Broadway shows opening in 2025

Find out which plays, musicals, revivals, and other shows are premiering in New York. This article will be continually updated as new shows plan their openings.

Gillian Russo
Gillian Russo

Want to know all the Broadway shows opening in 2025? There are plenty already announced, with new plays and musicals premiering alongside star-studded revivals and award-winning shows coming to Broadway by way of Off-Broadway or London. There are plenty of options for fans of all genres of theatre.

Below are all the Broadway productions opening in 2025, listed in order of start date. This article will be continually updated as new shows are announced and previously announced shows confirm their performance dates.

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In a classroom in Iran, four adults are prepping for the Test of English as a Foreign Language — but what of their cultural identity do they lose in the process? Sanaz Toossi's critically acclaimed play comes to Broadway in January after winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Operation Mincemeat

Winner of the 2024 Olivier Award for Best Musical and in London, Operation Mincemeat is bringing its mission to Broadway. This comedic thriller musical dramatizes the real story of Operation Mincemeat, an Allied mission carried out during World War II involving — believe it or not — a stolen corpse.

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Redwood

Tony Award winner Idina Menzel is bringing the California forest to the concrete jungle this January. In this new musical she also co-created, Menzel stars as Jesse, a woman with a family, home, and career that she leaves behind to search for healing and a fresh start among the redwoods.

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Purpose

Tony winner and Emmy nominee Phylicia Rashad (Skeleton Crew, The Cosby Show) makes her Broadway directorial debut with the newest play from Tony winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate). Purpose follows a fictional Black family with a long and famous history in politics and activism. Their troubles erupt when the family's son brings home an unexpected guest.

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BOOP! The Musical

In this new Broadway show based on the iconic cartoon character premiering in March, Betty Boop trades her black-and-white world for the colorful New York City on a day off from fame. Adventure, love, and comedy await at this musical spectacle from a Tony- and Grammy-winning creative team.

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The Last Five Years

Grammy Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren lead the first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's beloved rom-dram, a staple of Off-Broadway and regional theatres for years. Watch the doomed love story of Jamie (Jonas) and Cathy (Warren) unfold through tender and heartbreaking song this March.

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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Hey, old friend! What do you say, old friend, that we see Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends in March? Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, and more lead this concert-style tribute to the late, great composer Stephen Sondheim and his hit musicals, like Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Merrily We Roll Along, West Side Story, Company, and Sunday in the Park with George.

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Floyd Collins

This March, Floyd Collins finally premieres on Broadway 30 years after its Off-Broadway premiere. The cult-favorite musical by Tony Award winner Adam Guettel uses folk and bluegrass music to dramatize the true story of a 1925 cave explorer, who got trapped underground and created the first nationwide media circus as we know it.

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Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Fans of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things will delight in seeing their favorite characters in a whole new era — and watching the show's supernatural elements come to life with awe-inspiring stage magic. Stranger Things: The First Shadow is set in 1959, when the lives of Joyce, Hopper, and more are rocked by the arrival of a mysterious stranger named Henry Creel.

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Pirates! The Penzance Musical

Ahoy, mateys! Ramin Karimloo, David Hyde Pierce, and Jinkx Monsoon lead a jazz-and-blues version of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance, now set in New Orleans. Madcap, swashbuckling comedy ensues among characters like the Pirate King, the Major General, and more.

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Buena Vista Social Club

The name "Buena Vista Social Club" is synonymous with Latin American music history. Retired Cuban musicians formed the group in order to record an album of the same name featuring classic Latin styles like son and bolero. In doing so, they won a Grammy Award and brought classic Cuban music to a new audience — and now, through the musical adaptation of that story, yet another new generation will get to experience the thrilling, timeless sound.

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Othello

Don't miss Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal take on two of Shakespeare's most celebrated roles in this classic tragedy. Othello (Washington) is a successful military commander with a beautiful wife — and a jealous streak. That's all Iago (Gyllenhaal) needs to engineer Othello's downfall.

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Good Night, and Good Luck

Two-time Oscar winner George Clooney directed, co-wrote, and performed in the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck — and this spring, he makes his Broadway debut co-writing and starring in the stage adaptation. Unlike in the movie, Clooney now takes on the lead role of Edward R. Murrow, who battles with Senator Joseph McCarthy over corruption, ethics, and truth.

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Succession's Kieran Culkin, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul's Bob Odenkirk, and Grammy- and Emmy-nominated comedian Bill Burr lead the latest revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer and Tony-winning play. They star as real estate salesmen selling worthless property to unsuspecting customers, competing for a car, their jobs, and their pride.

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Smash

Yes, it's gonna be a smash! The Broadway-centric NBC TV show is becoming a Broadway musical this spring, featuring beloved songs like "Let Me Be Your Star" and "Don't Forget Me." When a Marilyn Monroe musical sets its Broadway premiere, veteran actress Ivy and newcomer Karen vie for the title role and the glory.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Emmy-winning Succession star Sarah Snook will make her Broadway debut in The Picture of Dorian Gray, director Kip Williams's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic novel. Snook plays all 26 characters in this story about a man who sells his soul for eternal youth, and she won an Olivier Award for her performance of the show in London earlier this year.

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Just in Time

Look out, Jonathan's back! Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff will star in the new musical Just in Time as Bobby Darin, a singer who became a global sensation in his short but successful life. The Circle in the Square Theatre will transform into a nightclub with an onstage band playing Darin's biggest hits, like "Splish Splash" and "Mack the Knife."

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Real Women Have Curves

Based on the acclaimed play and HBO film, this new coming-of-age musical comes to Broadway following a hit world premiere in Boston. Teenager Ana's family wants her to stay in their hometown of L.A. to work at the family business, but she dreams of building a life in New York. Whose dreams will she choose?

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John Proctor Is the Villain

Stranger Things star Sadie Sink stars in this Broadway-debut play by Kimberly Belflower. In a rural Georgia high school, a group of students reading The Crucible start to question the play's perspective as they navigate coming of age, love, sex, and scandal.

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Dead Outlaw

The multi-Tony Award-winning creative team behind Broadway's The Band's Visit reunited to create this award-winning Broadway musical. Dead Outlaw is named for the “Six-Million Dollar Man” Elmer McCurdy, whose body became a sideshow attraction after his death. When his remains are actually investigated years later, details of his wild, ambitious, troubled life come to light — and this show musicalizes that story for the first time.

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Waiting for Godot

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure co-stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite in a new revival of the Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot. Reeves makes his Broadway debut, and Winter returns for the first time in 45 years, in this classic existentialist show.

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Photo credit: Stranger Things: The First Shadow in London. (Photo by Manuel Harlan)

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