The leaves run, the nights are shorter and Broadway is about to become more busy. Fourteen productions are ready to open, a range that mixes fresh games, splashing awakenings and stars bright to compete with the harvest moon. Fall in New York is not complete without one night in Broadway.
ART
Art is not easy, as Sondheim reminds us, and friendship for the trio in the winning room of Yasmina Reza Art. Starting in the winners of Tony James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris and twice the candidate of Tony Bobby Cannavale, the comedy in one act follows three longtime friends whose relationship is tested by the purchase of a white painting with a breathtaking price. The acquisition is cracking their full -minded jokes to reveal simmering tensions and fragile links.
Overview August 28 / Open on September 16 / Music Box Theater / Get Tickets
While waiting for Godot
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, forever linked by Bill & Ted’s excellent adventureMeeting in the revival of Jamie Lloyd of the existential classic of Beckett. Two companions are waiting on a bare scene, filling the hours of conversations in loop while private visitors derive and go out. The meeting of Reeves and Winter brings a spark of pop culture to the world of beckett spare, which does this Godot One of the most intriguing expectations of autumn.
Overview of September 13 / Open on September 28 / Hudson Theater / Get Tickets
PUNCH
Punch Tell the story of Jacob, a young man from Nottingham whose bravado, alcohol and drugs feed an imprudent night who changes the course of two families. A single impulsive punch sends him to prison, where an unexpected deposit with the parents of the victim reshapes his future. Adapted from the Memoirs of Jacob Dunne HarmJames Graham’s Play will be presented in Broadway with the newcomer Will Harrison as Jacob and the double winner of Tony Victoria Clark as a bereaved mother.
Overview September 9 / Open on September 29 / Samuel J. Friedman Theater / Get Tickets
RAGTIME
The Landmark musical by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, returns to tell the story of America at the beginning of the century. A family from the Upper East Side, a Jewish immigrant and his daughter and a Harlem musician see their lives crossing in a nation exploded of upheavals and possibilities. With the Ragtimes Ragtimes and the Bald Boots, the show explores love, justice and the American dream always elusive.
Overview September 26 / Opens on October 16 / Vivian Beaumont Theater / Get Tickets
Little Bear Ridge Road
Laurie Metcalf has captured Broadway audience in six separate productions in the past decade, winning two Tony Awards for her efforts. Now she is back in a fascinating family drama that takes place in the small town of Idaho – and she has a worthy combat partner in Micah Stock. Samuel D. Hunter’s game focuses on an acerbic aunt and her distant nephew that meets after a death in the family. According to all accounts, Metcalf and Stock’s partnership is gross, real and more funny.
Overview on October 7 / Open October 30 / Booth Theater / Get Tickets
Star
Star refuses to remain buried. The Wisecracking ghost returns for a hpid third Broadway, transforming Tim Burton’s classic cult film into a joyfully twisted musical, while the living and the dead are increasingly scandalous. The story follows the Deetz family, a recently deceased couple and a poltergeist with panache. Comedy part, chaos part, Star Proves that the public likes a bad influence.
Open October 8 / Palace Theater / Get Tickets
RELEASE
The story is used to going back. In ReleaseBess Wohl, the nominated playwright of Tony de Big horizonsmoves between the 1970s, Ohio and the present while Lizzie brings together women to talk about change and, 50 years later, her daughter finds herself asking the same questions. The game traces the progression and resistance through two generations, showing how certain revolutions do not end but linger from one generation to another.
Overview on October 8 / Opens on October 28 / James Earl Jones Theatre / Get Tickets
The Queen of Versailles
Kristin Chenoweth plays Jackie Siegel, a woman with a simple dream – to live in a mansion of 90,000 square feet with nine kitchens, 14 bedrooms, 30 bathrooms, a dining room of 150 people, a garage of 35 cars, a wine cellar of 20,000 bottles and a bowling alley. Based on the documentary of the same name, which could have been a tale of Schadenféudien on the excess financial becomes a human history on the personal aspiration in collision with economic reality. Wicked Composer Stephen Schwartz provides the properly rich scoring.
Overview on October 8 / Opens on November 9 / St. James Theatre / Get Tickets
CHESS
Yes, these are really failures, in particular, an American champion in front of his Russian rival during an international competition at the height of the Cold War. But his real draw is a powerful score of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaus of Abba (Oh mom!) With songs like “One Night in Bangkok” and “I Know Him So Bien” and an intense love triangle played by three of the brightest Broadway: Tony Aaron Tveit as a hot -headed American, the rising star Nicholas Christopher as an enigmatic Russian and Joy And Funny girl Star Lea Michele as a woman between them.
Overview on October 15 / Open November 16 / Imperial Theater / Get Tickets
Rob Lake Magic with special guests MUPPETS
The Muppets finally arrived in Broadway! Kermit La Grenouille and more of the Muppet clan are the special guests of Rob Lake, a large illusionist who consulted the residence in Las Vegas d’Adele as well as the Broadway shows Alladdin And Death becomes herAnd in 2008 became the youngest magician to receive the Merlin Award, the equivalent of the industry of an Oscar. The lake is known to suddenly disappear very great things. But would he dare to see Miss Piggy in two?
Overview on October 28 / Opens on November 6 / Broadhurst Theater / Get Tickets
OEDIPUS
Robert Icke directs and adapts the great tragedy of Sophocles, lending a 5th century work before our era of the shredding of the nerves of a modern thriller. The production is established in a campaign office when a charismatic leader awaits certain electoral results – which arrive with a devastating achievement. The winners of Olivier Mark Strong and Lesley Manville played in this heartbreaking contemplation of the heavy hand of destiny. Better not to bring your mom to this one.
Overview of October 30 / Open on November 13 / Studio 54 / Get Tickets
Two strangers (wear a cake through New York)
Dougal, a bright -eyed Briton, flies for New York for a wedding. The unhappy sister of the bride, Robin, comes to JFK. Together, they leave to recover the wedding cake. Romantic, comical and musical delights ensue. Sam Tuttyan Olivier winner for playing in Dear Evan Hansen In London, plays Dougal, while Christiana PittsSeen for the last time on Broadway in this classic love story of Manhattan King Kong, Play Robin.
Overview of November 1 / Open on November 20 / Longacre Theater / Get Tickets
Marjorie Prime
When Jordan Harrison’s play was appointed finalist of the Pulitzer Prize 10 years ago, the concept – the ability to communicate with the versions of his relatives – was like a distant science fiction. Well, reality has caught up. Cynthia Nixon, June Squibb and Danny Burstein play in this family drama on memory, both real and synthetic, and what makes us human. Adapted in a 2017 film with Jon Hamm and Geena Davis, the play makes a welcome return to the New York stage.
Overview November 20 / Open December 8 / Hayes Theater / Get Tickets
Bug
A downtur. A cocktail waitress that has been suffering for a long time. A shabby Motel room shaped. Millions of malicious microscopic insects. The dramatist winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tracy Lets, the sexy psychological thriller of Letts, will finally be under the skin of the Broadway public. For the first time in London in 1996, then adapted in a 2006 film, the play was recently produced in Chicago in 2021. Namir Smallwood and the wife of Letts, Carrie Coon, taking up their roles of this production under the direction of David Cromer.
Overview December 17 / Open January 8, 2025 / Samuel J. Friedman Theater / Get Tickets
