The 2024 Best Musical Tony Award nominee “Hell’s Kitchen” will receive a national tour. The tour will launch in fall 2025 from Cleveland’s Playhouse Square. The production is currently scheduled to visit over 30 cities, the rest of which will be announced.
Featuring a score of preexisting and new songs by Alicia Keys and a Tony-nominated book by Kristoffer Diaz, “Hell’s Kitchen” tells the story of New York City teenager Ali. In the coming-of-age story, Ali tries to assert her independence from her mother while discovering her piano-playing prowess.
“Seeing ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ on a Broadway marquee has fulfilled one of my earliest and most influential dreams as an artist and as a New Yorker,” Keys said in a statement. “I’m overjoyed by the impact it has already had with audiences [who] truly mirror the world around us in New York and I am ecstatic that we can bring the show to so many incredible cities across the country. Let’s go!”
“We are so excited that Alicia Keys and her team have chosen to open the North American tour of ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ in Cleveland,” said Playhouse Square president and CEO Craig Hassall. “Cleveland’s enthusiastic and diverse Broadway audiences will certainly give the show a rapturous welcome and we are so proud that we can lend our expertise and effort in making sure the tour starts off in grand fashion.”
This announcement marks the second new musical of the 2023-2024 season to launch in fall 2025 from Playhouse Square. As previously announced, “The Notebook” will premiere a national tour at the venue in September.
Following previews that began on March 28, “Hell’s Kitchen” opened on Broadway on April 20 at the Shubert Theatre. The Michael Greif-directed and Camille A. Brown-choreographed production received 13 Tony nominations, winning two.
The original cast recording for the Broadway production is currently a 2025 Grammy Award nominee for Best Musical Theater Album.
Tour casting will be announced.
“Hell’s Kitchen” is produced by AKW Productions.
