British Romance, Carrie Coon in “Bug”

Winter falls softly on Broadway; and so only a few shows are tiptoeing in after the autumn rush. The two-person British musical “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” (Longacre; begins previews Nov. 1), written by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, hops across the pond hoping to make a romantic splash; the great June Squibb appears in Jordan Harrison's 2014 wistful sci-fi drama “Marjorie Prime” (Hayes; Nov. 20); the short-story writer Simon Rich's anthology show “All Out: Comedy About Ambition” features a rotating suite of big-name comedians (Nederlander; Dec. 12); and the revival of “Bug,” Tracy Letts's 1996 thriller, stars Namir Smallwood and the incredible Carrie Coon, who is scratching her theatre itch after too long away (Friedman; Dec. 17).

- By Helen Shaw

Off Broadway, beloved actors appear in familiar tales: Michael Urie plays the deposed “Richard II” (Astor Place Theatre; in previews, opens Nov. 10), in Craig Baldwin's Shakespeare adaptation, and the playwright Alex Lin modernizes a different Shakespeare tragedy for “Laowang: A Chinatown King Lear” (59E59; Nov. 1), featuring the tremendous Wai Ching Ho as a restaurateur in a succession crisis. Nicholas Braun and the two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young star in Rajiv Joseph's 2012 toxic-relationship drama, “Gruesome Playground Injuries” (Lucille Lortel; Nov. 7); Lucas Hnath's version of Molière's “Tartuffe” features beaucoup Tony awardees, including Matthew Broderick and Francis Jue (New York Theatre Workshop; Nov. 28); and the five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams sails into Eugene O’Neill’s toughest romance, the 1921 “Anna Christie” (St. Ann’s Warehouse; Nov. 25).