THIS SEASON'S PLAYWRIGHTS
WHAT'S HERE: This page displays an alphabetical list of the playwrights whose work will be featured in NYC this theatre season. Click on show titles to learn more about each one.
| Playwright | Show | Start Date |
|---|---|---|
| Liz Duffy Adams | Or, A new play by Liz Duffy Adams about the life of playwright/spy Aphra Behn. | Oct 29, 2009 |
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon A new translation of Aeschylus's famous play by Alexander Harrington, presented by Eleventh Hour Theatre Company. | Nov 12, 2009 |
| Mark Altman | Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls An evening of the music and dance associated with Anita Berber, the iconic actor/dancer/poet who epitomized for many the decadence of Weimar era Berlin. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Mando Alvarado | Post No Bills A new play by Mando Alvarado about a young woman from a Texas bordertown who comes to the big city with dreams of becoming a singer. | Nov 11, 2009 |
| Lian Amaris | Swimming to Spalding Performer Lian Amaris recounts her pilgrimage to the sites in Thailand evoked by Spalding Gray in his account of the filming of the movie The Killing Fields. | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata Phare Play Productions presents Aristophanes's famous anti-war satire. | Dec 9, 2009 |
| Rachel Axler | Smudge The world premiere of a dark comedy about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake, as a hopeful young couple gives birth to a smudge. | Jan 3, 2010 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | My Wonderful Day A new play by Alan Ayckbourn about a girl who has to write a school essay about her day, and the adults who provide her with material for it. This is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. | Nov 10, 2009 |
| Banana Bag & Bodice | A Very SANDWICH Christmas A playful, provocative, and horrific musical that examines the art of eating and the blind act of consumption during the festive holiday season. Created by Banana Bag & Bodice. | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Annie Baker | Circle Mirror Transformation Four lost New Englanders enroll in a community center drama class experiment in this new play by Annie Baker. | Sep 24, 2009 |
| Alan Ball | Five Women Wearing the Same Dress A revival of Alan Ball's play about the five bridesmaids in a Tennessee wedding. | Oct 29, 2009 |
| Will Bartlett | Rumple Who? A children's musical (ages 5 and up) based on the fairy tale "Rumpelstilskin." | Jan 1, 2000 |
| P. Seth Bauer | Over The Line A new play by P. Seth Bauer about six middle class teens just before graduation who are caught in a vortex of lust and violence. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Roger Bean | The Marvelous Wonderettes A new musical set at a high school prom in the 1950s. | Aug 29, 2008 |
| Douglas Carter Beane | Mr. & Mrs. Fitch A new play by Douglas Carter Beane about a pair of married gossip columnists. John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle star. | Jan 26, 2010 |
| S.N. Behrman | Biography A revival of S.N. Behrman's comedy about a woman artist who is approached about writing a memoir about her racy life. | Nov 20, 2009 |
| Jay Bernzweig | Made in Heaven A comedy by Jay Bernzweig about a pair of conjoined Siamese twins who share a penis. | Oct 22, 2009 |
| Dan Bianchi | Frankenstein Radiotheatre presents an adaptation of Mary Shelley's gothic horror story. | Oct 11, 2009 |
| Theodore Bikel | Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears A new play with music, written and performed by Theodore Bikel, that brings to life the characters and observations of the famous Yiddish writer. | Nov 8, 2009 |
| Richard Blackburn | Wintuk Cirque du Soleil's winter adventure about a boy's quest for snow returns to Madison Square Garden for the holidays. | Nov 11, 2009 |
| Lee Blessing | Two Rooms A revival of Lee Blessing's play about a man being held by terrorists in the Middle East, and his wife back home in the U.S. | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Thomas Bradshaw, Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Will Eno, Itamar Moses, Adam Rapp | The Great Recession An evening of short plays that explore the impact of the current economic crisis on the younger generation. | Nov 20, 2009 |
| Bertolt Brecht | Brecht on Brecht Accidental Repertory Theater presents a revival of this compilation of the work of playwright Bertolt Brecht. | Oct 29, 2009 |
| Jim Brochu | Zero Hour A solo play written and performed by Jim Brochu about Zero Mostel. | Nov 14, 2009 |
| Kirk Wood Bromley | Cycatrix Adaptitude Taking place in four exclusive Chelsea and Williamsburg lofts, this is a performance event within a party experience. Presented by Inverse Theater Company. | Oct 29, 2009 |
