FEATURED EVENTS: 

Beethoven’s Wrong Note By Jay Stephenson featuring James Harkness (Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud; Beautiful; The Color Purple, Chicago) as Ludwig van Beethoven. This 2024 Perry Award winning original musical finds Beethoven caught in a Faustian deal with Mozart’s librettist over a potboiler script. The drama quickly pours outside the confines of the rehearsal stage in what could have been “The Greatest Opera Yet Written!”

Across a Crowded Room By F.J. Hartland Across a Crowded Room is a charming, deeply moving, and poignant retelling of a couple’s lifelong marriage. The narrative wrestles with the profound, universal mysteries of human connection: How do you know at first sight that a person is the one for you? And if you had the chance, would you do it all again? 

Americaring By Kate Gill Directed by Frank Licato. The conflict of the play is set off by an injustice of the healthcare system. A family is left motherless with a father who turns to alcohol. The teen daughter and her brothers must find a way to survive on their own. Then the girl falls in love with a wealthy boy in her high school. But there is a secret barrier they face.

Briar Patch By William Carter Set against the backdrop of Eatonton, Georgia, BRIAR PATCH follows a local town pastor who seeks to desperately reconnect with his estranged son by putting on a community play about the town’s most famous and polarizing citizen: Joel Chandler Harris, the author of the Br’er Rabbit stories. What begins as a healing theatrical project quickly ignites an explosive town-wide conflict over race, identity, and the generational cost of confronting the past.

Cool at Camp By Dani Tapper, Peter Weidman, Steven Blutig, Robin Raskin, and Emily Stumer Cool at Camp is an adult, meshuga musical comedy packed with humor, a slightly raunchy edge, and the kind of nostalgia that brings the audience right back to their teenage summers at camp.

Crabs in a Barrel By Reginald T. Jackson A dramatic tour de force centered on three people who find themselves in an existential “Hell.” Jackson, a PEN America Writers’ Fund grant recipient, presents a modern-day love triangle where secrets and unspeakable crimes are slowly revealed. Jackson just completed a world premiere of another play at the Fresh Fruit Festival.

How to Swallow a Volcano By Anne McDermott Directed by Padraic Lillis, this solo show explores love, therapy, and the art of making bad choices with enthusiasm. Anne navigates sessions with an unflappable therapist and the mess of real life, exploring what happens when being “nice” becomes a liability.

Monarch: The Mexican-American Musical By Alfonso Molina and Mayu Molina Lehmann A powerful new work exploring the lives of undocumented immigrants. The story follows Luis as he takes refuge in a church, pursued by an ICE officer in a narrative style reminiscent of Les Misérables. After a successful premiere at the Los Angeles Theater Center and a Helen Hayes Award recommendation, the production makes its Off-Broadway debut.

Mother Boswick: The Best Show You Never Knew You Needed By David Magidson Meet a 121-year-old advice-giving widow from the tiny hamlet of Squinch Hollow. Magidson, a former Ringling Bros. clown, brings his international experience to this character-driven comedy where Mother Boswick dispenses questionable wisdom and unique astrological advice.

Omeed’s Tapestries By Barry M. Putt, Jr. Directed by Robert Liebowitz, this play tells the story of an Iranian shopkeeper and his partner planning to flee their homeland to live openly. Inspired by over three dozen first-person accounts, the play navigates the danger they face when their secret is discovered. The Drama Book Shop will host a special event for this production in June.

One In A Million Cabaret By Kevin Davis Featuring a live band led by Davis, an internationally acclaimed musician, on saxophone, a group of friends humorously discovers the fragility of life, love, and faith when they win the lottery! The production arrives with five BroadwayWorld nominations, including Best Director.

