Top theatre to see in New York in February

Here are our top picks of theatre to check out in February 2025, including multiple new Broadway shows that are kicking off the spring season in earnest.

With Valentine's Day in the middle of the month, love is in the air in February. What better time to fall in love with some new theatre? Off-Broadway and Broadway tickets are plentiful this time of year, so you can get great seats for you and all your loved ones to see Broadway musicals, Off-Broadway plays, and more in February.

With lots of new shows starting performances this month as the spring theatre season kicks into high gear, there's so much to discover all over the city this month. Here are our top picks for what to see at New York theatres in February 2025.

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Redwood

Idina Menzel is branching back out into Broadway for the first time in a decade. See the Tony Award-winning star of Wicked and Frozen in this moving new musical as Jesse, a woman who goes through a life-altering event and embarks on a cross-country road trip — from New York to the California redwoods — in search of community and healing.

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Romeo + Juliet

It's your last chance to see Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler in their Broadway debuts before Romeo + Juliet closes on February 16. The Heartstopper star and West Side Story Golden Globe winner play Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in a vibrant new production featuring music by Grammy winner Jack Antonoff.

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Purpose

Fresh off his 2024 Tony Award win for Appropriate, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to Broadway with a new family drama. Tony winner Kara Young, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, and more star in Purpose, about a Black revolutionary family reckoning with its legacy when an uninvited guest comes to one of their gatherings.

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Othello

Denzel Washington. Jake Gyllenhaal. Need we say more? These two stage and screen titans take on two of the most sought-after Shakespeare roles of all time: the celebrated military commander Othello and Iago, the man who schemes tirelessly to destroy his marriage, career, and life.

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Operation Mincemeat

It's a story almost too wild to be true: British forces turned the tide of World War II with a covert operation in which they dressed up a stolen corpse. Now imagine that story as a musical comedy. It is in Operation Mincemeat, named for the actual mission and coming to Broadway after an award-winning, critically acclaimed London premiere.

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Buena Vista Social Club

Feel the rhythm of Cuba at this new musical named for the Grammy Award-winning music group and its landmark 1997 album. Decades after the Cuban Revolution forced the closure of numerous music and dance halls, a group of retired musicians were recruited to record traditional Cuban music in styles like son, bolero, and danzón. The Buena Vista Social Club musical imagines how it all happened — and introduces a new generation to these classic sounds.

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All Nighter

When a group of close-knit college roommates pulls an all-nighter to finish their finals, their friendship is tested as the pressure mounts, the Adderall flows, and secrets come out. A who's who of young talent stars: Kristine Froseth (The Society, Looking for Alaska), Julia Lester (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Into the Woods), Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms), Alyah Chanelle Scott (The Sex Lives of College Girls), and Kathryn Gallagher (Jagged Little Pill).

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The Antiquities

Imagine if today's society was considered an ancient civilization, remembered only by artifacts in a museum. That's the premise of The Antiquities, which casts us centuries into the future alongside post-human beings visiting the Museum of Late Human Antiquities and trying to make sense of a bygone world.

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Liberation

In 1970, six women, who have never met, gather at a community center to figure out how to change the world. Fifty years later, their daughters meet to figure out what happened since that meeting and where their mothers' ambitions ended up. Hopping across decades and generations, Liberation explores open conversations behind closed doors.

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Grangeville

SAG Award winner Paul Sparks and Tony Award nominee Brian J. Smith co-star as estranged brothers in the latest drama from Samuel D. Hunter, the acclaimed writer of The Whale. Separated by thousands of miles — both physical and emotional — two brothers tentatively reconnect as they care for their sick mother.

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Conversations With Mother

Oh, mother! Caroline Aaron (The Marveloous Mrs. Maisel) and Tony Award winner Matt Doyle (Company) star in a new semi-autobiographical comedy by Matthew Lombardo. Over the course of 50 years, the relationship between a domineering Italian mom and her aimless son is tested in all sorts of ever-evolving ways ranging from hilarious to infuriating.

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Curse of the Starving Class

See Calista Flockhart, Christian Slater, Cooper Hoffman, and more in the latest revival of Sam Shepard's Obie Award-winning family drama. The Tate family is clinging on for dear life as they find themselves on the verge of losing their home — but despite each family member's flaws, they're still hoping to claw their way toward the American dream.

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Dakar 2000

In this gripping thriller, a Peace Corps volunteer in 1999 Senegal forms an unlikely bond with a State Department executive after the volunteer gets into a car accident. However, both have secrets that can endanger the other, and the volunteer discovers a dark side of public service he can never forget.

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