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Off Broadway shows, reviews, tickets and listings

Here is where to find reviews, details, schedules, prices and ticket information about Off Broadway shows in New York

New York theater ranges far across the 41 large midtown houses that we call Broadway. Many of the city'due south well-nigh innovative and engaging new plays and musicals can be constitute Off Broadway, in venues that seat between 100 and 499 people. (Those that seat fewer than 100 people usually fall into the Off-Off Broadway category.) These more intimate spaces nowadays work in a broad range of styles, from new pieces past major artists at the Public Theater or Playwrights Horizons to revivals at the Signature Theatre and crowd-pleasing commercial fare at New Globe Stages. And even the best Off Broadway shows unremarkably cost less than their cousins on the Corking White Fashion—even if you score inexpensive Broadway tickets. Use our listings to notice reviews, prices, ticket links, curtain times and more for electric current and upcoming Off Broadway shows.

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NEW OFF BROADWAY SHOWS Now PLAYING

Alex Edelman: Just for Usa

For Jews in certain situations, white privilege is just skin deep—as the abrupt-witted comedian Alex Edelman learned that lesson firsthand when he infiltrated a meeting of white nationalists in Queens. H is business relationship of reactionary repartee serves every bit a framing device for a portrait of the entertainer as a immature Jewish man in a polarized club. Merely he doesn't pull any punchlines: The laughs are plentiful. Despite the incendiary issues lurking at the edges of his tale, Only for U.s.a. is more focused on comedy than catharsis.—Raven Snook

¡Americano!

Later on a successful run at Arizona'south Phoenix Theater Visitor, this original musical—based on the truthful story of DREAMer Tony Valdovinos, a young activist for immigrant and pupil rights—makes information technology New York City debut. The score is by singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez (Lola); the book is past director Michael Barnard, Jonathan Rosenberg and Fernanda Santos. (The quondam ii are also credited with additional lyrics.) Sean Ewing plays the primal role in a more often than not Latino company of more than than twenty actors.

At the Wedding

The delightful Mary Wiseman plays a quick-witted unmarried adult female attending the straight nuptials of her former girlfriend in this sprightly if slender new comedy by Bryna Turner, directed past Jenna Worsham. The script crackles with jokes, and information technology's dainty to see the familiar fix-upwards tweaked for a more sexually fluid age. And if the very brief running time doesn't provide much depth in the non-fundamental characters, it keeps the action moving apace.—Adam Feldman

Luminescence

The troubled phase and screen star Frances Farmer, who spent much of the 1940s in a mental institution, is the discipline of this original musical written and directed by Lance Lewman , with additional music and lyrics past Kristan King and additional music by Gabriel Kane. Bethany McDonald has the starring role, and Jeri Sager plays her mother.

Chasing Andy Warhol

Bated Breath Theatre Company was a leader in pandemic theater with its outdoor Due west Hamlet walking-tour product Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec. Now it follows upward with another peripatetic theater feel about an artist: author-director Mara Lieberman'due south Chasing Andy Warhol, which explores the enigma of the wiggy pop creative person and fame industrialist through vignettes of theater, dance and scenic furnishings in locations throughout the East Hamlet. Groups of audition members are rolled out at 45-minute intervals on each functioning day.

Coal Country

Blue-collar folk ballads performed live by Steve Earle underscore Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's devastating documentary play about the 2010 Upper Big Co-operative Mine explosion that killed 29 workers in rural West Virginia—and ripped an already unstable community apart. Deep divisions of politics, wealth and power underlie the story, just Blank and Jensen compassionately aqueduct truthful accounts of survival without editorializing, and then goose egg gets in the way of our empathy.—Raven Snook

Confederates

With ability and finesse, Dominique Morisseau's new play juxtaposes the position of a tenured professor at a more often than not white university with that of an enslaved field worker during the Civil War. Manager Stori Ayers and the very fine cast of this Signature Theatre production—led by the disarming and compelling Michelle Wilson and the rigid, purposeful Kristolyn Lloyd—deftly handle the shifts of tone and timeline , and Morisseau offers an insightful portrait of people striving, both within and beyond their own moments, toward a greater sense of union.—Adam Feldman

Cyrano de Bergerac

James McAvoy (Last King of Scotland) stars equally the tragic hero of Edmond Rostand's 1897 epic, in which a physically sick-favored soldier and poet noses into his handsomer friend'south romantic courting. This new adaptation by Martin Crimp, d irected by Jamie Lloyd, Erica Schmidt for the New Group, the production also stars Evelyn Miller as Roxanne and Eben Figueiredo every bit Christian , and features sets and costumes by Soutra Gilmour.

