Performances start: January 8

Erica Schmidt takes a provocative look at a power couple who experiences a shocking jolt that sends them and their inner circle spiraling. Dylan Baker, Madeline Brewer, Hamish Linklater, and Miriam Silverman add star power to the ensemble.

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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 9

Artificial intelligence has become a recurring theme on stages. When a gifted young programmer discovers that his own algorithm powers a vast AI surveillance system, he must confront — and ultimately question — the tech industry in this topical play by Matthew Libby.

Get Data tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Performances start: January 13

In this 2.5-hour production from the ever-inventive Elevator Repair Service (the brains behind the epic-length Gatz), seven performers start out with a sober reading of James Joyce’s famously multi-layered text but quickly devolve into a wild, spirited journey fueled by pints, brawls, and assorted acts of debauchery.

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Performances start: January 15

In its American premiere, Joe White’s Olivier-nominated play stars Abbey Lee and Owen Teague in their New York stage debuts as two lovers who meet at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and spend a decade in a tumultuous affair.

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Performances start: January 23

What’s in a name? Plenty, in Ngozi Anyanwu’s new two-hander about estranged siblings – LIL (Aigner Mizzelle) and elder brother BIG (Hamilton’s Okieriete Onaodowan) whose tense reunion dredges up buried resentment, shared memories, and monstrous feelings.

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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 30

Alexander Zeldin mines inspiration from Antigone in a contemporary drama of two estranged sisters who reunite at the family home, where they confront guilt, grief, and conflicting visions of the past and future. House of the Dragon's Golden Globe Award nominee Emma D’Arcy stars.

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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 3

Set in St. Petersburg, 1992, after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Lauren Yee’s play follows Evgeny and his friend Dmitri as they surveil a mysterious ex‑pop singer, Katya. Steven Boyer, Adam Chanler-Berat, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and David Turner lead this New York premiere.

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Performances start: February 4

Based on Noël Coward’s play Blithe Spirit, this 1964 musical comedy by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray follows a novelist whose attempt at a séance to entertain his wife summons the ghost of his first wife. Oops. In the stacked Encores! cast: Katrina Lenk, Andrea Martin, Steven Pasquale, and Phillipa Soo.

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*Performances start: February 4 *

Kathleen Chalfant, Elizabeth Marvel, and April Matthis are among the stage aces in Jacob Perkins’s new play about a women’s recovery group that meet weekly in the same place over years and decades. As time goes by, emotional challenges can have a way of hanging on.

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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.

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Performances start: February 5

Co‑written by and starring Tony nominee Ethan Slater, the play dramatizes the early life of legendary French mime Marcel Marceau, who, before achieving global fame, helped guide Jewish children to safety during World War II.

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Performances start: February 5

Oldies turn out to be goodies, so respect your elders. Jake Brasch’s drama concerns a rudderless man-child dealing with sobriety and memory loss issues who finds a source of support from his four aging grandparents. The cast includes Caroline Aaron, Noah Galvin, Mary Beth Peil, and Chip Zien.

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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 11

Writer and director Aya Ogawa celebrates the raw, chaotic, and hilarious reality of the mother load. Performed by a cast of moms and motored by clown-like physical comedy, sharp satire, original songs, the show explores what it means to be a mom.

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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.

Check back for You Got Older tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

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: March 7

Deaf roommates living in a cramped New York City apartment who couldn’t be more different played by co-authors James Caverly and Andrew Morrill reckon with each other and their experiences of living in the hearing world.

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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 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: 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

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: 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 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.

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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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Performances start: July 6

Whoopi Goldberg’s pioneering breakthrough 1984 solo show that she wrote and performed, has been retooled as an ensemble piece for five women. The cast is led by Kerry Washington and Kara Young under the direction of Whitney White.

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Performances start: Spring 2026

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: Spring 2026

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: Spring 2026

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: Spring 2026

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: Spring 2026

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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