See these celebrities in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows

From movie stars to singers, plenty of screen and stage stars are currently headlining at New York theatres.

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Betty Gilpin in Oh, Mary!
Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho in Cabaret
Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren in The Last Five Years
George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck
Sadie Sink in John Proctor Is the Villain
Joey Fatone and Charli D'Amelio in & Juliet
Christian Slater, Calista Flockhart, and Cooper Hoffman in Curse of the Starving Class
Michelle Williams and the cast of Death Becomes Her
Audra McDonald in Gypsy
Idina Menzel in Redwood
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Jeremy Jordan and Lizzy McAlpine in Floyd Collins
Ramin Karimloo, David Hyde Pierce, and Jinkx Monsoon in Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello
Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Bill Burr in Glengarry Glen Ross
Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire
Billy Crudup, Lily Rabe, and the cast of Ghosts
Jonathan Groff and Gracie Lawrence in Just in Time
Maya Hawke in Eurydice

Betty Gilpin in Oh, Mary!

Broadway
Play
Comedy

Extended once off Broadway and now three times on Broadway due to popular demand, the historical dark comedy Oh, Mary! stars Betty Gilpin, known for playing Debbie Eagan/"Liberty Belle" in Netflix's Glow, as a zany version of Mary Todd Lincoln. She takes over from original star and playwright Cole Escola, who rocketed to overnight fame thanks to the show's success. This play really is star-spangled!

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Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho in Cabaret

Broadway
Musical
Classic

Willkommen to Broadway! Starting September 16, 2024, American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and Moana and Mean Girls star Auli'i Cravalho make their Broadway debuts in director Rebecca Frecknall's revival of Cabaret. They replace Tony-nominated original stars Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin as the Emcee and Sally Bowles, respectively. There's always a celeb to see at this Kit Kat Club, in which audiences are thoroughly immersed throughout the award-winning production from London.

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Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard

Broadway
Musical
Classic

Nicole Scherzinger may be making her Broadway debut as fading film star Norma Desmond, but she has such a stacked resume, it's hard to believe she hasn't graced the New York stage yet. Since her career with the Pussycat Dolls, Scherzinger has starred in Cats in London (earning an Olivier Award nomination), the live televised musical Annie on NBC, and more.

Now, after starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about the dark side of Hollywood to critical acclaim, she's reprising the role on Broadway. Scherzinger is ready for her close-up!

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Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren in The Last Five Years

Broadway
Musical
Drama
Romance

Grammy Award nominee Nick Jonas is best known for his work with the global hit band Jonas Brothers and as a solo musician, but he's a theatre veteran, too, having appeared in productions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jersey Boys, and Les Miserables. And Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren is a Broadway favorite, earning her trophy for playing Tina Turner in Tina, the musical based on the rock icon's life.

In spring 2025, the pair star in the first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. The dramatic musical follows writer Jamie and actress Cathy, whose romance falls apart over the course of five years.

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Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren in The Last Five Years

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George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck

Broadway
Play
Screen to stage
Drama

Hollywood's ultimate leading man is about to become Broadway's ultimate leading man. Two-time Oscar winner George Clooney is making his Broadway debut as journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck in spring 2025. The play is adapted from the 2005 movie Clooney co-wrote, directed, and starred in. He also co-wrote the play's script with his original co-screenwriter Grant Heslov, making this show Clooney's Broadway writing debut as well. What can't Clooney do?

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Sadie Sink in John Proctor Is the Villain

Broadway
Play
Comedy
Drama

Sadie Sink has exploded onto the pop culture scene in recent years, playing tomboyish Max Mayfield on Stranger Things, Brendan Fraser's estranged daughter in The Whale, and a Taylor Swift stand-in in the singer's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" music video. She's the perfect fit for John Proctor Is the Villain, centered on high schoolers — fueled by pop music and rage — who begin to question power structures and perspectives on love and sex while reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible in English class.

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Joey Fatone and Charli D'Amelio in & Juliet

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Popular show

The biggest pop hits of the '90s, '00s, and '10s power the story of & Juliet, so it's no surprise that famous faces from pop culture are stepping in to perform them. *NSYNC's Joey Fatone returns to the stage after 20 years to play Lance in this Romeo & Juliet-inspired musical — but ironically, he mostly sings Backstreet Boys songs!

Look among the ensemble, too, and you'll spot Charli D'Amelio, who now makes her Broadway debut after rising to fame dancing to chart-topping hits on TikTok.

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Christian Slater, Calista Flockhart, and Cooper Hoffman in Curse of the Starving Class

Off-Broadway
Play

Curse of the Starving Class is about a family struggling to achieve their American dream — but boy, is this family a dream in terms of casting. Heathers's Christian Slater and Ally McBeal's Calista Flockhart both return to the stage after many years, and they're joined by Cooper Hoffman of Licorice Pizza fame. Multiple generations of talent are having their moment under this roof.

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Christian Slater, Calista Flockhart, and Cooper Hoffman in Curse of the Starving Class

Michelle Williams and the cast of Death Becomes Her

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage

You may know her as one-third of Destiny's Child (alongside Beyonce and Kelly Rowland, who came to see her perform at her Broadway opening night), but Michelle Williams is coming alive as Viola Van Horn, a mysterious potion hawker, in the new musical Death Becomes Her.

