New on the Radar: Aug 24-27

Aug 27, 2026

Newly Added

Broadway

Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Nov 2, 2026 - Jan, 2027

In 2007, a mysterious album of Nazi-era photographs arrives at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. The photographs weren’t like any that had been seen before. As curators unravel the truth behind the images, the album soon makes headlines and ignites a debate that reverberates far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs—what they reveal about the… Read More

Major Non-Broadway Productions

Lincoln in the Bardo (opera)

The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
Sep 25, 2026
Trinity Church NYC
Oct 15, 2026

Death of Classical and The Green-Wood Cemetery are once again proud to partner with the Metropolitan Opera for an immersive cemetery preview of Lincoln in the Bardo, the major new opera based on the beloved Booker Prize-winning novel by George Saunders. With music by composer (and certified Death Doula) Missy Mazzoli and libretto by Royce Vavrek, the work will receive its world premiere at the Met on October 19, 2026.
Set over the course of a single night… Read More

The Nicest Body Ever Seen Around These Parts poster

The Nicest Body Ever Seen Around These Parts (play)

122CC Second Floor Theatre
Oct 7 - Nov 7, 2026

PlayCo proudly introduces esteemed Catalan writer Josep Maria Miró to New York theatre. Winner of the National Prize for Dramatic Literature, the highest theatre honor in Spain, his liminal, ferocious one-person play surrounds the discovery of a body in a field that reopens a small town’s wounds—their prejudices, desires, and memories of loss. Two-time Obie Award-winner Rachel Crowl, most recently celebrated for her work in Jordan Tannahill’s Prince… Read More

The King's Critique (musical)

Pershing Square Signature Center - Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
Nov 3 - Dec 20, 2026

The King’s Critique is a delightful, demented, wholly original musical from Nat Zegree and Eric Holmes that’s more infectious than the plague and more fun than a magnificent ship full of gay men and Patti LuPone.
King Benjamin decrees that women are strictly forbidden from performing onstage. Josephine is determined to change that, and she hatches an elaborate plan with f*ckboy tenor Sebastian... but if you’ve ever seen theater people try to execute any… Read More

The Danish Girl (musical, concert) Free

Lincoln Center - David Rubenstein Atrium
Nov 20, 2026

Breaking the Binary Theatre returns to Lincoln Center on Transgender Day of Remembrance to present THE DANISH GIRL in Concert, the public’s first sneak peek of the new musical on Friday, November 20. Based on the award-winning book by David Ebershoff, THE DANISH GIRL features a book and lyrics by Nora Brigid Monahan, an original score by Alex Parker, and direction by Georgie Rankcom.

Mister Romantic (musical)

The Town Hall
Nov 20, 2026

Prepare to be captivated by the incomparable John C. Reilly in Mister Romantic, a vaudeville show that has already garnered critical acclaim and captured the public’s imagination. Backed by a cracker jack band of multi Grammy winners Davíd Garza, Charles De Castro, David Piltch and Gabe Witcher, the New York Times calls the show “wryly funny, sometimes tender and sad, but always sincere” and Vanity Fair describes it as “fiercely funny” and says “John C.… Read More

Penelope (musical)

Classic Stage Company - Lynn F. Angelson Theater
Dec 10 - 20, 2026

Penelope waited twenty years for Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. Now she’s ready to share her side of the story…but she’s going to need a drink first. Starring Broadway’s Grace McLean, this contemporary chamber musical brings one of history’s greatest epics to life through a Richard Rodgers Award-winning folk-pop score. Sharp, funny, and unexpectedly moving — this is Penelope’s Odyssey.
Penelope premiered at Hudson Valley Shakespeare in 2023,… Read More

Indie, Festival, Readings etc.

Under St Marks

Graveyard Shift (play)

Aug 28 - 29, 2026

It’s 2006 and you open up your copy of TV Guide. You read: “Graveyard Shift S21/E13 - Game Show - 7:00PM EST
Episode description: Tonight! Our contestant, Emma, is a wretched skank! What WON’T she do for just a little bit of money?”
Welcome to the Graveyard Shift! A new play about a tv game show, where the game is to Work a Job in order to win Money! Except Emma has a disease where everyone she meets dies! And she needs this money bad so she can buy… Read More

The Vengeance Room of Falsehood! (play)

Sep 20, 2026

A double feature with two shows created by Michael Hagins
First off...The Vengeance Room
5 strangers stricken with amnesia find themselves trapped in a claustrophobic room with 4 weapons sitting on a table: a baseball bat, a sword, a knife and a pistol. Each person discovers this horrific sight, and now must interact with each other and their own fears, as the realization of the Vengeance Room comes into sight: 5 people, 4 weapons…only one way out.
Who… Read More

Choices: New York Stories (musical)

Sep 20, 2026

Choices: New York Stories is an original musical about people who move to New York to start a new life. Each character faces challenges, makes difficult choices, and finds friendship, hope, and a sense of belonging. Through music and personal stories, the show explores dreams, resilience, and the courage to begin again.

