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Aubrey Plaza, who returns to Off Broadway in a trio of one-act comedies by Ethan Coen.
Catch Aubrey Plaza in a new comedy, Chloë Grace Moretz in a new drama, a new family saga from John Leguizamo and more
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New plays starring Aubrey Plaza, Chloë Grace Moretz and John Leguizamo. Cutting-edge solo shows from Julio Torres, Natalie Palamides and Dylan Mulvaney. An ambitious new interdisciplinary festival in Brooklyn. The return of the critically acclaimed Oratorio for Living Things. These are just some of the promising productions beginning Off Broadway in September. 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, some of our picks for August 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 September 2. Opens September 14. Closes September 28. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
While the work of Henrik Ibsen is frequently seen on NYC stages, it's usually his big three: A Doll's House, An Enemy of the People and Hedda Gabler. A major revival of his 1884 masterpiece The Wild Duck is a rare bird. Like much of Ibsen's oeuvre, it centers on a family brought down by secrets, lies and blind idealism. Simon Godwin (The Cherry Orchard on Broadway) directs David Eldridge's lauded adaptation of the original text in this co-production from Shakespeare Theatre Company and Theatre for a New Audience.
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Performance Space New York, 150 First Avenue at 9th Street in the East Village
Previews begin September 3. Opens September 10. Closes October 10.
After glowing reviews in the US and abroad, Julio Torres brings his sui generis solo comedy Color Theories to NYC. Like all his work—the stand-up special My Favorite Shapes, the cult series Los Espookys and Fantasmas, his movie Problemista—this surreal romp is better experienced than described as he shares his rainbow-tinted perspective on the world while searching for a new hue. The unexpected connections he makes between colors, politics, people and pop culture are entertaining and insightful.
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Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street in the West Village
Previews begin September 9. Opens September 18. Closes November 1.
Lin-Manuel Miranda isn't the only one writing hip-hop history musicals. Mexodus, created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, shines a spotlight on a forgotten chapter from America's past, when enslaved Black folks sought freedom by fleeing south of the border to Mexico. Featuring live looping, beatboxing, rapping and singing, this two-person musical follows a man who made that harrowing journey and the former Mexican Army soldier who helps him along the way. David Mendizábal directs this eye-opening show, which earned rave reviews in Washington, DC and San Francisco.
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The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place in the East Village
Previews begin September 11. Opens September 25. Closes November 23.
John Leguizamo trades punch lines for poignancy with The Other Americans, his searing, quasi-autobiographical family drama which comes to The Public Theater after a well-received world premiere at Washington, DC's Arena Stage. Leguizamo stars as the funny but flawed patriarch of a Colombian-American clan in 1988 Queens that has recently moved to a mostly white neighborhood. With his laundry business in peril, a young adult son recovering from a nervous breakdown and an explosive secret, will his American dream become a nightmare? Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs this exploration of identity, class and morality.
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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 September 12. Opens September 30. Closes November 16.
We don't know many details about Caroline, a new play by Preston Max Allen (We Are the Tigers) about a woman who seeks assistance from the mother she cut off without anticipating the impact it will have on her own young daughter. But we do know some pretty impressive artists are involved, including screen stars Amy Landecker (Transparent) and Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass, The Peripheral) and Tony-winning director David Cromer (The Band's Visit; Good Night, and Good Luck). MCC presents this world premiere exploring the complicated connection between mothers and daughter.
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Theater 555, 555 West 42nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin September 12. Opens September 28. Closes December 28. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
The life and scandalous legacy of controversial media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been explored onstage before (James Graham's Tony-nominated Ink, J. T. Rogers' Corruption). But in this world-premiere one-man play written by an unnamed source (a disgruntled FOX employee, perhaps?), the polarizing figure is forced to answer tough questions about his family, politics, policies and perspective. Jamie Jackson plays Murdoch and all his cronies in this interrogation of the influential oligarch.
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West End Theatre at St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 263 West 86th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue on the Upper West Side
Begins September 14. Opens October 5. Closes December 21.
Bedlam is known for its daring reinventions of classics—a decade ago, the company's breakthrough show was its playful stage adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility. So it's exciting Bedlam is tackling another Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice, with the world premiere of Emily Breeze's Are the Bennet Girls Ok? Her freewheeling spin centers the title sisters as they're forced to navigate a world built for men. Bedlam artistic director Eric Tucker helms the production.
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St. Ann's Warehouse, 45 Water Street near New Dock Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn
Previews begin September 16. Opens TBD. Closes October 12.
