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With Tony Award nominations for nan 2025-2026 play a week distant (announcements are connected Tuesday, May 5), now mightiness beryllium a bully clip to refresh your representation of what Deadline had to opportunity astir nan fruits of a very engaged Broadway spring. Every Brilliant Thing, nan awesome solo show (with a small thief from nan audience) starring Daniel Radcliffe shook disconnected nan sadistic New York wintertime to footwear things into gear, and nan pursuing 2 months saw, among different shows, an effervescent revival of a seldom seen Noël Coward comedy, a thrilling re-interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, exemplary ensemble activity successful Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Becky Shaw and Proof, joyous celebrations for illustration Titaníque, Schmigadoon! and The Rocky Horror Show, a searing play successful Death of a Salesman and singular performances from Radcliffe, John Lithgow, Alden Ehrenreich, Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, Ayo Edebiri, Luke Evans, Rachel Dratch, Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara.
And that’s conscionable a sampling.
Check this page to spot Deadline’s takes connected each of Broadway’s latest outpouring offerings, opening pinch Every Brilliant Thing (March 12), Giant (March 23), Dog Day Afternoon (March 30), Becky Shaw (April 6), Cats: The Jellicle Ball (April 7), Death of a Salesman (April 9), Titaníque (April 12), The Fear of 13 (April 15), Proof (April 16), Fallen Angels (April 19), Schmigadoon! (April 20), The Balusters (April 21), Beaches (April 22), The Rocky Horror Show (April 23), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (April 25) and The Lost Boys (April 26).
For Deadline’s takes connected nan autumn information of nan existent season, cheque retired reviews of Call Me Izzy, Mamma Mia!, Art, Waiting For Godot, Punch, Ragtime, Liberation, Little Bear Ridge Road, The Queen of Versailles, Oedipus, Chess, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), Marjorie Prime, and Bug.
Below is simply a compendium of our outpouring 2026 reviews. Click connected nan title to publication nan afloat versions. (Note: Due to a scheduling conflict, Deadline did not station a afloat opening-night reappraisal of Dog Day Afternoon.)
Every Brilliant Thing
Opening night: March 12
Venue: Broadway’s Hudson Theatre
Written by: Duncan Macmillan pinch Jonny Donahoe
Director: Jeremy Herrin & Duncan Macmillan
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe
Running time: 1 hr 10 min (no intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: In nan superb accumulation of nan solo play Every Brilliant Thing, Daniel Radcliffe’s unnamed narrator characteristic originates a puerility task that will agelong passim his life: He starts a database of each nan things that make life worthy surviving and gives this singular activity its title. Few who spot this accumulation will begrudge nan play and its prima a spot connected that list.
Giant
Opening night: March 23
Venue: Broadway’s Music Box Theater
Written by: Mark Rosenblatt
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Cast: John Lithgow, Aya Cash, Elliot Levey, Rachael Stirling, Stella Everett, David Manis
Running time: 2 hrs 20 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: John Lithgow’s singular Olivier Award-winning capacity — astatine this constituent successful nan far-from-over Broadway play he and Every Brilliant Thing‘s Daniel Radcliffe look headed for a showdown — is simply a terrifically nuanced affair, arsenic so are Mark Rosenblatt’s play and nan note-perfect guidance of Nicholas Hytner. Any formed of co-stars would beryllium deemed successful simply for holding its own, and this 1 does truthful overmuch much than that. Giant, thrilling and abrasive, is afloat of rewards.
Dog Day Afternoon
Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
Opening night: March 30
Venue: Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre
Written for nan shape by: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Director: Rupert Goold
Cast: Jon Bernthal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, John Ortiz, Jessica Hecht, Spencer Garrett, Michael Kostroff, Elizabeth Canavan, Brian D. Coats, Esteban Andres Cruz, Alex J. Gould, Danny Johnson, Paola Lázaro, Dom Martello, Wilemina Olivia-Garcia, Michael Puzzo, Christopher Sears, Michael Shayan, Jeff Still, Andrea Syglowski, Carmen Zilles.
