Theater Listings for Oct. 4-10 Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current productions, additional listings, showtimes and ticket information are at nytimes.com/theater. A searchable, critical guide to theater is at nytimes.com/events. Previews and Openings "Betrayal" (in previews; opens on Oct. 27) After his searing revival of "Death of a Salesman" two seasons ago with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mike Nichols returns with another powerhouse cast, this time to dig deep into the deceptions and stinging disclosures of Harold Pinter's 1978 drama about infidelity. Inspired by the playwright's own seven-year extramarital affair, it uses reverse chronology to trace the unraveling of the adulterous triangle. The offstage husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz star as the married couple, with Rafe Spall as the interloper. Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 West 47th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. David Rooney "Big Fish" (in previews; opens on Sunday) Among the season's more intriguing projects, this musicalization of the 2003 Tim Burton film - about a young man trying to sift through his father's extremely unreliable stories - garnered rave reviews during its Chicago engagement this spring. Norbert Leo Butz, Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggert lead the cast; Andrew Lippa ("The Addams Family") wrote the music and lyrics; and Susan Stroman (who gave Mr. Butz his big break in "Thou Shalt Not") is the director and choreographer. Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (866) 870-2717, bigfishthemusical.com. Eric Grode "Bronx Bombers" (in previews; opens on Tuesday) With football ("Lombardi") and basketball ("Magic/Bird") out of the way, Eric Simonson has turned his attention to the great American pastime. And has broadened his scope to cover the entire history of the New York Yankees, from the Babe to Lou to Yogi to the Mick to Reggie to Derek. If you need last names to make sense of the previous sentence, this is perhaps not the show for you. The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (646) 223-3010, dukeon42.org. Grode "Domesticated" (previews start on Thursday; opens on Nov. 4) After winning a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris returns with this new work starring Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf as a politician and his wife, whose marriage is shaken after a scandal erupts. Anna D. Shapiro ("August: Osage County") directs this Lincoln Center Theater Off Broadway production, with a cast that also includes Vanessa Aspillaga, Mia Barron, Robin De Jesus and Mary Beth Peil. Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com, lct.org. Rooney "Fun Home" (in previews; opens on Oct. 22) Jeanine Tesori ("Caroline, or Change") and Lisa Kron ("Well") have both displayed an original grasp of family dynamics. Following a test-drive as part of last season's Public Lab series, this new musical with a score by Ms. Tesori and book and lyrics by Ms. Kron gets a full production under the direction of Sam Gold. Based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, the show takes a probing journey with the author, triggered by the sudden death of her father, back through her childhood at the family funeral home. The nine-member ensemble includes Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Beth Malone and Alexandra Socha. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 967-7555, publictheater.org. "Grasses of a Thousand Colors" (previews start on Monday; opens on Oct. 28) Wallace Shawn's first new play in more than a decade, which had its premiere at London's Royal Court Theater in 2009, makes its American debut as part of the Public Theater's joint celebration with Theater for a New Audience of the 40-year creative collaboration between Mr. Shawn and the director André Gregory. Weighing suitable descriptions of the sprawling work in his review that year in The Guardian, Michael Billington wrote: "A dystopian fairytale? A pseudo-pornographic parable? A modern morality play? It is all these and more. Mr. Shawn plays a sexually voracious scientist whose attempt to solve world hunger triggers the collapse of the global ecosystem. Julie Hagerty, Emily Cass McDonnell and Jennifer Tilly appear as the scientist's wife and lovers. "Julius Caesar" (in previews; opens on Wednesday) The last time the actress Harriet Walter and the director Phyllida Lloyd collaborated on a New York stage was on the Broadway transfer of "Mary Stuart," a bracing reappraisal of Friedrich Schiller's drama that originated at the Donmar Warehouse in London. From that same fertile incubator comes this all-female production of another classic tragedy of political chicanery, which promises to be one of the highlights of a fall season stuffed with Shakespeare. Relocated to a women's prison, it stars the formidable Ms. Walter as the corrupted Brutus, with Frances Barber as the doomed Roman leader of the title. St. Ann's Warehouse, 29 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, (718) 254-8779, stannswarehouse.org. "Juno and the Paycock" (previews start on Wednesday; opens on Oct. 20) The Irish Rep returns to a classic last presented by the company in 1995: Charlotte Moore's production of this 1924 Sean O'Casey drama set in the working-class tenements of Dublin during the Irish Civil War. Ciaran O'Reilly and John Keating play boozing "Captain" Jack Boyle and his ne'er-do-well sidekick, Joxer Daly, with J. Smith-Cameron as Juno Boyle, the long-suffering matriarch whose dreams of delivering her children from squalor are dashed by misfortune. Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 727-2737, irishrep.org. "The Landing" (in previews; opens on Oct. 23) "The Scottsboro Boys," one of the composer John Kander's final works with his longtime creative partner Fred Ebb, had its debut at the Vineyard. Collaborating with a new book writer and lyricist, Greg Pierce, Mr. Kander returns to the same downtown location for the premiere of a new musical, directed by Walter Bobbie. David Hyde Pierce and Julia Murney head the cast in three thematically linked stories of desire, love and loss. Vineyard Theater, 108 East 15th Street Street, Manhattan, (212) 353-0303, vineyardtheatre.org. "Luce" (previews start on Saturday; opens on Oct. 21) Marin Hinkle and Neal Huff play the parents of an all-star high school student, who are caught off guard by an alarming discovery about the golden-boy son they adopted years earlier from a war-torn African country. May Andrales directs this production from Lincoln Center Theater's emerging artists program, LCT3; it marks the professional playwriting debut of J. C. Lee, a recent Juilliard School graduate. Claire Tow Theater, Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com, lct3.org. "Marie Antoinette" (previews start on Wednesday; opens on Oct. 20) Returning to the same stage where she gave a shattering performance in Sarah Kane's "Blasted," Marin Ireland slips into the fashionista finery of the capricious Queen of France in David Adjmi's subversive tragicomedy about the end of the party at Versailles. Directed by Rebecca Taichman, the play was seen last fall in a co-production that bounced from American Repertory Theater to Yale Rep. Alongside Ms. Ireland, it features Steven Rattazzi as Louis XVI and David Greenspan as a sheep whose warning to Marie not to lose her head comes too late. Soho Rep, 46 Walker Street, TriBeCa, (212) 352-3101, sohorep.org. "The Model Apartment" (in previews; opens on Oct. 15) "This isn't your bubbe's Holocaust play," Donald Margulies said recently of this piece, which he wrote in the 1980s. Not unless your bubbe is partial to an older couple abandoning their morbidly obese, mentally ill daughter and spinning tales of befriending Anne Frank. The play earned strong reviews but had an abbreviated run in 1995 when Primary Stages first presented it in New York; now the company is having another go at it, this time with Mark Blum and Kathryn Grody as the central couple. 59 East 59th Street, Manhattan, (212) 279-4200, 59e59.org. "A Night With Janis Joplin" (in previews; opens on Thursday) If recent onstage exposures to the sounds of Motown, Dusty Springfield and the Beatles haven't whetted your appetite for a rougher strain of 1960s rock "n" roll, this new musical promises a concentrated dose of psychedelic soul. A blues singer from Cleveland, Mary Bridget Davies will make her Broadway debut as the title character, whose formidable reputation hinges on a three-year window that yielded songs like "Piece of My Heart," "Mercedes Benz" and "Me and Bobby McGee." Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. "Romeo and Juliet" (in previews; opens on Oct. 16) While Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad continue to lock lips in Shakespeare's swooning suicide pact on Broadway, Classic Stage Company offers an alternative take on the romantic tragedy. The indie-film darling Elizabeth Olsen ("Martha Marcy May Marlene") and Julian Cihi, a newcomer fresh from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, play the star-cross'd lovers in Tea Alagic's production, with an ensemble that also includes T. R. Knight, Daniel Davis and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, (212) 352-3101, classicstage.org. "Sarah Flood in Salem Mass" (in previews; opens on Sunday) Anyone familiar with Adriano Shaplin's verbally dazzling works for the Riot Group and Pig Iron will know that this take on the events leading up to the Salem witch trials is unlikely to be confused with "The Crucible." Expect the Flea's acting company, the Bats (22 of them this time), to be put through their paces. Flea Theater, 41 White Street, TriBeCa, (212) 352-3101, theflea.org. "The Seagull" (in previews; opens on Oct. 13) Max Stafford-Clark directs the Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy's 1981 adaptation of this Chekhov drama, set in late 19th-century Ireland against the backdrop of the National Land League, a political movement that aimed to abolish landlordism and fight for the rights of