Jean Smart (Hacks) moves to extend her recent cultural dominance into relatively uncharted territory for her—the Broadway stage—as a rural Louisiana woman with a secret in this darkly comic one-woman play by the writer, actor and erstwhile CBS News correspondent Jamie Wax. The production will be Smart's first Broadway role since her Tony-nominated turn in the 2000 revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner; prior to that, her only Broadway credit was a brief turn as Marlene Dietrich in the 1981 bioplay Piaf. Sarna Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George) directs the world premiere.
Seeing a Broadway show can require quite a lot of planning—and sometimes a leap of faith. You can wait try to see only the very best Broadway shows by waiting until everything opens and gets reviewed, but by then it is harder to get tickets and good seats. So it's smart to keep an eye on upcoming productions—whether they're original musicals and plays or revivals of time-tested classics—and pick out some promising options in advance. Here, in order of their first performances, are the productions that are set to begin their Broadway runs in the remainder of 2025. (Other shows will be added when tickets to them go on sale.)
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