Here’s a roundup of the many A-listers who are taking to the stage in New York.

With star-studded casting announcements dropping one after the other, this season in New York City is packed with celebrities, both on and Off-Broadway. To help you decide which stars you should see in person, and budget accordingly, Playbill has compiled a list of A-listers whose shows you can see right now and those who are set to hit the New York stage in the coming months.

Many of the actors listed in this article are no strangers to the theatre, but are better known for their appearances in film, television, or music. And several are making their Broadway or Off-Broadway debuts. We’ve also included notable stars of the stage (such as Audra McDonald and Bernadette Peters). Below are the many, many stars of the season. For ease of planning, we’ve divided these celebrities into three sections: Newly Announced, Currently Running, and Upcoming.

Newly Announced Stars

Michelle Williams, Tom Sturridge (Anna Christie)

Off-Broadway institution St. Ann’s Warehouse will produce a new production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, starring Emmy Award-winning actor Michelle Williams and Tony-nominated actor Tom Sturridge, and directed by Tony winner Thomas Kail. The production will run November 25, 2025-February 1, 2026.

Williams will play the title character, a reformed prostitute. The last time screen actor Williams was on stage was in Blackbird in 2016 (actor Williams is not to be confused with pop star Michelle Williams, who is currently on Broadway in Death Becomes Her). Sturridge takes over for the previously announced Mike Faist, who had to depart the production; Sturridge plays the lead in Netflix’s The Sandman and has performed on Broadway in Sea Wall/A Life, Orphans, and 1984.

Carrie Coon (Bug)

Emmy nominee Carrie Coon, best known for The Gilded Age and The White Lotus, returns to the Broadway stage in the fall, starring in a play written by her husband, Tracy Letts. This isn’t the first time the two have worked together; they starred opposite each other in the 2012 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. So Gilded Age fans can get their fix as they wait for season four of the series, as Coon returns to the stage in this disturbing comedy about a woman who falls into madness when she takes up with a much younger man. Bug performances December 17, with a January 8, 2026 opening, at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle (Proof)

Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) and Academy award nominee Don Cheadle (Crash) will make their Broadway debuts spring 2026 in the first-ever New York revival of David Auburn’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play Proof. Directed by Tony winner Thomas Kail (Hamilton), Proof will play a strictly limited engagement at a Shubert theater to be announced, with preview performances beginning March 31, 2026, ahead of an April 16 opening night.

Proof tells the story of the daughter of a recently deceased mathematician who must fight to prove the authorship of a landmark proof that is discovered among her father’s papers, while also dealing with her father’s legacy of genius and mental illness.

June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, and Christopher Lowell (Marjorie Prime)

The cast is set for the upcoming Broadway premiere of Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime. Second Stage Theater is bringing the 2015 Pulitzer finalist work to its Helen Hayes Theater beginning November 20, ahead of a December 8 opening night.

Academy Award nominee June Squibb (Eleanor the Great) will star in the title role, sharing the stage with Tony Award winners Danny Burstein (Gypsy) and Cynthia Nixon (The Gilded Age), and Christopher Lowell (Promising Young Woman). The play is about a woman who uses a computer holographic system to bring back AI versions of the deceased. It first premiered Off-Broadway in 2015, with a different cast, though it seems now is a perfect time for a revisit considering the rise of AI.

Currently Performing Stars

Darren Criss (Maybe Happy Ending)

Darren Criss seamlessly moves between the stage and screen. While he’s a Golden Globe winner for American Crime Story and a former Glee cast member, he’s also a beloved musical theatre performer—his credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Little Shop of Horrors. But the current hit Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending is Criss’ first professional foray into an original stage musical; he plays a robot who learns how to love. And he earned a Tony for it. After playing the lead role of Oliver in the musical for almost a year, Criss will take a hiatus from the production August 31 and will return November 5.

As he told Playbill, Maybe Happy Ending has crossed off a big item on his bucket list: “​​Originate something that hasn’t been done on Broadway yet…I can categorically say that this will be something that you have never seen the likes of before on a Broadway stage.”

Michelle Williams (Death Becomes Her)

Out of all the members of the ’90s girl-group Destiny’s Child, Michelle Williams is the one that has kept a foot in the theatre world. The new musical Death Becomes Her marks her fourth Broadway credit—she was last seen in 2018 in the Once On This Island revival. And this latest project leans fully into Williams’ pop diva persona—she plays the beautiful and mysterious Viola Van Horn, who offers up an immortality potion.

