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 Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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.
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.
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?
Closing Saturday, December 7, 2024
STRATEGIC LOVE PLAY
Off-Broadway: Minetta Lane Theatre
Written by Miriam Battye
Directed by Katie Posner
Cast Includes Heléne Yorke, Michael Zegen
After matching online, two strangers meet in real life. The vibe is off, and the conversation is a mess. Yet something is keeping them in their seats. What begins as a typical date off the apps spirals into something unexpected in a bold new production of Strategic Love Play, the show that sold out in London and took the Edinburgh Fringe by storm.
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.
ROOM 1214
Off-Broadway: 59E59 Theater B
Written by Michelle Kholos Brooks
Directed by Sarah Norris
Cast Includes Annabelle Gurwitch, Thyme Briscoe, Ben Hirschhorn, Kleo Mitrokostasas, Andrea Negrete, Alessandro Yokoyama
Inspired by interviews with a history teacher who experienced the 2018 tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Room 1214 follows her return to the school to teach one final lesson, asking what if you could rewrite history? She reunites with her students as they were—playful, funny, and full of life and potential.
TAMMY FAYE
Broadway: Palace Theatre
Book by James Graham
Lyrics by Jake Shears
Music by Elton John
Directed by Rupert Goold
Cast Includes Katie Brayben, Christian Borle, Michael Cerveris, Nick Bailey, Charl Brown, Mark Evans, Allison Guinn, Ian Lassiter, Raymond J. Lee, Max Gordon Moore, Alana Pollard, Andy Taylor, Autumn Hurlbert, Amanda Clement, Jonathan Duvelson, Lily Kaufmann, Elliott Mattox, Brittany Nicholas, Aveena Sawyer, Allysa Shorte, Daniel Torres, Dana Wilton
It's the 1970s, and for the very first time, satellites are bringing cable television into American homes. As families gather in their living rooms, young preacher Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye hit the airwaves to build a nationwide congregation and put the fun back in faith. But while Tammy dazzles on screen, rivals plot behind the scenes, jealous of her popularity and threatened by her determination to lead with love.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG
Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Written and Performed by Francesca D'Uva
Directed by Sam Max
In a world transformed by loss, Francesca D’Uva finds humor…everywhere. An experimental fusion of stand-up and original digital-pop bangers, This Is My Favorite Song is a musical fever dream about sex, grief, nannying, and Shakira.
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
300 PAINTINGS
Off-Broadway: Vineyard Theatre
Written and Performed by Sam Kissajukian
Is art a joke? In 2021, over the course of five intense and unpredictable months, Sydney comedian Sam Kissajukian created 300 large-scale paintings, unknowingly documenting his mental states through an extended manic bipolar episode. In this hilarious, fascinating, and wildly original show, he examines that time and explores the ties between art, mental health, and creativity.
THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE
Off-Broadway: Orpheum Theatre
Book by Marla Mindelle, 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 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.
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.
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
Cast Includes Garret Dillahunt, Genevieve Hannelius, Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski, Debra Messing, Michael Oberholtzer, 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?
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.
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."
Closing Sunday, December 22, 2024
BABE
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.
GIVE ME CARMELITA TROPICANA!
Off-Broadway: Soho Repertory Theater
Written by Alina Troyano, 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?
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.
MUSIC CITY
Off-Broadway: West End Theatre
Book by Peter Zinn
Music and Lyrics by JT Harding
Directed by Eric Tucker
Cast Includes Drew Bastian, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Julianne Merrill, Leenya Rideout, Andrew Rothenberg, Casey Shuler, Stephen Michael Spencer
Music City is a new musical by Billboard Chart topping country songwriter JT Harding, with a book by Peter Zinn. Through soaring, soul piercing ballads and hard hitting, heart thumping showstoppers, audiences are drawn into a first hand account of two young singer songwriters trying to catch a break in a rundown East Nashville neighborhood stricken with drug addiction and poverty. In Nashville, heartbreak is the only thing they hand out for free.
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?
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
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
ELF
Broadway: Marquis Theatre
Book: Bob Martin, Thomas Meehan
Music: Matthew Sklar
Lyrics: Char Beguelin
Directed by Philip Wm. McKinley
Cast Includes Grey Henson, Kayla Davion, Sean Astin, Ashley Brown, Kai Edgar, Michael Hayden, Jennifer Sánchez
This modern-day holiday classic returns home to Broadway in an acclaimed new, record-breaking production starring Tony Award® nominee Grey Henson.
Closing Sunday, January 5, 2025
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Broadway: Winter Garden Theatre
Book: Bob Gale
Music and Lyrics: Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard
Directed by John Rando
Cast Includes Roger Bart, Casey Likes, Evan Alexander Smith, Liana Hunt, Jelani Remy, Nathaniel Hackmann, David Josefsberg, Mikaela Secada, Aaron Alcaraz, Gregory Carl Banks Jr., Brendon Chan, Kevin Curtis, Marc A. Heitzman, Joshua Kenneth Allen Johnson, Jamary Kendricks, Katie LaDuca, Lizzie Marie Legregin, JJ Niemann, Jessie Peltier, Becca Petersen, Jonalyn Saxer, Davis Wayne
Marty McFly is a rock ‘n’ roll teenager who is accidentally transported back to 1955 in a time-travelling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown. But before he can return to 1985, Marty must make sure his high school-aged parents fall in love in order to save his own existence.
