Here is the list of upcoming Broadway and major Off-Broadway show closings. Grab tickets before it’s too late!
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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 Saturday, February 1, 2025
JANUARY
Off-Broadway: Theater at the 14th Street Y
Written by Paula Cizmar
Directed by Lorca Peress
Cast Includes Veronica Cruz, Darlenis Duran, Alinca Hamilton, Jed Peterson, Matt Walting
A child has just shot and killed another child at school. Lauren, the mother of the victim, becomes the darling of the media; Maya, the mother of the killer is ostracized, hounded. As Lauren’s mind fragments, she becomes increasingly obsessed with Maya, whom she blames for the tragedy. But who really is to blame? Couldn’t this happen to any of us? Aren’t we all in this together?
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.
WEST END THEATRE
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 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
ALL IN: COMEDY ABOUT LOVE
Broadway: Hudson Theatre
Written by Simon Rich
Directed by Alex Timbers
Cast Includes John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Richard Kind, Chloe Fineman, Hank Azaria, Annaleigh Ashford, Tim Meadows, David Cross, Jimmy Fallon, Nick Kroll, Aidy Bryant, Andrew Rannells, Lin-Manuel Miranda
All In: Comedy About Love is a series of hilarious stories about dating, heartbreak, marriage and that sort of thing, adapted from the short stories of Simon Rich, and performed by a rotating cast of some of the funniest people on the planet. Sometimes they will play pirates, sometimes they will play dogs, and there’s one where we make them talk in British accents. But even though the show’s kind of all over the place, it’s meant to tell one simple story: that the most important part of life is who we share it with. We hope everybody will relate to it, even if it was their date’s idea to come and they are starting out from a place of quiet resentment.
DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE
Off-Broadway: 59E59 Theater A
Written by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Stephanie Nachamie
Cast Includes Alexandra Fortin and Michael Liebhauser
Two strangers – a military doctor in Oregon and an aspiring actress in New York City – meet by letter during World War II. They dream of being together someday, but the war keeps them apart for years. Will letters be enough to spark a love story?
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.
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.
KOWALSKI
Off-Broadway: The Duke on 42nd Street
Written by Gregg Ostrin
Directed by Colin Hanlon
Cast Includes Brandon Flynn, Robin Lord Taylor, Alison Cimmet, Ellie Ricker, Sebastian Treviño
Step into the night that changed theater forever. Kowalski reimagines the electrifying 1947 meeting between Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams. What begins as an audition becomes a seductive game of power and passion. Experience the drama behind the creation of a masterpiece.
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.
Closing Sunday, February 23, 2025
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 ANTIQUITIES
Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons/The Judy Theater
Written by Jordan Harrison
Directed by David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan
Cast Includes Cindy Cheung, Marchánt Davis, Layan Elwazani, Andrew Garman, Aria Shahghasemi, Kristen Sieh, Ryan Spahn, Julius Rinzel, Amelia Workman
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.
ELEPHANT & PIGGIE'S "WE ARE IN A PLAY!"
Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
Book and Lyrics by Mo Willems
Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma
Directed by MK Lawson
Cast Includes Juan Castro, Nathan Diaz, Frenki Hykollari, Christian Adriana Johannsen, Cindy Tsai, Gabriella Scott
Get ready for a musical experience, ripped from the pages of Mo Willems’ beloved, award-winning, best-selling children’s books, that will leave audiences doing the “Flippy Floppy Floory” dance all night long! In Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Gerald and Piggie take to the stage in a rollicking adventure that is perfect for young audiences.
SUMO
Off-Broadway: Public Theater/Anspacher Theater
Written by Lisa Sanaye Dring
Directed by Ralph B. Peña
Cast Includes Khris Bona, Red Concepción, Akira Fukui, Michael Hisamoto, Ahmad Kamal, Earl T. Kim, Hank Lin, Haowen Luo 罗浩闻, David Shih, Scott Keiji Takeda, Paco Tolson, Viet Vo
Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn. Expecting validation, dominance, and fame, and desperate to move up the ranks, he slams headlong into his fellow wrestlers. With sponsorship money at stake, their bodies on the line, and their futures at risk, the wrestlers struggle to carve themselves—and one another—into the men they dream of being.