Pandimia: Act of Gods by Jason S. Abrams follows the colliding lives of two households: a straight couple navigating the chaotic pressures of parenting a young child in a cramped apartment, and a pair of ex-boyfriends forced to navigate the awkward transition from former lovers to sequestered roommates. As the world outside grinds to a halt, these four New Yorkers are forced to confront their pasts, their futures, and each other during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Picking Up Stones By Sandra Laub An 80-minute one-woman theatrical piece that confronts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the personal lens of an American Jewish woman processing the aftermath of October 7, 2023. Written and performed by Laub and produced by Jerry Fischer, the play uses stones as a central metaphor for memory and historical weight. Winner of the 2024 Providence Fringe Artists For Artists Award. “…a must see show” Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Shangri-La-La By Mike Meier and Peter Giambalvo A comedy musical about Siegfried & Roy that captures the moment Las Vegas reinvented itself as a family-friendly destination. The story follows a young German assistant named Joshua who sees behind the sequins and manufactured myths of the legendary magicians.

Stick to the Script! By Amy Losi Directed by Laurie Rae Waugh (both members of the American Theatre of Actors repertory), this is a comedic look at the chaos of independent theater. An amateur troupe has one week left to rehearse a new play, but they are hampered by dropped lines, a TikTok-distracted stage manager, and a sarcastic director with a short fuse.The one-act version won “The Spirit of the Hartford Fringe Festival Award.”

The Crossword Play (or Ezmeranda’s Gift) By Donna Hoke Directed by Janel Walton and featuring Xavior Love as a professional crossword constructor who creates a custom puzzle for his ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend live on stage. As he fills the grid in real-time, he unravels a deeply personal story of love and redemption. Nominated for a record 10 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards including Best New Play and Best Play, winning Best Director for Janel Walton

The Harm by Dennis Leroy Kangalee The Harm is a stripped-down, four-character play set in a college classroom, where a provocative lecture on media, race, and power unravels into a crisis of perception and accusation. The play investigates how language shapes reality in the present moment—how words, intention, and interpretation diverge, and how “harm” is constructed, claimed, and adjudicated. 

Whatever By Scott Brooks Directed by Ashley Olive Teague, A billionaire’s private pilot is paid to NOT fly him anywhere in this suspenseful play about power, information and what it means to be human in this digital age.

THE 2026 ROSTER ALSO INCLUDES:

A Woman in Reverse By Andrea Mezvinsky One woman retraces the emotional blueprint of the women who raised her over the course of a single day

Functions By Anton Spivack A mathematically-inclined playwright on the autism spectrum approaches his fortieth birthday in the wake of the COVID shutdown. I Am (Brooklyn) By Vince Bandille A Brooklyn kid battles chaos, grief, and destiny—armed only with music, grit, and a pear tree that refuses to let him forget who he is.  

Husbands By Matthew Ethan Davis Male intimacy and emotional vulnerability beyond sexuality. Three husbands meet by accident at a coffee bar and as all their marriages spiral out of control form a most unusual bond.

Kierkegaard’s Gun By Andy Treusch A gripping, one-act philosophical thriller exploring loyalty, betrayal, and moral complicity. Set entirely within a dimly lit pool hall back room, two lifelong friends are forced to confront the ghosts of their violent shared past.  

Leaving Kiev: Coming Full Circle By Mila Levine An autobiographical one-woman show featuring original music, poetry, and dance. It tells the story of a resilient Jewish girl from Ukraine immigrating to the United States. Addressing themes of antisemitism and immigration, the show marks a “full circle” moment for Levine, whose work first debuted here in 2015.

Princess Peighs Sword Fighting Tea Party By Zach Alexander and Melissa Leigh Join the spunky and eccentric Princess Peigh (pronounced like “Pea”), and her stoic and reserved best friend Squire, as they travel the world to share one of the Princess’ favorite country customs and traditions through an epic fun party! ; 

The Hallway written by Bill Keenan and directed by Jesse William Green. Trapped in a hotel hallway at 3:17 a.m., two strangers in bathrobes discover that the hardest door to knock on is always the one you most need to.

The Anxiety of Laughing by Andrew Justvig is a heartfelt tale of resilience and love that follows Joey, a stand-up comedian with cerebral palsy, and his fiancée, Leah, a talented ballerina. As they support each other in pursuing their dreams, a tragic car accident shatters their lives, leaving Leah paralyzed from the waist down and testing the depths of their commitment.

