Broadway Spring Preview 2026: Shows to See in NYC
A guide to the 16 musicals and plays opening on Broadway
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The play’s the thing this spring on Broadway! Of the 16 productions opening between now and the end of April, 10 are plays, many featuring big-name stars including Daniel Radcliffe, John Lithgow, Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, Taraji P. Henson, Rose Byrne, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Lane and Adrien Brody. For musical lovers, there are some buzzy transfers such as the Harlem Ballroom revamp of Cats and the long-running downtown hit Titanique, plus everyone’s favorite sweet transvestite struts back to Broadway in a revival of The Rocky Horror Show. Our guide helps you navigate everything that’s coming.
Remember, some of the shows that bowed on Broadway in the fall are still running, including Bug and Marjorie Prime. To help you keep track of all the openings and closings, our Show Finder filters allow you to sort Broadway shows by currently running, coming soon and closing soon.
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NOTE: Shows are listed in first preview date order within each category.
MUSICALS
CATS: The Jellicle Ball – begins performances March 18
Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Previews start March 18. Opens April 7. Open run.
The CAT-egory is reinvention! Beloved by critics and audiences alike during its sold-out run at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in summer 2024, this inspired revival resets the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on the Harlem Ballroom scene as fierce dancers compete to be top dog. Staged on a runway by co-directors Zhailon Levingston (Chicken & Biscuits) and Bill Rauch, it’s an ingenious reimagining of a classic headlined by Tony winner André De Shields as Old Deuteronomy and Hamilton‘s Sydney James Harcourt as Rum Tum Tugger alongside Broadway vets and Ballroom royalty.
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The Rocky Horror Show – begins performances March 26
Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue
Previews start March 26. Opens April 23. Closes June 21.
Tony winner Sam Pinkleton (Oh, Mary!) directs this revival of Richard O’Brien’s sexy sci-fi musical about a sweet transvestite from outer space who upends the lives of everyone around him, including his queer coterie and a square pair that knocks at his castle door. Movie and West End star Luke Evans makes his Broadway debut as the sexually fluid Frank-N-Furter; the rest of the cast has yet to be announced. I see you shiver with anticipation to do the “Time Warp” again! Presented by Roundabout Theatre Company.
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Titanique – begins performances March 26
St. James Theatre, 246 West 44th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Previews start March 26. Opens April 12. Closes July 12.
What would a send-up of James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning epic Titanic look like as a stage musical as seen through the eyes, songs and vibrato of Celine Dion? That’s the delightfully loony premise of Titanique, co-created by longtime pals Tye Blue, Constantine Rousouli and Marla Mindelle. This buoyant musical comedy set sail during the pandemic as a virtual concert and later became a long-running Off-Broadway hit. Now it’s docking on Broadway for a limited run. Mindelle reprises her hilarious turn as Dion, who hijacks a Titanic Museum tour, recharting the course of the movie’s iconic moments and characters through her catalog. Blue directs a comedic cast that also includes Rousouli, Jim Parsons, Deborah Cox and Frankie Grande.
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Beaches – begins performances March 27
Majestic Theatre, 247 West 44th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Previews start March 27. Opens April 22. Closes September 6.
Just like the lifelong friendship at the heart of this musical, Beaches has undergone some upheaval over the years. Based on Iris Rainer Dart’s novel, which inspired the cherished 1988 movie of the same name, the show had its world premiere in 2014 with a different cast, composer and creative team. After much retooling and a national tour, this tale of two very different but devoted gal pals arrives on Broadway starring brassy belter Jessica Vosk as irrepressible diva Cee Cee Bloom and Kelli Barrett as the intelligent and introverted Bertie White. Dart and Thom Thomas penned the book, and the songs are by Grammy Award winner Mike Stoller (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) with lyrics by Dart. Lonny Price directs. Bring tissues!
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The Lost Boys – begins performances March 27
Palace Theatre, 160 West 47th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues
Previews start March 27. Opens April 26. Open run.
Vampire musicals on Broadway have a history of sucking (Lestat, Dracula, Dance of the Vampires). But we have reasons to believe The Lost Boys may break the curse. Based on the campy 1987 movie of the same name, it’s a musical horror comedy, more funny than fearsome, centering on a divorced mom (Shoshana Bean) and her adolescent sons who move to a seaside California town and get mixed up with a gang of fangers led by Ali Louis Bourzgui (Tommy). It’s Always Funny in Philadelphia‘s David Hornsby and Broadway vet Chris Hoch penned the book, and the rock and roll songs are by the indie pop band The Rescues. Tony winner Michael Arden (Parade, Maybe Happy Ending) directs this world premiere.
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Schmigadoon! – begins performances April 4
Nederlander Theatre, 208 West 41st Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Previews start April 4. Opens April 20. Closes September 6.
The TV series that lovingly lampooned classic musicals is heading to Broadway! Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, School of Rock) and Sara Chase (The Great Gatsby) star as unhappy modern-day marrieds magically transported to a town where the people and plots seem lifted from Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Sound of Music, Kiss Me, Kate and, of course, Brigadoon. Can they make it back to their song-less lives… and do they even want to? The brainchild of brilliant parodist Cinco Paul, the show had a successful out-of-town tryout last year. Tony winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, Death Becomes Her) directs and choreographs.
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PLAYS
Every Brilliant Thing – begins performances February 21
Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue
Previews start February 21. Opens March 12. Closes May 24.
Tony winner Daniel Radcliffe returns to Broadway in Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s solo show about a young man who makes lists of life’s wonders to uplift his chronically depressed mother—and all of us. Previously seen Off Broadway and on HBO starring Donahoe, this intimate and interactive play is an unusual choice for a Broadway house. But Radcliffe has the emotional range and empathy to pull it off.
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Death of a Salesman – begins performances March 6
Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway between 50th and 51st Streets
Previews start March 6. Opens April 9. Closes June 14.
Arthur Miller’s classic about the false promise of the American dream is back on Broadway just three years after its last revival, but the cast is intriguing. Tony-winning funnyman Nathan Lane shows off his considerable dramatic chops as struggling salesman Willy Loman. Tony winner Laurie Metcalf is his faithful wife Linda, who demands that attention must be paid. Metcalf’s frequent collaborator Joe Mantello directs a cast that also includes Christopher Abbott and Ben Ahlers as the couple’s disillusioned sons.
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Dog Day Afternoon – begins performances March 10
August Wilson Theatre, 245 West 52nd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue
Previews start March 10. Opens March 30. Closes June 28.
A stage adaptation of Sidney Lumet’s gritty crime flick Dog Day Afternoon? If any playwright can make this work, it’s Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy), a native New Yorker who’s skilled at capturing the poetry of the Big Apple’s everyday people. Based on a true story, the show stars Emmy winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) as a pair of bank robbers whose heist goes sideways. Rupert Goold directs this tale of a desperate man who becomes an unlikely hero in 1970s NYC.
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Giant – begins performances March 11
Music Box Theatre, 239 West 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Previews start March 11. Opens March 23. Closes June 28.
Roald Dahl wrote many beloved kids’ books. Two, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, were even turned into splashy Broadway musicals. But Mark Rosenblatt’s drama about an infamous episode in the cantankerous author’s life isn’t child’s play. Critically acclaimed in London, Giant transfers stateside with John Lithgow reprising his Olivier Award-winning performance as an egotistical artist who pens an antisemitic book in 1983. When he’s asked to apologize, he doubles down. Uncomfortable and depressingly relevant conversations ensue. Two-time Tony winner Nicholas Hytner directs.
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Becky Shaw – begins performances March 18
Hayes Theatre, 240 West 44th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Previews start March 18. Opens April 8. Closes June 14.
Lauded dramatist Gina Gionfriddo (After Ashley; Rapture, Blister, Burn; House of Cards) makes her overdue Broadway debut with a revival of her Pulitzer finalist dark comedy Becky Shaw at Second Stage—the same company that produced the play Off Broadway in 2008. A newlywed (The Pitt‘s Patrick Ball) thinks he’s being a good guy by setting up two romantically challenged acquaintances. But their blind date is a disaster that spills over into everyone’s lives. Trip Cullman directs this amusing examination of bad behavior and blame.
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The Fear of 13 – begins performances March 19
James Earl Jones Theatre, 138 West 48th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues
Previews start March 19. Opens April 15. Closes July 5.
Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody makes his Broadway debut in The Fear of 13, a London transfer about a Pennsylvania man named Nick Yarris who spent more than two decades on death row for a 1981 kidnapping, rape and murder he did not commit. Based on the documentary of the same name, Lindsey Ferrentino’s well-received drama costars Tessa Thompson and is directed by David Cromer, an expert at eliciting harrowing performances.
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Fallen Angels – begins performances March 27
Todd Haimes Theatre, 227 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Previews start March 27. Opens April 19. Closes June 7.
While Present Laughter and Private Lives are revived ad nauseam, another effervescent comedy by Noël Coward, Fallen Angels, hasn’t been seen on Broadway since 1956! Director Scott Ellis and the Roundabout Theatre Company are fixing that with this limited run starring Rose Byrne and Tony winner Kelli O’Hara as two upper-crust wives bonding and bickering over their premarital affairs with the same fellow (soap opera stud Mark Consuelos), who just happens to be coming to town. This depiction of women’s sexual desires scandalized audiences a century ago. Today it’s primed to give pleasure.
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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone – begins performances March 30
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue
Previews start March 30. Opens April 25. Closes July 12.
Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer headline this revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, one of his American Century Cycle plays. Set in Pittsburgh in 1911, the drama focuses on a couple running a boardinghouse during the start of the Great Migration. The arrival of an enigmatic man (Joshua Boone) and his young daughter transforms the dynamics of their community. Debbie Allen directs this powerful and poetic play about ghosts and reconnection.
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The Balusters – begins performances March 31
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue
Previews start March 31. Opens April 21. Closes May 24.
Manhattan Theatre Club presents this world premiere from Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Good People, Kimberly Akimbo) about a neighborhood association meeting that goes completely off the rails. Kenny Leon directs this wickedly funny comedy of bad manners starring an ensemble cast that includes Marylouise Burke, Margaret Colin, Richard Thomas and Hamilton Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry.
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Proof – begins performances March 31
Booth Theatre, 222 West 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Previews start March 31. Opens April 16. Closes July 19.
The Bear Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri plays Catherine, a young woman grappling with grief, mental illness and her own brilliance in this revival of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama. Don Cheadle is her late mathematician father, who’s still very much present in her life. Samira Wiley plays her exasperated sister and Jin Ha is a student who questions the authorship of a game-changing proof, which sends Catherine spinning. Tony winner Thomas Kail (Hamilton) directs.
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