Plays You Hope Get Revived
Plays You Hope Get Revived
Plays You Hope Get Revived#1
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
Plays You Hope Get Revived#3
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/22
Plays You Hope Get Revived#4
Posted: 3/19/26 at 8:39am
The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night time.
Plays You Hope Get Revived#5
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
Plays You Hope Get Revived#6
Posted: 3/19/26 at 9:51am
I hope that some day we get to see August: Osage County with Amy Morton as Violet!
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
Plays You Hope Get Revived#7
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
Plays You Hope Get Revived#9
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.
Swing Joined: 7/24/23
Plays You Hope Get Revived#11
Posted: 3/19/26 at 11:10am
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Good, and Inherit the Wind
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
Plays You Hope Get Revived#12
Posted: 3/19/26 at 11:10am
I've always been surprised that there has never been a Broadway revival of AGNES OF GOD.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
Plays You Hope Get Revived#13
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,
Plays You Hope Get Revived#14
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.
Plays You Hope Get Revived#15
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.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/06
Plays You Hope Get Revived#16
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.
Stand-by Joined: 12/27/17
Plays You Hope Get Revived#17
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.
Plays You Hope Get Revived#18
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.
Plays You Hope Get Revived#19
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.
Plays You Hope Get Revived#20
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.
Plays You Hope Get Revived#21
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.
Plays You Hope Get Revived#22
Posted: 3/19/26 at 2:21pm
August Osage Country, Jeffrey, Noises Off ...
Plays You Hope Get Revived#23
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
Plays You Hope Get Revived#24
Posted: 3/19/26 at 3:02pm
A revival of DEATHTRAP starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.
Plays You Hope Get Revived#25
Posted: 3/19/26 at 3:05pm
The Fire Raisers (aka The Arsonists) (with the afterpiece) - Max Frisch
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