B'way Update: Proof Revival; Muppets and Magic

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle will star
in the Broadway revival of Proof.

Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) and Oscar nominee Don Cheadle (Crash, Hotel Rwanda) will star in the first Broadway revival of David Auburn's Proof, directed by Tony winner Thomas Kail (Hamilton). Previews begin March 31, 2026 in advance of an April 16 opening at a Shubert theater to be announced. Proof concerns Catherine, a brilliant but emotionally troubled daughter of a recently deceased mathematician. When she discovers a groundbreaking proof in her father's papers, she seeks to prove she was the one who wrote it. 

The play opened Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club and then transferred to Broadway, winning the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and running 917 performances. The original cast featured Mary-Louise Parker (Tony for Best Actress), Larry Bryggman, Johanna Day and Ben Shenkman. The 2005 film version starred Gywneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhall, and Hope Davis.

Magician Rob Lake and Kermit the Frog 
will be making their Broadway debuts in a
holiday limited run at the Broadhurst.

In other news, magician Rob Lake and The Muppets will make their Broadway debut in a holiday show at the Broadhurst with previews beginning Oct. 28, and opening Nov. 6 for a limited run through Jan. 18, 2026. Lake burst onto the scene with an appearance on America's Got Talent in 2018 and has since toured the world with his act. He has contributed to the illusions in Death Becomes Her and is the youngest magician to win the Merlin Award. There has been talk of The Muppets coming to Broadway since 2013 when director Alex Timbers was reportedly working on a show for them. The fuzzy puppet troupe have performed on stage in Disney World, starred in their own Emmy-winning TV series as well as numerous TV specials, and headlined eight feature films from 1979 to 2014.

2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Summer 2025
Aug. 21--Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)

Fall 2025

Sept. 6--Galas (Little Island)

Sept. 7--Masquerade (Phantom of the Opera) (Lee's Art Shop)

Sept. 9--House of McQueen (The Mansion at Hudson Yards)
Sept. 10--The Brothers Size (The Shed)

Sept. 11--Prince Faggot (Studio Seaview)

Sept. 14--The Wild Duck (TFANA)
Sept. 15--Saturday Church (NYTW)
Sept. 16--Art (Music Box)

Sept. 16--When the Hurlyburly's Done (Public)
Sept. 21--Weather Girl (St. Ann's Warehouse) 
Sept. 25--The Other Americans (Public)

Sept. 28--Waiting for Godot (Hudson)
Sept. 28--The Honey Trap (IRT)

Sept. 28--And Then We Were No More (La Mama)
Sept. 29--Punch (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)

Sept. 30--Caroline (MCC)
Oct. 8--Beetlejuice (Palace) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Oct. 13--Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons)
Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)

Oct. 15--Let's Love (Atlantic Theater Company)
Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)

Oct. 16--Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)
Oct. 22--Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Oct. 24--Did You Eat? (Public)

Oct. 28--Liberation (James Earl Jones)

Oct. 28--Romy and Michelle: The Musical (Stage 42)

Oct. 29--Bat Boy (Encores!)

Oct. 30--Little Bear Ridge Road (Booth)
Nov. 3--Kyoto (LCT/Newhouse)

Nov. 5--Queens (MTC/City Center) 

Nov. 6--Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets (Broadhurst)

Nov. 9--The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard)
Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)

Nov. 11--The Baker's Wife (CSC) 

Nov. 12--Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Nov. 13--Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Nov. 13--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Nov. 16--Chess (Imperial)
Nov. 17--The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages)
Nov. 17--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)

Nov. 18--This World of Tomorrow (Shed)

Nov. 20--Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Longacre)
Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)
Cottonfield
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Practice (Playwrights Horizons)
Sugar Daddy

Winter 2025-26

Dec. 4--A Christmas Carol (Perelman Performing Arts Center)

Dec. 8--Marjorie Prime (Second Stage/Hayes)

Dec. 11--Anna Christie (St. Ann's Warehouse)

Dec. 16--Tartuffe (NYTW)

Dec. 18--Amahl and the Night Visitors (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Jan. 8--Bug (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)

Jan. 2026--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)

Feb. 1--Coriolanus (TFANA) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Feb. 11--Monsters (MTC/City Center)

Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)

February--Marcel on the Train (CSC)

Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)

Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

The Dinosaurs (Playwrights Horizons)

Jesa (Public)

Public Charge (Public)

The Reservoir (Atlantic Theater Company)

Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)

What We Did Before Our Moth Days

2026

Dolly: An Original Musical

Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)

Spring 2026

March 23--Hamlet (Teatro La Plaza/TFANA)

April 8--Becky Shaw (Second Stage/Hayes)

April 16--Proof (Theater TBA)

May 7--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)

May--The Emporium (CSC)

: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)

Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)

The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Dog Day Afternoon

Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Co.)

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

The Lost Boys (Palace)

Montauk

My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)

No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons)

Rheology (Playwrights Horizons)

The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

2026-27

Death of a Salesman

Private Lives

Summer 2026

July 14--The Whoopi Monologues (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; Get Happy; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Slumdog Millionaire; Soul Train; Studio 54; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.

2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown

New Plays

The Balusters

Call Me Izzy

Cottonfield

Dog Day Afternoon

Liberation (transfer from Off-Broadway)

Little Bear Ridge Road

Montauk

Oedipus

Punch

New Musicals

Dolly: An Original Musical

The Lost Boys

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals

Art

Becky Shaw

Bug

Fallen Angels

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Marjorie Prime

Proof

Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals

Beetlejuice

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Chess

Mamma Mia!

Ragtime

The Rocky Horror Show

Solos/Specialties
Jeffrey Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride

Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets