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.
鈥� Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
鈥� First Preview: May 30, 2025
鈥� Opening: June 16, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Jordan Tannahill
鈥� Director: Shayok Misha Chowdhury
鈥� Cast: Rachel Crowl, K. Todd Freeman, David Greenspan, Mihir Kumar, John McCrea, N鈥檡omi Allure Stewart
In this meta-theatrical satire, an ensemble of queer, trans, and nonbinary performers reckon with how the forces of power, privilege, and colonization play upon their lives as the playwright offers a central provocation: what if queer people dared to imagine a future monarch having a life that resembled their own?
鈥� DR2 Theatre
鈥� First Preview: June 13, 2025
鈥� Opening: June 18, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Julia Randall
鈥� Director: Alex Keegan
鈥� Cast: Ella Stiller, Chiara Aurelia, Christopher Briney
Julia Randall's twisted new play follows its titular character, a rich, young girl who finds there's nothing more powerful on social media than your classmate dying tragically young.
鈥� Lucille Lortel Theatre
鈥� First Preview: June 10, 2025
鈥� Opening: June 24, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Charles Randolph-Wright
鈥� Director: Warren Adams
鈥� Cast: Jay Ellis, Stephanie Nur, Noma Dumezweni, Dariush Kashani
Discover the electrifying connection between Duke, an international hip-hop artist, and Roya, a fearless Afghan interpreter, who find love in the unlikeliest of places: war-torn Kabul. As their worlds collide, they must navigate cultural divides, make personal sacrifices, and fight for their future in a world determined to keep them apart. Is their bond strong enough to survive?
鈥� The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
鈥� First Preview: June 5, 2025
鈥� Opening: June 24, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Emmanuelle Mattana
鈥� Director: Danya Taymor
鈥� Cast: Terry Hu, Louisa Jacobson, Esco Joul茅y, Emmanuelle Mattana
鈥淔eminism has failed women.鈥� That is the prompt given to the debate team of an elite all-boys prep school one hour before the final match of their high school careers. As they develop compelling arguments to demolish their sister school, a 鈥渞umor鈥� leaks about their team that threatens to blow up everything they have worked for.
鈥� Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
鈥� First Preview: June 4, 2025
鈥� Opening: June 25, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Abby Rosebrock
鈥� Director: Jo Bonney
鈥� Cast: Jodi Balfour, Keith Kupferer, Babak Tafti
When Tally, a down-and-out actress and gig worker, returns to her rural hometown, she swipes right on a disgraced high-school teacher fresh out of an ankle bracelet. Lowcountry is a dark, twisted romcom about the psychic distress of looking for love in the digital age and the carceral state.
鈥� New World Stages - Stage I
鈥� First Preview: June 22, 2025
鈥� Opening: June 30, 2025
鈥� Book, Music and Lyrics: Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe
鈥� Director: Andy Fickman
鈥� Cast: Lorna Courtney, Casey Likes, McKenzie Kurtz, Olivia Hardy, Elizabeth Teeter, Kerry Butler, Erin Morton, Xavier McKinnon, Cade Ostermeyer, Ben Davis, Cameron Loyal
Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she's unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. That is until JD turns up, the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody鈥�
鈥� Laura Pels Theatre
鈥� First Preview: June 21, 2025
鈥� Opening: July 20, 2025
鈥� Book: Ken Davenport
鈥� Music and Lyrics: AnnMarie Milazzo
鈥� Director: Lorin Latarro
鈥� Cast: Betsy Wolfe, Jill Abramovitz, Honor Blue Savage, Adam Grupper, Jaygee Macapugay, Brandon Espinoza, Paul Whitty, Charl Brown, Gabriela Carrillo
JOY is an uplifting musical based on the true story of entrepreneur and inventor Joy Mangano. Her journey now comes to life on stage. From single motherhood and financial struggles to building a business empire, Joy鈥檚 story shows the power of resilience and determination. Don鈥檛 miss this inspiring celebration of a woman who never gave up and redefined the American Dream!
鈥� Irish Repertory Theatre
鈥� First Preview: July 9, 2025
鈥� Opening: July 17, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Conor McPherson
鈥� Director: Ciar谩n O鈥橰eilly
鈥� Cast: Dan Butler, Sean Gormley, Johnny Hopkins, John Keating, Sarah Street
In a remote country pub in Ireland, newcomer Valerie finds herself drawn into an evening of ghost stories shared by the local bachelors who gather there to drink. With the wind howling outside and a hint of tension in the air, what begins as playful blarney soon drifts into the supernatural realm when Valerie shares her own haunting tale.
鈥� Orpheum Theatre
鈥� First Preview: July 10, 2025
鈥� Opening: July 24, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Kevin Zak
鈥� Director: Kevin Zak
鈥� Cast: Russell Daniels, Aneesa Folds, Jimmy Ray Bennett, Lakisha May, Grace Reiter, Phillip Taratula, Matthew Wilkas, Mitch Wood
You want the 411? In the summer of 1998, a pair of long lost, red-headed twin girls unexpectedly meet at sleep-away camp and hatch a plan to reunite their estranged parents. Sound familiar? Shut up, no it doesn't! Welcome to Ginger Twinsies 鈥� a loving, outlandish, and wildly inappropriate send up of the Lindsay Lohan/Nancy Meyers classic.
鈥� New World Stages - Stage 3
鈥� First Preview: July 10, 2025
鈥� Opening: July 24, 2025
鈥� Book: Bryce Hallett
鈥� Director: Kenneth Ferrone
鈥� Cast: TBA
Part rock concert, part documentary, the show tells the heartfelt stories of young soldiers caught in the Vietnam War and the galvanizing protest movement that sought to end it.
鈥� New York City Center - Stage I
鈥� First Preview: July 30, 2025
鈥� Opening: August 7, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Elizabeth McGovern
鈥� Director: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
鈥� Cast: Elizabeth McGovern, Aaron Costa Ganis
The Golden Age of Cinema鈥檚 Ava Gardner sat for a series of real-life interviews with writer Peter Evans in an attempt to glean the juicy details about her life story, her marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and her turbulent relationship to Howard Hughes. Initially barred from publication, Evans鈥� stories of a bygone era were published twenty-five years later with permission from Gardener鈥檚 estate and are now reimagined on stage.
鈥� Delacorte Theater
鈥� First Preview: August 7, 2025
鈥� Opening: August 21, 2025
鈥� Playwright: William Shakespeare
鈥� Director: Saheem Ali
鈥� Cast: b, Bill Camp, Khris Davis, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong鈥檕, Lupita Nyong鈥檕, Sandra Oh, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Moses Sumney
Join us to revel in the midsummer madness as twins Sebastian and Viola survive shipwreck, revenge plots, and the trick doors of love. The Public鈥檚 Associate Artistic Director and Resident Director, Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali directs this joyful romp welcoming all of New York back to the magic of Central Park鈥檚 beloved theater. Be there when the stage lights turn on again at The Delacorte鈥攁 New York City classic鈥攚ith this high-powered production of the Bard鈥檚 classic comedy.
鈥� Irish Repertory Theatre
鈥� First Preview: September 17, 2025
鈥� Opening: September 28, 2025
鈥� Playwright: Leo McGann
鈥� Director: Matt Torney
鈥� Cast: TBA
Belfast, 1979. At the height of the Troubles, two off-duty British soldiers think they鈥檝e hit it off with two local girls at a unionist pub on the city鈥檚 outskirts. But what begins as a night of flirtation and playful sparring soon turns dark. Decades later, as one of the soldiers recounts the events for an American oral history project, long-buried memories resurface, drawing him back to Belfast in search of answers and revenge.
