Best Broadway shows in New York in May 2025

Discover new Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows to check out across New York City in May 2025, including star-studded plays, original musicals, and more.

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Dead Outlaw
Operation Mincemeat
Maybe Happy Ending
Death Becomes Her
Buena Vista Social Club
Real Women Have Curves
Sunset Boulevard
Gypsy
John Proctor Is the Villain
Oh, Mary!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Eurydice
Bowl EP
Goddess
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalpyse
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
Creditors
Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole
Five Models in Ruins, 1981
Bus Stop

Dead Outlaw

Broadway
Musical
Award winner
Drama

Winner of four Best Musical prizes for its 2024 Off-Broadway premiere, Dead Outlaw tells the story of a bandit whose corpse was embalmed and displayed as a carnival sideshow and museum attraction for decades. It's told with rollicking folk rock music — and it's 100% true.

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Operation Mincemeat

Broadway
Musical
Comedy
History
Award winner

A World War II mission — one involving a stolen corpse, no less — doesn't sound like a musical comedy, but this hit British show proves that wrong. With catchy tunes and plenty of laughs, Operation Mincemeat tells the story of the real-life operation that turned the tide in the Allies' favor and the mad geniuses behind it.

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Death Becomes Her

Broadway
Musical comedy
Stars on stage
Screen to stage

Now a warning? Death Becomes Her has made audiences die of laughter on Broadway since the fall. The no-holds-barred musical comedy is adapted from the 1992 Meryl Streep/Goldie Hawn film about frenemies who each take an anti-aging potion to remain young and beautiful forever. And ever.

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Breakfast at Liberty Bagels

Regularly named one of the city’s best bagel shops, the unassuming Liberty Bagels is the perfect spot to get a classic NYC breakfast sandwich.

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Macy’s Herald Square

One of the world’s largest stores, Macy’s is a sight to behold, especially when it’s decked out for the holidays.

Buena Vista Social Club

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Drama
History

Let the music move you at this vibrant new musical about the Grammy Award-winning Cuban music group. Decades after the Cuban Revolution upended their careers, older musicians reunite to make a record that will usher in a renaissance of old-school Latin sounds — and we defy you not to dance in your seat.

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Real Women Have Curves

Broadway
Musical
Stars on stage
Screen to stage

This celebratory new musical, adapted from the hit play and film, tells a story of coming-of-age, acceptance, and ambition. Eighteen-year-old Ana must choose between pursuing her dreams of college and a career in NYC and staying in Los Angeles to work at her immigrant family's dress factory.

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Sunset Boulevard

Broadway
Musical
Stars on stage
Drama
Award winner

Nicole Scherzinger is ready for her close-up. Now extended through July 13, Sunset Boulevard is a thrilling, cinematic Broadway musical about a film star obsessively clinging to the fame she thinks she still has.

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Gypsy

Broadway
Musical
Drama
Stars on stage
Award winner
Classic

It's six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald's turn as Momma Rose, one of the most iconic roles in musical theatre. Gypsy follows this stage mother's obsessive attempts to make her two daughters into stars, and it features classic songs like "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "Together Wherever We Go."

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John Proctor Is the Villain

Broadway
Play
Drama
Comedy
Stars on stage

One of the best-reviewed new plays of the season, John Proctor Is the Villain turns a classic story on its head. A group of high school girls studying The Crucible start to question what they're being taught in light of shocking scandals in their rural Georgia town.

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Oh, Mary!

Broadway
Play
Comedy
Stars on stage
Award winner

Playwright Cole Escola and the full original cast of this hit comedy have returned! Escola stars as Mary Todd Lincoln, who grapples with desire, alcoholism, and an all-consuming desire to be a cabaret star in the weeks before her husband's assassination.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Page to stage
Award winner

Succession's Sarah Snook delivers an unmissable solo performance in the first Broadway adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, playing dozens of characters in the story of a man who remains young while his portrait reveals his deteriorating soul.

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Eurydice

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage

Stranger Things's Maya Hawke plays the title role in Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of a classic Greek myth. When Eurydice dies shortly after her marriage to Orpheus, she reunites with her father in the underworld, complicating her decision to go back to the world of the living or not when Orpheus comes for her.

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Bowl EP

Off-Broadway
Play with music

Bowl EP features something most plays don't: live skateboarding. As Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter try to figure out a name for their rap group, they flirt, skate, rap, open up, and get closer to their goal — and to each other.

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Goddess

Off-Broadway
Musical

Inspired by the African myth of Marimba, a deity who made music out of heartbreak, Goddess follows a mysterious woman who enchants everyone she meets and upends the future of a young man who visits her Afro-jazz club in Kenya.

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The Last Bimbo of the Apocalpyse

Off-Broadway
Musical

The New York Post once captioned an iconic paparazzi photo of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears "the three bimbos of the apocalypse" — but there's a fourth person in the picture. Who is she? In this pop-fueled musical, a group of young internet sleuths are determined to find out.

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