New on the Radar: Sep 17-19

Sep 19, 2026

Newly Added

Major Non-Broadway Productions

Triad Theater
Oct 13 - Nov 29, 2026

The Dog Show: Come. Sit. Stay, is the new comedy from 13-time Emmy winner and two-time Grammy winner David Javerbaum (Executive Producer and Head Writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; creator of @TheTweetOfGod; writer of An Act of God, starring Jim Parsons).
The Dog Show is inspired by a simple idea: dogs are wonderful, indispensable, and endlessly fascinating. See actors perform a series of monologues from the dogs’ perspective, giving voice to the… Read More

Hospital Hour (play)

The Culture Club
Oct 16 - Nov 23, 2026

Rachel Kaly got her first period the same day Saddam Hussein was hanged. Since then, she's been to the hospital over 300 times for various psychological treatments. Are these two facts related? Probably. After selling out performances in London’s SoHo Theatre and at Edinburgh Fringe, Rachel brings her critically acclaimed one-woman show to NYC to explain, once and for all, why she’s so mentally ill.

The Executrix (play)

Target Margin Theater, Brooklyn
Oct 29 - Nov 14, 2026

Susan masturbates out of a window and almost dies. Louise would rather forget this ever happened. Peter is out getting a cake. Irene is lurking in the hallway with a suitcase filled with knicknacks. A high-wire cat and mouse mystery, The Executrix is a style-lush tale about the tragic impossibilities of being fully recognized.
The Executrix is presented in partnership with TMT Hosts, a Target Margin Theater program that offers artists who share their… Read More

Ivories (play)

East Village Basement
Nov 6 - 22, 2026

a new horror play

Grass (play)

Park Avenue Armory - Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Feb 19 - Mar 28, 2027

Armory Artist-in-Residence Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Purpose, Appropriate) has made a name for himself as one of the most insightful and original playwrights of the American stage today. The two-time Tony, Obie, Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Fellow skillfully blends drama and comedy to probe how different generations define heritage amongst the complex dynamics of the great American family. Commissioned by the Armory, Jacobs-Jenkins lends his… Read More

Magno Rubio (musical)

Theatre Row
Feb 20 - Mar 30, 2027

Magno Rubio, Filipino boy, four feet six inches tall, in love with a woman from Arkansas he found in a lonely hearts magazine, but never met. A woman twice his size, upward, and sideward.

¡San Miguel, Amarra Tu Perro! (play) Spanish

Pregones Theater, Bronx
May 13 - Jun 12, 2027

Pregones/PRTT’s ¡San Miguel, Amarra Tu Perro! (Tie Up Your Dog!), an original ensemble play with live music, first premiered in 1998. The production brings together seven renowned insurgent belletrists of the Spanish Caribbean — Ramón Emeterio Betances, Segundo Ruiz Belvis, Eugenio María de Hostos, José Martí, Luisa Capetillo, Pedro Albizu Campos, and Juan Antonio Corretjer — gifted orators and writers who, though they lived across different eras and held… Read More

Indie, Festival, Readings etc.

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Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival 2026

The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space - The Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
Oct 5 - 11, 2026

8 shows added

Coinciding with LGBTQ+ History Month, the fifth annual Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival is our largest yet, bringing together ten teams of transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, stage managers, and performers (yes, even in roles written for cis folks!) to develop and showcase work created entirely by and for TNB2S+ artists.

Afterwards (play)

La Mama
Sep 11 - 19, 2026

Afterwards is a spiritual, theatrical novella, a sequel to Enz’s play City Girls and Desperados. Enz’s elliptical, transcendent storytelling revolves around a crew of hipster artists orbiting the steadying center of legend to legends; Sam Shaw – creator of the famous (Marilyn subway shot) and esteemed, Cassavetes producer, whose lawsuit of biblical proportions with his only son evolves into a blueprint for forgiveness that gives this piece its resonant… Read More

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ReproEco: Tomorrow Is Now (short play)

Sep 19 - Oct 4, 2026

Multicultural and multigenerational women bring fresh perspectives to the hot topic issues of reproductive health and environmental justice in a program of exciting theatre and dance.
Six short plays by women connect our reproductive health and the environment. With humor, mythology, Afro-futurism, drama and dance, these multicultural stories look at toxins, plastics, eco-challenges and the effects on our bodies, our communities and our future.
THE… Read More

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Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed (solo show)

Sep 26, 2026

Unbossed & Unbowed brings to life the remarkable and often overlooked story of Shirley Chisholm, the Brooklyn-born daughter of immigrant parents who became the first African American woman elected to the United States Congress and the first African American to seek a major party’s nomination for President. The play traces Chisholm’s journey from her childhood—shaped by years spent in Barbados during the Great Depression—to her rise as a fearless advocate… Read More

Let. Her. Rip. (play, reading)

Sep 29, 2026

LET. HER. RIP. by Maggie Lou Rader is set in the crosshairs of the Match Women labor movement and the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. Nana, Em and Liza are busting their lady balls to make London's East End safer for all working people when headlines shift to the mysterious man mutilating women in the streets. Women they know. The three friends are hilarious, vulnerable, ferocious, and resilient as they fight against deadly misogyny and personal demons.… Read More

Formerly Known as Sarah (solo show)

Sep 30, 2026

Joyce Griffen performs in her one-woman play “Formerly Known as Sarah” about Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919), creator of specialized Black hair care products for African American women, becoming the first female self-made millionaire in the US.
"My object in life is not simply to make money for myself, but to use part of what I make in trying to help others!' - Madam C.J. Walker

