New on the Radar: Sep 24-26

Sep 28, 2026

Newly Added

Major Non-Broadway Productions

Under the Radar Festival 2027

Various Venues
Jan 6 - 24, 2027

32 shows added

Over two decades and counting, Under the Radar (UTR) has grown to become America’s largest theater festival, providing a global launchpad for literally hundreds of art makers from around the world. Since 2003, Festival founder Mark Russell and his team have faithfully coordinated the annual production of a January tidal wave of cutting-edge theater, first at The Public Theater and now at a selection of historic and emerging theaters all across New York… Read More

Mark Twain Tonight! (play, benefit)

The Town Hall
Nov 2, 2026

For one night only, Richard Thomas performs the acclaimed Mark Twain Tonight! by Hal Holbrook to benefit the Entertainment Community Fund. Emmy Award-winning actor and 2025 Theater Hall of Fame inductee Richard Thomas brings to life Mark Twain, “the nation’s one true comic genius” (The New York Times). This celebrated theatrical event will be followed by a special talkback with prizewinning and bestselling author of eight works of history and biography… Read More

America, Who Hurt You? (play)

The Public Theater
Jan 6 - 24, 2027

In a nation divided by competing narratives, who gets to tell the story of America?
Tony Award winner Sarah Jones returns to the New York stage with a virtuosic new solo show directed by OBIE winner Eric Ting (The Comeuppance) that is hilarious, provocative, and deeply human.
Called “a once-in-a-lifetime artist" by Meryl Streep and “a master of the genre” by The New York Times, Jones embodies a remarkable cast of characters spanning 250 years of America’s… Read More

Horsegirl & Cowdaddy (play)

Playwrights Horizons
Feb 20 - Mar 21, 2027

i want to know about you
i want to know…
where you come from
where you’re
going
Horsegirl, a trans woman in her thirties, lives a life of easy routine alongside her father, Cowdaddy, in rural Pennsylvania. When she falls for Bethel, a magnetic Teach for America fellow who just rolled into town, their relationship sparks a fantastical metamorphosis.
Full of wry humor and queer desire, Horsegirl & Cowdaddy is a new play by New Dramatist Resident Playwright… Read More

Indie, Festival, Readings etc.

Linda Vista (play)

Theatre 154
Sep 24 - Oct 4, 2026

He's fifty. He's divorced. He's just moved out of his ex-wife's garage. And he is certain that everything is about to turn around.
In Tracy Letts' razor-sharp comedy, Wheeler, a restless fifty-something divorcee, moves into a new apartment determined to reinvent himself. But dating, friendship, sex, and the illusion of starting over prove far more complicated than expected. Funny, raw, and painfully human, Linda Vista is a provocative look at masculinity,… Read More

The Misunderstanding (play)

Studio 17
Sep 25 - Oct 4, 2026

No Theatre presents Albert Camus's play The Misunderstanding.
Set in a remote town in Central Europe, a mother and daughter run a small inn where, for years, they have secretly murdered wealthy travelers in hopes of one day escaping their bleak existence. When the estranged son, Jan, returns home after twenty years away, neither woman recognizes him. Rather than reveal his identity, he takes a room at the inn as a stranger, hoping his family will… Read More

Galileo (play)

Waterfront Museum Barge, Brooklyn
Oct 1 - 4, 2026

A bold new adaptation about truth, power, science, and the dangerous cost of challenging what we’re told to believe.
This October, Brooklyn Stage Company returns to the Waterfront Museum Barge with Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, in a new adaptation by Robert Francis Cole, based on the English version by Brecht and Charles Laughton.
Brecht began writing Galileo in exile after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933. Years later, living in California, he worked with… Read More

Blasted (play)

Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn
Oct 7, 2026

Blasted is Sarah Kane's first play. Set inside an actual hotel room, this production explores her use of musical formalism, as well as her author's note that “stage directions in brackets () function as lines.”
CONTENT ADVISORY
This performance contains depictions of sexual violence, graphic violence, and racist language, along with the use of prop firearms. Recommended for mature audiences; not suitable for children.

Natural Shocks (play)

American Theatre of Actors
Oct 14 - 18, 2026

A woman. A basement. An imminent storm.
Set in a moment of uncertainty, Angela shelters in her basement from an imminent threat. The play invites us into a space of reflection, exploring risk, chance, and the instincts we rely on to survive.
Natural Shocks is an intimate one-woman play that grows increasingly revealing as the line between chance and choice begins to blur.

Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed poster

Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed (solo show)

West End Theatre
Nov 2 - Dec 7, 2026

Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed, written and performed by Ingrid Griffith, is a powerful one-woman off-Broadway show that follows the story of Chisholm, an activist and the first Black woman to run for the United States presidential office. In an award-winning performance, Griffith takes on fifteen characters while charting Chisholm’s rise to office. Unbossed & Unbowed is underwritten and produced by Back Door Productions. Developing an innovative… Read More

Outside the Game (play)

IATI Theater
Nov 4 - 8, 2026

A Cuban poet faces censorship, coercion, and exile in this gripping play about memory, truth, and the cost of survival.
Outside the Game brings to the stage the story of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla and the political scandal that shook the international literary world.
Set between Havana, imprisonment, and exile, the play explores Padilla’s confrontation with censorship, state power, and the pressure to publicly betray himself and those closest to him.… Read More

Arrangements (play)

HB Studio Theatre
Nov 5 - 8, 2026

An original comedy about a Pakistani American woman navigating love, family, and tradition as her mother constantly "arranges" her marriage.
‘"Arrangements" is an original comedy by playwright, producer, and award-winning journalist Jasmine Amjad that explores identity, family, faith, and the pressures of tradition through the story of a Pakistani American woman navigating love while her well-meaning but traditional mother attempts to contantly "arrange"… Read More

Creation Story (musical)

Teatro Círculo
Dec 7, 2026 - Jan 3, 2027

Creation Story is a Chicanofuturist musical that blends myth, migration, and environmental collapse with rancheras, ballads, and desert-western sounds. Set in a shape-shifting shadow version of the American Southwest, Creation Story follows a writer as she remixes Catholic and Hopi creation stories, breathes life into unruly characters, and unravels the mysteries of destruction, and cultural memory.