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‘THE NEW YORKER’ THEATRE LISTINGS, 10/10 PLAYDECK

OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

American Airlines Theatre

The Roundabout presents a new adaptation of the Chekhov play by Stephen Karam (“The Humans”), directed by Simon Godwin and starring Diane Lane, Tavi Gevinson, Joel Grey, Chuck Cooper, and John Glover. In previews. Opens Oct. 16.

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CHRIS GETHARD: CAREER SUICIDE

Lynn Redgrave

The comedian’s solo show, directed by Kimberly Senior, looks for humor in such weighty subjects as mental illness, suicide, and alcoholism. In previews. Opens Oct. 13.

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DUAT

Connelly

SoHo Rep presents a new piece—part vaudeville, part gospel show—created by the performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones and featuring his soul-singing alter ego, Jomama Jones. In previews.

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FIT FOR A QUEEN

3LD Art & Technology Center

The Classical Theatre of Harlem stages a new play by Betty Shamieh (“The Black Eyed”), inspired by the life of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as pharaoh in ancient Egypt. In previews. Opens Oct. 7.

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THE FRONT PAGE

Broadhurst

Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson Mays, Sherie Rene Scott, Holland Taylor, and Robert Morse star in Jack O’Brien’s revival of the 1928 comedy, about Chicago newspapermen on the crime beat. In previews.

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HEISENBERG

Samuel J. Friedman

Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt reprise their roles in Simon Stephens’s drama, about two strangers who cross paths at a London train station. Mark Brokaw directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production. In previews. Opens Oct. 13.

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HOLIDAY INN

Studio 54

A new musical from the Roundabout, featuring the songs of Irving Berlin and based on the classic 1942 film; Bryce Pinkham and Corbin Bleu fill in, respectively, for Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. In previews. Opens Oct. 6.

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KINGDOM COME

Black Box, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

In Jenny Rachel Weiner’s play, directed by Kip Fagan for Roundabout Underground, two women venture under false identities into the world of Internet dating. In previews.

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LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

Booth

Janet McTeer, Liev Schreiber, and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen star in Josie Rourke’s revival of the Christopher Hampton drama, depicting the seductive games of aristocrats in pre-Revolutionary France. In previews.

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A LIFE

Playwrights Horizons

In Adam Bock’s play, directed by Anne Kauffman, David Hyde Pierce plays a man who recovers from a breakup by looking for answers in astrological charts. In previews.

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OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY

Lyceum

An evening with Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, two Alan Alda-obsessed Upper West Side geezers played by the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. Alex Timbers directs. In previews. Opens Oct. 10.

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ORWELL IN AMERICA

59E59

Joe Sutton’s play, directed by Peter Hackett, imagines George Orwell on a book tour for “Animal Farm,” for which his publisher has deployed a young woman to keep his political pronouncements in check. Opens Oct. 12.

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PLENTY

Public

In David Leveaux’s revival of the David Hare drama, last seen at the Public in 1982, Rachel Weisz plays a British secret agent adjusting to everyday life after working in Nazi-occupied France. In previews.

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PUBLIC ENEMY

Pearl

Hal Brooks directs David Harrower’s adaptation of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” in which a doctor discovers that his town’s main tourist attraction is toxic. In previews. Opens Oct. 9.

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THE ROADS TO HOME

Cherry Lane

Primary Stages presents Horton Foote’s 1982 play about three women in Houston in the nineteen-twenties, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring the playwright’s daughter Hallie Foote. Opens Oct. 5.

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SELL / BUY / DATE

City Center Stage II

Sarah Jones (“Bridge & Tunnel”) performs a new multicharacter solo show exploring the commercial sex industry, directed by Carolyn Cantor for Manhattan Theatre Club. In previews. Opens Oct. 18.

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SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

Clurman

The Actors Company Theatre revives the eighteenth-century comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, in which a young lady poses as a barmaid to appeal to a shy suitor. Scott Alan Evans directs. In previews. Opens Oct. 16.

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STUFFED

McGinn/Cazale

The comedian Lisa Lampanelli wrote and stars in a play that braids together the stories of four women with food issues. Jackson Gay directs WP Theatre’s production. In previews. Opens Oct. 7.

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TICK, TICK . . . BOOM!

Acorn

Keen Company revives this autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson (“Rent”), about a composer on the verge of turning thirty. Jonathan Silverstein directs. In previews.

