Theaters Add Dates for ‘Vandal,’ ‘Belleville,’ ‘Passion,’ ‘Really Really’

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Noah Robbins and Deirdre O’Connell in “The Vandal.”

Three Off Broadway theaters announced on Monday that their current productions would add performances because of audience demand after positive reviews from critics, while a fourth theater, the Flea, said that its recent and highly praised production of “The Vandal” would return for an encore run later this month.

The Flea’s move is relatively unusual. Most theaters simply extend the run of productions to keep going when they prove popular, but “The Vandal” closed on Sunday in order to accommodae the schedules of two of its stars: Deirdre O’Connell has a 10-day film shoot this month, and Noah Robbins has midterms at Columbia, where he is a junior. “The Vandal,” a drama written by the actor Hamish Linklater about three people who come together on a freezing night in upstate New York, will return to the Flea for 11 performances from March 22-31.

Carol Ostrow, the producing director of the Flea, said the costs of remounting “The Vandal” were minimal because the small-scale production in the 74-seat theater was relatively inexpensive and did not require a costly load-in of the set, which is spare.

“A theater like the Flea can allow that kind of schedule unlike a larger theater with a larger overhead,” she said. “Also, because the show was so stellar on so many levels, we decided to take a chance to bring it back at any cost.”

Elsewhere, New York Theater Workshop announced that performances for its production of Amy Herzog’s “Belleville,” which opened on Sunday night, would be extended for two additional weeks through April 14. Classic Stage Company is extending its revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical “Passion” by a week, through April 14 as well, while MCC Theater announced a second extension of Paul Downs Colaizzo’s new play “Really Really,” through March 30.