poor tenant farmers. Trudie Styler heads a cast that includes Alan Cox and Amanda Quaid in this Culture Project presentation. Lynn Redgrave Theater at the Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street, at Lafayette Street, East Village, (866) 811-4111, cultureproject.org. "The Snow Geese" (in previews; opens on Oct. 24) Sharr White provided a superlative vehicle for Laurie Metcalf last season in "The Other Place." Returning to Manhattan Theater Club, the playwright aims to do the same for Mary-Louise Parker with the premiere of this drama about a widow who gathers her family in upstate New York for an annual shooting party to mark the start of hunting season, while World War I rages abroad. Daniel Sullivan directs an ensemble that also includes Danny Burstein, Victoria Clark, Evan Jonigkeit and Christopher Innvar. Samuel J. Friedman Theater, 261 West 47th Street, (212) 399-3050, manhattantheatreclub.com. "A Time to Kill" (in previews; opens on Oct. 20) The judge's chambers will be occupied by Fred Dalton Thompson, the former senator who knows his way around a courtroom from his years on "Law & Order." But the marquee name is that of the best-selling author John Grisham, whose debut legal thriller about a racially charged murder trial that stirs up unrest in a Mississippi township has been adapted for the stage by Rupert Holmes. Sebastian Arcelus, John Douglas Thompson, Tom Skerritt, Patrick Page and Tonya Pinkins also appear in the production, directed by Ethan McSweeny. John Golden Theater, 252 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200, atimetokillonbroadway.com. "The Winslow Boy" (in previews; opens on Oct. 17) Terence Rattigan has enjoyed a bit of a resurgence lately on both screen ("The Deep Blue Sea") and stage. The Roundabout Theater, which presented Rattigan's "Man and Boy" with Frank Langella in 2011, is now tackling his 1946 drama about a family rallying around one of its younger members. Roger Rees and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio lead a starry cast that also includes Alessandro Nivola and Michael Cumpsty. American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd Street, (212) 719-1300, roundabouttheatre.org. Broadway "Annie" James Lapine's revival of the singing comic strip from 1977 is merely serviceable. But its smiley-faced mixture of hope and corn scratches an itch in a city recovering from a recession and a hurricane. Theatergoers may occasionally feel the urge both to mist up and throw up, but Lilla Crawford is a nigh irresistible Orphan Annie. With Anthony Warlow and Faith Prince as Miss Hannigan (2:25). Palace Theater, 1564 Broadway, at 47th Street, (877) 250-2929, ticketmaster.com. Ben Brantley "First Date" The winning Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez star in this cliché-ridden romantic comedy, with a book by Austin Winsberg and a score by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. Mr. Levi is the nice Jewish boy who's had his heart kicked around, Ms. Rodriguez a boho chick with lots of experience. They're all wrong for each other, right? Sorry, but no prizes will be given for guessing how this familiar story ends (1:30). Longacre Theater, 220 West 48th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. Isherwood ★ "The Glass Menagerie" John Tiffany's stunning revival of Tennessee Williams's 1944 family drama promises to be the most revealing revival of a cornerstone classic for many a year. This poetic production paradoxically reveals the brute emotional force in a play often dismissed as wispy and elegiac. The entire cast - Cherry Jones, Zachary Quinto, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith - is magnificent (2:30). Booth Theater, 222 West 45th Street, (800) 432-7250, telecharge.com. Brantley ★ "Kinky Boots" Cyndi Lauper has created a love-and-heat-seeking score that performs like a pop star on Ecstasy. This Harvey Fierstein-scripted tale of lost souls in the shoe business, in which a young factory owner (Stark Sands) teams up with a drag queen (Billy Porter), sometimes turns into a sermon. But it's hard to resist the audience-hugging charisma of the songs (2:20). Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. ★ "Matilda the Musical" The most satisfying and subversive musical ever to come out of Britain. Directed by Matthew Warchus, with a book by Dennis Kelly and addictive songs by Tim Minchin, this adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel is an exhilarating tale of empowerment, told from the perspective of that most powerless group, little children (2:35). Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. "Motown: The Musical" A dramatically slapdash but musically vibrant joy ride through the glory days of the Detroit music label founded by Berry Gordy. Mr. Gordy's book is sketchy and obvious - you want to plug your ears whenever the music stops. But the music is, of course, some of the greatest R&B ever recorded, and the performers mostly electric (2:40). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, (877) 250-2929, ticketmaster.com.