Battle in the Margins (short play) Free

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island
Sep 19, 2026

Battle in the Margins is a theatrical collaboration between Black Gotham Experience and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), inviting audiences to explore Black life in New York City during the American Revolution.
The Plays
"Get Ya Get Ya Get Ya" by Cyrus Aaron
"No Neutral Ground" by Steven Sapp
"The Loyalists" by Lauren Marissa Smith

Oceana Theater, Brooklyn

Gromkie (play) Russian

Sep 20, 2026

Danila Kozlovsky Production Company presents:
Victoria Tolstoganova and Maxim Vitorgan in Savva Saveliev’s romantic comedy “LOUD”
How do you keep love alive? How do you hold on to passion in a long-term relationship?
“LOUD” is more than just a play — it’s a deeply moving reflection on how difficult it is to preserve love, and how easy it can be to lose it over the course of a lifetime.
The story follows a couple who have spent 25 years together,… Read More

Kvadrat (play) Russian

Jun 12, 2027

“KVADRAT” is a deeply personal story about friendship, time, and change that takes us into the vibrant atmosphere of the cabaret show “Attraction 90s.”
Can we preserve human relationships when everything around us is changing? Is reconciliation possible when people who once shared everything begin to see life from different sides?
Old friends, now scattered across different parts of the world, come together for a virtual reunion. Memories, laughter,… Read More

Midnight Runner (play, reading) Free

Ensemble Studio Theatre
Sep 24, 2026

An animal lover finds his home overrun by hundreds of roaches and refuses to kill a single one. MIDNIGHT RUNNER is a horror-comedy solo show about the strange moral distinctions we make between ourselves and other animals, traveling from a squalid apartment in El Paso to the murky swamps of the 35-million-year reign of the Abnormal Shrimp—and asking why we’ll stomp a bug but would never beat a possum to death with a toilet plunger.
Ryan Dowler is an alum… Read More

A.R.T./New York Theatres

Burning Leaves (play)

Sep 26 - Oct 17, 2026

In need of a fresh start, Matt Leland, a young actor on the run from New York, takes a job teaching at a small high school in the Midwest—where he finds himself feeling unprepared for the unexpected challenges that await. His most talented student is Jesse Wade, a troubled sixteen-year-old on the verge of coming out. Isolated in the small conservative town, Jesse desperately needs a gay role model—and other things Matt may or may not be able to provide.… Read More

Loveville (play)

Mar 20 - Apr 11, 2027

Loveville celebrates the moment of risk, heartbreak, and joy when the wild strangeness of love comes into clearer view—usually when you're young, always in the moments you least expect it. Uniquely formatted as an interconnected portrait of a town, the musical follows various high schoolers—gay, straight, cisgender, and genderqueer—experiencing heartbreak, risk, and joy in unexpected moments.

P. Pan et al. (play)

Oct 16 - Nov 7, 2027

Peter Pan was a lesbian who invented color films. A hundred years ago, the famous and famously private actress Maude Adams—whose name was synonymous with the iconic role written for her by J.M. Barrie—retired from the stage. The play follows Adams as she corrals a team of General Electric engineers and inventors in their attempts to lasso the sun.

Shakespeare Suddenly (play)

Paradise Factory
Oct 11, 2026

Shakespeare Suddenly is back! 11 actors. One Play. 6 hours to rehearse. And you won't know what we're doing until it starts.

LaGarage (play, reading)

The Tank
Oct 21 - 22, 2026

1978. Gloria is marching. The ERA is 3 votes short. In Philadelphia, fate bumps together five women -and a spunky 12 year old girl- all broke, bruised, and barely holding on. Raised by the Betty Crocker handbook and too underwater to catch a “Women’s Lib” wave, these women turn the lights inside a dusty suburban garage on themselves. Fueled by raw honesty, break downs, clashes and a chance to crumble, they build the kind of friendship that only forms when… Read More

True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl (play)

Triad Theater
Oct 24 - Dec 11, 2026

True Confessions is a melange of monologues, characters, music, dance, and images culled from Jill’s metamorphosis from tomboy to top-ranked bikini dancer in the 1990s. Jill likens it to stepping through the looking glass–only her Wonderland consists of seedy go-go bars off the Jersey Turnpike.
Several characters based on real dancers she met make appearances, as well as her gay male roommate, who got her in touch with her femininity, and the bouncer who… Read More

Brody Went Missing (play)

The Chain Theatre
Nov 5 - 8, 2026

Who is this Brody guy, anyway?
Only the coolest guy in Langstown! And he's about to take over the most successful party store in town from his mother. He has it all.
So his best friends, Angie and Doug, are understandably confused when he leaves a note telling them he's leaving town forever. They hit the road to find answers, blasting tunes and meeting an eclectic cast of characters along the way.

Milkman Zero (play)

MITU580, Brooklyn
Dec 3 - 13, 2026

You are a milkman. You have a job to do. Deliver the milk. But the townspeople are insatiably milk-hungry, the mayor's eyes are brimming with milk-lust, and lurking in the milk-dark shadows, the Milk Monster stalks your every move. Still, you want to do a good job. Maybe even a great job…
MILKMAN ZERO is a darkly funny work of psychological horror built inside a text adventure, the oldest kind of computer game. No graphics, no images, just a world… Read More

Reject Me, Already (musical, concert)

54 Below
Feb 11, 2027

Direct from sell-out shows and rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe, 54 Below presents Reject Me, Already: In Concert! Spend the season of romance at 54 Below falling in love with selections from a brand new, fully original rom-com musical with all of the heart, humor, romance, and belty ballads you could ask for. This feel-good rom-com features a book, music, and lyrics by Paul Richard Keegan (Crapp’s River: The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Schitt’s… Read More