What's on Off-Broadway this season?
F. Murray Abraham in the Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's “Galileo” at the Classic Stage Company. Credit: Joan Marcus
With all the previews of Broadway openings -- and, no doubt, upcoming stories about Broadway's winter closings -- it would be a big mistake to overlook the rich promise of the Off-Broadway season. Here is a (highly abridged) heads-up on the next busy months in some of the city's most valuable theaters.
And my list doesn't even include the much-anticipated revival of "Merrily We Roll Along" by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine at the Encores! Series in early February or "Sleeping Demons," the final part of John Patrick Shanley's church-and-state trilogy that began with his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Doubt." The Atlantic Theatre plans to open that one when the company finally returns to its remodeled Chelsea home, probably before summer.
