Office politics, right? Mike Bartlett’s Bull is coming to the storefront theatre JACK in Brooklyn this fall. Directed by Max Hunter, the play runs from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4, with an official opening set for Sept. 22.
Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale will lead New York City Center’s Encores! production of High Spirits running Feb. 4 to 15, 2026.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Well, I'll Let You Go by Bubba Weiler and directed by Theatrely31 alum Jack Serio at The Space at Irondale in Brooklyn.
44 — The Musical will come to the Daryl Roth Theatre Off-Broadway after sold-out runs in Los Angeles and Chicago. It will run for a limited eight-week engagement beginning on Oct. 14, with official opening set for Nov. 6.
This Three Bedroom House is about to get very exciting! Today, New York City Center has announced a bevy of additional casting to their upcoming Annual Gala presentation of Bat Boy: The Musical directed by Alex Timbers. Joining the previously announced Taylor Trensch will be Original Off-Broadway cast member Kerry Butler as Meredith Parker, along with Tony nominee Andrew Durand as Rick Taylor, Mary Faber as Lorraine, Alan H Green as Bud, Evan Harrington as Ned, John-Michael Lyles as Ron Taylor, Tony winner Alex Newell as The God Pan, Olivia Puckett as Ruthie Taylor, Tony nominee Christopher Sieber as Dr. Parker, Rema Webb as Maggie, and Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur as Mrs. Taylor.
Dylan Mulvaney is making her way Off-Broadway this fall in The Least Problematic Woman in the World directed by Tim Jackson. The show, which is written by and stars Mulvaney, will run from Sept. 20 to Nov. 30 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Official opening is set for Oct. 7.
If you asked me what was one of my favorite experiences last year, I would have said The Voices In Your Head co-created by Billy McEntee and directed by Ryan Dobrin. Well those two are teaming up again for a new play for an audience of just five centered around a meal in a Brooklyn Home this fall. Slanted Floors will play for an extremely intimate audience in an apartment in Greenpoint Brooklyn from September 9 - October 10, 2025. The production stars Lortel nominee Adam Chanler-Berat and Lortel and Drama Desk Nominee Kyle Beltran. No-fee tickets cost $55, include a meal, and can now be reserved here.
The New York Botanical Garden is reviving its Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Train from Sept. 25 to Nov. 30 this year. The immersive nighttime experience — created by Adventurelive — transports visitors to Halloween Town and Christmas Town with brand new scenes, music, and video projections.
Ariana DeBose will star in The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater this Fall. It will run from Oct. 23 to Dec. 14, with official opening set for Nov. 11.
Emily Breeze’s Are the Bennet Girls Ok? adapted from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is coming to New York’s West End Theatre this fall.
Let’s Love! by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen and starring Aubrey Plaza has announced its full casting. Alongside Plaza will be Chris Bauer, Dylan Gelula, Dion Graham, Mary McCann, Nellie McKay, Noah Robbins, CJ Wilson, and Mary Wiseman.
Two-time Tony Award-winner Martin will lead the company of Meet the Cartozians alongside Tony Award-winner Will Brill, Raffi Barsoumian, Nael Nacer, Susan Pourfar, and Tamara Sevunts. The play, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer, will kick off Second Stage Theater’s 47th Season.
Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot is transferring to Studio Seaview on West 43rd Street this fall after an acclaimed run at Playwrights Horizons. The show, directed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Shayok Misha Chowdhury, will play a limited engagement from Sept. 11 to Oct. 25.
Exorcistic: The Rock Musical is returning Off Broadway starring Emma Hunton — of Freeform's Good Trouble — at The Asylum NYC for a limited engagement from Aug. 25 to Nov. 22.
Julio Torres’ Color Theories has announced its creative team. Torres makes his Off-Broadway debut at Performance Space New York from Sept. 3 to 21, 2025, with official opening on Sept. 10.
Kelli O'Hara will join Tom Hanks’ This World of Tomorrow at the Shed this fall. Previews begin Oct. 30 with an official opening on Nov. 18. The show will play a strictly limited engagement through Dec. 21 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Ginger Twinsies a loving sendup to The Parent Trap by Kevin Zak and performing at the Orpheum Theatre.
Atlantic Theater Company’s new season will include new plays from Academy Award-winner Ethan Coen, Jake Brasch, and Eliana Theologides Rodriguez, a kids musical from Mo Willems, and a fourth play to be announced.
Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre is mounting its next musical, Mexodus. Previews begin Sept. 9. and opening night is set for Sept. 18. The show will be recorded and released as an Audible Original at a later date.
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has announced its 2026 season, including six productions across theatre, music, and dance. The season will feature contemporary ballet trilogy Gems in February, comedic play Trash in March, Motion/Matter: All Styles Dance Battle in March, and Family Day in late May 2026.
The former Blues Clues star is set to mount his solo show Steve Burns Alive at The Club at La MaMa this week.
Award-winning comedian and viral sensation Lou Wall is bringing their show Breaking the Fifth Wall to SoHo playhouse this fall. It will play a limited three-week engagement from Sept. 17 to Oct. 5.
The Off-Broadway revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has found its spellers. Philippe Arroyo will play Chip Tolentino, Leana Rae Concepcion will play Marcy Park, Tony Nominee Justin Cooley will play Leaf Coneybear, and Kevin McHale will make his New York stage debut as William Barfée.
River Lipe-Smith will make thier Off-Broadway debut starring as the titular Caroline in MCC Theatre’s world premier of Caroline by Preston Max Allen. The play, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer, will also feature Amy Landecker and Chloë Grace Moretz. It begins performances on Sept. 12, with opening night on Sept. 30, through Oct. 19.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Joy The Musical starring Betsy Wolfe and written by Ken Davenport and AnnMarie Milazzo at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Heathers The Musical back at New World Stages in New York City after ten years. The cult favorite musical stars McKenzie Kurtz, Casey Likes, Lorna Cortney, and more.
Realizing that the plant is not this separate entity, it’s a part of Seymour, really helped me to give him dimensionality. I love the psychology of his “shadow,” or you could even say his addiction. This hidden part of his mind that he doesn’t want to look at, manifested as a giant figure on the stage.
This production of THE WEIR, directed by producing director Ciarán O’Reilly, marks the Irish Repertory Theatre’s fourth staging of Conor McPherson’s atmospheric drama.
Holder's play Out of Order is now running at East Village Basement through July 22. In the play, Holder picks index cards out of a bowl with tasks varying from random acts of kindness and audience participation, to discussions about the realities of art making, to narratives about farm animals from a childhood story. If he fails to complete every card, he vows to quit theatre forever.
Heathers has extended its run at New World Stages for four additional months. The production has amassed the largest advance sale in New World Stages history. Originally scheduled to play through Sept. 28, Heathers will now run through Jan. 25, 2026.
A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play About Harvey Weinstein, written by Mathilde Dratwa, will have its New York premier as a one-night-only reading on July 21 at the Judith O. Rubin Theater at Playwrights Horizons. It will star Abbi Jacobson, Billy Eichner, Heléne Yorke, and Kara Young, with direction by Leslye Headland. The reading will benefit the New York Civil Liberties Union.
A Christmas Carol is returning to New York for a limited run this winter. The production, adapted by Jack Thorne and conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus, will run at PAC NYC from Nov. 23 — with an official opening on Dec. 4 — through Dec. 28.
A few months after Sleep No More ended its landmark run, Punchdrunk returns to New York with Viola’s Room, a smaller but even more all-consuming immersion that isolates, envelops and thrills. If that walkthrough theatrical experience emphasized the capabilities of physical storytelling, encouraging side quests and bewildered ogling at performers and fellow audience members, this one is all about the pensive powers of solitude and the inner mindscapes it can create.
Coming off her performance in the Academy Award-Winning Anora, Luna Sofía Miranda will make her stage debut in the Off-Broadway premier of Girls Will Be Girls. The play will open on July 23 at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, with previews beginning July 17.
Romy & Michele: The Musical will debut Off-Broadway at Stage 42 this fall. Previews will begin on Oct. 14, with an official opening set for Oct. 28.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of lowcountry by Abby Rosebrock and directed by Jo Bonney at the Atlatnic Theater in New York City.
Lord Nil, acclaimed international escape artist, will perform a world-premier limited engagement of Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins at Stage 42. Performances begin on July 21, with opening night on July 27, and conclude on Aug. 31.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Machinal by Sophie Treadwell at City Center Stage II in New York City.
Michelle Williams will lead a production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Cristie directed by Thomas Kail — alongside Faist — this winter. The play will be part of St. Ann's Warehouse Fall 2025 season, and run from Nov. 25 to Feb. 1, 2026.
