Here is the list of upcoming Broadway and major Off-Broadway show closings. Grab tickets before it’s too late!

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Closing Saturday, December 21, 2024

DUALITY
Off-Broadway: A.R.T. New York Theatres
Written by Anthony M. Laura
Directed by Anthony M. Laura
Cast Includes Caroline Ghosn, Meg Joshi, Brianne Buishas, Candy Dato, Chelsea MacLaren, Courtnie Keaton, Susan Neuffer, Alexandra Rooney, Olivia Haley Young, Emma Davidov, Rheanna Salazar, Sydney Law, Mary Young, Brittany Hernandez, Chloe Joyce, Nour Habbash

Duality tells the story of Camilla Knightley who, while throwing a 75th birthday party for her grandmother, is forced to come to terms with a decade old trauma in the midst of a family gathering.

MAMA, I'M A BIG GIRL NOW!
Off-Broadway: New World Stages, Stage 5
Created by and Starring Laura Ben Bundy, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Kerry Butler

Laura Bel Bundy, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Kerry Butler created the roles of Amber Von Tussle, Tracy Turnblad, and Penny Pingleton (respectively) in Best Musical winner Hairspray. Since then, all three have become fixtures of the stage and screen, starring in such titles as Beetlejuice, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, and more. In their new show, the trio will cover songs from Hairspray along with new mashups and medleys, parodies, and more in "a night filled with all the sparkle and joy of a Broadway musical."

Closing Sunday, December 22, 2024

BABE
Off-Broadway: Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Written by Jessica Goldberg
Directed by Scott Elliott
Cast Includes Marisa Tomei, Arliss Howard, Gracie McGraw

From grunge to femme punk hits, Abby and Gus have produced it all. Their work marriage is legendary and Gus has the platinum records to prove it. But when Katherine, a fresh A&R hire, calls Abby out on the compromises she’s made in her work, Abby must face the music and fight to survive.

GIVE ME CARMELITA TROPICANA!
Off-Broadway: Soho Repertory Theater
Written by Alina Troyano, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Eric Ting
Cast Includes Alina Troyano, Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Ugo Chukwu, Will Dagger, Keren Lugo

Part love letter to an iconic performance artist, part intergenerational debate about the legacy of “downtown” New York, part theatrical interrogation of the uses/abuses of nostalgia, real estate, “representation”, and the “avant-garde,” 100% fantastical journey in which Branden Jacobs-Jenkins attempts to buy Carmelita Tropicana from her creator… but at what cost?

THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA
Broadway: Broadhurst Theatre
Written by Jez Butterworth
Directed by Sam Mendes
Cast Includes Laura Donnelly, Leanne Best, Ophelia Lovibond, Helena Wilson, David Wilson Barnes, Ta'Rea Campbell, Bryan Dick, Richard Lumsden, Richard Short, Nancy Allsop, Sophia Ally, Lara McDonnell, Nicola Turner, Liam Bixby, Ellyn Heald, Max Roll, Cameron Scoggins

In the sweltering heat of a 1970s summer, the Webb sisters return to their childhood home in Blackpool, an English seaside town, where their mother Veronica lies dying upstairs. Gloria and Ruby now have families of their own. Jill never left. And Joan? No one’s heard from her in twenty years… but Jill insists that their mother’s favorite won’t let them down this time.

HOLD ON TO ME DARLING
Off-Broadway: Lucille Lortel Theatre
Written by Kenneth Lonnergan
Directed by Neil Pepe
Cast Includes Adam Driver, Heather Burns, Adelaide Clemens, Keith Nobbs, CJ Wilson, Frank Wood

On learning of his mother’s death, country music icon Strings McCrane finds himself in an existential tailspin. The only way out, he decides, is to abandon superstardom in favor of the simple life, so he moves back to his hometown in Tennessee. The simple life turns out to be anything but simple in this brilliantly observed tragicomedy, as the consequences of Strings’s success and mind-bending effects of his fame prove all but impossible to outrun.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Igor Golyak
Cast Includes Richard Topol, Alexandra Silber, Gus Birney, José Espinosa, Tess Goldwyn, Stephen Ochsner

The most excellent historie of the Merchant of Venice
with the exxtreame cruelitie of Shylocke the Jewe
This highly entertaining adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, directed by Ukrainian-born, Jewish theater artist Igor Golyak, is a wild ride that takes a startling and tragic turn, leaving the audience stunned and unable to stop the inevitable and unbearable consequences.

