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.
BEAU THE MUSICAL
• St. Luke's Theatre
• First Preview: October 13, 2025
• Opening: October 27, 2025
• Book and Lyrics: Douglas Lyons
• Music: Ethan D. Pakchar and Douglas Lyons
• Director: Josh Rhodes
• Cast: Matt Rodin, Jeb Brown, Amelia Cormack, Andrea Goss, Ryan Halsaver, Miyuki Miyagi, Max Sangerman, Derek Stoltenberg
Beau features eight actor-musicians telling the story of Ace Baker – a young queer man whose life is forever changed when he discovers his deceased grandfather is actually alive. Family secrets unravel as Ace rushes to make up for lost time with a man who changed his life by putting a guitar in his hand.
ROMY & MICHELE: THE MUSICAL
• Stage 42
• First Preview: October 14, 2025
• Opening: October 28, 2025
• Book: Robin Schiff
• Music and Lyrics: Gwendolyn Sanford and Brandon Jay
• Director: Kristin Hanggi
• Cast: TBA
For most of us, the idea of reliving high school is nothing short of a nightmare. When Romy and Michele are invited to their ten year high school reunion Michele envisions the whole experience as a fun road trip, while Romy, very reluctantly, agrees to go but only if they come up with something to impress their classmates. To this end the two hatch an outrageous scheme to totally re-invent themselves.
BAT BOY
• New York City Center
• Opening: October 29, 2025
• Book: Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
• Music and Lyrics: Laurence O'Keefe
• Director: Alex Timbers
• Cast: Taylor Trensch, Kerry Butler, Gabi Carrubba, Andrew Durand, Mary Faber, Alan H. Green, Evan Harrington, John-Michael Lyles, Tom McGowan, Jacob Ming-Trent, Alex Newell, Olivia Puckett, Marissa Rosen, Christopher Sieber, Colin Trudell, Rema Webb, Marissa Jaret Winokur
After being discovered in a cave and adopted by a local family, Bat Boy, also known as Edgar, wants nothing more than to be accepted by the West Virginia community and works hard to appeal to their “Christian Charity.” But will his insatiable bloodlust be his undoing? Or will the bloodlust of a town searching for an easy scapegoat beat him to the punch?
THE COMEDY SERIES
• LCT3/Claire Tow Theater
• Opening: October 29, 2025
• Writers: Vir Das, Jerrod Carmichael, Ego Nwodim, Sam Jay
• Director: Various
• Cast: Vir Das, Jerrod Carmichael, Ego Nwodim, Sam Jay
A line-up of today’s most dynamic comedic voices will take the stage in a new collaboration between LCT3 and Seaview—not just to make you laugh, but to draw you into something deeper. This is comedy in motion: personal, and alive with discovery. Each night is a chance for these artists to test boundaries, shape new material, and explore the space between humor and truth.
MESSY WHITE GAYS
• The Duke on 42nd Street
• First Preview: October 6, 2025
• Opening: November 2, 2025
• Playwright: Drew Droege
• Director: Mike Donahue
• Cast: Derek Chadwick, James Cusati-Moyer, Drew Droege, Aaron Jackson, Pete Zias
It’s Sunday morning in Hell’s Kitchen. Brecken and Caden have just murdered their boyfriend and stuffed his body into a Jonathan Adler credenza. Unfortunately, they’ve also invited friends over for brunch. And they’re out of limes! Feel bad for them! They’re MESSY WHITE GAYS!
REUNIONS
• New York City Center - Stage II
• First Preview: October 24, 2025
• Opening: November 2, 2025
• Book and Lyrics: Jeffrey Scharf
• Music: Jimmy Calire
• Director: Gabriel Barre
• Cast: Bryan Fenkart, Joanna Glushak, Chilina Kennedy, Courtney Reed, Daniel Torres, Chip Zien
Reunions is a new musical adaptation of two famous one-act plays, by J.M. Barrie and the Quintero Brothers with a common theme: lovers met by chance after many years apart.
QUEENS
• Manhattan Theatre Club/New York City Center Stage I
• First Preview: October 15, 2025
• Opening: November 5, 2025
• Playwright: Martyna Majok
• Director: Trip Cullman
• Cast: Brooke Bloom, Anna Chlumsky, Sharlene Cruz, Marin Ireland, Julia Lester, Nadine Malouf, Andrea Syglowski, Nicole Villamil
In an illegal basement apartment in Queens, multiple generations of immigrant women fight to launch a new life. But when a young Ukrainian woman comes searching for the mother who abandoned her years ago, she forces a reckoning with the impossible choices the women made to survive.
