B'way Update: 12th Night, Last Five Years, Etc.

Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, 
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Sandra Oh
will star in Twelfth Night next summer.

Initial casting has been announced for the Public Theater's Summer 2025 production of Twelfth Night at the newly renovated Delacorte Theater in Central Park. (The theater is closed this summer as the upgrades are in progress.) The company will be headed by Emmy winner Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) as Malvolio, Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family, Take Me Out) as Sir Andrew Agucheek, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o (Twelve Years a Slave) as Viola and Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve). 

"Twelfth Night is the epitome of joy," said director of the upcoming production and Public Theater Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director Saheem Ali. "It also happens to be the first production I ever saw at The Delacorte, as a college student taking the Chinatown bus from Boston. I'm delighted to be reuniting with my dear friend Lupita Nyong'o, joined by fellow Public Theater alums Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Sandra Oh. Free Shakespeare in the Park is a gift to our city. I'm honored to be helming this production as we reopen The Delacorte after an extensive and essential revitalization."

This will be the seventh production of Twelfth Night presented by the Public in Central Park. Previous revivals were seen in 1969 (directed by founder Joseph Papp), 1986, 1989, 2002, 2009, and a musical adaptation for Public Works in 2018. 

Kate Mulgrew

Last Five Years, Othello, Kate Mulgrew: The revival of The Last Five Years has announced dates a theater. Previews will begin March 18 at the Hudson Theater prior to an April 6 opening. Tony nominee Whitney White directs the two-person cast of Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren....British actress Molly Osborne will make her Broadway debut as Desdemona opposite Denzel Washington in the title role of Othello and Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago in the Shakespeare revival slated for Broadway next spring. No further casting, dates or a theater as of yet....Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Orange Is the New Black) will star in Irish Repertory Theater's production of Nancy Harris' The Beacon (previews Sept. 11, opens Sept. 22). Mulgrew will play Beiv, a renowned artist who has left her suburban Dublin home for a cottage off the coast of West Cork, Ireland. Her relative peace is disrupted when her estranged son, Colm, returns home with his new wife, searching for answers about his father’s mysterious death....IRT will also present The Dead, 1904, an immersive adaptation of James Joyce's novella, played on three different floors of the American Irish Historical Society (opens Nov. 26).

2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar 
Summer 2024
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. 12--Our Class (CSC/Arlekin Players) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Spet. 22--The Beacon (IRT)

Sept. 24--Vladimir (MTC/City Center Stage I) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Sept. 24--Ghost of John McCain (Soho Playhouse)

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. 8--Bad Kreyol (MTC/Signature Theatre) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Oct. 9--The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Oct. 10--Our Town (Barrymore)

Oct. 10--Deep History (Public)

Oct. 20--Sunset Boulevard (St. James)

Oct. 23--Left on Tenth (James Earl Jones)

Oct. 24--Romeo and Juliet (Circle in the Square)

Oct. 30--Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Kiser)

Nov. 8--Gatz (Elevator Repair Service/Public)

Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)

Nov. 12--Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco)

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)

Nov. 22--The Merchant of Venice (CSC/Arlekin Players) (previews begin; opening TBA)

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

Babe (New Group/Signature Center)

We Live in Cairo (NYTW)

Winter 2024-25

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

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

Dec. 19--Gypsy (Majestic)

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

Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)

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

The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)

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 (?)

Smash

Spring 2025

March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

March 25--Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) (previews begins opening TBA)

March--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)

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

April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)

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

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

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

Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)

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

Good Night and Good Luck

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

Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)

Othello

The Picture of Dorian Gray (???)

Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)

2025

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; 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; Just in Time; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen of Versailles; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Studio 54; Working Girl.

2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown

New Plays

Cult of Love

Good Night and Good Luck

The Hills of California

Job 

Left on Tenth

MCNEAL

Oh, Mary!

The Roommate

New Musicals

Boop! The Betty Boop Musical

Death Becomes Her

Maybe Happy Ending

Old Friends

Redwood

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