Below is a list of Broadway shows currently running that have officially opened, with links to the shows’ websites, and to my original reviews. This list is periodically updated. It’s up-to-date as of January 5, 2026.
For not-yet-opened Broadway shows this season: Broadway Spring 2025 Preview Guide. For shows opening this month on Broadway and beyond, check out my current monthly calendar of openings.
& Juliet
Stephen Sondheim Theater
Opened: November 17, 2022
Book by David West Read
Directed by Luke Sheppard
Original cast: Lorna Courtney, Paulo Szot, Betsy Wolfe, Stark Sands
New story for Shakespeare’s tragic heroine and lovestruck teenager Juliet in which she chooses to live after Romeo dies, with a score featuring familiar pop songs from the last three decades such as “Since U Been Gone,” “Roar,” “Baby One More Time,” “Larger Than Life,” “That’s The Way It Is,” and “Can’t Stop the Feeling.” My review
Aladdin
New Amsterdam Theater
Opened: March 20, 2014
Director: Casey Nicholas
Official website
Based on the 1992 Disney animated film, “Aladdin” tells the story of the street urchin of the title who falls in love with Princess Jasmine and is used by the evil Jafar to retrieve the magic lamp, letting loose the genie. The musical restores the songs that were cut from “Aladdin” film, and adds a new one. The score is not Alan Menken’s best, but even middling Menken can be rousing and mellifluous, and one song in “Aladdin” is both: “A Whole New World,” which won an Oscar.
Aladdin Review: A Genie Works His Magic on Broadway
All Out: Comedy about Ambition
Nederlander Theater
First preview: December 12
Closing: March 8
Written by Simon Rich
Directed by Alex Timbers
Cast: A rotating cast of four
In a follow-up to last year’s All In, the cast reads the short stories by Simon Rich “about ego, envy, greed, and basically just New Yorkers in general.”
Beetlejuice
Palace Theater
First Preview: October 8, 2025 (no official opening)
Closing: January 3, 2026
Book by Scott Brown and Anthony King
Music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect
Directed by Alex Timbers
A musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s 1988 comic horror movie, which debuted on Broadway in 2019, running for almost a year; returned in 2022 for nine months, and will now run for twelve weeks. My review of the 2019 production.
The Book of Mormon
The Eugene O’Neill Theater
Opened: March 24, 2011
Directors: Trey Parker and Casey Nicholas
Official website
This musical by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (book), the creators of South Park, and Robert Lopez, one of the composer-lyricists for “Avenue Q” (music and lyrics) and Frozen (both movie and musical), is about both the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and modern disciples. It is outrageous, irreverent in one way, but also deeply reverent to (even while parodying) the best traditions of the Broadway musical. Its depiction of Uganda came under sharp criticism, including by past and current members of the cast in 2020; the script was reportedly revised in response in 2021.
My review of The Book of Mormon: Ridiculing Religion, Worshiping The Great White Way
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
Theater: Schoenfeld
Opened: March 19, 2025
Book by Marco Ramirez
Developed and Directed by Saheem Ali
Starring: Natalie Venetia Belcon, Julio Monge, Mel Semé, Isa Antonetta
A musical inspired by the 1996 album with fifteen classic Cuban songs performed in Spanish. My Broadway review.
CHESS
Imperial Theater
Opened: November 16, 2025
Music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, lyrics by Tim Rice
Based on an idea by Tim Rice
New book by Danny Strong
Director: Michael Mayer
Cast: Aaron Tveit,Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher
A revival of the musical, last on Broadway in 1988: It’s America versus Russia at the World Chess Championship, where the espionage and romance are as complicated and exhilarating as the game itself. For the two players and the woman torn between them, everything—personal, professional, and political—is at risk
Chicago
Ambassador Theater (219 West 49th Street)
Opened: November 14, 1996
Director: Walter Bobbie
Official website
A chorus girl in 1920′s Chicago murders her lover and becomes a star. This cynical, tuneful 1975 musical adaptation by John Kander and Fred Ebb (the team behind “Cabaret” ) of a 1926 play lasted little more than two years in its original incarnation. But some two decades later, director Walter Bobbie and choreographer Ann Reinking revived it, in homage to original choreographer Bob Fosse. It won six Tony Awards, including Best Revival (the original hadn’t won any, although nominated for 11) and it’s been around ever since, having gone through many, many cast changes since then. Some say this is the production that invented the modern Broadway practice of “stunt casting.”
