NEW YORK — Billy Porter will star in an all-Black revival of the classic Broadway musical “La Cage aux Folles” next year at New York City Center.

Helmed by Robert O’Hara, the production will mark the first time Black performers feature prominently in the Tony Award-winning best musical of 1984.

The three-time Tony Award winner will reunite with the “Slave Play” director at the storied Manhattan venue, two years after reviving “Jelly’s Last Jam.”

Porter, who recently wrapped a run as the Emcee in London’s “Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club,” directed a revival of “The Life” for City Center in 2022.

Announced Tuesday, the new version of the musical, with a book written by Harvey Fierstein and music by Jerry Herman, will close out the 2026 Encores! series and run from June 17 through June 28.

Orchestrator Joseph Joubert, whose credits include “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” “The Wiz” and “The Color Purple,” will serve as guest conductor.

“La Cage aux Folles” — based on Jean Poiret’s 1973 play of the same name — follows a gay couple who own a popular drag club in the French Riviera. Their son becomes engaged to the daughter of an ultraconservative politician.

A smash hit that ran for more than four years on Broadway, it has since been revived twice on Broadway, in 2004 and 2010 (starring Kelsey Grammer).

The storyline served as source material for the blockbuster 1996 film “The Birdcage,” starring Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman.

Other productions announced for the 2025-206 City Centers season include a new production of Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray’s “High Spirits” — an adaptation of Noël Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” — directed by Tony nominee Jessica Stone (Feb. 4-15, 2026), and the rescheduled run of Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe‘s “The Wild Party” (March 18–29) directed by Lili-Anne Brown.

Tony winner Alex Timbers‘ take on the off-Broadway horror rock musical “Bat Boy: The Musical” is scheduled to be performed Oct. 29 through Nov. 9.

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