Billy Crystal’s Broadway return

Billy Crystal will return to Broadway this fall with a new solo show, 860, built around the Los Angeles home his family lost in the 2025 Palisades fire. (broadway.com) The production is scheduled to begin previews in October 2026 for a 12-week limited run at a Shubert theater that has not yet been named. Crystal wrote the show and will perform it; Scott Ellis will direct. (playbill.com) Crystal said the title comes from the street number of the house where his family lived for 46 years. Trade reports on the announcement said the show will revisit family stories, loss and recovery after the fire. (deadline.com) The project returns Crystal to a form that has worked for him on Broadway before. His earlier autobiographical solo show, 700 Sundays, opened in 2004 and later returned in 2013, while Mr. Saturday Night brought him back to Broadway in 2022 in a musical adaptation of his 1992 film. (newyorktheatreguide.com) The timing also lands in the middle of Broadway’s spring selling season, when producers are opening shows and watching weekly grosses closely ahead of the Tony Awards stretch. Official Broadway League data showed $43.24 million in grosses and 334,631 attendees for the week ending April 5, 2026. (broadwayleague.com) Industry tracking for the following week showed the market holding roughly steady as new productions opened. Broadway News reported that the 40 running shows grossed $43.58 million for the week ending April 12, with attendance rising to 344,459. (broadwaynews.com) That backdrop helps explain why a limited engagement led by a known Broadway draw can matter in the fall calendar. Crystal is a Tony and Emmy winner, and the new show pairs a familiar star with a personal story tied to one of Southern California’s most destructive recent fires. (broadwayworld.com) For now, the theater is still to be announced, but the outline is set: a 12-week Broadway run, starting in October, with Crystal returning alone onstage to tell the story of 860. (playbill.com)