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See these celebrities in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows

From movie stars to singers, plenty of screen and stage stars are currently headlining at New York theatres.

Gillian Russo
Written byGillian Russo

In New York, it's not unheard of to spot a celebrity in public, walking their dog or attending a show. So it's no wonder, with so many living here, that plenty of celebrities find themselves on the Broadway or Off-Broadway stage at some point in their career.

Many actors, having come from acting schools, get their start in theatre before gaining mainstream fame as a movie or TV star, and New York's stages allow them a return to their roots. Or, tried-and-true screen actors will make their stage debuts later in their careers to try something new. Either way, putting celebrities on stage gives audiences a chance to see their favorite stars live in a whole new way.

There are many celebrities on Broadway and off-Broadway to see right now, from comedians to musicians to screen veterans, many of whom do it all. Buzzy Broadway revivals and limited-run Off-Broadway shows alike are all studded with stars. Here are the celebrities in New York shows that are performing right now.

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Daniel Radcliffe in Every Brilliant Thing

Tom Felton in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, Samira Wiley, and Jin Ha in Proof

Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, and Ben Ahlers in Death of a Salesman

Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in The Fear of 13

The cast of All Out: Comedy About Ambition by Simon Rich

Luke Evans in The Rocky Horror Show

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Dog Day Afternoon

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer" in Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tru

Carrie Coon in Bug

The Broadway cast of Oh, Mary!

Jim Parsons and the cast of Titanique

Bob the Drag Queen, Meg Donnelly, Megan Thee Stallion, and Kelsie Watts in Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher in Chess

Michelle Williams and the cast of Death Becomes Her

Corbin Bleu, Reeve Carney, and Eva Noblezada in The Great Gatsby

Ana Gasteyer and the cast of Schmigadoon!

Ian McKellen in An Ark

Jonathan Groff, Matthew Morrison, and Jeremy Jordan in in Just in Time

John Lithgow in Giant

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing

Daniel Radcliffe in Every Brilliant Thing

Broadway
Play
Drama

After winning a Tony Award for his last Broadway outing in Merrily We Roll Along, Daniel Radcliffe is returning to the stage in Every Brilliant Thing, a solo play — sort of. There's lots of audience participation involved in the story, in which Radcliffe plays a man who makes a list of everything that makes life worthwhile.

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Daniel Radcliffe in Every Brilliant Thing

Tom Felton in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Broadway
Play
Page to stage
Screen to stage
Award winner

For the first time, a cast member from the Harry Potter films is joining the cast of the Broadway sequel. Tom Felton will reprise his role as Draco Malfoy, a newly single dad whose son Scorpius befriends Harry Potter's son Albus at Hogwarts. Together, the boys go on a time-traveling adventure that changes the course of the Wizarding World, bringing the old crew back together again when things go awry.

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Tom Felton in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, Samira Wiley, and Jin Ha in Proof

Broadway
Play
Drama
Award winner

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle are a duo that's greater than the sum of their parts, but they're both accomplished individually, too. Edebiri is a 2023 Emmy winner for The Bear, and Cheadle is a Tony Award winner (for producing A Strange Loop) and Oscar nominee (for Hotel Rwanda) besides being a fan-favorite fixture of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as James Rhodes/War Machine. Now, both stars make their Broadway acting debuts as a deceased father and his determined daughter in David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Additionally, The Handmaid's Tale Emmy winner Samira Wiley makes her own Broadway debut in the play, while Hamilton and Only Murders in the Building star Jin Ha returns to the stage to round out the cast.

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Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, Samira Wiley, and Jin Ha in Proof

Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, and Ben Ahlers in Death of a Salesman

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Drama
Classic
Award winner

This is one starry Loman family. Tony and Emmy winners Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, plus Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Girls, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and Ben Ahlers, star in a new production of Arthur Miller's classic drama about a salesman coming to terms with an American dream that will never come true.

Performances begin: March 6

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Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, and Ben Ahlers in Death of a Salesman

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Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in The Fear of 13

Broadway
Play
Drama

Let's hope Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson don't have stage fright as they make their Broadway debuts in The Fear of 13, a true-life legal drama told through conversations between a wrongfully convicted inmate (Brody) and a prison volunteer (Thompson). Then again, both are stage vets: Brody was nominated for a 2025 Olivier Award for starring in The Fear of 13 in London, and Thompson returns to NYC after starring in 2016's Smart People off Broadway.

