The 2026-27 theater season continues to take shape. Second Stage has announced its schedule for both its Broadway (at the Hayes Theater) and Off-Broadway (at the Signature Center) platforms. The company's Broadway shows will include a two productions of shows seen previously seen Off-Broadway: a revised version of the long-running favorite The Fantasticks and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Pulitzer Prize finalist Gloria. So far there are only four new plays planned for the upcoming Broadway season with eight play revivals. This is a growing trend of Broadway companies reviving relatively recent Off-Broadway shows and marketing them as Broadway debuts (which they are). Examples include Lobby Hero, Mary Jane, Eureka Day, Becky Shaw, and Marjorie Prime.
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Neil McCaffrey and Jeremiah Porter
in the revised version of The Fantasticks
at Flint Repertory Theater
Credit: Mike Naddeo |
The new edition of
Fantasticks will feature young lovers Matt and Louis rather than Matt and Luisa. Their scheming fathers will be replaced by two scheming mothers. The late Tom Jones revised his own book and lyrics (to Harvey Schmidt's music) before he passed away in 2023. Christopher Gattelli (
Schmigadoon) directs and choregraphs.
The adaptation was presented in 2022 at Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, MI, and was developed in subsequent productions at the Provincetown Theater in Provincetown, MA, and Coachella Valley Repertory in Cathedral City, CA. Previews begin at the Hayes on Oct. 22 prior to a Nov. 16 opening. The Fantasticks holds the record for the world's longest-running musical at 42 years and is a favorite of community and high-school productions. (I appeared as The Old Actor in a Brooklyn church production directed by Jeffrey Seller, who later produced Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights, and Hamilton.)
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Jeanine Serralles and Ryan Spahn in Gloria
at the Vineyard Theater in 2015.
Credit: Carol Rosegg |
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins'
Gloria will begin previews at the Hayes on March 17, 2027 and open on April 5. Premiering at the Vineyard Theater in 2015, the play focuses on a group of editorial assistants whose lives are impacted by a tragedy. Jacobs-Jenkins'
Appropriate and
Purpose have been presented by Second Stage.
Second Stage's Off-Broadway season at the Signature Theater Center begins with Bryna' Turner's The Visitors (previews Oct. 21, opens Nov. 9). Joanna is in her mid-thirties and eager to become a parent. When she invites her three siblings to her New York City apartment to ask them for a shocking favor, they’re all forced to get to know each other as adults – but whether they’ll emerge from the visit closer or more at odds than ever is anyone’s guess.
Miranda Rose Hall's Work of Devotion (previews Feb. 3, 2027, opens Feb. 22) focuses on a group of 8th century nuns seeking meaning in their lives after their leader dies in a freak accident.
Naomi Lorrain's how to roll a blunt (previews April 14, opens April 28) is bout Maya and James, best friends whose college exes are getting married to each other. Should they attend the wedding?
2026-27 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule
Summer 2026
June 4--Girl, Interrupted (Public)
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 21--Henry VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts (NAATCO/Public)
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)
Sept. 15--Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway (August Wilson)
Sept. 27--How Shakespeare Saved My Life (Public)
Oct. 9--Good Time Charley (Public)
Oct. 13--The Unbelievers (MTC/City Center)
Oct. 18--Other Desert Cities (Hudson)
Oct. 21--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Public)
October--Ms. Blakk for President (Vineyard)
Nov. 3--We'll See (Public)
Nov. 5--The Verge (Public)
Nov. 8--Wanted (James Earl Jones)
Nov. 9--The Visitors (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Nov. 16--The Fantasticks (Revised Version) (Second Stage/Hayes)
Nov. 19--Much Ado About Nothing (Winter Garden)
860 (Shubert theater TBA)
Degenerates (Playwrights Horizons)
Dreamgirls
The Heart (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
HOLE! (Playwrights Horizons)
The Imaginary Invalid (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Jackals (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)
the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Playwrights Horizons)
Winter 2026-27
Dec. 1--Inter Alia (Music Box)
Dec. 6--Galileo: A Rock Musical (Shubert) (previews begin, opening TBA)
Jan. 2027--Awake and Sing (MTC/Samuel Freidman)
Feb. 22--Work of Devotion (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Are the Bennett Girls OK? (Public)
Mix and Master (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
The Grief Eater Near North Bender (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Welcome Table (Public)
Wold Meteor (Playwrights Horizons)
Spring 2027
March 25--Evita (Winter Garden)
April 5--Gloria (Second Stage/Hayes)
April 28--how to roll a blunt (Second Stage/Signature Center)
The Annunciation (Playwrights Horizons)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Damn Yankees
Feast of Rabbits (Playwrights Horizons)
The Full Monty (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Montauk (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
The Vagina Monologues (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
2026-27
Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo
Private Lives
Dates TBD
MISS STEP (Playwrights Horizons)
Narcissister (Playwrights Horizons)
New work by Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri (Playwright Horizons)
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; Dare To Be Stupid: The Weird Al Yankovic Musical; 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.
2026-27 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
Inter Alia
Mix and Master
Montauk
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway
New Musicals
Galileo, A Rock Musical
Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo
Wanted
Play Revivals
Awake and Sing
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gloria
The Imaginary Invalid
Much Ado About Nothing
Other Desert Cities
Private Lives
School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play
Musical Revivals
Damn Yankees
Dreamgirls
Evita
The Fantasticks
The Full Monty
Solos/Specialties
860 (Billy Crystal)
Celebrity Autobiography
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