TV Article Sutton Foster, Jonathan Groff, and 'Little Shop' coming to Encores! Off-Center By Esther Zuckerman Esther Zuckerman Esther Zuckerman is a former staff writer at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2015. EW's editorial guidelines Published on December 15, 2014 09:43PM EST Photo: Tibrina Hobson/Getty Broadway and TV crossover stars Sutton Foster and Jonathan Groff are returning to the New York stage in the summer for theEncores! Off-Centerseries, which will also feature a one-night-only revival of Little Shop of Horrors starring the original Audrey, Ellen Greene. Groff will star in William Finn’s autobiographical work A New Brain, about a composer diagnosed with a brain tumor. The production will be directed by James Lapine, who wrote the musical’s book with Finn. Foster, meanwhile, will reunite with Joshua Henry, with whom she starred in Broadway’s Violet, for The Wild Party. The Wild Party features music, lyrics, and book by Andrew Lippa and is based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem. Violet also originated at Off-Center. Although all the runs will be extremely limited, with A New Brain and The Wild Party lasting only five performances, Little Shop will be even more so.On July 1, Ellen Greene will return to the role she played onstage and screen in a Dick Scanlan-directed production of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s musical about a man-eating plant.