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.

Art

4.

Waiting for Godot

5.

Little Bear Ridge Road

6.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

7.

Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride

8.

Oedipus

9.

Punch

10.

Liberation

11.

Bug

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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All comedies
$73

The Book of Mormon

Eugene O’Neill Theatre
Death Becomes Her
$63

Death Becomes Her

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Art on Broadway
$103

Art on Broadway

Music Box Theatre
& Juliet
$44

& Juliet

Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Maybe Happy Ending
$65

Maybe Happy Ending

Belasco Theatre
Chicago
$78

Chicago

Ambassador Theatre
Oh, Mary!
$84

Oh, Mary!

Lyceum Theatre
Operation Mincemeat
$65

Operation Mincemeat

Golden Theatre
$116

Aladdin

New Amsterdam Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors
$56

Little Shop of Horrors

Westside Theatre
The Play That Goes Wrong
$96

The Play That Goes Wrong

New World Stages
Drunk Romeo & Juliet
$39

Drunk Romeo & Juliet

The Ruby Theatre
Let's Love!
$137

Let's Love!

Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
Ginger Twinsies
$54

Ginger Twinsies

Orpheum Theatre
Heathers The Musical
$64

Heathers The Musical

New World Stages

4.

Waiting for Godot

Drama
Classic
Stars on stage

The wait is over: Bill & Ted co-stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are back together once more — this time on Broadway. Reeves makes his Broadway debut, and Winter returns for the first time since he was a teen, in Samuel Beckett's existentialist play about two friends awaiting the arrival of the titular Godot, passing the time — and an often confusing, bleak life — by each other's side.

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5.

Little Bear Ridge Road

Stars on stage
Drama

Emmy and Tony Award winner Laurie Metcalf returns to the stage in Little Bear Ridge Road, the latest family drama from The Whale playwright Samuel D. Hunter, who makes his Broadway debut. When an estranged aunt and her gay nephew (Micah Stock) reunite in the wake of his father's death, they start on the uneasy journey toward connection.

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6.

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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7.

Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride

You know him as the Roastmaster General, but in the solo comedy show Take a Banana for the Ride, Jeff Ross peels back emotional layers to show a whole new side of himself. The show deals with his experiences with loss, but he uses uproarious humor to process it — and there will be a few roasts along the way.

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8.

Oedipus

Stars on stage
Classic

The classic Greek tragedy gets a slick new reimagining thanks to adapter/director Robert Icke, who sets Sophocles's story of secrets, incest, and fate that spell a powerful ruler's downfall on a tense election night. Mark Strong, a Tony nominee for A View from the Bridge, stars in the title role opposite Phantom Thread Oscar nominee Lesley Manville as Jocasta.

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9.

Punch

Drama
True story
London hit

James Graham's hard-hitting drama is based on the true story of Jacob Dunne, who accidentally kills a man with a single punch in a bar fight as a teenager. But when he gets the opportunity to meet the man's parents, it's the first step toward redemption and salvation. Punch has the unique distinction of premiering on Broadway and in London's West End at the same time, a rarity in theatre.

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10.

Liberation

Play
Drama
Award winner

Transferring from off Broadway with its entire award-winning ensemble intact, Bess Wohl's Liberation spans 50 years in which a lot has changed — and a lot hasn't. In the present day, a woman looks back on her mom's past as a radical feminist in the '70s, trying to piece together where her mom's life drastically changed and the movement went astray.

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11.

Bug

Drama
Stars on stage

Nearly 30 years after its 1996 world premiere, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) is finally making its Broadway debut. Emmy and Tony Award nominee Carrie Coon (*Fargo, The White Lotus, The Gilded Age, Broadway's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) returns to the stage as a lonely waitress whose paranoid lover (Namir Smallwood) pulls her into a downward spiral of conspiracy and insanity.

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