The Players Theatre News

The New York sketch comedy team CRAIG is hosting a comedy show and interactive haunted house at The Players Theatre featuring some of NYC's funniest comedy performers and improvisers

Week 1 of Be Bold! Productions' 14th annual Short Play Festival BOO opened last weekend at the Players Theatre in the West Village. Learn more about the festival here!

The Little Pitchers—the improv comedy duo of Rory Scholl and Annie-Sage Whitehurst—will close out their 2025 monthly run of The Little Pitchers Presents with a three-show finale at Q.E.D. in Astoria, Queens, on October 15, November 19, and December 17 at 7:30 p.m.

Be Bold! Productions Sleepy Hollow the Musical continues its run Off-Broadway at the Players Theatre after previews this past weekend. The musical runs through Sunday, Nov 9. Check out photos of the production.

The Players Theatre the host for the Annual Boo Festival presents in association with Kingdom Theatre, the World Premiere Dark Comedy, Going to the Chapel. Learn more!

Silver Glass Productions will present the world premiere of HUCKA, written and directed by Suzanne Willett, now running through September 21 at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street in New York City. Inspired by Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, HUCKA will examine the idea of safe spaces. See photos of the show.

Be Bold! Productions will celebrate the Halloween season with the 14th Annual BOO Short Play and Music Festival at the Players Theatre in the West Village. Running October 2–19, 2025, the festival will showcase fifteen original short plays chosen from playwright submissions.

spit&vigor will present Parliament of Fools, a one-night-only comedy special from Friendo and Murder Bird, on September 25 at 8pm. The site-specific event takes place at spit&vigor’s tiny baby black box theater (115 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012).

Emerging Artists Theatre will present a developmental reading of the first act of Arsinoë IV, written and directed by David Ceci, on Thursday, September 11, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.

Be Bold! Productions has revealed the cast for the upcoming production of Sleepy Hollow the Musical opening Off-Broadway at the Players Theatre. Learn more!

Theater lovers are in for a provocative new experience with the world premiere of First Liar on the Moon, the gripping new play written and directed by Fletcher Michael. The production debuts at Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival 2025.

CHRISTINE STODDARD PRESENTS ART BITCH: character performance of entitled nepo baby who's slutty for contemporary art at the Philly Fringe Festival! Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

MINI'S COMEBACK, by Melissa Bell and directed by Caroline West, has joined the line up at the Brisk Festival LA of short plays at The Morgan Wickson Theatre. Learn more!

Fresh off its Off-Broadway run at the Players Theatre earlier this year, Catching Fireflies, a new queer musical, will make its Philadelphia debut at the 2025 Fringe Festival from September 19–24.

Forest High and the Glitch in the System, a new musical by Adam Spedding and Ray Jeffrey, will open Off- Broadway in May 2026. Learn how to purchase tickets!

The inaugural Awakenings Reading Serie has revealed that 16 actors will take part in their upcoming reading series. Learn more and see how to attend.

Revamped from a 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival run, JR Atkinson and Noa Worsek Rosenberg will present Indoor Kids, a play that at once tells and untells the story they've spent their whole lives... telling. Learn more!

New queer musical Alan Turing & the Queen of the Night opens Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre on August 1, blending Turing’s story with Mozart’s Magic Flute in a bold pop fantasia.

Be Bold! Productions short plays were back last weekend as Week 2 of the 14th annual Players Theatre NYC Short Play Festival continued at the Players Theatre in the West Village.

The 14th annual Players Theatre NYC Short Play Festival Short officially concluded last weekend with Week 3 at the Players Theatre in the West Village. See the winner here!