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Swept Away will play the Longacre.
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After the Tonys, there is still lots of Broadway news to report:
Swept Away and
Eureka Day now have dates for upcoming runs and the latter announces its casting. Manhattan Theater Club has announced three world premiere productions for its Off-Broadway 2024-25 season, one of which will be co-production with Signature Theatre.
Swept Away, the musical following four survivors of an 1888 shipwreck, will begin previews at the Longacre Theater on Oct. 29 and open on Nov. 19. The musical features a book by John Logan (Red, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), direction by Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and choreography by Tony Award nominee David Neumann (Hadestown). Previous stagings have been seen at Arena Stage and Berekely Rep.
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Zoe Chao will star in
Eureka Day. |
Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's comedy about the havoc wrecked by vaccination requirements at a California elementary school, will begin previews on Nov. 25 and open on Dec. 16 at Manhattan Theater Club's Broadway berth, the Samuel J. Friedman. The cast will include Zoe Chao (Peacock's If You Were the Last), Tony nominee Amber Gray (Hadestown), Tony nominee Jessica Hecht (Summer 1976, The Assembled Parties), Tony winner Bill Irwin (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and Emmy nominee Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley). This Broadway premiere MTC engagement will be directed by Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County) following a London production. Eureka Day previously played Off-Broadway in 2019.Speaking of MTC, the company has announced three new plays to complete its 2024-25 Off-Broadway season.
In addition to the previously announced Vladimir, MTC will present Dakar 2000 by Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph (King James, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), We Had a World by Tony nominee and Drama Desk winner Joshua Harmon (Prayer for the French Republic, Bad Jews) and in a co-production with Signature Theater Company, presented at Signature's Pershing Center, Bad Kreyol by Obie winner Dominique Morriseau (Skeleton Crew).
Lynne Meadow, MTC artistic director said, “Each of these playwrights—Harmon, Joseph, and Morisseau—return to MTC with these world premieres. We believe their work represents the best of new American playwriting and we are all thrilled to be collaborating with them again.”
Chris Jennings, MTC executive director said, “We’re also looking forward to co-producing with Signature Theatre, our fellow not-for-profit, whose Artistic Director, Paige Evans, began her career at MTC. Together, we will be able to share Dominique’s beautiful play with the loyal audiences at both of her theatrical homes."
Bad Kreyol, to be directed by Tiffany Nichol Greene and scheduled to open in Fall 2024, concerns Simone, first-generation Haitian American, and her cousin Gigi, Haitian-born and raised, reunite to honor their grandmother's dying wish for them to reconnect. Simone's pilgrimage back to her ancestral homeland forces both cousins to confront their differing world views.
Dakar 2000 is set in Senegal on the eve of Y2K, when an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer survives a mysterious car accident. An imposing State Department operative arrives at his hospital where she immediately takes command of the situation and his safety. Though they couldn’t be more different, they form an unlikely relationship. But when it becomes clear that they both have secrets, the volunteer is roped into a darker side of public service–one he can’t come back from. May Adrales directs for a Winter 2025 premiere.
The synopsis for We Had a World reads, "A dying woman calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. 'But I want you to promise me something,' she says. 'Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible.' In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, the author of last season's Prayer for the French Republic recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love." Trip Cullman (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) directs. Previews begin 2025.
2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar
Summer 2024
June 27--N/A (Mitzi Newhouse)
June 29--From Here (Signature Center)
July 11--Oh, Mary! (Lyceum)
July 29--Six Characters (LCT3/Clara Tow)
July 30--Job (Hayes)
Aug. 12--Once Upon a Mattress (Hudson)
Fall 2024
Sept. 12--The Roommate (Booth)
Sept. 12--Counting and Cracking (Public Theater/NYU Skirball)
Sept. 12--Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song (Theater555)
Sept. 24--Vladimir (MTC/City Center Stage I) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Sept. 29--The Hills of California (Broadhurst)
Sept. 30--MCNEAL (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 1--Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Oct. 1--Good Bones (Public)
Oct. 9--The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Oct. 10--Our Town (Barrymore)
Oct. 10--Deep History (Public)
Oct. 17--Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco)
Oct. 20--Sunset Boulevard (St. James)
Oct. 24--Romeo and Juliet (Circle in the Square)
Nov. 8--Gatz (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)
Nov. 14--Tammy Faye (Palace)
Nov. 14--King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)
Nov. 19--Swept Away (Longacre)
Nov. 21--Death Becomes Her (Lunt-Fontanne)
Nov. 21--The Blood Quilt (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Bad Kreyol (MTC/Signature Theatre)
Left on Tenth
We Live in Cairo (NYTW)
Winter 2024-25
Dec. 16--Eureka Day (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Dec. 19--Gypsy (Majestic)
Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)
Dakar 2000 (MTC/City Center Stage I)
A Knock on the Roof (NYTW)
Sumo (Ma-Yi Theater/Public)
2024-25
My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)
Romeo and Juliet w.Tom Holland/Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (?)
Smash
Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)
Spring 2025
March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 25--Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) (previews begins opening TBA)
April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 24--The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)
Good Night and Good Luck
The Last Five Years
Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)
Othello
The Picture of Dorian Gray (???)
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
2025
Redwood
We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Summer 2025
Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)
Fall 2025
Initiative (Public)
2026
Hello, I'm Dolly
Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; 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 Queen of Versailles; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Working Girl.
2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
Good Night and Good Luck
The Hills of California
Job
Left on Tenth
MCNEAL
Oh, Mary!
The Roommate
New Musicals
Death Becomes Her
Maybe Happy Ending
Old Friends
Smash
Swept Away
Tammy Faye
What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
Play Revivals
English
Eureka Day
Home
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
Yellowface
Musical Revivals
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
The Pirates of Penzance
Sunset Boulevard
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