This is a schedule of upcoming off-Broadway shows, organized by opening date. To view all off-Broadway shows, upcoming and currently running, check out our off-Broadway listings page
WE ARE YOUR ROBOTS
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• First Preview: November 7, 2024
• Opening: November 24, 2024
• Book and Lyrics: Ethan Lipton
• Music: Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, Ian Riggs
• Director: Leigh Silverman
• Cast: Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, Ian Riggs
A quartet of singer/musicians plays robots who’ve come to the theater to answer the question, “What do humans want from their machines?” We Are Your Robots looks at brain mapping, consciousness, violence, surveillance, and the problem better known as being human.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: November 22, 2024
• Opening: November 25, 2024
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Igor Golyak
• Cast: Richard Topol, Alexandra Silber, Gus Birney, José Espinosa, Tess Goldwyn, Stephen Ochsner, T.R. Knight, Delilah Napier, Noah Pacht, Elan Zafir
The most excellent historie of the Merchant of Venice
with the exxtreame cruelitie of Shylocke the Jewe
This highly entertaining adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, directed by Ukrainian-born, Jewish theater artist Igor Golyak, is a wild ride that takes a startling and tragic turn, leaving the audience stunned and unable to stop the inevitable and unbearable consequences.
WELCOME TO THE BIG DIPPER
• York Theatre Company
• First Preview: November 19, 2024
• Opening: November 26, 2024
• Book: Catherine Filloux, John Daggett
• Music and Lyrics: Jimmy Roberts
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
The Big Dipper, an historic inn nestled in Bigelow, New York, near Niagara Falls, has been in Joan Wilkes’s family for decades and is on the brink of closure when a monster blizzard forces two wildly disparate groups of travelers to shelter in place. For three days and nights, within the walls of this sprawling house, secrets are revealed, young love ignites, and lives are changed forever in this brand-new musical.
THE DEAD, 1904
• The American Irish Historical Society
• First Preview: November 20, 2024
• Opening: November 26, 2024
• Playwright: Paul Muldoon, Jean Hanff Korelitz, adapted from the novella by James Joyce
• Director: Ciarán O’Reilly
• Cast: Kate Baldwin, Christopher Innvar, Úna Clancy, Mary Beth Peil
James Joyce’s novella, “The Dead,” describes a holiday gathering on January 6, 1904, the Feast of the Epiphany, in the Dublin home of two elderly sisters, Kate and Julia Morkan, and their niece, Mary Jane. At the party are students, friends, a celebrated tenor, a lost alcoholic, and the couple, Gabriel and Gretta Conroy. Over the course of an evening, there are conversations, music, dancing, and dining. There are speeches and disagreements – polite and impolite – and when it is all over Gabriel learns something about his wife that changes his sense of who she is and who they are to each other, of what it actually means to be alive, and to be dead.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
• Merchant's House Museum
• Opening: November 26, 2024
• Playwright: Rhonda Dodd and John Kevin Jones, adapted from Charles Dickens
• Director: Rhonda Dodd
• Cast: John Kevin Jones
This holiday season, Summoners Ensemble Theatre and the Merchant’s House Museum celebrate 12 years of A Christmas Carol at the Merchant's House (29 East 4th Street, Manhattan). Surrounded by 19th century holiday decorations, flickering candles, and richly appointed period furnishings, audiences will be transported back 150 years in this captivating 70 minute performance created from Dickens’ own script. Performances run November 26 through December 29.
TENDER NAPALM
• Theaterlab
• First Preview: November 27, 2024
• Opening: December 1, 2024
• Playwright: Philip Ridley
• Director: Rory McGregor
• Cast: Ben Ahlers, Victoria Pendretti
Tender Napalm is a high-impact, high-concept exploration of the relationship between two people and the violent world that surrounds them…and the place where these things meet. Explosive, poetic and brutal, the play weaves a compelling tapestry to re-examine and re-define the language of love…and how that love struggles to survive in the face of catastrophe.
DUALITY
• A.R.T. New York Theatres - Jeffrey And Paula Gural Theatre
• First Preview: December 4, 2024
• Opening: December 11, 2024
• Playwright: Anthony M. Laura
• Director: Anthony M. Laura
• Cast: Caroline Ghosn, Meg Joshi, Brianne Buishas, Candy Dato, Chelsea MacLaren, Courtnie Keaton, Susan Neuffer, Alexandra Rooney, Olivia Haley Young, Emma Davidov, Rheanna Salazar, Sydney Law, Mary Young, Brittany Hernandez, Chloe Joyce, Nour Habbash
Duality tells the story of Camilla Knightley who, while throwing a 75th birthday party for her grandmother, is forced to come to terms with a decade old trauma in the midst of a family gathering.
the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo)
• Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
• First Preview: December 4 2024
• Opening: December 11, 2024
• Playwright: Matt Barbot
• Director: José Zayas
• Cast: Alejandro Hernández, Daniel Colón, Ashley Marie Ortiz, Nate Betancourt, Bobby Román
In 1950, two would-be assassins on a train from New York to Washington, DC discuss their plan to strike in the name of Puerto Rican independence. The lock to their compartment is busted, however, and each time the door swings open they find themselves interrupted by figures out of art and history, reflections of what their country means to them and has meant to the United States. As the borders of their reality begin to shift and their train chugs along, the two must finalize their plan and decide how they want their sacrifice to be remembered.
