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Lin-Manuel Miranda Co-Creates Gender-Flipped ‘Warriors’ Musical for Broadway 2025

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis are developing a new Broadway musical, set to premiere next year, that reimagines the 1979 cult film "The Warriors" with a gender-flipped cast of NYC gang members navigating their way home to Coney Island.

Rolling Stone·Jun 23, 2026·via Rolling Stone

Lin-Manuel Miranda Co-Creates Gender-Flipped ‘Warriors’ Musical for Broadway 2025

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Will Return to Broadway Next Year With New ‘Warriors’ Musical

Developed with playwright and actress Eisa Davis, the project offers a gender-flipped take on the 1979 cult classic about a NYC gang trying to make it home to Coney Island

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June 23, 2026

Lin-Manuel Miranda will make his long-awaited return to Broadway in spring 2027 when his gender-flipped musical adaptation of The Warriors arrives at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater next April, per The New York Times .

The project — which Miranda developed with playwright and actress Eisa Davis — will be his first Broadway show since Hamilton . Miranda and Davis penned the music, lyrics, and book for the show, while Miranda is also one of the lead producers. (He will not, however, act in the show as he did for Hamilton .)

The Warriors is one of the most famous modern New York City tales. It chronicles the treacherous journey of a street gang, the Warriors, that must return to their home on Coney Island after being framed for the murder of a gang leader at a summit in the Bronx. (It’s based on the ancient Greek story of Anabasis. ) Author Sol Yurick published the original novel, The Warriors , in 1965, while filmmaker Walter Hill directed the cult classic movie adaptation in 1979 . Miranda and Davis’ version retains the same narrative contours, though they decided to make all the members of the Warriors gang women.

Their version, Warriors (no “the”) , also didn’t begin as a musical, but as an album. Released in 2024 , the LP was produced by Mike Elizondo, with Nas serving as an executive producer. It featured an array of hip-hop legends and big-name actors, including Lauryn Hill, RZA, Ghostface Killah, Colman Domingo, Sasha Hutchings, and Billy Porter.

After the album’s release, Miranda and Davis began developing and workshopping the LP as a musical. The final product will be just one act with a cast of about 20 (though a cast hasn’t been announced yet). Miranda and Davis also told The Times they’ve continued to work on the music, and that most of the show will be sung, with only a few scenes of non-musical dialog.

Warriors will be directed by Jenny Koons, while Andy Blankenbuehler, a Hamilton alum, will co-direct and choreograph. The musical is set to begin previews next March.