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Off-Broadway News Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows

Due to the expansive nature of Off-Broadway, this list is not comprehensive.

This is a schedule of upcoming off-Broadway shows, organized by opening date. To view all off-Broadway shows, upcoming and currently running, check out our off-Broadway listings page




WALDEN
• Second Stage Theatre/Tony Kiser Theatre
• First Preview: October 16, 2024
• Opening: November 7, 2024
• Playwright: Amy Berryman
• Director: Whitney White
• Cast: Emmy Rossum, Zoë Winters, Motell Foster

In the near future, Stella and her fiancé, Bryan, are waiting at their remote cabin for Stella’s estranged twin sister, Cassie. Raised by their astronaut father to be NASA scientists, the twins have taken different paths: Cassie has just returned from a successful moon mission, while Stella has left NASA behind. When they reunite, old conflicts reignite, forcing the sisters to choose between staying on Earth or pursuing a future in space, as humanity’s fate hangs in the balance.

TRIPTYCH
• The Barrow Group Studio Theatre
• First Preview: November 8, 2024
• Opening: November 9, 2024
• Playwright: John Yearley
• Director: Eric Paeper
• Cast: Tricia Alexandro, Michael Giese

A couple in the wake of a personal tragedy fight their way through grief in extraordinary, even wacky ways. Their unusual journey leads to the sweetest sort of personal discovery that great love has to offer.

GIVE ME CARMELITA TROPICANA!
• SoHo Repertory Theater
• First Preview: October 23, 2024
• Opening: November 10, 2024
• Playwright: Alina Troyano and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
• Director: Eric Ting
• Cast: 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?

STRATEGIC LOVE PLAY
• Minetta Lane Theatre
• First Preview: November 1, 2024
• Opening: November 10, 2024
• Playwright: Miriam Battye
• Director: Katie Posner
• Cast: Heléne Yorke, Michael Zegen

After matching online, two strangers meet in real life. The vibe is off, and the conversation is a mess. Yet something is keeping them in their seats. What begins as a typical date off the apps spirals into something unexpected in a bold new production of Strategic Love Play, the show that sold out in London and took the Edinburgh Fringe by storm.

THE LIGHT AND THE DARK
• Primary Stages @ 59E59 Theater A
• First Preview: November 2, 2024
• Opening: November 12, 2024
• Playwright: Kate Hamill
• Director: Jade King Carroll
• Cast: Carlo Albán, Kate Hamill, Wynn Harmon, Jason O'Connell, Joey Parsons, Matthew Saldívar

At the height of the Italian Renaissance, artists are reshaping the very image of humanity. Artemisia Gentileschi wants to become one of the great painters...but women are not thought capable of true artistry. With persistence and bravado she quickly establishes a groundbreaking perspective, but just as her career begins to gain momentum, a series of devastating betrayals crack the foundation of her life and art. Told through her piercing point of view, The Light and The Dark (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi) weaves a magnetic and empowering tapestry of art, ambition, rage, and resilience.

BURNOUT PARADISE
• St. Ann's Warehouse
• Opening: November 12, 2024
• Created and Performed by Pony Cam (Claire Bird, Ava Campbell, William Strom, Dominic Weintraub, and Hugo Williams)

Australia’s Pony Cam enacts the recklessness, euphoria, and optimism that comes before burnout. What begins as a simple wager between performer and audience becomes a desperate attempt to complete a series of escalating tasks that confront the limitations of the performers’ bodies, spirits, and minds. This is not an endurance feat. Nor is it performance art. It is an unraveling realization that the system we participate in is not designed for us.

MAMA, I'M A BIG GIRL NOW!
• New World Stages
• First Preview: November 2, 2024
• Opening: November 13, 2024
• Created and Directed by Laura Bel Bundy, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Kerry Butler
• Cast: Laura Bel Bundy, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and 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."

COMMUNION
• The Cell Theatre
• First Preview: November 7, 2024
• Opening: November 13, 2024
• Playwright: Matthew LaBanca
• Director: Kira Simring
• Cast: Matthew LaBanca

Communion is a one-man show about a gay Catholic school teacher who is fired when the church discovers that he married a man. His termination causes a crisis of faith, not only for himself but for his entire community.

KING LEAR
• The Shed
• First Preview: October 26, 2024
• Opening: November 14, 2024
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Kenneth Branagh
• Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Mara Allen, Deborah Alli, Raymond Anum, Melanie-Joyce Bermudez, Doug Colling, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Eleanor de Rohan, Chloe Fenwick-Brown, Joseph Kloska, Corey Mylchreest, Caleb Obediah, Hughie O'Donnell, Jessica Revell

Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the barbarous landscape of Ancient Britain. Featuring a cast of rising stars from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art directed by Branagh, this production releases the play’s power and turmoil in a fast-paced staging.