Gong Lum'due south Legacy

Woodie King Jr.'due south New Federal Theatre teams upwards with the Peccadillo Theater Company to mount Charles L. White'due south drama about the romance betwixt a Chinese immigrant and a Black schoolteacher in the Deep South in 1925. Elizabeth Van Dyke directs the world premiere, whose bandage is led by Hansel Tan and DeShawn White.

Harmony

Some 25 years after its world premiere in California in 1997, Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman'southward musical—based on the history of the Comedian Harmonists, a musical group that flourished in Weimar Federal republic of germany but ran afoul of the Nazis—finally makes its NYC debut. Warren Carlyle (AfterMidnight) directs and choreographs the production for National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the centenarian troupe behind the much-loved recent Yiddish-language version of Fiddler on the Roof . Flake Zien (Into the Woods) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid) atomic number 82 the bandage.

Little Girl Blue

Laiona Michelle stars in her original biomusical of Nina Simone, the "loftier priestess of soul" whose distinctive intensityas a genre-spanning vocaliser and pianist gave her a platform that she too used to advance the crusade of ceremonious rights in sogs like "Mississippi Goddam" and "To Exist Young, Gifted and Black." Devanand Janki directs the show, which features numerous songs that Simone fabricated famous. (Marker Fifer is the musical director and arranger.)

Little Shop of Horrors

Conrad Ricamora, Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle star in the latest revival of this night, tuneful and utterly winsome 1982 horror-camp musical about a flesh-eating plant who makes dreams come true for a lowly bloom-shop worker. Composer Alan Menken and librettist Howard Ashman wrap a sordid tale of capitalist temptation and moral decay in layers of sweetness, humor, wit and camp. Michael Mayer directs the feeding frenzy in this deeply satisfying revival. —Adam Feldman

Oratorio for Living Things

Heather Christian's divine, genre-nonconforming prove is a sui generis meditation on time and beingness, a classical choral masterwork infused with pop, blues and gospel. A dozen height vocalists and six marvelous instrumentalists—wandering amidst the audience on all four sides of the modest central phase—brand sense and audible spectacle out of Christian's compositions. Librettos are distributed at the door. You can use them equally hymnals to follow along, merely engaging fully with Oratorio in all its mysterious celebrity is a transcendent experience.—Raven Snook

The Patsy

If the bedlam to revive the sweet 1925 Barry Conners romanceThe Patsy was never very loud, we must exist glad that performer-adapter David Greenspan and director Jack Cummings 3 listen and so much more intently to history than we do. Greenspan moves similar origami that knows how to fold itself. Turning the play into a virtuosic solo spree, he whisks mischievously through the comedy, playing histrionic mother, viperish sister, heroine Patricia and the boy she loves. In the procedure, Greenspan transforms the work into a boutonniere, and makes u.s.a., the audience, his surprised and grateful sweetheart.—Helen Shaw

Penelope, or How The Odyssey Was Really Written

The Queen of Ithica waits patiently for herband, Odysseus, to return from the Trojan State of war—as suitors circle to merits her hand—in this new musical reworking of tales from The Odyssey (which also provided grist for the infamous 1976 flop Home Sweet Homer ). The libretto is by Peter Kellogg , and the music is past Stephen Weiner; Emily Matlby directs and choreographs the for the premiere musicals-forward York Theatre Company, which is temporarily squatting at the Theater at St. Jean'due south while its regular home space recovers from a flood. Britney Nicole Simpson plays the championship role, with support from a cast that includes Leah Hocking, Ben Jacoby and Maria Wirries.

