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Patti LuPone and Kurt
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Classic Stage Company has announced its 2025-26 season which will include two rare productions and a new play. The season opens in October 2025 with the musical
The Baker’s Wife, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof), music & lyrics by Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, The Queen of Versailles), based on the 1938 film La Femme du Boulanger by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Gionoand, and direction by Gordon Greenberg (The Heart of Rock and Roll). The cult-status tuner was the last show presented by legendary producer David Merrick. It played out-of-town in Los Angeles and Washington, DC in 1976. Topol and Carol Demas started the tour as the leads and were eventually replaced by Paul Sorvino and a pre-Evita Patti LuPone. But the show closed out of town. LuPone's rendition of the song "Meadowlark" became a favorite of musical theater fans and a standard choice for auditions. A 1989 London production had a brief run, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Musical.
In February 2026, CSC will present the World Premiere of Marcel on the Train, co-written by Tony Award nominee Ethan Slater (Spongebob Squarepants, Wicked) & Marshall Pailet (Who’s Your Baghdaddy, Private Jones), directed by Pailet, and starring Slater as legendary mime artist “Marcel Marceau.” The play chronicles Marceau's days as a young man in Nazi-occupied France, guiding Jewish children to safety.
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CSC’s season will conclude in May 2026 with the New York Premiere of master American dramatist Thornton Wilder’s final play, The Emporium, adapted and completed by Kirk Lynn (Lipstick Traces) and directed by Rob Melrose (Born with Teeth).
“Launched in 1947 amid a storm of rising acclaim and honorable artistic duties and distractions here and abroad, Thornton Wilder (who appeared on the cover of Time in January 1953) struggled unsuccessfully for a decade to complete a major new drama. Thanks to enticing and regular press coverage, its title was known far and wide: The Emporium,” said Tappan Wilder, nephew to Thornton Wilder.
“The Wilder family can’t be too grateful to Kirk Lynn for exploring the known published and little-known vast unpublished archival record of this work, grounded in Wilder’s passionate post-WWII encounter with existentialism, and then agreeing to complete a play exploring the loneliness of the American experience in all its humor, sadness, hope--and freedom. With a deep bow of thanks to Classic Stage Company, it is no small benefit of this unusual artistic collaboration across the decades that it celebrates the life, times and creativity of two distinguished artists, then and now.”
2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Summer 2025
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 24--Duke and Roya (Lortel)
June 25--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)
June 25--Low Country (Atlantic Theater Co./Linda Gross)
June 30--Heathers (New World Stages)
July 8--The Gospel at Colonus (Little Island)
July 17--The Weir (IRT)
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)
Sept. 28--The Honey Trap (IRT)
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)
October--The Baker's Wife (CSC)
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/Signature Theater)
February--Marcel on the Train (CSC)
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)
May--The Emporium (CSC)
Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)
The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)
Dog Day Afternoon
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
Dog Day Afternoon
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
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