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
MEDEA: RE-VERSED
• Sheen Center
• First Preview: September 12, 2024
• Opening: September 23, 2024
• Playwright: Luis Quintero
• Director: Nathan Winkelstein
• Cast: Sarin Monae West, Siena D’Addario, Melissa Mahoney, Mark Martin, Jacob Ming-Trent, Luis Quintero, Stephen Michael Spencer
An ice-cold, high-octane adaptation of Euripides’ play written in Battle Rap verse, this brand new hip hop version of Medea sheds contemporary light on the classic tragedy. This story reignites the sacred rage of our ancestors and explores the destruction that comes when a society suppresses and silences women.
BLOOD OF THE LAMB
• 59E59 Theater A
• First Preview: September 14, 2024
• Opening: September 23, 2024
• Playwright: Arlene Hutton
• Director: Margot Bordelon
• Cast: Johanna Day, Meredith Garretson
A pregnant woman finds herself detained in a Texas airport with an unexpected adversary: a court appointed attorney assigned to represent her baby. This electrifying thriller features two women with opposing beliefs, forced to navigate the bureaucratic chaos of post-Roe America.
THE GHOST OF JOHN MCCAIN
• SoHo Playhouse
• First Preview: September 3, 2024
• Opening: September 24, 2024
• Book: Scott Elmegreen
• Music and Lyrics: Drew Fornarola
• Director: Catie Davis
• Cast: Jason Tam, Luke Kolbe Mannikus, Aaron Michael Ray, Zonya Love, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Ben Fankhauser, Anthony Zambito, Gisela Adisa, Joshua David Robinson
When John McCain, the late solider-turned-senator awakens in the afterlife, he finds himself trapped inside the mind of President Donald Trump, alongside a quasi-Greek Chorus of other public figures, including Hillary Clinton, Roy Cohn, Eva Perón, Teddy Roosevelt, Robert Jordan, and Lindsey Graham. In order to escape, the motley crew is forced to engage in a high-stakes debate over life, legacy, and ‘American values.’
THE BEACON
• Irish Repertory Theatre
• First Preview: September 11, 2024
• Opening: September 22, 2024
• Playwright: Nancy Harris
• Director: Marc Atkinson Borrull
• Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Zach Appelman, Sean Bell, David Mattar Merten, Ayana Workman
Beiv, a renowned artist, has left her suburban Dublin home for a secluded cottage on a rugged island off the coast of West Cork, Ireland. Here, there is no escaping the rumors of her shadowy past, and Beiv lets everyone see right in. Her relative peace is disrupted when her estranged son, Colm, returns home with his new wife, searching for answers about his father’s mysterious death. Prying into the past comes with a cost, however, and returning to the island will leave some people searching for a light – and others avoiding its glare.
FATHERLAND
• New York City Center – Stage II
• First Preview: September 18, 2024
• Opening: September 26, 2024
• Playwright: Stephen Sachs
• Director: Stephen Sachs
• Cast: Ron Bottitta, Patrick Keleher, Anna Kahja, Larry Pointdexter
Fatherland is the true story of an 18-year-old son who turned in his father to the FBI for his militant role in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. This compelling tale is told verbatim from public statements, case evidence, and official court transcripts from the explosive trial that ignited a media frenzy and grabbed headlines nationwide.
MAGNIFICENT BIRD / BOOK OF TRAVELERS
• Playwrights Horizons / Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• Opening: September 23, 2024
• Written and Performed by Gabriel Kahane
• Director: Annie Tippe
In this duo of intimate solo musical plays, composer Gabriel Kahane blends songwriting and storytelling for a singular, poignant theatrical event. Book of Travelers recounts the strangers he met on a 9,000-mile train journey through a divided America, and Magnificent Bird chronicles a year he spent entirely off-line, and the unexpected turbulence of living quietly. Performed on alternating nights, these two concept albums offer a relentless self-inquiry, and a searing portrait of a world in flux.
