Anniversaries
Planning your next theatre season? Find inspiration in this wide-ranging selection of upcoming show anniversaries, from Broadway musicals to ground-breaking contemporary plays.

2025
Shows
- The Wiz: 50th Broadway anniversary (5 January 1975)
- Smokey Joe's Cafe: 30th Broadway anniversary (2 March 1995)
- The Rocky Horror Show: 50th Broadway anniversary (10 March 1975)
- Arcadia: 30th Broadway anniversary (30 March 1995)
- The Glass Menagerie: 80th Broadway anniversary (31 March 1945)
- Bye Bye Birdie: 65th Broadway anniversary (14 April 1960)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel: 80th Broadway anniversary (19 April 1945)
- Fun Home: 10th Broadway anniversary (19 April 2015)
- Chicago: 50th Broadway anniversary (3 June 1975)
- The 39 Steps: 20th premiere anniversary (17 June 2005)
- A Chorus Line: 50th Broadway anniversary (25 July 1975)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's State Fair: 80th world premiere anniversary (29 August 1945)
- 42nd Street: 45th Broadway anniversary (25 August 1980)
- Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo: 30th Broadway anniversary (1 October 1995)
- Hay Fever: 100th Broadway anniversary (5 October 1925)
- Call Me Madam: 75th Broadway anniversary (12 October 1950)
- Man of La Mancha: 60th Broadway anniversary (22 November 1965)
- The Matchmaker: 70th Broadway anniversary (5 December 1955)
- The Cocoanuts: 100th Broadway anniversary (8 December 1925)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas: 60th anniversary of TV Premiere (9 December 1965)
- Nunsense: 40th off-Broadway anniversary (12 December 1985)
Authors
- Lorraine Hansberry's 95th Birthday (20 May)
- Larry Kramer's 90th Birthday (25 June)
- Oscar Hammerstein II's 130th Birthday (12 July)
- Jule Styne's 120th Birthday (31 December)
2026
Shows
- Sweet Charity: 60th Broadway anniversary (29 January 1966)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I: 75th Broadway anniversary (29 March 1951)
- Annie Get Your Gun: 80th Broadway anniversary (16 May 1946)
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf: 50th Broadway anniversary (15 September 1976)
- The Clean House: 20th off-Broadway anniversary (29 October 2006)
- Oh, Kay!: 100th Broadway anniversary (8 November 1926)
- Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812: 10th Broadway anniversary (14 November 2016)
- Cabaret: 60th Broadway anniversary (20 November 1966)
Authors
- Tennessee Williams' 115th Birthday (26 March)
- Samuel Beckett's 120th Birthday (13 April)
- Cole Porter's 135th Birthday (9 June)
- Jerry Herman's 95th Birthday (10 July)
- Eric Bentley's 110th Birthday (14 September)
- Ira Gershwin's 130th Birthday (6 December)
2027
Shows
- The Homecoming: 60th Broadway anniversary (5 January 1967)
- Face the Music: 90th Broadway anniversary (17 February 1932)
- Crazy for You®: 35th Broadway anniversary (19 February 1992)
- The Deep Blue Sea: 75th London Premiere anniversary (6 March 1952)
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown: 60th Premiere anniversary (7 March 1967)
- Call Me Madam: 75th West End anniversary (15 March 1952)
- August Wilson's Fences: 40th Broadway anniversary (26 March 1987)
- Agnes of God: 45th Broadway anniversary (30 March 1982)
- The Wizard of Oz (MUNY Version): 85th Premiere anniversary (1 April 1942)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: 60th London Premiere anniversary (11 April 1967)
- Babes in Arms (Guare Version): 90th Broadway anniversary (14 April 1937)
- A Small Family Business: 35th Broadway anniversary (27 April 1992)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!: 75th West End anniversary (29 April 1947)
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses: 40th Broadway anniversary (30 April 1987)
- Nine: 45th Broadway anniversary (9 May 1982)
- Anything Goes (1962 Version): 65th Broadway anniversary (15 May 1962)
- Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun: 80th West End anniversary (7 June 1947)
- Dreamgirls (Revival): 40th Broadway anniversary (28 June 1987)
- Pipeline: 10th Off-Broadway anniversary (10 July 2017)
