Upcoming Broadway Shows for 2024

Once Upon a Mattress starring Sutton Foster as Princess Winnifred heads to Broadway after a hit run at New York City Center Encores! Playing at the Hudson Theatre starting July 31, 2024, this hilarious update of The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen is sure to bring in the crowds. The New York Times said Sutton Foster is “a perfectly goofy princess.”

The Roommate, written by Jen Silverman and directed by Jack O’Brien, will play at the Booth Theatre starting August 29, 2024. Patti LuPone (Evita, Company, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy) and Mia Farrow (Rosemary’s Baby, The Great Gatsby, The Watcher) star as two surprising roommates with a new lease on life. Bad behavior, new beginnings, and big laughs take the stage in this comedy that the Tampa Bay Times said “breathes new life into the odd couple trope.”

McNeal, written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher, stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Jacob McNeal, a great writer with great grudges and an interest in AI. The play will run at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre starting September 5, 2024. Additional casting will be announced soon. Akhtar has also had his plays Disgraced, The Who & the What, and Junk produced at Lincoln Center.

Our Town by Thornton Wilder is directed by Kenny Leon and comes to the Barrymore Theatre in September 2024. This iconic play tells the story of a small town, with the stage manager narrating the goings-on if its inhabitants. Children grow up, people get married, people die, and most of all, people live. The cast includes Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and Ephraim Sykes.

Romeo and Juliet comes to Circle in the Square Theatre in September 2024 starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler. With music by Jack Antonoff, movement by Sonya Tayeh, and direction from Sam Gold, this production will bring a new generation to the timeless classic. Get tickets now to see these star-crossed lovers!

Sunset Boulevard, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, and direction from Jamie Lloyd, comes to the St. James Theater in September 2024. Nicole Sherzinger stars as Norma Desmond in this musical about a movie star struggling to reignite her career and a screenwriter trying to break into Hollywood. The production won seven Olivier Awards in its run on the West End, and The New York Times said, “Nicole Scherzinger is captivating…a career-defining performance.”

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical comes to Studio 54 in October 2024. Celebrating the music, life, and career of Louis Armstrong, Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart – best known for his performance as the Genie in Aladdin on Broadway – plays the iconic Armstrong in this show conceived by Christopher Renshaw and Andrew Delaplaine with a book by Aurin Squire. Renshaw directs and Rickey Tripp provides choreography. The musical features songs like “What a Wonderful World” and “When You’re Smiling.” The Chicago Tribune said, “Iglehart is just fabulous in ‘A Wonderful World.’”

Maybe Happy Ending starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen will play on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre starting October 16, 2024. Criss stars as Oliver, a retired robot who loves jazz records. When he meets another robot, Claire, both of their lives will change forever. BroadwayWorld called it “marvelous…not to be missed…it’ll leave you both eager and afraid to assess your own relationship to love.”

Swept Away comes to Broadway in October 2024 after hit runs at both Berkeley Rep in California and Arena Stage in Washington DC. With music by the Avett Brothers, book by John Logan, and direction from Michael Mayer, this musical follows two brothers who leave home to find themselves on the high seas, only for the bonds of brotherhood to be tested after an untimely shipwreck. SFGate called it, “a riveting, foreboding ride.”

Tammy Faye, with music by Elton John, lyrics by Jake Shears, book by James Graham, and direction by Rubert Goold, plays at the Palace Theatre starting in October 2024 after a hit run in London. The musical is set in the 1970s and follows Tammy Faye Bakker, the wife of pastor Jim Bakker, as they build their nationwide following through their televangelist program on cable tv. Katie Brayben reprises her role in a production The Guardian called “infectious in its music, exhuberant in its performances and gloriously kitsch in its aesthetic…it reaches a delirious kind of excellence.”

Eureka Day, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Anna Shapiro, will play at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre starting in the Fall 2024. Set during an administrative meeting at an elementary school, the board must reevaluate its own values and priorities surrounding their vaccine policy during a mumps outbreak. Variety said of the London production, “The ever-increasing roars of laughter of recognition at the nonstop online accusations, whataboutery, age-old squabbles, pure viciousness and inevitable Nazi name-calling drown everything out to such hilarious effect that the scene’s lights-out first act ending is greeted not just with rampant applause but cheers.”