New on the Radar: Aug 31-Sep 2

Sep 3, 2026

Newly Added

Major Non-Broadway Productions

Gerald W Lynch Theater
Jan 13 - 16, 2027

Based on the Ernest Hemingway 1952 novella, this innovative adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea is the result of a collaboration between illustrious composer Paola Prestini, librettist Royce Vavrek, and conductor and stage director Karmina Šilec. Breathtakingly staged with eight pools of water enhanced with dynamic lighting, costumes, and sound, the performance combines the Hemingway text with original portraits of everyday life to create a look at… Read More

Some Demon (play)

The Loft at St. Luke's Theatre
Apr 7, 2027 - May, 2027

Blood Be Sweet (play)

New York Theatre Workshop
Apr 21 - May 30, 2027

In an otherworldly realm, three spirits breathe life into a young girl to protect her destiny. When Death comes for her too soon, the girl—along with her family and the spirits—must confront what it truly means to offer oneself in the name of love.
Obie Award winner Awoye Timpo directs this poetic ritual drama written by former NYTW 2050 Artistic Fellow Abigail C. Onwunali. From New York City to Nigeria, Blood Be Sweet is a conversation between the seen… Read More

Indie, Festival, Readings etc.

A Mask & A Whisper (short play)

The Chain Theatre
Sep 1 - 6, 2026

A Mask & A Whisper is a hilariously bold depiction of the two sides of the coin we call humanity. Who we are and who we show the world. A sharp, funny, intimate and beautifully staged evening at one of New York's most celebrated Off-Broadway venues, The Chain Theatre,
Le Chéile Productions presents Alice Gerstenberg's One-Act Comedies Overtones (1913) and He Said and She Said (1922) in a double-bill run of 70 minutes. Giving audiences a chance to catch… Read More

Macbeth (play) Free

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island
Sep 11 - 19, 2026

At the center of this production is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as two halves of a sacred fracture: Macbeth, the sword — forged for violence, conquest, and action — and Gruoch, the vessel — tied to land, bloodline, ritual, and sovereignty itself. Together, they become the old world’s final desperate attempt to preserve itself against extinction. But as Macbeth rises from celebrated warrior to blood-soaked tyrant, the very powers that sought to guide him must… Read More

Present Tense (play)

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

South Oxford Space, Brooklyn

Power Trip (play, reading)

Sep 25, 2026

K has an injury with no obvious cause. When the Xray, the MRI, and the ultrasound provide no answers, K visits Dr. Ward, a mind-body pain specialist. Dr. Ward tells her the pain is coming from her mind, and so it can only be fixed with her mind. Her problem is that she’s stuck imagining herself with this body, and with this pain. If she’s able to envision her body in other forms, she’ll be able to transform it. Luckily, the doctor’s got a treatment for… Read More

They Both Reached for the Gun (play, reading)

Oct 10, 2026

Anya just adopted a dog and Josie has a long term boyfriend. Anya is going to buy a gun and Josie is studying for the bar. Anya bought a gun and Josie is worried about Anya, who is worried about her dog, who is worried about the strange man that threatens her through violent jazz. An absurd play with music, THEY BOTH REACHED FOR THE GUN is about the choices we make to feel safe, secure, and powerful.

Miss dalloway (play, reading) Free

La Mama - Community Arts Space
Sep 28, 2026

Miss dalloway, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway, shifts the setting away from upper-crust 1923 London to Harlem in 1930, amidst the ailing Renaissance and the looming Great Depression.
The change in setting and the reimagining of the characters it necessitates brings to the fore the minute ways in which we struggle with wanting better while knowing that, sometimes, better is simply out of reach.

Unveiling (play)

Torn Page
Oct 1 - 17, 2026

Havel’s darkly comic critique of those who compromise their ethics for government favor comes to the stage in a new production in honor of what would have been his 90th birthday. Havel’s signature character, Ferdinand Vaněk, visits the home of old friends who try to seduce him into making the same moral compromises they have made in exchange for small privileges. Havel’s wit and political undercurrents make Unveiling both hilariously uncomfortable and… Read More

Girlish (play, reading)

A.R.T./New York Studios
Oct 2, 2026

Windy loves painting her nails, being fifteen, goofing off with her BFF, and every one of her American Girl dolls. But loving AG is totally embarrassing until it leads you to Internet fame and sexting A Boy and then it’s -- what, exactly?

Machine Learning (play)

Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Oct 6 - 30, 2026

Two couples enter a program at a remote research facility, believing their interactions will help train humanoid companions in human intimacy. But as the experiment unfolds, they are forced to reckon with their patterns, secrets, and vulnerabilities. Machine Learning is a darkly funny and deeply human exploration of our search for connection in a time when we’re increasingly led to believe that technology can fix it all.

A Bright Room Called Day (play)

A House in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Oct 8 - 30, 2026

The play follows a group of artists and activists in 1930s Berlin as fascism takes hold around them, and they decide whether to wait or act, stay or go, fight or flee. Kushner originally wrote Bright Room in the 1980s as a direct response to Reagan’s America. Nearly 40 years later, the parallels between Hitler’s Germany and today feel even more eerily resonant.
The play’s questions about art, politics, friendship, fear, and what we do as the world… Read More

A Private Studio in Ridgewood, Queens

American Spirits (play)

Oct 15 - 24, 2026

In this underground workshop, three women reimagine an iconic American classic. Which play are we turning on its head? You won't know till you get there!

