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.
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, Brian Stokes Mitchell, 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.
I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN
• Atlantic Theater Company/Atlantic Stage 2
• First Preview: March 29, 2025
• Opening: April 6, 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.)
THE SWAMP DWELLERS
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• Opening: March 30, 2025
• Playwright: Wole Soyinka
• Director: Awoya Timpo
• Cast: Ato Blankson-Wood, Leon Addison Brown, Joshua Echebiri, Jenny Jules, Jason Maina, Chiké Okonkwo, Olawale Oyenola
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.
ACCORDING TO HOWARD
• York Theatre Company @ The Theatre at St. Jean's
• Opening: April 5, 2025
• Book and Lyrics: Frank Evans
• Music: Jim Scully
• Director: Jennifer Paulson-Lee
• Cast: Christine DiGiallonardo, Michael Dikegoros, Matthew Eby, David Elder, Eric Michael Gillett, Michael Halling, Candice Hatakeyama, Michelle Beth Herman, Mya Ison, James Judy, Gina Milo, Jill Paice, Haley Swindal, Josh Tower
Through a score reminiscent of the golden age of Broadway, According to Howard delves into the unique life and times of one of the most fascinating individuals of the 20th Century, a human being who shaped the world of aviation, film, business, and Hollywood gossip: Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
GRIEF CAMP
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: April 5, 2025
• Opening: April 22, 2025
• Playwright: Eliya Smith
• Director: Les Waters
• Cast: Arjun Athalye, Grace Brennan, Jack DiFalco, Dominic Gross, Alden Harris-McCoy, Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Renée-Nicole Powell, Lark White, Danny Wolohan
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.
ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD
• DR2 Theatre
• First Preview: March 27, 2025
• Opening: April 7, 2025
• Playwright: Patrick Bringley
• Director: Dominic Dromgoole
• Cast: Patrick Bringley
While looking for somewhere to contemplate his life and heal from his brother’s death, Patrick quits his high-profile journalism career and seeks refuge in the most beautiful place he can think of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through his job as a Museum guard, Patrick starts his life anew, all while falling under the spell of the place and the people he meets there.
BECOMING EVE
• New York Theatre Workshop at the Abrons Arts Center
• First Preview: March 19, 2025
• Opening: April 7, 2025
• Playwright: Emil Weinstein
• Director: Tyne Rafaeli
• Cast: Tommy Dorfman, Judy Kuhn, Tedra Millan, Rad Pereira, Justin Perkins, Richard Schiff, Brandon Uranowitz, Emma Wiseman
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.
IRISHTOWN
• Irish Repertory Theatre/Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
• First Preview: April 2, 2025
• Opening: April 13, 2025
• Playwright: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
• Director: Nicola Murphy Dubey
• Cast: Kate Burton, Roger Clark, Saoirse Monica Jackson, Kevin Oliver Lynch, Brenda Meaney, Angela Reed
The Irishtown Players, a celebrated Dublin-based theatre company, have just started rehearsals for their new play. After the astounding success of their last production, the company are scheduled to open on Broadway, with the same visionary playwright at the helm. However, trouble arises when the actors decide she’s going too dark, too experimental, and… not Irish enough? Taking matters into their own hands, the company fights to restore the Hibernian flair.
MINOR•ITY
• WP Theater
• First Preview: March 29, 2025
• Opening: April 14, 2025
• Playwright: francisca da silveira
• Director: Shariffa Ali
• Cast: 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.
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
• Keen Company @ Theatre Row
• First Preview: March 25, 2025
• Opening: April 15, 2025
• Book, Music and Lyrics: Adam Gwon
• Director: Jonathan Silverstein
• Cast: Eliza Pagelle, Jon-Michael Reese, Matt Rodin, Elizabeth Stanley
As a gay high school teacher in small-town 1990s America, Ricky Alleman knows exactly what part he needs to play. When an offbeat student enlists his help to win a statewide theater competition, his efforts tangle with the local church, and Ricky's carefully compartmentalized life starts to unravel. All the World's a Stage is a brand new musical about making connections and being true to ourselves, even in a polarized world.
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: 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. 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.
CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN
• Theatre at St. Clement's
• First Preview: April 11, 2025
• Opening: April 18, 2025
• Playwright: Lonne Elder III
• Director: Clinton Turner Davis
• Cast: Norm Lewis
A 1960's floundering Harlem barbershop is the setting and the cauldron of action that leads to tragic consequences.
