Best Broadway shows in New York in November 2026

Check out our picks for must-see Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre in November, including new musicals, award-winning plays, and limited-run festive specials.

With the cold weather setting in across New York, you can warm up by donning a sweater, drinking hot cocoa — or cozying up in a theatre. The shows on offer in New York, both on and off Broadway, are sure to warm your heart, too.

It's the season of giving, after all, and the city's theatres are giving audiences plenty of funny, poignant, and classic shows to see. Christmas shows are opening on and off Broadway this month to get you in the holiday spirit early, and there are plenty non-holiday shows to discover, too, including multiple new Broadway musicals and standout new plays.

Check out our list of over 30 top shows to see in November 2026, and see our list of top New York shows from October for even more new theatre you can still catch. Plus, keep an eye out for our Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales at the end of the month to save on tickets to these shows and more!

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Summary

  • New Broadway shows in November 2026 include Much Ado About Nothing, Inter Alia, Wanted, Downstate, and It's a Wonderful Life
  • New Off-Broadway shows include revivals of Spring Awakening and A View From the Bridge, a Traitors musical parody, and the John Legend-scored new musical Imitation of Life
  • Holiday shows include the Radio City Christmas Spectacular; A Christmas Carol; and Nutcracker Rouge
1.

Christmas Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes

2.

Much Ado About Nothing

3.

Inter Alia

4.

It's a Wonderful Life

5.

Wanted

6.

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

7.

Downstate

8.

Now You See Me Live

9.

Galileo

10.

The Fantasticks

11.

Blue Man Group “A New Holiday Surprise”

12.

Here There Are Blueberries

13.

2:22 - A Ghost Story

14.

A View from the Bridge

15.

Spring Awakening

16.

Traitorz: The Unauthorized Musical Parody

17.

Imitation of Life

18.

A Christmas Carol

19.

Rope

20.

The King's Critique

21.

A Kidman Carol

22.

Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty

23.

We’ll See

24.

Nutcracker Rouge

25.

Tristan & Yseult

26.

The Unbelievers

27.

The Verge

28.

The Visitors

29.

the ripple, the wave that carried me home

30.

Ms. Blakk for President

31.

The Conversation

32.

Seven Guitars

33.

Wild Rose

1.

Christmas Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes

Off-Broadway
Musical
Dance
Family show
Classic

Every year, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular is a sign that the NYC holiday season has officially begun. Running from November 4 to January 4, the annual all-ages show is back with the iconic Christmas songs, dance routines, and festive cheer that has drawn crowds to Radio City Music Hall since 1933. And of course, it's all headlined by the Rockettes, who've been kicking for over 100 years.

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2.

Much Ado About Nothing

Broadway
Play
Shakespeare
Comedy
Romance
Stars on stage

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell, two of Marvel’s finest, star in director Jamie Lloyd’s spirited take on Shakespeare’s com-rom (as in, complicated romance) following its hit 2025 London run. As Benedick and Beatrice, they go from sparring to swooning.

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Photo credit: Hayley Atwell, Tom Hiddleston, and the cast of Much Ado About Nothing. (Photo by Marc Brenner)

3.

Inter Alia

Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage
Award winner

Gone Girl Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike makes her Broadway debut in Suzie Miller’s provocative drama about justice, family, and ambition. Reprising her Olivier Award-winning star turn, she plays a British judge whose teenage son faces shocking accusations.

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Photo credit: Inter Alia in London. (Photo by Manuel Harlan)

4.

It's a Wonderful Life

Broadway
Play with music
Drama
Classic
Holiday
Stars on stage
Screen to stage

Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin, Andrew Rannells, Tituss Burgess, and Megan Hilty lead this heartwarming holiday classic about embracing life, presented on Broadway as a 1940s radio broadcast, complete with Christmas carols and live sound design. Every time a bell rings, a foley artist gets to work!

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Photo credit: Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin, Andrew Rannells, Tituss Burgess, and Megan Hilty. (Photos courtesy of production; Hamlin photo by Tony Duran; Rannells photo by Emil Cohen; Burgess photo by Nina Duncan; Hilty photo by Tony Matula of MA2LA)

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09:00

Breakfast at Liberty Bagels

Regularly named one of the city’s best bagel shops, the unassuming Liberty Bagels is the perfect spot to get a classic NYC breakfast sandwich.

10:00

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.

5.

Wanted

Broadway
Musical
True story

In 1893 Texas, Mary and Martha Clarke, two Black twin sisters, pass as white and become frontier outlaws for the sake of family in this original, fact-inspired musical. Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine play the Wild West bandits.

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6.

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Broadway
Musical
Comedy

Last chance for a bite of this charming eight-time Tony-nominated musical closing November 29. Two Strangers follows a British newcomer and his American, guarded soon-to-be stepsister navigating NYC — and each other — during a wacky wedding weekend together.

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Photo credit: Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) on Broadway. (Photo by Matthew Murphy)

8.

