What's Closing Soon on Broadway & Off-Broadway: March 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 March 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

All Out: Comedy About Ambition (Broadway, 3/8/2026)
From the writer of last year’s runaway hit, ALL IN: COMEDY ABOUT LOVE, comes ALL OUT: COMEDY ABOUT AMBITION. Here’s how it works: a group of the funniest people on earth gather on Broadway (four at a time) to read hilarious stories by Simon Rich about ego, envy, greed, and basically just New Yorkers in general. The show is directed by Tony Award® winner Alex Timbers (Oh, Hello) and is produced by Seaview and Lorne Michaels, and they promise that it will be good.

Bug (Broadway, 3/8/2026)
From Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) and Tony Award-winning director David Cromer (Prayer for the French Republic, The Band's Visit) comes the Broadway premiere of Steppenwolf’s acclaimed staging of a cult classic about an unexpected and intense romance between a lonely waitress (Carrie Coon) and a mysterious drifter (Namir Smallwood). What begins as a simple connection between two broken people in a seedy Oklahoma motel room twists into something far more dangerous. When reality slips out of grasp, paranoia, delusion, and conspiracy take over in this sexy psychological thriller. The New York Times warns, "Buckle up and brace yourself because Bug is obscenely exciting."

Closing Soon Off-Broadway

The Waterfall (Off-Bway, 3/8/2026)
I REALLY DO LOVE YOU. I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU Returning home to assist her mother after a hospitalization, Haitian-American Bean soon finds her confidence shaken by her mother’s idea of what her life should be. Stuck at home, with nowhere to run from her mother’s ideas of marriage, motherhood, and malady, Bean must ask, “Do you know who you want to be? And are you brave enough to own it?” The Waterfall is an intimate and aching two-hander about the generational divides around family, womanhood, and the idea of the American Dream.

The Dinosaurs (Off-Bway, 3/8/2026)
Every week at the same time, in the same place, a group of women share their stories of recovery. As weeks slip into years and decades spin into eternity, the women keep coming back amidst an ever-shifting, unfamiliar world. Jacob Perkins’ The Dinosaurs is a piercingly funny, loving ode to the infinite, innately human battle between holding on and letting go.

Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (Off-Bway, 3/8/2026)
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, one of Bertolt Brecht’s most essential and explicitly anti-Nazi works, is rarely produced in the United States. Structured as a series of 18 interconnected vignettes, the play depicts daily life in 1930s Germany as Hitler rises to power and ordinary citizens are gradually consumed by poverty, surveillance, violence, fear, and mutual distrust. Rather than focusing on the spectacle of dictatorship, Brecht exposes how authoritarianism takes root in homes, workplaces, and private relationships. At a moment when art was expected to soothe or distract, Brecht intentionally disrupted the theatrical form itself, rejecting passive empathy in favor of critical awareness. His work demands that audiences think, question, and take responsibility for their social position rather than simply feel. That kind of disruption, once aimed at resisting fascism in 1930s Germany, feels necessary again in an America where political theatre is being asked not just to reflect reality, but to challenge it.

Pen Pals A New Play (Off-Bway, 3/8/2026)
Inspired by a true story, Pen Pals invites audiences into the lives of Bernie and Mags—two women whose bond, forged in adolescence, endures for decades without them ever meeting in person. A story of connection, resilience, and the unbreakable bond between friends, Pen Pals is as poignant as it is powerful.

Mother Russia (Off-Bway, 3/15/2026)
St. Petersburg, 1992: the Soviet Union has collapsed, McDonald’s has risen, and Evgeny, a young man at a loss, stumbles into a job working surveillance with his old friend Dmitri. Their target: Katya, a former pop singer with questionable allegiances and a mysterious past. As their lives riotously intertwine, Evgeny finds himself falling in love and losing his bearings, all while grappling with the taste of freedom (and fast food) along the way. Lauren Yee’s (CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, THE GREAT LEAP) savvy, off-kilter tale of identity, espionage, and the cost of capitalism makes its New York premiere in this razor-sharp dark comedy.

Hold Onto Your Butts (Off-Bway, 3/15/2026)
Following its West End debut, a UK tour, and a sold-out return to the Edinburgh Fringe, HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS will be performed by two actors and a Foley artist who create every character and sound effect live onstage. The production uses physical theatre and simple props to reinterpret the visual effects of the original film. Recent Cutbacks will present the production as part of a SoHo Playhouse program that highlights work presented at international Fringe festivals.

THE HULA-HOOPIN' QUEEN (Off-Bway, 3/15/2026)
10-year-old Kameeka is determined to become the Hula Hoopin’ Queen of 139th Street and finally beat her rival, Jamara Johnson. But when her mom reminds her it’s Miz Adeline’s birthday, Kameeka has to help get the party ready instead. As the day unfolds with cleaning, cooking, and a few hilarious mishaps, Kameeka discovers that while it’s great to chase your dreams, sometimes the most important thing is showing love and care for those around you.

