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When Winnie Foster discovers the magical secret of the Tuck family, she
embarks on an extraordinary adventure that will change her life forever.
Take a journey you’ll never forget in this daring new Broadway musical
about love, family and living life to the fullest.
BROADHURST THEATRE
Running time: 2h 30min
TUCK EVERLASTING
Winner of seven 1988 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s stunning masterwork is more than just the longest-running
musical in Broadway history—it’s an international phenomenon that
unmasks emotions like no other show can, leaving audiences everywhere
breathless.
MAJESTIC THEATRE 247 West 44th Street
Running time: 2h 30min
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
More than 70 million people around the world have experienced the
awe- inspiring visual artistry, the unforgettable music and the uniquely
theatrical storytelling of this Broadway spectacular. Tony Award-winning
director Julie Taymor brings to life a story filled with hope and adventure
set against an amazing backdrop of stunning visuals.
MINSKOFF THEATRE 200 West 45th Street
Running time: 2h 30min
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THE CRUCIBLE
WALTER KERR THEATRE
Running time: 2h 55min
During the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th century, a whole Massachusetts
town is put on trial for witchcraft, due to the frightened lies of a young
woman. The work is playwright Arthur Miller’s allegory of Senator Joseph
McCarthy’s anti-communist “witchhunts” of the 1950s.
243 West 47th Street
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE
DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE
Running time: 2h 35min
261 West 47th Street
Christopher, 15 years old, has an extraordinary brain — exceptional at
math while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under
suspicion of killing Mrs. Shears’ dog Wellington, he records each fact
about the event in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of the
murder.
THE FATHER
SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE
Running time: 1h 30min
240 West 44th Street
WAITRESS
BROOKS ATKINSON THEATRE
Running time: 2h 30min
256 West 47th Street
Based on the 2007 motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly, this new
musical celebrates friendship, motherhood, and the courage it takes to
pluck a long abandoned dream off the shelf. Featuring music and lyrics by
five-time Grammy Award-nominated singer songwriter Sara Bareilles and
direction by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus.
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THE HUMANS
HELEN HAYES THEATRE
Running time: 90min
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from Pennsylvania to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s new
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Set in 1860’s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional
and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam
and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher whom the imperious King
brings to Siam to tutor his many wives and children. Starring Kelli O’Hara
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ALADDIN
NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE
Running time: 2h 30min
CATS
214 West 42nd Street
NEIL SIMON THEATRE 250 West 52nd Street
Running time: TBD
FUN HOME
CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE 235 W. 50th Street
Running time: 1h 45min
Experience a whole new world in a whole new way! With just one rub
of a magic lamp, Aladdin’s journey sweeps you into an exotic world
full of daring adventure, classic comedy and timeless romance. It’s an
unforgettable experience that includes all the cherished songs from
the Academy Award®-winning score and more written especially for
Broadway.
Based on T.S. Eliot’s book of poems about fantastically-named felines,
“Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” Cats immerses the audience in
the world of “Jellicle Cats,” a special breed that sing about their unique
qualities before gathering for a Jellicle Ball at which one among them is
chosen to ascend to the supernatural “Heaviside Layer.”
When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives into her
past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, man whose temperament
and secrets defined her family and life. Moving between past and present,
she relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral
Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality and the looming,
unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires.
AMERICAN PSYCHO
CHICAGO
HAMILTON
GERALD SCHOENFELD THEATRE
Running time: 2h 40min
236 West 45th Street
AMBASSADOR THEATRE
Running time: 2h 40min
219 West 49th Street
RICHARD RODGERS THEATRE
Running time: 2h 40min
226 West 46th Street
A stage musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, with music by
Duncan Sheik. Living the high life in 1980s Manhattan, Patrick Bateman
has it all - looks, money, style and status. But privately, Patrick indulges
in another kind of transgression. And people - including those closest to
him - keep disappearing.
