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'Gypsy' tickets now on sale through October 2025

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The acclaimed musical revival, starring six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald as Momma Rose, has played at the Majestic Theatre since November 2024.

'Dead Outlaw' tickets now on sale through October 2025

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The folk rock musical's critically acclaimed Broadway premiere at the Longacre Theatre follows a multi-award-winning Off-Broadway world premiere in 2024.

'Mamma Mia!' sets full Broadway cast

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The first Broadway revival of the beloved musical, opening this August, will take place at the Winter Garden Theatre, where the show originally premiered.

Wayne Brady, Taye Diggs to star in 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' on Broadway

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The stage and screen stars will play limited engagements the cast of the 10-time Tony Award-winning show at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre beginning in July.

The real history behind 'Operation Mincemeat' on Broadway

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The award-winning musical comedy from London, now at NYC's Golden Theatre, tells the story of a bizarre deception mission that turned the tide of World War II.

See photos of 'Real Women Have Curves' on Broadway

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The musical adaptation of the 1990 play by Josefina López tells a coming-of-age story about a teenager choosing between her dreams and her family's.

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The two-time Oscar winner makes his Broadway debut in *Good Night, and Good Luck*, an adaptation of his Oscar-nominated 2005 film, through June 8 only. [George Clooney](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/george-clooney) stars as broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, who went toe-to-toe with Senator Joseph McCarthy over ethics and the truth live on air.

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George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck

She's got an Emmy for *Succession* and an Olivier for *Dorian Gray* — and now that [Sarah Snook](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/sarah-snook) is on Broadway, she's a contender for a Tony, too. Snook plays every character in this high-tech, cinematic adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel about a man desperate to stay young and beautiful.

Get [*The Picture of Dorian Gray* tickets](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/15368-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-on-broadway) now.

Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Nicole Scherzinger](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/nicole-scherzinger) is ready for her close-up as Norma Desmond, a fading film star desperate to claw her way back into the spotlight. She reprises her Olivier Award-winning performance from London in director Jamie Lloyd's thrilling, film noir-esque revival of *Sunset Boulevard*.

Get [*Sunset Boulevard* tickets](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/38372-sunset-boulevard-broadway) now.

Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard

The critically acclaimed, off-the-wall historical comedy *Oh, Mary!* made playwright and actor [Cole Escola](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/cole-escola) a breakout star. They reimagine Mary Todd Lincoln as a wannabe cabaret star dealing with repression, alcoholism, and desire in the weeks leading up to her husband's assassination.

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The most critically acclaimed show of the season, *Maybe Happy Ending* stars [Darren Criss](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/darren-criss) and [Helen J. Shen](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/helen-j-shen) as robots who spark an unexpected love connection just when it looks like their warranty's running out.

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Darren Criss in Maybe Happy Ending

It's [Audra McDonald](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/audra-mcdonald)'s turn as Momma Rose, the iconic musical theatre role played by greats like [Bernadette Peters](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/bernadette-peters), Imelda Staunton, and fellow Actors on Actors participant [Patti LuPone](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/patti-lupone). McDonald, the most Tony-winning performer of all time (6), plays a "stage mother" who will do anything to make her two daughters famous.

Get [*Gypsy* tickets](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41161-gypsy-on-broadway) now.

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Fresh off his Oscar win for *A Real Pain*, [Kieran Culkin](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/kieran-culkin) stars opposite [Bob Odenkirk](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/bob-odenkirk) and [Bill Burr](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/bill-burr) in the Pulitzer-winning *Glengarry Glen Ross*, about real estate agents' cutthroat competition to sell the most or lose their jobs.

[Check back for information on *Glengarry Glen Ross* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41986-glengarry-glen-ross-on-broadway)

Kieran Culkin in Glengarry Glen Ross

[Jake Gyllenhaal](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/jake-gyllenhaal) and [Denzel Washington](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/denzel-washington) duke it out in Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy about the titular Othello (Washington), a renowned military general, and his ensign Iago (Gyllenhaal), who schemes and manipulates to ruin him.

[Check back for information on *Othello* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/40030-othello-on-broadway)

Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello

Look out, Johnny's back! [Jonathan Groff](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/jonathan-groff), a 2024 Tony Award winner for *Merrily We Roll Along*, returns to Broadway in the Bobby Darin bio-musical *Just in Time*. Groff charms as the iconic singer whose hits include "Splish Splash," "Dream Lover," and "Mack the Knife."

