Broadway fall preview: What's opening on Broadway this fall?

Check out our complete guide to everything opening on Broadway this fall, from exciting new plays and musicals with starry casts to fresh takes on classics.

Fall colors aren’t just about trees. Autumn in New York brings a vibrant and varied array of Broadway shows, and this season is shaping up to be particularly eye-popping. It’s not too early to make plans for unforgettable afternoons and nights in the theatre.

Alongside long-running hits and Tony Award winners, fresh fall productions are waiting in the wings. Look for star-studded new plays and musicals, fresh takes on beloved classics, a spooky thriller, and a solo work by a beloved actor who knows his way around one-man memoirs.

Bottom line: There’s something for everyone to enjoy. Check out all of this fall’s Broadway shows below.

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Summary

  • Broadway musicals opening in fall 2026 include the new shows Wanted and Galileo; a revival of The Fantasticks; and a Dolly Parton musical
  • Broadway plays opening in 2026 include Paranormal Activity; Billy Crystal's latest solo show; A Few Good Men starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth; Inter Alia starring Rosamund Pike; and Much Ado About Nothing starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell
1.

Paranormal Activity

2.

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

3.

The Imaginary Invalid

4.

Other Desert Cities

5.

860

6.

A Few Good Men

7.

Wanted

8.

Downstate

9.

The Fantasticks

10.

Much Ado About Nothing

11.

Here There Are Blueberries

12.

It's a Wonderful Life

13.

Inter Alia

14.

Galileo

15.

Now You See Me Live

16.

Blue Man Group “A New Holiday Surprise”

17.

Dolly: A True Original Musical

18.

Awake and Sing!

1.

Paranormal Activity

Broadway
Play
Horror
Screen to stage

Up for a fright night? You’ve come to the right play. Inspired by the hit horror film series, this supernatural thriller follows newlyweds from Chicago to London. They try to reboot their lives but find that a sinister force from the past still has them in its grip.

Performances begin: August 14

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2.

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

Broadway
Play
Comedy
Award winner

Jocelyn Bioh’s acclaimed comedy spins around boarding-school girls in Ghana whose beauty-pageant rivalry leads to clashes over popularity, identity, and cultural expectations. Denée Benton, Patina Miller, and Jasmine Amy Rogers are enrolled in director Whitney White’s ace ensemble.

Performances begin: September 8

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Photo credit: Jasmine Amy Rogers, Denée Benton, and Patina Miller. (Rogers photo by Nicole Wilson; Benton photo by Monica Schipper; Miller photo by Victoria Stevens)

3.

The Imaginary Invalid

Broadway
Play
Comedy
Classic
Stars on stage

Tony Award winner Bill Irwin wrote and stars in a sickeningly fun new adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy about a hypochondriac who plans to marry his daughter to a doctor for free medical services for life, but his daughter, the doctors, and basically everyone else have other ideas. Tony Award nominee Brandon J. Dirden directs.

Performances begin: September 25

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4.

Other Desert Cities

Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage
Award winner

The past, like the truth, always catches up with you. Jon Robin Baitz’s drama is set in motion by a daughter’s memoir that threatens to unearth explosive secrets among a politically prominent family. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe make up director John Benjamin Hickey’s dream cast.

Performances begin: September 29

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Photo credit: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe (Photos courtesy of production; Louis-Dreyfus photo by Christopher Anderson; Harris photo by O'Shane Howard; Janney photo by Robert Ascroft)

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Breakfast at Liberty Bagels

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10:00

Macy’s Herald Square

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5.

860

Broadway
Play
Solo show
Drama
Stars on stage

In his latest autobiographical solo play, Emmy and Tony winner Billy Crystal reflects on losing his family’s Pacific Palisades home in the catastrophic 2025 California fires. The title refers to the address of the property where he made memories for nearly 50 years. Bring Kleenex.

Performances begin: October 1

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Photo credit: Billy Crystal. (Photo courtesy of production)

6.

A Few Good Men

Broadway
Drama
Revival
Stars on stage
Stage to screen

Aaron Sorkin’s taut and tense 1989 courtroom drama adapted into an Oscar-nominated blockbuster centers on military lawyers investigating a Marine’s death. In Tony-winner Michael Arden’s new staging, Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth ferociously face off as the case exposes institutional corruption and makes an uncompromising demand for the truth.

Performances begin: October 8

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7.

Wanted

Broadway
Musical
True story

Go west – and wild! Set in 1893 Texas, this new musical borrows from the true story of Mary and Martha Clarke, two Black twin sisters who passed as white and went from farm girls to frontier outlaws for the sake of their family. Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine play the notorious siblings.

Performances begin: October 15

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Photo credit: Liisi LaFontaine and Solea Pfeiffer. (Photo by Marc J. Franklin)

8.

