New on the Radar: Aug 28-30

Majority Rules: An American Musical (musical)

Aug 29 - 30, 2026

Majority Rules is a satirical pop musical that follows Chad Smith, a charismatic but directionless frat star whose campus kingdom collapses when the Green Party moves to ban Greek life nationwide. Recruited by his hyper-competent ex, sorority president Claire Kerr, Chad runs for U.S. President—only to be trapped by a new amendment requiring a life partner for candidates. Enter Pledge Peter, a freshman pressed into political matrimony. As scandals,… Read More

Is This Thing On? (solo show)

Sep 18 - 20, 2026

A deeply human solo show about the version of yourself you put down — and whether it’s ever too late to pick it back up.

3 Pigs+Wolf (short play)

Oct 18 - 24, 2026

Pigs and wolf, a classic tale. We know what happens…but do we really? These 4 clowns reimagine the tale in a new manner, merging the styles of Bouffon and vaudeville with a playful creepiness. Come see them lean into the natural physicality of these beasts, blending the world of human and four legged creatures.
3 pigs reunite in somewhat of a family dinner-type setting. An old friend comes to visit. What could go wrong? Follow these pigs on a journey… Read More

I'm That Witch (musical)

Oct 18 - 25, 2026

I'm That Witch is a spooky original musical about Clara, a young woman searching for where she belongs. When the Hecate summon her into a magical world where a coven of witches is trapped inside an evil circus ruled by a tyrannical White Rabbit, Clara—guided by a mischievous Black Cat— discovers she's the key to their freedom. As the witches reclaim their voices and break free from the forces controlling them, they forge an unbreakable chosen family built… Read More

Pizza Party (musical) Spanish/English

Oct 19 - 31, 2026

July lies to her parents so she can stay home alone and throw a Halloween party instead of attending the anniversary Mass for her late Aunt Margareth. But when Margareth’s ghost unexpectedly returns, she has plans of her own for the house where Día de la Canción Criolla and Peruvian traditions have always been at the heart of the family.
What follows is a chaotic and hilarious night of pizza, music, magic, a goofy and bumbling pizza delivery driver caught… Read More

The Witching Hour (short play)

Oct 21 - 23, 2026

The Witching Hour returns this spooky season with a horror-fiction triple-feature. The evening of short horror plays will strike fear into your hearts, and maybe a bit of laughter into your souls. This time around we've got three spooky short plays for you featuring heartstopping housekeepers, supernatural superstores, and worrisome wallpaper. So when the night comes, gather around this tri-an-ghoul, try not to scream, and prepare for a trifecta of… Read More

Edgar A. Poe's Last Call (play)

Oct 22 - 31, 2026

Why will you say that I am mad?!?
Edgar A. Poe’s Last Call, is an eerie, intimate, solo performance, inspired by the tormented life and mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe. An evening of ravenous remembrance; not of dusty literature but psychological conflict. As the veil between brilliance and ruin dissolves, his life flashes before his eyes.
Improvisational actor Scott Robinson exhumes the character, the genius, and the heartbreak of Poe. In our own… Read More

The Outside (short play)

Oct 22 - 23, 2026

A sudden apocalypse sends two friends into an unlikely living situation with a stranger. As time passes, they build a new existence within those four walls. But what's happening to the world outside?
Content Awareness: loud noises.

The Guests (play)

Oct 24 - 30, 2026

At a Halloween after-party that refuses to end, Ana, a young Portuguese woman living in New York, becomes obsessed with finding a missing guest. As the night unfolds through music, desire, inebriation, and fleeting encounters, she finds herself increasingly trapped between reality, memory, and dream. The guests who drift through her apartment become reflections of her past, her fears, and her longing for connection, transforming the search into a surreal… Read More

No Roses (play)

Oct 27 - 31, 2026

A story about love, life, and death, No Roses follows two young men - one alive, one dead - as they discover what it means to exchange affection between worlds. Bailey Jones-Wolfe and Calixte Maćon fight fate in this thrilling, romantic tale that forces you to consider what it means to truly be alive.
Content Awareness: Death, near-death experiences, violence, flashing lights.

