2026 Season Schedule
Special Events
Theater Idiot
June 18, 2026, 7 p.m.
In the Martel Theater
Written and Performed by Drew Droege
On December 14, 2025, Patti LuPone attended a performance of Drew Droege’s play, Messy White Gays. It was nearly ruined thanks to the outbursts of a raving drunken lunatic. After the show, LuPone eviscerated this person and told them to “never go back to the theater again.”
The New York Post ran the headline “LuPone Blasts Theater Idiot.”
Tonight, meet the Theater Idiot.
Theater Idiot tickets are $40 and go on sale May 28, 2026.
An Evening of Soundpainting
July 11, 2026, 8 p.m.
In the Belle Skinner Hall of Music
Featuring Soundpainting Inventor Walter Thompson and Artists from Around the World
In Collaboration with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble and Soundpainting Thinktank
An Evening of Soundpainting is a dynamic, one-night-only performance featuring Soundpainting creator Walter Thompson alongside an international cohort of musicians, actors, dancers, and visual artists. The event marks the culmination of the Soundpainting Thinktank, a week-long gathering of artists from over a dozen countries engaged in intensive collaboration, performance, and research.
The concert will feature a series of live-composed Soundpaintings. Soundpainting is the universal, multidisciplinary sign language for live composition, used by musicians, actors, dancers, and visual artists. With more than 1,500 gestures, the language allows composers to shape work in real time—nothing is pre-planned, and each piece is created in the moment and will never be repeated.
An Evening of Soundpainting tickets are free. Tickets can be reserved beginning on June 11, 2026.
Workshops
Ocean Walk
July 2-5, 2026
In the Powerhouse Theater
Written by Gianfranco Lentini
Directed by Jonathon Loy
Fire Island is gone. A cataclysmic storm has breached the island’s last defenses, leaving the Pines swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean. All residents have evacuated—except Harry, a seventy-year-old man unwilling to abandon his submerged home. When Casey, a seventeen-year-old deckhand from the Sayville Ferry Service, arrives to pull him out, the two find themselves caught between survival and surrender, history, and erasure.
Godfriend
July 10-12, 2026
In the Powerhouse Theater
Written and Performed by Hal Cosentino and Ellenor Riley-Condit
Original Music and Sound Design by Hannah Read
Directed by Caley Chase
Equal parts true story, theatrical play, live music, and spiritual gathering, Godfriend asks audiences to practice radical belief in each other while facing uncertain futures.
College professors and real-life couple Hal and Elle ask: should they have a child? As a trans man and a cis woman, the couple wonders if their spiritual callings of gender identity and procreation can coexist. Clues appear in their class discussions about the Public Universal Friend, a nineteenth-century Quaker preacher who claimed God freed them from gender.
A live music score created by Hannah Read (known for her work as Lomelda) transforms the performance into a participatory Quaker meeting, where audiences listen for wisdom from the divine.
Fanboy/Diva
July 17-19, 2026
In the Powerhouse Theater
Written by Cheri Steinkellner
Lyrics by David Zippel
Music by Walter Afanasieff, Cy Coleman, Alan Menken, and Matthew Wilder
Directed by Will Roland
A once-iconic Broadway diva, determined to reclaim the role that made her a star, discovers her online identity has been hijacked by a teenage superfan. Forced into a prickly alliance, diva and fan must share the spotlight—until admiration turns to confrontation in this hilarious, heartfelt, new musical about legacy, currency, and the cost of being seen.
A Simple Herstory
July 24-26, 2026
In the Powerhouse Theater
Part of The Muse Project NYC Residency
Created by Jocelyn Kuritsky
Written and Developed by Jonathan A. Goldberg
Additional Conception and Co-Direction by Jenny Turner Hall
Producing Consultation by Donya K. Washington
Directed by Meghan Finn
Returning for a rare third residency at Powerhouse, A Simple Herstory is the acclaimed genre-blurring performance project exploring the more than 100 women who have run for President of the United States. This newest installment returns to Margaret Chase Smith and the volatile political climate surrounding mid-20th century Republican Party politics, tracing her evolving political identity amid shifting pressures of ideology, public expectation, and personal conviction. At once incisive and irreverent, searingly serious and sharply comic, A Simple Herstory offers the latest installment of the raucously funny and thought-provoking serialized podcast.
All Workshop tickets are $30 and go on sale May 28, 2026.
Readings
Legerdemain
June 19, 2026, 8 p.m.
In the Powerhouse Theater
Part of The Tank Residency
Written by Lynn Rosen
Directed by Julie Kramer
As Halloween approaches and a strangler is on the loose, Devin, a jaded writer/waitress at Butterloafs, a chain restaurant in New England, gets to know Don Franz, her most devoted customer. Bananas appear from sleeves, grief is shared, and a story’s resurrection changes lives in the blink of an eye.
Rita Hayworth and the Orson Welles Variations
June 20, 2026, 8 p.m.
In the Powerhouse Theater
Part of the Mechanical Raven Productions Residency
Written by Isaac Byrne
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Rita, unaware that she is in late-stage Alzheimer’s, is trapped in a never-ending cycle of jumbled memories: bull fights, talk shows, controlling producers, the ghosts of her past, and a tumultuous romance with Orson, the person she is trying to hold onto. As she tries to rewrite the past, Rita is forced to confront the difference between a tragedy and a happy ending.
pits
June 26, 2026, 8 p.m.
