A revival of The Sound of Music and of Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men will be part of Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming Broadway season.
Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth will star in A Few Good Men, which will be directed by Michael Arden (The Lost Boys, Maybe Happy Ending). Jasmine Amy Rogers will star in The Sound of Music, marking the first Broadway revival in close to 30 years. Lincoln Center’s Artistic Director Lear deBessonet will direct, and Christopher Gattelli will choreograph.
Sorkin’s A Few Good Men premiered in 1989, marking his first breakout project before The West Wing and more. The courtroom drama, which was later adapted into a feature film, sees military lawyer Daniel Kaffee (Blyth) assigned to defend two young Marines who are accused of murder. While he initially wants to seek a plea bargain for both, he finds they may be at the center of a cover-up.
This marks the Broadway debut for Blyth, who is known for his role as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Whitford, known for his role on The West Wing and more, made his Broadway debut in the original cast of A Few Good Men, where he understudied and then took over the role of Kaffee.
The play begins performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Oct. 8, ahead of an Oct. 29 opening.
The Sound of Music begins performances March 23, 2027, ahead of an April 15 opening. A Tony nominee for her role in Boop! The Musical, Rogers will also star in School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play on Broadway in the fall.
The Lincoln Center’s Off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse theater will feature the previously announced The Whoopi Monologues, directed by Whitney White and starring Dominique Fishback, Kecia Lewis, Danielle Pinnock, Kerry Washington, and Kara Young; Playing Burton, a play by Mark Jenkins about the Welsh-born actor Richard Burton, starring Matthew Rhys, and August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
The season will also see the world premiere of Born in the Dirt, with playwright Kimberly Belflower and Tony winning director Danya Taymor in their first collaboration since the Tony Award nominated John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway.
Lincoln Center Theater will also feature a composer series, with Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Benj Pasek & Justin Paul holding three concerts with performances of their respective songs, in addition to selecting newer artists to perform throughout the year. A playwriting series, curated by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau, will also run throughout the year.
This marks deBessonet’s second season of programming at the Lincoln Center Theater, following Ragtime, which won the Tony Award for best revival, nods for two of its leading actors and a nominee for deBessonet’s direction.
“Our second season is rooted in a simple belief: people are hungry for meaningful shared experiences. We have curated a collection of shows that invite connection and conversation with the world around us. We want audiences to feel the hum of occasion and the promise of care from the moment they arrive at LCT. We hope these productions leave audiences with a deeper sense of truth, a renewed capacity for wonder, and a fuller connection to the heart of our shared humanity,” deBessonet said.
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