Closing Sunday, March 2, 2025
ENGLISH
Broadway: Todd Haimes Theatre
Written by Sanaz Toossi
Directed by Knud Adams
Cast Includes Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Marjan Neshat, Hadi Tabbal
The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say.
HENRY IV
Off-Broadway: Theatre For a New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Written by William Shakespeare
Adapted by Dakin Matthews
Directed by Eric Tucker
Cast Includes Elijah Jones, Dakin Matthews, Cara Ricketts, Jay O. Sanders, James Udom
Dakin Matthews’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts i and ii into a single three-act play covering Bolingbroke’s turbulent reign. In these beloved and gripping epic history plays from the 1590s, Shakespeare explores timeless questions about legitimate authority and how the private lives of rulers conflict with their public lives. 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.
SAFE HOUSE
Off-Broadway: St. Ann's Warehouse
Book and Lyrics by Enda Walsh
Music by Anna Mullarky
Directed by Enda Walsh
Cast Includes Elijah Jones, Dakin Matthews, Cara Ricketts, Jay O. Sanders, James Udom
Through song, music, recorded voice, and film, we’re outside looking at Grace, a young woman living alone in the countryside and then we’re inside her fractured thoughts – trying to make some sense of it all. Her past arrives broken and chopped up. The present skips forward and days flip into night, seasons jarring into one another.
Closing Sunday, March 9, 2025
BECKETT BRIEFS
Off-Broadway: Irish Repertory Theatre
Written by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly
Cast Includes Kate Gilmore
Three short plays, Not I, Play, and Krapp's Last Tape, that run the gamut of existence from birth to the afterlife.
ON THE EVOLUTIONARY FUNCTION OF SHAME
Off-Broadway: The Pershing Square Signature Center/Irene Diamond Stage
Written by D.A. Mindell
Directed by Jess McLeod
Cast Includes Jordan Barbour, Kayli Carter, Elizabeth Ramos, Imani Russell, Cody Sloan, Ryan Jamaal Swain
In the beginning, two people got kicked out of a garden for eating fruit. Many years later, Adam—a transgender man expecting a child—meets with his twin sister, Eve, a pioneering scientist. She offers her brother prenatal services from her cutting-edge practice. But what exactly does that entail? And does Adam even want Eve’s help?
Closing Saturday, March 15, 2025
GARSIDE'S CAREER
Off-Broadway: Theatre Four @ Theatre Row
Written by Harold Brighouse
Directed by Matt Dickson
Cast Includes Daniel Marconi
Garside’s Career tells the story of Peter Garside’s soaring flight from working engineer to member of Parliament, propelled by a ‘silver tongue’ and an insatiable fascination with his power to persuade.
Closing Sunday, March 16, 2025
GRANGEVILLE
Off-Broadway: The Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Written by Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by Jack Serio
Cast Includes Paul Sparks, Brian J. Smith
Across a void of thousands of miles and oceans of hurt, two half-brothers tentatively reconnect over the care of their ailing mother. Grangeville is a new play about the fallibility of memory, the stories we tell to make sense of our suffering, and the complexity of forgiveness.
Closing Sunday, March 23, 2025
DAKAR 2000
Off-Broadway: New York City Center - Stage I
Written by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by May Adrales
Cast Includes Abubakr Ali and Mia Barron
In Senegal on the eve of Y2K, an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer survives a mysterious car accident. An imposing State Department operative arrives at his hospital where she immediately takes command of the situation and his safety. Though they couldn’t be more different, they form an unlikely relationship. But when it becomes clear that they both have secrets, the volunteer is roped into a darker side of public service – one he can’t come back from.
THE GREAT PRIVATION
Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Written by Nia Akilah Robinson
Directed by Evren Odicikin
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.
