‘The Sound of Music,’ ‘A Few Good Men,’ more featured in Lincoln Center Theater’s 2026-27 season

Bradley Whitford, Tom Blyth, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and Matthew Rhys are among the actors who will perform in the upcoming season's productions on and off Broadway.

Summary

• Lincoln Center Theater's Broadway season will feature revivals of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men (starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth) and The Sound of Music (starring Jasmine Amy Rogers)
• Off-Broadway productions in the season include a revival of August Wilson's Seven Guitars directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson; a new play from Kimberly Belflower and Danya Taymor (John Proctor Is the Villain); and Matthew Rhys as actor Richard Burton

Lincoln Center Theater has set its 2026-27 season, including revivals of The Sound of Music and A Few Good Men and more productions across its three performance spaces in Lincoln Center.

Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men will kick off the Broadway season in the fall, starting performances October 8 ahead of an October 29 opening. Emmy Award winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) and Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) star in the courtroom drama about a military lawyer who unearths a cover-up and more amid his complicated assignment to defend two young Marines accused of murder.

A Few Good Men premiered in 1989, and Sorkin later adapted his play into a 1992 film directed by Rob Reiner. Tony Award winner Michael Arden (The Lost Boys, Maybe Happy Ending, Parade) will direct the 2026 Broadway revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Playing at the Beaumont in the spring is the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Tony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers (BOOP! The Musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) will star as Maria, a would-be nun who takes a job as governess for the seven children of Captain von Trapp. As World War II begins to creep into their native Austria, the von Trapps rediscover music and love for the first time in years.

Lear deBessonet, LCT’s artistic director and the director of the company's Tony Award-winning Ragtime revival, will stage The Sound of Music. Tony winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, Death Becomes Her, Schmigadoon!) choreographs. Performances begin March 23 ahead of an April 15 opening.

Also in LCT’s upcoming season are five Off-Broadway shows, three at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and two at the Claire Tow Theater. The fall production at the Newhouse is a revival of August Wilson's Seven Guitars directed by 2026 Tony nominee and longtime Wilson interpreter Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Joe Turner's Come and Gone). Performances start November 5 ahead of a November 23 opening.

Set in 1940s Pittsburgh, the play unfolds through stories told by friends of Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton, a blues musician determined to win back his love and build a better future beyond what is deemed possible for Black men in America.

The second show at the Newhouse is Born in the Dirt, which reunites Kimberly Belflower and Danya Taymor, the Tony-nominated writer and director of John Proctor Is the Villain. The new play follows Maddy Grace, who moves back to her Southern hometown from L.A., begins working at a "hospital" that produces handmade dolls, and sets out to make a documentary about the women behind them. Performances start April 14 ahead of a May 6 opening.

Emmy Award winner Matthew Rhys (The Americans, Girls, Perry Mason) will then star in Playing Burton as iconic Old Hollywood actor Richard Burton. Directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher directs Mark Jenkins's play, which sees Burton reflecting on his own life and legacy on the night of his death. Performance dates have yet to be announced.

The season's remaining two plays, at the Claire Tow Theater, are part of the LCT3 program for plays by new writers, led by artistic director Maria Manuela Goyanes.

Beginning September 15 (opening October 1) is creation stories and all the important importants by Nigerian playwright Mfoniso Udofia. The show is a folktake that uses music and ritual, and leaps across time and space, to tell the story of a midlife Black woman racing between her multiple selves, against the clock, and up to her own limits. Tamilla Woodward directs.

In winter, starting January 28 ahead of a February 11 opening, is Emma Watkins’s Pretend It’s Pretend, directed by Annie Tippe. The play follows an exhausted third-grade teacher, a grieving playground designer and father, and his songwriting teenage daughter who seeks confidence.

Additional cast and creative team members for all the above productions have yet to be announced.

Lincoln Center Theater will host additional programming throughout the season in addition to its full-length productions. This includes:

• The Composer Series: Three one-night events at the Beaumont in which Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, respectively, will perform works by themselves and emerging composers and discuss the craft of songwriting.
• The Comedy Series: Stand-up shows by top comedians in which the audience becomes part of the creative process.
• The Reading Series: Five one-night-only staged readings of new plays, curated by playwrights Jackie Sibblies Drury, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Martyna Majok, and Dominique Morisseau, at the Claire Tow Theater.