Two boys. Their two mothers. And a mischievous plan to make the young men fall in love. This is The Fantasticks, known and adored across the globe, in a Broadway premiere that brings glorious new life to the beloved classic. With a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, this inspired reinterpretation celebrates love, reconciliation, and the singular power of theater. Brilliantly reconceived by Jones himself, it retains all the heart and humor that have made The Fantasticks one of the most iconic musicals of all time. Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (Schmigadoon!, Newsies) directs.

Joanna is in her mid-thirties and eager to become a parent. When she invites her three siblings to her New York City apartment to ask them for a shocking favor, they’re all forced to get to know each other as adults – but whether they’ll emerge from the visit closer or more at odds than ever is anyone’s guess. From playwright Bryna Turner and director Jenna Worsham, the acclaimed team behind New York Times Critic's Pick At the Wedding, comes The Visitors, a wry, heartfelt world premiere comedy-drama about finally meeting the people you’ve known your whole life.

Welcome to Work of Devotion, a raucous, profound, and decidedly contemporary story about a group of 8th century nuns in rural Italy desperate to make meaning out of their constrained lives. When their leader dies in a freak accident (don’t ask), the women ask themselves: How do we actually want to live? Written by Miranda Rose Hall, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this is a dazzlingly original world premiere play about devoting yourself to beauty, wonder, and the glorious absurdity of being alive. 

In the cutthroat offices of a prestigious New York City magazine, a group of low-level employees frantically try to claw their way up the corporate ladder. Ruthless and driven, they’re willing to do almost anything to get ahead – even as their once-glamorous industry collapses around them. With sharp, cutting wit, Gloria expertly skewers the absurd, dog-eat-dog world of early-career professional life in the 2010s. From two-time Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, Purpose), one of the most astonishing and original voices of our time, comes a biting – and ultimately shocking – dark comedy about how far people will go to satisfy their ambition. Second Stage Artistic Director Evan Cabnet directs this "whip-smart" (New York Times) Pulitzer Prize finalist play in its Broadway premiere.

Maya is a writer. James is a painter. They’re best friends — and their college exes are about to get married… to each other. Should Maya and James go to the wedding? Of course they shouldn’t. But will they? how to roll a blunt is a warm, irreverent dramedy about love, friendship, and the often ridiculous entanglements of young adulthood. Written by playwright and actor Naomi Lorrain (“Orange is the New Black,” “Elementary”) and directed by Colette Robert, how to roll a blunt is by turns hilarious and profound: a celebration of Black love in all its many forms. This world premiere play was a finalist at the prestigious National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

BEGINS APRIL 2027

HOW TO ROLL A BLUNT

BY NAOMI LORRAIN
DIRECTED BY COLETTE ROBERT

THE FANTASTICKS

BY TOM JONES AND HARVEY SCHMIDT

TOM JONES (Revised Book and Lyrics) and HARVEY SCHMIDT (Music) met at the University of Texas at Austin where they wrote their first musical together, Time Staggers On. After coming to New York, they wrote The Fantasticks for a summer theatre production at Barnard College. After its Off Broadway opening in May 1960, it ran for an incredible 42 years becoming the longest running musical in the world and the longest-running uninterrupted show of any kind in the history of the American theatre.

Their first Broadway show, 110 in the Shade, was nominated for a Tony Award and was successfully revived by the New York City Opera and later produced on Broadway starring Audra MacDonald. I Do! I Do!, their two-character musical starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, was also a success on Broadway and on tour.

Additional collaborations include Celebration, which moved to Broadway; Philemon, which won an Outer Critics Circle Award and was produced on Hollywood Television Theatre; Mirette, based on the award-winning children’s book; The Show Goes On, a musical revue featuring their theatre songs and starring Jones and Schmidt; and Roadside, based on a play by Lynn Riggs. They contributed incidental music and lyrics to the Off-Broadway play Colette starring Zoe Caldwell, then developed a full-scale musical version starring Diana Rigg, which was later revised under the title Colette Collage.

In addition to an Obie Award and a special Tony Award for “Excellence in the Theatre” for The Fantasticks, Jones and Schmidt were inducted into the Broadway Hall of Fame at the Gershwin Theatre, and their “stars” were added to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre. In 2012, they were inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and in 2017, they received the Oscar Hammerstein Award. For more information on their work together and separately, visit their extensive website: www.JonesandSchmidt.com.

DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI

CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI (Director, Choreographer). Currently represented on Broadway with Schmigadoon! (Tony noms. for Direction and Choreography), Death Becomes Her (Tony noms. for Direction and Choreography) and Ragtime (creative consultant). Tony Award winner for Disney’s Newsies. Broadway: 20 productions including My Fair Lady, SpongeBob SquarePants, The King and I and South Pacific. Lortel Awards for Bat Boy, Dogfight and Altar Boyz. Other dir./chor.: R&H 80th Anniversary Concert at the Drury Lane in London, Silence! The Musical, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, In Your Arms. Film: Wonka; Isn’t It Romantic?; Hail, Caesar!  Television: “Schmigadoon!” (Two Emmy nominations), “Miracle Workers”, “Bupkis” and “The Muppet Show” with Sabrina Carpenter and Seth Rogen.

