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.
HOLD ME IN THE WATER
• Playwrights Horizons/The Judy Theater
• First Preview: April 10, 2025
• Opening: April 23, 2025
• Playwright: Ryan J. Haddad
• Director: Danny Sharron
• Cast: Ryan J. Haddad
When Ryan falls for a man he just met, he’s ready for the romance of his dreams. But as their connection grows, Ryan learns that new heights of joy can bring deep insecurities to the surface. Disarmingly vulnerable and playfully provocative, Hold Me in the Water is a funny and tender solo play about the passion and intimacy of first love.
WONDERFUL TOWN
• New York City Center
• Opening: April 30, 2025
• Book: Jerome Chodorov and Joseph A. Fields
• Music: Leonard Bernstein
• Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
• Director: Zhailon Levingston
• Cast: Anika Noni Rose, Aisha Jackson, Jimmy Ray Bennett, Etai Benson, Allison Blackwell, DeWitt Fleming Jr., Jessie Hooker-Bailey, Javier Muñoz, Fergie Phillippe, John Rapson, Daniel Torres
Presented by Encores!, Wonderful Town tells the story of two sisters in 1935 who move from Ohio to Greenwich Village to pursue their artistic dreams and maybe find love along the way. Ruth, an aspiring writer, and Eileen, an aspiring actress, encounter an assortment of colorful characters as they strive and sing to delightful tunes by the great Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by legendary musical-comedy duo Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
FIVE MODELS IN RUINS, 1981
• Lincoln Center Theater/Claire Tow Theater
• First Preview: April 19, 2025
• Opening: May 5, 2025
• Playwright: Caitlin Saylor Stephens
• Director: Morgan Green
• Cast: Stella Everett, Elizabeth Marvel, Maia Novi, Britne Oldford, Sarah Marie Rodriguez, Madeline Wise
Roberta, a visionary fashion photographer, lands the gig of a lifetime - the cover of Vogue - but quickly learns it could be her downfall. Location is a nightmare. The models are vicious. Hair and makeup is MIA. And the cigarette supply is running dangerously low. As chaos escalates, Roberta must summon her strength and find the perfect light to capture a moment of beauty in a brutal world.
THE BLACK WOLFE TONE
• Irish Repertory Theatre/W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre
• First Preview: May 1, 2025
• Opening: May 8, 2025
• Playwright: Kwaku Fortune
• Director: Nicola Murphy Dubey
• Cast: Kwaku Fortune
The Black Wolfe Tone is a thrilling new play about identity, raging against the machine, and how young men deal or don’t deal with the darkness. A fast-paced journey that interrogates our culture of silence, the mind, and growing up mixed race in Ireland. At its heart, it’s about a young boy seeking forgiveness: the inner child wanting only to be acknowledged, loved, and held.
THE LAST BIMBO OF THE APOCALYPSE
• The New Group @ The Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: April 22, 2025
• Opening: May 13, 2025
• Book, Music and Lyrics: Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
• Director: Rory Pelsue
• Cast: Patrick Nathan Falk, Keri René Fuller, Sara Gettelfinger, Luke Islam, Milly Shapiro, Natalie Walker
In 2006, The New York Post infamously labeled Paris, Lindsay and Britney “The Three Bimbos of the Apocalypse.” But who is the fourth girl in that famous photo? Today, three Gen Z internet sleuths investigate that icon – Coco, an early 2000’s one-hit wonder who mysteriously vanished. Their epic musical quest leads them to uncover the truth, deliver justice and rewrite pop history.
BUS STOP
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: May 8, 2025
• Opening: May 18, 2025
• Playwright: William Inge
• Director: Jack Cummings III
• Cast: Delphi Borich, Rajesh Bose, Cindy Cheung, Midori Francis, David Lee Huynh, Dorcas Leung, Michael Hsu Rosen, David Shih, Moses Villarama
On a snowy night in Kansas, a diner can be an oasis, a prison, a place to hide, or a place to discover yourself. When a bus is forced to take shelter from stormy weather outside, a mismatched group of dreamers and cowboys, waitresses and outcasts find unexpected warmth in one another.
