FALL 2025
MEET THE CARTOZIANS
MARJORIE PRIME
SPRING 2026
MEAT SUIT
BECKY SHAW
THE RECEPTIONIST
2025/26
ANNOUNCING OUR 47TH SEASON
We are thrilled to bring you our 47th season — Artistic Director Evan Cabnet’s inaugural! The 2025/26 lineup includes two Broadway productions at the Hayes Theater and three off-Broadway productions at The Pershing Square Signature Center.
“This season, my first, is a snapshot of the vast landscape of modern American theater. Each play offers a distinct and thrilling perspective on our world, and each took my breath away. With intellect, compassion, humor, and power, these writers have created five stories that perfectly capture our time.”— Evan Cabnet, Artistic Director
Read on to learn more about all the shows and how you can secure your favorite seats at the lowest prices of the season!
Part riveting historical drama, part scorching satire.
Meet the Cartozians is a bold witty new play following two sets of Armenian Americans. It’s a wildly imaginative and deeply compelling story of culture and heritage, asking who gets to belong—and at what cost? Read more »
“Brilliant, startling and profound. A play worth remembering.” - New York Magazine
A richly spare, wryly funny, and powerful family drama, Marjorie Prime examines the blurred line between a life lived and a life remembered. It’s a heart-achingly beautiful rumination on aging and artificial intelligence, love and legacy. Read more »
WARNING: Motherhood is not for the faint of heart...and neither is this play.
MEAT SUIT, or the shitshow of motherhood is a gloriously genre-defying theatrical carnival that plunges audiences into the raw, hilarious chaos of being a mom. Beneath the bedlam and humor, the play confronts a deeper theme: how every birth triggers quiet deaths and whether anything of the person she was before survives. Read more »
"Becky Shaw is a big box of fireworks fizzling and crackling from beginning to end." - New York Times
A blind date spirals spectacularly off the rails in Becky Shaw, the razor-sharp dark comedy from the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Gina Gionfriddo. Strap yourselves in—this play will make you laugh, gasp, and maybe take a break from dating...permanently. Read more »
Please hold for Adam Bock’s “poisoned Post-it note of a play.” – The New York Times
It’s business as usual at the Northeast Office, but when an unexpected visitor from the Central Office walks through the door, business becomes far from usual. The Receptionist is a jet-black comedy about bureaucracy and complicity that’s biting in its humor and chilling in its relevance. Read more »
BEGINS OCTOBER 2025
MEET THE CARTOZIANS
BY TALENE MONAHON
DIRECTED BY DAVID CROMER
BEGINS NOVEMBER 2025
MARJORIE PRIME
BY JORDAN HARRISON
DIRECTED BY ANNE KAUFFMAN
BEGINS FEBRUARY 2026
MEAT SUIT
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AYA OGAWA
BEGINS MARCH 2026
BECKY SHAW
BY GINA GIONFRIDDO
DIRECTED BY TRIP CULLMAN
BEGINS APRIL 2026
THE RECEPTIONIST
BY ADAM BOCK
MEET THE CARTOZIANS
BY TALENE MONAHON
Talene Monahon (Playwright) is a person of Armenian and Irish descent and a playwright of actor descent. Off-Broadway: The Good John Proctor (Bedlam Theater, The New Yorker’s “Top 10 Best Plays of 2023”), Jane Anger (New Ohio; 2022 Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Nominee), How to Load a Musket (Less than Rent; TheaterMania’s “The 10 Best Theater Productions of 2020”), and Frankie & Will (MCC). Regional: Trinity Rep, Shakespeare Theater of D.C., The Warehouse Theater, Maryland Ensemble Theater, and Peterborough Players. International: The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street Theater, London, Off-West End Nominee–Best New Play). Her plays have been developed with SouthCoast Rep, Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center, Clubbed Thumb, Northern Stage and LA Shakespeare. Talene’s work is published by TRW, and has also been featured in The Cincinnati Review and McSweeney’s. She teaches Playwriting at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Education: B.A. Senior Fellow, Dartmouth College. Talene was featured in the NYTimes 2023 list of "Rising Theater Stars."
DIRECTED BY DAVID CROMER
David Cromer (Director) New York credits include Dead Outlaw; Good Night, and Good Luck; The Antiquities; The Counter; I’m Almost There; Prayer for the French Republic; Camp Siegfried; A Case for the Existence of God; The Sound Inside; The Band’s Visit; The Treasurer; The House of Blue Leaves; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Nikolai and the Others; The Effect; When the Rain Stops Falling; Tribes; Adding Machine; Our Town; and Orson’s Shadow. For his work he has received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk, three Obies and three Lortels, and in 2010 he was named a MacArthur Foundation fellow.