MUSIC CITY
Off-Broadway: West End Theatre
Book by Peter Zinn
Music and Lyrics by JT Harding
Directed by Eric Tucker
Cast Includes Drew Bastian, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Julianne Merrill, Leenya Rideout, Andrew Rothenberg, Casey Shuler, Stephen Michael Spencer

Music City is a new musical by Billboard Chart topping country songwriter JT Harding, with a book by Peter Zinn. Through soaring, soul piercing ballads and hard hitting, heart thumping showstoppers, audiences are drawn into a first hand account of two young singer songwriters trying to catch a break in a rundown East Nashville neighborhood stricken with drug addiction and poverty. In Nashville, heartbreak is the only thing they hand out for free.

Closing Sunday, December 29, 2024

the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo)
Off-Broadway: Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
Written by Matt Barbot
Directed by José Zayas

In 1950, two would-be assassins on a train from New York to Washington, DC discuss their plan to strike in the name of Puerto Rican independence. The lock to their compartment is busted, however, and each time the door swings open they find themselves interrupted by figures out of art and history, reflections of what their country means to them and has meant to the United States. As the borders of their reality begin to shift and their train chugs along, the two must finalize their plan and decide how they want their sacrifice to be remembered.

THE BLOOD QUILT
Off-Broadway: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
Written by Katori Hall
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Cast Includes Crystal Dickinson, Mirirai, Adrienne C. Moore, Arsema Thomas, Susan Kelechi Watson

Gathering at their childhood island home off the coast of Georgia, four disconnected sisters meet to create a family quilt to honor their recently deceased mother. When their reunion turns into a reading of their mother’s will, everyone must grapple with a troubling inheritance. Stitched with history, ritual, laughter and tears, will their “blood quilt” bind the family together or tear them apart forever?

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Off-Broadway: Merchant's House Museum
Written by Charles Dickens, adapted by Rhonda Dodd and John Kevin Jones
Directed by Rhonda Dodd
Cast Includes John Kevin Jones

This holiday season, Summoners Ensemble Theatre and the Merchant’s House Museum celebrate 12 years of A Christmas Carol at the Merchant's House (29 East 4th Street, Manhattan). Surrounded by 19th century holiday decorations, flickering candles, and richly appointed period furnishings, audiences will be transported back 150 years in this captivating 70 minute performance created from Dickens’ own script. Performances run November 26 through December 29.

SWEPT AWAY
Broadway: Longacre Theatre
Book by John Logan
Music and Lyrics by The Avett Brothers
Directed by Michael Mayer
Cast Includes John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Wayne Duvall, Josh Breckenridge, Hunter Brown, Matt DeAngelis, Cameron Johnson, Brandon Kalm, Rico LeBron, Michael J. Mainwaring, Orville Mendoza, Chase Peacock, Tyrone L. Robinson, David Rowen, John Sygar

When a violent storm sinks their whaling ship off the coast of New Bedford, Mass., the four survivors face a reckoning: how far will they go to stay alive? And can they live with the consequences? With music and lyrics from The Avett Brothers, whose 2004 “Mignonette” was inspired by an 1884 shipwreck and the struggle of four men to survive, Swept Away is an electrifying, soul-stirring new musical exploring how facing tragedy can open the door to forgiveness… if only we’ll let it.

WELCOME TO THE BIG DIPPER
Off-Broadway: York Theatre Company @ The Theater at St. Jean's
Book by Catherine Filloux, John Daggett
Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Roberts

The Big Dipper, an historic inn nestled in Bigelow, New York, near Niagara Falls, has been in Joan Wilkes’s family for decades and is on the brink of closure when a monster blizzard forces two wildly disparate groups of travelers to shelter in place. For three days and nights, within the walls of this sprawling house, secrets are revealed, young love ignites, and lives are changed forever in this brand-new musical.

Closing Saturday, January 4, 2025

ELF
Broadway: Marquis Theatre
Book: Bob Martin, Thomas Meehan
Music: Matthew Sklar
Lyrics: Char Beguelin
Directed by Philip Wm. McKinley
Cast Includes Grey Henson, Kayla Davion, Sean Astin, Ashley Brown, Kai Edgar, Michael Hayden, Jennifer Sánchez

This modern-day holiday classic returns home to Broadway in an acclaimed new, record-breaking production starring Tony Award® nominee Grey Henson.