Tackling a new version of the role made famous by Isabella Rossellini on screen, she's surrounded by stars from the theatre world, too: Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, and Christopher Sieber take on Meryl Streep's, Goldie Hawn's, and Bruce Willis's parts.

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Audra McDonald in Gypsy

Broadway
Musical
Classic

Audra McDonald is the most Tony Award-winning performer ever with six competitive awards, at least one in every acting category in which she could be eligible. It was only a matter of time before Broadway's most celebrated star took on one of the theatre's most monumental roles: Gypsy's Momma Rose, who obsessively pushes her daughters into stardom. It's McDonald's turn, and it's nothing short of historic.

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Idina Menzel in Redwood

Broadway
Musical

First she defied gravity in Wicked. Now she's climbing up to the treetops in Redwood. Tony Award winner Idina Menzel is known for originating Wicked's Elphaba on Broadway and voicing Frozen's Elsa for the screen, and now, she plays a grieving mother who escapes to the California redwood forests in search of purpose, community, and healing.

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Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Broadway
Musical

Two powerhouses of stage and screen headline this spectacular musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter behind Broadway classics like Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Sunday in the Park With George. Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga, both of whom starred in multiple Sondheim productions over the years, bring their powerhouse vocals and stage presence to this theatrical event unlike any other.

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Jeremy Jordan and Lizzy McAlpine in Floyd Collins

Broadway
Musical

Gaining a Broadway fanbase through shows like Newsies and The Great Gatsby and rising further to fame with onscreen roles in Smash, Supergirl and The Last Five Years, Jeremy Jordan has become a fan favorite wherever he pops up. His latest role is the title character of Floyd Collins, a real-life cave explorer who got trapped, sparking one of the first national media circuses to erupt over the radio. Starring alongside him is chart-topping folk-pop artist Lizzy McAlpine in her Broadway debut.

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Ramin Karimloo, David Hyde Pierce, and Jinkx Monsoon in Pirates! The Penzance Musical

Broadway
Musical

Lots of celebrities are on deck for Pirates! The Penzance Musical, a jazz and blues reimagining of the classic comic operetta The Pirates of Penzance set in New Orleans. The Phantom of the Opera's Ramin Karimloo is the swashbuckling Pirate King, with two-time RuPaul's Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon as pirate maid Ruth and Frasier's David Hyde Pierce as the Major General. Anchors aweigh!

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Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello

Broadway
Play
Classic
Drama

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal star as Othello and Iago in the first revival of Shakespeare's Othello since 1982, premiering in spring 2025.

Washington is a Tony Award winner for Fences and a two-time Oscar winner for Glory and Training Day, atop his dozens of other stage and screen credits. Gyllenhaal is a Tony nominee for Sea Wall/A Life and a two-time Golden Globe nominee for Nightcrawler and Love & Other Drugs, and he now makes his Shakespearean debut with Othello.

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Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Bill Burr in Glengarry Glen Ross

Broadway
Play
Classic
Drama

Three TV heavyweights face off as Chicago real estate agents selling worthless properties to naive customers. Kieran Culkin returns to Broadway for the first time since 2014's This Is Our Youth — and since earning an Emmy and numerous other accolades for playing Roman Roy in Succession. Alongside him, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk, and Emmy- and Grammy-nominated comedian Bill Burr make their Broadway debuts in the latest revival of this Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play.

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Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Bill Burr in Glengarry Glen Ross

Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Broadway
Play
Drama

Sarah Snook is on a hot streak. In 2023, she won an Emmy Award for her role as Shiv Roy on HBO's Succession, and she followed that up with a 2024 Olivier Award win for starring in The Picture of Dorian Gray in London's West End. In the stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, she plays all 26 characters, and she's bringing her tour-de-force performance to the Broadway stage.

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Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire

Off-Broadway
Play
Classic

In between capturing hearts worldwide with his performances in Normal People, All of Us Strangers, and Gladiator II, Paul Mescal captivated live audiences in London's West End by playing the fiery Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's classic play A Streetcar Named Desire. Now, he's reprising his role in New York, and it's one of the buzziest events of the season.

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Billy Crudup, Lily Rabe, and the cast of Ghosts

Off-Broadway
Play
Classic

No, you're not seeing phantoms — you will see Billy Crudup (The Morning Show), Lily Rabe (American Horror Story), and more in the flesh in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, about a man who returns home to his mother after many years with a terrible secret.

Also in the cast are Ella Beatty (Appropriate), Levon Hawke (The Crowded Room), and Hamish Linklater (The New Adventures of Old Christine). That's one spirited group!

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Jonathan Groff and Gracie Lawrence in Just in Time

Broadway
Jukebox musical

You're just in time to catch Jonathan Groff fresh off his Tony Award win for Merrily We Roll Along, plus Gracie Lawrence in her Broadway musical debut! The two respectively play musicians Bobby Darin and Connie Francis in this new musical about Darin's short but legendary life.

In addition to other Broadway credits like Hamilton, Groff is known for his screen appearances on Glee and Looking, while Lawrence co-fronts her own band, also called Lawrence, and has appeared on TV shows like The Sex Lives of College Girls.

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Maya Hawke in Eurydice

Off-Broadway
Play

Maya Hawke's big break came with her performance as Robin Buckley on Netflix's Stranger Things, and fans can now see her perform live in Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl's reimagining of an ancient Greek myth. Hawke plays the title role of a woman who dies and loses her lover, but reunites with her father, complicating her decision when she gets offered a second shot at life.

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