FALL PRE- VIEW ’17 Theater

Thomas Ostermeier’s legendary career remixing Hester for the Sarah Ruhl explores Richard III (which has included 21st century. multiple Neverlands at the BAM Next AUG. in the Les Waters– Wave Festival. and Sweeney Todd) directed play about five will be directed by … 9/12 aging siblings with a . dying father, a transfer On the Shore of the from Actors Theatre Wide World of Louisville. 8/24 Atlantic Theater ; in previews Prince of Broadway SEP. August 23 9/22 Samuel J. Friedman A lot has changed Theatre; in previews for the Tony-winning KPOP August 3 Curious Incident Ars Nova; in previews The musical playwright Simon September 5 retrospective of 9/11 Stephens since 2005, A Korean-pop musical director-producer when he wrote this tale built out into an Harold Prince’s The Red Letter Plays of an English family immersive theater experience, from Signature Theatre; in who struggle with Asian-American previews August 22 communication. A lot has changed for theater company Pulitzer winner Suzan- the world, too, yet Ma-Yi and Woodshed Lori Parks kicks off that particular Collective. the Signature’s season struggle remains. with two Nathaniel Hawthorne–inspired 9/25 plays: Fucking A and 9/13 In the Blood, starkly Mary Jane different attempts at For Peter Pan on Her New 70th Birthday Workshop; in previews ; in September 6 previews August 18 directs PHOTOGRAPH BY ARNO DECLAIR BY PHOTOGRAPH

126 new york | august 21–september 3, 2017

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October 17 Julia Cho’s drama NOV. examines race and identity in a mass- shooting world.

11/2 11/9 The Band’s Visit Junk Ethel Barrymore Vivian Beaumont Theatre; in previews Theater; in previews October 7 October 5 An Egyptian police Pulitzer winner Ayad band en route to an Akhtar’s new play Arab cultural center about an upstart gets stranded in investment firm in the a small Israeli desert ’80s and its leader who town, a lonely oasis. says “debt is an asset.” The musical—based on the 2007 film— Don’t Feed the moves uptown Indians after a successful La MaMa stint at Atlantic A political satire Theater Company. Midori Francis in The Wolves. that views the appropriation of indigenous culture 11/19 Amy Herzog’s play about Carter imagines these Walter Kerr Theater; in Oedipus El Rey and marginalization a mother caring for her three men in discussion, previews October 3 The Public; in previews of indigenous people School Girls very young, very ill son. directed by Kimberly The Boss is on Broadway. October 3 through the loosely MCC Theater; in Senior (Disgraced). Sophocles set in South fitted lens of Dante’s previews November 2 L.A. Presented with the Divine Comedy. Fresh from her 9/26 10/14 Sol Project, an initiative best-director 10/2 to raise the profile of Tony for Indecent, The Treasurer Animal Wisdom Latino artists in theater. 11/8 Rebecca Taichman Playwrights Horizons; in Tiny Beautiful Things The Bushwick Starr; in directs this play about previews September 6 The Public; in previews previews October 11 The Portuguese Kid Office Hour a Miss Universe September 19 Up-and-coming A “musical séance” Manhattan Theatre The Public; in previews pageant in Ghana. playwright Max Nia Vardalos stars as rooted in the blues Club; in previews Posner’s play follows an an advice columnist and built around the September 19 in a remount of the aging mother and her structure of a Catholic Jason Alexander one-woman tearjerker son, and the pitfalls of Requiem Mass stars as a bombastic adapted from Cheryl the former’s financial (complete with choir), lawyer in a new comedy The One Play I Don’t Strayed’s best seller. dependence. performed by Brooklyn written and directed Want to Miss singer-songwriter by Tony, Pulitzer, Heather Christian. and Oscar winner Thomas Ostermeier’s Richard III 9/28 10/10 John Patrick Shanley. As You Like It Measure for Measure 10/18 BY SARA HOLDREN ; The Public; in previews 10/26 September 18 Mementos Mori in previews FORGET JULIUS CAESAR. For full-throttle rage- September 13 BAM Downtown theater M. Butterfly against-the-machine Shakespeare, I’m holding legends Elevator The Forest of Arden Chicago company Cort Theatre; out (and holding my breath) for director Thomas Repair Service—best becomes a Jazz Age Manuel Cinema in previews Ostermeier’s German-language known for their Richard III, concrete jungle, with uses overhead October 7 coming to BAM’s Next Wave Festival from the Academy Award winner Fitzgerald adaptation projectors to live- David Henry Hwang’s Schaubühne Berlin. Ostermeier, who began his Ellen Burstyn playing Gatz—set their sights animate a surreal career as an actor, became an enfant terrible the cynical Jaques. on Shakespeare’s shadow-puppet “film,” Pulitzer-finalist play among German auteurs in the 1990s by bringing Viennese comedy. with live music and based on Puccini’s quadraphonic sound. opera; Clive Owen stars the visceral, can’t-look-away dramas of British Time and the and Julie Taymor playwrights like Sarah Kane and Mark Ravenhill OCT. Conways directs, with new music to his home country. He then turned to the American Airlines 10/23 by Oscar winner classics, putting canonical behemoths like Theatre; in previews Elliot Goldenthal. Hamlet and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House through the (See page 130.) September 14 Jesus Hopped wringer of his grimy, explosive aesthetic (he calls Downton Abbey star the ‘A’ Train it “new realism” and has described it as a kind of Elizabeth McGovern Signature Theatre; in revenge on the stupidity and violence spawned 10/1 heads a rare revival of previews October 3 10/30 by a merciless capitalist world). Ostermeier’s J. B. Priestley’s time- Revival of Pulitzer Hamlet was the beautiful and terrifying German The Gospel Illyria hopping 1937 play, winner Stephen Adly actor Lars Eidinger, who now returns as According to Thomas The Public; which examines the Guirgis’s 2000 play Shakespeare’s hunchbacked Man Who Would Jefferson, Charles in previews October 22 decline of a wealthy about the friendship Be King. The text is translated and adapted by Dickens, and Count British family between between a bicycle A new play by Richard Marius von Mayenburg, whose play The Ugly Leo Tolstoy: Discord 1919 and 1938. messenger and Nelson tells the history One (a hilarious and horrid assault on our ; a serial killer, set on of the New York obsession with skin-deep beauty) might actually in previews Rikers Island. Shakespeare Festival be a perfect appetizer for There will September 19 Richard III. 10/12 and Shakespeare in the be dirt, there will be glitter, there will be blood. Real Time With Bill Park, within the walls October 11 through 14, BAM. Maher writer and Springsteen on 10/24 of (where else?) the

