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 composers Richard Rodgers and Andrew Lloyd Webber, playwrights Jon Robin Baitz, Suzie Miller, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Clifford Odets and Aaron Sorkin, 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. Updated September 8
MAY
Celebrity Autobiography
Shubert
Opened: May 18, 2026
Closed: 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.
AUGUST
Paranormal Activity
August Wilson Theater
First Preview: August 14, 2026
Opening: August 25, 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.
SEPTEMBER
School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play
MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater
First Preview: September 8, 2026
Opening: September 28, 2026
Starring: Lucia Aremu, Denée Benton, Patina Miller, Erin Morton, Nia Otchere-Sarfo, Jordan Rice, Jasmine Amy Rogers, Heather Alicia Simms
Writer: Jocelyn Bioh
Director: Whitney White
About: A new production of Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy about Ghanese school girls competing in a beauty contest.
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.
860
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.
The Imaginary Invalid
Roundabout’s Todd Haines Theater
First Preview: September 25
Opening: October 22
Closing: November 22
Written by Moliere
Adapted by and starring Bill Irwin
Directed by Brandon J. Dirden
A new adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy about a rich hypochondriac and the scheming people around him.
A Few Good Men
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
First Preview: October 8, 2026
Opening: October 29, 2026
Starring: Bradley Whitford, Tom Blyth
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
Director: Michael Arden
A revival of Aaron Sorkin’s drama about corruption within the U.S. military.
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 .
Here There Are Blueberries
Barrymore Theater
First preview: November 2
Opening: November 9
Closing: January, 2027
Writers: Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
Director: Kaufman
Tectonic Theater Project’s Pulitzer Prize finalist play, about the real-life discovery of a book of Nazi photographs, My review when it was Off-Broadway
Now You See Me Live
Al Hirschfeld Theater
First performance: November 11, 2026
Last performance: January 3, 2027
Cast: escapologist Gabriella Lester (South Africa), illusionist James More (England), illusionist Darcy Oake (Canada), and mentalist Matthew Pomeroy (England).
Stage illusions inspired by the “Now You See Me” film franchise, which follows the heists of the “Four Horsemen,” a team of illusionists.
Downstate
Booth Theater
First Preview: October 17, 2026
Opening: November 15, 2026
Writer: Bruce Norris
Director: Joe Mantello
Cast: Cassie Beck, K. Todd Freeman, Francis Guinan, Adrian Martinez, Al’Jaleel McGhee, Thomas Sadoski, Ivy Wolk, Liza Colón-Zayas
Bruce Norris’ play about convicted sex offenders living together in a halfway house. The play previously had productions in Chicago, London, and New York at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons. My Off-Broadway review
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.
Blue Man Group A New Holiday Surprise
Lunt-Fontanne
First preview: November 2
Opening: November 17
Closing: January 3, 2027
A holiday tour of the Blue Man Group, the non-verbal, blue-tinted troupe that ran Off-Broadway for more than three decades, until 2025, which is now making its Broadway debut.
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Broadhurst
First preview: November 4
Opening: November 18, 2026
Closing: January 3, 2027
Cast: Andrew Rannells, Megan Hilty, Tituss Burgess, Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinn
Writer: Joe Landry, adapting the story “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern
Director: Jerry Zaks
The play transports audiences to a 1940s radio studio, where a company of celebrated actors gathers to perform Frank Capra’s timeless classic, live on-the-air, complete with a foley artist and holiday carols.
Much Ado About Nothing
Winter Garden Theatre
First Preview: October 31, 2026
Opening: November 19, 2026
Closing: January 10, 2027
Cast: 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
DOLLY: A True Original Musical,
St. James Theater
First Preview: December 7, 2026
Opening: January 19, 2027
Book by Dolly Parton and Maria S. Schlatter
Directed by Barlett Sher
The life story of the “Queen of Country,” an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and philanthropist who has had a 60-year career
Mix and Master
Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre
First Preview: January 5, 2027
Opening: January 27, 2027
Starring: Ruben Santaigo-Hudson, Kara Young
Writer: Dominique Morisseau
Director: Kamilah Forbes
A new play about a rising DJ’s efforts to save the last record shop in Brooklyn.
MARCH
Small Mouth Sounds
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: February 18, 2027
Opening: March 18, 2027
Starring: Martin Freeman, Greta Lee, Sarah Paulson, Isaac Powell, Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd
Writer: Bess Wohl
Director: Joe Mantello
Bess Wohl’s award-winning play about a group of people at a silent retreat will make its Broadway premiere. Its world premiere was at Off-Broadway’s Ars Nova in 2015. My Off Broadway review
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.)
Prince’s Purple Rain
Majestic Theater
First preview: March 12
Opening: April 12
Music by Prince
Book by Peter Duchan
Directed by Saheem Ali
A new musical based on the Grammy-winning album and Oscar-winning film, featuring over 20 of Prince’s hits: In Minneapolis in 1984, a magnetic young performer known as “The Kid” seems like the perfect frontman to lead his bandmates to stardom. But when his past threatens everything he’s built, he’ll have to sing his way out of the darkness. The show will feature at least 20 Prince songs performed by musicians onstage, including “When Doves Cry,” “I Would Die 4 U,” “Take Me With U” and “The Beautiful Ones.”.
The Sound of Music
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
First Preview: March 23, 2027
Opening: April 15, 2027
Starring: Jasmine Amy Rogers
Writers: Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Howard Lindsay & Russel Crowse (book)
Director: Lear deBessonet
A revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s beloved musical based on the lives of the von Trapp family.
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.
Damn Yankees
Marquis Theater
First preview: March 24
Opening: April 20, 2027
Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Julianne Hough, Austin Scott
Writers: Richard Adler & Jerry Ross (music & lyrics), George Abbott & Douglass Wallop (book), Will Power & Doug Wright (adaptation), Lynn Ahrens (additional lyrics)
Director and choreographer: Sergio Trujillo
The second revival of the 1955 musical about a man’s deal with the Devil to become a champion baseball player. Best-known song: Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets
The Full Monty
Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre
First Preview: April 3, 2027
Opening: April 25, 2027
Writers: David Yazbek (music & lyrics), Terrence McNally (book)
Director: Leigh Silverman
A revival of the hit musical comedy about unemployed men putting on a strip show.
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 specified opening dates:
At MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater: Montauk
At Lunt-Fontanne, Warriors
* 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.
