The Players Theatre News

Writers and producers at The Drew Barrymore Show, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will come together (like the United Nations) for Time to Kill: A Sketch Comedy Show, a true sketch comedy variety show made up of the best comedians in New York City.

West Village audiences were enamored with Weeks Two and Three of the Players Theatre LUV 2023 Short Play Festival! Audiences chose their favorite for weeks two and three.

On Friday March 10th at 9:30pm at the Players Theatre in the heart of the West Village, the NYC Sketch Comedy Collective Sponsored By Presents: Spring Broke, an all new sketch comedy show.

Coming next month for one night only is a staged reading of the new (bound to be a hit) comedy/horror musical, PSYCHO GYNO. Inspired by shows like Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Heathers: The Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode, the playwright encourages audiences to come for the romance and stay for the blood and gore.

Audiences in the West Village were enchanted last weekend with the opening of the Players Theatre 11th LUV 2023 Short Play Festival.

The Players Theatre has announced that Raina Silver is joining the cast of The Little Mermaid the Musical, playing the title role of Coral, the Little Mermaid. The show runs February 25-April 12 at the Players Theatre in the West Village.

Collaborators Lauren Gundrum and Brandon Lambert are set to premiere their debut musical, I Love My Family, But…, at Soho Playhouse from February 23–April 8, 2023.

The wild, witty and just a little bit wet 'The Keepin' Cozy Show with Kitten Solloway' has confirmed the cast for February's upcoming performance on Saturday, February 25th at 9:30pm.

Once again extended, by popular demand, Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical will now run through April 30 at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's.

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The winners have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Off-Broadway Awards, honoring the best in off-Broadway shows which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.

The Little Mermaid the Musical is opening Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre February 25, 2023, bringing to life the undersea adventure of the beloved children's classic by Hans Christian Andersen.

spit&vigor returns to The Players Theatre to bring you the NYC premiere of Kelleen Conway Blanchard’s BLOOD COUNTESS, the riotous semi-true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who bathed in the blood of her victims throughout her reign of terror in the early 1600s (allegedly).

The January 27 performance of The Dog Show, playing at The Players Theatre January 12-29, will help raise money for the M.E.H. Lewis Memorial Fund housed at Chicago Dramatists.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) partners with Cate Cammarata of CreateTheater to present the 2023 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series, with the generous support of RK Greene and The StoryLine Project on Sundays, February 12 & 19, 2023 at 3pm.

The hit musical improv show True Crime the Musical has extended its monthly run at The Players Theatre through 2023. The show, which has been running at the theatre since 2021, is a unique comedy that combines music and murder to make for a hilarious evening in the West Village.

Ivan Faute’s new play The Dog Show opens at The Players Theatre in Greenwich Village on January 12. The production is directed by longtime collaborator and Christina Ashby. The production is part of The Players Theatre Residency Program to offer theater artists opportunities to move their work out of development.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 23rd annual series of new plays, now virtual, by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, as part of TRU Voices New Plays Virtual Reading Series on Sundays, February 12 & 19, 2023 at 3pm.

The new stage work BLOOD COUNTESS is playing now at The Players Theatre NYC. See photos from the production.

Cathy Carlton (AEA) is set to return to the New York stage after a long absence for the role of Pauline in The Dog Showpremiering at The Players Theater January 12-29.