Running time: 2 hrs 5 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Though not astir arsenic off-the-mark arsenic galore reviews suggested, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ adjustment of nan Sidney Lumet-directed 1975 movie classical that starred Al Pacino can’t thief but seeming diminished. While Bernthal impresses successful his Broadway debut arsenic nan “Attica! Attica!”-yelling slope robber (Pacino successful nan film) who is successful measurement complete his head, playwright Guirgis and head Rupert Goold grow nan gritty, claustrophobic caper communicative to see immoderate broad-stroke characteristic narratives of nan various bank-employee/hostages, a Key Largo-ish instrumentality invited mostly successful that it gives co-star Jessica Hecht (as nan caput slope teller) immoderate good moments. Ebon Moss-Bachrach, successful nan domiciled primitively played truthful indelibly by nan idiosyncratic John Cazale, can’t do overmuch to guidelines retired from nan play’s crowded crime scene.
Becky Shaw
Opening night: April 6
Venue: Broadway’s Hayes Theatre
Written by: Gina Gionfriddo
Director: Trip Cullman
Cast: Patrick Ball, Madeline Brewer, Alden Ehrenreich, Linda Emond, Lauren Patten
Running time: 2 hrs 15 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Seventeen years aft being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Gina Gionfriddo’s dark, sometimes giddy comedy Becky Shaw yet arrives connected Broadway, and noting that it was worthy nan hold is an understatement that nary of its brutally honorable anti-heroes would make. And if nan astir two-decades-in-the-making presence meant we had to hold for this fantabulous formed to travel together, each nan better.
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Opening night: April 7
Venue: Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre
Directors: Zhailon Levingston, Bill Rauch
Book & Lyrics: Based On Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats By T.S. Eliot
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cast: André De Shields, Ken Ard, Kya Azeen, Bryson Battle, Sherrod T. Brown, Jonathan Burke, Baby Byrne, Tara Lashan Clinkscales, Bryce Farris, Sydney James Harcourt, Dava Huesca, Dudney Joseph, Jr., Junior LaBeija, Leiomy, Robert “Silk” Mason, “Tempress” Chasity Moore, Primo Thee Ballerino, Xavier Reyes, Nora Schell, Bebe Nicole Simpson, Emma Sofia, Phumzile Sojola, Kendall Grayson Stroud, B Noel Thomas, Kalyn West, Donté Nadir Wilder, Garnet Williams, Teddy Wilson Jr.
Running time: 2 hr 25 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Cats: The Jellicle Ball is that uncommon thing: A classical shape spot reimagined not arsenic stark and gloomy minimalism (see Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma aliases Jamie Lloyd’s Sunset Blvd.) but arsenic a big, joyous glitter bomb.
Death of a Salesman
Opening night: April 9
Venue: Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre
Title: Death of a Salesman
Written by: Arthur Miller
Director: Joe Mantello
Cast: Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, Ben Ahlers, Joaquin Consuelos, Jake Termine, Karl Green, Tasha Lawrence, K. Todd Freeman, Jonathan Cake, Michael Benjamin Washington, Jake Silbermann, Katherine Romans, Mary Neely
Running time: 2 hr 50 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Nathan Lane takes his spot among nan best, his Willy Loman a powder keg of vexation and disappointment and deep, heavy sadness. Lane uses his loud, extracurricular sound to fantabulous effect, his shouts of exasperation and anger giving measurement to instant regret and recrimination. Watch, early Willys, and salary attention.
Titaníque
Opening night: April 12
Venue: Broadway’s St. James Theatre
Director: Tye Blue
Book: Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli
Music: The hits of Céline Dion
Cast: Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli, Jim Parsons, Melissa Barrera, Deborah Cox, Frankie Grande, John Riddle, Layton Williams
Running time: 1 hr 40 min (no intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Campier than nan campy Cats: The Jellicle Ball but nary little generous successful its clasp of queer heritage’s seismic effect connected American culture, Titaníque connected Broadway is bigger than a specified hoot. It’s a riotous, high-cresting ceremony conscionable erstwhile we request it most.
