The kids are heading back to school, and Off-Broadway is hitting its stride after a sleepy summer. Seven shows are opening in September, including hilarious new comedies, the latest from groundbreaking playwright Edward Albee, several bold reinterpretations of literary and stage classics, and a one-man theatrical tour de force.

	THE DIVINE SISTER An outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns, THE DIVINE SISTER tells the story of St. Veronica’s indomitable Mother Superior (author Charles Busch) who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing “visions,” sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows. Soho Playhouse. Previews begin September 12, opens September 22.
	EDWARD ALBEE'S "ME, MYSELF AND I" 'Confusion is its own master! It brings itself with it.' Mother can’t tell her identical twins apart. But when Otto announces his brother doesn’t exist, the household descends into chaos. Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee is in rare form with his newest play, turning "the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes.” - Ben Brantley, The New York Times. Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater. Now in previews, opens September 12.
	IT MUST BE HIM In IT MUST BE HIM, Louie Wexler (Peter Scolari), a whiz kid comedy writer from the heyday of variety television, is now down on his luck. With his devoted agent (John Treacy Egan), and his considerably less devoted housekeeper (Liz Torres) by his side, Louie finds himself broke, lonely, and on the wrong side of middle age. Desperate to rekindle his fading career, save his posh Beverly Hills home and find the man of his dreams, Louie searches high and low for one last shot at his own real-life happy ending. Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Now in previews, opens September 1.
	THE LITTLE FOXES Acclaimed director Ivo van Hove returns to NYTW to take on one of Lillian Hellman’s most well-known plays, THE LITTLE FOXES. Van Hove’s fresh vision of this iconic play will be a study of how women of different races and classes contend with male aggression, power, and domination. Elizabeth Marvel, who has memorably collaborated with van Hove at NYTW, playing the title role of Hedda Gabler and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, will take on the role of Regina Giddens, the strong and determined woman at the center of Hellman’s web of deceit. New York Theatre Workshop. Previews begin September 10, opens September 23.
	ORLANDO Meet Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO, your typical Elizabethan Man: a favorite of the Queen, madly in love with a Russian Princess, fleeing an Archduchess and waking up one fine day in Constantinople to find he has become, of all things, a woman. She survives the 19th and 20th Centuries grappling with what it means to live fully in the present, in our own skin, in our own gender, and in our own time. Don't miss this classic masterpiece that has been called "the longest love letter in the history of the English Language." Classic Stage Company. Previews begin September 8, opens September 23.
	THE SNEEZE Think you know Chekhov? Think again. THE SNEEZE, Michael Frayn’s richly comic adaptation of the incomparable Chekhov’s wild and witty vaudevillian vignettes, bounds across town and country, past rich and poor, with an improbable duel, a mismanaged marriage proposal, and, of course, a life-shattering sneeze along the way. This rollicking journey offers a different kind of “Chekhovian” world: one gone amok, awry, and askew—in all the best ways. The Pearl Theatre Company at New York City Center: Stage II. Previews begin September 17, opens September 26.
	THROUGH THE NIGHT Six characters. Three generations. One extraordinary man. Obie Award Winner Daniel Beaty shines as writer and performer of a range of characters from hopeful, wide-eyed child to admired, elder preacher, spinning a tale where lives collide to show how hope, faith and love have the ability to pull anyone THROUGH THE NIGHT. Supported by some of the country’s most revered performers and respected educators, including Bill Cosby, Ruby Dee, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., THROUGH THE NIGHT is “a thing of beauty, wit, grit and piercing lyricism” (The New York Times). Union Square Theater. Previews begin September 10, opens September 26.