26/27 Season
26/27 Season
COME FROM AWAY
Come From Away is based on the true story of the time when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland, played host to the world. What started as an average day in a small town turned into an international sleepover, when 38 planes, carrying thousands of people from around the globe, were diverted to Gander’s airstrip on September 11, 2001. Undaunted by culture clashes and language barriers, the people of Gander cheered the stranded travelers with music, an open bar and the recognition that we’re all part of a global family.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by
Irene Sankoff, and David Hein
Rated PG
AUGUST 14TH - 29TH
AUGUST 14TH - AUGUST 30TH 2026
A COLLABORATION WITH PHOENIX CREATIVE COLLECTIVE
DIRECTED BY ROBERT HYPES
MUSICALLY DIRECTED BY DENNIS BROWN
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
In a powerhouse one-night-only concert, “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt takes to the stage to smash the fourth wall and rock the house. Hedwig, an East German rock ’n’ roll goddess, happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with an “angry inch.” Hedwig (née Hansel) explains her story in the form of a rock gig/stand-up comedy routine, backed by a hard-rocking band called “The Angry Inch.” Through songs and monologues, Hedwig tells her story, which began in the former East Berlin, where she met Luther, an American GI who promised to take her to the States on the condition that she change her genitalia. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park, where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she mentors and deeply loves. Tommy steals her songs and achieves rock star fame, casting Hedwig aside. Demanding redress, she has stalked Tommy’s world tour, performing in the shabby venue next to his stadium show. Through head-banging anthems and heartfelt rock ballads, Hedwig describes her life’s search for “The Origin of Love” and a reunion with her other half.
Text by John Cameron Mitchell
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Trask
Rated M
SEPTEMBER 18TH - 27TH
SPONSORED BY THE PARTISAN
DIRECTED BY RC
SEPTEMBER 18TH - 27TH 2026
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
Night of the Living Dead™, the film, was produced at a time of incredible social and political upheaval. The film was met with controversy for featuring an African American protagonist and realistic horror images; and yet, possibly the most controversial element to Night of The Living Dead™ was the ending… Everybody dies! Even the hero doesn’t survive. More than just a recreation of the story, the play celebrates the history and influence of the movie. Through a series of multiple endings, the characters are all faced with different issues and challenges while desperately trying to survive the night. However, their contrasting personalities and agendas always seem to prevent the group from working together. Which leaves us all wondering: Could anyone survive a night of the living dead?
Written by Christopher Bond, Dale Boyer and Trevor Martin
Created by Christopher Harrison and Phil Pattison
Rated PG-13
OCTOBER 16TH - 25TH
DIRECTED BY PAUL WEGNER
OCTOBER 16TH - 25TH 2026
MARY POPPINS
The jack-of-all-trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family members how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones upon whom she has a profound effect. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that "Anything can happen if you let it."
Original Music and Lyrics by
Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
Book by
Julian Fellowes
New Songs and Additional Music and Lyrics by
Anthony Drewe, George Stiles
Co-Created by
Cameron Mackintosh
Rated G
DECEMBER 4TH - 20TH
DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH HARMELIN
DECEMBER 4TH - 20TH 2026
MISERY
This psychological thriller based on Stephen King’s novel Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash and wakes up captive in a secluded home owned by his self-identified “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads the manuscript of his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new Misery novel and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it – and it does.
By William Goldman
Based on the novel by Stephen King
Rated M
JANUARY 8TH - 17TH
DIRECTED BY RC
JANUARY 8TH - 17TH 2027
MEAN GIRLS
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady and her friends devise a "Revenge Party" to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a queen bee without getting stung.
Book by
Tina Fey
Music by
Jeff Richmond
Lyrics by
Nell Benjamin
Rated PG 13
FEBRUARY 5TH - 21ST
DIRECTED BY RACHEL BATTISTI
MUSICALLY DIRECTED BY MARIT MEDEFIND - BOND
FEBRUARY 5TH - 21ST 2027
MARCH 12TH - 21ST
Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life. But when a tragedy shocks his community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else. As his web of well-intentioned lies begins to unravel, though, Evan is forced to confront the fact that the price of belonging may be far steeper than he bargained for.
Book by
Steven Levenson
Music and Lyrics by
Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
Rated PG 13
DEAR EVAN HANSEN
DIRECTED BY AVRIEL RAMOS
MUSICALLY DIRECTED BY DENNIS BROWN
MARCH 12TH - 21ST 2027
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be "Out There," observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, the archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful Romani woman, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn’t the only one captivated by her free spirit, though – the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled. As the three vie for her attention, Frollo embarks on a mission to destroy the Roma – and it’s up to Quasimodo to save them all.
Music by
Alan Menken
Lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz
Book by
Peter Parnell
Rated PG
APRIL 9TH - 25TH
DIRECTED BY SHAWN OVERTON
APRIL 9TH - 25TH 2027
MAY 14TH - 23RD
Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis, and matriarch Lena. When her deceased husband’s insurance money comes through, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. Hansberry's portrait of one family’s struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration.
By Lorraine Hansberry
Rated PG 13
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
DIRECTED BY DENNIS BROWN
MAY 14TH - 23RD 2027
OKLAHOMA
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story. Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road, contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a musical adventure embracing hope, determination and the promise of a new land.
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Rated G
MAY 28TH - 30TH
BEING PERFORMED AT THE MERCED THEATER
DIRECTED BY MARIT MEDEFIND-BONDN
MAY 28TH - 30TH 2027
JUNE 11TH - 27TH
J.M. Barrie, a struggling playwright, encounters a widowed mother, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her four sons in Kensington Park. As Barrie befriends the family, he is inspired by their adventures, particularly Peter, who is reluctant to play due to his grief. Barrie helps him to learn to play again and becomes inspired to create a new art form: children's theatre. But who will pay to see a play about children? Who will play these characters? And how will they make Peter Pan fly?
Music by
Gary Barlow, Eliot Kennedy
Book by
James Graham
Rated PG