In the Powerhouse Theater
Written by Abe Johnson
Directed by Ryan Dobrin
Set inside an underfunded American public middle school, two eighth-grade boys spiral down dark internet rabbit holes while their first-year teacher struggles to keep up with a mandated “social-emotional learning” curriculum and a generation of kids raised by algorithms. As online exposure intensifies and institutional and parental supports fail, the play opens up questions around our children’s unrestricted access to the internet, desensitization, neglect, masculinity, and what it actually means to educate “the whole child.”
Marielitos
June 27, 2026, 8 p.m.
In the Powerhouse Theater
Book and Lyrics by Peter Gil-Sheridan and Cristina Luzárraga
Music by Julián Mesri
Directed by Rebecca Aparicio
In 1980, thousands of Cuban refugees arrived in the U.S. via the Mariel Boatlift. “Marielitos” were a motley crew of political dissidents, artists, prisoners, “mental patients,” and homosexuals; all eager to escape Castro’s regime. Told through the rhythms of the Caribbean and the Midwest, Marielitos centers around the linguist René Valdes’ quest for belonging, as well as his struggles as a partner and father. This tragicomic musical, both epic and intimate in scope, traces the incredible story of one immigrant’s fight to bridge cultural divides and find his place in the world.
The Power of Something Invisible
June 28, 2026, 6 p.m.
In the Powerhouse Theater
Part of the Theatre East Residency
Written by Pete McElligott
Directed by Judson Jones
Separated by space and time, united by the same sky, astronomers Caroline Hershel, Maria Mitchell, and Vera Rubin dared to see beyond their known world. As these women stood on each other's shoulders aiming for clarity and truth against all odds, their brilliance pierced the darkness, reshaping how we understand the stars...and our place among them.
Punch Back
July 25, 2026, 8 p.m.
In the Powerhouse Theater
Part of the Leah Ryan Fund Residency
Written by Genevieve Simon
Come to class. You know which one. Someone was whispering about it at the bathroom protest. Remember? Your ex might be there. Your crush will definitely be there. We’re gonna box it out. We’re gonna get strong. There is definitely absolutely no other resource we will be…distributing. Is your friend trans? Bring them too. A new play for trans students on college campuses in red states in 2025.
All readings are free. Tickets can be reserved beginning on June 11, 2026.
The Training Company
Fuenteovejuna
July 10-12, 2026, 7 p.m.
At The Preserve
Written by Lope de Vega
Adapted and Directed by Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy
Based on actual events, Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna shines a spotlight on the small Village of Fuente Ovejuna in 15th century Spain. The village, run by a corrupt and overbearing tyrant, must find their courage and their voice after years of horrific abuse, or risk losing their honor, freedom, and the beloved community they call home.
Free and open to the public. No ticket required.
Romeo and Juliet
July 17-19, 2026, 7 p.m.
At The Preserve
Written by William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by Elizabeth Dahmen
This athletic, ensemble-forward approach to Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy dives into the volatile world of two young lovers caught in the crossfire of their families’ violent feuds. Racing through secret vows, public duels, exile, and desperate final choices, this reexamined production explores how impulsive passion and inherited hatred propel the story toward its inevitable conclusion.
Free and open to the public. No ticket required.
In This Economy?
July 2, 9, 16, 23, 2026, 6 p.m.
In the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Conceived and Composed by Max Reuben
Developed and performed by members of the Training Company
Hello. I saw your listing for “Five beverage glasses, two mugs” online. I know you set your price at “$10 or best offer” and I was wondering if maybe you’d be interested in parting with the glasses and mugs for something other than money? For instance, I am a freelance artist and can do a nice portrait of a beloved pet. Many would say that is worth much more than $10. A neighbor offered to pay me upwards of $50 for a watercolor of his Bichon Frisé. I also do tarot readings and I’m learning to cut hair via YouTube. Let me know if any of those things would be considered a “best offer” instead of the aforementioned $10. Thank you.
In This Economy? utilizes the gestural composing language of Soundpainting to create an ensemble-based improvised performance about what things cost.
Free and open to the public. No ticket required.
Ashram
July 19-20, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
In the Susan Stein Shiva Theater
Written by Erin C. Buckley
Directed by Aysan Celik
Developed and Performed by Members of the Training Company
Once upon a time there was an ashram…that had a guru…who had devotees. And then there was an audit. Om guru om.
Ashram explores obsession, devotion, mortality, sexuality, and the mundane—the spiritual through the quotidian—the afterlife and doing dishes.
Free and open to the public. Reservation required. Tickets can be reserved beginning on June 11, 2026.
New Works Play Festival
July 25, 2026, 2 p.m.
In the Susan Stein Shiva Theater
Written and Directed by members of the Training Company
This festival of new works is the culminating event for the directors and writers of the Training Company. Along with their coursework, directors and playwrights will have observed the process of bringing a new script to life in a professional rehearsal setting. Each pair of writers and directors will workshop a play that they have developed over the summer. Featuring performances by the actors of the Training Company, these short plays reflect the students’ unique voice and vision for the future of American theater.
Free and open to the public. Reservation required. Tickets can be reserved beginning on June 11, 2026.