Now the longest running musical currently on Broadway (as of April 23,2023, it had 10,345 performances), it is the second longest ever. It will take about eight more years to surpass “Phantom of the Opera” and become the longest running in Broadway history.
DEATH BECOMES HER
Theater: Lunt-Fontanne
Opened: November 21, 2024
Starring: Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, Michelle Williams
Writers: Julia Mattison and Noel Carey (music and lyrics), Marco Pennette (book)
Director: Christopher Gattelli
About: A musical based on the 1992 darkly comic movie that starred Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn.and Isabella Rossellini. in which two long-time frenemies fight for the affections of the same man and drink a magic potion that promises eternal youth. My review
The Great Gatsby
Broadway Theater
Opened: April 25, 2024
Book by Kate Kerrigan, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
Music and lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Jason Howland
Directed by Marc Bruni
Original cast: Jeremy Jordan, Eva Noblezada
A Broadway transfer of the Paper Mill Playhouse musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Jazz Age novel about the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of his lost love, Daisy Buchanan
My review
Hadestown
Walter Kerr
Opened: Apr 17, 2019
Author: Anais Mitchell
Director: Rachel Chavkin
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s musical, widely acclaimed at New York Theatre Workshop (my review), follows two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of king Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites audiences on an epic journey to the underworld and back.My review on Broadway
Hamilton
Richard Rodgers Theater
Opened: August 6, 2015
Director:Thomas Kail
Official website
The story of the first Secretary of the Treasury, told as a rap opera, is groundbreaking and breathtaking. It has become a phenomenon on Broadway — and elsewhere! I’ve seen it four times, and have written about it so many times that I’ve put together a post called Everything Hamilton
Hamilton on Broadway 2021. A cast of newcomers and returning favorites.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Theater: Lyric
Author: Jack Thorne
Director: John Tiffany.
Opened: April 22, 2018
Website
A play written by Jack Thorne based on an original story by him, director John Tiffany and Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling “While an adult Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. My review
Hell’s Kitchen
Shubert Theater
Opened: April 20, 2024
Music and lyrics by Alicia Keys
Book by Kristoffer Diaz
Directed by Michael Greif
A jukebox musical featuring Alicia Keys’ hits to tell the somewhat fictionalized story of Keys at age 17, growing up in the Manhattan Plaza artists housing in the NYC neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, pursuing a boy and discovering the piano while rebelling against her strict mother.
My review
JUST IN TIME
Circle in the Square Theater
Opened: April 26, 2025
Starring: Jonathan Groff
Developed and directed by Alex Timbers
Written by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver
Groff portrays singer Bobby Darin as if performing in a night club, featuring a cast of 16 and a live on-stage big band performing such Bobby Darin hits as “Beyond the Sea,” “Splish Splash,” “Dream Lover,” and “Mack the Knife.” My review
Liberation
James Earl Jones Theater
Opened: October 28, 2025
Closing: February 1, 2026
Written by Beth Wohl
Directed by Whitney White
A group of women in 1970s Ohio gather in the basement of the local Y for a weekly consciousness-raising group, while half a century later, a present-day narrator discovers her mother’s radical past before marriage and motherhood. My review.
The Lion King
Minskoff Theater
Opened: November 13, 1997
Director: Julie Taymor
Official website
Based on the 1994 Disney animated film about the coming-of-age of a young lion in the African jungle, this musical offers African-inflected music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice and the visual magic of Julie Taymor. Taymor is the director, and composer and lyricist for some of the songs. But above all, she is the designer of the costumes, masks, and puppets — and it is these visuals that make this show a good first theatrical experience, and worthwhile for any theatergoer no matter how experienced.
Celebrating The Lion King anniversary
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING
Theater: Belasco
Opened: November 12, 2024
Starring: Darren Criss, Helen J Shen, Dez Duron
Writers: Will Aronson (book and music), Hue Park (book and lyrics)
Director: Michael Arden
A new musical about the developing relationship between two robots. My review
Mamma Mia
Wintergarden
First Preview: August 2
Opening: August 14, 2025
Closing: February 1
Book by Catherine Johnson , music by ABBA
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
The summer return of the long-running jukebox musical that tells the story of Sophie, a bride-to-be, secretly inviting three potential fathers to her wedding on a Greek island to discover who her true father is. My review.
