Something's Coming: Broadway Fall Season Preview- The Plays!
By: BWW Special Coverage Sep. 01, 2013
Fall is quickly approaching, which means that Broadway will soon be blowing up with brand new productions. Ten plays will be eligible for Tony nominations next year, including: Romeo and Juliet, The Glass Menagerie, The Winslow Boy, A Time to Kill, Betrayal, The Snow Geese, Twelfth Night/Richard III, Macbeth, Waiting for Godot/No Man's Land, and 700 Sundays.
Get the scoop on all ten incoming plays below!
ROMEO AND JULIET (@RomeoJulietBway)
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad, Brent Carver, Jayne Houdyshell, Chuck Cooper, Christian Camargo, Roslyn Ruff, Conrad Kemp, Justin Guarini, Corey Hawkins, and Geoffrey Owens
Where: Richard Rodgers Theatre
In Previews
Opening Night: 9/19
While ROMEO AND JULIET is the most famous love story of all time, this production - directed by five-time Tony Award nominee David Leveaux - marks the first time in 36 years that the play has been produced for Broadway. This version of the classic tale will retain Shakespeare's original language but have a modern setting in which members of the Montague family will be white, and the Capulet family will be black.
More information HERE.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE (@MenagerieBWY)
Starring: Cherry Jones, Zachary Quinto, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Brian J. Smith
Where: Booth Theatre
Begins Previews: 9/5
Opening Night: 9/26
Amanda Wingfield is a Southern belle past her prime, living with two grown children in a small apartment in St. Louis. Amanda dreams of a better life for her shy and crippled daughter Laura, and so she pushes her son, Tom, to find a "gentleman caller" for the girl. However, the arrival of the gentleman caller sends shockwaves through the family and causes cracks to form in the delicate fantasies that have kept them going.
More information HERE.
THE WINSLOW BOY (@RTC_NYC )
Starring: Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alessandro Nivola, and Roger Rees
Where: American Airlines Theatre
Begins Previews: 9/20
Opening Night: 10/17
When Ronnie Winslow is expelled from school for stealing, it has a resounding effect on the entire family. His father Arthur must pool his resources to hire a lawyer for the boy's defense. His brother Dickie begrudgingly drops out of college and gets a banking job to help with the legal costs. And the fallout from this unexpected predicament puts his sister Catherine's engagement in jeopardy. Though they are determined to defend Ronnie, will the family's sacrifices be enough to clear his reputation and the Winslow name?
More information HERE.
A TIME TO KILL (@ATimeToKillBway)
Starring: Sebastian Arcelus, Chike Johnson, Patrick Page, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Douglas Thompson, Ashley Williams plus Dashiell Eaves, J.R. Horne, John Procaccino, Tijuana Ricks, Lee Sellars, and Tom Skerritt.
Where: Golden Theatre
Begins Previews: 9/28
Opening Night: 10/20
A TIME TO KILL is the incendiary story of a Southern community torn in half by an unspeakable crime. As the shocking news hits the public, small town America becomes the center of a media storm, where innocence is the victim, race is on trial and lives hang in the balance.
More information HERE.
BETRAYAL
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Rafe Spall
Where: Barrymore Theatre
Begins Previews: 10/1
Opening Night: 10/27
Emma is married to Robert, a publisher, but she has long had an affair with Jerry, a literary agent and Robert's best friend; as, in a brilliant device, time is regained, so the full complexity of their relationships comes to light.
More information HERE.
THE SNOW GEESE (@MTC_NYC)
Starring: Mary-Louise Parker, Danny Burstein, Victoria Clark, Evan Jonigkeit, Brian Cross, Christopher Innvar, and Jessica Love
Where: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Begins Previews: 10/1
Opening Night: 10/24
With war raging abroad, newly widowed Elizabeth Gaesling gathers her family for their annual shooting party to mark the opening of hunting season in rural, upstate New York. But Elizabeth is forced to confront a new reality as her carefree eldest son comes to terms with his impending deployment overseas and her younger son discovers that the father they all revered left them deeply in debt. Together, the family must let go of the life they've always known.
More information HERE.
TWELFTH NIGHT/RICHARD III (@ShakespeareBway)
Starring: Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, Samuel Barnett, Liam Brennan, Paul Chahidi, John Paul Connolly, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Colin Hurley, and Jethro Skinner.
Where: Belasco Theatre
Begins Previews: 10/15
Opening Night: 11/10
Delightfully funny and refreshingly original, these classics are presented in the custom of how Shakespeare's plays were first staged, with an extraordinary all-male company playing male and female roles; actors participating in the pre-show ritual of dressing and preparing their make-up on stage, in front of the audience; music played live on traditional instruments; and lighting created almost exclusively by 100 on-stage candles, adding to the intimate atmosphere. This is timeless Shakespeare at its finest and most accessible... and it is not to be missed!
More information HERE.
MACBETH (@LCTheater)
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Anne-Marie Duff
Where: Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Begins Previews: 10/24
Opening Night: 11/21
MACBETH contains some of the most exquisite and articulate language in Shakespeare's canon, coming, as it does, just before HAMLET. Like all masterpieces, the play is, or can be about more than one thing: in this present telling, we are looking at the script from, if not a contemporary point of view (it will not take place in Ottawa during the French and Indian War, for example!), surely from an abstract one. Because in this play one of Shakespeare's great heroes and one of his most brilliant minds goes astray and the result is a nightmare. And so "nightmare" will be the departure point of this production.
More information HERE.
WAITING FOR GODOT/NO MAN'S LAND (@TwoPlaysInRep)
Starring: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Billy Crudup, Shuler Hensley
Where: Cort Theatre
Begins Previews: 10/28
Opening Night: 11/24
In NO MAN'S LAND, two elderly writers, having met in a London pub, continue drinking and talking into the night. All might be well, until the return home of two younger men. Their relationships are exposed, with menace and hilarity, in one of Pinter's most entertaining plays. In WAITING FOR GODOT, two wanderers wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, who they hope will change their lives for the better. Instead, two eccentric travelers arrive, one man on the end of the other's rope. The results are both funny and dangerous.
More information HERE.
700 SUNDAYS (@700Sundays)
Starring: Billy Crystal
Where: Imperial Theatre
Begins Previews: 11/5
Opening Night: 11/13
In this original two-act play, Billy plays numerous characters that influenced who he is today. It deals with his youth, growing up in the jazz world of Manhattan, his teenage years and finally adulthood. It is about family and fate, loving and loss.
More information HERE.
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