B'way Update: The Fear of 13 with Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson

Adrien Brody in The Fear of 13 in London.

Double Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Brutalist) will make his Broadway debut in The Far of 13 by Olivier nominee Lindsay Ferrentino (The Queen of Versailles), following a run at London's Donmar Warehouse. The play, based on the documentary by David Sington, focuses on the true story of Nick Yarris who spent more than two decades on Death Row for a murder he insists he did not commit. Yarris was the first person to be sentenced to death in Pennsylvania to be exonerated by DNA evidence. Co-starring is Golden Globe nominee Tessa Thompson (Hedda), also making her Broadway debut. Tony winner David Cromer (The Band's Visit) directs in a staging different from that of the London production. This is Cromer's third show this season after Caroline and Meet the Cartozians Off-Broadway. Fear of 13 begins previews at the James Earl Jones Theater on March 19 prior to an April 15 opening. 

Brody lost the Olivier Award to John Lithgow of Giant which will also be opening on Broadway this spring. So we will likely see a rematch at the Tony Awards.

2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Winter 2025-26
Jan. 15--The Disappear (Audible/Minetta Lane)
Jan. 21--An Ark (The Shed)
Jan. 25--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Jan. 25--Data (Lortel)
Feb. 4--High Spirits (Encores!/City Center)
Feb. 11--Monsters (MTC/City Center)
Feb. 12--The Unknown (Studio Seaview)
Feb. 14--Coriolanus (TFANA)
Feb. 16--The Dinosaurs (Playwrights Horizons)
Feb. 22--Marcel on the Train (CSC)
Feb. 24--Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)
Feb. 24--The Reservoir (Atlantic Theater Company)
Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)
Feb. 26--Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Spring 2026

March 1--Bigfoot! the Musical (MTC/City Center)

March 5--What We Did Before Our Moth Days (Greenwich House Theater)

March 10--Cold War Choir Practice (MCC)

March 11--Bughouse (Vineyard)

March 11--Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)

March 12--Every Brilliant Thing (Hudson)

March 17--My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)

March 18--The Wild Party (Encores!/City Center)

March 20--Jesa (Public)

March 23--Giant (Music Box)

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

March 25--Public Charge (Public)

March 30--Dog Day Afternoon (August Wilson)

April 7--Cats: The Jellicle Ball (Broadhurst)

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

April 9--Death of a Salesman (Winter Garden)

April 12--Titanique (St. James)

April 14--The Adding Machine (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

April 15--The Fear of 13 (James Earl Jones)

April 16--Proof (Booth)

April 19--Hamlet (BAM)

April 19--Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

April 20--Schmigadoon (Nederlander)

April 21--The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)

April 22--Beaches, a New Musical (Majestic)

April 23--The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

April 25--Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Barrymore)

April 26--The Lost Boys (Palace)

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

May 18--Chita Rivera Awards (NYU Skirball)

May--The Emporium (CSC)

: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)

Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)

Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Co.)

Montauk

No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons)

Rheology (Playwrights Horizons)

2026-27

Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo

Private Lives

Summer 2026

June 17--La Cage Aux Folles (Encores!/City Center)

June 24--Birthright (MCC)

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

Bocking (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

Fall 2026

Dreamgirls

Jackals (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; 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; The Fantasticks (Revised Version); 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

All Out: Comedy About Ambition

The Balusters

Call Me Izzy

Cottonfield

Dog Day Afternoon

The Fear of 13

Giant

Liberation (transfer from Off-Broadway)

Little Bear Ridge Road

Oedipus

Punch

New Musicals

Beaches, A New Musical

The Lost Boys

Schmigadoon

Titanique (transfer from Off-Broadway)

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

The Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals

Art

Becky Shaw

Bug

Death of a Salesman

Every Brilliant Thing

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 

Previously Announced to Open, but No Further Specific Details

Cottonfield

Dolly: An Original Musical

Montauk