A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK
• DR2 Theatre
• First Preview: December 6, 2024
• Opening: December 12, 2024
• Playwright: Ken Urban
• Director: Shira Milikowsky
• Cast: McKinley Belcher III, Uly Schlesinger
Set in a hotel room in Amsterdam, A Guide for the Homesick follows Teddy and Jeremy, two Americans drawn together by their shared isolation and haunting secrets. Teddy is seeking companionship for the night, while Jeremy is searching for a moment of distraction. As they open up about their troubled pasts, the narrative shifts between the present and the past, with the two actors portraying four roles.
MINDPLAY
• Greenwich House Theatre
• First Preview: December 15, 2024
• Opening: January 13, 2025
• Playwright: Vinny DePonto, Josh Koenigsberg
• Director: Andrew Neisler
• Cast: Vinny DePonto
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.
SHOW/BOAT: A RIVER
• NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
• First Preview: January 9, 2025
• Opening: January 15, 2025
• Book and Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
• Music: Jerome Kern
• Adaptation: Target Margin Theater
• Director: David Kerskovits
• Cast: Tẹmídayọ Amay, Alvin Crawford, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Suzanne Darrell, Edwin Joseph, J Molière, Steven Rattazzi, Philip Themio Stoddard, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Stephanie Weeks
This new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat reframes the 1927 production for today. From the 1880s to 1927, the United States moved from steamboats to airplanes, from vaudeville to radio, and from the Spanish-moss south to Chicago in the great migration. Show Boat is a story and a national history marred by violent racism, and yet this pivotal work aspires to a better America.
GRANDILOQUENT
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: January 7, 2025
• Opening: January 19, 2025
• Playwright: Gary Gulman
• Director: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
• Cast: Gary Gulman
Grandiloquent is Gary Gulman’s hilarious new show about insecurity, empathy, self-acceptance and how a thoughtful boy learned to use humor, reading and writing to cope with the consequences of his parents’ blunders. Learn why a seemingly confident middle-aged man feels most comfortable in a large room where a thousand strangers are laughing at him
THE ANTIQUITIES
• Playwrights Horizons/The Judy Theater
• Opening: January 20, 2025
• Playwright: Jordan Harrison
• Directors: David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan
• Cast: TBA
At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did they die out? By casting us into the far future, Jordan Harrison’s new play gives us an uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come.
I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN
• Atlantic Theater Company/Stage 2
• First Preview: January 8, 2025
• Opening: January 21, 2025
• Playwright: Mona Pirnot
• Director: Ken Rus Schmoll
• Cast: David Greenspan
One 68-year-old man plays four millennial women in a comedy (full of drama) about how to make a living as a playwright (or to try.)
HENRY IV
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• Opening: January 25, 2025
• Playwright: William Shakespeare, adapted by Dakin Matthews
• Director: Eric Tucker
• Cast: TBA
Dakin Matthews’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts i and ii into a single three-act play covering Bolingbroke’s turbulent reign. In these beloved and gripping epic history plays from the 1590s, Shakespeare explores timeless questions about legitimate authority and how the private lives of rulers conflict with their public lives. A king beset with nagging doubts about his means of acquiring power frets over the dissolute habits of his wastrel son. Who will prove worthy? How is worthiness measured? No characters the Bard ever created are more vivid or indelible than the ones carousing, warring, sniping, and mercilessly tricking one another in these sweeping dramas about civil war.
A KNOCK ON THE ROOF
• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: January 10, 2025
• Opening: January 27, 2025
• Playwright: Khawla Ibraheem
• Director: Oliver Butler
• Cast: Khawla Ibraheem
Set the timer. The everyday existence of a mother during a sweltering summer vacation: prepare meals, pack the bag, run the drill, repeat. With a dry wit and the determination of an Olympian, Mariam meticulously practices for the run of her life—the dreaded knock on the roof.
GRIEF CAMP
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: January 9, 2025
• Opening: January 28, 2025
• Playwright: Eliya Smith
• Director: Les Waters
• Cast: Arjun Athalye, Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Jack DiFalco, Alden Harris-McCoy, Renée-Nicole Powell, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Lark White, Danny Wolohan, Amalia Yoo
It’s summer in Hurt, Virginia, where a lone cabin fills each year with campers. There’s homecooked breakfast and an army of box fans and lots of shifting in the dark. Welcome to Grief Camp: a study of loss and adolescence.
