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.
THE ARK
• The Shed
• Opening: January 9, 2026
• Playwright: Simon Stephens
• Director: Sarah Frankcom
• Cast: Ian McKellan, Golda Rosheuvel, Arinzé Kene, Rosie Sheehy
An Ark is the first play created for mixed reality. From quiet sorrows to breathtaking beauty, the mystery of human experience unfolds before you. In An Ark, four guides shepherd you into an understanding of the human condition, encompassing the joy of first love and the inevitability of death.
THE DISAPPEAR
• Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre
• First Preview: January 8, 2026
• Opening: January 15, 2026
• Playwright: Erica Schmidt
• Director: Erica Schmidt
• Cast: Dylan Baker, Madeline Brewer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Hamish Linklater, Anna Mirodin, Miriam Silverman
Power couple Benjamin Braxton and Mira Blair see their picture-perfect life go gloriously off script—taking their friends, flings, and daughter along for the ride. Written by Erica Schmidt, The Disappear peels back the curtain on fame, ambition, marriage and reinvention in a smoldering comedy about how keeping it together sometimes means letting it all go.
DATA
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: January 9, 2026
• Opening: January 25, 2026
• Playwright: Matthew Libby
• Director: Tyne Rafaeli
• Cast: Karan Barr, Brandon Flynn, Sophia Lillis, Justin H. Min
When a brilliant young programmer learns his own algorithm is the key to a massive AI surveillance project, he’s forced to challenge the tech world he once dreamt of joining. Confronting today's most controversial headlines, this subversive thriller follows the terrifying choices at our fingertips—and the high cost of disrupting a system that tracks your every move.
ULYSSES
• The Public Theater/Martinson Hall
• First Preview: January 13, 2026
• Opening: January 25, 2026
• Text: James Joyce
• Director: John Collins
• Cast: Dee Beasnael, Kate Benson, Maggie Hoffman, Vin Knight, Scott Shepherd, Christopher-Rashee Stevenson, Stephanie Weeks
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and/or defeated readers for over a century. In this New York City premiere by Elevator Repair Service, seven performers sit down for a sober reading but soon find themselves guzzling pints, getting in brawls, and committing debaucheries as they careen on a fast-forward tour through Joyce’s funhouse of styles.
BLACKOUT SONGS
• The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
• First Preview: January 15, 2026
• Opening: January 27, 2026
• Playwright: Joe White
• Director: Rory McGregor
• Cast: Abbey Lee, Owen Teague
Blackout Songs is an achingly intimate portrait of two people in love, addicted, and bound to each other. After a chance encounter at an AA meeting, a decade-long affair blazes through ecstasy, relapse, and recovery – chasing the impossible hope that the same person who breaks you might also be the one that saves you.
HIGH SPIRITS
• New York City Center
• Opening: February 4, 2026
• Book, Music and Lyrics: Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray
• Director: Jessica Stone
• Cast: Rachel Dratch, Katrina Lenk, Andrea Martin, Steven Pasquale, Jennifer Sanchez, Campbell Scott, Phillipa Soo
Based on the play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward, High Spirits is “An Improbable Musical Comedy” about the woes of a widowed gentleman who, upon remarrying, finds himself haunted by the spirit of his strong-willed first wife.
THE OTHER PLACE
• The Shed
• First Preview: January 30, 2026
• Opening: February 5, 2026
• Playwright: Alexander Zeldin
• Director: Alexander Zeldin
• Cast: Lee Braithwaite, Lorna Brown, Emma D’Arcy, Jerry Killick, Tobias Menzies, Ruby Stokes
On the anniversary of the death of their father, two sisters reunite at the family home after a period of estrangement. Their uncle is attempting a fresh start, but one of the sisters threatens to shatter this peace, demanding justice for the pain she carries. Guilt, grief, and greed battle it out as the family goes to war over dreams of their future, and visions of their past.
MAKING A SHOW OF MYSELF
• Irish Repertory Theatre/W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre
• First Preview: February 4, 2026
• Opening: February 8, 2026
• Playwright: Mary Kate O Flanagan
• Director: Will O'Connell
• Cast: Mary Kate O Flanagan
Deceptively funny, unexpectedly moving, and ultimately uplifting, Making a Show of Myself celebrates seanchas—the ancient Irish art of storytelling—carrying audiences from laughter through darkness and back into light. Acclaimed Irish storyteller Mary Kate O Flanagan brings six true, personal, life-affirming stories to the stage. In the spaces between her tales, she lets slip the secrets of why stories matter—how they settle the spirit and light a spark inside us.
