Best Broadway shows in New York in March 2025

Here are our top picks of theatre to check out in March 2024, one of the busiest months for new Broadway and Off-Broadway openings, meaning plenty to check out.

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Good Night, and Good Luck
BOOP! The Musical
Wicked
John Proctor Is the Villain
The Last Five Years
Smash
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Floyd Collins
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Just in Time
Vanya
The Jonathan Larson Project
Sumo
We Had a World
Love Life
Ghosts

Good Night, and Good Luck

Stars on stage
Play
Drama
Screen to stage
Historical

Academy Award winner George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in this thrilling historical drama based on the 2005 film of the same name. Good Night, and Good Luck follows broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow (Clooney) and Senator Joseph McCarthy, who led the anti-Communist witch hunt known as the Red Scare. Now, the timely drama about justice and political integrity comes to Broadway.

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BOOP! The Musical

Musical comedy
Family show
Broadway
Screen to stage

You’ve seen her in cartoons, now see her come to life on stage: Betty Boop takes New York by storm in this new musical. See the sweet, sassy, spit-curled icon of joy, empowerment, and playfulness find love and adventure in the Big Apple. You are capable of amazing things, and Betty Boop is here to take you on a journey toward them.

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Wicked

Musical
Broadway
Stage to screen

Defying gravity on Broadway for over 20 years, Wicked is as popular as ever thanks to the award-winning movie adaptation that's up for 10 Oscars in March. See how Glinda and Elphaba became the good and wicked witches of Oz in this thrillifying musical full of exuberant dance, enormous spectacle, and soaring bubbles and broomsticks.

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John Proctor Is the Villain

Stars on stage
Play with music
Comedy
Drama
Broadway

See Sadie Sink (The Whale, Stranger Things) star in this bitingly funny new play that puts a spin on an American classic. Directed by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor (The Outsiders), Kimberly Belflower’s play traces Georgia students studying The Crucible, whose lead character, they find, may or may not be as heroic as he seems.

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The Last Five Years

Grammy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren star in Jason Robert Brown’s beloved musical, on Broadway for a limited run. As Cathy works backwards from bitter end to hopeful beginning, Jamie moves forward in their love story. Somewhere along the way, they meet in the middle.

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Smash

Broadway
Musical comedy
Screen to stage

It’s a comedy about a musical: Smash is the highly anticipated stage adaptation of NBC's musical TV series featuring fan-favorite characters and more from this cult hit. As with the series, Smash follows the process of bringing Bombshell, a fictional musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe, to Broadway. Are you ready to let it be your star?

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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Stars on stage
Musical
Broadway

Hey, old friends! Two Broadway icons, Tony Award winners Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga, headline an extraordinary event dedicated to the legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, songwriter of hit shows including Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Gypsy, West Side Story, and more. This musical celebration is unlike any other, with songs sung by Broadway’s biggest talents.

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Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Play
Broadway
Screen to stage

What happened before the world turned upside down? Find out in Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the dazzling Broadway show with special effects galore. Fans of the Netflix series will rejoice, but no prior knowledge of the show is needed: this standalone story will thrill anyone who enjoys Broadway spectacle, compelling characters, and an exciting plot set 30 years before the events of the TV show.

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Floyd Collins

Broadway
Musical
Stars on stage
Drama

This musical about a cave goes deep: Adam Guettel’s sweeping, elegiac, and utterly singular musical finally comes to Broadway this spring. Only heaven knows how glory goes, as Floyd (Jeremy Jordan) sings in the finale of this remarkable musical. Directed by visionary Tony Award nominee Tina Landau, who also wrote the book, Floyd Collins is a cult favorite and features a bluegrass-inspired score not often heard in musical theatre.

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Stars on stage
Broadway
Play
Drama

ABC means "always be closing," but in this starry revival, it may also mean "always be celeb-ing." Emmy Award winners Kieran Culkin (Succession), Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), and Bill Burr (Immoral Compass) co-star in David Mamet’s Pulitzer-winning masterpiece, directed by Tony Award winner Patrick Marber (Leopoldstadt), about ruthless salesmen in a Chicago real estate office.

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Just in Time

Jukebox musical
Broadway
Stars on stage

Entertainment icon and Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff stars as Bobby Darin, the crooner behind hits including “Beyond the Sea,” “Mack the Knife,” “Splish Splash,” and “Dream Lover.” An inventive new play that transforms the theatre into a speakeasy, Just in Time is a unique jukebox musical that’s immersive, swinging, and a full-scale experience, top to bottom. Tony Award winner Alex Timbers (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) directs.

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Vanya

Stars on stage
Play
Drama
Off-Broadway

See two-time Emmy Award nominee Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Ripley) star in a bold solo production of Vanya, based on Anton Chekhov’s classic drama Uncle Vanya about unrequited desires and dreams. In a five-star review, London Theatre's critic said, “Andrew Scott delivers a tour-de-force performance, and his stage chops are at full tilt in his one-man manifesto.”

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The Jonathan Larson Project

Off-Broadway
Musical

There’s no day but today to see this new musical. The songs of Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Larson (Rent) come to life in this original show. The Jonathan Larson Project brings together dozens of songs from unproduced Larson musicals, plus pop tunes found in files and boxes after the visionary writer died in 1996. Larson’s signature rock style transformed the sound of Broadway, and audiences will hear it anew in this fresh musical.

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Sumo

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

Yes, that sumo: While training at an elite sumo facility in Tokyo, six men practice, love, play, and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s mesmerizing new drama. Action-packed and full of heart, this powerhouse drama takes audiences into the ring under the direction of Obie Award winner Ralph B. Peña.

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We Had a World

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

See the newest play from Tony Award nominee Joshua Harmon, acclaimed author of Bad Jews, Admissions, and Prayer for the French Republic. Joanna Gleason (Tony Award winner for Into the Woods) and Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen, No Hard Feelings) star as a dying grandma and her grandson, for whom she has one wish: write an extremely bitter, vicious, no-holds-barred play about her family. Cue the drama!

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