NYC theater

After a broken engagement, one of Elf Lyons’s characters performs in her place in a solo work mixing comedy, opera, recordings and fragmented identity.

A man obsessed with his health plans to marry his daughter to a doctor to reduce his medical bills, but she has plans of her own in Molière’s comedy.

Lauren Yee's comedic story of playwright Lauren’s search for her missing father and her family’s history.

A young surfer’s death gives a stranger another chance at life. This musical follows two families and a medical team through a day shaped by a heart transplant.

An actor-musician ensemble tells the story of a man who ages backwards in a Cornish fishing village, adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story into a musical.

A comedy-drama about a woman whose three siblings arrive with an announcement that promises to change everything.

Inspired by activist Terence Alan Smith, this play with music follows drag performer Joan Jett Blakk’s presidential campaign during the early-1990s AIDS crisis.

The Apple family gathers for dinner on midterm election night in 2026, sharing stories and anxieties in Richard Nelson’s latest Rhinebeck play.

A botanist’s attempt to create a new form of life collides with the expectations of her husband, lover and soulmate in Susan Glaspell’s experimental play.

Emma Rice’s staging follows Tristan and Yseult as their forbidden love upends the Cornish court, combining live music, comedy and aerial performance.

A musical by Nat Zegree and Eric Holmes, directed by Catie Davis.

Sophokles’ tragedy, translated by Anne Carson and directed by Daniel Fish, follows Elektra’s pursuit of vengeance after her father’s murder.

Two mothers scheme to bring their sons together in this reimagining of the musical about young love, disillusionment and reconciliation.

Sam Pinkleton directs Richard O’Brien’s rock musical, featuring its eccentric characters and songs including Time Warp, Dammit Janet and Sweet Transvestite.

A daughter returns to her politically connected family’s Palm Springs home with a memoir that threatens to expose a long-hidden secret.

The arrival of a Nazi-era photograph album at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum begins an investigation into its subjects and the people behind the images.

Four men convicted of sex crimes share a state-supervised home. A survivor’s unexpected visit forces a confrontation in Bruce Norris’s play.

A musical comedy about a British intelligence operation that used a corpse and a false identity to mislead Germany about the Allied invasion of Sicily.

Billy Crystal revisits family, friendships and career memories after the Palisades fire destroys his longtime home in this autobiographical solo show.

Ponyboy Curtis and his friends confront class conflict and search for belonging in 1967 Tulsa in a musical adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s novel.

An unlikely pair, Dougal and Robin, spend three life-changing days together in New York in a musical about finding connection and common ground.

Cole Escola’s deliberately irreverent comedy imagines Mary Todd Lincoln’s frustrations and suppressed ambitions in the weeks before her husband’s assassination.

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell play Benedick and Beatrice in Jamie Lloyd’s staging of Shakespeare’s romantic battle of wits.

A company of actors and a live sound-effects artist retell George Bailey’s story as a 1940s radio broadcast, with performers taking on multiple roles.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical follows Alexander Hamilton’s rise from Caribbean immigrant to American founder, tracing ambition, political rivalry and family life.

Simba’s journey toward adulthood and responsibility becomes a stage musical using puppetry, movement and song to tell the story of The Lion King.

Roxie and Velma pursue fame amid scandal in a musical about celebrity and spectacle, with a jazz score and choreography in the style of Bob Fosse.

Oliver and Claire leave their isolated routines after a chance meeting sparks an unexpected journey toward companionship and the possibility of love.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel becomes a musical about wealth, longing and the pursuit of an idealized past, with a score influenced by jazz and pop.

A London judge’s commitment to justice is tested when a crisis shakes her family, forcing her to confront the competing demands of work and motherhood.

A recording opportunity draws singer Omara Portuondo back toward her past in a musical about memory, second chances and the making of the Cuban album.

Bubble sculptures, lasers and audience participation turn soap bubbles into an interactive stage spectacle for children and adults.

A company’s opening-night murder mystery collapses into missed lines, physical mishaps and escalating disasters in this backstage farce.

Jamie Allan combines illusions, sleight of hand and technology with autobiographical storytelling, 1980s nostalgia and pop hits.

A young woman in a near-future United States receives fragments of ancestral memory in a work combining dance, theater and visual art.

Mario López combines clowning, physical comedy and sleight of hand in a collection of tricks that seem to surprise the performer as much as his audience.

In 2077, a daughter leaves a struggling Earth for Mars while her father stays behind. Their attempts to remain connected explore distance, loss and survival.

Paul Vigil presents a close-up magic show centered on apparent mental phenomena and effects designed to challenge an audience’s perceptions.

A metatheatrical puppet show about two teenagers, fake Bigfoot sightings, and a community confronting a frightening mystery.

In an ocean world without humans, a young seahorse searches for a way to bring them back. Puppetry, movement and music explore what humanity means.

In a Vietnamese restaurant spanning 1950s Vietnam and 1990s France, intersecting lives explore migration, exile and the memory of home.

Juggler and visual artist Jay Gilligan brings an experimental solo performance exploring dexterity and the possibilities of circus to an intimate theater.

Saidiya Hartman’s writing becomes a performance in three movements, combining theater, movement, film and visual art to consider Black life after catastrophe.

Recent Cutbacks presents a live, shot-for-shot parody of a beloved 1990s Christmas movie, using puppetry and Foley artistry.

Tobias Dostal blends sleight of hand with puppetry, sculpture and filmmaking, creating visual illusions in which objects transform and shadows seem alive.

Guy Hollingworth combines card magic, discussion and audience choices in a show exploring how an unexpected outcome can also feel inevitable.

A warm, funny story about two immigrant strangers who meet on Thanksgiving in 1973 and share an evening together.

Suzanne Bocanegra and Lili Taylor use a sixteenth-century tapestry as the starting point for a performance about honor, ownership, feminism and personal history.

A comedy by and featuring Signature resident artists The Mad Ones.

In Shakespeare’s tragedy, a ruler’s belief in his own godlike power leads to the unraveling of his family, kingdom, and sense of self.

An upcoming Signature Theatre production written by Eisa Davis.

After their leader dies, a community of nuns in eighth-century Italy begins questioning the restrictions on their lives and imagining different ways to live.

Ambitious junior employees at a New York magazine compete for success in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s dark comedy about work, status and storytelling.

Two artist friends consider attending the wedding of their college exes in a comedy-drama about friendship, young adulthood and Black love.

A fashion designer’s controlled world unravels when she falls for a young model in Half Straddle’s reimagining of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.

Galileo’s astronomical discoveries bring him into conflict with religious authority, testing his friendship with Barberini and his hopes for his daughter Virginia.

In 1893 Texas, Black twin sisters passing as white turn to desperate measures to protect their family’s future in a musical about freedom and self-determination.

In 1984 Minneapolis, a young performer known as The Kid pursues stardom while confronting his past, in a musical built around Prince’s songs and film.

In a holiday parody, Cate Blanchett is visited by three spirits of Nicole Kidman who guide her through the past, present and future of awards season.