2017-2018 Off-Broadway Seasons

[BakerWilliams]

Posted: 7/26/17 at 5:33pm

A few months ago I made a post in a thread about off-Broadway seasons that was in semi-development, in which I compiled off-Broadway seasons into one convenient list. A few people expressed appreciation for the post, so I decided to make a more complete and informative list. So, there are the 2017-2018 seasons for major off-Broadway (plus Roundabout, MTC, and Second Stage) seasons. An asterisk next to the company means that the season is not yet complete.

 

Still Missing:

The Actors' Company Theatre


Atlantic Theatre

On the Shore of the Wide World (August 23 - October 8 )

Describe the Night (November 10 - December 24)

The Homecoming Queen (January 10 - February 11)

Hangmen (January 18 - March 4)

This Ain't No Disco (May 11 - July 1)

The Great Leap (May 23 - June 17)

Brooklyn Academy of Music*

Richard III (October 11-14)

Mementos Mori (October 18-21)

/peh-LOH-tah/ (October 18-21)

State of Siege (November 2-4)

Man to Man (November 7-11)

A Billion Nights On Earth (November 15-18 ) 

The Fountainhead (November 28 - December 2)

Haruki Murakami's Sleep (November 29 - December 2)

Suddenly (December 6-9)

Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor (December 12-16)

Classic Stage Company

As You Like it (September-)

Twelfth Night (November-)

Fire & Air (January-)

Summer and Smoke (April-)

Carmen Jones (June-)

The Stowaway (November-)

Julius Caesar (March-)

Encores!

Hey, Look Me Over (February 7-11)

Grand Hotel (March 21-25)

Me and My Girl (May 9-13)

Irish Repertory Theatre*

The Home Place (Late September-Early November)

Lincoln Center Theatre

Junk (October 5-) [Broadway]

After the Blast (October 7-)

The Wolves (November 1-)

My Fair Lady (Spring) [Broadway]

Manhattan Theatre Club*

The Prince of Broadway (August 3-) [Broadway]

The Portuguese Kid (September 19-)

Actually (October 31-)

The Children (November 2-) [Broadway]

In the Body of the World (January 16-)

Sugar in Our Wounds (May 22-)

Mint Theatre*

The Suitcase Under the Bed (July 21 - September 23)

Musicals Tonight! (okay, so they're really minor, almost to the point of irrelevancy, but some of their shows are really really fun)

The Apple Tree (October 3 - 15)

Bells Are Ringing (October 17 - 29)

The Boys From Syracuse (February 13 - 26)

Anything Goes (February 27 - March 11)

Calamity Jane (March 13 - 25)

The New Group

Downtown Race Riot (Fall 2017)

Jerry Springer - The Opera (Winter 2018- )

Good for Otto (Winter 2018- )

Peace for Mary Frances (Spring 2018- )

New York Theatre Workshop

Mary Jane (September 6 - October 15)

Hundred Days (November 15 - December 31)

An Ordinary Muslim

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

The House That Will Not Stand

Playwrights Horizons

For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday (August 1 - October 1)

The Treasurer (September 6 - October 22)

Mankind (December 15 - January 2)

The Flat Earth (March 16 - April 29)

Dance Nation (April 13 - May 27)

Log Cabin (June 1 - July 15)

Primary Stages

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord (September 19 - October 22)

Pride and Prejudice (November 7 - December 15)

A Waltz with Mr. Heifetz (January-February)

Feeding the Dragon (March-April)

Public Theatre

Measure for Measure (September 18 - November 5)

Tiny Beautiful Things (September 19 - November 12)

Oedipus El Rey (October 3 - November 19)

Office Hour (October 17 - December 3)

Illyria (October 22 - November 26)

Kings (January 30 - March 25)

The Low Road (February 13 - April 1)

Milma's Tale (March 27 - May 20)

Fire in Dreamland (July 17 - September 2)

The Winter's Tale (November 26 - December 17)

Henry V (April 23 - May 13)

Black Light (February 13 - March 25)

Roundabout Theatre Company*

Time and the Conways (September 14 - November 26) [Broadway]

The Last Match

Amy and the Orphans

Skintight

Too Heavy for Your Pocket

Bobbie Clearly

Second Stage Theatre

Torch Song (September 26 - November 19)

Cardinal (January-)

Lobby Hero (March-) [Broadway]

Mary Page Marlowe (June-)

Straight White Men (July-)

Signature Theatre

F*cking A (August 22 - October 1)

In the Blood (August 29 - October 8 )

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (October 3 - November 12)

At Home at the Zoo [rights pending-better hope they don't cast any black people] (January 30 - March 11)

Paradise Blue (April 24 - June 3)

Our Lady of 121st Street (May 1 - June 10)

SOHO Rep

Is God Is (February 6 - March 11)

Fairview (May 29 - July 1)

St. Ann's Warehouse*

People, Places, & Things (October 19 - November 19)

Theatre for a New Audience

Marcel/The Art of Laughter (October 27-November 19)

He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (January 17-February 11)

The Winter's Tale (March 11-April 15)

Twelfth Night (May 10-27)

Vineyard Theatre*

The Amateurs (Winter)

The Beast in the Jungle (Spring)

Women's Project Theatre

Monica Bill Barnes & Company's "One Night Only (Running as Long as We Can)" (September 9 - October 8 )

[Porto] (January 29 - February 25)

 

Personally, I think it looks like a pretty good season. Playwrights Horizons seems back on track after a shaky year, and Second Stage looks to have one of their strongest seasons in years. 

