.
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Langston in Harlem
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Urban Stages
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A new musical about Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes sets his influential poems to music.
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Engaging Shaw
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Dorothy Strelsin
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John Morogiello's play centers around the relationship between playwright George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Payne Townshend, his wife.
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Lend Me A Tenor
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Music Box Theatre
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Ken Ludwig's operatic screwball comedy receives a plucky Broadway revival thanks to director Stanley Tucci.
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Come Fly Away
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Marquis Theatre
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Director-choreographer Twyla Tharp finds inspiration for her latest dance musical in the discography of Frank Sinatra.
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A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick
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Playwrights Horizons
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Kia Corthron's latest play combines themes of ecology and theology in weaving a muscular family comedy-drama.
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G.B.S.
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Kirk Theatre
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Jason Hall's new play about brothers dealing with their ill father, currently playing at Theatre Row.
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The Cocktail Party
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Beckett Theatre
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T.S. Eliot's classic drawing room comedy is revived off-Broadway in a production from The Actors Company Theatre.
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The Miracle Worker
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Circle in the Square
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William Gibson's classic play is revived on Broadway starring Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill.
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A Life in Three Acts
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St. Ann's Warehouse
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Playwright Mark Ravenhill has collaborated with drag legend Bette Bourne on this new show all about Bourne's fabulous life.
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Yank!
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York Theatre
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York Theatre Company's new musical focuses on a gay love story between two servicemen in World War II.
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Glee Club
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Access Theatre
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Matthew Freeman's new play depicts the lives of a group of adult men in a glee club preparing for a local gig.
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Candida
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Irish Repertory Theatre
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Director-designer Tony Walton directs Melissa Errico in George Bernard Shaw's classic play Candida.
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The Tempest
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BAM Harvey Theatre
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Sam Mendes's so-so take on The Tempest, starring Stephen Dillane, caps off the Bridge Project's second season at BAM.
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Clybourne Park
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Playwrights Horizons
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Bruce Norris riffs on A Raisin in the Sun with his generation-straddling new play about white flight at Playwrights Horizons.
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Blind
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Rattlestick Theatre
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Craig Wright's misguided update of Oedipus Rex plays at the Rattlestick Theatre, starring Veanne Cox and Seth Numrich.
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Conviction
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59E59 Theaters
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Ami Dayan's and Mark J. Williams's adaptation of the novel Confession blends melds together Spanish and Israeli histories.
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Signs of Life
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Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre
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A new musical by Ullan, Schiff, and Derfner explores the lives of Jews interned in the arts camp Terezin.
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The Pride
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Lucille Lortel Theatre
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Brit Alexi Kaye Campbell's gay-themed play, a hit at London's Royal Court, stars Ben Whishaw and Hugh Dancy off-Broadway.
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A Lie of the Mind
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Acorn Theatre
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Sam Shepard's 1985 play is revived by the New Group, directed by Ethan Hawke, starring Keith Carradine and Laurie Metcalf.
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Time Stands Still
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Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Laura Linney, Alicia Silverstone, Eric Bogosian, and Brian D'Arcy James star in this taut new play by Donald Margulies.
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Happy Now?
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59E59 Theaters
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Lucinda Coxon's 2008 play makes its New York debut following runs at London's National and Yale Rep.
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ReEntry
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Urban Stages
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This new play by Emily Ackerman and KJ Sanchez chronicles the lives of U.S. Marine veterans returning home after combat.
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The Jackie Look
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Laurie Beechman Theatre
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Karen Finley's latest performance piece explores the theme of fame through the lens of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
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As You Like It
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BAM Harvey Theatre
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Sam Mendes's latest take on Shakespeare opens the Bridge Project's second season at BAM.
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Too Little Too Late
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HERE Arts Center
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This evening of love-related one-acts includes plays by Bekah Brunstetter, Daniel Talbott, and others.
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Ages of the Moon
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Linda Gross Theater @ Atlantic Theater Company
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Sam Shepard's new two-hander, a transfer from the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, stars Stephen Rea.
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Phantom Killer
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Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
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Jan Buttram's eerie new play takes a Hitchcockian tone in exploring the Great Depression of the 1940s.
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Lear
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Soho Rep
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Downtown playwright Young Jean Lee's off-kilter take on King Lear.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Kirk Theatre
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Playwright Daniel Mitura's new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel about a man who never grows old.
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Goodbye Cruel World
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ArcLight Theatre
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Robert Ross Parker's adaptation of Nikolai ErdmanŐs Samoubiitsa packs a punch.
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Rough Sketch
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59E59 Theaters
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Shawn Nacol's new play chronicles a claustrophic weekend shared by two children's TV animators.
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Wild Man
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The Wild Project
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Matthew Maguire's new solo show shows off the writer-performer's talent for storytelling.
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Safe Home
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Women's Interart Center
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Sean Cullen's new play centers around an American family at the time of the Korean War.
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Ernest in Love
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Irish Repertory Theatre
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Beth Fowler stars in this revival of the late-1950s musical adaptation of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Chekhov Lizardbrain
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CSV Cultural Center
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Philadelphia's Pig Iron Theatre Company's Chekhovian theatrical concoction returns to New York as part of Under the Radar.
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Little Gem
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Flea Theater
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Irish playwright Elaine Murphy's new monologue play, Little Gem, plays New York following success at Edinburgh.
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Simon Green: Traveling Light
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59E59 Theaters
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British singer Simon Green brings his cabaret show Traveling Light to New York.
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Fascinating Aida is Absolutely Miraculous
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59E59 Theaters
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Fascinating Aida return to New York with a hit-or-miss evening of song and humor.
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The Great Recession
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Flea Theater
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Rapp, Bradshaw, Callaghan, and others debut one-acts in this evening of recession-themed theatre.
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A Little Night Music
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Walter Kerr Theatre
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Sondheim and Wheeler's waltz-time musical returns to Broadway starring Zeta-Jones and Lansbury.
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Fault Lines
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Dorothy Strelsin Theater
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Rebecca Louise Miller's new play explores the aftershocks of a child abduction case.
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Ragtime
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Neil Simon Theatre
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Ahrens and Flaherty's 1998 musical returns to Broadway in a revival helmed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
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POP!
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Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven
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A new musical at Yale rep, exploring the attempted assassination of pop artist Andy Warhol.
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Swimming to Spalding
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HERE Arts Center
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Lian Amaris's new solo show is inspired by Spalding Gray's solo theatre piece Swimming to Cambodia.
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This
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Playwrights Horizons
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Melissa James Gibson's modest-sized drama, focusing on the fragility of language in modern relationships.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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BAM Harvey Theatre
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Cate Blanchett stars in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Tennessee Williams' classic play.
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