2025/26 Mainstage Season

Falsettos

Book by William Finn and James Lapine
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Directed by Kevin Glaccum

Tony award-winning musical

Hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly unique, Falsettos is a contemporary musical set at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic about the power of chosen family, faith, identity, and love. When Marvin leaves his wife and son to be with his lover, their world is upended, but amidst the chaos, new bonds form and redefine what family can be. Falsettos is a tribute to the messy, beautiful, and necessary connections that hold us together—through baseball games, bar mitzvahs, and the unexpected twists of life.

The Mountaintop

By Katori Hall
Directed by Brett Ashley Robinson

After delivering his iconic “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel. As a storm rages outside, an unexpected visit from a mysterious motel maid sparks a night of conversation. As the evening unfolds, King is gradually revealed in all his complexity: a man grappling with doubt, destiny, and the weight of what’s to come. This intimate reimagining of King’s final night is a powerful and poetic meditation on legacy and the man behind the movement that shaped a nation. 

Good Bones

By Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames
Directed by Akeem Davis

Philadelphia Premiere!

A new sports stadium is being built in the middle of a community. City planner Aisha, returns to her childhood neighborhood to help the developers revitalize the place she grew up in. She meets a contractor who also grew up in the area, who isn’t convinced the neighborhood needs the help. As they clash over the future of the community, they must grapple with who gets to stay, and who must go. Good Bones is the Philadelphia premiere of the newest play by James Ijames, 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Fat Ham, about community, change, and the soul of our cities.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Amina Robinson

Two young lovers fall hard and fast, but their families are sworn enemies. This bold reimagining, directed by Barrymore Award-winner Amina Robinson (Once on This Island), draws on the traditions of early oral storytelling and old-school theater magic to breathe new life into Shakespeare’s most iconic tragedy. A story of violence and beauty, Romeo and Juliet reminds us of the risks we take for love and the cost of a world unwilling to change.