New and upcoming Broadway shows headed to NYC in 2024

Cole Escola's dizzying historical burlesque imagines a boozy, vicious and miserable Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to her husband’s assassination. Escola plays Mary with magnetic zaniness, poise and total moment-to-moment comic commitment; director Sam Pinkleton never lets the comic energy flag, and the supporting cast is delicious. (Conrad Ricamora and James Scully as the men in Mary's life.) Everything comes together to create an instant downtown classic, and the funniest stage comedy in years. After a talk-of-town Off Broadway engagement, the show now moves to Broadway for a limited run.

Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon, who previously costarred in Succession, face off in a tense psychological thriller by Max Wolf Friedlich, in which an employee on leave from a tech company after a mental breakdown attempts to persuade a therapist to help her get back her job. Michael Herwitz directs the production, which is moving to Broadway after sold-out runs in smaller venues last season. 

Broadway mainstay Sutton Foster stars as the assertive Princess Winnifred in Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer's charming 1959 musical take on "The Princess and the Pea," which moves to Broadway for a limited run after a successful outing in City Center's Encores! series earlier this year. Lear deBessonet (Into the Woods) directs and Lorin Latarro choreographs; Amy Sherman-Palladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) provides a modern comic punch-up to the original book by Barer, Jay Thompson and Dean Fuller. The talent-packed cast includes Michael Urie, Nikki Renée Daniels, Brooks Ashmanskas, Will Chase, Daniel Breaker, David Patrick Kelly and Ana Gasteyer as Foster's villainous prospective royal stepmom.

Old hands Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone play an odd couple of cohabitants in Jen Silverman's one-act, two-lady comedy. One character is a mousy Iowa divorcée who takes on a boarder; the other is a vegan lesbian from the Bronx with a shady past. (Guess which actress plays which?) Recent Lifetime Achievement Tony winner Jack O'Brien directs the Braodway premiere of Jen Silverman's 2015 crowd-pleaser.  

Rachel Zegler's first film appearance was in West Side Story, playing a young lover loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Juliet. Now she makes her Broadway debut as the original article, cooing and crying opposite Heartstopper's Kit Connor. Sam Gold (An Enemy of the People) directs this latest Broadway account of the Bard's beloved family-feud tragedy, in which rebellious kids come to a bad end after having sex and scoring drugs from a local priest. The production features movement by Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge!) and original music by pop hitmaker and Swift whisperer Jack Antonoff. 

Sunset rises again with a new version of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's sweeping musical, adapted from Billy Wilder's classic 1950 film. Playing the delusional silent-screen star Norma Desmond this time around is Pussycat Dolls frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger, who earned ecstatic reviews in this revival's original London production. In a striking departure from the lavish design of the original production, director Jamie Lloyd employs a minimalist style (akin to his approach to A Doll's House last year) that makes plentiful use of live video. The Broadway transfer will maintain Scherzinger's London costars: Tom Francis as her young lover Joe, Grace Hodgett-Young as his colleague and David Thaxton as Norma's loyal majordomo.