Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages — and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater.
Previews and Openings
‘ADMISSIONS’ at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center Theater (previews start on Feb. 15; opens on March 12). A play of personal statements and professional compromise, Joshua Harmon’s drama centers on the admissions director of a private school whose own son is applying to college. Daniel Aukin directs a cast including Jessica Hecht, Andrew Garman and Ben Edelman.
212-239-6200, lct.org
‘THE LOW ROAD’ at the Public Theater (previews start on Feb. 13; opens on March 7). A freewheeling approach to free market theory, this 50-character picaresque from Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”) is set in the late 18th century and inspired by the theories of Adam Smith. Good thing a drama about unrestrained markets and morally dubious economic modes won’t resonate today. Michael Greif directs.
212-967-7555, publictheater.org
‘QUEENS’ at LCT3 (previews start on Feb. 14; opens on March 5). Martyna Majok (“Cost of Living,” “Ironbound”) writes plays that explore constraint, responsibility and the difficult business of being human. In this new drama, directed by Danya Taymor, female immigrants old and young cram together in a basement apartment in the titular borough.
212-239-6200, lct.org
‘RETURNING TO REIMS’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse (in previews; opens on Feb. 11). Based on a memoir by the French sociologist Didier Eribon, this play stars Nina Hoss (“Homeland”) as an actress recording the commentary track for a documentary about a leftist community’s rightward turn. Directed by Thomas Ostermeier, the piece becomes an increasingly personal meditation on family and politics.
866-811-4111, stannswarehouse.org
Last Chance
‘HE BROUGHT HER HEART BACK IN A BOX’ at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center (closes on Feb. 11). Adrienne Kennedy’s brief, fragmentary play about an interracial romance in the Jim Crow South brings its lovers together and apart for the last time. Ben Brantley called Evan Yionoulis’s production “the most ravishing and organic that a Kennedy dreamscape has ever been given.”
866-811-4111, tfana.org
‘THE HOMECOMING QUEEN’ at Atlantic Stage 2 (closes on Feb. 18). In Ngozi Anyanwu’s drama, directed by Awoye Timpo, a Pulitzer Prize finalist (Mfoniso Udofia) returns to her native Nigeria. Now her trip at the Atlantic comes to an end. As Jesse Green wrote, this play about separation and reunion “wrings all the pleasure possible out of its familiar tropes even as it revamps their meaning entirely.”
866-811-4111, atlantictheater.org
‘LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS’ at Studio 54 (closes on Feb. 25). John Leguizamo’s solo show, an attempt to educate himself and his son about their shared origins, holds its final classes. Jesse Green noted that while the show is a “long and often hilarious parade of injustice,” for the first time in his Broadway career, “Mr. Leguizamo is unable to make a convincing cartoon of himself.”
212-239-6200, LatinHistoryBroadway.com