Since 2021, Mason Alexander Park — who has recently taken the West End stage in Jamie Lloyd’s The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing, as well as the current revival of Cabaret — has worked with their writing partner Hunter Bird on a series called The Pansy Craze. Now, the show will be produced as a six-part series on Audible — and you can catch the first three episodes live from June 26 to 28 at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre in New York.
Ivy Crest Theatre Co. is coming back to New York with a production of Strange Snow written by Stephen Metcalfe and directed by David Newer. The production will run from June 20 to 28, with all proceeds being donated to the Tunnels to Towers Foundation.
Rob Madge is bringing their original solo show My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) to New York City Center, making the show’s New York premiere after an almost-Broadway run last season. It runs June 12 to 15.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Angry Alan by John Krasinski and written by Penelope Skinner and directed by Sam Gold at Studio Seaview
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Dilaria by Julia Randall starring Chiara Aurelia, Ella Stiller, and Christopher Briney.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill at Playwrights Horizon in a co-production with Soho Rep. in New York City.
Matthew Broderick and David Cross will star in New York Theatre Workshop’s upcoming production of Tartuffe. The production will be the world premier of a new version of Molière’s classic comedy, and be directed by Sarah Benson, with performances beginning in late fall 2025.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is returning to the New York stage this fall. It will run for a limited 14-week engagement from Friday Nov. 7 — with official opening on Nov. 17 — to Feb. 15, 2026 at New World Stages.
Can I Be Frank? returns to New York after a sold-out run at La MaMa last year. The play will run from July 24 to Sept. 13, 2025 at SoHo Playhouse.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Prosperous Fools from Taylor Mac and directed by Darko Tresnjak at Theatre for a New Audience in New York City.
Tony nominee Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Michael Chernus (of Severance) will star in Well, I’ll Let You Go at The Space at Irondale. The play will run from July 29 to Aug. 29, 2025.
Ella Beatty has had an incredible year in New York theatre. After joining the Tony-winning Appropriate as River when the show transferred theaters, she next joined Jack O’Brien’s much buzzed about production of Ghosts at Lincoln Center Theatre. Now, she is downtown starring opposite Hugh Jackman in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, a new work that is part of Together, a new theatrical initiative by Jackman and producer Sonia Friedman. I recently sat down with Beatty to discuss summers in the Village, Shakespeare, and Cole Escola.
Kara Young and Kerry Washington will take the stage in a series of monologues written by Whoopi Goldberg as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2025-2026 season. The season marks the first full for new artistic director Lear deBessonet, who directed this season’s Once Upon a Mattress and the hit Into the Woods revival at New York City Center.
It was an incredible night celebrating the best of the New York theatre season at NYU Skirball at the 2025 Drama Desk Awards. Maybe Happy Ending won big with six awards including Outstanding Musical. Boop!, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, and The Picture of Dorian Gray each went home with three awards. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess hosted the ceremony which celebrates the best of the 2024/2025 theatre season here in New York.
You gotta catch a potential audience’s attention in any way possible these days. From massive social campaigns to wild in-person activations, folks are trying everything. But one performance is trying a different route. Not telling you anything about it! For the past few weeks, some mysterious Instagram account has popped up with the username @_____comingsoon______ and has been posting mysterious photos including balloons and an upside down wheelbarrow. The account follows only two individuals: actor and playwright Bubba Weiler and Theatrely31 alum Jack Serio. Serio recently helmed Ken Urban’s intimate Danger and Opportunity at the East Village Basement which won two special Drama Desk Awards in the past few weeks.
Taylor Trensch dropped out of college after his second year to join the Spring Awakening national tour as Moritz, launching a richly varied stage career of 16 years that has seen Trensch rack up credits regionally, off-Broadway and across eight Broadway shows–-Matilda, Hello, Dolly! and To Kill A Mockingbird among them. A beloved theater fixture—and also a kind, witty little fellow—Trensch has now earned his first ever Tony Award nomination for Lincoln Center Theater’s sumptuous revival of Floyd Collins, running at the Vivian Beaumont through June 22. Theatrely sat down with Trensch to journey through a selection of his many credits, reflecting on gay plays, his dear friend Gavin Creel, and oh so many wigs.
