October
Preview Picks
What are our critics looking forward to?
Here is their chronological monthly tip
sheet
to what's previewing--and opening--in New York.
By Lucy Komisar
Begins October1:
"MISTERO BUFFO" The Italian satirist and Nobel Prize-winner Dario
Fo performs a solo show of five comic sketches based on the performances
of medieval jesters. The Loewe Theater at New York University.
212-998-5772
Opens Oct 3:
"THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT" by Jean Giraudoux, directed by
Roy B. Steinberg, with Anne Jackson and Kim Hunter. A poetic comic fable
set in Paris. The President and prospectors plan to blow up the city to
unearth the oil they believe lies underfoot. The Madwoman and her
friends, who believe in life, beauty and the fulfillment of dreams, see
through these 'evil ones' and plot to rid the world of them. The
Colleagues Theatre Company at The Neighborhood Playhouse, 340 E. 54th
Street, (between 1st and 2nd Aves ).
Opens Oct 2:
"CLOUDSTREET" a five-hour epic, based on a novel by Tim
Winton, examines Australia's mid-20th- century emergence into the modern
world through the tale of the Pickles and the Lambs, two mismatched
families living under the same roof in Perth. Sydney-based troupe
Company B Belvoir at Harvey Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 651
Fulton Street, 718-636-4100, www.bam.org.
Opens Oct 4:
"HEDDA GABLER" by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Jon Robin Baitz,
dirrected by Nicholas Martin, starring Kate Burton, The Ambassador
Theatre, 219 W 49 St.
Opens Oct 9:
"METAMORPHOSES," written and directed by Mary Zimmerman,
based on the myths and epic poem of Ovid, about the power of love to
transform. The set includes a 26-foot pool of water. Second Stage, 307
West 43rd Street, 212 541-4516, www.SecondStageTheatre.com.
Opens Oct 10:
"THE SHAPE OF THINGS," by Neil LaBute. The evolving
relationship between a young sexually voracious artist and the nebbish
museum guard she befriends, and transforms into a boy toy. Promenade,
Broadway and 76th St.
Opens Oct 11:
"DANCE OF DEATH," the August Strindberg play about a
hellish marriage. adapted by Richard Greenberg, directed Sean Mathias,
with Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren. Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W 44 St,
telecharge.
Open Oct 22:
"QED," by Peter Parnell, directed by Gordon Davidson, with
Alan Alda, about Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, with
larger than life personality and career included developing atom bomb
and explaining puzzle of space shuttle Challenger’s explosion. Lincoln
Center.
Opens Oct 25:
THOU SHALT NOT Music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr.,
book by Peter Thompson, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.
Musical based on Emile Zola's "Therese Raquin," 19th-century novel of
adultery and murder, transplanted to 1946 New Orleans. Lincoln Center
Theatre.
Opens Oct 25:
"THE RISE OF RICHARD 3," adapted from William Shakespeare, directed by Andrei Serban. LaMaMa E.T.C. (Annex Theater), 74A East Fourth Street, (212) 475-7710.
Opens Oct 28:
"BY JEEVES," book and lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn, music by
Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on stories by P.G. Wodehouse. In a church
hall Berrtie Wooster is scheduled to give banjo recital, His servant
Jeeeves, who loves music, steals the banjo, and Bertie improvises with
tale of romantic entanglements and mistaken identities involving his
friends and their love interests. Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th
Street.
Opens Oct 30:
"EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE," based on short story
by Flannery O'Connor, directed by Karin Coonrod. about a young
Southerner and his widowed mother whose ride on a bus turns hilariously
tragic. New York Theater Workshop.
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