Complete schedule of Broadway closings
Learn about all the Broadway shows closing soon before they're gone for good.
Broadway closings aren't the most exciting part of New York theatre — no one likes to see a show they love go away. But it's good to stay updated on Broadway shows closing so you don't miss a musical or play on your must-see list. To make that easier, we've listed all the Broadway shows playing now and when their closing dates are, whether this year or next year. This article also includes a list of all the shows with no closing date set yet, so you know which ones you still have plenty of time to see.
Some shows come to Broadway for a strictly limited time and set their closing dates right away, so you can know from the start when to buy your tickets. Others start with open-ended runs but eventually close, and this article will be updated with the latest information as Broadway shows announce closings. The good news about Broadway show closings, though, is that there are always new Broadway shows opening, too. A great musical or play might eventually leave New York, but your next favorite show could be taking its place. Plus, there's always a chance for a Broadway revival down the line!
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Broadway shows closing in 2023
Multiple shows have announced closings for this year, including some limited runs. You still have a while to see these Broadway shows closing in 2023, so get your Broadway show tickets now. Luckily, once these shows close, there will be more exciting new shows taking their place that have yet to be announced. The shows below are listed in order of closing date.
Bad Cinderella
This new musical gives a fresh twist to the classic fairytale with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and a book by Oscar winner Emerald Fennell. Cinderella is an outcast in a town where beauty is everything, but when she gets a makeover of her own to win a prince's affection, she learns love is more than skin-deep.
First performance: February 17
Closing date: June 4
Venue: Imperial Theatre
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A Doll's House
Jessica Chastain is in the house — A Doll's House, that is. She stars in a stripped-down, thrilling new version of Henrik Ibsen's classic, adapted by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog and directed by Jamie Lloyd. Chastain is the latest of many celebrities to play Nora Helmer, a housewife who becomes disillusioned with her "perfect" life.
First performance: February 13
Closing date: June 10
Venue: Hudson Theatre
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The Thanksgiving Play
A makeshift group of four white actors tries to create a Native American-centric Thanksgiving pageant for elementary schoolers. What can go wrong? Plenty, in this satire by Larissa FastHorse, the first female Native playwright on Broadway. She and Tony-winning director Rachel Chavkin have assembled a delicious cast for the show's Broadway premiere: D'Arcy Carden, Scott Foley, Chris Sullivan, and Katie Finneran.
First performance: March 23
Closing date: June 11
Venue: Hayes Theater
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Summer, 1976
Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht star in this show as an artist and housewife who develop an unlikely friendship. David Auburn's world-premiere play was supposed to premiere off Broadway, but the cast's star power propelled it right to the big stage. Auburn collaborates once again with director Daniel Sullivan, who previously staged Auburn's Pulitzer-winning play Proof.
First performance: April 4
Closing date: June 18
Venue: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Prima Facie
Emmy Award winner Jodie Comer made her London stage debut in this celebrated solo legal drama, and she now brings her award-winning performance to Broadway. Comer stars as Tessa, a defense lawyer who must face the dark side of her profession when she suffers an assault.
First performance: April 11
Closing date: June 18
Venue: Golden Theatre
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Fat Ham
See a juicy comedy-drama that takes Shakespeare's Hamlet and gives it plenty of modern flavor. The action of James Ijames's Pulitzer-winning play, takes place at a Southern cookout, where a Black, queer boy wonders whether killing his uncle to avenge his father is the best move. Fat Ham had a celebrated Off-Broadway premiere last year and now brings the party to Broadway.
First performance: March 21
Closing date: June 25
Venue: American Airlines Theatre
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Leopoldstadt
Tom Stoppard, the most Tony-winning playwright in history, is debuting his latest and most personal play on Broadway after an award-winning London premiere. Leopoldstadt is loosely based on his own Jewish heritage and takes its name from the Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. There, the play follows multiple generations of one Jewish family through 50 life-changing years of history, as they all must face their Jewishness whether they like it or not.
First performance: September 14
Closing date: July 2
Venue: Longacre Theatre
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The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
There’s only a limited window of time to see Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan on stage together. They reprise their leading roles from an Off-Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s drama from earlier this year. See the A-list pair as Sidney and Iris Brustein, a couple whose marriage is upended by politics in 1960s Manhattan.
First performance: April 25
Closing date: July 2
Venue: James Earl Jones Theatre
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Peter Pan Goes Wrong
The creators of The Play That Goes Wrong have flown off to Neverland. Join them at Peter Pan Goes Wrong, in which an amateur theatre troupe attempts to stage J. M. Barrie's classic fairytale play — and mishaps occur at every turn. Follow the second star to the right and straight on 'till mayhem at this uproarious comedy.
