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Complete A-Z list of Broadway musicals and Off Broadway musicals in NYC

Our complete A-Z listings of Broadway musicals and Off Broadway musicals will help you find the best musicals in NYC

Adam Feldman
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Adam Feldman
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Broadway musicals are the beating heart of New York City. These days, your options are more diverse than ever: cultural game-changers like Hamilton and raucous comedies like The Book of Mormon are just down the street from quirky originals like Kimberly Akimbo and family classics like The Lion King. Whether you're looking for classic Broadway songs, spectacular sets and costumes, star turns by Broadway divas or dance numbers performed by the hottest chorus boys and girls, there is always plenty to choose from. Here is our list of all the Broadway musicals that are currently running or on their way, followed by a list of those in smaller Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway venues.

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Complete Broadway Musicals A–Z

  • 3 out of 5 stars
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Disney's latest toon tuner is a tourist-family–friendly theme-park attraction, robed in the billowing fabrics of orientalist Arabian fantasy. As in the 1992 film, the Genie (a charismatic James Monroe Iglehart) steals the show from its eponymous “street rat” hero (Adam Jacobs). Stuffed with glitz, the musical is a carpet with little texture but colorful patterns aplenty.—Adam Feldman

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“Keep it light, keep it tight, keep it fun, and then we’re done!” That’s the pithy advice that the indignant 16th-century housewife Anne Hathaway (Betsy Wolfe) imparts to her husband, William Shakespeare (Stark Sands), as a way to improve his play Romeo and Juliet. It is also the ethos of the new Broadway jukebox musical & Juliet, a quasi-Elizabethan romp through the many pop megahits of the Swedish songwriter-producer Max Martin. This show is what it is: It gives you the hooks and it gets the ovations.—Adam Feldman

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  • Midtown WestOpen run

Broadway travels back in time to the 1950s, by way of the 1980s, in a musical adaptation of the hit 1985 movie that offers comedic science fiction with an Oedipal twist. Bob Gale adapts his screenplay (cowritten with Robert Zemeckis) around key songs from the movie, such as "The Power of Love," as well as new ones by original composer Alan Silvestri and Jagged Little Pill songsmith Glen Ballard. John Rando (Urinetown) directs the production, Casey Likes (Almost Famous) plays Michael J. Fox role of Marty McFly, and two actors from the show's 2020 U.K. premiere reprise their roles: Roger Bart as Doc Brown and Hugh Coles as George McFly.

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This jukebox biomusical extracts as many pop gems as it can from the Neil Diamond mine.The Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter-showman was sometimes called the Jewish Elvis, and in this show's biggest numbers it resembles a Vegas-style impersonation show. Will Swenson plays the young Diamond, and a framing device gives us Mark Jacoby as an older version working through his issues with a therapist. But since Diamond’s life has not been especially dramatic, what we ge here is less a story than a retrospective sequence of events, or perhaps events of sequins.—Adam Feldman

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  • 5 out of 5 stars
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  • price 4 of 4
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If theater is your religion, and the Broadway musical your particular sect, it’s time to rejoice. This gleefully obscene and subversive satire is one of the funniest shows to grace the Great White Way since The Producers and Urinetown. Writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park, along with composer Robert Lopez (Avenue Q), find the perfect blend of sweet and nasty for this tale of mismatched Mormon proselytizers in Uganda.—David Cote

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This John Kander–Fred Ebb–Bob Fosse favorite—revived by director Walter Bobbie and choreographer Ann Reinking—tells the saga of chorus girl Roxie Hart, who murders her lover and, with the help of a huckster lawyer, becomes a vaudeville star.—David Cote

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  • 4 out of 5 stars
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Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas's artful musical treatment of alcoholism raises a toast that ends in shattered glass. Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara play a 1950s couple. He teaches her to drink, and at first the bottle’s genie grants their wishes: happiness, love, professional success. But beware the gifts of spirits. Guettel’s sophisticated score has the feel of a chamber opera; it is intimate and interior in scope, at times claustrophobic, and it couldn’t ask for better interpreters than the superb O’Hara and James, two of Broadway’s finest singing actors. If the show isn’t exactly galvanizing, it is effectively sober. After seeing it you might need a drink, or might never want one again.—Adam Feldman

