Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Warriors’ reveals its Broadway cast and a new take on the gangs

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’s musical ‘Warriors’ named its initial Broadway cast on October 20, 2026. Amber Gray, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Casey Likes are among the performers due at New York’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where previews are scheduled to begin March 9, 2027.

Deadline reports that Gray will play Ajax, Jones will play Swan and Likes will play Luther. Those roles come from the 1979 film, but the stage version changes its male gangs to female gangs, according to Deadline.

Who is in the ‘Warriors’ Broadway cast?

Several members of the announced cast have worked on earlier versions of ‘Warriors’ or appeared in Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’ and ‘In the Heights,’ Variety reports. Deadline identifies Likes with ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Almost Famous,’ Gray with ‘Hadestown’ and ‘The Rocky Horror Show,’ and Webber with the television series ‘Severance.’

How does the musical change ‘The Warriors’?

The show draws on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel and Walter Hill’s 1979 film. Its fictional gang is framed for the murder of a respected leader at a gathering in the Bronx and must get back to Coney Island. Deadline says the production recasts the original story’s male gangs as female gangs, while retaining the journey across New York at the heart of the plot.

Miranda and Davis wrote the book, music and lyrics. In a statement quoted by both Variety and Deadline, they described the score as drawing on New York genres ‘from hip-hop to salsa to ska and metal.’ They called the show ‘a dream of a more peaceful city where we all come home alive,’ tying its sound to the gang’s dangerous trip home.

Jenny Koons is directing, and Andy Blankenbuehler is co-directing and choreographing. Blankenbuehler previously worked with Miranda on ‘In the Heights’ and ‘Hamilton,’ Variety reports. Deadline also names David Korins as scenic designer, Dede Ayite as costume designer and Natasha Katz as lighting designer.