Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Warriors’ Heads to Broadway in 2027 With a ‘Hamilton’ Reunion in the Cast

Come out and play — on Broadway, this time. Lin-Manuel Miranda is returning to the stage that made him a household name, and he is not coming alone. Warriors, the new musical Miranda wrote with collaborator Eisa Davis from Walter Hill’s 1979 cult film The Warriors, will begin performances at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on March 9, 2027, with an official opening night on April 8, 2027. The initial cast, announced this week and reported by People, is led by Jasmine Cephas Jones, Amber Gray, Sasha Hutchings, Aneesa Folds, Julia Harriman, Gizel Jiménez, Kenita R. Miller, Jaci Calderon, Sasha Allen, Casey Likes and Donald Webber Jr. — a company stacked, pointedly, with people who have been in the room with Miranda before.

That casting is the story inside the story. According to Playbill, Cephas Jones will play Swan, the role at the center of the Warriors’ long night home. She originated the dual roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in Hamilton, and Hutchings, who plays Cowgirl, was also a member of that show’s original company. Harriman, cast as Mercy, played Eliza Hamilton on national tour and appeared opposite Miranda during Hamilton’s Puerto Rico engagement, and Webber, who plays Masai, performed alongside Miranda in Puerto Rico as Aaron Burr and has since taken the role on Broadway. People notes that the connections run past Hamilton as well: Folds previously worked with Miranda in Freestyle Love Supreme, his improvisational hip-hop comedy group, and Calderon is set to play Nina later this month in New York City Center’s production of In the Heights. This is less a casting announcement than a family reunion with a fight scene.

Who plays whom on the long way home

Playbill and Broadway.com both published the full role assignments, and they are worth laying out, because the shape of the company tells you how completely Miranda and Davis have reimagined the film. Calderon plays Fox, Folds plays Cleon, Gray plays Ajax, Harriman plays Mercy, Hutchings plays Cowgirl, Jiménez plays Rembrandt, Cephas Jones plays Swan, Miller plays Cochise, Allen plays Cyrus, Likes plays Luther and Webber plays Masai. In Hill’s film, the Warriors were a male Coney Island gang framed for the murder of Cyrus, the respected leader calling for a citywide truce, and forced to fight their way from the Bronx back to Coney Island overnight. In Miranda and Davis’ version, as Playbill explains, the film’s male Warriors become an all-female group — so Luther, the rogue who actually pulls the trigger, and Cyrus, the prophet he kills, are now played by Likes and Allen inside a story led by women.

Most of this company is not learning the material from scratch. Playbill reports that much of the cast will reprise work from the musical’s concept album, released in 2024, including Folds, Gray, Harriman, Hutchings, Jiménez, Jones and Miller. Likes moves into the villainous Luther after playing Jesse of the Orphans on the concept album, while Calderon, Allen and Webber are new to the project. That matters more than usual here, because Warriors did not start as a stage show at all. The 26-song concept album, released on October 18, 2024, and produced by Mike Elizondo with Nas as executive producer, was conceived as a standalone musical work — a sung-through record that reimagined the film with a gender-flipped perspective and an all-star cast of hip-hop, Latin and Broadway voices. The Broadway production is, in effect, the album stepping out of your headphones and into a theater, with many of the same voices attached.

A New York story, scored by New York

Miranda and Davis are selling the show as a love letter to the city that made both the film and them. “We’re having the time of our lives making Warriors. It’s a rollercoaster like the Coney Island Cyclone, with all the action of Walter Hill’s classic film,” the pair said in a joint statement reported by People and Broadway Direct. “It’s a New York story to the bone, with music steeped in all the genres that were born and revolutionized here, from hip-hop to salsa to ska and metal and everything in between. It’s an edge-of-your-seat journey from Brooklyn to the Bronx and back again. It’s a dream of a more peaceful city where we all come home alive. This is the sound of something being born.” Broadway.com adds that the production is directed by Jenny Koons and co-directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler — the choreographer whose movement language defined Hamilton, which is one more reunion hiding in plain sight.

There is a real question tucked inside the excitement, and it is fair to ask it out loud: can a 1979 street-gang movie — a film that was controversial in its own time and has lived for decades as a midnight-movie ritual — carry a full Broadway evening? The album was the first half of the answer. It proved the score could hold the story’s shape: the conclave in the Bronx, the accusation, the flight home through a city where every neighborhood belongs to somebody else. What the album could not prove is staging — the chases, the fights, the subway geography of a city that keeps closing in. That is presumably why Blankenbuehler is in the building. If any living choreographer can turn a running fight across five boroughs into dance without sanding off its menace, it is the man who made a cabinet battle feel like a contact sport.

Tickets, lotteries and the $19.79 seats

For everyone already doing calendar math: Playbill reports that pre-sale tickets are available for Capital One cardholders beginning October 20 at 10 a.m. ET at BroadwayDirect.com, and for fans who pre-registered at WarriorsMusical.com, with general sales beginning October 22 at 10 a.m. ET. Broadway Direct, the production’s primary ticketing source, also detailed an affordable-ticket initiative built for this show’s audience: a $79 ticket lottery — $68.25 plus a $10.75 handling fee — that begins accepting entries on January 11, 2027, and a separate front-row lottery priced at $19.79, a wink at the film’s release year, beginning March 9, 2027. Complete casting is still to be announced, per both Playbill and Broadway.com, so this company of eleven is a beginning, not the whole gang.

Step back and the shape of the thing is satisfying. Miranda’s first era on Broadway was about reframing American history in the musical languages of the present. Warriors is smaller and stranger than that — one night, one city, one gang trying to get home — but it runs on the same conviction: that hip-hop, salsa, ska and metal are not decoration on a New York story, they are the New York story. The film ended with the Warriors reaching Coney Island at sunrise, cleared and exhausted and alive. Miranda and Davis, in their statement, keep coming back to that exact hope — a more peaceful city where we all come home alive. On March 9, 2027, the Lunt-Fontanne becomes the start of the run home. Warriors, come out and play.