BOWL EP
• Vineyard Theatre
• First Preview: May 1, 2025
• Opening: May 18, 2025
• Playwright: Nazareth Hassan
• Director: Nazareth Hassan
• Cast: Essence Lotus, Oghenero Gbajge, Felicia Curry
Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares, and practicing their ollies, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcizing a demon. With live skating and original music, enter Bowl EP: a skate park, in the middle of a wasteland, at the edge of the galaxy.
LIGHTS OUT: NAT "KING" COLE
• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: April 30, 2025
• Opening: May 19, 2025
• Playwrights: Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor
• Director: Patricia McGregor
• Cast: Dulé Hill, Daniel J. Watts, Krystal Joy Brown, Kathy Fitzgerald, Christopher Ryan Grant, Ruby Lewis, Elliott Mattox, Kenita Miller, Mekhi Richardson, Walter Russell III
Despite being the voice that built Capitol Records, Nat “King” Cole's groundbreaking television show was rejected by Madison Avenue, unwilling to sponsor America’s first black television host. Now, on the night of his final broadcast, Nat must grapple with the complexities of his psyche, personified by his best friend and alter-ego, Sammy Davis Jr., and decide whether to quietly step out of the spotlight or go out with a bang.
GODDESS
• The Public Theater/Newman Theater
• First Preview: April 29, 2025
• Opening: May 20, 2025
• Book: James Ijames
• Music and Lyrics: Michael Thurber
• Director: Saheem Ali
• Cast: Nick Rashad Burroughs, Melessie Clark, Amber Iman, Arica Jackson, J Paul Nicholas, Teshomech Olenja, Destinee Rea, Awa Sal Secka, Austin Scott, Reggie D. White
A mysterious singer arrives at Moto Moto, a steamy Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya. She casts an entrancing spell on everyone, including a young man who has returned home from studying in America. Will the big plans for his life—stepping into a political legacy and marrying his fiancée—be upended?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
• The Public Theater/Anspacher Theater
• Opening: May 30, 2025
• Playwright: Julia Masli
• Director: Kim Noble
• Cast: Julia Masli
A completely different show every night, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha is a production like no other, improvised heavily based on audience participation.
EURYDICE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: May 13, 2025
• Opening: June 2, 2025
• Playwright: Sarah Ruhl
• Director: Les Waters
• Cast: Maya Hawke, Brian d'Arcy James, Caleb Eberhardt, Maria Elena Ramirez, Jon Norman Schneider, David Ryan Smith, T. Ryder Smith
In life, Eurydice loves books…and a great musician. One of the few heroines who dies twice, she falls to the underworld on her wedding day. In death, she reunites with her father and remembers her life again. Les Waters directs an innovative reimagining of one of Sarah Ruhl’s most beloved plays, inspired by a classic myth.
A FREEKY INTRODUCTION
• Atlantic Theater Company/Stage 2
• First Preview: May 16, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: NSangou Njikam
• Director: Dennis A. Allen II
• Cast: NSangou Njikam, DJ Monday Blue
EVERYBODY SAY YEAH! Everybody talks about freedom, but few know how to get there. That’s because they don’t know their Freek. Fear not, Freeky Dee is here with a mix of poetry, ministry, and magic…plus I got a DJ with me. Together, we’ll move you past your fears and doubts to bring your inner Freek all the way out! You wanna get free? Then come get your Freek on!
CHIAROSCURO
• The Flea Theater
• Opening: May 26, 2025
• Playwright: Aishah Rahman
• Director: abigail jean-baptiste
• Cast: TBA
Chiaroscuro written by Black Arts Movement writer Aishah Rahman, is named after the Italian artistic term referring to a stark contrast between dark and light. The play explores the social implications of such contrast as it relates skin color, specifically within the Black community. The play is set on a love boat-type cruise ship for Black singles where "pretty" means light-skinned, all the men are dark, and Papa Legba, the African trickster spirit, is disguised as a ship steward.