- Time and the Conways: 90th West End anniversary (1 August 1937)
- Flare Path: 85th West End anniversary (13 August 1942)
- As You Like It (Taub): 10th Broadway anniversary (1 September 2017)
- A Brief History of Women: 10th World Premiere anniversary (5 September 2017)
- The Gin Game: 50th Broadway anniversary (6 October 1977)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro: 80th Broadway anniversary (10 October 1947)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: 65th Broadway anniversary (13 October 1962)
- Dial 'M' for Murder: 75th Broadway anniversary (29 October 1952)
- Everybody's Talking About Jamie: West End Premiere 10th anniversary (6 November 2017)
- The Mousetrap: 75th West End anniversary (25 November 1952)
- A Streetcar Named Desire: 80th Broadway anniversary (3 December 1947)
- The Wizard of Oz (R.S.C. 1987): 40th anniversary (12 December 1987)
- The Sunshine Boys: 55th Broadway anniversary (20 December 1972)
- Show Boat: 100th Broadway anniversary (27 December 1927)
Authors
- John Kander's 100th Birthday (18 March)
- Thornton Wilder's 130th Birthday (17 April)
- Betty Comden's 110th Birthday (3 May)
- Richard Rodgers' 125th Birthday (28 June)
- Neil Simon's 100th Birthday (4 July)
2028
Shows
- The 39 Steps: 20th Broadway anniversary (1 January 2008)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: 60th Broadway anniversary (16 January 1968)
- Our Town: 90th Broadway anniversary (4 February 1938)
- Plaza Suite: 60th Broadway anniversary! (14 February 1968)
- Dead Man's Cell Phone: 20th Off-Broadway anniversary (4 March 2008)
- In the Heights: 20th Broadway anniversary (9 March 2008)
- Cabaret: 30th Broadway revival anniversary (19 March 1998)
- Hands on a Hardbody: 15th Broadway anniversary (21 March 2013)
- God of Carnage: 20th West End premiere anniversary (25 March 2008)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!: 85th Broadway anniversary (31 March 1943)
- Man of La Mancha: 60th West End anniversary (24 April 1968)
- Carrie: The Musical: 40th Broadway anniversary (12 May 1988)
- Runaways: 50th Broadway anniversary (13 May 1978)
- Torch Song Trilogy: 50th off-Broadway anniversary (22 May 1978)
- The Boys in the Band: 10th Broadway premiere anniversary (31 May 2018)
- First Date: 15th Broadway anniversary (8 August 2013)
- Calendar Girls: 20th premiere anniversary (5 September 2008)
- Witness for the Prosecution: 75th premiere anniversary (28 September 1953)
- The Pillowman: 25th West End premiere anniversary (13 November 2003)
- Footloose: 30th Broadway anniversary (22 November 1998)
- Irving Berlin's White Christmas: 20th Broadway anniversary (23 November 2008)
- Kiss Me, Kate: 80th Broadway anniversary (30 December 1948)
Authors
- Bertolt Brecht's 130th Birthday (10 February 1898)
- Edward Albee's 100th Birthday (12 March 1928)
- Fred Ebb's 100th Birthday (8 April 1928)
- Irving Berlin's 140th Birthday (11 May 1888)
- Charles Strouse's 100th Birthday (7 June 1928)
- Caryl Churchill's 90th Birthday (3 September 1938)
- George Gershwin's 130th Birthday (26 September 1898)
- Terrence McNally's 90th Birthday (3 November 1938)
2029
Shows
- Hello, Dolly!: 65th Broadway anniversary (16 January 1964)
- SIX: 10th West End premiere anniversary (17 January 2019)
- Murder on the Nile: 85th premiere anniversary (17 January 1944)
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Revised): 30th Broadway anniversary (4 February 1999)
- They're Playing Our Song: 50th Broadway anniversary (11 February 1979)
- Cloud Nine: 50th premiere anniversary (14 February 1979)
- Shirley Valentine: 40th Broadway anniversary (16 February 1989)
- Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor: 40th Broadway anniversary (2 March 1989)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific: 80th premiere anniversary (7 March 1949)
- A Raisin in the Sun: 70th Broadway anniversary (11 March 1959)
- The Philadelphia Story: 90th Broadway anniversary (26 March 1939)
- Funny Girl: 65th Broadway anniversary (26 March 1964)
- Bedroom Farce: 50th Broadway anniversary (29 March 1979)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific: 80th Broadway anniversary (7 April 1949)
