Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Washington, Jenny Slate, more presented in the 2025-26 season of Lincoln Center Theatre
The non -profit organization, which operates a Broadway place and two out of Broadway sites, has announced many productions, readings, events and acts of comedy.
Lincoln Center Theater organized its 2025-26 season in Broadway and Off-Brotto, its first artistic sub-director Lear Debessonet.
As announced previously, the season will open with Ragtime In Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, starting performances on September 26 before an opening on October 16. Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz Star; Discover the additional cast here.
The latest renewal of the award-winning musical Tony, on the life that believes itself to various social and racial groups in a rapidly changing New York from the beginning of the 20th century, comes to Broadway following a concert production acclaimed by criticism in downtown New York under the direction of Debessonet. The musical presents a score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, a McNally book of Terrence adapted from the novel by El Doctorow, and the original orchestrations of William David Brohn.
Three new productions have been announced for Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater from LCT off Broadway. The first is KyotoA successful piece of London written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson and produced by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin (Stranger Things: The First Shadow). Stephen Kunken plays in this room which takes place at the Kyoto Conference Center in 1997, when the American lobbyist and master strategist Don Pearlman appears to be the greatest obstacle to a climate change agreement between nations.
The performances start on October 8 before an opening of November 3. Kyoto was commanded by Good Chance Theater and is presented by arrangement with Royal Shakespeare Company, Good Chance Theater, Rachel Styne and Jessica Rong.
Next to the Newhouse is Amahl and night visitorsA family opera for the holiday season, from December 16 to January 4. The opening evening is December 18. The show, directed by Kenny Leon and featuring the opera star Joyce Didonato, follows a young boy who sees a giant star and is devoted by three kings on the way to visit a newborn baby. The show is composed by Gian Carlo Menotti.
In the summer of 2026, from July 7 and at the opening of July 16, Whoopi monologuesWritten by Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Whoopi Goldberg and with the winner of the Emmy Award Kerry Washington (Scandal) and the winner of Tony Kara Young (Aim). Production is a reimagination of the Eponymous Solo Salon of Goldberg and Pioneer of 1984 for a new generation. Whitney White directs.
The next list of LCT shows will play the smallest place outside the company’s Broadway, the Claire Tow Theater. There, from October 2025, will be the comedy series, featuring the actress Jenny Slate and more stand-up acts to announce. The series is presented jointly by LCT and Seaview.
Then it’s the musical Songs on the side of the nightwritten by the Lazours (We live in Cairo) and produced by Taibi Magar. The show explores the healing power of the song and raises the voices of patients, caregivers, health professionals and others sailing in the complexities of health care.
The performances start on February 14 before an opening on March 2.
Finally, the playwright Julia May Jonas (Your own personal exegesis) Return to LCT with A woman among womenFrom May 16 before an opening on June 1. A summer day in Northampton, Massachusetts, Cleo, the founder of the local female wellness center, holds the court in her backyard with friends, family and neighbors-but there is a tension that could destroy the community it has built.
The play, presented as a counterpoint to All my sons By Arthur Miller, is presented in partnership with New Georges and The Bushwick Starr.
Additional programming includes a silent disco listening party for the Lin-Manuel Miranda concept album Warriors On July 30, the “Come & Sing” series of public singing events presented in collaboration with the singer-songwriter of Tony, Jeanine Tesori, and a series of play readings at La Claire Tow organized by the dramatist Ayad Akhtar, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Lynn Notage, Sarah Ruhl, Marco Ramirer and JT Rogers.
Additional members of the distribution and the creative team for all the above productions have not yet been appointed.
Photo credit: Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Washington and Jenny Slate. (Photos gracked by Lincoln Center Theater)