SHIT. MEET. FAN.
• The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/Newman Mills Theater
• First Preview: October 10 2024
• Opening: November 18, 2024
• Playwright: Robert O'Hara
• Director: Robert O'Hara
• Cast: Garret Dillahunt, Genevieve Hannelius, Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski, Debra Messing, Michael Oberholtzer, Tramell Tillman, Constance Wu

Here’s the game… Phones Out. Face Up. Volume High. Every text, every email, and every call must be shared aloud. That’s what a group of long-time friends gather to play on the night of the eclipse. With the cocktails flowing among grownups who refuse to grow up, outrageous secrets and skeletons begin to emerge… SHIT. MEET. FAN. Are they ready for the ensuing chaos? Are you?

BABE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: October 29, 2024
• Opening: November 20, 2024
• Playwright: Jessica Goldberg
• Director: Scott Elliott
• Cast: 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.

THE BLOOD QUILT
• Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
• First Preview: October 30, 2024
• Opening: November 21, 2024
• Playwright: Katori Hall
• Director: Lileana Blain-Cruz
• Cast: 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?

300 PAINTINGS
• Vineyard Theatre
• First Preview: November 12, 2024
• Opening: November 21, 2024
• Written and Performed by Sam Kissajukian

Is art a joke? In 2021, over the course of five intense and unpredictable months, Sydney comedian Sam Kissajukian created 300 large-scale paintings, unknowingly documenting his mental states through an extended manic bipolar episode. In this hilarious, fascinating, and wildly original show, he examines that time and explores the ties between art, mental health, and creativity.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG
• Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• First Preview: November 19, 2024
• Opening: November 21, 2024
• Written and Performed by Francesca D'Uva
• Director: Sam Max

In a world transformed by loss, Francesca D’Uva finds humor…everywhere. An experimental fusion of stand-up and original digital-pop bangers, This Is My Favorite Song is a musical fever dream about sex, grief, nannying, and Shakira.

WE ARE YOUR ROBOTS
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• First Preview: November 7, 2024
• Opening: November 24, 2024
• Book and Lyrics: Ethan Lipton
• Music: Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, Ian Riggs
• Director: Leigh Silverman
• Cast: Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, Ian Riggs

A quartet of singer/musicians plays robots who’ve come to the theater to answer the question, “What do humans want from their machines?” We Are Your Robots looks at brain mapping, consciousness, violence, surveillance, and the problem better known as being human.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: November 22, 2024
• Opening: November 25, 2024
• Playwright: William Shakespeare
• Director: Igor Golyak
• Cast: Richard Topol, Alexandra Silber, Gus Birney, José Espinosa, Tess Goldwyn, Stephen Ochsner, T.R. Knight, Delilah Napier, Noah Pacht, Elan Zafir

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.

WELCOME TO THE BIG DIPPER
• York Theatre Company
• First Preview: November 19, 2024
• Opening: November 26, 2024
• Book: Catherine Filloux, John Daggett
• Music and Lyrics: Jimmy Roberts
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA

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.

THE DEAD, 1904
• The American Irish Historical Society
• First Preview: November 20, 2024
• Opening: November 26, 2024
• Playwright: Paul Muldoon, Jean Hanff Korelitz, adapted from the novella by James Joyce
• Director: Ciarán O’Reilly
• Cast: Kate Baldwin, Christopher Innvar, Úna Clancy, 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.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
• Merchant's House Museum
• Opening: November 26, 2024
• Playwright: Rhonda Dodd and John Kevin Jones, adapted from Charles Dickens
• Director: Rhonda Dodd
• Cast: 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.

TENDER NAPALM
• Theaterlab
• First Preview: November 27, 2024
• Opening: December 1, 2024
• Playwright: Philip Ridley
• Director: Rory McGregor
• Cast: Ben Ahlers, Victoria Pendretti

Tender Napalm is a high-impact, high-concept exploration of the relationship between two people and the violent world that surrounds them…and the place where these things meet. Explosive, poetic and brutal, the play weaves a compelling tapestry to re-examine and re-define the language of love…and how that love struggles to survive in the face of catastrophe.

DUALITY
• A.R.T. New York Theatres - Jeffrey And Paula Gural Theatre
• First Preview: December 4, 2024
• Opening: December 11, 2024
• Playwright: Anthony M. Laura
• Director: Anthony M. Laura
• Cast: 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.

the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo)
• Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
• First Preview: December 4 2024
• Opening: December 11, 2024
• Playwright: Matt Barbot
• Director: José Zayas
• Cast: Alejandro Hernández, Daniel Colón, Ashley Marie Ortiz, Nate Betancourt, Bobby Román

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.

