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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html","crawl_time":1771068083,"first_indexed_time":1731535476,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Broadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["A guide to every show on Broadway, including Tony-winning musicals, new dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton.”"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Nichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.\nCredit...\nSara Krulwich\/The New York Times\nA guide to every show on Broadway, including Tony-winning musicals, new dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton.”\nNichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.\nCredit...\nSara Krulwich\/The New York Times\nPublished July 15, 2021\nUpdated Feb. 3, 2026\nJump to:\nGrown-Up Plays\n|\nScreen Adaptations\n|\nLong-Running Favorites\nMusicals to Leave You Humming\nBuena Vista Social Club\nThis\njukebox tale\nabout the Cuban artists who made the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album of the title isn’t straight biography.\nDeveloped and directed by Saheem Ali\n, it uses real people and events as a jumping-off point for its storytelling. Rooted in the recording sessions, and with Tony-winning choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (“Illinoise”), it was an Off Broadway hit for Atlantic Theater Company. The production’s three other competitive Tony wins include one for\nNatalie Venetia Belcon\nas the majestic Omara, a retired singer who must be coaxed back to performing. A special Tony went to the musicians who make up the show’s terrific band. (At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.)\nRead the review.\nChess\nThe Tim Rice-Benny Andersson-Bjorn Ulvaeus musical that flopped in its\noriginal 1988 Broadway outing\ntakes another shot. With a new book by Danny Strong, it stars Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and the Tony winner Aaron Tveit in a tale of American vs. Russian rivalry, set at the World Chess Championship. Michael Mayer, a Tony winner for “Spring Awakening,” directs. (Through May 3 at the Imperial Theater.)\nRead the review.\nThe Great Gatsby\nJeremy Jordan returns to the title role, opposite Aisha Jackson as Daisy. This musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel has a book by Kait Kerrigan (“The Mad Ones”), with music by Jason Howland and lyrics by Nathan Tysen (both of “Paradise Square”). Marc Bruni (“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”) directs. Linda Cho’s luxurious 1920s costumes won a Tony for the show. (At the Broadway Theater.)\nRead the review.\nYour Broadway Questions\nIs there a dress code?\nOn Broadway, you’re free to dress up or down. It’s perfectly OK to wear jeans, and totally fine to bedeck yourself in glamour. Either way, you will fit in. Do bring something to toss over your shoulders in case the theater is chilly.\nWhat about accessibility?\nA laudably comprehensive, easy-to-navigate website,\ntheatreaccess.nyc\n, can tell you all you need to know — theater by theater, show by show.\nHow do I stage-door?\nPost-show, you may wait at the theater’s stage door and ask performers to autograph your Playbill or take a selfie with you. The front-of-house staff can direct you where to assemble. Enjoy, but also remember: Actors are not obligated to chat, sign or pose.\nDo I really need to turn off my phone?\nYes, you do. Your phone’s light and noises can shatter the experience for your fellow audience members. If your ringer erupts or you’re texting away, it bothers the actors onstage, too. Power it down, and be in the moment. You’ll have a much better time.\nWhere do I eat?\nTimes Square can be a challenge, restaurant-wise. But\nhere are some ideas\nto get you started.\nPick a restaurant a few blocks from the theater, and give yourself at least 90 minutes between the beginning of your meal and curtain time. Also make sure that the waiter knows you’re catching a show.\nBroadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More - The New York Times\nHell’s Kitchen\nAlicia Keys\n’s own coming-of-age is the inspiration for this jukebox musical stocked with her songs. With numbers including “Girl on Fire,”\n“Fallin’”\nand “Empire State of Mind,” it’s the story of a 17-year-old (Amanda Reid) in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, growing into an artist. Directed by Michael Greif, the show has a book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Camille A. Brown. (Through Feb. 22 at the Shubert Theater.)\nRead the review.\nJust in Time\nJonathan Groff, a Tony winner for “\nMerrily We Roll Along\n,” stars as\nBobby Darin in this jukebox bio-musical\nabout the singer-songwriter who became a pop star of the 1950s and ’60s with songs like “Splish Splash,” “Mack the Knife” and “Dream Lover,”\nmarried\na teenage Sandra Dee and\ndied at 37\n. Dripping with period atmosphere, the show has a set by Derek McLane and costumes by Catherine Zuber. With a book by Warren Leight (“\nSide Man\n”) and Isaac Oliver, and a cast that includes Sadie Dickerson, Sarah Hyland and Michele Pawk, it’s directed by Alex Timbers. (At Circle in the Square Theater.)\nRead the review.\nMaybe Happy Ending\nThis is the show that\ntiptoed onto Broadway\nand quietly took the Tony Awards’ biggest prize. Robot neighbors in Seoul, nearing obsolescence, tumble into odd-couple friendship in this wistfully romantic charmer of a\nmusical comedy by Will Aronson and Hue Park\n, starring Andrew Barth Feldman and Helen J Shen. The season’s most unanticipated darling, it won six Tonys, including best musical, book and score, and director for Michael Arden (“Parade”). (At the Belasco Theater.)\nRead the review\n.\nOperation Mincemeat\nA sneaky compassion lies at the heart of this caper of a show,\na deliciously eccentric London import\nthat won the\n2024 Olivier Award\nfor best new musical. Starring the original West End cast, this is a riff on\na bizarre true story\nfrom World War II, when British Intelligence, keen to misdirect the Germans, dressed up a dead man as a Royal Marines major, planted a fake invasion plan on him and dropped him in the sea for the enemy to find. Jak Malone, who performs the poignant standout song “Dear Bill,” won a Tony for playing Hester, a proper, middle-aged secretary who has been through war before. (Through July 5 at the Golden Theater.)\nRead the review\n.\nRagtime\nJoshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz and Shaina Taub, all alumni of\nLear deBessonet’s New York City Center gala staging\nlast year, reprise their roles in this Lincoln Center Theater production of the musical by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNally. Based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, it follows three families from disparate social strata chasing the American dream at the turn of the 20th century. (Through June 14 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.)\nRead the review.\nTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)\nRobin (Christiani Pitts), a native New Yorker, and Dougal (Sam Tutty, making a stellar Broadway debut), a Brit visiting the city for the first time for a wedding, slip into their own holiday rom-com in this effervescent new musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, transferred from the West End. Directed by Tim Jackson, with an ingenious set and costumes by Soutra Gilmour. (At the Longacre Theater.)\nRead the review.\nGrown-Up Plays\nImage\nCarrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in “Bug” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.\nCredit...\nSara Krulwich\/The New York Times\nAll Out: Comedy About Ambition\nThese aren’t plays, actually — they’re stories by the humor writer Simon Rich — and they’re read rather than fully staged. As it was last year with Rich’s Broadway debut, “\nAll In: Comedy About Love\n,” the catnip here is the casting: a rotating crowd of boldface names, including Nicholas Braun, Heidi Gardner, Jason Mantzoukas, Ashley Park, Craig Robinson, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman and Jenny Slate. Alex Timbers directs. (Through March 8 at the Nederlander Theater.)\nBug\nTracy Letts’s paranoia-fueled, nudity-filled,\nmotel-room thriller\nwas one of those must-see downtown shows when Michael Shannon\nstarred in it\ntwo decades ago. In this production by David Cromer, which first ran in 2020 at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Namir Smallwood (“Pass Over”) stars as the conspiracy-minded Peter opposite Carrie Coon as Agnes, the solitary waitress who gets involved with him. During the performance, audience members will have to store their powered-down phones in locked pouches, which they will keep in their possession throughout. (Through Feb. 22 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.)\nRead the review.\nMarjorie Prime\nJune Squibb stars as an old woman rewriting her memories with the help of a youthful hologram of her dead husband (Christopher Lowell) in Jordan Harrison’s\ntender, futuristic comedy\n, which was adapted into a 2017\nfilm\n. Cynthia Nixon plays her daughter, and Danny Burstein her son-in-law. Anne Kauffman (“\nMary Jane\n”), who staged the 2015 Off Broadway\nproduction\n, directs for Second Stage. (Through Feb. 15 at the Helen Hayes Theater.)\nRead the review.\nOedipus\nLesley Manville, who received a best actress Olivier Award for her performance as Jocasta, and Mark Strong, in the title role of her politician husband, headline this Olivier-winning Sophocles adaptation by the director Robert Icke, whose harrowing “\nOresteia\n” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2022 demonstrated his razor-sharp skill with ancient Greek tragedy. (Through Feb. 8 at Studio 54.)\nRead the review.\nOh, Mary!\nChanneling the deliriously outrageous, emphatically queer downtown spirit of\nCharles Ludlam\nand his Ridiculous Theatrical Company, this\narch comedy\nby\nCole Escola\n(“Difficult People”) was a fizzy Off Broadway hit. The title character is a sozzled, stage-struck Mary Todd Lincoln (John Cameron Mitchell, through April 26) — a very loose cannon largely ignored by her husband, the president (John-Andrew Morrison), who is occupied with assorted sexual exploits and the bothersome Civil War. Simu Liu plays the teacher he hires for Mary (through Jan. 25). The show’s director, Sam Pinkleton, won a Tony for this production. (Through July 5 at the Lyceum Theater.)\nRead the review.\nScreen Favorites, Refashioned\nImage\nThe Tony nominee Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp in “Death Becomes Her” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.\nCredit...\nSara Krulwich\/The New York Times\nDeath Becomes Her\nBetsy Wolfe (“& Juliet”) has joined Jennifer Simard to play friends turned rivals\nin this musical adaptation\nof the\n1992 Meryl Streep-Goldie Hawn comedy\nabout the terror of aging, the pursuit of beauty and the trouble with acquiescing when a sorceress (Michelle Williams) offers a potion that brings eternal youth. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, with Tony-winning costumes by Paul Tazewell that fuse glittering glamour and a tricksy sense of fun. (At the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.)\nRead the review.\nThe Outsiders\nRival gangs in a musical who aren’t the Sharks and the Jets? Here they’re the Greasers and the Socs, driven by class enmity just as they were in S.E. Hinton’s 1967 young adult novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film. Set in a version of Tulsa, Okla., where guys have names like Ponyboy and Sodapop,\nthis adaptation\nis the show with\nthe rainstorm rumble\nyou’ve heard about. It won four Tonys, including best musical and best direction, by Danya Taymor. With a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, it has music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Levine. (At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.)\nRead the review\n.\nStranger Things: The First Shadow\nSet in Hawkins, Ind., in 1959, this Olivier-winning\nsensory spectacle of a play\nis a\nprequel to the supernatural Netflix series “Stranger Things.”\nStarring Louis McCartney as a teenager with dangerous powers who’s new in town, the production received a special Tony for its illusions and technical effects, and won three more for set, lighting and sound design. Directed by Stephen Daldry, it has a script by Kate Trefry, a writer on the hit series, and an original story by Trefry, Jack Thorne and the Duffer brothers, who created the series. Transferred from London’s West End,\nwhere it opened in 2023\n, the show is recommended for ages 12 and older. (At the Marquis Theater.)\nRead the review.\nLong-Running Crowd-Pleasers\nImage\nFrom left, Abby Mueller, Anna Uzele, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack and Samantha Pauly in “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in Manhattan.\nCredit...\nSara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n& Juliet\nWith a song list full of pop hits, this frolicsome musical comedy imagines — with an assist from Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife — what happens when Juliet goes on living sans her Romeo. (At the Stephen Sondheim Theater.)\nRead the review.\nAladdin\nSong, dance and extravagant design buoy Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie in this winking stage adaptation of Disney’s 1992 animated film, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw. (At the New Amsterdam Theater.)\nRead the review.\nThe Book of Mormon\nA pair of Mormon missionaries seek converts in Uganda in this gleefully profane musical comedy by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez. (At the Eugene O’Neill Theater.)\nRead the review.\nChicago\nThe 1996 revival,\nBroadway’s longest-running show, has far outpaced the original production of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s dark vaudeville about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and all that jazz. (At the Ambassador Theater.)\nRead the review.\nHadestown\nAnaïs Mitchell’s jazz-folk musical about the mythic young lovers Eurydice and Orpheus takes audiences on a glorious road to hell in Rachel Chavkin’s splendidly designed production. (At the Walter Kerr Theater.)\nRead the review\n.\nHamilton\nLin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing musical-theater\nphenomenon\nraps its tale of “the 10-dollar founding father without a father.” (At the Richard Rodgers Theater.)\nRead the review\n.\nHarry Potter and the Cursed Child\nThe saga of the grown-up Harry and his Hogwarts friends continues with the next generation, and is now even more slimmed down from its original, two-part marathon form. Tom Felton, who played the poisonous young Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies, plays the adult Draco through May 10. (At the Lyric Theater.)\nRead the review\n.\nThe Lion King\nLush with masks and puppetry, Julie Taymor’s visually extravagant\nretelling\nof the Disney animated classic has a score by Elton John and Tim Rice, additional music by the South African composer Lebo M., and choreography by Garth Fagan. (At the Minskoff Theater.)\nRead the review.\nMJ\nThis dance-infused Michael Jackson jukebox musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, with a book by Lynn Nottage, is produced “by special arrangement” with Jackson’s estate. (At the Neil Simon Theater.)\nRead the review.\nMoulin Rouge! The Musical\nFor those to whom a Broadway show means spare-no-expense spectacle, this\nlavishly designed adaptation\nof Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie musical is just the ticket. (At the Al Hirschfeld Theater.)\nRead the review.\nSix\nThe half-dozen wives of Henry VIII recount their marriages pop-concert style — divorces, beheadings and all —\nin Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s\nupbeat musical\n. (At the Lena Horne Theater.)\nRead the review.\nWicked\nThe witches from “The Wizard of Oz” get a friends-and-foes origin story in Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s captivatingly designed, impeccably maintained musical. (At the Gershwin Theater.)\nRead the review.\nA version of this article appears in print on\nJan. 19, 2024\n, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Shows to Catch This Season\n.\nOrder Reprints\n|\nToday’s Paper\n|\nSubscribe\nAdvertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT","attrs_markdown":"Performances in N.Y.C.\n\n- [Broadway Guide](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html)\n- [‘High Spirits’](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/06\/theater\/high-spirits-review-a-ghostly-delight-from-encores.html)\n- [‘The Wind-Up’](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/30\/arts\/dance\/review-justin-peck-the-wind-up-new-york-city-ballet.html)\n- [‘Data’](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/26\/theater\/data-review.html)\n\n![In a production image, a man in a raincoat and fedora drives a car while his passenger, a woman, holds a baby.