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Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows, courtesy of Playbill.com

Thank you, James Miller, Natan Zamansky

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This is a schedule of upcoming off-Broadway shows, organized by opening date. 

 

THE LEAST PROBLEMATIC WOMAN IN THE WORLD
• Lucille
Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: September 20, 2025

• Opening: October 7, 2025

• Playwright: Dylan Mulvaney

• Director: Tim Jackson

• Cast: Dylan Mulvaney

Actress Dylan Mulvaney makes her Off-Broadway debut in a dazzling solo play with original music about self discovery, fame, and life beyond girlhood. Don’t miss this tender, in-depth look at the rise and unraveling of a modern internet icon.

NOTHING CAN TAKE YOU FROM THE HAND OF GOD
• Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater

• First Preview: October 2, 2025

• Opening: October 13, 2025

• Playwrights: Jen
Tullock and Frank Waters
• Director: Jared
Mezzochi
• Cast: Jen
Tullock

When a best-selling writer releases a book about her upbringing as a gay kid in the Evangelical South, she is confronted by the woman she claims to have had an affair with — who insists the stories are false. Operating multiple cameras and live looping systems, Jen Tullock expertly plays a full cast of characters in a tour-de-force performance that blurs the line between reality and the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive.

OH HAPPY DAY!
• The Public Theater/Martinson Hall

• First Preview: October 3, 2025

• Opening: October 15, 2025

• Playwright: Jordan E. Cooper

• Music and Lyrics: Donald Lawrence

• Director: Stevie Walker-Webb

• Cast: Jordan E. Cooper, Tamika Lawrence, Tiffany Mann,
Sheléa Melody McDonald, Latrice Pace, Keith Randolph Smith

An impending flood is the least of one family’s troubles in this outrageous reimagining of Noah’s Ark. Oh Happy Day! begins in Laurel, Mississippi at a Birthday BBQ for Lewis, the patriarch of a family. When his estranged son Keyshawn makes a surprise appearance, family secrets unravel on a day that will change the world forever.

LET’S LOVE
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater

• First Preview: September 25, 2025

• Opening: October 15, 2025

• Playwright: Ethan Coen

• Director: Neil Pepe

• Cast: Chris Bauer, Dylan
Gelula, Dion Graham, Mary McCann, Nellie McKay, Aubrey Plaza, Noah Robbins, CJ Wilson, Mary Wiseman

Let’s Love!  is a comedy, a trio of one acts, that explores love in all its miserable glory. The world is a confusing place and we are a confused people. But it’s easier to be confused together, so—let’s love!

ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS
• Signature Theatre/The Pershing Square Signature Center – Romulus
Linney Courtyard Stage
• First Preview: September 30, 2025

• Opening: October 16, 2025

• Libretto and Music: Heather Christian

• Director: Lee Sunday Evans

• Cast:
Kirstyn Cae Ballard, Jonathan Christopher, Carla Duren, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Brian Flores, Jonny-James Kajoba, Barrie Lobo McLain, Ángel Lozada, Divya Maus, Ben Moss, Onyie Nwachukwu, Dito Van Reigersberg

Composer Heather Christian imbues the classical oratorio with blues, gospel, jazz and soul. The result is an in-the-round fusion of music and theater, featuring eighteen virtuosic singers and instrumentalists. Both otherworldly and achingly intimate, Oratorio for Living Things heralds Christian as an undeniable artistic force — and inspires us to reflect on the mystery of human experience, set against the vast scope of cosmic time.

NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME
• Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Newman Mills Theatre

• First Preview: October 5, 2025

• Opening: October 20, 2025

• Playwrights: Erik J. Rodriguez and Charles A.
Sothers
• Director: Conor Bagley

• Cast: Ian Bouillon, Ryan
Crout, Jared Grimes, Caitlin Houlahan, Nate Janis, Kristian Lugo, Woodrow Proctor, Taylor Richardson, Evan Rubin

Come along the journey and go behind the scenes as Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Lorne Michaels, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner rocket from unknown comics to cultural icons, and together, make Saturday Night the best night of the week.

ART OF LEAVING
• The Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre

• First Preview: October 10, 2025

• Opening: October 22, 2025

• Playwright: Anne Marilyn Lucas

• Director: Matt
Gehling
• Cast: Audrey Heffernan Meyer, Jordan Lage, Alan
Ceppos, Pamela Shaw, Molly Chiffer, Brian Mason

On the advice of his eccentric self-help guru, 50-something-year-old Aaron Katzman drops a bombshell on his wife, Diana: He wants a divorce! The news sends shockwaves through the family, leaving Diana to question not just her marriage, but her role in life. As tensions rise, their son dives into the world of polyamory with his fiancée, and Aaron’s elderly parents begin to reveal long-buried secrets that threaten to unravel everything.

PYGMALION
Gingold Theatrical Group/Theatre Five at Theatre Row
• Opening: October 22, 2025

• Playwright: George Bernard Shaw

• Director: David Staller

• Cast: TBA

A celebrated professor of phonetics makes a wager that he can pass a bedraggled Cockney flower girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party by giving her the tools of education. But, before the lessons are over, she has become his teacher, as well: helping him learn to face his emotional self as an aware human.

DID YOU EAT? ( 먹었니?)
• The Public Theater/Shiva Theater

• First Preview: October 14, 2025

• Opening: October 24, 2025

• Playwright: Zoë Kim

• Director: Chris
Yejin
• Cast: Zoë Kim

Did You Eat? ( 먹었니?) is Zoë Kim’s autobiographical journey through love’s many forms–how it’s learned, given, and reflected inward. In a nimble and tender solo performance, Zoë shapeshifts into the souls of her family through a landscape of memories where tears and laughter collide. It’s not just a story, but a reckoning—weaving through the textured threads of Korean/American identity, belonging, and healing.

PLAYING SHYLOCK
• Polonsky Shakespeare Center

• First Preview: October 16, 2025

• Opening: October 25, 2025

• Playwright: Mark
Leiren-Young
• Director: Martin Kinch

• Cast: Saul
Rubinek

When a production of The Merchant of Venice is cancelled mid-performance after public outcries, the actor, Saul Rubinek, playing Shakespeare’s most controversial character steps out of role and into the spotlight. This isn’t just another cancelled show; it’s a cultural flashpoint where centuries of artistic tension collide with today’s call for accountability, all channeled through one actor’s stunning, impromptu plea for understanding.

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, Sam Jay
• Director: Various

• Cast:
Vir Das, Jerrod Carmichael, 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!

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 29, 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: TBA

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

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.

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