at the very bottom of a body of water
Saturday, October 31st, 2026
The quiet magic realism that has made playwriting stars of Sarah Ruhl and Julia Cho has found a fresh new voice in Benjamin Benne, whose World Premiere drama at the very bottom of a body of water has arrived at Boston Court to captivate and move audiences in equal measure.
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RORSCHACH
Monday, October 26th, 2026
Four contemporary Angelinos find their lives intertwined with that of pioneering Swiss psychiatrist-psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach more than a century after his death in Kelly Younger’s Rorschach, a spectacular World Premiere season opener for a Skylight Theatre Company rejuvenated under Cameron Watson’s artistic directorship.
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SAINT MEGAN
Monday, October 19th, 2026
Playwright Joy Gregory manages to find both humor and heart amidst the hatred spewed by Topeka, Kansas’s infamous Westboro Baptist Church in her captivating and compelling new play Saint Megan, another stunning Rogue Machine Theatre World Premiere.
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FOREVER IN THERE OR F*CK AROUND AND FIND OUT
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
Forever in There or F*ck Around and Find Out. The title may be easily forgotten, but not the gripping Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that Kill Shelter’s Ashley Rose Wellman has written about two Americans at long last freed from captivity in an unspecified foreign danger zone.
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THE FEEL GOOD STORY AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW
Saturday, October 3rd, 2026
Things get wild and crazy when six Americans held hostage by a band of Sudanese terrorists are reunited in New York for a 60 Minutes-style TV newsmagazine feature in The Feel Good Story America Needs Right Now, Mark Wilding’s latest World Premiere adventure in comedic mayhem at Theatre West.
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THE PETERSON SHOW
Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
The laughs come fast and furious amidst resurrected childhood traumas when five Cosby Show-style sitcom siblings find themselves reunited decades later in Janine Nabers’ The Peterson Show, the latest World Premiere Echo Theater Company must-see.
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KAIJU
Saturday, September 26th, 2026
Playwright Dan Caffrey may have bitten off a bit more than he can chew in Kaiju, his satirical mashup of Godzilla-style creature features and pretentions/clueless post-performance talkbacks, but I so enjoyed the World Premiere comedy now playing at the Road Theatre on Magnolia that I can’t really complain.
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TEXAS SODOMY
Sunday, September 13th, 2026
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“There’s a black man with a gun in Apartment 833 of the Colorado Club Apartments acting crazy.” It’s that single brief 911 phone call that sets the ball rolling in Texas Sodomy, Howard Skora’s wildly entertaining, fact-based look back at the second-most groundbreaking Supreme Court decision in LGBTQ+ history.
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