Maren Morris Says She’s Taking a Break From Touring, Wants to Write for Broadway

Maren Morris is ready to hit pause on touring.

During an interview with Today on Friday (July 3), the 36-year-old country-pop star revealed that her current dreamGIRL Tour will be her last for a while as she focuses on songwriting and spending time with her son. The brief trek wraps Aug. 15 with a show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

“This is sort of my last tour for a bit, because I want to be able to free think more and be in the studio more, and just figure out what I want to say next,” Morris said when asked about making time to write. “It’s been 10 years of touring, so no real time to stop and truly be creative unless I carve out the time.”

Morris — who recently revealed the wedding favors she received from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s nuptials — appeared on Today to promote HERO: A Second Wind, the expanded anniversary edition of her 2016 debut album. The set peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, spawned the top five Hot Country Songs hit “My Church” and earned Morris a Grammy nomination for best new artist.

Released June 26 through Legacy Recordings, HERO: A Second Wind includes the newly recorded songs “Hard Liquor and Soft Rock” and “We Can’t Be Friends,” along with original demos from the HERO songwriting sessions.

After wrapping the dreamGIRL Tour, which features songs spanning her catalog, Morris said she’s looking forward to spending more time at home with her 6-year-old son and returning to the studio.

“I’m excited to home a little bit more after this run,” Morris said. “So we’ll do this string of shows, knock it out, and I’ll go home. My son is starting kindergarten and I really wanted to be off the road when that began. I’ll just get back in the studio and figure out what the eff happens next.”

One possibility for what’s next? Broadway. Morris has already branched into writing for film, co-writing “Kiss the Sky” and “Even When I’m Not” for DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot in 2024. She said she’d also love to write music for a Broadway production.

“I feel like Broadway — it’s just a storytelling medium and you get more time,” the singer said. “So I would love to do something like that, write for a musical.”

Morris released her most recent studio album, Dreamsicle, in 2025.