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See these celebrities in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows

From movie stars to singers, plenty of screen and stage stars are currently headlining at New York theatres.

Gillian Russo
Written byGillian Russo

In New York, it's not unheard of to spot a celebrity in public, walking their dog or attending a show. So it's no wonder, with so many living here, that plenty of celebrities find themselves on the Broadway or Off-Broadway stage at some point in their career.

Many actors, having come from acting schools, get their start in theatre before gaining mainstream fame as a movie or TV star, and New York's stages allow them a return to their roots. Or, tried-and-true screen actors will make their stage debuts later in their careers to try something new. Either way, putting celebrities on stage gives audiences a chance to see their favorite stars live in a whole new way.

There are many celebrities on Broadway and off-Broadway to see right now, from comedians to musicians to screen veterans, many of whom do it all. Buzzy Broadway revivals and limited-run Off-Broadway shows alike are all studded with stars. Here are the celebrities in New York shows that are performing right now.

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Tracee Ellis Ross in Every Brilliant Thing

Tom Felton in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Luke Evans, Rachel Dratch, and the cast of The Rocky Horror Show

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer" in Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Jim Parsons and the cast of Titanique

Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, and Ben Ahlers in Death of a Salesman

Ana Gasteyer and the cast of Schmigadoon!

Ethan Slater and Betsy Wolfe in Little Shop of Horrors

Corbin Bleu, Reeve Carney, and Eva Noblezada in The Great Gatsby

Jennifer Nettles in Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo

Meg Stalter in Oh, Mary!

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing

Rosamund Pike in Inter Alia

Rachel Zegler in Evita

Billy Crystal in 860

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe in Other Desert Cities

Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth in A Few Good Men

François Arnaud, David Corenswet, and Yvonne Strahovski in Three Days of Rain

Tracee Ellis Ross in Every Brilliant Thing

Broadway
Play
Drama

After winning a Tony Award for his last Broadway outing in Merrily We Roll Along, Daniel Radcliffe returned to the stage in Every Brilliant Thing, a solo play — sort of. There's lots of audience participation involved in the story about a person who makes a list of everything that makes life worthwhile. Now, Tracee Ellis Ross makes her Broadway debut in the show from July 7 to August 9.

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Tom Felton in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Broadway
Play
Page to stage
Screen to stage
Award winner

For the first time, a cast member from the Harry Potter films is joining the cast of the Broadway sequel. Tom Felton will reprise his role as Draco Malfoy, a newly single dad whose son Scorpius befriends Harry Potter's son Albus at Hogwarts. Together, the boys go on a time-traveling adventure that changes the course of the Wizarding World, bringing the old crew back together again when things go awry.

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Luke Evans, Rachel Dratch, and the cast of The Rocky Horror Show

Broadway
Musical
Classic
Stage to screen

We see you shiver with antici...pation for Luke Evans's Broadway debut. The Beauty and the Beast and The Hobbit star plays Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a rare revival of this cult classic musical about a young couple who stumble into a mad scientist's weird, wild world.

That's not to mention the rest of the actors in that world, including Tony Award nominee Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live, POTUS), Tony nominee Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw), Tony nominee Amber Gray (Hadestown), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once), and Josh Rivera (American Sports Story, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes).

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Luke Evans, Rachel Dratch, and the cast of The Rocky Horror Show

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer" in Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer" have both come and gone from Broadway, but they're coming back as boarding house owners who take in a life-changing tenant in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone.

Oscar, Tony, and Emmy nominee Henson makes her Broadway acting debut after producing Jaja's African Hair Braiding in 2023, while Cedric returns to Broadway for the first time since his 2008 debut in American Buffalo.

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Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer" in Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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Jim Parsons and the cast of Titanique

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Comedy
Award winner
Stage to screen

There's a boatload of stars in Titanique, the hit musical parody of the Titanic film now docking on Broadway. Emmy winner Jim Parsons plays Rose's mother, Ruth; original Off-Broadway cast member and Big Brother star Frankie Grande returns as Victor Garber; Grammy nominee Deborah Cox plays The Unsinkable Molly Brown; and In the Heights and Scream star Melissa Barrera makes her Broadway debut as Rose, to name a few.

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Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, and Ben Ahlers in Death of a Salesman

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Drama
Classic
Award winner

This is one starry Loman family. Tony and Emmy winners Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, plus Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Girls, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and Ben Ahlers, star in a new production of Arthur Miller's classic drama about a salesman coming to terms with an American dream that will never come true.

Performances begin: March 6

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Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, and Ben Ahlers in Death of a Salesman

Ana Gasteyer and the cast of Schmigadoon!

Broadway
Musical
Comedy
Screen to stage

The town of Schmigadoon! is full of stars, like Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer, stepping into the role of straitlaced Mildred Layton originated by Kristin Chenoweth in the same-named Apple TV+ series.

The cast also includes a whole host of fan-favorite Broadway stars, like Tony Award nominee Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Tony nominee Brad Oscar (Wicked), and Ann Harada, reprising her own onscreen performance as the clueless wife of Schmigadoon's mayor.

