The second half of the Broadway season began on a creepy note with Bug at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The darkly comic skin crawler by August: Osage County Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts, starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood, is steeped in paranoid anxieties about shadowy conspiracies and omnipresent surveillance — and feels unsettlingly relevant today.
The rest of the season’s fare includes classics from the canon, serious drama, adaptations from movies, and musical theater parodies. With just three plays opening prior, the season surges into its final month with 12 shows opening in April. As usual, the pressure to open in time to qualify for the year’s Tony Awards — set for June 7 at Radio City Musical Hall — pushes musicals toward the end of the season, resulting in five new musicals opening within the span of a few weeks.
Here’s what to expect between now and the end of April. Take note that almost all of the upcoming shows are currently booked for limited runs, so be sure to check the announced closing dates when making your theater plans.
Every Brilliant Thing, Hudson Theatre
Previews start February 21, opens March 12, runs through June 28
Daniel Radcliffe, the 2024 Tony Award winner for Merrily We Roll Along, returns to Broadway in a solo play that relies heavily on audience participation. In a role that fully exploits his considerable personal charm and charisma, the actor who rose to international prominence as Harry Potter narrates a tale that begins with a 7-year-old’s heartwarming attempt to cheer up his mother after her first attempt at suicide by compiling a list of things — observations mundane and profound — that give joy and purpose to life. The list continues to grow as the narrator matures into adulthood and faces their own anxieties and moments of darkness. Part guide and part stand-up comedian, the narrator enlists audience members to play various roles in the story, and to read aloud entries from the list, which now totals a million. The play, cowritten by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, has a long history, beginning at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014. It debuted Off-Broadway later that same year with co-author Donahoe, who originated the role now played by Radcliffe. Adapted as an HBO movie in 2016, the work has since been performed in more than 80 countries. This production, directed by Jeremy Herrin and Duncan Macmillan, also recently played in London’s West End featuring a rotating cast.
Death of a Salesman, Winter Garden Theatre
Previews start March 6, opens April 9, runs through August 9
Arthur Miller’s masterwork about a man who tragically strives for an American dream he can never fulfill is indisputably one of the great classics of modern drama and has remained popular and relevant for more than 75 years. This current revival — the sixth on Broadway since the play’s acclaimed Tony-, New York Drama Critics–, and Pulitzer Prize–winning 1949 debut — is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello. Granted access by the Miller estate to the playwright’s early drafts and notes, the director says he has gained new insights into the work that will help make the drama resonate even more strongly with audiences today. Four-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane takes on the iconic role of the salesman Willy Loman, while two-time Tony Award winner Laurie Metcalf plays Loman’s wife, Linda. This production marks Metcalf’s seventh collaboration with Mantello, following Little Bear Ridge Road, which played earlier this season on Broadway. Mantello previously directed Lane in The Odd Couple and Love! Valor! Compassion!. Christopher Abbott (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) plays Loman’s son Biff, and Ben Ahlers — best known as the clock-making footman in HBO’s The Gilded Age — makes his Broadway debut as the younger son, Happy.
Dog Day Afternoon, August Wilson Theatre
Previews start March 10, opens March 30, runs through July 12
Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Emmy Award–winning stars of the TV series The Bear, make their Broadway debuts in a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Between Riverside and Crazy. The story — about two amateurs who botch a bank robbery in New York City during the sweltering summer of 1972 — is adapted from Sidney Lumet’s 1975 thrilling movie, itself inspired by true-life events. Bernthal plays Sonny, the role made famous by Al Pacino in the movie, while Moss-Bachrach plays Sal, originally played by John Cazale. The production is directed by two-time Tony nominee Rupert Gold (Ink, King Charles III).
