Mother Nature has her faux fur coat on the foot of her bed and she’s almost ready to step out for New York’s hottest shows. We are here to celebrate the eight shows that will open up on Broadway before October.
October 2
Leopoldstadt (Longacre Theatre)
- Olivier Award Winning NEW play by Tom Stoppard
- Features 38 actors
- Tom Stoppard’s “most personal work of his career”
- From Director Patrick Marber (Closer, Tom Stoppard’s Travesties)
October 3
Cost of Living (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
- Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize
- Martyna Marjok is a new playwright with a very promising future (she’s penning The Great Gatsby with Florence Welch)
- Kara Young stars after exploding onto the Broadway stage after Clyde’s
October 6
1776 (American Airlines Theatre)
- Reimagined revival with an all woman presenting cast
- Jeffrey L. Page (Violet, FELA!) and Diane Paulus (Waitress, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Jagged Little Pill) co-directs
- Carolee Carmello is back on Broadway after 6 years
October 9
Death of a Salesman (Hudson Theatre)
- Marianne Elliott (Company, Angels in America, Warhorse) directs this critically-acclaimed West End Transfer
- Tony Award Nominee and Multi-Olivier Award Winner Sharon D. Clarke, Wendell Pierce (HBO’s The Wire) and the incomparable André De Shields round out this powerhouse cast
- The Black actors portraying the Loman family during the 1940s transcends the writing making an even harder hit for Willy, his wife and his boys
October 13
The Piano Lesson (Ethel Barrymore Theatre)
- Samuel L Jackson and Danielle Brooks return to Broadway in this much-anticipated revival
- Directed by Latanya Richardson Jackson
- August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Masterpiece about how we perceive our past
October 20
Topdog/Underdog (John Golden Theatre)
- The first ever Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama revival
- Kenny Leon directs
- New York Times says it’s “the Greatest Plays of the last 25 years”
October 27
Take Me Out (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre)
- The hit revival is back from it’s sold-out run at the Helen Hayes
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson won his first Tony Award for this hilarious and heart-breaking role
- A scintillating drama about being authentically oneself and the importance of friendship and community
October 27
Walking with Ghosts (Music Box Theatre)
- Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary, HBO’s In Treatment) returns to Broadway with his one-man staged biography
- The incredible Lonny Price directs
- The Times calls it “Spell-binding”
NOVEMBER OPENINGS
November 3 – Almost Famous (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre)
November 10 – Kimberly Akimbo (Booth Theatre)
November 13 – Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool (Vivian Beaumont Theater)
November 17 – & Juliet (Stephen Sondheim Theatre)
November 20 – KPOP (Circle in the Square Theatre)
November 21 – A Christmas Carol (Nederlander Theatre)