Here are our top picks of New York theatre to check out in July 2025, including summer blockbusters and exciting new Off-Broadway shows across the city.
Beat the summer heat inside a theatre this July! If you need a break from beaches and barbecues, the theatre is the place to be. The venues are air-conditioned, but the shows there are hot, buzzy productions both on and off Broadway. Thrilling new Broadway openings are popping up alongside buzzy Off-Broadway shows and Tony Award-winning shows continuing from earlier this year.
Elsewhere around the city are encore engagements of acclaimed shows, new world-premiere plays, and plenty of entertainment that the whole family will enjoy now that the kids are on summer break. Check out all the can't-miss shows in July below.
Plus, read our complete guide to summer theatre in New York — what to see, where to see it, and how to plan your trip.
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Purpose
Maybe Happy Ending
Oh, Mary!
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Cabaret
Ginger Twinsies
Heathers The Musical
Joy: A New True Musical
Little Shop of Horrors
Josh Sharp's ta-da!
Rolling Thunder
Beau the Musical
Purpose
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, this comedy-drama about a fiery family dinner is one of Broadway's hottest tickets. At a reunion of five relatives in a troubled, politically prominent family — and one unexpected guest — no one's secrets, skeletons, or sanity are safe.
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Maybe Happy Ending
Maybe Happy Ending is the best-reviewed musical of the season and winner of the 2025 Tony Award for Best Musical, so it should definitely join your summer must-see list! Tony Award winner Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen lead this robotic rom-com that's full of sparks, sweet songs, and fireflies that are guaranteed to light up your summer night.
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Oh, Mary!
The Tony-winning comedy play from Cole Escola is getting another term — that is, season — on Broadway. Through August 2, Tituss Burgess stars as Mary Todd Lincoln during the weeks before Abraham Lincoln's (Conrad Ricamora) asassination. But these aren't the Lincolns of the history books: They harbor secrets, addictions, desires, and serious showbiz chops, and are just flat-out wacky for 80 minutes.
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Pirates! The Penzance Musical
You have until July 27 to see Jinkx Monsoon, David Hyde Pierce, and Ramin Karimloo in this "modern major Mardi Gras" that gives The Pirates of Penzance a New Orleans jazz spin and an extra boatload of silliness.
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Cabaret
Catch two pairs of stars in this hit revival in July: Through July 20, country music star Orville Peck and Eva Noblezada play the lead roles of the Emcee and Sally Bowles, and Billy Porter and Marisha Wallace say "willkommen" to the Kit Kat Club on July 22. Immerse yourself in this nightclub-like production about an underground Berlin haven that's a space for entertainment and escape — until it's not.
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Ginger Twinsies
Love The Parent Trap and other beloved '90s and '00s films? Then you'll love this hilarious parody of the Lindsay Lohan film that features all the fan-favorite characters and lines, plus more nostalgic pop culture references from the era. Summer camp is in session!
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Heathers The Musical
Color us stoked that Heathers is back in town! Ten years after its original Off-Broadway premiere, the cult classic musical adaptation of the 1989 film about high school, popularity, and murder returns to New York, and it's as much "Big Fun" as ever.
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Joy: A New True Musical
Joy Mangano's story has been told in a memoir and the movie Joy starring Jennifer Lawrence, and now, it's an uplifting, empowering new musical. Discover how the inventor of the Miracle Mop (played by Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe) broke down barriers as an entrepreneur and mother and mopped the floor with everyone who told her she couldn't.
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Little Shop of Horrors
Through July 27, see Victorious's Elizabeth Gillies and Riverdale's Graham Phillips in this snappy horror comedy musical. When a talking plant offers nerdy flower shop worker Seymour (Phillips) fame, fortune, and the love of his coworker Audrey (Gillies), he accepts — for a bloody price.
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Josh Sharp's ta-da!
Josh Sharp (Dicks: The Musical) attempts a "Herculean feat of stupidity" in his solo comedy show: presenting it as a 2,000-slide Powerpoint and memorizing one slide every 2 seconds.
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Rolling Thunder
Hear the songs of Paul Simon, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Gladys Knight, and many more at this rock-concert-meets-documentary set during the Vietnam War era, celebrating the music and people that powered both the war effort and the protests for peace.
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Beau the Musical
Pride Month may be over, but through July 27, Beau the Musical celebrates the story of a young queer man on a journey of self-discovery. When Ace Baker finds out his dead grandfather is actually still alive, he uncovers family secrets and makes up for lost time with the man who introduced him to the guitar and changed his life.
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