5 Celebrities You Can See on Broadway This Fall
From Keanu Reeves to Gilded Age lead Carrie Coon, here are five shows featuring some very well-known actors.
Last season on Broadway made headlines for how star-filled it was, as actors widely known for their screen work took their turns on the stage. This season promises to continue that trend as celebrities such as James Corden (The Late Late Show With James Corden), Keanu Reeves (John Wick), and Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age) take the stage.
As you make your fall show-going plans, here are five upcoming shows featuring some very well-known actors.
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, and Bobby Cannavale in Art
Matthew Murphy
ART
Art began its limited engagement August 28. In this revival of Yasmina Reza’s 1998 Tony Award-winning play, Emmy winners James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), and Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire) play three friends who squabble over a painting. This is Corden’s first appearance on Broadway since his 2012 turn in One Man, Two Guvnors (for which he won a Tony), while Harris and Cannavale have trod the boards quite a few times in between their screen gigs.
The limited engagement of ART runs at the Music Box Theatre until December 21. Get tickets here.
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves
Heather Gershonowitz
Waiting for Godot
It’s Bill and Ted’s existential adventure as Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (who first co-starred together in the 1989 comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) reunite. This time, their newest project isn’t exactly a comedy, unless bleak absurdism tickles your funny bone: It’s Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, directed by Jamie Lloyd (of last season’s Sunset Blvd.). Winter has actually appeared on Broadway before, in 1979 as a Darling boy in Peter Pan, but this will be Reeves’ Broadway debut. Godot begins performances September 13, and officially opens September 28.
Tickets are on sale through January 4, 2026, at the Hudson Theatre. Get tickets here.
F. Murray Abraham, Michael Arden, Lindsey Ferrentino, Stephen Schwartz, and Kristin Chenoweth
Michaelah Reynolds
The Queen of Versailles
The queen is back on Broadway! Emmy and Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway in the new musical Queen of Versailles, based on the life of socialite Jackie Siegel, who attempted to build a luxurious mansion in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis. She’s also collaborating with composer Stephen Schwartz; it’s the first musical Schwartz has had on Broadway since Wicked, where Chenoweth originated the role of Glinda.
Queen of Versailles begins performances October 8, with an opening of November 10 at the St. James Theatre. Get tickets here.
Nicholas Christopher, Lea Michele, and Aaron Tveit
Heather Gershonowitz
Chess
Lea Michele, of Glee and the 2022 Funny Girl revival, returns to Broadway in Chess (it’ll be her first time originating a role on Broadway since 2006’s Spring Awakening). Though arguably, Chess itself may be the draw here, as this is the first revival of the musical which is well-known to have a killer score, but hasn’t quite worked on the stage perhaps until now—Emmy winner Danny Strong (Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2) has written the new book, which will follow the preexisting story beat of two chess champions (played by Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher) who vie to win a match, and the heart of a woman (played by Michele). You can hear the first song released from the show, Tveit’s rendition of “One Night in Bangkok,” here.
Chess begins performances October 15, with an opening of November 16 at the Imperial Theatre. Get tickets here.
Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts
Bug
You’ve probably seen her scheming in gorgeous gowns in The Gilded Age or luxuriating in Thailand in The White Lotus, but Carrie Coon actually has a healthy theatre pedigree. She met her husband, playwright Tracy Letts, while the two of them were both actors at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. They then acted opposite each other in the 2012 Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Coon is coming back to Broadway later this year, starring in Letts’ play Bug, about a waitress in an affair with a much younger man, who slowly starts going insane.
Bug begins performances December 17, with a January 8, 2026, opening, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Get tickets here.
To see what other celebrities are coming to New York this season, click here.
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