The fall theater season includes plenty of upcoming Broadway shows in what's left of 2025. But as usual, many of New York's most exciting stage shows will be in he smaller venues known as Off Broadway. And that raises a problem: With dozens of Off Broadway productions crunched into a few short months, how can you choose what to see? That's where we can help. We've perused the long list of upcoming Off Broadway shows and chosen 40 that strike us especially promising, from new plays and musicals to solo shows and fresh takes on classics by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, O'Neill and Molière—as performed by top actors like Tom Hanks, Michelle Williams, Aubrey Plaza and Ariana DeBose. (And we're not even counting the return of Heather Christian's divine Oratorio for Living Things , which

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