Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries will return to the New York stage in a new production starring Succession’s Nicholas Braun and two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young. The production will be directed by Neil Pepe. 

Director Miles Sternfeld, as part of his newly-founded Sternfeld Studio, will invite audiences to an immersive site-specific Into the Woods staged under the stars. 

Jesse Eisenberg’s The Ziegeld Files, directed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Shayok Misha Chowdhury, is coming to Studio Seaview with seven on-book performances October through December. Eisenberg’s new solo play, read by the actor, is presented between performances of Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot.

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The Olivier Award-winning play Giant will transfer to Broadway after sold-out runs on the West End and at the Royal Court Theatre. Performances begin March 11, and the production will run for a strictly limited 16-week engagement. 

Dreamgirls is coming back to Broadway in Fall 2026 in the first-ever newly directed and choreographed Broadway revival. Camille A. Brown will direct and choreograph the new production, featuring book and lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger.

Theatrely has an exclusive first listen to the show’s finale performed by Sheridan Smith and company. 

Theatrely has an exclusive first listen to “The Fabulous Miss Lila Morae” performed by Donna Lynne Champlin. 

Broadway veterans Laura Bell Bundy and Kara Lindsay will star as the titular Romy White and Michele Weinberg in Romy & Michele: The Musical.

Lively McCabe Entertainment, the global theatrical production and management company, are excited to announce the concept recording of the new musical Mystic Pizza will be released in digital and streaming formats on Friday, Aug. 29.

Thomas Doherty will make his New York stage debut in the current Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors as Seymour beginning Sept. 5. He will star opposite Madeline Brewer as Audrey. 

The company will include Tony Award winner Danny Burstein, Christopher Lowell, Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon, and June Squibb. Squibb will play the title role. 

Sherie Rene Scott will join the Broadway company at the Standby for Jackie Siegel in The Queen of Versailles.

Yellow Sound Label and Audible, Inc. have announced the full Dead Outlaw: Original Broadway Cast Recording will be available in streaming and digital formats on Aug. 22. 

Magician Rob Lake is making his way to Broadway for the 2025 holiday season with Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests The Muppets. Performances will begin at the Broadhurst Theatre on West 44th Street on Oct. 28, with opening on Nov. 6, and play through Jan. 18.On

The official trailer for the film adaptation of The Kiss of the Spider Woman has been released. 

Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts’ play Bug will premier on Broadway this December. The production, directed by David Cromer begins performances on Dec. 17, with opening night set for Jan. 8, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

The Broadway production of The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth has found its company. She will be joined by Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, Melody Butiu, Stephen DeRose, Greg Hildreth, Tatum Grace Hopkins, Isabel Keating, and Theatrely31 alum Nina White.

Kate Rockwell will step into the role of Ms. Fleming/Veronica’s Mom from Oct. 10 to Nov. 10. Kerry Butler, who currently plays the role, will be absent from Westerburg while she stars in Bat Boy at New York City Center. Butler will return to the production on Nov. 12.

Abby Wambaugh will perform her debut solo comedy The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows for a limited four-week run at Dixon Place this fall. Wambaugh will perform beginning Oct. 1, following an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024 and 2025. 

Drew Droege’s satirical play Messy White Gays is making its way Off-Broadway this fall. Droege himself will star alongside Tony Award nominee James Cusati-Moyer, Aaron Jackson, Zane Phillips, and Pete Zias. It will debut on Oct. 6, with opening night set for Nov. 2, at The Duke on 42nd Street. 

Tony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers will star as Olive Ostrovsky in the first New York revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, alongside Autumn Best as Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre and Matt Manuel as Mitch Mahoney. 

Westway Music and Center Stage Records have announced the release of Marisha Wallace's solo album Live in London. The full album releases tomorrow Aug. 15 on streaming services and CD.

Office politics, right? Mike Bartlett’s Bull is coming to the storefront theatre JACK in Brooklyn this fall. Directed by Max Hunter, the play runs from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4, with an official opening set for Sept. 22. 

Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical on Apple TV+ premiers Aug. 15. Theatrely spoke with co-writer and executive producer Craig Schulz, the son of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, and director Erik Wiese to talk about the special.

Initial casting for the pre-Broadway premier of Purple Rain has been announced. Musician/songwriter Kris Kollins will make his stage debut by starring as The Kid, and Rachel Webb will star opposite him as Apollonia. The production will run from Oct. 16 to Nov. 16 in Hennepin Arts’ State Theatre in Minneapolis.

Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale will lead New York City Center’s Encores! production of High Spirits running Feb. 4 to 15, 2026.

Ainsley Melham will return to Broadway’s Aladdin in the title role from Aug. 26 to Nov. 30. Melham originated the role in the Australian production in 2016 and joined the Broadway company for several months in 2019, marking his Broadway debut. He will take over from Adi Roy, who will play his final performance on Aug. 24. 

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) will open on Broadway this fall at the Longacre Theatre. Previews begin Nov. 1 with official opening set for Nov. 20. 

Reeve Carney will play the Emcee opposite Eva Noblezada’s Sally Bowles in the West End production of Cabaret from Sept. 22 to Jan. 24, 2026.

The award-winning Off-Broadway cast of Liberation will reprise their performances when the production transfers to Broadway this fall. The company won the Drama Desk Award in 2025 for Best Ensemble Performance. 

The New York Botanical Garden is reviving its Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Train from Sept. 25 to Nov. 30 this year. The immersive nighttime experience — created by Adventurelive — transports visitors to Halloween Town and Christmas Town with brand new scenes, music, and video projections. 

The First North American Tour of Hell’s Kitchen has announced its first three principals. Maya Drake will play Ali, Kennedy Caughell will play Jersey, and Roz White will play Miss Liza Jane. 

Ariana DeBose will star in The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater this Fall. It will run from Oct. 23 to Dec. 14, with official opening set for Nov. 11. 

Emily Breeze’s Are the Bennet Girls Ok? adapted from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is coming to New York’s West End Theatre this fall.

Let’s Love! by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen and starring Aubrey Plaza has announced its full casting. Alongside Plaza will be Chris Bauer, Dylan Gelula, Dion Graham, Mary McCann, Nellie McKay, Noah Robbins, CJ Wilson, and Mary Wiseman.

Center Stage Records has announced the release of Floyd Collins – Original Broadway Cast Recording on streaming and digital platforms on Aug. 8. The CD edition will be available on Sept. 5. 

For the first time, the filmed versionof Hamilton will open in movie theatres across the nation. The theatrical release will take place on Sept. 5, 2025. Tickets are available for purchase at Fandango and anywhere tickets are sold.

Two-time Tony Award-winner Martin will lead the company of Meet the Cartozians alongside Tony Award-winner Will Brill, Raffi Barsoumian, Nael Nacer, Susan Pourfar, and Tamara Sevunts. The play, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer, will kick off Second Stage Theater’s 47th Season. 

Victoria Clark is making her way back to the Broadway stage in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Punch this fall. 

Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot is transferring to Studio Seaview on West 43rd Street this fall after an acclaimed run at Playwrights Horizons. The show, directed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Shayok Misha Chowdhury, will play a limited engagement from Sept. 11 to Oct. 25. 

Hamilton is turning New York into a city-wide scavenger hunt in celebration of its 10th anniversary in partnership with New York City Tourism + Conventions as part of Founded by NYC. From Aug. 4 to 24, participants can explore New York landmarks, solve clues, and capture it all for a chance to win tickets to Hamilton on Broadway. 

44 — The Musical will come to the Daryl Roth Theatre Off-Broadway after sold-out runs in Los Angeles and Chicago. It will run for a limited eight-week engagement beginning on Oct. 14, with official opening set for Nov. 6. 

Dear Everything will tour three U.S. cities this year — Miami, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City. 

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical is returning Off Broadway starring Emma Hunton — of Freeform's Good Trouble — at The Asylum NYC for a limited engagement from Aug. 25 to Nov. 22. 

Yellow Sound Label has announced the release of The Billy Joel Project, the debut album from The Broadway Ensemble. The full album will be released on Aug. 1, with physical CDs available on Sept. 26.

