Every year, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular is a sign that the NYC holiday season has officially begun. Running from November 6 to January 4 this year, 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 are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year.

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Can't wait for Wicked: For Good to release in cinemas on November 21? Get tickets to see the thrillifying musical that started it all. Before Wicked was a two-part blockbuster movie, it was a Broadway blockbuster, and this story of the witches of Oz has been defying gravity at the Gershwin Theatre since 2003.

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See the Muppets make their long-awaited Broadway debut in this limited-run special. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and more join world-renowned illusionist Rob Lake for a show that blends humor, magic, and plenty of cheer for kids and kids-at-heart.

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A no-nonsense New Yorker, a wide-eyed Brit, and one Big Apple are all the ingredients for an adventure — and maybe romance — in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). A hit in London, it's a send-up of rom-coms and a love letter to NYC all baked into one new, original musical comedy about two people who bond en route to the same wedding.

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It's election night, and the stakes have never been higher for Oedipus (Mark Strong) and his wife, Jocasta (Lesley Manville), in Robert Icke's slick, modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy. Oedipus is a shoo-in for a landslide victory — until shocking secrets suddenly threaten his political career and personal livelihood.

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June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, and Christopher Lowell lead the Broadway premiere of Jordan Harrison's futuristic play, already a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the basis of a starry film. Squibb leads the cast as the titular Marjorie, an elderly woman who uses a hologram of her late husband to relive their memories together.

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Three theatre grandmasters — Aaron Tveit, Nicholas Christopher, and Lea Michele) — lead the first revival of the fan-favorite musical about fierce competition between world champions on and off the chessboard. Emmy Award winner Danny Strong (Dopesick) wrote a new script to accompany the beloved songs by Tim Rice and ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

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Two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young and three-time Succession Emmy nominee Nicholas Braun aren't afraid to show their scars. In the romantic drama Gruesome Playground Injuries, the pair play elementary school friends who, across the next 30 years, are drawn back together over shared pain, both physical and emotional.

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Tom Hanks co-wrote and stars in the new play This World of Tomorrow, adapted from Hanks's own short stories. The Oscar and Emmy Award winner plays Bert Allenberry, a scientist who travels through time in search of true love, alongside Tony winner Kelli O'Hara) as Carmen.

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The Bee is B-A-C-K! The Tony Award-winning musical makes a 20th-anniversary return to NYC with a cast that includes Glee's Kevin McHale, Tony nominees Justin Cooley, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and Lilli Cooper, and many more. Heartwarming hilarity ensues during a spelling competition featuring quirky students and even quirkier adult moderators.

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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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It wouldn't be the holiday season without at least one Christmas Carol production. Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris stars as haunted miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this gorgeously designed staging, coming back to NYC after a Tony-winning Broadway premiere in 2019. What better way to get in the Christmas spirit(s)?

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Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) and Golden Globe winner Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap) are cooking up something special at Classic Stage Company. In the first major NYC production of Stephen Schwartz's 1976 musical, the celebrated actors play a baker and his wife whose arrival in a provincial French town sets everyone ablaze with desire and gossip.

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Playwright Talene Monahon explores identity, belonging, and fame in the Armenian American community in this epic and funny play that spans 100 years. Each actor plays two roles: as members of a family fighting for recognition in the States in the 1920s, and as reality TV subjects seeking stardom in the 2020s.

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Buckle up for Else Went's sweeping epic about coming of age at the turn of a millennium. In five hours, Initiative spans five years in the lives of a friend group from “Coastal Podunk, California,” who weather loss, ambition, and change as they find their way within (or fight to get out of) their hometown.

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What could go wrong when Asa Leon, an of-the-moment theatre auteur, brings together a group of actors to live in a Brooklyn church and create a play about themselves? This dark comedy shows the underbelly of artistry and what individual people sacrifice to belong in a group, especially under a magnetic leader.

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Emmy Award nominee Michael Urie (Shrinking) returns to the NYC stage in the title role of Richard II, Shakespeare's classic drama about the demise of a king. This production, presented for one month only by Red Bull Theater, sets the action in the gritty New York of the '80s.

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