Best Broadway shows in New York in September 2025

Check out our picks for must-see theatre on and off Broadway in September 2025, when the fall Broadway and Off-Broadway seasons ramp up after the summer.

Gillian Russo
Written byGillian Russo

September is when three things begin in earnest: fall, school, and theatre. New shows opened during the summer, but September is when the Broadway season gets into full swing, with lots of new Broadway shows playing their first performances. The stars are out on Broadway this month, too, with multiple shows featuring celebrity cast members.

Many Off-Broadway theatre companies begin their seasons in September, too, so take a chance on a new play, musical, or comedy show this month, and see it in an intimate space. Learn more about all the major new theatre shows opening in September, and get your tickets right here on New York Theatre Guide.

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1.

Art

2.

Punch

3.

Waiting for Godot

4.

Oh, Mary!

5.

The Least Problematic Woman in the World

6.

House of McQueen

7.

Prince Faggot

8.

The Brothers Size

9.

Caroline

10.

Masquerade

11.

Weather Girl

12.

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical

13.

The Other Americans

14.

Saturday Church

15.

Mexodus

16.

Breaking the Fifth Wall

17.

Weer

1.

Art

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Award winner

James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, and Bobby Cannavale are taking the stage to debate a question as old as time: What is art? We can at least guarantee that Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play, about three friends whose friendship is tested when one buys a plain white painting, qualifies.

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2.

Punch

Broadway
Play
Drama
True story
London hit

Discover the true story of 19-year-old Jacob Dunne, who accidentally killed a man with a single punch, in James Graham's hard-hitting drama. Punch is adapted from the true story of his journey toward redemption, which began in an unlikely place: a meeting with the victim's parents. Premiering on Broadway and in London's West End at the same time, Punch is reaching audiences around the world in a unique way.

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3.

Waiting for Godot

Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic
Stars on stage

Call it Bill & Ted's Existential Crisis. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, stars of the beloved Bill & Ted film franchise, are reuniting to play a wildly different duo in Samuel Beckett's classic play. Reeves makes his Broadway debut, and Winter returns for the first time in decades, as two friends facing down a hard world, awaiting someone that might never come — but they have each other.

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Breakfast at Liberty Bagels

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Macy’s Herald Square

One of the world’s largest stores, Macy’s is a sight to behold, especially when it’s decked out for the holidays.

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The Least Problematic Woman in the World

She went viral on TikTok, she became the face of a much-talked-about ad campaign, she's written a memoir and received multiple awards for her trans activism — but before all that, she was a Catholic school kid finding herself. With original music and honest, hilarious storytelling, Dylan Mulvaney tells all in her Off-Broadway-debut solo show The Least Problematic Woman in the World.

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6.

House of McQueen

Off-Broadway
Play
Stars on stage

See Bridgerton star Luke Newton as 20th-century fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, the founder of the iconic Alexander McQueen fashion line. In a unique multimedia production at The Mansion at Hudson Yards, a new Off-Broadway venue, audiences get to explore McQueen's storied life and career in the fashion world.

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7.

Prince Faggot

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

What if a member of the British royal family came out as queer in the public eye? And, what if queer people could then see themselves as royals in a world where they're so often treated as much less? Those questions drive Jordan Tannahill's thought-provoking play now on its second Off-Broadway run after a critically acclaimed world premiere.

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8.

The Brothers Size

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

André Holland and more star in this rarely performed play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Oscar-winning co-writer of Moonlight. This poignant fable weaves the tradition of the West African Yoruba people into the story of two brothers' unsteady reunion after one is released from prison.

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9.

Caroline

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage

Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass), Amy Landecker (Transparent), and River Lipe-Smith star in this multigenerational family drama. When Maddie (Moretz) must reach out to her estranged mother, Rhea (Landecker), for help, she must finally show her daughter Caroline (Lipe-Smith) the circumstances that broke their family apart.

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10.

Masquerade

Off-Broadway
Musical
Immersive

Step into the world of the Paris Opera House at Masquerade, an immersive reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera. The long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, about a young soprano pulled into the shadowy world of the obsessive Phantom who dwells in the opera house's underbelly, comes to life like never before all around the audience — and yes, the famous chandelier still plays a major role.

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11.

Weather Girl

Off-Broadway
Play

What happens when your personal life is stormier than the weather you're reporting on? That's the case for the title character in this solo show written by Brian Watkins and starring Julia McDermott. One day, Stacey's daily routine turns into a scorched-earth catastrophe, but she discovers something that might save us from our own dying planet.

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12.

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical

Off-Broadway
Musical

What do you get when you combine The Exorcist with rock and roll? You get Exorcistic, a new rock musical featuring different Broadway guest stars each night. As a theatre troupe attempts to stage a parody of the classic horror movie, they discover they might have summoned some dark forces that are all too real.

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13.

The Other Americans

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage

John Leguizamo returns to the NYC stage with The Other Americans, a new family drama he wrote and stars in as Queens laundromat owner Nelson. He's just trying to keep his business and family afloat, and he ventures into dubious territory to save everything, and everyone, he cares about.

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14.

Saturday Church

Off-Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage

Adapted from the hit indie film of the same name, this new musical with songs by Sia and Honey Dijon follows Ulysses, a teenager trying to balance his queerness and his religious faith. Saturday Church, a sanctuary program for LGBTQ+ youth, might be just what he's looking for on his road to self-discovery.

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15.

Mexodus

Off-Broadway
Musical

You've been taught about the enslaved people escaping north on the Underground Railroad long ago — but likely not about those who fled south. This two-person musical, created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, uses hip-hop stylings and live looping technology to tell the story of a man trying to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico for freedom, shining a spotlight on little-known history.

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16.

Breaking the Fifth Wall

Off-Broadway
Comedy

Comedian Lou Wall went globally viral with a story about selling a bedframe on Facebook Marketplace — a story so wild that countless viewers wondered whether it was true. Now, Wall is coming off Broadway with a new comedy set meant to set the record straight — or is it? Where does truth end and comedy begin?

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17.

Weer

Off-Broadway
Play
Comedy

Written, directed, and performed by Natalie Palamides, Weer puts a unique spin on showing both sides of an argument. Palamides plays both people in a couple — a woman on one side of her body and a man on the other — who are fighting on New Year's Eve, 1999, as midnight is about to strike.

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