Monday, June 16, 2025

Off-B'way Update: Tartuffe, Spelling Bee

Brian Bedford and Henry Goodman in
Tartuffe (2003) from
Roundabout Theater Company.
Credit: Joan Marcus
Moliere is having a modern moment. In addition to contemporary updates of The Imaginary Invalid and The Would-Be Gentleman (new title: Prosperous Fools) currently presented by Red Bull Theater and Theater for a New Audience respectively, New York Theater Workshop will present a new adaptation of the French master's Tartuffe by NYTW Usual Suspect Lucas Hnath (A Doll's House: Part 2, Red Speedo) this late fall. The cast, which is full of Tony, Emmy, Obie and Drag Race winners and nominees, will include Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick (Plaza Suite, How to Succeed) as Tartuffe, Emmy Award winner David Cross (“Arrested Development”) as Orgon, Obie Award winner Emily Davis (Is This A Room) as Mariane, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winner Bianca del Rio as Mme Pernelle, Tony Award nominee Amber Gray (Hadestown) as Elmire, Obie Award winner Ryan Haddad (Dark Disabled Stories) as Damis, Tony Award winner Francis Jue (Yellow Face) as Cleante, Tony Award winner Lisa Kron (Fun Home) as Dorine, and Emmy Award nominee Ike Ufomadu (“Ziwe”) as Valére.

A satire on pious hypocrites, Tartuffe has been seen on Broadway five times, most recently in 2003 from Roundabout Theater Company. Since it was written in 1664, the play has been in the repertory of France's Comedie-Francais.

Original cast of The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee.
Credit: Joan Marcus
Also Off-Broadway this fall, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will return for its 20th anniversary in a new production at New World Stages. Performances begin Nov. 7 before a Nov. 17 opening. Danny Mefford directs. The musical with a score by William Finn (Falsettos) opened Off-Broadway in 2005 at Second Stage and moved to Broadway's Circle In the Square, winning two Tony Awards for Rachel Sheinkin's book and Dan Fogler as Best Featured Actor in a Musical.


2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar

Summer 2025
June 16--Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons)
June 17--Viola's Room (The Shed) (previews begin; opening TBA)
June 24--Duke and Roya (Lortel)
June 25--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)
June 25--Low Country (Atlantic Theater Co./Linda Gross)
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. 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. 16--Art (Music Box)
Sept. 25--The Other Americans (Public)
Sept. 28--Waiting for Godot (Hudson)
Sept. 28--The Honey Trap (IRT)
Oct. 8--Beetlejuice (Palace) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)
Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
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--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Nov. 17--The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stage)
Nov. 18--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)
Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Chess
Cottonfield
Little Bear Ridge Road
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)
Punch (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Queens (MTC/City Center)
Saturday Church (NYTW)
Sugar Daddy
Tartuffe (NYTW)
The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Take a Banana for the Ride

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. 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)
Monsters (MTC/City Center)
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)
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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