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Go to hell—and by hell we mean Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell’s fizzy, moody, thrilling new musical. Ostensibly, at least, the show is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. But the newness of Mitchell’s score and Rachel Chavkin’s gracefully dynamic staging bring this old story to quivering life.—Adam Feldman

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  • 5 out of 5 stars
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Lin‑Manuel Miranda applies 21st-century musical storytelling to the rags-to-Treasury tale of Alexander Hamilton in this dazzlingly ingenious national sensation. It’s a success story of the best kind, breathtaking but also breath-giving: an inspiration.—Adam Feldman

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Sixteen is not sweet for the heroine of this bruisingly joyful new musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori: Played by the wonderful Victoria Clark, she has a disease that makes her age at a superfast rate. But two agents of disruption shake up her perspective: her aunt Debra (the unstoppable Bonnie Milligan), a hilarious gale force of chaos, and Seth (a winsome Justin Cooley), an anagram-loving classmate. Clever, touching and idiosyncratic, Kimberly Akimbo was the best new musical of 2021, and it works even better on Broadway.—Adam Feldman

Off Broadway Musicals A–Z

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Audible Theater's first commissioned musical reunites the team behind the lovely, Tony-winning musical The Band's Visit—book writer Itamar Moses, composer David Yazbek and director David Cromer, now joined by songwriter Erik Della Penna—to tell the very weird story of Elmer McCurdy: a Wild West outlaw whose corpse toured the country for decades as a side-show mummy. The ensemble comprises Jeb Brown, Eddie Cooper, Andrew Durand, Dashiell Eaves, Julia Knitel, Ken Marks, Trent Saunders and Thom Sesma.

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  • Lenox Hill

Director-choreographer Justin Peck, the New York City Ballet's resident choreographer, turns Sufjan Stevens's 2005 concept album, Illinois, into a dance-theater piece with a narrative throughline he has devised with playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury. Three vocalists and an 11-piece band perform the music while a cast of 16 dancers—including Gaby Diaz, Robbie Fairchild, Ben Cook, Ahmad Simmons and Ricky Ubeda—brings new blasts of movement to Park Avenue Armory's massive Drill Hall.

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Corbin Bleu, Constance Wu and Bryce Pinkham currently star in the latest revival of this dark, tuneful and utterly winsome 1982 horror-camp musical about a flesh-eating plant who makes dreams come true for a lowly flower-shop worker. Composer Alan Menken and librettist Howard Ashman wrap a sordid tale of capitalist temptation and moral decay in layers of sweetness, humor, wit and camp. Michael Mayer directs the feeding frenzy in this deeply satisfying revival.

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  • Hell's KitchenOpen run

The boys are back in town! Five nice-looking men take it all off and vocalize in this collage of musical vignettes on gay themes, revamped since its 1999 debut with new jokes and more up-to-date references. Although sex is central to most of the numbers, the goofy nudism has no erotic charge (and when the show tries to be serious, it's sometimes hard to watch). After a hiatus of several years, NBS has returned to NYC at a new venue in 2023.

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A photographer in New York City navigates the cultural sea change of the 1960s in this new jukebox musical by Lindsey Hope Pearlman, which incorporates period pop hits by the likes of Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield and Lesley Gore. Gabriel Barre directs the New York premiere for the York Theatre Company; JoAnn M. Hunter choreographs, and Joseph Church (The Lion King) oversees and arranges the musicChilina Kennedy, Ryan Silverman, Justin Matthew Sargent, Crystal Lucas-Perry and Akron Lanier Watson lead the cast.

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Vagina dentata! What a wonderful phrase! Vagina dentata ain't no passing craze for the Christian teen played by Alyse Alan Louis (Soft Power) in this musical dark comedy by Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) and Anna K. Jacobs (Pop!), adapted from Mitchell Lichtenstein's 2007 cult horror flick about a girl whose nether regions spell doom for would-be assailants. Sarah Benson directs and Raja Feather Kelly choreographs the show's world premiere at Playwrights Horizons; the supporting cast includes Will Connolly and Jason Gotay.

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Jo Ellen Pellman and Mike Cefalo play Sophie and Hans Scholl, the brave German siblings who led an underground student resistance to Hitler in the early 1940s, in an original musical by librettist Brian Belding and composer Natalie Brice. The cast, directed by Will Nunziata, also includes Kennedy Kanagawa (Into the Woods's Milky White) as the Scholls' confederate Christoph Probst.

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