Here is the list of upcoming Broadway and major Off-Broadway show closings. Grab tickets before it’s too late!
This list is updated regularly
Closing Sunday, October 6, 2024
THE WITNESS ROOM
Off-Broadway: AMT Theater
Written by Pedro Antonio Garcia
Directed by Will Blum
Cast Includes Dave Baez, Moe Irvin, JD Mollison, Tricia Small, Jason SweetTooth Williams
This life and death drama detonates within the confines of a witness room in Manhattan Criminal Court as four hardened New York City police officers, led by a calculating district attorney, battle each other over charges of corruption, racism, morality, loyalties, and the blue wall of silence.
Closing Sunday, October 13, 2024
THE GHOST OF JOHN MCCAIN
Off-Broadway: Soho Playhouse
Book by Scott Elmegreen
Music and Lyrics by Drew Fornarole
Directed by Catie Davis
Cast Includes 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.'
MAGNIFICENT BIRD / BOOK OF TRAVELERS
Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons / Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Written and Performed by Gabriel Kahane
Directed by 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.
MEDEA: RE-VERSED
Off-Broadway: Sheen Center
Written by Luis Quintero
Directed by Nathan Winkelstein
Cast Includes 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.
SUNSET, ECLIPSED BY SEAGULLS
Off-Broadway: The Tank
Written by Deniz Khateri
Directed by Siobhán Carroll and Deniz Khateri
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Sunday, October 20, 2024
BLOOD OF THE LAMB
Off-Broadway: 59E59 Theater A
Written by Arlene Hutton
Directed by Margot Bordelon
Cast Includes 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.
DIRTY LAUNDRY
Off-Broadway: WP Theater
Written by Mathilde Dratwa
Directed by Rebecca Martinez
Cast Includes 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?
GOOD BONES
Off-Broadway: The Public Theater
Written by James Ijames
Directed by Saheem Ali
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Saturday, October 26, 2024
ORLANDO
Off-Broadway: Theatre Five @ Theatre Row
Book by Nora Brigid Monahan
Music by Cynthia Saunders
Lyrics by Tricia Dunn and Cynthia Saunders
Directed by Kimille Howard
Cast Includes Emily Young, Matty Balkum, LaDonna Burns, Jessie Cannizzaro, Tymothee Harrell, Micki Hardenberg, Evie Schuckman, Ariella Serur, Anita Welch-Smith
It’s 1928, and Virginia Woolf sees a crumbling world. Corruption, pollution, an empire in decline – and yet somehow, shining through it all… there’s Orlando. A miraculous, singular being who defies description and has lived over three hundred years, Orlando captivates Virginia’s imagination and inspires her to write a fantastical, biographical adventure that one day will be called the “most charming love-letter in literature.”
Closing Sunday, October 27, 2024
DEEP HISTORY
Off-Broadway: The Public Theater
Written and Performed by 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.
DISTANT THUNDER
Off-Broadway: A.R.T. New York Theatres - Mezzanine Theatre
Book by Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Music and Lyrics by Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Chris Wiseman
Directed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett
Cast Includes 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.
JOB
Broadway: Helen Hayes Theatre
Written by Max Wolf Friedlich
Directed by Michael Herwitz
Cast Includes Peter Friedman, Sydney Lemmon
After being placed on leave following a viral incident, Jane would do anything to return to her Big Tech–company job. But as the therapist who needs to authorize it, Loyd suspects her work might be doing more harm than good.
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
Off-Broadway: Urban Stages
Written by Yussef El Guindi
Directed by John Langs
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?
THE WIND AND THE RAIN
Off-Broadway: Waterfront Barge Museum
Written by Sarah Gancher
Directed by Jared Mezzocchi
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.
Closing Saturday, November 2, 2024
SUMP'N LIKE WINGS
Off-Broadway: Mint Theater
Written by Lynn Riggs
Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Sunday, November 3, 2024
ASHES & INK
Off-Broadway: AMT Theater
Written by Martha Pichey
Directed by Alice Jankell
Cast Includes 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.
DRUNK DRACULA
Off-Broadway: Ruby Theatre
Written by Lori Wolter Hudson
Directed by Lisa Klages Calhoun
Cast Includes 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.
OUR CLASS
Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company
Written by Tadeusz Slobodzianek
Directed by Igor Golyak
Cast Includes Gus Birney, Andrey Burkovskiy, José Espinosa, Tess Goldwyn, Will Manning, Stephen Ochsner, Alexandra Silber, Richard Topol, Ilia Volok, Elan Zafir
Ten Polish classmates — five Jewish and five Catholic — grow up as friends and neighbors, then turn on one another with life and death consequences. Inspired by real life events surrounding a horrific 1941 pogrom in a small Polish village, this shocking, timely story follows their lives from childhood through eight decades.