But whether you know them from these or their blockbuster screen credits — Brody being a double Oscar winner and Thompson being an Emmy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominee and Marvel star — the only thing scary is to miss them on Broadway.

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The cast of All Out: Comedy About Ambition by Simon Rich

Broadway
Play
Comedy

Like last season's All In: Comedy About Love By Simon Rich, All Out: Comedy About Ambition is a special Broadway event in which celebs read hilarious short stories by the Saturday Night Live writer of the title. Four stars appear at each performance, and the full rotating lineup includes Eric Andre, Jim Gaffigan, Abbi Jacobson, Jon Stewart, Ben Schwartz, Wayne Brady, Cecily Strong, Mike Birbiglia, Heidi Gardner, Jason Mantzoukas, Craig Robinson, Sarah Silverman, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park, and Ray Romano. Plus, the soul-pop band Lawrence also performs original music at each show.

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Luke Evans in The Rocky Horror Show

Broadway
Musical
Classic
Stage to screen

We see you shiver with antici...pation for Luke Evans's Broadway debut. The Beauty and the Beast and The Hobbit star plays Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a rare revival of this cult classic musical about a young couple who stumble into a mad scientist's weird, wild world.

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Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Dog Day Afternoon

Broadway
Play
Drama
Screen to stage

They're a long way from Chicago. Emmy Award winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach are best known for their starring roles on The Bear, but in Dog Day Afternoon, they make their Broadway debuts as unpredictable Brooklyn bank robbers who spectacularly bungle their plan and cause a media frenzy.

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Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Dog Day Afternoon

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer" in Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer" have both come and gone from Broadway, but they're coming back as boarding house owners who take in a life-changing tenant in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone.

Oscar, Tony, and Emmy nominee Henson makes her Broadway acting debut after producing Jaja's African Hair Braiding in 2023, while Cedric returns to Broadway for the first time since his 2008 debut in American Buffalo.

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Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer" in Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tru

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Unique experience

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is best known for his Emmy-nominated performance on Modern Family, but he's also a stage vet, notably winning a 2022 Tony Award for Take Me Out on Broadway. He gets more intimate in Tru, a solo play about Truman Capote performed in a library for only 99 people each night.

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tru

Carrie Coon in Bug

Broadway
Play
Drama

Known for her Emmy Award-nominated performances in the TV shows Fargo, The White Lotus, and The Gilded Age, Carrie Coon is also an accomplished stage actor, earning a Tony nomination for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2012. She returns to the stage in Tracy Letts's psychological thriller as a lonely waitress who gets caught up in her lover's spiral of paranoia and delusion.

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The Broadway cast of Oh, Mary!

Broadway
Play
Comedy

The historical dark comedy Oh, Mary!, by Tony Award-winning playwright Cole Escola, currently stars two-time RuPaul's Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon through February 1, with Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator John Cameron Mitchell following from February 3 to April 12. Plus, Barbie's Simu Liu will star opposite Mitchell as Mary's Teacher!

The current cast also includes Cheyenne Jackson, John-Andrew Morrison, and more. This play really is star-spangled!

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The Broadway cast of Oh, Mary!

Jim Parsons and the cast of Titanique

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Comedy
Award winner
Stage to screen

There's a boatload of stars in Titanique, the hit musical parody of the Titanic film now docking on Broadway. Emmy winner Jim Parsons plays Rose's mother, Ruth; original Off-Broadway cast member and Big Brother star Frankie Grande returns as Victor Garber; Grammy nominee Deborah Cox plays The Unsinkable Molly Brown; and In the Heights and Scream star Melissa Barrera makes her Broadway debut as Rose, to name a few.

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Jim Parsons and the cast of Titanique

Bob the Drag Queen, Meg Donnelly, Megan Thee Stallion, and Kelsie Watts in Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage
Award winner

Welcome to the Moulin Rouge! RuPaul's Drag Race star Bob the Drag Queen and Zombies star Meg Donnelly are appearing in the 10-time Tony-winning musical for a limited time only: Bob as larger-than-life emcee Harold Zidler from January 27 to March 22, and Donnelly from November 11 to March 1 as the star showgirl Satine, whose romance with writer Christian is jeopardized by a jealous Duke.

