Editorial
Lists
Curated roundups with the inclusion rule stated up front, kept current by date.
- Broadway shows for kids and families Six Broadway productions publish an age guidance of eight or under: The Lion King and Aladdin at six, and & Juliet, Wicked, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and Maybe Happy Ending at eight. Runtime matters more than the guidance for most children — these range from an hour and forty minutes to three hours forty-five.
- Broadway shows with a daily lottery Eighteen Broadway productions currently run a digital lottery. Entry is free and drawn at random, and winning tickets run from ten dollars for Hamilton to sixty for The Lion King. Most entries open the day before the performance and close mid-afternoon. Four platforms handle nearly all of them: Telecharge, Broadway Direct, Lucky Seat, and TodayTix.
- Broadway shows under two hours Five Broadway productions currently run under two hours. Four of them — Oh, Mary!, SIX, School Girls, and Maybe Happy Ending — play straight through with no intermission, between eighty and a hundred minutes. The Rocky Horror Show runs an hour and fifty with one intermission. Everything else running on Broadway takes two hours or more.
- Broadway shows closing soon Six Broadway productions currently have an announced final performance in the next six months: Titaníque, 860, SIX, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, & Juliet, and Now You See Me Live. Announced closings are usually confirmed four to twelve weeks ahead, so this list changes often and a show without a date here can still post one next week.
- Broadway shows opening soon Eighteen Broadway productions have an announced opening night between 17 September 2026 and 31 March 2027. Among the names attached: Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd, and Sarah Paulson in Small Mouth Sounds, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Ed Harris in Other Desert Cities, Billy Crystal in 860, and Rachel Zegler in Evita.
- Longest-running Broadway shows playing now Fourteen Broadway productions now running have passed their second anniversary. Chicago leads at close to thirty years, followed by The Lion King at twenty-eight and Wicked at twenty-two. Everything else playing on Broadway this week opened within the last two years, which is what makes these fourteen the exception rather than the shape of the business.