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Fresh off their Tony wins for Ragtime, Lincoln Center Theater under the leadership of Artistic Director Lear deBessonet has announced her second season programming LCT and boy is it filled to the brim with exciting productions that has something for everyone.
On Broadway, LCT has announced two productions at Vivian Beaumont Theater including the first-ever revival of Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth, and directed by Tony winner Michael Arden. In the spring, deBessonet will direct the first Broadway revival of The Sound of Music in nearly 30 years, starring Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli.
The new season at the Mitzi E. Newhouse commences this summer with the previously announced The Whoopi Monologues, directed by Whitney White and starring Dominique Fishback, Kecia Lewis, Danielle Pinnock, Kerry Washington, and Kara Young. The season continues this fall with August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who won his first-ever Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in the 1996 Broadway premiere of the same play. Following is the American premiere of Playing Burton – a play by Mark Jenkins about the legendary Welsh-born actor Richard Burton, starring Welsh-born actor Matthew Rhys. The final play of the season at the Newhouse is world premiere of Born in the Dirt, reuniting playwright Kimberly Belflower and Tony winning director Danya Taymor in their first collaboration since the sensation-causing, and Tony Award nominated, John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway.
LCT3 at the Claire Tow Theater’s season, curated by artistic director Maria Manuela Goyanes, includes creation stories and all the important importants, the new play by Mfoniso Udofia (recently presented as part of the 2026 Reading Series at Lincoln Center Theater), directed by Tamilla Woodard; Pretend It’s Pretend, a new play by Emma Watkins, with direction by Annie Tippe; and the return of The Comedy Series in the spring of 2027 with artists to be announced.
The upcoming season brings “The Composer Series,” a new series which will feature iconic music writers selecting newer artists in their field to showcase to audiences on the Beaumont stage. The seasoned composers curating the offerings are Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. These three individual concerts will include a performance of songs by Bareilles, Miranda, and Pasek & Paul on their respective nights, along with excerpts from the work of the newer composers throughout the year. At the Claire Tow Theater will be the return of “The Reading Series” – created to help foster and celebrate playwrights’ voices who are new to LCT. A group of LCT alumni playwrights - Jackie Sibblies Drury, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau - will curate one-night-only play readings from playwrights new to LCT. These free public readings will be presented over the course of the year.
Casting and creative teams will be announced at a later date.
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Earlier today it was announced that Jocelyn Bioh’s hit play School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which will be directed by Tony nominee Whitney White, has found its company. The play, which premiered Off-Broadway at MCC in 2017 will land on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre beginning Tuesday, September 8, and open Monday, September 28.
The production will feature Lucia Aremu, Tony nominee Denée Benton, Tony winner Patina Miller, Theatrely31 alum Erin Morton, Nia Otchere-Sarfo, Jordan Rice, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and Heather Alicia Simms.
Becoming Miss Ghana 1986 would mean fame, fortune, and prosperity. At least, that’s what Paulina—the queen bee of Aburi Girls Boarding School—believes. When the pageant recruiter comes to school, Paulina and her crew pull out all the stops. But to their surprise, a new transfer student from America kicks the competition into a higher, far more personal gear.
Joining the production’s creative team are Teresa L. Williams (Scenic Design), Tony Award winner Qween Jean (Costume Design), Tony Award nominee Stacey Derosier (Lighting Design), Tony Award winner Cody Spencer (Sound Design), Tony Award recipient Nikiya Mathis (Wig, Hair and Makeup Design), Dawn-Elin Fraser (Dialect Coach). Casting is by Caparelliotis Casting & Kelly Gillespie, Sara Gammage serves as Production Stage Manager.
Since its Off-Broadway production, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play has gone on to receive over 75 regional productions including a UK premiere in 2023.
Besides for School Girls, Manhattan Theatre Club will also program The Unbelievers by Nick Payne, Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing!, and Montauk by David Hare and starring Laura Linney
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This Pride Month, The House of Xtravaganza is throwing the Love Is Imagination Pride Mini Ball in partnership with TSQ LIVE giving us a first look at Xtravaganza, a new original musical inspired by the legendary House and Ballroom pioneers. The event takes place Wednesday, June 24, from 5-6pm in Times Square at 46th Street and Broadway.
The event marks a major milestone for the production. Tickets officially go on sale beginning June 24, 2026, for the world premiere engagement of Xtravaganza at Baltimore Center Stage, where the musical will open in May 2027.
"The Ballroom community is experiencing a powerful moment of visibility as its influence continues to shape mainstream culture," said Maximo Xtravaganza, curator of the Love Is Imagination Pride Mini Ball with support from house members. "By bringing this event to Times Square, our goal is to honor and preserve Ballroom's cultural legacy while amplifying the community and performers who originated this art form."
Founded in 1982, the House of Xtravaganza was the first Latinx Ballroom House and among the first to bring Ballroom culture downtown during the late 1980s, expanding beyond Harlem’s traditional Ball scene.
The ball’s namesake, "Love Is Imagination," launches today as the first release from the forthcoming Xtravaganza mixtape of original music. Featuring recording artist and legendary Ballroom commentator Kevin Jz Prodigy, the track is now available on SoundCloud and across social media platforms.
Before Vogue became a global phenomenon, the Ballroom community that inspired it was already alive with artists, dreamers, underdogs, and chosen families claiming their runway, shaping culture, and changing the world forever.
Xtravaganza is a new original musical inspired by the legendary House of Xtravaganza and Ballroom pioneers including José Xtravaganza, whose style, language, and movement helped create one of the most influential cultural movements of the late twentieth century. As featured performers and choreographers in Madonna's iconic "Vogue" music video and worldwide Blond Ambition Tour, members of the House helped bring the energy and vocabulary of Ballroom to a global audience.
Set in New York City's Ballroom scene of the 1980s and 1990s, the musical follows a community of Black and Latinx artists who created a world of chosen families, beauty, resilience, and radical self-expression in the face of marginalization, discrimination, and the AIDS crisis. Through music, movement, and storytelling, Xtravaganza celebrates the people who built a culture, inspired a movement, and refused to be erased.
The musical will begin previews on May 7, 2027 ahead of an opening night on May 22 at Baltimore Center Stage.







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