Deadline’s Theater Critic Greg Evans Picks His Top 10 Broadway Shows Of 2025

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• And they brought big box office numbers (and big ticket prices) with them.
• For a moment there, it seemed as though Broadway, still not fully recovered from Covid, had found its saviors.
• Related Stories Commentary Deadline’s Critics Pick Their Top 10 Films Of 2025 Documentary Deadline’s Matt Carey Picks His Top 10 Documentaries Of 2025 To be more specific, it seemed Broadway plays had discovered their saviors.
• Because the other major Broadway story of the year was the dismal reality faced by the Broadway musical.
• With the New York Times repeatedly shining a spotlight on the commercial failures of one highly anticipated musical after another — Smash, Boop!, Sunset Blvd., Cabaret, Gypsy, Redwood and, more recently, The Queen of Versailles — disappointing investors with multimillion-dollar losses, the future of the Broadway’s splashy, expensive stagings seemed (and seems) legitimately grim.