Every musical in our New York guide, with a short description, the theatre and upcoming performance times, plus the big plays and spectaculars many visitors fit into the same trip. Not sure what to pick? The planner's Help me choose quiz suggests shows in about a minute.
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& Juliet
What if Juliet didn’t die? A pop comedy built on Max Martin’s hits for Britney, the Backstreet Boys and more.
Aladdin
Disney’s street-rat-to-prince story, with a flying carpet and a scene-stealing Genie.
Buena Vista Social Club
The story behind the Grammy-winning Cuban album, with the music played live on stage.
Chicago
Murder, fame and all that jazz in 1920s Chicago, in Bob Fosse’s sleek style. Broadway’s longest-running revival.
Hadestown
The Orpheus and Eurydice myth as a folk and jazz concert. Haunting and intimate.
Hamilton
America’s founding story told through hip-hop, R&B and pop, by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Just in Time
The life and hits of singer Bobby Darin, staged like a night at a 1950s–60s supper club.
Maybe Happy Ending
Two retired helper robots in near-future Seoul fall unexpectedly in love. Tony-winning, gentle and moving.
MJ The Musical
Michael Jackson’s hits and dance moves, framed around rehearsals for his 1992 world tour.
Operation Mincemeat
The true, absurd WWII plan to fool the Nazis with a corpse and fake papers. The West End cult hit, now on Broadway.
Schmigadoon!
A couple gets trapped in a town where life is a Golden Age musical. A loving parody of the classics.
SIX: The Musical
Henry VIII’s six wives reclaim their stories as a pop concert. Short, loud and fun.
The Book of Mormon
Two young missionaries in over their heads, from the creators of South Park. Very funny and very rude.
The Fantasticks
The small, classic fable of young love (“Try to Remember”), on Broadway for the first time.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel as a lavish romantic musical.
The Lion King
Disney’s story of Simba on the African savanna, famous for its puppetry and its opening number.
The Lost Boys
A new rock musical of the 1987 vampire film: two brothers, a beach town and a gang that never grows old.
The Outsiders
Tony-winning Best Musical based on S.E. Hinton’s novel about rival teen gangs in 1960s Tulsa.
The Rocky Horror Show
The cult rock musical: a stranded couple, a mad scientist and the Time Warp. Camp, cheeky and loud.
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
A British woman and a New Yorker spend one chaotic weekend together in the city. A funny, warm two-hander.
Wanted
Texas, 1893: twin sisters Mary and Martha Clarke, Black women passing as white, go from farm girls to outlaws to legends. A mostly-true story, written by one of their descendants.
Wicked
The untold story of the witches of Oz and an unlikely friendship, with big sets and bigger voices.
Coming soon
Damn Yankees
A baseball fan sells his soul to the devil to beat the Yankees. The first Broadway revival in over thirty years.
Dirty Dancing: The Musical
Baby falls for dance instructor Johnny at a Catskills resort in the summer of 1963. The film’s first Broadway run, timed for its 40th anniversary.
Dolly: A True Original Musical
Dolly Parton’s life story, told through her own songs.
Evita
Jamie Lloyd’s concert-style revival of Lloyd Webber and Rice’s musical about Eva Perón, starring Rachel Zegler.
Galileo
Raúl Esparza plays Galileo in a new musical about science, faith and power.
Paddington The Musical
The bear from Darkest Peru arrives in London. The West End’s record Olivier winner, with songs by Tom Fletcher.
Purple Rain
A new musical built on Prince’s album and film, with more than twenty of his songs.
The Sound of Music
Maria, the von Trapp children and the Rodgers & Hammerstein classics, in a new Lincoln Center production.
Plays
Not musicals, but the plays visitors most often plan a day around.
A Few Good Men
Aaron Sorkin’s courtroom drama about two Marines on trial for a death at Guantanamo Bay, back on Broadway for a limited run at Lincoln Center.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry’s son Albus starts at Hogwarts in a play famous for its stage magic. On Broadway it is one single part of about three and a half hours, with one intermission.
Oh, Mary!
Cole Escola’s comedy: Mary Todd Lincoln as a bored, boozy would-be cabaret star in the weeks before the assassination. Eighty minutes of very rude comedy; the Tony-winning sleeper hit.
Paranormal Activity
A new stage story from the found-footage horror films: a couple, a house and something that moves at night. Built to make the theatre jump.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
A prequel to the Netflix series: Hawkins, Indiana, 1959, and the arrival of Henry Creel. Big-budget stage effects; ages 12 and up.
Spectaculars & concerts
Masquerade
An immersive Phantom of the Opera: small groups follow the story through the opera house and its catacombs. Dress code is black, white or silver, with a mask.
Off-Broadway
Smaller theatres away from the Broadway houses, often cheaper and more intimate. The planner's live schedule covers Broadway only, so check performance times on each show's page.
Little Shop of Horrors
A flower-shop nerd raises a plant that feeds on blood. Menken and Ashman’s doo-wop horror comedy in an intimate theatre.
Midnight
Todrick Hall’s original musical asking what if the life you inherited belonged to someone else, with gospel, pop and R&B.
Slam Frank
A satire of a theatre company turning Anne Frank’s diary into a hip-hop musical. Provocative and deliberately divisive.
Spring Awakening
Teenagers in 1890s Germany run into desire and a society that won’t talk about it, set to Duncan Sheik’s rock score. A new revival of the Tony-winning musical.
The Conversation
Marcus and Elle, from first date to everything left unsaid. A new soul, R&B and pop musical written by and starring Joshua Henry and Julia Harriman.
The Heart
A young surfer dies and a stranger gets a second chance: two families and a transplant team over one day. Based on Maylis de Kerangal’s novel, directed by Christopher Ashley.
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