HOLD ME IN THE WATER
• Playwrights Horizons/The Judy Theater
• First Preview: April 10, 2025
• Opening: April 23, 2025
• Playwright: Ryan J. Haddad
• Director: Danny Sharron
• Cast: Ryan J. Haddad
When Ryan falls for a man he just met, he’s ready for the romance of his dreams. But as their connection grows, Ryan learns that new heights of joy can bring deep insecurities to the surface. Disarmingly vulnerable and playfully provocative, Hold Me in the Water is a funny and tender solo play about the passion and intimacy of first love.
WONDERFUL TOWN
• New York City Center
• Opening: April 30, 2025
• Book: Jerome Chodorov and Joseph A. Fields
• Music: Leonard Bernstein
• Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
• Director: Zhailon Levingston
• Cast: Anika Noni Rose, Aisha Jackson, Jimmy Ray Bennett, Etai Benson, Allison Blackwell, DeWitt Fleming Jr., Jessie Hooker-Bailey, Javier Muñoz, Fergie Phillippe, John Rapson, Daniel Torres
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.
FIVE MODELS IN RUINS, 1981
• Lincoln Center Theater/Claire Tow Theater
• First Preview: April 19, 2025
• Opening: May 5, 2025
• Playwright: Caitlin Saylor Stephens
• Director: Morgan Green
• Cast: Stella Everett, Elizabeth Marvel, Maia Novi, Britne Oldford, Sarah Marie Rodriguez, Madeline Wise
Roberta, a visionary fashion photographer, lands the gig of a lifetime - the cover of Vogue - but quickly learns it could be her downfall. Location is a nightmare. The models are vicious. Hair and makeup is MIA. And the cigarette supply is running dangerously low. As chaos escalates, Roberta must summon her strength and find the perfect light to capture a moment of beauty in a brutal world.
THE BLACK WOLFE TONE
• Irish Repertory Theatre/W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre
• First Preview: May 1, 2025
• Opening: May 8, 2025
• Playwright: Kwaku Fortune
• Director: Nicola Murphy Dubey
• Cast: Kwaku Fortune
The Black Wolfe Tone is a thrilling new play about identity, raging against the machine, and how young men deal or don’t deal with the darkness. A fast-paced journey that interrogates our culture of silence, the mind, and growing up mixed race in Ireland. At its heart, it’s about a young boy seeking forgiveness: the inner child wanting only to be acknowledged, loved, and held.
THE LAST BIMBO OF THE APOCALYPSE
• The New Group @ The Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: April 22, 2025
• Opening: May 13, 2025
• Book, Music and Lyrics: Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
• Director: Rory Pelsue
• Cast: Patrick Nathan Falk, Keri René Fuller, Sara Gettelfinger, Luke Islam, Milly Shapiro, Natalie Walker
In 2006, The New York Post infamously labeled Paris, Lindsay and Britney “The Three Bimbos of the Apocalypse.” But who is the fourth girl in that famous photo? Today, three Gen Z internet sleuths investigate that icon – Coco, an early 2000’s one-hit wonder who mysteriously vanished. Their epic musical quest leads them to uncover the truth, deliver justice and rewrite pop history.
BUS STOP
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: May 8, 2025
• Opening: May 18, 2025
• Playwright: William Inge
• Director: Jack Cummings III
• Cast: Delphi Borich, Rajesh Bose, Cindy Cheung, Midori Francis, David Lee Huynh, Dorcas Leung, Michael Hsu Rosen, David Shih, Moses Villarama
On a snowy night in Kansas, a diner can be an oasis, a prison, a place to hide, or a place to discover yourself. When a bus is forced to take shelter from stormy weather outside, a mismatched group of dreamers and cowboys, waitresses and outcasts find unexpected warmth in one another.
BOWL EP
• Vineyard Theatre
• First Preview: May 1, 2025
• Opening: May 18, 2025
• Playwright: Nazareth Hassan
• Director: Nazareth Hassan
• Cast: Essence Lotus, Oghenero Gbajge, Felicia Curry
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.