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/10\/31\/multimedia\/31broadway-guide-ragtime-qfpt\/31broadway-guide-ragtime-qfpt-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nNichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n\n[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n# Broadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More\nA guide to every show on Broadway, including Tony-winning musicals, new dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton.”\n\nNichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n\nSupported by\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html#after-sponsor)\n\n- Share full article\n- 22\n\nBy [Laura Collins-Hughes](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/laura-collins-hughes)\n\n- Published July 15, 2021Updated Feb. 3, 2026\n\n### Jump to: [Grown-Up Plays](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-450ac250) \\| [Screen Adaptations](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-4b69a3b4) \\| [Long-Running Favorites](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-77d14e61)\n## Musicals to Leave You Humming\n### **[Buena Vista Social Club](https:\/\/buenavistamusical.com\/)**\nThis [jukebox tale](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/theater\/buena-vista-social-club-chan-chan-broadway.html) about the Cuban artists who made the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album of the title isn’t straight biography. [Developed and directed by Saheem Ali](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/22\/theater\/buena-vista-social-club-musical-cuban.html), it uses real people and events as a jumping-off point for its storytelling. Rooted in the recording sessions, and with Tony-winning choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (“Illinoise”), it was an Off Broadway hit for Atlantic Theater Company. The production’s three other competitive Tony wins include one for [Natalie Venetia Belcon](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/01\/theater\/buena-vista-social-club-natalie-venetia-belcon-tonys.html) as the majestic Omara, a retired singer who must be coaxed back to performing. A special Tony went to the musicians who make up the show’s terrific band. (At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/theater\/buena-vista-social-club-review-broadway.html)\n\n### [Chess](https:\/\/chessbroadway.com\/)\nThe Tim Rice-Benny Andersson-Bjorn Ulvaeus musical that flopped in its [original 1988 Broadway outing](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/04\/29\/theater\/review-theater-in-trevor-nunn-s-musical-chess-east-faces-west-across-a-board.html) takes another shot. With a new book by Danny Strong, it stars Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and the Tony winner Aaron Tveit in a tale of American vs. Russian rivalry, set at the World Chess Championship. Michael Mayer, a Tony winner for “Spring Awakening,” directs. (Through May 3 at the Imperial Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/16\/theater\/chess-review-lea-michele-broadway.html)\n\n### **[The Great Gatsby](https:\/\/broadwaygatsby.com\/)**\nJeremy Jordan returns to the title role, opposite Aisha Jackson as Daisy. This musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel has a book by Kait Kerrigan (“The Mad Ones”), with music by Jason Howland and lyrics by Nathan Tysen (both of “Paradise Square”). Marc Bruni (“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”) directs. Linda Cho’s luxurious 1920s costumes won a Tony for the show. (At the Broadway Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/25\/theater\/the-great-gatsby-review-noblezada-jordan.html)\n***\n\nYour Broadway Questions\n\n## Is there a dress code?\nOn Broadway, you’re free to dress up or down. It’s perfectly OK to wear jeans, and totally fine to bedeck yourself in glamour. Either way, you will fit in. Do bring something to toss over your shoulders in case the theater is chilly.\n\n## What about accessibility?\nA laudably comprehensive, easy-to-navigate website, [theatreaccess.nyc](http:\/\/www.theatreaccess.nyc\/), can tell you all you need to know — theater by theater, show by show.\n\n## How do I stage-door?\nPost-show, you may wait at the theater’s stage door and ask performers to autograph your Playbill or take a selfie with you. The front-of-house staff can direct you where to assemble. Enjoy, but also remember: Actors are not obligated to chat, sign or pose.\n\n## Do I really need to turn off my phone?\nYes, you do. Your phone’s light and noises can shatter the experience for your fellow audience members. If your ringer erupts or you’re texting away, it bothers the actors onstage, too. Power it down, and be in the moment. You’ll have a much better time.\n\n## Where do I eat?\nTimes Square can be a challenge, restaurant-wise. But [here are some ideas](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/where-to-eat-in-midtown-nyc.html) [to get you started.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/26\/dining\/midtown-restaurants-nyc.html) Pick a restaurant a few blocks from the theater, and give yourself at least 90 minutes between the beginning of your meal and curtain time. Also make sure that the waiter knows you’re catching a show.\n\nBroadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More - The New York Times\n\n***\n### **[Hell’s Kitchen](https:\/\/www.hellskitchen.com\/)**\n[Alicia Keys](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/04\/theater\/alicia-keys-hells-kitchen-musical.html)’s own coming-of-age is the inspiration for this jukebox musical stocked with her songs. With numbers including “Girl on Fire,” [“Fallin’”](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/25\/podcasts\/alicia-keys-on-reimagining-fallin-for-broadway.html) and “Empire State of Mind,” it’s the story of a 17-year-old (Amanda Reid) in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, growing into an artist. Directed by Michael Greif, the show has a book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Camille A. Brown. (Through Feb. 22 at the Shubert Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/theater\/hells-kitchen-review-alicia-keys.html)\n\n### **[Just in Time](https:\/\/justintimebroadway.com\/)**\nJonathan Groff, a Tony winner for “[Merrily We Roll Along](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/10\/theater\/merrily-we-roll-along-review.html),” stars as [Bobby Darin in this jukebox bio-musical](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/theater\/just-in-time-broadway-bobby-darin.html) about the singer-songwriter who became a pop star of the 1950s and ’60s with songs like “Splish Splash,” “Mack the Knife” and “Dream Lover,” [married](https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1960\/12\/02\/99974123.pdf) a teenage Sandra Dee and [died at 37](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1973\/12\/21\/archives\/bobby-darin-pop-singer-dies-at-37-young-man-in-a-hurry-became-adult.html). Dripping with period atmosphere, the show has a set by Derek McLane and costumes by Catherine Zuber. With a book by Warren Leight (“[Side Man](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/03\/12\/theater\/theater-review-blue-notes-plenty-of-them-for-a-jazzman.html)”) and Isaac Oliver, and a cast that includes Sadie Dickerson, Sarah Hyland and Michele Pawk, it’s directed by Alex Timbers. (At Circle in the Square Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/26\/theater\/just-in-time-review-darin-groff.html)\n\n### **[Maybe Happy Ending](https:\/\/www.maybehappyending.com\/)**\nThis is the show that [tiptoed onto Broadway](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/10\/theater\/maybe-happy-ending-tonys-broadway.html) and quietly took the Tony Awards’ biggest prize. Robot neighbors in Seoul, nearing obsolescence, tumble into odd-couple friendship in this wistfully romantic charmer of a [musical comedy by Will Aronson and Hue Park](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/08\/theater\/maybe-happy-ending-broadway-criss.html), starring Andrew Barth Feldman and Helen J Shen. The season’s most unanticipated darling, it won six Tonys, including best musical, book and score, and director for Michael Arden (“Parade”). (At the Belasco Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/12\/theater\/maybe-happy-ending-review-darren-criss.html)[.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/12\/theater\/maybe-happy-ending-review-darren-criss.html)\n\n### **[Operation Mincemeat](http:\/\/operationbroadway.com\/)**\nA sneaky compassion lies at the heart of this caper of a show, [a deliciously eccentric London import](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/theater\/operation-mincemeat-broadway-opening.html) that won the [2024 Olivier Award](https:\/\/officiallondontheatre.com\/olivier-awards\/year\/olivier-awards-2024\/) for best new musical. Starring the original West End cast, this is a riff on [a bizarre true story](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/26\/theater\/operation-mincemeat-descendants-family.html) from World War II, when British Intelligence, keen to misdirect the Germans, dressed up a dead man as a Royal Marines major, planted a fake invasion plan on him and dropped him in the sea for the enemy to find. Jak Malone, who performs the poignant standout song “Dear Bill,” won a Tony for playing Hester, a proper, middle-aged secretary who has been through war before. (Through July 5 at the Golden Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/theater\/operation-mincemeat-review-broadway.html)[.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/theater\/operation-mincemeat-review-broadway.html)\n\n### [Ragtime](https:\/\/www.lct.org\/shows\/ragtime\/)\nJoshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz and Shaina Taub, all alumni of [Lear deBessonet’s New York City Center gala staging](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/31\/theater\/ragtime-review-city-center.html) last year, reprise their roles in this Lincoln Center Theater production of the musical by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNally. Based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, it follows three families from disparate social strata chasing the American dream at the turn of the 20th century. (Through June 14 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/16\/theater\/ragtime-review-henry-debessonet.html)\n\n### [Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)](https:\/\/twostrangersmusical.com\/)\nRobin (Christiani Pitts), a native New Yorker, and Dougal (Sam Tutty, making a stellar Broadway debut), a Brit visiting the city for the first time for a wedding, slip into their own holiday rom-com in this effervescent new musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, transferred from the West End. Directed by Tim Jackson, with an ingenious set and costumes by Soutra Gilmour. (At the Longacre Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/20\/theater\/two-strangers-carry-cake-review.html)\n\n[![]()How to Buy Broadway Tickets? Your Questions, Answered](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-tickets-tips.html)\n\n***\n## Grown-Up Plays\n\nImage\n\n![Carrie Coon, left, sits on a bed in a purple tank top and jean shorts while holding the hand of Namir Smallwood, who is wearing jeans and a gray T-shirt over a white long-sleeved shirt.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/02\/03\/multimedia\/03cul-broadway-guide-1-bwjp\/03cul-broadway-guide-1-bwjp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nCarrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in “Bug” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n\n### [All Out: Comedy About Ambition](https:\/\/alloutbroadway.com\/)\nThese aren’t plays, actually — they’re stories by the humor writer Simon Rich — and they’re read rather than fully staged. As it was last year with Rich’s Broadway debut, “[All In: Comedy About Love](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/22\/theater\/all-in-review.html),” the catnip here is the casting: a rotating crowd of boldface names, including Nicholas Braun, Heidi Gardner, Jason Mantzoukas, Ashley Park, Craig Robinson, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman and Jenny Slate. Alex Timbers directs. (Through March 8 at the Nederlander Theater.)\n\n### [Bug](https:\/\/www.manhattantheatreclub.com\/shows\/2025-26-season\/bug\/)\nTracy Letts’s paranoia-fueled, nudity-filled, [motel-room thriller](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/29\/theater\/theater-excerpt-bug.html) was one of those must-see downtown shows when Michael Shannon [starred in it](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/01\/theater\/theater-review-motel-tale-down-and-out-and-itchy-and-scratchy-in-oklahoma.html) two decades ago. In this production by David Cromer, which first ran in 2020 at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Namir Smallwood (“Pass Over”) stars as the conspiracy-minded Peter opposite Carrie Coon as Agnes, the solitary waitress who gets involved with him. During the performance, audience members will have to store their powered-down phones in locked pouches, which they will keep in their possession throughout. (Through Feb. 22 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/08\/theater\/bug-review-carrie-coon.html)\n\n### [Marjorie Prime](https:\/\/2st.com\/shows\/marjorie-prime)\nJune Squibb stars as an old woman rewriting her memories with the help of a youthful hologram of her dead husband (Christopher Lowell) in Jordan Harrison’s [tender, futuristic comedy](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/13\/theater\/marjorie-prime-a-tender-comedy-starring-lois-smith.html), which was adapted into a 2017 [film](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/17\/movies\/marjorie-prime-review-jon-hamm.html). Cynthia Nixon plays her daughter, and Danny Burstein her son-in-law. Anne Kauffman (“[Mary Jane](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/23\/theater\/mary-jane-review-rachel-mcadams.html)”), who staged the 2015 Off Broadway [production](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/15\/theater\/review-in-marjorie-prime-lois-smith-connects-with-the-past.html), directs for Second Stage. (Through Feb. 15 at the Helen Hayes Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/08\/theater\/marjorie-prime-review-june-squibb.html)\n\n### [Oedipus](https:\/\/oedipustheplay.com\/)\nLesley Manville, who received a best actress Olivier Award for her performance as Jocasta, and Mark Strong, in the title role of her politician husband, headline this Olivier-winning Sophocles adaptation by the director Robert Icke, whose harrowing “[Oresteia](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/28\/theater\/oresteia-review-park-avenue-armory.html)” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2022 demonstrated his razor-sharp skill with ancient Greek tragedy. (Through Feb. 8 at Studio 54.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/13\/theater\/oedipus-review-strong-manville.html)\n\n### **[Oh, Mary\\!](https:\/\/www.ohmaryplay.com\/)**\nChanneling the deliriously outrageous, emphatically queer downtown spirit of [Charles Ludlam](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/05\/29\/obituaries\/charles-ludlam-44-avant-garde-artist-of-theater-is-dead.html) and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company, this [arch comedy](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/12\/theater\/oh-mary-broadway.html) by [Cole Escola](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/07\/theater\/cole-escola-oh-mary-mary-todd-lincoln.html) (“Difficult People”) was a fizzy Off Broadway hit. The title character is a sozzled, stage-struck Mary Todd Lincoln (John Cameron Mitchell, through April 26) — a very loose cannon largely ignored by her husband, the president (John-Andrew Morrison), who is occupied with assorted sexual exploits and the bothersome Civil War. Simu Liu plays the teacher he hires for Mary (through Jan. 25). The show’s director, Sam Pinkleton, won a Tony for this production. (Through July 5 at the Lyceum Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/11\/theater\/oh-mary-review-cole-escola.html)\n\n***\n## Screen Favorites, Refashioned\n\nImage\n\n![A woman in a red gown stands with her hands at her sides and smoke filtering out of a hole in her abdomen in a production image.