The directory
Every Broadway show, decoded
Synopsis, creative team, awards, and current tour dates for the biggest titles on Broadway and the touring circuit. Click any card to jump to that show’s page.
Contemporary
Hamilton
2015
The room where it happens — eight shows a week.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Book of Mormon
2011
The filthiest, smartest satire on Broadway.
Trey Parker, Matt Stone & Robert Lopez
Aladdin
2014
A whole new world, with a thousand-light-bulb genie.
Alan Menken
Hadestown
2019
An old song — told once more, down below.
Anaïs Mitchell
Dear Evan Hansen
2016
You will be found.
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Come From Away
2017
Welcome to the rock — the week the world stopped.
Irene Sankoff & David Hein
Beetlejuice
2019
It’s showtime — with a four-octave ghost.
Eddie Perfect
The Outsiders
2024
Stay gold — under stage rain.
Jamestown Revival & Justin Levine
Suffs
2024
The suffragists, finally on the marquee.
Shaina Taub
Water for Elephants
2024
Run away to the circus — with a full live acrobatic cast.
PigPen Theatre Co.
The Great Gatsby
2024
In my younger and more vulnerable years — on the Broadway stage.
Jason Howland
Some Like It Hot
2022
A band of brass, a chase, and a tap break that stops the show.
Marc Shaiman
A Strange Loop
2022
A big Black queer-ass Broadway musical — self-aware and self-scored.
Michael R. Jackson
Pop / jukebox
MJ the Musical
2022
Inside the mind of the King of Pop.
The Michael Jackson Catalog
Moulin Rouge!
2019
Spectacular, spectacular — and jukebox on steroids.
Pop Catalog (mash-up)
& Juliet
2022
What if Juliet didn’t die at the end?
Max Martin (catalog)
Six
2021
Divorced, beheaded, live in concert.
Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss
Jersey Boys
2005
Oh what a night — in four-part New Jersey harmony.
Bob Gaudio
Mamma Mia!
2001
Here we go again — 22 ABBA hits, one Greek island.
Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
2014
From Brooklyn songwriter to Tapestry — one piano at a time.
Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil (catalog)
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
2019
Simply the best — on her own terms.
Tina Turner (catalog)
Ain't Too Proud
2019
The Temptations — in Sergio Trujillo choreography.
Motown catalog
Back to the Future: The Musical
2023
Great Scott — the DeLorean, live on stage, 88 mph.
Alan Silvestri & Glen Ballard
Modern classic
The Lion King
1997
The circle of life — live on stage since 1997.
Elton John & Lebo M
Wicked
2003
The untold story of the witches of Oz.
Stephen Schwartz
The Phantom of the Opera
1988
The chandelier still falls.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Les Misérables
1987
Do you hear the people sing?
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Rent
1996
No day but today.
Jonathan Larson
Miss Saigon
1991
The last chopper out of the embassy — every performance.
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Into the Woods
1987
Be careful what you wish for — Sondheim's fairy-tale cross-section.
Stephen Sondheim
The Producers
2001
Springtime for Hitler — and a record Tony haul.
Mel Brooks
Avenue Q
2003
Sesame Street for grown-ups — if they'd gone to liberal arts school.
Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx
Spamalot
2005
Lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
John Du Prez & Eric Idle
Revival staple
Chicago
1975
Murder, greed, corruption and all that jazz.
John Kander
Cats
1982
Now and forever — on the Jellicle stage.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
A Chorus Line
1975
One singular sensation.
Marvin Hamlisch
Cabaret
1966
Willkommen — and welcome to Weimar.
John Kander
Sweeney Todd
1979
Attend the tale — the score Sondheim is most known for.
Stephen Sondheim
Annie
1977
Tomorrow — eight shows a week, every holiday season.
Charles Strouse
Golden age
West Side Story
1957
Something’s coming — and it swings in 5/4.
Leonard Bernstein
Fiddler on the Roof
1964
Tradition — and the cost of breaking it.
Jerry Bock
The Sound of Music
1959
The hills are alive — and ticket demand still is too.
Richard Rodgers
My Fair Lady
1956
The rain in Spain — and the rest of the canon.
Frederick Loewe
Oklahoma!
1943
The show that rewrote what a musical could be.
Richard Rodgers
South Pacific
1949
Some enchanted evening — with a political edge.
Richard Rodgers
Guys and Dolls
1950
Luck be a lady — in Runyon’s New York.
Frank Loesser
Hello, Dolly!
1964
It’s so nice to have you back where you belong.
Jerry Herman
Gypsy
1959
The greatest American musical — if you ask Sondheim.
Jule Styne
The King and I
1951
Shall we dance — one more polka through the palace.
Richard Rodgers
Funny Girl
1964
Don't tell me not to live — the greatest eleven-o'clock number ever written.
Jule Styne
