Here are our top picks of New York plays and musicals to check out in August 2025, including the first new shows to kick off the 2025-26 fall Broadway season.
August is the prime time to soak up some last sun rays on the beach or get away with your family before school starts back up again. But it's also a great time to go to the theatre! The new Broadway season kicks off in earnest in the fall, so now is a great time to catch a bucket-list show you've been meaning to see or venture off Broadway to discover something entirely new.
Below, we've rounded up the new Broadway and Off-Broadway shows premiering in August, plus hit shows playing their final performances this month, so get your theatre tickets to these now! August is also a great time to start planning your fall itinerary. Once you've got your August tickets lined up and are ready to look ahead, check out the Broadway shows this fall and snag your seats now.
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Hamilton
Mamma Mia!
Ava: The Secret Conversations
Twelfth Night
Josh Sharp's ta-da!
Morgan Bassichis: Can I Be Frank?
Well, I'll Let You Go
Hamilton
History has had its eyes on Hamilton for 10 years. On August 6, Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical phenomenon celebrates its 10th Broadway anniversary at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Even if you don't go that exact day, there's no better time to get yourself in the room where it happened and see the hip-hop musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton that turned the world upside down.
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Mamma Mia!
Mamma mia, here we go again! The ultimate feel-good musical is back in the theatre where its long-running original Broadway production began. The story of bride-to-be Sophie's plan to find her real dad — by reuniting three of her mom's past lovers just before the wedding — is as fun as ever, set to ABBA hits like "Dancing Queen," "Voulez Vous," and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)."
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Ava: The Secret Conversations
See Oscar nominee Elizabeth McGovern play one of the most celebrated old Hollywood actresses in history: Ava Gardner. McGovern also wrote the play, which explores the electric interactions between Gardner and Peter Evans, the journalist who adapted her life story into the memoir Ava: The Secret Conversations.
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare in the Park is back with a star-studded Twelfth Night, featuring Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, and more in a hilarious story of tangled romantic misunderstandings. All tickets to Shakespeare in the Park productions at the newly renovated Delacorte Theater are free, with various online and in-person distribution channels across all five boroughs.
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Josh Sharp's ta-da!
Ta-da! Presenting actor and comedian Josh Sharp (Dicks: The Musical), premiering his hilarious solo show ta-da! at the Greenwich House Theater. With the help of 2,000 PowerPoint slides, Sharp shares stories ranging from his childhood obsession with magic to his coming out in adulthood to his experiences with death, all with clever wordplay and endearing energy.
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Morgan Bassichis: Can I Be Frank?
In an attempt to prove they can think about others besides themself, queer comedian Morgan Bassichis centers Can I Be Frank? around a groundbreaking comic from the 20th century: Frank Maya. Bassichis attempts to revive Maya’s legacy while hilariously exploring the endless queer search for fame and father figures — and for laughter in dark times.
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Well, I'll Let You Go
Constance Shulman, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Michael Chernus, and more star in this new play about a Midwestern community whose American dream is crumbling. Bubba Weiler's debut play hops through time to tell a story that's at once extremely personal and sweeping, sifting through the rubble of a town and the relationships built there to show how its people built a life anyway.
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