What’s Coming to Off-Broadway
Spring, 2024
Jonah
Previews 1/11;
opens 2/1, through 3/10
A lonely girl
at boarding school filled with dreams and desires meets the guy who can make
them come true. Maybe. A twisty, world-premiere thriller. Roundabout.
The Connector
Previews
1/12; through 3/3
Ethics vs
“I’ll Do Anything” in the world of journalism. A new musical from Jason Robert
Brown, Daisy Prince and Jonathan Marc Sherman. MCC
White Rose: The
Musical
Previews 1/17;
opens 1/25; through 3/2
Students
protest Nazi regime and stand up to Hitler in an original musical with splendid
young theater talent. At Theatre Row.
Public Obscenities
Previews 1/17; opens
1/24/ through 2/18
Complexities of cross-cultural
life in this play about a scholar of queer studies who visits his family in
Kolkata with his Black American boyfriend. Polansky Center
Job
Previews 1/19; opens
1/25; through 3/3
An employee of Big Tech became the
subject of a viral video and has been placed on leave; she sees a crisis
therapist to help her get her job back. Connelly
The White Chip
Previews:
1/22; opens 2/1; through 3/9
Alcoholism
and recovery in “a dry comedy about drying out.” MCC
Izzard/Hamlet
Previews:
1/25; opens 2/11; through 3/10
Eddie Izzard
does his distinctive thing with Shakespeare’s most famous play. Greenwich House
Russian Troll Farm: A
Workplace Comedy
Previews
1/25; opens 2/28; through 3/3
The title
tells it all. Political satire, office crushes, and workplace comedy in the
brave new world of disinformation. Inspired
by transcripts from the Russian government-backed Internet Research Agency in
the run-up to the 2016 election. Vineyard
Oh, Mary!
Previews 1/26; opens
2/8; through 3/24
A play about a
miserable Mary Todd Lincoln in the time near the assassination of her husband;
yearning, alcoholism, desire. Lortel.
Sunset Baby
Previews:
1/30; opens 2/20; through 3/10
A former
black revolutionary and political prisoner decides to connect with his
estranged daughter over her late mother’s legacy, but he’s at her mercy and
she’s everything he feared. Love, politics, redemption, and liberation.
Signature/Linney
A Sign of the Times
Previews 2/7;
opens 2/22; through 6/2
The music of
Petula Clark fills the story of a photographer finding her way amid the turmoil
of the ‘60s. New World Stages.
Warrior Sisters of Wu
Previews:
2/7; opens, 2/14; through 3/10
Romantic
exploits and comic misadventures of two strong female warriors vs. two
high-ranking military men. Think Pride and Prejudice meets Chinese history. ART
New York
Deadly Stages
Previews:
2/16; opens 2/18; through 3/16
A backstage
murder mystery like they used to make ‘em. Theatre Row
The Seven Year Disappear
Previews:
2/26; opens 2/26; through 23/24
Missing for
seven years, Naphtali's mother, a world-famous performance artist, reappears
with few answers and a staggering request. Signature/Griffin
Brooklyn Laundry
Previews: 2/6;
opens 2/28; through 3/24
Everyday city
life, with its challenges and humor, as seen by a laundromat owner and three
sisters. MTC
Pericles
Previews:
2/8; opens 2/26; through 3/24
Shakespeare,
love, betrayal, a prince, and adventure -- not to mention pirates. CSC/Fiasco
Corruption
Previews: 2/15;
opens 3/11; through 4/14
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire was
swamped by a hacking scandal in 2011; the fallout left its mark on British
politics and the rest of the world. LCT
Teeth
Previews 2/21;
opens 3/12; through 3/31
A nice
evangelical Christian teen girl’s body snaps at the men who try to violate it –
billed as a “coming of rage musical comedy.” A new musical based on the 2007
cult classic film. Playwrights Horizons
Illinoise
Previews 3/3;
opens 3/7; closes 3/23
A new musical
stage adaptation of Sufjan
Stevens' 2005 concept album "Illinois." Park Avenue Armory
A Perfect Peace
Previews
2/28; opens 3/11; through 5/8
Yoni, a disillusioned war hero in
1960s Israel, leaves his kibbutz and family to pursue his romantic dreams of a
perfect peace. The path to his perfect peace may be darker than he expects.
Theater at St. Clements
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Previews: 3/16; opens
3/24; through 5/5
Irish family drama
from Brian Friel at the Irish Rep
Ibsen’s Ghost
Previews: 3/2; opens
3/14; through 4/14
Charles Busch does
Ibsen, with laughs and a happy ending. 59E59
Sally and Tom
Previews, 3/28; opens
4/16; through 4/28.
A very, very
off-Broadway company is producing a play about Thomas Jefferson and Sally
Hemings. The director plays Tom and the writer plays Sally, so what could go
wrong? Public
Jordans
Previews 4/11; opens
4/24; through 5/5
Two young, Black social strivers
deal with race, ambition, identity, and power at a majority white workplace
where appearance is everything. Public
Staff Meal
4/12-5/19
A comedy about a mysterious
restaurant where the food is delicious, the service is warm, and some strange
power keeps the darkness at bay. You are safe here – at least until closing
time. Playwrights Horizons