New on the Radar: Oct 2-4

Oct 4, 2026

Newly Added

Broadway

Broadhurst Theatre
Nov 4, 2026 - Jan 3, 2027

This holiday season, something wonderful is coming to Broadway
Take your seat in the live studio audience of a 1940s radio broadcast, high above New York City at Christmastime, where a company of actors has gathered to perform one of the most beloved holiday stories ever told.
Starring Andrew Rannells, Megan Hilty, Tituss Burgess, Harry Hamlin, and Lisa Rinna, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY tells the timeless story of George Bailey, a man who… Read More

Indie, Festival, Readings etc.

Queer Spooky Shorts '26 (short play, reading)

A.R.T./New York Theatres
Oct 13, 2026

TOSOS invites you to our 6th Annual
QUEER SPOOKY SHORTS
They Might Hear Us
by Charlie O'Leary
Bury Your Gays (and they will rise up again)
by Shannon Chinn
Stardust Lanes
by Quinn D. Eli
Come Back Right
by Aly Kantor

Liberty (play, reading) Free

NYC Seminar and Conference Center
Oct 14, 2026

Michael just wants the best for his hometown, Liberty, which has seen hard times. It’s a company town and when the company left a while back, people were devastated. But then an Electric Vehicle company came in and took over the old factory. A plum management job there gave him the chance to do right by his community (and the planet) while doing well for himself in the process. Everything was looking up until a group of outsiders came in and started… Read More

5x5 Drama Series 2026 (short play)

Court Square Theater, Queens
Oct 15 - 24, 2026

Theatre is recovery.
This year, we’ve commissioned five playwrights to write five new plays around one big question: What does it mean to rebuild? It's a question of rebirth and revival. Performed back-to-back, making for an unforgettable evening at Court Square Theater.
The series was founded in 2016 to bring great new plays beyond the footlights and into nontraditional spaces like breweries, rooftops, and taverns to provide an immersive and unique… Read More

Ars Nova

Ronnie's Big Idea (solo show)

Oct 16, 2026

Did you think of that great idea first? Act too slowly, and it may grow legs and walk off on its own.
Sophie wants to be the greatest ventriloquist in the world. By her side is Ronnie: the matchstick with curves, the visionary, a cut above the rest. But when Ronnie branches out for a taste of independence, their bond begins to splinter.

Sophie Zucker Does Sophie Tucker (play)

Oct 20, 2026

Comedian Sophie Zucker had a baby this year. And comedian Sophie Tucker had a baby in 1905 and abandoned him to become, well, a comedian. These two Sophies, joined by the assistance and persistence of comedian Ida Cuttler (Is she having a baby? Time, but not too much time, will tell!) collide in an evening of song, dance, and fake piano playing.
A play that spans two centuries and one name just to ask the question that no woman likes to be asked: “how do… Read More

Wisard (entertainment)

Oct 23, 2026

Trouble with business? Love? Connecting to others? Are your plants dead? Do you feel like your life is not what you hoped? Pay a visit to your local wisard, Jooby.
Join for a preternatural experience that bemuses and amuses the modern mind. A clown show that casts a spell on the audience and transforms them into wisards themselves. Through music, incantations, and laugh out loud physical prowess, the Cuban immigrant invites you to transcend this world's… Read More

Black Cherry Sideshow presents SAWTOBER II: Tales from Da Cherry Pit Massacre poster

Black Cherry Sideshow presents SAWTOBER II: Tales from Da Cherry Pit Massacre (other)

Oct 27, 2026

The long awaited sequel to the acclaimed sideshow drag spooktackular Sawtober is finally here with even BIGGER thrills and chills than last year!
Feast your eyes (and frights!) as you are guided by the hauntingly handsome Hood Keeper through the Tales of da Cherry Pit Massacre. From almost unbelievable horrors of the body to sultry scares that will shake you to your core, prepare to have your cherry popped by nefarious and spooky delights.
Join The Black… Read More

Mudhole (play)

Nov 4, 2026

Written and performed by comedian Kerry Coddett (Showtime’s Flatbush Misdemeanors, Hulu’s Ramy) and produced by Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe, MUDHOLE is the true, funny, and brutally honest story of a Brooklyn girl surviving bad teachers, bad boys, and bad decisions without losing her sense of humor. Told through the eyes of a rebellious yet brilliant honor student turned almost-dropout, MUDHOLE is a wild ride through the NYC school system, and a fierce,… Read More

The Real Housewives of New York City: An Unauthorized Opera poster

The Real Housewives of New York City: An Unauthorized Opera (opera)

