B'way Update: 10 Things I Hate About You; Invalid Casting

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles in
10 Things I Hate About You.
Credit: Touchstone Pictures/Allstar

A year from today, 10 Things I Hate About You, a new musical based on the 1999 film comedy, will begin performances on Broadway. Cast, a theater, and an opening date have not yet been set. The show which set Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew in a modern high school will feature  a book by eight-time Emmy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award-winner Lena Dunham and award-winning playwright Jessica Huang, music and lyrics by Grammy Award nominee Carly Rae Jepsen and Grammy Award-winner Ethan Gruska, direction and choreography by two-time Tony-winner Christopher Wheeldon, and music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by two-time Tony and Grammy Award-winner Tom Kitt. 

In other news, Roundabout Theater Company has announced the complete cast and dates for its revival of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, adapted by and starring Tony winner Bill Iwin. The classic comedy of a hypochondriac will begin previews Sept. 25 at the Todd Haimes Theater and open on Oct. 22. Irwin will be joined by Golden Globe winner Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Tony nominee Dylan Baker (La Bete), Tony nominee and Drama Desk winner Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Become Me, Smash), Theater World Award winner Crystal A. Dickinson, Hiram Delgado, Daniel Croix Henderson, and Ava Lalezarzadeh. Tony nominee Brandon J. Dirden (The Piano Lesson, Waiting for Godot) will make his Broadway directorial debut.

2026-27 Broadway and Off-Broadway Calendar

Summer 2026
Aug. 25--Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway (August Wilson)
Bocking (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

Fall 2026

Sept. 9--In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat (New York Theater Workshop) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Sept. 11--America, Who Hurt You? (Theater for a New Audience) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Sept. 14--Pre-Existing Condition (Greenwich House)

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

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

Spet. 27--Midnight (Daryl Roth)

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

Sept. 29--Degenerates (Playwrights Horizons)

Oct. 4--The Hairy Ape (Irish Repertory Theater)

Oct. 4--Slam Frank (Orpheum)

Oct. 9--Good Time Charley (Public)

Oct. 11--Fish (Signature Theater Company/WP Theater)

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

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

Oct. 16--I Become We (Atlantic Theater Co.) (Previews begins; opening TBA)

Oct. 18--Other Desert Cities (Hudson)

Oct. 19--King of the Yees (Signature Theater Company)

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

Oct. 21--860 (Imperial)

Oct. 22--The Imaginary Invalid (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

Oct. 22--Magic Mike Live New York 

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

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

Nov. 1--Ms. Blakk for President (Vineyard)

Nov. 2--Waiting for Lefty (CSC)

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. 10--Elektra (Theater for a New Audience) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Nov. 12--The Good Thief (Irish Repertory Theater)

Nov. 16--The Fantasticks (Revised Version) (Second Stage/Hayes)

Nov. 19--Much Ado About Nothing (Winter Garden)

Nov. 21--Imitation of Life (The Shed/National Black Theater) (previews begin, opening TBA)

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

Nov. 24--Wild Rose (NYTW) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Nov. 24--The Dead, 1904 (IRT/American Irish Historical Society)

Dreamgirls

The Heart (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

HOLE! (Playwrights Horizons)

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)

Dec. 7--A View from the Bridge (LaMaMa)

Dec. 13--Finn (Atlantic Theater Co.) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Jan. 9--Too Bad for Her (Atlatntic Theater Co. ) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Jan. 13--Honor, An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra in Tandem with Lili Taylor (Theater for a New Audience) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Jan. 19--Dolly: A True Original Musical (St. James)

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)

Feb. 25--Faydra (MTC/City Center Stage I)

Feb. 28--King Lear (Theater for a New Audience) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Feb. 29--Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (CSC)

Feb. 2027--Three Days of Rain (Shubert theater TBA)

Feb. 2027--Petra (Vineyard Theater)

Feb. 2027--Miles for Mary (Signature Theater Company)

Are the Bennett Girls OK? (Public)

Mix and Master (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

The Grief Eater Near North Bender (Roundabout/NYTW/Laura Pels)

Welcome Table (Public)

Wold Meteor (Playwrights Horizons)

Spring 2027

March 18--Old Actress (Atlantic Theater Co.) (previews begin, opening TBA)

March 25--Evita (Winter Garden)

April 5--Gloria (Second Stage/Hayes)

April 12--Purple Rain (Majestic)

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)

May 24--Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret (CSC)

May 27--Push (Atlantic Theater Co.) (previews begin, opening TBA)

May 2027--Angela's Mixtape (Signature Theater Company)

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)

Aug. 17--10 Things I hate About You (previews begin, opening TBA)

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--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

Dolly: A True Original Musical

Galileo, A Rock Musical

Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo

Paddington The Musical

Purple Rain

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

Three Days of Rain

Musical Revivals

Damn Yankees

Dreamgirls

Evita

The Fantasticks

The Full Monty

The Sound of Music

Solos/Specialties

860 (Billy Crystal)

Celebrity Autobiography