Off-B'way Update: Streetcar, Threepenny, Macbeth in Stride at BAM

Patsy Ferran and Paul Mescal in
A Streetcar Named Desire in
London
Credit: Marc Brenner

Brooklyn Academy of Music will host an Olivier Award-winning revival of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Oscar nominee Paul Mescal (Aftersun, All of Us Strangers, Gladiator II) as Stanley Kowlaski. Directed by Rebecca Frecknall (Cabaret), this Streetcar revival began life at London's Almeida Theater in 2022 and then transferred to the West End in 2023. There the show won Oliviers for Mescal and Anjana Vasan as Stella. Mescal, Vasan and Patsy Ferran as Blanche DuBois will repeat their London performances.

Streetcar will began performances in London at the Noel Coward Theatre Feb. 3-22, 2025 and then transfer to BAM starting Feb. 28 for a limited run until April 6. Streetcar has been presented on Broadway nine times and first opened in 1947 with Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. 

Whitney White rehearsing for 
Macbeth in Stride.
Credit: Lauren Miller

BAM will also present a production of The Threepenny Opera from the Berliner Ensemble and Macbeth in Stride, Whitney White's reimagining of the Scottish play with Lady Macbeth as a powerful black woman. Both productions will begin in April. Macbeth in Stride is a co-production with Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, DC, Philadelphia Theater Company, and Yale Repertory Theater. 

2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar 
Fall 2024
Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)
Nov. 12--Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco)
Nov. 12--300 Paintings (Vineyard)
Nov. 14--Tammy Faye (Palace)

Nov. 14--King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)

Nov. 17--Elf the Musical (Marquis)

Nov. 18--Shit. Meet. Fan. (MCC Theater)

Nov. 19--Swept Away (Longacre)

Nov. 20--Babe (New Group/Signature Theater Center)

Nov. 21--Death Becomes Her (Lunt-Fontanne)

Nov. 21--The Blood Quilt (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Nov. 25--The Merchant of Venice (CSC/Arlekin Players) 

Nov. 26--The Dead, 1904 (IRT/American Irish Historical Society)

This Is My Favorite Song (Playwrights Horizons)

Winter 2024-25

Dec. 4--Annie (Theater at Madison Square Garden) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Dec. 11--All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich (Hudson) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Dec. 12--Cult of Love (Second Stage/Hayes)

Dec. 16--Eureka Day (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) 

Dec. 19--Gypsy (Majestic)

Jan. 20--The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)

Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

Jan. 25--Henry IV (TFANA/Polonsky Theater Center)

Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)

Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Feb. 28--A Streetcar Named Desire (BAM) (Previews begin; opening TBA)

Curse of the Starving Class (New Group/Signature Center)

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 (?)

Spring 2025

March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

March 18--Vanya (Lucille Lortel)

March 19--Buena Vista Social Club (Schoenfeld)

March 19--We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage II)

March 20--Operation Mincemeat (Golden)

March 23--Othello (Barrymore)

March 24--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)

March 27--The Picture of Dorian Gray (Music Box)

March 30--The Swamp Dwellers (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

Mid-March--Purpose (Hayes)

April 3--Good Night and Good Luck (Winter Garden)

April 5--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical (Broadhurst)

April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)

April 8--Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)

April 10--Smash (Imperial)

April 14--John Proctor Is the Villain (Booth)

April 17--Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)

April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)

April 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)

April 23--Just in Time (Circle in the Square)

April 24--The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

April 27--Real Women Have Curves (James Earl Jones)

April 28--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced

April--Threepenny Opera (BAM/St. Ann's Warehouse)

April--Macbeth in Stride (BAM)

May 1--Tony Nominations announced

May 12--Outer Critics Circle Award winners announced

May 20--Goddess (Public Theater)

May 22--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony

May--Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO/Transport Group)

June 2--Theater World Awards (Theater TBA)

June 8--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)

Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)

Glengarry Glen Ross

Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons)

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group/Signature Center)

Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)

Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Kiser)

Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)

2025

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Sugar Daddy

Summer 2025

Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)

2025-26

The Queen of Versailles

Fall 2025

Initiative (Public)

The Seat of Our Pants (Public)

Waiting for Godot

2026

Hello, I'm Dolly

Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; 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; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Studio 54; Working Girl.

2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown

New Plays

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich

Cult of Love

Good Night and Good Luck

The Hills of California

Job 

John Proctor Is the Villain

Left on Tenth

MCNEAL

Oh, Mary!

Purpose

The Roommate

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

New Musicals

Boop! The Betty Boop Musical

Buena Vista Social Club

Death Becomes Her

Just in Time

Maybe Happy Ending

Operation Mincemeat

Real Women Have Curves

Redwood

Smash

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Swept Away

Tammy Faye

What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

Play Revivals

English

Eureka Day

Glengarry Glen Ross

Home

Othello

Our Town

Romeo and Juliet

Yellow Face

Musical Revivals

Elf the Musical

Floyd Collins

Gypsy

The Last Five Years

Once Upon a Mattress

The Pirates of Penzance

Sunset Boulevard

Solos/Specialties

The Picture of Dorian Gray