Cast members, dates, and a theater have been announced for the upcoming Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s beloved Our Town, to be directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon (Purlie Victorious, A Raisin in the Sun). Previews will begin Sept. 14 at the Barrymore Theater prior to an Oct. 10 opening.

The 28-member cast will be led by Emmy, Golden Globe & Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”) as “Stage Manager”, Zoey Deutch as “Emily Webb”, Katie Holmes (All My Sons) as “Mrs. Webb”, Obie & Audelco Award-winner and Drama Desk-nominee Billy Eugene Jones (Purlie Victorious, Fat Ham) as “Dr. Gibbs”, Tony & Grammy Award-nominee Ephraim Sykes (Ain’t Too Proud) as “George Gibbs”, Tony & Drama Desk Award-nominee and Emmy-Award-winner Richard Thomas (“The Waltons,” Race) as “Mr. Webb”, Tony & Drama Desk-nominee Michelle Wilson (Sweat, Confederates) as “Mrs. Gibbs”, 2021 Special Tony Award-winner and Drama Desk-nominee Julie Halston (Tootsie, You Can’t Take it With You) as “Mrs. Soames”, Donald Webber Jr. as “Simon Stimpson”, as well as Ephie Aardema, Heather Ayers, Willa Bost, Bobby Daye, Safiya Kaijya Harris, Doron JéPaul, Shyla Lefner, Anthony Michael Lopez, John McGinty, Bryonha Marie, Kevyn Morrow, Hagan Oliveras, Noah Pyzik, Sky Smith, Bill Timoney, Matthew Elijah Webb and Nimene Sierra Wureh.  The final two cast members will be announced at a later date.

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OCC Noms: The nominations for the Outer Critics Circle Awards will be announced on April 23 at the Museum of Broadway by Merrily We Roll Along stars Daniel Radcliffe, Lindsay Mendez, and Jonathan Groff. The winners will be announced by press release on May 13 and the awards will be presented in a live ceremony on May 23 at the Lincoln Center Library’s Bruno Walter Auditorium.

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2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar (and Beyond)

Spring 2024
April 5–Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)
April 11–The Outsiders (Jacobs)
April 11–Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)
April 12–Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)
April 14–Lempicka (Longacre)
April 15–MAC Awards (Peter Norton Symphony Space)
April 16–Sally & Tom (Public Theater)
April 17–The Wiz (Marquis)
April 18–Suffs (Music Box)
April 19–Stereophonic (Golden)
April 20–Hell’s Kitchen (Shubert)
April 20/21–Cabaret (August Wilson)
April 22–The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)
April 22–Patriots (Barrymore)
April 22–Outer Critics Circle nominations announced
April 22–Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)
April 23–Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) 
April 24–Illinoise (St. James)
April 24–Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 25–Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)
April 25–The Great Gatsby (Broadway)
April 26–Chita Rivera Award nominations announced
April 29–Drama Desk Award nominations announced
April 30–Tony Nominations Announced
April 30–Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)
May 2–Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)
May 5–Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)
May 13–Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)
May 13–Outer Critics Circle winners announced
May 17–Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)
May 20–Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)
May 23–Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony
May 28–Ben Platt at the Palace
Summer 2024
June 5–Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
June 10–Drama Desk Awards
June 10–Theater World Awards
June 12–The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)
June 12–Titanic (Encores/City Center)
June 16–Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)
June 20–Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)
TBA–All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)
Aug. 15–Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song (Hayes)
Fall 2024
Oct. 10-Our Town (Barrymore)
Oct. 20–Sunset Boulevard (St. James)
Nov. 11–What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)
Nov. 14–Tammy Faye (Palace)
The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)
Left on Tenth
Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Winter 2024-25
English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
2024-25
My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?)
Our Town
Smash
Spring 2025
Othello
The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
Future–Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love–The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen’s Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Queen of Versailles; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Working Girl.

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2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:

New Plays:
The Cottage
Grey House
I Need That
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Mother Play
Patriots
Prayer for the French Republic
The Shark Is Broken
Stereophonic
New Musicals:
Back to the Future
Days of Wine and Roses
The Great Gatsby
Harmony
The Heart of Rock and Roll
Hell’s Kitchen
How to Dance in Ohio
Illinoise
Lempicka
The Notebook
Once Upon a One More Time
The Outsiders
Suffs
Water for Elephants

Play Revivals:
Appropriate
Doubt: A Parable
An Enemy of the People
Mary Jane
Purlie Victorious
Uncle Vanya
Musical Revivals:
Cabaret
Gutenberg! The Musical
Here Lies Love
Merrily We Roll Along
Monty Python’s Spamalot
The Who’s Tommy
The Wiz
Solos/Specialties:
Alex Edelman: Just for Us
Melissa Etheridge: My Window

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This article was first published in TheaterLife.com and CulturalDaily.com, 4/24