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Broadway fans, clear your September calendars: Lincoln Center is engineering one seriously stacked reunion.
The performing arts institution has announced its 2026/27 fall and spring season and among the dozens of concerts, dance performances, festivals and multidisciplinary events is a concert presentation of Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, reuniting much of the acclaimed musical’s original 2016 Broadway cast and creative team.
That means Audra McDonald, Billy Porter, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Brandon Victor Dixon and Adrienne Warren will share a stage again, alongside Brooks Ashmanskas and Norm Lewis. George C. Wolfe, who wrote and directed the Broadway production, returns to direct, while tap legend Savion Glover is back on choreography duty. The concerts are scheduled for September 27 and 28 at 7:30pm at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater.
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The performance is part of Lincoln Center’s Legacies of San Juan Hill Festival, which celebrates the predominantly Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood that once occupied the area where Lincoln Center now stands. Wolfe’s musical revisits the story of the groundbreaking 1921 Broadway hit Shuffle Along, written by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, and its role in expanding opportunities for Black performers and helping usher in the Harlem Renaissance.
(The original Shuffle Along opened on Broadway in April 2016 and earned 10 Tony nominations before closing that July, making this reunion a particularly juicy one for theater fans who missed that relatively brief run.)
Then, on September 11, more than 150 dancers and musicians will gather on Josie Robertson Plaza for Jacqulyn Buglisi’s annual Table of Silence Project 9/11, marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks. A free public dress rehearsal takes place the evening before.
Dance is a major focus throughout the year, including the first winter edition of the Lincoln Center Contemporary Dance Festival in January, featuring U.S.-based companies and works by Hannah Garner, Omar Román De Jesús, Heidi Latsky, Shamel Pitts and Netta Yerushalmy.
Other highlights include the New York premiere of Sekou McMiller’s Urban Love Suite on October 16; a Prince and D’Angelo tribute featuring members of D’Angelo’s The Vanguard on September 23; and tap artist Michela Marino Lerman’s Sole Blue on December 10. Artist-in-Residence Clint Ramos will also curate the latest edition of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, while Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad joins the institution as an Artist-in-Residence. Wynton Marsalis, meanwhile, is Lincoln Center’s 2026/27 Visionary Artist, with programming across campus celebrating his decades-spanning career in jazz.
Best of all for anyone whose cultural calendar is considerably richer than their bank account: all events this season will be either free or choose-what-you-pay. Fall tickets go on sale September 9.