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What shows are about to close in New York City?

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, September 1, 2024

AIN'T DONE BAD
Off-Broadway: Pershing Square Signature Center/Irene Diamond Stage
Conceived, Directed, and Choreographed by Jakob Karr
Music by Orville Peck

Ain't Done Bad is a hybrid theatrical dance experience conceived, directed, and choreographed by Jakob Karr (“So You Think You Can Dance”) and featuring the music of country star Orville Peck.

N/A
Off-Broadway: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
Written by Mario Correa
Directed by Diane Paulus
Cast Includes Holland Taylor, Ana Villafañe

N/A is a whip-smart battle of wills — and wits — between N, the first woman Speaker of the House, and A, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Inspired by real people and events, this riveting two-hander illuminates the person whom many consider the most powerful woman in American history… and the once-in-a-generation political talent who defied her.

STALKER
Off-Broadway: New World Stages Stage III
Created by Peter Brynolf and Jonas Ljung

Stalker is a 90-minute magic show created and performed by Brynolf & Ljung, featuring a combination of street magic, illusions, and "physical mentalism."

Closing Saturday, September 7, 2024

someone spectacular
Off-Broadway: Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
Written by Domenica Feraud
Directed by Tatiana Pandiani

Once a week, six recently bereaved strangers gather for group therapy. It’s a stable routine — until one day, their grief counselor is inexplicably MIA. The group’s typical session quickly goes off the rails, offering an open-ended meditation on loss, with revelations that are at once beautiful, funny, and heartbreaking.

Closing Sunday, September 8, 2024

CATS: "THE JELLICLE BALL"
Off-Broadway: Perelman Performing Arts Center
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by T.S. Eliot
Directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch
Cast Includes Baby, Jonathan Burke, Emma Sofia Caymares, Rodrick Covington, Tara Lashan Clinkscales, André De Shields, Sydney James Harcourt, Dava Huesca, Dudney Joseph, Jr., Capital Kaos, Junior LaBeija, Dominique Lee, Robert "Silk" Mason, Jenny Mollet, "Tempress" Chasity Moore, Primo, Nora Schell, Kendall G. Stroud, Frank Viveros, Garnet Williams, Teddy Wilson, Jr.

A radical reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic dance musical based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Inspired by the Ballroom culture that roared out of New York City over 50 years ago and still rages on runways around the world. Staged as a spectacularly immersive competition by Zhailon Levingston and PAC NYC Artistic Director Bill Rauch, with all new Ballroom and club beats, runway ready choreography, and an edgy eleganza makeover that moves the action from junkyard to runway.  Come one, come all, and celebrate the joyous transformation of self at the heart of Cats and Ballroom culture itself.

PRETTY PERFECT LIVES
Off-Broadway: The Flea Theater
Written by Gage Tarlton
Directed by Gabi Carrubba
Cast Includes Elizabeth Lail, Zane Phillips, Nic Ashe

Set in the near future, the relationship of lifestyle influencer couple TIFFANY&TUCKER is put to the ultimate test when they are selected to join the Internet Reality Simulation-Project (IRS-P): a new digital program that allows you to travel through different versions of your life via augmented reality. TIFFANY&TUCKER join the program to deal with the issues arising in their relationship, but what's actually waiting for them is far more than they bargained for, culminating in a confrontation about what happens when your life and relationship revolve around content.

Closing Sunday, September 22, 2024

COUNTING AND CRACKING
Off-Broadway: NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Written by S. Shakthidharan
Directed by Eamon Flack
Cast Includes Rodney Afif, Prakash Belawadi, Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Nadie Kammallaweera, Ahi Karunaharan, Abbie-Lee Lewis, Gandhi MacIntyre, Radhika Mudaliyar, Shiv Palekar, Dushan Philips, Sukhbir Singh Walia, Nipuni Sharada, Kaivu Suvarna, Raj Velu, Sukania Venugopal

The multi-generational journey of a Sri-Lankan Australian family from 1956-2004. Radha fled Sri Lanka with her unborn child as the nation struggled with conflict. Two decades later, her son Siddhartha, now an Australian man who knows little of his family’s background, receives a call from the past that changes everything he thought he knew, and who he thought he was.

EMPIRE THE MUSICAL
Off-Broadway: New World Stages Stage 1
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull
Directed by Cady Huffman
Cast Includes Danny Iktomi Bevins, Devin Cortez, Morgan Cowling, Kaitlyn Davidson, Joel Douglas, Joseph Fierberg, Alexandra Frohlinger, Matt Gibson, Albert Guerzon, Julia Louise Hosack, Kiana Kabeary, Howard Kaye, TJ Newton, April Ortiz, Kennedy Perez, Jessica Ranville, Paul Salvatoriello, J Savage, Ethan Saviet, Robbie Serrano

Told through the lens of three generations of dreamers and doers spanning New York City in the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the Bicentennial Year of 1976, this original story shines new light on one of history’s greatest feats of will and desire. With a desperate city pinning its hopes on this seemingly impossible project, only skyscraper-high levels of grit and determination can keep it climbing. Discover the dramatic tales of derring-do through spectacular choreography, foot-tapping music, and colorful, timeless characters. Take the thrilling ride to the sky with the brave Mohawk Skywalkers, industrialist visionaries, and can-do immigrants, all of whom had the guts to go up when everyone else was down. Witness the extraordinary resilience and optimism that built a landmark that still inspires today.

Closing Sunday, September 29, 2024

SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE
Off-Broadway: 154 Christopher Street
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa
Directed by Emilio Ramos
Cast Includes Ann Sanders, Marina Kondo, Kelvin Moon Loh, Zachary Noah Piser, Sam Simahk, Aaron Albano, Bebe Browning

See What I Wanna See is based on three short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. The first act, set in 1951, follows a murder in Central Park from contradicting perspectives where everyone’s truth may be a lie. Act two centers on a priest in 2002, wavering in his faith and creating a hoax about a miracle. His ruse attracts attention; however, the result is something he hadn't bargained for.

SLEEP NO MORE
Off-Broadway: The McKittrick Hotel
Created by Felix Barrett, Maxine Doyle, and the company of Punchdrunk
Designed by Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns
Choreographed by Maxine Doyle

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.

TABLE 17
Off-Broadway: The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
Written by Douglas Lyons
Directed by Zhalion Levington
Cast Includes Kara Young, Biko Eisen-Martin, Michael Rishawn

If your ex wanted to meet up again, would you? Previously engaged, Jada and Dallas reunite for dinner to hash out the good, the bad, and the ugly from their romantic past. Despite the intrusion of sassy waiters, complicated memories, and their best efforts to keep things casual, the estranged couple find themselves cornered by the truth.

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

AGE IS A FEELING
Off-Broadway: Vineyard Theatre
Written by Haley McGee
Directed by Mitchell Cushman
Cast Includes Haley McGee

Inspired by hospices, mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a Feeling wrestles with our endless chances to change course while we’re alive. A covert rallying cry against cynicism and regret. A call to seize our time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Tuesday, November 5, 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.'

Closing Sunday, November 10, 2024

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).

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.

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 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

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 15, 2024

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.




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