The Whoopi Monologues to Star Kerry Washington and Kara Young

Lincoln Center Theater has announced its 2025-26 season of productions in the Vivian Beaumont, Mitzi E. Newhouse, and Claire Tow Theaters, along with special programming and events throughout the season.

The upcoming season is the first under the leadership of a new executive team, consisting of artistic director Lear deBessonet, managing director Mike Schleifer, executive producer Bartlett Sher, producer Nicole Kastrinos, executive director of development and planning Naomi Grabel, and LCT3 artistic director and producer Maria Manuela Goyanes.

As previously announced, the Vivian Beaumont Theater season will kick off with a Broadway production of deBessonet’s New York City Center Gala revival of Ragtime, starring Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz.

An additional Broadway production at the Vivian Beaumont Theater will be announced at a later date.

The Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater season will open with the US premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance production of Kyoto by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson (The Jungle) on October 8. Co-directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin (Stranger Things: The First Shadow), the play stars Tony Award nominee Stephen Kunken (Enron, The Handmaid’s Tale).

From December 16-January 4, 2026, at the Mitzi is a production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s family holiday opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun), and starring the Grammy and Olivier Award-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in association with the Metropolitan Opera.

The Whoopi Monologues, a reimagining of Whoopi Goldberg’s 1984 self-titled Broadway play, directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding), will close out the season in the Mitzi, with performances starting July 7, 2026. Adapted for an ensemble of women, the show will star Emmy Award winner Kerry Washington (Scandal) and Tony Award winner Kara Young (Purpose). The rest of the cast will be announced at a later date.

LCT3 at the Claire Tow Theater’s season will include The Comedy Series, a roster of comedians in residence featuring Jenny Slate and more to be announced, created in collaboration with Seaview; the new musical Night Side Songs by the Lazours (We Live in Cairo), reuniting with Lortel and Obie Award-winning director Taibi Magar; and A Woman Among Women by Julia May Jonas and directed by Sarah Hughes, in partnership with The Bushwick Starr and New Georges. Additionally, with The Reading Series, a group of LCT alumni playwrights (Ayad Akhtar, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Lynn Nottage, Marco Ramirez, J.T. Rogers, and Sarah Ruhl) will curate one-night-only readings of plays from playwrights new to LCT that they personally select.

This season will also include a free silent disco listening party of the Warriors concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis on July 30, co-presented by Lincoln Center Theater and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of LCPA’s Summer for the City series, and Come and Sing, public community choir events, co-presented by Lincoln Center Theater and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with Jeanine Tesori.

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