All the upcoming Broadway shows in New York
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The anchors of the city's theatre scene are the tried-and-true, long-running Broadway shows in New York, but the most exciting part of every new season is learning about all the new Broadway shows opening each season. There are always plenty of upcoming Broadway shows to look forward to, especially in the fall and spring. New York theatres are booked months in advance with new plays and musicals each year, making it easy for you to get Broadway theatre tickets in advance.
We've rounded up all the upcoming Broadway shows in 2022 and 2023, plus shows that have announced plans to open in 2023 or sooner but have yet to set performance dates. Make sure you bookmark this page for the latest information on Broadway shows opening soon. Learn about fall 2022 Broadway shows, spring 2023 Broadway shows, and more upcoming Broadway shows below.
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Fall 2023 Broadway shows
See these new Broadway shows in fall 2023. The theatre season kicks off in earnest each fall, which means there's a new Broadway show opening every few weeks, if not more often! The Broadway shows opening this fall include hit shows from London, Pulitzer Prize winners, fresh revivals of Tony Award-winning musicals, and star-studded plays. Discover the best shows on Broadway this fall by learning more about all the new fall 2023 Broadway shows you can see.
Purlie Victorious
Leslie Odom, Jr. makes his first Broadway appearance since his Tony Award-winning portrayal of Aaron Burr in Hamilton. This time, he takes on the role of a traveling preacher, the title Purlie, as he travels to Georgia during Jim Crow to free plantation workers and his church.
Performances begin: September 7
Opening night: TBD
Venue: Music Box Theatre
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Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Drama Desk Award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh makes her Broadway debut with Jaja's African Hair Braiding, the kickoff to Manhattan Theatre Club's 2023-24 Broadway season. On one hot summer day at the title salon in Harlem, a group of women from a tight-knit community share dreams, love, and secrets, but they also confront their uncertain futures and what it means to feel like outsiders in their own neighborhood.
Performances begin: September 12
Opening night: October 3
Venue: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Melissa Etheridge: My Window
Grammy- and Oscar-winning musician Melissa Etheridge brings her solo concert, My Window, to Broadway following an acclaimed Off-Broadway run last year. Etheridge pairs her greatest hit songs with stories from her life, making for a soulful and intimate evening.
Performances begin: September 14
Opening night: September 28
Venue: Circle in the Square Theatre
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Gutenberg! The Musical!
The Book of Mormon made its pair of original stars, Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, bonafide Broadway stars and comedy kings. Now, the pair reunite on stage for the first time since in Gutenberg! The Musical!, the first Broadway production of the multi-award-nominated 2006 Off-Broadway comedy about the inventor of the printing press. Above all, though, the musical is about the timeless desire to put on a show.
Performances begin: September 15
Opening night: October 12
Venue: James Earl Jones Theatre
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Merrily We Roll Along
Following a sold-out run at New York Theatre Workshop, Merrily We Roll Along is rolling onto Broadway with its three leading stars: Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez. This is the first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's show about how a friendship between three showbiz workers falls apart over 20 years.
Performances begin: September 19
Opening night: October 10
Venue: Hudson Theatre
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I Need That
Danny DeVito returns to Broadway in this new play by Theresa Rebeck. He plays a hoarder faced with eviction if he doesn't clean up his house, forcing him to finally decide what's trash and what's treasure — and how thin the line is between the two. He stars opposite his daughter, Lucy DeVito, at the American Airlines Theatre.
Performances begin: October 13
Opening night: TBD
Venue: American Airlines Theatre
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Harmony
The Comedian Harmonists were a 1920s German-Jewish choral group known for their flawless harmonies and onstage antics — until their global fame collided head-on with the rise of Nazism. The story has hilarity, heart, and horror in equal measure, and it's finally coming to Broadway in Harmony after more than 25 years of development. The Drama Desk Award-winning musical features a score by Barry Manilow, a book and lyrics by Bruce Sussman, and direction and choreography by Warren Carlyle.
Performances begin: October 18
Opening night: November 13
Venue: Barrymore Theatre
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Spamalot
Always look on the bright side of Broadway. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Spamalot, adapted from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is having its first Broadway revival this fall. Last on Broadway for its 2005 premiere production, the show is a parody of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table — without any of the royal decorum.
Performances begin: October 31
Opening night: November 16
Venue: St. James Theatre
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How to Dance in Ohio
Alexandra Shiva's Peabody Award-winning documentary is now an uplifting stage musical. The story follows seven autistic adults who face their fears, find love and independence, and change their lives while preparing for a spring formal dance. A cast of autistic actors plays these parts, all of whom are making their Broadway debuts after originating their roles at Syracuse Stage.
