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What shows are about to close in New York City?

Here is the list of upcoming Broadway and major Off-Broadway show closings. Grab tickets before it’s too late!

This list is updated regularly

Closing Sunday, March 30, 2025

CELLINO V. BARNES
Off-Broadway: The Asylum Theatre
Written by Mike B. Breen and David Rafailedes
Directed by Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse
Cast Includes Eric William Morris, Noah Weisberg

Cellino v. Barnes is a darkly comic play following the tumultuous partnership between infamous lawyers Ross Cellino and Steve Barnes, documenting their rise and fall as the top injury attorneys in the country. Through the '90s, 2000s, and 2010s, we witness our pals navigate the ethical ambiguities of the law, grapple with personal demons (and fax machines), and aspire to world domination. They're a couple of bros with big dreams and loose morals, trying to make it in the cut throat world of ambulance chasing

HAVE YOU MET JANE GOODALL AND HER MOTHER?
Off-Broadway: Ensemble Studio Theatre
Written by Michael Walek
Directed by Linsay Firman
Cast Includes Brittany K. Allen, Jordan Donaldson, Kristin Griffith, Tommy Heleringer, Rami Margron

The Tanzanian government allowed Jane Goodall to study chimpanzees in the wild under one condition - she must bring a chaperone. So, Jane invited her mother.

THE JONATHAN LARSON PROJECT
Off-Broadway: Orpheum Theatre
Concept by Jennifer Ashley Tepper
Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Directed by John Simpkins
Cast includes Adam Chanler-Berat, Taylor Iman Jones, Lauren Marcus, Andy Mientus, Jason Tam

The project celebrates the dozens of seldom heard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals, and pop songs found in files and boxes when the visionary writer of Rent died suddenly at the age of 35 in 1996.

THE PRICE
Off-Broadway: Theatre at St. Clement's
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Directed by Noelle McGrath
Cast Includes Bill Barry, Michael Durkin, Janelle Farias Sando, Cullen Wheeler

When the Great Depression cost his family their fortune, Victor Franz gave up his dream of an education to support his father. Three decades later, Victor has returned to his childhood home to sell the remainder of his parents’ estate. His wife, his estranged brother, and the wily furniture dealer hired to appraise their possessions all arrive with their own agendas, forcing Victor to confront a question, long-stifled, about the value of his sacrifice.

SUMO
Off-Broadway: Public Theater/Anspacher Theater
Written by Lisa Sanaye Dring
Directed by Ralph B. Peña
Cast Includes Khris Bona, Red Concepción, Akira Fukui, Michael Hisamoto, Ahmad Kamal, Earl T. Kim, Hank Lin, Haowen Luo 罗浩闻, David Shih, Scott Keiji Takeda, Paco Tolson, Viet Vo

Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn. Expecting validation, dominance, and fame, and desperate to move up the ranks, he slams headlong into his fellow wrestlers. With sponsorship money at stake, their bodies on the line, and their futures at risk, the wrestlers struggle to carve themselves—and one another—into the men they dream of being. 

Closing Thursday, April 5, 2025

DEEP BLUE SOUND
Off-Broadway: Public Theater/Shiva Theater
Written by Abe Koogler
Directed by Arin Arbus
Cast Includes Crystal Finn, Jan Leslie Harding, Mia Katigbak, Maryann Plunkett, Armando Riesco, Danny Wolohan

On an island in the Pacific Northwest, the community gathers to address the disappearance of the local orca pod. Friendships fray, tumors grow, new love blooms, wood is chopped, poems are written. The seasons change. Will the whales ever return?

Closing Friday, April 6, 2025

CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
Off-Broadway: The Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
Written by Sam Shepard
Directed by Scott Elliott
Cast Includes David Anzuelo, Kyle Beltran, Calista Flockhart, Cooper Hoffman, Jeb Kreager, Stella Marcus, Christian Slater

In a farmhouse somewhere in the American West, a family fights for independence and a quick buck. Weston, an alcoholic drifter, scrambles to pay off old debts. His adulterous wife, Ella, is planning to sell the family house, take the kids and leave. Like their farmhouse, the American Dream is falling apart around them.


LIBERATION
Off-Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
Written by Bess Wohl
Directed by Whitney White
Cast Includes Betsy Aidem, Audrey Corsa, Kayla Davion, Susannah Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Charlie Thurston, Adina Verson

It's 1970: somewhere in Ohio, six women meet on a basement basketball court, determined to shake up their lives and change the world. Fifty years later, one of their daughters tries to understand where things fell apart. A provocative, wildly theatrical world premiere that poses vital questions about friendship, legacy, and the true meaning of liberation.

MAYBE TOMORROW
Off-Broadway: A.R.T. New York Theatres - Mezzanine Theatre
Written by Max Mondi
Directed by Chad Austin
Cast Includes Elizabeth A. Davis and Dan Amboyer

Gail and Ben’s nearly ten year relationship appears to be thriving: a new job, a new city, and a baby boy on the way. But as the challenges of reality come to light, they must navigate the complexities of a relationship tested by time. In desperate need of a break, Gail retreats to her pause room; the bathroom of their mobile home. As the outside world slowly slips away from her, we are left to wonder: was it ever there to begin with?