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/11\/24\/multimedia\/BROADWAY-GUIDE-1-pjkm\/BROADWAY-GUIDE-1-pjkm-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nThe Tony nominee Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp in “Death Becomes Her” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n\n### **[Death Becomes Her](https:\/\/deathbecomesher.com\/)**\nBetsy Wolfe (“& Juliet”) has joined Jennifer Simard to play friends turned rivals [in this musical adaptation](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/18\/theater\/death-becomes-her-broadway.html) of the [1992 Meryl Streep-Goldie Hawn comedy](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/30\/movies\/death-becomes-her-movie-visual-effects.html) about the terror of aging, the pursuit of beauty and the trouble with acquiescing when a sorceress (Michelle Williams) offers a potion that brings eternal youth. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, with Tony-winning costumes by Paul Tazewell that fuse glittering glamour and a tricksy sense of fun. (At the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/theater\/death-becomes-her-review-hilty-simard.html)\n\n### **[The Outsiders](https:\/\/outsidersmusical.com\/)**\nRival gangs in a musical who aren’t the Sharks and the Jets? Here they’re the Greasers and the Socs, driven by class enmity just as they were in S.E. Hinton’s 1967 young adult novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film. Set in a version of Tulsa, Okla., where guys have names like Ponyboy and Sodapop, [this adaptation](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/22\/theater\/outsiders-broadway-musical-se-hinton.html) is the show with [the rainstorm rumble](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2024\/06\/10\/theater\/outsiders-rumble) you’ve heard about. It won four Tonys, including best musical and best direction, by Danya Taymor. With a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, it has music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Levine. (At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/11\/theater\/review-outsiders-musical.html)[.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/11\/theater\/review-outsiders-musical.html)\n\n### **[Stranger Things: The First Shadow](https:\/\/broadway.strangerthingsonstage.com\/)**\nSet in Hawkins, Ind., in 1959, this Olivier-winning [sensory spectacle of a play](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/14\/theater\/stranger-things-first-shadow-broadway.html) is a [prequel to the supernatural Netflix series “Stranger Things.”](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/09\/theater\/stranger-things-first-shadow-broadway.html) Starring Louis McCartney as a teenager with dangerous powers who’s new in town, the production received a special Tony for its illusions and technical effects, and won three more for set, lighting and sound design. Directed by Stephen Daldry, it has a script by Kate Trefry, a writer on the hit series, and an original story by Trefry, Jack Thorne and the Duffer brothers, who created the series. Transferred from London’s West End, [where it opened in 2023](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/14\/theater\/stranger-things-the-first-shadow-london.html), the show is recommended for ages 12 and older. (At the Marquis Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/theater\/stranger-things-first-shadow-review-broadway.html)\n***\n## Long-Running Crowd-Pleasers\n\nImage\n\n![Six women in futuristic, bedazzled costumes sing into mics. ](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/11\/19\/multimedia\/19broadway-guide-six-fzqk\/19broadway-guide-six-fzqk-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nFrom left, Abby Mueller, Anna Uzele, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack and Samantha Pauly in “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in Manhattan.Credit...Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n\n### **[& Juliet](https:\/\/andjulietbroadway.com\/)**\nWith a song list full of pop hits, this frolicsome musical comedy imagines — with an assist from Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife — what happens when Juliet goes on living sans her Romeo. (At the Stephen Sondheim Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/17\/theater\/and-juliet-review.html)\n\n### **[Aladdin](https:\/\/aladdinthemusical.com\/)**\nSong, dance and extravagant design buoy Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie in this winking stage adaptation of Disney’s 1992 animated film, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw. (At the New Amsterdam Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/21\/theater\/aladdin-tweaks-the-disney-formula-with-breezy-insouciance.html)\n\n### **[The Book of Mormon](https:\/\/www.bookofmormonbroadway.com\/)**\nA pair of Mormon missionaries seek converts in Uganda in this gleefully profane musical comedy by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez. (At the Eugene O’Neill Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/25\/theater\/reviews\/the-book-of-mormon-at-eugene-oneill-theater-review.html)\n\n### **[Chicago](https:\/\/chicagothemusical.com\/)**\nThe 1996 revival,Broadway’s longest-running show, has far outpaced the original production of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s dark vaudeville about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and all that jazz. (At the Ambassador Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/11\/15\/theater\/a-lively-legacy-a-come-hither-air.html)\n\n### **[Hadestown](https:\/\/hadestown.com\/)**\nAnaïs Mitchell’s jazz-folk musical about the mythic young lovers Eurydice and Orpheus takes audiences on a glorious road to hell in Rachel Chavkin’s splendidly designed production. (At the Walter Kerr Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/17\/theater\/hadestown-review-broadway-anais-mitchell.html)[.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/17\/theater\/hadestown-review-broadway-anais-mitchell.html)\n\n### **[Hamilton](https:\/\/hamiltonmusical.com\/new-york\/)**\nLin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing musical-theater [phenomenon](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/07\/theater\/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html?module=inline) raps its tale of “the 10-dollar founding father without a father.” (At the Richard Rodgers Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/07\/theater\/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html)*.*\n\n### **[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child](https:\/\/broadway.harrypottertheplay.com\/)**\nThe saga of the grown-up Harry and his Hogwarts friends continues with the next generation, and is now even more slimmed down from its original, two-part marathon form. Tom Felton, who played the poisonous young Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies, plays the adult Draco through May 10. (At the Lyric Theater.)[*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/07\/theater\/harry-potter-cursed-child-broadway-review.html)[*.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/22\/theater\/review-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-raises-the-bar-for-broadway-magic.html)\n\n### **[The Lion King](https:\/\/lionking.com\/)**\nLush with masks and puppetry, Julie Taymor’s visually extravagant [retelling](http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/11\/14\/movies\/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html?module=inline) of the Disney animated classic has a score by Elton John and Tim Rice, additional music by the South African composer Lebo M., and choreography by Garth Fagan. (At the Minskoff Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/11\/14\/movies\/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html)\n\n### **[MJ](https:\/\/mjthemusical.com\/)**\nThis dance-infused Michael Jackson jukebox musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, with a book by Lynn Nottage, is produced “by special arrangement” with Jackson’s estate. (At the Neil Simon Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/01\/theater\/mj-musical-review.html)\n\n### **[Moulin Rouge! The Musical](https:\/\/moulinrougemusical.com\/new-york\/home\/)**\nFor those to whom a Broadway show means spare-no-expense spectacle, this [lavishly designed adaptation](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/17\/theater\/moulin-rouge-musical-songs.html) of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie musical is just the ticket. (At the Al Hirschfeld Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/25\/theater\/moulin-rouge-review.html)\n\n### **[Six](https:\/\/sixonbroadway.com\/)**\nThe half-dozen wives of Henry VIII recount their marriages pop-concert style — divorces, beheadings and all —in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s [upbeat musical](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/27\/theater\/six-broadway.html). (At the Lena Horne Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/03\/theater\/six-review-broadway.html)\n\n### **[Wicked](https:\/\/wickedthemusical.com\/)**\nThe witches from “The Wizard of Oz” get a friends-and-foes origin story in Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s captivatingly designed, impeccably maintained musical. (At the Gershwin Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/31\/movies\/theater-review-there-s-trouble-in-emerald-city.html)\n\nA version of this article appears in print on Jan. 19, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Shows to Catch This Season. 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[Developed and directed by Saheem Ali](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/22\/theater\/buena-vista-social-club-musical-cuban.html), it uses real people and events as a jumping-off point for its storytelling. Rooted in the recording sessions, and with Tony-winning choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (“Illinoise”), it was an Off Broadway hit for Atlantic Theater Company. The production’s three other competitive Tony wins include one for [Natalie Venetia Belcon](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/01\/theater\/buena-vista-social-club-natalie-venetia-belcon-tonys.html) as the majestic Omara, a retired singer who must be coaxed back to performing. A special Tony went to the musicians who make up the show’s terrific band. (At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/theater\/buena-vista-social-club-review-broadway.html)\n\n### [Chess](https:\/\/chessbroadway.com\/)\nThe Tim Rice-Benny Andersson-Bjorn Ulvaeus musical that flopped in its [original 1988 Broadway outing](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/04\/29\/theater\/review-theater-in-trevor-nunn-s-musical-chess-east-faces-west-across-a-board.html) takes another shot. With a new book by Danny Strong, it stars Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and the Tony winner Aaron Tveit in a tale of American vs. Russian rivalry, set at the World Chess Championship. Michael Mayer, a Tony winner for “Spring Awakening,” directs. (Through May 3 at the Imperial Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/16\/theater\/chess-review-lea-michele-broadway.html)\n\n### **[The Great Gatsby](https:\/\/broadwaygatsby.com\/)**\nJeremy Jordan returns to the title role, opposite Aisha Jackson as Daisy. This musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel has a book by Kait Kerrigan (“The Mad Ones”), with music by Jason Howland and lyrics by Nathan Tysen (both of “Paradise Square”). Marc Bruni (“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”) directs. Linda Cho’s luxurious 1920s costumes won a Tony for the show. (At the Broadway Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/25\/theater\/the-great-gatsby-review-noblezada-jordan.html)\n***\n\nYour Broadway Questions\n\n## Is there a dress code?\nOn Broadway, you’re free to dress up or down. It’s perfectly OK to wear jeans, and totally fine to bedeck yourself in glamour. Either way, you will fit in. Do bring something to toss over your shoulders in case the theater is chilly.\n\n## What about accessibility?\nA laudably comprehensive, easy-to-navigate website, [theatreaccess.nyc](http:\/\/www.theatreaccess.nyc\/), can tell you all you need to know — theater by theater, show by show.\n\n## How do I stage-door?\nPost-show, you may wait at the theater’s stage door and ask performers to autograph your Playbill or take a selfie with you. The front-of-house staff can direct you where to assemble. Enjoy, but also remember: Actors are not obligated to chat, sign or pose.\n\n## Do I really need to turn off my phone?\nYes, you do. Your phone’s light and noises can shatter the experience for your fellow audience members. If your ringer erupts or you’re texting away, it bothers the actors onstage, too. Power it down, and be in the moment. You’ll have a much better time.\n\n## Where do I eat?\nTimes Square can be a challenge, restaurant-wise. But [here are some ideas](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/where-to-eat-in-midtown-nyc.html) [to get you started.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/26\/dining\/midtown-restaurants-nyc.html) Pick a restaurant a few blocks from the theater, and give yourself at least 90 minutes between the beginning of your meal and curtain time. Also make sure that the waiter knows you’re catching a show.\n\nBroadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More - The New York Times\n\n***\n### **[Hell’s Kitchen](https:\/\/www.hellskitchen.com\/)**\n[Alicia Keys](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/04\/theater\/alicia-keys-hells-kitchen-musical.html)’s own coming-of-age is the inspiration for this jukebox musical stocked with her songs. With numbers including “Girl on Fire,” [“Fallin’”](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/25\/podcasts\/alicia-keys-on-reimagining-fallin-for-broadway.html) and “Empire State of Mind,” it’s the story of a 17-year-old (Amanda Reid) in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, growing into an artist. Directed by Michael Greif, the show has a book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Camille A. Brown. (Through Feb. 22 at the Shubert Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/theater\/hells-kitchen-review-alicia-keys.html)\n\n### **[Just in Time](https:\/\/justintimebroadway.com\/)**\nJonathan Groff, a Tony winner for “[Merrily We Roll Along](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/10\/theater\/merrily-we-roll-along-review.html),” stars as [Bobby Darin in this jukebox bio-musical](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/theater\/just-in-time-broadway-bobby-darin.html) about the singer-songwriter who became a pop star of the 1950s and ’60s with songs like “Splish Splash,” “Mack the Knife” and “Dream Lover,” [married](https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1960\/12\/02\/99974123.pdf) a teenage Sandra Dee and [died at 37](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1973\/12\/21\/archives\/bobby-darin-pop-singer-dies-at-37-young-man-in-a-hurry-became-adult.html). Dripping with period atmosphere, the show has a set by Derek McLane and costumes by Catherine Zuber. With a book by Warren Leight (“[Side Man](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/03\/12\/theater\/theater-review-blue-notes-plenty-of-them-for-a-jazzman.html)”) and Isaac Oliver, and a cast that includes Sadie Dickerson, Sarah Hyland and Michele Pawk, it’s directed by Alex Timbers. (At Circle in the Square Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/26\/theater\/just-in-time-review-darin-groff.html)\n\n### **[Maybe Happy Ending](https:\/\/www.maybehappyending.com\/)**\nThis is the show that [tiptoed onto Broadway](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/10\/theater\/maybe-happy-ending-tonys-broadway.html) and quietly took the Tony Awards’ biggest prize. Robot neighbors in Seoul, nearing obsolescence, tumble into odd-couple friendship in this wistfully romantic charmer of a [musical comedy by Will Aronson and Hue Park](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/08\/theater\/maybe-happy-ending-broadway-criss.html), starring Andrew Barth Feldman and Helen J Shen. The season’s most unanticipated darling, it won six Tonys, including best musical, book and score, and director for Michael Arden (“Parade”). (At the Belasco Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/12\/theater\/maybe-happy-ending-review-darren-criss.html)[.