B'way Update: Patriots to Open at the Barrymore

Will Kean as Vladimir Putin in
Patriots which will open at the Barrymore
Credit: Marc Brenner

Well, that was fast. No sooner did I report about the rumor yesterday that Peter Morgan's Patriots would open at either the now available Barrymore or Belasco, then it's announced today the play about Vladmir Putin's rise to power would be going into the Barrymore (where Harmony is about to close) for a limited, 12-week engagement starting with previews on April 1 and opening April 22. This will make for an extremely crowded final week before the Tony eligibility cut-off of April 25. The Heart of Rock and Roll, the Huey Lewis jukebox musical, will also be opening on April 22.

Tony nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (The Pillowman, A Serious Man, The Shape of Water) will play the lead role of Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky and repeating his Olivier Award-winning role of Putin will be Will Kean. 

Patriots opened at London's Almeida Theater in July of 2022 and transferred to the Noel Coward Theater in the West End in May 2023. Peter Morgan is the creator the Netflix series The Crown and his previous London and Broadway works include Frost/Nixon and The Audience. Tony nominee Rupert Goold (Ink, King Charles II) will repeat his directing chores from the London staging.

“For 20 years, Peter Morgan has pioneered a new mode of storytelling to illuminate our world. No other writer wrings so much human drama out of historical events, but Patriots is his most urgent and essential play to date – an incisive deep-dive into 30 years of Russia’s past in search of its horrifying and harrowing present, something that should concern us all,” commented producer Sonia Friedman. “Its London premiere at the Almeida and in the West End repeatedly seemed to reflect that day’s headlines and, with the world at a crossroads in 2024, it feels more immediate than ever. We are so fortunate that one of America’s greatest actors, Michael Stuhlbarg, will join us to play Boris Berezovsky, with Will Keen recreating his Olivier Award-winning role as Vladimir Putin, and that Broadway audiences will get to experience Rupert Goold’s exhilarating production for themselves.”

2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule and Beyond
Winter 2023-24
Jan. 24--Once Upon a Mattress (Encores/City Center)
Jan. 26--Oh, Mary (Lortel)

Jan. 28--Days of Wine and Roses (Studio 54)
Jan. 30--Sunset Baby (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theater)

Feb. 1--The White Chip (Frankel Theater/MCC Theater)
Feb. 1--Jonah (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Feb. 3--Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Vineyard Theater)
Feb. 6--The Connector (MCC)

Feb. 11--Hamlet (Solo version with Eddie Izzard) (Greenwich House)

Feb. 13--The Apiary (Second Stage/Tony Kiser Theater)

Feb. 14--I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW)

Feb. 21--Jelly's Last Jam (Encores/City Center)

Feb. 22--The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers (New World Stages)

Feb. 22--A Sign of the Times (New World Stages)

Feb. 25--The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)
Feb. 26--Pericles (CSC)

Feb. 27--The Ally (Public)

Feb. 28--Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Feb. 29--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/AA)

Spring 2024

March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)

March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)

March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

March 12--My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Lyceum)

March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)

March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)

March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)

March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)

March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)

March 19--Fish (previews begin; opening TBA) (Keen Co./Theater Five) 

March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)

March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)

March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)

April 2--Mary Jane (previews begin; opening TBA) (MTC/Friedman) 

April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)

April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)

April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)

April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)

April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)

April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)

April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)

April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)

April 18--Suffs (Music Box)

April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)

April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)

April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)

April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)

April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)

April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)

April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)

April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)

April 30--Tony Nominations Announced

April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)

April--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)

May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)

Summer 2024

June 5--Home (Roundabout/AA)

June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)

June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)

June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)

June--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)

TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)

2024

Sunset Boulevard

Fall 2024

The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)

Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

Winter 2024-25

English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

2024-25

Our Town

Smash

Tammy Faye

Spring 2025

The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)

Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; What a Wonderful World; Working Girl.

2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:
New Plays:
The Cottage
Grey House
I Need That
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Mother Play

Patriots
Prayer for the French Republic
The Shark Is Broken

Stereophonic

New Musicals:

Back to the Future

Days of Wine and Roses

The Great Gatsby

Harmony

The Heart of Rock and Roll

Hell's Kitchen

How to Dance in Ohio

Lempicka

The Notebook

Once Upon a One More Time

The Outsiders

Suffs

Water for Elephants

Play Revivals:

Appropriate

Doubt: A Parable

An Enemy of the People

Mary Jane

Purlie Victorious

Uncle Vanya

Musical Revivals:

Cabaret

Gutenberg! The Musical

Here Lies Love

Merrily We Roll Along

Monty Python's Spamalot

The Who's Tommy

The Wiz

Solos/Specialties:

Alex Edelman: Just for Us

Melissa Etheridge: My Window

My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)