Reasons To Get Excited: Broadway's September Openings

Summer is just about over and while to most people that means the beginning of the school year and watching the leaves turn magnificent colors, on Broadway it means it's time for the new season to shift into gear.

There are three limited runs opening on Broadway to get excited about this September. Two of them are set to make you laugh while the other is prepared to amaze your senses.

First to arrive is Grammy-winning stand-up comic Lewis Black, who has made a career out of being angry. This year, with the country in a continual state of turmoil, audiences are more likely to see his point. Black made his Broadway debut with his 2012 show, RUNNING ON EMPTY. Now, with BLACK TO THE FUTURE, which opens on September 12th and plays Monday nights at the Marquis Theatre through Oct 24th, the self-described "pissed-off optimist" plans to take audiences through the current presidential election cycle to see how the heck we got to where we are today. With the unique once-a-week performance schedule, BLACK TO THE FUTURE will be updated for every show.

Here's a taste of Black's take on the recent party conventions on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert."

Innovative director Alex Timbers is accustomed to helming unconventional material like A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN'S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT, BLOODY BLOODY Andrew Jackson and HERE LIVES LOVE, and if there's one word that describes Gil Fazon and George St. Geeland, the comedy creations of Nick Kroll (Comedy Central's "Kroll Show") and John Mulaney (Netflix's "the Comeback Kid"), it's unconventional.

It took only ten years for the outrageously opinionated 70-something New York bachelors to go from the city's underground Comedy Clubs to the stage of the Lyceum Theatre in their new show OH, HELLO on Broadway. Performances begin on September 23rd and the boys have been busy making videos to spread the word.

Conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, THE ENCOUNTER opens on Broadway September 29th at the Golden Theatre after an acclaimed London run and international tour. In telling the true story of a life-changing encounter experienced in 1969 by National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre, audience members are provided with headphones to be worn throughout the performance in order to fully experience the visually stunning world created both onstage and inside their heads.

Viewers are taken on a journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, using binaural technology to build an intimate and shifting world of sound.