Closing Sunday, November 10, 2024
VLADIMIR
Off-Broadway: New York City Center - Stage I
Written by Erika Sheffer
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Friday, November 15, 2024
KAFKAESQUE!
Off-Broadway: 154 Christopher Street
Book, Music, and Lyrics by James Harvey
Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Sunday, November 17, 2024
THE CHRISTINE JORGENSEN SHOW
Off-Broadway: HERE Arts Center
Written by Donald Stevenson
Directed by Michael Barakiva
Cast Includes 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.
THE COUNTER
Off-Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
Written by Meghan Kennedy
Directed by David Cromer
Cast Includes 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.
IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT
Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons/Mainstage Theater
Written by Sarah Mantell
Directed by Sivan Battat
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Saturday, November 23, 2024
THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
Off-Broadway: Theatre Two @ Theatre Row
Written by George Bernard Shaw, adapted by David Staller
Directed by David Staller
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.
FATHERLAND
Off-Broadway: New York City Center - Stage II
Concept by Stephen Sachs
Directed by Stephen Sachs
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Sunday, November 24, 2024
THE BEACON
Off-Broadway: Irish Repertory Theatre
Written by Nancy Harris
Directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull
Cast Includes 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.
McNEAL
Broadway: Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Written by Ayad Akhtar
Directed by Bartlett Sher
Cast Includes Robert Downey Jr., Brittany Bellizeare, Rafi Gavron, Melora Hardin, Andrea Martin, Ruthie Ann Miles, Saisha Talwar
Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Jacob McNeal is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with Artificial Intelligence. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s new play is a startling and wickedly smart examination of the inescapable humanity – and increasing inhumanity – of the stories we tell.
WALDEN
Off-Broadway: Second Stage Theatre/Tony Kiser Theatre
Written by Amy Berryman
Directed by Whitney White
Cast Includes 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.
WE LIVE IN CAIRO
Off-Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour
Directed by Talbi Magar
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.
YELLOW FACE
Broadway: Todd Haimes Theatre
Written by David Henry Hwang
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Cast Includes Daniel Dae Kim, Kevin Del Aguila, Ryan Eggold, Francis Jue, Marinda Anderson, Greg Keller, Shannon Tyo
In this play inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.
Closing Saturday, November 30, 2024
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Broadway: Hudson Theatre
Book by Dean Fuller, Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer
Lyrics by Marshall Barer
Music by Mary Rodgers
Directed by Lear deBessonet
Cast Includes Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Ana Gasteyer, Brooks Ashmanskas, Daniel Breaker, Will Chase, Nikki Renée Daniels, David Patrick Kelly, Daniel Beeman, Wendi Bergamini, Taylor Marie Daniel, Cicily Daniels, Ben Davis, Oyoyo Joi, Amanda LaMotte, Michael Olaribigbe, Adam Roberts, Jeffrey Schecter, Darius Wright, Richard Riaz Yoder
An uproarious update of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea,” Once Upon A Mattress sets an unapologetic free spirit loose in a repressed kingdom, reveling in Winnifred’s ability to charm and transform with willpower, honesty, and a little bit of help from her friends.
Closing Sunday, December 1, 2024
BAD KREYOL
Off-Broadway: Pershing Square Signature Center/Irene Diamond Stage
Written by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Tiffany Nichole Green
Cast Includes Pascale Armand, Fedna Jacquet, Andy Lucien, Kelly McCreary, Jude Tibeau
Simone, first-generation Haitian American, and her cousin Gigi, Haitian-born and raised, reunite to honor their grandmother's dying wish for them to reconnect. Simone's pilgrimage back to her ancestral homeland forces both cousins to confront their differing world views.
BURNOUT PARADISE
Off-Broadway: St. Ann's Warehouse
Created and Performed by Pony Cam (Claire Bird, Ava Campbell, William Strom, Dominic Weintraub, and Hugo Williams)
Australia’s Pony Cam enacts the recklessness, euphoria, and optimism that comes before burnout. What begins as a simple wager between performer and audience becomes a desperate attempt to complete a series of escalating tasks that confront the limitations of the performers’ bodies, spirits, and minds. This is not an endurance feat. Nor is it performance art. It is an unraveling realization that the system we participate in is not designed for us.
