With the the 79th Annual Tony Awards behind us, we have a brief period to breathe and look back on all the incredible theatre of the 2025–26 season—from seeing the “vampire curse” on Broadway finally being lifted, to witnessing cherished classics like CATS: The Jellicle Ball through a dazzling new perspective.
Now that the festivities is done, it’s time to gear up for a whole new lineup of shows, as the first Broadway production of 2026-2027 season has already begun running!
With exciting new works like Paranormal Activity and reimagined favorites like the highly anticipated transfer of Jamie Lloyd’s Evita, there’s so much more to be excited for. And this time next year, you’ll be looking back on the newest Tony winners and recalling how you first read about their upcoming work right here on Playbill! Here’s a rundown of every show that has been announced for the 2026–27 Broadway season.
Christopher Jackson, Rita Wilson, and Nia Vardalos in Celebrity Autobiography
(Evan Zimmerman)
Celebrity Autobiography
Currently making audiences laugh at the Shubert Theatre, Celebrity Autobiography features an ever-changing cast of celebrity notables reading excerpts from real celebrity autobiographies. Created by Eugene Pack and co-developed with Dayle Reyfel, and produced by screen star Rita Wilson, each night’s cast and material will be different. Slated to appear during the run are Paula Abdul, Brooke Adams, Pamela Adlon, Jason Alexander, anny Burstein, Bob Costas, Katie Couric, and many, many more.
Paranormal Activity
Broadway, brace yourselves for jump scares: Paranormal Activity – A New Story Live on Broadway is about to thrill audiences. Transferring from sold-out runs from London to Los Angeles, Felix Barrett will direct the stage adaptation of the 2007 screen horror favorite, penned by Levi Holloway. A notorious title in the contemporary horror film genre, Paranormal Activity follows couple Katie and Micah, soon after they move to a suburban home. Katie believes that a nefarious presence has been haunting her since she was a child, so the pair set up a camera in their bedroom to catch any strange activity that occurs while they sleep—cue the demon noises.
Paranormal Activity will begin performances at the August Wilson Theatre August 14, with an official opening night set for September 15.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy will make its anticipated Broadway premiere through Manhattan Theatre Club. The Jaja’s African Hair Braiding playwright has reunited with director Whitney White for the work, which follows a group of high school girls at Ghana’s Aburi Girls Boarding School fixated on competing in an upcoming beauty pageant, when a transfer student from America arrives and makes the competition more complex. The work made its world premiere Off-Broadway via MCC in 2017, and has since become something of a regional theatre darling.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play will begin performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre September 8. An official opening night will be set at a later date.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joe Keery, Allison Janey, Ed Harris, Lily Rabe, and John Benjamin Hickey
A star-studded revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony-winning play Other Desert Cities will bring forth the Broadway debut of 11-time Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who will play Polly opposite Ed Harris as Lyman, Oscar winner Allison Janney as Silda, Joe Keery (Stranger Things) as Trip, and Lily Rabe as Brooke. The play—which premiered Off-Broadway via Lincoln Center Theater in 2011 before transferring to Broadway the same year—centers on a writer in a family with opposing political views who is threatening to publish a tell-all memoir exposing a long-held family secret. The work was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prizer for Drama.
Other Desert Cities will begin performances at the Hudson Theatre September 29 ahead of an October 18 opening night.
Wanted, formerly known as Gun & Powder, will be the first new musical featured in the 2026-2027 season. Solea Pfeiffer (Hadestown, Almost Famous, Moulin Rouge! The Musical) and Liisi LaFontaine (West End’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Dreamgirls) will star as Mary and Martha Clarke, respectively. It is based on the true story of Black twin sisters who passed as white in 1893 Texas. Wanted features a book and lyrics by Angelica Chéri (descendant of the Sisters Clarke), music by Ross Baum, and choreography by Chelsey Arce (Sweeney Todd revival, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child). Obie winner and Tony nominee Stevie Walker-Webb is directing.
Wanted will begin previews at the Jones Theatre October 15 prior to an official opening November 8.
The Fantasticks
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s record-breaking Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks will finally make its way to Broadway in a new version directed and choreographed by Tony winner Christopher Gattelli (Schmigadoon!, Death Becomes Her, Newsies). The production reimagines the central romantic pair—traditionally Matt and Luisa—as a same-sex pair Matt and Lewis, reinterpreting the story’s allegory of love, longing, and reconciliation through a gay lens. The show’s original pair of fathers, who secretly orchestrate the clandestine love affair between their children, will now be mothers.
The Fantasticks will begin performances at the Hayes October 22, with opening night set for November 16.
It’s been a minute since a Shakespeare comedy was featured on a Broadway stage, but it will have been worth the wait to see Marvel megastars Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell onstage in the transfer of this West End production from Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Hiddleston will play Benedick alongside Atwell as Beatrice. The classic tale of rivalry-turned-romance will be helmed by Tony winning director-producer Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Blvd). The production, set in a modern dance party with loads of pink props, will play for 10 weeks only.
Much Ado About Nothing will begin performances October 31 at the Winter Garden Theatre, with an official opening night on November 19.
Hayley Atwell, Tom Hiddleston, and company of Much Ado About Nothing
(Marc Brenner)
Raúl Esparza will return to Broadway in the title role of new rock musical Galileo, which features a book by Emmy winner Danny Strong (Chess) and music and lyrics by Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak. Esparza will be joined onstage by Jeremy Kushnier and Joy Woods. Michael Mayer is directing. The musical centers on the historical scientist Galileo Galilei, a pioneering astronomer widely considered to be the father of modern science, and the pioneer of the scientific method. The work made its world premiere in 2024 at Berkeley Rep. Both Esparza and Kushnier (as Bishop Maffeo Barberini) will be reprising their performances from that run.
