The ten Greatest Broadway Exhibits to See in 2025

It’s tempting to hunker down in the course of the frigid days of January and February, however this season issues are fairly scorching on Broadway. 

Whereas George Clooney doesn’t arrive till spring, winter theater audiences can see Denzel Washington on stage, taking over the Shakespeare tragedy “Othello” together with Jake Gyllenhaal. Idina Menzel returns to the stage within the new musical “Redwood” and Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon be a part of a rotating forged in a present of vignettes referred to as “A Comedy About Love.”

Lastly,  followers of the HBO hit Succession will discover two of the present’s stars on Broadway: Sarah Snook (Shiv Roy) does all of the characters in a brand new adaptation of  “The Image of Dorian Grey,” whereas Kieran Culkin (Roman Roy) seems within the newest revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross.” I’d courageous the chilly for any of the exhibits under, that are opening now by March.

“All In”

Hudson Theatre, 141 W. forty fourth St.; allinbroadway.com

A rotating forged of some main names stars on this limited-run offbeat manufacturing, subtitled “A Comedy About Love.” Lin-Manuel Miranda seems Jan. 14 by Feb. 16, and Jimmy Fallon from Jan. 28 to Feb. 2. Others who will pop out and in earlier than the present ends on Feb. 16 — portraying every thing from pirates to puppies — embody Chloe Fineman, Annaleigh Ashford and Hank Azaria. Abigail and Shaun Bengson will sing stay each night time, performing songs from the album “Magnetic Fields.”

 “English”

Todd Haimes Theatre, 227 W. forty second St.; roundabouttheatre.org

Playwright Sanaz Toossi honors her Iranian heritage with this comedy set in a classroom close to Tehran the place 4 grownup college students, hoping for a greater life, put together for his or her proficiency exams in English. The play, which received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize, focuses on the intricacies of language and miscommunication. Reviewing the play when it ran at San Diego’s Previous Globe Theatre final February, the Los Angeles Instances wrote that it’s “wrought with emotional delicacy” because it “examines what’s misplaced and what’s gained within the acquisition of a overseas language.”

 “Redwood”

Nederlander Theatre, 208 W. forty first St.; redwoodmusical.com

The world has seen plenty of Idina Menzel in latest months, what with all the joy over the film “Depraved.” The actress, who received a Tony for the musical in 2004, hasn’t been on Broadway since “If/Then” in 2014. Now she’s again in a brand new unique musical that she conceived together with director Tina Landau. It’s a few profitable businesswoman who, after a life-altering occasion, leaves every thing behind and goes trying to find herself in a forest of majestic redwoods.

“Ghosts”

Mitzi Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Middle, 165 W. sixty fifth St.; lct.org

Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe takes on the 1881 Henrik Ibsen basic, described as a “ethical thriller that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go.” The play, in its unique model, takes on hot-button subjects like venereal illness, incest, and euthanasia, however the place O’Rowe goes along with his adaptation stays to be seen.

 “Operation Mincemeat”

John Golden Theatre, 252 W. forty fifth St.; operationbroadway.com

Contemporary from London, that is an outrageously joke of an unlikely spy mission that simply possibly received World Battle II. Primarily based loosely on actual occasions, the screwball farce tells the story of a gaggle of British intelligence officers who devise a plan to distract the Nazis from invading Sicily. Many of the hijinks focus on a corpse disguised as a British pilot and, sure, there was a 2021 film about just about the identical factor and by the identical title. The present received finest new musical on the Olivier Awards (Britain’s Tonys).

“Buena Vista Social Membership”

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. forty fifth St.; buenavistamusical.com

The music of Havana involves Broadway on this musical that’s primarily based on the Grammy-winning album. The present tells the story of a gaggle of younger musicians who began out within the Nineteen Fifties. Torn aside by the revolution, they reunite 40 years later to make one of many biggest albums of all time. You’re going to need to stand up and dance.

 “Othello”

Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 W. forty seventh St.; othellobway.com

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal tackle certainly one of Shakespeare’s biggest tragedies. Washington, who returns to Broadway for the primary time for the reason that revival of “The Iceman Cometh” in 2018, performs the doomed Moor, whereas Gyllenhaal, final seen on the New York stage in 2019 (“Sea Wall/A Life”), performs the villainous officer who makes an attempt to persuade Othello of his new spouse’s infidelity.

“Objective”

Helen Hayes Theater, 240 W. forty fourth St.; purposeonbroadway.com

Phylicia Rashad (who performed Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Present) makes her Broadway directing debut with this new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (“Acceptable”). The work, commissioned by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the place it ran final yr, is about an influential Black household, vital in politics and civil rights. The Chicago Tribune referred to as the play “a superb moralistic satire.”  

 “The Image of Dorian Grey”

Music Field Theatre, 239 W. forty fifth St.; doriangrayplay.com

There are 26 roles on this adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s basic Faustian novel a few man who sells his soul to stay younger. Sarah Snook performs all of them. Reviewing her efficiency in London (she received an Olivier), Selection famous that the actress made use of her deliciously plotting Succession character Shiv’s “gleaming sense of entitled ambition.” 

“Glengarry Glen Ross”

Palace Theatre, 160 W. forty seventh St.; glengarryonbroadway.com

David Mamet’s Pulitzer-winning play a few bunch of ruthless, cutthroat actual property brokers will get its fourth Broadway manufacturing this winter.  One other Succession star, Kieran Culkin, will share the stage with Bob Odenkirk (Higher Name Saul and Breaking Unhealthy), making his Broadway debut. Director Patrick Marber instructed Playbill that the unique manufacturing in 1983 “blew my younger soul away,” including that “it was one of many causes I needed to work in theater.”

Broadway Revivals

Metropolis Middle is at 131 W. fifty fifth St.; NYCityCenter.org

One in all New York’s nice theatrical treasures is the Encores! sequence at Metropolis Middle. Since 1994, it has introduced quick runs of exhibits not revived usually — generally with nice success. The Encores! 1996 presentation of “Chicago” transferred to Broadway, the place the present remains to be operating. The sequence opens this season with “Urinetown” (Feb. 5-16), a musical satire constructed round the concept that the general public is being pressured pay to make use of restrooms. Jordan Fisher, Taran Killam (Saturday Evening Reside), and Keala Settle star. Subsequent up is “Love Life” (March 26-30) and “Fantastic City” (April 30-Might 11).