半岛体育 proudly presents Spring Preview 2024. Here, we take a deep dive into some of the most anticipated shows coming up in NYC (and the people behind them). Scroll below for in-depth features, exclusive music videos, and beautiful photography. From a comforting story about everlasting love, to an original new musical about a powerful historic figure, to a play that will leave you with more questions than answers, this spring on Broadway runs the full gamut of form and emotions. We'll see you at the theatre.
First Preview: January 6, 2024
Opening Date: January 28, 2024
A searing new musical about a couple falling in love in 1950鈥檚 New York and struggling against themselves to rebuild a family.
First Preview: February 3, 2024
Opening Date: March 7, 2024
Sister Aloysius, the prickly principal of a Catholic school in a working-class part of the Bronx, is feared by students and colleagues alike. But when she suspects nefarious relations between the charismatic priest Father Flynn and a student, she鈥檚 forced to wrestle with what鈥檚 fact, what鈥檚 fiction, and how much she鈥檒l risk to expose the difference鈥攁ll the while wrestling with her own bone-deep doubts.
First Preview: February 10, 2024
Opening Date: March 14, 2024
Relive the romance! Based on the best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film, this world premiere new musical is led by a powerhouse creative team, teaming up to stage a deeply moving portrait of the enduring power of love. Beginning with a whirlwind summer romance, the decades-long love story between a mill worker named Noah and a privileged debutante named Allie spans a lifetime鈥攊n spite of the differences that threaten to pull them apart.
First Preview: February 24, 2024
Opening Date: March 21, 2024
After losing what matters most, a young man jumps a moving train unsure of where the road will take him and finds a new home with the remarkable crew of a traveling circus, and a life鈥攁nd love鈥攂eyond his wildest dreams. Seen through the eyes of his older self, his adventure becomes a poignant reminder that if you choose the ride, life can begin again at any age.
First Preview: February 27, 2024
Opening Date: March 18, 2024
A small-town doctor considers himself a proud, upstanding member of his close-knit community. When he discovers a catastrophe that risks the lives of everyone in town, he raises the alarm. But he is shaken to his core when those in power not only try to silence him鈥攖hey try to destroy him.
First Preview: March 4, 2024
Opening Date: March 4, 2024
The new, one-night-only concert event Legacy: An Evening with Maria Friedman and Friends will celebrate the brilliance of Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch and Michel Legrand on Monday, March 4, 2024 at 8pm at Broadway鈥檚 Hudson Theatre. The evening will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Stephen Sondheim Foundation and The Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards.
First Preview: March 8, 2024
Opening Date: March 28, 2024
Myth and spectacle combine in a fresh reinvention of The Who鈥檚 exhilarating 1969 rock concept album, Tommy鈥攊ncluding the unforgettable anthems 鈥淚鈥檓 Free,鈥� 鈥淪ee Me, Feel Me,鈥� 鈥淪ensation鈥� and 鈥淧inball Wizard.鈥� After witnessing his father shoot his rival, the young Tommy Walker is lost in the universe, endlessly and obsessively staring into the mirror. An innate knack for pinball catapults him from reticent adolescent to celebrity savior.
First Preview: March 11, 2024
Opening Date: March 11, 2024
A quarter of a century ago, Alan Cumming stepped onto the stage at Studio 54 as the Master of Ceremonies in a production of Cabaret that forever changed the Broadway landscape. For the first time in nearly a decade, he returns to Broadway and the iconic location for his solo show, Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age.
First Preview: March 16, 2024
Opening Date: April 11, 2024
The story that's defined generations. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical that's inspiring the next.
First Preview: March 19, 2024
Opening Date: April 14, 2024
First Preview: March 26, 2024
Opening Date: April 18, 2024
It鈥檚 1913 and the women鈥檚 movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists 鈥� 鈥淪uffs,鈥� as they call themselves 鈥� and their relentless pursuit of the right to vote. Reaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight. So much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment over a century ago, and yet we鈥檙e reminded sometimes we need to look back, in order to march fearlessly into the future
First Preview: March 28, 2024
Opening Date: April 20, 2024
HELL鈥橲 KITCHEN, the award-winning Broadway musical created and inspired by Alicia Keys, takes you on the journey of Ali 鈥� a 17-year-old girl full of fire.
