Off-Broadway experiences -2025/2026

[Melissa25]

Posted: 12/20/25 at 11:35am

Here are my best Off-Broadway experiences for 2025. I have made an effort to support more regional theaters so I am including a section on that too along with what I am looking forward to in 2026.  

I would love to hear your best of Off-Broadway and Regional theater experiences of 2025 as well as what you are looking forward to the most in 2026.

Off-Broadway 2025

Excellent (4-5 Stars):

And Then We Were No More - LaMama

Gotta Dance - York Theater Company

Grangeville - Signature Theater

Meet the Cartozians - 2nd Stage

Wine in the Wilderness - Classic Stage Company

 

Enjoyable (3 Stars):

Ava:The Secret Conversations 

Deep Blue Sound - Clubbed Thumb

Liberation - Roundabout

Lunar Eclipse - 2nd Stage

The Seat of Our Pants - The Public

We Had a World - Manhattan Theater Company

 

Underwhelming / Not for Me (1-2 Stars):

This World of Tomorrow - The Shed 

 

Best Road-trip Theater Experiences:

A Case for the Existence of God – Chester Theater Company – Chester, MA

Anne of Green Gables – Stratford Festival – Ontario, Canada

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Stratford Festival – Ontario, Canada

Frozen – Papermill

fuzzy – Barrington Stage – Pittsfield, MA

Hello Dolly – Lyric Stage – Boston, MA

Maltby & Shire’s revue About Time – Goodspeed Terris Theater – Chester, CT

Murder on the Links – Two River Theater – Red Bank, NJ

The Light in the Piazza – The Huntington – Boston, MA

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) – A.R.T. – Cambridge, MA

 

Looking forward to in 2026:

Musicals

1776 - Papermill

A Chorus Line - Barrington Stage

Black Swan - A.R.T. Cambridge, MA

Cold War Choir Practice - MCC / Clubbed Thumb (play with music)

Elephant Shoes - Deaf West / Two River Theater Company - Red Bank, NJ

Girl, Interrupted - The Public

Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo - PACNYC

Monte Cristo - York Theater Company

Spelling Bee - New World Stages

Starstruck - Buck’s County Playhouse

Sweeney Todd - Hartford Stage - Hartford, CT

The Snow Goose - Goodspeed - East Haddam, CT

West Side Story - Papermill

Young Frankenstein - Theater 3 - Port Jefferson, NY

Plays

A Woman Among Women - Lincoln Center Theater

Chinese Republicans - Roundabout

Eureka Day - The Huntington – Boston, MA

Marcel on the Train - Classic Stage

Mother Russia - Signature Theater

The Cannibals of McGower County - Theaterworks Hartford

The Dinosaurs - Playwrights Horizons

You Got Older - Cherry Lane