After they depart the cast, Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion will make her Broadway debut as Zidler — becoming the first-ever female-identifying performer in the role — from March 24 to May 17, while The Voice's Kelsie Watts will join as Satine. Spectacular!

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Bob the Drag Queen, Meg Donnelly, Megan Thee Stallion, and Kelsie Watts in Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher in Chess

Broadway
Musical
Drama

Three theatre grandmasters are returning to the stage in the first Broadway revival of Chess, about two elite players competing for a lot more than just a title. Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) and fast-rising Broadway star Nicholas Christopher (Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors) play the competitive chess champs, while Lea Michele (Glee, Funny Girl) is the woman caught between them.

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Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher in Chess

Michelle Williams and the cast of Death Becomes Her

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage

You may know her as one-third of Destiny's Child (alongside Beyonce and Kelly Rowland, who came to see her perform at her Broadway opening night), but Michelle Williams is coming alive as Viola Van Horn, a mysterious potion hawker, in the new musical Death Becomes Her.

Tackling a new version of the role made famous by Isabella Rossellini on screen, she's surrounded by stars from the theatre world, too: Betsy Wolfe, Jennifer Simard, and Christopher Sieber take on Meryl Streep's, Goldie Hawn's, and Bruce Willis's parts.

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Michelle Williams and the cast of Death Becomes Her

Corbin Bleu, Reeve Carney, and Eva Noblezada in The Great Gatsby

Broadway
Musical
Award winner
Page to stage

Corbin Bleu may have sung "I Don't Dance" in High School Musical 2, but he's disproven that multiple times over on Broadway. His latest stage venture is The Great Gatsby, the roaring Jazz Age musical in which he plays Nick Carraway.

He'll star alongside real-life spouses Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada as Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Since first starring together in Hadestown – where their offstage love story also began — the pair have become one of Broadway's favorite couples.

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Corbin Bleu, Reeve Carney, and Eva Noblezada in The Great Gatsby

Ana Gasteyer and the cast of Schmigadoon!

Broadway
Musical
Comedy
Screen to stage

The town of Schmigadoon! is full of stars, like Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer, stepping into the role of straitlaced Mildred Layton originated by Kristin Chenoweth in the same-named Apple TV+ series.

The cast also includes a whole host of fan-favorite Broadway stars, like Tony Award nominee Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Tony nominee Brad Oscar (Wicked), and Ann Harada, reprising her own onscreen performance as the clueless wife of Schmigadoon's mayor.

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Ana Gasteyer and the cast of Schmigadoon!

Ian McKellen in An Ark

Off-Broadway
Play
Unique experience

Ian McKellen is returning to the NYC stage — sort of. The stage and screen legend won't be physically present in The Shed's production of An Ark, but digital projections of him, Golda Rosheuvel, Arinzé Kene, and Rosie Sheehy guide audiences through the story of what it means to be alive in this mixed-reality experience.

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Ian McKellen in An Ark

Jonathan Groff, Matthew Morrison, and Jeremy Jordan in in Just in Time

Broadway
Jukebox musical

You're just in time to catch Jonathan Groff fresh off his Tony Award win for Merrily We Roll Along as Bobby Darin in this new musical about his short but legendary life.

After Groff departs March 29, Glee star Matthew Morrison steps into the role for three weeks only, and Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan succeeds him from April 21. What a lineup!

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Jonathan Groff, Matthew Morrison, and Jeremy Jordan in in Just in Time

John Lithgow in Giant

Broadway
Play
Drama
Award winner

John Lithgow is a stage and screen giant, with six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Olivier Award, two Tony Awards, and nominations for Oscars, Grammys, and more to his name. So it's fitting that he stars in Giant, playing storied author Roald Dahl at a moment where he's embroiled in controversy.

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John Lithgow in Giant

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing

Broadway
Play
Shakespeare
Comedy

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell have a lot in common. They've become global stars thanks to Marvel Cinematic Universe roles (as Loki and Peggy Carter, respectively). They've earned Olivier Award nominations for their extensive work on the London stage. And they've both worked with award-winning theatre director Jamie Lloyd to great acclaim. Their latest collab with each other and Lloyd is in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, bringing the party to Broadway after a hit London run.

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Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing