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Lorna Courtney, who's headlining the Off-Broadway revival of Heathers the Musical. Photo by Stephanie Diani.
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Four new musicals, including JOY led by Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe. A revival of the cult hit Heathers the Musical featuring Broadway favorites Lorna Courtney and Casey Likes. Pulitzer finalist Taylor Mac's clever twist on Molière and an eye-popping spectacle from circus stars The 7 Fingers. These are just some of the promising productions opening Off Broadway in June. We couldn't include everything, so be sure to browse the listings in TDF's Show Finder to see what else is playing. And remember, most of our picks for May are still running!
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Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Previews begin June 1. Opens June 12. Closes June 29. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
A world premiere at Theatre for a New Audience from eye-popping iconoclast and Pulitzer finalist Taylor Mac (A 24-Decade History of Popular Music), Prosperous Fools is a sly adaptation of Molière's social climbing satire Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, except it's about courting bigwigs in philanthropy instead of the aristocracy. Tony winner Darko Tresnjak (A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder) directs an ensemble cast led by Mac and Broadway vet Sierra Boggess.
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Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B in the East Village
Begins June 2. Closes June 13.
Clubbed Thumb's annual Summerworks fest has birthed a slew of acclaimed plays, including Men on Boats, Deep Blue Sound and the Tony-nominated What the Constitution Means to Me. Its 28th edition continues with Mara Nelson-Greenberg's Not Not Jane's, about an ambitious young woman desperately trying to raise the funds to found a community center... at her mom's place. Nelson-Greenberg is skilled at satire—her dark comedy Do You Feel Anger? about sexism in the workplace haunts me to this day—so we look forward to seeing her skewer fickle funders.
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Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, 336 West 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Chelsea
Previews begin June 4. Opens June 25. Closes July 13. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Abby Rosebrock loves writing complicated women. Her last play at Atlantic Theater Company, the pitch-black comedy Blue Ridge, centered on a disgraced southern Appalachia teacher whose act of anger landed her in a halfway house. Her world premiere Lowcountry, commissioned by Atlantic Theater, has a similar setup but goes in a different direction. This time, the disgraced teacher is a man who just shed his ankle bracelet, and the complicated woman is the underemployed performer who falls for him. Jodi Balfour (For All Mankind, Ted Lasso) stars and Obie winner Jo Bonney directs.
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The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, 511 West 52nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin June 5. Opens June 25. Closes July 27.
Director Danya Taymor knows her way around teenage rebels. In 2024, she won a Tony Award for helming The Outsiders musical and she's up for the prize again this year for her breathtaking staging of John Proctor is the Villain. For MCC Theater, she's directing the US premiere of Emmanuelle Mattana's dark comedy Trophy Boys, an acclaimed hit in the playwright-performer's native Australia about four private school boys prepping for their final debate team competition as they argue that feminism has failed women. The twist? They're played by female and nonbinary-identifying performers, including Mattana and Louisa Jacobson of Gilded Age fame. Like Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me, Trophy Boys was inspired by Mattana's own debate experience as a teen, but this is no memoir. As the boys postulate and pose, some nasty revelations come to light in this biting satire.
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154, 154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets in the West Village
Previews begin June 6. Opens June 13. Closes July 27.
Performer-playwright Douglas Lyons (writer of the comedies Chicken & Biscuits and Table 17) and co-composer Ethan D. Pakchar are behind Beau the Musical, about a young queer man who discovers his long deceased grandfather never really died! So he sets out to reconnect with the guitar-playing gramp he never knew he had. Josh Rhodes (Spamalot) directs an ensemble of eight actor-singer-musicians in this moving bluegrass musical presented by Out of the Box Theatrics.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Begins June 7. Closes July 3. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Sophie Treadwell's expressionistic 1928 play Machinal, inspired by the true crime case of Ruth Snyder who was executed for killing her husband, gets a pulsating revival featuring striking movement and a live soundscape punctuated by tap dance. Although written almost a century ago, this examination of gender, power and the patriarchy remains startlingly relevant.
