NEW YORK — There’s a bit of everything for theatergoers this fall in New York, from a play about porn to a musical about proselytizing Christians. Al Pacino and Katie Holmes are the star headliners, while David Mamet makes a big return and the sun comes out for ‘‘Annie.’’

It wouldn’t be Broadway these days without A-list celebs, and this season has lured Pacino, Holmes, Paul Rudd, Jessica Chastain, and Alec Baldwin. Returning Broadway veterans include Patti LuPone, Judith Ivey, Katie Finneran, Bobby Cannavale, Patrick Page, Stephanie J. Block, Rob McClure, Jessica Hecht, Jim Norton, Judith Light, Douglas Hodge, Laura Osnes, Norbert Leo Butz, Cheyenne Jackson, Danny Burstein, Carolee Carmello, Henry Winkler, and Chita Rivera, who turns 80 in January. Ed Asner makes his first Broadway appearance in more than two decades.

Mamet returns to Broadway after a two-year absence with two shows that might overlap: a revival of ‘‘Glengarry Glen Ross’’ with Pacino and Cannavale, and his new play, ‘‘The Anarchist,’’ debuting at the same time with Debra Winger and LuPone.

The playwright isn’t the only one with two dueling shows. Thomas Meehan, who wrote the book for ‘‘Annie,’’ also wrote the story of ‘‘Chaplin,’’ a new musical opening in September that depicts the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin. It will go up against a new production of ‘‘Annie’’ with Finneran as Miss Hannigan.

The romantic comedy ‘‘The Performers,’’ about two guys who reconnect at the Adult Film Awards in Las Vegas, will open in November starring Winkler and Jackson. It will immediately face-off against ‘‘Scandalous,’’ a musical with book and lyrics by TV host Kathie Lee Gifford about the American evangelical leader Aimee Semple McPherson. Questions of faith and religion also get tossed about in Craig Wright’s play ‘‘Grace,’’ with Rudd and Asner.

Some tried-and-true shows make it back to Broadway, including Edward Albee’s seminal ‘‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’’ ‘‘Cyrano de Bergerac’’ comes back for its 14th time, and murder whodunit ‘‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’’ hopes to take advantage of its interactive touch since the audience decides who the killer is. Henrik Ibsen’s ‘‘An Enemy of the People’’ comes back for a ninth time, ‘‘Glengarry Glen Ross’’ marks its 30th anniversary, and the fourth revival of ‘‘The Heiress’’ may attract fans of ‘‘Downton Abbey’’ since it costars that series’s actor Dan Stevens. Lyle Kessler’s ‘‘Orphans’’ is due in the spring, and Clifford Odets will have two revivals — his ‘‘Golden Boy’’ will celebrate its 75th-anniversary production this winter, and his ‘‘The Big Knife’’ will appear in the spring.

Tony-winning playwright Richard Greenberg returns with the world premiere of his ‘‘The Assembled Parties,’’ and Sharr White’s ‘‘The Other Place’’ makes the jump from off-Broadway. ‘‘Seminar’’ and ‘‘Smash’’ writer Theresa Rebeck’s five-character ‘‘Dead Accounts,” comes to Broadway with Tom Cruise’s ex-wife Holmes among the stars. ‘

Two foreign musicals land on Broadway — ‘‘Rebecca,’’ originally produced in Austria, and ‘‘Matilda: The Musical,’’ based on Roald Dahl’s story.

This spring, two singer-songwriters known more for rock and pop than Broadway will be pitted against each other. Sheryl Crow has written songs and lyrics to the musical ‘‘Diner,’’ while Cyndi Lauper has penned songs for ‘‘Kinky Boots,’’ a musical based on the 2005 British movie.