Atlantic Theater Company 2024-2025 Season

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 8/5/24 at 9:06pm

Since no one's mentioned it yet, from Theatermania:

Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company has revealed their 2024-2025 season. The lineup will include five world premieres.

The season will open with A Freeky Introduction, written by and starring NSangou Njikam. Dennis A. Allen II will direct the show blending poetry, ministry, and magic — plus, a live DJ set by DJ Monday Blue. It will play the Linda Gross Theater October 16 – November 17.

Kicking off the new year will be Eliya Smith’s Grief Camp. Directed by Les Waters, the exploration on loss and adolescence will play the Linda Gross Theater in January and February 2025.

Also running in January and February 2025 ill be Mona Pirnot’s I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan, playing the Atlantic Stage 2. David Greenspan stars as one 68 year old man playing four millennial woman in a comedy about how to make a living as a playwright. Ken Rus Schmoll will direct.

Ethan Coen’s Let’s Love! will play the Linda Gross Theater in March and April 2025. The comedic trio of one acts exploring love in all of its miserable glory will be directed by Neil Pepe.

The season will close out with Abby Rosebrock’s Lowcountry. Jo Bonney will direct the dark, twisted rom-com about the distress of looking for love in the digital age, as a down-and-out actress swipes right on a disgraced high school teacher fresh out of an ankle bracelet. It will play the Linda Gross Theater in May and June 2025.

More details at the Atlantic website: https://atlantictheater.org/2425-season/

 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 8/5/24 at 9:08pm

I'll admit, only Grief Camp and Lowcountry really caught my eye out of these, but I think Atlantic has had more hits than misses in the past couple of years so I'll be interested in possibly seeing the others too.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 8/5/24 at 9:39pm

Interesting that they’re not staging a musical this season. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/5/24 at 10:13pm

I will see anything by Mona Pirnot.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/5/24 at 10:42pm

EDSOSLO858 said: "Interesting that they’re not staging a musical this season."

Probably all comes down to shows with commercial enhancement money being ready...musicals like the ones they've done recently are pretty much packaged up by commercial producers prior to the Atlantic signing on (true of most musicals with commercial enhancement). And a company like Atlantic probably can't afford to do a musical without enhancement.

On paper, it's kind of a disappointing season compared to recent years. Maybe the casting will be interesting.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/5/24 at 11:03pm

The 2024-2025 season for nonprofit Off-Broadway theatres is looking really thin for new musicals, which is usually where the most interesting work is being done.

No new musicals at:

• Public
• Atlantic
• Signature
• Classic Stage
• Vineyard
• Roundabout and LCT's Off-Broadway spaces
• (MCC and 2nd Stage each have to-be-announced shows for their Off-Bway spaces)

Playwrights Horizons will have solo musical performance pieces at the Peter J. Sharp but nothing on the main stage.
NYTW will have a musical (We Live In Cairo) and a bio-play with music (Colman Domingo's Nat King Cole show).

Hopefully the Broadway season will make up for it!

Updated On: 8/5/24 at 11:03 PM