| Bekah Brunstetter | Mine A new play by Bekah Brunstetter about a poet with no time for poems who is caught between her wonderful, successful boyfriend and her magnetic, brokeass, aspiring musician, coffee shop co-worker. | Nov 12, 2009 |
| Keith Bunin | The Credeaux Canvas A new revival of Keith Bunin's play about two East Village artists who attempt to scam a wealthy art collector into purchasing a falsified classic painting. Presented by Aeternalis Theatre. | Nov 4, 2009 |
| Bill Cain | Equivocation A new play by Bill Cain set in 1605 England begins when King James's right hand man commissions Shakespeare to write a play about the Gunpowder Plot. | Feb 9, 2010 |
| Yisrael Campbell | Circumcise Me In this one-man comedy, Yisrael Campbell takes the audience on a personal journey through his struggles with drugs and alcohol and his eventual salvation in the Jewish faith. | Nov 1, 2009 |
| Alexi Kaye Campbell | The Pride MCC Theater presents a play by Alexi Kaye Campbell about three people caught up in an erotic time warp. | Jan 27, 2010 |
| Albert Camus | The Misunderstanding Horizon Theatre Rep presents a revival of Albert Camus's play about a man who returns home to his family after a 20 year absence. | Oct 29, 2009 |
| Al Carmines | Christmas Rappings The 40th anniversary production of Al Carmines's high-spirited take on the traditional Christmas story. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Martin Casella | The Irish Curse A play about a group of Irish American men who are in a self-help/support group about their perceived small penis size. | Mar 17, 2010 |
| Tom X. Chao | Callous Cad A new show by Tom X. Chao. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Anton Chekhov | Light in the Dark: Chekhov Shorts Theatre HAN presents two short plays by Anton Chekhov, Swan Song and The Bear, and two unique entr'actes. | Dec 1, 2009 |
| Kitty Chen | Rosa Loses Her Face In this play by Kitty Chen, unmarried New Yorker Amy Loo visits her mother in LA after a long absence. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Kia Corthron | A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick A new play by Kia Corthron about an African preacher-in-training who is taken in by a family in the American South. | Mar 4, 2010 |
| Noel Coward | Present Laughter Roundabout Theatre Company presents a revival of Noel Coward's play about an aging matinee idol whose life becomes chaotic. VIctor Garber stars. | Jan 2, 2010 |
| Mike Daisey | The Last Cargo Cult A new monologue by Mike Daisey about his journey to a remote South Pacific island whose people worship America and its cargo. | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Augustin Daly | Under the Gaslight A revival of the 1867 melodrama by Augustin Daly. | Nov 20, 2009 |
| Lisa D'Amour & Katie Pearl | Terrible Things This new theatre piece by Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl takes audiences on a hallucinogenic T-R-I-P inside the many lives and countless break-ups of Katie Pearl. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Chris D'Arienzo | Rock of Ages A new musical set in a Hollywood rock club in the late 1980s, featuring hit songs from Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, REO Speedwago, Pat Benatar, and more. This show played off-Broadway earlier this season. | Mar 17, 2009 |
| Ken Davenport | My First Time A new play written and directed by Ken Davenport featuring true accounts of first sexual experiences. | Jul 12, 2007 |
| Toby Davies | Wolves at the Window Enter the offbeat world of Saki--one of the twentieth century's greatest satirists. This play by Toby Davies is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. | Nov 10, 2009 |
| Nancy Dean | Hetty Pepper's Stew This is part of Manhattan Rep's Gay and Lesbian Play Series. | Nov 18, 2009 |
| Christopher Durang | Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge Christopher Durang's version of the beloved Dickens holiday classic. | Dec 5, 2009 |
| Rinde Eckart | Orpheus X Theatre for a New Audience presents a new music-theatre piece by Rinde Eckart inspired by the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. | Dec 2, 2009 |
| Rick Eisenberg | The Arrangement A play by Rick Eisenberg about an unfairly dismissed executive at a Wall Street public relations firm. | Nov 11, 2009 |
| T.S. Eliot | The Cocktail Party The Actors Company Theatre presents a revival of T.S. Eliot's play, described as "a profound exploration of self-deception and redemption." | Mar 7, 2010 |
| Tim Ellis and Matthew Park | An Evening with Ellis & Park Tim Ellis and Matthew Park perform an hour-long set of original songs while exploring their creative "bromance." | Oct 8, 2009 |
| Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron | Love, Loss, and What I Wore A program of vignettes and monologues by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, based on the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman. | Sep 21, 2009 |
