Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show, “Redwood,” starring Idina Menzel, and plenty of star power Off Broadway: Rainn Wilson, Jordan Fisher, Melissa Gilbert, Paul Sparks, Matt Doyle, Christian Slater and Calissa Flockhart, to name a few.
Many of the shows celebrate February, for better or for worse, as a month of love, by playwrights ranging from Nobel laureate Jon Fosse to comedian Joy Behar. But it is also a month of presidents, and there are plays about politicians, including one unearthed from 1919, and politics. There are new plays by playwrights with terrific track records: Jordan Harrison, Samuel D. Hunter, Bess Wohl, Rajiv Joseph

The calendar below is organized chronologically by opening date*, or first performance, but we must consider the dates subject to change, thanks to the continuing vagaries of COVID-19, and the normal serendipity of live theater.   

Each title below is linked to a relevant website. 

Color key: Broadway: Red 

. Off Broadway: Blue 

. Off Off Broadway: Green 

.

Digital or Hybrid Theater: Yellow 

 Theater festival: Orange 

. Immersive: Silver

 .  Concert

Puppetry: Brown 

 Opera: Purple

Free

February 4

The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons)
At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? Jordan Harrison’s The Antiquities, directed by David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan and co-produced by Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, and Goodman Theatre, 
Jan 11 – Feb 23 

February 5

Urinetown (NY City Center)
The Encores concert version of the wild satire, which began at the New York Fringe Festival and wound up a 2002 Tony winner on Broadway, Set in a dystopian world where water is scarce, all citizens must now pay a fee for “The Privilege to Pee” at one of the public facilities controlled by selfish tycoon  A starry cast including Jordan Fisher, Rainn Wilson, Keala Settle and Christopher Fitzgerald.
Feb 5 – 16

Mrs. Loman (Theatre Row)
A satirical look at Linda Loman’s life after her husband Willy Loman dies in “Death of a Salesman.”
January 31 – February 15, 

February 6

Chain Theater One-act Festival
More than 90 new plays spread out over 25 programs, some of which are also livestreamed. Program # 1 (which is presented on five different dates) is the headliner here, with three plays: “By the Look of Her” by Tony Award winning playwright David Rabe (Sticks and Bones), “Brothers” by Lyle Kessler (Orphans), and “The Robot, The Spy, and the Love of AI<” which includes actual robotics, written by John Arthur Lon 
February 6 – March 2 

Still (Sheen Center)
Starring Melissa Gilbert (“Little House On The Prairie,) and Mark Moses (“Desperate Housewives), this play by Lia Romeo catches up on Helen and Mark who broke up thirty years ago, but never completely forgot one another. Now, they are getting a second chance at first love. 
January 28 – March 23

Henry IV (Theatre for a New Audience)
Dakin Matthews’ adaptation of two of Shakespeare’s history plays into one – 3 hours and 45 minutes (with two intermissions), which is half the length of the two separate plays.
January 30 – March 2

Anywhere (HERE)
The fallen Oedipus appears in the form of an ice puppet that gradually turns into water then into mist and disappears in the Erynian Forest, 
February 6 – March 2

My First Ex-Husband (MMAC Theater)
Joy Behar’s play is a compilation of stories about relationships, with a rotating cast that begins with Behar, Susie Essman , Tovah Feldshuh and Adrienne C. Moore 
January 29 – 

No Reservation (La MaMa)
Global goddesses crash a dinner party celebrating false gods. 
Feb 6 – 23

February 7

How is it That We Live, or Shakey Jake + Alice (Tent Theater at ART/NY Theaters)
Two lifelong lovers, who move in and out of each other’s lives.
February 3 -22

February 8

Slamdance garage (Bushwick Starr)
Created and performed by Ian Andrew Askew, who “hurdles through an hour of music, movement, and text celebrating the absurdity of explaining Black people’s participation in their own culture,” using texts from Nina Simone, Audre Lorde and others.
February 5 – 22

Night Sings Its Songs (New Light Theater at Theater Row)
In this English translation of a play by 2023 Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse, a young couple are caught in a cycle of love, loss, and intense need, 
February 7 to March 1, 2025

February 10

B*TCHCRAFT: A Musical Play (The Wild Project)
Performance artist and “queer music icon” Bitch tells the story of her life
February 7 – March 1

February 12

My Man Kono (Pan Asian Rep at ART/NY Theaters)
Philip W. Chung’a play explores the life of Toraichi Kono born in 1895 – who in pursuit of the American Dream became a target of anti-Asian hate 
February 6 – March 9

February 13

Redwood (Nederlander)
Idina Menzel (who co-conceived the show) portrays a woman experiencing a life altering event that drives her far from everyone and everything she knows — winding up at the foot of the redwoods in Northern California. Tina Landau directs, helped conceive the show, wrote the libretto, and co-wrote: the lyrics with composer Kate Diazali. Menzel has said she was inspired by the true story of Julia “Butterfly” Hill who at age 23 lived in a tree for two y

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