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TWO CLASS ACTS

Flea

A.R. Gurney premières a pair of short plays: “Squash,” about a college professor grappling with a student’s provocative take on Plato, and “Ajax,” in which an actress turned teacher inhabits an ancient text.In previews.

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VIETGONE

City Center Stage I

Manhattan Theatre Club stages a play by Qui Nguyen, directed by May Adrales, about two Vietnam War refugees (based on the playwright’s parents) in a relocation camp in Arkansas. In previews.

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‘THE NEW YORKER’ THEATRE LISTINGS

 

OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

American Airlines Theatre

The Roundabout stages a new adaptation of the Chekhov play by Stephen Karam (“The Humans”), directed by Simon Godwin and starring Diane Lane, Tavi Gevinson, Joel Grey, Chuck Cooper, and John Glover. In previews.

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THE ENCOUNTER

Golden

Simon McBurney conceived, directs, and performs this theatrical event, in which the audience members wear headphones as three-dimensional soundscapes re-create a 1969 journey into the Brazilian rain forest. In previews. Opens Sept. 29.

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THE FRONT PAGE

Broadhurst

Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson Mays, Sherie Rene Scott, Holland Taylor, and Robert Morse star in Jack O’Brien’s revival of the 1928 comedy, about Chicago newspapermen on the crime beat. In previews.

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HAMLET

Public

The Public’s Mobile Unit performs the Shakespeare tragedy, directed by Patricia McGregor and starring Chukwudi Iwuji, after a three-week tour of correctional facilities, homeless shelters, and community venues. In previews. Opens Sept. 22.

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HEISENBERG

Samuel J. Friedman

Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt reprise their roles in Simon Stephens’s drama, about two strangers who cross paths at a London train station. Mark Brokaw directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production. In previews.

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

Laura Pels

The Roundabout presents a play by Mike Bartlett (“King Charles III”), in which a London couple (Amy Ryan and Richard Armitage) meet in the sixties and weather the next four decades together. Michael Mayer directs. In previews.

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NAT TURNER IN JERUSALEM

New York Theatre Workshop

Nathan Alan Davis’s play, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian, imagines the rebel slave (Phillip James Brannon) during his last night in jail, after the uprising he led in Virginia, in 1831. In previews. Opens Sept. 26.

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OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY

Lyceum

An evening with Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, two Alan Alda-obsessed Upper West Side geezers played by the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. Alex Timbers directs. In previews.

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THE ROADS TO HOME

Cherry Lane

Primary Stages presents Horton Foote’s 1982 play about three women in Houston in the nineteen-twenties, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring the playwright’s daughter Hallie Foote. In previews.

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SELL / BUY / DATE

City Center Stage II

Sarah Jones (“Bridge & Tunnel”) performs a new multicharacter solo show exploring the commercial sex industry, directed by Carolyn Cantor for Manhattan Theatre Club. In previews.

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STUFFED

McGinn/Cazale

The comedian Lisa Lampanelli wrote and stars in a play that braids together the stories of four women with food issues. Jackson Gay directs WP Theatre’s production. In previews.

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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME

Ars Nova

Jennifer Kidwell and Scott Sheppard created and perform this satire, in which two middle-school teachers use games to teach uncomfortable lessons about American racial history. In previews. Opens Sept. 26.

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THE UNDERTAKING

BAM Fisher

At the Next Wave Festival, the Civilians perform this meditation on the afterlife, written and directed by Steve Cosson and drawn in part from interviews with hospice workers, shamans, and near-death survivors. Sept. 21-25.

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‘THE NEW YORKER’ THEATRE LISTINGS, 9/12 PLAYDECK

 

Openings and Previews

All the Ways to Say I Love You

Lucille Lortel

In Neil LaBute’s latest play, directed by Leigh Silverman for MCC Theatre, Judith Light plays a high-school teacher who reveals her marital secrets to a former student. In previews.

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Aubergine

Playwrights Horizons

Kate Whoriskey directs a new play by Julia Cho (“The Language Archive”), which tells three parallel stories about people preparing a meal for someone else. In previews. Opens Sept. 12.

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Bears in Space

59E59

Jack Gleeson (King Joffrey on “Game of Thrones”) stars in Eoghan Quinn’s surreal puppet comedy, about two cosmonaut bears who are chased to the limits of the universe. In previews. Opens Sept. 11.

