Roundabout's 2020-2021 Off-Broadway Season to Include New Works by Sanaz Toosi, Lindsey Ferrentino & Anna Ziegler

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced a lineup of three new works set to appear during its 2020-2021 season at the Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. The trio of off-Broadway plays include a world premiere at Roundabout Underground and a pair of New York premieres slated for the Laura Pels Theatre.

The first production is titled English, a new play by Sanaz Toossi (Wish You Were Here) set to make its world premiere at Roundabout's Black Box Theatre in fall of 2020. The play centers on four adult students in an Iran classroom ruled by two words, "English Only," as the students prepare to take the TOEFL—Test of English as a Foreign Language. Chasing fluency through a maze of word games, listening exercises and show-and-tell sessions, they hope that one day English will make them whole.

Planned for the Laura Pels Theatre in the fall of 2020 is the New York premiere The Year to Come by Lindsey Ferrentino (Amy and the Orphans), to be directed by Justin Martin. Set on New Year's Eve, the play explores the various backgrounds and perspectives of an American family who clash even more than they did the previous year. But gathered in their backyard swimming pool, they are safe from the world they fight about.

Closing out Roundabout's off-Broadway season, in winter of 2021, will be The Wanderers, a New York premiere penned by Anna Ziegler (Actually), directed by Barry Edelstein. The play follows newly married Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli, whose future is written in the laws of the Torah. Secular Jew Abe is a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future until an unexpected email from a movie star puts his marriage to the test and threatens to prove him wrong.

Casting and additional creative team for the newly announced productions are forthcoming.