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Warriors is on the march. Lin-Manuel Miranda's long-awaited musical-theater follow-up to In the Heights and the revolutionary Hamilton is another New York City story: Miranda and Eisa Davis's adaptation of the 1979 cult film The Warriors, which imagines a small group of gang members trying to find their way home through a nightmarish future version of the Big Apple, after being framed for the murder of a popular local leader. The project began as a star-studded 2024 concept album; now, producers announced today, it will move to the stage in a world-premiere Broadway production that will open in April, 2027.
In addition to its ongoing popularity as a movie, The Warriors has enjoyed a long afterlife as a touchstone of hip-hop culture. For the concept album, Miranda and Davis assembled a dream cast that included such music stars as Ms. Lauryn Hill, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Marc Anthony, Marc Anthony and Ghostface Killah. Miranda and Davis's adaptation reimagines the central gang members as women.
"It gets at these very primal fears, these very primal needs that we have for crew, for family, for survival," Davis told Time Out in an extensive 2024 interview about the album, which launched at Brooklyn's Time Out Market in October, 2024. "I always say that The Warriors is like a visual guide to everything you are afraid of in New York City," Miranda added. "Someone falls in the subway tracks, there’s a track fire, you get chased by the cops, you get chased by the wrong gang in the wrong neighborhood—everything you think is scary that will happen, there is an amazingly vivid image of it in this movie. It’s like a starter guide for New York fears."
Miranda and Davis wrote Warriors with an eye toward an eventual stage production. The Broadway debut will be at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, which is currently home to Death Becomes Her. Casting has not yet been announced, but the creative team is set. Jenny Koons will make her Broadway directing debut at the helm, joined by co-director and choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler. Thomas Kail, Jeffrey Seller, Miranda and his father, Luis, are the lead producers; also on board are scenic designer David Korins, costumer Dede Ayite and lighting wiz Natasha Katz.
It will be a busy season for fans of Miranda's work: In addition to Warriors and the still-running Hamilton, there will be a two-week revival of In the Heights at New York City Center from October 28 through November 8, 2026.
Tickets for Warriors are scheduled to go on sale in October. To sign up for information and first access to tickets, sign up at the Warriors website.