The Rubout / Anne of a Thousand Faces poster

The Rubout / Anne of a Thousand Faces (short play)

American Theatre of Actors - Beckmann Theatre
Sep 2 - 13, 2026

*2 Psychological One-Acts*
ATA presents "The Rubout" & "Anne of A Thousand Faces"
THE RUBOUT (55 min) In a funeral home, an exhausted employee meets a stranger and is forced to face the decisions which have shaped his life.
The Rubout is a taut two-handed psychological thriller with shifting perspectives… until the very end.
ANNE OF A THOUSAND FACES (45 min) is a darkly funny, fast-moving new play about Anne Boleyn, artificial intelligence, artistic… Read More

Break (play)

Theaterlab
Sep 11 - 14, 2026

Two men are trapped in a room, forced to stack an ever-taller tower of dishes on one man’s back. A voice threatens to kill them if a wall-mounted ticker hits 50. Above them, in a glass-walled booth, a by-the-book Deputy and her wildly under-qualified new assistant run the increasingly bizarre punishment.
But as the dishes pile higher and the ticker climbs, the rules begin to unravel—and so does the question of what these men have done to deserve being… Read More

Obit (play)

Theater for the New City - Cino Theater
Sep 17 - Oct 4, 2026

Wolves roam the college campus. A blizzard rages in full force. Society teeters on the brink of collapse as journalist Maya Hawthorne arrives at the home of the famous Philip Stern.
Maya, an "advance" obituary writer for the New York Times, arrives not with a bouquet, but with a pen and a lifetime of cold fury. She is here to draft the final account of Philip Stern—an aging college president who sees this interview as the crowning jewel of a storied… Read More

The Tank

You Can't Tell Anyone (play)

Sep 23 - 25, 2026

Ever had a secret you thought you couldn’t tell even your best friends? Your college reputation is on the line. This could be the end of all of your friendships. You might be branded with a Scarlet Letter for the rest of your life. You may never be able to show your face in public ever again. Or… will your best friends stand by your side and help you through? When one friend gets caught in a major social faux pas her three best friends are now forced to… Read More

Domov (play)

Oct 4 - 17, 2026

Domov is a story about a young Slovak-American woman who journeys to reconnect with her past, discovering old and new friends who help piece together her fractured identity. It’s a story of ancestry, Slovak culture, family relationships, and reclaiming something that was lost, while also reflecting the experience of immigrant children that have lost touch with their parents’ home country, family, and culture. Made possible by the Phillip Waller Launch… Read More

Mid Play (play)

Oct 11 - 14, 2026

In a Toronto loft, a disillusioned professor on the brink of divorce reunites with a former college friend, now a celebrated literary figure. Fuelled by whiskey and memories, their encounter unearths buried ambitions, the sting of aging, and paths not taken. A tender, time-bending exploration of love, regret, and the lives we almost lived. Expect a night of sharp, witty dialogue and unflinching emotional honesty.

Object/Subject (play)

Nov 8 - 9, 2026

John loves Kate. Kate loves Man Ray. Rachel loves true crime podcasting. A play about photography, obsession, and body parts, Object/Subject is a tight, sparse piece that plays with conventions of the erotic thriller genre in the context of a contemporary relationship drama. Through discussions of voyeurism, haunting, and artistic accountability, this piece unravels the complex power dynamics that underlie our most intimate relationships and explores the… Read More

The Fallen (play)

The Chain Theatre
Oct 10 - 25, 2026

Manhattan Repertory Theatre presents the World Premiere of Rita Lewis’ Western Drama, THE FALLEN.

Apollo Theater

Sitcom (play, reading) Free

Oct 26, 2026

The Apollo’s Works in Process season kicks off with a free staged reading of Obie Award winning, Emmy and Tony nominated actor, playwright, producer, and director Jordan Cooper’s new play Sitcom. Get ready to laugh as the creative mind behind the groundbreaking BET+ sitcom The Ms. Pat Show takes audiences for a ride when the dysfunctional cast of a hit 90's TV show reunite for the first time in 25 years for a dinner they will never forget.
This is a free… Read More

In Place of Monuments (play, reading)

Nov 6, 2026

Apollo Works in Process: In Place of Monuments centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends, examining how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time, and incorporating movement and dance, the play aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The play will be devised in community through a series… Read More

The Charioteer (play)

the cell theatre
Oct 28 - Nov 22, 2026

Shortly after Charly visits her estranged brother at college, he vanishes off the grid to live in a radical environmentalist commune. Ten years later, he needs her help. But first, she needs answers. The Charioteer is two-hander about the inevitability and difficulty of change.

Class (play)

Ear Inn
Nov 10 - 22, 2026

Step upstairs at one of New York City’s oldest and most storied bars for the NYC premiere of CLASS, a witty and deeply moving two-character play by Charles Evered.
A jaded acting teacher. A mysterious young movie star. What begins as a battle of wills becomes an unexpected exploration of art, ambition, celebrity, and the price of pursuing a life in the spotlight.
Intimate, funny, surprising, and emotionally charged, CLASS puts you just feet from the… Read More

Losing Your Bag (play)

Le Skyroom
Nov 19 - 21, 2026

Making its English-language premiere, this one-woman piece is a collaboration between renowned French playwright Pascal Rambert and actress Pauline Chalamet. The play follows a young woman with a Master’s degree, who is—temporarily—a window cleaner. Over the course of the performance, she expresses her anger at social stratification and grapples with loneliness, in a world divided between “people who succeed and people who are nothing.”

Empire at Sea (short play)

David Geffen Hall - Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio
Jan 13 - 24, 2027

Experience the mind-bending North American premiere of Empire at Sea, a solarpunk interactive augmented reality (AR) drama that follows a group of climate scientists as they attempt to create a sustainable city at sea on a remote oil rig following a sudden environmental disaster. We join the story five years after the catastrophic event when Lani, the young protagonist, sees a boat on the horizon. Should the group allow the strangers aboard or repel them… Read More

Healing (play) Russian

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
May 7, 2027

HEALING is an intimate and emotionally charged story about two women, the choices that shape our lives, and the unexpected possibility of forgiveness.
Renowned actresses Chulpan Khamatova and Yulia Aug come together in Vaba Lava Theatre’s acclaimed production of HEALING — a compelling contemporary drama by celebrated playwright Mikhail Durnenkov, directed by acclaimed Latvian director Elmārs Seņkovs.
After the death of her father, Anna (Yulia Aug) takes… Read More