| Leif Erich | I'm God and You're Not In this new play by Leif Erich, Jesus and Satan appear in modern times to raise questions about eternal life and enlightenment. | Nov 3, 2009 |
| Euripides | Euripides' Phoenician Women Columbia Stages presents the Acting class of 2010 in the play by Euripides, as adapted and directed by Karin Coonrod. | Nov 12, 2009 |
| Ellen Fairey | Graceland LCT3 presents this comedic drama by Ellen Fairey about two estranged siblings who are reunited when they try to make sense of their father’s recent suicide. | May 3, 2010 |
| Jim Farmer | The Supper Club of Lost Causes Nightmares and vaudeville in a mildewed, long-forgotten nightspot in Northeastern Pennsylvania. | Nov 6, 2009 |
| Tyler Fereira | Effects of Suburbia on an Otherwise Normal Brain A comical yet honest look at suburban life, written by Tyler Fereira and presented by NativeAliens Theatre Collective. | Dec 8, 2009 |
| George Fischoff | Gauguin/Savage Light A one-man show written and performed by George Fischoff about the painter Paul Gauguin. | Sep 26, 2007 |
| Carrie Fisher | Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher recounts the true and intoxicating tale of her life as a Hollywood legend in this new solo show. Presented by Roundabout Theatre Company. | Sep 22, 2009 |
| Horton Foote | The Orphans' Home Cycle The world premiere of a three-part play by Horton Foote that follows characters in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas over three decades. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Richard Foreman | Idiot Savant A new philosophical comedy by Richard Foreman described as "a fresh, bracing and hilarious exploration of the boundaries of the legitimate." Willem Dafoe stars. | Oct 27, 2009 |
| Matthew Freeman | Exposition A non-narrative theatrical collision, created by Matthew Freeman and Michael Gardner. | Nov 19, 2009 |
| Jack Freiberger | They Call Me Mister Fry A one-man show starring Jack Freiberger as a white boy from Indiana who ends up teaching fifth graders in South Central Los Angeles. | Nov 6, 2009 |
| William Gibson | The Miracle Worker A revival of William Gibson's famous play about Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. | Feb 12, 2010 |
| Melissa James Gibson | This A new play by Melissa James Gibson about a single mother who is trying to become a poet. | Nov 6, 2009 |
| Rebecca Gilman | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter A new play by Rebecca Gilman, based on the novel by Carson McCullers, about a deaf man and his best friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. | Nov 13, 2009 |
| Susan Glaspell | The Verge Performance Lab 115 strips Susan Glaspell's proto-feminist behemoth of a play in order to reveal its dark, dangerous soul. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Avi Glickstein | Granada A new play by Avi Glickstein about a young woman who has been invited by the King of Spain in 1992 to stand in for all the Jews exiled from that country during the Inquisition. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Andrew Goffman | The Accidental Pervert A play written and performed by Andrew Goffman about his recovery from addiction to pornography. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Ricardo Perez Gonzalez | In Fields Where They Lay A new play by Ricardo Perez Gonzalez about the Christmas Truce between the English and Germans during World War I. Presented by Dreamscape Theatre. | Dec 11, 2009 |
| Jeff Goode | 7 Santas / The Eight: Reindeer Monologues A double bill of satirical holiday shows by Jeff Goode. | Nov 17, 2009 |
| Ted Greenberg | The Complete Performer Emmy-winning comedy writer Ted Greenberg throws a one-man comedy party, complete with a halftime show and a cab ride home. | Nov 8, 2008 |
| Matthew AJ Gregory, Shira Gregory, Chris Harcum, & Greg Tito | The Hypochondriac A new production of a contemporary re-imagining of Moliere's farce The Imaginary Invalid. | Nov 4, 2009 |
| Ann Marie Healy | What Once We Felt Lincoln Center Theater presents a play by Ann Marie Healy about a writer's journey through the political world of publishing. | Oct 26, 2009 |
| Lillian Hellman | The Children's Hour A revival of Lillian Hellman's play about two schoolteachers who are accused by a student of being lovers. | Nov 13, 2009 |
| Israel Horovitz | Line Israel Horovitz's one-act dark comedy about a group of people who are waiting on line, though they don't know for what. Now in its 32nd year. | Feb 1, 1976 |
| Sidney Howard | The Late Christopher Bean The Actors Company Theatre presents Sidney Howard's play from the 1930s about what happens when a celebrated painter's early works are traced to the humble home of a country doctor. | Nov 1, 2009 |
