Floyd Collins
Based on true events, this musical drama by Tina Landau (“Redwood”) and Adam Guettel (“Days of Wine and Roses”) stars Jeremy Jordan in the title role of a cave owner and explorer in 1925 Kentucky who creates a national media sensation when he is trapped deep underground. Taylor Trensch plays Skeets Miller, the diminutive cub reporter who descends into the cave to conduct a series of interviews with Floyd and help get him out. Landau directs. (Through June 22 at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theater.) Read the review.
The Last Five Years
Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical of doomed romance, which arrived Off Broadway in 2002 and later became a movie starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, comes to Broadway for the first time. Adrienne Warren, a Tony winner for “Tina,” stars as Cathy opposite Nick Jonas as Jamie, New Yorkers whose marriage can’t bear the tension between his swift success as a novelist and her lack of it as an actress. Whitney White (“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”) directs. (Through June 22 at the Hudson Theater.) Read the review.
Smash
The TV series about the making of a Broadway musical has itself become a Broadway musical: a backstage comedy leading up to the opening of “Bombshell,” a musical about Marilyn Monroe. Directed by the five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman, it has a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (“Hairspray”), whose dozens of songs for the series include “Let Me Be Your Star,” and choreography by Joshua Bergasse. The book is by Rick Elice and Bob Martin; Brooks Ashmanskas, Krysta Rodriguez and Kristine Nielsen are among the cast. (Through June 22 at the Imperial Theater.) Read the review.
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet’s luxuriantly crude, bare-knuckled real estate drama, which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, gets its third Broadway revival. Kieran Culkin, last on Broadway a decade ago in “This Is Our Youth,” stars as Richard Roma — the Al Pacino role in the movie adaptation — opposite Bob Odenkirk (as Shelley Levene, the Jack Lemmon role), Bill Burr, Michael McKean, Donald Webber Jr., Howard W. Overshown and John Pirruccello. Patrick Marber, a 2023 Tony winner for his production of “Leopoldstadt,” directs. How’s that for a lead? (Through June 28 at the Palace Theater.) Read the review.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Theatergoing admirers of the HBO drama “Succession” love to ascribe its savvy artistry partly to the considerable stage chops among its cast. Now Sarah Snook, the Australian actor who played Shiv Roy on the series, makes her Tony-winning Broadway debut in Kip Williams’s intricately high-tech retelling of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel. Snook takes on all 26 characters, a feat that won her raves, and a 2024 Olivier Award, in the London run of this Sydney Theater Company production. (Through June 29 at the Music Box Theater.) Read the review.
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
Bernadette Peters, a favorite of Stephen Sondheim, is back on Broadway for the first time since “Hello, Dolly!” in this sparkly tribute to the composer, a revue of his songs imported from London’s West End by way of Los Angeles. Also starring Lea Salonga, with a large cast that includes Kate Jennings Grant, Bonnie Langford, Beth Leavel, Gavin Lee, Jason Pennycooke and Joanna Riding, it’s a Cameron Mackintosh production directed by Matthew Bourne. (Through June 29 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.) Read the review.
Sunset Boulevard
Nicole Scherzinger took home a Tony for reprising her blistering London performance as the onetime Hollywood star Norma Desmond in Jamie Lloyd’s radically unfusty rethink of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, which also won the Tony for best musical revival. Making striking use of live video, and a powerful case that Norma has by no means faded, Scherzinger, Lloyd and the show all scooped up trophies at the 2024 Olivier Awards. (Through July 20 at the St. James Theater.) Read the review.
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Ramin Karimloo follows up his delicious turn in “Funny Girl” by stepping into the boots of the Pirate King in this new comic twist on Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta “The Pirates of Penzance.” Also starring David Hyde Pierce as the rhyming Major-General and Jinkx Monsoon as the nanny, this adaptation by Rupert Holmes, a double Tony winner for “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” sends the pirate ship to New Orleans. Scott Ellis directs; Warren Carlyle choreographs. (Through July 27 at the Todd Haimes Theater.) Read the review.
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