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Off-Broadway: Brooklyn Academy of Music
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Rebecca Frecknall
Cast Includes Paul Mescal, Patsy Ferran, Anjana Vasan

Closing Saturday, April 7, 2025

AMM(I)GONE
Off-Broadway: The Flea Theater
Written by Adil Mansoor
Directed by Adil Mansoor and Lyam B. Gabel
Cast Includes Adil Mansoor

Adil Mansoor is a Virgo Pakistani-American theater queerdo. His mother is an Aquarian hijabi Quranic scholar. Since she discovered Adil’s queerness online, their once-close bond now needs rescue. In Amm(i)gone, a portmanteau of “ammi” (“mother” in Urdu) and the Greek heroine Antigone, Mansoor invites us on a journey of heartbreak and repair between mother and son as they embark on an examination and translation of Sophocles’ Antigone into Urdu. Passionately mining Greek tragedy, Islam, and their own memories, they seek to recover their love across faith.

Closing Sunday, April 13, 2025

AMERIKIN
Off-Broadway: 59E59 Theater A
Written by Chisa Hutchinson
Directed by Jade King Carroll
Cast Includes Daniel Abeles, Molly Carden, Luke Robertson, Tobias Segal, Andrea Syglowski, Amber Reauchean Williams, Victor Williams

In small-town Maryland, Jeff Browning resolves to give his newborn son every possible advantage – by joining a local white supremacist group. When his attempt to join is thwarted by some surprising ancestry test results, the line between “us” and “them” gets incredibly blurry. Jeff scrambles to maintain appearances, but his sanitized story starts to unravel when a prominent Black journalist and his daughter start asking questions.

WINE IN THE WILDERNESS
Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
Written by Alice Childress
Directed by LaChanze
Cast Includes Brooks Brantly, Grantham Coleman, Lakisha Michelle May, Milton Craig Nealy, Olivia Washington

As an uprising rocks his Harlem neighborhood on a hot summer night, artist Bill Jameson is more focused on finishing his latest work: three paintings representing three types of Black womanhood. More than his artistic vision is challenged by the arrival of an unexpected muse, who refuses to be bound by his shallow assumptions of all that Black womanhood can be.

Closing Sunday, April 20, 2025

THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Off-Broadway: St. Ann's Warehouse
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated and Directed by Benedict Andrews
Cast Includes Nina Hoss and Adeel Akhtar

The old order collides with the new as a charming but impractical aristocratic family refuses to face economic reality. This bittersweet tragi-comedy examines the end of the feudal era in Russia and the great changes that would eventually result in Revolution.

MY FIRST EX-HUSBAND
Off-Broadway: MMAC Theatre
Written by Joy Behar
Directed by Randal Mylser
Cast Includes Joy Behar, Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh, Adrienne C. Moore

If half of all marriages end in divorce, then in My First Ex-Husband, women live to laugh about it! Your favorite actors from film, stage and TV will reveal riveting true stories, which will shock, thrill, titillate, and ultimately tug at your heart strings. Audiences will cheer their courage, as they gather the strength to close the door on who they were and open the door to new and exciting adventures that lie ahead. In the world of the play, you’ll meet women married to the mob, to their jobs, to their faith, to money and ultimately to the wrong man. Their stories are your stories…only funnier.

Closing Sunday, April 26, 2025

GHOSTS
Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Mark O'Rowe
Directed by Jack O'Brien
Cast Includes Ella Beatty, Billy Crudup, Levon Hawke, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe

After several years abroad, Helena Alving’s son has returned home. He carries with him a terrifying secret. Ibsen’s Ghosts is a devastating moral thriller in which ideas of love, duty and family are mercilessly put to the test.

Closing Sunday, April 27, 2025

BECOMING EVE
Off-Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop @ The Abrons Arts Center
Written by Emil Weinstein
Directed by Tyne Rafaeli
Cast Includes Tommy Dorfman

A  week before the High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family by building a bridge between orthodoxy and modernity. One of these rabbis is Chava, the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family and destined to become a leader of the next generation before the revelation of her trans identity clashed explosively with the strictly gendered world in which she was raised. As we jump through memory—and wrestle with theology—truths and secrets emerge that ensure no one will read the old stories the same way again.

DRAG: THE MUSICAL
Off-Broadway: New World Stages Stage III
Book, Music, and Lyrics: Justin Andrew Honard, Tomas Costanza, Ashley Gordon
Directed by Spencer Liff
Cast Includes Alaska, Lagoona Bloo, Jujubee, Jan Sport, J. Elaine Marcos, Nick Adams

Two Drag Houses, both alike in indignity, vie for supremacy in a wig-snatching, diva-licious journey of fashion, family, and forgiveness. Leave the lip syncs at the door, darling. Get ready for Drag realness: REAL singing, in a REAL theater, with REAL DRAMA. After their bitter split, fishy queen Alexis Gilmore opened her club, The Fishtank, as glamourpuss Miss Kitty established The Cathouse. Heels click and tensions rise as old wounds are opened and the two clubs fight to survive.

