New and upcoming Broadway shows headed to NYC in 2026

Levi Holloway's first stab at a Broadway horror play, 2023's Grey House, didn't scare up very much excitement, but now he returns to the haunted well with another spooky offering, this one set in the universe of the Paranormal Activity film franchise (though not adapted from any of the movies). The production—directed by Felix Barrett (Sleep No More) and featuring illusions by Chris Fisher (Stranger Things: The First Shadow)—has been a well-received hit in London's West End; after numerous engagements across the U.S., it now arrives on Broadway starring Travis A. Knight and Cher Álvarez as an American husband and wife who move to London to escape the evil spirit she believes has chased her all her life. 

In Jocelyn Bioh’s ferocious comedy, set in 1986, the queen bee at an exclusive Ghanaian boarding school competes with a sunny American student for the attention of a pageant recruiter. The play’s Off Broadway premiere in 2017 was one of the buzziest shows of the season, and returned for an encore run the next year. Now Manhattan Theatre Club brings it Broadway in a new production helmed by Whitney White (Liberation), who also directed Bioh's Jaja’s African Hair Braiding for MTC in 2023. Casting for the new iteration has not yet been announced.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus studied theater in college before shifting into improv comedy, which led her to Saturday Night Live and eventually to sitcom superstardom (earning 11 Emmys along the way). She returns to her stage roots, and makes her Broadway debut, in John Benjamin Hickey's revival of Jon Robin Baitz's personal-political drama, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. Louis-Dreyfus stars opposite the redoubtable Ed Harris as a successful pair of Republicans whose daughter, played by Lily Rabe, threatens to expose a long-buried family tragedy. Joe Keery and Alison Janney—whose mantel is calso overcrowded with Emmys—complete the cast.

Veteran funnyman Billy Crystal, whose career in TV and film stretches back five decades, had a smash hit with his 2004 Broadway solo show 700 Sundays and returned to the Great White Way in the underrated 2022 musical Mr. Saturday Night. In his latest stage venture, he tackles a serious subject—the 2025 Palisades fire that destroyed his home—and looks back on the parts of his life that have proved the most important and enduring. But don't expect this to be an evening of dark Crystal; laughs are sure to play a big part in his survival story. The ever reliable Scott Ellis directs this limited engagement. 

In this original musical—which was called Gun & Powder in its 2024 production at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse—Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine play Mary and Martha Clarke, Black twin sisters who passed as white in late 19th-century Texas. The book and lyrics are by Angelica Chéri, a descendant of the women in question; the music is by Ross Baum. Stevie Walker-Webb (Ain't No Mo') directs; additional casting has not been anounced. 

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's metatheatrical fable—in which a group of players stages the tale of young lovers devided by a wall, with echoes of the Rude Mechanicals’ take on Pyramus and Thisby in A Midsummer Night’s Dream—opened Off Broadway in 1960 and went on to run for some 42 years. Second Stage brings it to Broadway for the first time in a version that recasts the plot as a modern gay love story. The imaginative Christopher Gattelli (Schmigadoon!) directs and choreographs the revisal, whose cast is not yet known.

The accomplished stage and screen actors Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell—also known to audiences worldwide as Loki and Agent Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—star in Shakespeare's tart-tongued romcom about a pair of too-witty enemies who clearly have the hots for each other. This production, directed by the current British "it" director Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Boulevard), was reviewed ecstatically in London last year, and the Broadway transfer fatures nearly all of the same cast and creative team. Soutra Gilmour designs the sets and constumes; the supporting cast includes Forbes Masson, Gerald Kyd, James Phoon, Mara Huf and Mason Alexander Park. 

Galileo, Galileo! Rock me, Galileo! It's been 13 years since the internse and cavern-voiced Raúl Esparza starred in a Broadway show, which is roughly 12 years too long. In his overdue return, Esparza plays the cosmos-shaking Italian astonomer, physicist and heretic Galileo Galilei, whose discoveries played a major role in ushering in the scientific age. The production reunites Chess director Michael Mayer and book writer Danny Strong, paired this time with soingwriters Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner. Joy Woods and Jeremy Kushnier lead the supporting cast.

If you liked playwright Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin's 2023's Prima Facie—a drama involving the treatment of sexual assault in the British legal system, showcasing a bravura performance by a female star—then there's a quite good chance you might also enjoy playwright Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin's Inter Alia, a drama involving the treatment of sexual assault in the British justice system, showcasing a bravura performance by a female star. The newer work stars Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), in her Broadway debut, as a feminist judge trying to balance the scales of justice and also her own life and work. Casting for the play's other two roles has yet to be revealed.