Explore a PLAY or MUSICAL
This is a tiny selection of all the available plays and musicals you could explore. Look to Playbill, Broadway.com, or the New York Times for what is playing now. For contemporary plays and musicals, look up what was nominated or won for Tony Awards, or what plays and musical received the Pulitzer Prize.
PLAYSAdelphoe by Terence
Agamemnon by Aeschylus Angels in America by Tony Kushner The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco Candida by George Bernard Shaw The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris The Crucible by Arthur Miller Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley Everyman Fat Ham by James Ijames Fences by August Wilson for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon Lysistrata by Aristophanes Master Harold and the boys by Athol Fugard Medea by Euripides A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht Menaechmi by Plautus Noises Off by Michael Frayn Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Our Town by Thorton Wilder Picnic by William Inge Proof by David Auburn Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Tartuffe by Moliere Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez |
MusicalsAnything Goes by Cole Porter
Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb Carousel by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Chicago by John Kander and Fred Ebb A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban Dear Evan Hansen by by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser Gypsy by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim Hairspray by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda Hello, Dolly by Jerry Herman In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Les Miserables by Claude Michel-Schonberg and Alain Boublil Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman The Music Man by Meredith Wilson My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Next to Normal by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey Oklahoma by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Once on this Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty Parade by Jason Robert Brown Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart Pirates of Penzance by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, & Ira Gershwin The Producers by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan Rent by Jonathan Larson The Scottsboro Boys by John Kander and Fred Ebb Showboat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim Wicked by Stephen Schwartz |