Where I Come From By Jerry Metzker In this solo play performed by Jerry Metzker, 19-year-old Fergus Maloney, after experiencing political upheaval and starvation during the 19th Century Great Famine in Ireland, makes his way from his home in County Clare, Ireland, to New York City to begin a new life 

And The Simon Studio presents SAMOVAR inspired and adapted from short stories of Anton Chekhov – stories of family, lovers’ disappointments, dreams of wealth from the lottery, fears of death on a moonlit night – All filled with life of pre-revolutionary Russia where social classes are stratified, revolution is talked about as a solution to social problems, and happy relationships have become so difficult.  Just like today! .  

WEEK 1: BECKMANN THEATRE

Monday June 15

Where I Come From (90 min) – 6:00pm 

How To Swallow A Volcano (60 min) – 8:00pm

Tuesday June 16

Across A Crowded Room (30 min) – 6:00pm

The Plans We Made (45 min) – 7:15pm

Wednesday June 17

Husbands (90 min) – 6:00pm

A Woman In Reverse (90 min) – 8:15pm

Thursday June 18

Across A Crowded Room (30 min) – 6:00pm

How To Swallow A Volcano (60 min) – 7:15pm

Where I Come From (90 min) – 9:00pm

Friday June 19

Where I Come From (90 min) – 6:00pm

A Woman In Reverse (90 min) – 7:45pm

Saturday June 20

Leaving Kiev (60 min) – 12:30pm

A Woman In Reverse (90 min) – 2:30pm

Across A Crowded Room (30 min) – 5:00pm

Husbands (90 min) – 6:30pm

Leaving Kiev (60 min) – 8:45pm

Sunday June 21

The Plans We Made (45 min) – 11:30am

Kierkegaard’s Gun (30 min) – 1:00pm

How To Swallow A Volcano (60 min) – 3:00pm

Leaving Kiev (60 min) – 5:00pm

Husbands (90 min) – 7:00pm

WEEK 2

Monday June 22

The Plans We Made (45 min) – 6:00pm

I AM (Brooklyn) (90 min) – 8:30pm

Tuesday June 23

Mother Boswick (60 min) – 6:00pm

Functions (90 min) – 8:00pm

Wednesday June 24

Kierkegaard’s Gun (30 min) – 7:00pm

I AM (Brooklyn) (90 min) – 8:30pm

Thursday June 25

Kierkegaard’s Gun (30 min) – 7:00pm

Mother Boswick (90 min) – 8:30pm

Friday June 26

Picking Up Stones (120 min) – 6:00pm

Americaring (120 min) – 8:45pm

Saturday June 27

Functions (90 min) – 11:30am

I AM (Brooklyn) (90 min) – 2:00pm

Americaring (120 min) – 4:30pm

Picking Up Stones/TALKBACK (120 min) – 7:30pm

Sunday June 28

Picking Up Stones (120 min) – 1:00pm

Functions (90 min) – 4:00pm

Mother Boswick (60 min) – 6:15pm

Americaring (120 min) – 8:00pm

SARGENT THEATRE

WEEK 3

Monday June 29

And This One’s True (90 min) – 6:00pm

Omeed’s Tapestries (90 min) – 8:15pm

Tuesday June 30

And This One’s True (90 min) – 6:00pm

Wednesday July 1

Stick To The Script (90 min) – 6:00pm

Omeed’s Tapestries (90 min) – 8:15pm

Thursday July 2

Beethoven’s Wrong Note (60 min) – 6:00pm

Picking Up Stones/TALKBACK (120 min) – 7:45pm

Friday July 3

The Hallway (35 min) – 6:00pm

Picking Up Stones (120 min) – 7:15pm

Beethoven’s Wrong Note (60 min) – 10pm

Saturday July 4

Omeed’s Tapestries (90 min) – 11:30am

Picking Up Stones (120 min) – 1:45pm

And This One’s True (90 min) – 4:30pm

Beethoven’s Wrong Note (60 min) – 6:45pm

