A FEW GOOD MEN And THE SOUND OF MUSIC Are Headed To Lincoln Center Theater

Fresh off their Tony wins 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. 

LCT3 at the Claire Tow Theater’s season, curated by artistic director Maria Manuela Goyanes, includes creation stories and all the important importants, the new play by Mfoniso Udofia (recently presented as part of the 2026 Reading Series at Lincoln Center Theater), directed by Tamilla Woodard; Pretend It’s Pretend, a new play by Emma Watkins, with direction by Annie Tippe; and the return of The Comedy Series in the spring of 2027 with artists to be announced. 

The upcoming season brings “The Composer Series,” a new series which will feature iconic music writers selecting newer artists in their field to showcase to audiences on the Beaumont stage. The seasoned composers curating the offerings are Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. These three individual concerts will include a performance of songs by Bareilles, Miranda, and Pasek & Paul on their respective nights, along with excerpts from the work of the newer composers throughout the year. At the Claire Tow Theater will be the return of “The Reading Series” – created to help foster and celebrate playwrights’ voices who are new to LCT. A group of LCT alumni playwrights - Jackie Sibblies Drury, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau - will curate one-night-only play readings from playwrights new to LCT. These free public readings will be presented over the course of the year. 

Casting and creative teams will be announced at a later date.