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'THE NEW YORKER' THEATRE LISTINGS, 10/10 PLAYDECK
OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
The Roundabout presents a new adaptation of the Chekhov play by Stephen Karam ("The Humans"), directed by Simon Godwin and starring Diane Lane, Tavi Gevinson, Joel Grey, Chuck Cooper, and John Glover. In previews. Opens Oct. 16.
CHRIS GETHARD: CAREER SUICIDE
Lynn Redgrave
The comedian's solo show, directed by Kimberly Senior, looks for humor in such weighty subjects as mental illness, suicide, and alcoholism. In previews. Opens Oct. 13.
DUAT
SoHo Rep presents a new piece—part vaudeville, part gospel show—created by the performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones and featuring his soul-singing alter ego, Jomama Jones. In previews.
FIT FOR A QUEEN
3LD Art & Technology Center
The Classical Theatre of Harlem stages a new play by Betty Shamieh ("The Black Eyed"), inspired by the life of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as pharaoh in ancient Egypt. In previews. Opens Oct. 7.
Broadhurst
Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson Mays, Sherie Rene Scott, Holland Taylor, and Robert Morse star in Jack O'Brien's revival of the 1928 comedy, about Chicago newspapermen on the crime beat. In previews.
Samuel J. Friedman
Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt reprise their roles in Simon Stephens's drama, about two strangers who cross paths at a London train station. Mark Brokaw directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production. In previews. Opens Oct. 13.
A new musical from the Roundabout, featuring the songs of Irving Berlin and based on the classic 1942 film; Bryce Pinkham and Corbin Bleu fill in, respectively, for Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. In previews. Opens Oct. 6.
Black Box, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
In Jenny Rachel Weiner's play, directed by Kip Fagan for Roundabout Underground, two women venture under false identities into the world of Internet dating. In previews.
Janet McTeer, Liev Schreiber, and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen star in Josie Rourke's revival of the Christopher Hampton drama, depicting the seductive games of aristocrats in pre-Revolutionary France. In previews.
A LIFE
Playwrights Horizons
In Adam Bock's play, directed by Anne Kauffman, David Hyde Pierce plays a man who recovers from a breakup by looking for answers in astrological charts. In previews.
OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY
Lyceum
An evening with Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, two Alan Alda-obsessed Upper West Side geezers played by the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. Alex Timbers directs. In previews. Opens Oct. 10.
ORWELL IN AMERICA
59E59
Joe Sutton's play, directed by Peter Hackett, imagines George Orwell on a book tour for "Animal Farm," for which his publisher has deployed a young woman to keep his political pronouncements in check. Opens Oct. 12.
In David Leveaux's revival of the David Hare drama, last seen at the Public in 1982, Rachel Weisz plays a British secret agent adjusting to everyday life after working in Nazi-occupied France. In previews.
Hal Brooks directs David Harrower's adaptation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People," in which a doctor discovers that his town's main tourist attraction is toxic. In previews. Opens Oct. 9.
THE ROADS TO HOME
Primary Stages presents Horton Foote's 1982 play about three women in Houston in the nineteen-twenties, directed by Michael Wilson and featuring the playwright's daughter Hallie Foote. Opens Oct. 5.
SELL / BUY / DATE
City Center Stage II
Sarah Jones ("Bridge & Tunnel") performs a new multicharacter solo show exploring the commercial sex industry, directed by Carolyn Cantor for Manhattan Theatre Club. In previews. Opens Oct. 18.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Clurman
The Actors Company Theatre revives the eighteenth-century comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, in which a young lady poses as a barmaid to appeal to a shy suitor. Scott Alan Evans directs. In previews. Opens Oct. 16.
McGinn/Cazale
The comedian Lisa Lampanelli wrote and stars in a play that braids together the stories of four women with food issues. Jackson Gay directs WP Theatre's production. In previews. Opens Oct. 7.
TICK, TICK . . . BOOM!
Keen Company revives this autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson ("Rent"), about a composer on the verge of turning thirty. Jonathan Silverstein directs. In previews.
TWO CLASS ACTS
A.R. Gurney premières a pair of short plays: "Squash," about a college professor grappling with a student's provocative take on Plato, and "Ajax," in which an actress turned teacher inhabits an ancient text.In previews.
VIETGONE
City Center Stage I
Manhattan Theatre Club stages a play by Qui Nguyen, directed by May Adrales, about two Vietnam War refugees (based on the playwright's parents) in a relocation camp in Arkansas. In previews.
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Oct 3, 2016 8:39:52 PM | Theatre listings
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