Off-Broadway News

Reporting from Off-Broadway — the Public, Second Stage, Atlantic, Signature, MCC and the rest of the 100 to 499 seat houses.

Spring Awakening key art for the Studio Seaview production
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Spring Awakening extends through April 2027 before its first performance at Studio Seaview

Eight weeks before its first performance, Danya Taymor’s Off-Broadway revival of Spring Awakening has extended its run at Studio Seaview through Sunday, April 4, 2027, on the back of the strongest on-sale the venue has…

The company of Good Time Charlie at The Public Theater. Photo by Joan Marcus
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First look at Ryan J. Haddad’s Good Time Charlie at The Public

The Public Theater has released the first production photographs of Good Time Charlie, the new play by Ryan J. Haddad, now in previews in Martinson Hall ahead of its official opening on Friday, October 9.

Classic Stage Company cast graphic for Waiting for Lefty: headshots of Tala Ashe, Raffi Barsoumian, Austin Durant, Greg Hildreth, Adam Kantor, Doireann Mac Mahon, Zach McNally, Sahar Milani, Cameron Scoggins and Henry Stram
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Waiting for Lefty company meets the press before Classic Stage Company previews

Ten actors, one union hall. The company of Classic Stage Company's Waiting for Lefty has met the press, two weeks before Steven Pasquale's staging of the Clifford Odets play starts previews on October 15.

The first Helen Gurley Brown Theater Lab writers at Lincoln Center Theater. Top row: Abigail Barlow, Emily Bear and Avery Deutsch. Bottom row: James Ijames, Martyna Majok and Ro Reddick. Photos of Majok by Zachary Maxwell Stertz and of Reddick by Dash Kolos
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Lincoln Center Theater launches the Helen Gurley Brown Theater Lab with a $4.25M gift

Lincoln Center Theater has given new writing a home of its own: the Helen Gurley Brown Theater Lab, funded by a $4.25M gift from The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation over five years.

Adrian Galante at the piano with Hilary Kole, Meecah and John Pagano in Going Bacharach. Photo by Russ Rowland
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Going Bacharach returns Off-Broadway at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater through November 29

A grand piano, a five-piece band in black tie and three singers out front: Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon is back Off-Broadway for an encore run at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, through November 29.

Marilu Henner and Shannon Purser in rehearsal for The Ask. Photo by Eran Zelixon
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Marilu Henner and Shannon Purser begin previews of The Ask at Theater 555 on October 6

Matthew Freeman’s two-hander The Ask moves up to a commercial Off-Broadway run at Theater 555, where previews start on Tuesday, October 6, with Marilu Henner as a wealthy donor and Shannon Purser as the fundraiser sent…

A scene from creation stories and all the important importants at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater. Photo by Valerie Terranova
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First look at Mfoniso Udofia’s creation stories and all the important importants, opening tonight at LCT3

Lincoln Center Theater has released the first production photos of creation stories and all the important importants, the world premiere by Mfoniso Udofia, ahead of the play’s opening night tonight, Thursday, October 1…

Little Shop of Horrors key art, with Audrey II in a flowerpot. Image courtesy of Little Shop of Horrors
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T.R. Knight and Hannah Cruz take over Little Shop of Horrors on October 27

T.R. Knight and Hannah Cruz take over Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre on October 27, succeeding Ethan Slater and Betsy Wolfe, who play Seymour and Audrey through October 25.

Key art for Elektra, directed by Daniel Fish, at Theatre for a New Audience
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Tina Benko leads Daniel Fish's Elektra at Theatre for a New Audience, with Rebecca Naomi Jones

Tina Benko will play the title role in Theatre for a New Audience's Elektra, directed by Daniel Fish, at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn from November 10 to December 6.