10 must-see Off-Broadway shows / by David Hwang

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hese 10 newly-opened Off-Broadway shows are worth looking into.

While many new Broadway shows have opened and will continue to open through the end of the fall, this is also an especially bountiful time for Off-Broadway, with some of the most well-known not-for-profit companies presenting ambitious and diverse productions.

Below are 10 newly-opened Off-Broadway shows that are worth looking into, including three being produced just by the Public Theater.

‘Soft Power’

“The King and I” gets mixed up with China and Hillary Clinton in David Henry Hwang (“M. Butterfly”) and Jeanine Tesori’s (“Fun Home”) wild new musical in which an Asian-American playwright is asked to write a Broadway musical for Shanghai. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., publictheater.org. Through Nov. 17.

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