{"id":378205,"date":"2026-10-20T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378205\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:54:07","slug":"the-10-best-u-s-cities-to-see-shows-in-before-they-head-to-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378205\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best U.S. cities to see shows in before they head to Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The robust Broadway and Off-Broadway scene makes New York one of the world\u2019s top theatre destinations. However, NYC isn\u2019t the only one in the country \u2014 in fact, many of your favorite Broadway musicals and plays got their starts in venues across America. Cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. are known as incubators for Broadway-bound productions, and theatre lovers in those cities can see shows in early stages before they become the next big thing.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve rounded up 10 major American cities and states where lots of future Broadway and Off-Broadway shows originate. If you\u2019re traveling to any of these cities soon, you might want to see what shows will be playing. You never know what could become the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/1-wicked-musical-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The robust Broadway and Off-Broadway scene makes New York one of the world\u2019s top theatre destinations. However, NYC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-378205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}