B'way Update: Glengarry and Purpose Set Dates, Theaters, Etc.

Kieran Culkin

Two Broadway productions have set dates, theaters and casting to nail down the spring 2025 season. The star-studded revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross will begin previews at the Palace Theater on March 10 with an opening set for March 31. The play about ruthless Chicago real-estate salesmen will star Kieran Culkin (currently the Best Supporting Actor Oscar front-runner for A Real Pain), Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr, Michael McKean, Donald Webber Jr., Howard W. Overshown and, in his Broadway debut, John Pirruccello. Tony winner Patrick Marber (Leopoldstadt) directs. The Palace is an unusual choice since its large size normally calls for large-scale musicals rather than intimate straight plays. The only straight plays to play the theater have been Frankenstein (1981) which closed after one performance, and Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1977) with Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Ashley, which ran 12 performances. Musicals such as Sweet Charity, Applause, La Cage Aux Folles, and Woman of the Year had longer runs.

Tony winner Kara Young (Purlie Victorious) will star in

Kara Young

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Purpose set to begin previews at the Hayes Theater Feb. 25 with an opening set for March 17. Tony winner Phylicia Rashad (A Raisin in the Sun, Skeleton Crew) will make her Broadway directing debut, reprising her staging work with the play's world premiere at the Steppenwolf Theater of Chicago. LaTanya Richardson Jackson will also join the cast. Harry Lennix, Jon Michael Hill, Glenn Davis and Alana Arenas will repeat their Steppenwolf roles. The play centers on a prominent African-American family with each member hiding secrets. 

This accounts for all previously announced Broadway productions, but with the closing of Swept Away, the Longacre is available and a show might snap that one up before spring.

2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar 
Winter 2024-25
Dec. 12--Cult of Love (Second Stage/Hayes)
Dec. 16--Eureka Day (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) 
Dec. 19--Gypsy (Majestic)
Dec. 22--All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich (Hudson)
Jan. 15--Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
Jan. 20--The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)
Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Jan. 25--Henry IV (TFANA/Polonsky Theater Center)
Jan. 26--Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle Through the Grave (Irish Rep)
Jan. 28--Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater)
Feb. 6--My First Ex-Husband (MMAC Theater)
Feb. 12--On the Evolutionary Function of Shame (2nd Stage/Signature Center)
Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)
Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Feb. 25--Curse of the Starving Class (The New Group/Signature Center)
Feb. 27--Dakar 2000 (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Feb. 28--A Streetcar Named Desire (BAM) (Previews begin; opening TBA)
A Knock on the Roof (NYTW)

Spring 2025

March 5--Sumo (Ma-Yi Theater/Public)

March 6--Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb/Public)

March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

March 17--Purpose (2nd Stage/Hayes)

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 26--The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse/St. Ann's Warehouse)

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

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

March 31--Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace)

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--Pirates: The Penzance Musical (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 14--Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Signature Center) (Previews begin, opening TBA)

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)

June 24--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)

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

Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons)

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

Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)

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; Get Happy; 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; Slumdog Millionaire; 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

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

Penzance! The Pirate Musical

Sunset Boulevard

Solos/Specialties

The Picture of Dorian Gray