Now You See Me Live

Broadway
Magic show
Holiday special
Screen to stage

Inspired by the Now You See Me film franchise, this show sees a top-flight magic team, the Four Horsemen, trot out feats of magic, illusion, and escape designed to blow your mind. Escapologist Gabriella Lester, illusionists James More and Darcy Oake, and mentalist Matthew Pomeroy are the amazing quartet. Meet them here.

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Photo credit: Now You See Me Live in London. (Photo by Johan Persson)

9.

Galileo

Broadway
Musical
True story
Stars on stage

Four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza leads this new rock musical as the stargazing scientist whose revolutionary view of the heavens clashed with religious leaders. Tony nominee Joy Woods and more join him in director Michael Mayer’s cast.

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Photo credit: Raúl Esparza in Galileo at Berkeley Rep. (Photo by Kevin Berne)

10.

The Fantasticks

Broadway
Musical
Romance
Classic
Award winner

Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones’s beloved, enduring musical rethinks the tender romance at its heart for its first Broadway staging, directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli (Schmigadoon!). Two young men find love, despite interfering mothers, in this version. Meet the cast here.

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Photo credit: Nathan Levy and Maxim Chlumecky. (Photo by Michaelah Reynolds)

11.

Blue Man Group “A New Holiday Surprise”

Broadway
Magic show
Holiday
Family friendly

The offbeat, deep-blue dynamos bring their signature percussion and theatrical spectacle to Broadway for the first time in a family-friendly holiday special packed with festive tunes, yuletide traditions, and Blue Man mayhem.

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Photo credit: Blue Man Group “A New Holiday Surprise.” (Photo courtesy of production)

12.

Here There Are Blueberries

Broadway
Play
Drama
True story
Award winner

A picture is worth a thousand words — and plenty of debate. This docudrama revisits the 2007 controversy sparked by a Nazi-era photo album sent to a Holocaust museum. From Tectonic Theater Company (The Laramie Project), Here There Are Blueberries was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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Photo credit: Here There Are Blueberries off Broadway. (Photo by Matthew Murphy)

14.

A View from the Bridge

Play
Drama
Stars on stage
Classic

Oscar winner Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) stars in and co-produces this revival of Arthur Miller’s modern tragedy about a 1950s Brooklyn longshoreman obsessed with his niece. Carla Gugino and Alfred Molina co-star.

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Photo credit: Sam Rockwell, Carla Gugino, Alfred Molina, Fred Hechinger, Tom Pecinka, and Riley Prior. (Photos courtesy of production)

15.

Spring Awakening

Off-Broadway
Musical
Award winner

Teenagers confront desire, sex, repression, and identity in Steven Sater and the late Duncan Sheik’s award-winning rock musical based on a once-banned 19th-century play. Tony Award winner Danya Taymor (The Outsiders, John Proctor Is the Villain) directs.

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16.

Traitorz: The Unauthorized Musical Parody

Off-Broadway
Musical
Interactive

“I’m 100% faithful.” Sure you are! This musical spoof of the reality show The Traitors pulls audience members into the scheming as Traitors and Faithfuls. Dylan Adler stars as host Alan Cumming in a parody with book and lyrics by Tim Murray, music by Ben Fankhauser, and co-direction by Alan Kliffer and Murray.

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17.

Imitation of Life

Off-Broadway
Musical
Drama
Page to stage
Screen to stage

Race, family, and ambition collide in this new musical with a score by John Legend, a book by Lynn Nottage, and direction by Whitney White. Based on a 1933 novel and two celebrated film adaptations, it stars Tony winner Adrienne Warren (Tina) and Jessica Vosk (Wicked) as single mothers whose daughters’ lives and fates intertwine.

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Photo credit: John Legend and Lynn Nottage. (Photos courtesy of production)

18.

A Christmas Carol

Off-Broadway
Play
Classic
Award winner
Family show

It wouldn't be the holiday season without at least one Christmas Carol production. Multi-Tony Award nominee Andy Karl stars as haunted miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this gorgeously designed, Tony-winning staging that returns off Broadway for the second year in a row. What better way to get in the Christmas spirit(s)?

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Photo credit: A Christmas Carol off Broadway. (Photo by Andy Henderson)

19.

Rope

Off-Broadway
Play
Thriller
Stars on stage
Stage to screen

Two privileged Princeton grad students plot the perfect murder in this drama based on the infamous 1920s Leopold and Loeb case, which inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film. This new stage adaptation is by Gordon Greenberg, and Scott Elliott directs.

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Photo credit: Cameron Monaghan, Corey Fogelmanis, Elizabeth Gillies, Jason Butler Harner, Graham Phillips, and James Waterston. (Photos courtesy of production)

21.

A Kidman Carol

Off-Broadway
Play
Comedy
Holiday

Kevin Zak (Ginger Twinsies) gives Charles Dickens a delirious, Down-Under twist in this new comedy. Cate Blanchett (Titanique’s Marla Mindelle) is visited by three spirits of Nicole Kidman (ta-da!’s Josh Sharp) who reveal the true meaning of awards season. Bless us, everyone.