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St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin June 10. Opens June 19. Closes September 7. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Indigenous folks are woefully underrepresented in theatre, especially in musical comedy. That's what makes Bear Grease so important. A Fringe favorite from Canada that's been touring the US, this Native riff on Grease arrives in NYC. The premise is simple: What if Christopher Columbus and his cronies never colonized North America? Apparently there would still be greasers and Pink Ladies and dramatic romances... but their language, music and culture would be completely different. A humorous and heartfelt celebration of our continent's original residents written by and starring Indigenous artists.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Begins June 12. Closes June 15.
After postponing its Broadway run last year, My Son's a Queer finally arrives stateside for a limited engagement at City Center. Rob Madge shares their uplifting identity journey in this song-filled solo romp about their adolescent fascination with all things Disney and the supportive parents who encouraged their over-the-top dreams. Luke Sheppard (& Juliet) directs this celebration of queerness.
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Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street between Bleecker and Hudson Streets in the West Village
Previews begin June 10. Opens June 24. Closes August 23. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Duke & Roya, a reworking of Charles Randolph-Wright's 2013 play Love in Afghanistan, centers on the intense romance between a hip-hop star (Jay Ellis) and an Afghan interpreter (Stephanie Nur) who connect in war-torn Kabul. Can they navigate the challenges of their cross-cultural love affair? Warren Adams directs this rom-dram, which also features Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's Tony nominee Noma Dumezweni.
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Perelman Performing Arts Center, 251 Fulton Street at the intersection of Vesey and Greenwich Streets in the Financial District
Previews begin June 12. Opens June 15. Closes June 29. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
The 7 Fingers, the spectacular Canadian circus artists behind the acts in Broadway's Water for Elephants, fly into the Perelman with an eye-popping extravaganza. In Passengers, a group of disparate train commuters share their dreams and aspirations through athletic and gravity-defying feats. Company cofounder Shana Carroll directs.
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DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place near Union Square Park
Previews begin June 13. Opens June 18. Closes August 3.
Julia Randall's new dark comedy centers on a twentysomething who has everything... except more life to live. Yet after Becca Schwartz dies, she's more popular and powerful than ever, much to Dilaria's chagrin. Ella Stiller, daughter of Ben Stiller and fresh out of Juilliard, stars in this world premiere.
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The Cutting Room, 44 East 32nd Street between Madison and Park Avenues in NoMad
Previews begin June 16. Opens June 30. Closes August 26. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Broadway vet Ryan Silverman (Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera) headlines this rock-and-roll reinvention of Mozart's iconic opera about a seductive scoundrel who eventually has to face the headbanging music. Sung in English, Mozart’s Don Giovanni: A Rock Opera is the brainchild of Adam B. Levowitz—he directs, did the orchestrations and translated/updated the libretto! Note: There is a $25 food and beverage minimum per person in addition to the ticket price... unless you're buying tickets through TDF!
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Laura Pels Theatre, 111 West 46th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin June 21. Opens July 20. Closes August 17.
After well-received out-of-town engagements, JOY: A New True Musical comes to NYC for the summer. & Juliet Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe stars as real-life entrepreneur and single mom Joy Mangano, who made a mint as the inventor of the self-wringing Miracle Mop and other cleaning products. Grammy-nominated vocalist AnnMarie Milazzo penned the songs and Ken Davenport wrote the book for this inspiring and tuneful tale of innovation.
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New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin June 22. Opens July 10. Closes September 28.
Revive me gently with a chain saw! The cult musical Heathers, based on the prescient dark comedy of the same name, returns to New World Stages 11 years after it first played NYC. While Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe's show, about two teenage lovers who slay their popular peers, wasn't a hit initially, it's gained a massive following over the past decade thanks to TikTok and multiple memes. As the mom of a Heathers-obsessed teen, I suspect this limited summer run will be a hot ticket, especially since the leads are & Juliet Tony nominee Lorna Courtney and Back to the Future: The Musical's Casey Likes, plus Broadway favorite Kerry Butler. Andy Fickman, who helmed the original production, returns to direct.
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