Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows | Playbill

Off-Broadway News Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

Due to the expansive nature of Off-Broadway, this list is not comprehensive.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!

• Irish Repertory Theatre
• First Preview: March 16, 2024
• Opening: March 24, 2024
• Playwright: Brian Friel
• Director: Ciarán O’Reilly
• Cast: Peter Cormican, Terry Donnelly, Patrick Fitzgerald, Deirdre Madigan, David McElwee, Clare O'Malley, Ciarán O’Reilly, Tim Palmer, James Russell, A.J. Shively, Emmet Smith, John C. Vennema

Gareth O'Donnell leaves his life in Ireland behind for fame and fortune in America, expressing his feelings through his two sides — the shy and dutiful public side and the angry, defiant private side — in Brian Friel's comedy.

THE WRITING ON THE STALL
• SoHo Playhouse
• Opening: March 27, 2024
• Playwright: Caitlin Cook
• Director: A.J. Holmes
• Cast: Caitlin Cook

"Legendary cock lobster." "My life is on fire, I think I'm in love." "Life ain't all burritos and strippers, my friend." These are just three examples of the bathroom stall graffiti that Caitlin Cook has been obsessing about and photographing for over a decade. Confessional, immersive, and uproariously funny, this one-of-a-kind show—literally set in a dive bar bathroom—transforms graffiti scrawled all over the stalls into the lyrics of her original songs and trail markers along the journey she takes us upon. Through these irreverent, poignant, and often obscene messages, Cook reckons with our shared humanity and what we owe each other.

HOUSE OF TELESCOPES
• A.R.T. New York Theatres - Mezzanine Theatre
• First Preview: March 22, 2024
• Opening: April 3, 2024
• Playwright: Kairos Looney
• Director: Lyam Gabel
• Cast: Abdu Garmazi, Al Piper, André Jordan, Andreas Pliatsikas, Daxx, Francesca Fernandez, Gwynne Wood, Joshua David Robinson, Joyah Dominique, Kris Carrasco, LA Head, Lisa Stephen Friday, Noa Graham, Rai González, Ren King, Trinity G. Ross

Welcome to Ari’s rickety Minneapolis home, inherited from a possibly gay Aunt. The garage has been remade into Lila’s tattoo studio, and the garden might soon house goats. Upstairs, Fable is casting spells in search of elders, while Sherman sits on the roof considering a new name. Across the country, Daphne’s memories have grown a mind of their own and are currently shambling their way down the interstate in a makeshift physical form. In this house, identity is mutable, the boundaries between our own world and the next are thin, and acceptance can come from the least expected of places – found community, chosen family, ghosts, and even demons.

THE FOUR LIVES
• La MaMa/Ellen Stewart Theatre
• First Preview: April 5, 2024
• Opening: April 7, 2024
• Playwright: Theodora Skipitares
• Director: Theodora Skipitares

The ancient philosopher Pythagoras believed that each of us experiences four lives: as a mineral, a vegetable, an animal and a human. In this immersive multi-media spectacle, with live music, and several puppets, giant and tiny, the audience moves through different environments, encountering worlds where humans are not the main attraction......Do sheep dream?

ORLANDO
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Irene Diamond Stage
• First Preview: April 2, 2024
• Opening: April 21, 2024
• Playwright: Sarah Ruhl
• Director: Will Davis
• Cast: Taylor Mac, Janice Amaya, Nathan Lee Graham, Lisa Kron, Jo Lampert, TL Thompson

Orlando’s adventures begin as a young man, when he serves as courtier to Queen Elizabeth. Through many centuries of living, he becomes a 20th-century woman, trying to sort out her existence. An adaptation of the “longest and most charming love letter in literature,” written by Virginia Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space, time, and gender.

MACBETH (AN UNDOING)
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• Opening: April 5, 2024
• Playwright: Zinnie Harris
• Director: Zinnie Harris
• Cast: Nicole Cooper

Macbeth (an undoing) asks if we have really heard the whole story of Lady Macbeth with a re-imagination of the iconic character's trajectory.

