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.
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Waiting for Godot
Liberation
Little Bear Ridge Road
Art
Oh, Mary!
All Out: Comedy About Ambition by Simon Rich
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Oedipus
Bug
Waiting for Godot
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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Liberation
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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Little Bear Ridge Road
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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Art
Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play reignites an age-old question: What is art, anyway? James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, and Bobby Cannavale debate it as three longtime friends, one of whom buys a plain white painting for a small fortune.
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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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All Out: Comedy About Ambition by Simon Rich
A follow-up to last season's All In: Comedy About Love, All Out features a celebrity cast reading short stories about ego, envy, and greed by Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich.
Four stars appear at each performance in rotation. The full 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.
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.
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.
Oedipus
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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Bug
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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