by Billy McEntee

Known for her Emmy-winning turn on The Bear, Ayo Edebiri now makes her Broadway debut in Proof, Daniel Auburn's Pulitzer Prize winner about a dead academic and the groundbreaking proof he left behind. Edebiri will get a chance to show off her nuanced dramatic side as Catherine, the mathematician's daughter who may have inherited more than his genius. Playing opposite Don Cheadle, Samira Wiley, and Jin Ha, Edebiri is sure to offer an electric performance.

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by Austin Fimmano

If any historical figure could relate to a nationwide meltdown and boycott of Bud Light just because her face was on it, it’s probably Anne Boleyn. So it could be said that, in making her Broadway debut as Henry VIII’s controversial second wife in Six, Dylan Mulvaney has done the research. A consummate performer, she's fresh off an Off-Broadway production of her solo show The Least Problematic Woman in the World. and she was acting on stage long before documenting her gender transition on TikTok rocketed her to fame.

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Growing up is pandemonium. Jasmine Amy Rogers first won hearts as Betty Boop in BOOP! The Musical, and now she’s breaking them in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as the bespectacled, neglected Olive Ostrovsky, who pines for her parents’ love and can't contain those oversized feelings. Olive swallows the bitter pill of reality in the final lines of the heartbreaking “The I Love You Song,” but Rogers also shows that beneath the girl’s sadness is a blooming pluck.

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by Billy McEntee

Beloved for her killer vocals and turn as Elphaba in Wicked, Jessica Vosk has been a theatre workhorse for years, but in Beaches, she accomplishes the dream: originating a lead role in a new Broadway musical. As the confident actress Cee Cee, Vosk has big shoes to fill — Bette Midler played that role in the movie version of this story — but Vosk has the chops. As a superfan, she is the "wind beneath my wings."

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by Austin Fimmano

It was clear that Jordan Tyson’s star was on the rise when she made her Broadway debut as Younger Allie in The Notebook in 2024. Later that year, she starred as June in Gypsy, the bright-eyed foil to fierce Momma Rose (six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald). Tyson's vivaciousness left a hole in the show’s energy when June inevitably leaves. Now, Tyson is stepping into the beloved role of Eurydice in Hadestown, and I can’t wait to see what she’ll bring to it.

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by Amelia Merrill

Known for her Tony-nominated turn in Dead Outlaw, Julia Knitel recently stepped into the role of Ewen Montagu in Broadway's Operation Mincemeat. But Knitel is no stranger to the Broadway stage: She made her debut as a teenager in the 2009 revival of Bye Bye Birdie and also played the title role in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical's first national tour.

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At 96, Oscar nominee June Squibb commanded the stage eight shows a week in the title role of Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime, and with aplomb. Opposite Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, and Christopher Lowell, Squibb brought remarkable depth to a woman grieving her husband and battling dementia.

Her stunning 65-year Broadway career spans from her 1959 debut in Gypsy to a story about technology and memory, from the Golden Age of Broadway musicals to the age of AI. She is a marvel — and a likely Tony Award contender come June, making her one to watch even now that Marjorie Prime has closed.

by Amelia Merrill

Lear deBessonet, currently the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, is a Tony Award nominee and TV veteran who may be best known for establishing the Public Theater's Public Works, a community-based theatre initiative. As the artistic director of New York City Center's Encores!, deBessonet directed multiple lauded Broadway transfers, including Once Upon A Mattress, Into the Woods, and the currently running Ragtime.

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by Allison Considine

Costume designer Linda Cho, a two-time Tony winner for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and The Great Gatsby, brings her signature opulence to Ragtime at Lincoln Center Theater, with historically inspired, tailored designs that are utterly transportive. The large ensemble (33 strong!) dons bespoke suits, waistcoats, feathered hats, and parasols, with fresh eye candy in every scene change. One can only imagine the sheer number of costume pieces and dressers in the wings.

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by Gillian Russo

Simply put, Marla Mindelle has a boatload of talent. By combining the song catalog of Céline Dion, the premise of the 1997 Titanic film, and a rotating lineup of current pop culture jokes, she and her Titanique co-writers managed to simultaneously appeal to everyone from plugged-in Gen Zers (me) to nostalgic millennials (my coworkers) to suburban boomers (my mom). And in the lead role of Dion herself, Mindelle uncannily channels the voice, mannerisms, and quirky charm of the Canadian singer. That could honestly win Mindelle a Tony Award come June, and I would love to see it.

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by Gillian Russo

I just assumed Michaela Jaé Rodriguez must have made her Broadway debut already. She's performed in movie musicals like Saturday Church, led live musicals like Rent off Broadway and Little Shop of Horrors in California, and broke out on screen alongside theatre icon Billy Porter in FX's Pose, a show all about performance. So when she was announced as Columbia in this spring's Rocky Horror Show revival, and I realized it was in fact her debut, my first thought was, "Finally." It's high time this versatile performer stepped onto the big stage.

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by Kyle Turner

A high school, a lost submarine, a secret interrogation room, a dark old house, and, of course, a bit of the Upside Down: These are just some of the mesmerizing sets that Miriam Beuther makes electrically alive in Stranger Things: The First Shadow, impressively translating the smash hit Netflix show to the stage with both a sense of immersion and a reminder of the stage play's uniquely delightful theatrics.

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by Joe Dziemianowicz

Playing the ditzy but hopeful Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors off Broadway from March 6, Nikki M. James belts “Somewhere That’s Green” — one of the most knockout “I want” numbers ever. She’s made for the role and the starry showcase, considering the rare and remarkable way she beams fragility and fire when she's on stage. James has a Tony Award to show for it from The Book of Mormon, and she’s also left indelible marks on Broadway in Les Misérables and Suffs.

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by Kyle Turner

These aren't your parents' cats. Costume designer Qween Jean remakes and renvisions the felines of Andrew Lloyd Webber in Cats: The Jellicle Ball with lush and ludicrously fabulous designs. They're both apt for the fashion categories the cats are walking down the runway for — like a striped fur jacket for Munkustrap — and full of character and nuance — like a chic train conductor uniform for Skimbleshanks. You'll wish you could duckwalk out of the theatre in some of these outfits.

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by Caroline Cao

One of the key conduits of Data, a timely Off-Broadway thriller about the existential threat of the tech industry, is It actress Sophia Lillis. As young tech employee Riley, she wears the stiff body and perturbed expression of a corporate chesspiece carrying the world on her shoulders. Lillis’s naturally wide eyes are a piercing asset, conveying how corrosive her environment is for a woman in tech. As Riley agonizes over being a whistleblower for a cataclysmic AI-identification project, Lillis encapsulates fear and righteous fury going hand in hand.

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by Joe Dziemianowicz

Away from Broadway for a decade — too long, if you ask me — Tracee Chimo returns in Noel Coward’s fizzy 1925 comedy Fallen Angels as the droll domestic Saunders. She's sure to clean up in the scene-stealing department, even opposite the dynamite Kelli O’Hara and Rose Byrne as married women thirstily awaiting their mutual ex’s arrival. Chimo always maximizes her moments on stage (Bad Jews, Bachelorette, Noises Off) and screen (Dying for Sex, Orange Is the New Black) — she’s maid that way.

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