Keep Moving the Line: Top Broadway Shows in April 2025

As the Tony Awards deadline fast approacheth, a fresh Broadway season is in full swing, with dozens of musicals and plays opening throughout the spring. The rush of new shows began in March, with no signs of stopping in April — basically, everyone’s gotta open by April 27 if they want a shot at that 2025 Tonys gold.

With that in mind, it’s officially been months since anything has closed on the Great White Way, and it’s the perfect time to see hit shows like Hamilton, SIX, Redwood and MJ the Musical. Plus, SMASH has made its much-hyped leap from the TV screen to the stage in an inventive new musical adaptation, while Buena Vista Social Club brings the magic of the Cuban musical ensemble to thrilling, electric life nearly three decades after the group set the world alight with their self-titled album.

This month, you can also look forward to a musical adaptation of Real Women Have Curves, a thoroughly modern, bluesy retelling of PIRATES! The Penzance Musical and Dead Outlaw, fresh off its acclaimed run as the most-awarded Off-Broadway show of 2024.

In the end, no matter who lands a Tony nomination, the biggest winner is Broadway audiences, who get to feast on a bounty of new shows. Find out how to buy Broadway tickets to the cavalcade of amazing shows in NYC below.

Shows Opening on Broadway in April 2025

Real Women Have Curves

Based on the original 1987 stage play by Josefina López (and subsequent 2002 HBO film starring America Ferrera), Real Women Have Curves is a new musical take on the story of Ana García, a young Latina woman working in her family’s East Los Angeles garment factory as she follows her dreams. With music and lyrics by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez and a book by Lisa Loomer with Nell Benjamin, Real Women Have Curves began performances at the James Earl Jones Theatre on April 1, with opening night set for April 27.

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PIRATES! The Penzance Musical

The classic tale of Pirates of Penzance gets a modern reimagining with PIRATES! The Penzance Musical from Roundabout Theatre Company. Headlined by Ramin Karimloo, David Hyde Pierce and RuPaul’s Drag Race legend Jinkx Monsoon, the starry revival sets Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1879 opera in New Orleans for a jazzy, bluesy good time. Performances are set to begin April 4 at the Todd Haimes Theatre.

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Dead Outlaw

Dead Outlaw is alive on Broadway! Following its acclaimed Off-Broadway run throughout 2024, the one-of-a-kind musical from David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna and Itamar Moses is transferring to the Longacre Theatre starting April 12. Dead Outlaw was inspired by the life — and unforgettable afterlife — of Elmer McCurdy, a Wild West train robber-turned-corpse whose mummified body became a national celebrity on America’s traveling carnival circuit during the first half of the 20th century.

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Top Shows on Broadway in April 2025

Hamilton

Nearly 10 years since it became a bonafide phenomenon, Hamilton remains a tour de force on Broadway. Telling the life story of Alexander Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning sensation combines hip-hop and history to give the Founding Father his long-deserved moment in the spotlight. Set to fan-favorite songs like “My Shot,” “History Has Its Eyes On You” and “Burn,” the musical also brings figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr to life as it charts a course from the early days of the American Revolution through the Battle of Yorktown, the Constitutional Convention, cabinet battles and more.

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Redwood

Get lost in the magic of the redwoods as Idina Menzel makes her triumphant return to Broadway for the first time in nearly a decade. In the strikingly original Redwood, the Tony winner plays Jesse, a New York career woman who is running from tragedy, only to find escape and healing in the majestic forest of Northern California. Directed by Tina Landau, Redwood also features a score by first-time Broadway composer Kate Diaz, which Menzel describes in her exclusive interview with Ticketmaster as “soulful, organic, earthy-sounding music” simultaneously filled with “huge wonder and grandeur.”

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SIX

Divorced, beheaded, survived: there’s never been a better time to see the Tony Award-winning SIX. The herstorical musical reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as powerful pop divas. With an all-female cast, each queen takes on the role of a modern pop star, sharing her story and arguing who had the toughest fate. Created by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss during their time at Cambridge University, SIX debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017. Following a successful run in London’s West End, the show made its Broadway premiere in October 2021, with Moss making history as the youngest female director of a Broadway musical.

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Smash

Get ready for a bombshell to drop, because Smash is finally on Broadway! Twelve years after the original series took its final bow, this brand-new stage adaptation puts a whole new spin on the cult-loved show. Giving audiences a peek behind the curtain at the making of Bombshell, a fictional musical about Marilyn Monroe, Smash features beloved songs from the NBC series including “Let Me Be Your Star,” “Don’t Forget Me” and “They Just Keep Moving the Line.”

In an exclusive interview with Ticketmaster, star Krysta Rodriguez describes the new take on the series as “Smash fanfiction…it’s the multiverse of Smash. But it’s songs you love, it’s dancing you’ve seen, it’s characters you’ve come to be familiar with — in different dynamics with different outcomes.”

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Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista Social Club’s self-titled 1997 album sold more than a million copies and won the Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Tropical Latin Album, and now the record-breaking Cuban ensemble’s music is taking over Broadway. Buena Vista Social Club transports audiences to Old Havana, where a woman named Omara leaves a steady gig at the Tropicana to discover the music that will change her life forever, including boleros like “Lágrimas Negras,” “Dos gardenias,” “Silencio” and more.

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MJ the Musical

Wanna be startin’ something? Grab tickets to MJ the Musical, the jukebox biopic about the life and legacy of the late, great Michael Jackson. Filled with hit after hit from the King of Pop’s songbook, the Tony-winning production traces Jackson’s Motown roots as Little Michael to his ascendance as pop music royalty — all set against the backdrop of preparations for his 1992 Dangerous World Tour. (Plus, check out an exclusive pre-show playlist from MJ’s current leading man, Elijah Rhea Johnson.)

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