Closing Sunday, January 5, 2025

BACK TO THE FUTURE
Broadway: Winter Garden Theatre
Book: Bob Gale
Music and Lyrics: Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard
Directed by John Rando
Cast Includes Roger Bart, Casey Likes, Evan Alexander Smith, Liana Hunt, Jelani Remy, Nathaniel Hackmann, David Josefsberg, Mikaela Secada, Aaron Alcaraz, Gregory Carl Banks Jr., Brendon Chan, Kevin Curtis, Marc A. Heitzman, Joshua Kenneth Allen Johnson, Jamary Kendricks, Katie LaDuca, Lizzie Marie Legregin, JJ Niemann, Jessie Peltier, Becca Petersen, Jonalyn Saxer, Davis Wayne

Marty McFly is a rock ‘n’ roll teenager who is accidentally transported back to 1955 in a time-travelling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown. But before he can return to 1985, Marty must make sure his high school-aged parents fall in love in order to save his own existence.

THE DEAD, 1904
Off-Broadway: The American Irish Historical Society
Written by James Joyce, adapted by Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz
Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly
Cast Includes Estelle Parsons, Mary Beth Peil

James Joyce’s novella, “The Dead,” describes a holiday gathering on January 6, 1904, the Feast of the Epiphany, in the Dublin home of two elderly sisters, Kate and Julia Morkan, and their niece, Mary Jane. At the party are students, friends, a celebrated tenor, a lost alcoholic, and the couple, Gabriel and Gretta Conroy. Over the course of an evening, there are conversations, music, dancing, and dining. There are speeches and disagreements – polite and impolite – and when it is all over Gabriel learns something about his wife that changes his sense of who she is and who they are to each other, of what it actually means to be alive, and to be dead.

SLEEP NO MORE
Off-Broadway: The McKittrick Hotel
Written by Felix Barrett, Maxine Doyle, and the Company of Punchdrunk
Directed by Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns

An immersive production inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth, told through the lens of a Hitchcock thriller. An unexpected location will be exquisitely transformed into an installation of cinematic scenes that evoke the world of Macbeth. The audience has the freedom to roam the environment and experience a sensory journey as he or she chooses what to watch and where to go.

SUFFS
Broadway: Music Box Theatre
Book, Music and Lyrics by Shaina Taub
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Cast Includes Shaina Taub, Jenn Colella, Nikki M. James, Jenna Bainbridge, Kim Blanck, Ally Bonino, Tsilala Brock, Dana Costello, Hannah Cruz, Nadia Dandashi, Laila Erica Drew, Jaygee Macapugay, Anastaćia McCleskey, Grace McLean, Monica Tulia Ramirez, Emily Skinner, Ada Westfall

It’s 1913 and the women’s movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists — “Suffs,” as they call themselves — and their relentless pursuit of the right to vote. Reaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight. So much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment over a century ago, and yet we’re reminded sometimes we need to look back, in order to march fearlessly into the future

Closing Sunday, January 12, 2025

STEREOPHONIC
Broadway: John Golden Theatre
Written by David Adjmi
Music and Lyrics by Will Butler
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Cast Includes Will Brill, Andrew R. Butler, Amy Forsyth, Eli Gelb, Benjamin Anthony Anderson, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Chris Stack

Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup — or their breakthrough.

Closing Sunday, January 19, 2025

OUR TOWN
Broadway: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Kenny Leon
Cast Includes Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas, Michelle Wilson, Julia Halston, Donald Webber Jr., Heather Ayers, Willa Bost, Bobby Daye, Safiya Kaijya Harris, Doron JéPaul, Shyla Lefner, Anthony Michael Lopez, Bryonha Marie, John McGinty, Kevyn Morrow, Hagan Oliveras, Noah Pyzik, Ephie Aardema Sarnak, Sky Smith, Bill Timoney, Ricardo Vázquez, Greg Wood

May 7, 1901. Life has begun in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Milk is being delivered. Breakfast is on the stove. We meet the town gossips, the boys who play baseball and the choirmaster with a secret sorrow. And soon teenagers George Gibbs and Emily Webb will go from friends to puppy love to wedding day and beyond—two families forever joined together. And as they come to terms with the meaning of their lives, this Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic beautifully celebrates our own shared humanity.

