WP Theater Announces 3 World Premieres for Upcoming Season

WP Theater announced three world premieres for its 2026-27 season.

The season kicks off with Fish, written by Melis Aker and directed by Tatiana Pandiani. Co-produced with Signature Theatre Company, in association with New Light Theater Project with Noor Theatre Company as consulting producer, Fish runs September 26-October 25, with an opening night on October 11. The play takes place in London in 2016. Seventeen-year-old Karya is navigating her brother’s unresolved disappearance. When her mother’s outrageous theory about his whereabouts starts to gain traction, Karya decides to put it to the test with a twisted online experiment with her best friend.

The Stand-In, an absurdist romp written by Crystal Finn and directed by Emily Young, runs January 30, 2027-February 28, 2027, with an official opening night on February 16. In this co-production with Fiasco Theater, best friends Claire and Claudia try to make it BIG in the movies.

You Seem Sad is a memory play written by Yale Drama Series and Peabody Award-winning playwright Leah Nanako Winkler and directed by Ammerman Award and Alan Schneider award winner May Adrales, running April 3, 2027-May 2, 2027, with an official opening night on April 18. Co-produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company, in association with Lucille Lortel Theater, You Seem Sad weaves post-WWII Nagasaki and early-2000s New York City together through the parallel journeys of Keiko—a young unapologetic atomic-bomb survivor rebuilding her life in 1950s Japan—and Student 1—a half-Japanese twenty-something who is reckoning with her career, love, and identity in contemporary America.