NOW SHOWING: WHAT'S NEW ON BROADWAY IN OCTOBER!

Welcome to NOW SHOWING, your monthly guide to all of the Broadway offerings opening and beginning performances!  October is ripe with plays, including Man and Boy, Relatively Speaking, The Mountaintop and more!  Be sure to head to the Rialto this month to catch as many as you can!

MAN AND BOY

First Preview: September 9, 2011
Opening Night: October 9, 2011
Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
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Three-time Tony Award® winner Frank Langella returns to Broadway in Roundabout Theatre Company's exciting new production of Terence Rattigan's masterpiece MAN AND BOY, directed by Maria Aitken (The 39 Steps). At the height of the Great Depression, ruthless financier Gregor Antonescu's business is dangerously close to crumbling. In order to escape the wolves at his door, Gregor tracks down his estranged son Basil in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village apartment as a base to make a company-saving deal. Can this reunion help them reconcile? Or will this corrupt father use his only son as a pawn in one last power play? Don't miss this gripping story about family, success and what we're willing to sacrifice for both.

RELATIVELY SPEAKING

First Preview: September 20, 2011
Opening Night: October 20, 2011
Theatre: Brooks Atkinson Theatre
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RELATIVELY SPEAKING is comprised of three one-act comedies springing from a different branch of the family tree. In Talking Cure, Ethan Coen uncovers the sort of insanity than can only come from family. In George is Dead, Elaine May explores the hilarity of death. And in Honeymoon Motel, Woody Allen invites you to the sort of wedding day you won't forget.

THE MOUNTAINTOP

Taking place on April 3, 1968, The Mountaintop is a gripping reimagining of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader DR. Martin Luther King, Jr. After delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King (Samuel L. Jackson) retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger (Angela Bassett) arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people.

CHINGLISH

First Preview: October 11, 2011
Opening Night: October 27, 2011
Theatre: Longacre Theatre
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Chinglish is the new "shrewd, timely and razor-sharp comedy" (The Chicago Tribune) by Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) about the challenges of doing business in a culture whose language-and ways of communicating-are worlds apart from our own. Chinglish makes its Broadway premiere direct after playing at Chicago's Goodman Theatre where The Tribune also gave it 4 stars. In this sexy and romantic play, an American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contact for his family's sign-making firm. He soon finds that the complexities of such a venture far outstrip the expected differences in language, customs and manners - and calls into questions even the most basic assumptions of human conduct.

OTHER DESERT CITIES

First Preview: October 12, 2011
Opening Night: November 3, 2011
Theatre: Booth Theatre
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In Other Desert Cities, Brooke Wyeth (to be played by Rachel Griffiths who is making her Broadway debut), a once promising novelist, returns home after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, former members of the Reagan inner-circle (Stockard Channing and Stacy Keach), her brother (Thomas Sadoski) and her aunt (to be played by Judith Light). When Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir focusing on an explosive chapter in the family's history, the holiday reunion is thrown into turmoil and the Wyeths are both bound together and torn apart as they struggle to come to terms with their past. 

GODSPELL

First Preview: October 13, 2011
Opening Night: November 7, 2011
Theatre: Circle in the Square Theatre
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VENUS IN FUR

First Preview: October 13, 2011
Opening Night: November 8, 2011
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Hugh Jackman, BACK ON BROADWAY

First Preview: October 25, 2011
Opening Night: November 11, 2011
Theatre: Broadhurst Theatre
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Accompanied by an 18-piece orchestra, Hugh Jackman performs a personal selection of his favorite musical numbers that reflect on the stage and film star's remarkable life and career, from The Boy from Oz to Hollywood.

SEMINAR

First Preview: October 27, 2011
Opening Night: November 20, 2011
Theatre: John Golden Theatre
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In SEMINAR, four aspiring young novelists (Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Jerry O'Connell and Hettienne Park) sign up for private writing classes with Leonard (Alan Rickman), an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, sex is used as a weapon and hearts are unmoored. The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this biting new comedy.

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