New on the Radar: Sep 8-9

Sep 10, 2026

Newly Added

Broadway

Booth Theatre
Oct 17, 2026 - Jan, 2027

From Tony® and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Bruce Norris and three-time Tony Award® winner Joe Mantello Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, Bruce Norris’s profane, disruptive, and heartbreaking Downstate finally arrives on Broadway in a strictly limited 12-week engagement, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello.
Four men, living together uneasily in the pressure-cooker of a state-sanctioned group home,… Read More

Small Mouth Sounds (play)

Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Feb 18 - Jun 17, 2027

Martin Freeman, Greta Lee, Sarah Paulson, Isaac Powell, Julia Roberts, and Paul Rudd form the extraordinary Broadway company of Bess Wohl’s acclaimed “Small Mouth Sounds.”
Six strangers arrive at a silent retreat determined to escape their problems, turn inward, and transform their lives. Spoiler: it does not go according to plan.
From Bess Wohl, author of last season’s Liberation, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, and… Read More

Major Non-Broadway Productions

The Designated Mourner (play, reading)

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
Oct 11, 2026

Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner returns to New York City for a one-night-only reading at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 11, as part of Jewish Currents Live, with original cast members Deborah Eisenberg, Larry Pine, and Shawn reprising their roles.

Livia: A Roman Tragedy (play)

The Flea Theater
Oct 23 - Nov 15, 2026

In Livia: A Roman Tragedy, the late Roman Empire teeters on the brink of collapse under the rule of a corrupt, narcissistic madman. As chaos consumes the nation, Livia longs for her lover, who departed Rome to lead an armed rebellion against the incompetent, debauched emperor. Isolated in her opposition to the demented dictator, who exiles and executes anyone who voices dissent, Livia asks how the once-noble republic succumbed to the tyrant’s hand and… Read More

Beautiful Jolie Gabor, Her Glamorous Three Daughters, and Always the Happiness Is Life poster

Beautiful Jolie Gabor, Her Glamorous Three Daughters, and Always the Happiness Is Life (musical)

Theater 555
Jun 11 - Jul 18, 2027

Beautiful Jolie Gabor, Her Glamorous Three Daughters, and Always the Happiness Is Life is a new musical fantasy by Michael John LaChiusa, commissioned by Transport Group. Centered on Jolie Gabor and her daughters Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda, the work explores the matriarch of a family widely regarded as among the first to be famous for being famous. It will receive its world premiere Off-Broadway at Theater 555 in 2027.

Indie, Festival, Readings etc.

Epstein Oratorio or, A Modern Hymn to Demeter poster

Epstein Oratorio or, A Modern Hymn to Demeter (short play, benefit)

La Mama - The Downstairs
Oct 1 - 2, 2026

A Benefit Reading to Support the Public Integrity Project Suing for the Release of the Epstein Files.
This short poetic, terrifying, and funny political play is an expose of the “Epstein class” played out against the iconic mother-daughter myth of Persephone and Demeter.
Hades presides over both modern and mythic worlds, and a male chorus speaks in language that has been lifted directly from the Epstein files and the news. The victims’ stories are based… Read More