Wanna Iguana?: La Femme Theater Productions will present an Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana, directed by Emily Mann (Having Our Say, Execution of Justice). Previews begin Dec. 6 with a Dec. 17 opening for a limited run through Feb. 25, 2024 at the Irene Diamond Stage of the Pershing Square Signature Theater Center (this is not a Signature Theater Company production). The eclectic cast will be led by Emmy nominee Timothy Daly (“Wings”), Tony nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Anna in the Tropics), Drama Desk nominee and SAG winner Lea DeLaria (“Orange Is the New Black,” POTUS, On the Town), Drama Desk winner and Tony nominee Austin Pendleton (The Minutes, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Little Foxes), and Jean Lichty (La Femme’s productions of Williams’s A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur and Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady). Mann also directed Rubin-Vega in the 2012 Broadway revival of Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire.
“The Night of the Iguana poses critical questions of faith and identity that are particularly relevant today as we navigate a paradoxically divided yet open world,” Lichty, executive director of La Femme, said in a statement. “Tennessee offers an answer by writing an epic that he described as ‘a play about love in its purest terms.’”
Iguana opened on Broadway in 1961 with Bette Davis, Margaret Leighton (Tony Award for Best Actress), and Patrick O’Neal, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The drama focuses on a defrocked priest at the end of his spiritual rope who has crash-landed at a rundown tourist spot in Acapulco, Mexico. There he encounters the lusty, widowed hotel owner, a traveling artist and her 92-year-old grandfather. John Huston’s film version was released in 1964 with Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, and Grayson Hall (Oscar nomination).
Subsequent Broadway revivals have starred Richard Chamberlain, Dorothy McGuire, and Sylvia Miles (1976, Circle in the Square); Jane Alexander, Nicholas Surovy, and Maria Tucci (1988, Circle in the Square); and Cherry Jones, Marsha Mason, and William Peterson (1996, Roundabout Theater Company at the Criterion Center). A 2019 London revival starred Clive Owen, Lia Williams, and Anna Gunn. A major regional production at the Hartford Stage in 2017 was headlined by Amanda Plummer, Bill Heck, Dana Delaney, Elizabeth Ashley, and James Earl Jones.
La Femme Theater Productions previously presented Iguana as a digital fund-raiser in 2020, directed by Mann and starring Dylan McDermott, Phylicia Rashad, and Roberta Maxwell.
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2023-24 Broadway and Off-Broadway Calendar Fall 2023 Winter 2023-24 Spring 2024 Fall 2024 2024-25 Spring 2025 Future–Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love–The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Our Town; Pal Joey; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; What a Wonderful World; The Who’s Tommy; Working Girl.
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2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:
New Plays: New Musicals: Play Revivals: Musical Revivals: Solos/Specialties: [END]
Sept. 27–Purlie Victorious (Music Box)
Sept. 28–Melissa Etheridge: My Window (Circle in the Square)
Oct. 3–Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (MTC/Friedman)
Oct. 4–The Refuge Plays (Roundabout/NYTW/Laura Pels)
Oct. 4–DruidO’Casey (Public/NYU Skirball Center)
Oct. 6–Stereophonic (begins previews; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)
Oct. 10–Merrily We Roll Along (Hudson)
Oct. 12–Gutenberg! The Musical (James Earl Jones)
Oct. 16–All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain (DR2)
Oct. 22–Here We Are (The Shed Griffin Theater)
Oct. 29–Translations (Irish Repertory Theater)
Oct. 30–I Can Get It for You Wholesale (CSC)
Nov. 1–Poor Yella Rednecks (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Nov. 2–I Need That (Roundabout/AA)
Nov. 2–Sabbath’s Theater (New Group/Signature Theater)
Nov. 4–Waiting for Godot (begins previews; opening TBA) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)
Nov. 12–Scene Partners (Vineyard Theater)
Nov. 13–Harmony (Barrymore)
Nov. 13–Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Lortel)
Nov. 16–Monty Python’s Spamalot (St. James)
Nov. 19–Hell’s Kitchen (Public)
Nov. 20–The Gardens of Anuncia (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Nov. 24–Lone Star (Ruth Stage/Theater Row)
Nov. 30–Spain (Second Stage/Terry Kiser)
Nov.–Sad Boys in Harpy Land; Amusements; School Pictures (solo shows performed in repertory at Playwrights Horizons)
Dec. 5–Manhatta (Public)
Dec. 10–How To Dance in Ohio (Belasco)
Dec. 11–Madwomen of the West (Actors Temple)
Dec. 12–Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross)
Dec. 17–The Night of the Iguana (La Femme Theater Prods./Signature Center)
Dec. 18–Appropriate (Second Stage/Hayes)
Jan. 9–Prayer for the French Republic (MTC/Friedman)
Jan. 17–Public Obscenities (previews begin; opening TBA) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)
Jan. 21–Aristocrats (IRT)
Jan. 28–Days of Wine and Roses (Studio 54)
Feb. 8–Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Vineyard Theater)
Feb. 21–Teeth (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)
Feb. 26–Pericles (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)
Feb.–Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/AA)
Feb.–The Ally (Public)
TBA–Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)
TBA–An Enemy of the People
TBA–I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW)
TBA–The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)
March 14–The Notebook (Schoenfeld)
March 19–Fish (previews begin; opening TBA) (Keen Co./Theater Five)
March 21–Water for Elephants (Imperial)
March 24–Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)
March–Sally and Tom (Public)
April 2–Mary Jane (previews begin; opening TBA) (MTC/Friedman)
April 5–Macbeth (an undoing) (previews begin; opening TBA) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)
April 11–The Outsiders (Jacobs)
April 12–Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)
April 17–The Wiz (Marquis)
April 24–Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 25–Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)
April–Jordans (Public)
May 2–Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)
June–Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)
TBA–All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)
TBA–Cabaret (August Wilson)
TBA–Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)
TBA–Home (Roundabout/AA)
TBA–Jonah (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
TBA–Lempicka
King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)
Smash
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
The Cottage
Grey House
I Need That
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Mother Play
Prayer for the French Republic
The Shark Is Broken
Back to the Future
Days of Wine and Roses
Harmony
How to Dance in Ohio
Lempicka
The Notebook
Once Upon a One More Time
The Outsiders
Water for Elephants
Appropriate
Doubt: A Parable
An Enemy of the People
Home
Mary Jane
Purlie Victorious
Uncle Vanya
Cabaret
Gutenberg! The Musical
Here Lies Love
Merrily We Roll Along
Monty Python’s Spamalot
The Wiz
Alex Edelman: Just for Us
Melissa Etheridge: My Window.