LIGHTS OUT: NAT "KING" COLE
• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: April 30, 2025
• Opening: May 19, 2025
• Playwrights: Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor
• Director: Patricia McGregor
• Cast: Dulé Hill, Daniel J. Watts, Krystal Joy Brown, Kathy Fitzgerald, Christopher Ryan Grant, Ruby Lewis, Elliott Mattox, Kenita Miller, Mekhi Richardson, Walter Russell III
Despite being the voice that built Capitol Records, Nat “King” Cole's groundbreaking television show was rejected by Madison Avenue, unwilling to sponsor America’s first black television host. Now, on the night of his final broadcast, Nat must grapple with the complexities of his psyche, personified by his best friend and alter-ego, Sammy Davis Jr., and decide whether to quietly step out of the spotlight or go out with a bang.
GODDESS
• The Public Theater/Newman Theater
• First Preview: April 29, 2025
• Opening: May 20, 2025
• Book: James Ijames
• 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?
EURYDICE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: May 13, 2025
• Opening: June 2, 2025
• Playwright: Sarah Ruhl
• Director: Les Waters
• Cast: Maya Hawke, Brian d'Arcy James, Caleb Eberhardt, Maria Elena Ramirez, Jon Norman Schneider, David Ryan Smith, T. Ryder Smith
In life, Eurydice loves books…and a great musician. One of the few heroines who dies twice, she falls to the underworld on her wedding day. In death, she reunites with her father and remembers her life again. Les Waters directs an innovative reimagining of one of Sarah Ruhl’s most beloved plays, inspired by a classic myth.
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: June 4, 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.
THE IMAGINARY INVALID
• New World Stages/Stage 5
• First Preview: May 21, 2025
• Opening: June 2, 2025
• Playwright: Molière
• Director: Jesse Berger
• Cast: Mark Linn-Baker, Sarah Stiles, Arnie Burton, Russell Daniels, Manoel Felciano, Emilie Kouatchou, Emily Swallow, John Yi
In Molière’s best loved comedy, Monsieur Argan is a notorious hypochondriac whose nonexistent illnesses blind him to the con men and women (his new wife) who prey on his fears to fatten their purses. His plan: marry his daughter to a doctor so he'll have free round-the-clock on-site healthcare for the rest of his life.
DUKE & ROYA
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: June 10, 2025
• Opening: June 24, 2025
• Playwright: Charles Randolph-Wright
• Director: Warren Adams
• Cast: Jay Ellis, Stephanie Nur, Noma Dumezweni, Dariush Kashani
Discover the electrifying connection between Duke, an international hip-hop artist, and Roya, a fearless Afghan interpreter, who find love in the unlikeliest of places: war-torn Kabul. As their worlds collide, they must navigate cultural divides, make personal sacrifices, and fight for their future in a world determined to keep them apart. Is their bond strong enough to survive?
TROPHY BOYS
• The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
• First Preview: June 5, 2025
• Opening: June 24, 2025
• Playwright: Emmanuelle Mattana
• Director: Danya Taymor
• Cast: Emmanuelle Mattana
“Feminism has failed women.” That is the prompt given to the debate team of an elite all-boys prep school one hour before the final match of their high school careers. As they develop compelling arguments to demolish their sister school, a “rumor” leaks about their team that threatens to blow up everything they have worked for.
JOY
• Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: June 21, 2025
• Opening: July 20, 2025
• Book: Ken Davenport
• Music and Lyrics: AnnMarie Milazzo
• Director: Lorin Latarro
• Cast: Betsy Wolfe, Jill Abramovitz, Honor Blue Savage, Charl Brown, Adam Grupper, Mauricio Martinez
JOY is an uplifting musical based on the true story of entrepreneur and inventor Joy Mangano. Her journey now comes to life on stage. From single motherhood and financial struggles to building a business empire, Joy’s story shows the power of resilience and determination. Don’t miss this inspiring celebration of a woman who never gave up and redefined the American Dream!
HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
• New World Stages - Stage I
• First Preview: June 22, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Book, Music and Lyrics: Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe
• Director: Andy Fickman
• Cast: TBA
Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she's unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. That is until JD turns up, the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody…
TWELFTH NIGHT
• Delacorte Theater
• First Preview: August 7, 2025
• Opening: August 21, 2025
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Saheem Ali
• Cast: b, Bill Camp, Khris Davis, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong’o, Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Moses Sumney
Join us to revel in the midsummer madness as twins Sebastian and Viola survive shipwreck, revenge plots, and the trick doors of love. The Public’s Associate Artistic Director and Resident Director, Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali directs this joyful romp welcoming all of New York back to the magic of Central Park’s beloved theater. Be there when the stage lights turn on again at The Delacorte—a New York City classic—with this high-powered production of the Bard’s classic comedy.
