An east-facing title wave

Three plays launched with Southland premieres will show up at points east in the fall.

Richard Greenberg’s “A Naked Girl on the Appian Way” will open on the Great White Way -- specifically, at the American Airlines Theatre -- on Oct. 6 as the first offering of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 40th anniversary season. The production is to be directed by Doug Hughes, a recent Tony winner for “Doubt.” South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa commissioned and initially produced “Naked Girl” in April.

Roundabout will then move to another South Coast import: Noah Haidle’s “Mr. Marmalade,” which was seen in Costa Mesa in 2004. It will open at the off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre on Nov. 20, staged by former La Jolla Playhouse artistic director Michael Greif.

Martin Benson, artistic director of South Coast, says the theater has no formal partnership with the Roundabout other than friendships and “similar sensibilities.”

Meanwhile, the one-actor “Macbeth (A Modern Ecstasy),” which opened at REDCAT in Los Angeles in December, will move considerably farther east -- to London’s Almeida Theatre -- for 10 performances beginning Oct. 26. Unlike the South Coast exports to New York, “Macbeth” will bring the same team of actor Stephen Dillane, director Travis Preston and a jazz trio led by Vinny Golia that did the show in L.A. They’re also expected to go to two festivals in Australia next year, Preston says.

-- Don Shirley