Daniel Fish Will Return to St. Ann's Warehouse With Kramer/Fauci

St. Ann’s Warehouse has announced its fall 2026 season, which will include life-size buffalo puppets roaming the city, the righteous rage of Larry Kramer and his charged friendship with Anthony Fauci, the passion of two legendary lovers, and the memory and perseverance of French-Vietnamese ex-pats in 1956 Saigon and 1996 Paris.

In 2022, St. Ann’s Warehouse and the Walk Productions teamed up to walk Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a refugee girl from war-torn Syria, across New York City. This year, St. Ann’s reunites with the Walk Productions, alongside KBH Arts and Theater of War, with Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi, created by Amir Nizar Zuabi. A herd of 50 life-size buffalo puppets will walk the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan September 19-20 to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and to acknowledge the complexity of the American story. The puppetry design is by Ukwanda Puppets of South Africa, and the puppetry director is Craig Leo.

Kramer/Fauci (September 27-October 24), conceived and directed by Oklahoma! director Daniel Fish, is based on a 1993 C-SPAN televised clash between Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading AIDS researcher, and playwright-activist Larry Kramer. Tony Award winner Will Brill stars as Fauci and Drama Desk Award winner Thomas Jay Ryan stars as Kramer. The cast also includes Greig Sargeant as the moderator and Jenny Seastone playing a number of people calling in from around the country.

Emma Rice and her company Kneehigh return to St. Ann’s Warehouse with their original production of Tristan & Yseult (November 1-22), adapted and directed by Rice, first seen at St. Ann’s in 2014. Set in “The Club of the Unloved,” Tristan and Yseult’s love story is told with high jinks and low-fi aerial acrobatics as a live band performs new and found music.

The fall season will conclude with the US premiere of Saigon (December 3-20), written and directed by Caroline Guiela Nguyen. Performed in French and Vietnamese with English supertitles, Saigon takes place in both 1950s Vietnam and 1990s France, as strangers gather to eat, drink, sing, argue, remember, and mourn.