SCARLETT DREAMS
• Greenwich House Theater
• First Preview: April 3 2024
• Opening: April 15, 2024
• Playwright: S. Asher Gelman
• Director: S. Asher Gelman
• Cast: Brittany Bellizeare, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Caroline Lellouche, Borris Anthony York

Scarlett Dreams centers on two siblings, Milo and Liza, who have created a fitness app for a virtual reality headset. When Milo's husband Kevin falls in love with his virtual trainer Scarlett, the dividing lines between the digital world and reality come into question.

STILL
• DR2 Theatre
• First Preview: April 13, 2024
• Opening: April 18, 2024
• Playwright: Lia Romeo
• Director: Adrienne Campbell-Holt
• Cast: Jayne Atkinson, Tim Daly

Still follows Helen and Mark, who broke up 30 years ago, but never forgot about each other. They meet for dinner and their flame is rekindled, but Mark is running for Congress, and Helen has a secret that could derail his bid.

GRENFELL: IN THE WORDS OF SURVIVORS
• St. Ann's Warehouse
• First Preview: April 13, 2024
• Opening: April 21, 2024
• Playwright: Gillian Slovo
• Director: Phyllida Lloyd & Anthony Simpson-Pike
• Cast: TBA

A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Six years on, interviews conducted with a group of survivors and bereaved reveal the impact of the multiple failures that led to a national disaster, asking: how do we stop this ever happening again?

JORDANS
• Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• First Preview: April 11, 2024
• Opening: April 24, 2024
• Playwright: Ife Olujobi
• Director: Whitney White
• Cast: Brontë England-Nelson, Quinn M. Johnson, Devin Kessler, Naomi Lorrain, Brian Muller, Toby Onwumere, Matthew Russell, Ryan Spahn, Meg Steedle, Kai Tshikosi, Kate Walsh

At an overwhelmingly white workplace where appearance is everything, a long-suffering receptionist finds herself in personal, professional, and psychic jeopardy when her ruthless boss hires a hip new employee in an effort to improve the company’s image and “culture.” Suddenly, the two young, Black social climbers are forced together and torn apart by their race, ambition, and otherworldly circumstances.

THREE HOUSES
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
• First Preview: April 30, 2024
• Opening: TBA
• Book, Music, Lyrics: Dave Malloy
• Director: Annie Tippe
• Cast: J.D. Mollison, Mia Pak, Margo Seibert, Scott Stangland, Henry Stram, Ching Valdes-Aran

Susan is in Latvia. Sadie is in New Mexico. Beckett is in Ireland. All three are alone; all three are haunted by their grandparents; all three hear the Big Bad Wolf scratching at the door. Three Houses is a post-pandemic open mic night parable about magic, madness, and the end of the world.

THE KEEP GOING SONGS
• LCT3/Claire Tow Theater
• First Preview: April 20, 2024
• Opening: May 2, 2024
• Music and Lyrics: The Bengsons
• Director: Caitlin Sullivan
• Cast: Abigail and Shaun Bengson

Telling stories through song, The Bengsons will celebrate the beauty and complexity of life cycles, from a single person to entire ecosystems. Part concert, part wake, part theatrical extravaganza, The Keep Going Songs is a euphoric and moving journey through the grief of tough times and the rebirth of hope in better days.

HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES
• New York Theatre Workshop
• First Preview: April 17, 2024
• Opening: May 13, 2024
• Playwright: Amanda Gronich, Moisés Kaufman
• Director: Moisés Kaufman
• Cast: Scott Barrow, Nemuna Ceesay, Kathleen Chalfant, Noah Keyishian, Jonathan Raviv, Erika Rose, Anna Shafer, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Charlie Thurston, Grant Varjas

An album of never before seen World War II-era photographs arrives at the desk of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist Rebecca Erbelding. As Rebecca and her team of historians begin to unravel the shocking story behind the images, the album soon makes headlines around the world. In Germany, a businessman sees the album online and recognizes his own grandfather in the photos. He begins a journey of discovery that will take him into the lives of other Nazi descendants – in a reckoning of his family’s past and his country’s history. Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these photographs – what they reveal about the Holocaust and our own humanity.

ALL OF ME
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: April 23, 2024
• Opening: May 14, 2024
• Playwright: Laura Winters
• Director: Ashley Brooke Monroe
• Cast: Madison Ferris, Danny J. Gomez, Lily Mae Harrington, Brian Morabito, Kyra Sedgwick

It’s your classic romantic comedy. Boy meets girl. Boy uses a wheelchair, girl uses a scooter, and they both use text-to-speech technology to connect to the world around them. They come from different worlds, but love pulls them together when their families push them apart. All of Me is a boldly humorous and candid love story exploring class and disability in America today.

