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Best Plays in April 2025

Hells Kitchen at Shubert Theatre

Hells Kitchen

Nominated for an astounding 13 Tony Awards! This all-new inspirational musical is now showing on Broadway, beginning performances at Broadway's Shubert Theatre in March. Created by playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz and scored by Alicia Keys. Largely drawn from the award-winning singer's own story, the Hells Kitchen is based on Keys' own life growing up in the Bronx

Apr 1 - 30, 2025

Shubert Theatre

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Stranger Things - The First Shadow at Marquis Theater

Stranger Things - The First Shadow

Winner of two Olivier Awards including Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play! After a West End premiere, Broadway is set to be turned upside down due to this exciting new addition to the Duffer Brother's Stranger Things universe. Taking us back to the town of Hawkins in 1959, this new story by Kate Trefry, the Duffer Brothers, and playwright of the moment, Jack Thorne, features some of the Netflix show's favorite characters, including a young Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and Bob Newbie as they grapple with the first shadows of danger in the sleepy small town.

Apr 3 - 30, 2025

Marquis Theater

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Vanya at Lucille Lortel Theater

Vanya

After great acclaim for his incredible solo performance in London, Andrew Scott will be bringing his tour de force production to New York in 2025! Directed by Sam Yates, with design from Rosanna Vize, Scott takes on every role in this beautifully realized universal tale of familial strife, dashed hopes, ennui, and unrequited love.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Lyric Theatre

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Continuing the Harry Potter saga from the Deathly Hallows epilogue, The Cursed Child is a story created especially for the stage by original author J.K. Rowling and award-winning playwright Jack Thorne. Intelligent, emotional, and packed with spell-binding, magical special effects, The Cursed Child follows the adventures of a grown-up Harry, Ron, and Hermoine, as well as Harry and Ginny's son Albus and a certain Scorpius Malfoy.

Apr 1 - 30, 2025

Lyric Theatre

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The Play That Goes Wrong at Stage 4 New World Stages

The Play That Goes Wrong

Although export comedy smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong made its final Broadway bow at the Lyceum theater in January 2019, theatregoers and critics adore Mischief Theatre's first production so much that it simply moved to a long term home Off Broadway at the New World Stages! From humble off-West End beginnings at London's Old Red Lion fringe theater/pub in 2013 (rumour has it a mere four audience members attended its debut), the riotously funny rib-tickler of a show has grown to become a global phenomenon, merging slapstick physical comedy with a wry sense of tongue-firmly-in-cheek British wit and a winning self awareness.

Legacy of Light at Mccarter Theatre Center

Legacy of Light

Partially set right here in Princeton, Legacy of Light is a comedy about science, motherhood and outer space! In present-day Princeton a fantastically gifted space scientist is about to tackle the biggest unknown yet; becoming a parent. Meanwhile, looking three centuries into the past, in France in the 18th century a similarly skilled scientist who is also the writer Voltaire's lover discovers she's expecting a child.

Othello at Ethel Barrymore Theater

Othello

The stars are set to swap the screen for a Shakespearean script as Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal headline a Broadway revival of Othello! Directed by the acclaimed Kenny Leon and slated for spring 2025, this highly anticipated production will see Washington taking on the role of the titular Moorish general, while Gyllenhaal steps into the shoes of the infamous villain Iago.