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Jonathan Spector’s new play follows six friends twenty years after their shared Birthright trip to Israel — the cracks running through their friendships line up exactly with the ones now running through the American Jewish community after October 7. The cast is curated from peak-prestige TV: Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), Zoë Winters (Succession), Eli Gelb (Stereophonic), and four more recognizable faces. Teddy Bergman directs at MCC’s Newman Mills Theater — 250 seats, the right size for the conversation. Previews June 5, opens June 24, closes July 12. Five weeks total, with no public lottery yet.
Eric Bentley’s 1972 docudrama returns to New York at exactly the wrong/right historical moment. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been is stitched together verbatim from transcripts of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings of the 1940s — the testimony of Arthur Miller, Jerome Robbins, Paul Robeson, Elia Kazan, Lillian Hellman, Abe Burrows, Lionel Stander and many more — each asked the impossible: defend your integrity, save your career, or name your friends.Tony-winning director Anna D.
Move over, found-footage horror — Broadway’s about to do it live. Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway arrives at the August Wilson Theatre this summer with an original story inspired by the hit horror franchise. Written by Levi Holloway (Grey House) and directed by Felix Barrett — yes, the Punchdrunk co-creator behind Sleep No More — the play follows James and Lou, a couple who relocate from Chicago to London hoping to outrun their past, only to learn that places aren’t haunted; people are.The 20-week limited engagement begins previews August 14, 2026 with opening night September
The Lacheys — Nick and Drew of 98 Degrees and a generation of Christmas albums — produce a hybrid Off-Broadway concert-and-revue at The Duke on 42nd Street, a 199-seat black-box room a block from Times Square. A young cast tells unfiltered stories about identity, mental health, body image, and growing up under an algorithm, set to heavy choreography and pop-adjacent vocals. The Lacheys are producers, not writers — the cast mines its own material, which gives the show an earnestness that the Theater District usually treats with suspicion. June 10 through August 29, 2026.
Bubba Weiler’s world-premiere play drops two altar boys in a small-town American sanctuary and watches what happens when a stranger walks in asking the questions the priests have been working hard not to ask. Jack Serio directs at Atlantic Theater’s Linda Gross Theater in Chelsea — a 165-seat thrust stage responsible for some of the more uncomfortable Off-Broadway nights of the last decade. Atlantic has a track record of starting plays here that move uptown a year later: The Band’s Visit, Spring Awakening, The Humans. 90 minutes, no intermission. July 8 through August 8. $35 day-of rush.
Jennifer Nettles writes the book, scores the music, and stars as Giulia Tofana — the 17th-century Sicilian apothecary who helped poison 600 abusive husbands across Palermo before her 1659 execution. Tony winner Mary Zimmerman directs, which is the single most encouraging sign for the production: Zimmerman is a specialist at making historical material feel kinetic without veering into pageant territory. The score blends folk-Italian, gospel, and country. Perelman Performing Arts Center is one of the best rooms downtown for a musical of this scale. Previews June 28, opens July 10, closes July 26.
The 1999 Diane Lane film about a bored 1969 Catskills housewife who runs off with the blouse salesman during the moon landing has been turned into a Roundabout Off-Broadway musical that opens at the Laura Pels Theatre on June 15, 2026. Book by Pamela Gray (the original screenwriter), music by AnnMarie Milazzo (Next to Normal orchestrations), direction by Sheryl Kaller (Tony-nominated for Next Fall). Talia Suskauer — who played Elphaba on the Wicked national tour for over a thousand performances — leads as Pearl. Runs through August 22. Under 35? HipTix at $35.
Eisa Davis — the Pulitzer finalist for Bulrusher and Tony-nominated co-creator of The Wiz Broadway revival — has written a musical about four teenage girls of color at a competitive summer music program in Berkeley. The hook: the score includes substantial improvisation, so the music shifts night to night. That nightly variance is unusual for a fully-staged musical and is the reason to show up. Tony winner Pam MacKinnon directs at the Vineyard Theatre, a 132-seat Union Square house that has originated Avenue Q and Kimberly Akimbo. May 12 through June 21. TodayTix daily lottery is live.
Rachel Reid’s 2019 hockey romance novel — about two rival NHL stars carrying a years-long secret relationship across road games and playoff series — sold a million copies on TikTok before mainstream publishing noticed. It is now an unauthorized Off-Broadway musical at the 6th Floor Theater in Chelsea (the former Sleep No More space). Dylan MarcAurele writes book, music, and lyrics; Jay Armstrong Johnson (Phantom of the Opera) and Jimin Moon lead; Alan Kliffer directs. Originally booked for May 12 through June 28, extended to Labor Day after previews sold through. TodayTix daily lottery is live.
Wallace Shawn and André Gregory — the pair behind My Dinner with Andre, Vanya on 42nd Street, and the better part of four decades of New York theatrical sleight-of-hand — are back together. Wallace writes; André directs; John Early (Search Party) and Hope Davis (The Practice, About Schmidt) star. The new play runs in repertory with The Fever at Greenwich House Theater on Barrow Street, a 149-seat West Village house exactly right for this material. Check the calendar before booking — the rep schedule alternates across the week. Closes May 24. TodayTix lottery is live.
Drama Desk-nominated solo show Small rides back into New York after a 2023 run at 59E59 — this time at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre inside the Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd.Written and performed by Robert Montano (On the Town, Cats, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Small traces his unlikely path from a horse-mad Puerto Rican/Italian kid hot-walking thoroughbreds at Belmont to dancing on Broadway opposite Chita Rivera. It’s part racetrack memoir, part backstage tour, part father-son confession — told by one guy in 90 minutes flat. Directed by Jessi D.
Three of Chekhov’s wickedest one-acts, served up in a single 90-minute sitting at the Actors Temple Theatre — a tucked-away Off-Broadway gem inside the historic Actors’ Temple Synagogue on West 47th Street.This Duse Productions limited engagement bundles Swan Song, The Proposal, and The Bear into one rapid-fire evening — Chekhov at his most playful, vodka-soaked, and mortifyingly funny. Stars Luna Vintner, Tom Shane, and Damian Cruces; directed by Sanio Kurtesevic.Previews start May 16, 2026; opening night is May 26; closes June 28. If you’ve ever wanted to watch three Russian writers argue about money, marriage, and mortality before your subway home, this is the ticket.