How very! Just before Heathers returns to the New York stage later this month, Yellow Sound Label has announced the release of Heathers The Musical: World Premiere Cast Recording (Deluxe Edition) in streaming and digital formats tomorrow, Friday, June 6. The Deluxe Edition contains the entire original 2014 world premiere cast album and has been completely remastered for 2025.Theatrely has an exclusive first listen to a bonus track: “Kindergarten Boyfriend (Bluegrass Lullaby)” performed by Will Chase.
Second Stage Theater's 2025 season will include two Pulitzer Prize finalist plays on Broadway at the Hayes Theater.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Goddess by Saheem Ali and James Ijames starring Amber Iman at the Public Theater in New York City.
The Chita Rivera Awards celebrate the stage and screen’s often-overlooked dancers and choreographers. Performers and presenters took the stage to honor her close friend and legendary dancer Ben Vereen with the Lifetime Achievement award.
Broadway veteran and Tony nominee Kerry Butler, known for her roles in Mean Girls, Hairspray, Beetlejuice the Musical, and Xanadu, will take the stage as Ms. Fleming/Veronica’s Mom in this summer’s upcoming production of Heathers the Musical.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Bowl EP by Nazareth Hassan at the Vineyard Theatre (co-producing with National Black Theater, in association with The New Group) in New York City.
Elizabeth Gillies has extended her sold-out run as Audrey in the Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors — and will reunite with her former 13: The Musical co-star Graham Phillips when he joins the production as Seymour.
Tom Hanks is headed Off-Broadway this fall in the world premier of his original play This World of Tomorrow.
André Holland, who starred in the 2016 Best Picture winning film Moonlight, will take the stage in The Brothers Size at The Shed this summer.
Nicole Scherzinger took home the prestigious Distinguished Performance Award for her work on the 2025 revival of Sunset Boulevard at the 2025 Drama League Awards Friday afternoon. The Distinguished Performance Award can only be won once during an actor’s career.
Julio Torres, an Emmy-nominated former Saturday Night Live writer, will make his Off-Broadway debut in Color Theories this September.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of A(U)NTS! by Zoë Geltman at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Senior critic Joey Sims caught the following Off-Broadway and here are his thoughts: IRISHTOWN, I’M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN, HOLD ME IN THE WATER, FIVE MODELS IN RUINS, 1981, and LOBSTER
The scrunchies have been claimed for this summer’s off-broadway Heathers the Musical. Broadway stars McKenzie Kurtz, Olivia Hardy, and Elizabeth Teeter will take the stage as Heathers Chandler, Duke, and MacNamara, respectively.
Producers Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia recently announced that they are bringing Josh Sharp’s ta-da! Off-Broadway this summer directed by 2025 Tony Award nominee Sam Pinkleton. The new show will begin previews July 7, 2025 at the Greenwich House Theater, with an official opening night set for July 21. The limited engagement runs through August 23, 2025.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes by Hannah Moscovitch starring Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City
Get your flashcards ready! Most Unwanted Productions is set to present the New York premiere of the interactive parlor game, Out of Order, written and performed by Carl Holder at the East Village Basement June 27-July 23, 2025. Theatrely31 alum Skylar Fox (Trisha Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream) who developed the piece with Holder will also direct.
Just in time for Pride Month, New York is about to be hit with a ton of… glitter. Earlier this week Rodeo, Sheep Soup, Tilted, and P3 Productions announced they will present the Edinburgh and London hit House Of Life, a travelling cult collective performed by glitter-clad Ben Welch and Lawrence Cole, with one singular goal: happiness for all, at any cost. The 65-minute, cabaret theater show is one part sermon, one part rebirth, three parts party--a space to let it all out. Inspired by the places where people come together to heal through music, joy and noise, the audience is taken on an eight-step musical journey to complete enlightenment.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse from The New Group, by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley in New York City.
Julia Lester just doesn’t stop. Since making her Broadway debut as Little Red in the recent Into The Woods revival (a role that landed her a Tony Nomination, btw) Lester then went on to impress us as Miss Marmelstein in CSC’s I Can Get It For You Wholesale. Today, putting aside her run on the new Netflix hit The Four Seasons, Lester can be seen eight times a week stealing the show over at All Nighter. Her character Wilma, an artist, brings the laughs and brought Lester a nomination for both a Drama Desk and a Lucille Lortel Award.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Wonderful Town at New York City Center as part of their Encores! series directed by Zhailon Levingston and starring Anika Noni Rose and Aisha Jackson
Another day, another list of nominations! Earlier this afternoon, nominations were announced for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards that celebrates the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway during the 24/25 New York Season. This year, the awards will be hosted by Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess on Sunday, June 1st at 6:15pm at NYU Skirball. Stay tuned to Theatrely for all the latest information on winners.