URINETOWN THE MUSICAL
• New York City Center
• Opening: February 5, 2024
• Book and Lyrics: Greg Kotis
• Music and Lyrics: Mark Hollman
• Director: Teddy Bergman
• Cast: Jordan Fisher, Taran Killam, Keala Settle, Stephanie Styles
In this Tony-winning musical, presented by Encores!, nothing is safe from criticism — capitalism, politics, the establishment, the anti-establishment, and even musical theater itself!
GRANGEVILLE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: February 4, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Samuel D. Hunter
• Director: Jack Serio
• Cast: Brendan Fraser, Brian J. Smith
Across a void of thousands of miles and oceans of hurt, two half-brothers tentatively reconnect over the care of their ailing mother. Grangeville is a new play about the fallibility of memory, the stories we tell to make sense of our suffering, and the complexity of forgiveness.
GARSIDE'S CAREER
• Theatre Four at Theatre Row
• First Preview: February 1, 2025
• Opening: February 20, 2025
• Playwright: Harold Brighouse
• Director: Matt Dickson
• Cast: Daniel Marconi
Garside's Career tells the story of Peter Garside’s soaring flight from working engineer to member of Parliament, propelled by a ‘silver tongue’ and an insatiable fascination with his power to persuade. Mint Theater Company’s production will be the New York Premiere.
LIBERATION
• Roundabout Theatre Company / Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: January 31, 2025
• Opening: February 20, 2025
• Playwright: Bess Wohl
• Director: Whitney White
• Cast: TBA
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.
THE GREAT PRIVATION
• Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• Opening: February 26, 2025
• Playwright: Nia Akilah Robinson
• Director: Evren Odcikin
• Cast: TBA
1832: a mother and daughter stand vigil behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. Today, on the same grounds: another mother and daughter (alike yet not the same) work as counselors at what is now a sleep-away camp. Timelines collide, unearthing our nation’s long history of harm in the name of scientific advancement at the cost to Black bodies.
DAKAR 2000
• New York City Center - Stage I
• First Preview: February 4, 2025
• Opening: February 27, 2025
• Playwright: Rajiv Joseph
• Director: May Adrales
• Cast: Abubakr Ali, Mia Barron
In Senegal on the eve of Y2K, an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer survives a mysterious car accident. An imposing State Department operative arrives at his hospital where she immediately takes command of the situation and his safety. Though they couldn’t be more different, they form an unlikely relationship. But when it becomes clear that they both have secrets, the volunteer is roped into a darker side of public service – one he can’t come back from.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
• Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Opening: February 28, 2025
• Playwright: Tennessee Williams
• Director: Rebecca Frecknall
• Cast: Paul Mescal, Anjana Vasan, Patsy Ferren, Dwane Walcott
Paul Mescal stars in this gritty revival of Tennessee Williams’s blistering masterpiece.
SUMO
• The Public Theater/Anspacher Theater
• First Preview: February 20, 2025
• Opening: March 5, 2025
• Playwright: Lisa Sanaye Dring
• Director: Ralph B. Peña
• Cast: 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.
DEEP BLUE SOUND
• The Public Theater/Shiva Theater
• First Preview: February 25, 2025
• Opening: March 6, 2025
• Playwright: Abe Koogler
• Director: Arin Arbus
• Cast: 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?
GHOSTS
• Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
• First Preview: February 13, 2025
• Opening: March 10, 2025
• Playwright: Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Mark O'Rowe
• Director: Jack O'Brien
• Cast: TBA
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.
AMERIKIN
• Primary Stages @ 59E59 Theater A
• First Preview: March 1, 2025
• Opening: March 11, 2025
• Playwright: Chisa Hutchinson
• Director: Jade King Carroll
• Cast: TBA
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.
VANYA
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: March 11, 2025
• Opening: March 18, 2025
• Playwright: Anton Chekhov, adapted by Simon Stephens
• Director: Sam Yates
• Cast: 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
• MTC @ New York City Center - Stage II
• First Preview: February 25, 2025
• Opening: March 19, 2025
• Playwright: Joshua Harmon
• Director: Trip Cullman
• Cast: 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.
WINE IN THE WILDERNESS
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: March 6, 2025
• Opening: March 24, 2025
• Playwright: Alice Childress
• Director: LaChanze
• Cast: Olivia Washington, Tramell Tillman
Fortune has smiled on artist Bill Jameson – his friends just introduced him to a model for the final piece of his triptych on Black womanhood. But this woman, Tomorrow Marie, is no mere muse, and she’s about to give Bill much more than he bargained for.
LET'S LOVE
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: March 19, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Ethan Coen
• Director: Neil Pepe
• Cast: TBA
Let’s Love! is a comedy, a trio of one acts, that explores love in all its miserable glory. The world is a confusing place and we are a confused people. But it’s easier to be confused together, so—let’s love!
