Fresh off their Tony win for Ragtime, Lincoln Center Theater under the leadership of Artistic Director Lear DeBessonet has announced her second season programming LCT and boy is it filled to the brim with exciting productions that has something for everyone. On Broadway, LCT has announced two productions at Vivian Beaumont Theater including the first-ever revival of Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth, and directed by Tony winner Michael Arden. In the spring, deBessonet will direct the first Broadway revival of The Sound of Music in nearly 30 years, starring Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. The new season at the Mitzi E. Newhouse commences this summer with the previously announced The Whoopi Monologues, directed by Whitney White and starring Dominique Fishback, Kecia Lewis, Danielle Pinnock, Kerry Washington, and Kara Young. The season continues this fall with August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who won his first-ever Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in the 1996 Broadway premiere of the same play. Following is the American premiere of Playing Burton – a play by Mark Jenkins about the legendary Welsh-born actor Richard Burton, starring Welsh-born actor Matthew Rhys. The final play of the season at the Newhouse is world premiere of Born in the Dirt, reuniting playwright Kimberly Belflower and Tony winning director Danya Taymor in their first collaboration since the sensation-causing, and Tony Award nominated, John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway.
Earlier today it was announced that Jocelyn Bioh’s hit play School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which will be directed by Tony nominee Whitney White, has found its company. The play, which premiered Off-Broadway at MCC in 2017 will land on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre beginning Tuesday, September 8, and open Monday, September 28. The production will feature Lucia Aremu, Tony nominee Denée Benton, Tony winner Patina Miller, Theatrely31 alum Erin Morton, Nia Otchere-Sarfo, Jordan Rice, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and Heather Alicia Simms.
This Pride Month, The House of Xtravaganza is throwing the Love Is Imagination Pride Mini Ball in partnership with TSQ LIVE giving us a first look at Xtravaganza, a new original musical inspired by the legendary House and Ballroom pioneers. The event takes place Wednesday, June 24, from 5-6pm in Times Square at 46th Street and Broadway. The event marks a major milestone for the production. Tickets officially go on sale beginning June 24, 2026, for the world premiere engagement of Xtravaganza at Baltimore Center Stage, where the musical will open in May 2027.
2:22 — A Ghost Story has set its New York Premiere this fall at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The play begins previews on Oct. 20, with official opening on Nov. 5, and will play a strictly limited engagement through Jan. 17.
Todrick Hall’s original musical Midnight will make its New York Premiere at the Daryl Roth Theatre this fall. The production begins performances on Sept. 12, with official opening on Sept. 27. It is set to run for a strictly limited engagement through Nov. 1.
