If you’re a theater lover, you know that there’s much more to see than the mega-hits running on Broadway. Off-Broadway is equally inventive and gives you a chance to be more up-close and personal in smaller venues. For those of you who have been lax in buying tickets to these shows, now’s the time to go: NYC & Company, New York City’s official marketing, tourism, and partnership organization has announced the opening of Off-Broadway Week. Through October 6, two-for-one tickets to 43 of New York City’s popular Off-Broadway shows will be available to a wide range of theatrical genres including comedies, dramas, musicals, family-friendly entertainment and more. Tickets are available at nycgo.com/offbroadwayweek. Be sure to check the dates, as some blackout dates apply.
Some of my favorites are listed below including Avenue Q and the wildly inventive iLuminate: Artist of Light, a dance troupe seen on “America’s Got Talent” with fabulous music, artistry, light, drama, and, above all, incredible creativity. Others like Stomp and Blue Man Group aren’t new to the Off-Broadway scene, but they’re definitely worth a re-visit if it’s been a while since you first saw them. Thank you to The Off-Broadway League for offering this fantastic list of shows at these special prices.
Productions participating in Off-Broadway Week include:
- Avenue Q
- Avi Hoffman’s Still Jewish After All These Years
- The Awesome 80s Prom
- Bad Jews
- Bayside! The Musical!
- The Berenstain Bears in Family Matters, the Musical
- Bill W. and Dr. Bob
- Black Angels Over Tuskegee
- Blue Man Group
- Breakfast with Mugabe
- Buyer & Cellar
- Cougar the Musical
- Cuff Me: The Unauthorized Fifty Shades of Grey Musical Parody!
- Doña Flor y sus Dos Maridos
- En el Tiempo de las Mariposas
- The Fantasticks
- Fetch Clay, Make Man
- Final Analysis
- Fuerza Bruta
- Gazillion Bubble Show
- iLuminate: Artist of Light
- It’s Just Sex
- La Gringa
- La Nena Se Casa
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Me and Jezebel
- The Model Apartment
- My Big Gay Italian Funeral
- My Big Gay Italian Wedding
- NYC Dueling Pianos
- Perfect Crime
- Peter and the Starcatcher
- Philip Goes Forth
- Piggy Nation The Musical!
- Romeo & Juliet
- Sistas: The Musical
- STOMP
- Tennessee Williams’ “Two-Character Play”
- Thokoza: I Sing For Freedom
- Unbroken Circle
- Women or Nothing
- The Wonderful Wizard of Song: The Music of Harold Arlen
- You Never Can Tell