# Tom Hanks Sets Broadway Return in ‘This World of Tomorrow’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tom-hanks-sets-broadway-return-in-this-world-of-tomorrow/
- Published: 2026-10-22T17:54:50+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T18:41:15+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/tom-hanks-broadway-return-in-this-world-of-tomorrow-1236738341/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment

## Key points

- Tom Hanks will return to Broadway in autumn 2027.
- He and Kelli O’Hara reprise roles from the 2025 run.
- The play blends time travel, romance and the 1939 World’s Fair.

## Summary

Tom Hanks is set to return to Broadway in his own play, *This World of Tomorrow*, starring alongside Kelli O’Hara. The limited engagement is planned for autumn 2027 at a Shubert Theatre, marking Hanks’s first Broadway appearance since *Lucky Guy* in 2013.

The play follows Bert Allenberry, a man from the end of the 21st century who travels back to the 1939 World’s Fair and falls in love. Hanks co-wrote it with James Glossman, adapting stories from his book *Uncommon Type*; Hanks and O’Hara reprise their roles from the 2025 Off-Broadway run at The Shed. Kenny Leon will direct, with the specific theatre and dates still to be announced.

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