Chaos (short play)

Oct 29 - 31, 2026

It’s a typical day at the NYC 311 Call Center: negligent landlords, broken streetlights, bosses that refuse to recognize the humanity of their employees. Standard chaos.
Operators Isola, Frankie, and Gray are doing the best they can to connect New Yorkers to the resources they need. And then - the calls begin reflecting a strange turn in the world around them. Escalators are swallowing people, walls are becoming transparent, and most terrifying of all,… Read More

The Humoral Funeral Parlor on the Corner of the Street (musical, concert)

Oct 20, 2026

This dark musical comedy by writer-composer Christian Cieri centers around the Humorals, a family of funeral directors on the brink of losing everything when a new rival opens up shop and begins stealing their business. Threatened with losing his ancestral home and becoming the failure his father predicted he would be, patriarch Maxim enlists the help of his brother Quincy and son Robert to kill people in order to drum up business. But, keeping this… Read More

Show No Fear (play)

Oct 30 - 31, 2026

This Halloween, Show No Fear, a new horror-thriller play from writer-director Aaron Mark (creator of Amazon & Blumhouse’s The Horror of Dolores Roach) will be presented as cabaret readings at The Green Room 42 for two nights only, Friday, October 30th and Saturday, October 31t at 7pm.
In Show No Fear, there is a sadistic entity on the loose who films its victims as they are forced to watch their own murders in real time, capturing their terror, and then… Read More

Raven's Stars (musical, concert)

Nov 6, 2026

Based on a true story and set against the backdrop of Juneau, Alaska, Raven’s Stars follows our autistic protagonist, Raven, who struggles to cope with her mentally ill mother. She meets Theo, a poet, and they bond through their shared need to create the beauty they lack in their difficult lives, finding inspiration from the immense natural beauty surrounding them. Their reality is that of a struggle with autism, mental illness, and drug and alcohol… Read More

Big Quarterly (musical, concert)

Nov 16, 2026

Big Quarterly, a hip-hop gospel musical, spotlights the legacy of Peter Spencer – formerly enslaved, he rose to found the nation’s first wholly independent Black church in 1813 and sparked the Big Quarterly–a joyful reunion for freedom in Delaware that still exists to this day. For those not yet free, Big Quarterly was an opportunity to secure passage on the Underground Railroad. Perpetually haunted by deep childhood wounds in the face of outer powers,… Read More

Moonshine The Musical (musical, concert)

Feb 26, 2027

The Deep South during the Great Depression: Tressie lives with her family and they do everything they can to survive – including making moonshine illegally to make ends meet financially. Unfortunately, the FBI is on their trail, and even worse, Tressie begins to have feelings for the FBI agent who is trying to put her family in jail. What does she choose to love and honor? Her heart or her family?
Come on down to 54 Below to support new works and lend… Read More

Atalanta: The Long Shot (musical)

Feb 28, 2027

Atalanta: The Long Shot is a boundary-breaking new queer musical that resurrects the long-forgotten mythology of history’s original Amazon and unsung heroine of Ancient Greece.
Raised by a bear in the Arcadian forest after being abandoned as an infant because of her sex, Atalanta (“equal in weight”) is the perfect combination of wild femininity and animal instinct.
On her eighteenth birthday and prompted by the patronage of her lover, the goddess Artemis,… Read More

Tanner Maverick's Book of Sound (musical, concert)

Mar 22, 2027

54 Below presents a monumental evening featuring the songs of Tanner Maverick’s Book of Sound. Witness the New York debuts of powerhouse sibling writing duo Wyatt and Izaiah Rhinehart (Broadway San Diego Theater Awards Production of the Year, Emerson College’s Evvy Awards Production of the Year and San Diego’s Rock the Park: Battle of the Bands).
Follow Jason Maverick as he discovers the untold truth about his late brother’s life and the lives he changed… Read More