10 Broadway Shows for Guys Who Don’t Like Theatre
All theatre is for everyone! But if the man in your life isn’t a fan, here are productions he may actually enjoy
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The Book of Mormon
Open run. The show is frequently available at our TKTS Booths.
Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez’s blasphemous blockbuster about the misadventures of two Mormon missionaries in Ugandan manages to be hilarious, irreverent and uplifting all at once. Fans of the crass humor in Parker and Stone’s unstoppable animated series South Park will be instant converts to this musical, which delivers dirty jokes, obscene gestures and a merciless satire of religion with catchy tunes and palpable joy.
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Chicago
Open run. The show is frequently available at our TKTS Booths.
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Dead Outlaw
Closes June 29. If you’re a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets. The show is also frequently available at our TKTS Booths.
This gleefully morbid musical is based on the insane true story of Elmer McCurdy, a turn-of-the-20th-century outlaw whose mummified body became a sideshow attraction that ended up in a horror ride in a California amusement park. The show traces McCurdy’s jaw-dropping journey, before and after his demise. It’s a high-spirited hoot full of dark humor and kick-ass rock-folk songs by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna.
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Glengarry Glen Ross
Palace Theatre, 160 West 47th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues
Closes June 28. The show is occasionally available at our TKTS Booths.
You only have a few more weeks to catch this starry revival of David Mamet’s profanity-and-laugh-filled tragedy about a ruthless real estate office where the salesmen go for glory or go home. Succession‘s Kieran Culkin, Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr headline this tale of machismo run amok.
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Hamilton
Open run.
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 West 45th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues
Open run. If you’re a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets. The show is also frequently available at our TKTS Booths.
Director Alex Timbers’ eye-popping stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie centers on the love triangle between a 19th-century writer, a nightclub temptress and a lecherous Duke. Audiences of all genders are seduced every evening by this romantic, over-the-top musical featuring a cavalcade of pop and rock hits and a stunning, scantily clad ensemble.
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Operation Mincemeat
John Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Closes February 15, 2026. The show is frequently available at our TKTS Booths.
This veddy British musical comedy revolves around a real-life World War II plot to foil the Nazis by planting fake military plans on a corpse outfitted as a downed British pilot. The cast of five changes characters as quickly as costumes in this fast-paced, history-inspired romp that shares DNA with Mel Brooks and Monty Python.
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The Outsiders
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 West 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Open run. The show is frequently available at our TKTS Booths.
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The Play That Goes Wrong
New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Open run. If you’re a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets. The show is also frequently available at our TKTS Booths.
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Open run. The show is frequently available at our TKTS Booths.
A stage prequel to the blockbuster Netflix series, Stranger Things: The First Shadow tells the backstory of the show’s main villain with heart-stopping special effects. Find out how all the strangeness began in this sci-fi stunner.
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