THE VISITORS

BY BRYNA TURNER

Bryna Turner is an award-winning playwright originally from Northern California. Their plays include: Bull in a China Shop (LCT3, About Face, Aurora, Diversionary, and many more); At the Wedding (LCT3, Studio Theatre, TheatreSquared); and Phases of the Moon. Honors include: the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Visions Award, Lincoln Center Theatre’s Emerging Artist Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a New Roots Residency. They are a member/alum of: New Dramatists, WP Theater Lab, and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group. They are currently under commission by Lincoln Center. BA: Mount Holyoke College. MFA: Rutgers University www.brynaturner.com

DIRECTED BY JENNA WORSHAM

Select directing: Lagniappe (NYSAF); At The Wedding (Lincoln Center, NYT Critic’s Pick); The Siblings Play (Rattlestick Theater); Agnes (59E59, NYT Critic’s Pick); Belleville (Pasadena Playhouse); Superstitions (New Georges/Pool Plays); Summer’s Soldier and The First Immigrant (Williamstown); The Climb (Cherry Lane); Street Children (NYT Critic’s Pick). Broadway: Picnic, The Parisian Woman, The Heidi Chronicles. Jenna’s plays include: The Fifth (Venturous Fellowship nomination, Relentless Award Summer Series, O’Neill Semi-Finalist); Lacuna (OPC Finalist); Game (Rattlestick, SPACE on Ryder Farm). Co-founder of The Homebound Project with No Kid Hungry. National Directing Fellowship, Drama League & Boris Sagal Fellowship, Jonathan Alper Award (MTC). Proud member of SDC. Represented by Emma Feiwel (WME).

WORK OF DEVOTION

BY MIRANDA ROSE HALL

Miranda Rose Hall is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her plays include A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (finalist for the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), The Sandwich Ministry, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Drama), To Tell a Story About the Earth, The Kind Ones, and Menstruation: A Period Piece. She has written for television on Alaska Daily (ABC), American Rust (Amazon Prime), and Discretion (upcoming Paramount+). Miranda’s work has premiered at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, the Barbican in London, Baltimore Center Stage, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, and in national theaters across Europe. She has written commissioned works for Yale Repertory Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Concord Theatricals, and LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater as a Berwin Lee Brown Playwright. In 2020, she was honored with a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.  Miranda is a founding member of LubDub Theatre Co, based in New York. She has taught at Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, and Macalester College. She graduated with her BA from Georgetown University and her MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

GLORIA

BY BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a writer and theatre artist whose plays include Purpose, Appropriate, The Comeuppance, Girls, Everybody, War, Gloria, Appropriate, An Octoroon and Neighbors. He is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University and serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council. He has been the recipient of two Tony awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.

DIRECTED BY EVAN CABNET

In his first season as Artistic Director of Second Stage Theater, Evan Cabnet produced the world premiere of Talene Monahon’s Pulitzer finalist, Meet the Cartozians, as well as Tony-nominated productions of Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw. As Artistic Director of LCT3, Cabnet produced Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over (Lortel Award, Best Play), Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Marys Seacole, Aya Ogawa’s The Nosebleed, Bryna Turner’s At The Wedding and Bull in a China Shop, and Miranda Rose Hall’s Plot Points in Our Sexual Development, among many others.  As a director, he has collaborated with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Gloria), Stephen Sondheim (Do I Hear a Waltz? Encores!), Helen Edmundson (Therese Raquin), Donald Margulies (The Model Apartment), David West Read (The Performers, The Dream of the Burning Boy), Kenneth Lin (Warrior Class), Christopher Shinn (Teddy Ferrara), Theresa Rebeck (Poor Behavior), and Liz Meriwether (The Mistakes Madeline Made, Oliver Parker), among others. He is a former Artistic Associate at the Roundabout Theatre Company, a founding member of the Ars Nova Writers Group, and a former Resident Artist with Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater. He is a trustee of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and has guest lectured about developing new work at Juilliard, NYU, Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern. His first book, DIRECTING NEW PLAYS, was published in October 2024.

HOW TO ROLL A BLUNT

BY NAOMI LORRAIN

Naomi Lorrain is a Harlem based actor/playwright. Her plays have been developed/produced by 2nd Stage, Fault Line Theatre, South Coast Rep, Uptown Collective, The Fire This Time Festival, Vanguard Theater’s Illuminating New Voices Festival, The Black Motherhood & Parenting New Play Festival, The Continuum Company, HomeBase Theatre Collective and The 52nd Street Kids Project. She’s been both a finalist and semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neil, an alum of the Page 73 Writers Group and was a Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase Staff Writer. Some select acting credits include: BROADWAY: EUREKA DAY (MTC); JORDANS (The Public Theater), DAPHNE (Lincoln Center Theater), and ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (Netflix). She also moonlights as a Research Assistant at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. NYU: MFA; YALE: BA.

DIRECTED BY COLETTE ROBERT

Colette Robert is a director and writer from Los Angeles, based in New York. She directed the world premieres of STARGAZERS (Page 73), STEW (Page 73, Pulitzer Finalist), BEHIND THE SHEET (EST), as well as the first New York revival of CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY (Keen Company). Regional credits include City Theatre Company, Penumbra Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her play THE HARRIET HOLLAND SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS THE 84TH ANNUAL STAR-BURST COTILLION IN THE GRAND BALLROOM OF THE RENAISSANCE HOTEL, which she also directed, premiered in 2023 (The Movement Theatre Company/New Georges). She was the Drama League’s 2018 Beatrice Terry Fellow and the 2023 SDCF Denham Fellow.  

The New York Times

”‘The Fantasticks’ and ‘Gloria’ Will Head to Broadway This Season”

Deadline

”Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Gloria’ & Updated ‘Fantasticks’ Announced For Second Stage’s 2026-2027 Broadway Season”

Playbill

”The Fantasticks Is Finally Coming to Broadway”

BroadwayWorld

”Reimagined THE FANTASTICKS and GLORIA Will Make Broadway Premieres as Part of Second Stage's 2026-27 Season”

Broadway.com

”Christopher Gattelli's The Fantasticks Revival and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Gloria Join Second Stage's 2026-2027 Season”