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Today’s Shows

Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 37 shows playing today

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Evening Performances

Animal Wisdom
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Animal Wisdom

Musical

A musical seance where blues, gospel, and folk fuse into a ritual of memory and loss.

The Pershing Square Signature Center

Closes: Jun 14, 2026

Burnout Paradise
Closing Soon
$
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.7:00 P.M.

Burnout Paradise

Immersive

Four performers on treadmills run 20km while completing absurd audience-suggested tasks. Part comedy, part endurance art.

Astor Place Theatre

1h 15m

Closes: May 23, 2026

Cable Street
Closing Soon
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Cable Street

Musical

In 1936 London, 100,000 ordinary people stood together against a fascist march.

59E59 Theaters

2h 30m

Closes: May 24, 2026

Dirty Books
$
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Dirty Books

Immersive

An immersive performance about the battles over anti-obscenity laws and censorship in America.

Bated Breath Theater

1h 30m

Closes: Jun 27, 2026

Drunk Romeo & Juliet
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Drunk Romeo & Juliet

Play

One drunk actor tries to perform Romeo and Juliet while sober actors help.

The Ruby Theatre

1h 30m

Closes: Sep 12, 2026

Girl, Interrupted
previews
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Girl, Interrupted

Musical

Based on Susanna Kaysen's bestselling memoir, a young woman admits herself to a psychiatric hospital and forms unexpected bonds with the women inside.

The Public Theater

Opens: Jun 4, 2026

||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||
previews
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||

Play

Four teenage musicians collide and connect during one pivotal summer at a Berkeley music program.

Vineyard Theatre

1h 50m

Opens: May 28, 2026

Indian Princesses
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Indian Princesses

Play

A satire exploring father-daughter bonding, cultural appropriation, and untold family histories through a summer program.

Atlantic Theater Company

Closes: Jun 7, 2026

Jamie Allan's Amaze
$
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Jamie Allan's Amaze

Other

A boyhood dream becomes jaw-dropping reality in this high-tech magic memoir.

New World Stages

Closes: Sep 6, 2026

Little Shop of Horrors
$
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Little Shop of Horrors

Musical

The beloved cult-classic musical about a man-eating plant, now in its 7th year Off Broadway.

Westside Theatre

2h 15m

Open Run

Masquerade
$
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.7:15 P.M.More…

Masquerade

Immersive

Let your fantasies unwind...

Masquerade

2h 0m

Closes: Sep 6, 2026

Morgan Bassichis: Can I Be Frank?
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Morgan Bassichis: Can I Be Frank?

Solo Show

A solo show about gay comedian Frank Maya, who died of AIDS in 1995.

SoHo Playhouse

1h 10m

Closes: Jun 27, 2026

Othello
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Othello

Play

Bedlam's new staging of Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy, manipulation, and destruction.

The West End Theatre

Closes: May 31, 2026

The Play That Goes Wrong
$
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

The Play That Goes Wrong

Play

The award-winning British farce about an amateur theater company whose production collapses in real time.

New World Stages

2h 0m

Closes: Sep 6, 2026

The Receptionist
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

The Receptionist

Play

A dark comedy about how ordinary people become complicit in evil at work.

The Pershing Square Signature Center

1h 30m

Thornton Wilder's The Emporium
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

Thornton Wilder's The Emporium

Play

Thornton Wilder's final play.

Classic Stage Company

Well, I'll Let You Go
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.7:00 P.M.More…

Well, I'll Let You Go

Play

A woman in a small Midwestern town rebuilds her life after a crisis.

Studio Seaview

1h 40m

Closes: Jun 20, 2026

What We Did Before Our Moth Days
Closing Soon
$
Curtain in 45m
7:00 P.M.

What We Did Before Our Moth Days

Play

Wallace Shawn and André Gregory reunite for a surreal three-hour dissection of middle-class complacency.

Greenwich House Theater

3h 0m

Closes: May 24, 2026

Lauder: Scotland's Kilted King of Broadway
Curtain in 1h 0m
7:15 P.M.

Lauder: Scotland's Kilted King of Broadway

Solo Show

The true story of the Scottish entertainer who conquered the world before anyone else.

59E59 Theaters

1h 15m

Closes: Jun 7, 2026

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
$
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Musical

Quirky kids compete in a cutthroat spelling bee in this heartfelt comedy about the agony and ecstasy of adolescence.

New World Stages

1h 45m

Closes: Sep 6, 2026

Dad Don't Read This
Closing Soon
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.

Dad Don't Read This

Play

A world premiere bringing audiences into the lives of teenagers.

St. Luke's Theatre

Closes: May 24, 2026

Heathers: The Musical
$
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.

Heathers: The Musical

Musical

The pitch-black cult-classic musical about high school's deadliest social hierarchy. Now extended through September.

New World Stages

2h 30m

Closes: Sep 6, 2026

Jerome
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.

Jerome

Play

At the height of the AIDS epidemic, a stranger arrives in a ghost town seeking refuge.

Playwrights Horizons

Closes: Jun 21, 2026

The Maids
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.7:30 P.M.

The Maids

Play

Two maids role play their darkest fantasies about their mistress until performance and reality begin to blur. A digital-age reimagining of Genet's masterpiece.

St. Ann's Warehouse

1h 40m

Closes: Jun 14, 2026

Mexodus
$
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.

Mexodus

Musical

A live-looping hip-hop musical telling the untold story of enslaved Americans who escaped to Mexico.

Daryl Roth Theatre

1h 30m

Closes: Jun 14, 2026

New Born
$
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.

New Born

Play

Three lives. Three monologues. Tiny choices ripple across centuries and continents.

Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre

Closes: Jun 8, 2026

The People Versus Lenny Bruce
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.

The People Versus Lenny Bruce

Play

The true story of a comedian's obscenity trial and the lawyer who tried to save him.

Theatre Row

Closes: Jun 27, 2026

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.
Curtain in 1h 15m
7:30 P.M.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.

Play

A playwright dramatizes her broken relationship, but passion blurs into obsession.

59E59 Theaters

1h 15m

Closes: Jun 7, 2026

KENREX
Curtain in 1h 45m
8:00 P.M.

KENREX

Solo Show

One actor, 35 characters — the true story of a small-town bully, a reign of terror, and mob justice.

Lucille Lortel Theatre

3h 35m

Closes: Jun 27, 2026

Perfect Crime
$
Curtain in 1h 45m
8:00 P.M.

Perfect Crime

Play

A psychiatrist becomes the main suspect when her husband is murdered.

The Theater Center

2h 0m

Petite Rouge by Company XIV
Closing Soon
$
Curtain in 1h 45m
8:00 P.M.

Petite Rouge by Company XIV

Other

Company XIV turns Little Red Riding Hood into a burlesque show with aerial acts.

Théâtre XIV

1h 30m

Closes: May 24, 2026

A Woman Among Women
Curtain in 1h 45m
8:00 P.M.

A Woman Among Women

Play

On a summer day in Northampton, the founder of a women's wellness center hosts guests in her backyard as tensions threaten to destroy the community she built.

Claire Tow Theater

Closes: Jun 28, 2026

Memoirs of a Drag Queen
Closing Soon
Curtain in 2h 15m
8:30 P.M.

Memoirs of a Drag Queen

Solo Show

A one-person musical tracing a performer's journey from shy childhood to creative freedom through drag.

American Theatre of Actors

Closes: May 24, 2026