By Ben Lerner
With the recent Tony Awards celebrating Broadway’s 2025-26 season now in the rearview mirror, Broadway’s Best Shows is looking ahead to what promises to be a very buzzy 2026-27 theatrical season. While we are currently in a lull between openings, as new productions for the upcoming season won’t land until later in the summer, there’s a palpable energy in the air about what shows are on deck.
Most recently announced was Lincoln Center’s upcoming season, including a revival of The Sound of Music starring Jasmine Amy Rogers. With plenty of new plays and musicals (and exciting revivals of both) already announced (and more to come!), let’s take a look at what to expect this fall through Spring 2027.
NEW MUSICALS
Wanted: The first new original musical of the season will premiere this fall at the James Earl Jones Theatre, inspired by the true story of two Black twin sisters fighting to settle their mother’s sharecropping debt and save her home. It stars Solea Pfeiffer, Liisi LaFontaine, and Ledisi.
Galileo: A new biomusical about – you guessed it – scientist Galileo Galilei, will open this December at the Shubert Theatre. Helmed by veteran director Michael Mayer, who most recently directed Chess, the show stars Raul Esparza in the titular role, opposite Joy Woods.
Paddington The Musical: In a transfer from the West End, the Andean bear from the children’s books and films will come to Broadway next spring at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Keen viewers may have seen his preview cameo in Pink’s opening number at the recent Tony Awards!
Warriors: This just-announced original musical marks Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first Broadway score since Hamilton. This time co-written with Eisa Davis, Warriors is based on the cult 1979 film about a New York City gang. It will open at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in Spring 2027.
MUSICAL REVIVALS
The Fantasticks: The long-running off-Broadway hit makes its Broadway premiere this fall at the Helen Hayes Theatre. With a newly revised book telling a gay romance, it will still likely count as a revival. Fresh off directing and choreographing the Tony Award-winning Schmigadoon!, Christopher Gattelli will direct.
Evita: Already one of the hottest tickets on Broadway months before it opens, Jamie Lloyd’s acclaimed revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical about the rise and fall of Eva Peron hits the Winter Garden Theatre this spring. Lloyd’s last reimagining of a Webber musical, Sunset Boulevard, earned multiple Tonys, including Best Actress for Nicole Scherzinger. Will Evita star Rachel Zegler also win? Time will tell – but she will not be performing on a street-facing outdoor balcony like in the West End.
The Sound of Music: Lincoln Center is known for its large-scale revivals of classic musicals, and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music seems long overdue to return. Last revived in 1998 starring the late Rebecca Luker as Maria, the new production will star Jasmine Amy Rogers (a Tony nominee for Boop!, no relation to composer Rodgers!). It will open at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre next spring, directed by Lear deBassonet, who recently helmed LCT’s Tony Award-winning Ragtime.
The Full Monty: The first revival of the 2000 musical about unemployed steelworkers putting on a strip show is scheduled to open at Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre in the spring. With music by David Yazbeck and a book by Terrence McNally, The Full Monty revival will be directed by Suffs’ Leigh Silverman.
NEW PLAYS
Paranormal Activity: The first official opening of the season is another transfer from London. This “new stage experience” based on the horror film series starts previews this August at the August Wilson Theatre.
860: A new autobiographical one-man show by Billy Crystal, focused on his family home lost in the Palisades fires, will open at the Imperial Theatre in October, directed by Scott Ellis. Crystal won a Tony for Best Special Theatrical Event for his 2005 one-man show 700 Sundays. He also received a nomination for 2022’s Mr. Saturday Night.
Inter Alia: Rosamund Pike stars as a London Crown Court judge in this new drama that will start previews this November at the Music Box Theatre. A transfer from the West End, Inter Alia won Pike the 2026 Olivier Award for Best Actress. 2025 Olivier winner Lesley Manville recently won the Tony for the West End transfer of Oedipus – so Pike’s performance is one to watch.
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.
Mix and Master: A new play by Dominique Morisseau tells the story of a DJ’s fight to save Brooklyn’s last record shop and stars Tony winners Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Kara Young. It’s scheduled to play the Todd Haimes Theatre this winter.
Montauk: Five-time Tony nominee Laura Linney returns to Broadway in a new play by David Hare about a complex relationship between two artists, set to open next spring at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
PLAY REVIVALS
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. (Yes, Rogers will also do The Sound of Music in the spring!)
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 in to 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.