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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

Dreamgirls

The Balusters

Schmigadoon!

Proof

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

The Lost Boys

Fallen Angels

The Rocky Horror Show

Becky Shaw

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Giant

Dog Day Afternoon

Death of a Salesman

Every Brilliant Thing

Bug

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

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Every Brilliant Thing

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Interactive

Following his Tony-winning turn in Merrily We Roll Along, Daniel Radcliffe returns to Broadway as a man who makes a list of things big and small that make life worth living. 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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Every Brilliant Thing

Death of a Salesman

Broadway
Play
Stars on stage
Drama
Classic
Award winner

Tony and Emmy winners Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, plus Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Girls, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and Ben Ahlers, are your Loman family in the latest revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama about an ordinary salesman and a dashed American dream.

Performances begin: March 6

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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