Marjorie Prime
Second Stage’s Hayes Theater
Opened: December 8, 2025
Written by Jordan Harrison
Directed by Anne Kauffman
Cast: Danny Burstein, Christopher Lowell, Cynthia Nixon, June Squibb
The 2015 play, about an elderly woman in the near future whose grown children give her a robot caregiver, is even more relevant with the ascendance of AI, but it’s also insightful about family dynamics. My review of it Off-Broadway in 2015.
MJ The Musical
Theater: Neil Simon
Opened: February 1, 2022
Book by Lynn Nottage, music by Michael Jackson
Directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon.
Cast: Myles Frost
The story of Michael Jackson’s life, with a score made up of his songs, among the most popular in history. My review
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Theater: Al Hirschfeld
Opened: July 25, 2019
Book by John Logan
Director: Alex Timbers
Original cast: Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein, Sahr Ngaujah,Tam Mutu, Ricky Rojas, Robyn Hurder
Stage adaptation of Baz Luhrman’s 2001 Oscar-nominated movie musical about a poet entranced by a cabaret singer. My review of Moulin Rouge
OEDIPUS
Roundabout’s Studio 54
Opened: November 13, 2025
Cast:: Mark Strong, Lesley Manville
Writers: Sophocles (original play), Robert Icke (adaptation)
Director: Robert Icke
Robert Icke’s new modern interpretation of Oedipus Rex comes to Broadway after its record-breaking run in London’s West End.
OH, MARY!
Theater: Lyceum
Opened: July 11, 2024
Closing: January 24, 2026
Original cast: Cole Escola, Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, Bianca Leigh, Tony Macht
Writer: Cole Escola
Director: Sam Pinkleton
About: The campy Off-Broadway hit about Mary Todd Lincoln is transferring to Broadway.
My review of Oh, Mary
OPERATION MINCEMEAT
John Golden Theater
Opened: March 20, 2025
Written and composed by the comedy group, SpitLip (David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts)
Directed by Robert Hastie
The Olivier Award winning musical is based on the improbable true story of a successful British operation in World War II to deceive the Germans before the Allied invasion of Sicily by dressing up a corpse as if it had been an officer of the Royal Marines and planting a fake letter between two generals that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia. My review.
The Outsiders
Bernard Jacobs Theater
Opened: April 11, 2024
Book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine
Music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay & Zach Chance) and Justin Levine
Directed by Danya Taylor
A new musical based on the novel by S.E. Hinton and the movie by Francis Ford Coppola: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, the hardened hearts and aching souls of Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade and their chosen family of ‘outsiders’ are in a fight for survival and a quest for purpose in a world that may never accept them.
My review
Ragtime
Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater
Opened:October 16, 2025
Closing: January 4
Book by Terrence McNally;
Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens;
Directed by Lear deBessonet
Cast: Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz
The intact Encores concert revival of the Tony Award-winning musical based on E.L. Doctorow’s novel about lives and communities clashing at the beginning of the twentieth century. My review
Six
Brooks Atkinson
Opened: October 3, 2021
Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss;
Pop-concert musical featuring the six wives of Henry VIII. It was due to open on March 12, 2020 — the day that Broadway was shut down. My review of Six.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Theater: Marquis
Opened: April 22, 2025
Written by Kate Trefry; Original Story by The Duffer Brothers, Jack Thorne & Kate Trefry
Directed by Stephen Daldry, Co-Directed by Justin Martin
A prequels to the goings-on in the Netflix TV horror series “Stranger Things.” My review.
Two Strangers Carry A Cake Across New York
Longacre Theater
Opened: November 20, 2025
Written and composed by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan
Directed and choreographed by Tim Jackson
Cast: Sam Tutty, Christiani Pitts
Meet Dougal, an impossibly upbeat Brit who has just landed in New York City for the first time to attend the wedding of the father he’s never met. Meet Robin, the sister of the bride and a no-nonsense New Yorker with a lot of errands to run—including picking up the groom’s estranged son from the airport. These two strangers begin their journey together, navigating New York City, secrets, and second chances.
Wicked
Gershwin Theater (222 West 51st Street)
Opened: October 30, 2003
Director: Joe Mantello
Official website
The musical tells the story of “The Wizard of Oz” from the witches’ perspective, My review of Wicked on Broadway in 2025