A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK
• DR2 Theatre
• First Preview: December 6, 2024
• Opening: December 12, 2024
• Playwright: Ken Urban
• Director: Shira Milikowsky
• Cast: 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.

MINDPLAY
• Greenwich House Theatre
• First Preview: December 15, 2024
• Opening: January 13, 2025
• Playwright: Vinny DePonto, Josh Koenigsberg
• Director: Andrew Neisler
• Cast: Vinny DePonto

Created and performed by Drama Desk Award-nominated mentalist Vinny DePonto (Charlatan), written by Vinny DePonto and Josh Koenigsberg, and directed by Andrew Neisler, Mindplay invites audiences to an unforgettable, gasp-inducing experience in which your thoughts and memories play a leading role. Infused with intrigue and mystery, DePonto guides participants on a jaw-dropping, interactive journey as he reads minds while also revealing his own.

SHOW/BOAT: A RIVER
• NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
• First Preview: January 9, 2025
• Opening: January 15, 2025
• Book and Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
• Music: Jerome Kern
• Adaptation: Target Margin Theater
• Director: David Kerskovits
• Cast: Alvin Crawford, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Suzanne Darrell, Edwin Joseph, J Molière, Steven Rattazzi, 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.

THE ANTIQUITIES
• Playwrights Horizons/The Judy Theater
• Opening: January 20, 2025
• Playwright: Jordan Harrison
• Directors: David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan
• Cast: TBA

At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did they die out? By casting us into the far future, Jordan Harrison’s new play gives us an uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come.

I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN
• Atlantic Theater Company/Stage 2
• First Preview: January 8, 2025
• Opening: January 21, 2025
• Playwright: Mona Pirnot
• Director: Ken Rus Schmoll
• Cast: David Greenspan

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.)

HENRY IV
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• Opening: January 25, 2025
• Playwright: William Shakespeare, adapted by Dakin Matthews
• Director: Eric Tucker
• Cast: TBA

Dakin Matthews’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts i and ii into a single three-act play covering Bolingbroke’s turbulent reign. In these beloved and gripping epic history plays from the 1590s, Shakespeare explores timeless questions about legitimate authority and how the private lives of rulers conflict with their public lives. A king beset with nagging doubts about his means of acquiring power frets over the dissolute habits of his wastrel son. Who will prove worthy? How is worthiness measured? No characters the Bard ever created are more vivid or indelible than the ones carousing, warring, sniping, and mercilessly tricking one another in these sweeping dramas about civil war.

GRIEF CAMP
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: January 9, 2025
• Opening: January 28, 2025
• Playwright: Eliya Smith
• Director: Les Waters
• Cast: TBA

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.

GRANGEVILLE
• Pershing Square Signature Center/Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
• First Preview: February 4, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Samuel D. Hunter
• Director: Jack Serio
• Cast: Brendan Fraser, Brian J. Smith

Across a void of thousands of miles and oceans of hurt, two half-brothers tentatively reconnect over the care of their ailing mother. Grangeville is a new play about the fallibility of memory, the stories we tell to make sense of our suffering, and the complexity of forgiveness.

LIBERATION
• Roundabout Theatre Company / Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: January 31, 2025
• Opening: February 20, 2025
• Playwright: Bess Wohl
• Director: Whitney White
• Cast: TBA

It's 1970: somewhere in Ohio, six women meet on a basement basketball court, determined to shake up their lives and change the world. Fifty years later, one of their daughters tries to understand where things fell apart. A provocative, wildly theatrical world premiere that poses vital questions about friendship, legacy, and the true meaning of liberation.

THE GREAT PRIVATION
• Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• Opening: February 26, 2025
• Playwright: Nia Akilah Robinson
• Director: Evren Odcikin
• Cast: TBA

1832: a mother and daughter stand vigil behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. Today, on the same grounds: another mother and daughter (alike yet not the same) work as counselors at what is now a sleep-away camp. Timelines collide, unearthing our nation’s long history of harm in the name of scientific advancement at the cost to Black bodies.

GHOSTS
• Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
• First Preview: February 13, 2025
• Opening: March 10, 2025
• Playwright: Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Mark O'Rowe
• Director: Jack O'Brien
• Cast: TBA

After several years abroad, Helena Alving’s son has returned home. He carries with him a terrifying secret. Ibsen’s Ghosts is a devastating moral thriller in which ideas of love, duty and family are mercilessly put to the test.

