16 Shows to See Off Broadway This November
Catch a starry mounting of A View from the Bridge, a revival of Spring Awakening, the Imitation of Life musical and more
Sam Rockwell and Alfred Molina in A View from the Bridge. Adrienne Warren and Jessica Vosk in the new musical Imitation of Life featuring songs by John Legend. A revival of Spring Awakening directed by Danya Taymor and Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s staging of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. These are just some of the promising productions that begin performances this month. We couldn’t include everything, so be sure to browse the listings in TDF’s Show Finder to see what else is playing. Remember, most of our picks for October are still running!
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St. Ann’s Warehouse: Tristan & Yseult – begins November 1
St. Ann’s Warehouse, 45 Water Street near New Dock Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn
Begins November 1. Closes November 22. If you’re a TDF Member, log in to purchase discount tickets.
For almost a quarter century, director Emma Rice’s gleefully inventive adaptation of the medieval legend Tristan and Isolde has been seducing audiences, and it returns to NYC for the first time since 2014 courtesy of St. Ann’s Warehouse. Rice uses an intoxicating concoction of circus, cabaret and club dancing to tell the tale of the title forbidden lovers, who fall for each other even though she’s betrothed to a king.
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The King’s Critique – begins November 3
The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin November 3. Opens November 12. Closes December 20.
An outrageous musical comedy from Nat Zegree and Eric Holmes, The King’s Critique is set back in Shakespeare’s day when a king rules that women cannot perform onstage… but the divas and their gay BFFs aren’t having it. The ensemble is led by some very talented folks, including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend cutup Donna Lynne Champlin, The Outsiders Tony nominee Sky Lakota-Lynch and Broadway vet Taylor Iman Jones
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Traitorz: The Unauthorized Musical Parody – begins November 4
St. Luke’s Theatre, 308 West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begins November 4. Opens November 13. Closes January 31, 2027.
The Alan Cumming-hosted The Traitors has become such a phenomenon, it’s spawned an unauthorized musical parody! Created by Broadway actor-turned-composer Ben Fankhauser and comedian Tim Murray, who penned the lyrics, book and codirects, Traitorz stars a cast of crack impressionists portraying Jennifer Coolidge, Britney Spears, Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone and other celebrity contestants competing on the reality show. Hey, Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody turned out to be unexpectedly delightful. Here’s hoping Traitorz is equally winning.
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Lincoln Center Theater: Seven Guitars – begins November 5
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue in Lincoln Square
Previews begin November 5. Opens November 23. Closes January 10, 2027.
The multitalented Ruben Santiago-Hudson has long been acclaimed for his work on August Wilson’s Century Cycle plays. On Broadway, he acted in Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Seven Guitars, winning a 1996 Tony Award for his performance in the latter. He also helmed the 2017 Tony-winning revival of Jitney and penned the screenplay for the movie adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He returns to Wilson’s oeuvre, directing a revival of the play that marked his breakthrough, Seven Guitars for Lincoln Center Theater. Set in 1940s Pittsburgh, it centers on a blues musician (Russell Hornsby) trying to win back the love of his life. John Douglas Thompson, Kristolyn Lloyd, Michael Potts, Roslyn Ruff and Daniel J. Watts costar.
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Primary Stages: Fantasma – begins November 7
59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street between Madison and Park Avenues in Midtown East
Previews begins November 7. Opens November 22. Closes December 20.
Playwright Benjamin Benne makes his Off-Broadway debut with Fantasma, an autobiographically inspired play he developed at Primary Stages’ Liff Lab. Every Christmas Eve, Rosie’s extended Guatemalan family gathers to make chuchitos. Over the years they revisit the recipe and their evolving relationships, exploring traditions, recollections and what makes a legacy. Laurie Woolery directs an all-Latine cast.
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Irish Repertory Theatre: The Good Thief – begins November 7
Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 West 22nd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Chelsea
Previews begin November 7. Opens November 12. Closes December 13.
On Broadway, three-time Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald is known for portraying adorkable kooks. But in The Good Thief, a rarely seen monologue play by Conor McPherson (The Weir, Shining City), he’s a tough guy with a guilty conscience after a job goes sideways. Justin Waldman directs this unsettling solo show, coproduced by Irish Rep and NJ’s Two River Theater.
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Soho Playhouse: The Exhibitionist – begins November 9
Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in Soho
Begins November 9. Closes November 21.
Emmy winner Jeff Hiller (Somebody Somewhere, Window’s Bay) may have become a star on TV, but NYC theatre lovers have been cackling at his uncanny comic timing for years, on Broadway (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and beyond (a cherished memory: when he played all the supporting parts in Silence! The Musical). He returns to the stage for just nine performances in The Exhibitionist, a new solo comedy by James Hindman about The McMillon Museum of Art’s oldest intern who can’t focus because he thinks he may be on the verge of his big artistic break. Hiller is a master at turning anxious energy into laugh-out-loud comedy.
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Theatre for a New Audience: Elektra – begins November 10
Theatre for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Begins November 10. Closes December 6.
