B'way Update: Warriors Musical

Eisa Davis and Lin-Manuel Miranda

Warriors, a musical based on the 1979 Paramount Pictures release The Warriors and the 1965 novel by Sol Yorick, will open on Broadway in Spring of 2027. Previews begin in March with an opening in April at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. Book, music and lyrics are by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights) and Eisa Davis (Bulrusher). Jeffrey Koons directs and Andy Blankenbuehler of Hamilton co-directs and choreographs. The plot follows a NYC gang as they travel from Coney Island to the Bronx and back in an effort to prove their innocence of a murder. The musical originated as a concept album realesed in 2024 and featuring Lauryn Hill, Busta Rhymes, Nas, Billy Porter, Coleman Domingo, and many others.

“With Warriors, we take a fateful journey through New York City full of heart and grit as our characters fight to survive,” said co-writers Miranda and Davis in a joint statement. “Musicalizing such a vibrant world for the concept album has been a thrill, and now we're coming out to play on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne. We can't wait.”

A scene from The Warriors film (1979)

2026-27 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule

Summer 2026
June 24--Birthright (MCC)
June 29--A Walk on the Moon (Laura Pels)
July 10--Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo (Perelman Performing Arts Center)
July 14--The Whoopi Monologues (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

July 27--The Saviors (Atlantic Theater Company)
Aug. 11--An American Daughter (La Femme Prods./Signature Center)
Aug. 11--The Winter's Tale (Public Theater/Delacorte in Central Park)
Bocking (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

Fall 2026

Sept. 15--Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway (August Wilson)

Sept. 15--creations stories and all the important importants (LCT/Clara Tow) (Previews begin, opening TBA)

Sept. 27--How Shakespeare Saved My Life (Public)

Sept. 28--School Girls or The African Mean Girls Play (MTC/Friedman) 

Oct. 9--Good Time Charley (Public)

Oct. 13--The Unbelievers (MTC/City Center)

Oct. 13--Anon--a tempest at our kitchen table (MCC)

Oct. 18--Other Desert Cities (Hudson)

Oct. 21--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Public)

Oct. 21--860 (Imperial)

Oct. 22--Magic Mike Live New York 

Oct. 22--2:22: A Ghost Story (Lortel)

Oct. 29--A Few Good Men (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)

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)

Nov. 23--Seven Guitars (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

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. 28--Pretend It's Pretend (LCT/Clara Tow) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Jan. 2027--Awake and Sing (MTC/Samuel Friedman)

Jan. 2027--The Heart Sellers (MCC)

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 15--The Sound of Music (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)

April 18--Paddington the Musical (Al Hirschfeld)

April 28--how to roll a blunt (Second Stage/Signature Center)

April--Warriors (Lunt-Fontanne)

May 6--Born in the Dirt (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

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)

Summer 2027

June--What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (MCC)

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)

Playing Burton (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

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

Paddington The Musical

Wanted

Warriors

Play Revivals

Awake and Sing

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

A Few Good Men

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

The Sound of Music

Solos/Specialties

860 (Billy Crystal)

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