London: Prince Edward Theatre for an open run

Ryder's breakthrough role came in the 1988 Tim Burton flick Beetlejuice. Her Lydia Deetz, a macabre teenager, is a frightfully fun accomplice to the titular poltergeist. And in the musical version, she gets some of the show's most famous songs, like "Dead Mom."

Beetlejuice has had three Broadway runs, most recently in 2025, but London audiences can now see the "ghost with the most" in the West End.

Get Beetlejuice London tickets on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

NYC: New World Stages through September 6, 2026
London: The Arts at Marble Arch Powered by TodayTix from July 9 to August 22, 2026

After Lydia Deetz, another spooky role came calling for Ryder: Heathers's Veronica Sawyer, who gets involved with a vicious popular clique and a killer bad boy. The musical adaptation of the '80s black comedy is bringing big fun to both sides of the Atlantic this summer.

Get Heathers Off-Broadway tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Get Heathers London tickets on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

NYC: The Public Theater through July 12

In 1999, Ryder played Susanna Kaysen, a writer who spent over a year in a psychiatric ward as a teen, in the film adaptation of her memoir Girl, Interrupted. Tony nominee Juliana Canfield is the latest actress to step into Kaysen's shoes in the new Off-Broadway musical version, which features songs by Aimee Mann.

Get Girl, Interrupted tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Boston: American Repertory Theater through July 12

After taking a break from acting in the early aughts, Ryder returned to the screen in the 2010s in films like Black Swan, where she played a former prima ballerina forced into retirement. A new musical version is playing a pre-Broadway run in Boston this summer, so keep your eye out to see if it leaps and twirls onto the NYC stage soon.

NYC: Marquis Theatre through January 3, 2027
London: Phoenix Theatre through December 27, 2026

The defining role of Ryder's 21st-century career is arguably Joyce Byers on Netflix's Stranger Things, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. In the stage prequel, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, we get to meet the character as a teen, when she was the rebellious leader of the drama club and got her first taste of the darkness that would soon overtake Hawkins.

Get Stranger Things: The First Shadow Broadway tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Get Stranger Things: The First Shadow London tickets on LondonTheatre.co.uk.