Queens Girl in the Globe

Felicia Curry stars as a immature Black woman in the 1950s who moves from a sheltered upbringing in Queens to a progressive schoolhouse in Greenwich Village in this solo show by Caleen Sinette Jennings, the showtime show in the playwright'due south Queens Girl trilogy. Paige Hernandez directs the New York premiere for Abingdon Theatre Company.

Suffs

Longtime Public Theater regular Shaina Taub, whose wrote the score for the Public Works productions of Twelfth Night and As You Like It , is among the large and impressive ensemble of her own new original musical: a chronicle of the women who suffered earlier suffrage to make the 19th Subpoena a reality in 1920. Too amongst the bandage are Phillipa Soo (Hamilton), Nikki Yard. James (The Book of Mormon), Jenn Colella (Come up From Abroad), Ally Bonino, Hannah Cruz, Aisha de Haas, Cassondra James and—as Woodrow Wilson!—Grace McLean (Natasha, Pierre & the Nifty Comet of 1812). Leigh Silverman ( Well ) directs.

To My Girls

Gay friends gather in Palm Springs to share some post-pandemic joy—and give vent to some simmering drama—in a new comedy by JC Lee. Stephen Brackett ( A Strange Loop ) directs the world premiere for 2d Stage, with a promising bandage equanimous of Bryan Batt, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Carman Lacivita, Maulik Pancholy, Noah J. Ricketts and Britton Smith.

A Touch of the Poet

In the 1930s, Eugene O'Neill labored over a series of plays that charted an Irish gaelic-American family from the 1800s to the present day. He only completed this i, now revived in an Irish Rep production directed past Ciarán O'Reilly. Robert Cuccioli ( Jekyll & Hyde ) stars equally a poor immigrant trying to preserve his illusions of gentility; the cast includes Kate Forbes, Belle Aykroyd and Mary McCann.

The Vagrant Trilogy

Mona Mansour, an alum of the Public'due south Emerging Writers Group, examines Palestinian deportation and exile in a triptych that imagines three alternate futures for a scholar visiting London when the 1967 war breaks out in Israel. Marking Wing-Davey directs a cast of half-dozen—Tala Ashe, Ramsey Faragallah, Osh Ghanimah, Nadine Malouf, Rudy Roushdi and Hadi Tabbal—playing nineteen roles in an ballsy story that spans four centuries.

LONG-RUNNING OFF BROADWAY SHOWS

Bluish Man Group

Three deadpan blue-skinned men with extraterrestrial imaginations carry this tourist fave, a show every bit smart equally it is ridiculous. They pulsate on open tubs of paint, creating splashes of color; they consume Twinkies and Cap'n Crunch; they engulf the audience in a roiling sea of toilet newspaper. For sheer weird, exuberant fun, it's hard to top this long-running treat. (Note: The playing schedule varies from calendar week to week, with as many equally four performances on some days and none on others.)—Adam Feldman

Boozer Shakespeare

An actor drinks heavily (in the vein of Comedy Fundamental's Drunk History) then tries to corral others into enacting a story by the Bard. Bibulous excess is encouraged.

Friends! The Musical Parody

The prolific Bob and Tobly McSmith, who specialize in giddy musicals based on nostalgia objects like Saved by the Bong and Beverly Hills 90210 , take a shot at America'south favorite six 1990s white people. Assaf Gleizner, who wrote music for the McSmiths'The Office! A Musical Parody, is there for them similar he's been there before, and Ryan David Barto directs.

Gazillion Chimera Show

Cocky-described "bubble scientist" Fan Yang's blissfully convincing human activity (at present performed in New York by his son Deni, daughter Melody and wife Ana) consists mainly of generating a dazzling succession of bubbles in heed-bravado configurations, filling them with smoke or linking them into long chains. Lasers and flashing colored lights add to the trippy visuals.—David Cote

Jersey Boys

Musical theater does right by the jukebox with this behind-the-music tale, presenting the Iv Seasons' energetic 1960s tunes (including "Walk Like a Man" and "Big Girls Don't Cry") as they were meant to be performed. X months afterconcluding an 11-year run on Broadway, the show returned for an open up-ended run at Off Broadway'south New World Stages. Under Des McAnuff's sleek direction, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice'due south biography feels canny instead of canned. —Adam Feldman

Katsura Sunshine'southward Rakugo

The Canadian performer Katsura Sunshine, billed as the but Western master of the traditional and rigorously trained Japanese comic stortellying art of Rakugo, performs a weekly show at New World Stages after a year in London'southward W End. In keeping with the genre'southward minimalist practice, Sunshine performs in a kimono using only a fan and a hand towel for props.

