Tuesday, February 10, 2026

B'way Update: Galileo Musical

Raul Esparza in Galileo: A Rock Musical 
at Berkeley Rep.
Credit: Kevin Berne
According to Playbill.com, Galileo, a rock musical based on the life of the 17th century astronomer, will open on Broadway this fall after a run at the Berkeley Rep in 2024. Performances begin Nov. 10 at the Shubert Theater where Hell's Kitchen is running through Feb. 22. The cast will be headed by Tony nominee Raul Esparza (Company), Jeremy Kushnier and Joy Woods. Tony winner Michael Mayer (American Idiot, Spring Awakening) directs. The book is by Emmy winner Danny Strong (Chess) with music and lyrics by Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak.




2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Winter 2025-26
Feb. 11--The Monsters (MTC/City Center)
Feb. 11--Kramer/Fauci (NYU Skirball)
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/Ma-Yi)
March 23--Giant (Music Box)
March 23--Hamlet (Teatro La Plaza/TFANA)
March 25--Public Charge (Public)
March 29--Titus Andronicus (Red Bull/Pershing Signature Center)
March 30--Dog Day Afternoon (August Wilson)
March 30--Seagull: True Story (Public)
April 1--Lortel Award Nominations
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 20--Drama League Nominations (NYPL at Lincoln Center)
April 21--The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)
April 21-- Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations
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)
April 29--Drama Desk Nominations
May 3--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)
May 5--Tony Nominations
May 7--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)
May 11--Outer Critics Circle Winners Announced
May 15--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)
May 17--Drama Desk Awards (Town Hall)
May 18--Chita Rivera Awards (NYU Skirball)
May 21--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony
May--The Emporium (CSC)
: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)
Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)
Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Co.)
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 7--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall/CBS)
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
Nov. 10--Galileo: A Rock Musical (Shubert) (previews begin, opening TBA)
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

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