- This list covers all Broadway shows opening from August through December 2026. It does not include spring 2027 productions or every show in the 2026–2027 season.
- This fall brings a wide variety of productions, from thrillers and comedies to classic revivals, new musicals, dramas, and London transfers.
- It’s also a star-studded fall, with Joe Keery and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Other Desert Cities, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing, and Tom Blyth in A Few Good Men, among many more.
The 2026–2027 Broadway season offers something for every taste. It even opened on a spooky note, with a supernatural thriller that will send shivers down your spine. Throughout the season, you can expect virtuoso star turns, diverse new musicals, hits from London, timely revivals, a new lease of life for a landmark musical — and a new musical to celebrate a beloved cultural icon, the late Dolly Parton. Here’s what lies ahead on Broadway from now through December.
Productions listed in order of preview date.
Paranormal Activity, August Wilson Theatre
Opened August 25
This season opener has plenty of eerie surprises in store. The 2026 Olivier Award–nominated new play by Levi Holloway (Grey House) follows a troubled married couple who relocated to London from Chicago to discover, in the most bone-chilling way possible, that “places are not haunted, people are.” Lou (Cher Álvarez) is plagued by an inexplicable terror. She and her husband, James (Travis A. Knight), are hoping for a fresh start in a new house in a new country. Well, of course, you know it’s not going go well. The play, inspired by the popular supernatural movie franchise of the same name, is directed with atmospheric flair by Felix Barrett, who created the immersive Off-Broadway experience Sleep No More. Expect spine-tingling effects and astonishing stage illusions created by Chris Fisher, who won a Special Tony Award last year for Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Previews start September 8, opens September 28
The stakes are high for a group of girls at a high school in Ghana as they compete to represent their school at the country’s foremost beauty pageant. Jocelyn Bioh’s biting comedy was a huge success Off-Broadway in 2017, well before the Ghanian American writer and performer made her Broadway playwriting debut with Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, which was nominated for a Best Play Tony Award in 2024. The Manhattan Theatre Club revival of her breakthrough play is directed by Whitney White, who received her second Tony nomination for direction this year for Liberation. Costumes are designed by Qween Jean, who won a Tony this year for her work in Cats: The Jellicle Ball. The cast features Lucia Aremu, Denée Benton, Patina Miller, Erin Morton, Nia Otchere-Sarfo, Jordan Rice, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and Heather Alicia Simms. This will be the first of two Broadway productions featuring Rogers this season, with her set to star as Maria in the spring revival of The Sound of Music.
The Imaginary Invalid, Todd Haimes Theatre
Previews start September 25, opens October 22
Bill Irwin, clown extraordinaire and 2005 Best Actor Tony Award winner (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), stars in his own adaptation of Molière’s classic farce about a self-absorbed hypochondriac. The final comedy from the 17th century French playwright skewers the medical profession and a hypocritical society — targets still ripe for satire today. Irwin plays the titular rogue, Argan, who has convinced himself and others that he’s at death’s door, while also scheming to marry his daughter off to a doctor in order to save on his medical bills. Irwin has adapted Molière before, bringing his clown expertise to an Off- Broadway production of Scapin. This Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Invalid marks the Broadway directorial debut by Brandon J. Dirden, who received a Tony nomination this year for his bravura performance in Waiting for Godot. The cast includes Tony Award nominees Brooks Ashmanskas (Smash, The Prom) and Dylan Baker (La Bête), and Golden Globe Award winner Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend).