This sensational tale of sin, has everything that makes Broadway great:
knockout dancing, a ripped-from-the-headlines story about fame and
scandal. Chicago has been honored with six Tony Awards®, two Olivier
Awards®, a Grammy® and thousands of standing ovations. And now,
CHICAGO is the longest-running American musical in Broadway history!
Now’s the time to catch Broadway’s red-hot hit!
From bastard orphan to Washington’s right hand man, rebel to war hero,
loving husband caught in the country’s first sex scandal to Treasury head
who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, an
exploration of a political mastermind and scrappy young immigrant who
forever changed America: Alexander Hamilton.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
DISASTER!​​​
HOLIDAY INN - THE NEW IRVING
BERLIN MUSICAL​​​
PALACE THEATRE 1564 Broadway
Running time: 2h 30min
NEDERLANDER THEATRE
Running time: 2h 5min
208 West 41st Street
An American World War II vet turned painter settles in Paris and promptly
falls in love. The new musical is inspired by the Academy Award-winning
film and features such Gershwin classics as “I Got Rhythm,” “S’Wonderful”
and “They Can’t Take That Away.”
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theatre comes
Broadway’s new musical comedy Disaster! Earthquakes, tidal waves,
infernos and rampant wildlife can’t stop an outrageous cast of characters
from dancing, gambling and singing the night away aboard New York’s
first floating casino and discothèque.
BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
ECLIPSED
STEPHEN SONDHEIM THEATRE
Running time: 2h 20min
124 West 43rd Street
JOHN GOLDEN THEATRE
Running time: 2h 15min
STUDIO 54 254 West 54th Street
Running time: 2h 25 min
A new musical inspired by the Academy Award-winning film. Direction
by Gordon Greenberg and a book by Greenberg and Chad Hodge, this
heartwarming classic with a contemporary sparkle will have you falling in
love one beloved tune at a time.
JERSEY BOYS
252 West 45th Street
AUGUST WILSON THEATRE
Running time: 2h 30min
245 West 52nd Street
Beautiful tells the true story of Carole King’s remarkable rise to stardom,
from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin,
to her relationship with fellow writers and friends Cynthia Weil and Barry
Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music
history. Along the way, she made more than beautiful music — she wrote
the soundtrack to a generation.
Following the Public Theater’s sold-out production, this powerful new
play by Zimbabwean-American playwright and actress Danai Gurirai
transfers to Broadway. Amid the chaos of the Liberian Civil War, the
captive wives of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community
– until the balance of their lives is upset by the arrival of a new girl.
The Four Seasons - Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick
Massi - were just a bunch of punk kids from New Jersey before they hit it
big in the 1960’s and became one of the most popular recording groups of
all time. This is their story of love, friendship, survival and success – all
set to an amazing soundtrack.
BLACKBIRD
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
KINKY BOOTS
BELASCO THEATRE 111 West 44th Street
Running time: 90min
BROADWAY THEATRE 1681 Broadway
Running time: 2h 40min
AL HIRSCHFELD THEATRE 302 West 45th Street
Running time: 2h 20min
Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams return to Broadway in David Harrower’s
Blackbird. Joe Mantello directs this strictly limited, 18-week engagement.​
Fifteen years ago, Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven’t set eyes on
each other since. Now she’s found him again.
Broadway favorite Danny Burstein stars in a revival of the beloved musical
about a Jewish milkman named Tevye, struggling to maintain his rituals
and traditions and his 5 daughters in an era of Russian pogroms. The
beloved score includes “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “If I Were a Rich Man”
and “Sunrise, Sunset.”
Based on a true story of a conservative but failing British men’s footwear
factory that switches gears and starts producing kinky boots. Charlie Price
is forced to step in and save his family’s shoe factory in Northern England
following the sudden death of his father. Help comes from the unlikeliest
angel, a fabulous drag performer named Lola.
