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The critically acclaimed play by Bess Wohl made its world premiere off Broadway with Roundabout Theatre Company earlier this year, directed by Whitney White.

Initial casting set for 'The Balusters' on Broadway

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Five stars of stage and screen have been announced to lead David Lindsay-Abaire's new comedy play at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre this spring.

'Buena Vista Social Club' tickets now available through May 2026

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The Broadway musical, inspired by the same-named Cuban ensemble and their landmark album, won four competitive Tony Awards and one special award in June.

Broadway understudies guide: When understudies perform on Broadway and more

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Learn about how to know when an understudy will be on at your performance, and discover different types of cover performers, from swings to alternates to standbys.

Guide to 'The Queen of Versailles' on Broadway starring Kristin Chenoweth

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Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham also stars in the musical inspired by the true story of Jackie and David Siegel, who build a lavish life that soon starts crumbling.

Trevor Wayne to star in 'The Outsiders' on Broadway

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The actor has been with the production since its opening in spring 2024 and will assume its leading role from Tony Award nominee Brody Grant in September.

Andrew Barth Feldman to star in 'Maybe Happy Ending' on Broadway; Darren Criss to depart

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The *Dear Evan Hansen* and *No Hard Feelings* star will play the lead role in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical for nine weeks only beginning in September.

Best Broadway shows in New York in August 2025

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

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Here are our top picks of New York plays and musicals to check out in August 2025, including the first new shows to kick off the 2025-26 fall Broadway season.

Guide to 'Cabaret' on Broadway, starring Billy Porter and Marisha Wallace

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The latest Tony and Olivier Award-winning revival of the classic Kander and Ebb musical uniquely immerses audiences in the world of Berlin's Kit Kat Club.

See photos of Billy Porter, Marisha Wallace in 'Cabaret' on Broadway

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The celebrated stage veterans reprise their performances from London in director Rebecca Frecknall's Tony Award-winning revival of the classic musical.

Keep feeling the rhythm! A new block of tickets has been released for *Buena Vista Social Club* on Broadway for performances through May 24, 2026. Get [*Buena Vista Social Club* tickets](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/31351-buena-vista-social-club) on New York Theatre Guide.

The *Buena Vista Social Club* musical tells a dramatized history of the same-named Cuban music group, composed of retired singers and instrumentalists who reunited to record an album of golden-age Cuban dance music. The show jumps back and forth between their 1990s recording sessions, which resulted in a Grammy-winning album that became a global phenomenon, and the 1950s, when the musicians' early careers and relationships were upended by the Cuban Revolution.

Following a hit Off-Broadway premiere in 2023, the show transferred to Broadway in spring 2025 and won four competitive Tony Awards — including Best Featured Actress in a Musical for [Natalie Venetia Belcon](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/interviews/natalie-venetia-belcon-first-time-tony-nominee-for-buena-vista-social-club) — and a special award for its [band](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/interviews/creating-the-sound-of-the-tony-award-winning-buena-vista-social-club-musical).

Alongside Belcon as Omara Portuondo, the cast includes Julio Monge as Compay, Mel Semé as Ibrahim, Jainardo Batista Sterling as Rubén, Isa Antonetti as Young Omara, Da’von Moody as Young Compay, Wesley Wray as Young Ibrahim, Leonardo Reyna as Young Rubén, Renesito Avich as Eliades, Ashley De La Rosa as Young Haydee, and Justin Cunningham as Juan de Marcos.

Learn more [about *Buena Vista Social Club*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/the-real-history-behind-buena-vista-social-club-on-broadway) and [about its characters](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/discover-the-musicians-of-buena-vista-social-club-on-broadway).

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

*Photo credit: Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway. (Photo by Matthew Murphy)*

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Experience the Tony Award-winning *Buena Vista Social Club* on Broadway following a hit run at Atlantic Theater Company — the Off-Broadway powerhouse that originated hits including *Spring Awakening*, *Kimberly Akimbo*, *The Band’s Visit*, and more. Get *Buena Vista Social Club* tickets now.

Inspired by the Grammy-winning 1997 album of the same name, the *Buena Vista Social Club* musical tells a story inspired by the legendary artists who recorded the soul-stirring, foot-tapping music of Cuba’s golden age. Their groundbreaking namesake album *Buena Vista Social Club* inspired an Academy Award-nominated documentary that dove into the history of this ensemble, which recruited many Cuban artists who had been retired for years to authentically recapture Latin American musical genres such as son, bolero, and danzón. 