Closing Sunday, March 30, 2025
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
DEEP BLUE SOUND
Off-Broadway: Public Theater/Shiva Theater
Written by Abe Koogler
Directed by Arin Arbus
Cast Includes Crystal Finn, Jan Leslie Harding, Mia Katigbak, Maryann Plunkett, Armando Riesco, Danny Wolohan
On an island in the Pacific Northwest, the community gathers to address the disappearance of the local orca pod. Friendships fray, tumors grow, new love blooms, wood is chopped, poems are written. The seasons change. Will the whales ever return?
THE PRICE
Off-Broadway: Theatre at St. Clement's
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Directed by Noelle McGrath
Cast Includes Bill Barry, Michael Durkin, Janelle Farias Sando, Cullen Wheeler
When the Great Depression cost his family their fortune, Victor Franz gave up his dream of an education to support his father. Three decades later, Victor has returned to his childhood home to sell the remainder of his parents’ estate. His wife, his estranged brother, and the wily furniture dealer hired to appraise their possessions all arrive with their own agendas, forcing Victor to confront a question, long-stifled, about the value of his sacrifice.
Closing Sunday, March 30, 2025
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
Off-Broadway: The Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
Written by Sam Shepard
Directed by Scott Elliott
Cast Includes David Anzuelo, Kyle Beltran, Calista Flockhart, Cooper Hoffman, Jeb Kreager, Stella Marcus, Christian Slater
In a farmhouse somewhere in the American West, a family fights for independence and a quick buck. Weston, an alcoholic drifter, scrambles to pay off old debts. His adulterous wife, Ella, is planning to sell the family house, take the kids and leave. Like their farmhouse, the American Dream is falling apart around them.
LIBERATION
Off-Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company - Laura Pels Theatre
Written by Bess Wohl
Directed by Whitney White
Cast Includes Betsy Aidem, Audrey Corsa, Kayla Davion, Susannah Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Charlie Thurston, Adina Verson
It's 1970: somewhere in Ohio, six women meet on a basement basketball court, determined to shake up their lives and change the world. Fifty years later, one of their daughters tries to understand where things fell apart. A provocative, wildly theatrical world premiere that poses vital questions about friendship, legacy, and the true meaning of liberation.
Closing Sunday, April 13, 2025
GHOSTS
Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Mark O'Rowe
Directed by Jack O'Brien
Cast Includes Ella Beatty, Billy Crudup, Levon Hawke, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe
After several years abroad, Helena Alving’s son has returned home. He carries with him a terrifying secret. Ibsen’s Ghosts is a devastating moral thriller in which ideas of love, duty and family are mercilessly put to the test.
WE HAD A WORLD
Off-Broadway: New York City Center - Stage II
Written by Joshua Harmon
Directed by Trip Cullman
Cast Includes Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason, Jeanine Serralles
A dying woman calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. “But I want you to promise me something,” she says. “Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible." In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, Joshua Harmon recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love.
Closing Sunday, April 20, 2025
MINDPLAY
Off-Broadway: Greenwich House Theater
Created and Performed by Vinny DePonto
Directed by Andrew Neisler
Created and performed by Drama Desk Award-nominated mentalist Vinny DePonto (Charlatan), written by Vinny DePonto and Josh Koenigsberg, and directed by Andrew Neisler, Mindplay invites audiences to an unforgettable, gasp-inducing experience in which your thoughts and memories play a leading role. Infused with intrigue and mystery, DePonto guides participants on a jaw-dropping, interactive journey as he reads minds while also revealing his own.
MY FIRST EX-HUSBAND
Off-Broadway: MMAC Theatre
Written by Joy Behar
Directed by Randal Mylser
Cast Includes Joy Behar, Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh, Adrienne C. Moore
If half of all marriages end in divorce, then in My First Ex-Husband, women live to laugh about it! Your favorite actors from film, stage and TV will reveal riveting true stories, which will shock, thrill, titillate, and ultimately tug at your heart strings. Audiences will cheer their courage, as they gather the strength to close the door on who they were and open the door to new and exciting adventures that lie ahead. In the world of the play, you’ll meet women married to the mob, to their jobs, to their faith, to money and ultimately to the wrong man. Their stories are your stories…only funnier.
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