Performances start: January 9

Through virtual performances viewed via headsets, four actors (including Ian McKellen) guide audience members through the arc of life — from childhood wonder and first love to grief, connection, and death in Simon Stephens’s latest theatrical experience.

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Performances start: January 28

It’s dance o’clock. Seven friends — old and new — toast the future, make resolutions, and explore friendship, joy, and hope as they count down to the rise of a new year in this dance-theatre piece by viral creators Cost n’ Mayor and Hideaway Circus.

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Performances start: January 31

David Cale’s solo thriller stars Emmy and Tony winner Sean Hayes as Elliott, a blocked author who escapes to a remote cabin and loses his grip on the boundary between fiction and reality.

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Performances start: February 4

Wallace Shawn’s intimate new drama with Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early, Josh Hamilton follows a big-city father, mother, son, and the father’s long-time mistress as they reveal the tangled nature of love, remorse, joy, and self-understanding.

Concurrently, on Sunday and Monday evenings when Moth Days isn't performing, Shawn himself will perform his award-winning solo play The Fever, about a person contemplating their privilege while sick in a poor, oppressed country.

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Performances start: February 5

Here’s to the ladies who power lunch! Playwright Alex Lin follows three high-flying businesswomen whose routine lunchtime gatherings are upended when a spirited 24‑year-old arrives, forcing them to face the reality of ambition and the true cost of success.

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Performances start: February 11

Misunderstanding and mistrust – along with an 8-feet-tall youth – loom large in this new musical set in a weird town called Muddirt with a book and lyrics by Amber Ruffin and Kevin Sciretta and music by David A. Schmoll.

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Performances start: February 12

Clare Barron’s Obie Award–winning play, directed by Anne Kauffman, follows Mae (Alia Shawkat) as she returns home to care for her ailing father after life’s setbacks. Mixing reality with darkly comic fantasy, the story explores the messy, surprising path of self-discovery.

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Performances start: February 13

Created by Grammy nominee Dru DeCaro and Carey Sharpe, who stars Valerie Bloodlove, this pop‑opera musical spectacle sinks its teeth into a story of a vampire who seeks a purpose beyond gory transfusions and eternal night.

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Performances start: February 14

Inspired by Susan Sontag’s insight that “illness is the night side of life,” this new musical by siblings Daniel and Patrick Lazours threads together stories of caregivers, patients, and healthcare workers and the healing power of community.

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Performances start: February 18

In this dance-theatre hybrid by the Australian collective Pony Cam, burning calories becomes theatrical when four performers run on treadmills while attempting increasingly demanding everyday tasks, from cooking meals to performing Shakespeare.

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Performances start: February 18

Inspired by the life and work of outsider artist Henry Darger, this play — conceived and directed by Martha Clarke, with a script by Beth Henley — explores his reclusive life and vivid imagination. Obie winner John Kelly stars.

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Performances start: February 25

A musical memoir created and performed by The Bengsons (spouses Abigail and Shaun Bengson) and directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin, the show tracks a rural family coping with the loss of a pregnancy and discovering unexpected sources of comfort.

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Performances start: February 26

Anna Ziegler reimagines Sophocles’s classic as the topical tale of a fiercely independent young woman fighting for control of her own body in a kingdom of archaic laws. The cast includes Tony winners Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub.

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Performances start: February 21

A play with music and original songs by Ro Reddick, this Reagan-era romp gets rolling – and roiling – when a prominent Black conservative brings his ill wife home for the holidays and sparks tensions in his estranged family.

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Performances start: March 6

In the 99-seat library of the House of the Redeemer mansion, you have a rare chance to get up close and personal with Tony Award winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote. This intimate almost-solo performance places us in the author's lush apartment as he reels from a scandal.

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Performances start: March 6

You've been taught about the enslaved people escaping north on the Underground Railroad long ago — but likely not about those who fled south. This two-person musical, created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, uses hip-hop stylings and live looping technology to tell the story of a man trying to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico for freedom, shining a spotlight on little-known history.

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Performances start: March 10

Jeena Yi’s new drama revolves around four estranged Korean American sisters who reunite in Orange County to perform their father’s jesa — a traditional ritual honoring the dead — only to have old wounds, secrets, and literal and emotional ghosts surface.