As Williams told Playbill opening night of the show: “I don’t take any of it for granted at all. The fact that just a few years ago, we didn’t know what the status of theatre would become, everything was shut down, every industry was shut down. So I take nothing for granted. I’m humbled to be on this stage.”

Death Becomes Her is now running at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

Jonathan Groff and Gracie Lawrence (Just in Time)

Tony and Grammy winner Jonathan Groff’s extensive list of Broadway credits include Hamilton, Spring Awakening, Merrily We Roll Along, and more, but those who aren’t as tapped in to the Broadway scene may be more familiar with his screen (and voice) performances in Disney’s Frozen or Fox’s series Glee.

Groff will return to the stage beginning March 30 to play Bobby Darin in the new jukebox musical Just in Time. The immersive staging will see the theatre transformed into an intimate nightclub with a live, onstage big band. The show tracks Darin’s life story and will see Tony winner Groff performing Darin’s greatest hits, including “Beyond the Sea,” “Splish Splash,” and “Mack the Knife.”

Plus, if you’re a fan of The Sex Lives of College Girls on Max, then you’d know that its cast members are also singers: Broadway favorite Reneé Rapp has starred in all three seasons, and Gracie Lawrence, of the band Lawrence, joined the cast for the most recent one. Lawrence also currently stars opposite Groff in Just In Time. If you’re a Lawrence fan and want to see the singer take on some American standards, you can catch her at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Jinkx Monsoon, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie (Oh, Mary!)

Two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon is no stranger to the stage, having starred in Broadway’s Chicago (twice), Off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors, and more. After starring in Pirates! on Broadway, Monsoon went straight into Oh, Mary!, where she is playing the title role through September 27. “You know, taking time off is something that people tell me I should do. It’s not necessarily something I want to do. I love working, especially when the work is as good as this,” she tells Playbill.

Alongside her in this completely new cast is Marvel star and comedian Kumail Nanjiani (The Eternals), making his Broadway debut, as well as stage favorite Michael Urie (Once Upon a Mattress).

Billy Porter and Marsha Wallace (Cabaret)

Broadway’s immersive revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Cabaret will play its final performance at the Kit Kat Club née August Wilson Theatre October 19. The Broadway revival has new stars for its final performances: Marisha Wallace and Billy Porter, bringing their Sally Bowles and Emcee, respectively, stateside after starring in the revival’s West End bow.

The performance is Porter’s first time back on Broadway in nearly a decade. Wallace, a veteran of the original Broadway companies of Aladdin and Something Rotten!, is making a triumphant Broadway return after becoming a star on London’s West End, a journey that began with a last-minute replacement as Effie White in the U.K. Dreamgirls revival and has since seen her make star turns as Miss Adelaide in Bridge Theatre’s immersive Guys and Dolls, Ado Annie in the West End bow of Daniel Fish’s Tony-winning Oklahoma! revival, and more. Learn how Wallace feels about her homecoming, and how Porter first tried out for the Emcee over 30 years ago in this Playbill interview.

Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong’o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Sandra Oh (Twelfth Night)

Shakespeare in the Park is always a must-attend event every summer, and this year it’s even more-so. Not only is this summer the anticipated reopening of the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park after its remodel, but it’s also a starry version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The best part? It’s free. Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (Twelve Years a Slave) will play Viola opposite her real-life brother Junior. Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) will play Malvolio, Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) will play Andrew Aguecheek, and Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) will play Olivia. Also part of this all-star cast is Bill Camp as Sir Toby Belch, Khris Davis as Orsino, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Maria, and Moses Sumney as Feste. Performances continuing through September 14.

If you can’t make it to the park, don’t worry. PBS will film the production and air it November 14.

James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale (Art)

Yasmina Reza’s 1998 Tony Award-winning play Art will receive a very starry Broadway revival, starring Tony and Emmy-winning actors James Corden (The Late Late Show With James Corden) and Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), and Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire). They will play three friends who argue over a painting. The revival, currently in performances at the Music Box Theatre, opens September 16. The limited engagement will run until December 21.

