Double feature: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play and The Sound of Music

Jasmine Amy Rogers's two shows leap across continents, eras, and vocal demands. In the Broadway premiere of Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy about aspiring teen beauty-pageant queens in 1986 Ghana, the BOOP! Tony Award nominee plays Ericka, an American transfer student who shakes things up. Then, in Lincoln Center Theater’s spring Broadway revival of The Sound of Music, she stars as the postulant-turned-governess Maria.

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Triple feature: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, Imitation of Life, and Pre-Existing Condition

Whitney White’s Broadway-premiere production of Bioh’s 2017 comedy play features an A-list cast and sharp historical and cultural commentary. On the musical drama side, Imitation of Life follows two single mothers — one Black, one white — and their daughters in a story based on a 1933 bestseller and its two Oscar-nominated film adaptations.

White is already a proven talent when it comes to guiding new plays, as in her Tony-nominated staging of Bioh’s Jaja’s African Hair-Braiding. Directing the world premiere of a new musical — written by John Legend and Lynn Nottage and starring Adrienne Warren — will present new ways for her to shine.

In between, the multi-hyphenate is returning to her acting roots with a limited run as a woman healing from an abusive relationship in Pre-Existing Condition off Broadway. All three productions run this fall.

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Triple feature: Downstate and Small Mouth Sounds

Tony Award winner Joe Mantello knows his way around a complex drama, and that, well, goes double for his new work this season. Bruce Norris’s Downstate follows four child sex offenders in a group home, and Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds follows six troubled souls at a silent woodland retreat. That play marks the Broadway return of Julia Roberts alongside Paul Rudd, Sarah Paulson, Martin Freeman, and more.

After his high-profile, Tony-winning revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman last season, Mantello's contemporary shows are bound to be the talk of the town. They join his ongoing production of Wicked, which has run on Broadway since 2003.

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Triple feature: The Fantasticks and The Sound of Music

Christopher Gattelli earned two 2026 Tony nominations for directing and choreographing Schmigadoon!, a show that sends up Golden Age musicals. Now he’s putting two classic tuners in motion.

He directs and choreographs the Broadway premiere of The Fantasticks, Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones’s long-running musical fable newly reimagined to follow two gay young men who fall in love. The Rodgers and Hammerstein chestnut is all about Maria's journey with love and music.

The tones of the shows vary widely, and it will be fascinating to see how that’s reflected in Gattelli's staging. A few of our favorite things about his creations include their energy, precision, theatrical flair, humor, and catchiness.

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Double feature: Seven Guitars and Mix and Master

Thirty years ago, Ruben Santiago-Hudson won a Tony for his featured Broadway role in August Wilson’s play Seven Guitars, about a late jazz musician, and now he directs an Off-Broadway revival. In the Broadway world premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Mix and Master, he and fellow Tony winner Kara Young spin a story of a generational showdown in a Bronx record store.

Santiago-Hudson has a long history performing and staging Wilson plays; most recently, he acted in Joe Turner's Come and Gone on Broadway earlier this year. He's also directed Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, so he’s in his comfort zone with Seven Guitars and Mix and Master. Both explore Black musical culture as a battleground for dreams, legacy, and identity.

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Triple feature: Paranormal Activity and 2:22 - A Ghost Story

There are lots of stories about theatres being haunted. Chris Fisher is making that a reality. He's had Stranger Things: The First Shadow running since 2025, and new this season are Levi Holloway’s stage extension of the Paranormal Activity film franchise and Danny Robins's Olivier-nominated 2:22 - A Ghost Story, a hit in London and LA.

People vanish. Noses drip blood. Scares go down like clockwork. Fisher is an ace at giving audiences the creeps. “The simplest trick can be the most terrifying,” he told New York Theatre Guide.

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Quadruple feature: Other Desert Cities and Downstate

A three-time Tony winner, Scott Pask (The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia, The Book of Mormon) is celebrated for his meticulous visual storytelling and architectural precision. Expect a richly detailed set for the edgy Downstate, set in a suffocating Illinois group home. In contrast, his own Arizona desert home may inspire his work on Other Desert Cities, Jon Robin Baitz’s 2011 play about a politically connected Palm Springs family with a secret.

Come October 17, when Downstate starts, Pask will have four shows on Broadway, including the ongoing Schmigadoon! and The Book of Mormon.

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Triple feature: Inter Alia, A Ghost in Your Ear, and Much Ado About Nothing

Two-time Tony-nominated brothers Ben and Max Ringham make sure every sound and whisper leaves a deep impression in three shows this fall: Suzie Miller’s legal drama starring Olivier winner Rosamund Pike, Jamie Armitage’s recording-studio ghost story, and Shakespeare’s classic romance.

Ben Ringham shared quick takes with New York Theatre Guide on each of those productions' sonic worlds. Inter Alia: “A collage about the complexity of real life.” A Ghost in Your Ear: “It’s about finding the terror.” Much Ado About Nothing: “A telephone dings and you’re off on this big, joyous ride.”

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Double feature: Much Ado About Nothing and Evita

Jamie Lloyd is setting up camp at the Winter Garden Theatre with two productions arriving from hit runs in London. The Tony-nominated director (Sunset Boulevard, Waiting for Godot) puts his stamp on Shakespeare’s enemies-to-lovers rom-com in a fall revival starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell. In the spring, Olivier winner Rachel Zegler leads Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 musical about the ascent of former Argentine First Lady Eva Perón.

Lloyd leans heavy into bubblegum pink for Much Ado and a starker black-and-white route for Evita's sung-through tale of power, celebrity, and politics.

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