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18 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See in 2025
Idina Menzel in the forest, Paul Mescal in Brooklyn, and more.
The playwright Jerry Lieblich specializes in tantalizing, terrifying word salad, and now their play The Barbarians — originally written in response to George W. Bush’s war on terror, but only increasing in nauseating resonance by the day — is getting its full premiere at La Mama. Directed by Arin Arbus and featuring a top-notch cast including Maryann Plunkett and Crystal Finn, Koogler’s play takes place on an island in the Puget Sound, where the community has gathered in the wake of the local orca pod’s disappearance. Directed by Sam Yates in a new version by Simon Stephens, Andrew Scott (the Roy Kent of actors; he’s here, he’s there, he’s every-fucking-where) — takes on all ten characters in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, from the existentially embittered title role to the enigmatic, unhappily married woman he obsesses over.
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