
NYC thriller productions include Broadway plays like Dog Day Afternoon and The Fear of 13, Off-Broadway productions like KENREX and The Maids, and adaptations like Paranormal Activity and Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow is a Broadway play set in 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, telling the origin story of villain Henry Creel decades before the events of the Netflix series. The production uses elaborate stage effects to bring the Stranger Things universe to live theater.
Stage adaptations of thriller films currently in New York include Dog Day Afternoon (based on the 1975 Al Pacino film) and Paranormal Activity (based on the 2007 horror film). The Fear of 13 began as a 2015 documentary before its stage adaptation.
Perfect Crime is one of the longest-running plays in New York City history, with continuous performances since 1987. The mystery thriller about a psychiatrist and a murder has been part of the NYC theater landscape for nearly four decades.
You can book tickets to thriller plays and musicals through TodayTix, including Broadway productions like Stranger Things and Dog Day Afternoon, Off-Broadway runs like KENREX, and long-running shows like Perfect Crime.