Thursday, June 26, 2025

B'way/Off-B'way Update: Vineyard; Dates for Punch, Oedipus, Chess

Anne Washburn
Vineyard Theater has announced two productions for its upcoming 43rd season. A third winter production will be announced soon. First up this fall is The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire by Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns: A Post-Electronic Play) in a co-production with The Civilians and directed by Obie winner Steve Cosson. The story concerns a community living off the grid who must cope with the death of one of its members.

||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| by Eisa Davis (Warriors concept album) follows in a winter premiere. Tony and Drama Desk winner Pam McKinnon (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) directs. Four gifted teenagers collaborate and collide one pivotal summer at a prestigious girls’ music program in Berkeley. As their connections intensify, the world outside thrums with a steady

Eisa Davis

undercurrent of disaster and emergency – and they must find new ways to improvise on stage and off.

In other news, three previously announced Broadway shows have confirmed dates and theaters.

Punch at Manhattan Theater Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theater will begin previews Sept. 9 ahead of a Sept. 29 opening.

The revival of Chess will begin previews at the Imperial Theater (where the original Broadway production ran in 1988) on Oct. 15 in advance of a Nov. 16 opening.

Robert Icke's adaptation of Oedipus starts previews at Studio 54 Oct. 30 and opens on Nov. 13.


2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Summer 2025
June 30--Heathers (New World Stages)
July 8--The Gospel at Colonus (Little Island)
July 17--The Weir (IRT)
July 20--Joy (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Aug. 7--Ava: The Secret Conversations (City Center Stage I)
Aug. 14--Mamma Mia (Winter Garden)
Aug. 18--Take a Banana for the Ride (Nederlander)
Aug. 21--Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)
Masquerade (Phantom of the Opera)--Lee's Art Shop

Fall 2025
Sept. 6--Galas (Little Island)
Sept. 10--The Brothers Size (The Shed)
Sept. 15--Saturday Church (NYTW)
Sept. 16--Art (Music Box)
Sept. 16--Weather Girl (St. Ann's Warehouse) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Sept. 25--The Other Americans (Public)
Sept. 28--Waiting for Godot (Hudson)
Sept. 28--The Honey Trap (IRT)
Sept. 29--Punch (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Oct. 8--Beetlejuice (Palace) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)
Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 22--Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 24--Did You Eat? (Public)
Oct. 30--This World of Tomorrow (Shed) (previews begin; opening TBA)
October--The Baker's Wife (CSC)
Nov. 3--Kyoto (LCT/Newhouse)
Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)
Nov. 13--Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Nov. 13--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Nov. 16--Chess (Imperial)
Nov. 17--The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages)
Nov. 18--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)
Nov. 25--Anna Christie (St. Ann's Warehouse) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard)
Cottonfield
Little Bear Ridge Road
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)
Queens (MTC/City Center) 
Sugar Daddy
Tartuffe (NYTW)
The Seat of Our Pants (Public)

Winter 2025-26
Dec. 8--Marjorie Prime (Second Stage/Hayes)
Dec. 18--Amahl and the Night Visitors (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Jan. 2026--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Feb. 11--Monsters (MTC/City Center)
Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)
February--Marcel on the Train (CSC)
Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)
Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Jesa (Public)
Public Charge (Public)
Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)
What We Did Before Our Moth Days

2026
Dolly: An Original Musical
Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)

Spring 2026
April 8--Becky Shaw (Second Stage/Hayes)
April--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)
May--The Emporium (CSC)
: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)
Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)
The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)
Dog Day Afternoon
Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
The Lost Boys (Palace)
Montauk
My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)
The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

2026-27
Death of a Salesman
Private Lives

Summer 2026
July 14--The Whoopi Monologue (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; 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; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.

2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
The Balusters
Call Me Izzy
Cottonfield
Dog Day Afternoon
Little Bear Ridge Road
Montauk
Oedipus
Punch

New Musicals
Dolly: An Original Musical
The Lost Boys
Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals
Art
Becky Shaw
Fallen Angels
Marjorie Prime
Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals
Beetlejuice
Chess
Mamma Mia!
Ragtime
The Rocky Horror Show

Solos/Specialties
Take a Banana for the Ride


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