Check out our guide to the best Broadway plays on right now, featuring celebrity stars and time-honored stories that are often on for a limited time only.
Broadway is famous for its long-running hit musicals, its plays are just as exciting. Many successful musicals stick around for decades, but plays regularly rotate, ensuring there's always a new show to discover. Plus, you can often catch celebrities in Broadway plays — but only for a limited time.
Check out the top Broadway plays to see right now, including starry revivals of classic plays and fan-favorite modern hits. And for a limited time only, save on tickets to these shows and more during New York Theatre Guide's Black Friday sale — browse the complete Black Friday sale page.
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Every Brilliant Thing
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Proof
Oh, Mary!
Death of a Salesman
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Hawkins, Indiana, got turned upside down long before the events of Netflix's Stranger Things. In this theatrical prequel to the hit show, teenage versions of fan-favorite characters deal with the arrival of a newcomer named Henry Creel, who upends all their lives.
Every Brilliant Thing
Mariska Hargitay (from May 26 to July 5) and Tracee Ellis Ross (from July 7 to August 9) make their Broadway debuts in this solo play about the things that make life worth living. In Every Brilliant Thing, each actress plays a woman who makes a list of such things: first for her mom, then for herself, and now for us, as her story involves plenty of audience interaction.
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
See Taraji P. Henson and Cedric "The Entertainer", together playing a couple who runs a boardinghouse turned upside down with the arrival of a man looking for himself after an illegal enslavement. August Wilson's classic story of connection, identity, and healing marks Henson's Broadway debut.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has put Broadway audiences under its spell since 2018. Harry Potter fans will recognize all their favorite characters, and some new ones, in this stage sequel to the books centered on the next generation of wizards.
And even non-Potterheads are bound to be amazed by the daring plot about time travel and the unbelievable special effects. All together, the performances and stagecraft of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will make you believe magic — or theatre magic, at least — is real.
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Proof
See Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri in their Broadway debuts, playing father and daughter in David Auburn's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play. Catherine (Edebiri) discovers the cost of proving herself when she sets out to verify the true authorship of her late, genius dad's (Cheadle) work without going down the dark path that ruined him.
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Oh, Mary!
Search Party's Cole Escola penned this wacky comedy that brings the White House to Broadway following a sold-out Off-Broadway premiere. A rotating lineup of stars play Mary Todd Lincoln — a silly, alcoholic, lustful Mary Todd Lincoln with dreams of being a cabaret star. Her life turns on its head in the weeks leading up to her husband's assassination.
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Death of a Salesman
One of the most celebrated plays in American theatre history is back, with stage and screen titans Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf at its center. They lead the latest revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, a searing portrait of the American dream and one family who just can't reach it.
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