Giant, Music Box Theatre
Previews start March 11, opens March 23, runs through June 28
This 2025 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, starring two-time Tony Award winner John Lithgow, arrives on Broadway following a triumphant run in London and marks the playwriting debut of British theater director and filmmaker Mark Rosenblatt. The thought-provoking drama — certain to strike a nerve with contemporary audiences — is set in 1983, at a moment of crisis in the life and career of beloved children’s book author Roald Dahl (The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Dahl (in what may be a career-capping performance for Lithgow) has just divorced his wife Patricia Neal and is about to marry his longtime lover Felicity Crosland (played by two-time Olivier Award nominee Rachael Stirling). He is putting the finishing touches on his latest book, The Witches, working with his publisher Tom Maschler (played by Oliver Award winner Elliot Levey). Under pressure from a representative of his American publishers (played by Aya Cash), Dahl must confront the growing controversy arising from a review he wrote of a book about the 1982 siege of Beirut by the Israeli army. Faced with accusations of anti-Semitism, Dahl is forced to respond to demands for an apology to his readers. The production is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Nicholas Hytner (Carousel, The History Boys), who also directed Lithgow’s Tony Award–winning performance in the Sweet Smell of Success in 2002.
Becky Shaw, Hayes Theatre
Previews start March 18, opens April 6, runs through June 14
A blind date that goes wrong sets off a series of explosions, revealing secrets and exposing fissures, in this dark and acerbic comedy about dysfunctional relationships by Gina Gionfriddo — a Pulitzer Prize finalist following the play’s Off-Broadway debut in 2008. Gionfriddo has described her play as “a journey of moral discovery” and her characters as “people who are wrestling with their best and worst selves.” Patrick Ball (HBO’s The Pitt) and Alden Ehrenreich make their Broadway debuts alongside three-time Tony Award nominee Linda Emond in the Second Stage Theater production directed by Trip Cullman (Cult of Love).
Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Broadhurst Theatre
Previews start March 18, opens April 7, runs through September 6
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mega-musical, which premiered on Broadway more than four decades ago and went to become an international phenomenon, is reincarnated here as a queer ballroom competition. Keeping T.S. Eliot’s whimsical lyrics intact, the reconceived pageant — choregraphed by Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons — becomes Cats: The Jellicle Ball, where contestants vie for prizes in fashion, dance, and performance categories. This singular new revival, directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, first vogued its way into audiences’ hearts when it debuted Off-Broadway in late spring 2024. The company is led by André De Shields, a Broadway veteran with a five-decade-spanning career and a 2019 Tony Award for Hadestown. The fierce ensemble of singers and dancers (many of them Broadway newcomers) includes transgender ballroom icon “Tempress” Chastity Moore as Grizabella and Junior LaBeija, who was featured in Paris Is Burning, the influential documentary on the Harlem ballroom culture in the late 1980s.
The Fear of 13, James Earl Jones Theatre
Previews start March 19, opens April 15, runs though July 12
Two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Brutalist) and 2026 Golden Globe nominee Tessa Thompson (Hedda) will make their Broadway debuts in this harrowing true life drama about an egregious miscarriage of justice that ultimately finds a happy resolution. The new play, written by Lindsey Ferrentino – bookwriter for this season’s The Queen of Versailles – is based on an acclaimed documentary movie. Brody plays a man who spent 22 years in a Pennsylvania prison after being convicted and sentenced to death as a young man for kidnapping, rape and murder – crimes he did not commit. Thompson plays a volunteer at the prison who befriends him. In a different London West End production, the play received a 2025 Olivier nomination for Best Play while Brody earned a Best Actor nomination for his performance. The Broadway production is directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer (The Band’s Visit) who also directed Bug earlier this season.
Titaníque, St. James Theatre
Previews start March 26, opens April 12, runs through July 12
Silly fun reigns supreme in this affectionate jukebox parody, which revisits the blockbuster 1977 disaster movie under the guidance of a fictional Céline Dion. The Canadian superstar — forever associated with the movie’s signature love song — here armed with the full range of her catalog, narrates what “really” happened to the star-crossed lovers Jack and Rose, as well as hitherto unknown events surrounding the luxury liner’s fateful collision with that iceberg. Created by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, and Constantine Rousouli, and directed by Blue, this comic vessel has enjoyed a long and blissful voyage: a three-year-long New York run that began in an Off-Broadway basement, followed by a sold-out berth in the London West End, where it won the 2025 Olivier Award for Best Comedy (with several international stops along the way). Mindelle, making a meal out of a thick French Canadian accent, reprises her original role as Dion. The cast also includes four-time Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee Jim Parsons (Mother Play), Deborah Cox, Frankie Grande, and Rousouli in the role he originated as Jack.
