Since the last update, new on and Off-Broadway productions for 2019-20 have been announced, plus several Off-Broadway theater companies have revealed their seasons. In the past including these theaters' rosters has been a challenge since they seldom have booked specific opening dates, only the beginning of previews. In order to give as complete a calendar of the New York theater season as possible, starting preview dates are listed when no opening date has been announced
The biggest recent Broadway show to be added to the list is The Great Society, Robert Schenkkan's sequel to All the Way, his Tony-winning history of Lyndon Johnson's early presidency. Like All the Way, Society premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and later played the Seattle Repertory Theater. This second play focuses on LBJ's efforts to pass Civil Rights legislation through a reluctant Congress and his simultaneous tribulations of the Vietnam War. Bryan Cranston won a Tony for an impressive performance in the lead role in All the Way. Brian Cox will now take over the role with Richard Thomas (The Waltons, The Little Foxes) as Vice-President Humbert Humphrey, Grantham Coleman (Much Ado About Nothing) as Martin Luther King, Tony winner Frank Wood (Side Man) as Senator Everett Dirksen, Marc Kudisch (9 to 5, Finding Neverland) as Chicago mayor Richard Daley, Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Holiday Inn) as Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Previews begin Sept. 6 at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. The opening date has not yet been announced.
In other news: Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening), Tammy Blanchard (Gypsy), and Tony winner Christian Borle (Something Rotten!) will headline an intimate revival of the Off-Broadway long-running smash Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Michael Mayer, at the Westside Theater, opening Oct. 17.
Real-life couple Rose Bryne and Bobby Cannavale will co-star in a contemporary adaptation of Medea from Australian writer-director Simon Stone at BAM's Harvey Theater in January.
Harry Connick, Jr. will return to Broadway in Harry Connick, Jr. A Celebration of Cole Porter in December at the Nederlander.
Faye Dunaway was fired from the Broadway-bound production of Tea at Five in Boston for slapping a crew member and creating an unsafe work environment. The solo play about Katherine Hepburn will open in London instead early next year with a new actress.
Here is a calendar of upcoming Broadway and Off-Broadway shows for 2019-20 and beyond. When opening dates have not been announced, the first date of previews is listed.
July 25--Moulin Rouge (Hirschfeld)
Aug. 8--Sea Wall/A Life (Hudson)
Aug. 8--Bat Out of Hell (NY City Center)
Aug 15--Make Believe (Second Stage/Tony Kiser)
Aug. 23--Wives (Playwrights Horizons; previews begin)
Sept. 4--Sunday (Atlantic Theater Company; previews begin)
Sept. 4--Runboyrun & In Old Age (NYTW; previews begin)
Sept. 6--The Great Society (LCT/Vivian Beaumont; previews begin)
Sept. 13--Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons; previews begin)
Sept. 15--Derren Brown: Secret (Cort)
Sept. 15--Betrayal (Bernard Jacobs)
Sept. 24--The Height of the Storm (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
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| Mark Murphey, Jack Willis as LBJ and Peter Frechette in The Great Society at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Credit: Jenny Graham |
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| Jonathan Groff |
Real-life couple Rose Bryne and Bobby Cannavale will co-star in a contemporary adaptation of Medea from Australian writer-director Simon Stone at BAM's Harvey Theater in January.
Harry Connick, Jr. will return to Broadway in Harry Connick, Jr. A Celebration of Cole Porter in December at the Nederlander.
Faye Dunaway was fired from the Broadway-bound production of Tea at Five in Boston for slapping a crew member and creating an unsafe work environment. The solo play about Katherine Hepburn will open in London instead early next year with a new actress.
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| Faye Dunaway will NOT be serving Tea at Five on Broadway after all Credit: Nile Scott Studios |
Here is a calendar of upcoming Broadway and Off-Broadway shows for 2019-20 and beyond. When opening dates have not been announced, the first date of previews is listed.
