Which celebrities are coming to Broadway in the fall of 2024

Each season, more than a few household names come through the Theater District to perform alongside all of our Broadway favorites! This upcoming session is packed with some of Hollywood’s brightest stars, some making their Broadway debuts and others coming back for more. You know them from your favorite Marvel movies, iconic TV series and musical shows. See here which stars are making their mark downtown for the Fall 2024 season!

Plus, find out what shows are coming to Broadway in 2024 and 2025!

Robert Downey Jr. and Melora Hardin

Robert Downey Jr. will make his Broadway debut in McNeal alongside a cast of The Office’s Melora Hardin, Brittany Bellizeare, Rafi Gavron, Andrea Martin, Ruthie Ann Miles and Saisha Talwar. Jacob McNeal is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with artificial intelligence. Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar’s new play is a startling and wicked examination of the inevitable humanity—and increasing inhumanity—of the stories we tell. (More…)

McNeal opens September 30 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The limited engagement will end on November 24, 2024.

Daniel Dae Kim

Daniel Dae Kim will play the role of “DHH” in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face. The production features Kevin Del Aguila as “Actor A”, Ryan Eggold as “Marcus”, Francis Jue as “HYH & Others”, Marinda Anderson as “Actor B”, Greg Keller as “Reporter/NWOAC” and Shannon Tyo as “Leah and Others.” Kim returns to Broadway after making his debut in the 2016 revival of The King and I. Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictional doppelgänger protests the casting of yellowface in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast an actor white as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer Finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race. (More…)

Yellow Face opens at the Todd Haimes Theater on October 1st. The limited employment will end on November 24, 2024.

Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, Richard Thomas

Starring four-time Emmy winner Jim Parsons, Our Town returns to Broadway for the first time in over 20 years. Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic will shine in a new production, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon. Parsons stars alongside In Wilder’s timeless tale of a small town, a stage manager chronicles the daily lives of its townspeople, describes a childhood friendship turned into marriage, and sets the stage for magnificent truths about what it means to be in life. The play will feature 28 actors, including Parsons, Zoey Deutch as “Emily Webb,” Katie Holmes as “Mrs. Webb,” Obie & Audelco Award winner and Drama Desk nominee Billy Eugene Jones as “Dr. Gibbs,” Tony and Grammy Award nominee Ephraim Sykes as “George Gibbs,” Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee and Emmy Award nominee Richard Thomas as “Mr. Webb,” Tony & Drama Desk nominee Michelle Wilson as “Mrs. Gibbs,” 2021 Special Tony Award winner and Drama Desk nominee Julie Halston as “Mrs. Soames,” Donald Webber Jr. as “Simon Stimpson,” and more. (More…)

Our Town will begin previews on Tuesday, September 17 before opening on Thursday, October 10 at the Barrymore Theater for a strictly limited engagement.

Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor

Rachel Zegler (Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story) and Kit Connor (Netflix’s Heartstopper) will both make their Broadway debuts as Juliet and Romeo, respectively, in a Broadway revival of William Shakespeare’s most famous play this fall . The production will be directed by Sam Gold, with music by Grammy Award winner Jack Antonoff and movement by Tony Award winner Sonya Tayeh. Young people are the devil. Left to their own devices in their parents’ world of violent ends, an impulsive pair of star-crossed lovers hurtle towards their inevitable fate. The tall intoxicant of passion quickly descends into brutal chaos that can only end one way. (More…)

ROMEO + JULIET will begin performances on Thursday, September 26, 2024 and will officially open on Thursday, October 24, 2024 at the Circle in the Square Theater for a run until Sunday, February 16, 2025.

Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher

Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Julianna Margulies (“The Good Wife”) stars as Delia, and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Peter Gallagher (“Grace and Frankie”) stars as Peter in Left on Tenth. Delia Ephron’s new play, based on her New York Times bestselling memoir, opens on Broadway this fall at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Left on Tenth is a romantic comedy about second chances in life and love. When she least expects it, Delia, the beloved novelist and screenwriter of You’ve Got Mail, makes a surprising connection with a man from her past and falls into her own romantic comedy. What begins with an unlikely spark blossoms into a love story that seems to defy all odds in the face of life’s challenges. Left on Tenth celebrates the messy and beautiful true story of two people with the courage to open their hearts again. (More…)

Left on Tenth is set to begin performances at The James Earl Jones Theater on September 26th, with an official opening on October 23rd.

