B'way Update: Dead Outlaw to Transfer

Trent Saunders, Andrew Durand, and 
Eddie Cooper in Dead Outlaw.
Credit: Matthew Murphy

Dead Outlaw, which had an award-winning run Off-Broadway earlier this year, will transfer to Broadway in time for the Tony Awards, beginning previews at the Longacre Theater April 12 in advance of an April 27 opening. The fact-based musical about a petty criminal in the Wild West whose corpse found its way onto a 20th century California amusement pier, features a book by Itamar Moses and a score by David Yazbeck and Erik Della Pinna. David Cromer repeats his direction from the Off-Broadway run at the Minetta Lane Theater. Dead Outlaw received Best Musical Awards from the Drama Desk and the New York Drama Critics Circle, as well as Best Off-Broadway Musical from the Outer Critics Circle. 

The Longacre will soon become vacant due to the early closing of Swept Away, another musical involving dead bodies.

2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar 
Winter 2024-25
Dec. 19--Gypsy (Majestic)
Dec. 22--All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich (Hudson)
Jan. 15--Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
Jan. 20--The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)
Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

Jan. 25--Henry IV (TFANA/Polonsky Theater Center)
Jan. 26--Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle Through the Grave (Irish Rep)

Jan. 27--A Knock on the Roof (NYTW)
Jan. 28--Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater)

Feb. 4--Grangeville (Signature Theater)
Feb. 6--My First Ex-Husband (MMAC Theater)
Feb. 12--On the Evolutionary Function of Shame (2nd Stage/Signature Center)
Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)
Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Feb. 25--Curse of the Starving Class (The New Group/Signature Center)

Feb. 26--The Great Privation (Playwrights Horizons)
Feb. 27--Dakar 2000 (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Feb. 28--A Streetcar Named Desire (BAM) (Previews begin; opening TBA)

Spring 2025

March 5--Sumo (Ma-Yi Theater/Public)

March 6--Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb/Public)

March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

March 10--The Jonathan Larsen Project (Orpheum)

March 17--Purpose (2nd Stage/Hayes)

March 18--Vanya (Lucille Lortel)

March 19--Buena Vista Social Club (Schoenfeld)

March 19--We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage II)

March 20--Operation Mincemeat (Golden)

March 23--Othello (Barrymore)

March 24--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)

March 26--The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse/St. Ann's Warehouse)

March 27--The Picture of Dorian Gray (Music Box)

March 30--The Swamp Dwellers (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

March 31--Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace)

April 3--Good Night and Good Luck (Winter Garden)

April 5--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical (Broadhurst)

April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)

April 8--Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)

April 10--Smash (Imperial)

April 14--John Proctor Is the Villain (Booth)

April 17--Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)

April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)

April 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)

April 23--Just in Time (Circle in the Square)

April 24--Pirates: The Penzance Musical (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

April 27--Real Women Have Curves (James Earl Jones)

April 27--Dead Outlaw (Longacre)

April 28--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced

April--Threepenny Opera (BAM/St. Ann's Warehouse)

April--Macbeth in Stride (BAM)

May 1--Tony Nominations announced

May 12--Outer Critics Circle Award winners announced

May 14--Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Signature Center) (Previews begin, opening TBA)

May 20--Goddess (Public Theater)

May 22--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony

May--Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO/Transport Group)

June 2--Theater World Awards (Theater TBA)

June 8--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)

June 24--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)

Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)

Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons)

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group/Signature Center)

Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)

2025

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Sugar Daddy

Summer 2025

Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)

2025-26

The Queen of Versailles

Fall 2025

Initiative (Public)

The Seat of Our Pants (Public)

Waiting for Godot

2026

Hello, I'm Dolly

Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; 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; Working Girl.

2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown

New Plays

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich

Cult of Love

Good Night and Good Luck

The Hills of California

Job 

John Proctor Is the Villain

Left on Tenth

MCNEAL

Oh, Mary!

Purpose

The Roommate

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

New Musicals

Boop! The Betty Boop Musical

Buena Vista Social Club

Dead Outlaw

Death Becomes Her

Just in Time

Maybe Happy Ending

Operation Mincemeat

Real Women Have Curves

Redwood

Smash

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Swept Away

Tammy Faye

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

Play Revivals

English

Eureka Day

Glengarry Glen Ross

Home

Othello

Our Town

Romeo and Juliet

Yellow Face

Musical Revivals

Elf the Musical

Floyd Collins

Gypsy

The Last Five Years

Once Upon a Mattress

Penzance! The Pirate Musical

Sunset Boulevard

Solos/Specialties

The Picture of Dorian Gray