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Off-Broadway: WP Theater
Written by Francisca Da Silveira
Directed by Shariffa Ali
Cast Includes Ato Essandoh, Nedra Marie Taylor, Nimene Sierra Wureh

Diaspora Now!, an international African arts conference, is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee in Paris and the panel line-up this year is sure to cause a stir. Newcomer Sami Monroe, a go-getting directing prodigy from America, joins jaded veteran painter Céza Depina and formerly banned storyteller, Cheikh Malick Diallo. As they prepare for each panel discussion, generational and cultural differences lead to clashes and a fierce competition emerges between the three artists.

Closing Sunday, May 4, 2025

LAST CALL
Off-Broadway: New World Stages Stage V
Written by Peter Danish
Directed by Gil Mehmert
Cast Includes Helen Schneider, Lucca Züchner, Victor Petersen

For half a century, Leonard Bernstein and Herbert Von Karajan were the world's most celebrated figures in classical music – and the fiercest of rivals. Their influence transcended music into popular culture, politics, and almost every facet of the modern landscape. Late in their lives these titans of classical music unexpectedly crossed paths one last time. Inspired by true events, Last Call brings us to Vienna as both men seek to find common ground through their music and their lives over one last drink.

Closing Sunday, May 11, 2025

CONVERSATIONS WITH MOTHER
Off-Broadway: Theater 555
Written by Matthew Lombardo
Directed by Noah Himmelstein
Cast Includes Caroline Aaron and Matt Doyle

Matthew Lombardo’s semi-autobiographical comedy traces the relationship between Italian matriarch Maria Collavechio and her gay son spanning the course of five decades. As they continue to test their lifelong bond, the play depicts the outrageously funny and sometimes completely infuriating dynamic between a domineering mother and her rudderless son. 

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS THE TWENTY-SIDED TAVERN
Off-Broadway: Stage 42
Created by David Andrew Laws, Sarah Reynolds, David Carpenter

The Twenty-Sided Tavern is an improvised quest play. Relying on audience participation, each performance is uniquely tailored to decisions made by audience members on their phones using patented software from Gamiotics. Audience members choose which characters will appear each evening, as well as which paths they will take, and which decisions they will make along the journey. The in-mobile-browser platform does not require any special equipment, instead running on audience members' phones.

GLASS. KILL. WHAT IF IF ONLY. IMP.
Off-Broadway: Public Theater/Martinson Hall
Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by James Macdonald
Cast Includes Japhet Balaban, Ruby Blaut, John Ellison Conlee, Adelind Horan, Maddox Morfit-Tighe, Deirdre O'Connell, Cecilia Ann Popp, Sathya Sridharan, Junru Wang, Ayana Workman

A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A pack of ghosts. And a secret in a bottle. A kaleidoscope of stories, each short play is a testament to playwright Caryl Churchill.

MINDPLAY
Off-Broadway: Greenwich House Theater
Created and Performed by Vinny DePonto
Directed by Andrew Neisler

Created and performed by Drama Desk Award-nominated mentalist Vinny DePonto (Charlatan), written by Vinny DePonto and Josh Koenigsberg, and directed by Andrew Neisler, Mindplay invites audiences to an unforgettable, gasp-inducing experience in which your thoughts and memories play a leading role. Infused with intrigue and mystery, DePonto guides participants on a jaw-dropping, interactive journey as he reads minds while also revealing his own.

VANYA
Off-Broadway: Lucille Lortel Theatre
Written by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Simon Stephens
Directed by Sam Yates
Cast Includes Andrew Scott

A new solo adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about a family beset by secrets, illicit love interests, and deep divides over their burdensome estate.

WE HAD A WORLD
Off-Broadway: New York City Center - Stage II
Written by Joshua Harmon
Directed by Trip Cullman
Cast Includes Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason, Jeanine Serralles

A dying woman calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. “But I want you to promise me something,” she says. “Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible." In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, Joshua Harmon recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love.

Closing Sunday, May 18, 2025

ALL NIGHTER
Off-Broadway: The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Newman Mills Theater
Written by Natalie Margolin
Directed by Jaki Bradley
Cast Includes Tessa Albertson, Kristine Froseth, Kathryn Gallagher, Julia Lester, Havana Rose Liu, Olivia Puckett, Alyah Chanelle Scott

It’s finals week at a small liberal arts college in rural Pennsylvania. A tight-knit group of roommates pull one last all-nighter to complete their final assignments. Holed up in an old ballroom, the pressure mounts and the Adderall flows as the truths that bind this group together are put to the test. What will be left when the sun rises?




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