SAW THE MUSICAL: THE UNAUTHORIZED PARODY
Off-Broadway: New Box Theater
Book by Zoe Ann Jordan
Music and Lyrics by Anthony De Angelis, Patrick Spencer
Directed by Stephanie Rosenberg
Cast Includes Adam Parbhoo, Jill Owen, Donnell Johnson (Voiceover), Danny Durr, Gabrielle Goodman, Patrick Voss Davis, James Lynch, Thomas Skea, Morgan Traud, Jessica Morilakr

Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody, a boundary-pushing parody about love and fluidity, captures the events of the first Saw movie, picking up from where Lawrence Gordon and Adam Stanheight first found each other.

Closing Friday, January 24, 2025

BLIND RUNNER
Off-Broadway: St. Ann's Warehouse
Written by Amir Reza Koohestani
Directed by Amir Reza Koohestani

Once a week, a husband comes to visit his captive wife who has been detained as a political prisoner in Tehran. Spied on by cameras and microphones, their conversations become increasingly distant, inhibiting their ability to share their daily lives. At his wife’s insistence, the husband agrees to train and guide a young blind woman through a Parisian footrace. As they come to learn more about each other, the unlikely couple grows close and finds a common rhythm. At the race’s end, they set upon a second challenge: can they run the Channel Tunnel to England, covering 38 kilometers in a few hours and avoiding being hit by the first train of the morning?

Closing Saturday, January 25, 2025

SYMPHONY OF RATS
Off-Broadway: The Performing Garage
Written by Richard Foreman
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk
Cast Includes Niall Cunningham, Ari Fliakos, Jim Fletcher, Andrew Maillet, Tavish Miller, Michaela Murphy, Guillermo Resto

A President of the United States is receiving messages by unknown means, and he doesn't know whether to trust them.

Closing Sunday, January 26, 2025

CELLINO V. BARNES
Off-Broadway: The Asylum Theatre
Written by Mike B. Breen and David Rafailedes
Directed by Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse
Cast Includes Eric William Morris, Noah Weisberg

Cellino v. Barnes is a darkly comic play following the tumultuous partnership between infamous lawyers Ross Cellino and Steve Barnes, documenting their rise and fall as the top injury attorneys in the country. Through the '90s, 2000s, and 2010s, we witness our pals navigate the ethical ambiguities of the law, grapple with personal demons (and fax machines), and aspire to world domination. They're a couple of bros with big dreams and loose morals, trying to make it in the cut throat world of ambulance chasing

SHOW/BOAT: A RIVER
Off-Broadway: NYU Skirball Center
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Jerome Kern
Adaptation by Target Margin Theater
Directed by David Kerskovitz
Cast Includes Tẹmídayọ Amay, Alvin Crawford, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Suzanne Darrell, Edwin Joseph, J Molière, Steven Rattazzi, Philip Themio Stoddard, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Stephanie Weeks

This new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat reframes the 1927 production for today. From the 1880s to 1927, the United States moved from steamboats to airplanes, from vaudeville to radio, and from the Spanish-moss south to Chicago in the great migration. Show Boat is a story and a national history marred by violent racism, and yet this pivotal work aspires to a better America.

Closing Sunday, February 2, 2025

BLUE MAN GROUP
Off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre
Created by Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, Chris Wink

CULT OF LOVE
Broadway: Helen Hayes Theatre
Written by Leslye Hunter
Directed by Trip Cullman
Cast Includes Molly Bernard, Roberta Colindrez, Brbie Ferreira, Rebecca Henderson, Christopher Lowell, Zachary Quinto, David Rasche, Christopher Sears, Mare Winningham, Shailene Woodley

It’s the holiday season for the Dahl family! The four adult children return to their childhood home with partners in tow. The Dahl traditions include singing carols in harmony at the drop of a hat, but the gathering is anything but harmonious. Old conflicts resurface, new issues battled, and dinner is taking absolutely forever to be served. Will the love the Dahls have for each other be enough to get them through, or will this be their last Christmas together?

EUREKA DAY
Broadway: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Written by Jonathan Spector
Directed by Anna D. Shapiro
Cast Includes Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz, Eboni Flowers

Eureka Day is a private California elementary school with a Board of Directors that values inclusion above all else – that is, until an outbreak of the mumps forces everyone in the community to reconsider the school’s liberal vaccine policy. As cases rise, the board realizes with horror that they’ve got to do what they swore they never would: make a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.