THE IMAGINARY INVALID
• New World Stages/Stage 5
• First Preview: May 21, 2025
• Opening: June 2, 2025
• Playwright: Molière
• Director: Jesse Berger
• Cast: Mark Linn-Baker, Sarah Stiles, Arnie Burton, Russell Daniels, Manoel Felciano, Emilie Kouatchou, Emily Swallow, John Yi
In Molière’s best loved comedy, Monsieur Argan is a notorious hypochondriac whose nonexistent illnesses blind him to the con men and women (his new wife) who prey on his fears to fatten their purses. His plan: marry his daughter to a doctor so he'll have free round-the-clock on-site healthcare for the rest of his life.
ANGRY ALAN
• Studio Seaview
• First Preview: May 23, 2025
• Opening: June 11, 2025
• Playwright: Penelope Skinner
• Director: Sam Gold
• Cast: John Krasinski
Roger is divorced, demoted, and drifting—lost in an era that no longer makes sense. But when an online personality promises clarity, Roger dives in without looking back. Timely, provocative, and darkly comedic, Angry Alan explores one man’s journey down the digital rabbit hole—examining how far he’s willing to go, and how much he’s prepared to lose, for validation in a world where “everybody’s changing the rules.”
PRINCE FAGGOT
• Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
• First Preview: May 30, 2025
• Opening: June 16, 2025
• Playwright: Jordan Tannahill
• Director: Shayok Misha Chowdhury
• Cast: Rachel Crowl, K. Todd Freeman, David Greenspan, Mihir Kumar, John McCrea, N’yomi Allure Stewart
In this meta-theatrical satire, an ensemble of queer, trans, and nonbinary performers reckon with how the forces of power, privilege, and colonization play upon their lives as the playwright offers a central provocation: what if queer people dared to imagine a future monarch having a life that resembled their own?
DUKE & ROYA
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: June 10, 2025
• Opening: June 24, 2025
• Playwright: Charles Randolph-Wright
• Director: Warren Adams
• Cast: Jay Ellis, Stephanie Nur, Noma Dumezweni, Dariush Kashani
Discover the electrifying connection between Duke, an international hip-hop artist, and Roya, a fearless Afghan interpreter, who find love in the unlikeliest of places: war-torn Kabul. As their worlds collide, they must navigate cultural divides, make personal sacrifices, and fight for their future in a world determined to keep them apart. Is their bond strong enough to survive?
TROPHY BOYS
• The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
• First Preview: June 5, 2025
• Opening: June 24, 2025
• Playwright: Emmanuelle Mattana
• Director: Danya Taymor
• Cast: Terry Hu, Louisa Jacobson, Esco Jouléy, 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.
LOWCOUNTRY
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: June 4, 2025
• Opening: June 25, 2025
• Playwright: Abby Rosebrock
• Director: Jo Bonney
• Cast: Jodi Balfour, Keith Kupferer, Babak Tafti
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.
JOY
• Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: June 21, 2025
• Opening: July 20, 2025
• Book: Ken Davenport
• Music and Lyrics: AnnMarie Milazzo
• Director: Lorin Latarro
• Cast: Betsy Wolfe, Jill Abramovitz, Honor Blue Savage, Charl Brown, Adam Grupper, Mauricio Martinez, Gabriela Carrillo, Paul Whitty
JOY is an uplifting musical based on the true story of entrepreneur and inventor Joy Mangano. Her journey now comes to life on stage. From single motherhood and financial struggles to building a business empire, Joy’s story shows the power of resilience and determination. Don’t miss this inspiring celebration of a woman who never gave up and redefined the American Dream!
HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
• New World Stages - Stage I
• First Preview: June 22, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Book, Music and Lyrics: Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe
• Director: Andy Fickman
• Cast: TBA
Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she's unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. That is until JD turns up, the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody…
AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS
• New York City Center - Stage I
• First Preview: July 30, 2025
• Opening: August 7, 2025
• Playwright: Elizabeth McGovern
• Director: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
• Cast: Elizabeth McGovern, Aaron Costa Ganis
The Golden Age of Cinema’s Ava Gardner sat for a series of real-life interviews with writer Peter Evans in an attempt to glean the juicy details about her life story, her marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and her turbulent relationship to Howard Hughes. Initially barred from publication, Evans’ stories of a bygone era were published twenty-five years later with permission from Gardener’s estate and are now reimagined on stage.
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.