[Check back for information on *Just in Time* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/42905-just-in-time-on-broadway)

Jonathan Groff in Just in Time

Participants like George Clooney, Sarah Snook, Cole Escola, Darren Criss, Nicole Scherzinger, and more are currently headlining major plays and musicals.

Michael Patrick Thornton joins Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter in 'Waiting for Godot' Broadway cast

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Director Jamie Lloyd's revival of Samuel Beckett's classic play will have a strictly limited engagement at the Hudson Theatre beginning in September.

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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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Dead Outlaw

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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Operation Mincemeat

The [best-reviewed musical](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/maybe-happy-ending-broadway-review-darren-criss-helen-j-shen) of the season, *Maybe Happy Ending* is your typical love story — almost. Boy ([Darren Criss](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/darren-criss)) meets girl ([Helen J. Shen](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/helen-j-shen)), and after a rocky start, they go on an adventure through South Korea and maybe fall in love. Did we mention they're robots?

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Maybe Happy Ending

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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Death Becomes Her

Let the music move you at this vibrant new musical about the [Grammy Award-winning Cuban music group](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/the-real-history-behind-buena-vista-social-club-on-broadway). 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.

Get [*Buena Vista Social Club* tickets](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/31351-buena-vista-social-club) now.

Buena Vista Social Club

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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Real Women Have Curves

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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Sunset Boulevard

It's six-time Tony Award winner [Audra McDonald](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/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."

Get [*Gypsy* tickets](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41161-gypsy-on-broadway) now.

Gypsy

One of the [best-reviewed new plays](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/john-proctor-is-the-villain-broadway-review-sadie-sink) 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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John Proctor Is the Villain

Playwright [Cole Escola](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/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.

Get [*Oh, Mary!* tickets](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/37743-oh-mary) now.

Oh, Mary!

*Succession*'s [Sarah Snook](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/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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The Picture of Dorian Gray

*Stranger Things*'s [Maya Hawke](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/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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Eurydice

*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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Bowl EP

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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Goddess

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.

Get [*The Last Bimbo of the Apocalpyse* tickets](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/42440-the-last-bimbo-of-the-apocalypse) now.

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalpyse

[Hugh Jackman](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/hugh-jackman) and [Ella Beatty](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/ella-beatty) star in this slippery new play about university professor and novelist Jon (Jackman), already nearing the end of his third marriage. He ends up in dangerous territory with the arrival of 19-year-old Annie (Beatty), with whom he shares a dangerous mutual attraction.

[Check back for information on *Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/44026-sexual-misconduct-of-the-middle-classes)

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

Deception, seduction, and revelation arise when struggling painter Adi sparks an intimate connection with Gustav, who in turn becomes interested in Adi's wife, Tekla. [Liev Schreiber](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/liev-schreiber), [Justice Smith](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/justice-smith), and [Maggie Siff](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/maggie-siff) lead August Strindberg's twisted psychological thriller.

[Check back for information on *Creditors* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/44028-creditors)

Creditors

On the day of the final broadcast of Nat King Cole's variety show, he can either exit quietly — or, in the advice of Sammy Davis Jr., "go out with a bang." Emmy Award nominee Dulé Hill and Tony Award nominee Daniel J. Watts star as the two iconic singers in this new musical featuring Cole's hit songs.

[Check back for information on *Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41157-lights-out-nat-king-cole)

Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole

Elizabeth Marvel leads this new play as a visionary fashion photographer whose dream gig — a Vogue cover shoot at a crumbling European estate — turns out to be a nightmare in which she must still find and capture the beauty.

[Check back for information on *Five Models in Ruins, 1981* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/43846-five-models-in-ruins-1981)

Five Models in Ruins, 1981

William Inge's classic play gets a new spin as an all-Asian American cast takes on his Midwestern tale. When bus passengers are forced to stop at a diner on a snowy night, strangers collide and find unexpected warmth in each other. Midori Francis (*Dash & Lily*) stars.

[Check back for information on *Bus Stop* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41413-bus-stop)

Bus Stop

Discover our top picks for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows to see in May, including new shows premiering and last-chance shows closing this month.

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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.

Lena Dunham, Carly Rae Jepsen writing '10 Things I Hate About You' musical for Broadway

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The musician and the actor are among the creative team for this stage adaptation of the romantic comedy film starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger.

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