Some of the best Broadway shows are coming to an end this year. There are several limited runs whose final curtain is coming soon and cheap Broadway tickets are becoming more difficult to find. If you’ve been waiting to see a show your friends won’t stop talking about, you might want to consider snagging your tickets for these Tony-winning, cult-favorite musicals soon.
Several of these productions are taking their final bows within months of each other. Below are eight of the buzziest Broadway and Off-Broadway shows closing in NYC in 2026.
Keep reading to learn more about the shows leaving Broadway this year, as well as how to find the cheapest Broadway tickets and last-minute NYC theater deals.
1. Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Closing: January 3, 2027 | Marquis Theatre | Runtime: ~3 hours 15 minutes (two intermissions)
Stranger Things: The First Shadow has just announced its final extension. Set 24 years before the events of the TV series, this prequel play traces the origin story of Henry Creel, the terrifying force who becomes Vecna, through jaw-dropping stagecraft, illusions, and special effects that earned it four Tony Awards, including a special Tony for Illusions and Technical Effects.
With the West End production closing just one week earlier, this is genuinely the beginning of the end for The First Shadow worldwide. It technically plays into the first days of 2027, but tickets are already tightening up as fans race to see it before the portal to the Upside Down closes for good. If you’re planning a trip to NYC around the 2026 holidays, this production belongs on your list.
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2. Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Closing: August 30, 2026 | Al Hirschfeld Theatre | Runtime: ~2 hours 45 minutes (one intermission)
Baz Luhrmann’s Tony-winning jukebox spectacular is closing its latest Broadway chapter. This dazzling iteration of Moulin Rouge! mashes up decades of pop hits, from Elton John to Katy Perry to Lady Gaga and more, to tell the devastating love story set in a turn-of-the-century Parisian nightclub.
The Al Hirschfeld Moulin Rouge! is one of the most viral sets on Broadway and a perennial favorite for first-time theatergoers. Don’t miss this storied production before its lights at the Hirschfeld go down, for good.
3. Gazillion Bubble Show
Closing: September 7, 2026 | New World Stages (Off-Broadway) | Family-friendly runtime
A true only-in-New-York institution, the Gazillion Bubble Show has delighted families Off-Broadway for nearly two decades, blending bubble artistry, laser lights, and circus-style spectacle into an only-in-NYC experience for all ages.
By the time it closes, the production will have played over 6,800 performances to more than a million audience members. If you’ve got kids (or you’re just a kid at heart), this is your last chance to catch “The Summer of Bubbles” farewell run.
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4. Titanique
Closing: September 20, 2026 | St. James Theatre | Runtime: 100 minutes (no intermission)
Part parody, part fever dream, and entirely hilarious, Titanique retells the story of Titanic through the music of Céline Dion, performed by a Céline impersonator who insists she was actually on the ship. What started as a scrappy Off-Broadway cult hit became an Olivier Award winner and a full Broadway transfer, and it’s become one of the most quotable, meme-able nights out in New York theater. Comedy and theater fans alike should book before it sails off into the sunset.
5. School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
Closing: November 1, 2026 | Samuel J. Friedman Theatre | Runtime: approximately 75–80 minutes (no intermission)
Nearly a decade after its Off-Broadway premiere, Jocelyn Bioh’s biting, humorous and witty play about colorism and cliques finally makes its Broadway debut for a very limited run this fall. You won’t have very many opportunities to see this show before it closes, so we wanted to put it on your radar now.
Set at a Ghanaian boarding school in 1986 during the run-up to the Miss Ghana pageant, the Manhattan Theatre Club production stars Denée Benton, Patina Miller, and Jasmine Amy Rogers under Tony-nominated director Whitney White. This whip-smart play is aiming to make strong impressions with theater fans this fall, and is slated to be one of the most sharp productions to hit NYC soon.
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6. Heathers: The Musical
Closing: November 8, 2026 | New World Stages (Off-Broadway) | Runtime: ~2 hours (one intermission)
Heathers: The Musical, based on the 1988 cult-classic film, has become one of Off-Broadway’s biggest word-of-mouth hits. Due to popular demand, the production has extended its run four separate times before finally announcing its final performance.
Dark, funny, and packed with an unapologetically theatrical pop-rock score, Heathers follows Veronica Sawyer’s rise and reckoning inside the social hierarchy of Westerberg High. If “Big Fun” has wormed its way into your head for good, don’t wait for the national tour. See the original New York staging before it’s gone.
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7. The Imaginary Invalid
Closing: November 22, 2026 | Todd Haimes Theatre | Molière comedy, limited engagement
Tony winner Bill Irwin returns to Broadway, and to Molière, in a new adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid. This 17th-century farce about a professional hypochondriac scheming to marry off his daughter to a doctor is both fearless and funny.
Directed by Broadway veteran Brandon J. Dirden, this run is the first Broadway mounting of the play in nearly six decades and opens Roundabout Theatre Company’s new season. Theater purists and comedy lovers alike should catch this rare, limited-run classic before it closes.
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8. A Walk on the Moon
Closing: August 22, 2026 | Laura Pels Theatre (Off-Broadway) | Runtime: ~2 hours 30 minutes (one intermission)
Based on the beloved 1999 film, the new musical A Walk on the Moon follows a Brooklyn housewife who rediscovers herself during a transformative summer in the Catskills at the height of the 1969 counterculture movement.
With a book by original screenwriter Pamela Gray and a starry cast led by Talia Suskauer, Max Chernin, and Andréa Burns, it’s a strictly limited engagement that closes shortly after opening. Theater fans, you have only a small window to catch it before it’s gone for good.
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