Are you ready for some seriously meaty theatre? Check out one (or preferably more!) of the dramas opening this fall. It's a fine, fine line between a tragic farce and a farcical tragedy, so click HERE to preview this autumn's comedies, too. (Shows are arranged in chronological order.)

THE RETRIBUTIONISTS
Leigh Silverman directs the New York premiere of Daniel Goldfarb’s fact-based drama, a daring new romantic thriller set in 1946, in which a band of Jewish freedom fighters attempt to avenge a society’s wrongs. Playwrights Horizons, now through September 27, 2009.

AFTERMATH
On March 20, 2003, Americans arrived in Iraq and changed the lived of ordinary citizens forever. Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the award-winning creators of The Exonerated interviewed forty Iraqi refugees in Jordan to create this searing docudrama. New York Theatre Workshop, September 1 – October 4, 2009.

BROKE-OLOGY
Lincoln Center Theater kicks off its 25th anniversary season with a stirring portrait about brothers who are called home to take care of their ailing father, and find themselves strangely at odds. Thomas Kail directs the world premiere of this new drama. Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, September 10 – November 22, 2009.

THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS
A trilogy of new plays presented in two evenings. Tarell Alvin McCraney’s dangerous, modern-day stories of kinship, love, heartache and coming-of-age speas with authenticity about a world that is gritty and lyrical, urban and mythic. Tina Landau directs Part 1: In the Red and Brown Water, and Robert O’Hara directs Part 2: The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of the Sweet. The Public Theatre, October 21 – December 13, 2009, with marathon performances on weekends.

WHAT ONCE WE FELT
A writer journeys through the political world of publishing, as her novel becomes the last print published novel ever. Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3 at The Duke on 42nd Street, October 26 – November 21, 2009.

THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
Every night in a small fishing town on the west coast of Ireland, two aging sisters re-enact a night in the early ‘60s with a seductive rock singer at the New Electric Ballroom. On one particular night, enters Patsy, the fish monger. St. Ann’s Warehouse, October 27 – November 22, 2009.

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
Carson McCuller’s classic novel about the universal need for human connection is re-imagined as a tender new play by Rebecca Gillman, directed by Doug Hughes. A co-production between New York Theatre Workshop and The Acting Company, presented at NYTW. November 13 - December 20, 2009.

Click HERE for Fall 2009's COMEDIES.
Click HERE for Fall 2009's REVIVALS.
Click HERE for Fall 2009's MUSICALS.
Click HERE for Fall 2009's ONE-PERSON SHOWS.