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Best Broadway Shows in January 2025
Which shows on Broadway are the best to see this January on stage? Check out our list!
By: Sidney Paterra Dec. 31, 2024
What's the best show on Broadway? What are the hardest tickets to get on Broadway?While the answer to those questions will be different for every kind of theatregoer, there are indeed qualifications that make some Broadway shows stand out above others.
Below, we've rounded up ten Broadway shows to see in January 2025 that have earned critical acclaim, gained audience praise, and of course... earned Tony Awards.
Death Becomes Her
Playing on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
About: Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies… until Madeline steals Helen's fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that's to die for.
Why It's One of the Best: Following an acclaimed pre-Broadway run in Chicago, this critical darling is offically open on Broadway with a cast of scene-stealing Broadway favorites.
You'll Especially Love It: If you love kooky comedy, fierce lady duets, and die for the movie, this show's for you!
Maybe Happy Ending
Playing on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre
About: Inside a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Oliver lives a happily quiet life listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re a HelperBot 3, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow HelperBot neighbor Claire asks to borrow his charger, what starts as an awkward encounter leads to a unique friendship, a surprising adventure, and maybe even...love?
Why It's One of the Best: Winner of the Richard Rodgers Award, Maybe Happy Ending is is helmed by visionary director and Tony Award winner Michael Arden and stars Darren Criss, and in a stunning Broadway debut- Helen J Shen.
You'll Especially Love It: If you love intimate, quirky love stories and dig fresh, original musicals, this one checks all of the boxes.
Sunset Blvd
Playing on Broadway at the St. James Theatre
About: Haunted by her memories and dreams, movie star Norma Desmond yearns to return to the big screen. A struggling screenwriter who can't sell his scripts to the Hollywood studios may be her only hope, until their dangerous and compelling relationship leads to disaster. Drenched in champagne and cynicism, Sunset Blvd. focuses the lens of ambitions and frustrations of its characters and puts their intoxicating need for fame and adoration in stark close-up.
Why It's One of the Best: Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis return to play their Olivier Award-winning roles in this acclaimed new revival from the brilliant mind of Jamie Lloyd.
You'll Especially Love It: If musical thriller is the genre for you, this part-camp, part horror spin on a classic is for you.
Gypsy
Playing on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre
About: Gypsy, suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, is Broadway’s ultimate tale of mothers and daughters, ambition and fame, and the lengths we’ll go in pursuit of the American dream.
Why It's One of the Best: Widely considered one of the best musicals ever written, this fifth Broadway revival of the beloved classic arrives with the greatest stage actor of her generation as Mama Rose- six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald.
You'll Especially Love It: If you want to see a new take on an old story and can't get enough Audra, run, don't walk to the Majectic!
The Outsiders
Playing on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
About: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of “outsiders” battle with their affluent rivals, the Socs. This thrilling new Broadway musical navigates the complexities of self-discovery as the Greasers dream about who they want to become in a world that may never accept them.
Why It's One of the Best: Not only was The Outsiders nominated for 12 Tony Awards, but it is the reigning Best Musical of 2024 and not to be missed!
You'll Especially Love It: If you have any kind of relationship with the classic book or the beloved movie, this is a story to revisit.
Oh, Mary!
Playing on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre
About: Oh, Mary! follows a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism and suppressed desires abound in this one act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln through the lens of an idiot.
Why It's One of the Best: The Broadway run comes following a sold out, twice extended world premiere run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Written by and starring Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton, the New York Times Critic’s Pick has been extended through March 2025.
You'll Especially Love It: If you love dark comedy and live for 80 minute run-times, this one will check both boxes!
The Great Gatsby
Playing on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre
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About: The story follows eccentric and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of the lost love of his youth, Daisy Buchanan.
Why It's One of the Best: Big Broadway is back with The Great Gatsby, which is roaring on and bringing audiences to their feet eight times a week.
You'll Especially Love It: If you love glitzy, vibrant musicals and show-stopping vocal performances, this musicals is for you!
Hamilton
Playing on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
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About: Hamilton is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre—a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education.
Why It's One of the Best: No musical has had as big an impact on pop culture in this century as Hamilton. Not only is it the only Pulitzer Prize winning musical on Broadway right now, but it is perhaps the most celebrated and certainly most talked about piece of theatre in years.
You'll Especially Love It: This musical deserves all of the hype you've already heard. Yes, you can watch a full version on Disney+, but there is nothing like seeing it live.
Hadestown
Playing on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre
About: Following two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Anaïs Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and Rachel Chavkin’s poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.
Why It's One of the Best: Following acclaimed runs off-Broadway, in Canada, and the UK, Hadestown finally made it to Broadway at swept awards season on its arrival. The Tony winning Best Musical of 2019 is still a hit of mythic proportions.
You'll Especially Love It: No musical on Broadway sounds quite like Hadestown. Mitchell spent over a decade crafting this musical, and it shows.
Hell's Kitchen
Playing on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre
About: There’s a place where the rhythm of the city is music, where every corner has a story, and every window is a kaleidoscope. Where a girl can step out of her apartment and find the world. That’s Hell’s Kitchen.
Why It's One of the Best: Straight from its acclaimed run off-Broadway at The Public Theatre, the new musical, conceived by the innovative mind of 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, and was nominated for the most Tony Awards of the season- 13.
You'll Especially Love It: If you love stories about mother-daughter relationships and feel like New York City is the most magical place on earth, this is the show for you.
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