CELLINO V. BARNES
Off-Broadway: The Asylum Theatre
Written by Mike B. Breen and David Rafailedes
Directed by Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse
Cast Includes Eric William Morris, Noah Weisberg
Cellino v. Barnes is a darkly comic play following the tumultuous partnership between infamous lawyers Ross Cellino and Steve Barnes, documenting their rise and fall as the top injury attorneys in the country. Through the '90s, 2000s, and 2010s, we witness our pals navigate the ethical ambiguities of the law, grapple with personal demons (and fax machines), and aspire to world domination. They're a couple of bros with big dreams and loose morals, trying to make it in the cut throat world of ambulance chasing.
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: MERRILY WE STOLE A SONG
Off-Broadway: Theater 555
Written by Gerard Alessandrini
Directed by Gerard Alessandrini
Cast Includes Chris Collins-Pisano, Jenny Lee Stern, AJ Holmes, Sasha Hutchings
Merrily We Stole a Song parodies current Broadway shows, including Hell’s Kitchen, Stereophonic, The Outsiders, The Great Gatsby, Back to the Future, The Wiz, and Merrily We Roll Along. Attendees can also expect sendups of Roger Bart, Patti LuPone, Daniel Radcliffe, Ariana DeBose, Jeremy Jordan, and the the 2024 Tony Awards as well as selections from Alessandrini’s recent Forbidden Sondheim.
GATZ
Off-Broadway: The Public Theater
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Elevator Repair Service
Directed by John Collins
Cast Includes 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.
GIVE ME CARMELITA TROPICANA!
Off-Broadway: SoHo Repertory Theater
Written by Alina Troyano and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Eric Ting
Cast Includes 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?
SHIT. MEET. FAN.
Off-Broadway: The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Newman Mills Theater
Written by Robert O'Hara
Directed by Robert O'Hara
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?
Closing Sunday, December 8, 2024
COMMUNION
Off-Broadway: The Cell Theatre
Written by Matthew LaBanca
Directed by Kira Simring
Cast Includes 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.
MAMA, I'M A BIG GIRL NOW!
Off-Broadway: New World Stages, Stage 5
Created by and Starring Laura Ben Bundy, Marissa Jaret Winokur, 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."
WE ARE YOUR ROBOTS
Off-Broadway: Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Book and Lyrics by Ethan Lipton
Music by Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, Ian Riggs
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Cast Includes Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, Ian Riggs
Closing Sunday, December 15, 2024
KING LEAR
Off-Broadway: The Shed
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Cast Includes 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.
THE LIGHT AND THE DARK
Off-Broadway: Primary Stages @ 59E59 Theater A
Written by Kate Hamill
Directed by Jade King Carroll
At the height of the Italian Renaissance, artists are reshaping the very image of humanity. Artemisia Gentileschi wants to become one of the great painters...but women are not thought capable of true artistry. With persistence and bravado she quickly establishes a groundbreaking perspective, but just as her career begins to gain momentum, a series of devastating betrayals crack the foundation of her life and art. Told through her piercing point of view, The Light and The Dark (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi) weaves a magnetic and empowering tapestry of art, ambition, rage, and resilience.
THE NOTEBOOK
Broadway: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Book by Bekah Brunstetter
Music and Lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson
Directed by Michael Greif and Schele Williams
Cast Includes Maryann Plunkett, Dorian Harewood, Joy Woods, Ryan Vasquez, Jordan Tyson, John Cardoza, Andréa Burns, Carson Stewart, Yassmin Alers, Chase Del Rey, Hillary Fisher, Dorcas Leung, Charles E. Wallace
Relive the romance! Based on the best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film, this world premiere new musical is led by a powerhouse creative team, teaming up to stage a deeply moving portrait of the enduring power of love. Beginning with a whirlwind summer romance, the decades-long love story between a mill worker named Noah and a privileged debutante named Allie spans a lifetime—in spite of the differences that threaten to pull them apart.
THE ROOMMATE
Broadway: Booth Theatre
Written by Jen Silverman
Directed by Jack O'Brien
Cast Includes Mia Farrow, Patti LuPone
Sharon’s never had a roommate before. In fact, there’s a lot Sharon’s never done before, but Robyn’s about to change all that. Jen Silverman’s The Roommate shatters expectations with its witty and profound portrait of a blossoming intimacy between two women from vastly different backgrounds, as they navigate the complexities of identity, morality, and the promise of reinvention. Being bad never felt so good as it does in this riveting one-act about second acts.