Relatable, raw, and refreshingly fun, it鈥檚 a celebration of finding yourself, your purpose, and the people who lift you up. The music 鈥� a mix of Keys鈥� classics and new songs written exclusively for the show 鈥� and exhilarating choreography bring to life a story that speaks to you no matter where you鈥檙e from, where you鈥檝e been, or where you鈥檙e going. Come experience where dreams begin: HELL鈥橲 KITCHEN.
First Preview: March 29, 2024
Opening Date: April 17, 2024
Based on L. Frank Baum鈥檚 children鈥檚 book, 鈥淭he Wonderful Wizard of Oz鈥�, The Wiz takes one of the world鈥檚 most enduring (and enduringly white) American fantasies, and transforms it into an all-Black musical extravaganza for the ages.
First Preview: March 29, 2024
Opening Date: April 22, 2024
A raucous rom-com wrapped in pure musical joy, The Heart of Rock and Roll centers on a couple of thirty-somethings who know exactly what they want from life鈥攗ntil they find each other. It鈥檚 going to take 鈥淭he Power of Love鈥� 鈥� and a little help from their friends 鈥� to show them the way. Jam-packed with Huey Lewis megahits like "Workin鈥� For A Livin鈥�," "Stuck With You," and 鈥淚f This Is It,鈥� this is Broadway's newest feel-great musical.
First Preview: March 29, 2024
Opening Date: April 25, 2024
The party's roaring on Broadway! THE GREAT GATSBY is a great, big, explosive extravaganza. Directed by Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), this story of extravagance and longing features choreography by Dominique Kelley (So You Think You Can Dance), a book by Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones) and a jazz- and pop-influenced original score by Jason Howland (Little Women) and Nathan Tysen (Paradise Square).
First Preview: April 1, 2024
Opening Date: April 21, 2024
In here, life is beautiful.
Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome to the Kit Kat Club. Home to an intimate and electrifying new production of CABARET. Experience this groundbreaking musical like never before. The denizens of the Kit Kat Club have created a decadent sanctuary inside Broadway鈥檚 August Wilson Theatre, where artists and performers, misfits and outsiders rule the night. Step inside their world. This is Berlin. Relax. Loosen up. Be yourself.
First Preview: April 1, 2024
Opening Date: April 22, 2024
In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russia belongs to its oligarchs鈥攁nd no one is more powerful than billionaire Boris Berezovsky. When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. But soon Putin's ruthless rise threatens Berezovsky's reign, setting off a riveting, near-Shakespearean confrontation between the two powerful, fatally flawed men.
First Preview: April 2, 2024
Opening Date: April 19, 2024
Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup 鈥� or their breakthrough.
First Preview: April 2, 2024
Opening Date: April 23, 2024
Captivating, affecting and compassionate, Mary Jane the story of a single mother in an impossible family situation. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, Mary Jane relies on unflagging optimism and humor, along with the wisdom of the women around her who have become a makeshift family, to take on each new day. But will inner strength and newfound friendships be enough to see her through?
First Preview: April 3, 2024
Opening Date: April 24, 2024
Sonya and her uncle Vanya have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father and his charismatic wife move in, their lives are upended. In the heat of the summer, the wrong people fall in love, desires and resentments erupt, and the family is forced to reckon with the ghosts of their unlived lives.
First Preview: April 3, 2024
Opening Date: April 25, 2024
It鈥檚 1962, just outside of D.C., and matriarch Phyllis is supervising her teenage children, Carl and Martha, as they move into a new apartment. Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and be to succeed, and woe be the child who finds their own path. Bolstered by gin and cigarettes, the family endures 鈥� or survives 鈥� the changing world around them. Blending flares of imaginative theatricality, surreal farce, and deep tenderness, this beautiful rollercoaster ride reveals timeless truths of love, family, and forgiveness.
First Preview: April 15, 2024
Opening Date: April 15, 2024
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director) announces Emmy & Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth in KRISTIN: AN EVENING WITH FRIENDS FOR TODD, a special benefit concert directed & choreographed by Warren Carlyle, on Monday, April 15, 2024 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
First Preview: April 24, 2024
Opening Date: April 24, 2024
Based on the landmark Sufjan Stevens album, Illinoise is told through live music performed by an 11-member band, three vocalists and impressionistic choreography. As friends gather around a campfire, sharing stories of first love, grief and growing up, director and choreographer Justin Peck and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury craft an experience that bursts with feeling.