For four glorious seasons, HBO’s Succession followed the trials and schemes of a fictional media dynasty with scathing wit and sometimes unexpected poignance. It’s no coincidence that its biggest fans included theater buffs: The series creator recruited acclaimed playwrights, such as Lucy Prebble, Will Arbery, and Anna Jordan, and the impeccable cast included actors who had earned praise for their work on stage and screen.

Happily, for those of us who have been mourning the Emmy Award–winning program since its finale aired in May 2023, a number of those performers have popped up on Broadway recently — and still more are expected in the months ahead.

The link between Succession and Broadway precedes the series itself. The first season, which launched in 2018, introduced characters played by such noted veterans as J. Smith-Cameron, Peter Friedman, Dagmara Dominczyk, Arian Moayed, David Rasche, and, of course, Brian Cox, who starred as the fearsome patriarch, Logan Roy. These players would be joined by the likes of Fisher Stevens, Hope Davis, Linda Emond, Eric Bogosian, Harriet Walter, and two-time Tony Award winner Cherry Jones, to name just a few.

Last year, just before Moayed began performances opposite Jessica Chastain in a revival of A Doll’s House, he told Broadway Direct, “What I love about Broadway is the reach. If you can find a show that works on an interpersonal level, a global level, and a spiritual level — which is what I try to do in all my work — there’s real potential to reach a lot of people’s minds.”

Clearly, his colleagues agree. Jeremy Strong, who won acclaim playing Kendall Roy, Logan’s ambitious but often hapless second son, returned to Broadway for the first time in more than 15 years this past spring (he had last appeared in a 2008 staging of A Man for All Seasons) in a production of another Ibsen classic, portraying the virtuous but naive Dr. Thomas Stockmann in An Enemy of the People.

The performance earned Strong this year’s Tony for leading actor in a play. It also allowed him to work in the same neighborhood as his former Succession costar Natalie Gold, who had played Kendall’s ex-wife, Rava; Gold was cast as Rachael, a wife and mother enduring another dysfunctional family, in the Broadway premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate.

Strong was joined among the latest crop of Tony nominees by the woman who played Kendall’s beleaguered assistant, Jess Jordan: Juliana Canfield collected one of the record 13 nods given to Stereophonic, a portrait of a fractious rock group that, like Succession, proved a superb ensemble piece — and wound up winning five awards in all, including Best Play. Canfield was cast as Holly, a British singer and keyboardist in the middle of breaking up with her husband.

In a conversation with Broadway Direct, Canfield described Stereophonic, which had premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, as “a collective labor of love. It’s taken so much time and been made with so much love and integrity. The producers at Playwrights Horizons didn’t take any shortcuts, and that has continued with the producers we have on Broadway. I feel like all of its elements are so perfectly chosen and cast; each one is so great, but altogether it’s a project where each piece is of equal value, which is very rare.”

Another Off-Broadway transfer, the crackling psychological thriller JOB has already brought a pair of Succession alumni to Broadway this season: Peter Friedman, who won praise as Logan’s long-suffering corporate lackey Frank Vernon, is now playing Loyd, a baby-boomer therapist, in his first Broadway role in nearly two decades. Sydney Lemmon, who popped up on the series as Jennifer, an actress romanced by Kendall, is cast as Jane, a younger woman and tech exec who becomes Loyd’s client after a video of her having a nervous breakdown on the job goes viral.

When Broadway Direct interviewed both actors this summer, Friedman admitted, “Starting this, I had just come off Succession. [As an actor], this is what you’ve been waiting for and what you hope for. During Succession, I didn’t have this kind of intense experience. It was a fabulous experience, but not like this experience.”

This coming spring, Succession fans can expect to see another key alumnus tread the boards: Kieran Culkin, who won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for his frequently hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking portrait of Roman Roy, Logan’s wisecracking youngest son. He’ll return to Broadway — where he made his debut 10 years ago in This Is Our Youth, a play by Smith-Cameron’s husband, Kenneth Lonergan — in a new revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.

Culkin is set to play the sharklike salesman Richard “Ricky” Roma in a production costarring fellow TV favorites Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr, both making their Broadway debuts. The production is helmed by playwright and director Patrick Marber, a Tony winner last year for his work on Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt.

And Sarah Snook, who scored her own Emmy and Golden Globe statuettes playing Siobhan “Shiv” Roy, Logan’s daughter, is rumored to also be bound for Broadway next year, in an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The production, which already won Snook an Olivier Award for its West End run, requires the Australian actress to juggle 26 characters. That’s a feat that, had Shiv pulled it off, might have earned her father’s unqualified approval — for a few scenes, anyway.