St. Ann's Warehouse presents the buzzy Edinburg Festival Fringe hit Weather Girl, Brian Watkins' one-person play starring Julia McDermott as a messy meteorologist in Fresno, California whose alcohol-soaked life is almost as disastrous as our environment. As the climate crisis worsens, so does her self-control. What can she do to get herself—and our world—back on track? Tyne Rafaeli directs this darkly comic allegory about our world's biggest existential threat.
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Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 West 22nd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Chelsea
Previews begin September 17. Opens September 28. Closes November 23.
Irish Rep presents the New York premiere of Leo McGann's time-hopping mystery, which toggles between a fateful encounter in a Belfast bar in 1979, when a night of flirting goes awry for a pair of off-duty British soldiers, and an oral history project about the Troubles decades later that sparks revelations and revenge. Tony nominee Michael Hayden and Samantha Mathis are part of the ensemble cast of this drama, which had successful runs in Boston and Washington, DC.
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Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin September 20. Opens October 9. Closes November 1. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Talk about timing! In 1934, British author Sally Carson published a novel called Crooked Cross that explored the impact of the burgeoning Nazi party on one middle-class German family, a chilling and prescient warning about the rise of hate. The next year, she adapted the story for the stage in the UK. Then her cautionary tale was essentially lost to history until earlier this year, when her book was reprinted to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Now the Mint Theater Company, which specializes in resurrecting forgotten gems, is presenting the US premiere of Crooked Cross the play at a moment when the proliferation of prejudice is once again a concern. Jonathan Bank directs.
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Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street between Bleecker and Hudson Streets in the West Village
Previews begin September 20. Opens October 7. Closes October 19.
While Dylan Mulvaney came to fame on TikTok, she has quite the theatrical pedigree, including a BFA in musical theatre from the prestigious University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, stints at San Diego's Old Globe and on The Book of Mormon national tour, and a popular solo musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Now she brings the story of her life to NYC in her one-woman stage memoir The Least Problematic Woman in the World, which traces her evolution from Catholic school student to theatre kid to trans activist and beyond. Tim Jackson directs this fierce and fabulous journey of self-discovery.
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59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street between Madison and Park Avenues in Midtown East
Begins September 20. Closes October 19.
Washington, DC's Theater J brings its acclaimed production of This Much I Know to 59E59 Theaters. Written by Jonathan Spector, whose thought- and laugh-provoking Eureka Day won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play last season, this slippery meditation on decision-making intertwines disparate threads, including the tale of Stalin's daughter defecting to America and the son of a white supremacist losing faith in hate, to explore how our minds work. Hayley Finn directs the play, which was inspired in part by Daniel Kahneman's popular psychology tome Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets in the West Village
Previews begin September 20. Opens September 28. Closes December 21.
Cutting-edge clown Natalie Palamides (Nate) brings her celebrated Weer to the recently reopened Cherry Lane Theatre following a sold-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe run. A cracked, one-person rom-com, the show finds Palamides portraying a couple (the hilarious asymmetrical costume design allows her to play both at the same time) having a fight on New Year's Eve 1999. Let's just say 2000 does not turn out to be their year.
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Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, 336 West 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Chelsea
Previews begin September 25. Opens October 15. Closes November 22.
Oscar-winning writer Ethan Coen penned this evening of one-act comedies about the messiness of love starring a cast of cutups, including deadpan diva Aubrey Plaza and the invaluable Mary Wiseman, supported by songs by Nellie McKay. Atlantic Theater's artistic director, Neil Pepe, helms this world premiere.
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Powerhouse Arts, 322 Third Avenue between Carroll and 3rd Streets in Gowanus, Brooklyn
Begins September 25. Closes December 13.
Fans of Under the Radar and Next Wave take note! Tony-winning producer and former BAM artistic director David Binder is behind this ambitious new festival at a former power plant featuring interdisciplinary works from around the globe. The lineup includes South African animator William Kentridge, Israeli dance-maker Hofesh Shechter, Beyoncé's choreographer Amari Marshall and dozens of other genre-defying artists. Peruse the full schedule to see what piques your interest. Most offerings have tickets starting at just $30!
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The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin September 30. Opens October 16. Closes November 23.
Oratorio for Living Things, a singular masterwork by Obie winner Heather Christian, returns Off Broadway after a critically heralded 2022 run. One of the most glorious shows I've ever experienced, it's a mind-blowing and melodious meditation on existence and time that beautiful blends a variety of music styles, including classical, folk and gospel. Lee Sunday Evans once again directs a cast of superb instrumentalist-vocalists in this production for Signature Theatre.
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