Nov 5, 2026

High society, high drama, and high C’s collide in a concert of songs from the new comic opera The Real Housewives of New York City: An Unauthorized Opera. On her wedding day at the Plaza, Tinsley Mortimer takes a spectacular spill down the aisle and lands in Blue Stone Manor — her glittering bridal purgatory — where every door opens to another absurd truth about housewifehood. With the clock to “I do” ticking and her mother’s expectations ringing, Tinsley… Read More

Tango Palace (play, reading)

Baruch Performing Arts Center
Oct 19, 2026

TANGO PALACE is Fornés’ early absurdist masterpiece, a sapphic clown pas de deux in one irreverent act.
Groundbreaking playwright María Irene Fornés’ 1963 English language debut, TANGO PALACE is sensual, violent, and funny. This three-scene experimental play eavesdrops on the complex doomed relationship between haughty but seductively androgenous Isidore and his earnest young mentee, Leopold. Locked in Isidore’s shrine room, their intimate battle of… Read More

Little Beast (play)

The Tank
Oct 19, 2026

A bittersweet queer tale about what happens when your partner turns into something different. Max and Nic are about thirty years old and have been together for eight years. They have found their own form of normalcy and family. But when Nic turns into a mouse overnight, acceptance from their friends and family is no longer guaranteed. Within the couple, the weight of actions and words shifts, as do priorities, needs, and power dynamics. The relationship… Read More

Asylum NYC

The Blind Lemon: A Spy Musical (musical)

Oct 26, 2026

Equal parts spy-thriller and political satire, THE BLIND LEMON is set in a near-future America renamed “Country,” now ruled by a sinister theocratic regime and their simple-minded puppet president, Dick Mason. When the activation tech for “The Blind Lemon”—a Cold War-era satellite weapon—goes missing from a high-security base, retired agent Dan Fran Cisco is pulled back into the field. Can he stop a terrorist plot that threatens to blind the nation? A… Read More

Kate, Allie and the '86 Mets (solo show)

Nov 5 - 10, 2026

Long Island, 1986. Grace and Dorothy, two recently divorced moms, each with two young kids, inspired by the HIT sitcom “Kate and Allie”, move in together as best friends to solve the many challenges of single motherhood. Throughout the following decades, they build a loving, strong partnership and family. Told through the perspective of their eldest daughter, producer and writer Kate Barry, this is their story. A nostalgic, funny, heartfelt, and cinematic… Read More

Ghost Notes (entertainment)

Royal Family Performing Arts Space
Oct 28 - Nov 12, 2026

With a blend of powerful storytelling and emotive music, psychic medium Jess Perlman invites audiences into the powerful liminal space between the living and the unseen. Blending live audience readings and ghostly inspiration, Perlman’s otherworldly narration and the improvisational musical stylings of the Ghost Notes Band will conjure an evening of harmonious connection and spontaneous collaboration. Written by Perlman, Briga Heelan (Once Upon a One More… Read More

Eleanore (play, reading) Free

Bigvision Community
Oct 28, 2026

American Theater titan Craig Lucas pens a new dark comedy sprung directly out of his own life.
C is tormented by the spirit of his dead mother who shows up beside him in bed in the middle of the night with a treasure trove of longing and recriminations, and she’s going to get her way, even if it means killing him. She brings with her the ghost of C’s father and the ghost of C as a child. She’s going to make sense of this family, no matter how much booze… Read More

The Flowers of Forest Hills (play)

Theater for the New City
Nov 5 - 22, 2026

Set after World War II, “The Flowers of Forest Hills” follows a family who emigrates from Austria to Queens. We see three generations of women, including a girl, a mother and a grandmother (as part of a cast of seven characters) as they adapt to life in the United States. Family secrets come out into the open, as they cope with a new life in the United States.

Suburbia Ad Nauseum (play)

The Chain Theatre
Nov 13 - 22, 2026

Avery and Greg are living the suburban dream; great daughter, lovely home, steady jobs. But when life throws them an unexpected curveball they begin questioning who they’ve become in their forties. Suburbia Ad Nauseam is a comedy about remembering who you are and being open to all possibilities.

Cactus (play)

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Dec 3, 2026

The acclaimed performance Cactus, which officially premiered in Paris, was written and directed by Renata Litvinova, who also stars in the lead role.
Cactus is a story of love set to musical compositions by Zemfira, specially written for the performance. The soundtrack features 14 tracks.
Throughout the performance, Renata dazzles in magnificent dresses by Demna from his latest couture collection, creating the effect of a true Parisian fashion show and… Read More

New Horizons Play Reading Festival 2026 (play)

The People's Theatre
Dec 4 - 6, 2026

New Horizons Play Reading Festival
Celebrating Emerging Playwrights
Three days of bold new plays, conversations, and artistic discovery featuring emerging playwrights and innovative theatrical storytelling.