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From London to Broadway: Discover the new shows hopping the pond this spring

On and off Broadway, various productions — some with stars like Daniel Radcliffe and John Lithgow — are opening with rave reviews, awards, and fan buzz in tow from the U.K.

This London bridge isn't falling down anytime soon. Every NYC theatre season brings an array of imports from England, adding a dash of West End magic to the Broadway and Off-Broadway theatrical mix.

The pipeline between the West End and Broadway in the 2025–26 season is wonderfully robust. Like a transatlantic jet stream, it has carried hit London productions to NYC, introducing all kinds of shows to a whole new audience.

The genres represented by this season's wave of London imports run the gamut: epic tragedy, musical comedy, contemporary drama, and period bio-play. These productions range from revered classics (like a Greek tragedy by Sophocles) to catchy, crowd-pleasing new works (like a delightfully layered musical involving cake). Together, they bring fresh talent, distinctive design, and a signature British sensibility — while deepening cultural exchange and reaffirming Broadway’s standing as a truly international theatre capital.

Early in the 2025–26 season, Oedipus and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) launched on Broadway, propelled by strong London reviews, Olivier Award recognition, and eager fan bases.

Now, new spring productions like the starry Broadway plays Giant and Every Brilliant Thing, and more intimate Off-Broadway shows like Blackout Songs, are similarly buoyed by the sense that New York audiences can reliably look to London as a source of exciting new work to anticipate in NYC. Last season’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow and Operation Mincemeat, and long-running hits like Six and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, are even more examples of imported successes.

Of course, theatre transfers go in both directions: Most recently, the hit NYC comedies Oh, Mary! and Titanique, both on Broadway this spring, made big splashes across the pond within the last year. The London/NYC theatrical exchange isn't just a trend; it's a time-tested formula.

Discover this season’s London arrivals on and off Broadway, and grab your tickets to see them below.

Traveling to London? Visit LondonTheatre.co.uk for West End news and tickets.

Summary

  • Shows in the 2025-26 Broadway season that started in London include Oedipus; Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York); Every Brilliant Thing; and Giant
  • Other current Broadway hits that transferred from London include Six; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; and Operation Mincemeat
  • Hit Broadway shows also regularly transfer to London in a two-way cultural exchange

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Oedipus

Seagull: True Story

The Other Place

Blackout Songs

Giant

Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Drama
Interactive

Fresh from a Tony Award-winning run in Merrily We Roll Along, Daniel Radcliffe returns to Broadway in a solo, memoir‑style play by Duncan Macmillan with Johnny Donahoe that revels in life’s mini‑but‑mighty delights. First seen at England’s Ludlow Fringe in 2013, it reached New York at Barrow Street Theatre in 2014 and now arrives from a hit West End engagement in fall 2025, hailed by London Theatre as a “joyful participatory experience.” Performances start March 12 at the Hudson Theatre.

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Giant

Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage
Award winner

Two-time Tony winner and six-time Emmy winner John Lithgow stars as Roald Dahl, author of Matilda and James and the Giant Peach, in Mark Rosenblatt’s debut play examining a scandal surrounding Dahl’s alleged antisemitism. The play premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2024 before transferring to the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre in 2025, where London Theatre called it a “topical colossus of a play.”

Directed by Nicholas Hytner, it won Olivier Awards for Best New Play, Best Actor (Lithgow), and Best Supporting Actor (Elliot Levey, who also reprises his role on Broadway). Performances begin March 23 at the Music Box Theatre.

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Blackout Songs

Off-Broadway
Play
Drama

In its U.S. premiere, Joe White’s Olivier-nominated play — first staged at London’s Hampstead Theatre in 2022 — stars Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Owen Teague (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes) in their New York stage debuts. They play two lost souls who meet at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and begin a turbulent, decade-long relationship. Performances begin January 15 at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space.

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The Other Place

Off-Broadway
Drama
Stars on stage

Drawing on the themes of Antigone, Alexander Zeldin crafts and directs a modern drama about two distant sisters who come together in their childhood home, where they must face shared remorse and opposing ideas about what lies ahead. House of the Dragon Golden Globe nominee Emma D’Arcy reprises her role from the acclaimed 2024 run at London’s National Theatre. Performances start January 30 at The Shed.

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Seagull: True Story

Off-Broadway
Drama

Eli Rarey’s reimagining of Chekhov’s classic play is inspired by actual experiences of award-winning Russian creator/director Alexander Molochnikov, who fled to New York in 2022 after his bold take on The Seagull was censored. Following runs off Broadway at La MaMa and in London at the Marylebone Theatre, the production returns to NYC March 22 at The Public Theater.

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Oedipus

Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage
Classic
Award winner
Last chance

You can still see two of the fall season's British imports on Broadway this spring. Robert Icke’s modern adaptation of Sophocles's Oedipus premiered in London’s West End at Wyndham’s Theatre in October 2024, starring Mark Strong as Oedipus and Lesley Manville as Jocasta, who reprise their roles at Studio 54 through February 8. Brace yourself for their “magnetic and explosive” performances, per New York Theatre Guide’s critic. Set on election night, the classic tragedy about fate, patricide, and incest now becomes a contemporary political thriller. It won Olivier Awards for Best Revival and Best Actress (Manville).

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Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Broadway
Musical
Romance
Comedy

Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty play a dessert-delivering duo who discover each other — and a lot about themselves — in this sweet original musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan. First staged in Ipswich and Northampton in 2019 as The Season, it was reimagined at Kiln Theatre in 2023 and moved to the West End in 2024. Now on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, it’s “like a warm hot chocolate as respite from the snow,” New York Theatre Guide's critic raved.

Come to think of it, if the connection between the West End and Broadway was musicalized, it might be titled Theatre Producers (Carry a Show Across the Pond). No matter what you call it, it’s a dynamic that endures.

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