Liberation is coming to Broadway this fall. The original play, which won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble during its premier at Roundabout Theatre Company earlier this year, will begin performances at the James Earl Jones Theatre on Oct. 8. It will play a strictly limited 14-week engagement. 

Julio Torres’ Color Theories has announced its creative team. Torres makes his Off-Broadway debut at Performance Space New York from Sept. 3 to 21, 2025, with official opening on Sept. 10.

Kelli O'Hara will join Tom Hanks’ This World of Tomorrow at the Shed this fall. Previews begin Oct. 30 with an official opening on Nov. 18. The show will play a strictly limited engagement through Dec. 21 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater.

Classic Stage Company will mount a one-night-only benefit concert of The Rink, featuring a book by Terrence McNally, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The concert will star Beth Leavel as Anna and Jessie Mueller as Angel, and take place on Sept. 15 ay 7 p.m. at CSC’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater. 

Mia Carragher will play the iconic role of Katniss Everdeen in the stage adaptation of The Hunger Games, directed by Matthew Dunster. The production will open on Oct. 20 at the Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre in London.

The cast for the first North American tour of the Tony Award-winning musical has been announced. 

Dylan Mulvaney is making her way Off-Broadway this fall in The Least Problematic Woman in the World directed by Tim Jackson. The show, which is written by and stars Mulvaney, will run from Sept. 20 to Nov. 30 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Official opening is set for Oct. 7.

Nolan White will lead the first North American tour of The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis. The rest of the company includes Bonale Fambrini as Johnny Cade, Tyler Jordan Wesley as Dallas Winston, Travis Roy Rogers as Darrel Curtis, Corbin Drew Ross as Sodapop Curtis, Emma Hearn as Cherry Valance, Jaydon Nget as Two-Bit, Mark Doyle as Bob, and Jackson Reagin as Paul. At certain performances, Jordan DeAndre Williams will play the role of Ponyboy Curtis.

Atlantic Theater Company’s new season will include new plays from Academy Award-winner Ethan Coen, Jake Brasch, and Eliana Theologides Rodriguez, a kids musical from Mo Willems, and a fourth play to be announced.

Award-winning comedian and viral sensation Lou Wall is bringing their show Breaking the Fifth Wall to SoHo playhouse this fall. It will play a limited three-week engagement from Sept. 17 to Oct. 5. 

Center Stage Records has announced the release of Out of Myself – Songs of Peter Foley in streaming and digital formats tomorrow, Friday, July 25. The album was recorded live at a tribute concert Peter Norton Symphony Space in 2023 by many Broadway stars, luminaries of the opera world, a nine-member musical ensemble and a 19-member chorus.

Andrew Barth Feldman star will take over the role of Oliver in the six-time Tony Award-winning musical Maybe Happy Ending for a limited nine-week engagement beginning Sept. 2. Feldman takes over the role from Darren Criss, who won a Tony Award for his performance as Oliver and plays his final performance on Aug. 31. 

Under the Radar has announced its 2026 festival, which will take place from Jan. 7 to 25, 2026 in New York City. 

The former Blues Clues star is set to mount his solo show Steve Burns Alive at The Club at La MaMa this week.

Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe — composers of Legally Blonde — are premiering a new musical Huzzah! at The Old Globe in San Diego. The musical is produced by special arrangement with No Guarantees Productions, and will have a limited six-week engagement from Sept. 13 to Oct. 19. The cast will include Legally Blonde legend Kate Shindle. 

Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre is mounting its next musical, Mexodus. Previews begin Sept. 9. and opening night is set for Sept. 18. The show will be recorded and released as an Audible Original at a later date.

BD Wong Wayne Barker’s musical adaptation of the 1995 film Mr. Holland’s Opus is now being developed with Drew & Dane Productions.

The Off-Broadway revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has found its spellers. Philippe Arroyo will play Chip Tolentino, Leana Rae Concepcion will play Marcy Park, Tony Nominee Justin Cooley will play Leaf Coneybear, and Kevin McHale will make his New York stage debut as William Barfée. 

As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, Hamilton will host a special fan-filled performance. On its official 10th anniversary, Aug. 6, the matinee will have a minimum of 1,000 seats in the Richard Rogers Theatre available for lottery prices: $10. 

The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has announced its 2026 season, including six productions across theatre, music, and dance. The season will feature contemporary ballet trilogy Gems in February, comedic play Trash in March, Motion/Matter: All Styles Dance Battle in March, and Family Day in late May 2026. 

The Notebook’s North American Tour will launch in September beginning at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square. It will play over 30 cities across the nation through the end of August 2026. 

Kimberly Belflower will adapt her hit play John Proctor is the Villain for the big screen. Tina Fey and Marc Platt will serve as producers, Sadie Sink — who was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Shelby in the play — will executive produce. Universal picked up the film rights to the play in a competitive battle, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

River Lipe-Smith will make thier Off-Broadway debut starring as the titular Caroline in MCC Theatre’s world premier of Caroline by Preston Max Allen. The play, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer, will also feature Amy Landecker and Chloë Grace Moretz. It begins performances on Sept. 12, with opening night on Sept. 30, through Oct. 19.

Starting Sept. 2, Hadestown will feature an all-new principle cast, including Broadway veteran Rebecca Naomi Jones as Persephone, Tony Award-winner Paulo Szot as Hades, West End breakout star Jack Wolfe as Orpheus, Disney star Morgan Dudley as Eurydice, Grammy Award-winner Kurt Elling as Hermes. This marks the first time the full principle cast has changed at once since the Tony Award winning musical opened in 2019. 

The audio recording of Dead Outlaw, Audible’s first-ever commissioned musical, is out now. The Audible Original showcases the entire original musical recorded in Dolby Atmos with immersive sound design.

2025 Emmy Award Nominee Michael Urie, Oscar and Emmy Award nominee Kumail Nanjiani, and Jenn Harris will join the cast of Oh, Mary! beginning Aug. 4 through Sept. 28. They will join the company alongside Jinkx Monsoon as Mary Todd Lincoln. Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, and Bianca Leigh, who originated their roles Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel and on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, along with the current ‘Mary Todd Lincoln,’ Tituss Burgess, will play their final performances on Aug. 2. 

To kick off the fourth annual Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival, Alex Newell, Laverne Cox, Betty Who, and more will take the stage in a one-night-only concert of The Drowsy Chaperone at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 20, 2025. The concert will be directed by Tony Award nominee L Morgan Lee. 

Joe Locke will make his West End debut in the UK premier of Clarkson by Samuel D. Hunter. The play will be directed by Jack Serio, and have a strictly limited run in the West End this autumn. Locke will share the stage with Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville. 

The stage adaptation of the Paranormal Activity films will haunt the West End beginning Dec. 5. The production will transfer to the Ambassadors Theatre after a critically acclaimed run at Leeds Playhouse last summer. It will also begin a North American tour visiting the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles; Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, and American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

The first UK non-replica production of High School Musical is coming to The Lyric Theatre at Lowry next summer. The theatre will be transformed into a basketball court with seating on stage and an extended stage. The production will run Aug. 21, 2026 until Sept. 13, 2026. 

A Christmas Carol is returning to New York for a limited run this winter. The production, adapted by Jack Thorne and conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus, will run at PAC NYC from Nov. 23 — with an official opening on Dec. 4 — through Dec. 28. 

Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart will step into & Juliet on Broadway as Lance for a limited 13-week engagement starting Aug. 5. He takes over from pop icon Joey Fatone, who will play his final performance on July 31. 

Brody Grant will take his final bow as Ponyboy in The Outsiders on Sunday Sept. 21. New casting for the role has yet to be announced. 

A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play About Harvey Weinstein, written by Mathilde Dratwa, will have its New York premier as a one-night-only reading on July 21 at the Judith O. Rubin Theater at Playwrights Horizons. It will star Abbi Jacobson, Billy Eichner, Heléne Yorke, and Kara Young, with direction by Leslye Headland. The reading will benefit the New York Civil Liberties Union. 

Joe Mantello will direct a new play by Samuel D. Hunter, Little Bear Ridge Road, starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock on Broadway this fall. It will play a limited 18-week run at the Booth Theatre beginning Oct. 7, with an official opening on Oct. 30. 

Tony Award nominee Montego Glover will perform as Rose in Gypsy on Sunday matinees in July and August beginning on Sunday July 20. Glover filled in for star Audra McDonald from June 30 to July 6 while McDonald was on vacation.

Holder's play Out of Order is now running at East Village Basement through July 22. In the play, Holder picks index cards out of a bowl with tasks varying from random acts of kindness and audience participation, to discussions about the realities of art making, to narratives about farm animals from a childhood story. If he fails to complete every card, he vows to quit theatre forever. 

Romy & Michele: The Musical will debut Off-Broadway at Stage 42 this fall. Previews will begin on Oct. 14, with an official opening set for Oct. 28. 

Heathers has extended its run at New World Stages for four additional months. The production has amassed the largest advance sale in New World Stages history. Originally scheduled to play through Sept. 28, Heathers will now run through Jan. 25, 2026. 

Two-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Lee will join the company of The Lion King on Broadway as Scar beginning July 22. Lee replaces Stephen Carlile in the role, who left the company earlier this year to star as Hades in Disney’s Hercules on the West End. Michael Hollick will continue as Scar on Broadway until Lee joins the company. 

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric Antonio Kyles, known as Cedric “The Entertainer,” will take the Broadway stage in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone opening in Spring 2026. The play will be directed by Debbie Allen and play at a Shubert Theatre on Broadway. 

Lord Nil, acclaimed international escape artist, will perform a world-premier limited engagement of Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins at Stage 42. Performances begin on July 21, with opening night on July 27, and conclude on Aug. 31. 

Write It Out!, a 10-week free playwriting workshop for people living with HIV and AIDS, is accepting applications for its 2025 cohort and the Write It Out! Prize through July 30 at 11:59 p.m. ET. 

After his Tony nominated run in Lincoln Center’s Floyd Collins, Taylor Trensch will play the titular role in New York City Center’s annual gala presentation: Bat Boy. The musical will run from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9. 

Broadway’s Charlotte D’Amboise, Amy Spanger, Nancy Opel, and Kathy Fitzgerald will lead Robert Harling’s play Steel Magnolias at Bell Theater at Bell Works in Holmdel, NJ from July 25 to Aug. 10. It will be directed by Nate Patten. 

Coming off her performance in the Academy Award-Winning Anora, Luna Sofía Miranda will make her stage debut in the Off-Broadway premier of Girls Will Be Girls. The play will open on July 23 at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, with previews beginning July 17.

Since 2021, Mason Alexander Park — who has recently taken the West End stage in Jamie Lloyd’s The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing, as well as the current revival of Cabaret — has worked with their writing partner Hunter Bird on a series called The Pansy Craze. Now, the show will be produced as a six-part series on Audible — and you can catch the first three episodes live from June 26 to 28 at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre in New York.

Michelle Williams will lead a production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Cristie directed by Thomas Kail — alongside Faist — this winter. The play will be part of St. Ann's Warehouse Fall 2025 season, and run from Nov. 25 to Feb. 1, 2026. 

Jeff Ross will make his Broadway debut this summer in his one-man show Jeff Ross: Take a Banana For the Ride. The show will have a limited eight-week engagement at the Nederlander Theatre on West 41st Street from Aug. 5 — with opening night set for Aug. 18 — to Sept. 29. 

Jinkx Monsoon, award-winning actress, recording artist, and drag queen currently staring in Pirates! The Penzance Musical, will take on the title role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! for eight weeks beginning on Aug. 4, 2025. Oh, Mary! has also extended its run through Jan. 4, 2026. 

Billy Porter and Marisha Wallace will reprise their roles as the Emcee and Sally Bowles after a successful run at the Kit Kat Club on the West End. They will perform for a limited 13-week engagement beginning July 22, after which Cabaret will close on Broadway.