SUNSET, ECLIPSED BY SEAGULLS
• The Tank
• Opening: September 26, 2024
• Playwright: Deniz Khateri
• Director: Siobhán Carroll and Deniz Khateri
• Cast: Deniz Khateri, Addy Marsh
Sunset, Eclipsed by Seagulls tells a true story of intercontinental love stifled by physical separation due to political frictions between Iran and the US. Jake (an American white man in his 30s) and Leyla (an Iranian woman in her late 20s), who met on a trip to Paris, fall in love and decide to be together although they live oceans away. Just when Jake applies for Leyla’s visa to bring her to the US as his fiancée, Trump’s travel ban goes into effect preventing any Iranians from entering the US. The couple struggle to maintain their relationship through this situation.
THE WIND AND THE RAIN
• Waterfront Barge Museum
• Opening: September 26, 2024
• Playwright: Sarah Gancher
• Director: Jared Mezzocchi
• Cast: Jennifer Regan, Pete Simpson, Paco Tolson, Jen Tullock, Pete Lanctot
At the end of Conover Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on the waterfront, there is a bar called Sunny’s. For over one hundred years, it’s been run by one family, through booms and busts, prohibition and pandemics, blight and gentrification. It’s been home to dreamers and immigrants, artists, bootleggers, longshoremen, union bosses, corrupt police, numbers runners, bluegrass musicians, and hipsters. And to Tone Johansen, who fought to save it after Hurricane Sandy, against incredible odds.
THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE
• Orpheum Theatre
• First Preview: September 14, 2024
• Opening: October 1, 2024
• Book: Marla Mindelle, Jonathan Parks-Ramage
• Music and Lyrics: Marla Mindelle, Philip Drennen
• Director: Conor Gallagher
• Cast: Marla Mindelle, Alex Moffat, Paris Nix, Constantine Rousouli, Natalie Walker, Jaden Dominique, Brad Greer, Jeremiah Ginn, Amanda Lee, Jillian Mueller, Olivia Puckett, Melvin Tunstall, Clyde Voce, Cortney Wolfson, John Yi
Stacey wakes up after a night of heavy drinking and finds herself trapped in an Off-Broadway Golden Age musical. Forced to put her musical theatre degree in action, Stacey has to figure out how to escape this singing and dancing prison in front of a live audience.
GOOD BONES
• The Public Theater
• First Preview: September 19, 2024
• Opening: October 1, 2024
• Playwright: James Ijames
• Director: Saheem Ali
• Cast: Mamoudou Athie, Khris Davis, Téa Guarino, Susan Kelechi Watson
A work opportunity to revitalize the blighted neighborhood she grew up in has led Aisha and her chef husband Travis to buy and renovate a charming old house. But as everyone knows, renovation is expensive and stressful—both for buildings and the communities that surround them. Aisha’s young contractor Earl grew up in the area too, but his memories are of more than just dangerous streets and hollowed-out homes. When their purely professional relationship gives way to heated debate about who gets to stay and who must go, Aisha is forced to reckon with the choices she’s made to get ahead and the painful, joyful, complicated ghosts that haunt her dreams… and her dream house.
DISTANT THUNDER
• A.R.T. New York Theatres – Mezzanine Theatre
• First Preview: September 25, 2024
• Opening: October 3, 2024
•Book: Lynne-Taylor Corbett and Shaun Taylor-Corbett
•Music and Lyrics: Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Chris Wiseman
• Director: Lynne Taylor-Corbett
• Cast: Jeff Barehand, Spencer Battiest, Aubee Billie, Xander Chauncey, Bonale Fabrini, Brent Florendo, Chava Florendo, Angela Gómez, Irma-Estel Laguerre, Johnlee Lookingglass, Glenn Stanton, Michelle Rios, Sampwe Tarrant, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Chelsea Zeno
A child is taken from his Blackfeet tribe and returns as a young attorney with an opportunity that unwittingly sets off a firestorm.
DIRTY LAUNDRY
• WP Theater
• First Preview: September 21, 2024
• Opening: October 6, 2024
• Playwright: Mathilde Dratwa
• Director: Rebecca Martinez
• Cast: Sasha Diamond, Yvette Ganier, Amy Jo Jackson, Lakisha May, Richard Masur, Constance Schulman
After the woman who unites them dies, three people grapple with love, loss, lust…and household chores. Meanwhile, a spin cycle of voices pings with questions: are you still a daughter when your mother dies? Are you still the other woman when the first woman is gone? And maybe more importantly–how do you clean all that Dirty Laundry?
