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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. 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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Summary

  • Acclaimed Broadway plays in New York include Waiting for Godot; Oh Mary!; Liberation; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Marjorie Prime; and Stranger Things: The First Shadow
1.

Oh, Mary!

2.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

3.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

4.

Every Brilliant Thing

5.

Death of a Salesman

6.

The Fear of 13

7.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

8.

Proof

9.

Dog Day Afternoon

10.

Fallen Angels

11.

Becky Shaw

12.

The Balusters

13.

Giant

1.

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
Chicago

Chicago

Ambassador Theatre
Oh, Mary!

Oh, Mary!

Lyceum Theatre
Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels

Todd Haimes Theatre

Aladdin

New Amsterdam Theatre
& Juliet

& Juliet

Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

Golden Theatre
Maybe Happy Ending

Maybe Happy Ending

Belasco Theatre
Death Becomes Her

Death Becomes Her

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Heathers The Musical

Heathers The Musical

New World Stages
Becky Shaw

Becky Shaw

Hayes Theater
Titanique

Titanique

St. James Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors

Westside Theatre
Calf Scramble

Calf Scramble

59E59 Theaters Theater A
The Play That Goes Wrong

The Play That Goes Wrong

New World Stages

2.

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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3.

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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4.

Every Brilliant Thing

Drama
Stars on stage

Tony Award winner Daniel Radcliffe returns to Broadway to lead a solo play about the things that make life worth living. In Every Brilliant Thing, he plays a man who makes a list of such things: first for his mom, then, for himself, and now for us, as his story involves plenty of audience interaction.

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5.

Death of a Salesman

Drama
Classic
Award winner
Stars on stage

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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6.

The Fear of 13

Crime drama
Stars on stage
True story

See Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make their Broadway debuts in this new drama inspired by the true story of Nick Yarris (Brody). The Pennsylvania writer wrongfully spent 20 years on death row and, with the help of prison volunteer Jackie Schaffer (Thompson) and groundbreaking DNA evidence, finally achieved freedom again.

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8.

Proof

Stars on stage
Drama
Award winner

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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9.

Dog Day Afternoon

Stars on stage
Screen to stage
Drama

The Bear Emmy winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach make their Broadway debuts in this adaptation of the hit 1975 film. Inspired by a true story, Dog Day Afternoon follows a pair of would-be bank robbers whose plan flies wildly off the rails and sends the nation into a frenzy.

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10.

Fallen Angels

Stars on stage
Comedy

A classic Noël Coward comedy that sparkles like champagne, Fallen Angels stars Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara as two married women with the same former lover. It's all in the past until it's not, when he decides to pay a visit.

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11.

Becky Shaw

Award winner
Comedy

A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw finally makes its Broadway debut after more than 15 years. Following a blind date that goes spectacularly haywire, this dark comedy might make you swear off dating for a while.

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12.

The Balusters

Stars on stage
Comedy

The newest comedy play on the block is David Lindsay-Abaire's The Balusters, starring Richard Thomas, Margaret Colin, Anika Noni Rose, and more as members of a small neighborhood association with big opinions. Turmoil erupts when one person suggests the unthinkable: putting a stop sign on the area's prettiest corner.

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13.

Giant

Stars on stage
Drama
Award winner

John Lithgow is a stage and screen giant, so it's only fitting that he plays a literary one, too. In Giant, he reprises his award-winning performance from London as Roald Dahl, who enters a battle of wits in both public and private in response to one of his articles deemed antisemitic.

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