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/12\/theater\/maybe-happy-ending-review-darren-criss.html)\n\n### **[Operation Mincemeat](http:\/\/operationbroadway.com\/)**\nA sneaky compassion lies at the heart of this caper of a show, [a deliciously eccentric London import](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/theater\/operation-mincemeat-broadway-opening.html) that won the [2024 Olivier Award](https:\/\/officiallondontheatre.com\/olivier-awards\/year\/olivier-awards-2024\/) for best new musical. Starring the original West End cast, this is a riff on [a bizarre true story](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/26\/theater\/operation-mincemeat-descendants-family.html) from World War II, when British Intelligence, keen to misdirect the Germans, dressed up a dead man as a Royal Marines major, planted a fake invasion plan on him and dropped him in the sea for the enemy to find. Jak Malone, who performs the poignant standout song “Dear Bill,” won a Tony for playing Hester, a proper, middle-aged secretary who has been through war before. (Through July 5 at the Golden Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/theater\/operation-mincemeat-review-broadway.html)[.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/theater\/operation-mincemeat-review-broadway.html)\n\n### [Ragtime](https:\/\/www.lct.org\/shows\/ragtime\/)\nJoshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz and Shaina Taub, all alumni of [Lear deBessonet’s New York City Center gala staging](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/31\/theater\/ragtime-review-city-center.html) last year, reprise their roles in this Lincoln Center Theater production of the musical by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNally. Based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, it follows three families from disparate social strata chasing the American dream at the turn of the 20th century. (Through June 14 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/16\/theater\/ragtime-review-henry-debessonet.html)\n\n### [Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)](https:\/\/twostrangersmusical.com\/)\nRobin (Christiani Pitts), a native New Yorker, and Dougal (Sam Tutty, making a stellar Broadway debut), a Brit visiting the city for the first time for a wedding, slip into their own holiday rom-com in this effervescent new musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, transferred from the West End. Directed by Tim Jackson, with an ingenious set and costumes by Soutra Gilmour. (At the Longacre Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/20\/theater\/two-strangers-carry-cake-review.html)\n\nGrown-Up Plays\n\nImage\n\n![Carrie Coon, left, sits on a bed in a purple tank top and jean shorts while holding the hand of Namir Smallwood, who is wearing jeans and a gray T-shirt over a white long-sleeved shirt.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/02\/03\/multimedia\/03cul-broadway-guide-1-bwjp\/03cul-broadway-guide-1-bwjp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nCarrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in “Bug” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n\n### [All Out: Comedy About Ambition](https:\/\/alloutbroadway.com\/)\nThese aren’t plays, actually — they’re stories by the humor writer Simon Rich — and they’re read rather than fully staged. As it was last year with Rich’s Broadway debut, “[All In: Comedy About Love](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/22\/theater\/all-in-review.html),” the catnip here is the casting: a rotating crowd of boldface names, including Nicholas Braun, Heidi Gardner, Jason Mantzoukas, Ashley Park, Craig Robinson, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman and Jenny Slate. Alex Timbers directs. (Through March 8 at the Nederlander Theater.)\n\n### [Bug](https:\/\/www.manhattantheatreclub.com\/shows\/2025-26-season\/bug\/)\nTracy Letts’s paranoia-fueled, nudity-filled, [motel-room thriller](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/29\/theater\/theater-excerpt-bug.html) was one of those must-see downtown shows when Michael Shannon [starred in it](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/01\/theater\/theater-review-motel-tale-down-and-out-and-itchy-and-scratchy-in-oklahoma.html) two decades ago. In this production by David Cromer, which first ran in 2020 at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Namir Smallwood (“Pass Over”) stars as the conspiracy-minded Peter opposite Carrie Coon as Agnes, the solitary waitress who gets involved with him. During the performance, audience members will have to store their powered-down phones in locked pouches, which they will keep in their possession throughout. (Through Feb. 22 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/08\/theater\/bug-review-carrie-coon.html)\n\n### [Marjorie Prime](https:\/\/2st.com\/shows\/marjorie-prime)\nJune Squibb stars as an old woman rewriting her memories with the help of a youthful hologram of her dead husband (Christopher Lowell) in Jordan Harrison’s [tender, futuristic comedy](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/13\/theater\/marjorie-prime-a-tender-comedy-starring-lois-smith.html), which was adapted into a 2017 [film](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/17\/movies\/marjorie-prime-review-jon-hamm.html). Cynthia Nixon plays her daughter, and Danny Burstein her son-in-law. Anne Kauffman (“[Mary Jane](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/23\/theater\/mary-jane-review-rachel-mcadams.html)”), who staged the 2015 Off Broadway [production](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/15\/theater\/review-in-marjorie-prime-lois-smith-connects-with-the-past.html), directs for Second Stage. (Through Feb. 15 at the Helen Hayes Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/08\/theater\/marjorie-prime-review-june-squibb.html)\n\n### [Oedipus](https:\/\/oedipustheplay.com\/)\nLesley Manville, who received a best actress Olivier Award for her performance as Jocasta, and Mark Strong, in the title role of her politician husband, headline this Olivier-winning Sophocles adaptation by the director Robert Icke, whose harrowing “[Oresteia](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/28\/theater\/oresteia-review-park-avenue-armory.html)” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2022 demonstrated his razor-sharp skill with ancient Greek tragedy. (Through Feb. 8 at Studio 54.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/13\/theater\/oedipus-review-strong-manville.html)\n\n### **[Oh, Mary\\!](https:\/\/www.ohmaryplay.com\/)**\nChanneling the deliriously outrageous, emphatically queer downtown spirit of [Charles Ludlam](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/05\/29\/obituaries\/charles-ludlam-44-avant-garde-artist-of-theater-is-dead.html) and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company, this [arch comedy](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/12\/theater\/oh-mary-broadway.html) by [Cole Escola](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/07\/theater\/cole-escola-oh-mary-mary-todd-lincoln.html) (“Difficult People”) was a fizzy Off Broadway hit. The title character is a sozzled, stage-struck Mary Todd Lincoln (John Cameron Mitchell, through April 26) — a very loose cannon largely ignored by her husband, the president (John-Andrew Morrison), who is occupied with assorted sexual exploits and the bothersome Civil War. Simu Liu plays the teacher he hires for Mary (through Jan. 25). The show’s director, Sam Pinkleton, won a Tony for this production. (Through July 5 at the Lyceum Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/11\/theater\/oh-mary-review-cole-escola.html)\n\nScreen Favorites, Refashioned\n\nImage\n\n![A woman in a red gown stands with her hands at her sides and smoke filtering out of a hole in her abdomen in a production image.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/11\/24\/multimedia\/BROADWAY-GUIDE-1-pjkm\/BROADWAY-GUIDE-1-pjkm-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nThe Tony nominee Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp in “Death Becomes Her” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n\n### **[Death Becomes Her](https:\/\/deathbecomesher.com\/)**\nBetsy Wolfe (“& Juliet”) has joined Jennifer Simard to play friends turned rivals [in this musical adaptation](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/18\/theater\/death-becomes-her-broadway.html) of the [1992 Meryl Streep-Goldie Hawn comedy](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/30\/movies\/death-becomes-her-movie-visual-effects.html) about the terror of aging, the pursuit of beauty and the trouble with acquiescing when a sorceress (Michelle Williams) offers a potion that brings eternal youth. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, with Tony-winning costumes by Paul Tazewell that fuse glittering glamour and a tricksy sense of fun. (At the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/theater\/death-becomes-her-review-hilty-simard.html)\n\n### **[The Outsiders](https:\/\/outsidersmusical.com\/)**\nRival gangs in a musical who aren’t the Sharks and the Jets? Here they’re the Greasers and the Socs, driven by class enmity just as they were in S.E. Hinton’s 1967 young adult novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film. Set in a version of Tulsa, Okla., where guys have names like Ponyboy and Sodapop, [this adaptation](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/22\/theater\/outsiders-broadway-musical-se-hinton.html) is the show with [the rainstorm rumble](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2024\/06\/10\/theater\/outsiders-rumble) you’ve heard about. It won four Tonys, including best musical and best direction, by Danya Taymor. With a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, it has music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Levine. (At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/11\/theater\/review-outsiders-musical.html)[.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/11\/theater\/review-outsiders-musical.html)\n\n### **[Stranger Things: The First Shadow](https:\/\/broadway.strangerthingsonstage.com\/)**\nSet in Hawkins, Ind., in 1959, this Olivier-winning [sensory spectacle of a play](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/14\/theater\/stranger-things-first-shadow-broadway.html) is a [prequel to the supernatural Netflix series “Stranger Things.”](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/09\/theater\/stranger-things-first-shadow-broadway.html) Starring Louis McCartney as a teenager with dangerous powers who’s new in town, the production received a special Tony for its illusions and technical effects, and won three more for set, lighting and sound design. Directed by Stephen Daldry, it has a script by Kate Trefry, a writer on the hit series, and an original story by Trefry, Jack Thorne and the Duffer brothers, who created the series. Transferred from London’s West End, [where it opened in 2023](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/14\/theater\/stranger-things-the-first-shadow-london.html), the show is recommended for ages 12 and older. (At the Marquis Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/theater\/stranger-things-first-shadow-review-broadway.html)\n***\n## Long-Running Crowd-Pleasers\n\nImage\n\n![Six women in futuristic, bedazzled costumes sing into mics. ](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/11\/19\/multimedia\/19broadway-guide-six-fzqk\/19broadway-guide-six-fzqk-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nFrom left, Abby Mueller, Anna Uzele, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack and Samantha Pauly in “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in Manhattan.Credit...Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times\n\n### **[& Juliet](https:\/\/andjulietbroadway.com\/)**\nWith a song list full of pop hits, this frolicsome musical comedy imagines — with an assist from Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife — what happens when Juliet goes on living sans her Romeo. (At the Stephen Sondheim Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/17\/theater\/and-juliet-review.html)\n\n### **[Aladdin](https:\/\/aladdinthemusical.com\/)**\nSong, dance and extravagant design buoy Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie in this winking stage adaptation of Disney’s 1992 animated film, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw. (At the New Amsterdam Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/21\/theater\/aladdin-tweaks-the-disney-formula-with-breezy-insouciance.html)\n\n### **[The Book of Mormon](https:\/\/www.bookofmormonbroadway.com\/)**\nA pair of Mormon missionaries seek converts in Uganda in this gleefully profane musical comedy by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez. (At the Eugene O’Neill Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/25\/theater\/reviews\/the-book-of-mormon-at-eugene-oneill-theater-review.html)\n\n### **[Chicago](https:\/\/chicagothemusical.com\/)**\nThe 1996 revival,Broadway’s longest-running show, has far outpaced the original production of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s dark vaudeville about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and all that jazz. (At the Ambassador Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/11\/15\/theater\/a-lively-legacy-a-come-hither-air.html)\n\n### **[Hadestown](https:\/\/hadestown.com\/)**\nAnaïs Mitchell’s jazz-folk musical about the mythic young lovers Eurydice and Orpheus takes audiences on a glorious road to hell in Rachel Chavkin’s splendidly designed production. (At the Walter Kerr Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/17\/theater\/hadestown-review-broadway-anais-mitchell.html)[.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/17\/theater\/hadestown-review-broadway-anais-mitchell.html)\n\n### **[Hamilton](https:\/\/hamiltonmusical.com\/new-york\/)**\nLin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing musical-theater [phenomenon](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/07\/theater\/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html?module=inline) raps its tale of “the 10-dollar founding father without a father.” (At the Richard Rodgers Theater.) [*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/07\/theater\/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html)*.*\n\n### **[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child](https:\/\/broadway.harrypottertheplay.com\/)**\nThe saga of the grown-up Harry and his Hogwarts friends continues with the next generation, and is now even more slimmed down from its original, two-part marathon form. Tom Felton, who played the poisonous young Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies, plays the adult Draco through May 10. (At the Lyric Theater.)[*Read the review*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/07\/theater\/harry-potter-cursed-child-broadway-review.html)[*.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/22\/theater\/review-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-raises-the-bar-for-broadway-magic.html)\n\n### **[The Lion King](https:\/\/lionking.com\/)**\nLush with masks and puppetry, Julie Taymor’s visually extravagant [retelling](http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/11\/14\/movies\/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html?module=inline) of the Disney animated classic has a score by Elton John and Tim Rice, additional music by the South African composer Lebo M., and choreography by Garth Fagan. (At the Minskoff Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/11\/14\/movies\/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html)\n\n### **[MJ](https:\/\/mjthemusical.com\/)**\nThis dance-infused Michael Jackson jukebox musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, with a book by Lynn Nottage, is produced “by special arrangement” with Jackson’s estate. (At the Neil Simon Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/01\/theater\/mj-musical-review.html)\n\n### **[Moulin Rouge! The Musical](https:\/\/moulinrougemusical.com\/new-york\/home\/)**\nFor those to whom a Broadway show means spare-no-expense spectacle, this [lavishly designed adaptation](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/17\/theater\/moulin-rouge-musical-songs.html) of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie musical is just the ticket. (At the Al Hirschfeld Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/25\/theater\/moulin-rouge-review.html)\n\n### **[Six](https:\/\/sixonbroadway.com\/)**\nThe half-dozen wives of Henry VIII recount their marriages pop-concert style — divorces, beheadings and all —in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s [upbeat musical](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/27\/theater\/six-broadway.html). (At the Lena Horne Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/03\/theater\/six-review-broadway.html)\n\n### **[Wicked](https:\/\/wickedthemusical.com\/)**\nThe witches from “The Wizard of Oz” get a friends-and-foes origin story in Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s captivatingly designed, impeccably maintained musical. (At the Gershwin Theater.) [*Read the review.