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Photo credit: Marla Mindelle and Josh Sharp. (Photos courtesy of production)

22.

Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic

Union! Actor Steven Pasquale (The Bridges of Madison County) makes his directing debut with a music- and movement-fueled take on Clifford Odets’s Depression-era classic, as taxi drivers band together to fight exploitation and inequality.

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Photo credit: The cast of Waiting for Lefty off Broadway. (Photo by Marc J. Franklin)

23.

We’ll See

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

This year's Election Day — November 3, 2026 — sets the scene for this new chapter in Richard Nelson’s acclaimed play series about the middle-class Apple family, whose gatherings in Rhinebeck, New York, offer a snapshot of contemporary America. The cast features Sally Murphy, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins, Jay O. Sanders, and Yvonne Woods.

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Photo credit: Sally Murphy, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins, Jay O. Sanders, and Yvonne Woods. (Photos courtesy of production)

24.

Nutcracker Rouge

Off-Broadway
Burlesque
Holiday
21+

The Land of Sweets just got sexier. The classic Nutcracker tale, about a girl whose toy comes to life in her dreams, gets a racy redo in Company XIV’s bold burlesque version. This show features circus, music, acrobatics, dance, and themed drinks, and it's been a seasonal favorite since its 2013 premiere.

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Photo credit: Company XIV performers in Nutcracker Rouge. (Photo by Mark Shelby Perry)

25.

Tristan & Yseult

Off-Broadway
Play with music
Romance

Director Emma Rice and Kneehigh bring their irreverent, physically inventive style to this bold retelling of this medieval romance, where forbidden love, desire, and betrayal collide. Expect arresting visuals, acrobatics, live music, and a legendary love story with a wild theatrical streak.

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26.

The Unbelievers

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

In this drama by Constellations playwright Nick Payne, a family grapples with faith, hope, and how to move forward after their teenage son disappears without a trace. Lauren Ambrose and Tom Riley star as the boy’s parents, and Knud Adams directs.

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Photo credit: Lauren Ambrose and Tom Riley. (Photos courtesy of production)

27.

The Verge

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic

Susan Glaspell’s 1921 play concerns botanist Claire Archer, who is determined to create new life forms — and break free from society’s rigid conventions. But not all her experiments go as planned. Fiasco Theater, known for its inventive reimaginings of classic works, breathes fresh life into this unconventional drama.

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28.

The Visitors

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

Family get-togethers always make for drama. Case in point: Bryna Turner’s (At the Wedding) play concerns a woman in her 30s who invites her three siblings to her New York City apartment to ask a startling favor. Tony winner Celia Keenan-Bolger (To Kill a Mockingbird) and Will Pullen (The Americans) lead the cast.

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Photo credit: Esco Jouléy, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Will Pullen, Mary Wiseman, and Danny Wolohan. (Photos courtesy of production)

29.

the ripple, the wave that carried me home

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

The past is never far beneath the surface. Christina Anderson’s play follows a woman who returns to her Kansas hometown to honor her father, which stirs up childhood memories of her parents’ fight to integrate public swimming pools.

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Photo credit: Marinda Anderson, Alana Raquel Bowers, Biko Eisen-Martin, and Crystal Lucas-Perry. (Photos courtesy of production)

30.

Ms. Blakk for President

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Comedy
Stars on stage

Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) turns the true story of drag activist Terence Alan Smith, aka Joan Jett Blakk, into theatre. In the early ’90s, Blakk ran for president to champion gay rights and AIDS awareness. Yes, really! Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood stars, and co-writer Tina Landau directs.

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31.

The Conversation

Off-Broadway
Musical
Romance
Drama

What happens when the glow of first love dims? This new musical blends pop, R&B, and soul in a fresh look at love and what comes next. Tony Award winner Joshua Henry (Ragtime) and Julia Harriman (Warriors) star in and co-wrote the score alongside book writer Nick Green. Tony winner Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun) directs.

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Photo credit: Joshua Henry and Julia Harriman. (Photos courtesy of production; Henry photo by Natalie J)

32.

Seven Guitars

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic

August Wilson’s drama set in 1948 Pittsburgh traces the fallout from a blues musician’s death as friends and lovers reckon with shattered dreams, betrayal, and racism. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who won a Tony for his role in the original Broadway 1996 production, directs this revival.

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Photo credit: Chanté Adams, Jason Dirden, Russell Hornsby, Kristolyn Lloyd, Michael Potts, Roslyn Ruff, and John Douglas Thompson. (Photos courtesy of production)

33.

Wild Rose

Off-Broadway
Musical
Drama
Screen to stage
Stars on stage

Emmy nominee Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid's Tale) stars as a Glasgow cleaning woman with two wee ones, a criminal past, and a big dream: becoming a country music star. BAFTA winner Nicole Taylor adapts her 2018 film for the stage, and Tony winner John Tiffany (Once, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) directs a cast that also includes multi-Tony and -Emmy nominee Mare Winningham.

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Photo credit: Madeline Brewer. (Photo by Emma Trim)