Performances begin: November 15
Opening night: December 10
Venue: Belasco Theatre
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Appropriate
Pulitzer-nominated playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins makes his Broadway debut with this Second Stage Theater production. This dark comedy takes place in Louisiana, where a family reunites to deal with their late patriarch's estate. But instead of bonding and reminiscing, they find themselves unearthing dark family secrets and resentment.
Performances begin: November 29
Opening night: December 19
Venue: Hayes Theater
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Prayer for the French Republic
Joshua Harmon's epic play debuts on Broadway two years after its Off-Broadway premiere, both times with Manhattan Theatre Club. Seventy years apart, a Parisian Jewish couple awaits news of their missing family amid World War II, and a contemporary Jewish family debates moving out of fear for their own safety.
Performances begin: December 13
Opening night: January 9
Venue: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Spring 2024 Broadway shows
Announcements have already been made about lots of upcoming Broadway shows in 2024. With the Tony Awards at the beginning of June each year, spring is a prime season for musicals and plays hoping to get noticed for major awards. Read about all the 2024 Broadway shows we know about so far, and though many haven't announced performance dates yet, keep checking back here to see when exactly these new Broadway shows will be in New York in 2024.
Days of Wine and Roses
After starring in the acclaimed world premiere of this new musical based on the same-named 1962 film, Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James reprise their roles as a 1950s New York couple battling alcoholism in their relationship. Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas reunited to create this show, their first collaboration since 2005's Tony-winning The Light in the Piazza.
Performances begin: January 6
Opening night: January 28
Venue: Studio 54
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An Enemy of the People
Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Succession star Jeremy Strong will return to Broadway for the first time since 2008. Fresh off her acclaimed work adapting A Doll's House, Amy Herzog adapts this other Ibsen drama about a man who is punished for exposing an unseemly truth about his small Norwegian town.
Performances begin: Early 2024
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
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The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks's romantic drama novel captured the hearts of countless fans worldwide, and the 2004 movie starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did the same. Now, experience the story on stage in The Notebook musical adaptation, featuring a score by Ingrid Michaelson and a book by Bekah Brunstetter. Follow lovers Allie and Noah through time as they fight against the forces trying to keep them apart.
Performances begin: February 10
Opening night: March 14
Venue: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
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Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen's novel is now a high-flying Broadway musical that might make you want to run away with the circus. That's what the main character, Jacob, does, and falls in love with an acrobat, who's married to the circus's cruel ringmaster. Drama unfolds as the pair try to maintain their romance in secret.
Performances begin: February 24
Opening night: March 21
Venue: Imperial Theatre
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Doubt
Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber star in the first revival of John Patrick Shanley's parable about the sacred and profane. This morally complex drama follows a nun at an all-boys' private school who suspects a priest of having inappropriate relations with a student. Are her doubts founded?
Performances begin: February 2024
Opening night: TBD
Venue: American Airlines Theatre
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The Outsiders
In 1967 Tulsa, a group of lower-class "greasers" lean on each other for brotherhood, support, and survival as they battle a rival, upper-class gang and an unforgiving world. S. E. Hinton's seminal coming-of-age novel stays gold in this new musical adaptation.
Performances begin: March 16
Opening night: April 11
Venue: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
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The Wiz
Audiences are going to have to ease on down the road a little farther for this one, as this revival of The Wiz opens Broadway in 2024. A new production of the all-Black Wizard of Oz adaptation, directed by Schele Williams, first follows the yellow brick road on a national tour in 2023. Wayne Brady stars in the title role.
Performances begin: March 29
Opening night: April 17
Venue: Marquis Theatre
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Uncle Vanya
Heidi Schreck, the Pulitzer- and Tony-nominated writer behind What the Constitution Means to Me, provides a new translation for this classic Chekhov work for its latest revival in 2024. Romance, tension, and secrets arise when new family members move into Vanya and his niece Sonya's quiet farm, upending their lives.
Performances begin: April 2
Opening night: April 24
Venue: Vivian Beaumont Theater
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Mother Play
Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, and Celia Keenan-Bolger star in the latest show by the acclaimed writer of How I Learned to Drive. The premise: the play is set in 1962 D.C. and follows a mother with strong opinions about who her two children should be. But as they find their own paths anyway, they all learn to survive their changing world.
Performances begin: April 2
Opening night: April 25
Venue: Hayes Theater
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Mary Jane
Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams makes her Broadway debut in Pulitzer finalist Amy Herzog's play. McAdams takes on the title role, originated off Broadway by Carrie Coon, of a single mother seeking support as she goes through an impossible family matter.
