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Which shows are (re)opening when during the 2021-2022 season

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When Broadway theatres shuttered due to the COVID-19 crisis on March 12, 2020, they vowed to reopen in a month. That did not happen. Happily, Broadway reopened in summer 2021. Below is the current status of every production that was already running or set to open on Broadway in spring, summer or fall of 2020, plus brand-new 2021-2022 shows.

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Broadway Productions (Re)opening in 2021-2022

Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations - CLOSED JANUARY 16. 2022
This bio-musical about the legendary Motown group resumes performances October 16, 2021 at the Imperial Theatre. We're excited its harmonies will resume!

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Aladdin - begins performances September 28, 2021
This Disney family favorite will reopen on September 28, 2021 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Can't wait to take another a magic carpet ride!

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American Buffalo - begins performances March 22, 2022
Delayed because of the pandemic, this David Mamet revival will open on April 14, 2022—exactly two years after it was originally scheduled to bow. Previews begin on March 22, 2022 at the Circle in the Square Theatre and Oscar winner Sam Rockwell, and Emmy winners Laurence Fishburne and Darren Criss are still set to star.

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Beetlejuice - begins performances April 8, 2022
Talk about being raised from the dead! The pandemic cut short Beetlejuice's Broadway run, but only by a few months as it was slated to close in June 2020 because The Music Man was kicking it out of the Winter Garden Theatre. But producers and fans never gave up hope. And now the ghostly musical comedy inspired by Tim Burton's popular 1988 movie is getting a second life on Broadway, with an encore run beginning on April 8, 2022 at the Marquis Theatre. It's showtime!

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Birthday Candles - begins performances March 18, 2022
The Roundabout Theatre Company rescheduled Noah Haidle's play about a woman who ages from 17 to 107 for next spring, with previews starting on March 18, 2022 and an official opening of April 10 at the American Airlines Theatre. Debra Messing still stars.

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The Book of Mormon - begins performances November 5, 2021
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's irreverent, Tony-winning smash will reopen on November 5, 2021 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. In the interim, according to Broadway Briefing, the writers "plan to participate in rehearsals with the cast... to discuss areas of concern and potential changes," prompted by a letter sent by Black cast members last summer with concerns about racial stereotyping. Casting has yet to be announced but there is one person we know isn't returning: disgraced producer Scott Rudin, who's no longer involved with the production.

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Caroline, or Change - CLOSED JANUARY 9, 2022 
The Roundabout Theatre Company rescheduled this revival of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's musical to fall, with previews starting on October 8, 2021 at Studio 54, with an official opening of October 27, 2021. Sharon D Clarke, who won an Olivier Award in London for her searing turn as the title character, still stars.

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Chicago - begins performances September 14, 2021
Producers announced that this long-running revival of Kander and Ebb's musical will resume performances September 14, 2021 at the Ambassador Theatre. We can't wait to watch its merry murderesses croon and kill again.

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Chicken & Biscuits - CLOSED NOVEMBER 28, 2021
After having a virtual performance during the pandemic, Douglas Lyons' rollicking comedy about the skeletons that emerge at a Black family funeral is coming to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre, with previews beginning on September 23, 2021 and an official opening date of October 10, 2021. Zhailon Levingston directs an ensemble cast that includes Tony nominee Norm Lewis and Michael Urie.

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Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes - CLOSED DECEMBER 16, 2021
Radio City canceled its annual holiday extravaganza for 2020—the first time that's happened since it started in 1933! Happily, the world-famous Rockettes will return alive and kicking on November 5, 2021.

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Clyde's - CLOSED JANUARY 16, 2022
Second Stage Theater has added Clyde's to its fall lineup, a new play by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Sweat), directed by Kate Whoriskey. The dramedy, about a truck stop sandwich shop with a formerly incarcerated kitchen staff, premiered under the title Floyd's at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater in 2019. This new limited-run production begins previews on November 3, 2021 at the company's Broadway house, the Hayes Theater, with an official opening date of November 22, 2021.

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Come From Away - begins performances September 21, 2021
This uplifting tale of how a small Newfoundland community welcomed stranded strangers on 9/11 will resume performance on September 21, 2021 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. There's also a recording of the stage production in the works to be released on Apple TV+ on September 10, 2021. Can't have too much of this good thing.

