The good news is official now: Geoffrey Nauffts’s moving and well-observed Next Fall, a Naked Angels production that ran upstairs at Playwrights Horizons this summer, will open at Broadway’s intimate Helen Hayes Theatre on March 11 with its Off Broadway cast intact—led by Patrick Breen and Patrick Heusinger as a gay couple divided by faith and fate. In this regard, the show is bucking the emerging conventional wisdom that declares a matinee-name star to be absolutely necessary for the success of a straight play on Broadway. Here’s your chance to rattle that dangerous notion: When tickets go on sale here on November 16, buy a pair and enjoy one of the year’s best plays—we reviewed it here—as performed by the right cast for the job.









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