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Performances start: March 12

Co-written by former U.S. Ambassador Julissa Reynoso and Michael J. Chepiga and directed by Doug Hughes, the world-premiere drama follows Reynoso’s journey from Dominican immigrant to Wall Street lawyer to diplomat who tackled humanitarian crises.

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Performances start: March 18

Jasmine Amy Rogers and Adrienne Warren lead the Encores! revival of Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s jazzy musical set at a 1920s New York City blowout steeped in gin, lust, and tragedy. Be sure to RSVP yes to this decadent bash.

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Performances start: March 18

A satirical send-up of classic American musicals, Milo Cramer’s show follows three sailors with $100 and 24 hours on leave in New York before they’re shipped off to war and certain death. This is not your granny’s On the Town.

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Performances start: March 22

Created and directed by Russian exile Alexander Molochnikov, with script by Eli Rarey, the play follows a young director as he preps a radical take on Chekhov’s The Seagull at Moscow Art Theatre in 2022, but flees to New York on invasion night amid censorship threats in a satirical meta-exploration of freedom and exile.

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Performances start: March 24

Elmer Rice’s 1923 dark satire returns in a newly revised version by Thomas Bradshaw, reexamining the fate of Mr. Zero, a loyal worker replaced by a machine—sending his life spiraling in a tragic, darkly comic descent.

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Performances start: April 14

Playwright and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury, stars along side his physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty, in a performance piece that explores their relationship through scientific metaphor and emotional experiment. Along the way, as they grapple with how life flows.

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Performances start: April 15

In this solo true crime thriller fresh off three hit runs in London, performer and co-writer Jack Holden plays all 35 roles in the story of a Missouri criminal who eluded justice until his shocking death.

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Performances start: April 15

First seen off Broadway in 2007, Adam Bock’s dark comedy follows a chirpy office worker, whose mundane routine of answering phones and chatting with colleagues is upended when she learns hard truths about her company and how she’s complicit in its work.

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Performances start: April 30

Inspired by a real YMCA program, Eliana Theologides Rodriguez follows five girls of color and their white fathers at a summer retreat, where they navigate camp activities, cultural clashes, awkward encounters, and heartfelt conversations.

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Performances start: April 30

Our Town author Thornton Wilder’s final, long‑lost play, adapted and completed by Kirk Lynn, tells the story of a young orphan who journeys from a small town into the city and beyond. As he moves forward, he uncovers amazement, understanding, and subtle truths.

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Performances start: May 5

Heather Christian (Oratorio for Living Things) explores memory, loss, the soul, and the seen and unseen in a unique theatrical séance that blends storytelling, requiem, and family mythology with blues, gospel, and folk music. Keenan Tyler Oliphant directs.

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Performances start: May 12

In her new play with music, Eisa Davis focuses on four gifted teenage girls at a prestigious summer music program in Berkeley, where friendship, rivalry, and pressures swirl. In this coming-of-age story, the live score is different at every performance–mirroring life.

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Performances start: May 13

With a book by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Martyna Majok and original music by Aimee Mann, this new musical reimagines Susanna Kaysen’s memoir about a young woman in a 1960s psychiatric hospital — the same story that inspired the Oscar-winning film.

Performances start: May 14

Set in an isolated Arizona ghost town during the early ’90s AIDS epidemic, John J. Caswell, Jr.’s story of community and survival concerns an aging gay couple who’ve carved out a quiet life away from society who welcome a troubled stranger into their lives.

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Performances start: May 16

Julia May Jonas looked to Arthur Miller’s morality-laced drama All My Sons for inspiration for her contemporary play about the founder of a women’s wellness center who’s forced to reckon with long‑buried conflicts and realities about the world she’s built.

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Performances start: June 17

In this Encores! staging of Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman’s Tony-winning musical famous for the affirming anthem “I Am What I Am,” Billy Porter and Wayne Brady lead an all-Black cast as Albin and Georges, longtime partners running a St. Tropez drag club, whose lives hilariously unravel when meet their son’s conservative future in‑laws.

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