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Ethan Slater and Betsy Wolfe in Little Shop of Horrors

Off-Broadway
Musical comedy
Classic
Award winner

Stars like Jonathan Groff, Jeremy Jordan, Conrad Ricamora, and Jordan Fisher have all stepped into the role of flower shop worker Seymour — and now, it's Ethan Slater's turn. The Wicked film star and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical Tony Award nominee currently performs opposite & Juliet Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe as Audrey, making for a star-studded Skid Row. (Of course, the bloodthirsty talking plant Audrey II is the real star, if you ask him.)

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Corbin Bleu, Reeve Carney, and Eva Noblezada in The Great Gatsby

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Award winner
Page to stage

Corbin Bleu may have sung "I Don't Dance" in High School Musical 2, but he's disproven that multiple times over on Broadway. His latest stage venture is The Great Gatsby, the roaring Jazz Age musical in which he plays Nick Carraway.

He'll star alongside real-life spouses Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada as Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Since first starring together in Hadestown – where their offstage love story also began — the pair have become one of Broadway's favorite couples.

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Corbin Bleu, Reeve Carney, and Eva Noblezada in The Great Gatsby

Jennifer Nettles in Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo

Who wouldn't kill for an ounce of Jennifer Nettles's talent? She's a Grammy Award winning-musician (as both a solo artist and one half of Sugarland), a Broadway star in shows like Waitress and Chicago, and now, a musical theatre writer. Nettles wrote and stars in Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo, about a real-life woman who became infamous for, ahem, dealing with people's abusive husbands.

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Jennifer Nettles in Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo

Meg Stalter in Oh, Mary!

Broadway
Play
Comedy

The historical dark comedy Oh, Mary!, by Tony Award-winning playwright Cole Escola, currently stars Hacks Emmy Award nominee Meg Stalter in her Broadway debut as Mary. This play really is star-spangled!

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Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing

Broadway
Play
Shakespeare
Comedy

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell have a lot in common. They've become global stars thanks to Marvel Cinematic Universe roles (as Loki and Peggy Carter, respectively). They've earned Olivier Award nominations for their extensive work on the London stage. And they've both worked with award-winning theatre director Jamie Lloyd to great acclaim. Their latest collab with each other and Lloyd is in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, bringing the party to Broadway after a hit London run.

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Rosamund Pike in Inter Alia

Broadway
Play
Drama
Award winner

Emmy and Golden Globe winner Rosamund Pike knows how to play a character you don't quite know whether to root for, in films ranging from Gone Girl to Saltburn and many more. Now, in her Broadway debut, this screen queen will command the stage as a judge navigating an unjust legal system as it collides headfirst with her family life.

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Rachel Zegler in Evita

Broadway
Musical
Classic
Award winner

Rachel Zegler rules. After achieving breakout fame in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story movie musical, she's gone on to lead Snow White and Hunger Games feature films, make her Broadway debut in Romeo + Juliet, and win an Olivier Award for playing Eva Perón in her West End debut. In spring 2027, she's bringing her celebrated performance to Broadway.

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Billy Crystal in 860

Broadway
Play
Solo show

Billy Crystal needs no introduction. Whether you know his face from Saturday Night Live or When Harry Met Sally..., or his voice from Monsters, Inc., you know the six-time Emmy winner is a king of comedy.

But Crystal also has a serious side, too, which he displayed in his Tony-winning Broadway solo show 700 Sundays and now taps into with another one, 860. He shares memories from longtime home he lost to the Palisades fires in 2025.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe in Other Desert Cities

Broadway
Play
Drama

Welcome to the Broadway family! Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep) and Joe Keery (Stranger Things) make their Broadway debuts in Other Desert Cities alongside fellow stage and screen greats Ed Harris (The Truman Show), Allison Janney (The West Wing), and Lily Rabe (American Horror Story).

All their credits are too numerous to list — but their latest project is Jon Robin Baitz's acclaimed play about a politically connected family in Palm Springs whose buried secrets might come to light in an explosive memoir.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe in Other Desert Cities

Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth in A Few Good Men

Broadway
Play
Drama
Revival
Stage to screen
Stars on stage

In 1990, Bradley Whitford made his Broadway debut as a replacement in Aaron Sorkin's own first Broadway play, A Few Good Men, which had premiered a year earlier. It's a full-circle moment for the West Wing Emmy winner — another of his many projects with Sorkin — as he returns to lead the first revival.

Whitford stars opposite Tom Blyth, now making his own Broadway debut. The breakout star of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes now plays a military lawyer caught between a defense assignment and a whole chain of command.

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François Arnaud, David Corenswet, and Yvonne Strahovski in Three Days of Rain

Broadway
Play
Drama
Award winner

Three breakout screen stars are about to break out on Broadway. Heated Rivalry's François Arnaud and Superman title star David Corenswet will make their Broadway debuts alongside The Handmaid's Tale Emmy nominee Yvonne Strahovski in the first revival of Richard Greenberg's Pulitzer-nominated play, each playing two generations of characters grappling with the mysteries of inheritance: what parents leave behind, knowingly and unknowingly, for their children to discover.

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François Arnaud, David Corenswet, and Yvonne Strahovski in Three Days of Rain