Other Desert Cities, Hudson Theatre
Previews start September 29, opens October 18
Eleven-time Emmy Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus makes her Broadway debut as Polly, a poised and flinty matriarch, in a revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s sharp, witty family drama (a nominee for the 2012 Best Play Tony Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). Polly and her husband, Lyman (four-time Academy Award nominee Ed Harris), are Old Guard Hollywood Reagan Republicans living an affluent life in Palm Springs. The equilibrium of their well-ordered lives is threatened over a Christmas holiday with the arrival of their renegade daughter, Brooke (played by 2011 Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe). Her news: She is about to publish a memoir that delves into a buried family secret. Brooke’s TV producer brother (Joe Keery) and recovering alcoholic aunt (played by seven-time Emmy Award winner Allison Janney) get drawn into the ensuing family feud. The production is directed by John Benjamin Hickey, winner of the 2011 Tony Award for his performance in revival of The Normal Heart.
860, Imperial Theatre
Previews start October 1, opens October 21
Emmy Award–winning comedian Billy Crystal, who made his Broadway debut in 2004 with his sold-out Tony Award–winning solo show 700 Sundays, returns with a new autobiographical work. In his latest one-man show, Crystal will share personal stories about his house in California, with the address “860,” that was destroyed in the Palisades Fire of 2025. The actor, whose legendary résumé includes memorable turns in both TV and film, including Soap and When Harry Met Sally, processes the loss of the home where he and his family lived for 46 years, and celebrates the resilience of his Pacific Palisades community in the wake of the disaster. Crystal has said, “Every inch of our house was filled with love. Beautiful memories that can’t be taken away.” The production is directed by multiple Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis, who helmed the revival of Fallen Angels last spring.
A Few Good Men, Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Previews start October 8, opens October 29
This crackling courtroom drama marked the Broadway playwriting debut of Aaron Sorkin in 1989, a decade before he made television history with the long-running political drama series The West Wing. The play pits a young military lawyer, fighting to exonerate two court-martialed Marines against a bigoted Marine commander, who is unshakable in his belief in himself and the certitude of his mission. Sorkin also adapted his play for a major 1992 Hollywood movie starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. His Broadway credits since then include To Kill a Mockingbird and the revised libretto for Camelot, both produced by Lincoln Center Theater. LCT is also producing this current revival of Sorkin’s drama, which stars Broadway newcomer Tom Blyth (most recently seen in the Netflix romance movie The People We Meet on Vacation) as the young lawyer Lt. (junior grade) Kaffee, and three-time Emmy Award winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Transparent, The Handmaid’s Tale) as Lt. Col, Jessup. (Incidentally, Whitford was also an understudy and replacement for Lt. Kaffee in the original production.) The current production is directed by multiple Tony Award winner Michael Arden, currently represented on Broadway with Maybe Happy Ending and The Lost Boys.
Wanted, James Earl Jones Theatre
Previews start October 15, opens November 8
Book writer and lyricist Angelica Chéri drew on the stories passed down in her family about her own great-great-aunts to write this stirring unconventional Western tale of justice. The musical portrays Mary and Martha Clarke, two Black sisters who decide to pass as white and become outlaws in order to settle their mother’s sharecropper debt. The lively score is written by Richard Rodgers Award–winning composer Ross Baum. Mary is played by Solea Pfeiffer (Moulin Rouge!, Hadestown) and Martha by Liisi LaFontaine (seen in the London productions of Moulin Rouge! and Dreamgirls). The production is directed by Stevie Walker-Webb (Best Director Tony nominee for Ain’t No Mo) and the cast includes 16-time Grammy Award–nominated R&B singer-songwriter Ledisi, and Grammy Award–nominated R&B singer Luke James. A previous incarnation of the musical, which played at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 2024 under the title Gun & Power, was hailed by The New York Times as “thrillingly original,” and praised for its “audacious and rollicking story that’s too often missing from American stages.”