The Hallway (35 min) – 8:30pm

Sunday July 5

Beethoven’s Wrong Note (60 min) – 11:30am

Princess Peigh’s Sword Fighting Tea Party (60 min) – 1:15pm

The Hallway (35 min) – 3:15pm

Princess Peigh’s sword Fighting Tea Party (60 min) – 4:30pm

Whatever (90 min) – 9:15pm

WEEK 4

Monday July  6

Stick To The Script (90 min) – 6:00pm

Omeed’s Tapestries (90 min) – 8:15pm

Tuesday July 7

Whatever (90 min) – 8:45pm

Wednesday July 8

Princess Peigh’s Sword Fighting Tea Party (60 min) – 6:00pm

Stick To The Script (90 min) – 7:45pm

Crabs In A Barrel (90 min) – 10:00pm

Thursday July 9

One In A Million (90 min) – 6:00pm

Omeed’s Tapestries/TALKBACK (120 min) – 8:15pm

Friday July 10

Omeed’s Tapestries (90 min) – 6:00pm

Whatever (90 min) – 8:15pm

Saturday July 11

Crabs In A Barrel (90 min) – 1:00pm

SPL – Program A – 3:30pm

  • Cleaning The Room
  • Let It Storm
  • Over You
  • Former Fan
  • Divvy Up
  • Holy Water From Ireland
  • Ice Break
  • Girl, Get Up

SPL – Program B – 5:30pm

  • Alternate Bass Strum
  • You Didn’t Raise A Quitter
  • The Shiva Clun
  • Orange And Pulsating
  • Sanitized
  • Mornings
  • Free Lunch
  • Robots

One In A Million (90 min) – 8:30pm

Sunday July 12

Whatever (90 min) – 11:30am

One In A Million (90 min) – 2:00pm

SPL – Program B – 4:00pm

  • Alternate Bass Strum
  • You Didn’t Raise A Quitter
  • The Shiva Club
  • Orange And Pulsating
  • Sanitized
  • Mornings
  • Free Lunch
  • Robots

SPL – Program A – 6:00pm

  • Cleaning The Room
  • Let It Storm
  • Over You
  • Former Fan
  • Divvy Up
  • Holy Water From Ireland
  • Ice Break
  • Girl, Get Up

Crabs In A Barrel (90 min) – 8:30pm

CULLUM THEATRE

WEEK 5

Monday July 13

The Crossword Play (90 min) – 6:30pm

The Anxiety of Laughing (90 min) – 8:45pm

Tuesday July 14

The Anxiety of Laughing (90 min) – 6:00pm

Cool At Camp (120 min) – 8:15pm

Wednesday July 15

The Crossword Play (90 min) – 6:00pm

Pandimia: Act of Gods (120 min) – 8:15pm

Thursday July 16

Cool At Camp (120 min) – 6:00pm

The Harm (120 min) – 9:15pm

Friday July 17

Pandimia: Act of Gods (120 min) – 6:30pm

Saturday July 18

Cool At Camp (120 min) – 12:30pm

The Anxiety of Laughing (90 min) – 3:15pm

Pandimia: Act of Gods (120 min) – 5:30pm

The Crossword Play (90 min) – 8:15pm

Sunday July 19

Samovar (90 min) – 12:45pm

The Harm (120 min) – 3:15pm

Final Day the Musical (50 min) – 6:15pm

Samovar (90 min) – 8:30pm

WEEK 6

Monday July 20

Samovar (90 min) – 6:00pm

Tuesday July 21

The Anxiety of Laughing (90 min) – 6:00pm

The Harm (120 min) – 8:15pm

Wednesday July 22

The Anxiety of Laughing (90 min) – 6:00pm

Briar Patch (120 min) – 8:15pm

Thursday July 23

Monarch the Musical (90 min) – 6:00pm

Briar Patch (120 min) – 8:15pm

Friday July 24

The Anxiety of Laughing (90 min) – 6:00pm

Monarch the Musical (90 min) – 8:15pm

Saturday July 25

Monarch the Musical (90 min) – 2:00 pm

The Anxiety of Laughing (90 min) – 5:30pm

Shangri-La-La (90 min) – 8:00pm

Sunday July 26

Shangri-La-La (90 min) – 2:00pm

Monarch the Musical (90 min) – 4:00pm

Briar Patch (120 min) – 6:30pm