Broadway's Fall 2026 Season Announced: Seven New Shows Including a Spielberg Adaptation

NEW YORK -- The Broadway League announced the fall 2026 season on Friday with a lineup of seven new productions that the organization described as the most commercially anticipated fall season since the pandemic -- headlined by a stage adaptation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, produced and directed by Steven Spielberg in his Broadway debut, opening at the St. James Theatre on October 17. The season also includes a new musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda, a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company with an all-Black cast directed by Phylicia Rashad, and a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage.

Spielberg's E.T. stage adaptation, which has been in development for three years, will use a combination of animatronics, projection mapping, and live performance to recreate and extend the story of the 1982 film. The production is described in promotional materials as 'a theatrical experience built for the age of immersive spectacle' and will feature an original score by John Williams, who also composed the film's iconic music. Pre-sale tickets for the first three months of performances sold out within six hours of the announcement, with face values ranging from $99 for upper mezzanine seats to $499 for orchestra premium locations.

Miranda's new show, titled Oasis, is described as an original musical set in contemporary Miami that explores questions of belonging, intergenerational memory, and the experience of Cuban American identity. Miranda, who has not had a new Broadway musical since Hamilton's 2015 debut, has kept details of the project tightly guarded, and Friday's announcement provided only a brief synopsis and the names of his creative collaborators, which include choreographer Camille A. Brown and set designer Beowulf Boritt. The show is scheduled to open at the Richard Rodgers Theatre -- where Hamilton ran for seven years -- on November 4.

The Sondheim revival, directed by Phylicia Rashad in her Broadway directorial debut, will cast an all-Black ensemble in the role of Bobby and his circle of married friends, a choice that producers say is designed to explore how the show's meditation on commitment, solitude, and chosen family resonates differently when filtered through the specific social and cultural context of Black urban life in the 21st century. The production opens at the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center on September 19, in the same theater where the original 1970 production received its world premiere.