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Bridge Over Mud

BAM Fisher

At the Next Wave Festival, the Norwegian collective Verdensteatret stages this meditation on humankind amid encroaching technology, featuring video projections, motorized vehicles, and a vast grid set. Sept. 7-10.

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Holiday Inn

Studio 54

The Roundabout presents a new musical featuring the songs of Irving Berlin, based on the classic 1942 film; Bryce Pinkham and Corbin Bleu fill in, respectively, for Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. In previews.

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Maestro

59E59

Hershey Felder wrote and stars in this one-man play with music, about the life and work of Leonard Bernstein. Joel Zwick directs. In previews. Opens Sept. 11.

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Nat Turner in Jerusalem

New York Theatre Workshop

Nathan Alan Davis’s play, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian, imagines the rebel slave (Phillip James Brannon) during his last night in jail, after the uprising he led in Virginia, in 1831. In previews.

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What Did You Expect?

Public

Richard Nelson directs the second installment of his three-play cycle “The Gabriels,” which charts the current election year in the life of a family in Rhinebeck. In previews. Opens Sept. 16.

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The Wolves

The Duke on 42nd Street

Sarah DeLappe’s play, staged by the Playwrights Realm and directed by Lila Neugebauer, is set at the suburban practice sessions of a girls’ soccer team. In previews. Opens Sept. 11.

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‘THE NEW YORKER’ THEATRE LISTINGS, 9/5 PLAYDECK

 

OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS

ALL THE WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU

Lucille Lortel

In Neil LaBute’s latest play, directed by Leigh Silverman for MCC Theatre, Judith Light plays a high-school teacher who reveals her marital secrets to a former student. In previews.

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AUBERGINE

Playwrights Horizons

Kate Whoriskey directs a new play by Julia Cho (“The Language Archive”), which tells three parallel stories about people preparing a meal for someone else. In previews. Opens Sept. 12.

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HOLIDAY INN

Studio 54

The Roundabout presents a new musical featuring the songs of Irving Berlin, based on the classic 1942 film; Bryce Pinkham and Corbin Bleu fill in, respectively, for Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. In previews.

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MAESTRO

59E59

Hershey Felder wrote and stars in this one-man play with music, about the life and work of Leonard Bernstein. Joel Zwick directs. In previews. Opens Sept. 11.

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A TASTE OF HONEY

Pearl

Austin Pendleton directs Shelagh Delaney’s 1958 play (written when she was just eighteen), about a working-class woman in a hostile world. In previews.

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TWELFTH NIGHT

Delacorte

The Public’s Public Works program mounts a free musical adaptation of the comedy, featuring songs by Shaina Taub and a mixed cast of professionals (including Nikki M. James, as Viola) and community members. Sept. 2-5.

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THE WOLVES

The Duke on 42nd Street

Sarah DeLappe’s play, staged by the Playwrights Realm and directed by Lila Neugebauer, is set at the suburban practice sessions of a girls’ soccer team. In previews. Opens Sept. 11.

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‘THE NEW YORKER’ THEATRE LISTINGS, 8/29

 

OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS

AUBERGINE

Playwrights Horizons

Kate Whoriskey directs a new play by Julia Cho (“The Language Archive”), which tells three parallel stories about people preparing a meal for someone else. In previews.

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A DAY BY THE SEA

Beckett

The Mint stages N. C. Hunter’s 1953 play, directed by Austin Pendleton, in which a Foreign Service employee has a midlife crisis during a seaside picnic in Dorset. In previews. Opens Aug. 25.

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THE LAYOVER

Second Stage

Trip Cullman directs a drama by Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”), about two strangers who meet on a plane when their flight is delayed. In previews. Opens Aug. 25.

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MARIE AND ROSETTA

Atlantic Theatre Company

George Brant’s play with music, directed by Neil Pepe, traces the bond between the pioneering gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Kecia Lewis) and her protégée, Marie Knight (Rebecca Naomi Jones). In previews.

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THE TROJAN WOMEN

Flea

The Bats (the Flea’s resident company) perform Ellen McLaughlin’s new adaptation of the Euripides tragedy, in which the enslaved widows of Troy cope with the aftermath of war. In previews. Opens Sept. 1.

