Sarah Snook (The Picture of Dorian Gray) Francis Jue (Yellow Face) Hamilton has a 10th-anniversary reunion. To celebrate Hamilton's 10th birthday on Broadway, the original cast reunited for a special performance at the Tonys. The musical's official 10th anniversary followed on August 6, so the reunion was a great kickoff to the festivities. Get Hamilton tickets now. Paul Tazewell makes awards history. In March, Paul Tazewell became the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Costume Design (for Part 1 of the Wicked movie musical). In June, his Tony win for Death Becomes Her on Broadway made him the first costume designer in 73 years, and the second ever, to win an Oscar and a Tony in the same year. We won't be surprised if this living legend nabs another Oscar for Wicked: For Good next year! Get Death Becomes Her tickets now. 2025 theatre highlights Our favorite showtunes went viral. Fan-favorite shows made long-awaited returns. One musical defied gravity on screen for the second time. All this and more happened in 2025 — relive the biggest theatre moments from this year below. Wicked: For Good turns the world pink and green once more. Elphaba and Glinda flew into cinemas again in Wicked: For Good, the highly anticipated Part 2 of director John M. Chu's Wicked movie musical. Thank goodness for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, and the whole cast for giving us the thrillifying performances of our dreams. We wish we could see them do it all on Broadway, though the cast at the Gershwin Theatre is just as magical. Get Wicked tickets now. Masquerade welcomes the Phantom back to NYC. The Phantom of the Opera may have ended its 35-year Broadway run in 2023, but it's continued to haunt NYC. A mysterious teaser campaign including cryptic letters, scavenger hunts, and red carpet appearances by the Phantom himself all led up to the July premiere of Masquerade, an immersive reimagining of the blockbuster musical. It's as though the music of the night never stopped playing. Get Masquerade tickets now. Stranger Things: The First Shadow turns Broadway upside down. We understand how Hollywood magic can create a sci-fi spectacle like Stranger Things, but we have no idea how the creators of The First Shadow, the TV show's stage prequel, pulled off the large-scale, supernatural effects live. After bingeing the Netflix series's fifth and final season, you can check out The First Shadow to have your mind blown all over again. Get Stranger Things: The First Shadow tickets now. Death Becomes Her goes viral three times over. Julia Mattison and Noel Carey's score for this movie-to-musical adaptation had people dramatically lip-syncing all over the internet. If you don't think you've heard the songs <a href=“https://youtu.be/QiIu21PD4Lc?si=p41CBb49zBki9luZ” target="_blank">"Tell Me, Ernest," <a href=“https://youtu.be/RqGLIBGMCB0?si=mNZu8a1mlSGV5Zkc” target="_blank">"The Confrontation," or <a href=“https://youtu.be/C9w4qq63Wb0?si=COlpL7_DZJH2H3ML” target="_blank">"Let's Run Away Together," there's a good chance you have if you're on social media. Either way, they're worth experiencing live. Get Death Becomes Her tickets now. Liberation proves a surprise standout. Centered on a 1970s feminist group born in an Ohio rec center basement, Bess Wohl's Liberation premiered off Broadway at the below-ground Laura Pels Theatre in January. It collected so many awards and rave reviews that it got a Broadway transfer this fall, making it all but a guaranteed Tonys contender. Small basements can make big impacts. Get Liberation tickets now. Mamma Mia! and Heathers have homecomings. There's no place like home, as Mamma Mia! and Heathers can attest. Both musicals had their first NYC revivals at their original venues: Mamma Mia! at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre , where it premiered in 2001, and Heathers at Off-Broadway's New World Stages , where it debuted in 2014. Get Heathers tickets now. Chess finally gets its Broadway revival. Despite having a short, ill-fated NYC premiere in 1988, the musical Chess — which uses American/Soviet chess matches to represent political and romantic battles — has developed a cult following, and talk of a revival has surfaced and resurfaced in the theatre community for decades. At long last, Chess is back on the boards, with Aaron Tveit , Lea Michele , and Nicholas Christopher powerfully delivering the beloved score. Checkmate. Get Chess tickets now. George Clooney gets Broadway on the airwaves. Usually, the only way to experience a Broadway show in real time is by, well, going to the theatre. But Good Night, and Good Luck — co-written and produced by its star, George Clooney — broke the mold by broadcasting its second-to-last performance live on CNN. It was a historic first: Though a few shows have livestreamed performances online in recent years, a live performance of a Broadway play had never been televised before. Prince Faggot gets everyone talking. One of the year's buzziest plays has a name many theatregoers daren't even say. The title of Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot may have initially sparked gasps and pearl-clutching, but its story — in which queer actors imagine Prince George of Wales as a grown-up, openly gay man — invited real and complex conversation about who is allowed to feel like royalty. John Proctor Is the Villain gets the green light. One of 2025's most thrilling Broadway moments was the ending scene of Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor Is the Villain, in which a group of high schoolers perform a wild, cathartic dance to "Green Light" by Lorde. Online and at post-show dance parties, the song was the anthem of both the play and its many fans who cried, cheered, and danced along. Lorde herself even came one night! Jeremy Jordan goes yodeling. You've seen him sing, act, and dance — and as the title cave explorer in the musical Floyd Collins, fans of Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan got to see him yodel. That's something you don't hear on Broadway every day — or every year. Happy anniversaries! "HamilTen" may be 2025's most publicized theatre birthday, but it's not the only one. The sci-fi family drama Marjorie Prime is having a 10th-anniversary Broadway premiere; it previously ran off Broadway in 2015. And the quirky musical charmer The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee returns to its Off-Broadway roots with a 20th-anniversary revival at New World Stages . There's more to look forward to in 2026 as Chicago marks its 30th anniversary and The Book of Mormon , its 15th. It's already shaping up to be a great year in theatre. 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