Performances begin: April 2
Opening night: TBD
Venue: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Cabaret
Come to the cabaret, old chum! Kander and Ebb's classic musical is coming back to Broadway. This production, directed by Rebecca Frecknall, premiered in London and won seven Olivier Awards, including Best Musical Revival. The show completely converted London's Playhouse Theatre into the hedonistic Kit Kat Club that gets slowly overtaken by the Nazi regime. Now, the Broadway production will transform the August Wilson Theatre.
Performances begin: Spring 2024
Opening night: TBD
Venue: August Wilson Theatre
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Home
Samm-Art Williams's Tony Award-nominated play gets its first Broadway revival in 2024, directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon. This coming-of-age story follows Cephus Miles, who is left lost when his sweetheart goes to college and marries someone else. Suddenly, Cephus must find a new place to belong.
Performances begin: Spring 2024
Opening night: TBD
Venue: American Airlines Theatre
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Upcoming Broadway shows
There's even more Broadway to look forward to! These upcoming Broadway shows haven't specified when they'll come to New York yet, but they have announced plans to come to Broadway in the near future. Read more about the shows planning to open soon, and keep an eye out to see if they'll be joining the ranks of Broadway shows this year.
Room
This production was set to premiere in spring 2023 but has been postponed indefinitely. Emma Donoghue's bestselling 2010 novel, which she adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Brie Larson, is now a stage play. Donoghue once again writes the script, adapting her story of a young mother who is held captive for years, and her quest to escape with her young son and finally show him the outside world.
Performances begin: TBD
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
High Noon
The 1952 Oscar-winning Western film High Noon will get a Broadway adaptation in 2023. It will be the first Western on Broadway in 85 years. The plot of High Noon centers on Marshal Will Kane, whose duty to his town is put to the test when a murderer and his gang are rumored to arrive. He's tasked with either facing them alone or fleeing with his wife to safety, and both options prove contentious. Rather than skipping between moments in time, the events of High Noon on Broadway take place in real time within two hours, just like the film.
Performances begin: TBD
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
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The Mousetrap
For 70 years, Agatha Christie's murder mystery has run in London's West End and made history as the world's longest-running play. In 2023, the show will make the leap across the pond to Broadway. A group of vacationers become suspects in a murder, and all their true identities get revealed as clues come to light. The Mousetrap will have audiences guessing until the end.
Performances begin: 2023
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
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The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation
Pack up the RV, grab the family, and take a road trip to Broadway for The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation! This new stage show is making pre-Broadway pit stops in Seattle and Houston, and after those productions, a Broadway premiere is planned. The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation features the Griswold family from the National Lampoon's Vacation film series, but rather than adapting one of those movies, this musical sees them in a new story about a trip that goes hilariously wrong in every possible way.
Performances begin: TBD
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
Come Fall In Love: The DDLJ Musical
The blockbuster Bollywood rom-com Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, commonly called DDLJ, is still playing in Indian movie theatres 25 years after its release. Now, its musical adaptation is set to play on Broadway in the 2022-23 season. The show follows an Indian American woman named Simran, who travels to Europe to celebrate her final summer before entering an arranged marriage. When she finds romance overseas, she must convince her family to let her stay with the man she loves. Aditya Chopra, who directed the movie, now directs the stage adaptation.
Performances begin: TBD
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
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Pal Joey
You might have seen the film version of this classic musical starring Frank Sinatra in the title role. But now you can see the show live in New York for the first time since 2008, featuring a revised book by Richard LaGravenese and additional songs from composers Rodgers and Hart's catalog. This show about a wannabe nightclub owner who flirts and schemes to make his dreams come true is set to go up as part of New York City Center's 2023 Encores! season, but Broadway rumors swirl.
Performances begin: TBD
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
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Sing Street
Sing Street's original Broadway premiere was pushed back from 2020, and now the show is aiming to return in 2023 after playing its second pre-Broadway run in Massachusetts (after its initial 2019 Off-Broadway premiere at New York Theatre Workshop). Based on the Golden Globe-nominated movie of the same name, the Sing Street musical follows a boy in Ireland who starts a band to distract him from his sleepy small-town life, an endeavor that brings him trouble and love in equal measure.
Performances begin: TBD
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
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The Great Gatsby
Travel back to the 1920s with The Great Gatsby. A new musical adaptation is premiering at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada. On the creative side are composer/lyricists Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen (Paradise Square, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), bookwriter Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones), and director Marc Bruni (Beautiful). F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel centers on a billionaire trying in vain to win over the love of the beautiful Daisy. All the novel's Roaring Twenties glamour is sure to translate to the stage, old sport.
Performances begin: TBD
Opening night: TBD
Venue: TBD
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