44 THE MUSICAL
• Daryl Roth Theatre
• First Preview: October 14, 2025
• Opening: November 6, 2025
• Book, Music and Lyrics: Eli Bauman
• Director: Eli Bauman
• Cast: T.J. Wilkins, Shanice, Chad Doreck, Larry Cedar, Summer Collins, Summer Nicole Greer, Jenna Pastuszek, Dino Shorté, Jeff Sumner, Michael Uribes
Barack Obama's election changed history. And as we can clearly see, it also ended racism forever! But 44 The Musical is the story of Obama you won't read about in history books...because history books are now banned in most states. But also because 44 is the story of Obama as Joe Biden kinda sorta remembers it...
THE BURNING CAULDRON OF FIERY FIRE
• Vineyard Theatre
• First Preview: October 23, 2025
• Opening: November 9, 2025
• Playwright: Anne Washburn
• Director: Steve Cosson
• Cast: Jeff Biehl, Bartley Booz, Cricket Brown, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Bruce McKenzie, Bobby Moreno, Tom Pecinka, Marianne Rendón
Somewhere in foggy Northern California, an intentional community tries to live off the land and keep an unsteady world at bay. But when one of their own dies unexpectedly, ideals are tested and faith in their independence is rocked. The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire is a tender, funny, probing story about a death, a pageant, a rescue, a resurrection, pigs, and the act of saying grace. The kids may not be all right.
THE BAKER'S WIFE
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: October 23, 2025
• Opening: November 11, 2025
• Book: Joseph Stein
• Music and Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
• Director: Gordon Greenberg
• Cast: Ariana DeBose, Scott Bakula
In a quiet French village, a baker and his wife bring fresh bread…and fresh gossip. But when temptation stirs and hearts wander, the whole town gets caught up in a swirl of romance, mischief, and melody.
ARCHDUKE
• Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: October 23, 2025
• Opening: November 12, 2025
• Playwright: Rajiv Joseph
• Director: Darko Tresnjak
• Cast: Jake Berne, Kristine Nielsen, Patrick Page, Adrien Rolet, Jason Sanchez
This darkly comic and unexpectedly human take rewinds history to reveal the fateful journey of Gavrilo Princip—best remembered as Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin—and his fellow revolutionaries in a new light. Here, we see the late teens not as hardened killers, but as a ragtag group of dreamers swept up in forces beyond their control, and in dire need of a sandwich.
MEET THE CARTOZIANS
• Second Stage Theater/The Pershing Square Signature Center - Irene Diamond Stage
• First Preview: October 30, 2025
• Opening: November 17, 2025
• Playwright: Talene Monahon
• Director: David Cromer
• Cast: Raffi Barsoumian, Will Brill, Andrea Martin, Nael Nacer, Susan Pourfar, Tamara Sevunts
This bold, witty new play follows two sets of Armenian Americans: one man fighting for legal recognition in the 1920s, while a century later, his descendant fights for followers and a competent glam team. A wildly imaginative and deeply compelling story of culture and heritage, Meet the Cartozians asks who gets to belong — and at what cost?
PRACTICE
• Playwrights Horizons/The Judy Theater
• First Preview: October 30, 2025
• Opening: November 18, 2025
• Playwright: Nazareth Hassan
• Director: Keenan Tyler Oliphant
• Cast: Opa Adeyemo, Karina Curet, Amandla Jahava, Mark Junek, Hayward Leach, Maya Margarita, Ronald Peet, Susannah Perkins, Omar Shafiuzzaman, Alex Wyse
Asa Leon is the charismatic avant-garde auteur of the moment. For their next highly-anticipated performance piece, they assemble a company of actors to live together in an old Brooklyn church and make a play about themselves. A shapeshifting psycho-comedy, Practice charts the gradual seduction of power, and what we each sacrifice to belong to a group.
THIS WORLD OF TOMORROW
• The Shed
• First Preview: October 30, 2025
• Opening: November 18, 2025
• Playwrights: Tom Hanks and James Glossman
• Director: Kenny Leon
• Cast: Tom Hanks, Kelli O'Hara, Kerry Bishé, Kayli Carter, Paul Murphy, Jamie Ann Romero, Lee Aaron Rosen, Jay O. Sanders, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Donald Webber Jr., Michelle Wilson
It’s the end of the 21st century and Bert Allenberry is longing for the past. When Bert embarks on a time-traveling quest for true love, he returns—again, and again, and again—to one special day at the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Queens. Out of the collision of technology and desire, nostalgia and history, what life will Bert choose as his own?
KYOTO
• Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
• First Preview: October 8, 2025
• Opening: November 3, 2025
• Playwrights: Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
• Directors: Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin
• Cast: Stephen Kunken, Jorge Bosch, Peter Bradbury, Kate Burton, Feodor Chin, Erin Darke, Natalie Gold, Daniel Jenkins, Dariush Kashani, Rob Narita, Imani Jade Powers, Ferdy Roberts, Roslyn Ruff, Taiana Tully
Welcome to the Kyoto Conference Center, December 11, 1997. The nations of the world are in deadlock and 11 hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Time is running out and agreement feels a world away. The greatest obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman...