The Office! A Musical Parody (Off-Bway, 3/21/2026)
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…

Marcel on the Train (Off-Bway, 3/22/2026)
History remembers Marcel Marceau as the world’s greatest mime. But before the spotlight, he was a young man in Nazi-occupied France, guiding Jewish children to safety with nothing but courage and imagination. In the shadows of World War II, Marcel on the Train reveals the man behind the invisible mask. Co-written by and starring Tony Award® nominee Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants, Wicked), this inventive new play shows us how, sometimes, the loudest resistance begins in the most quiet places.

The Monsters (Off-Bway, 3/22/2026)
For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she’s been doing it all from afar… until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep. Written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu (Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, The Last of the Love Letters) this world premiere is a sibling love story about reunions, resentment, reconnection, and wrestling with demons.

The Reservoir (Off-Bway, 3/22/2026)
Josh’s life is a mess. He’s moved home to Denver to get sober, but after years of drinking, the fog in his brain won’t lift. Struggling with memory loss, confusion, and shame he finds himself strangely in step with his four aging grandparents. The Reservoir is a funny, human play about memory, recovery, and the joys of cross-generational connection.

Spread (Off-Bway, 3/22/2026)
At a high school in Austin, Texas, four ninth-grade boys gather at lunchtime to make “spread,” or “Texas prison brick” from their snacks – dry ramen, hot chips, beef jerky, beans, hot water, all cooked in a bag. Jeffrey, Andrew, Chris, and Jordan play fight,tease, talk shit, and try their absolute best to be friends to each other on the brink of adulthood. Spread offers a glimpse inside the fullness of all a ninth-grade lunchtime might contain: all the brutal, sweet ways we might try to be with one another.

Zack (Off-Bway, 3/28/2026)
Meet Zack, a warm-hearted young man, whose innocent ineptitude leaves him open to abuse by his cold-blooded brother and scheming mother, who are trying to curry favor with a rich relative. Spoiler alert, Zack comes out on top and “there is something here about the importance of kindness and the underdog winning that makes the audience exude sighs of contentment…It’s a preposterous happy-ever-after tale, but one that should melt the most cynical heart”, says Lyn Gardner of The Guardian.

The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits (Off-Bway, 3/28/2026)
The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits centers around a mysterious dinner between two couples that unexpectedly erupts into a gripping 21st-century class war. As the characters clash with their wits, nostalgia, and sexual tensions, the play raises provocative questions about relationships and the complexities of a reunion with an ex-spouse and her new partner. This exploration of intimacy and rivalry is sure to resonate with contemporary audiences.

Trash (Off-Bway, 3/28/2026)
Tim and Jake are Deaf roommates sharing an apartment in the city—but not much else. They’re polar opposites, each with very different views on what it means to be Deaf in a hearing world. When it comes to taking out the trash, they spiral into a comic and insightful examination of their personal garbage and their perceptions of each other’s lives. Performed almost exclusively in ASL (American Sign Language), Trash employs surprising theatrical devices that allow all audiences to understand the play (and each other) in profoundly new ways.

The Wild Party (Off-Bway, 3/29/2026)
Adapted from a book-length poem written in and about the Roaring Twenties, Andrew Lippa's THE WILD PARTY tells the story of one wild evening in the Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville dancer and a vaudeville clown. In a relationship marked by vicious behavior and recklessness (mirroring the time in which they live), they decide to throw a party to end all parties!

Chasing Grace (Off-Bway, 3/29/2026)
Chasing Grace is an immersive, meta-musical that follows a writer in addiction recovery whose show is pulled toward commercial compromise - forcing a collision between art, truth, and survival. As the industry closes in, she must choose between a marketable version of her story and the one that could save her life. A mini-album recorded at MonoLisa Studios is available on major streaming platforms and at SheNYCArts.org/chasinggrace, offering a preview of the score's contemporary musical language and vocal power.

Cold War Choir Practice (Off-Bway, 3/29/2026)
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.

Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Off-Bway, 3/29/2026)
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.

DATA (Off-Bway, 3/29/2026)
Matthew Libby’s suspenseful new play DATA pulls back the curtain on Silicon Valley's darkest ambitions. When a brilliant young programmer learns his own algorithm is the key to a massive AI surveillance project, he’s forced to challenge the tech world he once dreamt of joining. Confronting today's most controversial headlines, this subversive thriller follows the terrifying choices at our fingertips—and the high cost of disrupting a system that tracks your every move.

Bughouse (Off-Bway, 3/29/2026)
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.

Silver Manhattan (Off-Bway, 3/29/2026)
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.

Night Side Songs (Off-Bway, 3/29/2026)
NIGHT SIDE SONGS is about the small human connections that make up the vast tapestry of our lives. Inspired by Susan Sontag’s insight that “illness is the night side of life,” this transformative new musical brings us together to explore how song heals us and empowers our spirits. With a stirring folk score by the acclaimed duo The Lazours (We Live in Cairo) and visionary direction by Taibi Magar (We Live in Cairo, Macbeth In Stride), NIGHT SIDE SONGS amplifies the voices of those who navigate the complexities of health—patients, caregivers, and medical professionals alike. What emerges is a moving portrait of how we show up for one another. How love can be the most powerful medicine. NIGHT SIDE SONGS reminds us of the strength we find in community, and the healing that happens when we truly listen.