AMPHIBIAN STAGE &
SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE
A Bull in a China Shop
By Bryna Turner
Second Thought Theatre
April 1- April 18, 2026
Directed by Kels Ervi
Scenic Design: L. Mazur
Costumes: Murrell Horton
Lighting: Caroline Hodge
Sound: Cresent Haynes
A playful, messy, rom-com about a lesbian power couple revolutionizing women’s education at the turn of the 20th century?! We hit the jackpot with this one. Turner’s play lets us see how far we’ve come and how familiar the patterns of resistance toward a woman in power still feel.” — Elizabeth Kensek
An explosive queer romantic comedy set amidst the fight for women’s rights.
Galloping across four decades at Mount Holyoke, Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks light fires in the classroom and in the bedroom. As their ambitions grow bolder, so do the cracks in their relationship. Fast, funny, and unapologetically queer, Bull in a China Shop is about changing the world, loving loudly, and refusing to play nice.
UNDERMAIN THEATRE
Saturn Return
By Gracie Gardner
Undermain Theatre
April 30- May 24, 2026
Directed by Christina Cranshaw
Scenic Design: L. Mazur
Saturn Return is the astrological transit that occurs when the planet Saturn returns to the same zodiac sign, degree, and house in a person's birthchart as it was at the time of their birth.
Tori and Franklin reunite with a group of friends in their suburban hometown where they all grew up as 'theatre kids', to attend the funeral of one of their friends. On the cusp of turning 30, they seek solace in each other’s company as they compare experiences of growing pains and uncertainties about growing up and the way ahead on the path to adulthood. A comical discourse about the critical passage from the alienation of youth toward navigating adulthood without falling into the disillusion of the middle class establishment and remaining true to yourself and the pursuit of your dreams. A world premiere of a new comedy by Gracie Gardner.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
STAGE WEST
THEATRE
Hair
By Gerome Ragni, James Rado, And Galt MacDermoty
University of Texas at Arlington
April 2-12, 2026
Directed by J. Austin Eyer and Kelley Smith
Music Direction: Cody Dry
Costume Design: L. Mazur
Scenic Design: Kristina Ortiz-Miller
Lighting Design: Brooke Ford
Sound Design: Tyler Haws
Hair’s tribe of young people protest US involvement in the Vietnam War, rehearsing a topical array of such issues as racism, the ethics of war, and the need to listen to young people’s ideas. Premiering at the Public Theatre in 1967, Hair soon moved to Broadway and remains a favorite rock musical.
The Cottage
By Sandy Rustin
Stage West Theatre
August 12-30, 2026
Directed by Emily Scott Banks
Scenic Design: L. Mazur
t’s 1923, and Sylvia Van Kipness is done being discreet. She’s tired of being secretly whisked away to this English countryside cottage for her annual tryst. So she’s decided to expose her affair to both her husband and her lover’s wife with a series of scandalous telegrams, turning this tranquil cottage into a hotbed of hilarity. Manic hijinks ensue as a web of infidelity is hilariously revealed in this saucy, side-splitting romp.
AMPHIBIAN STAGE
Ajax
By Habib Yazdi
Amphibian Stage
October 14- November 1, 2026
Directed by Kareem Fahmy
Scenic Design: L. Mazur
A darkly comic political thriller about the CIA-backed coup that reshaped Iran.
The CIA walks into a Tehran courtyard in 1953. What happens next shaped the next seventy years of Middle Eastern politics. In this darkly comic spy thriller a swimming pool becomes a nation, tennis becomes oil politics, and politeness becomes warfare. You’ve never seen American foreign policy look this seductive—or this damning.
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times. -Bertolt Brecht