RICHARD II
• Red Bull Theater/Astor Place
• First Preview: October 28, 2025
• Opening: November 10, 2025
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Craig Baldwin
• Cast: Michael Urie, Grantham Coleman, Ron Canada, Kathryn Meisle, David Mattar Merten, Lux Pascal, James Seol, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Ryan Spahn, Emily Swallow, Sarin Monae West
Ambition and betrayal reign supreme in this electrifying reimagining of Shakespeare’s poetic masterpiece. Set in 1980s Manhattan, the neon skyline and shadowy backrooms become an epic battleground of identity and power, where a king’s divine right crumbles beneath the weight of human frailty.
THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS
• The Public Theater/Newman Theater
• First Preview: October 24, 2025
• Opening: November 13, 2025
• Book, Music and Lyrics: Ethan Lipton
• Director: Leigh Silverman
• Cast: Ally Bonino, Bill Buell, Damon Daunno, Micaela Diamond, Amina Faye, Andy Grotelueschen, Shuler Hensley, Michael Lepore, Ruthie Ann Miles, Geena Quintos, Ruth E. Sternberg
A rollicking adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, this new musical about age-old problems tells the twisting, often absurd story of the Antrobus family, who have been alive for 5,000 years but live in the same existential dread as the rest of us. Mired in the hot mess of their everyday worries, the Antrobuses survive all manner of catastrophes in an endless quest to begin again, and again, and again.
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
• New World Stages - Stage 3
• First Preview: November 7, 2025
• Opening: November 17, 2025
• Book: Rachel Sheinkin
• Music and Lyrics: William Finn
• Director: Danny Mefford
• Cast: Philippe Arroyo, Autumn Best, Leana Rae Concepcion, Justin Cooley, Lilli Cooper, Jason Kravits, Matt Manuel, Kevin McHale, Jasmine Amy Rogers
Six spellers enter, but only one can win The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee! This charmingly witty and touching musical has entertained audiences across the world since its Tony–winning Broadway debut in 2005. It now returns to New York in a special 20th Anniversary production that celebrates the singular heart, humor, and verve that cemented its place in the musical theater canon.
INITIATIVE
• The Public Theater
• First Preview: November 4, 2025
• Opening: November 20, 2025
• Playwright: Else Went
• Director: Emma Rose Went
• Cast: Olivia Rose Barresi, Greg Cuellar, Harrison Densmore, Carson Higgins, Andrea Lopez Alvarez, Jamie Sanders, Christopher Dylan White
A bittersweet reflection on adolescence at the dawn of the new millennium, Initiative charts the intertwined lives of seven teens from 2000-2004, as they become friends and more than friends, wrestle with their potential, face incalculable loss, and struggle to find their way in (and get out of) “Coastal Podunk, California.”
GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: November 7, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Rajiv Joseph
• Director: Neil Pepe
• Cast: Nicholas Braun, Kara Young
Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.
GOTTA DANCE
• York Theatre/Theater at St. Jean's
• Opening: November 25, 2025
• Concept: Nikki Feirt Atkins and American Dance Machine
• Directors: Nikki Feirt Atkins and Randy Skinner
• Cast: Jessica Lee Goldyn, Brandon Burks, Anthony Cannarella, Barton Cowperthwaite, Deanna Doyle, Paloma Garcia-Lee, Afra Hines, Jess LeProtto, Kendall Leshanti, Drew Minard, Georgina Pazcoguin, Samantha Siegel, Taylor Stanley, Blake Zelesnikar
Gotta Dance honors the timeless art of musical theatre dance on stage and film. Featuring inspired reconstructions from musicals such as West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Pippin, Singin’ in the Rain, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and more, this joyous celebration brings to life the work of choreographers like Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly, Michael Bennett, Susan Stroman, Billy Wilson, and others. Experience the steps and spirit that have defined generations of Broadway dance.
ANNA CHRISTIE
• St. Ann's Warehouse
• First Preview: November 25, 2025
• Opening: December 11, 2025
• Playwright: Eugene O'Neill
• Director: Thomas Kail
• Cast: Michelle Williams, Tom Sturridge, Brian d'Arcy James, Mare Winningham, Jordan Barbour, Joe Carroll, Anthony Chatmon II, Timothy Hughes, Noah Plomgren
A weary former prostitute seeks out her estranged sea captain father, hoping to find forgiveness from him, while hiding her past from a stoker she loves in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
TARTUFFE
• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: November 28, 2025
• Opening: December 16, 2025
• Writers: Molière (playwright), Lucas Hnath (adaptation)
• Director: Sarah Benson
• Cast: Matthew Broderick, David Cross, Emily Davis, Bianca Del Rio, Amber Gray, Ryan J. Haddad, Francis Jue, Lisa Kron, Ikechukwu Ufomadu
Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath and Obie Award winner Sarah Benson conspire to bring us a razor-sharp reinvention of Molière’s iconoclastic comedy in a mad-dash production full of ferocious wit, outrageous design, and downright buffoonery.