Erica Murray’s dark comedy The Loved Ones puts four women in a remote West Clare farmhouse: a grieving mother preparing to scatter her son’s ashes, her widowed daughter-in-law, an American tourist expecting a quiet Irish countryside retreat, and an unexpected fourth arrival. The cast carries the production: Tony winner Maryann Plunkett, Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Clare O’Malley, Alana Raquel Bowers. Nicola Murphy Dubey directs at Irish Repertory Theatre’s Greenburger Mainstage, June 13 through August 2. $25 GreenSeats for patrons 30 and under.
Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir about her 18-month stay at McLean Hospital — turned into the 1999 Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie film — has been adapted into a musical at The Public Theater’s Martinson Hall. Book and lyrics by Eli Rarey; score by Aimee Mann, whose catalog of jagged, melodic dread is uniquely suited to the source material; direction by Jo Bonney. King Princess (Mikaela Straus) makes her stage debut as Susanna, alongside Ta’Rea Campbell, Juliana Canfield, Manoel Felciano, Mia Pak, and Emily Skinner. May 13 through June 28. Daily TodayTix lottery is your sub-$40 path.
Julia May Jonas (Vladimir) returns Off-Broadway with a Critics’ Pick described as “a riff on Arthur Miller’s All My Sons” — except set in a Northampton wellness collective where Cleo holds court in her backyard.The cast: Brittany K. Allen, Gabriel Brown, Tina Chilip, Zoë Geltman, Morgan Siobhan Green, Hannah Heller, Lucy Kaminsky, Drew Lewis, Dee Pelletier.Director: Sarah Cameron Hughes.Playwright: Julia May Jonas.Julia May Jonas’s New York Times Critic’s Pick comes to LCT3 — Cleo runs a Northampton women’s wellness center, and one summer day everything she’s built starts cracking
Caswell and director Dustin Wills — the team behind Playwrights Horizons’ Obie-winning Wet Brain — reunite for an intimate, AIDS-era love-and-loss story in an Arizona ghost town.The cast: Ken Barnett, Tyrone Mitchell Henderson, Stephen Spinella.Director: Dustin Wills.Playwright: John J. Caswell, Jr..John J. Caswell, Jr. (Wet Brain) returns to Playwrights Horizons with a 1990s-set three-hander about an aging gay couple in an Arizona ghost town and the New York visitor who shakes everything loose.It runs Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons — Mainstage Theater beginning previews 2026-05-14.Need
Wilder spent the last twenty years of his life poking at The Emporium and never quite finished it — until now. Kirk Lynn (Rude Mechs) has carried it across the finish line for Classic Stage’s final production of the season.The cast: Candy Buckley, Mahira Kakkar, Eva Kaminsky, Patrick Kerr, Derek Smith, Joe Tapper, Cassia Thompson.Director: Rob Melrose.Playwright: Thornton Wilder, adaptation by Kirk Lynn.Thornton Wilder’s unfinished, almost-mythical final play finally takes the stage — completed by Kirk Lynn at Classic Stage Company.
After two summers of construction, the Delacorte is back — and Saheem Ali kicks off Free Shakespeare in the Park 2026 with a bilingual Romeo and Juliet where the lovers’ private language is Spanish.The cast: Ra’Mya Latiah Aikens, Daniel Bravo Hernández, LaChanze, Deirdre O’Connell, Okieriete Onaodowan, Francis Jue, Mariand Torres.Director: Saheem Ali.Playwright: William Shakespeare.Free Shakespeare in the Park returns to the freshly renovated Delacorte with a bilingual Romeo and Juliet — Romeo and Juliet whisper to each other in Spanish; everyone else stays in English.
Genet’s 1947 fever-dream of class, fantasy and quietly homicidal household help gets the Kip Williams treatment at St. Ann’s Warehouse — yes, the same Kip Williams who brought you the screen-stuffed Picture of Dorian Gray.The cast: Yerin Ha, Phia Saban, Lydia Wilson.Director: Kip Williams.Playwright: Jean Genet (adapted by Kip Williams).Bridgerton’s Yerin Ha leads Kip Williams’s hyper-cinematic adaptation of Jean Genet’s twisted maid-on-mistress thriller, where the camera is part of the cast and the chambermaids might just be plotting murder.It runs Off-Broadway at St.
Heather Christian’s Obie-winning musical-séance brings a wild, gospel-blues-folk fusion score to Signature Theatre at Pershing Square. Kenita R. Miller leads the ensemble in a tribute to the people who shaped us — the show works as both concert and ritual. Keenan Tyler Oliphant directs. Off-Broadway run May 5 through June 14 in the 199-seat Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre — small room, exactly right for a séance. TodayTix lottery is live; advance tickets are running $69 and up.
Will Dagger’s Off-Broadway play about a paranormal investigator and the late-night radio host trying to figure out what’s actually happening in his basement. Running at 59E59 Theaters’ Theater B (175 seats) — small room, perfect for material that needs the audience implicated in the spookiness. Director details and full cast TBD as production solidifies. TodayTix has digital lottery for some performances; the rush is the steadier path. The run is short — under five weeks.
New York City Center’s 2026 revival of the Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein musical about a long-married gay couple — Albin and Georges — running a drag nightclub in St. Tropez. Robert O’Hara directs Wayne Brady, Billy Porter, Tonya Pinkins, and a cast that should give the production some serious wattage. Off-Broadway, one-week-only engagement opening June 17. The 2,257-seat City Center is the venue. TodayTix digital lottery will be live; same-week sold-out engagement, so plan ahead.
The Off-Broadway comedy phenomenon — celebrities reading the unintentionally-hilarious passages from other celebrities’ autobiographies — gets a limited Broadway engagement at the Shubert Theatre, May 16 through August 30. Rotating cast pulls from a who’s who of late-night and SNL alums. Producer Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel handle the curation. Broadway Direct digital lottery via Telecharge will open with previews. The Shubert seats 1,468 — and the cast turnover keeps the show fresh, so repeat visits are not unusual.
Bubba Weiler’s new Off-Broadway play (yes, the same Weiler with The Saviors at Atlantic this summer — busy year) at Studio Seaview, an intimate downtown house. The piece runs about 90 minutes, no intermission, and follows the kind of small, sharply-observed character work Weiler has built his reputation on. Jack Serio directs (he also helms The Saviors). Previews April 30, opens May 19. Run ends fast — five weeks total. TodayTix is the realistic lottery path.
