Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings* in the 2026-2027 season, which has already begun, and so far promises a couple of hit British imports, the Broadway premiere of the world’s longest running musical, the Broadway debuts of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Rosamund Pike. a new solo show by Billy Crystal, and the return to Broadway of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, playwrights Jon Robin Baitz, Suzie Miller and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and director Jamie Lloyd (twice!) as well as actor Raul Esparza after an absence of fourteen years
This is a list of shows with confirmed venues and specified opening dates. It obviously will grow.
The shows are listed chronologically by opening date* (not by first preview), with the title linked to the show’s official website. This guide will be continually updated.
MAY
Celebrity Autobiography
Shubert
Opened: May 18, 2026
Closing: June 21, 2026
Created, co-developed and co-directed by Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel
with a rotating cast of celebrities.
A revue in which performers make fun of celebrities by reading from their cringe-worthy memoirs. My review.
SEPTEMBER
Paranormal Activity
August Wilson Theater
First Preview: August 14, 2026
Opening: September 15, 2026
Starring: Cher Álvarez, Travis A. Knight, Shannon Cochran, Andrea Syglowski
Writer: Levi Holloway
Director: Felix Barrett
A stage show based on the Paranormal Activity film series.
OCTOBER
Other Desert Cities
Hudson Theater
First Preview: September 29, 2026
Opening: October 18, 2026
Closing: January 17, 2027
Starring: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, Lily Rabe
Writers: Jon Robin Baitz
Director: John Benjamin Hickey
A starry revival of Baitz’s play about about a politically polarized family, whose secrets are about to be exposed in a tell-all memoir.
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Imperial Theater
First Preview: October 1, 2026
Opening: October 21, 2026
Closing: January 3, 2027
Starring: Billy Crystal
Writer: Billy Crystal
Director: Scott Ellis
Billy Crystal returns to Broadway in an autobiographical solo show centered around the house his family lost in the Palisades fire.
NOVEMBER
Wanted
James Earl Jones Theatre
First Preview: October 15, 2026
Opening: November 8, 2026
Starring: Solea Pfeiffer, Liisi LaFontaine, Ledisi
Writers: Ross Baum (music), Angelica Chéri (book & lyrics)
Director: Stevie Walker-Webb
A new musical (originally entitled “Gun & Powder”) inspired by the true story of Mary and Martha Clarke, African-American twin sisters who became notorious bank robbers in 1893 Texas to save their mother from her devastating debt as a sharecropper .
The Fantasticks
Second Theater’s Hayes Theatre
First Preview: October 22, 2026
Opening: November 16, 2026
Writers: Tom Jones (book and lyrics), Harvey Schmidt (music)
Director: Christopher Gattelli
The Fantasticks is finally making its Broadway debut, sixty-six years after commencing one of the longest runs in theater history. With such evergreen songs as “Try to Remember” and “Soon It’s Gonna Rain,” it tells the story of two neighboring fathers who fake a feud and build a wall between their yards to trick their children into falling in love. For its Broadway premiere, it has been reimagined as a contemporary gay love story.
Much Ado About Nothing
Winter Garden Theatre
First Preview: October 31, 2026
Opening: November 19, 2026
Closing: January 10, 2027
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Hayley Atwell
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jamie Lloyd
The sixteenth Broadway production of Shakespeare’s comedy about the battle of the sexes (the first in 40 years) is given a Jamie Lloyd makeover into a high-energy party.
DECEMBER
Inter Alia
Music Box Theatre
First Preview: November 10, 2026
Opening: December 1, 2026
Closing: February 21, 2027
Starring: Rosamund Pike
Writer: Suzie Miller
Director: Justin Martin
A new drama about a London Crown Court judge who must hold her family together when an unthinkable event rocks their life. The play is by the same writer-director team of the legal thriller Prima Facie
Galileo
Shubert Theatre
First Preview: November 10, 2026
Opening: December 6, 2026
Starring: Raúl Esparza, Joy Woods, Jeremy Kushnier
Writers: Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner (music & lyrics), Danny Strong (book)
Director: Michael Mayer
A musical about the pioneering Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei who was found “vehemently suspect of heresy”,by the Inquisition.
JANUARY
Awake and Sing
MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
First Preview: December 16 2026
Opening: January 7, 2027
Starring: Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, Jeremy Shamos
Writer: Clifford Odets
Director: Tyne Rafaeli
A revival of Clifford Odets’s landmark play about a Depression-era Brooklyn family
MARCH
Evita
Winter Garden Theatre
First Preview: February 27, 2027
Opening: March 25, 2027
Starring: Rachel Zegler
Writers: Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Tim Rice (lyrics)
Director: Jamie Lloyd
A revival of the musical about the rise and death of Eva Peron.
APRIL
Gloria
Second Stage’s Hayes Theatre
First Preview: March 17, 2027
Opening: April 5, 2027
Writer: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Director: Evan Cabnet
Life among the ambitious staff members of a prestigious New York City magazine is cutthroat, even when trauma causes their world to collapse. (My review of the 2015 Off-Broadway production.)
Paddington the Musical
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
First Preview: March 30, 2027
Opening: April 18, 2027
Writers: Tom Fletcher (music & lyrics), Jessica Swale (book)
Director: Luke Sheppard
A Broadway transfer of the hit West End musical that adapts Michael Bond’s 1958 children’s book and the 2014 movie, about a bear from darkest Peru who loves marmalade sandwiches and somehow keeps on getting into trouble.
FORTHCOMING SHOWS
A number of other shows have been announced for the Broadway season, but, as of this writing, have either no confirmed venue or no specified opening date (or neither). A sample of those with confirmed venues but no opening dates:
At MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater: School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play and Montauk
At Roundabout’s Todd Haines: The Imaginary Invalid, Mix and Master, and The Full Monty
* Opening night is usually not the same as the first performance on Broadway. There is usually a “preview period” that can last days or weeks, sometimes months. But professional reviews are forbidden from being published until opening nigh. I organize this calendar by opening night as a way to support the continuing relevance of theater reviewing. Check out my updated article on this: What is Broadway Opening Night? How it’s changed, why it matters.
