Updated: October 31
An exciting season is underway, with the Broadway debuts of movie stars Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Forest Whitaker and Keira Knightley and TV star George Takei! The return of Al Pacino, Audra McDonald, Lea Salonga and Nina Ariana! The pairing of James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson! There are also new musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gloria Estefan, and George C. Wolfe.
(See Fall 2015 Off Broadway Guide as well)
And then there’s Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. 
Listed below, chronologically by opening dates, are the shows officially scheduled so far on Broadway in the Fall 2015-2016 season, May 2015 through January 2016, with basic information and sometimes my two cents. Both the schedule and my opinions will be revised and updated as the season progresses. (Click for a rundown on long-running Broadway shows)
See also: Off-Broadway Fall 2015 Guide
An Act of God
Theater: Studio 54
Playwright: David Javerbaum
Director: Joe Montello
Opened: May 28
Closing: August 2, 2015
Cast: Jim Parsons Christopher Fitzgerald Tim Kazurinsky
God in the person of The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons has rewritten the Ten Commandments in a joke-filled comedy begat by the author of the Twitter feed @TweetofGod.
Twitter feed: @ActofGodBway
Penn and Teller
Marquis Theater
First preview: July 7
Opening: July 12
Closing: August 16. 2015
Cast: Penn Jillette,Teller
The duo returns with their familiar mix of magic and comedy. @pennjillett and @MrTeller
Amazing Grace
Nederlander Theatre
Authors: Christopher Smith and Arthur Giron
First preview: June 25
Opens: July 16
Director: Gabriel Barre
Cast: Josh Young, Erin Mackey, Chuck Cooper, Chris Hoch, Tom Hewitt, Stanley Bahorek , Harriett D. Foy, Laiona Michelle , Rachael Ferrera, Elizabeth Ward Land
A new musical about the creation of the spiritual song ‘Amazing Grace’ by John Newton, the son of a slave trader. Twitter feed: @agmusical
Hamilton
Richard Rodgers Theater
Author: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Director: Thomas Kail
First preview: July 13
Opens: August 6
Cast: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Carleigh Bettiol, Ariana DeBose, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sydney James Harcourt, Sasha Hutchings, Christopher Jackson, Thayne Jasperson, Stephanie Klemons, Anthony Ramos, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Rua, Phillipa Soo, Seth Stewart, Betsy Struxness, Ephraim Sykes, Voltaire Wade-Greene
The groundbreaking hip-hop opera about the life and times of the Founding Father on the ten dollar bill transfers to Broadway amid much huzzahs, including by me.
Twitter feed: @HamiltonMusical
SEPTEMBER
Deaf West’s Spring Awakening
Brooks Atkinson
Authors: Book and lyrics by Stephen Sater, music by Duncan Sheik
Director: Michael Arden
First preview: September 8
Opens: September 27
Closes: January 9, 2016
Cast: TBA
An 18-week run of this revival of the 2006 Broadway musical, based on Frank Wedekind’s 19th century German play about the coming-of-age, and coming-to-rebellion, of a dozen young people. This production, originally mounted in Los Angeles, is in English and American Sign Language
Twitter feed: @SA_Musical
OCTOBER
Old Times
American Airlines Theater
Playwright: Harold Pinter
Director: Douglas Hodge
First preview: September 17
Opens: October 6
Closing: Nov 29 2015
Cast: Clive Owen, Eve Best, Kelly Reilly
Owen makes his Broadway debut in this Roundabout revival of Pinter’s 1971 dark comedy about a friendly visit from Deeley’s wife’s friend Anna that turns into a battle for power
Fool For Love
Samuel J. Friedman Theater
Playwright: Sam Shepard
Director: Daniel Aukin
First preview: September 15
Opens: October 8
Closing: TBA
Cast: Nina Arianda, Sam Rockwell
Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell star in Manhattan Theatre Club’s revival of Sam Shepard’s 1983 play about a brother and sister who share an unrequited love.
The Gin Game
John Golden Theater
Playwright: D.L. Coburn
Director: Leonard Foglia
First preview: September 21
Opens: October 14
Closing: TBA
Cast: Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones
Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones team up for the revival of this Pulitzer-winning play about a man and a woman in a nursing home who turn a game of gin rummy into a battleground.
Dames at Sea
Helen Hayes Theater
Authors: Jim Wise (music), George Haimsohn (book and lyrics), Robin Miller (book and lyrics)
Director: Randy Skinner
First Preview: September 24
Opens: October 22
Cast: John Bolton Mara Davi Danny Gardner Eloise Kropp Leslie Margherita Cary Tedder
First revival of the 1968 musical pokes fun at movie musicals of the 1930s. The cast of Ruby’s first Broadway show learn that their theater is being demolished, so they decide to perform on a battleship Twitter feed: @DamesatSeaBway
Sylvia
Cort Theater
Author: A.R. Gurney
Director: Dan Sullivan
First Preview:October 2
Opens: October 27
Cast: Annaleigh Ashford, Julie White, Robert Sella
Annaleigh Ashford and Julie White star in this revival of A.R. Gurney’s 1995 comedy about a man who adopts a dog (Ashford) that causes a crisis in his marriage. First preview planned for September 25.
