Every Show Coming to Broadway in Fall 2026

Leigh Scheps 09/14/2026

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Paranormal Activity. Photo: Matt Murphy

Broadway’s kickoff to the 2026–2027 season is full of Hollywood talent taking center stage, especially in courtroom dramas. New plays and musicals showcase some of the biggest names, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris and Tom Hiddleston. Playwright Jocelyn Bioh, last on Broadway with Jaja’s Hair Braiding, returns with another anticipated play; Billy Crystal headlines the marquee once again in a new solo show; and Bradley Whitford will exclaim, “You can’t handle the truth!” eight times a week. Here’s what’s coming this fall.

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Paranormal Activity. Photo: Matt Murphy

Paranormal Activity

Through January 3, 2027

Broadway gets a serious dose of horror with Paranormal Activity, a new stage story inspired by the 2009 blockbuster film and ensuing franchise. Playing at the August Wilson Theatre for a 20-week run, the production follows a young couple whose home becomes the center of increasingly disturbing supernatural events. Cher Álvarez, Travis A. Knight, Shannon Cochran and Eva Kaminsky make their Broadway debuts as they reprise their roles from previous productions across North America. Paranormal Activity was written by Levi Holloway and directed by Felix Barrett, famous for the long-running Sleep No More.

For fans of: spooky psychological thrillers, Halloween, Holloway’s play Grey House

School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play. Photo: Daniel Clarke

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

Performances begin September 8, opens September 28, through November 1

Jocelyn Bioh’s acclaimed School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play makes its Broadway debut at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre nearly a decade after a celebrated Off-Broadway run. It features an all-star cast, including Patina Miller (Pippin), Denée Benton (The Gilded Age) and Jasmine Amy Rogers (Boop! The Musical). Set in 1986 at a boarding school in Ghana, the play centers on the school’s queen bee, whose position is threatened when a new student arrives from the United States. Two-time Tony Award–nominated Whitney White (Liberation, Jaja's African Hair-Braiding) directs.

For fans of: Mean Girls, high school comedies, female playwrights

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The Imaginary Invalid

Performances begin September 25, opens October 22, through November 22

Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) joins Tony Award winner Bill Irwin (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) at the Todd Haimes Theatre in The Imaginary Invalid, a fresh adaptation of the classic comedy by French playwright Molière. Irwin stars as Argan, a hypochondriac who is determined to marry his daughter to a doctor so he can save money on medical expenses. Broadway’s Brooks Ashmanskas (Smash, The Prom) rounds out the cast with Dylan Baker, Hiram Delgado, Daniel Croix Henderson, Crystal A. Dickinson and Ava Lalezarzadeh; Brandon J. Dirden, who appeared in last year’s Waiting for Godot, directs.

For fans of: Noises Off, comedies, satire

Other Desert Cities

Performances begin September 29, opens October 18, through January 17, 2027

Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus makes her Broadway debut opposite Oscar-nominated Ed Harris, with Allison Janney, Lily Rabe and Joe Keery filling out an extraordinary ensemble. Family secrets take center stage in this star-studded revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony winner at the Hudson Theatre, where it will have a 16-week run. Set on Christmas Eve in the Palm Springs home of a politically connected family, the play centers on a daughter who releases a memoir that threatens to expose a long-buried family tragedy. Veteran stage actor John Benjamin Hickey (The Normal Heart) directs.

For fans of: Veep, Brothers & Sisters, Purpose

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860

Performances begin October 1, opens October 21, through January 3, 2027

Billy Crystal returns to Broadway with 860, his new one-man show at the Imperial Theatre inspired by the home he lost in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Named for the street number of Crystal’s longtime Pacific Palisades house, the production is a hilarious and intimate story about family, friendship, love, luck and loss. Scott Ellis (Fallen Angels) directs.

For fans of: 700 Sundays, comedy shows, When Harry Met Sally

A Few Good Men

Performances begin October 8, opens October 29, through January 10, 2027

Before A Few Good Men was a hit 1992 movie starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise, it was a 1989 play. Aaron Sorkin’s iconic courtroom drama comes back to Broadway for a 13-week run at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in its first revival. Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Arden (Parade, Maybe Happy Ending), A Few Good Men follows military lawyers defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier. Bradley Whitford stars as Lt. Col. Nathan Jessep, with Tom Blyth making his Broadway debut as Lt. Daniel Kaffee.

