Bill Irwin, Kara Young, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and more in Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2026-27 season

The award-winning nonprofit organization will present three shows on Broadway and three off Broadway across two venues between fall 2026 and spring 2027.

Summary

• Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway season includes Bill Irwin in The Imaginary Invalid; Kara Young and Ruben Santiago-Hudson in Mix and Master; and a revival of The Full Monty
• The Off-Broadway season includes the new musical The Heart; the new play The Grief Eater Near North Bender; and a 30th-anniversary revival of The Vagina Monologues
• Broadway shows will take place at the Todd Haimes Theatre
• Off-Broadway shows will be at the Laura Pels Theatre

Roundabout Theatre Company has set its 2026-27 season, including three Broadway shows at the Todd Haimes Theatre and three Off-Broadway shows at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.

First on Broadway in fall 2026 will be a new version of Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid, adapted by and starring Tony Award winner Bill Irwin (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). Obie Award winner Brandon J. Dirden (Waiting for Godot) directs the play about a gullible hypochondriac who plots to marry his daughter to a doctor to get free healthcare for life. The only problem is, many of the “doctors” who claim they can cure him are con artists.

Next in Roundabout’s Broadway season is the world-premiere play Mix and Master, written by two-time Tony nominee Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew, Ain’t Too Proud) and directed by Kamilah Forbes. The play stars Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Seven Guitars, Lackawanna Blues) and two-time Tony winner Kara Young (Purlie Victorious, Purpose) as two people from different generations battling over the precarious future of the Bronx's last record shop. The production will feature live DJ sets.

In spring 2027 is the first Broadway revival of the musical The Full Monty, with a book by Terrence McNally and music and lyrics by David Yazbek. Adapted from the 1997 comedy film, the show follows a group of unemployed men who form a striptease act to make money. Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (Suffs, Violet) directs, and Connor Gallagher choreographs.

The Off-Broadway season will begin this fall with the New York premiere of the musical The Heart, adapted from Maylis de Kerangal’s novel Réparer les Vivants. Using electronic dance music — a genre meant to evoke a heartbeat — the show follows 24 hours in the race to carry out a heart transplant in time.

Christopher Ashley, the new artistic director of Roundabout as of this year, returns to stage the production, which he first directed at La Jolla Playhouse. The show also features music and lyrics by Anne and Ian Eisendrath, a book and additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan, and choreography by Mandy Moore.

Roundabout’s winter Off-Broadway show is The Grief Eater Near North Bender, produced in association with New York Theatre Workshop. Dylan Guerra’s comic fable, directed by Dustin Wills, follows a group of small-town pub patrons fighting a monster that's killing and erasing memories of their loved ones.

Finally, in spring 2027 is a 30th-anniversary Off-Broadway revival of The Vagina Monologues, written by V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) and directed by Olivier winner and Tony nominee Noma Dumezweni (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child). Through a series of vignettes based on interviews with over 200 women of various races, ages, and sexualities, the show challenges taboos surrounding sex, trauma, pleasure, birth, and more.

Additional details about all the above productions, including additional cast and creative team members and exact run dates, have yet to be announced.

Photo credit: Bill Irwin, Kara Young, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. (Young photo by Kristina Bumphrey; Santiago-Hudson photo by Mo McCrae)