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2025/26 Season

Pippin, child of King Charlemagne, seeks to find fulfillment and meaning in life, aided by a mysterious troupe of traveling Players.
Pippin is the culmination of PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory, a six-week practicum for high school students.

Welcome to Crossroads Correctional, where the prisoner count hasn’t cleared, families are stuck in the waiting room, and a ticking clock literally hangs on the wall.
As tensions mount, the captive visitors and lone guard struggle with their individual secrets, personal missions, and the previous night’s execution, but the situation is out of their control.
Until, in the end, it isn’t.

It’s more than a boxing match—it’s a fight for freedom. With propulsive rhythms and poetic storytelling, this gripping drama follows a champion who dares to break barriers and battle for victory in and out of the ring.

A team. A tribe. A turf. As a fierce squad of high school girls navigate soccer drills, secrets, and ambitions, you experience the fire, humor, and heartbreak of growing up all over again—where every play, on and off the field, could change everything.

Meet the Sycamores, a delightfully eccentric, freewheeling bunch with no regard for social norms. But when their daughter falls for the straight-laced boss’s son, two worlds hilariously collide. Laugh out loud with this heartwarming, madcap classic that reminds us to love boldly, embrace joy, and live on our own terms.

When Kenneth’s life of quiet routine— a bookstore job and happy hour mai tais—is suddenly upended, he is confronted by an unfamiliar world of possibility. Come with us on this sweet, moving exploration of trust, transformation, and the unexpected ways we find each other.

A warrior’s quest for power leads him down a dark and bloody path. As ambition clashes with guilt and paranoia, the lines between reality and illusion blur. Dare to behold this haunting, spirit-filled exploration of what it means to hold the crown.

Pull up a chair as six sassy southern spitfires spill the sweet tea in their weekly beauty salon ritual. You’ll laugh and cry in this celebration of love, loss, and the fierce friendships that see us through.
UNSCRIPTED BLOG

Meet the incredible storytellers behind our production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.

Finishing out PlayMakers’ American Dream season is Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors, a comedic musical exploration of social corruption, class, and capitalism.

In a time when headlines read like punchlines and we see the powerful punching down, Morisseau’s “Confederates” is right on time–and comedy is all in the timing.

Meet the stellar ensemble led by director Christopher Windom in Dominique Morisseau’s CONFEDERATES.

Dramaturgy Fellow Lexi Silva shares her thoughts on Willy Loman and what we can learn from him.

Ali Cat Toys teams up with PlayMakers for a merry collab!

Coming soon at PlayMakers is the compelling coming-of-age story by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, brought to life on stage by a dynamic 5-person […]

At PlayMakers Repertory Company, costume designer Sabrina Guillaume-Bradshaw is bringing Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy to life with a vibrant and thoughtful […]