Off-Broadway cranks up the intensity this fall with a plethora of new (and revived) dramas. From epic productions of theatrical sagas by Tony Kushner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to new works by Neil LaBute and Edward Albee, to plays by promising new voices in the American theatre (not to mention re-examinations of works by Pinter, Ibsen, Lillian Hellman and Arthur Kopit), autumn 2010 is shaping up to be a thrilling season on New York's most intimate, exciting stages.

AFTER THE REVOLUTION The New York Premiere of a new play by Amy Herzog. Directed by Carolyn Cantor. The brilliant, promising Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved. After the Revolution is a bold and moving portrait of an American family, thrown into an intergenerational tailspin, forced to reconcile a thorny and delicate legacy. Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Previews begin October 21, opens TBA.

ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILENNIUM APPROACHES and PERESTROIKA ANGELS IN AMERICA, set in late 1985 and early 1986, as the first wave of the AIDS epidemic in America is escalating and Ronald Reagan has been elected to a second term in the White House, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play's two parts, MILLENNIUM APPROACHES and PERESTROIKA bring together a young gay man with AIDS and his frightened, unfaithful lover; a closeted Mormon lawyer and his valium-addicted wife; the infamous New York lawyer Roy Cohn; an African-American male nurse; a Mormon housewife from Utah; and a steel-winged, prophecy-bearing angel; as well as the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, an ancient rabbi, the world's oldest living Bolshevik and a Reagan administration functionary, among many others -- all played by a company of eight actors. Signature Theatre at Peter Norton Space. Previews begin September 14, opens October 28.

BLOOD FROM A STONE
The actor Tommy Nohilly, a former Marine, will have his debut as a playwright with his dark comedy, BLOOD FROM A STONE, about a troubled working-class family in New Britain, Conn. It will be directed by the New Group's artistic director, Scott Elliott, who is most recently oversaw the company's new musical, The Kid, at Theater Row. The New Group at The Acorn Theatre/Theatre Row. Performances begin Fall 2010.

THE COLLECTION and A KIND OF ALASKA
Atlantic eagerly returns to the work of Harold Pinter, several seasons after its acclaimed production of his first and last plays, The Room and Celebration. Here again, the plays are separated chronologically by twenty years; both, however, are steeped in the author’s signature humor, mystery and psychological tension. In THE COLLECTION (1962), a four a.m. phone call and a surprise visitor set off a series of conversations about potential infidelities among two couples. And a middle-aged woman who has been asleep in a hospital room awakens after thirty years and must reorient herself to a greatly changed world in A KIND OF ALASKA (1982), which was inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks in his seminal book, Awakenings. Atlantic Theater Company at Classic Stage Company. Previews begin November 3.

THE BREAK OF NOON THE BREAK OF NOON marks Neil LaBute’s seventh collaboration with MCC Theater as Playwright-in-Residence, following the 2009 Tony Award-nominated Best Play, Reasons to be Pretty. Renowned for his darkly-comic morality plays (The Shape of Things, In a Dark Dark House), he teams up again with longtime collaborator, director Jo Bonney (Some Girl(s), Fat Pig), for this exploration of the daunting, sometimes harrowing process of “finding religion.” David Duchovny ("Californication," "The X-Files") will star as John Smith, a man who, amidst the chaos and horror of the worst office shooting in American history, sees the face of God. His modern-day revelation creates a maelstrom of disbelief among everyone he knows. A newcomer to faith, John urgently searches for a modern response to the age-old question: at what cost salvation? Previews begin October 28, opens November 15.

	THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL Finally the true story will be revealed: In 1972, a hairdresser from the Bronx made a little movie that grossed over $600 Million (possibly the most profitable film of all time) and ignited the sexual revolution. THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL takes you behind the scenes, into the secret world of adult filmmaking and introduces you to the legendary Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems. Follow the bizarre journey from the creation of the movie, through the raids, arrests and the banning of the film, to the political fallout of the ensuing courtroom drama, which launched the career of Allen Dershowitz. The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street. Previews begin September 17, opens October 10.
	GATZ One morning in the low-rent office of a mysterious small business, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk. He starts to read it out loud, and doesn’t stop. At first his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences, it’s no longer clear whether he’s reading the book or the book is transforming him. GATZ is a theatrical and literary tour de force, not a retelling of the Gatsby story but an enactment of the novel itself. Over the course of 6 1/2 hours, Fitzgerald’s American masterpiece is delivered word for word, startlingly brought to life by a low-rent office staff in the midst of their inscrutable business operations. The Public Theater. Previews begin September 26, opens October 6.
	IN THE WAKE It’s Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen insists that her friends and family don’t understand how bad the situation really is. But no one -- not her loving partner, Danny, nor the passionate Amy, nor the brutally pragmatic and world-weary Judy -- can make Ellen see the blind spot at the center of her own politics and emotional life. A funny, passionate, and ultimately searing new play that illuminates assumptions that lie at the heart of the American character - and the blind spots that mask us from ourselves. By Lisa Kron, directed by Leigh Silverman, starring Marin Ireland. The Public Theater. Previews begin October 19, opens November 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.
	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.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
The New York premiere of the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Notes from Underground, the revolutionary novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky adapted for the stage by OBIE Award-winning actor Bill Camp and internationally acclaimed director Robert Woodruff. "I am a sick man, I am a wicked man," cries the Underground Man, one of modern literature's first and most remarkable antiheros, created by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. A former government official who has defiantly withdrawn from a corrupt society, the Underground Man wages his own personal war on everything-and everyone-around him. Laugh-out-loud funny and terrifying, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND is the passionate, obsessive and contradictory confession of a tormented soul. Theatre for a New Audience in association with Baryshnikov Arts Center. Previews begin November 7.

ROSMERSHOLM
New light shines in a dark house—passion and hope burst into a stagnant world through an older man’s love for a crusading young woman who dreams of a new egalitarian society. But a secret lurks in the shadows, one that could end their crusade before it begins. Emotionally charged, politically provocative, Ibsen’s haunting ROSMERSHOLM tells of democratic ideals tested by harsh realities, friends turned enemies, and a terrible price yet to be paid. Previews begin November 12, opens November 21.

SPIRIT CONTROL
Adam Wyatt (Jeremy Sisto) has the perfect family and a perfect record as an air traffic controller. But when the pilot of a small plane suffers a heart attack, Adam must talk a terrified passenger through an emergency landing. What happens next will link him inextricably to a woman he’s never met, and set the life he once knew irrevocably adrift. SPIRIT CONTROL is a chilling and mesmerizing look at how we navigate a crisis, and the demons that haunt us long after. Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center: Stage 1. Previews begin October 7, opens October 26.

WINGS
Arthur Kopit’s Tony®-nominated play, WINGS, is a journey through the eyes of Emily Stilson, a 1920’s wingwalker who discovers her life’s journey is a series of courageous adventures, proving that even when her mental self fails her, her daredevil spirit proves unflappable. Directed by John Doyle, starring Jan Maxwell. Second Stage Theatre Previews begin October 5, opens October 24.