Best Broadway plays in New York

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.

Gillian Russo
Written byGillian Russo

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.

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1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2. Oh, Mary!
3. Good Night, and Good Luck
4. Stranger Things: The First Shadow
5. John Proctor Is the Villain
6. Purpose
7. Othello
8. Glengarry Glen Ross
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray

1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Iconic show
Family show
Page to stage
Must see

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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2. Oh, Mary!

Award winner
Stars on stage
Popular show
Comedy

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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The Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon

Eugene O’Neill Theatre
& Juliet

& Juliet

Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Chicago

Chicago

Ambassador Theatre

Aladdin

New Amsterdam Theatre
Oh, Mary!

Oh, Mary!

Lyceum Theatre
Gypsy

Gypsy

Majestic Theatre
Maybe Happy Ending

Maybe Happy Ending

Belasco Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors

Westside Theatre
Death Becomes Her

Death Becomes Her

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
BOOP! The Musical

BOOP! The Musical

Broadhurst Theatre
The Play That Goes Wrong

The Play That Goes Wrong

New World Stages
Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

Golden Theatre
Drunk Shakespeare

Drunk Shakespeare

The Ruby Theatre
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse

The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Titanique

Titanique

Daryl Roth Theatre
Pirates! The Penzance Musical

Pirates! The Penzance Musical

Todd Haimes Theatre

3. Good Night, and Good Luck

Stars on stage
Screen to stage
Popular show
Drama

Twenty years after co-writing and directing the Oscar-nominated movie of the same name, George Clooney is making his Broadway debut with a stage adaptation. This time, he reunites with his co-screenwriter Grant Heslov and stars as journalist Edward R. Murrow, who goes toe-to-toe with Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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Good Night, and Good Luck

Good Night, and Good Luck

Winter Garden Theatre
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Broadway Theatre
Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Al Hirschfeld Theatre
& Juliet

& Juliet

Stephen Sondheim Theatre
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Music Box Theatre
Chicago

Chicago

Ambassador Theatre
Oh, Mary!

Oh, Mary!

Lyceum Theatre
Gypsy

Gypsy

Majestic Theatre
Hadestown

Hadestown

Walter Kerr Theatre
Maybe Happy Ending

Maybe Happy Ending

Belasco Theatre
Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen

Shubert Theatre
Redwood

Redwood

Nederlander Theatre
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club

CABARET at the Kit Kat Club

August Wilson Theatre
The Last Five Years

The Last Five Years

Hudson Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors

Westside Theatre
Death Becomes Her

Death Becomes Her

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

4. Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Popular show
Screen to stage
Drama

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.

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5. John Proctor Is the Villain

Stars on stage
Popular show
Comedy
Drama
Play with music

Stranger Things's Sadie Sink and more star in this new play that challenges everything you might know about a classic. She and a cast of exciting young talent play high school students questioning everything they're being taught in class about The Crucible, as circumstances in their own lives make them reevaluate their own heroes and villains.

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6. Purpose

Drama
Stars on stage

Tony Award winner Kara Young, Tony nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson, and more lead the cast of the latest family drama from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, writer of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Appropriate. When an uninvited guest accompanies a young man to a gathering of his Black revolutionary family, they all must contend with their power, faith, and legacy.

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8. Glengarry Glen Ross

Stars on stage
Award winner
Iconic show
Drama

A modern classic is back on stage with Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Bill Burr going toe-to-toe with their livelihoods on the line. David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross follows the cutthroat competition between real estate agents to sell the most properties, all worthless, to gullible customers — and someone will lose their job if they don't.

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9. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Stars on stage
Iconic show
Drama

Succession's Sarah Snook won an Olivier Award for playing all 26 roles from Oscar Wilde's novel on the London stage. Now, she brings her celebrated performance to the Broadway stage for a limited time, and it's an unmissable event.

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