- Calendar Girls: 30th Original Calendar Release anniversary (12 April 1999)
- Hadestown: 10th Broadway anniversary (17 April 2019)
- The Elephant Man: 50th Broadway anniversary (17 April 1979)
- Big River: 40th Broadway anniversary (25 April 1985)
- A Strange Loop: 10th Off-Broadway anniversary (3 May 2019)
- Once Upon a Mattress: 70th Off-Broadway anniversary (11 May 1959)
- The History Boys: 25th London premiere anniversary (18 May 2004)
- Gypsy: 70th Broadway anniversary (21 May 1959)
- The SpongeBob Musical 30th anniversary year of Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants (June 1999)
- And Then There Were None: 85th Broadway anniversary (27 June 1944)
- Miss Liberty: 80th Broadway anniversary (15 July 1949)
- The Wizard of Oz: 90th Film Release anniversary (25 August 1939)
- The Clean House: 25th premiere anniversary (17 September 2004)
- The Sound of Music: 70th premiere anniversary (3 October 1959)
- August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: 45th Broadway anniversary (11 October 1984)
- Ken Ludwig's Leading Ladies: 25th premiere anniversary (15 October 2004)
- The Miracle Worker: 70th Broadway anniversary (19 October 1959)
- Butterflies Are Free: 60th Broadway anniversary (21 October 1969)
- The Habit of Art: 20th London premiere anniversary (5 November 2009)
- A Few Good Men: 40th Broadway anniversary (15 November 1989)
- In the Next Room or the vibrator play: 20th Broadway anniversary (19 November 2009)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (Crimp): 10th West End anniversary (27 November 2019)
- Marie Christine: 30th Broadway anniversary (2 December 1999)
- August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean: 20th Broadway anniversary (6 December 2004)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane: 10th premiere anniversary (11 December 2019)
- Spider's Web: 75th West End anniversary (14 December 1954)
- Witness for the Prosecution: 75th Broadway anniversary (16 December 1954)
- Peter Pan: 125th premiere anniversary (27 December 1904)
Authors
- Alan Ayckbourn's 90th Birthday (12 April)
- Marvin Hamlisch's 85th Birthday (2 June)
- Cy Coleman's 100th Birthday (14 June)
- James Baldwin's 105th Birthday (2 August)
- Moss Hart's 125th Birthday (24 October)
- George S. Kaufman's 140th Birthday (16 November)
- Lee Adams' 105th Birthday (2 December)
- Adolph Green's 115th Birthday (2 December)
- Noël Coward's 130th Birthday (16 December)
2030
Shows
- Altar Boyz: 25th off-Broadway anniversary (1 March 2005)
- The Lehman Trilogy: 10th Broadway anniversary (7 March 2020)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: 75th Broadway anniversary (24 March 1955)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song: 70th West End anniversary (24 March 1960)
- Bye Bye Birdie: 70th Broadway anniversary (14 April 1960)
- The Light in the Piazza: 25th Broadway anniversary (18 April 2005)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel: 85th Broadway anniversary (19 April 1945)
- Educating Rita: 50th premiere anniversary (10 June 1980)
- The 39 Steps: 25th premiere anniversary (17 June 2005)
- Educating Rita: 50th premiere anniversary (10 June 1980)
- A Chorus Line: 55th Broadway anniversary (25 July 1975)
- Waiting for Godot: 75th UK premiere anniversary (3 August 1955)
- 42nd Street: 50th Broadway anniversary (25 August 1980)
- Call Me Madam: 80th Broadway anniversary (12 October 1950)
- Calendar Girls The Musical: 15th West End anniversary (14 November 2015)
- Man of La Mancha: 65th off-Broadway anniversary (22 November 1965)
- The Matchmaker: 75th Broadway anniversary (5 December 1955)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas: 65th anniversary of TV Premiere (9 December 1965)
- Nunsense: 45th off-Broadway anniversary (12 December 1985)
Authors
- August Wilson's 85th Birthday (27 April)
- Lorraine Hansberry's 100th Birthday (20 May)
- Larry Kramer's 95th Birthday (25 June)
- Oscar Hammerstein II's 135th Birthday (12 July)
- Agatha Christie's 140th Birthday (15 September)
- Harold Pinter's 100th Birthday (10 October)
- Jule Styne's 125th Birthday (31 December)