A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK
Off-Broadway: DR2 Theatre
Written by Ken Urban
Directed by Shira Milikowsky
Cast Includes McKinley Belcher III, Uly Schlesinger

Set in a hotel room in Amsterdam, A Guide for the Homesick follows Teddy and Jeremy, two Americans drawn together by their shared isolation and haunting secrets. Teddy is seeking companionship for the night, while Jeremy is searching for a moment of distraction. As they open up about their troubled pasts, the narrative shifts between the present and the past, with the two actors portraying four roles.

LEFT ON TENTH
Broadway: James Earl Jones Theatre
Written by Dalia Ephron
Directed by Susan Stroman
Cast Includes Juliana Margulies, Peter Gallagher, Peter Francis James, Kate MacCluggage

When she least expects it, Delia, beloved novelist and screenwriter of “You’ve Got Mail,” makes a surprising connection with a man from her past and falls into her own romantic comedy. What starts with an unlikely spark blossoms into a love story that seems to defy all odds in the face of life’s challenges. Left on Tenth celebrates the messy, beautiful true story of two people with the courage to open their hearts again.

Closing Saturday, February 8, 2025

GRANDILOQUENT
Off-Broadway: Lucille Lortel Theatre
Written and Performed by Gary Gulman
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel

Grandiloquent is Gary Gulman’s hilarious new show about insecurity, empathy, self-acceptance and how a thoughtful boy learned to use humor, reading and writing to cope with the consequences of his parents’ blunders. Learn why a seemingly confident middle-aged man feels most comfortable in a large room where a thousand strangers are laughing at him.

Closing Sunday, February 9, 2025

I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN
Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company/Stage 2
Written by Mona Pirnot
Directed by Kan Rus Schmoll

One 68-year-old man plays four millennial women in a comedy (full of drama) about how to make a living as a playwright (or to try.)

PEN PALS
Off-Broadway: Theatre at St. Clement's
Written by Michael Griffo
Directed by SuZanne Barabas
Pen Pals will have a rotating cast. Visit penpalsplay.com for a complete list and schedule.

Bernie and Mags live in two different countries, they’ve never met, and yet they’re best friends. Because they’ve been pen pals for over fifty years. Since they were teenagers, they’ve shared every aspect of their lives with each other. The trivial bits, the most intimate details, all the happiness, all the heartache. They’ve told each other things they wouldn’t dare tell another soul. Even though Bernie lives in New Jersey and Mags is from England, the women are closer to each other than anyone else in the world.

Closing Saturday, February 15, 2025

CYMBELINE
Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried
Cast Includes Purva Bedi, Annie Fang, Amy Hill, Anna Ishida, Narea Kang, Jennifer Lim, KK Moggie, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Julyanna Soelistyo, Sarah Suzuki, Jeena Yi

Princess Imogen’s fidelity is put to the royal test when her disapproving father banishes her soul mate. Cross-dressing girls and cross-dressing boys, poisons and swordfights and dastardly villains all take the stage in this enchanting romp about the conquering power of love.

Closing Sunday, February 16, 2025

GRIEF CAMP
Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
Written by Eliya Smith
Directed by Les Waters
Cast Includes Arjun Athalye, Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Jack DiFalco, Alden Harris-McCoy, Renée-Nicole Powell, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Lark White, Danny Wolohan, Amalia Yoo

It’s summer in Hurt, Virginia, where a lone cabin fills each year with campers. There’s homecooked breakfast and an army of box fans and lots of shifting in the dark. Welcome to Grief Camp: a study of loss and adolescence.

A KNOCK ON THE ROOF
Off-Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop
Written by Khawla Ibraheem
Directed by Oliver Butler
Cast Includes Khawla Ibraheem

Set the timer. The everyday existence of a mother during a sweltering summer vacation: prepare meals, pack the bag, run the drill, repeat. With a dry wit and the determination of an Olympian, Mariam meticulously practices for the run of her life—the dreaded knock on the roof.

ROMEO AND JULIET
Broadway: Circle In The Square Theatre
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Sam Gold
Cast Includes Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler, Gabby Beans, Daniel Bravo Hernández, Jasai Chase-Owens, Tommy Dorfman, Nihar Duvvuri, Solá Fádìran, Taheen Modak, Gían Pérez

The youth are f**ked. Left to their own devices in their parents’ world of violent ends, an impulsive pair of star-crossed lovers hurtle towards their inescapable fate. The intoxicating high of passion quickly descends into a brutal chaos that can only end one way.

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