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Broadway spring preview: What's playing on Broadway in 2027?

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.

Gillian Russo
Written byGillian Russo

The spring is the busiest time of the theatre season each year, with over a dozen shows opening between January and April with the hopes of earning Tony Awards in June. Some limited-run fall shows will have closed by then, 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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Summary

  • Broadway musicals opening in spring 2027 include Paddington; Evita; The Sound of Music; and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors
  • Broadway plays opening in spring 2027 include Three Days of Rain; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Gloria; and Montauk
1.

Dolly: A True Original Musical

2.

Awake and Sing!

3.

Mix and Master

4.

Three Days of Rain

5.

Evita

6.

Purple Rain

7.

Gloria

8.

The Sound of Music

9.

Paddington The Musical

10.

Warriors

11.

The Full Monty

12.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

13.

Montauk

1.

Dolly: A True Original Musical

Broadway
Jukebox musical

It's only fitting that Dolly Parton's new bio-musical is officially opening on her 81st birthday, January 19. Parton co-wrote the book for the show, telling her story as only she can — and of course, it's set to all her hit songs, like "9 to 5" and "Jolene."

Performances begin: December 7

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2.

Awake and Sing!

Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic
Award winner

Following early performances in December, the official opening of Awake and Sing! wakes up the new year, with a cast including Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, Jeremy Shamos, Micaela Diamond, and Will Pullen. Clifford Odets's classic drama is set in a cramped Bronx tenement, where the Berger family clashes over the American dream during the Great Depression.

Performances begin: December 15

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Awake and Sing!

3.

Mix and Master

Play with music
Drama
Stars on stage

New York's hottest music venue will be at the Todd Haimes Theatre this winter during the run of Mix and Master. Tony Award winners Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Kara Young star in Dominique Morisseau's new play about the fight to save the Bronx's last record shop, with live DJ sets as part of the show.

Performances begin: January 5

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Mix and Master

4.

Three Days of Rain

Play
Drama
Stars on stage
Award winner

Heated Rivalry's François Arnaud and Superman's David Corenswet make their Broadway debuts alongside The Handmaid's Tale Emmy nominee Yvonne Strahovski in Three Days of Rain. Each actor plays two characters in the Pulitzer-nominated drama, which explores death and inherited secrets through two different generations.

Performances begin: February 2027

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Three Days of Rain

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5.

Evita

Musical
Stars on stage
Classic
Award winner

Don't cry for Rachel Zegler. Fresh off an Olivier Award win for Evita in London, she's coming back to Broadway to reprise her performance as Eva Perón. One of the season's buzziest revivals, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about Eva and Juan Perón's rise to power is directed by Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Boulevard).

Performances begin: February 27

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6.

Purple Rain

Jukebox musical
Screen to stage
Award winner

Featuring over 20 Prince hits like “When Doves Cry” and “I Would Die 4 U,” the Purple Rain musical adapts the iconic singer's equally iconic 1984 film. In Minneapolis, a young musican called the Kid is determined to be a star, but his past threatens to destroy everything he's worked for.

Performances begin: March 12

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Purple Rain

7.

Gloria

Play
Drama
Award winner

Stop the presses! The magazine industry may be crumbling around them, but the low-level employees at a major NYC publication will still do anything — anything — to get ahead. More than 10 years after its debut, the Pulitzer-nominated Gloria, from Tony winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, Purpose) is coming to Broadway.

Performances begin: March 17

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Gloria

8.

The Sound of Music

Musical
Classic
Family show

Climb ev'ry mountain, ford ev'ry stream to get to Lincoln Center Theater's revival of The Sound of Music, starring Tony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers (BOOP! The Musical) as Maria. The timeless Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about love, song, and resistance returns to Broadway for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Performances begin: March 23

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9.

Paddington The Musical

Musical
Comedy
Drama
Award winner
Family show
Page to stage
Screen to stage

He's journeyed from Peru to London, and now, this small bear is now journeying to the Big Apple. Paddington and his namesake musical took the West End by storm, winning a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards in 2026. Now, stateside audiences can join Paddington on his search for a place to call home, encountering a kindly family, a zany taxi driver, a vengeful taxidermist, and more along the way.

Performances begin: March 30

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10.

Warriors

Musical
Drama
Page to stage
Screen to stage

When it comes to Best Musical contenders, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis's Warriors is sure to put up a strong fight. Reimagining the 1979 movie about an NYC gang getting framed for murder and making a dangerous escape to safety, the musical version has already amassed fans via its 2024 cast album. It was only a matter of time before it got the full-fledged stage treatment.

Performances begin: March 2027

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Warriors

11.

The Full Monty

Musical
Comedy
Screen to stage

In desperate times, sometimes you have to risk it all. Or in the case of a group of unemployed men in Buffalo, bare it all. The laugh-out-loud musical about blue-collar workers who form a striptease act for fast cash returns for its first Broadway revival this spring, directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman.

Performances begin: April 3

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The Full Monty

12.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Play
Drama
Classic
Award winner
Stage to screen

Can't wait for summer? See the fiery Tennessee Williams classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in its Broadway return. The Pulitzer-winning play takes place at a patriarch's 65th birthday party in Mississippi, where the simmering desires and tensions among his dysfunctional family come to a head.

Performances begin: Spring 2027

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

13.

Montauk

Play
Drama
Stars on stage

If you can't get to coastal Montauk for a warm-weather getaway, you can see Tony Award nominee and Emmy winner Laura Linney in Montauk, David Hare's new drama about a writer (Linney) and artist whose personal motives and professional inspirations bleed together.

Performances begin: Spring 2027

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Montauk