What to Expect from Broadway’s 2026-2027 Season: The Plays

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.

With plenty of shows (and exciting revivals) already announced (and more to come!), let’s take a look at what to expect from the plays arriving this fall through Spring 2027.

NEW PLAYS

Paranormal Activity: The first official opening of the season is another transfer from London. This “new stage experience” based on the horror film series starts previews this August at the August Wilson Theatre.

860: A new autobiographical one-man show by Billy Crystal, focused on his family home lost in the Palisades fires, will open at the Imperial Theatre in October, directed by Scott Ellis. Crystal won a Tony for Best Special Theatrical Event for his 2005 one-man show 700 Sundays. He also received a nomination for 2022’s Mr. Saturday Night.

Inter Alia: Rosamund Pike stars as a London Crown Court judge in this new drama that will start previews this November at the Music Box Theatre. A transfer from the West End, Inter Alia won Pike the 2026 Olivier Award for Best Actress. 2025 Olivier winner Lesley Manville recently won the Tony for the West End transfer of Oedipus – so Pike’s performance is one to watch.

Gloria: Pulitzer-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ comedy about magazine assistants will make its Broadway premiere next spring at the Helen Hayes Theatre. It will likely be considered original, although it was previously staged at the Vineyard Theatre Off-Broadway. His play Appropriate was considered a revival, but his 2025 Pulitzer-winning Purpose won the Tony for Best Play.

Mix and Master: A new play by Dominique Morisseau tells the story of a DJ’s fight to save Brooklyn’s last record shop and stars Tony winners Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Kara Young. It’s scheduled to play the Todd Haimes Theatre this winter.

Montauk: Five-time Tony nominee Laura Linney returns to Broadway in a new play by David Hare about a complex relationship between two artists, set to open next spring at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. 

PLAY REVIVALS

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play: First produced off-Broadway in 2017, School Girls will premiere on Broadway this September at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. A comedy about a beauty contest amongst Ghanaian schoolgirls, it will star Tony winner Patina Miller and Tony nominees Denee Benton and Jasmine Amy Rogers. (Yes, Rogers will also do The Sound of Music in the spring!)

Other Desert Cities: Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut in an all-star revival of this play about exposed family secrets, directed by John Benjamin Hickey and opening at the Hudson Theatre in October. It costars Tony nominees Allison Janney, Lily Rabe, and Ed Harris, alongside Stranger Things’ Joe Keery.

A Few Good Men: Lincoln Center will produce the first revival of Aaron Sorkin’s play, opening in October at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre and directed by Michael Arden. The military courtroom drama was first staged in 1989 and was later adapted into an award-winning film starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. The LCT revival will star Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth.

Much Ado About Nothing: Jamie Lloyd will also direct a revival of Shakespeare’s classic at the Winter Garden Theatre – opening this fall, before his adaptation of Evita rolls in to the same venue. It’s also a transfer from London, starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell.

The Imaginary Invalid: A new adaptation of Moliere’s classic comedy about a hypochondriac, The Imaginary Invalid was adapted by and will star Bill Irwin. It’s scheduled to play the Todd Haimes Theatre this fall, though no date has been confirmed.

Awake and Sing!: A revival of the classic 1935 play about a Brooklyn family during the Great Depression will start previews in December at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. It will star Tony winner Danny Burstein and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht, recently seen on Broadway in Marjorie Prime and Dog Day Afternoon, respectively.