Downstate, Booth Theatre
Previews start October 17, opens November 15
Bruce Norris’ morally probing dark comedy about four men who have been convicted and served their prison terms for sexually abusing minors will transfer to Broadway this fall. The controversial drama received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and an Obie Award for playwriting following its Off-Broadway debut in 2022. In his daring play, Norris, recipient of the 2012 Best Play Tony Award and 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner for Clybourne Park, unflinchingly draws the audience into uncomfortable territory, challenging notions of vengeance and how a society can accommodate transgressors after justice has been served. The Broadway transfer re-teams producer Scott Rudin and director Joe Mantello (Tony Award winners for last season’s Death of a Salesman) and will feature Evening Standard nominee Francis Guinan and two-time Tony ward nominee K. Todd Freeman, cast members from the 2018 premiere production at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. The cast also includes Cassie Beck, Adrian Martinez, Al’Jaleel McGhee, Tony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski, Ivy Wolk, and Emmy Award winner Liza Colón-Zayas.
The Fantasticks, Hayes Theater
Previews start October 22, opens November 16
Having earned its place in theater history as the longest-running musical, this Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt charmer is now reimagined with a gay makeover for its first production on Broadway. The tuneful allegory about two fathers who fake a feud in order to trick their children into falling in love, originally opened in a small Greenwich Village theatre Off-Broadway in 1960, where it ran continuously for 46 years. After a short break, the musical enjoyed a further 11-year run at a different Off-Broadway venue. In this revisal, Schmidt’s evergreen melodies remain intact (including the signature songs “Try to Remember” and “Soon It’s Gonna Rain”), but the young lovers are now two young men, and the conspiring fathers gender-swapped to mothers. Schmidt died in 2018, but Jones himself reconceived the work for this revised version before he passed in 2023. Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (recently nominated for Schmigadoon! and Death Becomes Her) directs and choreographs the new production. Maxim Chlumecky (Appropriate, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and Nathan Levy (& Juliet, Aladdin) play the young lovers, Tony nominee Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (Spamalot) and Tony Award winner Ruthie Ann Miles (The King and I) play their respective mothers. The cast also includes Tony nominee Kevin del Aguila (Some Like It Hot), and David Patrick Kelly (Once Upon a Mattress).
Much Ado About Nothing, Winter Garden Theatre
Previews start October 31, opens November 19
This new revival of Shakespeare’s barbed romantic comedy is a showcase for Tony Award and Olivier Award nominee Tom Hiddleston and three-time Olivier Award nominee Hayley Atwell. They play Benedick and Beatrice, a couple too busy sparring with each other to realize they are in love. (Both actors are internationally famous for their forays into the Marvel cinematic universe — Hiddleston as Loki in the Thor movies and Atwell as Peggy Carter in the Captain America and Avengers movies.) The modern dress production, with judicious text streamlining and an energetic ’90s club music score, is directed by multiple Tony Award nominee Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Boulevard, A Doll’s House), whose revival of Evita is slated for the spring. Taking a cue from a line in the play, “We shall have revelling tonight,” Lloyd and company throw a pink confetti–showered party on stage that was a big hit with audiences in London last year. Choreographed by Fabian Aloise, the production also marks the Broadway debut of Mason Alexander Park, who took on the lead for the London transfer of Oh, Mary!
Here There Are Blueberries, Barrymore Theatre
Previews start November 2, opens November 9
A scrapbook with holiday photos offers a chilling glimpse into the banality of evil in the Broadway transfer of Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s compelling documentary-style theater work, which was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize following its Off-Broadway premiere in 2024. Unfolding like a detective story, the Tectonic Theater Project play is devised from interviews in the style of the company’s previous Gross Indecency and The Laramie Project. It follows actual events when historians at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum receive an anonymously donated photo album and discover it once belonged to a senior Nazi administrative officer at Auschwitz. The mundane photographs depict the men and women, who directly or complicity kept the notorious death camp running, engaging in ordinary leisure and fun activities. “I kept thinking, ‘What’s happening outside this frame? Outside the frame, they’re killing 1.1 million people,’” director-playwright Kaufman recalled after seeing the photos. One photo showed a group of young women — secretaries at the camp — guzzling blueberries, with the caption that gives the play its title. The drama that two-time Tony nominee Kaufman conceived, and devised with his company, is an unsettling reminder that ordinary folk can commit monstrosities.