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THE WOLVES

The Duke on 42nd Street

Sarah DeLappe’s play, staged by the Playwrights Realm and directed by Lila Neugebauer, is set at the suburban practice sessions of a girls’ soccer team. In previews.

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‘THE NEW YORKER’ PLAY LISTINGS, 8/22 PLAYDECK

 

OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS

AUBERGINE

Playwrights Horizons

Kate Whoriskey directs a new play by Julia Cho (“The Language Archive”), which tells three parallel stories about people preparing a meal for someone else. In previews.

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CAUGHT

La Mama

The Play Company presents Christopher Chen’s multidisciplinary piece, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, about a man claiming to be a dissident Chinese artist. In previews. Opens Aug. 28.

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A DAY BY THE SEA

Beckett

The Mint stages N. C. Hunter’s 1953 play, directed by Austin Pendleton, in which a Foreign Service employee has a midlife crisis during a seaside picnic in Dorset. In previews. Opens Aug. 25.

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THE LAYOVER

Second Stage

Trip Cullman directs a drama by Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”), about two strangers who meet on a plane when their flight is delayed. In previews. Opens Aug. 25.

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‘THE NEW YORKER’ THEATRE LISTINGS, AUGUST 8 & 15 PLAYDECK

  

OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS

THE LAYOVER

Second Stage

Trip Cullman directs a drama by Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”), about two strangers who meet on a plane when their flight is delayed. Previews begin Aug. 9.

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THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL

Various locations

The wide-ranging festival returns for its twentieth year, offering experiments, oddities, and absurdities (sample title: “The Secret Life of Your Third Grade Teacher”). For the complete list of shows—some two hundred in all—visit fringenyc.org. Opens Aug. 12.

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FIVE OF THE BEST... THEATRE SHOWS THIS WEEK, 7/29 (UK)

 

(Lyn Gardner’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/29.)

1 The Destroyed Room

Taking its name from Jeff Wall’s famed photograph of a trashed bedroom, which appeared on the cover of a Sonic Youth album, this latest piece from Vanishing Point continues director Matthew Lenton’s obsession with how we watch. The show takes the form of a conversation between three comfortable white people and highlights the gulf between the realities of humanitarian disaster and our view of them from our armchairs. If that sounds a little dry, the show builds to a devastating climax.

Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu to 8 Aug

2 Faith Healer

Brian Friel’s exquisite 1979 play is a work of both brilliant simplicity and swirling complexity that explores human frailty, self-belief and the nature of creativity. Taking the form of four monologues told by three people – the first and last from the faith healer himself, the others from his wife Grace and his manager Teddy – it pioneered a style that influenced a new generation of Irish playwrights, most notably Conor McPherson.

Donmar Warehouse, WC2, to 20 Aug

3 Unreachable

It’s doubtful that there is a funnier show on the London stage than Anthony Neilson’s piece. Former Doctor Who Matt Smith plays Maxim, a film director so intent on capturing the perfect light that he will stall his own movie by any means possible, including bringing in unreliable actor Ivan (Jonjo O’Neill), otherwise known as “the brute”. O’Neill is hilarious, but behind the laughter is a piece that explores the creative process and the way our days are spent chasing the elusive light – or moment – that we believe will make sense of everything.

Jerwood Theatres at The Royal Court, SW1, to 6 Aug

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‘THE NEW YORKER’ THEATRE LISTINGS, 7/25 PLAYDECK

 

Openings and Previews

Cats

Neil Simon

Trevor Nunn’s long-running production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, based on T. S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” returns, featuring Leona Lewis as Grizabella. In previews. Opens July 31.

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A Day by the Sea

Beckett

The Mint stages N. C. Hunter’s 1953 play, directed by Austin Pendleton, in which a Foreign Service employee has a midlife crisis during a seaside picnic in Dorset. In previews.

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Engagements

McGinn/Cazale

In Lucy Teitler’s dark comedy, directed by Kimberly Senior for Second Stage Theatre Uptown, a young woman causes trouble at a series of summer engagement parties. In previews.

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Men on Boats

Peter Jay Sharp

Jaclyn Backhaus’s play, presented by Playwrights Horizons and Clubbed Thumb, is a stylized retelling of an 1869 expedition in which John Wesley Powell and a crew of explorers charted the Colorado River. In previews. Opens Aug. 1.

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Quietly

Irish Repertory

In Owen McCafferty’s drama, directed by Jimmy Fay and set in Northern Ireland following the Good Friday Agreement, two men meet in a Belfast bar forty years after a violent incident. In previews. Opens July 28.

