What's Closing Soon on Broadway & Off-Broadway: April 2026

It's closing time! Last call to catch some of your favorite stars in action on and off Broadway, including a star-studded comedy, a critically acclaimed thriller, and more. Get your tickets to these shows now before they are gone for good.  

Check out which shows are closing in April 2026 below and learn more about what's coming to Broadway in 2026, and the best shows on Broadway right now.

Closing Soon on Broadway

The Man Who Would Be King (Off-Bway, 4/3/2026)
Set in 1888 Imperial British India, The Man Who Would Be King is a period musical based on Rudyard Kipling’s novella of the same name. This musical adaptation follows two rogues who chase imperial dreams into the remote Hindu Kush, where they attempt to rule a mythical culture as kings. Their hunger for power leads to betrayal and catastrophe, leaving one man to return home and tell a journalist the compelling story of greed, hubris, star-crossed romance, and empire undone.

Teatro La Plaza's Hamlet (Off-Bway, 4/4/2026)
In this brilliant, funny, and moving adaptation, Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari intertwines the text of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with the lived experiences of a young ensemble of eight actors with Down syndrome. With wry humor, playful energy, pop music, and pointed critique, the performers confront the play’s timeless themes—grief, revenge, and existence—with striking honesty and insight. Drawing resonant parallels between Shakespeare’s Denmark and our contemporary world, they offer a vision of a more just and joyful imagined future. Hailed internationally and presented in 11 countries, Teatro la Plaza returns to New York City as part of TFANA’s ’26 season following an appearance at Lincoln Center’s Big Umbrella Festival.

An Ark (Off-Bway, 4/4/2026)
An Ark is a lyrical meditation on the human condition, traversing the span of a lifetime in just 47 immersive, affecting minutes. From the wonder of childhood and the joy of first love to the complexities of parenting and the inevitability of death, the play invites audiences into a deeply personal exploration of what it means to live, to grieve, and to connect.

Chinese Republicans (Off-Bway, 4/5/2026)
Three high-powered businesswomen meet for lunch every month to discuss their latest career triumphs, as they’ve done for decades. But the group is jolted when Katie, a bright-eyed 24-year-old new to the workforce, joins to navigate the world of corporate finance. As each of the women attempts to steer Katie towards what they’re certain is best, they’re forced to grapple with how much they already have and are willing to sacrifice to climb the corporate ladder. Shifting between sharp-tongued humor and the harsh realities of modern capitalism, this world premiere production explores themes of assimilation, intergenerational conflict, and gender politics in the workplace—all with unflinching wit and empathy. Chinese Republicans is a new play from a thrilling new American voice, and tells a truly American story.

Monte Cristo: A New Musical (Off-Bway, 4/5/2026)
A sweeping musical adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ beloved novel. Monte Cristo tells the epic story of a man wrongfully imprisoned who returns richer, wiser, and bent on vengeance. But as his carefully orchestrated plan unfolds, he must face the ultimate question: is justice enough without love?

Cold War Choir Practice (Off-Bway, 4/5/2026)
Dear Santa, for Christmas this year I want a Pound Puppy, a Speak + Spell, and a nuclear radiation detector. In this celebrated play, a young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults—underscored by the cryptic Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.

Bughouse (Off-Bway, 4/5/2026)
Visionary director Martha Clarke brings us inside the mind of one of the 20th century’s most startling outsider artists, Henry Darger — a reclusive janitor whose extraordinary body of paintings and writings was only fully discovered after his death. In his cramped Chicago apartment, Darger created a vast, fantastical universe, filled with child warriors, epic battles, and haunting beauty – an alternate reality through which he could escape his own. With text adapted from Darger’s own writings by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), featuring an unforgettable visual and aural landscape, and starring Obie Award-winning performance artist John Kelly, Bughouse offers an intimate examination of a self-taught artist’s compulsion to create — even when no one is watching.

About Time (Off-Bway, 4/5/2026)
About Time, the new Maltby and Shire musical revue with music by Academy Award and Grammy Award winner David Shire and lyrics by Tony Award winner Richard Maltby Jr. will premiere off-Broadway at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater. About Time completes a trilogy that the authors didn’t know they were writing. Starting Here, Starting Now, which premiered off-Broadway in 1977, used a candid, conversational songwriting style to capture the exhilaration and uncertainty of early adulthood. More than a decade later, Closer Than Ever turned its focus to adult relationships, ambition, compromise, and reinvention. Now, About Time will complete the picture of a life story.

Antigone in Analysis (Off-Bway, 4/5/2026)
This contemporary makeover of Antigone reimagines the classical Greek myth with a metaphysical twist: a salon of great thinkers from across time conjures Sophocles' play, putting Jocasta on the throne to square off with Antigone. Their meddling erupts in a mother-daughter throwdown that interrogates patriarchal storytelling through a feminist lens. And there is no battle more fiercely fought than that between a daughter and her mother.

