Shows Archive

Based on the acclaimed play of the same name, INTIMATE APPAREL is a new opera at Lincoln Center Theater. With a libretto by Lynn Nottage, score by Ricky Ian Gordon, and directed by Bartlett Sher, the opera is set in turn of the century New York and tells the story of an African-American seamstress on a journey toward love and, ultimately, self-reliance. Learn More »

A new musical, set in the 1950s, about three extraordinary and accomplished people - Aldous Huxley (Harry Hadden-Paton); Clare Boothe Luce (Carmen Cusack); and Cary Grant (Tony Yazbeck) - each of whom experimented with the drug LSD. Book by James Lapine, music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Michael Korie, and directed by James Lapine. Learn More »

Evoking heartbreak, hope, and joy over its 95 minutes, PASS OVER crafts everyday profanities into poetic and humorous riffs, illuminating the unquestionable human spirit of young men looking for a way out. Learn More »

Right now, LCT means Lights, Camera, Theater!  Learn More »

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THE HEADLANDS is a contemporary noir that explores the stories we tell ourselves and the fallibility of the mind. Learn More »

In Samuel D. Hunter’s GREATER CLEMENTS, the once-proud mining town of Clements, Idaho is rapidly disintegrating. Learn More »

In POWER STRIP, Yasmin, a young Syrian refugee, spends her days tethered to an electric power strip in a Greek refugee camp. Learn More »

From the creative team behind the Tony®-winning Best Play, All The Way, comes a thrilling new play about the LBJ legacy. Learn More »

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IN THE GREEN, a new musical by Grace McLean, tells the origin story of one of Medieval history's most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen.  Learn More »

Set in Uganda, a country subjected to severe anti-homosexuality laws, THE ROLLING STONE, is an intimate yet explosive family drama about two brothers at odds - one a gay man in a clandestine relationship, and the other a church pastor who fervently rails against the lifestyle his brother is forced to conceal. Learn More »

In his attempts to recover a memory of an event that happened on that ‘far away island’ 35 years before, NANTUCKET SLEIGH RIDE plunges a New York playwright-turned- venture capitalist (John Larroquette) into a whirlpool of a giant lobster, Roman Polanski, a pornography ring, Walt Disney, a murder, stranded children, and Jorge Luis Borges, with the most unexpected results.  Learn More »

In MARYS SEACOLE, Mary (Quincy Tyler Bernstine) is an ambitious Jamaican woman whose adventures take her across oceans and eras, from a battlefield of the Crimean War to a contemporary nursing home, and many times and places in between.  This new play by Jackie Sibblies Drury is an exploration of what it means to be a woman who is paid to care. Learn More »

Screenwriter, playwright, and novelist Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild) shares extraordinary coming-of-age stories in THROW ME ON THE BURNPILE AND LIGHT ME UP, set in the sometimes dangerous and often magical Florida Panhandle. Learn More »

Aaron Sorkin’s new play, based on Harper Lee’s classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher.  Learn More »

In Tom Stoppard’s THE HARD PROBLEM, Hilary (Adelaide Clemens) is a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science where psychology and biology meet.  If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness?  This is “the hard problem” facing science, and for Hilary the possibility of genuine altruism, without a hidden Darwinian self-interest, depends on the answer.  Meanwhile she is nursing a private sorrow.  She needs a miracle and is prepared to pray for one. Learn More »

This contemporary queer love story explores gender, intimacy, and the dangers of revealing yourself to the person you love. Learn More »