These Stars Will Headline Broadway’s Fall 2026 Season
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Billy Crystal and more are heading to Broadway.
Every season, more than a few household names make their way to the theater district to perform alongside all of our Broadway favorites! Fall 2026 is no exception, with some of the entertainment industry's brightest stars heading to Broadway, from performers making their Broadway debuts, to familiar faces returning for another turn onstage. You know them from blockbuster films, hit television shows, award-winning stage performances, social media and more. From Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Billy Crystal to Tom Hiddleston, Hayley Atwell, Rosamund Pike, and beyond, check out which stars are making their mark on midtown this fall!
Christopher Jackson
Tony Award-nominated, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning performer Christopher Jackson will make a return to Broadway this fall, reprising his Tony-nominated role as George Washington in Hamilton.
Hamilton is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, Hamilton has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre—a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education.
Jackson will begin performances on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, and will play through Sunday, January 3, 2027, at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre. MORE INFO
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Jake Shears
Singer, songwriter, actor & Grammy Award-nominee Jake Shears will join the cast of The Rocky Horror Show as "Frank-N-Furter." He joins a cast featuring Lorna Courtney as "Janet," Kevin McHale as “Brad," Rachel Dratch as “Narrator,” Amber Gray as “Riff Raff,” George Salazar as “Eddie / Dr. Scott,” Jimin Moon as “Rocky,” Sherie Rene Scott as “Magenta”, Valentina as “Columbia”.
The legendary rock-‘n’-roll musical takes on new life as a guaranteed party at the legendary Studio 54 and will feature some of the most iconic musical show stopping classics of all time, including “Dammit Janet,” “Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me,” “Hot Patootie” and of course, “Time Warp,” the party floor-filler. The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squeaky clean college kids—Brad and his fiancée, Janet—on their way to visit their former college professor when by a twist of fate, their car breaks down outside a mansion. They meet the charismatic Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Riff Raff, Columbia, Magenta, Eddie, and Rocky. It is an adventure they would remember, for a very long time.
Shears will begin performancees on Broadway on Friday, September 11, 2026. MORE INFO
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Bowen Yang
The Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live alum will make his Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola's Tony-winning comedy Oh, Mary! Oh, Mary! is written by and originally starred Cole Escola, and is directed by Sam Pinkleton. The comedy imagines the final weeks before Abraham Lincoln's assassination through the eyes of his wife - here a bitter, blackout-drunk aspiring cabaret star chafing against her marriage and her circumstances.
Yang will join continuing cast members Phillip James Brannon (‘Mary’s Husband’), Barrett Foa (‘Mary’s Teacher’), Bianca Leigh (‘Mary’s Chaperone’), and returning original cast member Tony Macht (‘Mary’s Teacher's Assistant’).
Bowen Yang will begin performances Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at the Lyceum Theatre. MORE INFO
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Ariana Madix, Whitney Leavitt
Emmy Award nominated television host Ariana Madix (“Love Island USA”) will star as Connie Francis, and breakout star from “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and “Dancing With The Stars,” Whitney Leavitt will star as Sandra Dee in Just in Time on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre.
Jeremy Jordan stars as Bobby Darin, the legendary singer whose short but remarkable life took him from teen idol to global sensation, inspiring generations of performers who followed. Just in Time is an exhilarating new musical that will transport audiences into an intimate, swinging nightclub complete with a live band, a stellar ensemble cast, and iconic Bobby Darin hits including “Beyond the Sea,” “Mack the Knife,” “Splish Splash," and “Dream Lover.” Discover the man behind the music who pushed back against the record labels to chart a new course for himself on the charts – a once-in-a-lifetime talent who knew his time was limited and was determined to make a splash before it was too late.
Madix will begin a limited engagement on Saturday, September 12, 2026, and will play her final performance on Sunday, November 22, 2026. Leavitt returns to Broadway for a limited six-week engagement beginning Tuesday, December 1, 2026 through Sunday, January 10, 2027. MORE INFO
Denée Benton
Tony Award nominee Denée Benton, best known for starring in HBO's The Gilded Age, will return to Broadway in School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play as Paulina. The play makes its Broadway premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club, and is written by Tony Award nominee Jocelyn Bioh, and directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Whitney White.
Becoming Miss Ghana 1986 would mean fame, fortune, and prosperity. At least, that's what Paulina—the queen bee of Aburi Girls Boarding School—believes. When the pageant recruiter comes to school, Paulina and her crew pull out all the stops. But to their surprise, a new transfer student from America kicks the competition into a higher, far more personal gear.
The cast will also feature Lucia Aremu as Ama, Patina Miller as Eloise Amponsah, Erin Morton as Nana, Nia Otchere-Sarfo as Gifty, Jordan Rice as Mercy, Jasmine Amy Rogers as Ericka, and Heather Alicia Simms as Headmistress Francis.
School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play will begin previews on Tuesday, September 8 and open Monday, September 28, 2026 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. MORE INFO
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Kenzie Ziegler, Anthony Gargiula, Aly Michalka, Spencer Sutherland
Dancer and social media star Kenzie Ziegler; recording artist and social media star Anthony Gargiula; music, film, and television star Aly Michalka; and singer/songwriter Spencer Sutherland will all be making their Broadway debuts in & Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre this Fall.
& Juliet flips the script on the greatest love story ever told, imagining what would happen next if Juliet hadn’t ended it all over Romeo, and got a second chance at life and love – on her terms. Juliet’s new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name. Nominated for 9 Tony Awards including Best Musical, & Juliet is created by David West Read, the Emmy-winning writer from “Schitt’s Creek,” and features an iconic playlist of pop music’s #1 hitmaker, Max Martin including “Since U Been Gone,” “Roar,” “I Want It That Way,” “Confident,” and more. The production is directed by Luke Sheppard with choreography by Jennifer Weber.
Gargiula will begin performances in the role of ‘François’ on Tuesday, September 15 for a limited three-month engagement through December 6, 2026. Ziegler will begin performances in the role of ‘Charmion’ on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 for a limited engagement through November 1, 2026. Sutherland will begin performances in the role of ‘Romeo’ on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, while Michalka will begin performances in the role of ‘Anne’ on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, both for limited engagements. MORE INFO
Reece Weaver
Reece Weaver, direct from the hit Netflix series “America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders,” will be making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart on Chicago.
A former member of the University of Alabama Dance Team, Reece earned her degree in dance before joining the iconic DCC squad as part of the 2023 rookie class, where she stayed for three seasons before starting her next chapter. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, she brings a strong background in technical dance, performance, and athletic precision to her performances.
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, Chicago is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her. Desperate to avoid conviction, she dupes the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago's slickest criminal lawyer to transform her malicious crime into a barrage of sensational headlines, the likes of which might just as easily be ripped from today's tabloids.
Reece Weaver will begin performances on Monday, September 7, 2026 at the Ambassador Theatre. She will play a 6-week limited engagement through Sunday, October 18, 2026. MORE INFO
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe
Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut alongside Tony Award nominee and four-time Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, and two-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award winner, and seven-time Emmy Award winner Allison Janney, Actor Award winner Joe Keery, and Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe in the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony Award-winning play Other Desert Cities, directed by Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey.
Former actor-turned-ambassador, Republican Party bigwig Lyman Wyeth and his wife, Polly, live a picturesque life in their very own affluent exile - the Palm Springs Desert. When their daughter, left-winged Brooke, returns home during Christmas of 2004 for the first time in six years, she reveals that she has written a tell-all memoir that discloses the family's controversial past, including one very painful incident. This shocking announcement sends the Wyeth family down an emotional spiral where they are forced to revisit and ultimately heal their wounds from the past. Polly's recovering alcoholic sister, Silda, and Brooke's TV producer brother, Trip, complete this holiday family reunion.
Other Desert Cities will play a 16-week limited engagement at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre with previews starting Tuesday, September 29 ahead of a Sunday, October 18 opening night. The limited engagement will end Sunday, January 17, 2027. MORE INFO
Billy Crystal
Tony and Emmy Award-winner Billy Crystal will return to Broadway this fall in a new one-man show, 860, written and performed by Mr. Crystal and directed by Olivier Award-winner Scott Ellis.
In the aftermath of the Palisades fires which took his home, Billy relives his memories and moments that mattered the most, and how the power of laughter can overcome the most difficult of times. 860 is a hilarious and intimate story about family, friendship, love, luck, and loss.
Tony and Emmy Award®-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer, and director Billy Crystal is known to audiences around the world as the star of such feature films as When Harry Met Sally…, City Slickers and Analyze This; as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live; and as the acclaimed nine-time host of the Academy Awards®. He received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2007, and in 2023, he was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, the highest honor The United States gives for the arts. 860 will mark his first Broadway show since 2022's Mr. Saturday Night.
Billy Crystal will return to Broadway October 1, 2026 for 14 weeks only at the Imperial Theatre. MORE INFO
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Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth
Emmy Award winner Bradley Whitford and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Tom Blyth will be starring in Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men, directed by six time Tony Award winner Michael Arden.
A Few Good Men shows the cost of following your conscience in a system built on secrecy and obedience—and asks us to choose the truth anyway. Gripping, high-stakes, and ultimately hopeful, it reminds us that a country’s ideals are only as strong as our willingness to stand behind them.
Military lawyer Daniel Kaffee is known for his wit, charm, and uncanny talent for closing cases before they ever get to trial. When assigned to defend two young Marines accused of murder, his typical strategy is upended by Lt. Commander JoAnne Galloway, a sharp attorney determined to prove the men’s innocence. But the evidence soon leads them to a cover-up, putting them on a collision course with the entire chain of command.
Performances begin at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 8, 2026, and it will officially open on October 29, 2026. MORE INFO
Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell
Tony Award nominee, Olivier Award nominee, and Golden Globe Award winner Tom Hiddleston, and three-time Olivier Award nominee, Standard Theatre Award winner, and Golden Globe Award nominee Hayley Atwell will come to Broadway as ‘Benedick’ as ‘Beatrice' in Much Ado About Nothing. Jamie Lloyd’s staging previously ran at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London’s West End in 2025. The entire cast and creative team of the London production will reunite on Broadway for a strictly limited 10-week engagement at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedic play by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623. Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare's best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics.
Preview performances will begin on Saturday, October 31, 2026 ahead of a Thursday, November 19 official opening night. Much Ado About Nothing will play at the Winter Garden Theatre through Sunday, January 10, 2027 only. MORE INFO
Raul Esparza
Four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza, also known for starring as Rafael Barba in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, will star in the title role in Galileo, marking his first Broadway appearance in more than 13 years, alongside Jeremy Kushnier and Tony Award nominee Joy Woods.
Galileo is a new musical about maverick scientist Galileo Galilei. When he makes astronomical discoveries that revolutionize humanity’s understanding of the universe, he must defend his findings before the most powerful religious institution in the world. Galileo had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where it was developed prior to Broadway.
Performances begin on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at the Shubert Theatre, with an opening night set for Sunday evening, December 6, 2026. MORE INFO
Rosamund Pike
Golden Globe, Emmy Award-Winning, and BAFTA, Academy Award-nominee Rosamund Pike, will reprise her critically acclaimed West End performance as Jessica Parks, as she makes her Broadway debut in Suzie Miller's Inter Alia. The production, which had a sold-out run at The National Theatre in 2025, and sold-out run in the West End in 2026, will be directed by Justin Martin.
Jessica Parks is a maverick London Crown Court Judge; sharp, compassionate, and determined to change a system she knows isn’t always just. But her career exists inter alia (‘among other things’) as she balances motherhood, friendship and the elusive notion of ‘having it all’. So, when an unthinkable event rocks her finely tuned life, can she hold her family together – or will everything fall apart?
Inter Alia will begin preview performances on November 10, 2026 before an opening on December 1 at The Music Box Theatre. MORE INFO
Rupert Grint, Tom Felton
It's your last chance to catch Tom Felton in the role of “Draco Malfoy” in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Following his exit from the Broadway production, Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films, will step into the role again - this time onstage and as a grown man.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the first Harry Potter story to be presented on stage and the eighth story in the Harry Potter series, has sold over 11 million tickets worldwide since its world premiere in London in July 2016 and holds a record 60 major honors, with nine Laurence Olivier Awards including Best New Play and six Tony Awards including Best Play. The international phenomenon has cast its spell worldwide with productions currently running in London, New York, Hamburg, Tokyo, The Netherlands and across North America on tour.
Tom Felton will continue his run through Sunday, November 1, 2026. Grint will begin performances at the Lyric Theatre on February 2, 2027 for a 17-week run through May 30. MORE INFO
