Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2023-2024 season. The shows are listed chronologically by opening date* (not by first preview), with the title linked to the show’s official website.
It only includes shows that as of now have an official opening date and a theater. More is to come; much will be changed. This guide is updated.
May
GREY HOUSE
Theatre: Lyceum Theatre
First Preview: April 29, 2023
Opening: May 30, 2023
Closed: July 30
Cast: Laurie Metcalf, Tatiana Maslany, Paul Sparks, Sophia Anne Caruso, Cyndi Coyne, Colby Kipnes, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Eamon Patrick O’Connell, Millicent Simmonds
Writer: Levi Holloway
Director: Joe Mantello
Levi Holloway’s new horror play about a couple who crashes their car in the mountains and seek shelter in an isolated cabin.
My review
June
ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME
Theatre: Marquis Theatre
First Preview: May 13, 2023
Opening: June 22, 2023
Closed: September 3, 2023
Cast:: Briga Heelan, Justin Guarini, Jennifer Simard, Adam Godley, Brooke Dillman, Aisha Jackson, Ryann Redmond, Tess Soltau
Writers: Britney Spears (music), Jon Hartmere (book)
Directors: Keone & Mari Madrid
A jukebox musical featuring the hits of Britney Spears are woven into a feminist spin on fairy tales, after a reading group for Cinderella, Snow White and other fairy tale princesses read Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique”
JUST FOR US
Hudson Theater
First Preview: June 22, 2023
Opening: June 26, 2023
Closing: August 19, 2023
Written and performed by Alex Edelman
Director: Adam Brace†
Stand-up comic Alex Edelman’s Obie-winning solo show is about his visit as a Jew to a meeting of antisemites.
July
HERE LIES LOVE
Broadway Theater
First Preview: June 17, 2023
Opening: July 20, 2023
Cast: Arielle Jacobs, Jose Llana, Conrad Ricamora
Writers: David Byrne (concept, music & lyrics), Fatboy Slim (lyrics)
Director: Alex Timbers
The musical about the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos transformed the Public Theater into a disco, and transform the Broadway theater to make it just as immersive — something that hasn’t been done on Broadway since “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.”.
THE COTTAGE
Hayes Theater
First Preview: July 7, 2023
Opening: July 24, 2023
Closing: October 29, 2023
Starring: Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, Lilli Cooper
Writer: Sandy Rustin
Director: Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander makes his Broadway directing debut in this Noel Coward-like comedy set in the English countryside in 1923, when Sylvia (Bundy) decides to expose her affair to both her husband and to her lover’s wife.
August
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Winter Garden Theater
First Preview: June 30, 2023
Opening: August 3, 2023
Cast: Roger Bart, Casey Likes, Hugh Coles, Liana Hunt, Jelani Remy, Nathaniel Hackmann
Writers: Alan Silvestri & Glenn Ballard (music & lyrics), Bob Gale (book)
Director: John Rando
A musical based on the 1985 movie adapted by the movie’s co-creators, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.
THE SHARK IS BROKEN
Theatre: John Golden Theatre
First Preview: July 25, 2023
Opening: August 10, 2023
Cast: Ian Shaw
Writer: Ian Shaw, Joseph Nixon
Director: Guy Masterson
Writer and performer Ian Shaw is the son of Robert Shaw, who portrayed the shark-obsessed fisherman Quint in Jaws. This play is a comedic exploration of the behind-the-scenes drama that took place during the filming of the 1975 Steven Spielberg film
EL MAGO POP
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: August 17, 2023
Opening: August 20, 2023
Closing: August 27, 2023
Starring: Antonio Díaz
Creator: Antonio Díaz
Directors: Antonio Díaz and Mag Lari
An illusionist
September
PURLIE VICTORIOUS
Music Box Theater
First Preview: September 7
Opening Date: September 27
Cast: Leslie Odom, Jr., Vanessa Bell Calloway, Billy Eugene Jones, Noah Pyzik, Noah Robbins, Jay O. Sanders, Heather Alicia Simms, Bill Timoney, and Kara Young. Kenny Leon directs
Writer: Ossie Davis
Director: Kenny Leon
About: Ossie Davis’ comedy of a traveling preacher in the Jim Crow-era South will receive its first Broadway revival.
