Sunday, April 19, 2026

B'way/Off-Bway Update: Roundabout 2026-27 Season

Bill Irwin will star
in The Imaginary Invalid for
Roundabout.
Under the new leadership of incoming artistic director Christopher Ashley, Roundabout Theater Company has announced its schedule for the 2026-27 season. The productions will include revivals of classics and musicals as well as new plays.

“As we welcome Christopher Ashley into artistic leadership, this season is a bridge, grounded in what [the late] Todd [Haimes, previous artistic director] built, and intentionally making space for Chris to shape what’s next,” said Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director.   
 
“The season Scott and I have shaped builds on what Roundabout has always believed: that theatre can hold the classic and the urgent side by side. We’re proud to have new work anchoring our season, even as we revisit a landmark comedy with fresh eyes and make room for a big, unabashedly entertaining musical,” added Christopher Ashley, Incoming Artistic Director. 


The line-up begins with Tony winner Bill Irwin (Largely New York, Fool Moon) returning to Broadway starring in his own adaptation of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, directed by Brandon J. Dirden (Waiting for Godot). Irwin plays Argon, a wealthy hypochondriac who schemes to marry off his daughter to a doctor to save on medical bills. Performance begin in the fall at the Todd Haimes Theater. 


Also in the fall, The Heart, a new musical, will premiere at the Off-Broadway Laura Pels. A young surfer’s life is cut short. A stranger suddenly has a second chance. And the life-force of one beating heart drives two families and a medical team through 24 hours that couldn’t matter more. Playwright Kait Kerrigan (The Great Gatsby) and Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath (of KPop Demon Hunters) join forces with Tony Award-winning director Christopher Ashley (Roundabout’s incoming artistic director) and choreographer Mandy Moore (Taylor Swift’s Eras tour) to adapt Maylis de Kerangal's 2014 novel RĂ©parer les vivants, in the company's first new Off Broadway musical in years. 


Kara Young, seen here in Purpose,
will star in Mix and Master.
Credit: Marc J. Franklin
In the winter, Dominique Morriseau's Mix and Master starring Tony winners Reuben Santiago-Hudson and Kara Young (currently in Proof) comes to the Todd Haimes. The plot concerns the intergenerational rivalry for a record shop. Live DJ sets will be featured. Meanwhile, the Laura Pels will play host to The Grief Eater Near North Bender (in a co-production with New York Theater Workshop), Dylan Guerra's comic fable about a group of misfit strangers vowing to track down a mysterious monster. 

The spring brings the first Broadway revival of The Full Monty, Terrence McNally and David Yazbek's 2000 adaptation of the film about an amateur group of male strippers, transported from England to Buffalo, NY (Todd Haimes). Leigh Silverman directs. The Laura Pels will host the 30th anniversary production of The Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler), directed by Olivier Award-winner and Tony Award-nominee Noma Dumezweni.


2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Spring 2026
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 (Museum of Broadway)
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 27--Outer Critics Nominees Reception (West Bank Cafe)
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 14--Rheology (Playwrights Horizons)
May 15--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)
May 17--Drama Desk Awards (Town Hall)
May 18--Chita Rivera Awards (NYU Skirball)
May 18--The Emporium (CSC)
May 19--Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)
May 19--Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Co.)
May 21--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony (MMAC Theater)
May 28--: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)
No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons)

Summer 2026
June 2--Theater World Awards (Venue TBA)
June 7--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall/CBS)
June 11--Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte)
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
Sept. 8--School Girls or The African Mean Girls Play (MTC/Friedman) (previews begin, opening TBA)
Oct. 13--The Unbelievers (MTC/City Center)
Nov. 8--Wanted (James Earl Jones)
Dec. 1--Inter Alia (Music Box)
Dec. 6--Galileo: A Rock Musical (Shubert) (previews begin, opening TBA)
860 (Shubert theater TBA)
Dreamgirls
The Heart (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Imaginary Invalid (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Jackals (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)
Much Ado About Nothing (Shubert theater TBA; dates TBA)

Winter 2026-27
Mix and Master (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
The Grief Eater Near North Bender (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Spring 2027
The Full Monty (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
The Vagina Monologues (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

2026-27
Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo
Private Lives

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
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 


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