11 TO MIDNIGHT
• Orpheum Theatre
• First Preview: January 28, 2026
• Opening: February 11, 2026
• Creators: Austin & Marideth Telenko, Josh & Lyndsay Aviner
• Director: Lyndsay Magid Aviner
• Cast: Austin Telenko, Marideth Telenko, Brendon Chan, Kati Simon, Ache Richardson, Makenzie Olsen, Tyson Hill
From viral creators Cost N’ Mayor and Hideaway Circus comes a new theatrical dance experience, 11 to Midnight. Seven friends—some old, some new, all tangled up in the messy magic of friendship—come together to toast the New Year. Whether it’s 1921 or 2025, the ritual remains the same—we make a wish, promise big, and hopefully score a midnight kiss.
THE UNKNOWN
• Studio Seaview
• First Preview: January 31, 2026
• Opening: February 12, 2026
• Playwright: David Cale
• Director: Leigh Silverman
• Cast: Sean Hayes
Desperate to cure his writer’s block, Elliott retreats to a remote cabin—only to discover he may not be alone. As the boundaries between his work and his life collapse, Elliott begins to question everything he knows. Is he writing a thriller? Living one? Both?
THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS
• Theatre for a New Audience/Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• First Preview: February 1, 2026
• Opening: February 14, 2026
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Ash K. Tata
• Cast: Barzin Akhavan, Kevin Alicea, McKinley Belcher III, Jack Berenholtz, William DeMeritt, Meredith Garretson, Pomme Koch, Merlin McCormick, Jason O'Connell, Emma Ramos, Roslyn Ruff, Mickey Sumner, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Sarin Monae West
Who should lead in a land where the political rules are rapidly shifting and reordering, class revolt is raging, and basic food has become unaffordable? Is there a place for Coriolanus, a noble war hero and uncompromising aristocrat, both admirable and detestable, who refuses to hide his contempt for the newly empowered plebeian citizens?
THE DINOSAURS
• Playwrights Horizons/The Judy Theater
• First Preview: February 4, 2026
• Opening: February 16, 2026
• Playwright: Jacob Perkins
• Director: Les Waters
• Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, Elizabeth Marvel, April Matthis, Keilly McQuail, Mallory Portnoy, Maria Elena Ramirez
Every week at the same time, in the same place, a group of women share their stories of recovery. As weeks slip into years and decades spin into eternity, the women keep coming back amidst an ever-shifting, unfamiliar world. Jacob Perkins’ The Dinosaurs is a piercingly funny, loving ode to the infinite, innately human battle between holding on and letting go.
MARCEL ON THE TRAIN
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: February 5, 2026
• Opening: February 22, 2026
• Playwrights: Marshall Pailet & Ethan Slater
• Director: Marshall Pailet
• Cast: Maddie Corman, Max Gordon Moore, Aaron Serotsky, Ethan Slater, Alex Wyse
History remembers Marcel Marceau as the world’s greatest mime. But before the spotlight, he was a young man in Nazi-occupied France, guiding Jewish children to safety with nothing but courage and imagination. In the shadows of World War II, Marcel on the Train reveals the man behind the invisible mask.
YOU GOT OLDER
• Cherry Lane Theatre
• First Preview: February 12, 2026
• Opening: February 23, 2026
• Playwright: Clare Barron
• Director: Anne Kauffman
• Cast: Alia Shawkat
After losing both her job and her boyfriend (comes with the territory when you're dating your boss), an unmoored and unsettled Mae returns to her small Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father. When she unexpectedly meets a mysterious stranger, she has the startling realization that maybe the intimacy she’s been craving is easier with the unknown, rather than with her own family.
MOTHER RUSSIA
• The Pershing Square Signature Theatre Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: February 3, 2026
• Opening: February 24, 2026
• Playwright: Lauren Yee
• Director: Teddy Bergman
• Cast: Steven Boyer, Adam Chanler-Berat, Rebecca Naomi Jones, David Turner
St. Petersburg, 1992: the Soviet Union has collapsed, McDonald’s has risen, and Evgeny, a young man at a loss, stumbles into a job working surveillance with his old friend Dmitri. Their target: Katya, a former pop singer with questionable allegiances and a mysterious past. As their lives riotously intertwine, Evgeny finds himself falling in love and losing his bearings, all while grappling with the taste of freedom (and fast food) along the way.
THE RESERVOIR
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: February 5, 2026
• Opening: February 24, 2026
• Playwright: Jake Brasch
• Director: Shelley Butler
• Cast: Caroline Aaron, Heidi Armbruster, Noah Galvin, Peter Maloney, Mary Beth Peil, Matthew Saldivar, Chip Zien
Josh’s life is a mess. He’s moved home to Denver to get sober, but after years of drinking, the fog in his brain won’t lift. Struggling with memory loss, confusion, and shame he finds himself strangely in step with his four aging grandparents. The Reservoir is a funny, human play about memory, recovery, and the joys of cross-generational connection.
