American Ballet Theatre 2025-2026 Season, Shows, Reviews

byCherilyn J. Lee

January 1, 2020 - Updated on December 12, 2025

American Ballet Theatre

♦ Location: New York, New York – United States

♦ Artistic Director: Susan Jaffe

♦ Orchestra: American Ballet Theatre Orchestra

♦ Affiliated School: ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School

♦ Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase

♦ Official Website of American Ballet Theatre

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American Ballet Theatre 2025-2026 Season

Artistic Director Susan Jaffe has announced the American Ballet Theatre 2025-2026 season, both the fall and spring seasons at the David H. Koch Theater, continuing the celebration of the company’s 85th anniversary.

Principal Dancers for the American Ballet Theatre 2025-2026 season include:

Joo Won Ahn
Aran Bell
Isabella Boylston
Skylar Brandt
Daniel Camargo
Herman Cornejo
Thomas Forster
Isaac Hernández
Catherine Hurlin
Chloe Misseldine
Calvin Royal III
Hee Seo
Christine Shevchenko
Cory Stearns
Devon Teuscher
James Whiteside
Roman Zhurbin

American Ballet Theatre 2026 Summer Season (June 17-July 18, 2026)

Artistic Director Susan Jaffe has announced details and casting for the American Ballet Theatre 2026 Summer Season at the Metropolitan Opera House, for which all four programs feature full-length ballets.

A new staging of Marius Petipa’s Don Quixote by Susan Jaffe and Susan Jones is featured along with Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake, John Cranko’s Onegin, and Sir Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia.

Several celebratory evenings highlight the season:

June 20: Isabella Boylston 20th Anniversary

June 26: ABT Conductors Celebration

June 30: Pride Night

July 7: Irina Kolpakova Celebration

July 14: Special Guest Artist Evening

Principal Dancers for the 2026 Summer season include:

Joo Won Ahn
Aran Bell
Isabella Boylston
Skylar Brandt
Daniel Camargo
Herman Cornejo
Thomas Forster
Isaac Hernández
Catherine Hurlin
Chloe Misseldine
Calvin Royal III
Hee Seo
Christine Shevchenko
Cory Stearns
Devon Teuscher
James Whitesid
Roman Zhurbin

Principal Casting for the ABT 2026 Summer Season

SWAN LAKE
(Odette/Odile & Prince Siegfried)

June 17, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Skylar Brandt & Herman Cornejo

June 17, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Hee Seo & Cory Stearns

June 18, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Devon Teuscher & Joo Won Ahn

June 18, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Catherine Hurlin & Isaac Hernández

June 19, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Chloe Misseldine & Aran Bell

June 20, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Isabella Boylston & Daniel Camargo

July 13, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Christine Shevchenko & Calvin Royal III

July 14, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
TBA (Guest Artist) & Daniel Camargo

July 15, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Hee Seo & James Whiteside

July 15, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Isabella Boylston & Thomas Forster

July 16, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Devon Teuscher & Joo Won Ahn

July 17, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Skylar Brandt & Herman Cornejo

July 18, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Chloe Misseldine & Aran Bell

July 18, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Catherine Hurlin & Isaac Hernández

ONEGIN
(Tatiana & Eugene Onegin)

June 23, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Hee Seo & James Whiteside

June 24, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Devon Teuscher & Aran Bell

June 24, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Christine Shevchenko & Cory Stearns

June 25, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Chloe Misseldine & Thomas Forster

June 26, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Hee Seo & James Whiteside

June 27, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Christine Shevchenko & Cory Stearns

June 27, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Devon Teuscher & Aran Bell

DON QUIXOTE
(Kitri & Basilio)

June 29, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Catherine Hurlin & Isaac Hernández

June 30, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Isabella Boylston & Joo Won Ahn

July 1, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Chloe Misseldine & Aran Bell

July 1, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Christine Shevchenko & Michael de la Nuez

July 2, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Catherine Hurlin & Isaac Hernández

