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John Krasinski, who's starring in the new one-man play Angry Alan, which begins performances at Off Broadway's Studio Seaview this month.
Catch plays starring John Krasinski, Liev Schreiber, Maya Hawke, Reed Birney and more
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A new solo show featuring John Krasinski as a charming but angry man. Liev Schreiber in a rarely revived Strindberg play. Maya Hawke in Sarah Ruhl's radical reimagining of Eurydice and Reed Birney in a new play by a Pulitzer Prize winner. These are just some of the promising productions opening Off Broadway in May. 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 April are still running!
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Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 West 22nd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Chelsea
Previews begin May 1. Opens May 8. Closes June 1.
Kwaku Fortune wrote and stars in this autobiographical solo show about growing up mixed race (his mother is of Ghanaian descent, his father is white) in Ireland. With the title a nod to Theobald Wolfe Tone, an 18th-century champion of Irish independence, this world premiere was developed through Irish Rep's partnership with Dublin's Fishamble: The New Play Company and is a brutally honest meditation on identity and masculinity.
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Vineyard Theatre, 108 East 15th Street between Irving Place and Union Square East in Union Square
Previews begin May 1. Opens May 18. Closes June 8.
The Vineyard will be transformed into a skate park for Nazareth Hassan's Bowl EP, a genre-defying work featuring skateboarding, rapping, cursing, smoking and some in-your-face flirting. Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter show off their skills on the ramps while trying to come up with a name for their hip-hop group. Can music, love and ollies help them escape their dead-end lives? The New Group and the National Black Theatre coproduce this world premiere.
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AMT Theater, 354 West 45th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins May 8. Closes May 18.
Like City Center's Encores!, J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company revives rarely performed musicals, though admittedly with smaller budgets. This season wraps up with Drat! The Cat!, an infamous Broadway flop that developed a cult following thanks to its score by Milton Schafer and Ira Levin and its loopy story about a wealthy Gilded Age cat burglar who wins the love of the cop who's chasing her.
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Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in the East Village
Previews begin May 8. Opens May 18. Closes June 8. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Although he won the Pulitzer Prize for Picnic, William Inge's plays are not revived as often as his mentor Tennessee Williams' work. In fact, his Tony-nominated 1955 play Bus Stop, famously turned into a film starring Marilyn Monroe, hasn't enjoyed a major New York City mounting in almost 30 years. That makes this mounting, coproduced by National Asian American Theatre Company, Transport Group and Classic Stage Company, a notable event. A blizzard forces a bus to stop at a rural Kansas diner where the disparate passengers and hard-bitten locals bicker and bond into the wee hours. Jack Cummings III directs an all Asian-American cast in this underappreciated classic.
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Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street in the West Village
Begins May 10. Closes June 18.
Audible Theater and Hugh Jackman and Sonia Friedman's recently founded TOGETHER present Jen Silverman's adaptation of August Strindberg's Creditors about a painter who becomes embroiled with a charismatic stranger and his wife at a remote seaside hotel. Tony winner Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff and Justice Smith star in this three-hander, which runs in repertory with Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes. Bonus: Not all tickets are insanely priced! In fact, 25% are available for purchase on the day of each performance through a digital lottery as well as in person at the box office for just $35. And TDF will also be offering complimentary tickets to underserved communities.
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The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin May 13. Opens June 2. Closes June 22.
Tony-nominated director Les Waters (Dana H.) helms this Signature Theatre revival of Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl's radical reimagining of the myth of Orpheus told from the title character's perspective. Maya Hawke (Netflix's Stranger Things) stars as Eurydice, who's torn between returning to the land of the living with her lover or remaining in the underworld to reconnect with her father (five-time Tony nominee Brian d'Arcy James).
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Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B in the East Village
Begins May 14. Closes May 27.
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 kicks off this month with Obie winner Milo Cramer's new comedy Business Ideas, about a desperate mother-daughter pair driving their barista crazy with their loopy get-rich-quick schemes. Slave Play Tony nominee Annie McNamara and Mary Wiseman from Star Trek: Discovery star.
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Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, entrance on 25th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues in Kips Bay
Previews begin May 13. Opens May 15. Closes May 25. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
New York Magazine's multitalented theatre critic Sara Holdren co-adapts and directs this innovative new production of Charles Gounod's opera Faust. Sung in French with English supertitles, this fresh one-act interpretation centers on an insolated scholar who makes an ill-advised deal with the devil that destroys multiple lives.
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The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin May 14. Opens June 3. Closes June 22.
Following its 2023 world premiere at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts, Lunar Eclipse by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies (Dinner with Friends, Collected Stories) comes to NYC courtesy of Second Stage Theater. The Humans Tony winner Reed Birney reprises his celebrated performance as George, a Kentucky farmer in the twilight of life spending a balmy summer evening gazing at a lunar eclipse with his longtime wife Em (new addition Lisa Emery). As they chat, they realize how little they know each other despite having spent a half century together. Kate Whoriskey directs this poignant two-hander.
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Atlantic Stage 2, 330 West 16th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues
Previews begin May 16. Opens June 3. Closes June 22. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
After developing A Freeky Introduction in Atlantic Theater Company’s (Writ)ual MixFest 2023, NSangou Njikam's poetry-infused play has its world premiere on the troupe's smaller stage. Freeky Dee (Njikam) fuses rhymes and ritual in his quest for freedom, underscored by beats from DJ Monday Blue. A new hip-hop play from the writer-performer of Syncing Ink.
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New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin May 21. Opens TBD. Closes June 29. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
NYC's Red Bull Theater, which revitalizes classics, presents a new adaptation of Molière's beloved romp The Imaginary Invalid starring a crackerjack comic cast. Sitcom and stage vet Mark Linn-Baker is the title hypochondriac, who's so obsessed with his phantom ailments that he doesn't realize he's being fleeced by everyone around him, including his new wife. Jesse Berger directs an ensemble that also includes two-time Tony nominee Sarah Stiles and the invaluable Arnie Burton.
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Studio Seaview, 305 West 43rd Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin May 23. Opens June 11. Closes August 3.
When Second Stage Theater left its longtime Off-Broadway home on West 43rd Street a few months back, the Broadway production company Seaview took over the space. Its inaugural offering is Angry Alan, a one-man play by Penelope Skinner (The Ruins of Civilization, Fucked) featuring John Krasinski as a divorced and dispirited straight white man who's seduced by online vitriol. Tony winner Sam Gold (Fun Home) directs this chilling examination of toxic masculinity.
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The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place in the East Village
Begins May 30. Closes June 22.
A smash at the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Julia Masli's solo show has one goal: to fix your issues! There's no script. Instead, Masli—who studied clowning with Philippe Gaulier, who counts Sacha Baron Cohen, Emma Thompson and Roberto Benigni among his students—asks the audience to share their challenges and she will come up with solutions... even if that involves calling your mom for a spontaneous heart-to-heart. After a brief run at Soho Playhouse last year, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha transfers to The Public Theater. Come prepared to reveal your problems!
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WP Theater at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway at 76th Street on the Upper West Side
Previews begin May 30. Opens June 5. Closes June 29.
New Federal Theatre presents The Wash by Kelundra Smith, the director of publishing for both TCG Books and American Theatre magazine as well as a TDF Stages contributor. This history play traces the undersung story of the Atlanta Washerwomen Strike of 1881, when African-American workers stood up for better pay and greater respect right before the International Cotton Exposition came to town. An uplifting tale of resistance! Obie winner Awoye Timpo directs.
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Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin May 30. Opens TBD. Closes July 6.
Playwrights Horizons and Soho Rep coproduce the world premiere of Jordan Tannahill's satire with an incendiary title, about a collective of queer artists interrogating their privilege as they imagine how a monarch from their community might rule. Tannahill has been described as the "enfant terrible of Canadian theatre" so we're intrigued about his Off-Broadway debut. Shayok Misha Chowdhury directs an ensemble that includes David Greenspan and two-time Tony nominee K. Todd Freeman.
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