The Function! A Musical Parody

Having already created goofy musical spoofs of shows including Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills 90210 , Bob and Tobly McSmith—joined again past composer Assaf Gleizner, who wrote the score for Friends! The Musical Parody —take on yet some other TV institution. Donald Garverick directs a cast led by Sarah Mackenzie Barron, in male drag, as paper tiger Michael Scott.

Perfect Offense

A wily cop tries to psych out a possibly homicidal shrink in Warren Manzi'southward moldy, convoluted mystery. The creaky welter of dime-store Freudianism, noirish attitude and whodunit gimmickry is showing its age. (Catherine Russell has starred since 1987.)—David Cote

The Play That Goes Wrong

Ah, the joy of watching theater fail. The possibility of malfunction is role of what makes live performance exciting, and Mischief Theatre's farce takes that notion to extremes as six amateur British actors (and two crew members) perform a hackneyed whodunnit amid escalating calamities. Depending on your tolerance for ceaseless slapstick, The Play That Goes Incorrect will either have you lot rolling in the aisles or rolling your optics. It is certainly a marvel of coordination: Directed by Mark Bell, the mayhem goes like cuckoo clockwork on Nigel Hook'southward ingeniously tumbledown gear up. —Adam Feldman

Sleep No More

A New York institution since 2011, Punchdrunk's nighttime, sleek, gorgeous installation is awe-inspiring in both its size and detail. Silent audience members in creepy white masks are set free in a half-dozen-floor labyrinth of wonders, while roving attractive actor-dancers plays out enigmatic scenes inspired by Macbeth and Hitchcock. There are more than ninety unlike spaces to explore, ranging from a candy shop to a cemetery. At that place'southward no mode to absorb it all in a single visit, just that's all right. Yous'll want to go back anyway. —Adam Feldman

Stomp

This shrewd garbage heap of clog dancing, prop one-act and chest-thumping percussion spins out impressive (if numbing) variations on vaudeville by way of English punk.—David Cote

UPCOMING OFF BROADWAY SHOWS

A Case for the Being of God

The precipitous-minded David Cromer directs a new two-man drama by Samuel D. Hunter (Greater Clements, The Whale ), whose sensitive work focuses on crises of religion and self-noesis in rural Idaho. Kyle Beltran and Volition Brill star in the Signature's world-premiere production, the first of three Hunter premieres that the company has in the works.

Citizen Wong

Richard Chang'due south play offers a fictionalized portrait of the real-life journalist and activistWong Chin Foo, who championed the rights ofChinese Americans in the late 19th century.Ernest Abuba and Chongren Fan direct the world premiere for Pan Asian Repertory Theatre.Other Gold Historic period historical figures, such equally the anti-Chinese labor leaderDenis Kearney and the socialite and suffragette Alva Vanderbilt, are woven into the fabric of the story.

Superhero

A young boy in the projects of 1980s Harlem dreams of superpowers to help him escape the challenges of his besides-real life in this coming-of-age story past Ian Eaton. Warren Adams directs the world premiere, whose cast comprises SJ Hannah, Valisia LeKae, Jeorge Bennett Watson and Bryce Michael Wood.

Two by Synge: In the Shadow of the Glen & The Tinker's Hymeneals

Synge out, Irish Rep! Charlotte Moore directs a diptych of early on plays virtually spousal relationship by the pathbreaking Irish dramatist John Millington Synge ( The Playboy of the Western World ): the early one-act In the Shadow of the Glen , in which a young woman trades supernatural tales with a tramp in the wake of her husband's expiry; and The Tinker's Nuptials , in which a priest is hooked into presiding over a quickie marriage. The bandage includes Ciaran Bowling, Terry Donnelly, Sean Gormley, Jo Kinsella and frequent Irish Rep MVP John Keating.

