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.
HENRY IV
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• First Preview: January 25, 2025
• Opening: February 9, 2025
• Playwright: William Shakespeare, adapted by Dakin Matthews
• Director: Eric Tucker
• Cast: Elijah Jones, Dakin Matthews, Cara Ricketts, Jay O. Sanders, James Udom
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.
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: 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.
GRANGEVILLE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: February 4, 2025
• Opening: February 24, 2025
• Playwright: Samuel D. Hunter
• Director: Jack Serio
• Cast: Paul Sparks, 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.
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
• The Pershing Square Signature Center / Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: February 4, 2025
• Opening: February 25, 2025
• Playwright: Sam Shepard
• Director: Scott Elliott
• Cast: David Anzuelo, Kyle Beltran, Calista Flockhart, Cooper Hoffman, Jeb Kreager, Stella Marcus, Christian Slater
Sam Shepard’s fiercely funny, OBIE award-winning play returns to the stage. With their family home on the verge of collapse and the creditors closing in, the Tate family white knuckles to their past, while scratching and clawing their way towards a better future.
ON THE EVOLUTIONARY FUNCTION OF SHAME
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Irene Diamond Stage
• First Preview: February 12, 2025
• Opening: February 26, 2025
• Playwright: D.A. Mindell
• Director: Jess McLeod
• Cast: Jordan Barbour, Kayli Carter, Elizabeth Ramos, Imani Russell, Cody Sloan, Ryan Jamaal Swain
In the beginning, two people got kicked out of a garden for eating fruit. Many years later, Adam—a transgender man expecting a child—meets with his twin sister, Eve, a pioneering scientist. She offers her brother prenatal services from her cutting-edge practice. But what exactly does that entail? And does Adam even want Eve’s help?
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: Arnie Burton, Crystal Finn, Jan Leslie Harding, Mia Katigbak, Maryann Plunkett, Armando Riesco, Miriam Silverman, Danny Wolohan, Carmen Zilles
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?
ALL NIGHTER
• The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Newman Mills Theater
• First Preview: February 25, 2025
• Opening: March 9, 2025
• Playwright: Natalie Margolin
• Director: Jaki Bradley
• Cast: 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?
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: 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.
THE GREAT PRIVATION
• Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• First Preview: February 26, 2025
• Opening: March 10, 2025
• Playwright: Nia Akilah Robinson
• Director: Evren Odcikin
• Cast: Crystal Lucas-Perry, Clarissa Vickerie, Holiday, Miles G. Jackson
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.
THE JONATHAN LARSON PROJECT
• Orpheum Theatre
• First Preview: February 14, 2025
• Opening: March 10, 2025
• Concept: Jennifer Ashley Tepper
• Music and Lyrics: Jonathan Larson
• Director: John Simpkins
• Cast: 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.
AMERIKIN
• Primary Stages @ 59E59 Theater A
• First Preview: March 1, 2025
• Opening: March 11, 2025
• Playwright: Chisa Hutchinson
• Director: Jade King Carroll
• Cast: 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.
LAST CALL
• New World Stages/Stage 5
• First Preview: March 12, 2025
• Opening: March 16, 2025
• Playwright: Peter Danish
• Director: Gil Mehmert
• Cast: Helen Schneider, Lucca Züchner, Victor Petersen
Inspired by true events, Last Call brings us to Vienna as Leonard Bernstein and Herbert Von Karajan, fierce rivals and titans of classical music, seek to find common ground through their music and their lives over one last drink.
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: Brooks Brantly, Grantham Coleman, Lakisha Michelle May, Milton Craig Nealy, Olivia Washington
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
EURYDICE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: May 13, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Sarah Ruhl
• Director: Les Waters
• Cast: Maya Hawke
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: 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.
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.
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.