Therese Raquin
Studio 54
Playwright: Helen Edmundson adaptation of Emile Zola Director: Evan Cabnet
First Preview: October 1
Opens: October 29
Cast: Keira Knightly, Judith Light, Gabriel Ebert, Matt Ryan
A new stage adaptation of Zola’s novel. “In this tale of love, lust, betrayal, and guilt, Thérèse (Knightley) has made peace with her loveless marriage to a weak man when her world is turned upside down by Laurent walking through the door
NOVEMBER
King Charles III
Music Box Theater
Playwright: Mike Bartlett
Director: Rupert Goold
First Preview: October 10
Opens: November 1
Cast: Tim Pigott-Smith, Oliver Chris, Richard Goulding, Adam James,Margot Leicester, Miles Richardson, Tom Robertson, Sally Scott, Tafline Steen,Lydia Wilson
A Broadway transfer of the 2015 Olivier award for best new play imagining Prince Charles’ ascent to the throne. Twitter feed: @KingCharles3
On Your Feet
Marquis Theater
Authors: Gloria Estefan (music), Alexander Dinelaris (book)
Director: Jerry Mitchell
First Preview: October 5
Opens: November 5
Cast: Ana Villafañe, Josh Segarra
Singer Gloria Estefan tells the story of her and her husband Emilio Estefan Twitter feed: @OnYourFeetBway
Allegiance
Longacre
Authors: Music and lyrics by Jay Kuo, book by Marc Acito, Kay Kuo, Lorenzo Thione
Director: Stafford Arima
First Preview: October 6
Opens: November 8
Cast: George Takei, Lea Salonga, Telly Leung, Katie Rose Clarke, Michael K. Lee, Christopheren Nomura, Greg Watanabe
A new musical based on George Takei’s family’s experiences in an American internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Twitter feed: @AllegianceBway
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A View from the Bridge
Lyceum Theater
Playwright: Arthur Miller
Director: Ivo Van Hove
First Preview: October 21
Opens: November 12
Cast: Mark Strong, Nicola Walker, Phoebe Fox.
This will be the fifth production on Broadway of Miller’s Greek tragedy of a play set on a Brooklyn waterfront in the 1950s; the last was in 2010 starring Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber. However, it marks the Broadway debut of the much-praised Belgium avant-garde director Van Hove, who wowed New York audiences just last year with his innovative Off-Broadway productions of Scenes from a Marriage and Angels in America. His View from the Bridge is a transfer from London.
Misery
Broadhurst Theater
First preview: Oct 22 2015
Opening: Nov 15 2015
Closing: Feb 14 2016
Director: Will Frears
Writer: William Goldman, from the novel by Stephen Kin
Cast: Bruce Willis, Laurie Metcalf
Bruce Willis makes his Broadway debut with Laurie Metcalf in William Goldman’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a popular writer held hostage by an insane fan
China Doll
Gerald Schoenfeld Theater
Playwright: David Mamet
Director: Pam MacKinnon
First Preview: October 21
Opens: November 19
Cast: Al Pacino, Fran Kranz
David Mamet’s new two-character play about a billionaire, Mickey Ross (Pacino), who has just bought a new airplane for his young fiancée as he prepares to go into semiretirement; on his way he suddenly gets a phone call.
Twitter feed: @ChinaDollBway
DECEMBER
The Color Purple
Bernard Jacobs Theater
Authors: Music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, book by Marsha Norman
Director: John Doyle
First Preview: November 10
Opens: December 10
Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson, Danielle Brooks
A revival of the 2005 musical based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Twitter feed: @BwayColorPurple
School of Rock—The Musical
Winter Garden Theater 
Authors: Lyrics by Glenn Slater, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and from the movie, book by Julian Fellowes
Director: Laurence Connor
First Preview: November 9
Opens: December 6
Cast: Alex Brightman, Sierra Boggess
An adaptation of the 2003 Jack Black movie about a really bad substitute teacher who enlists his fifth-grade class to form a rock group to compete in the Battle of the Bands.
Twitter feed: @SORMusical
Fiddler on the Roof
Broadway Theater 
Authors: Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) and Joseph Stein (book)
Director: Bartlett Sher
First Preview: November 20
Opens: December 20
Cast: Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, Adam Kantor, Alexandra Silber
A revival of the hugely and justly popular 1964 musical about a Jewish milkman and his daughters in hostile 19th century Russia. Twitter feed: @FiddlerBroadway
Noises Off
American Airlines Theater
Playwright: Michael Frayn
Director: Jeremy Herrin
First Preview: December 17
Opens: January 14, 2016
Closing; TBA
Cast: Andrea Martin, Jeremy Shamos
Andrea Martin stars in the Roundabout revival of this 1983 backstage comedy with lots of door-slamming.
JANUARY
Our Mother’s Brief Affair
Samuel J. Friedman Theater
Playwright: Richard Greenberg
Director: Lynne Meadow
First Preview: December 28
Opens: January 20
Closing: TBA
Cast: Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin stars in yet another collaboration between Greenberg and Manhattan Theatre Club artistic director Meadow, this one about a mother who confesses a small infidelity that has big consequences.