| Keith Huff | A Steady Rain A new play by Keith Huff. Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman star as two Chicago cops who are lifelong friends who give differing accounts of a few harrowing days that changed their lives forever. | Sep 10, 2009 |
| Chisa Hutchinson | She Like Girls A new play by Chisa Hutchinson about two inner-city high school girls who fall in love and dare to challenge their world by choosing freedom over silence. | Dec 1, 2009 |
| Saul Ilson | Don't Leave It All To Your Children A musical revue that celebrates the occasionally bumpy but always amusing journey as baby boomers become seniors. | May 6, 2009 |
| Nathan Louis Jackson | Broke-ology A new play by Nathan Louis Jackson about two brothers who are called home to care for their ailing father. Presented by Lincoln Center Theater. | Sep 10, 2009 |
| Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | Neighbors A new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins about a man who is not happy when a family of black actors moves in next door. | Feb 16, 2010 |
| Julia Jarcho | American Treasure 13P presents a new play by Julia Jarcho in which a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. | Nov 21, 2009 |
| Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton | Love Child Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton portray everyone in a theatre--on stage, backstage, and even in the audience--in this two-man comedy of their own devising. | Oct 23, 2009 |
| Len Jenkin | The Dream Express A "profane and uplifting" nightclub act created by Len Jenkin. | Dec 1, 2009 |
| Raymond Jones | Savannah Black & Blue A new play by Raymond Jones about an African-American woman's efforts to become a New York City police officer in the face of many obstacles. Presented by The Negro Ensemble Company. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber | The Royal Family Manhattan Theatre Club presents a revival of the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy about a theatrical dynasty. | Sep 15, 2009 |
| Sibyl Kempson & MIke Iveson | Crime or Emergency Two iconoclastic downtown performers threaten our Aristotelian/Stanislavskian conceptions of contemporary American theatre and identity as we safely understand them in a new play by Sibyl Kempson. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| David M. Korn | Acting Alone A new play by David M. Korn, billed as "the true story of Lee Harvey Oswald." | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Greg LaGana, M.D., and Barry Levy, M.D. | Damaged Care A revival of the musical about the health care system, written and performed by Greg LaGana, M.D., and Barry Levy, M.D. | Nov 21, 2009 |
| George Larkin, Stacey Lane, Brad McEntire, Steve Strangio, Benjamin Thornton, Oliver Thrun | Naked Holidays '09 EndTimes Productions presents their third annual edition of this slightly subversive holiday entertainment. | Dec 2, 2009 |
| James L. Larocca | Penang A revival of James Larocca's play about two American soldiers in Vietnam. This play premiered in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2008. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Anthony Michael Laura | "What Say You?" A new play by Anthony Laura set in kangaroo court. | Nov 18, 2009 |
| Antoinette LaVecchia | How to Be a Good Italian Daughter A new one-woman play written and performed by Antoinette LaVecchia, described as "a funny and touching portrait of mothers and daughters." | Oct 3, 2009 |
| Young Jean Lee | Lear Young Jean Lee's response to Shakespeare's King Lear. | Jan 7, 2010 |
| Tracy Letts | Superior Donuts A play by Tracy Letts about the owner and sole employee of a decrepit donut shop in uptown Chicago. | Sep 16, 2009 |
| Daniel F. Levin | Hee-Haw: It's a Wonderful Li e A new play by Daniel F. Levin that tells the story of the iconic film It's a Wonderful Life from the point of view of one of its minor characters. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| David Lindsay-Abaire | Rabbit Hole A revival of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize play, presented by Hudson Stage Company. | Nov 6, 2009 |
| Nickolas Long, III | The Exchange! A new musical by Nickolas Long, III about a rich family in the 1920s. Presented by Josiah Theatre Works. | Dec 20, 2009 |
| Kenneth Lonergan | The Starry Messenger The New Group presents this new play by Kenneth Lonergan about an astronomy teacher whose life is transformed by a young single mother. | Oct 26, 2009 |
| Amy Lord | The Boychick Affair--The Bar Mitzvah of Harry Boychick A new interactive comedy by the creator of Grandma Sylvia's Funeral. At Times Square Arts Center. | Jul 4, 2009 |
| Alex Lyras and Robert McCaskill | The Common Air A one-man play performed by Alex Lyras about six people thrown together during an airport delay. | Nov 6, 2009 |