Eliana Theologides Rodriguez’s new play at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater — five girls of color and their white fathers at a 2008 summer cultural-appropriation-themed bonding camp. Miranda Cornell directs. The piece runs about 100 minutes. The cast features Ben Beckley, Anissa Marie Griego, Rebecca Jimenez, and Greg Keller. Previews April 30, opens May 19, closes June 22. $35 day-of rush is the angle; Atlantic’s GroundUP membership gets you in for free.
The Greenwich House Theater is running What Happened Was, a Tom Noonan-directed two-hander about a first date that gets uncomfortable fast. The play is a revival of the 1994 stage piece that Noonan later turned into a film. Running in repertory with The Fever and What We Did Before Our Moth Days; check the calendar. Small house (149 seats) — perfect for material this intimate and uncomfortable. TodayTix digital lottery is live.
The Receptionist is Adam Bock’s Off-Broadway play about a corporate receptionist whose job is more sinister than her LinkedIn lets on. Running at The Connelly Theater on East 4th Street — 99-seat house, exactly the right size for office-comedy-turns-dystopia. Susanna Wilson directs a tight four-person cast. The piece runs 80 minutes, no intermission, and lands somewhere between a Mike Nichols movie and an episode of Severance. TodayTix lottery is the realistic path to sub-$50 seats.
Three monologues. Three actors. One theory of the universe: that the choices you barely notice making at 7:42 on a Tuesday morning are the ones that ripple, eventually, across continents and centuries. New Born brings British playwright Ella Hickson back together with director Ian Rickson, with a starry trio — Hugh Jackman, Marianna Gailus, and Sepideh Moafi — each carrying one of the three pieces. The production lands at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre as part of the 2026 season from Audible Theater and TOGETHER (the theatrical partnership Jackman launched with super-producer Sonia Friedman).
October 1936. Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists plans to march straight through the heart of the East End, and Sammy, Mairead, and Ron — three Cable Street neighbors plotting their futures — are about to make a different plan with a hundred thousand of their closest Jewish, Irish, and communist friends. Cable Street kicks off the 2026 Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters with the kind of musical that rolls into town carrying real moral weight and an actual brass section. Directed by Adam Lenson with a knockout 13-person UK cast (Preeya Kalidas, Debbie Chazen, Max Alexander-Tay
Two-time 2026 Olivier Award winner KENREX arrives at the Lucille Lortel Theatre fresh off its acclaimed London run, and it is exactly the kind of high-octane Off-Broadway evening that makes a Tuesday night feel like a heist movie. Written by and starring Jack Holden, with direction by fellow Olivier nominee Ed Stambollouian, this 85-minute solo show drops you into the small Missouri town of Skidmore in the early 1980s — population: about 400 angry neighbors and one terrible bully named Ken Rex McElroy. Holden plays all 35 characters: cops, priests, ex-wives, eyewitnesses, the gas-station crowd
Step right up, baseball fans and devil-bargaining dreamers — Damn Yankees is rounding the bases back to Broadway in Spring 2027, and this time it’s wearing a brand-new uniform. Director-choreographer Sergio Trujillo (Ain’t Too Proud, Jersey Boys) is steering a reimagined revisal of the 1955 Adler & Ross classic, with a fresh book by Tony winner Doug Wright and Will Power and additional lyrics from Ragtime’s Lynn Ahrens.
David Hare’s world premiere play starring Laura Linney comes to Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in Spring 2027. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, Montauk follows two artists whose lives are entangled professionally and romantically, exploring the deeply human question of why we create art. Linney has been named MTC’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence in honor of her long relationship with the company.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Eva Perón biographical musical returns to Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in 2026, with a new production from director Jamie Lloyd. Lloyd’s stripped-down approach to Sunset Boulevard re-set the bar for musical revivals; Evita gets the same treatment. Casting in progress as of announcement. Broadway Direct digital lottery will open with previews. The Marquis seats 1,612. Expect 2026’s hottest ticket.
Stephen Daldry directs the world-premiere Broadway play 860 — a four-character chamber drama set in a high-rise apartment in the year 860. The cast and exact preview dates are TBD as of announcement. The Booth Theatre (766 seats) is the venue. Daldry’s recent stage work on Stranger Things: The First Shadow and Killing Eve adaptation cements his Broadway directing reputation. Broadway Direct digital lottery will be live; the Booth is one of the smaller Broadway houses, so seats book out fast.
Bobby Darin’s life and career, told through the music and as a love letter to his second-wife-Connie-Francis era, with Jeremy Jordan in the title role and Isa Briones as Connie. Alex Timbers directs at Circle in the Square; the in-the-round staging gives the show a nightclub feel that the actual Copacabana would have envied. A Broadway-bar concept that earned five 2025 Tony nominations including Best Musical. The Just in Time digital lottery via Broadway Direct is your sub-$50 path; Briones plays her final show May 29.
From MacArthur Fellow Dominique Morisseau comes a brand-new play set in a struggling Bronx record shop, where jazz and hip-hop generations crash into each other while live DJ sets thump in the background. Directed by Apollo Theater executive producer Kamilah Forbes, with Tony winners Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Kara Young leading the cast. This is a world premiere as part of Roundabout’s 2026-2027 season at the Todd Haimes Theatre, slated for Winter 2027. Single ticket dates and previews TBA — subscriptions already in flight.
You know the bit: six unemployed Buffalo steelworkers decide that the fastest path back to financial stability is, well, taking it all off. Terrence McNally’s book, David Yazbek’s songs, and a finale that’s aged exactly as well as the rest of America’s late-90s economy. Roundabout Theatre Company is mounting the Broadway revival in Spring 2027 at the Todd Haimes Theatre, with Leigh Silverman directing and Connor Gallagher choreographing. Cast TBA. Subscriptions are already moving — single tickets typically open later in 2026.
The hit West End play set in Hawkins, Indiana in 1959 — a quarter-century before the events of the Netflix series — landing at the Marquis Theatre with the original London creative team intact. Stephen Daldry directs Kate Trefry’s adaptation of the Duffer Brothers source material; the production made its name on stagecraft that the New York Times called ‘genuinely jaw-dropping.’ The cast features a young Henry Creel decades before he became the show’s central antagonist. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live; the show seats 1,612 and books out fast.
The Imaginary Invalid is a fresh, funny new spin on Molière’s 1673 farce — the one about a wealthy hypochondriac who’s so convinced he’s dying that everyone around him sees a fortune ripe for the grabbing. The adaptation comes from clown legend (and Tony winner) Bill Irwin, who also stars; Brandon J. Dirden directs. Roundabout Theatre Company is producing as part of its 2026 season at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Specific preview and opening dates haven’t been locked in yet — Roundabout’s official line is fall 2026 — so consider this your heads-up to start watching the calendar. Once dates land, this page gets the update.