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Summer Shorts 2016

59E59

The festival of short plays returns for its tenth year, with one-acts by Neil LaBute, Idris Goodwin, Cusi Cram, A. Rey Pamatmat, Richard Alfredo, and Alexander Dinelaris. In previews. Series A opens July 31.

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Troilus and Cressida

Delacorte

Daniel Sullivan directs the second offering of the Public’s Shakespeare in the Park season. The cast includes Andrew Burnap, Ismenia Mendes, Corey Stoll, and John Douglas Thompson. In previews.

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‘THE NEW YORKER’ THEATRE LISTINGS, 7/11 & 7/18 PLAYLIST

 

Openings and Previews

Butler

59E59

Richard Strand’s play, directed by Joseph Discher, tells the true story of General Benjamin Butler’s moral crisis when three escaped slaves arrived at Fort Monroe in 1861 seeking sanctuary. Previews begin July 14.

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Cats

Neil Simon

The return of Trevor Nunn’s long-running production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, based on T. S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” and featuring Leona Lewis as Grizabella. Previews begin July 14.

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Engagements

McGinn/Cazale

In Lucy Teitler’s dark comedy, directed by Kimberly Senior for Second Stage Theatre Uptown, a young woman causes trouble at a series of summer engagement parties. Previews begin July 18.

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Hyperbolic! (The Last Spectacle)

Dixon Place

Monstah Black’s dance-theatre piece, the centerpiece of the twenty-fifth annual “HOT!” festival of queer-focussed work, imagines the last party ever in a distant future. Opens July 8.

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Kanze Noh Theatre

Rose Theatre

Lincoln Center Festival kicks off with a presentation of works from the centuries-old Japanese genre Noh, directed by Kiyokazu Kanze, the twenty-sixth Grand Master of the Kanze School. In Japanese, with English supertitles. July 13-17.

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Motown the Musical

Nederlander

The 2013 musical, which uses the Motown catalogue to trace the rise of Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, and other musicians, returns for an eighteen-week run. Berry Gordy, Jr., the founder of Motown, wrote the book. Opens July 12.

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New York Musical Festival

Various locations.

The festival returns for its thirteenth year, with selections including “The Gold,” about a German Jewish boxer in the nineteen-thirties; “Camp Rolling Hills,” set at a summer camp for tweens; and “Ludo’s Broken Bride,” about a man who travels to the beginning and end of time. Opens July 11.

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Oslo

Mitzi E. Newhouse

Bartlett Sher directs J. T. Rogers’s play, which recounts how a Norwegian diplomat (Jennifer Ehle) and her husband (Jefferson Mays) orchestrated the secret talks that led to the Oslo Accords, in the nineties. In previews. Opens July 11.

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Privacy

Public

Daniel Radcliffe, De’Adre Aziza, and Rachel Dratch star in James Graham’s interactive, interview-based work, which explores issues of privacy in the digital age. Josie Rourke directs the Donmar Warehouse co-production. In previews. Opens July 18.

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PTP/NYC

Atlantic Stage 2

Potomac Theatre Project presents two 1981 plays in repertory: Howard Barker’s “No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming,” about a Hungarian political cartoonist sparring with government censors, and C. P. Taylor’s “Good,” in which a professor studies a German man succumbing to madness. In previews. Opens July 12.

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Runaways

City Center

“Encores! Off-Center” stages a concert version of the late Elizabeth Swados’s experimental musical from 1978, drawn from her interactions with young runaways and featuring a cast of New York City teen-agers. July 6-9.

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Simon Says

Lynn Redgrave

Brian Murray stars in a thriller by Mat Schaffer, in which a young psychic and a retired professor try to solve a two-thousand-year-old murder. Myriam Cyr directs. In previews. Opens July 9.

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Small Mouth Sounds

Pershing Square Signature Center

A return engagement of Bess Wohl’s comedy, directed by Rachel Chavkin, in which six urbanites attend a silent retreat in upstate New York. In previews. Opens July 13.

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Troilus and Cressida

Delacorte

Daniel Sullivan directs the second offering of the Public’s Shakespeare in the Park season. The cast includes Andrew Burnap, Ismenia Mendes, Corey Stoll, and John Douglas Thompson. Previews begin July 19.

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