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.
SLEEP NO MORE
Off-Broadway: The McKittrick Hotel
Written by Felix Barrett, Maxine Doyle, and the Company of Punchdrunk
Directed by Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns
An immersive production inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth, told through the lens of a Hitchcock thriller. An unexpected location will be exquisitely transformed into an installation of cinematic scenes that evoke the world of Macbeth. The audience has the freedom to roam the environment and experience a sensory journey as he or she chooses what to watch and where to go.
SUFFS
Broadway: Music Box Theatre
Book, Music and Lyrics by Shaina Taub
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Cast Includes Shaina Taub, Jenn Colella, Nikki M. James, Jenna Bainbridge, Kim Blanck, Ally Bonino, Tsilala Brock, Dana Costello, Hannah Cruz, Nadia Dandashi, Laila Erica Drew, Jaygee Macapugay, Anastaćia McCleskey, Grace McLean, Monica Tulia Ramirez, Emily Skinner, Ada Westfall
It’s 1913 and the women’s movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists — “Suffs,” as they call themselves — and their relentless pursuit of the right to vote. Reaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight. So much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment over a century ago, and yet we’re reminded sometimes we need to look back, in order to march fearlessly into the future
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.
Closing Sunday, January 19, 2025
EUREKA DAY
Broadway: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Written by Jonathan Spector
Directed by Anna D. Shapiro
Cast Includes Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz, Eboni Flowers
Eureka Day is a private California elementary school with a Board of Directors that values inclusion above all else – that is, until an outbreak of the mumps forces everyone in the community to reconsider the school’s liberal vaccine policy. As cases rise, the board realizes with horror that they’ve got to do what they swore they never would: make a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.
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.
SAW THE MUSICAL: THE UNAUTHORIZED PARODY
Off-Broadway: New Box Theater
Book by Zoe Ann Jordan
Music and Lyrics by Anthony De Angelis, Patrick Spencer
Directed by Stephanie Rosenberg
Cast Includes Adam Parbhoo, Jill Owen, Donnell Johnson (Voiceover), Danny Durr, Gabrielle Goodman, Patrick Voss Davis, James Lynch, Thomas Skea, Morgan Traud, Jessica Morilakr
Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody, a boundary-pushing parody about love and fluidity, captures the events of the first Saw movie, picking up from where Lawrence Gordon and Adam Stanheight first found each other.
Closing Friday, January 24, 2025
BLIND RUNNER
Off-Broadway: St. Ann's Warehouse
Written by Amir Reza Koohestani
Directed by Amir Reza Koohestani
Once a week, a husband comes to visit his captive wife who has been detained as a political prisoner in Tehran. Spied on by cameras and microphones, their conversations become increasingly distant, inhibiting their ability to share their daily lives. At his wife’s insistence, the husband agrees to train and guide a young blind woman through a Parisian footrace. As they come to learn more about each other, the unlikely couple grows close and finds a common rhythm. At the race’s end, they set upon a second challenge: can they run the Channel Tunnel to England, covering 38 kilometers in a few hours and avoiding being hit by the first train of the morning?
Closing Saturday, January 25, 2025
SYMPHONY OF RATS
Off-Broadway: The Performing Garage
Written by Richard Foreman
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk
Cast Includes Niall Cunningham, Ari Fliakos, Jim Fletcher, Andrew Maillet, Tavish Miller, Michaela Murphy, Guillermo Resto
A President of the United States is receiving messages by unknown means, and he doesn't know whether to trust them.
Closing Sunday, January 26, 2025
SHOW/BOAT: A RIVER
Off-Broadway: NYU Skirball Center
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Jerome Kern
Adaptation by Target Margin Theater
Directed by David Kerskovitz
Cast Includes Tẹmídayọ Amay, Alvin Crawford, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Suzanne Darrell, Edwin Joseph, J Molière, Steven Rattazzi, Philip Themio Stoddard, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Stephanie Weeks
This new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat reframes the 1927 production for today. From the 1880s to 1927, the United States moved from steamboats to airplanes, from vaudeville to radio, and from the Spanish-moss south to Chicago in the great migration. Show Boat is a story and a national history marred by violent racism, and yet this pivotal work aspires to a better America.