School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play is Jocelyn Bioh’s wickedly funny, sneakily heartbreaking comedy set at the Aburi Girls Boarding School in 1988 Ghana, where the senior class queen bee is laser-focused on winning the Miss Ghana pageant — until a transfer student from America glides in and complicates absolutely everything. The play premiered Off-Broadway at MCC in 2017, became a regional theatre staple, and now finally takes its Broadway victory lap as part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2026–2027 season.
Inter Alia is the new drama from Suzie Miller, the playwright behind the global phenomenon Prima Facie, and yes, it’s exactly as gripping as that comp suggests. Premiering at London’s National Theatre in 2025 before transferring to the West End, the play follows a London Crown Court judge who has to keep her family — and her sense of self — together when an unthinkable event lands at her own front door. It’s a tight, urgent, single-evening sit. Bring tissues, bring opinions. Broadway previews begin November 10, 2026 at the Music Box Theatre, with opening night December 1, 2026.
Susan Stroman directs the new Tom Kitt and David Henry Hwang musical about Galileo Galilei — yes, that Galileo — at the Shubert Theatre starting fall 2026. Casting TBD. Kitt (Next to Normal) and Hwang (Soft Power, M. Butterfly) have been developing the piece for the last six years. The Shubert seats 1,468. Broadway Direct digital lottery will be live with previews. A new Stroman-Kitt-Hwang musical is the kind of Broadway pedigree that justifies the lottery grind.
Wanted gallops onto Broadway in fall 2026 with a thrilling, true-grit story you absolutely did not learn in U.S. history class. Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine star as Mary and Martha Clarke — twin sisters who go from Texas farmgirls to honest-to-goodness Wild West outlaws — in a powerhouse new musical that critics first fell for at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse. Book and lyrics are by Angelica Chéri (yes, an actual descendant of the Sisters Clarke), with music by Ross Baum and choreography by Chelsey Arce. Obie winner Stevie Walker-Webb directs.
Cole Escola’s gleefully unhinged farce about a perpetually-drunk, frustrated-cabaret-singer Mary Todd Lincoln in the days before her husband’s assassination. Sam Pinkleton directs; Escola wrote it for themselves, then Maya Rudolph took the lead in summer 2025, breaking ticket records. Now playing in repertory casts at the Lyceum, and it remains the funniest 80 minutes on Broadway. Won Best Play at the 2025 Tonys despite being a comedy so deeply silly it borders on performance art. Lucky Seat digital lottery is the move; matinees have slightly better odds.
The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2024 — adapted from S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel and the 1983 Coppola film — running at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Director Danya Taymor (who won the Tony) and book writer Adam Rapp keep the source material’s grief intact while letting Justin Levine’s score and Jamestown Revival’s Americana sit underneath. The rumble choreography by Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman is the production’s signature image. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live and is your best shot at sub-$50 seats.
Helperbots finding love in a landfill is the oddest premise on Broadway, but Maybe Happy Ending at the Belasco justifies the lottery grind. Will Aronson and Hue Park’s chamber musical about two obsolete Korean robots stumbling into each other after years of solitude swept the 2025 Tonys, including Best Musical and Best Actor for Darren Criss. The score is hummable; the design captures the quiet ache of city life with startling accuracy. Lucky Seat digital lottery is the move; Criss plays his final show May 17. Aaron Tveit takes over June 15.
A married couple sets their best friend up on a blind date with the title character, a sweet-seeming woman with a gift for making everyone around her rethink every decision they’ve ever made. Gina Gionfriddo’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist 2008 comedy lands on Broadway for the first time with Patrick Ball (The Gilded Age) as Andrew, Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story, Oppenheimer) as Max, and three-time Tony nominee Linda Emond as Susan. Directed by Trip Cullman. Hayes Theater (operated by Second Stage), closes June 14, 2026.
Brad and Janet’s car breaks down. They knock on the door of a castle. Everything goes absolutely sideways. Richard O’Brien’s mad, glittering rock musical lands at Studio 54 for a limited Broadway run that leans hard into the venue’s disco DNA. Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast, The Hobbit) stars as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, with Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as Janet, Juliette Lewis as Magenta, Andrew Durand as Brad, Amber Gray as Riff Raff, Harvey Guillén as Eddie/Dr. Scott, Josh Rivera as Rocky, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez as Columbia, and Rachel Dratch as the Narrator.
It’s 1911, and in a Pittsburgh boarding house, Black Americans moving north during the Great Migration find refuge, kinship, and sometimes trouble. August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone — the second play in his Pittsburgh Cycle — returns to Broadway with Taraji P. Henson (Empire, Hidden Figures) making her Broadway debut as Bertha Holly, Cedric the Entertainer as Seth Holly, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Bynum Walker. Joshua Boone plays the haunted Herald Loomis. Directed by Emmy and Golden Globe winner Debbie Allen. Ethel Barrymore Theatre, closes July 26, 2026.
On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine — who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father — must grapple with her own volatile mind, the arrival of her estranged sister Claire, and the attentions of Hal, one of her father’s former students who is convinced there’s valuable work buried in the 103 notebooks the old man left behind. David Auburn’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play gets its first Broadway revival from Tony winner Thomas Kail (Hamilton). Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) and Golden Globe winner Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) make their Broadway deb
Nick Yarris spent more than two decades on death row for a murder he insisted he did not commit. Across a series of prison visits with a volunteer named Jackie, a life shaped by impulse and consequence comes into focus — and the line between witness and participant starts to blur. Lindsey Ferrentino’s play, based on David Sington’s acclaimed 2015 documentary, gets a Broadway premiere after a sold-out West End run. Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) and Tessa Thompson (Thor, Passing) both make their Broadway debuts, directed by Tony winner David Cromer. James Earl Jones Theatre, closes July 12, 2026.
It’s the hottest day of August 1972 and two amateur bank robbers have just turned a routine holdup into a hostage crisis that will glue New York City to the news for 14 hours. Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy, The Motherf**ker With the Hat) delivers a new stage adaptation of the true story that became the Oscar-winning 1975 film, with Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — the chaos engine at the heart of The Bear — making their Broadway debuts as Sonny and Sal. Directed by two-time Olivier winner Rupert Goold. August Wilson Theatre, limited engagement closes June 28, 2026.
