Naomi Iizuka teams with director Les Waters to present a new and updated production of her play At the Vanishing Point, beginning performances January 27 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Following productions in Minneapolis and at Chicago's Goodman Theater, Tracey Scott Wilson's latest play Buzzer is set to make its New York Premiere at the Public Theater in the spring of 2015, directed by Anne Kauffman. The dark comedy explores racial tension in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn.

The New York Times Book Review describes Jeffery Renard Allen's The Song of the Shank as a "masterly new novel" that "sagely explores themes of religion, class, art and genius... resulting in the kind of imaginative work only a prodigiously gifted risk-taker could produce." The book, which blends fact and fantasy, revolves around slave and musical genius Blind Tom.

The Oldest Boy, the World Premiere by Sarah Ruhl that Variety has described as "extremely imaginative and hypnotically beautiful," began performances at Lincoln Center on November 3 and continues through December 28.

Forever, a new autobiographical show conceived and performed by Dael Orlandersmith, is set to begin performances at the New York Theatre Workshop on April 22, 2015, following a Los Angeles run described by the L.A. Times as "a harrowing memoir with no Hollywood ending."

Eleveda, a new comedy by Sheila Callaghan about dating, social media, relationships, and singlehood, is set to begin performances at Yale Rep on April 24 in a Word Premiere production directed by Jackson Gay.

Sheila Callaghan's Everything You Touch opens in a World Premiere co-production between The Theatre @ Boston Court and New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. This vicious new comedy about the fashion industry played in Boston in April and May of 2014, and opens in New York on January 28 at the Cherry Lane.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph's Guards at the Taj as part of their current season. The play, set in 17th century India right after the construction of the Taj Mahal, begins performances in the spring of 2015.

The Qualms by Bruce Norris is to have its New York premiere in May of 2015 at Playwrights Horizons, following its world premiere last July at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Pam McKinnon returns to direct the new comedy about suburban spouse-swapping.

Playwrights Horizons has announced the world premiere of Melissa James Gibson's Placebo, a comedy set in a lab testing a new female arousal drug. The Off-Broadway production begins performances February 20, 2015.