First performance: March 17
Closing date: July 23
Venue: Barrymore Theatre
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Parade
Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond star in the first Broadway revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's searing musical. Based on a true story, Parade dramatizes the trial, imprisonment, and death of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory worker in Georgia framed for a heinous murder.
First performance: February 21
Closing date: August 6
Venue: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
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Alex Edelman: Just For Us
This stand-up show may be called Just For Us, but Alex Edelman has proved it can make anyone laugh, having performed it multiple times each in the U.K. and U.S., including three celebrated Off-Broadway runs. Now, he brings this Drama Desk Award-nominated act to Broadway, recounting how he, a Jewish man, snuck into a neo-Nazi meeting to put faces to the names of his online haters — and see if he could change them.
First performance: June 22
Closing date: August 19
Venue: Hudson Theatre
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Good Night, Oscar
Will & Grace star Sean Hayes steps into the shoes of one of the most famous 20th-century TV personalities. Oscar Levant was a career pianist, but he remains most famous for his sharp, self-deprecating wit and penchant for turning serious subjects into dark humor. Good Night, Oscar takes place during Levant's first appearance on the Jack Paar show, when he changed what flies on live TV forever.
First performance: April 7
Closing date: August 27
Venue: Belasco Theatre
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Funny Girl
No one's going to rain on Funny Girl's parade! The 2022 production is the first revival of the show since its 1964 premiere that made Barbra Streisand a household name. A parade of stars have taken on the role of the greatest star, Fanny Brice, in 2022: Beanie Feldstein originated the role, breakout understudy Julie Benko followed, and Glee star Lea Michele is the latest to step into Fanny's shoes. The musical shows how Fanny Brice, a real Ziegfeld Follies showgirl, rose to fame and put it all on the line for a risky romance with gambler Nick Arnstein (Ramin Karimloo).
First performance: March 26
Closing date: September 3
Venue: August Wilson Theatre
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Broadway shows with no closing date set
Lots of plays schedule limited Broadway runs, setting a fixed start and end date before performances even begin. The norm for musicals, however, is an open-ended run, with performances continuing as long as people still see them. Some lucky few plays get extended runs, too. Below are all the shows currently playing open-ended runs, with no closing date announced. The Broadway shows in this section are listed in alphabetical order.
A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical
You know Neil Diamond's name and his most famous songs, like "Sweet Caroline," but do you know his life story? In A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, two actors play Diamond at different stages in his career: one when he's a young, aspiring songwriter growing up in Brooklyn, and one when he's become one of the bestselling music artists of all time, with worldwide fame, a Grammy, and inductions into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
First performance: November 2
Closing date: None set
Venue: Broadhurst Theatre
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Aladdin
Go to a whole new world on Broadway! The Disney musical Aladdin brings the beloved 1992 film to life with plenty of pizzazz, energy, and theatre magic. The title character is a street urchin who falls into a mutual attraction with Princess Jasmine, but she's required to marry a prince. He becomes one with the help of a genie in a magic lamp, but he still has to fight off the evil Jafar, who wants Jasmine and power over the kingdom for himself.
First performance: February 6, 2014
Closing date: None set
Venue: New Amsterdam Theatre
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Chicago
Chicago has been painting the town for 25 years and shows no signs of stopping. This musical centers on Roxie Hart, whose plans to be a vaudeville star get interrupted by a jail stint for murdering her lover. While there, she finds a new path to fame: becoming a celebrity criminal. She and veteran vaudevillian Velma Kelly compete for the attention of the sensational press and the city's best lawyer, as razzle-dazzling them is the only way to get acquitted.
First performance: October 23, 1996
Closing date: None set
Venue: Ambassador Theatre
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Hadestown
The road to hell has no end in sight. Hadestown has been on Broadway since 2019, when it won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. Thousands of people have gone "way down Hadestown" to see this folk-and-jazz retelling of Greek mythology, centered on the story of a musician named Orpheus who takes a dangerous trip to the underworld to rescue his love, Eurydice, from eternal servitude.
First performance: March 22, 2019
Closing date: None set
Venue: Walter Kerr Theatre
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Hamilton
History happened in Manhattan when Hamilton came on the scene. Lin-Manuel Miranda became a household name when he created and starred in this hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton, the U.S. Founding Father now immortalized on the $10 bill. The story of how he immigrated from the Caribbean, shaped America's growth from the ground up, and sustained a rivalry with Aaron Burr to the bitter end won 11 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy, and numerous other accolades. The show is non-stop!
First performance: July 13, 2015
Closing date: None set
Venue: Richard Rodgers Theatre
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the rare play to get a multi-year Broadway run, but with Harry Potter being such a famous franchise, it's no wonder that people still flock to experience the magic of the Wizarding World. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up where the final book left off: with Harry's son Albus going to Hogwarts, where he befriends Draco Malfoy's son, Scorpius. Both generations of wizards end up on a time-traveling adventure through the Wizarding World, filled with plenty of incredible stage magic.