The Rocky Horror Show, Studio 54
Previews start March 26, opens April 23, runs through July 19
Fly your own weird and wacky flag when Richard O’Brien’s rock ‘n’ roll comic homage to B-movies, horror, and sci-fi flicks returns to Broadway. The story follows the squeaky-clean virginal couple Brad and Janet, who stumble into the domain of an alien scientist — the self-styled, charismatic “sweet transvestite” Dr. Frank-N-Furter — and encounter the denizens of a sexually fluid, transgressive universe. Despite initially flopping on Broadway in 1975, the show has amassed a devoted fan base over the past half century. The glam rock campfest’s charmed life was fueled by its movie adaptation, which has endured as a midnight cult classic, as well as by countless stage productions across the globe, including an interactive Broadway revival in 2000. The new revival is directed by 2024 Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton (Oh, Mary!), with choreography by Ani Taj (Dead Outlaw) and designs by two-time Tony Award nominee dots (sets) and David I. Reynoso (costumes). British actor and singer Luke Evans, best known for the Hobbit trilogy, makes his Broadway debut, donning stilettos and fishnet stockings in the role of the mad doctor.
Fallen Angels, Todd Haimes Theatre
Previews start March 27, opens April 19, runs through June 7
The debonair wit of Noël Coward — who received a 1970 Special Tony Award for his “multiple and immortal contributions to the theater” — infuses this story about two married women who reminisce over drinks about their past marital indiscretions and the anticipated arrival of a former lover they shared. This second Broadway revival of Coward’s farcical comedy of questionable manners, which initially ran afoul of the London censors in 1925, stars Rose Byrne (recipient of best actress accolades from numerous organizations for her recent role in the film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and Kelli O’Hara, seven-time Tony Award nominee and 2015 Tony Award winner for South Pacific. The Roundabout Theatre Company production is directed by nine-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis, who earlier this season directed the revival of Art.
Beaches: The Musical, Majestic Theatre
Previews start March 27, opens April 22, runs through September 6
Jessica Vosk (Hell’s Kitchen) and Kelli Barrett (Fosse/Verdon, Parade) portray Cee Cee and Bertie, two women who first meet as children and whose four-decade friendship endures romantic rivalry, career challenges, and personal tragedy. Adapted from the 1988 tearjerker starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey, this new emotional musical is written by Iris Rainer Dart, author of the original 1985 novel on which the movie was based, and Thom Thomas. With music by Mike Stoller (best known as one-half of the songwriting duo Lieber and Stoller, responsible for a number of Elvis Presley hits) and lyrics by Dart, the musical was developed in collaboration with David Austin. This production, codirected by Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Lonny Price and Matt Cowart, with choreography by Jennifer Rias, originally premiered in 2024 at Theatre Calgary, Alberta.
The Lost Boys, The Palace Theatre
Previews start March 27, opens April 26, runs through November 22
This new supernatural comedy-horror musical is adapted from the Warner Bros. 1987 cult-favorite movie that helped popularize the sexually charged teenage vampire genre. Grammy Award and two-time Tony Award nominee Shoshana Bean (Hell’s Kitchen), plays a divorced mum who arrives at a coastal Californian town with two her teenage boys – only to discover it hides a dark secret. The sons, played by LJ Benet and Benjamin Pajak come under the spell of the local rock band and its charismatic leader, played by Ali Louis Bourzgui, a 2024 Theatre World Award winner for The Who’s Tommy. The cast also includes Maria Wirries, Paul Alexander Nolan, Jennifer Duka, Miguel Gil, Brian Flores, Sean Grandillo, Dean Maupin. The score is written by the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter trio The Rescues, with a book by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch. The production is directed by Michael Arden, a two-time Tony Award winner for Maybe Happy Ending (2025) and Parade (2023), with scenic design by Dany Laffrey, Tony Award winner for Maybe Happy Ending.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Previews start March 30, opens April 25, runs through July 26
Set in Pittsburgh 1911, this poetic and heartfelt drama is the second installment in the epic American Century Cycle by Tony Award– and two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright August Wilson (Fences, The Piano Lesson). Exploring perennial themes of identity, migration, and racial discrimination, the story is set in motion when a mysterious man and his young daughter arrive at a boarding house for African Americans who have moved North in search of better prospects. This second Broadway revival of Wilson’s haunting drama — which received the 1988 New York Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play as well as a Tony Award nomination — is directed by Emmy and Golden Globe winner Debbie Allen, who previously directed the 2008 Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The cast includes Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures), making her Broadway debut, six-time NAACP Image Award winner Cedric The Entertainer, Tony Award nominee Joshua Boone (The Outsiders), and Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Seven Guitars, Lackawanna Blues). Scenic design is by Tony Award winner David Gallo, who previously designed the Broadway productions of Wilson’s Jitney, Radio Golf, and Gem of the Ocean. Costume design is by 2025 Tony Award winner Paul Tazewell (Death Becomes Her.)
Proof, Booth Theatre
Previews start March 31, opens April 16, runs through July 19
This is the first Broadway revival of David Auburn’s poignant drama about the daughter of a brilliant mathematician. She is wrestling with her father’s recent death after a lengthy battle with dementia and her own fears of mental illness, while also striving to honor her father’s legacy and assert her own underappreciated intellectual capabilities. The play, which ran for over two years on Broadway, received the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2001, and was adapted into a movie in 2005. Emmy Award winner Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) and Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe Award winner Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) make their Broadway debuts portraying the daughter and father. The cast also includes Emmy Award winner Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale), and Jin Ha, who was last seen on Broadway in the 2017 revival of M. Butterfly. This production is directed by Thomas Kail, who received the 2016 Tony Award for directing Hamilton, and features original music by composer, pianist, and director Kris Bowers.
The Balusters, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Previews start March 31, opens April 21, runs through May 24
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, Tony Award winner in 2023 for Kimberly Akimbo and Pulitzer Prize winner in 2007 for Rabbit Hole, returns to his artistic home at the Manhattan Theater Club with his latest work. He describes it as being about “well-intentioned people behaving really badly.” Set in a small town where the local neighborhood association keeps a sharp eye on every aspect of community life, the play centers on a raucous fight that erupts when a newcomer proposes installing a stop sign on a cherished residential block. The production, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun), features Marylouise Burke, who has been long associated with Lindsay-Abaire’s work (including Fuddy Meers, Wonder of the World, Ripcord); Emmy Award nominee Carl Clemons-Hopkins (Hacks); Drama Desk nominee Margaret Colin (Carousel); Drama Desk nominee Michael Esper (Appropriate); Tony and Grammy Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton); and Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas, last seen on Broadway in Our Town.
Schmigadoon!, Nederlander Theatre
Previews start April 4, opens April 20, runs through September 6
In this new musical-comedy parody, adapted from the first season of the much loved Apple TV+ series, two schoolteachers from New York City embark on a backpacking trip in the hopes of rekindling their floundering relationship. Instead, they are magically transported to a musical- theater neverland, where the townspeople keep breaking into songs from Golden Age musicals — nonstop and seemingly forever. The contemporary couple trapped in this enchanted town is portrayed by two-time Tony Award nominee Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, School of Rock) and Sara Chase, currently appearing on Broadway in The Great Gatsby. Book, music, and lyrics are by Emmy Award winner Cinco Paul, cocreator of the original TV series. The production is directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, Tony Award winner for Newsies: The Musical and Tony nominee for Death Becomes Her. Costume design is by two-time Tony Award winner Linda Cho (The Great Gatsby, A Gentleman’s Guide to Murder); lighting design is by two-time Tony Award winner Donald Holder (South Pacific, The Lion King); and set design is by multiple Tony Award winner Scott Pask (The Book of Mormon, The Coast of Utopia).
