B'way Update: Jonathan Groff and Tom Hanks Return

Jonathan Groff

Tony winner Jonathan Groff and Oscar winner Tom Hanks will return to Broadway later this season, Groff in a new solo play The Amish Project and Hanks in a transfer of This World of Tomorrow, a play he co-wrote which previously played The Shed Off-Broadway.

Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Just in Time) will take the stage alone in Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project at the Broadhurst Theater with performances beginning Feb. 10, 2027. Sarna Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George) directs. The play is inspired by a 2006 school shooting which occurred in a small Pennsylvania town near where Groff grew up.

The Amish Project debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival and was developed at the Cherry Lane Theatre before premiering Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2009. It has since become Jessica Dickey’s most-produced play, with productions at the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis), Milwaukee Rep, American Theater Company (Chicago) and City Theatre (Pittsburgh), among others at theaters around the world.

“20 years ago this month, an unimaginable tragedy happened in a one room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Jessica Dickey wrote an astounding work of art in response," Groff said in a statement. "Sarna Lapine sent me The Amish Project last year and I was floored by the urgency and potent poetry of Jessica’s writing as she dives headfirst into the many aftershocks of this horrific event and explores the idea that sometimes the most radical human act is forgiveness. I am profoundly grateful to be bringing Jessica’s play to Broadway alongside Sarna and this incredible team.”

Kelli O'Hara and Tom Hanks in
This World of Tomorrow.
Credit: Marc J. Franklin

Tom Hanks will join Tony winner Kelli O'Hara in a Broadway transfer of This World of Tomorrow which he co-wrote with James Glossman, scheduled for fall 2027 at a Shubert theater TBA. This will be the first time Hanks has appeared on Broadway since Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2014. The play previously played The Shed Off-Broadway in 2025. Based on a short story from Hanks' collection Uncommon Type, World of Tomorrow is a sci-fi tale about a scientist from the late 21st century who travel back in time to the the World's Fair of 1939 where he meets and falls in love with a woman named Carmen (O'Hara, reprising her Off-Broadway role). Tony winner Kenny Leon returns to direct.

2026-27 Broadway and Off-Broadway Calendar
Fall 2026
Oct. 27--I Become We (Atlantic Theater Co.) 
Oct. 28--In the Heights (Encores!)
Oct. 29--A Few Good Men (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
Oct. 29--The Heart (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Nov. 1--Ms. Blakk for President (Vineyard)
Nov. 2--Waiting for Lefty (CSC)
Nov. 3--We'll See (Public)
Nov. 5--The Unbelievers (MTC/City Center)
Nov. 5--The Verge (Public)
Nov. 8--Wanted (James Earl Jones)
Nov. 9--Here There Are Blueberries (Barrymore)
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. 15--Downstate (Booth)
Nov. 16--The Fantasticks (Revised Version) (Second Stage/Hayes)
Nov. 17--Blue Man Group: A New Holiday Surprise (Lunt-Fontanne)
Nov. 18--It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Broadhurst)
Nov. 18--the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Playwrights Horizons)
Nov. 19--Much Ado About Nothing (Winter Garden)
Nov. 23--Seven Guitars (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Nov. 24--The Dead, 1904 (IRT/American Irish Historical Society)
Dreamgirls
HOLE! (Playwrights Horizons)
Jackals (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

Winter 2026-27

Dec. 1--Inter Alia (Music Box)

Dec. 3--Imitation of Life (The Shed/National Black Theater) 

Dec. 6--Galileo: A Rock Musical (Shubert) 

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

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

Dec. 14--Wild Rose (NYTW)

Dec. 17--Spring Awakening (Studio Seaview)

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. 17--Full Gallop (City Center Stage II)

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

Jan. 21--Texas in Paris (Signature Center)

Jan. 27--Mix and Master (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

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. 3--You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Encores!)

Feb. 10--The Amish Project (Broadhurst) (previews begin, opening TBA)

Feb. 11--The Grief Eater Near North Bender (Roundabout/NYTW/Laura Pels)

Feb. 22--Work of Devotion (Second Stage/Signature Center)

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

Feb. 28--Man to Man (Lortel)

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--Petra (Vineyard Theater)

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

Are the Bennett Girls OK? (Public)

The Surge (Public)

Welcome Table (Public)

Wold Meteor (Playwrights Horizons)

Spring 2027

March 1--Three Days of Rain (Longacre)

March 14--Dirty Dancing: The Musical (Lena Horne)

March 17--Let 'Em Eat Cake (Encores!)

March 18--Small Mouth Sounds (Barrymore)

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

March 25--Evita (Winter Garden)

April 5--Gloria (Second Stage/Hayes)

April 8--Warriors (Lunt-Fontanne)

April 12--Purple Rain (Majestic)

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

April 18--Paddington the Musical (Al Hirschfeld)

April 20--Damn Yankees (Marquis)

April 20--What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Public)

April 25--Rhinoceros (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

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

April 28--Kiss of the Spider Woman (Encores!)

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

May 12--Meet Me at the End of the World (Public)

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

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

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

The Annunciation (Playwrights Horizons)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Feast of Rabbits (Playwrights Horizons)

Macbeth

Montauk (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)

The Vagina Monologues (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Summer 2027

June 10--Phil (Public)

June 11--Beautiful Jolie Gabor (Transport Group/Theater 555) (previews begin, opening TBA)

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

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

Henry IV, Parts I and II (Public/Delacorte)

Counting and Cracking (Public/Delacorte)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Public/Delacorte)

Fall 2027

Annie

This World of Tomorrow

Dates TBD

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

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; The Princess Bride; 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
The Amish Project

Inter Alia
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Mix and Master
Montauk
Paranormal Activity

New Musicals
Dirty Dancing: The Musical

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
Downstate
A Few Good Men
Gloria
Here There Are Blueberries
The Imaginary Invalid

Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Other Desert Cities
Private Lives

Rhinoceros
School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play
Small Mouth Sounds
Three Days of Rain

Musical Revivals
Damn Yankees
Dreamgirls
Evita
The Fantasticks
The Sound of Music

Solos/Specialties
860 (Billy Crystal)
Blue Man Group: A New Holiday Surprise
Celebrity Autobiography