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Company - begins performances November 15, 2021
This gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim's landmark musical resumes performances November 15, 2021 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, with an official opening of December 9, 2021 (these are new, earlier dates than originally announced in the spring). Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, who got us through the early days of the pandemic with her hilarious basement tours, still star.

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Dana H. - CLOSED NOVEMBER 28, 2021
The Vineyard Theatre's acclaimed production of Lucas Hnath's one-woman play about his mother's real-life abduction transfers to Broadway's Lyceum Theater, where it will play in repertory with Is This A Room. Stage vet Deirdre O'Connell will reprise her harrowing performance, for which she lip-syncs to recordings of candid interviews with Hnath's mom. Previews begin on October 1, 2021 with an official opening on October 17, 2021.

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David Byrne's American Utopia - begins performances September 17, 2021
David Byrne's acclaimed concert spectacle ended its original Broadway run about a month before the shutdown, but it planned to return in fall 2020. Now it's coming back on September 17, 2021 for a limited engagement until April 3, 2022 at the St. James Theatre. In the meantime, you can watch a movie version directed by Spike Lee on HBO!

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Dear Evan Hansen - begins performances December 11, 2021
Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for best musical, this tale of a high school misfit who accidentally gets everything he ever wanted will return to Broadway's Music Box Theatre on December 11, 2021, starring Jordan Fisher, who was playing the title role when Broadway shut down. We're glad it will continue to be found!

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Diana: The Musical - CLOSED DECEMBER 19, 2021
Producers announced that Diana would begin previews at the Longacre Theatre on November 2, 2021, with an opening night of November 17, 2021. In addition, a filmed version of the musical, which was shot live on stage in fall 2020, will premiere on Netflix on October 1, 2021. So Royal family fans have two ways to see this history-inspired show, which is directed by Tony winner Christopher Ashley and stars Jeanna de Waal as the title princess, Roe Hartrampf as Prince Charles, Erin Davie as Camilla Parker Bowles and two-time Tony winner Judy Kaye as Queen Elizabeth.

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Flying Over Sunset - CLOSED JANUARY 16, 2022
Lincoln Center Theater's musical about celebrities taking LSD in the '50s will begin previews on November 11, 2021 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, with an official opening night of December 13, 2021. With a book and direction by James Lapine, and songs by Tom Kitt and Michael Korie, the show stars Harry Hadden-Paton as writer Aldous Huxley, Carmen Cusack as playwright and politician Clare Boothe Luce and and Tony Yazbeck as movie star Cary Grant. Far out!

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for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf - begins performances April 1, 2022
Celebrated choreographer Camille A. Brown makes her Broadway directorial debut with a revival of Ntozake Shange's landmark choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, which will be staged at the Booth Theatre where the original production ran back in the '70s. Casting has yet to be announced, but we suspect some of the stars of The Public Theater's critically acclaimed 2019 revival, which Brown choreographed, may show up. Previews begin on April 1, 2022, with an official opening on April 20, 2022.

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Freestyle Love Supreme - CLOSED JANUARY 2, 2022
Since Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of Broadway's biggest champions, it's not that surprising that he and his rapping pals have decided to bring back Freestyle Love Supreme for a limited engagement at the Booth Theatre from October 7, 2021 to January 2, 2022. This improvised hip-hop comedy troupe has been around since the mid-'00s and had a successful Broadway run in fall 2019. Hamilton director Thomas Kail will once again helm the anything-can-happen show. The company consists of Andrew Bancroft aka Jelly Donut, Tarik Davis aka Tardis Hardaway, Aneesa Folds aka Young Nees, Arthur Lewis aka Arthur the Geniuses, Kaila Mullady aka Kaiser Rözé, Chris Sullivan aka Shockwave and Veneziale aka Two-Touch, with special guest appearances by the likes of Miranda, Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, James Monroe Iglehart and Wayne Brady.

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Funny Girl - begins performances March 26, 2022
Hello gorgeous! The first-ever revival of Funny Girl comes to Broadway's August Wilson Theatre in spring 2022, with previews beginning March 26 and an official opening date of April 24. Hello, Dolly! scene-stealer Beanie Feldstein stars as legendary comedian Fanny Brice, Jane Lynch is her overbearing mother and Les Misérables Tony nominee Ramin Karimloo portrays her dashing but no good-husband Nick Arnstein. Tony winner Michael Mayer directs this new mounting of the classic Jule Styne-Bob Merrill musical that turned Barbra Streisand into a household name.

