Lincoln Center Sets 2026-27 Season With 17-Week Sound of Music Revival

Q: With star curators like Lin-Manuel Miranda, what new voices will LCT's Composer Series launch into the spotlight?

LCT has not yet named the specific emerging composers who will be featured in its new Composer Series. What Lincoln Center Theater has announced is the format: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will curate performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater built around “newer artists in their field.” The series is intended as a platform to elevate rising songwriting talent, with the established curators helping introduce those artists to LCT audiences. The available reporting indicates the evenings will include performances connected to the curators as well as excerpts from the work of the newer composers they select. But the identities of those composers, along with dates and fuller programming details, are still to come. So, for now, the answer is that the spotlight is reserved for emerging musical-theater voices chosen by those marquee curators, but LCT has not publicly revealed who they are.

Q: How will Matthew Rhys's acclaimed performance as Richard Burton be adapted for the Lincoln Center stage?

Matthew Rhys’s Richard Burton turn will come to Lincoln Center as the American premiere of Mark Jenkins’s one-man play **Playing Burton**, staged Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. At Lincoln Center, Rhys will reprise Burton as a solitary, reflective figure looking back on his life on the night of his death. The piece is built as a dramatic self-portrait rather than a conventional biography, with Burton revisiting his legacy, his artistry, his personal turmoil, and his famously volatile relationship with Elizabeth Taylor. Reporting on the earlier production describes the work as blending tenderness, wry humor and Shakespearean scale. The Lincoln Center version will be directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, who is also LCT’s managing director. That gives the production a major institutional platform after its earlier acclaimed staging tied to Richard Burton centenary celebrations and Welsh National Theatre performances, where Rhys’s portrayal drew strong notice. What is changing, then, is less the core performance than the frame: Rhys’s acclaimed interpretation is being transferred into a formal Lincoln Center production, with Sher directing and LCT presenting it as part of its 2026-27 Off-Broadway season. Performance dates and further creative details have not yet been announced.

3 articles · Updated · Playbill · Jun 23

March 23, 2027 marks the start of Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway revival of The Sound of Music, with Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers cast as Maria for a 17-week run at the Vivian Beaumont.
The season’s other mainstage anchor is Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, beginning October 8 and opening October 29 with Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth in the first Broadway revival of the play.
At the Mitzi E. Newhouse, Lincoln Center will add August Wilson’s Seven Guitars from November 5, Kimberly Belflower’s Born in the Dirt from April 14, 2027, and the American premiere of Playing Burton starring Matthew Rhys.
The wider 2026-27 lineup also includes LCT3 world premieres and the summer run of The Whoopi Monologues, extending Lear deBessonet’s second season after Lincoln Center’s Tony-winning Ragtime revival.