BLUE MAN GROUP
FINDING NEVERLAND
LES MISERABLES
ASTOR PLACE THEATRE
Running time: 1h 45min
434 Lafayette Street
LUNT-FONTANNE THEATRE
Running time: 2h 30min
205 West 46th Street
IMPERIAL THEATRE 249 West 45th Street
Running time: 2h 55min
Signature Blue Man Group moments combine with breathtakingly fun new
pieces in this updated show. The three-man new-vaudeville Blue Man Group
pounds on just about anything it can get its little azure hands on. This
unique multi-sensory experience fuses innovative theatrical spectacle and
powerful original music with comedy, art, vaudeville and science.
When a faltering playwright meets a widow and her four boys in Kensington
Gardens, he embarks on a friendship that inspires one of the most beloved
stories of all time. Based on the film, Finding Neverland follows the reallife relationship between the Llewelyn Davies family and James Matthew
Barrie as he writes the revolutionary 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who
Wouldn’t Grow Up.
Based on Victor Hugo’s epic novel. Relentless policeman Javert pursues
escaped convict Jean Valjean over decades through the tumult of
revolutionary France. Valjean becomes a mayor, agrees to raise the
daughter of dying prostitute and joins the fight for freedom. None of this
impresses the single-minded Javert, until the day Valjean saves his life.
BRIGHT STAR​​
FULLY COMMITTED
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Bright Star features 25 new songs and tells a beguiling tale that unfolds in
the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina between 1923 and 1945. Billy
Cane, a young soldier just home from World War II, meets Alice Murphy,
the brilliant editor of a southern literary journal. Together they discover a
powerful secret that alters their lives.
Meet Sam. He works the red hot reservation line at one of New York’s
trendiest restaurants, where the best food inspires the worst behavior.
Coercion, petty threats, bribes, histrionics; a cast of desperate callers will
stop at nothing to land a prime reservation. Amid the barrage, can Sam still
manage to look out for himself?
Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, John Gallagher Jr. and Michael Shannon
star in Roundabout’s new Broadway production of four-time Pulitzer Prize
winner Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical masterwork. In a single day, we
meet the Tyrone family: the blustering actor-father, the opium-addicted
mother, the rebellious older brother and the poetic, sickly younger
brother. This drama explores the lack of communication that chain the
Tyrones together and threaten to destroy them.
CORT THEATRE 138 West 48th Street
Running time: 2h 30m
LYCEUM THEATRE 149 West 45th Street
Running time: 90min
AMERICAN AIRLINES THEATRE 227 West 42nd Street
Running time: TBD
MATILDA
SAM S. SHUBERT THEATRE
Running time: 2h 40min
SHUFFLE ALONG
225 West 44th Street
MUSIC BOX THEATRE 239 West 45th Street
Running time:2h 45min
Matilda is a little girl with intelligence and psychokinetic powers. She’s
unloved by her parents but impresses her schoolteacher and have a
profound effect on each other’s lives. Starring Tori Feinstein, Eliza Holland
Madore, Brooklyn Shuck and Fina Strazza as Matilda; also starring Matt
Harrington, Alison Luff, Lesli Margherita and Christopher Sieber.
George C. Wolfe revisits the classic 1921 Broadway musical, the first
to ever feature an all-black cast, with an all-new show exploring
the backstage drama around the show’s creation. Savion Glover will
choreograph and Audra McDonald will star.
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL​​​
SLEEP NO MORE
NEDERLANDER THEATRE
Running time: 2h 45min
208 West 41st Street
Motown The Musical, the hit show featuring music from the legendary
Motown catalogue, which ended a 738-performance Broadway run in
January 2015, keeps its promise to return. The musical brings to life the
true story of barrier-shattering Motown Records and its founder Berry
Gordy, who fights against improbable odds to turn his dream into a reality.
ON YOUR FEET!
