Tom Hanks Is Returning to Broadway

By Elena Marika Konstantinou

October 24, 2026

Tom Hanks is going back to Broadway, and he is bringing a time machine. The two-time Oscar winner will star in This World of Tomorrow, a new play he co-wrote, marking his first time on a Broadway stage in more than 14 years, Variety reported on October 22.

The show arrives in fall 2027 for a strictly limited engagement at a Shubert theater that has not been announced yet. Hanks wrote it with James Glossman, and Tony winner Kenny Leon is directing, according to Deadline and BroadwayWorld.

He is not doing it alone. Tony winner Kelli O'Hara is returning as Carmen, the role she played opposite Hanks when the play premiered at The Shed in New York last year for a sold-out eight-week run, BroadwayWorld reports.

The story is pure Hanks. It is the end of the 21st century, and a scientist named Bert Allenberry keeps traveling back to one remarkable day at the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens. Playbill says that day is June 8, 1939, and that the play grew out of a short story from Hanks's 2017 book Uncommon Type.

The official logline promises that Bert "discovers that the future is shaped not by technology, but by the choices we make for love." Honestly, that is a sentence only Tom Hanks could sell.

His last Broadway run was Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013, which earned him a Tony nomination, Variety notes. Leon sounds more than ready for round two. "More than anything, I look forward to even more audiences who will have the chance to witness the onstage chemistry of Kelli O'Hara and Tom Hanks," he said in the announcement.

Producer Brian Anthony Moreland called Hanks "one of the great storytellers of our time," per Variety. Greece would happily agree. Hanks and his wife produced My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the film The Hollywood Reporter has called the biggest indie hit ever.

And the love goes both ways. Hanks, Rita Wilson and their children were made honorary Greek citizens, and the couple received their Greek passports in July 2020 and own property on Antiparos, according to CNN.

The timing makes it a big season for the family. Wilson just said she is returning for HBO's Girls revival, so both halves of Greece's favorite honorary couple are heading back to stories that New York loves.