Upcoming Stars

Leslie Odom, Jr (Hamilton)

He’s going back to the room where it happens. Tony-winning Hamilton original cast member Leslie Odom, Jr. will return to the Broadway company of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical in the fall. Odom, Jr., who won the 2016 Tony for creating the role of Aaron Burr in the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, will again play Burr at the Richard Rodgers Theatre September 9-November 23. The stage and screen star was most recently on Broadway in a Tony-nominated turn in the 2023 revival of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch. Since his breakout role in Hamilton, the actor has been seen on screen in The Good Wife, Murder on the Orient Express, One Dollar, Only, Love in the Time of Corona, Central Park, Abbott Elementary, The Many Saints of Newark, and an Oscar-nominated performance in One Night in Miami… Odom, Jr. also hosted The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back on CBS and can be seen in the filmed TV version of Hamilton. Odom, Jr.’s return coincides with the musical’s 10th Broadway anniversary.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (Waiting for Godot)

Party on dudes! The upcoming Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot will reunite Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure film stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter for a new production of the Samuel Beckett play, directed by Jamie Lloyd (of the current similarly star-led Sunset Boulevard revival ). Performances will begin September 13 at the Hudson Theatre ahead of a September 28 opening night. The limited engagement will continue through January 4, 2026.

Reeves will play Estragon opposite Winter’s Vladimir, with additional casting to be announced. The production will mark Reeves’ Broadway debut (though he does support theatre behind-the-scenes, as a board member of the Brooklyn theatre company The Bushwick Starr). Winter previously appeared on Broadway as a child, playing John Darling in the 1979 Sandy Duncan-led Peter Pan.

Aubrey Plaza (Let’s Love!)

Parks and Recreation fan favorite Aubrey Plaza returns to the New York stage in Let’s Love! this fall (in 2023, she starred in an Off-Broadway revival of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea). Let’s Love! is written by Oscar winner Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men). It’s a trio of one-acts, that explores, according to press notes, “love in all its miserable glory.” Let’s Love! will run at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company September 25–November 9.

Tom Hanks (The World of Tomorrow)

Off-Broadway’s The Shed has added a world premiere play from Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and James Glossman to its upcoming season. The World of Tomorrow, based on Hanks’ short stories, will play the company’s Griffin Theater beginning October 30 and continuing through December 21. Tony winner Kenny Leon will direct.

Two-time Academy Award winner Hanks will also star in the work, playing Bert Allenberry, a scientist from the future who travels through time to 1939’s World’s Fair in Queens, New York, in search of true love. The story comes from a collection of Hanks’ short stories that was published in 2017. Hanks is best known for his screen work in such titles as Sleepless in Seattle, Big, Apollo 13, and Forrest Gump. He made his Broadway debut in 2013’s Lucky Guy, earning a Tony Award for his performance. This upcoming performance will be his first New York stage performance in more than a decade, in a play whose cast also includes Tony winners Kelli O’Hara and Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

Kristin Chenoweth (The Queen of Versailles)

It’s a Wicked-ly delightful reunion! Tony winner (and original Glinda) Kristin Chenoweth is collaborating with composer Stephen Schwartz on a new musical: The Queen of Versailles. Chenoweth will play real-life socialite Jackie Siegel who, with her husband David (played by F. Murray Abraham), try to build a lavish estate in Florida…during the 2008 financial crisis. Lindsey Ferrentino writes the book. The musical will play the St. James Theatre, with previews beginning October 8 ahead of a November 10 opening night. And with Chenoweth and Idina Menzel both on Broadway around the same time (more on that below), we couldn’t be happier!

Aaron Tveit and Lea Michele (Chess)

Heaven help our hearts, because Chess is returning to Broadway at last, stacked with an all-star cast. The cult-favorite musical has not officially graced the Broadway stage (save for a few one-night-only concerts) since its premiere in 1988, which ran for just two months. The show will previews October 15 at the Imperial Theatre, with opening night set for November 16. The Imperial was also the home of the original production of Chess in 1988.. The cast will be led by Tony winner Aaron Tveit as Freddie Trumper and Glee’s Lea Michele as Florence Vassey.

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville (Oedipus)

British screen stars Mark Strong (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Lesley Manville (The Crown) will play husband and wife (among other relations) in Oedipus. The production by Robert Icke won two 2025 Olivier Awards when it ran last year in the West End, including Best Actress for Manville and Best Revival of a Play. Performances will begin at Studio 54 beginning October 30. Opening night will be November 13.