Downstate

Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage

Downstate is coming uptown with the provocative story of a man who arrives at a halfway house for convicted child sex offenders, seeking his own form of justice for his former abuser. Alongside two returning cast members from previous productions, The Bear Emmy winner Liza Colón-Zayas, Tony nominee Thomas Sadoski, Ivy Wolk, and more join in supporting roles.

Performances begin: October 17

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9.

The Fantasticks

Broadway
Musical
Classic
Revival
Award winner

Broadway’s first production of Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones's legendary, long-running musical rethinks the deceptively deep romance. In this version tweaked by Jones and directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli (Schmigadoon!), two gay men fall in love despite the manipulations of their mothers. Expect to hum “Try to Remember” for days after you see the show.

Performances begin: October 22

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10.

Much Ado About Nothing

Broadway
Play
Shakespeare
Comedy
Stars on stage

Marvel stars Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell lead director Jamie Lloyd’s lively Shakespeare revival following its hit London run — and that’s not nothing. They’re back as Benedick and Beatrice, who go from enemies to lovers amid mistaken identities, comic misunderstandings, and romantic rigmarole.

Performances begin: October 31

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11.

Here There Are Blueberries

Broadway
Play
Drama
True story
Award winner

Tectonic Theater Company became the masters of docudrama with the 2000 play The Laramie Project. They continue that legacy with Here There Are Blueberries, a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist now making its Broadway debut. It follows a real 2007 controversy over a Holocaust museum's receipt of an unusual Nazi-era photo album, which made headlines and sparked national debate.

Performances begin: November 2

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Photo credit: Here There Are Blueberries off Broadway. (Photo by Matthew Murphy)

12.

It's a Wonderful Life

Broadway
Play
Drama
Classic
Holiday
Stars on stage
Screen to stage

Let's start by talking about this wonderful cast: Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin, Andrew Rannells, Tituss Burgess, and Megan Hilty. The stars lead a live radio play adaptation of the classic movie set on Christmas Eve, when a man is reminded of why life is worth living.

Performances begin: November 4

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Photo credit: Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin, Andrew Rannells, Tituss Burgess, and Megan Hilty. (Photos courtesy of production; Hamlin photo by Tony Duran; Rannells photo by Emil Cohen; Burgess photo by Nina Duncan; Hilty photo by Tony Matula of MA2LA)

13.

Inter Alia

Broadway
Play
Drama
Stars on stage
Award winner

Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) reprises her Olivier Award-winning role in Suzie Miller’s provocative legal drama about justice, power, career, marriage, and motherhood. She plays a British judge, wife, and mom whose carefully composed life gets upended when her son is accused of a sexual crime.

Performances begin: November 10

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Photo credit: Inter Alia in London. (Photo by Manuel Harlan)

14.

Galileo

Broadway
Musical
Historical

Brace for a totally different kind of star wars. Four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza leads this new rock musical as the pioneering astronomer whose discoveries challenged Church-backed worldviews. Michael Mayer directs the show by Danny Strong, Zoe Sarnak, and Michael Weiner, also featuring Tony nominee Joy Woods and Jeremy Kushnier in the cast.

Performances begin: November 10

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Photo credit: Raúl Esparza in Galileo at Berkeley Rep. (Photo by Kevin Berne)

15.

Now You See Me Live

Broadway
Magic show
Holiday
Family friendly

Now you see it, now you don't — Now You See Me Live is only on Broadway for the holiday season, so catch it before it disappears. Based on the hit film franchise, the all-ages stage show brings four celebrated illusionists together for one thrilling spectacular.

Performances begin: November 11

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Photo credit: Now You See Me Live in London. (Photo by Johan Persson)

16.

Blue Man Group “A New Holiday Surprise”

Broadway
Magic show
Holiday
Family friendly

Blue Man Group is the gift that keeps on giving. After 30 landmark years off Broadway, the group is coming back with its first-ever holiday show — and its Broadway debut. With their signature creativity and quirkiness, the "blue men" will discover classic holiday traditions and songs and make you see them in a whole new way.

Performances begin: November 12

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Photo credit: Blue Man Group “A New Holiday Surprise.” (Photo courtesy of production)

17.

Dolly: A True Original Musical

Broadway
Jukebox musical
True story

Hello, Dolly (Parton)! Get to know the much-loved pop and country queen in a whole new way at this autobiographical show, which traces her remarkable rise from rural Tennessee to international superstardom. Her catalogue of hits — like “9 to 5,” “Jolene,” and “Coat of Many Colors” — thread throughout the script Parton co-wrote with Maria S. Schlatter. Tony winner Bartlett Sher directs, and Mandy Moore choreographs.

Performances begin: December 7

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Photo credit: Dolly Parton. (Photo courtesy of production)