Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Are Romeo + Juliet in New Broadway Production with Music by Jack Antonoff

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler will make their Broadway debuts this fall, in a new production of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.

The Bard's classic 1597 tragedy, about the romance of two Italian youths from feuding families, will return to the boards in a revival helmed by an award-winning creative team — with direction and movement from Tony Award winners Sam Gold and Sonya Tayeh, respectively, and music by Grammy Award winner Jack Antonoff.

It will by the first time Antonoff, 40, has worked on Broadway, too, though not the first time his music had made it to the Great White Way. The hit song "We Are Young," released in 2012 by Antonoff's band fun., is among the tunes sung in the Tony-winning best musical, Moulin Rouge!

"The youth are f---ed," a logline for the production reads. "Left to their own devices in their parents’ world of violent ends, an impulsive pair of star-crossed lovers hurtle towards their inescapable fate. The intoxicating high of passion quickly descends into a brutal chaos that can only end one way."

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Connor, 20, is known for his role as Nick Nelson in the Netflix adaptation of Alice Oseman's Heartstopper, which earned him a Children's and Family Emmy Award. He notably played the role of young Elton John in 2019's Rocketman, and voices Pantalaimon in His Dark Materials.

Zegler, 22, nabbed a Golden Globe Award for her debut film role as María in Steven Spielberg's 2021 version of West Side Story — a win that made her not only the youngest winner in that category ever, but also the first of Colombian descent. She has gone on to play roles in Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

In 2025, Zegler will lead Disney's live-action remake of their 1937 animated classic Snow White. Meanwhile, season 3 of Heartstopper is due on Netflix this October.

Romeo and Juliet has been on Broadway in nearly 40 previous productions, including its most recent revival in 2013 that starred Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad.

Another production of has been making headlines recently: a West End revival starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers.

Running at the Duke of York's Theatre in London from May 11 through Aug. 3, the production has been completely sold out. There has been rumor of a Broadway transfer, though nothing has been officially announced yet.

Until Romeo + Juliet's debut, Broadway audiences can enjoy & Juliet, a 2022 musical featuring the pop songs of Swedish producer Max Martin that imagines what might happen if Juliet didn't die at the end of Shakespeare's play. & Juliet is currently open at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

More information about Romeo + Juliet — including theater, dates, design team and additional casting — will be announced at a later date.

Tickets go on sale to the public in May.