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Girl From the North Country - CLOSED JANUARY 23, 2022
Producers announced that this poetic evocation of life during the Great Depression set to Bob Dylan songs will resume performances at the Belasco Theatre on October 13, 2021. The musical was the last production to open on Broadway before the shutdown, on March 5, 2020. Most cast members are set to return, including Todd Almond, Robert Joy, Marc Kudisch, Luba Mason, Jay O. Sanders and Mare Winningham. Although the show announced it would close on January 23, 2022, producers hope to reopen it in the spring. 

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Hadestown - begins performances September 2, 2021
Producers announced that this 2019 Tony Award winner for best musical would resume performances on September 2, 2021 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, making it the first Broadway show to reopen post-shutdown. Love clearly overcomes all! We can't wait until Orpheus and Eurydice return to the world of the living.

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Hamilton - begins performances September 14, 2021
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner phenomenon will reopen on September 14, 2021 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre to blow us all away, again. Miguel Cervantes leads the cast as the young, scrappy and hungry title character, alongside Krystal Joy Brown and Mandy Gonzalez as the non-Peggy Schuyler sisters; Tamar Greene as George Washington; Jin Ha as Aaron Burr; James Monroe Iglehart as Thomas Jefferson and Euan Morton as King George III.

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Hangmen - begins performances April 8, 2022
Talk about a resurrection! After officially cancelling this buzzy Broadway transfer in the early days of the pandemic, the producers suddenly announced it was back on... two years later! After a hit run at Atlantic Theater Company, Martin McDonagh's pitch-black comedy about execution and vengeance is finally coming to Broadway's Golden Theatre, with previews starting April 8, 2022 and an official opening date of April 21, 2022. Alfie Allen and David Threlfall star and Matthew Dunster directs.

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - begins performances November 12. 2021
It's magic: This two-part Tony-winning epic will reopen on Broadway as one streamlined play, reimagined and restaged by the original creative team, including playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. This new version of the show begins previews November 12, 2021, with an opening date of December 7 ,2021 at the Lyric Theatre. We hope it continues to cast a spell.

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How I Learned to Drive - begins performances March 29, 2022
Manhattan Theatre Club announced that the postponed revival of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive will open at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on March 29, 2022, with an official opening date of April 19, 2022. Stars David Morse and Mary-Louise Parker, who are reprising the roles they originated Off Broadway in 1997, remain with the production and Mark Brokaw directs.

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Is This A Room - CLOSED NOVEMBER 27, 2021
The Vineyard Theatre's acclaimed production of Tina Satter's Is This A Room transfers to Broadway's Lyceum Theater, where it will play in repertory with Dana H. The script is a verbatim transcript of the FBI's initial interrogation of Reality Winner, a 25-year-old Air Force linguist arrested in 2017 for leaking classified information to the media. Emily Davis will reprise her breathtaking performance. Previews begin on September 24, 2021 with an official opening on October 11, 2021.

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Jagged Little Pill - CLOSED DECEMBER 17, 2021
This politically charged musical inspired by Alanis Morissette's seminal album of the same name reopens on October 21, 2021 at the the Broadhurst Theatre. Casting has not yet been announced. We're glad it will live to rage again!

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The Kite Runner - begins performances July 6, 2022
This UK import is based on Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel of the same name about two friends in a divided Afghanistan on the verge of war. Billed as a play with music, The Kite Runner begins previews on July 6, 2022 at the Hayes Theatre, with an official opening date of July 21, 2022. The limited-run production is directed by Giles Croft with a script by Matthew Spangler.

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Lackawanna Blues - CLOSED NOVEMBER 12, 2021 
Lauded actor-writer-director Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who was appointed as an artistic advisor to Manhattan Theatre Club last fall, brings his autobiographical solo show to the nonprofit's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway this fall, with previews starting September 14, 2021 and an official opening date of October 7, 2021. Previously seen Off Broadway 20 years ago, the play celebrates the powerful and empathetic woman who raised Santiago-Hudson in a '50s boarding house outside Buffalo, New York.

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The Lehman Trilogy - CLOSED JANUARY 2, 2022
This theatrical epic about the meteoric rise and catastrophic downfall of a financial dynasty resumes performances at the Nederlander Theatre September 25, 2021, with an official opening of October 14, 2021. The critically acclaimed London transfer was still in previews when the shutdown hit. Original cast members Simon Russell Beale and Adam Godley return to the production, and Adrian Lester replaces Ben Miles. As for disgraced producer Scott Rudin, he is no longer involved with the show, with the National Theatre and Neal Street Productions taking over his duties.

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The Little Prince - begins performances March 29, 2022
After hit runs in Paris, Sydney and Dubai, an eye-popping theatricalization of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's beloved novella The Little Prince about a young planet-hopping explorer travels to New York. Directed and choreographed by Anne Tournié, the production begins previews on March 29, 2022 at the Broadway Theatre, with an official opening of April 11, 2022, and uses aerial acrobatics, movement and high-tech video mapping to bring the interstellar adventure to life.

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The Lion King - begins performances September 14, 2021 
This Disney juggernaut will come roaring back at the Minskoff Theatre on September 14, 2021. Here's to the circle of life!

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Macbeth - begins performances March 29, 2022
Tony-winning director Sam Gold reunites with Daniel Craig for a new production of Macbeth at Broadway's Longacre Theatre. The two previously collaborated on Othello at New York Theatre Workshop, with Craig delivering a chilling Iago in a riveting production that sold out almost the moment it went on sale. Oscar nominee Ruth Negga will make her Broadway debut as Macbeth's bloody ambitious wife. Previews start March 29, 2022 with an official opening of April 28, 2022.

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The Minutes - begins performances April 2, 2022
After initially moving the production to spring 2021, the producers rescheduled it again, with previews starting April 2, 2022 at Studio 54 and an official opening date of April 17, 2022. Most of the original cast members of Tracy Letts' caustic small-town comedy, which was in previews when the shutdown hit, are hoping to return, including Tony winner Jessie Mueller. However, troubled actor Armie Hammer has been replaced by Schitt's Creek actor Noah Reid.

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MJ The Musical - begins performances December 6, 2021
This jukebox musical about the King of Pop starring newcomer Myles Frost will begin previews on December 6, 2021 at the Neil Simon Theatre, with an official opening date of February 1, 2022. Glad it didn't just beat it!

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Moulin Rouge! - begins performances September 24, 2021
A sexy spectacle jam-packed with pop hits, this stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's movie resumes performances on September 24, 2021 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Original cast members Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein, Sahr Ngaujah, Tam Mutu, Ricky Rojas and Robyn Hurder are set to return, but not Karen Olivo, who quit the show in a viral Instagram Live video because of Broadway's myriad issues, including abusive producers and systemic racism. Natalie Mendoza will take over her role.

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Mr. Saturday Night - begins performances March 29, 2022
Billy Crystal headlines this new musical, inspired by his 1992 movie of the same name about a formerly famous comic desperately looking for gigs as an older man. Tony winner Jason Robert Brown and Tony nominee Amanda Green wrote the songs, while Crystal and his longtime collaborators Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel penned the book based on their original screenplay. The new musical comes to Broadway after a brief developmental run at Barrington Stage Company. Tony-winning Urinetown director John Rando helms the production, which costars Randy Graff, David Paymer and Chasten Harmon. The show begins previews on March 29, 2022 at the Nederlander Theatre, with an official opening date of April 27, 2022.

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Mrs. Doubtfire - begins performances October 21, 2021 (ON HIATUS JANUARY 10-APRIL 13, 2022)
Helloooo! After being shut down during previews in 2020, this musical based on the beloved 1993 Robin Williams comedy is set to resume on October 21, 2021 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, with an official opening date of December 5, 2021. Rob McClure still stars as the cross-dressing dad. In early January 2022, producers announced the musical would take a hiatus from January 10 to March 14 in order to weather a new wave of COVID-19 and the off-peak season.

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The Music Man - begins performances December 20, 2021
The producers of this buzzy revival of The Music Man starring Tony winners Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster announced the production was rescheduled for late 2021, with previews beginning on December 20, 2021 and opening night set for February 10, 2022 at the Winter Garden Theatre.

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Paradise Square - begins performances March 15, 2022
The first new Broadway musical to be announced since the onset of the pandemic, Paradise Square is a music-and-tap-filled portrait of Five Points, an integrated 19th-century New York City neighborhood. With a book by Christina Anderson, Marcus Gardley, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan, and direction by Moisés Kaufman, the show stars Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy and John Dossett and begins previews at the Barrymore Theatre on March 15, 2022, with an official opening date of April 3, 2022.

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Pass Over - CLOSED OCTOBER 10, 2021 
A critically acclaimed hit at Lincoln Center Theater's smallest house in 2018, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's searing examination of racism and brutality against Black bodies transfers to Broadway this summer, beginning previews on August 4, 2021 at the August Wilson Theatre, with an official opening date of August 22, 2021. Inspired by the Exodus story and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, the show premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater and was filmed on stage by Spike Lee. But the NYC iteration of the play featured important changes that will presumably carry over to the Broadway production, which features the original Lincoln Center cast, Jon Michael Hill, Namir Smallwood and Tony winner Gabriel Ebert, and director Danya Taymor.

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The Phantom of the Opera - begins performances October 22, 2021
The longest-running Broadway show ever (since 1988!) will resume performances October 22, 2021 at the Majestic Theatre—let the chandelier falling recommence!

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Plaza Suite - begins performances February 25, 2022
This Neil Simon revival starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick is set to begin previews at the Hudson Theatre on February 25, 2022, with an official opening date of March 28, 2022. Tony-winning actor John Benjamin Hickey directs the A-list couple in this romp. We could use some laughs after everything we've been through!

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POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive -begins performances April 14
Award-winning dramatist Selina Fillinger, whose play Something Clean earned rave reviews at Roundabout Theatre Company in 2019, makes her Broadway debut with this cheekily titled comedy starring a septet of wonderful women: Tony nominees Lilli Cooper and Vanessa Williams, Lea DeLaria (Orange Is the New Black), Rachel Dratch of Saturday Night Live fame, Julianne Hough, Suzy Nakamura and Tony winner Julie White. Five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman directs this female-forward farce about seven brilliant and beleaguered women trying to save the President's reputation after he sparks a PR nightmare. Spin witty! The play begins previews at the Shubert Theatre on April 14, 2022 with an official opening on May 9. 2022.

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SIX - begins performances September 17, 2021
This international musical sensation, which was originally set to open the day Broadway shut down, has scheduled its royal return for Friday, September 17, 2021 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with an official opening night on Sunday, October 3. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived indeed!

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Skeleton Crew - begins performances December 27, 2021
Tony winner Phylicia Rashad headlines the Broadway debut of Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau's Obie-winning play about embattled workers at a Detroit factory that manufactures automobile parts. A critically acclaimed hit at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2016, this new mounting is produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who helmed the show Off Broadway. Previews begin at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on December 21, 2021, with an official opening of January 26, 2022.

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The Skin of Our Teeth - begins performances April 1, 2022
Lincoln Center Theater's resident director Lileana Blain-Cruz will helm this revival of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which follows the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey as they navigate an Ice Age, a biblical flood and war. This sprawling and fantastical comedy about human resilience was last seen on Broadway in 1975. Casting hasn't yet been announced, but the production will begin previews on April 1, 2022 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and official open April 25, 2022.

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Slave Play - CLOSED JANUARY 23, 2022
How do you follow up losing a record 12 Tony Awards (a travesty, if you ask me): by bringing your polarizing play back for an encore run! Written by provocateur, fashion rebel and Twitter star Jeremy O. Harris, Slave Play returns to Broadway for a limited engagement starring most of the cast from its original New York Theatre Workshop production. One exciting new addition: Antoinette Crowe-Legacy in the pivotal role of Kaneisha, a part Harris wrote for her when he was a student at Yale School of Drama and which she originated in Slave Play's first developmental production in 2017. Robert O'Hara once again directs this raunchy, raw and real dissection of interracial relationships.

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Springsteen on Broadway - CLOSED SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
The Boss is back! In a surprise but savvy move, the veteran rock star announced he was reviving his critically acclaimed autobiographical solo show at the St. James Theatre for a limited engagement from June 26, 2021 to September 4, 2021, making it the first show back on Broadway! Glory days indeed.

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A Strange Loop - begins performances April 14
After hit runs Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and at Washington, DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop comes to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre with previews beginning April 14, 2022 and an official opening date of April 26. Described by the creator as "self-referential," the show centers on Usher, a young, Black, queer man writing a musical about his life as his inner thoughts keep invading the stage. Stephen Brackett and Raja Feather Kelly serve as director and choreographer respectively, and the entire cast of the Off-Broadway run returns save for the lead, now played by Jaquel Spivey.