Wish Y'all Were Hither

It's a big flavor for ascent playwright Sanaz Toossi. Hot on the heels of her NYC debut with English , she has another new work at Playwrights Horizons. This i looks at suburban women in Iran in on the brink of the revolution in 1978. Gaye Taylor Upchurch directs the world premiere.

H*tler's Tasters

A group of young women wait for the privilege of poison-testing the führer's food in Michelle Kholos Brooks's politically pointed anachronistic dark comedy , which debuted in 2018 and is now returning for an encore run after several other productions, including at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Sarah Norris once once more directs; the cast includes Hallie Griffin, MaryKathryn Kopp, Kaitlin Paige Longoria and Hannah Mae Sturges.

CreateTheater's New Works Festival

Cate Cammarata'sCreateTheater, in league with the Prism Stage Company, mounts the showtime new theater festival in New York since the shutdown: the New Works Festival, an anthology of 7 shows adult under the aegis of CreateTheater'south writer wing, the Adept's Theater Company. On the lineup are David Zaragoza Gutierrez's issue drama Retraction (May 5–13) and six new musicals: David Kurkowski's Finding Madame Curie (Apr fourteen–23), Deborah Henson-Conant's The Golden Cage (April 20–24), Jarlath Barsanti Jacobs and Emilio Solla's Fire Island the Musical (April 27–May xv), Judith Estrine and David Kurkowski'south Sewing the Dream (Apr 26–May 8), Joel Krantz's Sea in a Teacup (April 28–May seven) and Geoffrey Rose and Sam Rose's Rewind—An 80s Popular Musical (May eleven–xiv).

Islander

From the ashes of the St. Luke'south Theatre, which shuttered in 2021, rises the new Off Broadway venue Playhouse 46. Its kickoff tenant is the British a cappella musical two-hander Islander , conceived and directed by Amy Draper. Original U.Yard. stars Kirsty Findlay and Bethany Tennick reprise their portrayals of multiple characters—and likewise perform live mixing and looping duties—in this tale of the last inhabitant of a remote Scottish island. The book by Stewart Melton , and the score is by Finn Anderson.

Which Way to the Stage

The gifted comic actors Sas Goldberg ( Meaning Other ) and Max Jenkins ( Unnatural Acts ) play struggling actors waiting to get an shorthand from Idina Menzel in a stage-door comedy by Ana Nogueria. Mike Donahue directs the premiere for MCC Theater, with a cast that also includes Evan Todd and Michelle Veintimilla.

One Night

David Herskovits and his brainy Target Margin Theater conclude their multiyear exploration of The One 1000 and 1 Nights with multifarious nine-hour experience that wraps its central storytelling in food, drink and music. The show can be experienced either as an all-day outcome (on Wednesdays and Saturdays) or divided over multiple nights (on Tuesdays and Thursdays); the Saturday marathons on April 30 and May xiv brainstorm at 8pm and concluding through dawn the next 24-hour interval .

How the Hell Did I Become Here?

The English extra Lesley Nicol, all-time known for playing the gruff only lovable cook Mrs. Patmore onDownton Abbey, cooks up an i-adult female musical about her life and career. The show'south x original songs are by popular composer Mark Mueller (whose résumé includes the theme song fromDuckTales and the Amy Grant striking "That's What Love Is For"); he also accompanies her on piano in this express run at the McKittrick Hotel cozy Social club Machine.

Step Afrika!: Stono

Step Afrika!, formed in 1994, combines historical African-American percussive dance with African traditions and contemporary forms to create its own vocabulary of motion. Now C. Brian Williams'south company step back onstage at the New Vic—where its Drumfolk was playing when the shutdown striking—with a work that pays tribute to the Stono Rebellion, a large-scale 1739 revolt by enslaved Africans in Due south Carolina.

Wedding Ring: A Beloved-Hate Story in Black and White

The rediscovery of Alice Childress, whose startlingly timely Trouble in Mind made its Broadway debut earlier this season, continues with a new production of the playwright's 1962 wait at interracial dear in the Deep South during the flu epidemic at the tardily 1910s. Awoye Timpo directs the play'due south first major NYC revival for Theatre for a New Audience, where her company, Classix—which focuses on theater works past Blackness writers—is in residency.

