Theatre

Disney has unveiled Disney Believe, a new cruise ship featuring the first stage adaptation of “Disney Encanto,” the original dining experience “Oaken’s Table: A Frozen Family Feast” and entertainment inspired by “Moana” and “Zootopia.” The ship’s maiden voyage will depart Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Dec. 18, 2027.

Other Desert Cities grossed $1,879,441 and sold out all seven Broadway previews in its first week, placing the Julia Louis-Dreyfus-led revival second only to Hamilton on the weekly chart. Billy Crystal’s solo show 860 earned $854,574 from five previews and played to 83% capacity.

Anthony Mackie will return to Broadway after a 16-year absence to play the title role in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The limited-run New York transfer of director Max Webster’s London production is scheduled to begin previews in spring 2027 and continue through July.

Damn Yankees will return to Broadway for its first revival in more than 30 years, starring Neil Patrick Harris as Applegate, Julianne Hough as Lola and Austin Scott as Young Joe. The newly reimagined production begins previews March 24, 2027, at the Marquis Theatre, with an official opening April 20.

T.R. Knight and Hannah Cruz will take over as Seymour and Audrey in the long-running Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors beginning October 27, 2026, at the Westside Theatre.

Xolo Maridueña will make his Broadway debut as Juan De Marcos in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Buena Vista Social Club. The television and film actor will join the production at the Schoenfeld Theatre for a seven-week limited engagement.

Billy Crystal’s new one-man show, 860, begins Broadway performances October 1 at the Imperial Theatre ahead of its official October 21 opening. Directed by Scott Ellis, the 14-week engagement explores family, friendship, love, luck and loss following the Palisades fires that destroyed Crystal’s home.

Other Desert Cities begins Broadway performances September 29 at the Hudson Theatre, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe. Written by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by John Benjamin Hickey, the limited run opens October 18 and continues through January 17, 2027.

Neil Patrick Harris will play Mr. Applegate in a Broadway revival of Damn Yankees, alongside Julianne Hough as Lola and Austin Scott as Joe Boyd. Previews begin at the Marquis Theatre on March 24, 2027, with opening night set for April 20.

Elf fans will have a unique way to spread Christmas cheer during this holiday season. The world of New Line Cinema’s beloved film Elf is set to come alive at HERO in New York City‘s Rockefeller Center with The Elf Experience. The all-new immersive holiday adventure begins Nov. 14 from Warner Bros.

Two weeks after Wicked star Jonathan Bailey dropped out of a planned West End revival of Sunday in the Park With George, producers have pulled the plug on the production. The reboot of the musical was dealt a seemingly fatal blow

We do feel like dancin.’ Jake Shears dons Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets in the Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show beginning on September 11. Shears succeeds Tony nominee Luke Evans in the role. Shears is the frontman for the pop-rock band Scissor Sisters. His Broadway credits include Kinky Boots.

Heathers The Musical will play its final performance on October 11 at New World Stages off-Broadway. The production previously announced an extension through November 8. Heathers The Musical will embark on a North American tour in May 2027, launching in Baltimore, Maryland.

Billy Porter, Billy Zane and Jessica Vosk will star in an unusual one-night-only Broadway musical being produced by the financial technology company Ramp as a promotion for the company’s bill-pay platform. Bill Pay The Musical, a fully staged, original musical comedy “about bills”.

“& Juliet,” a revisionist jukebox musical about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, is closing after four years on Broadway. The upbeat take on “Romeo & Juliet,” which uses Swedish music producer Max Martin’s chart-topping hits to imagine what would happen if Juliet didn’t stab herself with Romeo’s dagger.

John Malkovich has pulled out of a performance of “The Music Critic” set to take place in Tel Aviv, Israel, after a press release falsely attributed quotes to the actor. “I was made aware of an article which appeared in The Hollywood Reporter (first published in The Jerusalem Post) announcing a date in Tel Aviv.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical took its final Broadway bow over the weekend with a last burst of commercial power, turning its farewell frame into one of the standout stories in the latest Broadway box office cycle.

Downstate, Bruce Norris’ acclaimed and provocative drama about men living in a group home after serving sentences for sex crimes, appears headed to Broadway, with new signage at the Booth Theatre indicating that Joe Mantello will direct the production.

The Broadway adaptation of Paranormal Activity has arrived with a clear mandate: make a theater full of skeptical New Yorkers jump, gasp and glance nervously at the darkened corners of the room. On that count, the production delivers with impressive force, translating the found-footage horror franchise into a muscular piece of live suspense that understands the stage can be just as cruel, intimate and unpredictable as a camera left running overnight.

Alex Winter is set to return to the New York stage in 2027 with an Off Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy, bringing renewed attention to one of the playwright’s starkest and most politically charged works.

Six, the high-energy Broadway musical that reimagines the wives of Henry VIII as a pop supergroup, will end its New York run in January after 2,178 performances.