MEAT SUIT, OR THE SHITSHOW OF MOTHERHOOD
• Second Stage Theater at Pershing Square Center/Irene Diamond Stage
• First Preview: February 11, 2026
• Opening: February 25, 2026
• Playwright: Aya Ogawa
• Director: Aya Ogawa
• Cast: TBA
Meat Suit is a gloriously genre-defying theatrical carnival that plunges audiences into the raw, hilarious chaos of being a mom. Performed by mothers for mothers, or those who love mothers, or simply those who have mothers, this play blends bouffon-inspired physicality, sharp satire, original songs, and total absurdity.
CHINESE REPUBLICANS
• Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: February 5, 2026
• Opening: February 26, 2026
• Playwright: Alex Lin
• Director: Chay Yew
• Cast: Jennifer Ikeda, Ben Langhorst, Jully Lee, Jodi Long, Anna Zavelson
Three high-powered businesswomen meet for lunch every month to discuss their latest career triumphs, as they’ve done for decades. But the group is jolted when Katie, a bright-eyed 24-year-old new to the workforce, joins to navigate the world of corporate finance. As each of the women attempts to steer Katie towards what they’re certain is best, they’re forced to grapple with how much they already have and are willing to sacrifice to climb the corporate ladder.
BIGFOOT!
• New York City Center/Stage I
• First Preview: February 11, 2026
• Opening: March 1, 2026
• Book: Amber Ruffin & Kevin Sciretta
• Music: David A. Schmoll
• Lyrics: Amber Ruffin
• Director: Danny Mefford
• Cast: Grey Henson, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Katerina McCrimmon, Alex Moffat
Set in the town of Muddirt, a glow-in-the-dark oasis that exists somewhere between a chemical dump site and a nuclear power plant, BIGFOOT! is a larger-than-life musical tale of corrupt politicians, small-town paranoia and misunderstood youth. When that youth happens to be eight feet tall, innocent and in dire need of electrolysis, it makes him more than a target. It makes him the subject of a can’t-myth musical comedy.
WHAT WE DID BEFORE OUR MOTH DAYS
• Greenwich House Theater
• First Preview: February 4, 2026
• Opening: March 5, 2026
• Playwright: Wallace Shawn
• Director: André Gregory
• Cast: Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early, Josh Hamilton
Set in an urban world of intelligent and somewhat gentle middle-class people, a father, mother, son, and the long-time mistress of the father tell the intimate story of their lives. Wallace Shawn, a student of morality whose plays have brought us frank truths about politics and sexuality, here takes on the subject of love — suffocating and freeing — and the kaleidoscopic journeys we make through remorse, sorrow, resentment, and joy.
COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE
• MCC Theater/Newman Mills Theater
• First Preview: February 21, 2026
• Opening: March 10, 2026
• Writer: Ro Reddick (book, music, and lyrics)
• Director: Knud Adams
• Cast: Alana Raquel Bowers, Will Cobbs, Crystal Finn, Andy Lucien, Lizan Mitchell, Suzzy Roche, Nina Ross, Ellen Winter
A young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults—underscored by the cryptic Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.
ANTIGONE (THIS PLAY I READ IN HIGH SCHOOL)
• The Public Theater/Anspacher Theater
• First Preview: February 26, 2026
• Opening: March 11, 2026
• Playwright: Anna Ziegler
• Director: Tyne Rafaeli
• Cast: Ethan Dubin, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Katie Kreisler, Susannah Perkins, Dave Quay, Tony Shalhoub, Calvin Leon Smith, Haley Wong
A riveting take on Sophocles’ classic, this lyrical epic follows a fiercely independent young woman determined to control her own body in a kingdom ruled by archaic laws that regulate women’s autonomy. Incisively witty and breathtakingly intelligent, Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) paints a world that is both modern and ancient; a world of lost leaders, hapless cops, and one very righteous daughter on an all-night bender.
BUGHOUSE
• Vineyard Theatre
• First Preview: February 18, 2026
• Opening: March 11, 2026
• Playwright: Beth Henley
• Director: Martha Clarke
• Cast: John Kelly
Bughouse brings us inside the mind of one of the 20th century’s most startling outsider artists, Henry Darger — a reclusive janitor whose extraordinary body of paintings and writings was only fully discovered after his death. In his cramped Chicago apartment, Darger created a vast, fantastical universe, filled with child warriors, epic battles, and haunting beauty – an alternate reality through which he could escape his own.