July 25--Moulin Rouge (Hirschfeld)
Aug. 8--Sea Wall/A Life (Hudson)
Aug. 8--Bat Out of Hell (NY City Center)
Aug 15--Make Believe (Second Stage/Tony Kiser)
Aug. 23--Wives (Playwrights Horizons; previews begin)
Sept. 4--Sunday (Atlantic Theater Company; previews begin)
Sept. 4--Runboyrun & In Old Age (NYTW; previews begin)
Sept. 6--The Great Society (LCT/Vivian Beaumont; previews begin)
Sept. 13--Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons; previews begin)
Sept. 15--Derren Brown: Secret (Cort)
Sept. 15--Betrayal (Bernard Jacobs)
Sept. 24--The Height of the Storm (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Sept. 24--Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage/McGinn/Cazale)
Sept. 24--Soft Power (Public Theater; previews begin)
October--Macbeth (CSC)
Oct. 2--Freestyle Love Supreme (Booth)
Oct. 2--The New Englanders (MTC/City Center Stage II)
Oct. 3--Seared (MCC; previews begin)
Oct. 6--Slave Play (Golden)
Oct. 7--The Wrong Man (MCC)
Oct. 8--for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Public Theater; previews begin)
Oct. 10--Linda Vista (Second Stage/Helen Hayes)
Oct. 15--Scotland, PA (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Oct. 15--The Rose Tattoo (Roundabout/American Airlines)
Oct. 15--Soft Power (Public Theater)
Oct. 17--The Sound Inside (Studio 54)
Oct. 17--Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theater)
Oct. 19--The Michaels (Public Theater; previews begin)
Oct. 20--American Utopia (Hudson)
Oct. 20--A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theater; previews begin)
Oct. 22--Bella Bella (MTC/City Center)
Oct. 22--Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theater; previews begin)
Nov. 5--The Young Man from Atlanta (Signature Theatre; previews begin)
Nov. 7--Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Lunt-Fontanne)
Nov. 14--Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic Theater Company; previews begin)
Nov. 17--The Inheritance (Barrymore)
Nov. 22--The Thin Place (Playwright Horizons; previews begin)
Nov. 23--The Underlying Chris (Second Stage/Terry Kiser)
Dec. 5--Jagged Little Pill (Broadhurst)
Dec. 9--Great Clements (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
December--Harry Connick Jr.--A Celebration of Cole Porter (Nederlander)
Jan. 2020--Medea (BAM/Harvey Theater); Dracula and Frankenstein (CSC)
Jan. 8--Paris (Atlantic Theater Company; previews begin)
Jan. 15--My Name Is Lucy Barton (MTC/Friedman)
Jan. 23--Grand Horizons (Second Stage/Helen Hayes)
Jan. 30--Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theatre Company; previews begin)
February--The Minutes
Feb. 4--Cambodian Rock Band (Signature Theater; previews begin)
Feb. 6--West Side Story (Broadway)
Feb. 6--All the Natalie Portmans (MCC; previews begin)
Feb. 11--The Hot Wing King (Signature Theater; previews begin)
Feb. 14--Unknown Soldier (Playwrights Horizons; previews begin)
Feb. 18--Coal Country (Public Theater; previews begin)
March 3--The Perplexed (MTC/City Center Stage I)
March 5--Girl from the North Country (Belasco)
March 17--Vagrant Trilogy (Public Theater; previews begin)
March 19--Nollywood Dreams (MCC; previews begin)
March 23--Intimate Apparel (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 24--The Visitor (Public Theater; previews begin)
March 27--Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons; previews begin)
April--Assassins (CSC)
April 9--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
April 21--Birthday Candles (Roundabout/AA)
April 23--Take Me Out (Second Stage/Helen Hayes)
April 28--Twilight: Los Angeles (Signature Theatre; previews begin)
Spring 2020--Blue
2019-20 (dates unspecified)--New York Theater Workshop--Sing Street; Endlings; Sanctuary City; Three Sisters.
The New Group--Cyrano; The One in Two; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; The Seagull/Woodstock, NY
May 9--The Bedwetter (Atlantic Theatre Company; previews begin)
May 12--Confederates (Signature Theatre; previews begin)
May 15--A Boy's Company Presents: "Tell Me If I'm Hurting You"
May 19--The Best We Could Do (MTC/City Center Stage II)
May 20--A Play Is a Poem (Atlantic Theater Company; previews begin)
June 2--Poor Yella Rednecks (MTC/City Center Stage I)
June 4--Perry Street (MCC; previews begin)
July 7--Cullud Wattah (Public Theater; previews begin)
Summer 2020--Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Oct. 20, 2020--The Music Man
May 2021--1776
Sept. 24--Soft Power (Public Theater; previews begin)
October--Macbeth (CSC)
Oct. 2--Freestyle Love Supreme (Booth)
Oct. 2--The New Englanders (MTC/City Center Stage II)
Oct. 3--Seared (MCC; previews begin)
Oct. 6--Slave Play (Golden)
Oct. 7--The Wrong Man (MCC)
Oct. 8--for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Public Theater; previews begin)
Oct. 10--Linda Vista (Second Stage/Helen Hayes)
Oct. 15--Scotland, PA (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Oct. 15--The Rose Tattoo (Roundabout/American Airlines)
Oct. 15--Soft Power (Public Theater)
Oct. 17--The Sound Inside (Studio 54)