MARQUIS THEATRE 1535 Broadway
Running time: 2h 15min
Best-selling recording and performing artist Gloria Estefan and producer/
musician husband Emilio have achieved the American dream, and the
musical tells about their journey from Cuban immigrants to global
superstars. Features the hit songs “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” and
“Conga.”
PARAMOUR
LYRIC THEATRE 213 West 42nd Street
Running time: TBD
The Lyric will host Cirque du Soleil’s first show created specifically for
Broadway. Set in the glamorous world of Golden Age Hollywood, this
groundbreaking event spins the tale of a beautiful young poet forced to
choose between love and art.
RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
NEW YORK SPECTACULAR
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 1260 Avenue of the Americas
Running time: TBD
This summer, join us at Radio City Music Hall to see the New York
Spectacular starring The Radio City Rockettes--an amazing show that
celebrates New York City in the summertime, and is centered around the
trip of a lifetime for two kids, who, while on a vacation in New York, are
separated from their parents.
SCHOOL OF ROCK
WINTER GARDEN THEATRE 1634 Broadway
Running time: 2h 15min
Dewey Finn is not making it as a rock god, but with a little help from the
students he is allegedly teaching, will he become a star? And will they?
A down-on-his-luck wannabe rock star poses as a substitute teacher
at a prestigious prep school to make ends meet. When he discovers his
students’ musical talents, he enlists his fifth-graders to form a rock group
and conquer the Battle of the Bands. Based on the 2003 hit movie.
THE MCKITTRICK HOTEL
Running time: 3h
530 W 27th Street
A legendary hotel. Shakespeare’s fallen hero. A film noir shadow of
suspense. Punchdrunk’s award-winning theatrical experience tells
Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth through a darkly cinematic lens.
Audiences move freely through the epic world of the story at their own
pace, choosing where to go and what to see, ensuring that everyone’s
journey is different and unique.
SOMETHING ROTTEN!
ST. JAMES THEATRE 246 West 44th Street
Running time: 2h 30min
The time is the ‘90s — the 1590s. Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom
are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that
Renaissance rockstar known as The Bard. When a local soothsayer
foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting
at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first
musical!
STOMP
ORPHEUM THEATRE 126 Second Avenue
Running time: 90min
Garbage can lids and brooms and sticks make up just a few of the
“instruments” used for this percussive symphony. Stomp has been packing
in audiences at the Orpheum Theatre since 1994, and is still running strong.
It is a high-energy, percussive symphony, coupled with dance.
THE BOOK OF MORMON
EUGENE O’NEILL THEATRE 230 West 49th Street
Running time: 2h 30min
From “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it’s The Book of
Mormon, winner of nine Tony Awards® including Best Musical. The New
York Times says it’s “the best musical of this century.” Jon Stewart of “The
Daily Show” calls it “a crowning achievement. So good it makes me angry.”
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
AMERICAN AIRLINES THEATRE
Running time: TBD
227 West 42nd Street
Set in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Cherry Orchard
chronicles a noblewoman’s return to her family estate after a five-year
absence to escape troubling memories of her son’s death. Lyubov
Ranevskaya arrives home to find the cherry orchard in full bloom, but the
finances of the estate on the verge of ruin.
SHE LOVES ME
THE COLOR PURPLE
She Loves Me follows Georg and Amalia, two parfumerie clerks who aren’t
quite the best of friends. Constantly bumping heads while on the job, the
sparring coworkers can’t seem to find common ground. But little do they
know, the anonymous romantic pen pals they have both been falling for
happen to be each other.
The acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory production moves to Broadway,
ten years after the original show opened at the Broadway Theatre.
Starring Cynthia Erivo and Jennifer Hudson. The Color Purple is a saga of
hope, inspiration and triumph. Based on the novel by Alice Walker and the
Warner Brothers/Amblin Entertainment motion picture.
STUDIO 54 254 West 54th Street
Running time: 2h 20min
BERNARD B. JACOBS THEATRE
Running time: 2h 35min
242 West 45th Street