Now, the band's music comes to vivacious life in a passionate production directed by Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali (*Fat Ham*). He collaborates with an illustrious team that includes Marco Ramirez (who won a Drama Desk Award for *The Royale*) and choreographers Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (who won a Tony Award for *Carousel* and choreographed Steven Spielberg's *West Side Story*).

## Important information

- Children under 4 are not permitted in the theatre. 
- No weapons permitted on the premises. No outside food or beverages, electric scooters, e-bikes, or battery-powered transportation devices, except when medically necessary. 
- All items are subject to inspection. Anything brought into the theatre must fit on your lap or completely under your seat without blocking any aisles. Avoid bringing packages, luggage, and backpacks. Some items must be checked. 
- The use of cameras, cell phones, and other recording devices during the show is strictly prohibited by law, except when used for accessibility services. 
- A bright light effect is used in this production. This production uses loud sound effects. This production uses theatrical haze and smoke.

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Hear the Grammy-winning eponymous album by Buena Vista Social Club come to life on stage in this 10-time Tony Award-nominated production. Discover how the pioneering music group revitalized the Cuban music scene and ushered in its Golden Age in this show that honors the vibrant, timeless sounds of the Caribbean.

The *Buena Vista Social Club* musical is named for the title band and its eponymous 1997 album that won a Grammy Award the next year. Buena Vista Social Club was active for two decades, up until 2015. Now, this musical honors the group's legacy and gives us a beat we can all groove to.

Saheem Ali, a Tony nominee for *Fat Ham*, directs the musical, working with bookwriter Marco Ramirez (Drama Desk Award for *The Royale*) and choreographers Justin Peck (Tony winner, *Carousel*, *Illinoise*) and Patricia Delgado. Dancing back into New York, *Buena Vista Social Club* on Broadway promises an electrifying experience of music and dance.

## What to watch for

- Buena Vista Social Club recorded their same-named album in just six days!
- Atlantic Theater Company is a downtown Off-Broadway theatre that has originated some of the world’s most famous musicals, including three recent Tony Award winners for Best Musical: *Spring Awakening*, *The Band’s Visit*, and *Kimberly Akimbo*. See what they produce now before the world sees it later!
- The musical brings together a renowned choreography team. Justin Peck won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for the recent revival of *Carousel*, and he also choreographed Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning *West Side Story* film. Patricia Delgado, a principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet, co-choreographs *Buena Vista Social Club* and was Peck’s associate on *West Side Story*.
- The *Buena Vista Social Club* album was preserved in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2022 for its cultural significance.

## Important information

A bright light effect is used in this production. This production uses loud sound effects. This production uses theatrical haze and smoke.

- Children under 4 are not permitted in the theatre. 
- No weapons permitted on the premises. No outside food or beverages, electric scooters, e-bikes, or battery-powered transportation devices, except when medically necessary. 
- All items are subject to inspection. Anything brought into the theatre must fit on your lap or completely under your seat without blocking any aisles. Avoid bringing packages, luggage, and backpacks. Some items must be checked. 
- The use of cameras, cell phones, and other recording devices during the show is strictly prohibited by law, except when used for accessibility services.

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The Grammy-winning, landmark Cuban album by the same-named music group is now the basis for a vibrant, celebratory musical, which has been nominated for 10 Tony Awards. Relive the Golden Age of Cuban music while hearing the renaissance of genres like son, bolero, and danzón.

"This is not the story of a nation; this is the story of a band," music producer Juan De Marcos (Luis Vega) says at the top of *Buena Vista Social Club*. Maybe the musical isn't the story of Cuba, from where the same-named group hailed, but it is much more than the story of a band, too.

"Buena Vista Social Club" is synonymous with a lightning-in-a-bottle cultural phenomenon: the group of Cuban musicians brought together, largely post-retirement, by De Marcos and others to record an album; that Grammy Award-winning album, which ushered in a renaissance of old-school Cuban dance music; the documentary film made about them, which was named to the National Film Registry in 2020; and the physical hall where many of BVSC's musicians got their start before the Cuban Revolution set in, upending their careers and shuttering the club alongside many others like it.

That singular tale — of forgotten friendships, sounds, and struggles alike getting an unexpected and irreplicable second act — is the story of *Buena Vista Social Club*, part true, part dramatized. The resulting plot may be predictable, but the staging and music of *Buena Vista* are lush, vibrant, and celebratory.

Director Saheem Ali's production is clearly designed as a showcase for the music anyway, and that's apparent from the the opening number, "El Carretero." (All the songs are either instrumental or sung in Spanish.) The full band is front and center, and a large ensemble fluidly grooves along as though the song is a current, sweeping them up and carrying them where it desires.

That irresistible impulse to just fall into the music carries throughout the show and extends to the audience. (*Buena Vista* is actually a show that makes you want to get up and dance, especially when Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck's explosive choreography kicks into high gear, but that's frowned upon in the theatre.) But nowhere is that submission more apparent than in Omara Portuondo (a potent Natalie Venetia Belcon), who abandons a mainstream singing career with her sister ("a life we can *control*," her sister notably calls it) to remain in Cuba, even as the revolution mounts and her family leaves, and perform Cuban music at the BVSC.

Decades later, her past regrets have hardened her — she eventually did pursue a solo career and left Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer, who introduced her to the BVSC, behind — but we watch in real time as recording with the BVSC dissolves her steely shell. A highlight of the show is the number "Candela," particularly the part in which the exacting Omara dismisses the flute player — "No one ever recorded a scorching rendition of anything with a flute," she claims — but when De Marcos asks him to play anyway, sure enough, the flute notes dance atop the melody like sparks, and Omara's charmed.

*Buena Vista* leaps back and forth between this album recording in the '90s and the characters' early careers in the '50s. Ali achieves these shifts seamlessly and in a swift two hours. Some Act 2 plot points, including the rise of the Revolution, get rushed in the process, as does the musical's exploration of how colorism impacts the musicians' opportunities, particularly Ferrer's.

The ending is thus bittersweet — that in this version of Buena Vista Social Club's story, it took decades for Ferrer and others to get the recognition they deserved. But getting to hear their music live at the [Linda Gross Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/linda-gross-theater) now is a unique and worthwhile treat.

[*Buena Vista Social Club* is at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater through December 31.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/31351-buena-vista-social-club)

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'Buena Vista Social Club' review — lush, vibrant music makes this show a treat

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Read our four-star review of *Buena Vista Social Club*, a new musical inspired by the Cuban music group of the same name, now off Broadway through December 31.

The **Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre** is a celebrated Broadway theatre venue located in the heart of New York City, offering guests an immersion into the world of shows and performances. The theatre was built in 1917 and was initially known as the Plymouth Theatre. It was later renamed to honor the late Gerald Schoenfeld, a Broadway producer who significantly contributed to the world of arts. The architect was Herbert J. Krapp, who designed the theatre in a neo-classical style giving it an ambiance reminiscent of the golden era of theatre. It has a history of hosting numerous Tony Award-winning productions and enchanting audiences with its magnificent interior, comfortable seating, and top-notch acoustic technology. It can accommodate up to 1,080 guests. Beyond its artistic significance, the theatre is also central, located in close proximity to restaurants, shops, and the buzzing NYC nightlife.

**_How to get there:_** The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is situated at 236 W 45th St, right in the Theatre District. You can conveniently get there with a myriad of city transportation options, including subway (N,Q,R,W, 1,2,3,7), bus (M104, M42, M6, M10), taxi, or even walking if you reside nearby.

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Designed by Herbert J. Krapp and built by the Shuberts in 1917, the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre originally opened as the Plymouth Theatre in 1918. The theatre was leased to producer Arthur Hopkins, whose first production at the venue was the comedy *A Successful Calamity*, starring William Gillette and Estelle Winwood.

The Shuberts regained control of the theatre in 1948 after Hopkins passed away. The building became a designated New York landmark in 1987 and received its current name in 2005 to honor the late chairman of the Shubert Organization.

The theatre's architectural style is similar that of the Broadhurst Theatre on 44th Street, which directly abuts the Schoenfeld. Krapp designed both theatres, and they were built at the same time.

## How to get to the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is closest to the 42nd Street - Port Authority subway stop on the A, C, and E subway lines. The closest bus stops are 8th Ave/W 46th St. on the M20 and M104 lines; 7th Ave/W. 44th St. on the M104 line; and 8th Ave/W 43rd St. on the M20, M104, and M34A-SBS line.

## Restaurants near the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is located one block southeast of Restaurant Row, the stretch of 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues lined with eateries serving various cuisines. Popular examples include Becco (Italian), Joe Allen (American), Le Rivage (French), and Jasmine's Caribbean Cuisine.

[Learn more about popular pre- and post-show restaurants in the Theatre District.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/where-to-eat-before-and-after-a-broadway-show)

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The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, a New York landmark since 1987, was built by the Shuberts in 1917 and renamed in 2005.

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The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is a historic Broadway theatre venue in New York, known for its spectacular productions and convenient location.

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