Theater Thursday - Upcoming Broadway Plays Winter/Spring 2025

Here is a look at some of the new plays coming to Broadway this Winter and Spring:

English

The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say? 

Todd Haimes Theatre (227 W. 42nd St.)

Now through 3/2

Opening Night 1/23

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.roundabouttheatre.org/get-tickets/2024-2025/english?url=%2Fget-tickets%2F2024-2025%2Fenglish%2F

Purpose

For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black political power and familial duty. Spirited, hilarious and filled with intrigue, PURPOSE is an epic family drama from one of the country’s most celebrated voices.

Hayes Theatre (240 W. 44th St.)

2/25 - 7/6

Opening Night 3/17

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit purposeonbroadway.com.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Sarah Snook of TV's Succession takes on 26 roles in this one actor version of the Oscar Wilde's classic story.

Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.)

3/10 - 6/15

Opening Night 3/27

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit doriangrayplay.com.

Goodnight and Good Luck

 

Based on the 2005 film of the same name and written by the same authors, the production will star George Clooney, in his Broadway debut, as Edward R. Murrow.

Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway)

3/12 - 4/3

Opening Night 6/15

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit goodnightgoodluckbroadway.com.

John Proctor is the Villain

At a high school in a rural town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible, but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. As they delve into the American classic, the students begin to question the play’s perspective and the validity of naming John Proctor the show’s hero. With deep wells of passion and biting humor, John Proctor is the Villain is a new comedy from a major new American voice, capturing a generation in mid-transformation, running on pop music, optimism, and fury, and discovering that their future is not bound by the past.

Booth Theatre (222 W. 45th St.)

3/20 - 6/22

Opening Night 4/14

or more information or to purchase tickets. visit johnproctoristhevillain.com

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Before the world turned upside down. Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy…and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.

Marquis Theatre (210 W. 46th St.)

Beginning performances 3/28

Opening Night 4/22

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit broadway.strangerthingsonstage.com

Here are a couple of play revivals that will also be arriving on Broadway soon.

Othello

Spurned for promotion, Iago’s relentless quest for vengeance against Othello and his wife, Desdemona plunges them into a shocking web of deception and betrayal.

Stariring Denzel Washingtonom & Jake Gyllenhaal

Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 W. 47th St.)

3/24 -6/8

Opening Night 3/23

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit othellobway.com

Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross is set in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers. Whoever sells the most wins a car; whoever sells the least is out of a job – a ruthless environment where each character will do anything to come out on top. 

Palace Theatre (160 W. 47th St.)

3/10 - 3/31

Opening Night 3/31

And that's a look at the plays coming in the second half of the current Broadway season.

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