Two old friends. Two husbands off golfing. One ex-lover headed their way from Paris. Noël Coward’s champagne-drenched 1925 comedy Fallen Angels gets its first Broadway revival in 70 years, starring Tony winner Kelli O’Hara and Golden Globe nominee Rose Byrne (in her Broadway debut). Joined by Tracee Chimo, Mark Consuelos, Christopher Fitzgerald, and Aasif Mandvi. Directed by Scott Ellis for Roundabout Theatre Company. Todd Haimes Theatre, closes June 7, 2026.
E. L. Doctorow’s sprawling America-at-the-turn-of-the-century collides on stage in this Tony-winning musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Lear deBessonet’s stripped-back Encores! production transfers to Broadway with Joshua Henry as Coalhouse Walker Jr., Caissie Levy as Mother, and Brandon Uranowitz as Tateh, supported by Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Shaina Taub as Emma Goldman, and John Clay III as Booker T. Washington. Vivian Beaumont Theater (Lincoln Center Theater), extended through August 2, 2026.
A new play by Mark Rosenblatt takes us inside Roald Dahl’s English country home in 1983, as the celebrated children’s author faces a reckoning over antisemitic remarks that threaten his legacy. John Lithgow brings his Olivier Award-winning portrayal of Dahl to Broadway, joined by Aya Cash, Elliot Levey, and Rachael Stirling. Transferred from a sold-out West End run; directed by Nicholas Hytner. Music Box Theatre, limited engagement through June 28, 2026.
The list starts as a gift from a seven-year-old to a mother who can’t remember why life is worth living — and ends up as an unexpectedly funny, extraordinarily moving solo show about joy, family, and the small things that keep us going. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, Merrily We Roll Along) stars through May 24, 2026; Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU) makes her Broadway debut May 26 through June 28. Written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, directed by Jeremy Herrin. Hudson Theatre, closes June 28, 2026.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical lands at the Palace Theatre with the kind of pedigree most jukebox shows can only fake — based on the 1987 Joel Schumacher cult film, score by Jim Steinman and David Pichinson (the late Steinman of Bat Out of Hell), book by Chris Hoch and Dan Schoenfeld. The vampire-bike-gang energy translates better than skeptics expected. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live. The Palace seats 1,734, which means decent odds — but the show is selling well and weekend lotteries are tighter than weeknight.
The 1988 Bette Midler / Barbara Hershey movie about a 30-year friendship gets a Broadway musical, with songs by David Friedman and book by Iris Rainer Dart (who wrote the original novel). Stafford Arima directs at the Nederlander Theatre. Whether you remember the wind-beneath-my-wings emotional whiplash or you’re encountering it fresh, the show leans hard into the source material’s earnestness. Lucky Seat digital lottery is the path to sub-$50 seats. Bring tissues; the Nederlander concession stand will not stock them.
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway debut for the Tony-nominated Anika Noni Rose / Carl Clemons-Hopkins-led play about a Black family at a Connecticut country club. Twice-extended (to Sun June 21) after the original April-May run sold through. Stevie Walker-Webb directs at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre — 650 seats, perfect size for a play this conversational. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live. MTC also offers $35 30 Under 30 tickets via membership; both routes are sub-$50 and your best shot.
The Apple TV+ musical-comedy-spoof series gets a stage adaptation at the Music Box, with Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio (who created the show) writing the book and music. Christopher Sieber and Annaleigh Ashford lead a cast that knows exactly what kind of love-letter-to-Golden-Age-musicals this is. Tony-winning director Andy Blankenbuehler handles the choreography. Broadway Direct digital lottery is your sub-$50 path. The Music Box seats 1,025 — small for a musical, which means the show plays well across the house.
The cult Off-Broadway hit makes its Broadway debut. Titanique reimagines the 1997 blockbuster film through the eyes — and pipes — of Céline Dion herself, who insists she was actually on the ship and proceeds to retell the entire story set to her own catalog: “My Heart Will Go On,” “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” “Because You Loved Me,” and many more. Outrageously funny, unapologetically gay, and now bigger than ever.
Kenny Leon’s Broadway revival of the Arthur Miller play, with Wendell Pierce (Treme, Suits, Confederacy of Dunces) as Willy Loman. The production opened at the Hudson Theatre and has been running with the kind of slow-burn devastation that Death of a Salesman in the right hands always delivers. The cast also features Sharon D Clarke as Linda Loman, reprising her Tony-nominated turn from the 2022 production. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live. The Hudson seats 970 — tight room for material this heavy, which is the right room for it.
CATS: The Jellicle Ball is the dazzling, genre-shattering reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic — staged as an underground ball in the spirit of the queer Black and Latinx ballroom community. Following its triumphant Off-Broadway run at PAC NYC, the production transfers to Broadway in a fully expanded form, with a category-blurring score remixed for the kiki and a cast that walks the runway as much as it sings.
The Olivier-winning two-hander about a man and a woman who carry a cake across New York while reconnecting after a decade apart. Originally a London hit, this Broadway transfer to the Lyceum Theatre keeps Sam Tutty and Dujonna Gift in their original roles. Music and lyrics by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, direction by Tim Jackson. The show runs about 100 minutes with no intermission. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live. Two-handers with original London casts tend to be Broadway sleeper hits; expect to spend less than $100 if you play the lottery angle.
The London-import musical comedy about the real-life WWII Operation Mincemeat — British intelligence floating a corpse with fake invasion plans off the coast of Spain to mislead the Nazis. Five-person cast, all wrote and starred (David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, Zoe Roberts, Jak Cumming). Opened the Golden Theatre after sold-out runs at the Fortune Theatre London and the Riverside Studios. The show is funnier than its premise has any right to be. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live. 800-seat house, weekend lotteries are tight.
The musical adaptation of the 1992 Meryl Streep / Goldie Hawn / Bruce Willis film about two women in eternal cosmetic-immortality competition. Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard reprise their breakout roles; Christopher Sieber, Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child), and Adam Chanler-Berat round out the cast. Christopher Gattelli directs at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live. The show is consistently the loudest reaction Broadway is hearing this season.
Inspired by the Grammy-winning album and Wim Wenders documentary, Buena Vista Social Club tells the true story of how a group of forgotten Cuban musicians came together in the 1990s to record one of the best-selling albums of all time. The show flashes between 1950s pre-revolutionary Havana and the sessions that resurrected an entire generation of legends, including Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, and Compay Segundo. Featuring electrifying live Afro-Cuban music and dance, this is one of the most joyful nights on Broadway right now.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof returns to Broadway in a new production at the Music Box Theatre. Casting TBD as of announcement; the production’s creative team and exact run dates have not been confirmed. Tennessee Williams’ 1955 Pulitzer-winning family drama is one of the most-revived plays on Broadway. The Music Box seats 1,025 — exactly the right size for material this conversational. Broadway Direct digital lottery will be live with previews.
Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy about a recently-remarried couple who discover their honeymoon suites are next-door to their ex-spouses’ honeymoon suites returns to Broadway in 2026. Director and venue casting in progress; production company TBA. The play is a perennial Broadway revival because its central premise — that the people you can’t live with are often the people you can’t live without — is funny and devastating in equal measure. Broadway Direct digital lottery will be live with previews.
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing returns to Broadway in 2026 in a new production from a director TBA. The play’s witty Beatrice / Benedick verbal sparring routinely draws strong casts and strong word-of-mouth; the production team is announcing casting in waves. Broadway Direct digital lottery will be live with previews. Theater TBD; expect a mid-size Broadway house given the show’s typical commercial footprint.
Dreamgirls is coming back to Broadway — and you can bet we’re already humming “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.” This is the first all-new Broadway production of the iconic 1981 musical about the rise of a 1960s girl group and the heartbreak behind the lights. Five-time Tony nominee Camille A. Brown (Choir Boy, for colored girls…) is directing and choreographing. First previews are set for fall 2026. Theater, cast, and specific dates to be announced.
Tim Rice’s lyrics, ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus on music, and a freshly-rewritten book by Danny Strong drive this Broadway revival of the 1986 Cold War chess-tournament-and-love-triangle musical. Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher headline at the Imperial Theatre. Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, Funny Girl) directs. Broadway Direct digital lottery is the sub-$50 path. Michele plays her final show June 21 — get in before then if she’s the draw.
Heathers: The Musical brings the iconic dark teen comedy to the stage with a punchy pop-rock score by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy. Following Veronica Sawyer’s journey through the treacherous halls of Westerberg High, the musical explores themes of popularity, morality, and rebellion. Featuring songs like “Candy Store,” “Dead Girl Walking,” and “Seventeen,” this revival delivers biting humor, unforgettable music, and a cautionary tale about the cost of fitting in.
The Max Martin jukebox musical that reimagines the Romeo and Juliet ending — Juliet doesn’t drink the poison, instead heads to Paris, has feelings, gets a song every five minutes from the Backstreet Boys / Britney Spears / Katy Perry catalog. Broadway transfer from the West End at the Stephen Sondheim. Lorna Courtney leads with all the vocal pyrotechnics the role requires. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live. Decent odds on weeknight performances; weekends are aggressive.
Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada led the 2024 musical adaptation of Fitzgerald’s novel at the Broadway Theatre, with the kind of jazz-age production design that justifies the trip. The score by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen leans into the source material’s loneliness more than the parties. Now in its second cast cycle. Broadway Direct digital lottery is live for sub-$50 seats. The Broadway seats 1,761, so weeknight matinees have the best odds.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer-and-Tony-winning hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton, currently in year nine at the Richard Rodgers Theatre with no plans to close. The casts rotate but the production stays sharp. The Ham4Ham digital lottery via Broadway Direct opens daily and remains the most competitive lottery in the city — your odds are roughly the same as winning a Connecticut casino jackpot, but it costs $10 to play. Worth it. The Richard Rodgers seats 1,319; matinees have better odds than evenings.
MJ is a musical based on the life and career of Michael Jackson, the iconic American singer, songwriter, and dancer. The musical features a mix of Jackson’s greatest hits such as Billie Jean, Thriller, and Smooth Criminal as well as lesser-known songs and some original music written specifically for the production. The musical tells the story of the life of Michael Jackson, from his childhood as a prodigy in the Jackson 5 to his evolution as a solo artist and global pop icon.
The Lion King is a musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name. The show tells the story of Simba, a young lion who is heir to the throne of the Pride Lands but must overcome tragedy and adversity to take his rightful place as king. The Lion King features music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and a book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi, and uses colorful costumes, puppetry, and elaborate sets to bring the story and the characters to life. The show has been a massive hit on Broadway, playing to sold-out audiences for over two decades.
The Bob Fosse / John Kander / Fred Ebb 1996 revival of the 1975 original — still the longest-running American musical in Broadway history, still going at the Ambassador. The cast rotates constantly: current and recent stars include Jennifer Hudson, Pamela Anderson, Brandy, JoJo Siwa, and a long parade of celebrity Roxies and Velmas. Lucky Seat digital lottery is live. The Ambassador seats 1,125. Weekend lotteries are tight; weeknight matinees have the best odds, and you might catch a guest star you didn’t know was rotating in.
The Howard Ashman / Alan Menken cult horror-comedy musical about a man-eating plant and the meek Skid Row florist who feeds it. Running at the Westside Theatre with rotating leads — recent Seymours include Skylar Astin, Andrew Barth Feldman, and Conrad Ricamora. The 270-seat Off-Broadway production is one of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows ever. TodayTix digital lottery is live; weeknight matinees have the best odds. Don’t feed the plant.
Six the Musical, divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to reclaim their identities out of the shadow of their infamous spouse—remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power. The female cast are backed by an all-female band, the “Ladies in Waiting.”
Aladdin is a Broadway musical based on the 1992 Disney animated film of the same name. The music is written by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin. The story follows Aladdin, a street urchin, as he falls in love with Princess Jasmine and uses a genie’s magic power to become a prince to marry her. The musical features classic songs from the film such as “A Whole New World” and “Friend Like Me,” as well as new songs written specifically for the stage production. It features colorful costumes, elaborate sets, and lively choreography.
Wicked is a musical that tells the story of the witches of the Land of Oz, before the events of the classic novel “The Wizard of Oz.” The show follows the friendship and eventual rivalry between two young witches, Elphaba and Glinda, as they struggle with their own identities and the expectations placed upon them. Wicked features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, and is based on the novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” by Gregory Maguire. The show has been a fan favorite and a critical success on Broadway, with many memorable songs including “Defying Gravity” and “For Good.”
The Play That Goes Wrong is a comedy about a theater group attempting to put on a murder mystery play called “The Murder at Haversham Manor.” However, things go awry from the start, and the show devolves into chaos as the actors struggle to maintain order and keep the play going. The Play That Goes Wrong is filled with physical comedy, sight gags, and slapstick humor, as well as clever wordplay and jokes. The show was a hit in London’s West End and has had successful runs on Broadway and around the world.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a stage play written by Jack Thorne and based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne. The play is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The story takes place nineteen years after the end of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, and follows Harry Potter, now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his younger son, Albus Severus Potter, as they struggle with the weight of their family legacy.