AMERIKIN
• Primary Stages @ 59E59 Theater A
• First Preview: March 1, 2025
• Opening: March 11, 2025
• Playwright: Chisa Hutchinson
• Director: Jade King Carroll
• Cast: TBA

In small-town Maryland, Jeff Browning resolves to give his newborn son every possible advantage – by joining a local white supremacist group. When his attempt to join is thwarted by some surprising ancestry test results, the line between “us” and “them” gets incredibly blurry. Jeff scrambles to maintain appearances, but his sanitized story starts to unravel when a prominent Black journalist and his daughter start asking questions.

VANYA
• Lucille Lortel Theatre
• First Preview: March 11, 2025
• Opening: March 18, 2025
• Playwright: Anton Chekhov, adapted by Simon Stephens
• Director: Sam Yates
• Cast: Andrew Scott

A new solo adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about a family beset by secrets, illicit love interests, and deep divides over their burdensome estate.

WE HAD A WORLD
• MTC @ New York City Center - Stage II
• First Preview: February 25, 2025
• Opening: March 19, 2025
• Playwright: Joshua Harmon
• Director: Trip Cullman
• Cast: Joanna Gleason, Jeanine Serralles

A dying woman calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. “But I want you to promise me something,” she says. “Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible." In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, Joshua Harmon recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love.

WINE IN THE WILDERNESS
• Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
• First Preview: March 6, 2025
• Opening: March 24, 2025
• Playwright: Alice Childress
• Director: LaChanze
• Cast: Olivia Washington, Tramell Tillman

Fortune has smiled on artist Bill Jameson – his friends just introduced him to a model for the final piece of his triptych on Black womanhood. But this woman, Tomorrow Marie, is no mere muse, and she’s about to give Bill much more than he bargained for.

LET'S LOVE
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: March 19, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Ethan Coen
• Director: Neil Pepe
• Cast: TBA

Let’s Love! is a comedy, a trio of one acts, that explores love in all its miserable glory. The world is a confusing place and we are a confused people. But it’s easier to be confused together, so—let’s love!

THE SWAMP DWELLERS
• Theatre For A New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center
• Opening: March 30, 2025
• Playwright: Wole Soyinka
• Director: Awoya Timpo
• Cast: TBA

An ageing couple living on chronically flooded land, awaiting one of their twin sons from the city, is visited by a complacent Yoruba holy man and a blind Muslim beggar who trigger a terrible crisis of faith and trust. Corrupt religion, family betrayal, environmental disaster, post-colonial exploitation, urban modernity encroaching on rural tradition: the themes of this searing and heartbreaking drama are both timeless and palpably contemporary.

BOWL EP
• Vineyard Theatre
• Opening: April 17, 2025
• Playwright: Nazareth Hassan
• Director: Nazareth Hassan
• Cast: TBA

Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares, and practicing their ollies, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcizing a demon. With live skating and original music, enter Bowl EP: a skate park, in the middle of a wasteland, at the edge of the galaxy.

A FREEKY INTRODUCTION
• Atlantic Theater Company/Stage 2
• First Preview: May 16, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: NSangou Njikam
• Director: Dennis A. Allen II
• Cast: NSangou Njikam, DJ Monday Blue

EVERYBODY SAY YEAH! Everybody talks about freedom, but few know how to get there. That’s because they don’t know their Freek. Fear not, Freeky Dee is here with a mix of poetry, ministry, and magic…plus I got a DJ with me. Together, we’ll move you past your fears and doubts to bring your inner Freek all the way out! You wanna get free? Then come get your Freek on!

CHIAROSCURO
• The Flea Theater
• Opening: May 26, 2025
• Playwright: Aishah Rahman
• Director: abigail jean-baptiste
• Cast: TBA

Chiaroscuro written by Black Arts Movement writer Aishah Rahman, is named after the Italian artistic term referring to a stark contrast between dark and light. The play explores the social implications of such contrast as it relates skin color, specifically within the Black community. The play is set on a love boat-type cruise ship for Black singles where "pretty" means light-skinned, all the men are dark, and Papa Legba, the African trickster spirit, is disguised as a ship steward.

LOWCOUNTRY
• Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater
• First Preview: May 29, 2025
• Opening: TBA
• Playwright: Abby Rosebrock
• Director: Jo Bonney
• Cast: TBA

When Tally, a down-and-out actress and gig worker, returns to her rural hometown, she swipes right on a disgraced high-school teacher fresh out of an ankle bracelet. Lowcountry is a dark, twisted romcom about the psychic distress of looking for love in the digital age and the carceral state.

 
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