THE COUNTER
• Roundabout Theatre Company / Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: September 19, 2024
• Opening: October 9, 2024
• Playwright: Meghan Kennedy
• Director: David Cromer
• Cast: Anthony Edwards, Susannah Flood, Amy Warren
Every morning at the local diner in a small town, a waitress refills a regular’s coffee. An unlikely friendship develops and keeps him coming back for more. But when he asks for a shocking favor, it brings to light both of their deepest secrets. The Counter is a funny, surprising, and moving meditation on the everyday connections that can change our lives.
DRUNK DRACULA
• Ruby Theatre
• Opening: October 9, 2024
• Playwright: Lori Wolter Hudson
• Director: Lisa Klages Calhoun
• Cast: Preston Mulligan, Sarah Goldstein, Aubrey Lace Taylor, Chris Trindade, Nate Betancourt, Christian Roberts, Ben Salus
The Drunk Shakespeare Society will sink their teeth into Transylvania’s most notorious aristocrat this Halloween season.
SUMP’N LIKE WINGS
• Mint Theater
• First Preview: September 21, 2024
• Opening: October 10, 2024
• Playwright: Lynn Riggs
• Director: Raelle Myrick-Hodges
• Cast: Julia Brothers, Andrew Gombas, Cameron Anika Hill, Traci Hovel, Lukey Klein, Richard Lear, Mariah Lee, Mike Masters, Buzz Roddy, Lindsey Steinert, Joy Avigail Sudduth
Sump’n Like Wings is the story of Willie Baker, a 16 year old girl too proud and too wild for the life she’s living. Her mother runs the dining room in the hotel her uncle owns. Willie is stuck helping her, squirming under her thumb while her uncle argues for tenderness and compassion.
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
• HERE Arts Center
• First Preview: October 4, 2024
• Opening: October 10, 2024
• Playwright: Yussef El Guindi
• Director: John Langs
• Cast: TBA
Jason returns from war to literary glory after writing an international best-seller, but his celebrity is underscored by his marriage to Madeeha, an Iraqi woman he saved. When he reunites with old friends, Amir and Lynn, questions emerge about the veracity of the book and its particular patriotic American gaze. Lust, jealousy, and personal politics bring things between old friends to a boiling point and we are asked “what is the expense of lies – personally and as a country?”
DEEP HISTORY
• The Public Theater
• First Preview: October 5, 2024
• Opening: October 10, 2024
• Playwright: David Finnigan
• Cast: David Finnigan
At the end of 2019, in the English countryside, Australian playwright David Finnigan began writing a play about the six turning points that have brought us to this moment in time—our ecosystems transformed, our planet on the brink of unthinkable climate disaster. But then Finnigan’s hometown of Canberra was hit by bushfires. As an area the size of England burned and one billion animals perished, he started to receive texts from loved ones racing to evacuate amid the devastation. In a performance that interweaves 75,000 years of humanity with the incredibly personal account of his best friend’s escape, Finnigan calls on scientific research, phone footage, and a very personal story to illuminate the transforming planet and how we’ve arrived here.
VLADIMIR
• Manhattan Theater Club @ New York City Center Stage I
• First Preview: September 24, 2024
• Opening: October 16, 2024
• Playwright: Erika Sheffer
• Director: Daniel Sullivan
• Cast: Norbert Leo Butz, Francesca Faridany, Erik Jensen, Olivia Deren Nikkanen, Jonathan Walker
This haunting world premiere unfolds in Moscow, where an independent journalist covering Putin’s first term struggles to maintain sanity and hope in increasingly hostile circumstances. She finds herself on the brink of an explosive story — but as danger mounts for her and her sources, she questions whether her bravery will make any difference at all.