The Last Five Years (Off-Bway, 4/7/2026)
A man, a woman, a marriage…which lasted five years. The story, told in the exuberant and heart-rending songs of Jason Robert Brown, tells the story of the five years of a marriage, from intense love to a final, painful separation. However, there’s an intriguing twist: the man lives the five years from beginning to end, but the woman lives the five years backward, from end to beginning. Their “times” correspond only once, signaled by a remarkable duet. A “must-see…and hear.”

The Office! A Musical Parody (Off-Bway, 4/11/2026)
It's a typical morning at Scranton's third largest paper company until, for no logical reason, a documentary crew begins filming the lives of the employees of Dunder Mifflin…

The Paparazzi (Off-Bway, 4/11/2026)
"The Paparazzi" " centers its story on Christie, a talented, driven writer from Kansas who comes to New York hoping to write important features for the New York Times but instead lands at the New York Beacon, a trashy tabloid. At first repulsed, then accepting, then fanatical, Christie uses her talents to push herself to the top of the paparazzi world....only to discover how dangerous and destructive that world can be to the people who appear in her stories.

My Joy is Heavy (Off-Bway, 4/12/2026)
My Joy is Heavy by Obie-winning duo & NYTW Usual Suspects The Bengsons (Hundred Days, The Keep Going Songs) is a deeply personal portrait of a young family yearning for connection amidst the loss of a pregnancy in rural isolation. Surrounded by snow and wrapped in loneliness, they uncover the unexpected joys and humor that can emerge in the wake of loss.

Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Off-Bway, 4/12/2026)
A riveting take on Sophocles’ classic, ANTIGONE (THIS PLAY I READ IN HIGH SCHOOL) reimagines the story of Oedipus’ daughter Antigone through a bold new lens. Written by award-winning playwright Anna Ziegler, this lyrical epic follows a fiercely independent young woman determined to control her own body in a kingdom ruled by archaic laws that regulate women’s autonomy. Incisively witty and breathtakingly intelligent, ANTIGONE (THIS PLAY I READ IN HIGH SCHOOL) paints a world that is both modern and ancient; a world of lost leaders, hapless cops, and one very righteous daughter on an all-night bender.

Jesa (Off-Bway, 4/12/2026)
JESA by Jeena Yi, directed by Mei Ann Teo, is a riotous and heart-wrenching new play that explodes the idea of the “perfect family gathering.” When four estranged Korean American sisters reunite in Orange County to perform their father’s Jesa—a traditional ritual honoring the dead—old wounds erupt, secrets surface, and ghosts (literal and emotional) refuse to stay buried. With razor-sharp dialogue, explosive humor, and unexpected tenderness, JESA asks how we honor our ancestors when we can barely stand each other. Come for the sibling brawls and burning shrimp, stay for the aching truth of what binds us.

Public Charge (Off-Bway, 4/12/2026)
In 1982, seven-year-old Julissa immigrates to the U.S from the Dominican Republic. In 2009, she leaves her successful practice at a Wall Street law firm to supervise Caribbean and Central American Affairs for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. PUBLIC CHARGE chronicles the challenging education of a twenty-first century American diplomat as she works with scores of other dedicated public servants to deploy humanitarian aid to an earthquake-ravaged Haiti, navigate the roiling politics of immigration, confront the reality of international espionage, and free a wrongly imprisoned American from a Cuban prison. This bracing world premiere by former United States Ambassador Julissa Reynoso and award-winning playwright Michael J. Chepiga is, at its core, about a group of Americans who believe, sometimes against all appearances to the contrary, that their government might actually be a force for good upon the frighteningly chaotic world stage. 

The Unknown (Off-Bway, 4/12/2026)
Desperate to cure his writer’s block, Elliott retreats to a remote cabin—only to discover he may not be alone. As the boundaries between his work and his life collapse, Elliott begins to question everything he knows. Is he writing a thriller? Living one? Both? The Unknown is a provocative thriller by award-winning playwright David Cale that explores the fine line between fascination and obsession.

Calf Scramble (Off-Bway, 4/12/2026)
Deep in a dusty East Texas barn, five teenage girls raise calves and wrestle with what it means to be good – at school, at God, at girlhood. CALF SCRAMBLE is a fiercely original, darkly funny coming-of-age tale soaked in sweat, scripture, and competition, where faith is tangled with survival, and tenderness bucks like a wild animal.

How My Grandparents Fell in Love (Off-Bway, 4/18/2026)
In 1933, a Polish-born Jew named Charlie returns to Rovno in search of a bride after ten years living in America. Walking the streets of his hometown, he can’t help but notice the beautiful woman who works at the hat shop. Chava has spent her entire life in Rovno and hopes to become a scholar. While Charlie tries to woo her over blintzes and dancing, she remains determined to pursue her education despite the growing clouds of European antisemitism.

