Playwrights Horizons' 2026-27 Season Will Include New Work From Christina Anderson

Playwrights Horizons has announced nine productions for its 2026-27 season. The season includes new work from T. Adamson, American Sing-Song (Jake Brasch and Nadja Leonhard-Hooper), Christina Anderson, Kate Attwell, Aleshea Harris, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri, Narcissister, Else Went, and Kit Yan and Melissa Li.

The season will begin in the fall with Else Went’s Degenerates, a world premiere play that focuses on the extreme side of the epidemic of male loneliness by presenting a patchwork of painfully intimate conversations between self-described incel characters. Like Went’s Initiative, Degenerates is directed by Went’s creative partner and wife Emma Rosa Went.

Also in the fall, Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson portrays a family’s life across generations in the New York premiere of the ripple, the wave that carried me home. In the play, Janice, a Black woman in Ohio in 1992 gets deluged by voicemails about officially honoring Janice’s father’s legacy fighting for the desegregation of swimming pools, while the LA riots unfold on the other side of the country. Tiffany Nichole Greene directs the production.

The season includes two musicals: American Sing-Song’s Hole!, created by Jake Brasch and Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, who play every character in a dystopian world grappling with the “Great Sucking” off the face of the planet of every single person not wearing a butt plug; and Kate Attwell’s World Meteor, a parable about disaster capitalism in which cast members create the work’s soundscape in real time. RJ Tolan directs Hole! and Dustin Wills stages World Meteor, which features songs by Sunder Ganglani and is co-produced with Page 73 Productions, in partnership with Working Theater.

Opening in the winter-spring, T. Adamson’s world premiere The Annunciation, directed by Miranda Cornell, depicts three generations of Mexican American women, brought together in San Antonio as one nears death.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Aleshea Harris’s newest work, Feast of Rabbits, also directed by Harris, will open in the summer of 2027. In an insulated, outwardly picturesque American town, there is something frightening amid the trees.

Three more productions have been announced for after the summer of 2027: MISS STEP, a new dance comedy with book and lyrics by Kit Yan and Melissa Li and music by Li about a transwoman becoming immersed in the world of competitive aerobics in the 1980s; an untitled world premiere from Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri; and Narcissister, a new play created by the performance artist of the same name and directed by Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath.