THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW & More Lead Top Off-Broadway Shows for February 2023
Each month we're rounding up 10 off-Broadway recommendations for audiences not to miss!
By: Team BWW Feb. 01, 2023
What's happening off-Broadway? BroadwayWorld is helping you pick what to see next by rounding up our top recommended theatre each month. Coming up off-Broadway this February is a revival from a beloved playwright, a New York City premiere, and so much more!
THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW
BAM Harvey Theater
February 4- March 19, 2023
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in Lorraine Hansberry's sweeping drama of identity, idealism, and love. The A Raisin in the Sun playwright invites us into Greenwich Village in the 60s, crafting a razor-sharpportrait of a diverse group of friends whose loudly proclaimed progressive dreams can't quite match up with reality. At the center are Sidney and Iris Brustein, fighting to see if their marriage-with all its crackling wit, passion, and petty cruelty-will be the final sacrifice to Sidney's ideals.
WOLF PLAY
Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
Now through March 5, 2023
When an off-the-record adoption goes awry, Jeenu's new parents learn just how far a wolf will go to defend its pack. Hansol Jung's Wolf Play is directed by Dustin Wills with exuberant imagination as MCC brings the critically acclaimed sold out Soho Rep production back to the stage.
THE FUNIKIJAM SHOW
Actors Temple Theatre
Now through March 31, 2023
Inspired by the award-winning FunikiJam World Music classes, original kids music, and popular videos created by Brian Barrentine, The FunikiJam Show encourages audiences to use imagination and musical tools to complete "Special Missions" that explore world culture and open doors to conversations about diversity and our changing world.
CORNELIA STREET
Atlantic Stage 2
Now through March 5, 2023
In a back street in the West Village, Jacob Towney tries to save the restaurant that has been his home for longer than he can remember and release his daughter to the life he dreams she can have. His place is a home for the odd ghosts of the Village. It is out of place and out of time and running out of luck. The world premiere musical features a book by Tony Award winner Simon Stephens, music and lyrics by Mark Eitzel, choreography by two-time "Bessie Award" winner Hope Boykin, directed by Tony Award nominee Neil Pepe.
THE WANDERERS
Laura Pels Theatre
Now through March 26, 2023
From playwright Anna Ziegler (The Last Match) comes the New York premiere of a play that ripples across cultures, challenging two very different couples with the same question: Can we be happy with what we have while we have it? Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli are newly married, and their future is written in the laws of the Torah. Secular Jew Abe is a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future...until an unexpected email from a movie star puts his marriage to the test and threatens to prove him wrong.
ENDGAME
Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
Now through March 12, 2023
Endgame, Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett's (1906-1989) favorite play, is a tragicomedy of epic proportions. Written in a macabre intensity of mood, it represents the playwright's fierce declaration of oblivion in a world populated with its last survivors. The play, about the end of everything, moves inexorably to its own conclusion, with its own humor bursting out of the bounds of Beckett's dark account of the Earth's last whimper.
THE BEST WE COULD
New York City Center Stage (i)
February 7- March 1, 2023
A daughter's road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. This funny, wise, and heartbreaking debut from an exciting new writer will be brought to vibrant life by director Daniel Aukin, whom MTC audiences will remember from Fool for Love and Fulfillment Center.
THE TREES
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
February 12- March 19, 2023
We say we're all in it together - but are we, all in the same way? In a dinky park next to their father's house, a brother and sister unwittingly establish a queer kind of society that tries to sustain itself in a mercenary world. Agnes Borinsky's The Trees investigates our dreams of stability and asks - who is it for, and at what cost?
THE COAST STARLIGHT
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
February 16- April 16, 2023
In Keith Bunin's new play, a young man armed with a secret that can land him in terrible trouble boards the Coast Starlight, the long-distance train that runs from Los Angeles to Seattle. With the help of his fellow travelers, all of whom are reckoning with their own choices, he has roughly one thousand miles to figure out a way forward. The Coast Starlight is a smart, funny, and compassionate story about our capacity for invention and re-invention when life goes off the rails.
BLACK ODYSSEY
Classic Stage Company
February 9- March 26, 2023
Obie-winning playwright Marcus Gardley blends classic mythology, African-American history, and modern theatricality to create the poetic black odyssey. This vibrant reimagining of the Odysseus saga is set in modern-day Harlem, telling the epic tale of Ulysses Lincoln, a soldier facing the most daunting of voyages to reunite with his family. While fate may seem in control of Ulysses' destiny, his ancestors and their buried history will help guide his journey home.
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