executive producer Scott Broadway Public Theater. VASQUEZ J. DANIEL BY PHOTOGRAPH

128 new york | august 21–september 3, 2017

1717CR_FP_theater_lay [Print].indd 128 8/17/17 6:59 PM ADVANCED FORM TRANSMITTED ______COPY ___ DD ___ AD ___ PD ___ EIC 11/20 12/4 BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES The Wolves SpongeBob Mitzi E. Newhouse SquarePants Theater at Lincoln Palace Theatre; in Center; in previews previews November 6 November 1 A musical adventure Sarah DeLappe’s with original music play about a teen- from the likes of John girl soccer team Legend, Aerosmith’s pursues a kind of Steven Tyler and Joe naturalism through Perry, and Panic! at the carefully constructed Disco. A tourist magnet? overlapping dialogue. Aye-aye, captain. UNFORGETTABLE NUMBERS FROM Hundred Days 11/28 New York Theatre THE THEATRE’S GREATEST MUSICALS… Workshop; in previews The Fountainhead November 15 FROM THE MAN WHO MADE THEM ALL SING. BAM A memoiristic indie- Belgian director Ivo folk opera from Sarah van Hove reimagines Gancher and married Ayn Rand’s opus in duo the Bengsons. the confines of a co- working space—and over four hours. 12/5

Describe the Night 11/29 ; in previews Haruki November 10 Murakami’s Sleep Rajiv Joseph’s latest BAM weaves three stories Brooklyn ensemble set in Russia, with Ripe Time devise characters ranging a riff on the Japanese from a KGB officer to a author’s 1989 short fictionalized version of story about a Japanese the writer Isaac Babel. housewife who decides to stop sleeping, adapted by playwright 12/14 Naomi Iizuka. The Children Samuel J. Friedman 11/30 Theatre; in previews November 28 The Parisian Woman An apocalyptic Hudson Theatre; in British import about previews November 7 two retired nuclear Uma Thurman makes engineers’ response to a Fukushima-like nuclear her Broadway debut, catastrophe. in a play about secret deals and sex in D.C., written by House of Twelfth Night Cards creator Beau Classic Stage Willimon. Company; in previews November 29 The actor-centric Fiasco Theater will likely leave DEC. little room for excess in their production of Shakespeare’s identity- crisis comedy. 12/3 12/17

Once on Farinelli and the King This Island Belasco Theatre; in Circle in the Square previews December 5 Theatre; in previews Mark Rylance returns

November 9 to the Belasco as King Photo: Elisabeth Novick / ArenaPAL A Michael Arden– Philip V of Spain, PRINCE OF BROADWAY directed revival of the acting opposite two 1990 Caribbean folk people playing one NEW SONGS, ARRANGEMENTS, musical about a young role: that of the opera ORCHESTRATION & CO-DIRECTION & girl and her lover singer Farinelli, who BOOK BY MUSIC SUPERVISION BY CHOREOGRAPHY BY DIRECTED BY from different sides of will be spoken by Sam HAROLD PRINCE the tracks; a tropical Crane and sung by Romeo, with less woe. Iestyn Davies. ON BROADWAY at the SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE, 261 West 47th St. VISIT Telecharge.com CALL (212) 239-6200 PrinceofBway.com

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