Thursday, August 8, 2024

B'way Update: Glengarry Glen Ross

Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin and Bill Burr
will star in the fourth B'way production of
Glengarry Glen Ross.
David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning play of ruthless real estate salesmen, Glengarry Glen Ross, will return to Broadway for the fourth time in the spring of 2025. Emmy and SAG Award winner Kieran Culkin (Succession), Emmy and SAG winner Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), and Emmy and Grammy nominee Bill Burr (Immoral Compass) will star. Tony and Olivier winner Patrick Marber (Closer, Leopoldstadt) directs. Odenkirk and Burr are making their Broadway debuts. Culkin previously appeared on Broadway in This Is Our Youth in 2014. Additional casting, dates, and a theater are to be announced.

“In 1983, I saw the original production of Glengarry Glen Ross in London,” Patrick Marber said. “I was just nineteen. The play blew my young soul away. It was one of the reasons I wanted to work in theatre. Forty years later, I am so thrilled to be directing it on Broadway with these incredible actors. I will do my utmost to ensure that this great American play brings audiences the same great pleasures it brought to me.”

Glengarry premiered at London's National Theater in 1983. It opened on Broadway in 1984 starring Joe Mantegna (Tony Award) and Robert Prosky; with revivals in 2005 with Tony winner Liev Schreiber, Alan Alda, and Jeffrey Tambor and in 2012 (with Bobby Canavale, Al Pacino, Richard Schiff and David Harbour). The 1992 film version starred Pacino (Oscar nomination), Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce, and in a role written especially for the film, Alec Baldwin.

This depiction of ruthless capitalism is perfect for the current Trumpian moment. Hopefully, we'll have Harris as President by the time this show opens. There had been talk for years of an all-female production to be directed by Amy Morton, but so far such a version has not materialized.


2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar 
Summer 2024
Aug. 12--Once Upon a Mattress (Hudson)

Fall 2024
Sept. 6--Table 17 (MCC Theater)
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)
Sept. 22--The Beacon (IRT)
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. 16--Hold On to Me Darling (Lortel)
Oct. 16--Vladimir (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Oct. 20--Sunset Boulevard (St. James)
Oct. 23--Left on Tenth (James Earl Jones)
Oct. 24--Romeo and Juliet (Circle in the Square)
Oct. 29--Another Shot (Signature Theater Center)
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. 4--Annie (Theater at Madison Square Garden) (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. 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 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)
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)
Glengarry Glen Ross
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)

2025-26
The Queen of Versailles

Fall 2025
Initiative (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; 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; 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
Cult of Love
Good Night and Good Luck
The Hills of California
Job 
Left on Tenth
MCNEAL
Oh, Mary!
The Roommate
Stranger Things: The First Shadow

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
Glengarry Glen Ross
Home
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
Yellow Face

Musical Revivals
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
The Pirates of Penzance
Sunset Boulevard

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