Moulin Rouge! the musical directed by Alex Timbers, and music supervision by Justin Levine. Based on Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film follows the story of a young writer named Christian. Christian falls in love with the star courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, Satine. Moulin Rouge is set in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France at the turn of the 20th century. Moulin Rouge on Broadway features a mix of contemporary pop songs and standards from various eras, as well as original songs written specifically for the production.
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez’s irreverent musical about Mormon missionaries in Uganda. Running at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre since 2011 — over 5,000 performances and counting. The cast rotates constantly; the comedy stays sharp. Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker direct. The Mormon Broadway lottery via Broadway Direct opens daily and is one of the long-running lotteries in the city; odds vary by performance but matinees are easier than evenings.
Hadestown the musical is a Broadway show with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. The musical is a retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in the 1920s jazz era in the United States, with elements of the Great Depression and New Orleans-style music. The story centers around Orpheus, a musician, and his journey to the underworld to rescue his true love Eurydice, with the help of the ruler of the underworld, Hades, and his wife Persephone.
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Amber Ruffin’s larger-than-life new musical comedy about a misunderstood eight-foot-tall youth, the chemical-dump town that fears him, and the corrupt politicians making it worse. Grey Henson plays Bigfoot.
Matthew Libby’s suspense thriller about a young programmer who realizes his algorithm is the secret sauce behind a massive AI surveillance project — and the gut-check moment when he has to choose between Silicon Valley success and doing something about it.
Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) directs The Bengsons’ folk-musical at New York Theatre Workshop — a piece about a young couple coping with pregnancy loss in rural isolation. The premise sounds devastating; in the Bengsons’ hands, the result was unexpectedly funny and one of the most emotionally precise Off-Broadway shows of the season. Previews February 25, opened March 17, extended beyond original run, closed April 12 at NYTW’s 199-seat main stage. The kind of run people will be smug about having caught.
What happens when you mix Noël Coward, a ghost, a Ouija board, and the combined Tony-winning power of Phillipa Soo, Katrina Lenk, Andrea Martin, and Steven Pasquale? Apparently, you get the most overqualified — and most welcome — Encores! production in recent memory. High Spirits, the Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray musical based on Coward’s Blithe Spirit, is rarely produced (the original 1964 production ran 375 performances; this Encores! staging ran 12 days).
The jazz-and-gin-soaked bacchanal of Queenie and Burrs got a stunning Encores! treatment at New York City Center for two glorious weeks in March 2026. Andrew Lippa’s Tony-nominated 2000 musical — based on Joseph Moncure March’s scandalous 1928 poem — follows a prohibition-era house party that spirals from raucous to catastrophic with the inevitability of a hangover you absolutely deserve. The 2026 staging brought together Tony winner Adrienne Warren and BOOP!’s Jasmine Amy Rogers as the volatile duo at the center of all this beautiful chaos, with Tony winner Tonya Pinkins joining the party.
Norma Desmond has waited long enough — and in 2024, she finally got her Broadway close-up in the most jaw-dropping way possible. Jamie Lloyd’s radical, design-stripped revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic landed at the St. James Theatre with Nicole Scherzinger in the role she was born to play. No lavish sets. No opulent costumes. Just Scherzinger standing in a spotlight, delivering “With One Look” and “As If We Never Said Goodbye” with the kind of unhinged brilliance that makes your spine vibrate. The concept: everything stripped back, giant screens, minimal staging, raw emotion front an
An expressionist 1923 satire feels suddenly, uncomfortably present. The Adding Machine — Elmer L. Rice’s century-old play about a clerk replaced by a machine — gets a sharp new revision by playwright Thomas Bradshaw, directed by The New Group’s founding artistic director Scott Elliott. Mr. Zero can’t connect with his wife, his work wife, or his own life; when his boss replaces him with a literal adding machine, he lashes out in spectacular, surreal fashion.The cast is a four-pointed star: Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent), Jennifer Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), and Michael
Robert Icke’s three-hour, modern-dress Hamlet — the same production that won an Olivier in London — transfers to St. Ann’s Warehouse with Hugh Skinner in the title role. Icke’s reputation is for stripping Shakespeare down to the psychological mechanics underneath. The supporting cast includes Tony nominees and West End regulars. St. Ann’s Warehouse holds 800, with the kind of in-the-round staging the Brooklyn warehouse house excels at. TodayTix digital lottery is live; weekday matinees have the best odds.
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes wrapped its return engagement at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre on April 30, 2026 — back by popular demand after a sold-out 2025 New York premiere that earned a Times Critic’s Pick. Award-winning Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s lean, lacerating two-hander put Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty on the same small stage as Jon and Annie: he’s an acclaimed novelist and a charismatic university professor staring down the end of his third marriage; she’s nineteen, a star student, and a huge fan of his work. The attraction is undeniable.
Steve Earle returned to the Lortel-Roundabout Off-Broadway corner with William Friedkin’s adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Bug — a paranoia-soaked motel-room two-hander that closed too early and gave Carrie Coon and Michael Shannon some of the most uncomfortable stage time of 2025. Eric Hoff directed. The Lortel’s 299 seats kept the production tight. The kind of small, intense play that justifies the trek to Christopher Street — even if the run was a blink-and-you-missed-it three weeks.
Samuel D. Hunter’s quiet Idaho-set play about an estranged mother and son rebuilding their relationship after the son’s husband dies. The world premiere at Steppenwolf Chicago transferred to Broadway in spring 2025 at the Booth Theatre — Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock starred, Joe Mantello directed. The production won the 2025 Tony for Best Play. The Booth seats 766; the run was short and selling all the way through. The kind of unshowy, granular family-drama American theater pretends to crave and rarely commits to producing.
Bess Wohl’s three-character play about a generation of women whose mothers were second-wave feminists, and what that inheritance feels like in 2025. Susan Stroman directed at the Roundabout Steinberg, with Susannah Flood, Audrey Corsa, and Adina Verson in a slow-burn meditation on what got passed down and what got dropped. Closed in March 2026. The kind of writing that makes the case for plays about people sitting in rooms talking, which Broadway keeps trying to phase out.