LOVE LIFE
• New York City Center
• Opening: March 26, 2024
• Book and Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
• Music: Kurt Weill
• Director: Victoria Clark
• Cast: Kate Baldwin, Nicholas Christopher, John Edwards, Sara Jean Ford, Clarke Thorell
Love Life, the only collaboration between Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner, depicts a love story that takes place over 200 years of American history, through the eyes of a couple who never ages. This rarely staged production, presented by Encores!, explores the epic and intimate aspects of a marriage through a juxtaposition of heartfelt scenes and satirical vaudeville acts.
THE SWAMP DWELLERS
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• Opening: March 30, 2025
• Playwright: Wole Soyinka
• Director: Awoya Timpo
• Cast: TBA
An ageing couple living on chronically flooded land, awaiting one of their twin sons from the city, is visited by a complacent Yoruba holy man and a blind Muslim beggar who trigger a terrible crisis of faith and trust. Corrupt religion, family betrayal, environmental disaster, post-colonial exploitation, urban modernity encroaching on rural tradition: the themes of this searing and heartbreaking drama are both timeless and palpably contemporary.
GLASS. KILL. WHAT IF IF ONLY. IMP.
• The Public Theater/Martinson Theater
• First Preview: April 3, 2025
• Opening: April 16, 2025
• Playwright: Caryl Churchill
• Director: James Macdonald
• Cast: TBA
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 how playwright Caryl Churchill. James Macdonald directs these wildly inventive new works. The Public’s production marks the first time all four plays will be presented together in North America.
BOWL EP
• Vineyard Theatre
• Opening: April 17, 2025
• Playwright: Nazareth Hassan
• Director: Nazareth Hassan
• Cast: TBA
Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares, and practicing their ollies, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcizing a demon. With live skating and original music, enter Bowl EP: a skate park, in the middle of a wasteland, at the edge of the galaxy.
WONDERFUL TOWN
• New York City Center
• Opening: April 30, 2024
• Book: Jerome Chodorov and Joseph A. Fields
• Music: Leonard Bernstein
• Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
• Director: Zhailon Levingston
• Cast: TBA
Presented by Encores!, Wonderful Town tells the story of two sisters in 1935 who move from Ohio to Greenwich Village to pursue their artistic dreams and maybe find love along the way. Ruth, an aspiring writer, and Eileen, an aspiring actress, encounter an assortment of colorful characters as they strive and sing to delightful tunes by the great Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by legendary musical-comedy duo Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
GODDESS
• The Public Theater/Newman Theater
• First Preview: April 29, 2025
• Opening: May 20, 2025
• Book: Jocelyn Bioh
• Music and Lyrics: Michael Thurber
• Director: Saheem Ali
• Cast: Nick Rashad Burroughs, Melessie Clark, Amber Iman, Arica Jackson, J Paul Nicholas, Teshomech Olenja, Destinee Rea, Awa Sal Secka, Austin Scott, Reggie D. White
A mysterious singer arrives at Moto Moto, a steamy Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya. She casts an entrancing spell on everyone, including a young man who has returned home from studying in America. Will the big plans for his life—stepping into a political legacy and marrying his fiancée—be upended?
A FREEKY INTRODUCTION
• Atlantic Theater Company/Stage 2
• First Preview: May 16, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: NSangou Njikam
• Director: Dennis A. Allen II
• Cast: NSangou Njikam, DJ Monday Blue
EVERYBODY SAY YEAH! Everybody talks about freedom, but few know how to get there. That’s because they don’t know their Freek. Fear not, Freeky Dee is here with a mix of poetry, ministry, and magic…plus I got a DJ with me. Together, we’ll move you past your fears and doubts to bring your inner Freek all the way out! You wanna get free? Then come get your Freek on!
CHIAROSCURO
• The Flea Theater
• Opening: May 26, 2025
• Playwright: Aishah Rahman
• Director: abigail jean-baptiste
• Cast: TBA
Chiaroscuro written by Black Arts Movement writer Aishah Rahman, is named after the Italian artistic term referring to a stark contrast between dark and light. The play explores the social implications of such contrast as it relates skin color, specifically within the Black community. The play is set on a love boat-type cruise ship for Black singles where "pretty" means light-skinned, all the men are dark, and Papa Legba, the African trickster spirit, is disguised as a ship steward.
LOWCOUNTRY
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: May 29, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Abby Rosebrock
• Director: Jo Bonney
• Cast: TBA
When Tally, a down-and-out actress and gig worker, returns to her rural hometown, she swipes right on a disgraced high-school teacher fresh out of an ankle bracelet. Lowcountry is a dark, twisted romcom about the psychic distress of looking for love in the digital age and the carceral state.