July 2, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Skylar Brandt & Herman Cornejo

July 3, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Isabella Boylston & Joo Won Ahn

July 4, 2026 @ 2:0 pm
Christine Shevchenko & Michael de la Nuez

July 6, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
TBA (Guest Artist) & Daniel Camargo

July 7, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Chloe Misseldine & Aran Bell

SYLVIA
(Sylvia & Aminta)

July 9, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Isabella Boylston & Joo Won Ahn

July 10, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Christine Shevchenko & Calvin Royal III

July 10, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Skylar Brandt & Jake Roxander

July 11, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Devon Teuscher & Thomas Forster

July 711, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
Hee Seo & Aran Bell

American Ballet Theatre 2026 Spring Season (March 6–21, 2026)

The American Ballet Theatre 2026 Spring Season will be held at the David H. Koch Theater for the first time. During its inaugural three-week performance run, the company will present four ballets: Lar Lubovitch’s full-length Othello (Elliot Goldenthal), Alexei Ratmansky’s Firebird (Igor Stravinsky), George Balanchine’s Mozartiana (Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky), and an excerpt from the third act of Marius Petipa’s full-length Raymonda: the Grand Pas Hongrois (Alexander Glazunov).

Fabrice Calmels will join the company as a guest artists for certain performances of Othello.

PRINCIPAL CASTING for OTHELLO: A DANCE IN THREE ACTS
(Othello, Desdemona, Iago, Emilia)

March 6 @ 7:30PM
Royal, Li, Whiteside, Bolyston

March 7 @ 2:00PM
Hernández, Brandt, Gonzalez, Shevchenko

March 7 @ 7:30PM
Calmels, Park, Stearns, Teuscher

March 8 @ 2:00PM
Royal, Li, Whiteside, Bolyston

March 10 @ 7:30PM
Calmels, Park, Stearns, Teuscher

March 19 @ 7:30PM
Hernández, Brandt, Gonzalez, Shevchenko

March 20 @ 2:00PM
Calmels, Park, Stearns, Teuscher

March 20 @ 7:30PM
Royal, Li, Whiteside, Bolyston

PRINCIPAL CASTING for MOZARTIANA

March 13 @ 7:30PM
Teuscher, Ahn

March 14 @ 2:00PM
Boylston, de la Nuez

March 18 @ 7:30PM
Boylston, de la Nuez

March 21 @ 7:30PM
Teuscher, Ahn

PRINCIPAL CASTING for NUAGES

March 13 @ 7:30PM
Seo, Forster

March 21 @ 7:300PM
Seo, Forster

PRINCIPAL CASTING for NEO

March 14 @ 2:00PM
Shevchenko*, Whiteside

March 18 @ 7:30PM
Shevchenko, Whiteside

PRINCIPAL CASTING for FIREBIRD
(Firebird, Iva, Maiden, Kaschei)

March 13 @ 7:30PM
Hurlin, Camargo, Park, Stearns

March 14 @ 2:00PM
Misseldine, Bell, Brandt, Robare

March 14 @ 7:30PM
Fleytoux, Royal, Li, Frenette

March 15 @ 2:00PM
Hurlin, Camargo, Park, Stearns

March 17 @ 7:30PM
Misseldine, Bell, Brandt, Robare

March 18 @ 2:00PM
Fleytoux, Royal, Li, Frenette

March 18 @ 7:30PM
Hurlin, Camargo, Park, Stearns

March 21 @ 2:00PM
Misseldine, Bell, Brandt, Robare

March 21 @ 7:30PM
Fleytoux, Royal, Li, Frenette

PRINCIPAL CASTING for RAYMONDA: GRAND PAS HONGROIS

March 14 @ 7:30PM
Seo, Hernández

March 15 @ 2:00PM
Brandt, Cornejo

March 17 @ 7:30PM
Seo, Hernández

March 18 @ 2:00PM
Brandt, Cornejo

March 21 @ 2:00PM
Shevchenko, Forster

Source: American Ballet Theatre