Kevin McHale (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

Between Lea Michele, Kristin Chenoweth, and Kevin McHale, Glee fans are going to have a good time in New York this fall. McHale will star in an Off-Broadway revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee alongside a cast of up-and-coming musical theatre talent: Philippe Arroyo, Autumn Best, Leana Rae Concepcion, Justin Cooley, Matt Manuel, and Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers. The musical follows middle schoolers who compete in a spelling bee. The show begins performances November 7 and opens November 17 at New World Stages.

Tom Felton (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Tom Felton, who played Harry Potter’s arch-nemesis Draco Malfoy in all eight Harry Potter films, will reprise the role in Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child this fall. Felton will return to the role for the first time in nearly 15 years beginning November 11 at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre for a limited 19-week engagement through March 22, 2026. Felton, who will be making his Broadway debut, will be the first actor from the original Harry Potter film to join the stage production, which takes place 19 years after the end of the original series.

Matthew Broderick, Bianca Del Rio, David Cross (Tartuffe)

The place to be this fall is New York Theatre Workshop, for its production of Molière’s classic farce Tartuffe, with a very starry cast. Tony winner Matthew Broderick (The Producers) will lead the cast as the morally bankrupt Tartuffe, a charlatan who claims to be an upstanding citizen who infiltrates a wealthy family. The cast will also include Emmy Award winner David Cross (Arrested Development) as Orgon, Obie Award winner Emily Davis (Is This A Room) as Mariane, RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca del Rio as Mme Pernelle, Tony Award nominee Amber Gray (Hadestown) as Elmire, Obie Award winner Ryan Haddad (Dark Disabled Stories) as Damis, 2025 Tony Award winner Francis Jue(Yellow Face) as Cleante, Tony Award winner Lisa Kron (Fun Home) as Dorine, and Emmy Award nominee Ike Ufomadu (Ziwe) as Valére. The play, in a new version by Lucas Hnath (A Doll’s House, Part 2) will premiere this fall, with dates TBA.

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Dog Day Afternoon)

Yes chef! Dog Day Afternoon, a new play from Pulitzer winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy), will make its Broadway debut in spring 2026, with Emmy-winning The Bear stars Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach starring. Dates and a theatre are to be announced.

The true crime story, which previously inspired the 1975 film of the same name, centers on a 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery gone wrong that turns into a hostage situation. Bernthal will play Sonny Amato to Moss-Bachrach’s Sal DeSilva. Frank Pierson wrote the 1975 film, adapting P.F. Kluge’s Life magazine article “The Boys in the Bank.” Warner Bros., which released the film, is producing the upcoming stage play, though it doesn’t appear to be a direct adaptation of Pierson’s screenplay.

Rose Byrne (Fallen Angels)

Spring 2026 will see a new production of Noël Coward’s comedy Fallen Angels at the Todd Haimes Theatre, directed by Scott Ellis and starring Tony winner Kelli O’Hara (The King and I) and Emmy nominee Rose Byrne (Damages). Though Byrne is known primarily for screen work, she has done theatre before—notably in a Medea at Brooklyn Academy of Music opposite her real-life husband Bobby Cannavale. Dates are TBA

Taraji P Henson and Cedric “The Entertainer” (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone)

Oscar, Tony, and Emmy nominee Taraji P. Henson (The Color Purple) and six-time NAACP Image Award winner Cedric “The Entertainer” will star in a Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone on Broadway next year.

Directed by Golden Globe and four-time Emmy winner Debbie Allen, the Wilson classic will open in spring 2026 at a Shubert theatre to be announced. Additional casting and creative team members will be announced at a later date.

Renée Elise Goldsberry (The Balusters)

Tony Award winner (and original Hamilton star) Renée Elise Goldsberry makes her return to Broadway after a decade in David Lindsay-Abaire’s new play, The Balusters, set to play spring 2026 at the Friedman Theatre.

The play centers on a small-town neighborhood association experiencing some big drama—namely, the concept of installing a new stop sign on the neighborhood’s most bucolic block. Though Goldsberry has a new album out and has sung on the television series Girls5Eva, expect her to show up her dramatic and acting chops in this new play.

Playbill will continue to update this list as more stars, and the theatres they’re playing in, are announced.

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