B'way/Off-B'way Update: Linda Lavin in You Will Get Sick, etc.

Linda Lavin on the CBS series
B Positive.
Credit: Warner Brothers

Updates to the upcoming fall season: Tony-Drama Desk-Obie winner Linda Lavin will return to the New York stage in You Will Get Sick, a new play by Noah Diaz beginning previews Oct. 14 at Roundabout Theater Company's Laura Pels Theater with an opening set for Nov. 6. The play focuses on a young man hiring an older woman to tell his family and friends about his life-changing diagnosis. Lavin won a Tony for Neil Simon's Broadway Bound and was nominated for The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Collected Stories and The Lyons. She won Obies for Death-Defying Acts and the Off-Broadway run of The Lyons and Drama Desk Awards for Little Murders, Broadway Bound and The New Century. She is probably best known for playing the title role on the long-running sitcom Alice (1976-85) and most recently starred on TV in CBS' B Positive...

Stephen McKinley Henderson,
Ray Anthony Thomas and 
Victor Almanzar in
Between Riverside and Crazy 
at Atlantic Theater Company in 2014.
Credit: Kevin Thomas Garcia

Between Riverside and Crazy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Stephen Adly Guirgis, has confirmed dates for its Broadway run at Second Stage's Hayes Theater--Previews Nov. 30 and opens Dec. 19. The play has had a circuitous route to the Main Stem with Off-Broadway engagements at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2014 and then Second Stage in 2015 before winning the Pulitzer. The plot focuses on an ex-cop and his recently paroled son struggling to maintain their rent-controlled apartment....

New York Theater Workshop's revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter films, How to Succeed, Equus) has also set dates: previews Nov. 21, opens Dec. 11 for a limited run through Jan. 21, 2023....

Additional cast members for CSC's revival of A Man of No Importance (joining previously announced Jim Parsons) include Emmy winner and Tony nominee Mare Winningham (Girl from the North Country, Casa Valentina), William Youmans (To Kill a Mockingbird, Big River), Obie winner Alma Cuervo (Uncommon Women and Others, On Your Feet), Tony nominee Mary Beth Piel (The King and I, Anastasia, Netflix's Halston), Kara Mikula (The Cradle Will Rock), Lortel nominee Thom Sesma (Letters of Suresh, Pacific Overtures), Tony nominee A.J. Shively (Paradise Square), Nathaniel Stampley (Paradise Square), Jessica Tyler Wright (Allegro), and Joel Waggoner (School of Rock). Previews Oct. 11, opens Oct. 30.

2022-23 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule
Aug. 11--That Day in Amsterdam (59E59)
Aug. 25--Kinky Boots (Stage 42)
Aug. 28--Two Jews, Talking (Theater at St. Clement's)
Aug. 30--As You Like It (Delacorte)

Sept. 19--The Piano Lesson (Barrymore) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Sept. 22--Sesame Street: The Musical (Theater Row)
Sept. 24--Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge (Public Theater) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Sept. 27--A Raisin in the Sun (Public Theater) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Sept. 29--american (tele)visions (New York Theatre Workshop)

Oct. 2--Leopoldstadt (Longacre)

Oct. 3--Cost of Living (MTC/Friedman)

Oct. 6--1776 (Roundabout/AA)

Oct. 6--Peerless (Primary Stages/59E59)

Oct. 9--Death of a Salesman (Hudson) 

Oct. 20--Topdog/Underdog (Golden)

Oct. 26--Straight Line Crazy (The Shed/Griffin)

Oct. 28--Where We Belong (Public Theater) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Oct. 30--A Man of No Importance (CSC)

October--Catch as Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons); Downstate (Playwrights Horizons); Only Gold (MCC Theater)

Nov. 2--Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (MTC/City Center Stage I)

Nov. 2--Camp Siegfried (Second Stage/Tony Kiser) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Nov. 3--Almost Famous (Bernard Jacobs)

Nov. 4--Plays for the Plague Year (Public Theater) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Nov. 6--You Will Get Sick (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Nov. 10--Kimberly Akimbo (Booth)

Nov. 13--Fiddler on the Roof (New World Stages)

Nov. 15--the bandaged place (Roundabout/Underground)

Nov. 17--& Juliet (Sondheim)
Nov. 20--KPOP (Circle in the Square)

Nov. 21--Becky Nurse of Salem (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Dec. 1--Ain't No Mo (Belasco)

Dec. 4--A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Broadhurst)

Dec. 11--Some Like It Hot (Shubert)

Dec. 11--Merrily We Roll Along (New York Theatre Workshop)

Dec. 19--Between Riverside and Crazy (Second Stage/Hayes)

Dec. 20--The Collaboration (MTC/Freidman)

February--The Trees (Playwrights Horizons)

March--Regretfully So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons)

April 13--Camelot (Lincoln Center/Vivian Beaumont)

May--Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons)

Fall 2022 (no dates yet)

Summer, 1976 (MTC/City Center Stage II)

2022-23 (no dates or theaters yet)

Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Black Orpheus, Cinderella, Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical, Dancin', The Ohio State Murders, Pal Joey, Square One

Winter 2022-23

Dark Disabled Stories (Public)

The Wanderers (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Spring 2023 

Prime Facie (a Shubert theater TBA)

The Thanksgiving Play (Second Stage/Hayes)

Good Bones (Public)

Poor Yella Rednecks (MTC/City Center Stage II)

Shadow/Land (Public)

2023, 2024 and Beyond

Game of Thrones, The Great Gatsby, Frida, the Musical, High Noon

Future--Good Night, Oscar; The Devil Wears Prada; The Griswolds' Family Vacation; The Karate Kid; Back to the Future; Our Town; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Sing Street; Smash; Soul Train; The Who's Tommy