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Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran in A Streetcar Named Desire, which is transferring to BAM from London. Photo by Marc Brenner.
Catch Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire, Christian Slater in Curse of the Starving Class, a Jonathan Larson revue and more
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Paul Mescal reprising his acclaimed West End performance as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Christian Slater and Calista Flockhart in a revival of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class. New plays from Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph and MacArthur genius Samuel D. Hunter. A Jonathan Larson revue and a starry revival of Urinetown. These are just some of the promising productions opening Off Broadway in February. 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, many of our picks for January are still running!
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Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin February 1. Opens February 20. Closes March 15. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Harold Brighouse, best known for his play Hobson's Choice, was a British dramatist in the early 20th century. Yet despite a successful 1919 Boston run, his drama Garside's Career never opened on Broadway as intended. The Mint Theater Company, which resurrects forgotten gems, presents the New York premiere of this show, which follows the incredible rise of Peter Garside from engineer to member of Parliament thanks to his uncanny powers of persuasion. But will he wield his influence wisely?
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The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin February 4. Opens February 25. Closes April 6.
Christian Slater is the drunken dad and Calista Flockhart is the burned-out mom in The New Group's searing revival of Sam Shepard's Obie-winning play Curse of the Starving Class, about the members of the Tate family grappling for control of their dilapidated farm and dysfunctional clan. Scott Elliott, who's known for helming gritty, in-your-face dramas, directs.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin February 4. Opens February 27. Closes March 23. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
A world premiere from Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, King James), Dakar 2000 opens on the last night of 1999, when a gung ho Peace Corps volunteer survives a mysterious car crash. A State Department operative arrives to control the narrative, but with secrets to hide these two soon find themselves on the seedy side of public service. May Adrales directs this new thriller for Manhattan Theatre Club.
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The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin February 4. Opens February 24. Closes March 23.
Although Brendan Fraser dropped out, a world premiere from the prolific and always poignant Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale, A Case for the Existence of God, A Bright New Boise) is still quite exciting. Stage vets Paul Sparks and Brian J. Smith star in Grangeville, about two estranged half-brothers reconnecting as their mother is dying. Jack Serio, a master of hyper-intimate theatre, directs this new play for Signature Theatre Company.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Begins February 5. Closes February 16.
It's a privilege to see this new concert staging of Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis' prescient, Tony-winning musical Urinetown, an outrageous and unsettlingly relevant satire about greed, oppression and environmental disaster. Set in a dystopian future when people are forced to pay to pee, this Encores! production stars a crack comic cast with powerhouse pipes, including Jordan Fisher (Hadestown, Sweeney Todd), Keala Settle (Waitress, The Greatest Showman), The Office's Rainn Wilson, Shucked Tony nominee Kevin Cahoon and Somebody Somewhere's Jeff Hiller. Teddy Bergman directs.
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A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin February 6. Opens February 12. Closes March 9. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Philip W. Chung's new play tells the powerful story of Toraichi Kono, a Japanese immigrant who served as Charlie Chaplin's chauffeur and even briefly worked for the film star's production company. But with World War II looming, accusations of espionage got Kono arrested and landed him in an internment camp. Jeff Liu directs this world premiere for Pan Asian Rep.
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Theater 555, 555 West 42nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Begins February 7. Opens February 23. Closes May 11. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Company Tony winner Matt Doyle and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Caroline Aaron star in Conversations with Mother, a semi-autobiographical comedy by Matthew Lombardo (Tea at Five, Who's Holiday!) chronicling the relationship between an overbearing Italian mama and her gay son over a half century. A hilarious and heartfelt tribute to la familia.
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The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin February 12. Opens February 26. Closes March 9.
Second Stage Theater presents D.A. Mindell's On the Evolutionary Function of Shame, the company's first production in its new Off-Broadway home after leaving West 43rd Street. Twin siblings Adam, a pregnant trans man, and Eve, an intrepid scientist, want to help each other navigate family and identity. But Eve's meddling leads to an uncomfortable discovery. Jess McLeod directs this world premiere as part of the theatre's Next Stage Festival.
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Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue in Lincoln Square
Previews begin February 13. Opens March 10. Closes April 13.
Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen's follow-up to A Doll's House, was a controversial flop in its day, a tragedy exploring family and duty while touching on infidelity, incest and morality. Though eventually hailed as groundbreaking, Ghosts has not received a major NYC mounting in more than two decades. So Lincoln Center Theater's revival, adapted by contemporary playwright Mark O'Rowe and directed by three-time Tony winner Jack O'Brien, is a major event, with Lily Rabe as a widow trying to smooth over her late husband's tarnished legacy and Levon Hawke as her troubled and lovesick son. Billy Crudup, Hamish Linklater and Ella Beatty costar.
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Orpheum Theatre, 126 Second Avenue at 8th Street in the East Village
Previews begin February 14. Opens March 10. Closes June 1. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Theatre historian, author and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper has been working on The Jonathan Larson Project for way longer than 525,600 minutes. A musical celebrating the life and legacy of Rent creator Jonathan Larson, this production includes numbers cut from his shows, including tick, tick… BOOM!, as well as songs culled from the hundreds of cassettes and music files he left behind when he died suddenly at age 35. John Simpkins directs a cast of Broadway vets in this tribute to the Pulitzer Prize winner, including Adam Chanler-Berat, Taylor Iman Jones and Jason Tam.
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St Ann's Warehouse, 45 Water Street near New Dock Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn
Previews begin February 15. Opens February 20. Closes March 2.
A multimedia song cycle from composer Anna Mullarkey and Tony-winning Once playwright-lyricist Enda Walsh, Safe House features Kate Gilmore as Grace, a broken woman raised in an unhappy Irish home in the 1980s, who's looking to escape her past. Through projections and emotional songs, this one-woman show takes audiences into Grace's troubled mind as she tries to transcend trauma. Walsh directs the production, which was an acclaimed hit in Dublin last fall.
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The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place in the East Village
Previews begin February 20. Opens March 5. Closes March 30.
After a well-received 2023 world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse, Lisa Sanaye Dring's drama about Japan's elite and insular sumo wrestling scene comes to The Public Theater, coproduced by Ma-Yi Theater Company. Eighteen-year-old upstart Akio is ambitious and angry when he arrives to train. But the vets he battles make sure he learns some hard lessons. Obie Award winner Ralph B. Peña directs.
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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 February 25. Opens March 9. Closes May 18.
Natalie Margolin's world premiere All Nighter cenetrs on college roommates staying up until dawn to complete their final assignments. But the stress, pills and lack of sleep spark some uncomfortable truths. Jaki Bradley directs a cast that includes Tony nominees Kathryn Gallagher (Jagged Little Pill) and Julia Lester (Into the Woods).
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The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place in the East Village
Previews begin February 25. Opens March 6. Closes March 29.
After a sold-out run as part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks series, Abe Koogler's Deep Blue Sound transfers Off Broadway. The amusing and emotional tale of a group of neighbors on a Pacific Northwest island investigating the disappearance of a pod of orcas, the play is directed by Arin Arbus and stars an ensemble cast featuring two Tony winners: the exquisite Maryann Plunkett (Me and My Girl, The Notebook) and the hilarious Miriam Silverman (The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window).
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin February 25. Opens March 19. Closes April 27.
The notoriously private Joshua Harmon is known for his bitingly funny dramas (Bad Jews, Prayer for the French Republic). He returns to Manhattan Theatre Club with his latest world premiere, which sounds autobiographical (though he's not telling). An ailing woman (Tony winner Joanna Gleason) asks her grandson (Andrew Barth Feldman) to pen a scathing play about their family and he obliges. Trip Cullman directs.
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Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin February 26. Opens TBD. Closes March 23.
After debuting in London in 2023, Soho Rep brings Nia Akilah Robinson's The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) to NYC as the first show in its new Midtown space. Alternating between 1832 and today, two pairs of Black mothers and daughters confront systemic racism and inherited trauma in this darkly comic play. If you want to see this on the cheap, try the 99-Cent Sunday performance on March 16—tickets are sold in person, first come, first served.
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BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street between Ashland and Rockwell Places in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Previews begin February 28. Opens TBD. Closes April 6.
Following two sold-out runs in London, director Rebecca Frecknall's celebrated mounting of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece arrives at BAM. Oscar nominee Paul Mescal (Gladiator II, Aftersun) stars as the brutish Stanley Kowalski, Anjana Vasan is his wife Stella and Patsy Ferran is his delicate and deluded sister-in-law, Blanche DuBois. Practically sold out, you may have to depend on the kindness of strangers who return tickets to snag seats!
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