The Fear of 13
Opening night: March 12
Venue: Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theater
Written by: Lindsey Ferrentino (Based connected nan documentary directed by David Sington)
Director: David Cromer
Cast: Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson, Ephraim Sykes, Michael Cavinder, Eddie Cooper, Victor Cruz, Eboni Flowers, Joel Marsh Garland, Jared Wayne Gladly, Joe Joseph, Jeb Kreager, Ben Thompson
Running time: 1 hr 50 min (no intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Based connected a 2015 British documentary astir [falsely imprisoned Nick] Yarris by head David Sington, successful which Yarris is nan sole presence, relating his communicative to nan camera, The Fear of 13 — much astir nan title later- – expands nan communicative to see different inmates, immoderate standard-issue sadistic situation guards and, astir importantly, a jailhouse unpaid who falls successful emotion pinch nan charismatic Nick contempt her protestations to nan assemblage that, yes, she’s alert of really this each looks and no, she’s not 1 of those women who fetishize nan imprisoned…. [A]s 1 judicial hold follows another, our very morganatic vexation pinch an inhumane ineligible strategy originates to consciousness for illustration vexation pinch a communicative that mirrors Lucy, Charlie Brown and that ever-proffered football.
Proof
Opening night: April 16
Venue: Broadway’s Booth Theatre
Written by: David Auburn
Director: Thomas Kail
Cast: Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, Jin Ha, Kara Young
Running time: 2 hrs 15 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: With 2 of nan astir arresting first-act surprises this broadside of Becky Shaw‘s kinda-sorta pseudo-brother-sister kiss, Proof accomplishes nan improbable though intelligibly not impossible: It makes mathematic equations and nan eccentric geniuses who dream them up look nan worldly of enigma novels and family drama. Director Thomas Kail skillfully guides and paces his fantabulous formed done immoderate heady worldly pinch large affectional stakes.
Fallen Angels
Opening night: April 19
Title: Fallen Angels
Venue: Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre
Written by: Noël Coward
Director: Scott Ellis
Cast: Rose Byrne, Kelli O’Hara, Tracee Chimo, Mark Consuelos, Christopher Fitzgerald, Aasif Mandvi
Running time: 1 hr 30 min (no intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Noël Coward’s delightful, seldom produced 1925 comedy Fallen Angels is nan benignant of Broadway fare that gives critics ample logic to usage descriptors for illustration “fizzy” and “intoxicating” and “dizzying,” each apt successful capturing nan pleasures of its airy sophistication and raucous, gutbucket smart, rich-ladies-get-drunk laughs. What was existent successful nan Jazz Age remains so, arsenic the Roundabout Theatre Company production starring nan terrific Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara truthful bountifully proves.
Schmigadoon!
Opening night: April 20
Venue: Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre
Director: Christopher Gattelli
Book & Music: Cinco Paul (based connected nan Apple Original bid co-created by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio)
Cast: Alex Brightman, Sarah Chase, Ana Gasteyer, Ann Harada, Brad Oscar, Isabelle McCalla, Ivan Hernandez, Maulik Pancholy, Max Clayton, McKenzie Kurtz, Ayaan Diop
Running time: 2 hrs 30 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Titaníque is much outlandish (and funnier), Something Rotten! was sharper (and funnier) and Smash, well, Smash was nary of those… [But] Schmigadoon!, based connected nan first play of nan Apple Original series, is simply a bright, pleasant diversion from immoderate existent world villainy is bedeviling you astatine nan moment.
The Balusters
Opening night: April 21
Venue: Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Written by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Director Kenny Leon
Cast: Marylouise Burke, Kayli Carter, Ricardo Chavira, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Margaret Colin, Michael Esper, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Anika Noni Rose, Richard Thomas, Jeena Yi
Running time: 1 hr 40 min (no intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: We’ve seen this group move earlier – successful existent life possibly, but connected shape definitely, astir precocious successful nan brilliant Eureka Day and surreal The Minutes – and if nan excellently formed The Balusters doesn’t adhd importantly to nan committee-implosion genre it surely has its nosy on nan measurement to its comeuppances.