Silver Manhattan (Off-Bway, 4/19/2026)
World-renowned singer-songwriter JESSE MALIN presents SILVER MANHATTAN, a “funny and candid” (New York Times) coming-of-age story of creative survival. Malin has graced stages from CBGB’s to Madison Square Garden, collaborating with Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, Green Day, and many more legends, but in 2023, he suffered a rare spinal stroke paralyzing him from the waist down. Jesse had a decision to make: give up on his life and career or fight. SILVER MANHATTAN is a rock and roll story of human resilience fueled by the power of music.

Titus Andronicus (Off-Bway, 4/19/2026)
Revenge is on the menu. Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble family. But when his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen Tamora and her lover Aaron the Moor release a fury that brings Titus, his family, and all of Rome to their knees. The play’s exploration of humankind's capacity for inhumanity is shockingly contemporary, brought to searing new life in a production directed by Jesse Berger and starring the incomparable Patrick Page as Titus, one of Shakespeare’s most demanding tragic roles.

Off the Record: Acts of Restorative Justice (Off-Bway, 4/19/2026)
OFF THE RECORD: Acts of Restorative Justice is a theatrical intervention aimed directly at the American Criminal Justice System and a call for audiences to activate their activism and stoke the fires of change. Invoking magic, mysticism, hard-facts, and carnival games, this performance will help audiences build their tool kit to take the necessary next steps toward fostering systemic transformation.

Fanny a Fantasy in G (Off-Bway, 4/19/2026)
Set in Berlin in 1828, the play follows composer Fanny Mendelssohn as she pursues recognition as a published composer in a society that restricts women’s artistic ambitions. As she navigates expectations from her family and pressures within German society, she attempts to claim her musical voice and identity.

Heartbreak Hotel (Off-Bway, 4/19/2026)
This one’s for the young hearts, the old hearts, and the broken hearts. From the acclaimed New Zealand company EBKM comes a new comedy about grief. Karin McCracken is a woman navigating heartbreak and Simon Leary plays all the men in her life in this funny and moving show that is studded with lo-fi covers of classic breakup songs, bad dates and attempted fresh starts. It ingeniously incorporates science and technology to give us a holistic picture of heartbreak’s impact on our bodies and minds. You’ll want to cry. You’ll want to laugh. Welcome to the Heartbreak Hotel.

Ismael Loutfi: Heavenly Baba (Off-Bway, 4/25/2026)
Heavenly Baba explores Ismael Loutfi’s relationship with his deeply religious immigrant father — affectionately known as “Baba,” and chronicles Baba’s attempt to convert the entire state of Florida to Islam by painting Islamic slogans all over his car. A nuanced discussion on identity, self-discovery, and belonging, Heavenly Baba examines the contradictions of growing up Muslim in America, and invites audiences into a world shaped by devotion, contradiction, and generational love.

Milk and Honey (Off-Bway, 4/26/2026)
Milk and Honey, Jerry Herman’s first Broadway book musical, takes audiences to the early days of Israel, where a group of American widows arrive in search of adventure and maybe, even a second chance at love. While in Jerusalem, one of the tourists, Ruth, meets Phil, an American visiting his daughter, and they have an immediate connection. Their newfound love is complicated by unresolved problems back home. As they journey through a nation being built from the ground up, the pair must navigate the difficult choices that come with new beginnings.

Bigfoot! A New Musical (Off-Bway, 4/26/2026)
Set in the town of Muddirt, a glow-in-the-dark oasis that exists somewhere between a chemical dump site and a nuclear power plant, BIGFOOT! is a larger-than-life musical tale of corrupt politicians, small town paranoia, and misunderstood youth. When that youth happens to be eight feet tall, innocent, and in dire need of electrolysis, it makes him more than a target. It makes him the subject of a can’t miss can’t-myth musical comedy.

You Got Older (Off-Bway, 4/26/2026)
After losing both her job and her boyfriend, an unmoored and unsettled Mae returns to her small Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father. When she meets a mysterious stranger, she has the startling realization that maybe the intimacy she’s been craving is easier with the unknown, rather than with her own family. Blending reality and fantasy, You Got Older reunites Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron with Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Anne Kauffman for this tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.

The Pushover (Off-Bway, 4/26/2026)
THE PUSHOVER is a play about three bad-ass women who collide and collude at a spa in New Mexico, and a bare-bones Asian restaurant in Queens. Dangerous and hungry, their weapons and their passions bleed into each other. They speak the language of the outcast, rough and sexual, and fight to survive, and to love.

Spare Parts (Off-Bway, 4/30/2026)
A provocative question lies at the heart of Spare Parts, a daring new play by acclaimed writer David J. Glass, making its world premiere this spring. Set against the backdrop of radical aging research funded by a billionaire’s quest for eternal life, Spare Parts confronts the blurred lines between science, identity, and morality — and asks the question few dare to say out loud: what does it cost to live forever? Spare Parts is a sharp, darkly funny, and deeply unsettling new play that collides cutting-edge science with unchecked ambition. Spare Parts explores power, consent, memory, and the lengths humanity will go to outrun death.