*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/31\/movies\/theater-review-there-s-trouble-in-emerald-city.html)\n\nA version of this article appears in print on Jan. 19, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Shows to Catch This Season. [Order Reprints](https:\/\/nytimes.wrightsmedia.com\/) \\| [Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper) \\| [Subscribe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/subscriptions\/Multiproduct\/lp8HYKU.html?campaignId=48JQY)\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/broadway-shows-musicals.html#after-bottom)","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Nichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A guide to every show on Broadway, including Tony-winning musicals, new dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton.” Nichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Published July 15, 2021 Updated Feb. 3, 2026 Jump to: Grown-Up Plays \| Screen Adaptations \| Long-Running Favorites Musicals to Leave You Humming Buena Vista Social Club This jukebox tale about the Cuban artists who made the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album of the title isn’t straight biography. Developed and directed by Saheem Ali , it uses real people and events as a jumping-off point for its storytelling. Rooted in the recording sessions, and with Tony-winning choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (“Illinoise”), it was an Off Broadway hit for Atlantic Theater Company. The production’s three other competitive Tony wins include one for Natalie Venetia Belcon as the majestic Omara, a retired singer who must be coaxed back to performing. A special Tony went to the musicians who make up the show’s terrific band. (At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.) Read the review. Chess The Tim Rice-Benny Andersson-Bjorn Ulvaeus musical that flopped in its original 1988 Broadway outing takes another shot. With a new book by Danny Strong, it stars Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and the Tony winner Aaron Tveit in a tale of American vs. Russian rivalry, set at the World Chess Championship. Michael Mayer, a Tony winner for “Spring Awakening,” directs. (Through May 3 at the Imperial Theater.) Read the review. The Great Gatsby Jeremy Jordan returns to the title role, opposite Aisha Jackson as Daisy. This musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel has a book by Kait Kerrigan (“The Mad Ones”), with music by Jason Howland and lyrics by Nathan Tysen (both of “Paradise Square”). Marc Bruni (“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”) directs. Linda Cho’s luxurious 1920s costumes won a Tony for the show. (At the Broadway Theater.) Read the review. Your Broadway Questions Is there a dress code? On Broadway, you’re free to dress up or down. It’s perfectly OK to wear jeans, and totally fine to bedeck yourself in glamour. Either way, you will fit in. Do bring something to toss over your shoulders in case the theater is chilly. What about accessibility? A laudably comprehensive, easy-to-navigate website, theatreaccess.nyc , can tell you all you need to know — theater by theater, show by show. How do I stage-door? Post-show, you may wait at the theater’s stage door and ask performers to autograph your Playbill or take a selfie with you. The front-of-house staff can direct you where to assemble. Enjoy, but also remember: Actors are not obligated to chat, sign or pose. Do I really need to turn off my phone? Yes, you do. Your phone’s light and noises can shatter the experience for your fellow audience members. If your ringer erupts or you’re texting away, it bothers the actors onstage, too. Power it down, and be in the moment. You’ll have a much better time. Where do I eat? Times Square can be a challenge, restaurant-wise. But here are some ideas to get you started. Pick a restaurant a few blocks from the theater, and give yourself at least 90 minutes between the beginning of your meal and curtain time. Also make sure that the waiter knows you’re catching a show. Broadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More - The New York Times Hell’s Kitchen Alicia Keys ’s own coming-of-age is the inspiration for this jukebox musical stocked with her songs. With numbers including “Girl on Fire,” “Fallin’” and “Empire State of Mind,” it’s the story of a 17-year-old (Amanda Reid) in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, growing into an artist. Directed by Michael Greif, the show has a book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Camille A. Brown. (Through Feb. 22 at the Shubert Theater.) Read the review. Just in Time Jonathan Groff, a Tony winner for “ Merrily We Roll Along ,” stars as Bobby Darin in this jukebox bio-musical about the singer-songwriter who became a pop star of the 1950s and ’60s with songs like “Splish Splash,” “Mack the Knife” and “Dream Lover,” married a teenage Sandra Dee and died at 37 . Dripping with period atmosphere, the show has a set by Derek McLane and costumes by Catherine Zuber. With a book by Warren Leight (“ Side Man ”) and Isaac Oliver, and a cast that includes Sadie Dickerson, Sarah Hyland and Michele Pawk, it’s directed by Alex Timbers. (At Circle in the Square Theater.) Read the review. Maybe Happy Ending This is the show that tiptoed onto Broadway and quietly took the Tony Awards’ biggest prize. Robot neighbors in Seoul, nearing obsolescence, tumble into odd-couple friendship in this wistfully romantic charmer of a musical comedy by Will Aronson and Hue Park , starring Andrew Barth Feldman and Helen J Shen. The season’s most unanticipated darling, it won six Tonys, including best musical, book and score, and director for Michael Arden (“Parade”). (At the Belasco Theater.) Read the review . Operation Mincemeat A sneaky compassion lies at the heart of this caper of a show, a deliciously eccentric London import that won the 2024 Olivier Award for best new musical. Starring the original West End cast, this is a riff on a bizarre true story from World War II, when British Intelligence, keen to misdirect the Germans, dressed up a dead man as a Royal Marines major, planted a fake invasion plan on him and dropped him in the sea for the enemy to find. Jak Malone, who performs the poignant standout song “Dear Bill,” won a Tony for playing Hester, a proper, middle-aged secretary who has been through war before. (Through July 5 at the Golden Theater.) Read the review . Ragtime Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz and Shaina Taub, all alumni of Lear deBessonet’s New York City Center gala staging last year, reprise their roles in this Lincoln Center Theater production of the musical by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNally. Based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, it follows three families from disparate social strata chasing the American dream at the turn of the 20th century. (Through June 14 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.) Read the review. Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) Robin (Christiani Pitts), a native New Yorker, and Dougal (Sam Tutty, making a stellar Broadway debut), a Brit visiting the city for the first time for a wedding, slip into their own holiday rom-com in this effervescent new musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, transferred from the West End. Directed by Tim Jackson, with an ingenious set and costumes by Soutra Gilmour. (At the Longacre Theater.) Read the review. Grown-Up Plays Image Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in “Bug” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times All Out: Comedy About Ambition These aren’t plays, actually — they’re stories by the humor writer Simon Rich — and they’re read rather than fully staged. As it was last year with Rich’s Broadway debut, “ All In: Comedy About Love ,” the catnip here is the casting: a rotating crowd of boldface names, including Nicholas Braun, Heidi Gardner, Jason Mantzoukas, Ashley Park, Craig Robinson, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman and Jenny Slate. Alex Timbers directs. (Through March 8 at the Nederlander Theater.) Bug Tracy Letts’s paranoia-fueled, nudity-filled, motel-room thriller was one of those must-see downtown shows when Michael Shannon starred in it two decades ago. In this production by David Cromer, which first ran in 2020 at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Namir Smallwood (“Pass Over”) stars as the conspiracy-minded Peter opposite Carrie Coon as Agnes, the solitary waitress who gets involved with him. During the performance, audience members will have to store their powered-down phones in locked pouches, which they will keep in their possession throughout. (Through Feb. 22 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.) Read the review. Marjorie Prime June Squibb stars as an old woman rewriting her memories with the help of a youthful hologram of her dead husband (Christopher Lowell) in Jordan Harrison’s tender, futuristic comedy , which was adapted into a 2017 film . Cynthia Nixon plays her daughter, and Danny Burstein her son-in-law. Anne Kauffman (“ Mary Jane ”), who staged the 2015 Off Broadway production , directs for Second Stage. (Through Feb. 15 at the Helen Hayes Theater.) Read the review. Oedipus Lesley Manville, who received a best actress Olivier Award for her performance as Jocasta, and Mark Strong, in the title role of her politician husband, headline this Olivier-winning Sophocles adaptation by the director Robert Icke, whose harrowing “ Oresteia ” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2022 demonstrated his razor-sharp skill with ancient Greek tragedy. (Through Feb. 8 at Studio 54.) Read the review. Oh, Mary! Channeling the deliriously outrageous, emphatically queer downtown spirit of Charles Ludlam and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company, this arch comedy by Cole Escola (“Difficult People”) was a fizzy Off Broadway hit. The title character is a sozzled, stage-struck Mary Todd Lincoln (John Cameron Mitchell, through April 26) — a very loose cannon largely ignored by her husband, the president (John-Andrew Morrison), who is occupied with assorted sexual exploits and the bothersome Civil War. Simu Liu plays the teacher he hires for Mary (through Jan. 25). The show’s director, Sam Pinkleton, won a Tony for this production. (Through July 5 at the Lyceum Theater.) Read the review. Screen Favorites, Refashioned Image The Tony nominee Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp in “Death Becomes Her” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Death Becomes Her Betsy Wolfe (“& Juliet”) has joined Jennifer Simard to play friends turned rivals in this musical adaptation of the 1992 Meryl Streep-Goldie Hawn comedy about the terror of aging, the pursuit of beauty and the trouble with acquiescing when a sorceress (Michelle Williams) offers a potion that brings eternal youth. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, with Tony-winning costumes by Paul Tazewell that fuse glittering glamour and a tricksy sense of fun. (At the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.) Read the review. The Outsiders Rival gangs in a musical who aren’t the Sharks and the Jets? Here they’re the Greasers and the Socs, driven by class enmity just as they were in S.E. Hinton’s 1967 young adult novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film. Set in a version of Tulsa, Okla., where guys have names like Ponyboy and Sodapop, this adaptation is the show with the rainstorm rumble you’ve heard about. It won four Tonys, including best musical and best direction, by Danya Taymor. With a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, it has music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Levine. (At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.) Read the review . Stranger Things: The First Shadow Set in Hawkins, Ind., in 1959, this Olivier-winning sensory spectacle of a play is a prequel to the supernatural Netflix series “Stranger Things.” Starring Louis McCartney as a teenager with dangerous powers who’s new in town, the production received a special Tony for its illusions and technical effects, and won three more for set, lighting and sound design. Directed by Stephen Daldry, it has a script by Kate Trefry, a writer on the hit series, and an original story by Trefry, Jack Thorne and the Duffer brothers, who created the series. Transferred from London’s West End, where it opened in 2023 , the show is recommended for ages 12 and older. (At the Marquis Theater.) Read the review. Long-Running Crowd-Pleasers Image From left, Abby Mueller, Anna Uzele, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack and Samantha Pauly in “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in Manhattan. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times & Juliet With a song list full of pop hits, this frolicsome musical comedy imagines — with an assist from Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife — what happens when Juliet goes on living sans her Romeo. (At the Stephen Sondheim Theater.) Read the review. Aladdin Song, dance and extravagant design buoy Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie in this winking stage adaptation of Disney’s 1992 animated film, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw. (At the New Amsterdam Theater.) Read the review. The Book of Mormon A pair of Mormon missionaries seek converts in Uganda in this gleefully profane musical comedy by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez. (At the Eugene O’Neill Theater.) Read the review. Chicago The 1996 revival, Broadway’s longest-running show, has far outpaced the original production of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s dark vaudeville about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and all that jazz. (At the Ambassador Theater.) Read the review. Hadestown Anaïs Mitchell’s jazz-folk musical about the mythic young lovers Eurydice and Orpheus takes audiences on a glorious road to hell in Rachel Chavkin’s splendidly designed production. (At the Walter Kerr Theater.) Read the review . Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing musical-theater phenomenon raps its tale of “the 10-dollar founding father without a father.” (At the Richard Rodgers Theater.) Read the review . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child The saga of the grown-up Harry and his Hogwarts friends continues with the next generation, and is now even more slimmed down from its original, two-part marathon form. Tom Felton, who played the poisonous young Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies, plays the adult Draco through May 10. (At the Lyric Theater.) Read the review . The Lion King Lush with masks and puppetry, Julie Taymor’s visually extravagant retelling of the Disney animated classic has a score by Elton John and Tim Rice, additional music by the South African composer Lebo M., and choreography by Garth Fagan. (At the Minskoff Theater.) Read the review. MJ This dance-infused Michael Jackson jukebox musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, with a book by Lynn Nottage, is produced “by special arrangement” with Jackson’s estate. (At the Neil Simon Theater.) Read the review. Moulin Rouge! The Musical For those to whom a Broadway show means spare-no-expense spectacle, this lavishly designed adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie musical is just the ticket. (At the Al Hirschfeld Theater.) Read the review. Six The half-dozen wives of Henry VIII recount their marriages pop-concert style — divorces, beheadings and all — in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s upbeat musical . (At the Lena Horne Theater.) Read the review. Wicked The witches from “The Wizard of Oz” get a friends-and-foes origin story in Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s captivatingly designed, impeccably maintained musical. (At the Gershwin Theater.) Read the review. A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 19, 2024 , Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Shows to Catch This Season . Order Reprints \| Today’s Paper \| Subscribe Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT
Markdown	Performances in N.Y.C. - [Broadway Guide](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html) - [‘High Spirits’](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/theater/high-spirits-review-a-ghostly-delight-from-encores.html) - [‘The Wind-Up’](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/arts/dance/review-justin-peck-the-wind-up-new-york-city-ballet.html) - [‘Data’](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/theater/data-review.html) ![In a production image, a man in a raincoat and fedora drives a car while his passenger, a woman, holds a baby.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/10/31/multimedia/31broadway-guide-ragtime-qfpt/31broadway-guide-ragtime-qfpt-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Nichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times [Skip to content](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#site-index) Search & Section Navigation Section Navigation # Broadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More A guide to every show on Broadway, including Tony-winning musicals, new dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton.” Nichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Supported by [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#after-sponsor) - Share full article - 22 By [Laura Collins-Hughes](https://www.nytimes.com/by/laura-collins-hughes) - Published July 15, 2021Updated Feb. 3, 2026 ### Jump to: [Grown-Up Plays](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-450ac250) \\| [Screen Adaptations](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-4b69a3b4) \\| [Long-Running Favorites](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-77d14e61) ## Musicals to Leave You Humming ### [Buena Vista Social Club](https://buenavistamusical.com/) This [jukebox tale](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/theater/buena-vista-social-club-chan-chan-broadway.html) about the Cuban artists who made the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album of the title isn’t straight biography. [Developed and directed by Saheem Ali](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/theater/buena-vista-social-club-musical-cuban.html), it uses real people and events as a jumping-off point for its storytelling. Rooted in the recording sessions, and with Tony-winning choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (“Illinoise”), it was an Off Broadway hit for Atlantic Theater Company. The production’s three other competitive Tony wins include one for [Natalie Venetia Belcon](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/theater/buena-vista-social-club-natalie-venetia-belcon-tonys.html) as the majestic Omara, a retired singer who must be coaxed back to performing. A special Tony went to the musicians who make up the show’s terrific band. (At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/theater/buena-vista-social-club-review-broadway.html) ### [Chess](https://chessbroadway.com/) The Tim Rice-Benny Andersson-Bjorn Ulvaeus musical that flopped in its [original 1988 Broadway outing](https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/29/theater/review-theater-in-trevor-nunn-s-musical-chess-east-faces-west-across-a-board.html) takes another shot. With a new book by Danny Strong, it stars Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and the Tony winner Aaron Tveit in a tale of American vs. Russian rivalry, set at the World Chess Championship. Michael Mayer, a Tony winner for “Spring Awakening,” directs. (Through May 3 at the Imperial Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/theater/chess-review-lea-michele-broadway.html) ### [The Great Gatsby](https://broadwaygatsby.com/) Jeremy Jordan returns to the title role, opposite Aisha Jackson as Daisy. This musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel has a book by Kait Kerrigan (“The Mad Ones”), with music by Jason Howland and lyrics by Nathan Tysen (both of “Paradise Square”). Marc Bruni (“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”) directs. Linda Cho’s luxurious 1920s costumes won a Tony for the show. (At the Broadway Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/theater/the-great-gatsby-review-noblezada-jordan.html) * Your Broadway Questions ## Is there a dress code? On Broadway, you’re free to dress up or down. It’s perfectly OK to wear jeans, and totally fine to bedeck yourself in glamour. Either way, you will fit in. Do bring something to toss over your shoulders in case the theater is chilly. ## What about accessibility? A laudably comprehensive, easy-to-navigate website, [theatreaccess.nyc](http://www.theatreaccess.nyc/), can tell you all you need to know — theater by theater, show by show. ## How do I stage-door? Post-show, you may wait at the theater’s stage door and ask performers to autograph your Playbill or take a selfie with you. The front-of-house staff can direct you where to assemble. Enjoy, but also remember: Actors are not obligated to chat, sign or pose. ## Do I really need to turn off my phone? Yes, you do. Your phone’s light and noises can shatter the experience for your fellow audience members. If your ringer erupts or you’re texting away, it bothers the actors onstage, too. Power it down, and be in the moment. You’ll have a much better time. ## Where do I eat? Times Square can be a challenge, restaurant-wise. But [here are some ideas](https://www.nytimes.com/article/where-to-eat-in-midtown-nyc.html) [to get you started.](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/dining/midtown-restaurants-nyc.html) Pick a restaurant a few blocks from the theater, and give yourself at least 90 minutes between the beginning of your meal and curtain time. Also make sure that the waiter knows you’re catching a show. Broadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More - The New York Times * ### [Hell’s Kitchen](https://www.hellskitchen.com/) [Alicia Keys](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/theater/alicia-keys-hells-kitchen-musical.html)’s own coming-of-age is the inspiration for this jukebox musical stocked with her songs. With numbers including “Girl on Fire,” [“Fallin’”](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/podcasts/alicia-keys-on-reimagining-fallin-for-broadway.html) and “Empire State of Mind,” it’s the story of a 17-year-old (Amanda Reid) in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, growing into an artist. Directed by Michael Greif, the show has a book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Camille A. Brown. (Through Feb. 22 at the Shubert Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/theater/hells-kitchen-review-alicia-keys.html) ### [Just in Time](https://justintimebroadway.com/) Jonathan Groff, a Tony winner for “[Merrily We Roll Along](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/theater/merrily-we-roll-along-review.html),” stars as [Bobby Darin in this jukebox bio-musical](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/theater/just-in-time-broadway-bobby-darin.html) about the singer-songwriter who became a pop star of the 1950s and ’60s with songs like “Splish Splash,” “Mack the Knife” and “Dream Lover,” [married](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/12/02/99974123.pdf) a teenage Sandra Dee and [died at 37](https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/21/archives/bobby-darin-pop-singer-dies-at-37-young-man-in-a-hurry-became-adult.html). Dripping with period atmosphere, the show has a set by Derek McLane and costumes by Catherine Zuber. With a book by Warren Leight (“[Side Man](https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/12/theater/theater-review-blue-notes-plenty-of-them-for-a-jazzman.html)”) and Isaac Oliver, and a cast that includes Sadie Dickerson, Sarah Hyland and Michele Pawk, it’s directed by Alex Timbers. (At Circle in the Square Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/theater/just-in-time-review-darin-groff.html) ### [Maybe Happy Ending](https://www.maybehappyending.com/) This is the show that [tiptoed onto Broadway](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/theater/maybe-happy-ending-tonys-broadway.html) and quietly took the Tony Awards’ biggest prize. Robot neighbors in Seoul, nearing obsolescence, tumble into odd-couple friendship in this wistfully romantic charmer of a [musical comedy by Will Aronson and Hue Park](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/theater/maybe-happy-ending-broadway-criss.html), starring Andrew Barth Feldman and Helen J Shen. The season’s most unanticipated darling, it won six Tonys, including best musical, book and score, and director for Michael Arden (“Parade”). (At the Belasco Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/theater/maybe-happy-ending-review-darren-criss.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/theater/maybe-happy-ending-review-darren-criss.html) ### [Operation Mincemeat](http://operationbroadway.com/) A sneaky compassion lies at the heart of this caper of a show, [a deliciously eccentric London import](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/theater/operation-mincemeat-broadway-opening.html) that won the [2024 Olivier Award](https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/year/olivier-awards-2024/) for best new musical. Starring the original West End cast, this is a riff on [a bizarre true story](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/theater/operation-mincemeat-descendants-family.html) from World War II, when British Intelligence, keen to misdirect the Germans, dressed up a dead man as a Royal Marines major, planted a fake invasion plan on him and dropped him in the sea for the enemy to find. Jak Malone, who performs the poignant standout song “Dear Bill,” won a Tony for playing Hester, a proper, middle-aged secretary who has been through war before. (Through July 5 at the Golden Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/theater/operation-mincemeat-review-broadway.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/theater/operation-mincemeat-review-broadway.html) ### [Ragtime](https://www.lct.org/shows/ragtime/) Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz and Shaina Taub, all alumni of [Lear deBessonet’s New York City Center gala staging](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/theater/ragtime-review-city-center.html) last year, reprise their roles in this Lincoln Center Theater production of the musical by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNally. Based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, it follows three families from disparate social strata chasing the American dream at the turn of the 20th century. (Through June 14 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/theater/ragtime-review-henry-debessonet.html) ### [Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)](https://twostrangersmusical.com/) Robin (Christiani Pitts), a native New Yorker, and Dougal (Sam Tutty, making a stellar Broadway debut), a Brit visiting the city for the first time for a wedding, slip into their own holiday rom-com in this effervescent new musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, transferred from the West End. Directed by Tim Jackson, with an ingenious set and costumes by Soutra Gilmour. (At the Longacre Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/theater/two-strangers-carry-cake-review.html) [![]()How to Buy Broadway Tickets? Your Questions, Answered](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-tickets-tips.html) *** ## Grown-Up Plays Image ![Carrie Coon, left, sits on a bed in a purple tank top and jean shorts while holding the hand of Namir Smallwood, who is wearing jeans and a gray T-shirt over a white long-sleeved shirt.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/02/03/multimedia/03cul-broadway-guide-1-bwjp/03cul-broadway-guide-1-bwjp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in “Bug” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times ### [All Out: Comedy About Ambition](https://alloutbroadway.com/) These aren’t plays, actually — they’re stories by the humor writer Simon Rich — and they’re read rather than fully staged. As it was last year with Rich’s Broadway debut, “[All In: Comedy About Love](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/theater/all-in-review.html),” the catnip here is the casting: a rotating crowd of boldface names, including Nicholas Braun, Heidi Gardner, Jason Mantzoukas, Ashley Park, Craig Robinson, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman and Jenny Slate. Alex Timbers directs. (Through March 8 at the Nederlander Theater.) ### [Bug](https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/shows/2025-26-season/bug/) Tracy Letts’s paranoia-fueled, nudity-filled, [motel-room thriller](https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/theater/theater-excerpt-bug.html) was one of those must-see downtown shows when Michael Shannon [starred in it](https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/theater/theater-review-motel-tale-down-and-out-and-itchy-and-scratchy-in-oklahoma.html) two decades ago. In this production by David Cromer, which first ran in 2020 at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Namir Smallwood (“Pass Over”) stars as the conspiracy-minded Peter opposite Carrie Coon as Agnes, the solitary waitress who gets involved with him. During the performance, audience members will have to store their powered-down phones in locked pouches, which they will keep in their possession throughout. (Through Feb. 22 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/theater/bug-review-carrie-coon.html) ### [Marjorie Prime](https://2st.com/shows/marjorie-prime) June Squibb stars as an old woman rewriting her memories with the help of a youthful hologram of her dead husband (Christopher Lowell) in Jordan Harrison’s [tender, futuristic comedy](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/theater/marjorie-prime-a-tender-comedy-starring-lois-smith.html), which was adapted into a 2017 [film](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/movies/marjorie-prime-review-jon-hamm.html). Cynthia Nixon plays her daughter, and Danny Burstein her son-in-law. Anne Kauffman (“[Mary Jane](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/theater/mary-jane-review-rachel-mcadams.html)”), who staged the 2015 Off Broadway [production](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/theater/review-in-marjorie-prime-lois-smith-connects-with-the-past.html), directs for Second Stage. (Through Feb. 15 at the Helen Hayes Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/theater/marjorie-prime-review-june-squibb.html) ### [Oedipus](https://oedipustheplay.com/) Lesley Manville, who received a best actress Olivier Award for her performance as Jocasta, and Mark Strong, in the title role of her politician husband, headline this Olivier-winning Sophocles adaptation by the director Robert Icke, whose harrowing “[Oresteia](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/theater/oresteia-review-park-avenue-armory.html)” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2022 demonstrated his razor-sharp skill with ancient Greek tragedy. (Through Feb. 8 at Studio 54.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/theater/oedipus-review-strong-manville.html) ### [Oh, Mary\!](https://www.ohmaryplay.com/) Channeling the deliriously outrageous, emphatically queer downtown spirit of [Charles Ludlam](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/29/obituaries/charles-ludlam-44-avant-garde-artist-of-theater-is-dead.html) and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company, this [arch comedy](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/12/theater/oh-mary-broadway.html) by [Cole Escola](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/theater/cole-escola-oh-mary-mary-todd-lincoln.html) (“Difficult People”) was a fizzy Off Broadway hit. The title character is a sozzled, stage-struck Mary Todd Lincoln (John Cameron Mitchell, through April 26) — a very loose cannon largely ignored by her husband, the president (John-Andrew Morrison), who is occupied with assorted sexual exploits and the bothersome Civil War. Simu Liu plays the teacher he hires for Mary (through Jan. 25). The show’s director, Sam Pinkleton, won a Tony for this production. (Through July 5 at the Lyceum Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/theater/oh-mary-review-cole-escola.html) * ## Screen Favorites, Refashioned Image ![A woman in a red gown stands with her hands at her sides and smoke filtering out of a hole in her abdomen in a production image.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/11/24/multimedia/BROADWAY-GUIDE-1-pjkm/BROADWAY-GUIDE-1-pjkm-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) The Tony nominee Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp in “Death Becomes Her” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times ### [Death Becomes Her](https://deathbecomesher.com/)** Betsy Wolfe (“& Juliet”) has joined Jennifer Simard to play friends turned rivals [in this musical adaptation](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/theater/death-becomes-her-broadway.html) of the [1992 Meryl Streep-Goldie Hawn comedy](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/movies/death-becomes-her-movie-visual-effects.html) about the terror of aging, the pursuit of beauty and the trouble with acquiescing when a sorceress (Michelle Williams) offers a potion that brings eternal youth. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, with Tony-winning costumes by Paul Tazewell that fuse glittering glamour and a tricksy sense of fun. (At the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/theater/death-becomes-her-review-hilty-simard.html) ### [The Outsiders](https://outsidersmusical.com/) Rival gangs in a musical who aren’t the Sharks and the Jets? Here they’re the Greasers and the Socs, driven by class enmity just as they were in S.E. Hinton’s 1967 young adult novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film. Set in a version of Tulsa, Okla., where guys have names like Ponyboy and Sodapop, [this adaptation](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/theater/outsiders-broadway-musical-se-hinton.html) is the show with [the rainstorm rumble](https://www.nytimes.com/card/2024/06/10/theater/outsiders-rumble) you’ve heard about. It won four Tonys, including best musical and best direction, by Danya Taymor. With a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, it has music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Levine. (At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/theater/review-outsiders-musical.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/theater/review-outsiders-musical.html) ### [Stranger Things: The First Shadow](https://broadway.strangerthingsonstage.com/) Set in Hawkins, Ind., in 1959, this Olivier-winning [sensory spectacle of a play](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/theater/stranger-things-first-shadow-broadway.html) is a [prequel to the supernatural Netflix series “Stranger Things.”](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/theater/stranger-things-first-shadow-broadway.html) Starring Louis McCartney as a teenager with dangerous powers who’s new in town, the production received a special Tony for its illusions and technical effects, and won three more for set, lighting and sound design. Directed by Stephen Daldry, it has a script by Kate Trefry, a writer on the hit series, and an original story by Trefry, Jack Thorne and the Duffer brothers, who created the series. Transferred from London’s West End, [where it opened in 2023](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/theater/stranger-things-the-first-shadow-london.html), the show is recommended for ages 12 and older. (At the Marquis Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/theater/stranger-things-first-shadow-review-broadway.html) * ## Long-Running Crowd-Pleasers Image ![Six women in futuristic, bedazzled costumes sing into mics. ](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/11/19/multimedia/19broadway-guide-six-fzqk/19broadway-guide-six-fzqk-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) From left, Abby Mueller, Anna Uzele, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack and Samantha Pauly in “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in Manhattan.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times ### [& Juliet](https://andjulietbroadway.com/)** With a song list full of pop hits, this frolicsome musical comedy imagines — with an assist from Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife — what happens when Juliet goes on living sans her Romeo. (At the Stephen Sondheim Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/theater/and-juliet-review.html) ### [Aladdin](https://aladdinthemusical.com/) Song, dance and extravagant design buoy Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie in this winking stage adaptation of Disney’s 1992 animated film, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw. (At the New Amsterdam Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/theater/aladdin-tweaks-the-disney-formula-with-breezy-insouciance.html) ### [The Book of Mormon](https://www.bookofmormonbroadway.com/) A pair of Mormon missionaries seek converts in Uganda in this gleefully profane musical comedy by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez. (At the Eugene O’Neill Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/theater/reviews/the-book-of-mormon-at-eugene-oneill-theater-review.html) ### [Chicago](https://chicagothemusical.com/) The 1996 revival,Broadway’s longest-running show, has far outpaced the original production of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s dark vaudeville about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and all that jazz. (At the Ambassador Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/15/theater/a-lively-legacy-a-come-hither-air.html) ### [Hadestown](https://hadestown.com/) Anaïs Mitchell’s jazz-folk musical about the mythic young lovers Eurydice and Orpheus takes audiences on a glorious road to hell in Rachel Chavkin’s splendidly designed production. (At the Walter Kerr Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/theater/hadestown-review-broadway-anais-mitchell.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/theater/hadestown-review-broadway-anais-mitchell.html) ### [Hamilton](https://hamiltonmusical.com/new-york/) Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing musical-theater [phenomenon](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/theater/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html?module=inline) raps its tale of “the 10-dollar founding father without a father.” (At the Richard Rodgers Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/theater/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html). ### [Harry Potter and the Cursed Child](https://broadway.harrypottertheplay.com/) The saga of the grown-up Harry and his Hogwarts friends continues with the next generation, and is now even more slimmed down from its original, two-part marathon form. Tom Felton, who played the poisonous young Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies, plays the adult Draco through May 10. (At the Lyric Theater.)[Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/theater/harry-potter-cursed-child-broadway-review.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/theater/review-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-raises-the-bar-for-broadway-magic.html) ### [The Lion King](https://lionking.com/) Lush with masks and puppetry, Julie Taymor’s visually extravagant [retelling](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/movies/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html?module=inline) of the Disney animated classic has a score by Elton John and Tim Rice, additional music by the South African composer Lebo M., and choreography by Garth Fagan. (At the Minskoff Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/movies/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html) ### [MJ](https://mjthemusical.com/) This dance-infused Michael Jackson jukebox musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, with a book by Lynn Nottage, is produced “by special arrangement” with Jackson’s estate. (At the Neil Simon Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/theater/mj-musical-review.html) ### [Moulin Rouge! The Musical](https://moulinrougemusical.com/new-york/home/) For those to whom a Broadway show means spare-no-expense spectacle, this [lavishly designed adaptation](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/theater/moulin-rouge-musical-songs.html) of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie musical is just the ticket. (At the Al Hirschfeld Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/theater/moulin-rouge-review.html) ### [Six](https://sixonbroadway.com/) The half-dozen wives of Henry VIII recount their marriages pop-concert style — divorces, beheadings and all —in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s [upbeat musical](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/theater/six-broadway.html). (At the Lena Horne Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/theater/six-review-broadway.html) ### [Wicked](https://wickedthemusical.com/) The witches from “The Wizard of Oz” get a friends-and-foes origin story in Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s captivatingly designed, impeccably maintained musical. (At the Gershwin Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/movies/theater-review-there-s-trouble-in-emerald-city.html) A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 19, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Shows to Catch This Season. 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Readable Markdown	![In a production image, a man in a raincoat and fedora drives a car while his passenger, a woman, holds a baby.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/10/31/multimedia/31broadway-guide-ragtime-qfpt/31broadway-guide-ragtime-qfpt-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Nichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A guide to every show on Broadway, including Tony-winning musicals, new dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton.” Nichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in “Ragtime” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times - Published July 15, 2021Updated Feb. 3, 2026 ### Jump to: [Grown-Up Plays](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-450ac250) \\| [Screen Adaptations](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-4b69a3b4) \\| [Long-Running Favorites](https://www.nytimes.com/article/broadway-shows-musicals.html#link-77d14e61) ## Musicals to Leave You Humming ### [Buena Vista Social Club](https://buenavistamusical.com/) This [jukebox tale](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/theater/buena-vista-social-club-chan-chan-broadway.html) about the Cuban artists who made the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album of the title isn’t straight biography. [Developed and directed by Saheem Ali](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/theater/buena-vista-social-club-musical-cuban.html), it uses real people and events as a jumping-off point for its storytelling. Rooted in the recording sessions, and with Tony-winning choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (“Illinoise”), it was an Off Broadway hit for Atlantic Theater Company. The production’s three other competitive Tony wins include one for [Natalie Venetia Belcon](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/theater/buena-vista-social-club-natalie-venetia-belcon-tonys.html) as the majestic Omara, a retired singer who must be coaxed back to performing. A special Tony went to the musicians who make up the show’s terrific band. (At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/theater/buena-vista-social-club-review-broadway.html) ### [Chess](https://chessbroadway.com/) The Tim Rice-Benny Andersson-Bjorn Ulvaeus musical that flopped in its [original 1988 Broadway outing](https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/29/theater/review-theater-in-trevor-nunn-s-musical-chess-east-faces-west-across-a-board.html) takes another shot. With a new book by Danny Strong, it stars Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and the Tony winner Aaron Tveit in a tale of American vs. Russian rivalry, set at the World Chess Championship. Michael Mayer, a Tony winner for “Spring Awakening,” directs. (Through May 3 at the Imperial Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/theater/chess-review-lea-michele-broadway.html) ### [The Great Gatsby](https://broadwaygatsby.com/) Jeremy Jordan returns to the title role, opposite Aisha Jackson as Daisy. This musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel has a book by Kait Kerrigan (“The Mad Ones”), with music by Jason Howland and lyrics by Nathan Tysen (both of “Paradise Square”). Marc Bruni (“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”) directs. Linda Cho’s luxurious 1920s costumes won a Tony for the show. (At the Broadway Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/theater/the-great-gatsby-review-noblezada-jordan.html) * Your Broadway Questions ## Is there a dress code? On Broadway, you’re free to dress up or down. It’s perfectly OK to wear jeans, and totally fine to bedeck yourself in glamour. Either way, you will fit in. Do bring something to toss over your shoulders in case the theater is chilly. ## What about accessibility? A laudably comprehensive, easy-to-navigate website, [theatreaccess.nyc](http://www.theatreaccess.nyc/), can tell you all you need to know — theater by theater, show by show. ## How do I stage-door? Post-show, you may wait at the theater’s stage door and ask performers to autograph your Playbill or take a selfie with you. The front-of-house staff can direct you where to assemble. Enjoy, but also remember: Actors are not obligated to chat, sign or pose. ## Do I really need to turn off my phone? Yes, you do. Your phone’s light and noises can shatter the experience for your fellow audience members. If your ringer erupts or you’re texting away, it bothers the actors onstage, too. Power it down, and be in the moment. You’ll have a much better time. ## Where do I eat? Times Square can be a challenge, restaurant-wise. But [here are some ideas](https://www.nytimes.com/article/where-to-eat-in-midtown-nyc.html) [to get you started.](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/dining/midtown-restaurants-nyc.html) Pick a restaurant a few blocks from the theater, and give yourself at least 90 minutes between the beginning of your meal and curtain time. Also make sure that the waiter knows you’re catching a show. Broadway Shows to See This Winter: ‘Ragtime’ and More - The New York Times * ### [Hell’s Kitchen](https://www.hellskitchen.com/) [Alicia Keys](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/theater/alicia-keys-hells-kitchen-musical.html)’s own coming-of-age is the inspiration for this jukebox musical stocked with her songs. With numbers including “Girl on Fire,” [“Fallin’”](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/podcasts/alicia-keys-on-reimagining-fallin-for-broadway.html) and “Empire State of Mind,” it’s the story of a 17-year-old (Amanda Reid) in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, growing into an artist. Directed by Michael Greif, the show has a book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Camille A. Brown. (Through Feb. 22 at the Shubert Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/theater/hells-kitchen-review-alicia-keys.html) ### [Just in Time](https://justintimebroadway.com/) Jonathan Groff, a Tony winner for “[Merrily We Roll Along](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/theater/merrily-we-roll-along-review.html),” stars as [Bobby Darin in this jukebox bio-musical](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/theater/just-in-time-broadway-bobby-darin.html) about the singer-songwriter who became a pop star of the 1950s and ’60s with songs like “Splish Splash,” “Mack the Knife” and “Dream Lover,” [married](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/12/02/99974123.pdf) a teenage Sandra Dee and [died at 37](https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/21/archives/bobby-darin-pop-singer-dies-at-37-young-man-in-a-hurry-became-adult.html). Dripping with period atmosphere, the show has a set by Derek McLane and costumes by Catherine Zuber. With a book by Warren Leight (“[Side Man](https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/12/theater/theater-review-blue-notes-plenty-of-them-for-a-jazzman.html)”) and Isaac Oliver, and a cast that includes Sadie Dickerson, Sarah Hyland and Michele Pawk, it’s directed by Alex Timbers. (At Circle in the Square Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/theater/just-in-time-review-darin-groff.html) ### [Maybe Happy Ending](https://www.maybehappyending.com/) This is the show that [tiptoed onto Broadway](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/theater/maybe-happy-ending-tonys-broadway.html) and quietly took the Tony Awards’ biggest prize. Robot neighbors in Seoul, nearing obsolescence, tumble into odd-couple friendship in this wistfully romantic charmer of a [musical comedy by Will Aronson and Hue Park](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/theater/maybe-happy-ending-broadway-criss.html), starring Andrew Barth Feldman and Helen J Shen. The season’s most unanticipated darling, it won six Tonys, including best musical, book and score, and director for Michael Arden (“Parade”). (At the Belasco Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/theater/maybe-happy-ending-review-darren-criss.