Melissa Etheridge: My Window
Circle in the Square
First preview: September 14
Opening: September 28
Closing: November 19
Directed by Amy Tinkim
Cast: Melissa Etheridge
The Grammy and Academy Award winning rock star tales of her childhood in Kansas and her groundbreaking career highlights
October
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater
First preview: September 12
Opening: October 3
Written by Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by Whitney White
Cast: Brittany Adebumola, Maechi Aharanwa, Rachel Christopher, Kalyne Coleman,Somi Kakoma, Lakisha May, Nana Mensah, Michael Oloyede, Dominique Thorne, Zenzi Williams
A sweltering summer day at Jaja’s bustling hair braiding salon in Harlem, where every day, a lively and eclectic group of West African immigrant hair braiders are creating masterpieces on the heads of neighborhood women
My review. Also, Jaja live-streamed
Merrily We Roll Along
Hudson Theater
First Preview: September 19, 2023
Opening: October 10
Closing: March 24, 2024. Extended to July 7.
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, Krystal Joy Brown, Katie Rose Clarke, Reg Rogers
Writers: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), George Furth (book)
Director: Maria Friedman
About: The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s famously problematic musical that goes backward in time telling the story of three friends who lose the idealism of their youth. My review of the production Off Broadway
Gutenberg The Musical
James Earl Jones Theater
First Preview: September 15
Opening: October 12
Closing: January 28, 2024
Starring: Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells
Writers: Scott Brown and Anthony King,
Director: Alex Timbers
Gad and Rannells, the original stars of “The Book of Mormon,” reunite for this two-handed spoof of a bad Broadway musical, portraying two aspiring musical theater writers, Bud and Doug, who are putting on an investor’s reading of their new work about the invention of the printing press, which takes many liberties to make it more Broadway-worthy, adding a love interest, fabricating a villain, and getting everything wrong. First presented twenty years ago at the comedy club Upright Citizens Brigade by the duo who went on to dramatize Beetlejuice.
November
I NEED THAT
Roundabout’s American Airlines Theater
First Preview: October 13 2023
Opening: November 2
Closing: December 23
Starring: Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito, Ray Anthony Thomas
Writer: Theresa Rebeck
Director: Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy about a hoarder facing eviction.
HARMONY
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: October 18, 2023
Opening: November 13, 2023
Starring: Sean Bell, Danny Kornfeld, Zal Owen, Eric Peters, Blake Roman, Steven Telsey
Writers: Barry Manilow (music), Bruce Sussman (book & lyrics)
Director: Warren Carlyle
A musical based on the fascinating true story of The Comedian Harmonists, a German singing group in the 1930s made up of Jews and Gentiles that was so popular that the Nazis tolerated them…for a time. It took Manilow and Sussman twenty-five years to get this show to New York. My review of Harmony when it was Off-Broadway.
Spamalot
St James
First preview: October 31
Opening date: November 16
Book and lyrics by Eric Idle
Music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle
Direction and choreography by Josh Rhodes
Cast: Christopher Fitzgerald as Patsy, James Monroe Iglehart as King Arthur, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer as The Lady Of The Lake, Ethan Slater as The Historian/ Prince Herbert,Jimmy Smagula as Sir Bedevere, Michael Urie as Sir Robin, Nik Walker as Sir Galahad
The first Broadway revival of the 2005 Tony-winning musical “lovingly ripped from the film classic, Monty Python and the Holy Grail” with everything from “flying cows to killer rabbits, British royalty to French taunters, dancing girls, rubbery shrubbery, and of course, the lady of the lake. “
December
How to Dance in Ohio
Belasco
First preview: November 15
Opening date: December 10
Book and lyrics by Rebekah Greer Melocik, music by Jacob Yandura
Directed by Sammi Cannold
In this musical based on an HBO documentary of the same name, seven autistic young adults at a group counseling center in Columbus, Ohio, prepare for a spring formal dance—a challenge that breaks open their routines as they experience love, stress, excitement, and independence.
Appropriate
Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theater
First preview: November 28
Opening date: December 18
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Cast: Sarah Paulson
The Lafayette family has returned to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate, exposing some long-hidden secrets and buried resentments.
January, 2024
Prayer for the French Republic
MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater
First preview: December 19
Opening date: January 9
Writer: Joshua Harmon
Director: David Cromer
In 1944, a Jewish couple in Paris desperately awaits news of their missing family. More than 70 years later, the couple’s great-grandchildren find themselves facing the same question as their ancestors: “Are we safe?” My review of the play Off-Broadway.
