Broadway fall preview: Top theatre to see on Broadway this season

Check out our complete guide to everything opening on Broadway this fall, from starry revivals to thrilling new plays and musicals by celebrated writers.

It may be early in the year, but if you're taking a trip to NYC this fall, you're probably planning already, and seeing a Broadway show is a must. You can plan now for a trip to the theatre anytime this fall with our guide to all the most anticipated Broadway shows opening in the coming months. You probably already know about famous, long-running Broadway musicals like Chicago and The Lion King, but if you're looking for something new, you're in the right place.

Fall is a busy season on Broadway, with mega-musicals, revivals of award-winning classic shows, star-studded new plays, and more. There's something for everyone to enjoy — in fact, almost certainly more than one thing!

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Broadway musicals this fall

Whatever your taste in musical theatre is, you'll find it represented in the Broadway musicals opening this fall. Comedies, dramas, and various musical genres hit the stage this season. Discover all the Broadway musicals opening this fall, listed in order of start date.

Mamma Mia!

You don't have to give up summer vacation vibes once the weather gets cooler, as Mamma Mia! is bringing them all summer long. The entire original Broadway creative team is reuniting for the first revival of this joyful show, which sets a madcap plot about a soon-to-be-bride, her three possible dads, and her unsuspecting mother to the hit songs of ABBA.

Performances begin: August 2

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Ragtime

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, and Tony Award winner Brandon Uranowitz lead a resounding production of this modern classic musical, capturing a nation in flux at the turn of the 20th century through three NYC residents — a Latvian immigrant, a Black pianist, and a wealthy suburban mother — and a variety of historical figures.

Performances begin: September 26

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The Queen of Versailles

Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth is taking the throne as Jackie Siegel, the pageant queen and media mogul who sets out to build the largest private home in the U.S. — just before the 2008 recession. F. Murray Abraham co-stars in this musical adaptation of the acclaimed documentary featuring music by Wicked songwriter Stephen Schwartz.

Performances begin: October 8

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Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Say his name three times, and the "ghost with the most" reappears on Broadway just in time for Halloween. In this larger-than-life-and-death musical adapted from Tim Burton's film, Beetlejuice teams up with a deceased suburban couple and a goth teenager to raise hell and attempt to come back to life.

Performances begin: October 8

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Chess

Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher will star in the first Broadway revival of Chess, the cult-favorite musical with songs by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and EGOT winner Tim Rice. Two grandmasters, one American and one Soviet, engage in battles of chess, ego, and control, which entangle the woman torn between them.

Performances begin: Fall 2025

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Broadway plays this fall

If you're not a frequent Broadway-goer, you might gravitate toward musicals. But don't overlook plays — they often feature celebrity casts, so you might see an actor from your favorite TV show or movie up close. Plus, while many Broadway musicals run for a while, plays usually get limited runs, so catch them before they close!

Lots of the plays on Broadway this fall have won awards, whether from previous Broadway runs or even before debuting on Broadway, and they'll make you laugh, cry, and everything between with their writing and performances. Learn more about all the Broadway plays in fall 2025, listed in order of start date.

Art

What is art, anyway? Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris can't agree in Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play about three friends who debate art, taste, and money when one spends a ton on a plain white painting.

Performances begin: August 28

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Waiting for Godot

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure co-stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite in a new revival of Samuel Beckett's existentialist play about two friends talking about countless big questions. Reeves makes his Broadway debut, and Winter returns to the Great White Way for the first time since 1979.

Performances begin: September 13

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Marjorie Prime

Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime feels more relevant than ever in today's AI-dominant age. In fact, one of the main characters, Prime, is an AI stand-in for the 85-year-old Marjorie's late husband, and he's programmed to remind her of her memories as dementia sets in. But what's worth remembering, and who decides?

Performances begin: November 20

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Punch

James Graham, the award-winning playwright of Ink, returns to Broadway with a, well, punchy new drama inspired by a true story. When a teenager makes a mistake that proves fatal to someone else, his road to redemption sends him to unexpected places.

Performances begin: Fall 2025

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Oedipus

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville reprise their Olivier Award-nominated performances in Oedipus, a new version of the Greek classic adapted and directed by Robert Icke. This time, the action happens on an election night, when Oedipus is ready to celebrate victory — and then the family secrets come out.

Performances begin: Fall 2025

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