Broadway spring preview: What's playing on Broadway in 2026?
Learn more about all the new plays, new musicals, and revivals opening on Broadway in New York this spring, including many starry and award-winning shows.
The spring is the busiest time of the theatre season each year, with many shows opening from January to May with the hopes of earning Tony Awards in June. Some shows that opened during the fall season will have ended their limited runs, but there are plenty of new Broadway plays and musicals taking their place. Spring is also the season of long holiday weekends and spring breaks — so there's plenty of time for you, your family, or your friends to see a Broadway show (or shows!) together.
Learn about all the Broadway shows opening this spring below, in order of start date, and get Broadway tickets for the spring now.
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Broadway musicals this spring
Spring is one of the most popular times for blockbuster musicals to open, hoping to be fresh on audiences' and critics' minds as the Tony Awards loom on the horizon. Learn more about all new musicals and musical revival to check out this season.
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
The category is: a purr-fect reimagining of a classic. Cats: The Jellicle Ball, coming to Broadway after a hit Off-Broadway premiere, reimagines Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical in the context of a queer ballroom competition, where the "cats" fiercely dance, model, and sashay for a chance at a new life.
Performances begin: March 18
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The Rocky Horror Show
The antici...pation is almost over. Tony Award-winning director Sam Pinkleton (Oh, Mary!) stages a fresh revival of Richard O'Brien's cult classic musical, following an innocent couple roped into a supernatural adventure by the mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Performances begin: March 26
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The Lost Boys
Sink your teeth into the new musical adaptation of the 1987 horror comedy film about a mom and her two sons who move to a California town teeming with vampires. The Lost Boys features a script by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia writer David Hornsby, music by The Rescues, and direction by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Arden (Maybe Happy Ending).
Performances begin: March 27
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Schmigadoon!
Why just see a show when you can be in a show? That's what happens to troubled couple Melissa and Josh, who stumble into an idyllic town that's a Golden Age musical come to life — and the only way out is to sing and dance their way through. Schmigadoon! is adapted from the hit Apple TV+ series that's both a love letter to and parody of classic Broadway shows.
Performances begin: April 4
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Broadway plays this spring
Exciting new plays from award-winning writers and star-studded revivals are among this spring's play offerings. Discover all the comedies and dramas starting performances in the spring season.
Dog Day Afternoon
See The Bear Emmy winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach make their Broadway debuts in a new stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film. Dog Day Afternoon is inspired by the true story of a Brooklyn bank robbery gone wrong, which leaves the city on edge as they follow the criminal's increasingly unpredictable escapades from there.
Performances begin: March 10
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Giant
Winner of the Olivier Awards for Best New Play and Best Actor in London, Giant is poised to be a big Broadway event. Emmy and Tony Award winner John Lithgow reprises his role as children's author Roald Dahl, who published a controversial article that threatened his legacy.
Performances begin: March 11
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Becky Shaw
Nearly 20 years after premiering off Broadway and being a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Gina Gionfriddo's play about a first date gone wildly off the rails finally makes its Broadway debut.
Performances begin: March 18
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Fallen Angels
Stage and screen favorites Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara co-star in Noël Coward's classic play as two women who discover they each had affairs with the same Frenchman. It's all in the past, though — until it's not, when the man plans a visit.
Performances begin: March 27
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Proof
Ayo Edebiri + Don Cheadle + an award-winning play = an unmissable production. Both stars make their Broadway performing debuts, playing a deceased math genius (Cheadle) and his daughter (Edebiri), who attempts to continue his groundbreaking work without following in his tragic footsteps.
Performances begin: March 31
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The Balusters
Marylouise Burke, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Margaret Colin, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Richard Thomas are all coming to the neighborhood. In Pulitzer and Tony winner David Lindsay-Abaire's newest play, tensions run high when one member — gasp! — suggests putting a stop sign on the area's most beautiful block.
Performances begin: Spring 2026
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Taraji P. Henson makes her Broadway debut opposite Cedric "The Entertainer" in August Wilson's classic drama. An ordinary boarding house is shaken up with the arrival of a man looking for his wife — and himself — after an illegal enslavement.
Performances begin: Spring 2026
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