The world premiere of Erica Lipez’s comedy The Tutors begins performances May 22 at off-Broadway’s McGinn/Cazale Theatre. Directed by Thomas Kail, the Second Stage Theatre production stars Luis Ozawa Changchien, Matt Dellapina, Aubrey Dollar, Keith Nobbs and Chris Perfetti. Opening night is slated for June 5.

No one dreams of being a tutor: just ask Heidi (Dollar ...

Lights, camera, action! The world premiere of Rod McLachlan’s Good Television begins performances off-Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 on May 22. Directed by Bob Krakower, the Atlantic Theater production features Mad Men and Homeland star Talia Balsam, Zoe Perry and Kelly McAndrew and officially opens June 4.

In Good Television, Connie (McAndrew) is an intervention counselor and producer on ...

Murder Ballad, a sexy and dangerous new musical by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash, opens May 22, starring Caissie Levy, Will Swenson, Rebecca Naomi Jones and John Ellison Conlee. Directed by Trip Cullman, Murder Ballad is scheduled to play a limited engagement through September 29 at off-Broadway’s Union Square Theatre.

Murder Ballad tells the story of Sara (Levy), a ...

The Office star Jenna Fischer and GCB alum Leslie Bibb make their off-Broadway debut opposite Josh Hamilton and Fred Weller in Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Happy. Written and directed by LaBute, the play begins performances at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on May 16, with an official opening on June 11.

A companion piece to LaBute's Tony-nominated Reasons ...

The new off-Broadway dramedy Somewhere Fun, starring Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Mulgrew, begins preview performances on May 15 at off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre. The show will play a strictly-limited engagement through June 23. Opening night is scheduled for June 4.

Penned by Jenny Schwartz and directed by Anne Kauffman, Somewhere Fun follows Rosemary and Evelyn, two women ...

Atlantic Theater Company’s world premiere production of John Guare’s 3 Kinds of Exile begins performances at the Linda Gross Theatre on May 15. Directed by the company’s artistic director Neil Pepe, the show will officially open on June 11 and run through June 23.

3 Kinds of Exile centers around three Eastern European artists who went into ...

Bunty Berman Presents…, a new Bollywood-themed musical comedy by Ayub Khan Din and Paul Bogaev, opens May 9 at off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row. Directed by Scott Elliott, the New Group production stars Din as Bunty Berman, Sorab Wadia as Raj Dhawan and Lipica Shah as Shambervi.

In addition to Din, Wadia and Shah, Bunty Berman Presents features ...

Tickets are now on sale for 3 Kinds of Exile, the latest off-Broadway offering from Tony-winning playwright John Guare (Two Gentlemen of Verona, The House of Blue Leaves). Produced by Atlantic Theater and helmed by the company’s artistic director Neil Pepe, the world premiere runs at the Linda Gross Theatre May 15 through 23, with a June 11 opening ...

Amen for a Texas-sized drama. Performances begin on May 8 for the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s world premiere of Mando Alvarado’s Basilica. Directed by Jerry Ruiz, the drama stars Jake Cannavale (Nurse Jackie) and Alfredo Narciso (The Good Mother, Measure for Measure) and runs at the Cherry Lane Theatre through June 16. Opening night for the off-Broadway show is ...

The new off-Broadway drama Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) officially opens on May 7 at the Public Theater. Written and directed by avant-garde theater pioneer Richard Foreman, the piece will play a limited engagement through June 2.

Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) features snapshots from an enigmatic fairy-tale in which Suzie, the elusive coquette, brings Samuel to his knees—from ...