Broadway is famous for its long-running hit musicals, its plays are just as exciting. Many successful musicals stick around for decades, but plays regularly rotate, ensuring there’s always a new show to discover. Plus, you can often catch celebrities in Broadway plays — but only for a limited time.
Check out the top Broadway plays to see right now, including starry revivals of classic plays and fan-favorite modern hits.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has put Broadway audiences under its spell since 2018. Harry Potter fans will recognize all their favorite characters, and some new ones, in this stage sequel to the books centered on the next generation of wizards.
And even non-Potterheads are bound to be amazed by the daring plot about time travel and the unbelievable special effects. All together, the performances and stagecraft of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will make you believe magic — or theatre magic, at least — is real.
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Oh, Mary!
Search Party‘s Cole Escola, How to Get Away With Murder‘s Conrad Ricamora, and more star in this wacky comedy that brings the White House to Broadway following a sold-out Off-Broadway premiere. Escola also wrote this show and stars as Mary Todd Lincoln — a silly, alcoholic, lustful Mary Todd Lincoln with dreams of being a cabaret star. Her life turns on its head in the weeks leading up to her husband’s assassination.
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Romeo + Juliet
See Heartstopper star Kit Connor and West Side Story Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler make their Broadway debuts as the star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. Additionally, Jack Antonoff — known for producing music for people like Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter — writes original music for the show.
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All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich
There’s plenty to love about this play: A rotating cast of comedy icons appears throughout the run of All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich, a series of short stories about all kinds of love: familial, romantic, platonic, and even canine. The stories are interspersed with songs by The Magnetic Fields, performed live by The Bengsons.
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Hawkins, Indiana, got turned upside down long before the events of Netflix’s Stranger Things. In this theatrical prequel to the hit show, teenage versions of fan-favorite characters deal with the arrival of a newcomer named Henry Creel, who upends all their lives.
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Purpose
Tony Award winner Kara Young, Tony nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson, and more lead the cast of the latest family drama from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, writer of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Appropriate. When an uninvited guest accompanies a young man to a gathering of his Black revolutionary family, they all must contend with their power, faith, and legacy.
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