What To Expect From Broadway’s 2026-2027 Season: The Musicals

By Ben Lerner

With the recent Tony Awards celebrating Broadway’s 2025-26 season now in the rearview mirror, Broadway’s Best Shows is looking ahead to what promises to be a very buzzy 2026-27 theatrical season. While we are currently in a lull between openings, as new productions for the upcoming season won’t land until later in the summer, there’s a palpable energy in the air about what shows are on deck.

Most recently announced was Lincoln Center’s upcoming season, including a revival of The Sound of Music starring Jasmine Amy Rogers. With plenty of shows (and exciting revivals) already announced (and more to come!), let’s take a look at what to expect from the musicals arriving this fall through Spring 2027.

NEW MUSICALS

Wanted: The first new original musical of the season will premiere this fall at the James Earl Jones Theatre, inspired by the true story of two Black twin sisters fighting to settle their mother’s sharecropping debt and save her home. It stars Solea Pfeiffer, Liisi LaFontaine, and Ledisi.

Galileo: A new biomusical about – you guessed it – scientist Galileo Galilei, will open this December at the Shubert Theatre. Helmed by veteran director Michael Mayer, who most recently directed Chess, the show stars Raul Esparza in the titular role, opposite Joy Woods.

Paddington The Musical: In a transfer from the West End, the Andean bear from the children’s books and films will come to Broadway next spring at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Keen viewers may have seen his preview cameo in Pink’s opening number at the recent Tony Awards!

Warriors: This just-announced original musical marks Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first Broadway score since Hamilton. This time co-written with Eisa Davis, Warriors is based on the cult 1979 film about a New York City gang. It will open at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in Spring 2027.

MUSICAL REVIVALS

The Fantasticks: The long-running off-Broadway hit makes its Broadway premiere this fall at the Helen Hayes Theatre. With a newly revised book telling a gay romance, it will still likely count as a revival. Fresh off directing and choreographing the Tony Award-winning Schmigadoon!, Christopher Gattelli will direct.

Evita: Already one of the hottest tickets on Broadway months before it opens, Jamie Lloyd’s acclaimed revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical about the rise and fall of Eva Peron hits the Winter Garden Theatre this spring. Lloyd’s last reimagining of a Webber musical, Sunset Boulevard, earned multiple Tonys, including Best Actress for Nicole Scherzinger. Will Evita star Rachel Zegler also win? Time will tell – but she will not be performing on a street-facing outdoor balcony like in the West End. 

The Sound of Music: Lincoln Center is known for its large-scale revivals of classic musicals, and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music seems long overdue to return. Last revived in 1998 starring the late Rebecca Luker as Maria, the new production will star Jasmine Amy Rogers (a Tony nominee for Boop!, no relation to composer Rodgers!). It will open at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre next spring, directed by Lear deBassonet, who recently helmed LCT’s Tony Award-winning Ragtime.

The Full Monty: The first revival of the 2000 musical about unemployed steelworkers putting on a strip show is scheduled to open at Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre in the spring. With music by David Yazbeck and a book by Terrence McNally, The Full Monty revival will be directed by Suffs’ Leigh Silverman.