| Taylor Mac | The Lily's Revenge A new epic theatre work by Taylor Mac about a flower that wants to become a man in order to be able to wed its bride. | Oct 29, 2009 |
| David Mamet | Oleanna A revival of David Mamet's play about a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students. Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles co-star. | Sep 29, 2009 |
| David Mamet | Race A new play by David Mamet. James Spader and Richard Thomas star. | Nov 17, 2009 |
| Willard Manus | Lord Buckley & Marilyn A double-bill of solo plays about Lord Buckley and Marilyn Monroe. | Nov 4, 2009 |
| Warren Manzi | Perfect Crime Convoluted murder mystery involving a dangerous psychiatrist, her patient, a detective, and a man who may or may not be her husband. Implausible, but entertaining; this is the longest-running straight play in New York history. | Apr 18, 1987 |
| Melanie Angelina Maras | Kiss Me on the Mouth A new play by Melanie Angelina Maras about two friends who each inadvertently meet the man who could be "Mr. Right." | Nov 3, 2009 |
| Patrick Marber | After Miss Julie Roundabout Theatre Company presents the U.S. premiere of a play by Patrick Marber that transposes Strindberg's famous play to England in 1945. | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Patrick Marber | Closer A revival of Patrick Marber's 1999 play about the chaotic intertwining of four lives over the course of four and a half years. | Dec 9, 2009 |
| William Marchant | The Desk Set Retro Productions presents a revival of William Marchant's comedy about a librarian who goes head-to-head with a government efficiency expert. | May 7, 2010 |
| Donald Margulies | Collected Stories Manhattan Theatre Club presents a revival of Donald Margulies's play about a writer and her protegee. Linda Lavin stars. | Apr 6, 2010 |
| Donald Margulies | Time Stands Still A new play by Donald Margulies about a war journalist and photographer who have returned home and seek to map out a more conventional life in New York. Presented by Manhattan Theatre Club. | Jan 5, 2010 |
| Joe Marshall | The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! A comedy by Joe Marshall about a small gay community theatre struggling to pull together their annual holiday pageant. | Nov 13, 2009 |
| Jane Martin | Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage A play by Jane Martin that tells the story of Big 8, a feisty rodeo competitor, who is facing foreclosure on the Wyoming ranch where she rehabilitates injured rodeo cowboys...with "sexual healing." | Nov 19, 2009 |
| Nichola McAuliffe | A British Subject A play by Nichola McAuliffe about a British man who was arrested and convicted for murder during a visit to Pakistan. This is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. | Dec 9, 2009 |
| Tarell Alvin McCraney | The Brother/Sister Plays Part 1 and 2 A trilogy of modern-day stories of kinship, love, heartache and coming-of-age centered around an extended family and community in the Bayou, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney. | Oct 21, 2009 |
| Martin McDonagh | The Pillowman A new production of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy about the interrogation of a fiction writer; presented by Astoria Performing Arts Center. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Kathryn Schultz Miller | A Christmas Wizard of Oz A short theatrical version of the famous story, featuring 22 students from tri-state middle schools. | Nov 21, 2009 |
| Arthur Miller | A View from the Bridge A revival of Arthur Miller's play about a Brooklyn longshoreman who becomes obsessed with his niece. Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson co-star. | Dec 28, 2009 |
| Rebecca Louise Miller | Fault Lines A new play by Rebecca Louise Miller about three women who gather together to remember a friend of theirs who was kidnapped and murdered 20 years earlier. | Dec 9, 2009 |
| David Scott Milton | Duet for Solo Voice A revival of the dark comedy by David Scott Milton about a night clerk in a hotel who thinks he is being pursued by the KGB. | Jan 28, 2010 |
| Ashley Cynara Mitchell | One Woman's Fog This is part of Manhattan Rep's Gay and Lesbian Play Series. | Dec 9, 2009 |
| Anna Moench | Gormanzee and Other Stories Three new one acts from anna&meredith, featuring live actors and life-size puppets. | Nov 20, 2009 |
| Matt Morillo | Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues A revival of Matt Morillo's comedy about the psychology of nervous urban goddesses. | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Chance D. Muehleck | bauhaus the bauhaus Modernism! Utopia! Architecture! Sit-upons! The Nerve Tank explores the Bauhaus, the seminal German school of design that operated from 1919 until 1933, when the Nazi regime shut it down. | Oct 9, 2009 |