Days of Wine and Roses
Studio 54
First preview: January 6
Opening: January 28
Book by Craig Lucas, Based on the play by JP Miller and the Warner Bros. film
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel
Directed by Michael Greif
Cast: Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James
A Broadway transfer of the stage adaptation of the sad, dark story about a couple who fall in love with alcohol – originally a 1958 teleplay starring Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie, then a 1962 film with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. I raved about it Off-Broadway.
March
Doubt: A Parable
Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theater
First preview: February 2, 2024
Opening: March 7
Closing: April 14
Written by John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Scott Ellis
Cast: Amy Ryan, Liev Schreiber, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Zoe Kazan
The first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play about Sister Aloysius, the principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx, who suspects an improper relationship between the charismatic priest Father Flynn and a student.
My review
The Notebook
Schoenfeld
First preview: February 6
Opening: March 14
Music & Lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson
Book by Bekah Brunstetter, based on Nicholas Sparks 1996 debut novel (which was made into a popular film in 2004)
Choreography by Katie Spelman
Directed by Michael Greif and Schele Williams
Allie and Noah, from different worlds, share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull them apart.
My review
An Enemy of the People
Circle in the Square
First preview: February 27
Opening: March 18
Written by Henrik Ibsen, with a new version by Amy Herzog
Directed by Sam Gold
Cast: Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli
Water for Elephants
Imperial Theater
First preview: February 24
Opening: March 21
Book by Rick Elice based on the novel by Sara Gruen
Music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co.
Directed by Jessica Stone
After losing what matters most, a young man jumps a moving train unsure of where the road will take him and finds a new home with the remarkable crew of a traveling circus. (A 2011 film starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz was also based on Gruen’s novel.)
My review
The Who’s Tommy
Nederlander Theater
First preview: March 8
Opening: March 28
Music and lyrics by Pete Townsend, book by Townshend and Des McAnuff
Directed by McAnuff
A “reimagined” production of the 1993 Broadway musical that dramatize The Who’s 1969 rock opera album, featuring such familiar tunes as “See Me, Feel Me,” “Sensation” and “Pinball Wizard.” After witnessing his father shoot his rival, the young Tommy Walker is lost in the universe until an innate knack for pinball catapults him from reticent adolescent to celebrity savior.
My review
April
The Outsiders
Bernard Jacobs Theater
First preview: March 16
Opening: April 11
Book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine
Music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay & Zach Chance) and Justin Levine
Directed by Danya Taylor
A new musical based on the novel by S.E. Hinton and the movie by Francis Ford Coppola: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, the hardened hearts and aching souls of Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade and their chosen family of ‘outsiders’ are in a fight for survival and a quest for purpose in a world that may never accept them.
My review
Lempicka
Longacre
First preview: March 19
Opening: April 14
Book, lyrics, and original concept by Carson Kreitzer, book and music by Matt Gould, and choreography by Raja Feather Kelly.
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
Cast: Eden Espinosa
A musical about the life and times of the peripatetic artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
My review
The Wiz
Marquis Theater
First preview: March 29
Opening: April 17
Book by William F. Brown with additional material by Amber Ruffin
Music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls
Directed by Schele Williams
Cast: Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Deborah Cox as Glinda and Melody A. Betts as Aunt Em and Evillene, Kyle Ramar Freeman as the Lion, Phillip Johnson Richardson as the Tinman, Avery Wilson as the Scarecrow, and Wayne Brady as The Wiz.
A revival of the 1975 Tony winning musical version of The Wizard of Oz featuring an all-Black cast.
My review
Suffs
Music Box Theater
Opening: April 18
Book, music and lyrics by Shaina Taub
Directed by Leigh Silverman
The story of the suffragists — “Suffs,” as they called themselves — who relentlessly pursued a Constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote. My review of the Off-Broadway production, which I called an inspiring, instructive and entertaining sung-through musical that tells the sweeping story of the final seven-year push to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
My Broadway review
Stereophonic
Golden
First preview: April 3
Opening: April 19
Written by David Adjmi
Songs by Will Butler
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Cast: Will Brill as Reg, Andrew R. Butler as Charlie, Juliana Canfield as Holly, Eli Gelb as Grover, Tom Pecinka as Peter, Sarah Pidgeon as Diana, and Chris Stack as Simon.