Galileo will begin performances at the Shubert Theatre November 10 ahead of a December 6 opening night.
Rosamund Pike will lead the newest play from Prima Facie playwright Suzie Miller, who has reunited with director Justin Martin for the new drama about a London Crown Court judge who must hold her family together when an unthinkable event rocks their life. Pike reprises her role from the National Theatre and West End productions. A filmed performance from the first London run has been broadcast globally via the National’s NTLive series.
Inter Alia will begin performances November 10 at the Music Box Theatre, with an official opening night on December 1.
Evita
She’s gonna be a part of the Big Apple! Director Jamie Lloyd’s recent London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita will make a Broadway transfer in the new year, with Rachel Zegler reprising her Olivier Award-winning performance as Eva Perón. The musical follows Lloyd’s Tony-winning London and Broadway revival of Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, which got audiences talking with a minimalist take on the traditionally opulent musical. His Evita was first staged in 2019 at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, coming to London’s West End in a revised take last year. One of Lloyd Webber’s most mainstream-acclaimed musicals, Evita features numerous songs that have now become standards like “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” “Buenos Aires,” and “Rainbow High.”
Evita will begin performances at the Winter Garden Theatre February 27, 2027, with an official opening night on March 25, 2027.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Pulitzer Prize finalist comedy will be produced by Second Stage in the spring, with Evan Cabnet directing. Making its Broadway premiere, the play follows ambitious magazine assistants who seize a traumatic event to get ahead professionally.
Gloria will begin performances at the Hayes Theatre March 17, 2027, with an official opening night April 5, 2027.
Company of Paddington the Musical
(Johan Persson)
STAY TUNED
These productions have announced intentions to hit Broadway this season, but have not yet confirmed official dates or theatres.
Paddington
As confirmed by 2026 Tony Awards host Pink tonight, Paddington is indeed coming to Broadway! Producer Sonia Friedman has said that the musical about Britain’s most beloved bear will make his Broadway debut spring 2027. Get those marmalade sandwiches ready!
The Imaginary Invalid
A new adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy will be staged by director Brandon J. Dirden. The production will star Bill Irwin, who has adapted the work about a rich hypochondriac and the scheming people around him.
The Imaginary Invalid has been announced for Fall 2026, with dates TBA at the Todd Haimes Theatre.
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Billy Crystal will return to Broadway in his new autobiographical solo show centered around the house his family lost in the Palisades fire that ravaged Southern Californian in early 2025. Scott Ellis will be directing the work, which draws its title from the address of Crystal’s longtime home.
860 has been announced for Fall 2026, with dates TBA.
Dreamgirls
A long-awaited revival of Dreamgirls will finally take the stage with an all-new production directed by Camille A. Brown. One of Broadway’s most beloved titles—which was adapted into a hit 2006 film—the musical follows the show business story of a Black ’60s girl group, somewhat modeled on The Supremes, The Shirelles, and others. Featuring music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and a book by Tom Eyen, Dreamgirls contains hit songs such as “And I Am Telling You (I’m Not Going),” “One Night Only,” and “I Am Changing.”
Dreamgirls has been announced for Fall 2026, with dates TBA.
Awake and Sing!
Tyne Rafaeli will direct a revival of Clifford Odets’s landmark play about a Depression-era Brooklyn family, starring Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, and Jeremy Shamos.
Awake and Sing! has been announced for December 2026, with dates TBA at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, and Jeremy Shamos
Dolly: An Original Musical
With a book written by Dolly Parton herself alongside writer Maria S. Schlatter, the new biomusical will explore the legendary singer-songwriter’s life and career, all set to her own music. Bartlett Sher will direct the production, which will have three performers portraying three stages of Parton’s life.
Dolly: An Original Musical has been announced for 2026, with dates TBA.
Private Lives
Noël Coward’s classic 1931 comedy has been announced for a revival on Broadway in 2026, produced by Jeffrey Richards, Playful Productions, Rebecca Gold, and M/B/P Productions, though any further information has yet to to be revealed.
Mix and Master
Tony winners Kara Young (Proof, Purlie Victorious) and Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone) return to Broadway in Mix and Master, a new play from Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew, Ain’t Too Proud). It follows a rising DJ’s efforts to save the last record shop in Brooklyn. Kamilah Forbes will direct. Mix and Master will bow at the Todd Haimes Theatre in Winter 2027.
The Full Monty
Last seen on Broadway in 2002, the hit musical comedy The Full Monty will return in the new year, directed by Leigh Silverman. With a book by McNally and music and lyrics by Yazbek, the musical comedy received 10 Tony nominations in 2001 for its heartfelt-yet-hilarious depiction of a group of out-of-work Buffalo men who turn to full-frontal striptease to make ends meet.
The Full Monty has been announced for Spring 2027, with dates TBA at the Todd Haimes Theatre.
Montauk
Laura Linney will lead David Hare’s play next spring about two artists whose lives are entangled both professionally and romantically. Daniel Sullivan will direct the work, making its world premiere.
Montauk has been announced for Spring 2027, with dates TBA at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning classic will return to Broadway in a new production directed by Sam Gold. The play explore the family dynamics of a Mississippi Delta cotton tycoon who doesn’t know he’s dying of cancer—just one of many falsehoods the Pollitt family has been inflicting upon itself.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has been announced for Spring 2027, with dates TBA.