Buffalo Premiere
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Tony Award Nominee
BECKY SHAW
by Gina Gionfriddo
September 12 – October 3, 2026
When Suzanna sets Max up on a blind date with Becky, she has absolutely no idea what she's about to unleash. What follows is two hours of the sharpest, funniest, most cringey comedy you'll see all season, about four people who think they're perfectly fine and are absolutely not. Gina Gionfriddo's laugh-out-loud / squirm-in-your-seat dark comedy is fresh off a celebrated Broadway run, now in its Buffalo Premiere.
World Premiere
Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award Semi-Finalist
THE HAUNTING OF HOOVERTON HOTEL
by Jacob Albarella and Jason Kaiser
Four college kids. A broken-down van. A dark and stormy night. A creepy hotel at the end of a road that doesn't appear on any map. THE HAUNTING OF HOOVERTON HOTEL is a brand new comedy from two of Buffalo’s funniest minds that leans all the way into every mystery trope you grew up loving. Ghosts, secrets, a missing will, a suspicious cast of characters, and a group of completely unqualified heroes who have no choice but to solve it anyway. A World Premiere that will leave you howling this spooky season.
Theatre maker Daniel F. Lendzian adapts Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale into a joyful new production for our time, bringing a fresh new spirit to our longstanding holiday tradition!
World Premiere
Alleyworks Commission
Another delicious musical from the writers of KRAGTAR!
THE HATEFUL ELF
by Sam French and Kyle Wilson
December 12, 2026 – January 2, 2027
From the writers of KRAGTAR! comes a new demented holiday classic. It’s four weeks until Christmas, and the North Pole is all abuzz—except for Crud, the most hateful elf ever employed in Santa’s workshop. When he pisses on the North Pole Christmas tree, Santa sends him on a quest to find a replacement… and the true meaning of the holiday season. Leave the kids at home for this acid-brained twist on yuletide specials like Rudolph and A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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Co-World Premiere
O’Neill Playwriting Festival Finalist
THE RINK AT THE END OF THE WORLD
by Megan Tabaque
March 20 – April 10, 2027
When an entire country club of athletes get taken out by a rogue bout of measles, a motley crew of mall-rink figure skaters find themselves on a flight to Croatia to compete in the World Synchronized Figure Skating Championships. As they train, complain, destroy, and rebuild each other on their quest to achieve the impossible, something even darker looms on the edges of the global stage: a nuclear arms race. Megan Tabaque's wildly original new play is funny, fierce, and captures exactly what it feels like to be young right now, when the world outside feels like it's losing its mind and you still have practice in the morning.
This play asks the hard questions, like: Where is Croatia again? What the hell is Putin's problem? Why is Tall Heather Co-Captain and not me? Where can we find relief and the strength to go on when it feels like the world is only out to destroy us?
THE FROGS
a comedy by Aristophanes
freely adapted by Burt Shevelove
even more freely adapted by Nathan Lane
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
May 15 – June 5, 2027
Dionysus, god of theatre and wine, is fed up with the state of the world we live in, so he travels to the underworld to bring back a great playwright and save civilization. What follows is one of the most outrageous, joyful, and surprisingly moving nights of musical theatre you'll have all year. Based on the ancient comedy by Aristophanes, this hilarious and surprisingly urgent musical asks whether art can actually save the world and who gets to decide what great art even is.