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What Broadway shows are opening in 2026?

Find out which plays, musicals, revivals, and other shows are premiering in NYC in 2026. This article will be continually updated as new shows are announced.

Gillian Russo
Written byGillian Russo

As you start to plan your next NYC trip, you might be wondering: What Broadway shows are opening in 2026? There are over a dozen already announced, with new plays and musicals premiering alongside star-studded revivals and award-winning shows that audiences first loved off Broadway or in London.

Below are all the Broadway productions opening in 2026, listed in order of start date. This article will be continually updated as new shows are announced and previously announced shows confirm their performance dates.

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Summary

  • Broadway musicals opening in 2026 include Cats: The Jellicle Ball; The Lost Boys; The Rocky Horror Show; and Schmigadoon!
  • Broadway plays opening in 2026 include Bug starring Carrie Coon; Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel Radcliffe; Proof starring Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle; and Dog Day Afternoon starring The Bear's Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • New plays and musicals are continually being announced for 2026

Bug

Every Brilliant Thing

Death of a Salesman

Dog Day Afternoon

Giant

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Becky Shaw

The Fear of 13

The Rocky Horror Show

Titanique

Fallen Angels

Beaches

The Lost Boys

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Proof

The Balusters

Schmigadoon!

Celebrity Autobiography

Paranormal Activity

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

Other Desert Cities

A Few Good Men

Wanted

The Fantasticks

Inter Alia

Galileo

860

Much Ado About Nothing

The Imaginary Invalid

Awake and Sing!

Dreamgirls

Bug

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Thriller

Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood lead the long-awaited Broadway premiere of Tracy Lett's (August: Osage County) gripping psychological thriller about a lonely waitress and a Gulf War veteran whose romance devolves into a spiral of conspiracy and paranoia.

Performances begin: December 17, 2025

Bug

Every Brilliant Thing

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Interactive

Following his Tony-winning turn in Merrily We Roll Along, Daniel Radcliffe returned to Broadway as a man who makes a list of things big and small that make life worth living. Mariska Hargitay and Tracee Ellis Ross succeed him in their Broadway debuts, each playing a limited run.

It's a solo play, but it's also interactive, so audiences also get to be part of the story.

Performances begin: February 21

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Dog Day Afternoon

Play
Drama
Stars on stage
Screen to stage

See The Bear Emmy winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach make their Broadway debuts in the stage adaptation of the hit Al Pacino film. Based on a true story, Dog Day Afternoon follows two would-be bank robbers whose botched plot flies spectacularly out of control.

Performances begin: March 10

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Giant

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Drama
Award winner

Stage and screen giant John Lithgow reprises his award-winning performance from London as Roald Dahl. This buzzy new play dramatizes the aftermath of an article by Dahl that readers deemed antisemitic, leading to a battle between him, his family, and his publishers over how to respond.

Performances begin: March 11

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Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Broadway
Musical
Classic
Award winner

Werk! After an award-winning Off-Broadway premiere, Cats: The Jellicle Ball — which reimagines Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats at an LGBTQ vogue ball — pounces onto Broadway with much of its acclaimed original cast intact, including Tony Award winner André De Shields.

Performances begin: March 18

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Becky Shaw

Broadway
Play
Award winner
Comedy

You may have gone on bad dates, but you've never seen one go as wildly, spectacularly off the rails as in Becky Shaw. Perhaps that makes this Pulitzer-nominated play the perfect choice for your own date night.

Performances begin: March 18

The Fear of 13

Broadway
Play
Crime drama
Stars on stage
True story

The only thing to fear is missing Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in their Broadway debuts. Two-time Oscar winner Brody and Emmy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominee Thompson star as a wrongfully convicted inmate and a prison volunteer in Lindsey Ferrentino's drama about freedom and justice, based on a true story.

Performances begin: March 19

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The Rocky Horror Show

Broadway
Musical
Classic
Stage to screen
Stars on stage

We see you shiver with anticipation for the Broadway return of The Rocky Horror Show, starring Luke Evans as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist who takes an innocent young couple on an unforgettable adventure through his weird, wild world.

Performances begin: March 26

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Titanique

Broadway
Jukebox musical
Comedy
Award winner
Stage to screen

You may have seen the iconic Titanic film, but never like this. Titanique — which comes to Broadway after a hit three-year Off-Broadway run and multiple international productions — sees Celine Dion tell a zany version of what really happened to Jack and Rose, all set to her biggest hit songs (including, of course, "My Heart Will Go On").

Performances begin: March 26

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Fallen Angels

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Comedy

Theatre darlings Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara lead Noël Coward's classic comedy about two women who each had a long-ago affair with the same Frenchman — who might suddenly be coming to visit.

Performances begin: March 27

Fallen Angels

Beaches

Broadway
Musical
Page to stage
Screen to stage

One of the most beloved friendship stories of all time and featuring the Grammy-winning song "Wind Beneath My Wings," Beaches is getting the musical treatment. Broadway favorites Jessica Vosk and Kelli Barrett star as Cee Cee and Bertie, two wildly different women who are pen pals, romantic rivals, roommates, and more through the decades, but their bond survives through it all.

Performances begin: March 27

Beaches

The Lost Boys

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage

Sink your teeth into a new musical from two-time Tony Award-winning director Michael Arden (Maybe Happy Ending, Parade), adapted from the cult classic film about a family that moves to a seemingly ordinary California town — that happens to be a vampire haven.

