Young Friends Night

Young Friends Night is designed for audience members 40 and under, and includes a pre-show event at an Old City restaurant, bringing together young professionals who have a passion for theatre, arts, and Philadelphia’s cultural community. It’s the perfect opportunity to meet our artistic team and make new connections!

For Just $26 per show, Young Friends Night Subscribers enjoy:

Best available seats
A complimentary drink and light bites at a pre-show reception
An exclusive behind-the-scenes artist talkback
Flexible ticket exchanges for when you can’t make a performance (free weekday exchanges; discounted $10 upgrade to weekends)
Vouchers for parking discounts
Save 60% off the regular adult single ticket price!

*Plus a one-time $5 handling fee

Join us for the 2025/26 Season!

Falsettos

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

Thursday, October 9, 2025, 7:00PM

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

Thursday, December 4, 2025, 7:00PM

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

Thursday, February 12, 2026, 7:00PM

Philadelphia Premiere!

A new sports stadium is being built in the middle of a neighborhood. Aisha returns to her hometown to help the developers revitalize the place she grew up in and starts working with a local contractor who has different vision of its future. 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

Thursday, March 26, 2026, 7:00PM

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.

Dear Evan Hansen

Book by Steven Levenson
Lyrics by Benj Pasek
Music by Justin Paul
Directed by Terrence J. Nolen

Thursday, June 4, 2026, 7:00PM

A letter meant to stay private, a truth that was never supposed to come to light, a life he never imagined possible. Evan Hansen is on the verge of getting the one thing he’s always desired, a chance to truly belong. Winner of six Tony Awards, Dear Evan Hansen is a deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical for anyone who’s ever felt alone in a crowded room.

2024-25 Young Friends Night Schedule

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In this immersive, exciting new production, Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award™ and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical will transform the Haas Stage and shake the rafters!

Thursday, June 5, 2025, 7 pm

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