B'way Update: Laurie Metcalf to Star in Grey House

Laurie Metcalf

Emmy and Tony winner Laurie Metcalf will reunite with Tony-winning director Joe Mantello for Grey House, a new play by Levi Holloway which will be the first production of the 2023-24 Broadway season. Described as a horror play, Grey House centers on a couple taking shelter during a snow storm at an isolated cabin inhabited by two teenage girls and a woman they claim is their mother. As the storm rages, the couple begins to question what's true and what those mysterious noises are coming from inside the walls. Previews begin April 29 before an opening on May 30 at the Lyceum Theater. Also starring are Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black, She-Hulk, Attorney at Law), Emmy nominee and Drama Desk nominee Paul Sparks (House of Cards, At Home at the Zoo), Sophia Anna Caruso (Beetlejuice), and Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place).

Metcalf was directed by Mantello in Three Tall Women and Hillary and Clinton. They also worked together on a Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which closed in previews in 2020 due to the COVID epidemic and never reopened. Metcalf previously appeared in another Broadway thriller, Misery. 

“The moment we encountered Levi Holloway's Grey House, we knew we had to produce this exciting, sophisticated, and terrifying new play. We are thrilled to bring the horror genre to Broadway, helmed by one of the greatest directors of our time, Joe Mantello. Grey House will be unlike anything Broadway audiences have ever experienced, brought to life by extraordinary actors—Laurie Metcalf, Tatiana Maslany, and Paul Sparks—and a team of brilliant designers,” said producers Tom Kirdahy and Robert Ahrens.

The world premiere of Grey House was developed and produced by A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in 2019, directed by Shade Murray, and went on to win three Jeff Awards, including for Best New Work in 2020.

2022-23 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule
Feb. 23--The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (BAM)
Feb. 26--black odyssey (CSC)
Feb. 27--Elyria (Atlantic Theater Company)

Feb. 27--Obie Awards (Tunnel 5)

Feb. 28--The Seagull/Woodstock NY (The New Group/Signature Theatre)

March 1--the best we could (a family tragedy) (MTC/City Center Stage I)

March 5--The Trees (Playwrights Horizons)
March 8--Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Keen Company/Theater Row)

March 9--A Doll's House (Hudson)

March 9--Dark Disabled Stories (Public/Bushwick Starr)

March 13--The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center/Mitzi Newhouse)

March 15--The Harder They Come (Public)

March 16--Parade (Bernard B. Jacobs)

March 16--Arden of Faversham (Red Bull Theater/Lucille Lortel)

March 19--Dancin' (Music Box)

March 23--Bad Cinderella (Imperial)

March 26--Sweeney Todd (Lunt-Fontanne)

March 30--Life of Pi (Schoenfeld)

April 4--Shucked (Nederlander)

April 5--Lortel Award nominations announced

April 11--Regretfully So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons)

April 12--Fat Ham (AA)

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

April 17--Room (James Earl Jones)

April 19--Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Barrymore)

April 20--The Thanksgiving Play (Second Stage/Hayes)

April 23--Prime Facie (Golden)

April 24--Good Night, Oscar (Belasco)

April 25--Summer, 1976 (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) 

April 25--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced

April 26--New York, New York (St. James)

April 29--Fuenta Ovejuna (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

May 2--Tony Award Nominations Announced

May 4--Primary Trust (Roundabout/Laura Pels) (previews begin; opening TBA)

May 5--Days of Wine and Roses (Atlantic Theatre Company) (previews begin; opening TBA)

May 7--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball Center)

May 16--King James (MTC/City Center Stage I)

May 16--Outer Critics Winners announced

May 19--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)

May 25--Outer Critics Circle Awards (Bruno Walter Auditorium/Lincoln Center Library)

May 30--Grey House (Lyceum)
May--Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons)

June 11--Tony Awards (United Palace)

June 22--Once Upon a One More Time (Marquis)
June 28--Hamlet (Delacorte/Shakespeare in the Park) 

July 9--Orpheus Descending (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

July 20--Here Lies Love (Broadway)

July 24--The Cottage (Hayes)

Aug. 3--Back to the Future (Marquis)

2022-23 (no dates or theaters yet)

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

Spring 2023 

Good Bones (Public)

Shadow/Land (Public)

Summer 2023

Purlie Victorious

Fall 2023

Merrily We Roll Along

Poor Yella Rednecks (MTC/City Center Stage II)

2023, 2024 and Beyond

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

Future--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical, The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; Harmony; I Need That; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Lempicka; Our Town; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Smash; Soul Train; What a Wonderful World; The Who's Tommy; The Wiz; Working Girl