| Geoffrey Nauffts | Next Fall A play by Geoffrey Nauffts about the relationship between a gay atheist and his boyfriend, who is a fundamentalist Christian. | Feb 16, 2010 |
| Sally Nemeth | Holy Days Retro Productions presents Sally Nemeth's play, set during the Great Depression. | Nov 6, 2009 |
| Bruce Norris | Clybourne Park A new play by Bruce Norris described as a pitch-black comedy about gentrification in city neighborhoods. | Jan 29, 2010 |
| Eugene O'Neill | The Emperor Jones A revival of Eugene O'Neill's play about an African American man who sets himself up as monarch of a Caribbean island following a prison break in the United States. | Oct 7, 2009 |
| Henry Ong | Sweet Karma A new play about Cambodian doctor/actor Haing S. Ngor. Presented by Immigrants Theatre Project. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Ellen Orchid | The Mystery Play This is part of Manhattan Rep's Gay and Lesbian Play Series. | Nov 18, 2009 |
| Suzan-Lori Parks | The Book of Grace A new play by Suzan-Lori Parks described as a portrait of a family shattered by issues of rage, revenge, power, and betrayal. | Mar 2, 2010 |
| Emily Paul | Ready, Set, Story! Looking Glass Theatre presents this new children's show exploring international folktales of tricksters. | Oct 10, 2009 |
| Brielle Korn with Jeremy Pickard | Neptune Superhero Clubhouse presents a physical theater adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid." | Nov 15, 2009 |
| Elliot Ramon Potts | Loaded A new play by Elliot Ramon Potts about a relationship between two gay men, one middle-aged and one much younger. | Nov 7, 2009 |
| Leon Pownall | Do Not Go Gentle A one-man play about poet Dylan Thomas. | Nov 19, 2009 |
| David Rambo | The Lady with All the Answers A play by David Rambo about advice columnist Ann Landers. Judith Ivey stars. | Oct 7, 2009 |
| Theresa Rebeck | The Understudy Roundabout Theatre Company presents a new play by Theresa Rebeck about understudies. Julie White stars. | Oct 9, 2009 |
| Lynn Redgrave | Nightingale A new play written and performed by Lynn Redgrave, inspired by her need to discover memories of her grandmother--a woman she barely knew. | Oct 15, 2009 |
| Yasmina Reza | God of Carnage A new play by Yasmina Reza, described as "a comedy of manners without the manners." | Feb 28, 2009 |
| Louise Roche | Girls Night: The Musical This musical from the UK is about five friends in their 30s and 40s during a wild and outrageous girls night out at a karaoke bar. | Jun 2, 2009 |
| Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac A new production of Rostand's romantic classic about a heroic man with a poetic soul and an oversized nose. | Nov 12, 2009 |
| Seth Rozin | Two Jews Walk Into A War... A play by Seth Rozin about the last two Jews in Afgahnistan. | Dec 10, 2009 |
| Sarah Ruhl | Dead Man's Cell Phone Outrageous Fortune Company presents Sarah Ruhl's play about a woman who picks up a dead man's cell phone. | Nov 13, 2009 |
| Sarah Ruhl | Dead Man's Cell Phone A new revival of Sarah Ruhl's play about a lost soul's search for meaning after she encounters a corpse and its incessant cell phone at a lonesome cafe. | Nov 27, 2009 |
| Sarah Ruhl | In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play A new play by Sarah Ruhl; presented by Lincoln Center Theater. | Oct 22, 2009 |
| Trav S.D. | Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One Trav S.D.'s new show is a retelling of The Comedy of Errors with four sets of twins, set in Berlin when the Wall fell. | Nov 12, 2009 |
| Tom Salamon & Betsy Salamon-Sufott | Accomplice: The Village A new theatrical interactive outdoor adventure from the team behind Accomplice: New York, this time set in Greenwich Village. | Mar 17, 2007 |
| Ilya Sapiroe | The Diary of Anne Frankenstein An absurdist re-imagining of Mary Shelley's famous novel, written by Ilya Sapiroe. | Oct 1, 2009 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | No Exit Nutshell Productions presents a revival of the famous play by Jean-Paul Sartre. | Nov 19, 2009 |
| Heidi Schreck | Creature A new play by Heidi Schreck set in medeival England about a woman who goes mad and has a visitation from Jesus. Produced by Page 73 Productions and New Georges. | Oct 27, 2009 |
| August Schulenberg | The Lesser Seductions of History A new play by August Schulenberg that follows ten characters through each year of the 1960s. | Nov 6, 2009 |
| Jordan Seavey | Children at Play A new play by Jordan Seavey, described as a tragic farce following five friends as they [hopefully] survive the average high school experience. | Oct 29, 2009 |
| Will Seefried | A Freckled Heart This is part of Manhattan Rep's Gay and Lesbian Play Series. | Dec 2, 2009 |
| Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell | A Christmas Carol A musical adaptation of the famous Dickens story, suitable for kids ages 3 and older. | Nov 21, 2009 |