MARJORIE PRIME
BY JORDAN HARRISON
Jordan Harrison (Playwright) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime, which had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons. His newest play The Antiquities was recently seen in a joint production between Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre and Goodman Theatre. Harrison’s other plays include The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre) and Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Horton Foote Prize, among others. As a screenwriter, his credits include three seasons of the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black.” Harrison’s debut novel, Miss Archer, is forthcoming from William Morrow/HarperCollins, and he is writing the screenplay adaptation for 3000 Pictures.
DIRECTED BY ANNE KAUFFMAN
Anne Kauffman (Director) New York Philharmonic, BAM, Ars Nova, NYTW, Roundabout Theatre Company, Encores! Off-Center, Women’s Project, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Public, P73 Productions, New Georges, Vineyard Theater, LCT3, Yale Rep, Steppenwolf, Goodman Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Z Space, American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Rep. She is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theater, Artistic Associate and Founding Member of The Civilians, a Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, a New Georges Associate Artist, an SDC Executive Board Member, Vice President and Trustee of SDCF 2020-2023 and Artistic Director of City Center’s Encores! Off-Center 2017-2020. Kauffman’s awards include a 2024 Tony nomination for Best Director for MARY JANE, a 2023 Tony nomination for Best Revival for THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW, three Obies, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama League award and the Joe A. Callaway. Co-creator of the Cast Album Project with Jeanine Tesori.
MEAT SUIT, OR THE SHITSHOW OF MOTHERHOOD
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AYA OGAWA
Aya Ogawa (Playwright and Director) (they/them) is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based theater-maker. They have devised, written and directed many plays including oph3lia (HERE), Journey to the Ocean (Foundry Theatre) and Ludic Proxy (The Play Company). They received an Obie Award for The Nosebleed (Japan Society/Chocolate Factory Theater, Lincoln Center Theater) which subsequently ran at Woolly Mammoth Theatre (2023) and toured to Walker Art Center, REDCAT and Wexner Center for the Arts (2024). Recipient: Doris Duke Artist Award (2025), Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting (2023); Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023); The Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight Foundation National Residency & Commission (2023-24); Resident playwright, New Dramatists; MacDowell Fellow.
BECKY SHAW
BY GINA GIONFRIDDO
Gina Gionfriddo is a playwright and television writer. She is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her plays, BECKY SHAW and RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN. BECKY SHAW will open on Broadway in 2026, presented by Second Stage Theatre. Gina’s play, AFTER ASHLEY, was presented Off-Broadway by the Vineyard Theatre and garnered two Obie Awards—for Gionfriddo’s writing and Kieran Culkin’s performance. Her other plays include U.S. DRAG (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) and CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? which premiered in Boston at The Huntington Theatre and was presented Off Broadway by the Vineyard. Gina has written for the television dramas THE ALIENIST, FBI: MOST WANTED, COLD CASE, BORGIA, HOUSE OF CARDS, and three incarnations of LAW & ORDER. Most recently, Gina was commissioned to adapt Thomas Harris’ novel, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, for theatre.
DIRECTED BY TRIP CULLMAN
Trip Cullman (Director) Broadway: Cult of Love, The Rose Tattoo, Choir Boy, Lobby Hero, Six Degrees of Separation, Significant Other. Select Off Broadway: Lonely Few (MCC and The Geffen); Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, YEN, Punk Rock (Obie Award), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City (MCC); Days Of Rage, The Layover, The Substance of Fire, Lonely I’m Not, Bachelorette, Some Men, Swimming In The Shallows (Second Stage); Unknown Soldier, The Pain Of My Belligerence, Assistance, A Small Fire (Drama Desk nomination), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Choir Boy (MTC); Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theatre); The Mother, I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic); Roulette (EST); The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick); The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick and Century Center); Dog Sees God (Century Center); US Drag (stageFARM); and several productions with The Play Company. London: The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, PA (Tricycle). Select regional: Geffen, Alliance, Old Globe, La Jolla, South Coast Rep, Bay Street, Williamstown Theater Festival.
THE RECEPTIONIST
BY ADAM BOCK
Adam Bock’s other plays include Before The Meeting, A Life, A Small Fire, The Drunken City, The Thugs, The Typographer’s Dream, and Swimming in the Shallows – and have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, and Second Stage Uptown in NYC; and all over the US, in Canada, Australia and the UK and Argentina. He has received the Obie, the Guggenheim, a NEA, a Clauder Prize, the Bay Area Theatre Critics, Glickman, and Heideman Awards, and been nominated for multiple Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards.