Best Broadway shows in New York in February 2025

Here are our top picks of theatre to check out in February 2025, including new Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows kicking off the spring season in earnest.

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Redwood
Romeo + Juliet
Purpose
Buena Vista Social Club
Othello
Operation Mincemeat
All Nighter
The Antiquities
Curse of the Starving Class
Conversations With Mother
Grangeville
Liberation
Dakar 2000

Redwood

Musical
Stars on stage
Broadway
Drama

Idina Menzel is branching back out into Broadway for the first time in a decade. See the Tony Award-winning star of Wicked and Frozen in this moving new musical as Jesse, a woman who goes through a life-altering event and embarks on a cross-country road trip — from New York to the California redwoods — in search of community and healing.

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Romeo + Juliet

Stars on stage
Play with music
Broadway
Drama

It's your last chance to see Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler in their Broadway debuts before Romeo + Juliet closes on February 16. The Heartstopper star and West Side Story Golden Globe winner play Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in a vibrant new production featuring music by Grammy winner Jack Antonoff.

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Purpose

Stars on stage
Play
Broadway
Drama

Fresh off his 2024 Tony Award win for Appropriate, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to Broadway with a new family drama. Tony winner Kara Young, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, and more star in Purpose, about a Black revolutionary family reckoning with its legacy when an uninvited guest comes to one of their gatherings.

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Buena Vista Social Club

Broadway
Drama
Jukebox musical

Feel the rhythm of Cuba at this new musical named for the Grammy Award-winning music group and its landmark 1997 album. Decades after the Cuban Revolution forced the closure of numerous music and dance halls, a group of retired musicians were recruited to record traditional Cuban music in styles like son, bolero, and danzón. The Buena Vista Social Club musical imagines how it all happened — and introduces a new generation to these classic sounds.

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Operation Mincemeat

Musical
Broadway
Comedy
Historical

It's a story almost too wild to be true: British forces turned the tide of World War II with a covert operation in which they dressed up a stolen corpse. Now imagine that story as a musical comedy. It is in Operation Mincemeat, named for the actual mission and coming to Broadway after an award-winning, critically acclaimed London premiere.

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All Nighter

Stars on stage
Off-Broadway
Comedy
Drama
Play

When a group of close-knit college roommates pulls an all-nighter to finish their finals, their friendship is tested as the pressure mounts, the Adderall flows, and secrets come out. A who's who of young talent stars: Kristine Froseth (The Society, Looking for Alaska), Julia Lester (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Into the Woods), Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms), Alyah Chanelle Scott (The Sex Lives of College Girls), and Kathryn Gallagher (Jagged Little Pill).

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The Antiquities

Play
Off-Broadway
Drama

Imagine if today's society was considered an ancient civilization, remembered only by artifacts in a museum. That's the premise of The Antiquities, which casts us centuries into the future alongside post-human beings visiting the Museum of Late Human Antiquities and trying to make sense of a bygone world.

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Curse of the Starving Class

Stars on stage
Play
Off-Broadway
Drama

See Calista Flockhart, Christian Slater, Cooper Hoffman, and more in the latest revival of Sam Shepard's Obie Award-winning family drama. The Tate family is clinging on for dear life as they find themselves on the verge of losing their home — but despite each family member's flaws, they're still hoping to claw their way toward the American dream.

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Conversations With Mother

Play
Off-Broadway
Comedy
Drama
Stars on stage

Oh, mother! Caroline Aaron (The Marveloous Mrs. Maisel) and Tony Award winner Matt Doyle (Company) star in a new semi-autobiographical comedy by Matthew Lombardo. Over the course of 50 years, the relationship between a domineering Italian mom and her aimless son is tested in all sorts of ever-evolving ways ranging from hilarious to infuriating.

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Grangeville

Play
Drama
Off-Broadway
Stars on stage

SAG Award winner Paul Sparks and Tony Award nominee Brian J. Smith co-star as estranged brothers in the latest drama from Samuel D. Hunter, the acclaimed writer of The Whale. Separated by thousands of miles — both physical and emotional — two brothers tentatively reconnect as they care for their sick mother.

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Liberation

Play
Off-Broadway
Drama

In 1970, six women, who have never met, gather at a community center to figure out how to change the world. Fifty years later, their daughters meet to figure out what happened since that meeting and where their mothers' ambitions ended up. Hopping across decades and generations, Liberation explores open conversations behind closed doors.

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Dakar 2000

Play
Off-Broadway
Drama

In this gripping thriller, a Peace Corps volunteer in 1999 Senegal forms an unlikely bond with a State Department executive after the volunteer gets into a car accident. However, both have secrets that can endanger the other, and the volunteer discovers a dark side of public service he can never forget.

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