Off-Off-Broadway Theatre Newsroom

New York Theatre Festival will be presenting a New Play called 'The Drifters Gallery' written and directed by Jacqueline Birgitte Hennessy. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Join Karl O'Brian Williams, Miranda Melhado, and Emilio Evans in the American premiere of Alwin Bully's Caribbean drama, McBEE.

Join the Associates Theater Ensemble for post-show talkbacks and affinity nights, an engaging experience for theater enthusiasts to discuss and connect over the performance.

On Tuesday, June 18, at 7 pm, Queens College will premiere a designed reading of “The Invaders,” a play about the Freedom Summer Project of 1964—a voter registration effort in segregated Mississippi that drew Black and white volunteers from all over the country—and the Ku Klux Klan’s murder of participating activists James Chaney, then-QC student Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

The Chocolate Factory Theater will continue its Spring 2024 season with the premiere of Black Life Chord Changes, a new dance performance by Angie Pittman.

A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this 60 minute solo dance/theater performance. Writer and performer Maggie Cee draws on oral history interviews from The Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project to create fictional, history-based monologues that illuminate the feminine women whose stories are too often forgotten, but whose strength and determination made the gay girls’ bars come alive.

Proud Image Theatre Company has announced the cast for Tomorrow We Love, a new gender-bending comedic homage to the classic romantic films of the mid-twentieth century.

Chicago-born theater ensemble The Mill and Theaterlab will present the world premiere of The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century, a show based on the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize shortlisted homonymous novel by Olga Ravn.

From playwright Patrice Danae Bell and director Olivia Ragan, The One With Violets In Her Lap is a full-length play with music based on the poetry of Sappho. The production will be presented at The Flea Theater. Learn how to purchase tickets.

See how to purchase tickets to Robert Galinsky's one-man show, Everything in New York Goes BANG! Learn more about the show.

 NYU Skirball’s Fall 2024 season will open on Friday, September 6 with the North American premiere of Counting and Cracking, a two-week run co-presented with The Public Theater. Learn more about the season here!

Ernest Thayer’s beloved poem about fictional baseball legend Casey and the town of Mudville springs vividly to life in the present day.

SheNYC Arts has announced their lineup for the 2024 SheNYC Summer Theater Festival. The Festival will run from July 30-August 11, 2024, at the East Village's Connelly Theater with both an in-person audience and select digital performances.

Amas Musical Theatre has revealed the recipients of the sixth Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists. Learn more about the recipients.

The Performance Project at University Settlement is proud to announce Brought Up, the latest play of one of its 2023/24 Artists-in-Residence, Kenneth Keng.

Luke Forbes from Amazon Prime's HARLEM and Denise Hunt from HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK headline the cast for the US premiere of McBEE.

Experience the reimagined tale of Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, set in 1940's Italy and presented by Kelsey Grammar and Faith American Beer. The production features actors from Thomas G. Waites' TGW studio, running from June 7 to 30 at The Gene Frankel Theatre in NoHo.

Christie Perfetti Williams new play Bettye and the Jockettes Spinning Records at the Holiday Inn opens tonight at The Gene Frankel Theatre in NoHo.. The World Premiere runs until May 18. Go inside the process with new photos from the rehearsal room. 

Through May 18, Blessed Unrest, New York City’s award-winning subversive physical theater ensemble for an adventurous audience, presents La Musica Deuxième, written by revolutionary, communist, and feminist Marguerite Duras. See photos from the production. 

Discover new musicals from Sharone Sayegh, Danny J Rooney, and Durra Leung in New York Theatre Barn's award-winning New Works Series. Learn more about the series!

Celebrate Pride Month with THE MAKERS' ENSEMBLE and JUDSON ARTS as they present the inaugural PRISM FESTIVAL OF NEW QUEER MUSICALS. Discover four new musicals and nurture emerging Queer theater talent.

Outta Bounds Productions presents the World Premiere of A GROUNDBREAKING ACHIEVEMENT OF OUTRAGEOUS IMPORTANCE THAT PEOPLE SCROLL BY, BARELY IMPACTED, a new drama about the impact of AI by Jake Shore (Holy Moly at The Flea, Adjust the Procedure, the upcoming July 2024 NYC premiere of Con). Previews begin May 10 at Theaterlab. See photos from the production.

Truth, Dare, or Lesbian to be presented at MEAUX SPACE. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Celebrate Teatro Grattacielo's 30th anniversary season with a lineup of memorable performances, world premieres, and young artist promotions.

Discover the inaugural International Student Arts Incubator Showcase by NYU Wasserman's Creative Career Hub and International Student Hub at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club. Learn more!