Plays You Hope Get Revived

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 7:54am

The last thread I could find on this was from 2018, so I thought I'd start a new one.  Apologies if there is a more recent one my search efforts did not discover.

I'd love to again see these two plays somewhere in NYC:

Other Desert Cities

Clybourne Park

[citylightsny]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 8:12am

Love! Valour! Compassion!

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 8:34am

I’m gonna get torn apart for this, but I’d love a Slave Play revival in 10 years. Jeremy O. Harris is an insufferable douchebag, but he wrote a damn good play. 

[Zeppie2022]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 8:39am

The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night time.

[All that Yazz]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 8:41am

Cyprus Avenue by David Ireland! 
 

I always have a hope this will be revived every 10 years with that generations great northern Irish actor! 
 

I was COMPLETELY FLABBERGASTED by it at the Royal Court London 

[Sauja]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 9:51am

I hope that some day we get to see August: Osage County with Amy Morton as Violet!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 10:17am

Neil Simon’s THE STAR-SPANGLED GIRL

Neil Simon’s LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR 

Neil Simon’s CALIFORNIA SUITE

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 10:43am

The Pillowman

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 10:43am

I honestly would love to see HIGH by Matthew Lombardo make a comeback, maybe off-Broadway.

The script and direction had its problems, but I remember being 17 and absolutely enamored by Kathleen Turner’s towering performance. 

I think with a few small rewrites, a steadier directorial hand and a grounding more in realism than melodrama, it could be a very powerful piece.

[WldKingdomHM]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 10:53am

The Goat. Closer, Arsenic and Old Lace

[TommyWho99]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 11:10am

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Good, and Inherit the Wind

[morosco]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 11:10am

I've always been surprised that there has never been a Broadway revival of AGNES OF GOD.

[raddersons]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 11:15am

Surprised we haven’t seen a Stoppard show since he passed. I’d love to see The Real Thing or Arcadia tackled on Broadway, even though they’re quite popular regionally, 

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 11:43am

raddersons said: "Surprised we haven’t seen a Stoppard show since he passed. I’d love to see The Real Thing or Arcadia tackled on Broadway, even though they’re quite popular regionally,"

He just passed in November 2025. His body isn’t even cold yet!

We did just have The Real Thing, Travesties, and Arcadia in the last 15 years. Maybe Rosencranz & Guilderstern are Dead could get a new production.

[Dan6]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 11:50am

Nicholas Nickleby, mostly because I managed to miss both the original and the revival. And there are whole new generations to enjoy Deathtrap and Accomplice. 

[carolinaguy]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 11:54am

I'm surprised A Few Good Men hasn't gotten a starry revival, since the movie has become such a pop culture linchpin. 

[blug]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 12:04pm

Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Gray should have a Broadway run and Greenberg's The Violet Hour deserves a second chance.  

They'll never happen because they're too big, but revivals of The Time of Your Life or Balm In Gilead would be amazing.  An Octoroon never made it to Broadway, either. 

[Kad]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 12:24pm

TotallyEffed said: "The Pillowman"

Of all the titles named so far, this is the one I am most surprised we have not seen back in NY in a major production. 

Updated On: 3/19/26 at 12:24 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 12:27pm

"Find Your Way Home" by John Hopkins.

 

I remember my mother went on a theater trip to see it. The group, from what I remember, just bought tickets to the show not knowing much about it. When she got home she told me about it and said she really wanted me to see it. It only lasted on Broadway for a few months. Would love to see it revived off-Broadway at least. It played at the Biltmore (Now the Samuel J. Friedman) and it crosses my mind every time I see a show there.

[TheOtherOne2]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 12:28pm

blug said: "Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Gray should have a Broadway run and Greenberg's The Violet Hour deserves a second chance.

They'll never happen because they're too big, but revivals of The Time of Your Life orBalm In Gilead would be amazing. An Octoroon never made it to Broadway, either."

Two I'd love to see revived that are probably too big are Lenny (maybe at the Beaumont?) and The Great White Hope (which is probably too big even for the Beaumont).

Also adding As Is. It's taken second place over the years to The Normal Heart, but much can be learned from how each play reflects that frightening, maddening era. 

 

Updated On: 3/19/26 at 12:28 PM

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 12:33pm

SO many great ideas so far.

Did I imagine it or did someone (maybe years ago) once throw out the idea of an Encores, but for plays.

[SkidRow82]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 2:21pm

August Osage Country, Jeffrey, Noises Off ... 

[TheOtherOne2]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 2:35pm

uncageg said: ""Find Your Way Home" by John Hopkins.



I remember my mother went on a theater trip to see it. The group, from what I remember, just bought tickets to the show not knowing much about it. When she got home she told me about it and said she really wanted me to see it. It only lasted on Broadway for a few months. Would love to see it revived off-Broadway at least. It played at the Biltmore (Now the Samuel J. Friedman) and it crosses my mind every time I see a show there."

That won a Tony for Michael Moriarty (and a nomination for Jane Alexander) and then just disappeared. 

 

[morosco]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 3:02pm

A revival of DEATHTRAP starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.

[All that Yazz]

Posted: 3/19/26 at 3:05pm

The Fire Raisers (aka The Arsonists) (with the afterpiece) - Max Frisch

Updated On: 3/19/26 at 03:05 PM