Galileo, Shubert Theatre
Previews start November 10, opens December 6
Four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza (Company) returns to Broadway in this pop-rock musical inspired by the life of the 17th century astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei. A Renaissance rebel, Galileo’s revolutionary scientific discoveries and support for the then-controversial notion that the earth revolves around the sun, pitted him against the establishment, ruled by the Catholic Church. A timely look-back at an era when science was considered an enemy of religion, the new musical is written by Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner (music and lyrics), with a book by Danny Strong (who wrote the new libretto for the recent revival of Chess). The production, which premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2024, is directed by Spring Awakening Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (who also directed Chess, American Idiot, and Funny Girl) and choreographed by Tony Award nominee David Neumann (Hadestown). The cast also includes Jeremy Kushnier and Tony Award nominee Joy Woods (Gypsy). The visually striking set design is by Hadestown Tony Award winner Rachel Hauck (also nominated this year for Cats: The Jellicle Ball).
Inter Alia, Music Box Theatre
Previews start November 10, opens December 1
Rosamund Pike, star of Gone Girl and Saltburn, makes her Broadway debut reprising her riveting 2026 Olivier Award–winning performance in a new play by Suzie Miller. Like Miller’s previous work, Prima Facie, this play also focuses on a woman in the legal profession. The Golden Globe– and Emmy Award–winning actress plays a confident judge in a male-dominated London Crown Court. Her impeccable set of legal ethics unexpectedly collides with her family life at home in this gripping legal and personal drama. The production, which premiered at Britain’s National Theatre, is directed by Justin Martin (who also directed Prima Facie). Cast includes Jamie Glover and Cormac McAlinden, who are both reprising their roles from the West End production.
Dolly: A True Original Musical, St. James Theatre
Previews start December 7, opens January 19, 2027
The eagerly awaited new musical based on the life of the internationally beloved Queen of Country, who sadly passed August 25, before the production’s January opening that was scheduled for what would have been her 81st birthday. But Parton’s irrepressible spirit and inimitable music live on. The musical, which Parton was actively engaged with right up to its premiere last year at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville, features some of her greatest hits as well as original songs she wrote specifically for this show. (Parton was previously nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for her original score to the musical version of the movie hit 9 to 5.) Promising to take the audience through her six-decade career and behind her sparkly rhinestone image, Parton described the story of the upcoming musical, cowritten with Maria S. Schlatter, as “about where I really come from: where I’ve lived, what I’ve lost, what I’ve loved, and how I’ve found my way and told it in my own words and through the music that’s been part of me every step of the journey.” The production is directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The King and I, My Fair Lady) and choreographed by Emmy Award winner Mandy Moore (Dancing With the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance). Fans can expect to hear Parton’s signature songs “I Will Always Love You,” “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” and “9 to 5,” along with the new material. In its previous incarnation, three actors portrayed Dolly at different stages in her life. Casting for the Broadway production is yet to be announced.
Awake and Sing!, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Previews start December 15, opens January 7, 2027
Clifford Odets’s landmark 1935 drama portrays three generations of an American Jewish family living under the same roof in a Bronx tenement during the Great Depression. With this emotionally charged drama, produced the same year he made his sensational debut with Waiting for Lefty, the 28-year-old Odets established himself as one of the most influential American playwrights of his time. The hopes and dreams of the members of the extended Berger family, each with differing visions of the future as they struggle with the economic fallout that affected the whole country, resonate through the decades to our own era of economic hard times. Tyne Rafaeli (Becoming Eve, Data) makes her Broadway debut directing this fifth Broadway revival of the American classic, which features a distinguished cast that includes Tony Award winner Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!), Tony and Emmy Award nominee Jessica Hecht (Eureka Day, Summer, 1976, A View From the Bridge), Tony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park), Tony Award nominee Micaela Diamond (Parade), and Will Pullen (To Kill a Mockingbird).