Closing Sunday, February 2, 2025
BLUE MAN GROUP
Off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre
Created by Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, Chris Wink
CULT OF LOVE
Broadway: Helen Hayes Theatre
Written by Leslye Hunter
Directed by Trip Cullman
Cast Includes Molly Bernard, Roberta Colindrez, Brbie Ferreira, Rebecca Henderson, Christopher Lowell, Zachary Quinto, David Rasche, Christopher Sears, Mare Winningham, Shailene Woodley
It’s the holiday season for the Dahl family! The four adult children return to their childhood home with partners in tow. The Dahl traditions include singing carols in harmony at the drop of a hat, but the gathering is anything but harmonious. Old conflicts resurface, new issues battled, and dinner is taking absolutely forever to be served. Will the love the Dahls have for each other be enough to get them through, or will this be their last Christmas together?
A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK
Off-Broadway: DR2 Theatre
Written by Ken Urban
Directed by Shira Milikowsky
Cast Includes McKinley Belcher III, Uly Schlesinger
Set in a hotel room in Amsterdam, A Guide for the Homesick follows Teddy and Jeremy, two Americans drawn together by their shared isolation and haunting secrets. Teddy is seeking companionship for the night, while Jeremy is searching for a moment of distraction. As they open up about their troubled pasts, the narrative shifts between the present and the past, with the two actors portraying four roles.
LEFT ON TENTH
Broadway: James Earl Jones Theatre
Written by Dalia Ephron
Directed by Susan Stroman
Cast Includes Juliana Margulies, Peter Gallagher, Peter Francis James, Kate MacCluggage
When she least expects it, Delia, beloved novelist and screenwriter of “You’ve Got Mail,” makes a surprising connection with a man from her past and falls into her own romantic comedy. What starts with an unlikely spark blossoms into a love story that seems to defy all odds in the face of life’s challenges. Left on Tenth celebrates the messy, beautiful true story of two people with the courage to open their hearts again.
Closing Saturday, February 8, 2025
GRANDILOQUENT
Off-Broadway: Lucille Lortel Theatre
Written and Performed by Gary Gulman
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Grandiloquent is Gary Gulman’s hilarious new show about insecurity, empathy, self-acceptance and how a thoughtful boy learned to use humor, reading and writing to cope with the consequences of his parents’ blunders. Learn why a seemingly confident middle-aged man feels most comfortable in a large room where a thousand strangers are laughing at him.
Closing Sunday, February 9, 2025
I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN
Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company/Stage 2
Written by Mona Pirnot
Directed by Kan Rus Schmoll
One 68-year-old man plays four millennial women in a comedy (full of drama) about how to make a living as a playwright (or to try.)
PEN PALS
Off-Broadway: Theatre at St. Clement's
Written by Michael Griffo
Directed by SuZanne Barabas
Pen Pals will have a rotating cast. Visit penpalsplay.com for a complete list and schedule.
Bernie and Mags live in two different countries, they’ve never met, and yet they’re best friends. Because they’ve been pen pals for over fifty years. Since they were teenagers, they’ve shared every aspect of their lives with each other. The trivial bits, the most intimate details, all the happiness, all the heartache. They’ve told each other things they wouldn’t dare tell another soul. Even though Bernie lives in New Jersey and Mags is from England, the women are closer to each other than anyone else in the world.
Closing Saturday, February 15, 2025
CYMBELINE
Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried
Cast Includes Purva Bedi, Annie Fang, Amy Hill, Anna Ishida, Narea Kang, Jennifer Lim, KK Moggie, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Julyanna Soelistyo, Sarah Suzuki, Jeena Yi
Princess Imogen’s fidelity is put to the royal test when her disapproving father banishes her soul mate. Cross-dressing girls and cross-dressing boys, poisons and swordfights and dastardly villains all take the stage in this enchanting romp about the conquering power of love.
Closing Sunday, February 16, 2025
GRIEF CAMP
Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
Written by Eliya Smith
Directed by Les Waters
Cast Includes Arjun Athalye, Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Jack DiFalco, Alden Harris-McCoy, Renée-Nicole Powell, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Lark White, Danny Wolohan, Amalia Yoo
It’s summer in Hurt, Virginia, where a lone cabin fills each year with campers. There’s homecooked breakfast and an army of box fans and lots of shifting in the dark. Welcome to Grief Camp: a study of loss and adolescence.
A KNOCK ON THE ROOF
Off-Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop
Written by Khawla Ibraheem
Directed by Oliver Butler
Cast Includes Khawla Ibraheem
Set the timer. The everyday existence of a mother during a sweltering summer vacation: prepare meals, pack the bag, run the drill, repeat. With a dry wit and the determination of an Olympian, Mariam meticulously practices for the run of her life—the dreaded knock on the roof.
ROMEO AND JULIET
Broadway: Circle In The Square Theatre
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Sam Gold
Cast Includes Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler, Gabby Beans, Daniel Bravo Hernández, Jasai Chase-Owens, Tommy Dorfman, Nihar Duvvuri, Solá Fádìran, Taheen Modak, Gían Pérez
The youth are f**ked. Left to their own devices in their parents’ world of violent ends, an impulsive pair of star-crossed lovers hurtle towards their inescapable fate. The intoxicating high of passion quickly descends into a brutal chaos that can only end one way.
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