Nicole Scherzinger

Olivier Award winner and Grammy Award nominee Nicole Scherzinger will make her Broadway debut as “Norma Desmond” in Jamie Lloyd’s upcoming Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd. Haunted by her memories and dreams, movie star Norma Desmond (Nicole Scherzinger) longs to return to the big screen. A struggling screenwriter (Tom Francis) who can’t sell his scripts to Hollywood studios may be her only hope, until their dangerous and compelling relationship leads to disastrous circumstances. Drenched in champagne and cynicism, Sunset Blvd. examines the ambitions and frustrations of its characters and their intoxicating need for fame and adoration. (More…)

Sunset Blvd. will begin performances on September 28, 2024 at the St. James

Alyssa Milano

The Broadway Company of Chicago will soon welcome Alyssa Milano, making her Broadway debut as “Roxie Hart.” Chicago is the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. (More…)

Milano begins performances on Monday, September 16, 2024, at the Ambassador Theatre. She will play a limited engagement of 8 weeks until Sunday, November 10, 2024.

Darren Criss

Darren Criss (American Buffalo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch) will return to the stage opposite Helen J Shen in the Broadway premiere of the new romantic musical comedy Maybe Happy Ending, with music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Hue Park and book by both Aronson, as well as by Aronson. Park. Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Arden. Happy Ending may also feature Dez Duron, who is making his Broadway debut opposite Shen. Inside a one-room apartment in the heart of Seoul, Oliver (Criss) lives a happy, quiet life, listening to jazz records and tending to his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re Helperbot 3, a bot that’s long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow Helperbot neighbor Claire (Shen) asks to borrow his charger, what starts as an awkward encounter leads to a unique friendship, a surprising adventure, and maybe even… love? (More…)

Maybe Happy Ending begins previews on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 and opens on Thursday, October 17, 2024 at the Belasco Theatre.

Audra McDonald

Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway this fall as “Rose” in GYPSY. This upcoming revival will be directed by legendary five-time Tony Award-winning director George C. Wolfe. GYPSY is the ultimate behind-the-scenes story of an ambitious mother fighting for her daughter’s success—while secretly yearning for her own. After portraying some of Broadway’s most beloved characters in shows such as Ragtime, Carousel, 110 in the Shade, Shuffle Along and more, Audra returns to the stage as one of the most beloved characters in the American theater. (More…)

Gypsy will begin performances on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the Majestic Theatre.

Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone

Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will return to Broadway in Jen Silverman’s new comedy The Roommate. The production is directed by Jack O’Brien. In the play, Sharon has never had a roommate before. In fact, there are many things Sharon has never done, but Robyn is about to change all that. Jen Silverman’s The Roommate shatters expectations with its witty and profound portrait of a blossoming intimacy between two women from very different backgrounds as they navigate the complexities of identity, morality, and the promise of reinvention. Being bad never felt so good as in this gripping one-act all about second acts. (More…)

The Roommate is currently running at the Booth Theatre, with an official opening night on Thursday 12th September.

Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho

Grammy Award nominee Adam Lambert and “Moana” star Auli’i Cravalho will make their Broadway debuts as “Emcee” and “Sally Bowles” this fall in the Tony Award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. Experience this revolutionary musical like never before. The denizens of the Kit Kat Club have created a decadent sanctuary in the August Wilson Theater on Broadway, where artists and performers, misfits and outsiders rule the night. Enter their world. This is Berlin. Relax. Relax. Be yourself. (More…)

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club is currently playing at the August Wilson Theatre. Lambert and Cravalho will begin shows on Monday, September 16 and play a limited engagement until Sunday, March 30, 2025.