THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN & More Lead Top Off-Broadway Shows for April 2023
Each month we're rounding up 10 off-Broadway recommendations for audiences not to miss!
By: Team BWW Apr. 03, 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 April is the return of a long-running musical, a debut play by a bestselling author, and more.
DÍA Y NOCHE
Presented by LAByrinth Theater Company
Now through April 15, 2023
Sex, drugs, queerness, and punk-rock. Welcome to border city life in El Paso, Texas, 1984.
DÍA Y NOCHE is an unfiltered coming-of-age story about class struggles and the search for acceptance between two unlikely friends. Danny is a lower middle-class Chicano punk-rock kid who thinks he might be an artist. Martin is a Black upper-middle class band nerd who is gay and in the closet. Danny and Martin double-date, watch X-rated movies, go to concerts and try to overcome great odds as they navigate the racism and corruption greeting them at the doors to adulthood.
This production contains strong language, violence, nudity, and sexual content.
NEWSICAL THE MUSICAL
AMT Theater
Running now
From George Santos and Joe Biden to Angela Basset doing "the thing", no one in the news is safe from the always changing musical mockery that is NEWSical The Musical! The 5th longest-running musical in Off-Broadway history, and winner of the 2011 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical, NEWSical The Musical, is returning to the boards with new sketches, songs and parodies to tackle all the latest headlines. Playing Sunday and Monday nights, each week with a new guest star, NEWSical returns to Off-Broadway to the newly renovated AMT Theater located in Hell's Kitchen.
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SANCOCHO
WP Theater
Now through April 16, 2023
Simmering between two Puerto Rican sisters is a family tension that finally comes to a boil. Forced to confront the reality of their father's rapidly declining health, Renata and Caridad clash over cultural divides, unearth old wounds, and reveal long-buried secrets. As Caridad's sancocho bubbles on the stove, will the two sisters reconcile their past resentments to face their uncertain futures - together?
STRANGER SINGS! THE PARODY MUSICAL
Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's
Now through August 13, 2023
Take a trip back to Hawkins, Indiana: 1983... when times were simpler, hair was bigger, and unsupervised children were getting snatched by inter-dimensional creatures.
STRANGER SINGS! THE PARODY MUSICAL is a wild and irreverent send-up of the hit Netflix series - and all it's campy 1980's glory. Join Mike, Eleven, Lucas, Dustin, and the whole Hawkins gang for a night of adventure, thrills, indulgent pop culture references, pubescent angst, heavy synth, poor parenting, convoluted love triangles, cheap effects, singing monsters, and maybe, just maybe... justice for everyone's favorite frumpy ginger, Barb Holland.
VANITIES - THE MUSICAL
Now through April 22, 2023
Vanities-The Musical is a heartfelt and humorous chronicle of the lives of three women, Joanne, Kathy, and Mary, tracing them from their late teen years through adulthood. They grow and change, testing the limits of what they thought they knew about themselves, as well as the narrow views of women society has presented them.
The cast includes Jade Jones (Beauty and The Beast, Olney Theatre Center; New York stage debut) as Mary, Amy Keum (KPOP, Broadway) as Kathy, and Hayley Podschun (Hello, Dolly!, Broadway; Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood, The York), as Joanne. Olivia Kaufmann (Mean Girls, Broadway) will stand by for Mary, Joanne, and Kathy.
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WALKING WITH BUBBLES
AMT Theater
Now through June 18, 2023
Meet Jessica - A single mom and Broadway actress hell-bent on making her dreams come true. But, it's harder to keep up the act when a secret from her past follows her and her young son, 'Bubbles', to the Big Apple. Jessica Hendy's intimate first-person narrative invites audiences into her seemingly perfect New York City life from center stage as a Broadway leading lady into to the depths of a volatile mental illness.
Walking With Bubbles explores mental illness and how far a mother will go for her son, her family, and ultimately herself.
THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN
BAM Harvey Theater
Now through April 16, 2023
In her debut play, bestselling author Zadie Smith-whose books include the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel On Beauty- gives us Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s holding court at a North West London pub. After a sold-out, critically acclaimed run, this modern translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comes to the Harvey Theater at BAM Strong. Directed by Indhu Rubasingham, with an ensemble cast starring Clare Perkins in a stunning, exhilarating performance, this exuberant and verbally inventive play showcases the pleasures of Smith's quick wit. Rich with frank sexuality, it celebrates free expression and the human urge both to live stories and share them.
YES, I CAN SAY THAT!
Now through, Apr 16, 2023
Judy Gold knows the value of a good joke - and the steep price of silencing comedians. Unnerved and infuriated, Judy shares her reverence for the intimacy of collective laughter and her passion for the vital work comedians do to bring us together, make us think, and speak truth to power.
Based on her book "Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble," the comedy veteran is taking the stage to tell the fascists and crybabies to shove their hate and political correctness up their respective asses. This wickedly funny new one-woman show is a big-mouthed and big-hearted call for truth, kindness, common sense, and most of all, laughter.
SHADOW/LAND
April 20- May 21, 2023
Premiering as an audio play at The Public, 2021 Susan Blackburn Prize winner Erika Dickerson-Despenza's SHADOW/LAND returns in Spring 2023 with a stunning live production. Magalee and her daughter Ruth are faced with the question of legacy when Ruth coaxes Magalee to sell their historic family-owned business as Hurricane Katrina begins her ruin. Directed by Lilly Award winner Candis C. Jones, SHADOW/LAND is the first installment of a 10-play cycle traversing the Katrina diaspora in an examination of the ongoing effects of disaster, evacuation, displacement, and urban renewal rippling in and beyond New Orleans.
ROBIN & ME: MY LITTLE SPARK OF MADNESS
Abingdon Theatre Company
April 15th- May 14, 2023
Dave's got a lot on his mind and the only person who can help him unpack it all is his imaginary friend and real life idol: Robin Williams.
Robin and Me: My Little Spark Of Madness is an autobiographical play that follows Dave Droxler as he becomes multiple characters and whimsically relives hilarious and difficult life moments, including the times when his father dropped the ball and Robin stepped in to get him through. But how long will it take before Dave learns how to do it without Robin's help?
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