ULSTER AMERICAN
• Irish Repertory Theatre/Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
• First Preview: March 6, 2026
• Opening: March 15, 2026
• Playwright: David Ireland
• Director: Ciarán O'Reilly
• Cast: Max Baker, Matthew Broderick, Geraldine Hughes
On the evening before rehearsals begin for her new work, Ulster-born playwright Ruth Davenport visits the home of English director Leigh Carver, along with Oscar-winning Hollywood star Jay Conway who has just arrived in London to star in the world premiere. What begins as a cordial gathering to discuss the upcoming production quickly descends into a brutal psychological brawl as egos, ideologies, and historical baggage collide.
MY JOY IS HEAVY
• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: February 25, 2026
• Opening: March 17, 2026
• Writers: The Bengsons (book, music, and lyrics)
• Director: Rachel Chavkin
• Cast: Shaun Bengson, Abigail Bengson
My Joy is Heavy is a deeply personal portrait of a young family yearning for connection amidst the loss of a pregnancy in rural isolation. Surrounded by snow and wrapped in loneliness, they uncover the unexpected joys and humor that can emerge in the wake of loss.
THE WILD PARTY
• New York City Center
• Opening: March 18, 2026
• Book: Michael John LaChiusa & George C. Wolfe
• Music & Lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa
• Director: Lili-Anne Brown
• Cast: Joseph A. Byrd, Claybourne Elder, Evan Tyrone Martin, Jasmine Amy Rogers, Adrienne Warren
You’re invited to a party like no other! Join Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers as Queenie, Tony winner Adrienne Warren as her best friend and rival Kate, and an assortment of New York City’s most colorful characters for an unforgettable night in the dark underbelly of the city at the end of the 1920s.
MONTE CRISTO
• The York Theatre/Theatre at St. Jean's
• First Preview: March 12, 2026
• Opening: March 19, 2026
• Book & Lyrics: Peter Kellogg
• Music: Stephen Weiner
• Director: Peter Flynn
• Cast: Sierra Boggess, Adam Jacobs, James Judy, Norm Lewis, Stephanie Jae Park, Danny Rutigliano, Eliseo Roman, Daniel Yearwood, Karen Ziemba
Monte Cristo tells the epic story of a man wrongfully imprisoned who returns richer, wiser, and bent on vengeance. But as his carefully orchestrated plan unfolds, he must face the ultimate question: is justice enough without love?
JESA
• Ma-Yi Theatre Company at The Public Theater/Shiva Theater
• First Preview: March 10, 2026
• Opening: March 20, 2026
• Playwright: Jeena Yi
• Director: Mei Ann Teo
• Cast: Tina Chilip, Christine Heesun Hwang, Laura Sohn, Shannon Tyo
When four estranged Korean American sisters reunite in Orange County to perform their father’s Jesa—a traditional ritual honoring the dead—old wounds erupt, secrets surface, and ghosts (literal and emotional) refuse to stay buried. With razor-sharp dialogue, explosive humor, and unexpected tenderness, Jesa asks how we honor our ancestors when we can barely stand each other. Come for the sibling brawls and burning shrimp, stay for the aching truth of what binds us.
PUBLIC CHARGE
• The Public Theater/Newman Theater
• First Preview: March 12, 2026
• Opening: March 25, 2026
• Playwrights: Julissa Reynoso and Michael J. Chepiga
• Director: Doug Wright
• Cast: TBA
In 1982, seven-year-old Julissa immigrates to the U.S from the Dominican Republic. In 2009, she leaves her successful practice at a Wall Street law firm to supervise Caribbean and Central American Affairs for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Public Charge chronicles the challenging education of a twenty-first century American diplomat as she works with scores of other dedicated public servants to deploy humanitarian aid to an earthquake-ravaged Haiti, navigate the roiling politics of immigration, confront the reality of international espionage, and free a wrongly imprisoned American from a Cuban prison.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
• Red Bull Theater at The Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: March 17, 2026
• Opening: March 29, 2026
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Jesse Berger
• Cast: Patrick Page
Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble family. But when his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen Tamora and her lover Aaron the Moor release a fury that brings Titus, his family, and all of Rome to their knees.
SEAGULL: TRUE STORY
• The Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• First Preview: March 22, 2026
• Opening: March 30, 2026
• Playwright: Eli Rarey
• Director: Alexander Molochnikov
• Cast: TBA
This politically charged retelling of Alexander Molochnikov’s attempt to stage Chekhov’s The Seagull unfolds as a whirlwind of comedic mayhem, artistic rebellion, and deeply personal reflection on displacement, censorship, and the pursuit of creative freedom.
GIRL, INTERRUPTED
• The Public Theater/Martinson Hall
• First Preview: May 13, 2026
• Opening: June 4, 2026
• Book: Eli Rarey
• Music: Aimee Mann
• Director: Jo Bonney
• Cast: TBA
After being checked into a psychiatric hospital, Susanna finds herself trapped in a place that’s both refuge and prison, discovering unexpected connection with the young women of her ward as they all fight for control, stability, and hope.
