What We Think Will Be Big

Freestyle Love Supreme

(Booth Theatre; previews 9/13)

Before there was Hamilton, there was Freestyle Love Supreme, an improvisational music group created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Thomas Kail, and

Anthony Veneziale. The evening is essentially a casual hang, with the promise of “spontaneous and unannounced guests.”

The Sound

(Inside Studio 54; previews 9/14)

Mary-Louise Parker returns to Broadway for—what else?—a harrowing interior drama in which she plays a professor who becomes uncomfortably close to a student.

Linda Vista

(Helen Hayes Theater; previews 9/19)

One of two Tracy Letts productions on Broadway this season (alongside The

Minutes, premiering in February), this is a dark comedy about a 50-year-old man (Ian Barford) trying to recover from a divorce.

Soft Power

(Public Theater; 9/24–11/3)

Imagine The King and I but with all the sweeping cultural assumptions reversed. That’s what David Henry Hwang (M.

Butterfly) set out to do with this musical, which depicts contemporary America from China’s point of view.

Cyrano

(Daryl Roth Theatre; previews 10/11)

Peter Dinklage arrives in town from Game

of Thrones–land to sing in a musical version of Edmond Rostand’s 19th-century classic, with music from members of the National.

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

(Lunt-Fontanne Theater; previews 10/12)

In the footsteps of Cher and Donna Summer and many others, Tina Turner gets her own bio-musical, a form that’s practically its own genre at this point. Watch out for star Adrienne Warren, who earned an Olivier nomination for the part in London.

Jagged Little Pill

(Broadhurst Theatre; previews 11/3)

Alanis Morissette’s songs are reassembled into an original story, written by Diablo Cody, about a family going through some seriously dark times. Think Mamma Mia! but gritty.

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