The Broadway transfer of a play taking place entirely in a music studio in the 1970s about a fictitious rock band recording a new album.
My review
Hell’s Kitchen
Shubert Theater
First preview: March 28
Opening: April 20
Music and lyrics by Alicia Keys
Book by Kristoffer Diaz
Directed by Michael Greif
A jukebox musical featuring Alicia Keys’ hits to tell the somewhat fictionalized story of Keys at age 17, growing up in the Manhattan Plaza artists housing in the NYC neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, pursuing a boy and discovering the piano while rebelling against her strict mother.
My review
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
August Wilson Theater
First preview: April 1
Opening(s): April 20 and 21
Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Joe Masteroff based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.
Directed by Rebecca Frecknall
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin
A Broadway transfer of the new (and newly named) production of the story about American Sally Bowles in Nazi Germany will take place in a Broadway house transform with an in-the-round auditorium and “sinfully dreamlike spaces which guests will be invited to explore pre-show entertainment, drinks, and dining.”
My review
Patriots
Barrymore
First preview: April 1
Opening: April 22
Closing: June 23
Written by Peter Morgan
Directed by Rupert Goold
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Keen as Putin, Luke Thallon
A play by Peter Morgan (The Crown, The Audience, Frost/Nixon) about a Russian oligarch’s ill-fated role in the rise of Vladimir V. Putin. The play had a successful run on the West End
My review
The Heart of Rock and Roll
James Earl Jones Theater
First preview: March 29
Opening: April 22
Book by Jonathan A. Abrams, and story by Tyler Mitchell and Jonathan A. Abrams
Music by Huey Lewis and the News
Using the hit songs from the 1980s band (including “Workin’ For A Livin’,” “Stuck With You,” and “If This Is It,”), the musical tells the story of a Chicago-based musician who gives up his life onstage for a corporate job and meets the girl of his dreams — but his old bandmates want to get back on stage..
My review
Mary Jane
MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater
First Preview: April 2
Opening April 23
Written by Amy Herzog
Directed by Anne Kaufman
Cast: Rachel McAdams
The playwright and director reunite to tell the story of Mary Jane, a single mother who takes care of her two-year-old son Alex, who was born prematurely and wasn’t expected to live more than a few days. My review of the 2017 Off-Broadway production of this play, which exerted a quiet, warm but firm grip on audience emotions as we gradually come to understand just how much it takes for Mary Jane to remain both diligent and hopeful.
My Broadway review
Illinoise
St. James Theater
Opening: April 24
Closing: August 10
Music and Lyrics by Sufjan Stevens
Story by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed and Choreographed by Justin Peck
The dance-theater piece inspired by Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 album Illinois just had brief run at Park Avenue Armory that was much acclaimed — including by me
My review
Uncle Vanya
Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater
First preview: April 2
Opening: April 24
Written by Anton Chekhov, in a new translation by Heidi Schreck
Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Sonya and her uncle Vanya have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father and his charismatic wife move in,their lives are upended. In the heat of the summer, the wrong people fall in love, desires and resentments erupt, and the family is forced to reckon with the ghosts of their unlived lives.
My review
The Great Gatsby
Broadway Theater
First preview: March 29
Opening: April 25
Book by Kate Kerrigan, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
Music and lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Jason Howland
Directed by Marc Bruni
Cast: Jeremy Jordan, Eva Noblezada
A Broadway transfer of the Paper Mill Playhouse musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Jazz Age novel about the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of his lost love, Daisy Buchanan
My review
Mother Play
First preview: April 2
Opening: April 25
Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Tina Landau
Cast: Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons
It’s 1962, just outside of D.C., and matriarch Phyllis (Jessica Lange) is supervising her teenage children, Carl (Jim Parsons) and Martha (Celia Keenan-Bolger), as they move into a new apartment. Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and be to succeed, and woe be the child who finds their own path
My review
*Opening Night
Opening night is usually not the same as the first performance on Broadway. There is usually a preview period, of anywhere from a few days to a few weeks (sometimes a few months), where the creative team tries out the show before an audience. One of the few things opening night still means is that’s when the reviews come out. I organize this calendar by opening night rather than first performance, as a way to support the continuing relevance of theater reviewing. Check out my essay: Broadway Opening Night. What It Means. How It’s Changed. 7 Facts to Clear Up The Confusion and Crystallize the Outrage.