THE LONELY FEW
• The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Newman Mills Theater
• First Preview: April 26, 2024
• Opening: May 20, 2024
• Book: Rachel Bonds
• Music and Lyrics: Zoe Sarnak
• Director: Trip Cullman and Ellenore Scott
• Cast: Damon Duanno, Taylor Iman Jones, Peter Mark Kendall, Lauren Patten, Helen J Shen, Thomas Silcott

Lila and her band, The Lonely Few, have a standing gig at Paul’s Juke Joint in their small Kentucky town. When an established musician, Amy, gives them a chance to join her on tour, they take it. Love blossoms between Lila and Amy on the road, but can it endure?

MOLLY SWEENEY

• Irish Repertory Theatre
• First Preview: May 15, 2024
• Opening: May 23, 2024
• Playwright: Brian Friel
• Director: Charlotte Moore
• Cast: Rufus Collins, John Keating, Sarah Street

Molly has happily experienced the world differently since she was ten months old. When Frank, her restless, unemployed, and enthusiastic husband, makes her blindness his latest cause, he recruits Dr. Rice, a once-famous surgeon who, despite his struggles, agrees to attempt to restore Molly’s sight. When the bandages come off, Molly, Frank, and Dr. Rice discover the differences between seeing and understanding as they face the consequences of a medical miracle.

BREAKING THE STORY
• Second Stage Theatre/Tony Kiser Theatre
• First Preview: May 15, 2024
• Opening: June 4, 2024
• Playwright: Alexis Scheer
• Director: Jo Bonney
• Cast: Tala Ashe, Geneva Carr, Julie Halston, Louis Ozawa, Gabrielle Policano, Matthew Saldívar, Maggie Siff

As a foreign war correspondent, Marina has put her life on the line to illuminate the darkest corners of humanity. Having just returned from a particularly bloody conflict, she flirts with staying home for good—alongside her cameraman turned lover. With her closest friends and family gathered on the eve of her lifetime achievement award ceremony, she decides to cap this glorious moment with an elopement. But as Marina tries to take hold of her life, she’s forced to reckon with the hold war has on her.

DARK NOON
• St. Ann's Warehouse
• Opening: June 7, 2024
• Playwright: Tue Biering
• Director: Tue Biering and Nhlanhla Mahlangu
• Cast: TBA

In Dark Noon, a cast of South African actors and members of the audience re-enact the story of the American wild, wild west through the lens of Hollywood Westerns. This incendiary spectacle turns American history on its head — from the land rush to the gold rush, to gunfights and gunslingers, the territorial conflicts between the European settlers and the indigenous natives are all there. It’s an absurd and vicious game – playful until it isn’t.

THE WELKIN
• Atlantic Theater Company / Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: May 16, 2024
• Opening: June 12, 2024
• Playwright: Lucy Kirkwood
• Director: Sarah Benson
• Cast: b, Tilly Botsford, Paige Gilbert, Ann Harada, Jenn Kidwell, Mary McCann, Emily Cass McDonnell, MacKenzie Mercer, Sandrah Oh, Dale Soules, Danny Wolohan, Haley Wong

Rural England, 1759. As the country awaits the return of Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to death. When she tries to escape the noose by claiming she is pregnant, twelve ordinary women are gathered to decide whether she is telling the truth. A dark, fierce, funny play about democracy and housework.

TITANIC
• New York City Center
• Opening: June 12, 2024
• Book: Peter Stone
• Music: Maury Yeston
• Lyrics: Maury Yeston
• Director: Anne Kauffman
• Cast: Bonnie Milligan, Chuck Cooper, Eddie Cooper, Drew Gehling, Ramin Karimloo, Emilie Kouatchou, Judy Kuhn, Brandon Uranowitz, Samantha Williams

Epic and majestic, with moments of heartbreaking intimacy - the musical play examines the causes, the conditions and the characters involved in this ever-fascinating drama. This is the factual story of that ship–of her officers, crew and passengers – and the tragic story of the beautiful ship herself.

 
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