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/theater/maybe-happy-ending-review-darren-criss.html) ### [Operation Mincemeat](http://operationbroadway.com/) A sneaky compassion lies at the heart of this caper of a show, [a deliciously eccentric London import](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/theater/operation-mincemeat-broadway-opening.html) that won the [2024 Olivier Award](https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/year/olivier-awards-2024/) for best new musical. Starring the original West End cast, this is a riff on [a bizarre true story](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/theater/operation-mincemeat-descendants-family.html) from World War II, when British Intelligence, keen to misdirect the Germans, dressed up a dead man as a Royal Marines major, planted a fake invasion plan on him and dropped him in the sea for the enemy to find. Jak Malone, who performs the poignant standout song “Dear Bill,” won a Tony for playing Hester, a proper, middle-aged secretary who has been through war before. (Through July 5 at the Golden Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/theater/operation-mincemeat-review-broadway.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/theater/operation-mincemeat-review-broadway.html) ### [Ragtime](https://www.lct.org/shows/ragtime/) Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz and Shaina Taub, all alumni of [Lear deBessonet’s New York City Center gala staging](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/theater/ragtime-review-city-center.html) last year, reprise their roles in this Lincoln Center Theater production of the musical by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNally. Based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, it follows three families from disparate social strata chasing the American dream at the turn of the 20th century. (Through June 14 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/theater/ragtime-review-henry-debessonet.html) ### [Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)](https://twostrangersmusical.com/) Robin (Christiani Pitts), a native New Yorker, and Dougal (Sam Tutty, making a stellar Broadway debut), a Brit visiting the city for the first time for a wedding, slip into their own holiday rom-com in this effervescent new musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, transferred from the West End. Directed by Tim Jackson, with an ingenious set and costumes by Soutra Gilmour. (At the Longacre Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/theater/two-strangers-carry-cake-review.html) Grown-Up Plays Image ![Carrie Coon, left, sits on a bed in a purple tank top and jean shorts while holding the hand of Namir Smallwood, who is wearing jeans and a gray T-shirt over a white long-sleeved shirt.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/02/03/multimedia/03cul-broadway-guide-1-bwjp/03cul-broadway-guide-1-bwjp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in “Bug” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times ### [All Out: Comedy About Ambition](https://alloutbroadway.com/) These aren’t plays, actually — they’re stories by the humor writer Simon Rich — and they’re read rather than fully staged. As it was last year with Rich’s Broadway debut, “[All In: Comedy About Love](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/theater/all-in-review.html),” the catnip here is the casting: a rotating crowd of boldface names, including Nicholas Braun, Heidi Gardner, Jason Mantzoukas, Ashley Park, Craig Robinson, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman and Jenny Slate. Alex Timbers directs. (Through March 8 at the Nederlander Theater.) ### [Bug](https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/shows/2025-26-season/bug/) Tracy Letts’s paranoia-fueled, nudity-filled, [motel-room thriller](https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/theater/theater-excerpt-bug.html) was one of those must-see downtown shows when Michael Shannon [starred in it](https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/theater/theater-review-motel-tale-down-and-out-and-itchy-and-scratchy-in-oklahoma.html) two decades ago. In this production by David Cromer, which first ran in 2020 at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Namir Smallwood (“Pass Over”) stars as the conspiracy-minded Peter opposite Carrie Coon as Agnes, the solitary waitress who gets involved with him. During the performance, audience members will have to store their powered-down phones in locked pouches, which they will keep in their possession throughout. (Through Feb. 22 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/theater/bug-review-carrie-coon.html) ### [Marjorie Prime](https://2st.com/shows/marjorie-prime) June Squibb stars as an old woman rewriting her memories with the help of a youthful hologram of her dead husband (Christopher Lowell) in Jordan Harrison’s [tender, futuristic comedy](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/theater/marjorie-prime-a-tender-comedy-starring-lois-smith.html), which was adapted into a 2017 [film](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/movies/marjorie-prime-review-jon-hamm.html). Cynthia Nixon plays her daughter, and Danny Burstein her son-in-law. Anne Kauffman (“[Mary Jane](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/theater/mary-jane-review-rachel-mcadams.html)”), who staged the 2015 Off Broadway [production](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/theater/review-in-marjorie-prime-lois-smith-connects-with-the-past.html), directs for Second Stage. (Through Feb. 15 at the Helen Hayes Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/theater/marjorie-prime-review-june-squibb.html) ### [Oedipus](https://oedipustheplay.com/) Lesley Manville, who received a best actress Olivier Award for her performance as Jocasta, and Mark Strong, in the title role of her politician husband, headline this Olivier-winning Sophocles adaptation by the director Robert Icke, whose harrowing “[Oresteia](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/theater/oresteia-review-park-avenue-armory.html)” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2022 demonstrated his razor-sharp skill with ancient Greek tragedy. (Through Feb. 8 at Studio 54.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/theater/oedipus-review-strong-manville.html) ### [Oh, Mary\!](https://www.ohmaryplay.com/) Channeling the deliriously outrageous, emphatically queer downtown spirit of [Charles Ludlam](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/29/obituaries/charles-ludlam-44-avant-garde-artist-of-theater-is-dead.html) and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company, this [arch comedy](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/12/theater/oh-mary-broadway.html) by [Cole Escola](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/theater/cole-escola-oh-mary-mary-todd-lincoln.html) (“Difficult People”) was a fizzy Off Broadway hit. The title character is a sozzled, stage-struck Mary Todd Lincoln (John Cameron Mitchell, through April 26) — a very loose cannon largely ignored by her husband, the president (John-Andrew Morrison), who is occupied with assorted sexual exploits and the bothersome Civil War. Simu Liu plays the teacher he hires for Mary (through Jan. 25). The show’s director, Sam Pinkleton, won a Tony for this production. (Through July 5 at the Lyceum Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/theater/oh-mary-review-cole-escola.html) Screen Favorites, Refashioned Image ![A woman in a red gown stands with her hands at her sides and smoke filtering out of a hole in her abdomen in a production image.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/11/24/multimedia/BROADWAY-GUIDE-1-pjkm/BROADWAY-GUIDE-1-pjkm-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) The Tony nominee Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp in “Death Becomes Her” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times ### [Death Becomes Her](https://deathbecomesher.com/) Betsy Wolfe (“& Juliet”) has joined Jennifer Simard to play friends turned rivals [in this musical adaptation](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/theater/death-becomes-her-broadway.html) of the [1992 Meryl Streep-Goldie Hawn comedy](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/movies/death-becomes-her-movie-visual-effects.html) about the terror of aging, the pursuit of beauty and the trouble with acquiescing when a sorceress (Michelle Williams) offers a potion that brings eternal youth. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, with Tony-winning costumes by Paul Tazewell that fuse glittering glamour and a tricksy sense of fun. (At the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/theater/death-becomes-her-review-hilty-simard.html) ### [The Outsiders](https://outsidersmusical.com/) Rival gangs in a musical who aren’t the Sharks and the Jets? Here they’re the Greasers and the Socs, driven by class enmity just as they were in S.E. Hinton’s 1967 young adult novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film. Set in a version of Tulsa, Okla., where guys have names like Ponyboy and Sodapop, [this adaptation](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/theater/outsiders-broadway-musical-se-hinton.html) is the show with [the rainstorm rumble](https://www.nytimes.com/card/2024/06/10/theater/outsiders-rumble) you’ve heard about. It won four Tonys, including best musical and best direction, by Danya Taymor. With a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, it has music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Levine. (At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/theater/review-outsiders-musical.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/theater/review-outsiders-musical.html) ### [Stranger Things: The First Shadow](https://broadway.strangerthingsonstage.com/) Set in Hawkins, Ind., in 1959, this Olivier-winning [sensory spectacle of a play](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/theater/stranger-things-first-shadow-broadway.html) is a [prequel to the supernatural Netflix series “Stranger Things.”](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/theater/stranger-things-first-shadow-broadway.html) Starring Louis McCartney as a teenager with dangerous powers who’s new in town, the production received a special Tony for its illusions and technical effects, and won three more for set, lighting and sound design. Directed by Stephen Daldry, it has a script by Kate Trefry, a writer on the hit series, and an original story by Trefry, Jack Thorne and the Duffer brothers, who created the series. Transferred from London’s West End, [where it opened in 2023](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/theater/stranger-things-the-first-shadow-london.html), the show is recommended for ages 12 and older. (At the Marquis Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/theater/stranger-things-first-shadow-review-broadway.html) * ## Long-Running Crowd-Pleasers Image ![Six women in futuristic, bedazzled costumes sing into mics. ](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/11/19/multimedia/19broadway-guide-six-fzqk/19broadway-guide-six-fzqk-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) From left, Abby Mueller, Anna Uzele, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack and Samantha Pauly in “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in Manhattan.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times ### [& Juliet](https://andjulietbroadway.com/)** With a song list full of pop hits, this frolicsome musical comedy imagines — with an assist from Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife — what happens when Juliet goes on living sans her Romeo. (At the Stephen Sondheim Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/theater/and-juliet-review.html) ### [Aladdin](https://aladdinthemusical.com/) Song, dance and extravagant design buoy Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie in this winking stage adaptation of Disney’s 1992 animated film, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw. (At the New Amsterdam Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/theater/aladdin-tweaks-the-disney-formula-with-breezy-insouciance.html) ### [The Book of Mormon](https://www.bookofmormonbroadway.com/) A pair of Mormon missionaries seek converts in Uganda in this gleefully profane musical comedy by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez. (At the Eugene O’Neill Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/theater/reviews/the-book-of-mormon-at-eugene-oneill-theater-review.html) ### [Chicago](https://chicagothemusical.com/) The 1996 revival,Broadway’s longest-running show, has far outpaced the original production of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s dark vaudeville about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and all that jazz. (At the Ambassador Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/15/theater/a-lively-legacy-a-come-hither-air.html) ### [Hadestown](https://hadestown.com/) Anaïs Mitchell’s jazz-folk musical about the mythic young lovers Eurydice and Orpheus takes audiences on a glorious road to hell in Rachel Chavkin’s splendidly designed production. (At the Walter Kerr Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/theater/hadestown-review-broadway-anais-mitchell.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/theater/hadestown-review-broadway-anais-mitchell.html) ### [Hamilton](https://hamiltonmusical.com/new-york/) Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing musical-theater [phenomenon](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/theater/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html?module=inline) raps its tale of “the 10-dollar founding father without a father.” (At the Richard Rodgers Theater.) [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/theater/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html). ### [Harry Potter and the Cursed Child](https://broadway.harrypottertheplay.com/) The saga of the grown-up Harry and his Hogwarts friends continues with the next generation, and is now even more slimmed down from its original, two-part marathon form. Tom Felton, who played the poisonous young Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies, plays the adult Draco through May 10. (At the Lyric Theater.)[Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/theater/harry-potter-cursed-child-broadway-review.html)[.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/theater/review-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-raises-the-bar-for-broadway-magic.html) ### [The Lion King](https://lionking.com/) Lush with masks and puppetry, Julie Taymor’s visually extravagant [retelling](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/movies/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html?module=inline) of the Disney animated classic has a score by Elton John and Tim Rice, additional music by the South African composer Lebo M., and choreography by Garth Fagan. (At the Minskoff Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/movies/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html) ### [MJ](https://mjthemusical.com/) This dance-infused Michael Jackson jukebox musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, with a book by Lynn Nottage, is produced “by special arrangement” with Jackson’s estate. (At the Neil Simon Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/theater/mj-musical-review.html) ### [Moulin Rouge! The Musical](https://moulinrougemusical.com/new-york/home/) For those to whom a Broadway show means spare-no-expense spectacle, this [lavishly designed adaptation](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/theater/moulin-rouge-musical-songs.html) of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie musical is just the ticket. (At the Al Hirschfeld Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/theater/moulin-rouge-review.html) ### [Six](https://sixonbroadway.com/) The half-dozen wives of Henry VIII recount their marriages pop-concert style — divorces, beheadings and all —in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s [upbeat musical](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/theater/six-broadway.html). (At the Lena Horne Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/theater/six-review-broadway.html) ### [Wicked](https://wickedthemusical.com/) The witches from “The Wizard of Oz” get a friends-and-foes origin story in Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s captivatingly designed, impeccably maintained musical. (At the Gershwin Theater.) [Read the review.](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/movies/theater-review-there-s-trouble-in-emerald-city.html) A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 19, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Shows to Catch This Season. 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