Performances begin: March 27

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Proof

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Drama
Award winner

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle make their Broadway debuts in the first NYC revival of David Auburn's Pulitzer and Tony-winning play about the daughter of a deceased math genius thrown into further turmoil as she tries to prove the authorship of one of his groundbreaking discoveries.

Performances begin: March 31

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The Balusters

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Comedy

Richard Thomas, Margaret Colin, Anika Noni Rose, and more star in the buzziest new comedy on the block. A small neighborhood association ends up in a big debate when someone proposes the unthinkable: putting a stop sign on the prettiest block in the area.

Performances begin: March 31

The Balusters

Schmigadoon!

Broadway
Musical
Screen to stage

The hit Apple TV+ series is now a musical come to life on stage. Modeled after and featuring the beloved songs from season 1, Schmigadoon! follows a married couple who end up in a town where everyone is in a Golden Age musical — and the only way out is to sing and dance their way through.

Performances begin: April 4

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Celebrity Autobiography

Rita Wilson, Kenan Thompson, Gayle King, Molly Shannon, Kathy Griffin, Susan Lucci, Ralph Macchio, ALaraine Newman, Billy Porter, Tony Shalhoub, Sherri Shepherd, Molly Shannon, and over 30 more stars of stage and screen are among the rotating lineup of this hilarious revue, where stage and screen celebs read excerpts from other celebs' biographies.

Performances begin: May 16

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Paranormal Activity

Broadway
Play
Horror

Places aren't haunted, but people are. A couple seeking a fresh start finds that out the hard way in Paranormal Activity, a stage play featuring an all-new story inspired by the acclaimed film series. The minds behind the horror play Grey House and the immersive noir experience Sleep No More team up for this chilling modern ghost story.

Performances begin: August 14

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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

Pauline is the queen bee of Aburi Girls Boarding School, with big dreams of becoming Miss Ghana 1986 — but the arrival of an American transfer student threatens to upend all that. Jocelyn Bioh's comedy makes its Broadway debut after multiple acclaimed Off-Broadway runs.

Performances begin: September 8

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Other Desert Cities

Play
Drama
Stars on stage

Talk about a family of titans. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Joe Keery make their Broadway debuts alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney, and Lily Rabe as a powerful, politically connected family whose hidden truths are on the verge of being exposed in a relative's memoir. This production of Jon Robin Baitz's drama marks its first Broadway revival.

Performances begin: September 29

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A Few Good Men

Broadway
Play
Drama
Revival
Stage to screen
Stars on stage

Before Aaron Sorkin became a Hollywood mainstay, he was a playwright whose 1989 courtroom drama A Few Good Men put him on the map in his Broadway debut. Now, the show returns with Tom Blyth as military lawyer Daniel Kaffee, whose assignment to defend two Marines accused of murder puts him at odds with the whole chain of command. Bradley Whitford, who made his own Broadway debut in the original production, also stars.

Performances begin: October 8

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Wanted

Broadway
Musical
True story

Meet the Sisters Clarke: a pair of Black twins, Mary and Martha, who passed as white and became outlaws in 1893 Texas, all to save their family.

Performances begin: October 15

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The Fantasticks

Tom Jones reimagined his long-running musical love story — about two fathers trying to set up their son and daughter — as the story of two mothers plotting for their sons to fall in love. After more than 50 years off Broadway, The Fantasticks is making a long-awaited Broadway debut, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli.

Performances begin: October 22

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Inter Alia

Emmy and Golden Globe winner Rosamund Pike makes her Broadway debut as Jessica Parks, a London Crown Court Judge whose family and career collide as she seeks to change an often unjust legal system. Coming to NYC fresh off two acclaimed London runs, Inter Alia is the newest legal drama from playwright Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin (Prima Facie).

Performances begin: November 10

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860

Billy Crystal returns to Broadway with a heartfelt new solo show. The Emmy Award winner opens up about 46 years' worth of memories in his longtime Los Angeles home before it was destroyed in the Palisades fires in 2025.

Performances begin: October 1

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Much Ado About Nothing

Broadway
Play
Shakespeare
Comedy
Stars on stage

Marvel Cinematic Universe stars Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell play enemies-to-lovers Benedick and Beatrice in Shakespeare's classic comedy. Hiddleston, back on Broadway after his Tony-nominated 2019 debut, and Atwell, in her own Broadway debut, lead director Jamie Lloyd's "disco-tastic" (London Theatre) party of a production, which received acclaim in London in 2025.

Performances begin: November 19

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The Imaginary Invalid

Broadway
Play
Classic
Stars on stage

A hypochondriac plots to marry off his daughter to a doctor to save on medical bills, but his plan spectacularly backfires. Tony Award winner Bill Irwin wrote and stars in a sharp new adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy.

Performances begin: Fall 2026

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Awake and Sing!

Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic
Award winner

Clifford Odets's classic drama returns with Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, and Jeremy Shamos as the Berger family, whose differing ideas of the American dream clash in a Depression-era Bronx tenement. Tyne Rafaeli directs the production for Manhattan Theatre Club in her Broadway debut.

Performances begin: December 2026

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Dreamgirls

Broadway
Musical
Classic
Award winner

And we are telling you, we're not going to miss this new revival of Dreamgirls directed and choreographed by Tony nominee Camille A. Brown. The classic musical follows the highs and lows of three Black female singers' journeys to fame.

Performances begin: Fall 2026

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