We are about to have a lot of joy this summer! As previously announced, a musicalized new work based on the true story of inventor and entrepreneur is headed Off-Broadway this summer in Joy The Musical. Broadway favorite Betsy Wolfe stars as Joy and Mauricio Martinez is set to star as Tony in the new production. We here at Theatrely have your first look at a new music video of “You Are A Melody To Me” from the show.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Grief Camp by Eliya Smith at the Atlantic Theatre in New York City.
It's the best season… awards! Today, Sarah Hyland (currently starring in The Great Gatsby) and Orville Peck (currently starring in Cabaret) announced the nominations for the 91st Annual Drama League Awards from the Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Awards will be held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Friday, May 16, 2025 at 12:00pm here in New York City.
One of America’s most beloved films is coming to New York…kinda. Today, producers announced that Ginger Twinsies, a hilarious send-up of the beloved 1998 film The Parent Trap, will play a limited engagement at the downtown Orpheum Theatre beginning July 10, 2025. Directed and written by Kevin Zak, an official opening is set for July 10 for a 16-week run through October 26.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway reviews of The Swamp Dwellers at Theatre for a New Audience and Threepenny Opera at BAM
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Bailey Williams and Emma Horwitz's Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods from Rattlestick Theater and New Georges.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of minor.ity by francisca da silveira at the WP Theater, co-produced with Colt Ceoeur in New York City.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Danger and Opportunity by Ken Urban and directed by Theatrely31 alum Jack Serio.
Today it was announced that Audible and Together, the new theatrical partnership led by Sonia Friedman and Huge Jackman, have a new collaboration including two fully-produced plays, readings, panels, workshops, and more this spring. Headlined by two plays directed by Ian Rickson and presented in repertory – the New York premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, with Ella Beatty and Hugh Jackman (April 28 – June 18), and Jen Silverman’s new adaptation of August Strindberg’s Creditors, with Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith (May 10 – June 18) – the collaboration rounds out Audible Theater’s sixth off-Broadway season at the Minetta Lane Theatre, where the company has produced numerous live shows since 2018, and marks the debut stage productions for Friedman and Jackman’s recently announced company, TOGETHER. Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Creditors will also be recorded and released on Audible at a later date, extending their reach to millions of listeners around the world.
Theatrely caught up with Jessica Hecht to chat about her conceiving and reworking Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Love Life at New York City Center starring Brian Stoke Mitchell and Kate Baldwin, written by Kurt Weill and Alan Kay Lerner.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of We Had A World by Joshua Harmon and directed by Director Trip Cullman. The play features Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason and Jeanine Serrales
For their inaugural production at Studio Seaview, Seaview has announced that John Krasinski will return to the New York stage in Penelope Skinner’s dark comedy Angry Alan, directed by Sam Gold. The limited 10-week engagement will begin May 23, 2025 with an official opening night set for Wednesday June 11.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress and directed by LaChanze at Classic Stage Company.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Anton Checkhov's Vanya starring Andrew Scott at the Lucille Lortel.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams starring Paul Mescal at BAM's Harvey Theater in New York City.
From Trisha Paytas to Céline Dion! Today it was announced that Broadway star Amber Ardolino will board the ship of dreams over at Titanique at the Daryl Roth Theatre in Union Square. Ardolino will begin as Dion on March 21, 2025; the current star Dee Roscioli will play her final performance on March 16.
Theatrely's Off Broadway reviews of Ghosts at Lincoln Center Theatre and The Great Privation from Soho Rep at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.
Today, Roundabout Theatre Company announced their plans for the 2025-2026 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. While the Todd Haimes undergoes a renovation, this fall Robert Icke’s Oedipus will head to Studio 54. In the spring, Sam Pinkleton will direct Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54. In addition, Scott Ellis will direct Kelli O’Hara and Rose Byrne in Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels at the Haimes next spring.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of The Jonathan Larson Project at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City.
Theatrely's Off Broadway review of All Nighter by Natalie Margolin and directed by Jaki Bradley.
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Dakar 2000 by Rajiv Joseph which is currently playing at New York City Center Stage I.
Joey Sims sits down with Abubakr Ali to chat all things Dakar 2000 by Rajiv Joseph.
