Theater Listings for Sept. 27-Oct. 3

Previews and Openings

‘Bad Jews’ (in previews; opens on Thursday) The wonderful Tracee Chimo (“Circle Mirror Tranformation,” “Bachelorette”), as well as Philip Ettinger, Molly Ranson and Michael Zegen, have returned for the remounting of this play, which appeared Off Off Broadway last year at Roundabout Underground’s Black Box Theater. Ms. Chimo gives a sensational performance in Joshua Harmon’s work, portraying a smart, funny and seriously abrasive young woman who is embroiled in a dispute with her cousin over who is entitled to a family heirloom (1:40). Laura Pels Theater at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater, 111 West 46th Street, Manhattan, (212) 719-1300, roundabouttheater.org. (Charles Isherwood)

‘Betrayal’ (previews start on Tuesday; opens on Oct. 27) After his searing revival of “Death of a Salesman” two seasons ago with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mike Nichols returns with another powerhouse cast, this time to dig deep into the deceptions and stinging disclosures of Harold Pinter’s 1978 drama about infidelity. Inspired by the playwright’s own seven-year extramarital affair, it uses reverse chronology to trace the unraveling of the adulterous triangle. The offstage husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz star as the married couple, with Rafe Spall as the interloper. Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 West 47th Street, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. (David Rooney)

‘Big Fish’ (in previews; opens on Oct. 6) Among the season’s more intriguing projects, this musicalization of the 2003 Tim Burton film — about a young man trying to sift through his father’s extremely unreliable stories — garnered rave reviews during its Chicago engagement this spring. Norbert Leo Butz, Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggert lead the cast; Andrew Lippa (“The Addams Family”) wrote the music and lyrics; and Susan Stroman (who gave Mr. Butz his big break in “Thou Shalt Not”) is the director and choreographer. Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (866) 870-2717, bigfishthemusical.com. (Eric Grode)

‘Bike America’ (in previews; opens on Tuesday) Kitchen-sink drama does not appear to be the default mode for Mike Lew, who was last seen giving global finance a madcap spin in 2010’s “Microcrisis.” That was produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company, as is this new piece about a young woman’s cross-country bike trip. This time Mr. Lew has set his play in all 48 contiguous states. Theater at St. Clement’s, 423 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212) 352-3101, ma-yitheatre.org. (Grode)

‘Bronx Bombers’ (in previews; opens on Oct. 8) With football (“Lombardi”) and basketball (“Magic/Bird”) out of the way, Eric Simonson has turned his attention to the great American pastime. And has broadened his scope to cover the entire history of the New York Yankees, from the Babe to Lou to Yogi to the Mick to Reggie to Derek. (If you need last names to make sense of the previous sentence, this is perhaps not the show for you.) The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (646) 223-3010, dukeon42.org. (Grode)

‘The Film Society’ (in previews; opens on Tuesday) The Keen Company has earned a reputation for salvaging nearly forgotten works by the likes of Thornton Wilder and Robert Anderson. Now it is focusing on someone a bit more contemporary: Jon Robin Baitz, who’s still going strong with plays like “Other Desert Cities.” His first New York revival, fittingly, is of his first play produced in New York, a 1988 drama set in a South African school for boys. The company’s artistic director, Jonathan Silverstein, will direct Euan Morton and Roberta Maxwell. Clurman Theater at Theater Row, 410 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200, keencompany.org. (Grode)

‘Fun Home’ (previews start on Monday; opens on Oct. 22) Jeanine Tesori (“Caroline, or Change”) and Lisa Kron (“Well”) have both displayed an original grasp of family dynamics. Following a test-drive as part of last season’s Public Lab series, this new musical with a score by Ms. Tesori and book and lyrics by Ms. Kron gets a full production under the direction of Sam Gold. Based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, the show takes a probing journey with the author, triggered by the sudden death of her father, back through her childhood at the family funeral home. The nine-member ensemble includes Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Beth Malone and Alexandra Socha. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 967-7555, publictheater.org. (Rooney)

‘I Came to Look for You on Tuesday’ (in previews; opens on Monday) Glimpsed through the eyes of a grown woman who survived a tsunami as a child (because of her mother’s sacrifice), this new play by Chiori Miyagawa (“I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour”) uses 8 actors to portray 20 characters who have all suffered similar losses. It draws from salons that Ms. Miyagawi and her director, Alice Reagan, convened over several years on the topic of reunions. La MaMa, 74A East Fourth Street, East Village, (212) 475-7710, lamama.org. (Grode)