Visionary director Daniel Fish is known for his radical reinventions of classics, like his so-called “dark” Oklahoma! With Elektra, he takes on Sophocles’ rarely produced 2500-year-old tragedy about a grieving daughter obsessed with exacting revenge on her mother for killing her father. Stage stalwart Tina Benko is the vengeful title character and Cricket Brown plays her sibling Orestes, who helps her get the job done. Sally Wingert and Tony nominee and TDF fan Rebecca Naomi Jones costar.
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The Conversation – begins November 17
Astor Place Theatre, 434 Lafayette Street at Astor Place in the East Village
Previews begin November 17. Opens December 7. Closes January 24, 2027.
Hot on the heels of winning a long overdue Tony Award for his performance in Ragtime, Joshua Henry returns to the stage in The Conversation, a two-person musical he cowrote with costar Julia Harriman. The one-act tuner traces the arc of a long-term romance, with all its amazing and messy ups and downs. The duo started writing songs together while appearing in the national tour of Hamilton and this is the culmination of that collaboration. Tony winner Kenny Leon directs.
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Soho Playhouse: Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It – begins November 20
Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in Soho
Begins November 20. Closes January 3, 2027. If you’re a TDF Member, log in to purchase discount tickets.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe favorites and recent Drama Desk Award winners Xhloe and Natasha bring their latest loopy collaboration to Soho Playhouse. Highly physical performers known for playing with genre and gender, the comedic twosome portray a pair of teenagers who create fake Bigfoot sightings in their tiny town until a local dog mysteriously turns up dead and paranoia kicks in. Expect kooky puppets, metatheatricality and off-kilter laughs.
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The Shed: Imitation of Life – begins November 21
The Shed, 545 West 30th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Hudson Yards
Previews begin November 21. Opens December 3. Closes January 3, 2027.
There are sure to be high expectations for the musical adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s 1933 novel Imitation of Life, which has already been turned into two wildly different movies. The songs are by legendary Grammy and Oscar winner John Legend, the book is by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and the show is directed by two-time Tony nominee Whitney White (who replaced Liesl Tommy during the project’s development). It’s fitting that an all-Black creative team is tackling this complex tale about race, class and identity as two single mothers—one Black, the other white—team up in the 1920s and ’30s in search of professional and personal success. Tina Tony winner Adrienne Warren and Jessica Vosk star.
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New York Theatre Workshop: Wild Rose – begins November 24
New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street between Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Previews begin November 24. Opens December 14. Closes January 10, 2027.
A new musical inspired by the film of the same name, Wild Rose centers on Rose-Lynn Harlan, a Glasgow single mom with a criminal past who aspires to become a Nashville country star. Written by Nicole Taylor, who penned the movie, and directed by Tony winner John Tiffany, the show features hits by Brandi Carlile, The Chicks, Wynonna Judd and other country icons along with “Glasgow (No Place Like Home)” from the flick. Madeline Brewer (Becky Shaw on Broadway, The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Rose-Lynn and two-time Tony nominee Mare Winningham is her combative mother.
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Studio Seaview: Spring Awakening – begins November 27
Studio Seaview, 305 West 43rd Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin November 27. Opens December 17. Closes April 4, 2027.
Director Danya Taymor knows her way around teenage rebels. In 2024, she won a Tony Award for helming The Outsiders musical and she earned another nomination for her breathtaking staging of John Proctor Is the Villain. She’s sure to have a striking take on Spring Awakening, Steven Sater and the recently departed Duncan Sheik’s dark rock musical about repressed 19th-century adolescents desperately trying to express themselves. A cast of up-and-comers, including Ashlyn Maddox and Amalia Yoo, star alongside George Abud and Lilli Cooper (an alum of the original production) as all the unsympathetic grown-ups.
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A View from the Bridge – begins November 27
La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Previews begin November 27. December 13. February 27, 2027.
Sam Rockwell headlines director Neil Pepe’s revival of A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller’s searing drama about a Brooklyn longshoreman whose commitment to honor and repressed desires threaten to tear his family apart. Alfred Molina, Carla Gugino and Tom Pecinka costar in this intimate (and expensive!) mounting at La MaMa.
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The York Theatre: Kilgallen – begins November 28
The York Theatre Company at Theatre at St. Jean’s, 150 East 76th Street near Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side
Previews begin November 28. Opens December 3. Closes December 27. If you’re a TDF Member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Although she may be best remembered for her panel appearances on TV game shows, Dorothy Kilgallen was an influential journalist in the mid-20th century, when few women worked in the profession beyond the gossip columns. She hobnobbed with the biggest stars and politicians of her day. When JFK was assassinated, she was sure there was a cover-up. But her relentless digging put her in danger, and she died mysteriously in 1965. This true crime musical explores her incredible life and enigmatic demise. Donna Vivino stars.
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Playwrights Horizons: Hole! – begins November 28
Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Begins November 28. Closes January 10, 2027.
Jake Brasch and Nadja Leonhard-Hooper make up the musical duo American Sing-Song, aka A.S.S. So it’s no wonder their outrageous new musical Hole! is about how butt plugs save humanity from God’s wrath. But when two religious fanatics set out to unplug the unholy, they end up finding their authentic selves. A naughty musical fable that was a hit at Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
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