Oh God, A Show Almost Abortion

Comedian and podcaster Alison Leiby wades into the brackish waters of reproductive freedom in a theatrical run of her personal , witty full-length stand-upwards set about getting an ballgame. Lila Neugebauer ( The Waverly Gallery ) directs the show, which is presented with the impramatur of Broad Urban center 's Ilana Glazer.

Golden Shield

An American lawyer hires her willful sister to interpret for her in a major grade-action lawsuit involving a tech company and the Chinese regime in this thriller by Thai-Australian playwright Anchuli Felicia King. May Adrales ( Vietgone ) directs the U.South. premiere for Manhattan Theatre Social club; the cast includes Cindy Cheung, Ruibo Qian, Fang Du and Daniel Jenkins.

The Lucky Star

59E59 devotes its start Volt Festival—which presents three concurrent NYC premieres by a single writer whose work has been underrepresented in the city—to a trio of plays by Karen Hartman. The centerpiece is The Lucky Star , a drama adapted from Richard Hollander'due south Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family unit's Correspondence from Poland , which documents his disovery of a trove of letters from his male parent's Jewish family in Poland during the Holocaust. The large cast of this product, directed past Noah Himmelstein, includes Steven Skybell, Danny Gavigan, Nina Hellman, Alexandra Silber, Dale Soules and Stuart Zagnit.

Exception to the Rule

Black students at a bedraggled high school navigate the longueurs and dangers of detention in the premiere of Dave Harris's play, whose coming-of-age comedy acquires ominous overtones. Miranda Haymon directs the production for Roundabout Underground; the bandage includes MaYaa Boateng , Malik Childs, Toney Goins, Galen Ryan Kane and Claudia Logan.

That Gilt Girls Evidence! A Boob Parody

In accolade of the tardily Betty White, producer-puppetmaker Jonathan Rockefeller (Winnie the Pooh ) presents a goodbye revival of his 2016 puppet tribute to Miami's fab four, with a new script by Doug Kmiotek that draws on dissimilar episodes than the version that played Off Broadway in 2016. Michael Hull directs the show; Miranda Cooper, Dylan Glick, Lu Zielinski and Samantha Lee Mason man securely felt boob creations past Rockefeller Productions.

The Bedwetter

Comedian Sarah Silverman adapts her 2010 memoir nearly her boyish struggle with incontinence—talk about yellow journalism!—into an original musical. Joining her to write the script is Joshua Harmon ( Pregnant Other ); the music is by the late Adam Schlesinger ( Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ), who died of COVID in 2020 and who besides shares credit for the lyrics. Anne Kauffman, better known for very serious plays similar Mary Jane , directs for the Atlantic.

Romeo & Bernadette

Nikita Burshteyn and Anna Kostakis play the title characters in a musical comedy that transports Verona's lovestruck medieval young man to 1960s Brooklyn, where he falls for the tough daughter of a local offense boss. Marking Saltzman's libretto is set to classic Italian tunes. Justin Ross Cohen directs and choreographs this long-delayed encore run of the show, which premiered Off Broadway in 2020 and has been scheduled to return twice since.

Encores!: Into the Woods

The 2022 flavour of Urban center Center'due south invaluable Encores! concert series concludes with a two -week run of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's brilliantly disenchanted 1987 musicalInto the Wood, in which f blusterous-tale characters get to their happily-ever-afters then face behemothic aftershocks. Staged by Encores!'s new creative manager, Lear deBessonet, the production features major Broadway names: Heather Headley every bit the Witch, Christian Borle as the Bakery, Sara Bareilles equally the Baker'south Married woman, Denée Benton equally Cinderella, Gavin Creel as her Prince. 1000 usic director Rob Berman leads the orchestra.

Belfast Girls

Five young Irishwomen in 1850 leave the Great Famine backside for a new life in Commonwealth of australia in Jaki McCarrick's drama, assail a boat to the other side of the globe. Nicola Tater directs the New York premiere for the Irish Rep.

