B'way/Off-B'way Update: Second Stage Season; Beetlejuice

Noah Bean and Lois Smith in 
Playwrights Horizons' production of
Marjorie Prime (2015).
Credit: Jeremy Daniel

Second Stage has announced its 2025-26 season which will feature the Broadway debuts of two Pulitzer Prize finalists previously seen Off-Broadway. Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime will begin previews at the Second Stage's Hayes Theater on Nov. 20 with an opening set for Dec. 8. Originally presented by Playwrights Horizons in 2015, this intimate drama focuses on the elusiveness of memory and the encroachment of technology. Set in the near future, the play concerns the elderly Marjorie and a living computer who is a duplicate of her late husband. Anne Kaufman (The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window) directs. 

Emily Bergl and David Wilson Barnes in
Second Stage's production of Becky Shaw (2008).

Spring 2026 will see the Broadway debut of Gina Gionfriddo with her 2008 comedy Becky Shaw which played Second Stage's Off-Broadway Terry Kiser Theater. Directed by Trip Cullman, previews at the Hayes begin March 18 and the play opens April 8. The comedy starts when a blind date goes spectacularly wrong and sets off a chain of disastrous events. 

Second Stage's Off-Broadway season commences with Talene Monahan's Meet the Cardozians at the Signature Theater Center. Tony winner David Cromer directs this new play about two sets of Armenian-Americans, one in 1920 and the other a century later. Previews Oct. 29, opens Nov. 18.

Aya Ogawa wrote and directs Meat Suit or the shitshow of motherhood at the Signature Center, previews Feb. 11, 2026 and opens Feb. 25. The play is described as a raw, hilarious examination of motherhood.

Jayne Houdyshell in
The Receptionist
at MTC (2007)
Credit: Joan Marcus

Adam Bock's black comedy The Receptionist follows in April. Originally presented in 2007 at Manhattan Theatre Club, this Obie-winning play depicts what seems to be a perfectly ordinary office with colleagues gossiping, answering phones, and drinking coffee. But the shocking true nature of the business being conducted there is revealed when a mysterious visitor arrives.

In other news: Beetlejuice is headed back to scare Broadway. The national tour of the musical based on the 1988 supernatural film comedy will start haunting the Palace Theater Oct. 8 for a limited rune through Jan. 3, 2026. The tuner opened on Broadway in 2019 and was nominated for eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. It closed as a result of the 2020 COVID pandemic and reopened at the Marquis in 2022. 

Will Burton, Megan McGinnis, Madison Mosley,
and Justine Collette in the tour of Beetlejuice.
Credit: Matthew Murphy

2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Summer 2025
June 3--Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Signature Center) 
June 8--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)
June 11--Angry Alan (Studio Seaview)
June 12--Call Me Izzy (Studio 54)
June 16--Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons)
June 17--Viola's Room (The Shed) (previews begin; opening TBA)
June 25--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)
June 25--Low Country (Atlantic Theater Co./Linda Gross)
July 8--The Gospel at Colonus (Little Island)
July 20--Joy (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Aug. 7--Ava: The Secret Conversations (City Center Stage I)
Aug. 14--Mamma Mia (Winter Garden)
Aug. 21--Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)
Masquerade (Phantom of the Opera)--Lee's Art Shop

Fall 2025

Sept. 6--Galas (Little Island)

Sept. 10--The Brothers Size (The Shed)

Sept. 16--Art (Music Box)

Sept. 25--The Other Americans (Public)

Sept. 28--Waiting for Godot (Hudson)

Oct. 8--Beetlejuice (Palace) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)

Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)

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

Oct. 30--This World of Tomorrow (Shed) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Nov. 3--Kyoto (LCT/Newhouse)

Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)

Nov. 13--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)

Nov. 18--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)

Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)

Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Chess

Cottonfield

Little Bear Ridge Road

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)

Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)

Punch (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)

Queens (MTC/City Center)

Saturday Church (NYTW)

Sugar Daddy

The Seat of Our Pants (Public)

Take a Banana for the Ride

Winter 2025-26

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

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

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

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

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

Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Jesa (Public)

Monsters (MTC/City Center)

Public Charge (Public)

Tartuffe (NYTW)

Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)

What We Did Before Our Moth Days

2026

Dolly: An Original Musical

Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)

Spring 2026

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

April--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)

Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)

The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)

Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

The Lost Boys (Palace)

Montauk

My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)

The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

2026-27

Death of a Salesman

Private Lives

Summer 2026

July 14--The Whoopi Monologue (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

Little Bear Ridge Road

Montauk

Oedipus

Punch

New Musicals

Dolly: An Original Musical

The Lost Boys

Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals

Art

Becky Shaw

Fallen Angels

Marjorie Prime

Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals

Beetlejuice

Chess

Mamma Mia!

Ragtime

The Rocky Horror Show

Solos/Specialties

Take a Banana for the Ride