With the end of the 2025–2026 Broadway season, Broadway’s Best Shows looked ahead to see what new productions of plays and musicals were slated to come to Broadway in the very eventful 2026–2027 theatrical season.
Many new play revivals have recently been announced for the next season, with even more to be announced in the coming weeks and months. Let’s revisit what play revivals Broadway’s Best Shows has already discussed were coming and take a look at what else to expect from the play revivals arriving both on and off-Broadway this fall through Spring 2027 and beyond.
PLAY REVIVALS
Three Days of Rain: François Arnaud (Heated Rivalry) and David Corenswet (Superman) will make their Broadway debuts alongside Yvonne Strahovski in Richard Greenberg’s play directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The play features three actors who play two roles each, the children in Act I and their parents 35 years earlier in Act II. Performances begin in February 2027 at a Shubert Organization-owned theatre to be announced.
All My Sons: Heavily rumored and most recently seen in the West End starring Bryan Cranston, Arthur Miller’s classic may return to Broadway. The play centers on Joe Keller, a successful businessman who secretly shipped defective airplane cylinder heads during World War II. The play exposes his guilt as his fault caused 21 pilot deaths, leading to a devastating family reckoning over greed and moral responsibility.
Downstate: Reportedly in the pipeline, Bruce Norris’s provocative tragicomedy which originally premiered at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago before transferring Off-Broadway in 2022 may be coming to Broadway. The play follows four men convicted of sex crimes against minors living together in a group home in downstate Illinois, and an explosive confrontation with a former victim.
Small Mouth Sounds: Heard through the grapevine, newly Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bess Wohl’s play which ran Off-Broadway in 2016 could be coming to Broadway. Following six city dwellers at a five-day silent retreat guided by an unseen guru, using almost no dialogue to explore human pain, humor, and the need for connection.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play: First produced off-Broadway in 2017, School Girls will premiere on Broadway this September at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. A comedy about a beauty contest amongst Ghanaian schoolgirls, it will star Tony winner Patina Miller and Tony nominees Denee Benton and Jasmine Amy Rogers.
Other Desert Cities: Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut in an all-star revival of this play about exposed family secrets, directed by John Benjamin Hickey and opening at the Hudson Theatre in October. It costars Tony nominees Allison Janney, Lily Rabe, and Ed Harris, alongside Stranger Things’ Joe Keery.
A Few Good Men: Lincoln Center will produce the first revival of Aaron Sorkin’s play, opening in October at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre and directed by Michael Arden. The military courtroom drama was first staged in 1989 and was later adapted into an award-winning film starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. The LCT revival will star Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth.
Much Ado About Nothing: Jamie Lloyd will also direct a revival of Shakespeare’s classic at the Winter Garden Theatre – opening this fall, before his adaptation of Evita rolls into the same venue. It’s also a transfer from London, starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell.
The Imaginary Invalid: A new adaptation of Moliere’s classic comedy about a hypochondriac, The Imaginary Invalid was adapted by and will star Bill Irwin. It’s scheduled to play the Todd Haimes Theatre this fall, though no date has been confirmed.
Awake and Sing!: A revival of the classic 1935 play about a Brooklyn family during the Great Depression will start previews in December at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. It will star Tony winner Danny Burstein and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht, recently seen on Broadway in Marjorie Prime and Dog Day Afternoon, respectively.
Gloria: Pulitzer-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ comedy about magazine assistants will make its Broadway premiere next spring at the Helen Hayes Theatre. It will likely be considered original, although it was previously staged at the Vineyard Theatre Off-Broadway. His play Appropriate was considered a revival, but his 2025 Pulitzer-winning Purpose won the Tony for Best Play.
Seven Guitars: Premiering Off-Broadway, Lincoln Center will produce a revival of August Wilson’s play at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The American Century Cycle play will star Jason Dirden, Russell Hornsby and Kristolyn Lloyd, among others, and is set to open in November with a limited run through January.