| William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe | The Merchant of Venice / The Jew of Malta York Shakespeare Company presents these two plays with wronged Jewish protagonists in repertory. | Nov 28, 2009 |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream The Queens Players present a new staging of Shakespeare's comedy. | Dec 3, 2009 |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream A new production of Shakespeare's famous play, set in present-day NYC around Central Park. | Dec 3, 2009 |
| William Shakespeare | As You Like It The Bridge Project presents a revival of Shakespeare's famous comedy. | Jan 12, 2010 |
| William Shakespeare | Cymbeline Six actors and one trunk take on 13 roles and innumerable plot twists to create this dynamic, unforgettable, actor-driven, and music-filled production of Shakespeare's play. | Sep 17, 2009 |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet Jude Law stars in Shakespeare's famous play; this production comes to NYC direct from Donmar Warehouse in London. | Sep 12, 2009 |
| William Shakespeare | Love Is My Sin A theatre piece created by Peter Brook, based on 29 sonnets of Shakespeare. Presented by Theatre for a New Audience. | Mar 27, 2010 |
| William Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare's Globe Theatre makes its first American tour in a production of the famous early comedy. | Dec 8, 2009 |
| William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure Theatre for a New Audience presents a new production of Shakespeare's famous play. | Feb 6, 2010 |
| William Shakespeare | The Tempest The Bridge Project presents a new production of Shakespeare's famous play, with Stephen Dillane as Prospero. | Feb 14, 2010 |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night (or What You Will) Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater presents a puppet theatre adaptation of Shakespeare's play. | Nov 12, 2009 |
| Aliza Shane | Are You There, Zeus? It's Me, Electra A new farce by Aliza Shane, based on the famous play by Sophocles. | Oct 29, 2009 |
| John Patrick Shanley | Four Dogs and a Bone A revival of John Patrick Shanley's satire on the Hollywood film industry that dives into the lives of four people trying to make a movie. | Nov 17, 2009 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Misalliance Pearl Theatre Company presents a revival of Shaw's loquacious comedy. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver | The Lost Lounge A new play by Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver described as a tribute to the people who hold out and to the places people gather to sift through what is lost and found when delicate memory is confronted with hard progress. | Dec 4, 2009 |
| Sam Shepard | Ages of the Moon The U.S. premiere of a Sam Shepard play. | Jan 12, 2010 |
| David Shiner | Banana Shpeel A new show written and directed by David Shiner for Cirque du Soleil, that blends comedy with tap, hip hop, eccentric dance, and slapstick, all linked by a narrative that ignites a succession of wacky adventures. | Feb 4, 2010 |
| Maripat Donovan with Marc Silvia and Jane Morris | Sister's Christmas Catechism A new holiday comedy from the creators of Late Night Catechism. | Nov 27, 2009 |
| Blair Singer | Meg's New Friend A new play by Blair Singer about a woman in New York City who realizes that she has no African American friends. | Nov 27, 2009 |
| Mat Smart | The Folly of Crowds A late-night comedy by Mat Smart that takes place at a small private university. | Nov 13, 2009 |
| Joeri Smet, Alexander Devriendt and the actors | Once and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen A look at adolescence through the eyes of 13 astoundingly talented teenagers. Presented by Ontroerend Goed, KOPERGIETERY and Richard Jordan Productions, Ltd. of Ghent, Belgium. | Jan 8, 2010 |
| Roger Guenveur Smith | Juan and John A new one-man show written and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith, inspired by ancient themes: rage, retribution, and redemption. | Dec 1, 2009 |
| Anna Deavere Smith | Let Me Down Easy A new solo performance by Anna Deavere Smith that explores the power of the body and the resilience of the human spirit. | Sep 15, 2009 |
| Jeffrey Solomon | Santa Claus Is Coming Out A new production of Jeffrey Solomon's solo play about the outing of Santa Claus. | Nov 29, 2009 |
| Danielle Staubitz | A Play in Fireworks This is part of Manhattan Rep's Gay and Lesbian Play Series. | Jan 6, 2010 |
| Elias Stimac | Hot Babes in Toyland A new sex comedy by Elias Stimac that centers around the holiday season. Presented by 1-800-Weirdos. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Tom Stoppard | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead T. Schreiber Studio presents a revival of Tom Stoppard's famous play about the minor characters of Hamlet and their existential crisis. | Oct 15, 2009 |
