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

Jane Krakowski in Oh, Mary!

Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris in Art

Laurie Metcalf in Little Bear Ridge Road

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Waiting for Godot

June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, and Christopher Lowell in Marjorie Prime

Michelle Williams in Anna Christie

Tom Felton in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Michelle Williams and the cast of Death Becomes Her

Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham in The Queen of Versailles

Bob the Drag Queen and Meg Donnelly in Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Carrie Coon in Bug

Tom Hanks in This World of Tomorrow

Nicholas Braun and Kara Young in Gruesome Playground Injuries

Chloë Grace Moretz in Caroline

Anna Chlumsky, Marin Ireland, and Julia Lester in Queens

Rob Lake and Kermit the Frog in Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets

Luke Evans in The Rocky Horror Show

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle in Proof

Jonathan Groff and Gracie Lawrence in Just in Time

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher in Chess

Aubrey Plaza in Let's Love!

Daniel Radcliffe in Every Brilliant Thing

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Dog Day Afternoon

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

Ian McKellen in An Ark

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

Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris in Art

These three award-winning actors know a thing or two about great art. Bobby Cannavale is a Tony Award nominee and Emmy winner, and James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris are both Tony and Emmy winners for their acclaimed film, TV, and stage projects. Their latest gig is a revival of Yasmina Reza's Art, in which a plain white painting sparks a red-hot debate between three friends.

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Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris in Art

Laurie Metcalf in Little Bear Ridge Road

Broadway
Play
Drama

Emmy and Tony Award winner Laurie Metcalf never stays away from the stage for long. After starring in the world premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road in Chicago, she and Tony Award nominee Micah Stock) reprise their roles as a long-estranged aunt and nephew for the Broadway transfer. One of only two performers to be nominated for Tonys for four consecutive years, the Roseanne star's stage credits include Misery, Three Tall Women, Hillary and Clinton, and A Doll's House, Part 2.

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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Waiting for Godot

Broadway
Play
Classic
Drama

Bill and Ted are back, but instead of traveling through time, they're staying put and asking life's big questions in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite to lead the latest revival of the classic drama. Reeves makes his Broadway debut with the show, while Winter returns for the first time since Peter Pan in 1979.

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June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, and Christopher Lowell in Marjorie Prime

Broadway
Play
Drama

You couldn't ask for a more prime cast than Oscar nominee June Squibb (Nebraska, Waitress), Emmy and Tony winner Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City, The Little Foxes), Tony winner Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Gypsy), and stage and screen star Christopher Lowell (Cult of Love, Veronica Mars). The quartet lead Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer-nominated drama about a widow who relives her memories with her late husband by way of a futuristic hologram of him.

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June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, and Christopher Lowell in Marjorie Prime

Michelle Williams in Anna Christie

Have both Michelle Williamses ever been on stage at the same time? Well, it's happening in fall 2024, when Fosse/Verdon Emmy winner Michelle Williams comes off Broadway to star in Anna Christie at St. Ann's Warehouse (while Destiny's Child's Michelle Williams continues in Death Becomes Her). The Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows a former prostitute who falls in love and seeks to change the course of her life — but not without complications.

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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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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: Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, and Christopher Sieber take on Meryl Streep's, Goldie Hawn's, and Bruce Willis's parts.

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Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham in The Queen of Versailles

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage

They're the king and queen of the St. James Theatre! Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Wicked) and Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) star as Jackie and David Siegel in The Queen of Versailles. Based on a true story, the musical follows the Siegels' quest to build America's largest single-family home — right as the 2008 recession hits.

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Bob the Drag Queen and Meg Donnelly 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.

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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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Tom Hanks in This World of Tomorrow

Off-Broadway
Play
Page to stage

This World of Tomorrow began as a collection of short stories by Oscar and Emmy Award winner Tom Hanks, and now, the beloved actor is teaming up with James Glossman to adapt them for the stage. Hanks also stars as Bert Allenberry, who goes on a time-traveling quest to reunite with his one true love, played by Tony winner Kelli O'Hara.

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Nicholas Braun and Kara Young in Gruesome Playground Injuries

Off-Broadway
Drama
Romance

Opposites attract, right? Kara Young, a four-time Tony Award nominee who won for Purpose and Purlie Victorious, has appeared in numerous shows on and off Broadway. Nicholas Braun, in contrast, is making his NYC stage debut after earning three Emmy nods for Succession. The pair star in Gruesome Playground Injuries, an unconventional love story about two people who meet in the elementary school nurse's office and reconnect multiple times over the next 30 years.

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Chloë Grace Moretz in Caroline

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

Did you know Chloë Grace Moretz performed off Broadway at The Public Theater in 2014? Since then, the Kick-Ass and Carrie film star has gone on to add to her list of high-profile screen credits with Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and many more. But now, she's returning off Broadway as a woman caught between her mother and her daughter in a fractured family.

Moretz stars alongside Amy Landecker, known for the TV show Transparent, and River Lipe-Smith.

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Anna Chlumsky, Marin Ireland, and Julia Lester in Queens

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

Queens, indeed — the stars of Martyna Majok's drama rule the stage and screen. Among the eight-person ensemble cast are Anna Chlumsky, a six-time Emmy Award nominee for Veep; Tony Award nominee Marin Ireland, who starred in Reasons to be Pretty on Broadway and also appeared in shows like Homeland and The Umbrella Academy; and Tony nominee Julia Lester, who starred in Into the Woods on Broadway after making her onscreen breakthrough in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

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Anna Chlumsky, Marin Ireland, and Julia Lester in Queens

Rob Lake and Kermit the Frog in Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets

Broadway
Magic
Family-friendly

Hailed by NBC as "The World's Greatest Illusionist," Rob Lake is known for his appearances on America's Got Talent and for wowing audiences all over the world with his live magic shows. Now, he's teaming up with fellow world-renowned entertainers The Muppets for his latest show, with Kermit the Frog and more special guests adding their own humor and magic.

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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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Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle 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.

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Jonathan Groff and Gracie Lawrence 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, plus Gracie Lawrence in her Broadway musical debut! The two respectively play musicians Bobby Darin and Connie Francis in this new musical about Darin's short but legendary life.

In addition to other Broadway credits like Hamilton, Groff is known for his screen appearances on Glee and Looking, while Lawrence co-fronts her own band, also called Lawrence, and has appeared on TV shows like The Sex Lives of College Girls.

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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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Aubrey Plaza in Let's Love!

Off-Broadway
Play
Comedy
Drama

For the first time since making her stage debut in Danny in the Deep Blue Sea in 2023, Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Recreation, Agatha All Along) returns off Broadway in Let's Love!, a trio of one-act plays by Ethan Coen. Between this show and their new film Honey Don't!, Plaza and Coen are taking over the stage and screen this fall.

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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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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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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

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 his voice — alongside those of Golda Rosheuvel, Arinzé Kene, and Rosie Sheehy — guides audiences through the story of what it means to be alive in this mixed-reality experience.

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