Joining Carell as Felix Ungar and Reilly as Oscar Madison are Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy, She Loves Me, My Fair Lady) as Gwendolyn Pigeon; Tony Award nominee Kevin Del Aguila (Some Like It Hot) as Roy; Tony Award winner JamesMonroe Iglehart (Disney’s Aladdin, Hamilton, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical) as Murray; Tony Award nominee Rob McClure (Chaplin, Mrs. Doubtfire) as Vinnie; Heléne Yorke (American Psycho, Bullets Over Broadway) as Cecily Pigeon; and Tony Award nominee David Zayas (Cost of Living) as Speed.
The Odd Couple, Simon's comedy of two mismatched divorced men sharing an apartment, opened on Broadway in 1965 with Walter Matthau and Art Carney and ran for 964 performances. Simon rewrote a new version with female leads in 1985 which starred Rita Moreno and Sally Struthers. The 1968 film version starred Matthau and Jack Lemmon. A 2005 revival was headlined by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. Jack Klugman and Tony Randall played Oscar and Felix in the long-running TV series and there were two subsequent TV versions as well as a cartoon series featuring a sloppy dog and a fussy cat voiced by Paul Winchell and Frank Nelson.
Director and producer Thomas Kail says, “Neil Simon wrote one of the great American comedies, and it is an honor and a thrill to be part of this exceptional team bringing this play back to Broadway. Underneath the extraordinary humor is something deeply human. Steve and John are two remarkable actors who can make an audience laugh uproariously one moment and move them deeply in the next. We aim to create a world that feels alive, immediate, and can clearly express why this play has endured for more than sixty years.”
“Why are we doing this? We need to laugh. Period.” — Producer Jeffrey Seller
2026-27 Broadway and Off-Broadway Calendar
Fall 2026
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)
Nov. 30--A Kidman Carol (New World Stages)
Dreamgirls
Jackals (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)
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)
Nov. 30--A Kidman Carol (New World Stages)
Dreamgirls
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. 7--Awake and Sing (MTC/Samuel Friedman)
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--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. 12--A History of Paper (Stage 42) (previews begin, opening TBA)
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 23--The Odd Couple (Stephen Sondheim)
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 23--Lost Lear (Booth)
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 23--Drama Desk Awards (The Shed)
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 13--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)
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
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
New Plays
The Amish Project
Inter Alia
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Lost Lear
Mix and Master
Montauk
Paranormal Activity
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
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
Much Ado About Nothing
The Odd Couple
Other Desert Cities
Private Lives
Other Desert Cities
Private Lives
Rhinoceros
School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play
Small Mouth Sounds
Three Days of Rain
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
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