| Caridad Svich | Rift A new play by Caridad Svich about lives torn by war and its aftermath, by abuse and damage, profit and trade, and the intimate search for beauty and grace. Presented by New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film. | Dec 2, 2009 |
| Mary Swan and Saul Jaffe | Merrick, The Elephant Man Fusing burlesque, new circus, and physical theater, this play by Mary Swan and Saul Jaffe is a highly physical, one-man tour-de-force version of this classic story. This is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. | Nov 24, 2009 |
| John Millington Synge | The Playboy of the Western World Pearl Theatre Company presents a new production of J.M. Synge's famous play. | Oct 2, 2009 |
| Tad & Beth Jones | A Jazz Nativity A joyful celebration of Christmas, for jazz fans. | Dec 20, 2009 |
| Tuvia Tenenbom | Press #93 for Kosher Jewish Girls in Krakow A new play about the use of high tech in numbing the brains of followers and creating a perfect herd mentality through the use of "Kosher Cellphones." | Jan 17, 2010 |
| Branislav Tomich | Blue Lanterns A solo show written and performed by Branislav Tomich about what he calls "The Three D's": Death, Depression, and Dementia. | Sep 17, 2009 |
| Bill Toscano | Surviving Billyboy This is part of Manhattan Rep's Gay and Lesbian Play Series. | Dec 2, 2009 |
| Liz Tuccillo, Cindy Chupack, Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zuritsky, Craig Carlisle, Jacquelyn Reingold | Cedar City Falls: a Mid-West Conflict A weekly live soap opera a small peaceful town that gets plunged into full-scale civil war. Tuesdays; with rotating cast. | Oct 6, 2009 |
| Frank Tumminia | Finality This is part of Manhattan Rep's Gay and Lesbian Play Series. | Dec 16, 2009 |
| Elaine Del Valle | Brownsville Bred ... Growing Up Elaine A one-woman show written and performed by Elaine Del Valle about her experiences growing up Latina in the African American ghetto of Brownsville, New York. | Nov 2, 2009 |
| Anne Waldman | Red Noir A detective thriller based on film noir techniques and themes, written by poet/experimental author Anne Waldman. | Dec 7, 2009 |
| Alex van Warmerdam | Welcome to the Woods The U.S. premiere of a play by Dutch author Alex van Warmerdam, described as Revolutionary Road meets Little Red Riding Hood. | Nov 14, 2009 |
| Maurine Dallas Watkins | So Help Me God! A new production of a play by Maurine Dallas Watkins that never made it to Broadway; it's about a fabulous dramatic diva who must fend off a challenge from her ambitious but naive understudy (and was written two decades before All About Eve. Kristen Johnston stars. | Nov 18, 2009 |
| Elizabeth Whitney | Wonder Woman! A Cabaret of Heroic Proportions A one-woman show by Elizabeth Whitney in which Wonder Woman makes a comeback as a lounge singer. This is part of Emerging Artists' EATFest. | Nov 12, 2009 |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest A revival of the famous comedy by Oscar Wilde, set in contemporary New York City. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Thornton Wilder | Our Town A revival of the famous play by Thornton Wilder, directed by David Cromer. | Feb 17, 2009 |
| Matt Wilkinson | Red Sea Fish A new play by Matt Wilkinson about a retired thief and his son. This is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. | Nov 3, 2009 |
| Tennessee Williams | A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur A staged reading of Tennessee Williams's play about four middle-aged women struggling for a sense of identity and independence. | Nov 17, 2009 |
| Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire A revival of the play by Tennessee Williams, directed by Liv Ullmann and starring Cate Blanchett. | Nov 27, 2009 |
| Steve Willis | Passing Ceremonies A gay, black love story based on an imagined meeting between Harlem Renaissance poet Bruce Nugent and '60s era poet-journalist Essex Hemphill. | Nov 5, 2009 |
| Martina Winkel | Kepler A new opera by Philip Glass, inspired by the discoveries of 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler. | Nov 18, 2009 |
| Leah Winkler & Teddy Nicholas | A Pale Horse A theatre piece about a generation's search for happiness in modern American culture. | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Wendy Woodson | She Turned on the Light An interdisciplinary work written, directed and choreographed by Wendy Woodson that explores how lines of fantasy, memory, and reality loop around and merge when one is a stranger in a strange land. | Nov 13, 2009 |
| Steve Yockey | wonder: an American hymn to the shimmer of television and the end of history A new play by Steve Yockey. Presented by New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film. | Dec 3, 2009 |