Beaches
Opening night: April 22
Venue: Broadway’s Majestic Theatre
Director: Lonny Price and Matt Cowart
Book: Iris Rainer Dart & Thom Thomas
Music: Mike Stoller, pinch Lyrics by Dart
Cast: Jessica Vosk, Kelli Barrett, Samantha Schwartz, Zeya Grace, Bailey Ryon, Emma Ogea, Ben Jacoby, Brent Thiessen, Sarah Bockel, Lael Van Keuren, Zurin Villanueva, Harper Burns
Running time: 2 hrs 30 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Beaches, A New Musical, arsenic nan afloat title has it, is simply a mostly forgettable endeavor, and that, sadly, includes a people that apt will not return its spot successful nan treasured bequest of its composer, nan awesome stone ‘n’ rotation songwriter Mike Stoller.
The Rocky Horror Show
Opening night: April 23
Venue: Broadway’s Studio 54
Director: Sam Pinkleton
Book, euphony & lyrics: Richard O’Brien
Cast: Luke Evans, Rachel Dratch, Andrew Durand, Amber Gray, Harvey Guillén, Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Josh Rivera, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Renée Albulario, Anania, Boy Radio, Caleb Quezon, Andres Quintero, Larkin Reilly, Paul Soileau, John Yi
Running time: 1 hr 50 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: With immensely appealing performances from Luke Evans (yes, he astir surely tin sing) arsenic nan sinister Frank-N-Furter, Rachel Dratch as nan droll narrator speedy pinch nan assemblage repartee, nan ever excellent Andrew Durand as uptight (until he’s not) Brad and Stephanie Hsu as timid (until she’s not) Janet, this Roundabout-produced Rocky Horror revival is simply a first-rate position of a spot that, on pinch John Waters’ early work, beautiful overmuch defined a definite strain of ’70s counter-culture fare.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Opening night: April 25
Venue: Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theater
Written by: August Wilson
Director: Debbie Allen
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Cedric The Entertainer, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Joshua Boone, Maya Boyd, Savannah Commodore/Dominique Skye Turner, Abigail Onwunali, Bradley Stryker, Tripp Taylor, Christopher Woodley/Jackson Edward Davis, Nimene Sierra Wureh
Running time: 2 Hrs 20 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Rare is nan Broadway play that hasn’t been bettered by an August Wilson revival, and this very engaged outpouring is nary exception. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, lovingly and astutely directed by Debbie Allen pinch a no-weak-link formed headed by Taraji P. Henson (in a superb Broadway debut), Cedric nan Entertainer and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, is thing little than a full-on reminder of Wilson’s singular brilliant for that signature blend of compelling naturalism and more-things-in-heaven-and-earth marvels that situate nan awesome author’s 10-play Century Cycle successful some Pittsburgh, nan Africa and The South of corporate representation and immoderate ancient, still-felt netherworld.
The Lost Boys
Opening night: April 26
Venue: Broadway’s Palace Theatre
Director: Michael Arden
Book: David Hornsby & Chris Hoch (Based connected nan Warner Bros movie The Lost Boys, Original Story by Janice Fischer & James Jeremias)
Music & lyrics: The Rescues
Cast: LJ Benet, Shoshana Bean, Ali Louis Bourzgui, Benjamin Pajak, Maria Wirries, Paul Alexander Nolan, Jennifer Duka, Miguel Gil, Brian Flores, Sean Grandillo, Dean Maupin
Running time: 2 hr 30 min (including intermission)
Deadline’s takeaway: Broadway’s Curse of nan Vampire Musicals mightiness beryllium taking a liking done nan bosom correct astir now. The Lost Boys, nan Michael Arden-directed shape adjustment of nan 1987 movie astir teenage bloodsuckers, is simply a killer.
