Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play Liberation Will Be Part of Studio Theatre's 2026-27 Season

Studio Theatre has announced its 2026-27 season, which will feature plays recently seen in New York and written by several Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights.

The season will open with Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi, who won a Pulitzer Prize for English, and directed by Sivan Battat. The play takes place in 1978 in Karaj, on the eve of the Iranian Revolution, and Salme’s getting married, with her four best friends getting her ready. Over the next decade, everything changes for these friends, their country, and the futures they find for themselves.

Next up is Wilderness Generation by James Ijames, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Fat Ham, in association with Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC). The PTC production’s director, Taibi Magar, continues as the play’s director for its Studio run. In the play, four cousins are back at the family homestead to pack up their grandmother’s house in Tidewater Virginia.

We Had a World by Joshua Harmon, which had its first public reading at Studio in 2024, ahead of its off-Broadway run in 2025, will receive a full production. This play about mothers and daughters, legacy, and addiction is directed by Studio associate artistic director Jess Chayes, in her Studio directorial debut.

In the spring, Studio will bring Bess Wohl’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated Liberation to DC, helmed by the show’s Broadway director, Whitney White. The show, which looks at the promises and shortcomings of 1970s feminism, is part of a yearlong co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Geffen Playhouse.

That will be followed by Alice Childress’s rarely produced 1969 play Wine in the Wilderness, directed by Psalmayene 24. Bill is a painter sheltering in his apartment during the Harlem riots of July 1964 when his friends bring a woman, who could be the model he needs to finish a series on Black womanhood.

The season will close with James Graham’s Punch, the 2026 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play that ran on Broadway in last fall. The play explores the fatal consequences of an impulsive punch. The show will be directed by David Muse, in his final production as Studio’s artistic director.