Broadway This Fall: Opening Nights to Watch
Four shows open by Oct. 29 and many more follow through spring. A date-by-date guide to Broadway's openings, from Billy Crystal to Tom Hiddleston.
The Broadway fall season is in full swing, and the next five weeks are crowded. According to the Broadway League's opening night calendar and Playbill's schedule, last updated Oct. 15, four productions open in the final two weeks of October, and a steady run of openings follows into the new year. This guide sorts the season by date, using only dates and credits published by those sources and [Broadway.com](http://Broadway.com)'s fall preview. Schedules change, so confirm with the theater before you buy.
Opening this week and next
Other Desert Cities opens tonight, Oct. 18, at the Hudson Theatre. It is the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama, directed by John Benjamin Hickey and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe. [Broadway.com](http://Broadway.com) describes the story as a Christmas Eve return to Palm Springs by Brooke (Rabe), whose tell-all memoir threatens to expose a long-buried secret.
860 opens Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the Imperial Theatre. Billy Crystal wrote and performs the autobiographical solo show, directed by Scott Ellis. The title is the address of the Pacific Palisades home Crystal lost in the 2025 fires. The Broadway League lists a closing date of Jan. 3, 2027.
The Imaginary Invalid opens Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Bill Irwin adapted Molière's comedy and stars with Rachel Bloom, Dylan Baker and Brooks Ashmanskas. Brandon J. Dirden makes his Broadway directorial debut. The League lists a closing date of Nov. 22, so this is a short run.
A Few Good Men opens Oct. 29 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Michael Arden directs the first Broadway revival of Aaron Sorkin's play, with Bradley Whitford, Krysta Rodriguez and Tom Blyth in his Broadway debut. It is scheduled to close Jan. 10, 2027.
November: the heavy month
Wanted, a new musical from Ross Baum (music) and Angelica Cheri (book and lyrics), opens Nov. 8 at the James Earl Jones Theatre after previews that began Oct. 15. Playbill says it is inspired by Mary and Martha Clarke, African American twin sisters who take extraordinary measures to settle their mother's sharecropper debt, and that it was previously staged as Gun & Powder at Signature Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse. Stevie Walker-Webb directs; the cast includes Solea Pfeiffer, Liisi LaFontaine, Luke James and Ledisi.
Here There Are Blueberries, the Tectonic Theater Project play, opens Nov. 9 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Playbill describes it as a Pulitzer Prize finalist about the real-life discovery of a book of Nazi photographs, directed by Moises Kaufman. Now You See Me Live, a magic spectacle based on the film series, opens Nov. 11 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
Downstate, Bruce Norris's play about convicted sex offenders in a halfway house, opens Nov. 15 at the Booth Theatre with previews from Oct. 20, directed by Joe Mantello. The Fantasticks follows on Nov. 16 at the Hayes Theatre, revised as a gay love story, according to Playbill. Blue Man Group opens a holiday-themed show Nov. 17 at the Lunt-Fontanne, and It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play opens Nov. 18 at the Broadhurst with Andrew Rannells, Megan Hilty and Tituss Burgess.
Much Ado About Nothing opens Nov. 19 at the Winter Garden Theatre, with Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Jamie Lloyd's production, which premiered in London in spring 2025.
December through spring
Inter Alia, Suzie Miller's drama about a London Crown Court judge, opens Dec. 1 at the Music Box, starring Rosamund Pike. Galileo, a musical with Raul Esparza, opens Dec. 6 at the Shubert.
In 2027, Awake and Sing! (Clifford Odets, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre) opens Jan. 7, and Dolly: A True Original Musical opens Jan. 19 at the St. James, written by Parton (book, music and lyrics) and Maria S. Schlatter (book). Dominique Morisseau's Mix and Master, about a DJ trying to save Brooklyn's last record shop, opens Jan. 27. Later: Evita with Rachel Zegler on March 25, and Purple Rain on April 12 at the Majestic.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis's Warriors, based on the 1979 film about a fictional New York gang, is announced for March 2027 at the Lunt-Fontanne, but Playbill lists no confirmed opening date.
Already open
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh opened Sept. 28 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre with Patina Miller, Denee Benton and Jasmine Amy Rogers, according to [Broadway.com](http://Broadway.com).
What we could not confirm
We did not collect reviews, ticket prices or grosses, and we do not rate the shows. Some titles on Playbill's longer list are marked "in the works" without dates, and we left them out. Previews and closing dates can shift.
FAQ
What opens on Broadway in October 2026?
Other Desert Cities (Oct. 18), 860 (Oct. 21), The Imaginary Invalid (Oct. 22) and A Few Good Men (Oct. 29).
Where is Billy Crystal's show?
860 plays the Imperial Theatre.
When does Much Ado About Nothing open?
Nov. 19 at the Winter Garden Theatre, with previews from Oct. 31.
Sources
*Cover photo: Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons, *[*https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Billy_Crystal_(26871563068).jpg*](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Billy_Crystal_(26871563068).jpg)* (CC BY-SA 2.0).*