The Bushnell 2025-26 Broadway Series: Eight World-Class Shows in Hartford

Connecticut’s premier performing-arts powerhouse, The Bushnell, unveils its most ambitious Broadway lineup yet for 2025-2026. Running from September 30, 2025, this eight-show subscription series packs a year’s worth of must-see musicals into one unforgettable pass, giving theater-lovers front-row access to the stories, songs and stars that will dominate national conversation.

Kick off the season with the stage premiere of Nicholas Sparks’ tear-jerking romance The Notebook, freshly adapted with a soaring new score. Next, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s cultural juggernaut Hamilton returns to Hartford with its revolutionary hip-hop history lesson, followed by Monty Python’s Spamalot—an irreverent knight’s quest guaranteed to have you laughing in the aisles. The Pulitzer-winning powerhouse Suffs arrives just in time for election-year energy, amplifying the suffragists who won women the vote through modern pop anthems.

Fall harvest brings the Tony-winning corn-fed comedy Shucked, a Nashville-flavored toe-tapper that turns farm life into show-stopping fun. Cyndi Lauper’s Kinky Boots struts in next, celebrating acceptance in six-inch stilettos, before Disney’s Beauty and the Beast enchants holiday audiences with opulent sets and the ballroom scene that defined a generation. Spring blooms with & Juliet, a high-octane remix of Shakespeare and Max Martin hits that asks, “What if Juliet got a second chance at life?” Finally, the circus spectacle Water for Elephants leaps onto the Mortensen stage, fusing acrobatics, puppetry and live folk music into a transportive love story under the big top.

Subscribers enjoy priority seating, flexible ticket exchanges, discounted parking, and exclusive invites to pre-show talks with cast and creatives. Single tickets go fast, so lock in your series now and turn every curtain rise into a memory at The Bushnell—Hartford’s home for Broadway’s best.