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Take Me Out - begins March 10, 2022 
Second Stage Theater announced that its revival of Richard Greenberg's Tony-winning baseball play, which was in rehearsals when the pandemic hit, will begin previews on March 10, 2022 at the Hayes Theater in spring 2022, with an official opening date of April 4, 2022. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jesse Williams and Patrick J. Adams are still set to star.

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Thoughts of a Colored Man - CLOSED DECEMBER 22, 2021
Previously a hit regionally, Keenan Scott II's play fuses spoken word, slam poetry and rhythm to explore the vibrant inner lives of seven Black men in modern-day Brooklyn. Steve H. Broadnax III directs Dyllón Burnside, Esau Pritchett, Forrest McClendon, Luke James, Bryan Terrell Clark, Da’Vinchi and Tristan "Mack" Wilds in this new production, which begins previews at the John Golden Theatre on October 1, 2021, with an official opening date of October 13, 2021.

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Tina: The Tina Turner Musical - begins performances October 8, 2021
This bio-musical about the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll will reopen on October 8, 2021 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. As the title diva, Tony nominee Adrienne Warren is simply the best, but you have to act fast: Her last performance is on October 31, 2021! 

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To Kill a Mockingbird - CLOSED JANUARY 16, 2022 
One of the most financially successful plays in Broadway's history, Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's groundbreaking novel about racial injustice will resume performances at the Shubert Theatre on October 5, 2021. Original stars Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger will return to their roles as crusading lawyer Atticus Finch and his precocious daughter Scout. Someone who won't be returning: disgraced producer Scott Rudin. Orin Wolf is slated to take over his duties. Although the production closed at the Shubert on January 16, 2022, the producers promised the show would be remounted at the Belasco Theatre starring Greg Kinnear in the summer, but a dispute with disgraced former producer Scott Rudin put an end to that idea.

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Trouble in Mind - CLOSED JANUARY 9, 2022 
Tony winner LaChanze stars in Roundabout Theatre Company's mounting of Alice Childress' 1955 play, a groundbreaking examination of racism in the theatre industry that's making its belated Broadway debut. The satire centers on a Black actress starring in an anti-lynching drama on Broadway who challenges the show's all-white creative team. Talk about timely! This limited run begins previews on October 29, 2021 at the American Airlines Theatre, with an official opening date of November 18, 2021. Charles Randolph-Wright directs.

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Waitress - CLOSED DECEMBER 20, 2021 
Yes, you read that correctly. Even though Waitress closed a few months before the pandemic began, Sara Bareilles' Tony-nominated musical is set to return to Broadway for a limited run, with previews starting on September 2, 2021 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The songwriter herself will star in the show, about an aspiring baker trapped in an abusive relationship who longs for a different kind of life, until October 17. Then pop singer Jennifer Nettles takes over through November 24. The production was slated to run until January 9, 2022 but closed on December 20, 2021 due to COVID-19.

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Wicked - begins performances September 14, 2021
This popular musical about the unlikely friendship between Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West will reopen on September 14, 2021 at the Gershwin Theatre. Thank goodness!

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Broadway Productions Presumably Set to Resume

As of this writing, the following shows haven't updated their statuses since the March 12, 2020 shutdown. We assume they plan to return, but will update this article as announcements are made.

Sing Street
Producers of this musical, which was supposed to transfer from New York Theatre Workshop, are planning an out-of-town run at Boston's Huntington theatre in summer of 2022. Perhaps that production will end up on Broadway. Stay tuned!

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Closed or Canceled Broadway Productions

Frozen
Disney announced that its stage adaptation of its smash movie would not reopen on Broadway. As one of the few family favorites on the Rialto, we're sorry to let it go.

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Mean Girls
That's so feh. Although this musicalization of Tina Fey's classic comedy was a teen favorite, the producers announced that it would not reopen on Broadway. The good news? It's being turned into a movie musical, details to be determined.

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West Side Story
On August 9, 2021, producers of Ivo van Hove's radical reinvention of West Side Story announced that the show wouldn't reopen. No specific reason was given, though the fall of abusive lead producer Scott Rudin couldn't have helped. Plus Steven Spielberg's movie remake opens in December 2021. It's nice we'll be able to see this story "Somewhere."

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The second Broadway show to close due to the COVID-19 crisis, this revival of Edward Albee's classic play starred two-time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett. It was scheduled to officially open in April 2020, but on March 21, 2020, producers said scheduling conflicts would prevent the show from resuming post-shutdown.

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