Off-Broadway Archives

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    Following its Olivier Award-winning premiere in London’s West End, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is making its North American debut for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Public Theater. This musical reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s didactic short-story fantasy was first published in Collier’s Magazine in 1922, as a short story that followed the…

  • Rope

    Rope, Gordon Greenberg’s new adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s play, draws on the notorious 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case to tell a chilling story of murder and deception. Directed by Scott Elliott, this world-premiere production centers on two attractive Princeton graduate students who host a dinner party in a stylish Manhattan apartment, serving food atop…

  • Parcel From America

    After making its stage debut in Dublin in 2022, Parcel from America has now arrived in New York for its Off-Broadway premiere at Theatre Row. Inspired by a childhood recollection of Irish storyteller Tomáseen Foley, the new musical – with book and lyrics by Jahnna Beecham, Malcolm Hillgartner, and Michael J. Hume, and music by…

  • King of the Yees

    Award-winning playwright and Signature Theater Resident Artist Lauren Yee’s 2017 semi-autobiographical King of the Yees is now in a limited Off-Broadway engagement in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater. Yee’s play uses her signature style to blend wild comedy, fantasy, and incisive observations on Chinese culture and heritage. The metatheatrical King of the Yees examines…

  • pre-existing condition

    Marin Ireland’s well-intended play, pre-existing condition, has landed at The Greenwich House Theater. Running through January, the play brings awareness to struggles that victims of domestic abuse face. pre-existing condition begins with us meeting an unnamed character (more about that later) who, six months earlier, was hit by her boyfriend. She’s not sure what she’s…

  • Aftermath

    In David Zax’s new play, Aftermath, a family struggles to regain its equilibrium when a son returns home after surviving a Taliban kidnapping in Afghanistan in 2011. Directed by Colton Pometta, this ambitious new play explores the difficult road to recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but its dramatically unconvincing story and characters undermine its…

  • PHYL

    In a limited Off-Broadway engagement now at Theatre Row, Mint Theater Company presents a powerful production of the 1911 feminist play PHYL, by English actress, playwright, journalist, and suffragist Cecily Hamilton. PHYL was scheduled to make its debut at Oxford in 1913 but was banned for its scandalous content. Although it was never published, luckily,…

  • Fish

    Melis Aker’s new play, Fish, an over-the-top, wild and dangerous coming-of-age dark comedy, is now in a limited engagement for its world premiere at WP Theater. A co-production with Signature Theatre Company, Fish is set in London in 2016 (the year of the Brexit vote). The play follows the story of seventeen-year-old Karya (Yasmin Ranz-Lind)…