Closing Saturday, December 21, 2024
DUALITY
Off-Broadway: A.R.T. New York Theatres
Written by Anthony M. Laura
Directed by Anthony M. Laura
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Sunday, December 22, 2024
ANOTHER SHOT
Off-Broadway: Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Written by Jessica Goldberg
Directed by Scott Elliott
Cast Includes 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 HILLS OF CALIFORNIA
Broadway: Broadhurst Theatre
Written by Jez Butterworth
Directed by Sam Mendes
Cast Includes Laura Donnelly, Leanne Best, Ophelia Lovibond, Helena Wilson, David Wilson Barnes, Ta'Rea Campbell, Bryan Dick, Richard Lumsden, Richard Short, Nancy Allsop, Sophia Ally, Lara McDonnell, Nicola Turner, Liam Bixby, Ellyn Heald, Max Roll, Cameron Scoggins
In the sweltering heat of a 1970s summer, the Webb sisters return to their childhood home in Blackpool, an English seaside town, where their mother Veronica lies dying upstairs. Gloria and Ruby now have families of their own. Jill never left. And Joan? No one’s heard from her in twenty years… but Jill insists that their mother’s favorite won’t let them down this time.
HOLD ON TO ME DARLING
Off-Broadway: Lucille Lortel Theatre
Written by Kenneth Lonnergan
Directed by Neil Pepe
Cast Includes 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 MERCHANT OF VENICE
Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Igor Golyak
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Sunday, December 29, 2024
the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo)
Off-Broadway: Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
Written by Matt Barbot
Directed by José Zayas
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 BLOOD QUILT
Off-Broadway: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
Written by Katori Hall
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Cast Includes 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?
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Off-Broadway: Merchant's House Museum
Written by Charles Dickens, adapted by Rhonda Dodd and John Kevin Jones
Directed by Rhonda Dodd
Cast Includes 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.
WELCOME TO THE BIG DIPPER
Off-Broadway: York Theatre Company @ The Theater at St. Jean's
Book by Catherine Filloux, John Daggett
Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Roberts
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.
Closing Saturday, January 4, 2025
ANOTHER SHOT
Off-Broadway: Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
Written by Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz
Directed by Jackson Gay
Cast Includes 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.
Closing Sunday, January 5, 2025
THE DEAD, 1904
Off-Broadway: The American Irish Historical Society
Written by James Joyce, adapted by Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz
Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly
Cast Includes Estelle Parsons, 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.
Closing Sunday, January 12, 2025
STEREOPHONIC
Broadway: John Golden Theatre
Written by David Adjmi
Music and Lyrics by Will Butler
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Cast Includes Will Brill, Andrew R. Butler, Amy Forsyth, Eli Gelb, Benjamin Anthony Anderson, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Chris Stack
Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup — or their breakthrough.
THAT PARENTING MUSICAL
Off-Broadway: Theatre Three @ Theatre Row
Book, Music and Lyrics by Graham and Kristina Fuller
Directed by Jen Wineman
Cast Includes Natalie Bourgeois, Max Crumm, Vidushi Goyal, McKenna Ogrodnik, Brian Owen, Dwayne Washington
Dive into the hilarious, chaotic world of a new Mom and Dad with That Parenting Musical! Laugh along as two sleep-deprived parents navigate their new reality, juggling a danger-prone toddler, an overlooked younger sibling, and the ever-present "official mom uniform"—yoga pants. This new musical explores the joys, challenges, and absurdities of parenthood, and so much more.
Closing Sunday, January 19, 2025
THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE
Off-Broadway: Orpheum Theatre
Book by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Music and Lyrics by Marla Mindelle and Philip Drennen
Directed by Conor Gallagher
Cast Includes 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 Y
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.
OH, MARY!
Broadway: Lyceum Theatre
Written by Cole Escola
Directed by Sam Pinkleton
Cast Includes Cole Escola, Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, Bianca Leigh, Tony Macht
Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy starring Cole Escola as a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism and suppressed desires abound in this one act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln through the lens of an idiot (Cole Escola).
OUR TOWN
Broadway: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Kenny Leon
Cast Includes Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas, Michelle Wilson, Julia Halston, Donald Webber Jr., Heather Ayers, Willa Bost, Bobby Daye, Safiya Kaijya Harris, Doron JéPaul, Shyla Lefner, Anthony Michael Lopez, Bryonha Marie, John McGinty, Kevyn Morrow, Hagan Oliveras, Noah Pyzik, Ephie Aardema Sarnak, Sky Smith, Bill Timoney, Ricardo Vázquez, Greg Wood
May 7, 1901. Life has begun in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Milk is being delivered. Breakfast is on the stove. We meet the town gossips, the boys who play baseball and the choirmaster with a secret sorrow. And soon teenagers George Gibbs and Emily Webb will go from friends to puppy love to wedding day and beyond—two families forever joined together. And as they come to terms with the meaning of their lives, this Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic beautifully celebrates our own shared humanity.
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