EVITA Starring Rachel Zegler to Open on Broadway in 2027

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Jamie Lloyd's revival of Evita, starring Rachel Zegler, will open on Broadway in spring 2027. The reimagined production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical, which premiered in the West End last summer, will make its Broadway debut next spring at a Shubert Theatre to be announced.

Rachel Zegler, who recently won an Olivier Award for her performance, will lead the production as Eva Perón. The production marks her Broadway musical debut, after she starred in a revival of Romeo + Juliet in 2024.

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“Performing Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s brilliant show in London was a dream come true," Zegler states. "But being able to partner once again with Jamie to bring Evita to Broadway is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I can’t wait to perform for my home, New York City.”

Tim Rice said, “I am thrilled that Broadway audiences will be able to see Jamie Lloyd’s bold and inventive version of Evita. Rachel Zegler is a magnetic ‘Eva’, delivering an electric, charismatic performance.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber said, “I am delighted to see Jamie Lloyd’s extraordinary production of Evita head to Broadway. It is so exciting to see Tim and my work reimagined in new ways, and the show has a generational talent in Rachel Zegler. I can’t wait for American audiences to experience a production which took the West End by storm.”

Jamie Lloyd said, “I was completely overwhelmed by the incredible response to Evita in London. It is an honor to work with Tim and Andrew, and I’m looking forward to revisiting the production with Rachel, whose stellar performance continues to inspire me. When we started discussing a New York production, it became apparent that our Palladium staging of ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’ would not be possible. I am really excited to explore a new idea, made especially for Broadway.”

Evita will be Jamie Lloyd's second Broadway production of next season. His revival of Much Ado About Nothing will open on Broadway this fall for 10 weeks only, starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell.

Find out what critics thought of the London production here.

EVITA features an iconic score including Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Oh What A Circus, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, and the Oscar-winning You Must Love Me. Fuelled by ambition and passion, Eva Perón rose from poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America. A symbol of hope to many Argentines, her star shone brightly as she captured the nation's heart and divided its soul. 

The creative team are Fabian Aloise (Choreographer); Soutra Gilmour (Set and Costume  Designer); Alan Williams (Music Supervisor and Musical Director); Jon Clark (Lighting Designer);  Adam Fisher (Sound Designer); Will Burton CDG (Casting Director); Jim Carnahan (US Casting  Director); Carole Hancock (Wigs, Hair and Make up Designer); Harry Blumenau (Children’s Casting/  Children's Administration); Kate Waters (Fight Director); Lily Mollgaard (Props Supervisor); Ingrid  Mackinnon (Intimacy Coordinator); Rupert Hands (Associate Director); Amy Thornton (Associate  Choreographer); Cory Hippolyte (Resident Director); Paris Green (Resident Choreographer); Rachel  Wingate (Associate Set Designer); Kelsh B-D (Associate Sound Designer); Lucía Sánchez Roldán (Associate Lighting Designer); RACHEL WOODHOUSE (Costume Supervisor); Harry Barker (Assistant  Sound Designer); Andy Barnwell and Rich Weedon for BW Musicians (Orchestral Management) 

The West End revival began previews at the London Palladium on June 14, 2025 with its opening on July 1. The limited run closed on September, 6 2025. The production also featured Diego Andres Rodriguez as Che, James Olivas as Juan Perón, Aaron Lee Lambert as Agustín Magaldi, and Bella Brown as The Mistress/Alternate Eva.

About Rachel Zegler

Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón) is a dynamic actress and singer who has already established herself as a trailblazer of her generation. At only 17 years old, Rachel earned the role of ‘María Vasquez’ for Steven Spielberg's new adaptation of West Side Story out of 30,000 auditions. The film captured Rachel's motion picture debut and earned her an NBR Award for Best Actress along with a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. 

Most recently, Rachel starred opposite Ben Platt in a limited London engagement of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, directed and conducted by Brown in celebration of the musical’s 25th anniversary. The show sold out at The London Palladium and Radio City Music Hall. Rachel recently received rave reviews for her performance in Evita at The London Palladium, starring as ‘Eva Perón’ in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, earning her the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Before that, Rachel made her Broadway debut in Sam Gold's Romeo & Juliet, starring opposite Kit Connor with music by Jack Antonoff.

On the big screen, she was most recently seen as ‘Snow White’ in Disney's live-action remake of the classic story, making her one of the first Latina actresses to star in a live-action Disney film. She also recently starred in the A24 disaster comedy Y2K, directed by SNL alum, Kyle Mooney, which premiered at SXSW. Before that, she led the highly anticipated prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as ‘Lucy Gray Baird’ alongside Peter Dinklage, Tom Blythe, and Viola Davis. Rachel has also starred alongside Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu in D.C. Comics’ Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to the successful predecessor, Shazam! 

About Tim Rice

Tim Rice (Lyrics) has worked in music, theater, and films since 1965. With Andrew Lloyd Webber he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita and has since collaborated with other distinguished composers such as Elton John (The Lion King; Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin; King David; Beauty and the Beast), Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess), and Stuart Brayson (From Here To Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach, Gary Barlow, Marvin Hamlisch, and Rick Wakeman among others.

In 2024-5, Tim toured over 30 towns and cities in the UK and Ireland with My Life in Musicals, an evening of his songs from his 60-year career in show business. In 2025, he was reunited with Andrew Lloyd Webber to write original songs for the comedy play Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas, while Chess returned to Broadway for its first new production there in nearly 40 years.

He was knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and like Elton, Andrew, and Alan, has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony – achieving ‘EGOT’ status.

Tim’s interests beyond the entertainment business include boxer dogs, astronomy, and cricket and to indulge the latter he founded his own team in 1973. He is a patron of the Bob Willis Fund (along with Bob Dylan), an enterprise inspired by the late great English cricketer, which is dedicated to raising awareness of prostate cancer. Though he has given up spin-bowling he has no immediate plans to retire from show business.

About Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber (Composer) has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS, and The Phantom of the Opera he equaled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

In New York, hard on the heels of the Tony Award-winning revival of Sunset Boulevard, Lloyd Webber recently opened Masquerade which brings audiences closer than ever before to his global phenomenon, The Phantom of the Opera, and CATS: The Jellicle Ball the Harlem Ballroom reimagining of his iconic musical which recently opened to rave reviews on Broadway.

Lloyd Webber owns six London theaters including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Reopened in July 2021, the latter was completely restored and renovated at a cost of over $80 million. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theaters is put back into the buildings.

Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. In Britain, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music in Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theater. In the United States, the American Theatre Wing’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative provides grant funding directly to under-resourced public schools for their theater programs and provides scholarships to grade school and university students pursuing studies in theater.

In 2023 Andrew Lloyd Webber partnered with Michael Harrison to produce new productions of existing work and his future musicals. His latest, The Illusionist, will be produced in London in 2027.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992, created an honorary life peer in 1997, and made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by King Charles III in 2024.

About Jamie Lloyd