 

As far as I can tell, Lila Neugebauer is the busiest director so far, with four upcoming projects (though one is a re-staging) and Jordan Harrison is the busiest playwright with two world premieres set.

Updated On: 8/6/17 at 05:33 PM

[Boston Friend]

Posted: 7/27/17 at 6:12am

How about Ars Nova? Is that too off off broadway? I'm seeing K-Pop. 

[bandit964]

Posted: 7/27/17 at 2:44pm

When is St. Ann's announcing their season!?!?!?

[bandit964]

Posted: 7/28/17 at 6:31am

What about The New Group?

Lois will be in the 4th show at the New Group, again, being directed by Lila.  I can't wait to see her shows.

DOWNTOWN RACE RIOT
by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
directed by Scott Elliott
with Chloë Sevigny

On a hot late summer day in 1976, a mob of young men – all white except one – descended on Washington Square Park with pipes and bats, and attacked any people of color they could find. Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s Downtown Race Riot takes us back to this day, in the cramped Village apartment of Mary Shannon (Chloë Sevigny), a strung-out, free-wheeling single mom, as her son Pnut and his Haitian best friend Massive wrestle with their obligation to join the riot.  The boys, torn between loyalty to each other and to the neighborhood, grasp for ways to keep the violence from destroying their friendship forever. A snapshot of a time not so different than today, when a new social freedom ran smack into the forces of reaction, and when the stakes were truly life and death.

 

?WINTER 2018
JERRY SPRINGER - THE OPERA
music and lyrics by Richard Thomas
book and additional lyrics by Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas
choreography by Joshua Bergasse
directed by John Rando

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! It’s “The Jerry Springer Show” as you’ve never seen it before, with passionate arias, soaring ballads, and giant production numbers. While the studio audience cheers, a parade of bickering guests fight and curse, until violence breaks out and Jerry must face his trickiest guest ever…. Deeply in tune with the chaos and unrestrained id of our times, Jerry Springer - The Opera, a gleefully profane musical by Richard Thomas (Music, Book, Lyrics) and Stewart Lee (Book) is an outrageous celebration of our national ritual of public humiliation and redemption.  John Rando directs the Off-Broadway premiere of this multi-award-winning show.

 

 

?WINTER 2018
GOOD FOR OTTO
by David Rabe
directed by Scott Elliott
with Ed Harris and Amy Madigan

Through the microcosm of a rural Connecticut mental health center, Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe conjures a whole American community on the edge.  Like their patients and their families, Dr. Michaels (Ed Harris), his colleague Evangeline (Amy Madigan) and the clinic itself teeter between breakdown and survival, wielding dedication and humanity against the cunning, inventive adversary of mental illness, to hold onto the need to fight – and to live.  Inspired by a real clinic, Rabe finds humor and compassion in a raft of richly drawn characters adrift in a society and a system stretched beyond capacity. Scott Elliott directs an ensemble cast of fourteen in this New York premiere.

 

 

SPRING 2018
PEACE FOR MARY FRANCES
by Lily Thorne
directed by Lila Neugebauer
with Lois Smith

Mary Frances has lived a good life; she's ninety years old and ready to die. Born to refugees fleeing the Armenian genocide, her last wish is to die peacefully at home surrounded by her family. Her dream collides with reality as three generations of explosive women flood her small New England home to battle for their family’s legacy. Mary Frances must navigate the volatile relationships of the children she raised -- or die trying. Lois Smith stars as a tenacious survivor, struggling to break the bonds that tie her to this life. Directed by Lila Neugebauer, Lily Thorne’s Peace for Mary Frances is a wrenching and caustically funny portrait of an American family in crisis.

 

 

[BakerWilliams]

Posted: 8/6/17 at 2:29pm

Updated to include the New Group, SOHO Rep, and TFANA. Seems we'll be getting two different productions of Twelfth Night in the same year (not that I'm complaining).

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/19/17 at 11:40pm

Seeing Illyria this weekend and very excited.

Recently saw "Frankenstein: The Musical" at The Players Theater and "Only You Can Prevent Wildfires" at Teatro Circulo (Which I highly reccommend)

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/28/18 at 6:50pm

Just saw MILES FOR MARY at Platwrights and loved it.

Next on my list is BOBBIE CLEARLY at Roundabout.