HOLD ON TO ME DARLING
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: September 24, 2024
• Opening: October 16, 2024
• Playwright: Kenneth Lonergan
• Director: Neil Pepe
• Cast: Adam Driver, Heather Burns, Adelaide Clemens, Keith Nobbs, CJ Wilson, Frank Wood
On learning of his mother’s death, country music icon Strings McCrane finds himself in an existential tailspin. The only way out, he decides, is to abandon superstardom in favor of the simple life, so he moves back to his hometown in Tennessee. The simple life turns out to be anything but simple in this brilliantly observed tragicomedy, as the consequences of Strings’s success and mind-bending effects of his fame prove all but impossible to outrun.
THE CHRISTINE JORGENSEN SHOW
• HERE Arts Center
• First Preview: October 10, 2024
• Opening: October 17, 2024
• Playwright: Donald Steven Olson
• Director: Michael Barakiva
• Cast: Jesse James Keitel, Mark Nadler
In the buttoned-up 1950s an ex-GI returned from Denmark as Christine Jorgensen, America’s first transgender celebrity. The Christine Jorgensen Show is a musical re-telling of Jorgensen’s remarkable story along with that of Myles Bell, the forgotten song-and-dance man who helped her craft a nightclub act that transformed her from headline into headliner.
ASHES & INK
• AMT Theater
• First Preview: October 16, 2024
• Opening: October 18, 2024
• Playwright: Martha Pichey
• Director: Alice Jankell
• Cast: Kathryn Erbe, Javier Molina, Julian Shatkin, Tamara Flannagan, Rhylee Watson
Molly, a widow still grappling with her husband’s death, is desperate to pull her son Quinn back from the edge of addiction. As Quinn fights for a chance at redemption and auditions for drama school, the emotional scars between them surface, leading to moments of tenderness and turmoil.
KAFKAESQUE!
• 154 Christopher Street
• Opening: October 18, 2024
• Book, Music, and Lyrics: James Harvey
• Director: Ashley Brooke Monroe
• Cast: James Harvey, Alexander Nader, Josh Nasser, Emily Olcott, Curry Whitmire
Kafkaesque! transplants the predicaments from Kafka’s stories (including The Trial and The Metamorphosis) onto one contemporary American family.
DRAG: THE MUSICAL
• New World Stages – Stage III
• First Preview: September 30, 2024
• Opening: October 21, 2024
• Book, Music, Lyrics: Justin Andrew Honard, Tomas Costanza, Ashley Gordon
• Directed and Choreographed by Spencer Liff
• Cast: 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.
BAD KREYOL
• MTC/Signature Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center/Irene Diamond Stage
• First Preview: October 8, 2024
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Dominique Morisseau
• Director: Tiffany Nichole Green
• Cast: Pascale Armand, Fedna Jacquet, Andy Lucien, Kelly McCreary, Jude Tibeau
Signature Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club present Dominique Morisseau’s (Confederates, Paradise Blue, Sunset Baby at Signature; Skeleton Crew at MTC) beautiful world premiere play about interrogating cultural identity and global impact.
WE LIVE IN CAIRO
• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: October 9 2024
• Opening: October 27, 2024
• Book, Music, and Lyrics: Daniel and Patrick Lazour
• Director: Talbi Magar
• Cast: Ali Louis Bourzgui, Drew Elhamalawy, John El-Jor, Nadina Hassan, Michael Khalid Karadsheh, Rotana Tarabzouni
Inspired by the young Egyptians who took to the streets amidst the throes of the Arab Spring, We Live in Cairo follows six student activists using their street art, photography and song to overthrow a regime older than they are.
SHIT. MEET. FAN.
• The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Newman Mills Theater
• First Preview: October 10 2024
• Opening: October 28, 2024
• Playwright: Robert O’Hara
• Director: Robert O’Hara
• Cast: Garret Dillahunt, Genevieve Hannelius, Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski, Billy Magnussen, Debra Messing, Tramell Tillman, Constance Wu
Here’s the game… Phones Out. Face Up. Volume High. Every text, every email, and every call must be shared aloud. That’s what a group of long-time friends gather to play on the night of the eclipse. With the cocktails flowing among grownups who refuse to grow up, outrageous secrets and skeletons begin to emerge… SHIT. MEET. FAN. Are they ready for the ensuing chaos? Are you?
IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT
• Playwrights Horizons / Mainstage Theater
• First Preview: October 10, 2024
• Opening: October 28, 2024
• Playwright: Sarah Mantell
• Director: Sivan Battat
• Cast: Barsha, Sandra Caldwell, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Ianne Fields Stewart, Deirdre Lovejoy, Tulis McCall, Pooya Mohseni
As the oceans rise, a band of queer warehouse workers travel from job to job, running from the encroaching coastline. An unlikely love story, and a startling new work of speculative fiction, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is a quietly revolutionary tale of queer aging, chosen family, and the search for home in a volatile world.
ANOTHER SHOT
• The Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: October 15, 2024
• Opening: October 29, 2024
• Playwright: Spike Manton, Harry Teinowitz
• Director: Jackson Gay
• Cast: Dan Butler, Chiké Johnson, Samantha Mathis, Gregg Mozgala, Quentin Nguyễn-duy, Portia
Another Shot is a humorous and heartfelt ode to recovery and the community that makes it possible. It is based loosely on the real-life experiences of Chicago sports radio personality Harry Teinowitz, whose career and life were put in jeopardy following an arrest for DUI. Co-written by former ESPN personality and playwright Spike Manton (Leaving Iowa), Another Shot tells the outrageous, infuriating, and hilarious story of an alcoholic on the edge of blowing up his life when he finally confronts the inarguable truth of his behavior and how it is affecting his family, his life, and his liver.
RAGTIME
• New York City Center
• Opening: October 30, 2024
• Book: Terrence McNally
• Music: Stephen Flaherty
• Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
• Director: Lear deBessonet
• Cast: Colin Donnell, Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Ben Levi Ross, Shaina Taub, Brandon Uranowitz, Joy Woods
Ragtime is a sweeping, powerful musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s novel with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. Through heartrending storytelling and beloved songs like “Wheels of a Dream” and “Back to Before,” Ragtime offers an explosive and relevant portrait of America in the throes of social upheaval.
TEETH
• New World Stages
• First Preview: October 16, 2024
• Opening: October 31, 2024
• Book: Michael R. Jackson, Anna K. Jacobs
• Lyrics: Michael R. Jackson
• Music: Anna K. Jacobs
• Director: Sarah Benson
• Cast: Alyse Alan Louis, Andy Karl, Will Connolly, Jason Gotay, Jared Loftin
Dawn O’Keefe is an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret not even she understands – when men violate her, her body bites back.
GATZ
• The Public Theater
• Opening: November 1, 2024
• Playwright: Elevator Repair Service
• Director: John Collins
• Cast: Laurena Allan, Jim Fletcher, Ross Fletcher, Maggie Hoffman, Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Aaron Landsman, Annie McNamara, Scott Shepherd, Pete Simpson, Susie Sokol, Tory Vazquez, Ben Jalosa Williams
One morning in the office of a mysterious small business, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk. He starts to read it out loud and doesn’t stop. At first his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences, it’s no longer clear whether he’s reading the book, or the book is transforming him.
THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
• Theatre Two @ Theatre Row
• First Preview: October 15 2024
• Opening: November 3, 2024
• Playwright: George Bernard Shaw, adapted by David Staller
• Director: David Staller
• Cast: Nadia Brown, Susan Cella, Tina Chilip, Teresa Avia Lim, Folami Williams, Fiona Maguire, Lauren Zbylski
This spectacularly entertaining play by G.B.S. embraces actual 1777 events during the American Revolution. This highly-charged adaptation will be entertaining our community just in time for our Presidential elections. The play reminds us of the epic need for us all to embrace our responsibility to keep Democracy alive and well.
WALDEN
• Second Stage Theatre/Tony Kiser Theatre
• First Preview: October 16, 2024
• Opening: November 7, 2024
• Playwright: Amy Berryman
• Director: Whitney White
• Cast: Emmy Rossum, Zoë Winters, Motell Foster
In the near future, Stella and her fiancé, Bryan, are waiting at their remote cabin for Stella’s estranged twin sister, Cassie. Raised by their astronaut father to be NASA scientists, the twins have taken different paths: Cassie has just returned from a successful moon mission, while Stella has left NASA behind. When they reunite, old conflicts reignite, forcing the sisters to choose between staying on Earth or pursuing a future in space, as humanity’s fate hangs in the balance.