The musical adaptation of Lauren Greenfield’s documentary about David and Jackie Siegel and the half-built mega-mansion they almost finished. F. Murray Abraham, Kristin Chenoweth, and a corps of dressed-up Floridians at the St. James Theatre, directed by Michael Arden. Closed January 2026 after a short run. The book leaned harder into the camp than the source material, which divided critics in productive ways. The St. James seats 1,710; lottery players had decent odds the whole run.
Yasmina Reza’s three-handed comedy about three friends, one ugly painting, and the slow grenade-pull of male friendship under financial pressure. Scott Ellis directed a 2026 Broadway revival at the Music Box with Bobby Cannavale, Jeremy Strong, and Neil Patrick Harris in the trio. Played 16 weeks. The play has remained one of the most-revived contemporary comedies in the world since its 1994 premiere, and this production reminded everyone why. The Music Box seats 1,025.
In the mid-90s, 17-year-old Ali gazes out from her apartment high above Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, barely catching a glimpse of the Hudson River. Ignoring her protective mother’s warnings, she’s drawn to the lively streets below, filled with the promise of freedom, excitement, and love. This new musical, inspired by Alicia Keys’ own experiences in New York, features original songs and iconic anthems by the artist.
Get ready to win Merrily We Roll Along Lottery tickets and enjoy a a wild ride with Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez in the epic revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along! Join the rollercoaster of composer Franklin Shepard’s life as he navigates the craziness with his lifelong buddies—scribe Mary and wordsmith extraordinaire Charley. It’s a musical journey of friendship, tunes, and more drama than a soap opera!
Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s musical about the Comedian Harmonists, a six-man harmony group whose careers were cut short by the Third Reich. Warren Carlyle directed; Sergio Trujillo choreographed. The cast featured Chip Zien, Sierra Boggess, and a vocal ensemble that justified the score’s ambition. Played the Barrymore Theatre in 2024 and closed at the end of summer. The kind of musical that left audiences arguing on the sidewalk about why it didn’t get more Tony attention.
The 2024 Broadway adaptation of the Robert Zemeckis trilogy. Roger Bart played Doc Brown to Casey Likes’ Marty McFly at the Winter Garden Theatre. The DeLorean special effect was the marketing hook; what surprised audiences was how much the show actually had to say about parent-child relationships, generations, and the things you only understand after you’ve left and come back. Closed in early 2026 after a respectable run.
Aaron Sorkin’s revisionist Camelot stripped the Lerner and Loewe musical of its mid-century gloss and re-wrote it as a Constitutional-democracy parable. Bartlett Sher directed at the Lincoln Center Vivian Beaumont — Andrew Burnap, Phillipa Soo, and Jordan Donica leading a 2023-2024 Broadway revival that played to packed houses. Closed after its 30-week run. The Beaumont’s thrust stage gave the production a feel that other Broadway revivals can’t match.
Anthony McCarten’s Neil Diamond jukebox-bio musical. Will Swenson and Mark Jacoby split the role of young and older Diamond at the Broadhurst Theatre. Linda Powell played Diamond’s therapist as the framing device for the flashbacks. Michael Mayer directed. The score, full of stadium-anthem energy without an actual stadium to absorb it, ran for over a year before closing in summer 2024. The kind of crowd-pleaser that Broadway needs and critics merely tolerate.
Kimberly Akimbo is a dark comedy by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. It tells the story of a teenage girl named Kimberly who suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes her body to age faster than normal. The play takes place over the course of a few days in Kimberly’s life, during which she interacts with her dysfunctional family members and meets a new friend who helps her come to terms with her situation. The play explores themes of mortality, family, and the search for meaning in life.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Emerald Fennell’s revisionist Cinderella musical opened during the pandemic in London as Cinderella, then transferred to Broadway in 2023 as Bad Cinderella. Linedy Genao played the title role at the Imperial Theatre. The show ran four months and closed in summer 2023. The score had moments; the book never quite landed the punk-rock Cinderella tone the marketing promised. Filed under: not the comeback Lloyd Webber wanted.
Patrick Page led the Broadway revival of Jack Thorne’s Old Vic Christmas Carol adaptation — the kind of muscular, theatrical Dickens that justified another stage version. Bay Theatre productions ran the 2024 holiday season at the Nederlander Theatre. Page’s Scrooge was the kind of performance that should make every other Scrooge in town watch and take notes. Limited engagement closed in early January 2025.
Tom Stoppard’s late-period play about Vienna’s Jewish intelligentsia — five generations of one family from 1899 to 1955. Patrick Marber directed the Broadway production at the Longacre Theatre, with Brandon Uranowitz, Faye Castelow, and David Krumholtz heading a cast of 24. Won the 2023 Tony for Best Play. Closed July 2023 after its limited engagement. The Longacre seats 1,096. A play that earned every minute of its three-hour runtime by being smarter and more emotional than its competitors.
Cameron Crowe’s musical adaptation of his autobiographical 2000 film, about a teenage rock journalist on tour with a fictional band in 1973. Casey Likes led the cast at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre; Jeremy Herrin directed. The score by Tom Kitt blended Crowe’s love letter to rock journalism with original songs that ached without imitating the era. Closed in early 2023 after a six-month run. The kind of musical that finds its audience on the cast album years after closing.
Selina Fillinger’s farce about seven women trying to manage a President who is having the worst week of his Presidency. Susan Stroman directed an all-star cast at the Shubert Theatre in 2022 — Vanessa Williams, Rachel Dratch, Julie White, Lea DeLaria, Lilli Cooper, Suzy Nakamura, and Julianne Hough. The kind of explicit, breakneck political comedy Broadway tried to bury and audiences kept showing up for. Closed August 2022 after its limited run.
The Irene Sankoff and David Hein musical about Gander, Newfoundland, the airline diversions of 9/11, and the locals who took in 7,000 stranded passengers. Christopher Ashley directed; the production ran on Broadway from 2017 to 2022, then transferred to filmed-for-streaming, then came back to Broadway, then closed for good in late 2024. The Schoenfeld Theatre seats 1,079. One of the few American musicals of the last decade that earned its sentimentality through specificity.
Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul’s musical about a high-school senior with anxiety, a tragedy at school, and a lie that grows out of control. Ran on Broadway from 2016 to 2022 at the Music Box Theatre — 1,672 performances — and won six Tonys including Best Musical. Ben Platt’s Tony-winning performance defined the role and complicated the show’s legacy (the film adaptation cast him too old). The musical’s place in early-2020s teen culture is its own kind of artifact.
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