Plays You Hope Get Revived

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

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. 

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 

Neil Simon’s THE STAR-SPANGLED GIRL

Neil Simon’s LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR 

Neil Simon’s CALIFORNIA SUITE

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.

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

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, 

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. 

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. 

"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.

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.

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. 

 

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

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