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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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Daniel Radcliffe and Mariska Hargitay in Every Brilliant Thing

Tom Felton in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, Kara Young, and Jin Ha in Proof

Luke Evans and the cast of The Rocky Horror Show

Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in The Fear of 13

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Dog Day Afternoon

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

Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tru

Jim Parsons and the cast of Titanique

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

Megan Thee Stallion and Kelsie Watts in Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher in Chess

Michelle Williams and the cast of Death Becomes Her

Ana Gasteyer and the cast of Schmigadoon!

Matthew Morrison, Jeremy Jordan, and Isa Briones in in Just in Time

Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara in Fallen Angels

Jordan Fisher, Nikki M. James, and Andy Karl in Little Shop of Horrors

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

Ian McKellen in An Ark

John Lithgow in Giant

Hugh Jackman and more at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre

Yerin Ha in The Maids

Jennifer Nettles in Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo

The Broadway cast of Oh, Mary!

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing

Rosamund Pike in Inter Alia

Daniel Radcliffe and Mariska Hargitay in Every Brilliant Thing

Broadway
Play
Drama

After winning a Tony Award for his last Broadway outing in Merrily We Roll Along, Daniel Radcliffe returns 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. After Radcliffe departs May 24, Mariska Hargitay will make her Broadway debut in the show on May 26!

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Daniel Radcliffe and Mariska Hargitay in Every Brilliant Thing

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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Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, Kara Young, and Jin Ha in Proof

Broadway
Play
Drama
Award winner

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle are a duo that's greater than the sum of their parts, but they're both accomplished individually, too. Edebiri is a 2023 Emmy winner for The Bear, and Cheadle is a Tony Award winner (for producing A Strange Loop) and Oscar nominee (for Hotel Rwanda) besides being a fan-favorite fixture of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as James Rhodes/War Machine. Now, both stars make their Broadway acting debuts as a deceased father and his determined daughter in David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Additionally, two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young Hamilton and Only Murders in the Building star Jin Ha return to the stage to round out the cast.

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Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, Kara Young, and Jin Ha in Proof

Luke Evans 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: 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), Oscar and Emmy nominee Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear, Yellowjackets), Josh Rivera (American Sports Story, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), and Emmy nominee Michaela Jaé Rodriguez.

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Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in The Fear of 13

Broadway
Play
Drama

Let's hope Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson don't have stage fright as they make their Broadway debuts in The Fear of 13, a true-life legal drama told through conversations between a wrongfully convicted inmate (Brody) and a prison volunteer (Thompson). Then again, both are stage vets: Brody was nominated for a 2025 Olivier Award for starring in The Fear of 13 in London, and Thompson returns to NYC after starring in 2016's Smart People off Broadway.

But whether you know them from these or their blockbuster screen credits — Brody being a double Oscar winner and Thompson being an Emmy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominee and Marvel star — the only thing scary is to miss them on Broadway.

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Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in The Fear of 13

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Dog Day Afternoon

Broadway
Play
Drama
Screen to stage

They're a long way from Chicago. Emmy Award winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach are best known for their starring roles on The Bear, but in Dog Day Afternoon, they make their Broadway debuts as unpredictable Brooklyn bank robbers who spectacularly bungle their plan and cause a media frenzy.

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Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Dog Day Afternoon

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

Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tru

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Unique experience

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is best known for his Emmy-nominated performance on Modern Family, but he's also a stage vet, notably winning a 2022 Tony Award for Take Me Out on Broadway. He gets more intimate in Tru, a solo play about Truman Capote performed in a library for only 99 people each night.

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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

Megan Thee Stallion and Kelsie Watts in Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage
Award winner

Welcome to the Moulin Rouge! Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion makes her Broadway debut as Zidler — becoming the first-ever female-identifying performer in the role — from March 24 to May 17, while The Voice's Kelsie Watts stars as Satine. How spectacular!

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Megan Thee Stallion and Kelsie Watts in Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher in Chess

Broadway
Musical
Drama

Three theatre grandmasters are back on Broadway in the first revival of Chess, about two elite players competing for more than just a title. Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) and fast-rising Broadway star Nicholas Christopher (Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors) play the chess champs, while Lea Michele (Glee, Funny Girl) is the woman caught between them.

Plus, Grammy-winning singer Joanna "JoJo" Levesque succeeds Michele from June 23 to September 13!

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Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher in Chess

Michelle Williams and the cast of Death Becomes Her

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage

You may know her as one-third of Destiny's Child (alongside Beyonce and Kelly Rowland, who came to see her perform at her Broadway opening night), but Michelle Williams is coming alive as Viola Van Horn, a mysterious potion hawker, in the new musical Death Becomes Her.

Tackling a new version of the role made famous by Isabella Rossellini on screen, she's surrounded by stars from the theatre world, too: Betsy Wolfe, Jennifer Simard, and Christopher Sieber take on Meryl Streep's, Goldie Hawn's, and Bruce Willis's parts.

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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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Ana Gasteyer and the cast of Schmigadoon!

Matthew Morrison, Jeremy Jordan, and Isa Briones in in Just in Time

Broadway
Jukebox musical

You're just in time to catch Glee star Matthew Morrison as Bobby Darin in this new musical about his short but legendary life. After Morrison departs April 19, Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan succeeds him from April 21, and both men are starring opposite The Pitt's Isa Briones as Connie Francis. What a lineup!

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Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara in Fallen Angels

Broadway
Play
Comedy
Classic

Oscar nominee Rose Byrne and Tony winner Kelli O'Hara are a duo that go together like champagne and caviar. In Noël Coward’s classic comedy, they play two married women who discover a man with whom they've both had affairs might be coming to visit.

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Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara in Fallen Angels

Jordan Fisher, Nikki M. James, and Andy Karl in Little Shop of Horrors

Off-Broadway
Musical comedy
Classic
Award winner

Stars like Jonathan Groff, Jeremy Jordan, Conrad Ricamora, and Skylar Astin have all stepped into the role of flower shop worker Seymour — and now, it's Jordan Fisher's turn. The stage and screen veteran currently performs opposite The Book of Mormon Tony Award winner Nikki M. James as Audrey and three-time Tony nominee Andy Karl as Orin, 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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Jordan Fisher, Nikki M. James, and Andy Karl in Little Shop of Horrors
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Ian McKellen in An Ark

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Unique experience

Ian McKellen is returning to the NYC stage — sort of. The stage and screen legend won't be physically present in The Shed's production of An Ark, but digital projections of him, Golda Rosheuvel, Arinzé Kene, and Rosie Sheehy guide audiences through the story of what it means to be alive in this mixed-reality experience.

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John Lithgow in Giant

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Award winner

John Lithgow is a stage and screen giant, with six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Olivier Award, two Tony Awards, and nominations for Oscars, Grammys, and more to his name. So it's fitting that he stars in Giant, playing storied author Roald Dahl at a moment where he's embroiled in controversy.

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John Lithgow in Giant

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Yerin Ha in The Maids

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Yerin Ha, known to Bridgerton fans as season 4's Sophie Baek, is taking the stage. Reprising her performance from London' Ha stars in The Maids as the cruel employer of two young women plotting revenge.

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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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The Broadway cast of Oh, Mary!

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing

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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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Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing

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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Rosamund Pike in Inter Alia