Concluding Dec. 20
Gigantic (Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theatre). The Vineyard Theatre's new musical comedy Gigantic, about the coming-of-age of a group of teens at a weight-loss camp, features Leslie Kritzer, Burke Moses, Andrew Durand, Katie Ladner, Max Wilcox, Taylor Louderman, Ryann Redmond, Jennifer Geller, Jared Loftin, Bonnie Milligan, Larry Owens, Cole Ragsdale, Mimi Scardulla, Nyla Watson and Kalyn West. Set in Southern Pennsylvania, the Off-Broadway musical features a book by Randy Blair and Tim Drucker, lyrics by Blair and music by Matt roi Berger. Here's how Vineyard bills the show: "Getting shipped off to weight-loss camp is hardly Robert's idea of the perfect summer, but even he isn't prepared for what can be lost or gained at Camp Overton, the No. 3 weight-loss camp in Southern Pennsylvania. With biting humor and irreverence, Gigantic tackles the growing pains of adolescence through the experiences of a bunch of misfit teens forced to find solace in one another as they look — inside and out — for acceptance, a hot make-out session, and the last contraband Butterfinger." Visit VineyardTheatre.org.
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Oh, Hello On (Off) Broadway (Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre). Comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, stars of "Oh, Hello," a recurring segment on Comedy Central's "Kroll Show," reprise their roles from the TV sketch comedy as Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland. "Fresh off the success of their hit prank show 'Too Much Tuna,' these two Alan Alda-obsessed Upper West Side bachelors are returning to their roots in New York theatre," state press notes. Both characters are billed as such: "Geegland (star) was born in Newark, NJ to verbally abusive parents sometime in the early mid 1940s. In 1971 he published his first novel Rifkin's Dilemma, a real 70's novel about masturbation and such. It has aged terribly. St Geegland taught creative writing for 12 years at SUNY Yonkers - Go Zebras! - until he was fired for stuff that is in sealed documents." Visit Oh-Hello-k3g4.squarespace.com.
Night Is a Room (Off-Broadway at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center). Signature Theatre's world-premiere production of Naomi Wallace's Night Is a Room features Ann Dowd, Dagmara Dominczyk and Bill Heck. Here's how Signature describes the play, helmed by Bill Rauch: "Liana and Marcus have a marriage others envy. Doré has grown accustomed to an isolated existence in her modest flat. After a surprise reunion on Marcus's 40th birthday, their worlds are shattered by an unexpected turn of events." Visit SignatureTheatre.org.
Incident at Vichy (Off-Broadway at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center). Signature Theatre's Off-Broadway revival of Incident at Vichy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller is helmed by Michael Wilson. The cast includes Richard Thomas, David Abeles, Curtis Billings, James Carpinello, AJ Cedeño, Quinlan Corbett, Brian Cross, Demosthenes Chrysan, Jonathan Gordon, Jonathan Hadary, Alex Morf, Jonny Orsini, Darren Pettie, John Procaccino, Alec Shaw, Derek Smith and Evan Zes. Taking place in Vichy, France, during the Nazi occupation, the play sees a group of people called into an interrogation room under suspicious circumstances in an effort to reveal the Jews among them. As foreboding rumors of concentration camps begin to circulate, the men battle over politics, philosophy and an escape. It is billed as a "haunting examination of the cold, bureaucratic efficiency of evil." Visit SignatureTheatre.org.
