‘10 Things I Hate About You’ Musical Coming to Broadway
Aug 17, 2026, 12:14 PM
425 Magazine
Tacoma- and Seattle-shot teen movie “10 Things I Hate About You” is being adapted for Broadway.
The stage version of the classic rom-com was initially announced last year. The official premiere date — Aug. 17, 2027 — was confirmed today.
The Broadway adaptation will feature songs and lyrics by Carly Rae Jepsen and Ethan Gruska, with Lena Dunham and Jessica Huang writing the musical’s book.
A ’90s riff on Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew,” the original film starred Julia Stiles as the no-nonsense feminist Kat Stratford. Kat and her sister, Bianca (Larisa Oleyik), live in the Seattle area with their strict father (Larry Miller), who forbids his youngest from dating — unless Kat manages to get a boyfriend first. This proves to be a problem for new kid Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who is smitten with Bianca. He then devises a plan to have the rough-around-the-edges but sweet-underneath-it-all bad boy Patrick Verona, played by the late Heath Ledger, woo Kat into a relationship.
The film was released in 1999 and, though, partially shot in Seattle, was mostly filmed around Tacoma, specifically Stadium High School, which was the stand-in for the fictional Padua High. (No word yet if the stage’s “10 Things” will continue to be based in the Northwest.)
Visit the “10 Things I Hate About You: The Musical” website to sign up for news, updates, and early access to tickets.
Read Managing Editor Joanna Kresge’s 2021 story “Back to Padua High,” which traverses the movie’s various local shooting locations, and Assistant Editor Blake Peterson’s April 2024 story “Why We Still Love ’10 Things I Hate About You,'” which caught up with several of the movie’s key creatives on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