For fans of: handling the truth, Aaron Sorkin shows, John Grisham novels

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Wanted

Performances begin October 15, opens November 8

Solea Pfeiffer (Almost Famous) and Liisi LaFontaine (Drag: The Musical) star as twin sisters Mary and Martha Clarke, two Black women passing as white in 1893 Texas who are determined to save their family and take fate into their own hands. Wanted features a book and lyrics by Angelica Chéri (a real-life descendant of the Clarke sisters), music by Ross Baum, direction by Stevie Walker-Webb and choreography by Chelsey Arce (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child).

For fans of: musicals that premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse, female-led productions, Bonnie and Clyde

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Downstate. Photo: Stephen Shore

Downstate

Performances begin October 17, opens November 15, through January 9, 2027

Tony winner Bruce Norris’s latest acclaimed play, Downstate, comes to the Booth Theatre for a limited time. Produced by Scott Rudin and Barry Diller, the same team from the recent run of Death of a Salesman, the drama also features that show’s director, Joe Mantello (Wicked, Take Me Out). In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors live together in a group home, their every movement governed by restrictions that continue to close in around them. The cast includes K. Todd Freeman, Francis Guinan, Ivy Wolk and Liza Colón-Zayas.

For fans of: morality plays, Joe Mantello’s craft, true crime

The Fantasticks

Performances begin October 22, opens November 16, through February 7, 2027

It’s the longest-running musical of all time, but it’s never been on Broadway—until now. For its debut at the Hayes Theatre, The Fantasticks, which opened off-Broadway in 1960, receives a modern retelling of the beloved classic. The story centers on two young men whose mothers concoct a mischievous scheme to bring them together. Christopher Gattelli (Death Becomes Her, Schmigadoon!) directs and choreographs this 15-week run with a revised book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt. Casting has not yet been announced.

For fans of: musical classics, romantic fables, “Try to Remember”

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Much Ado About Nothing. Photo: Marc Brenner

Much Ado About Nothing

Performances begin October 31, opens November 19, through January 10, 2027

Marvel movie stars Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell trade superhero one-liners for Shakespearean soliloquies in Jamie Lloyd’s Much Ado About Nothing. Hiddleston plays Benedick and Atwell plays Beatrice, two sharp-tongued romantics who insist they have no interest in love until their friends decide to intervene. Lloyd’s production at the Winter Garden Theatre is a 10-week transfer to Broadway after a celebrated London run. It’s one of this fall’s most anticipated shows after Lloyd’s recent successful adaptations of Sunset Boulevard and Waiting for Godot.

For fans of: Shakespeare, enemies to lovers, Thor

Here There Are Blueberries

Performances begin November 2, opens November 9, through January 10, 2027

This Pulitzer finalist, based on a true story, looks at what happens after an album of Nazi-era photographs arrives on the desk of a US Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. Investigation, fallout and public debate ensue, as researchers try to figure out who the people in the scrapbook—shown engaging in everyday leisure activities—are. The production, conceived and directed by Moisés Kaufman, will play at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre for a 10-week engagement.

For fans of: history, emotional dramas, true stories

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Inter Alia. Photo: Manuel Harlan

Inter Alia

Performances begin November 10, opens December 1, through February 21, 2027

Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) makes her Broadway debut in Inter Alia, a gripping legal drama by playwright Suzie Miller. Pike stars as Jessica Parks, a London Crown Court judge whose career exists inter alia (among other things) as she balances motherhood, friendship and the elusive notion of having it all until an unthinkable event upends everything. Following acclaimed runs at London’s National Theatre and in the West End, the limited engagement at the Music Box Theatre is directed by Justin Martin (Prima Facie).

For fans of: Rosamund Pike, legal dramas, West End transfers

Galileo

Performances begin November 10, opens December 6, through May 30, 2027

Galileo is a brand-new musical inspired by 16th-century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. Raúl Esparza stars as the visionary scientist in the production at the Shubert Theatre along with Tony Award nominee Joy Woods (Gypsy) and Jeremy Kushnier. When Galileo makes astronomical discoveries that revolutionize humanity’s understanding of the universe, he must defend his findings before the most powerful religious institution in the world. With a book by Danny Strong and an original score by Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner, the production is directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Chess, Funny Girl) and choreographed by David Neumann (Hadestown).

For fans of: science, groundbreaking musicals, Hamilton

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