First performance: March 16, 2018
Closing date: None set
Venue: Lyric Theatre
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& Juliet
Even if you don't think you know the name Max Martin, you know his music — he's the songwriter behind hits from Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Bon Jovi, and more. Thirty of his songs are the basis of & Juliet, a pop musical that was a major hit in London. The musical pairs these modern tunes with a classical story: what would happen if Juliet, of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, didn't die at the end of that play and instead went on a coming-of-age journey to Paris.
First performance: October 28
Closing date: None set
Venue: Stephen Sondheim Theatre
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Kimberly Akimbo
Fresh off a hit, award-winning Off-Broadway premiere, the Kimberly Akimbo musical is transferring to Broadway with its original cast intact. David Lindsay-Abaire adapted his same-named play into the musical's book, and five-time Tony nominee Jeanine Tesori wrote the songs for this show about a teenage girl with an aging condition that makes her look elderly. Kimberly's also dealing with money and family troubles, and she's just looking to beat the clock to happiness.
First performance: October 12
Closing date: None set
Venue: Booth Theatre
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MJ The Musical
MJ The Musical isn't beating it anytime soon. This show about the life and career of Michael Jackson is a true musical theatre spectacle — besides hearing all the King of Pop's greatest hits, you'll see Tony-winning choreography and a Tony-winning performance from newcomer Myles Frost as Jackson. Even if you don't listen to Jackson's music regularly, MJ The Musical promises a true thriller of a Broadway experience.
First performance: December 6, 2021
Closing date: None set
Venue: Neil Simon Theatre
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Come what may, you can-can see Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway for a while. The stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's beloved film preserves the now-famous love story, featuring the star-crossed writer Christian and courtesan Satine. Amid all the fan-favorite songs from the movie, like "Lady Marmalade" and "Your Song," there are more than 70 pop songs from various decades through today, making Moulin Rouge! The Musical a spectacular spectacular for many generations.
First performance: June 28, 2019
Closing date: None set
Venue: Al Hirschfeld Theatre
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Six
See this one of a kind, no category Broadway musical. Six remixes the stories of Henry VIII's six wives that you only thought you knew. Reimaged as pop stars, the Queens compete to see who had it worst with Henry to determine who will lead their girl group. Besides sharing the inside scoop on their royal lives, they also share facts about who they are as women independent of Henry — you won't get that in a history book.
First performance: February 13, 2020
Closing date: None set
Venue: Brooks Atkinson Theatre
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Some Like It Hot
When the weather starts getting cold, Broadway's getting hot with the arrival of Some Like It Hot. Based on the classic 1959 movie starring Marilyn Monroe, the musical adaptation kicks off when 1920s musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit. Now the mob's newest targets, they disguise themselves and skip town with an all-female swing band. They want to find love along the way, but it's a lot harder when no one can know who you really are.
First performance: November 1
Closing date: None set
Venue: Shubert Theatre
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The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon has converted first-time theatregoers into musical theatre fans for years, and longtime Broadway lovers are always part of the congregation, too. The Book of Mormon follows two Mormon elders on mission to Uganda, whose task of converting the locals does not prove easy. The plentiful humor certainly isn't church-approved, but the nine-time Tony-winning Best Musical offers a heavenly, hilarous evening.
First performance: February 24, 2011
Closing date: None set
Venue: Eugene O'Neill Theatre
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The Lion King
Join the countless theatregoers who have taken their place in the circle of life. The Lion King is one of Broadway's longest-running shows, and if you love the Disney film, you'll experience all your favorite songs and scenes brought to life in a unique way, with life-size puppetry you can only see on Broadway. The musical follows Simba, the heir to the throne of the Pride Lands who must usurp his evil uncle and take his rightful place.
First performance: October 15, 1997
Closing date: None set
Venue: Minskoff Theatre
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Wicked
Having defied gravity and expectations for nearly 20 years, Wicked is still one of Broadway's most wonderful and popular shows. Set before the events of The Wizard of Oz, this musical makes Elphaba — better known as the Wicked Witch of the West — the main character, and tells how she and Glinda the Good Witch were once best friends in college. When they find out about corruption in Oz, though, their differing responses to it tear them apart as one is dubbed "good" and the other "wicked."
First performance: October 8, 2003
Closing date: None set
Venue: Gershwin Theatre
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Get tickets to Broadway shows closing soon
Unlike movies or TV shows, most Broadway theatre isn't available on demand forever. That liveness is what makes theatre so special, but once a show is gone, it's gone. So don't miss your chance to see a great show (or see it one more time) before it closes. Be sure to get tickets to a Broadway show closing soon to support the show before it goes, and so you don't miss out on a piece of theatre you'll enjoy.
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