Oct. 17--Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theater)
Oct. 19--The Michaels (Public Theater; previews begin)
Oct. 20--American Utopia (Hudson)
Oct. 20--A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theater; previews begin)
Oct. 22--Bella Bella (MTC/City Center)
Oct. 22--Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theater; previews begin)
Nov. 5--The Young Man from Atlanta (Signature Theatre; previews begin)
Nov. 7--Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Lunt-Fontanne)
Nov. 14--Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic Theater Company; previews begin)
Nov. 17--The Inheritance (Barrymore)
Nov. 22--The Thin Place (Playwright Horizons; previews begin)
Nov. 23--The Underlying Chris (Second Stage/Terry Kiser)
Dec. 5--Jagged Little Pill (Broadhurst)
Dec. 9--Great Clements (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
December--Harry Connick Jr.--A Celebration of Cole Porter (Nederlander)
Jan. 2020--Medea (BAM/Harvey Theater); Dracula and Frankenstein (CSC)
Jan. 8--Paris (Atlantic Theater Company; previews begin)
Jan. 15--My Name Is Lucy Barton (MTC/Friedman)
Jan. 23--Grand Horizons (Second Stage/Helen Hayes)
Jan. 30--Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theatre Company; previews begin)
February--The Minutes
Feb. 4--Cambodian Rock Band (Signature Theater; previews begin)
Feb. 6--West Side Story (Broadway)
Feb. 6--All the Natalie Portmans (MCC; previews begin)
Feb. 11--The Hot Wing King (Signature Theater; previews begin)
Feb. 14--Unknown Soldier (Playwrights Horizons; previews begin)
Feb. 18--Coal Country (Public Theater; previews begin)
March 3--The Perplexed (MTC/City Center Stage I)
March 5--Girl from the North Country (Belasco)
March 17--Vagrant Trilogy (Public Theater; previews begin)
March 19--Nollywood Dreams (MCC; previews begin)
March 23--Intimate Apparel (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 24--The Visitor (Public Theater; previews begin)
March 27--Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons; previews begin)
April--Assassins (CSC)
April 9--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
April 21--Birthday Candles (Roundabout/AA)
April 23--Take Me Out (Second Stage/Helen Hayes)
April 28--Twilight: Los Angeles (Signature Theatre; previews begin)
Spring 2020--Blue
2019-20 (dates unspecified)--New York Theater Workshop--Sing Street; Endlings; Sanctuary City; Three Sisters.
The New Group--Cyrano; The One in Two; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; The Seagull/Woodstock, NY
May 9--The Bedwetter (Atlantic Theatre Company; previews begin)
May 12--Confederates (Signature Theatre; previews begin)
May 15--A Boy's Company Presents: "Tell Me If I'm Hurting You"
May 19--The Best We Could Do (MTC/City Center Stage II)
May 20--A Play Is a Poem (Atlantic Theater Company; previews begin)
June 2--Poor Yella Rednecks (MTC/City Center Stage I)
June 4--Perry Street (MCC; previews begin)
July 7--Cullud Wattah (Public Theater; previews begin)
Summer 2020--Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Oct. 20, 2020--The Music Man
May 2021--1776
Future--Cinderella (Andrew Lloyd Webber version), Cagney, Dave, Death Becomes Her, Mrs. Doubtfire, Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical, The Devil Wears Prada, Working Girl, Half-Time, Roman Holiday, The Wiz, Camp David, Photograph 51, An Enemy of the People, Sherlock Holmes, Singin' in the Rain, Pat Benatar Musical, Chasing Rainbows, Magic Mike, Some Like It Hot
2019-20 Broadway Season
New Plays
Birthday Candles
The Great Society
The Height of the Storm
The Inheritance
Linda Vista
The Minutes
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Sea Wall/A Life (Off-Broadway transfer)
Slave Play (Off-Broadway transfer)
The Sound Inside
New Musicals
Girl from the North Country (transfer from Off-Broadway)
Jagged Little Pill
Moulin Rogue
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Play Revivals
Betrayal
Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Rose Tattoo
Take Me Out
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Musical Revivals
West Side Story
Specialties
Derren Brown: Secret
Harry Connick Jr.--A Celebration of Cole Porter
2020-21
Musical Revivals
The Music Man
2021-22
Musical Revivals
1776
2019-20 Broadway Season
New Plays
Birthday Candles
The Great Society
The Height of the Storm
The Inheritance
Linda Vista
The Minutes
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Sea Wall/A Life (Off-Broadway transfer)
Slave Play (Off-Broadway transfer)
The Sound Inside
New Musicals
Girl from the North Country (transfer from Off-Broadway)
Jagged Little Pill
Moulin Rogue
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Play Revivals
Betrayal
Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Rose Tattoo
Take Me Out
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Musical Revivals
West Side Story
Specialties
Derren Brown: Secret
Harry Connick Jr.--A Celebration of Cole Porter
2020-21
Musical Revivals
The Music Man
2021-22
Musical Revivals
1776
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