Hannah Gadsby: Body of Piece of work

Hannah Gadsby's Nanette was the Netflix comedy special that launched a chiliad recall pieces: a deceptively mild-mannered solo show that evolved into an impassioned exploration of, amidst other things, the duplicities and dangers of stand-up comedy itself. Gadsby'southward follow-up,Douglas, loos at the challenges that fame presents for a person on the autism spectrum; at present she returns to New York for iv performances of an all-new show.

Who Killed My Begetter (Qui a tué mon père)

Berlin's Schaubühne has long had a reputation as one of the world'southward coolest theaters , and its influence has grown in the by xx years under the leadership of manager Thomas Ostermeier, best known known for his outrageous Regietheater deconstructions of classic works. This play, coproduced with Théâtre de la Ville Paris, reunites the managing director with the French author Édouard Louis (History of Violence), who makes his professional performing debut to examine the plight of the working grade in modern France, as exemplified by his ain once-fearsome, now-humiliated father.

Hamlet

British star director Robert Icke (1984 ) presents the North American premiere of his acclaimed 2017 London production of Shakespeare'due south wordy deferred-revenge tragedy, where a ghost and a prince come across and everyone ends in mincemeat. The ascension young actor Alex Lawther (The False Game) plays the mopey Dane. The productions runs in rep at the Park Avenue Armory with Icke's Oresteia; Hildegard Bechtler designs the sets and costumes for both.

Corsicana

Rising star playwright Will Arbery follows the successes of Plano and Heroes of the Fourth Turning with a new play, set up in rural Texas, that looks at mourning, caretaking and songwriting through the story of half-siblings—one of whom has Down syndrome—who form a bond with a reclusive artist . The busy Sam Gold, of Broadway's electric current Macbeth , directs the world premiere at Playwrights Horizons. (A total schedule and ticket prices will exist appear on April 5.)

Leonardo! A Wonderful Bear witness Near A Terrible Monster

The Chicago collective Transmission Movie house ( Ada/Ava ) combines live actors, puppets and filmic techniques to create virtuosic theater experiences. This show, adapted by Sarah Fornace and Drew Dir from 2 books pastthe dearest Mo Willems (Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!),is the tale ofan incompetent monster in search of someone he can manage to scare. Fornace also directs the show, which features original songs and sound design by Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter.

Oresteia

Robert Icke ( 1984 ) won an Olivier Accolade for directing thismodernized and condensed 2015 version of Aeschylus's seminal three-part tragedy, in which a returning king ends upwardly in a bloodbath and furious recriminations ensue. Lia Williams ( Skylight ) reprises her critically lauded London functioning as the vengeful Klytemnestra, and Hildegard Bechtler designs the sets and costumes; in its North American debut at the Park Avenue Arsenal, the product runs in rep with Icke's version of Hamlet .

Between the Lines

A loftier-school outsider strikes up a romance with a fairy-tale prince in this original musical, adapted from the 2012 young-adult volume by the best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult and her daughter Samantha Van Leer. The musical's book is by Timothy Allen McDonald, and the score is by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson; Jeff Calhoun directs the production, whose cast includes Arielle Jacobs, Jake David Smith, Julia Murney and NewsRadio 'southward Vicki Lewis.

Winnie the Pooh

Puppet mastermind Jonathan Rockefeller's accommodation of Disney'southward A.A. Milne franchise combines low-tech magic—middle-popping puppets, blooming fake flowers, hills covered in literal blankets of snow—with gentle lessons about friendship, teamwork and the importance of fun. For those who grew up watching the films, the musical numbers—especially those past the Sherman Brothers—will spark fuzzy nostalgia. How wonderful that many families' starting time show after the pandemic tin be one that'due south and so utterly winsome.—Raven Snook

Seagull

The venerable experimental-theater outfit Lift Repair Service, whose magnificent F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation Gatz is among the highlights of 21th-century theater in New York, turns its collective eye to The Seagull , Anton Chekhov'due south group portrait of gloomy artists in a tragicomic daisy chain of she-loves-me-nots. This existence an ERS joint, expect elaborately precise audio and move and enough of metatheatrical smudging of the lines between characters and performers.