GIVE ME CARMELITA TROPICANA!
• SoHo Repertory Theater
• First Preview: October 23, 2024
• Opening: November 10, 2024
• Playwright: Alina Troyano and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
• Director: Eric Ting
• Cast: Alina Troyano, Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Ugo Chukwu, Will Dagger, Keren Lugo
Part love letter to an iconic performance artist, part intergenerational debate about the legacy of “downtown” New York, part theatrical interrogation of the uses/abuses of nostalgia, real estate, “representation”, and the “avant-garde,” 100% fantastical journey in which Branden Jacobs-Jenkins attempts to buy Carmelita Tropicana from her creator… but at what cost?
WE ARE YOUR ROBOTS
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• Opening: November 10, 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
MAMA, I’M A BIG GIRL NOW!
• New World Stages
• First Preview: November 2, 2024
• Opening: November 13, 2024
• Created and Directed by Laura Bel Bundy, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Kerry Butler
• Cast: Laura Bel Bundy, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Kerry Butler
Laura Bel Bundy, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Kerry Butler created the roles of Amber Von Tussle, Tracy Turnblad, and Penny Pingleton (respectively) in Best Musical winner Hairspray. Since then, all three have become fixtures of the stage and screen, starring in such titles as Beetlejuice, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, and more. In their new show, the trio will cover songs from Hairspray along with new mashups and medleys, parodies, and more in “a night filled with all the sparkle and joy of a Broadway musical.”
COMMUNION
• The Cell Theatre
• First Preview: November 7, 2024
• Opening: November 13, 2024
• Playwright: Matthew LaBanca
• Director: Kira Simring
• Cast: Matthew LaBanca
Communion is a one-man show about a gay Catholic school teacher who is fired when the church discovers that he married a man. His termination causes a crisis of faith, not only for himself but for his entire community.
KING LEAR
• The Shed
• First Preview: October 26, 2024
• Opening: November 14, 2024
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Kenneth Branagh
• Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Mara Allen, Deborah Alli, Raymond Anum, Melanie-Joyce Bermudez, Doug Colling, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Eleanor de Rohan, Chloe Fenwick-Brown, Joseph Kloska, Corey Mylchreest, Caleb Obediah, Hughie O’Donnell, Jessica Revell
Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the barbarous landscape of Ancient Britain. Featuring a cast of rising stars from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art directed by Branagh, this production releases the play’s power and turmoil in a fast-paced staging.
BABE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: October 29, 2024
• Opening: November 20, 2024
• Playwright: Jessica Goldberg
• Director: Scott Elliott
• Cast: Marisa Tomei, Arliss Howard, Gracie McGraw
From grunge to femme punk hits, Abby and Gus have produced it all. Their work marriage is legendary and Gus has the platinum records to prove it. But when Katherine, a fresh A&R hire, calls Abby out on the compromises she’s made in her work, Abby must face the music and fight to survive.
THE BLOOD QUILT
• Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
• First Preview: October 30, 2024
• Opening: November 21, 2024
• Playwright: Katori Hall
• Director: Lileana Blain-Cruz
• Cast: Crystal Dickinson, Mirirai, Adrienne C. Moore, Arsema Thomas, Susan Kelechi Watson
Gathering at their childhood island home off the coast of Georgia, four disconnected sisters meet to create a family quilt to honor their recently deceased mother. When their reunion turns into a reading of their mother’s will, everyone must grapple with a troubling inheritance. Stitched with history, ritual, laughter and tears, will their “blood quilt” bind the family together or tear them apart forever?
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 MERCHANT OF VENICE
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: November 22, 2024
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Igor Golyak
• Cast: Richard Topol, Alexandra Silber, Gus Birney, José Espinosa, Tess Goldwyn, Stephen Ochsner
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.
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: TBA
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.
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: TBA
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.
THE ANTIQUITIES
• Playwrights Horizons
• Opening: January 20, 2025
• Playwright: Jordan Harrison
• Director: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
