Round-Up: The 2023-2024 Broadway Season in Reviews | Playbill

Playbill Universe Round-Up: The 2023-2024 Broadway Season in Reviews

As we eagerly await Tony nominations, check in with how this season's 39 new productions fared with critics.

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As the 2023-24 Broadway season comes to a close and we eagerly await the April 30 reveal of this year's Tony Award nominations, we're looking back at how all of the new shows this season fared with critics. Thirty-nine new productions—including 22 musicals and 17 plays—opened between June 2023 and April 2024, and Playbill collected reviews for all of them. 

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry are set to announce this year's Tony Award nominees April 30, as previously reported. Winners will be named June 16 at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater. Stay tuned to Playbill.com for all the latest Tony Awards news.

Check out the review roundups for each production below. 

Grey House
Opened June 6, 2023 at the Lyceum Theatre. Closed July 30.

Once Upon a One More Time
Opened June 22, 2023 at the Marquis Theatre. Closed September 3.

Just For Us
Opened June 26, 2023 at the Hudson Theatre. Closed August 19.

Here Lies Love
Opened July 20, 2023 at the Broadway Theatre. Closed November 26.

The Cottage
Opened July 24, 2023 at the Hayes Theater. Closed October 29.

Back to the Future
Opened August 3, 2023 at the Winter Garden Theatre.

The Shark Is Broken
Opened August 10, 2023 at the John Golden Theatre. Closed November 19.

El Mago Pop
Opened August 20, 2023 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Closed August 27.

Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Opened September 27, 2023 at the Music Box Theatre. Closed February 4, 2024.

Melissa Etheridge: My Window
Opened September 28, 2023 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Closed November 19.

Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Opened October 3, 2023 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Closed November 19.

Merrily We Roll Along
Opened October 10, 2023 at the Hudson Theatre.

Gutenberg! The Musical!
Opened October 12, 2023 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Closed January 28, 2024.

I Need That
Opened November 2, 2023 at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Closed December 30.

Harmony
Opened November 13, 2023 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Closed February 4, 2024.

Spamalot
Opened November 16, 2023 at the St. James Theatre. Closed April 7, 2024.

How to Dance in Ohio
Opened December 10, 2023 at the Belasco Theatre. Closed February 11, 2024.

Appropriate
Opened December 18, 2023 at the Hayes Theater. Transferred to the Belasco Theatre March 25, 2024.

Prayer for the French Republic
Opened January 9 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Closed March 3.

Days of Wine and Roses
Opened January 28 at Studio 54. Closed March 31.

Doubt
Opened March 7 at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Closed April 21.

The Notebook
Opened March 14 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

An Enemy of the People
Opened March 18 at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Water for Elephants
Opened March 21 at the Imperial Theatre.

The Who's Tommy
Opened March 28 at the Nederlander Theatre.

The Outsiders
Opened April 11 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.

Lempicka
Opened April 14 at the Longacre Theatre.

The Wiz
Opened April 17 at the Marquis Theatre.

Suffs
Opened April 18 at the Music Box Theatre.

Stereophonic
Opened April 19 at the John Golden Theatre.

Hell's Kitchen
Opened April 20 at the Shubert Theatre.

Cabaret
Opened April 21 at the Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre.

The Heart of Rock and Roll
Opened April 22 at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

Patriots
Opened April 22 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Mary Jane
Opened April 23 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Illinoise
Opened April 24 at the St. James Theatre.

Uncle Vanya
Opened April 24 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

The Great Gatsby
Opened April 25 at the Broadway Theatre.

Mother Play
Opened April 25 at the Hayes Theater.

 
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