Turn of the Screw (play)

Oct 29 - 31, 2026

"TURN OF THE SCREW" Based on the short story by Henry James...A governess moves to a remote country house to care for two young children only to become convinced the children are haunted.

DeRaNgEd dUrAnG (short play)

Jan 5 - 9, 2027
Torn Page
Dec 1 - 19, 2026

Join 'Adult Film' for a family romance double-feature this holiday season...
Birthed from the primordial soup of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatre Company and the iconic filth of John Waters comes DERANGED DURANG! Adult Film is elated to return to the iconic Chelsea staple Torn Page with two RIDICULOUS Durang works. Two plays, one evening of debauchery, dysfunction, and psychological collapse. ‘dentity Crisis serves up surreal identity crises, neurosis,… Read More

Diana of Dobson's (play, reading)

Theatre Row - Theatre Four
Oct 23, 2026

On Friday, October 23rd at 7 PM, Mint will present a reading of DIANA OF DOBSON’S, introduced by J. Ellen Gainor of Cornell University, who suggested the play to us in 2001.
25 years ago, Mint produced Cicely Hamilton’s DIANA OF DOBSON’S. The New York Times called the play “surprisingly fresh entertainment”, The Village Voice declared it “another tasty sprig in the Mint’s growing patch of discoveries…Though demonstrably indebted to Shaw and Granville… Read More

Shadow of the Unhinged (play) Cantonese

Abrons Arts Center
Oct 24 - Nov 1, 2026

A psychiatric ward sounds like a place to escape the chaos of the world and find quiet healing — but behind these high walls, who’s really crazy: the patients, or the system itself?
Ng Ka-Kui, a man bursting with energy and afraid of nothing, walks straight into a ward run with an iron fist by the head nurse. Rules, obedience, silence — everything here is a chain built to tame the human spirit. But this man refuses to play along. It’s in his nature to… Read More

The Greatest Story Ever (short play)

La MaMa - The Club
Oct 29 - Nov 8, 2026

A spaceship drifts silently out of orbit, its pilot refusing to come home.
A taxi driver ferries strangers through a series of unguarded moments. An unexpected blend of sci-fi and lo-fi, The Greatest Story Ever, is an intimate, surprising performance where everyone who is in the room shares in the story.

Broom Play (play)

The Players Theatre
Nov 5 - 22, 2026

Two janitors return every day to the same room to do the same work: cleaning a space that refuses to get clean, in a building that never gives them water, with only one mop, and no brooms. One has stopped wanting and calls it peace. The other remains consumed by the possibility that life could become something more. Through eccentric clowning and moments of unexpected tenderness, their repetitive life forms into a tragicomedy about an overwhelming… Read More

SoHo Playhouse

Big Foot Ripped My Dog in Half, I Saw It poster

Big Foot Ripped My Dog in Half, I Saw It (play)

Nov 20, 2026 - Jan 3, 2027

Two teenagers perform fake Bigfoot sightings in their Appalachian town until a neighbor’s dog turns up torn to pieces. Aside from sparking a panic that spirals out of their control, it forces them to question what might actually be terrorizing their underresourced and already superstitious community. From 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2026 Fringe First Award winners, 2026 Drama Desk Award winners, and “The Fringe’s most dynamic theatrical duo,” (The Telegraph)… Read More

Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story poster

Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story (play)

Dec 2 - 13, 2026

Do you know the story of Diana? Probably. But do you know our story of Diana? We very much doubt it. Join Diana in heaven as she shares the untold and untrue tale of her extraordinary life. Combining drag, multimedia, audience interaction, puppetry and queer joy, this unique celebration of the people's princess has won multiple awards and sold out venues across the world. A loving celebration of Ar Di that is as hilarious as it is ridiculous. From the… Read More

The (Very Gay) Christmas Prince (play)

Dec 16, 2026 - Jan 3, 2027

PANIC! IN SWEDONIA.
The King is dead and the prince next in line to the throne is unmarried – if he doesn’t find someone soon he must forfeit the crown!
In New York City, baker Aaron Butcher is butchering his career as a family baker. Maybe a commission in the non-location-specific country of Swedonia will fix his problems…
Following the sold-out, award-winning shows Gwyneth Goes Skiing and Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, Awkward Productions are back… Read More

ਆਦਤ / the Ādat (solo show)

HERE Arts Center
Jan 14 - 17, 2027

ਆਦਤ / the Ādat (habit) is the story of a young woman’s life-altering catfishing compulsion, set against the backdrop of Sikh-American life in the Bay Area during early social media. Drawing on traditional Giddha dance-theater and featuring a small ensemble of South-Asian instrumentalists, this new musical refracts themes of diasporic religiosity, addiction, and romantic projection through an evolving hall of mirrors. With an original score and book in… Read More