Elysa Gardner

@elysagardner, USA TODAY

A look at Broadway productions on tap this fall season.

This Is Our Youth (in previews/opens Sept. 11)

Cort Theatre

Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and teen media darling Tavi Gevinson share the stage in the Broadway debut of Kenneth Lonergan's acclaimed play about lost young souls in the '80s. Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County, last season's Of Mice and Men) directs the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production.

You Can't Take It with You(previews begin Tuesday/opens Sept. 28)

Longacre Theatre

James Earl Jones returns to the Main Stem in a revival of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's wacky, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, also featuring Elizabeth Ashley, Rose Byrne, Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots) and Kristine Nielsen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike), under Scott Ellis' direction.

It's Only a Play(previews begin Thursday/opens Oct. 9)

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick join forces again — as showbiz insiders — in an updated version of Terrence McNally's satire, helmed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien. F. Murray Abraham, Stockard Channing, Rupert Grint and Megan Mullally are also in the cast.

The Country House(previews begin Sept. 9/opens Oct. 2)

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

In Donald Margulies' new play, Blythe Danner stars as the matriarch of a clan of creative artists who gather in the Berkshires during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Daniel Sullivan directs the Manhattan Theatre Club's co-production with the Geffen Playhouse (where Country House premiered).

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time(previews begin Sept. 10/opens Oct. 5)

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The National Theatre production of Simon Stephen's play (adapted from Mark Haddon's best-selling novel), which traces a 15-year-old boy's life-altering journey, earned a record-tying seven Olivier Awards, including best new play, on the West End. Recent Juilliard grad Alexander Sharp will star.

Love Letters(previews begin Sept.13/opens Sept. 18)

Brooks Atkinson Theatre​

The new staging of A.R. Gurney's ode to romantic love will feature a succession of celebrity (onstage) couples. Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow star through Oct. 10, followed by Dennehy and Carol Burnett, Alan Alda and Candice Bergen, Stacy Keach and Diana Rigg and, finally, Anjelica Huston and Martin Sheen.

On the Town(previews begin Sept. 20/opens Oct. 16)

Lyric Theatre

John Rando (Urinetown, A Christmas Story: The Musical) directs a new revival of the Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green classic, with choreography by Joshua Bergasse, an Emmy Award winner for Smash. The cast includes New York City Ballet principal dancer Megan Fairchild in her Broadway debut.

Disgraced(previews begin Sept. 27/opens Oct. 23)

Lyceum Theatre

Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows an Upper East Side dinner party, hosted by a successful Muslim-American lawyer and his artist wife, that spins out of control. Hari Dhillon, as the lawyer (a part played at Lincoln Center in 2012 by The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi), is joined by Gretchen Mol, Karen Pittman and Josh Radnor.

The Last Ship(previews begin Sept. 29/opens Oct. 26)

Neil Simon Theatre

Sting joins the growing list of rock stars throwing their hats into the musical-theater ring with a tale inspired by his upbringing in northern England. His creative team includes celebrated stage names Joe Mantello (director), John Logan and Brian Yorkey (book) and Steven Hoggett (choreography).

The Real Thing(previews begin Oct. 2/opens Oct. 30)

American Airlines Theatre

Tom Stoppard's witty, moving reflection on love and art returns to Broadway with Ewan McGregor as an unhappily married playwright, Cynthia Nixon as his actress wife and Maggie Gyllenhaal as the friend with whom he begins an affair. Sam Gold helms the Roundabout Theatre Company revival, also starring Josh Hamilton.

A Delicate Balance (previews begin Oct. 20/opens Nov. 20)

John Golden Theatre

Pam MacKinnon, a Tony winner last year for her shattering production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directs Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Lindsay Duncan, Bob Balaban, Clare Higgins and Martha Plimpton in another of Edward Albee's unsparingly sharp studies of family and human dynamics.

Side Show(previews begin Oct. 28/opens Nov. 17)

St. James Theatre

TV and film director/screenwriter Bill Condon's new take on this musical cult favorite, inspired by the true story of conjoined twins and vaudeville performers Daisy and Violet Hilton, arrives on Broadway after acclaimed runs at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The River (previews begin Oct. 31/opens Nov. 16)

Circle in the Square

Hugh Jackman is back onstage, this time as a fisherman, one of three characters in a new play by Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem, Mojo). Laura Donnelly and Cush Jumbo play the others, and Ian Rickson directs the Royal Court Theatre production, which originated in London (where Dominic West starred).

The Elephant Man (previews begin Nov. 7/opens Dec. 7)

Booth Theatre

Two-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is the latest to tackle the role of a disfigured Englishman, based on the real life of Joseph Merrick, in this revival, introduced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2012. Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola co-star, under Scott Ellis' direction.

Honeymoon in Vegas(previews begin Nov. 18/opens Jan. 15)

Nederlander Theatre

Tony Danza plays a smooth-talking gambler in this new musical, based on the 1992 movie, with a score by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Bridges of Madison County) and a book by Andrew Bergman (films Blazing Saddles, Fletch). Brynn O'Malley plays the younger gal who catches the gambler's eye, with Rob McClure as her beau.

The Illusionists — Witness The Impossible(previews begin Nov. 26/opens Dec. 4)

Marriott Marquis Theatre

The touring magic show makes its first stop on Broadway, bringing with it an "anti-conjuror," an escapologist, a futurist, a trickster and other assorted specialists. The six-week engagement is part of a 30-city national trek.

Constellations (previews begin Dec. 16/opens Jan. 13)

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Jake Gyllenhaal reunites with playwright Nick Payne and director Michael Longhurst, with whom he worked off-Broadway in 2012's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, in the American premiere of Payne's new play. All three men are making their Broadway debuts in the Manhattan Theatre Club production.