Playing in The Nickelson Auditorium

September 12 – October 19, 2025
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth
Directed by Bernie Cardell
Musical Direction by Brandon Bill
Choreography by Adrianne Hampton

Winner of the 2024 Tony Award for Best Revival! The authors of the landmark musical Company reunite to turn the traditional showbiz musical on its head in this thrilling and compelling Broadway fable about friendship, compromise, and the high price of success. Starting in the present and told in reverse, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth expertly blend the excitement and energy of a backstage musical with a poignant and emotional contemporary story about the importance of staying true to one’s ideals.

December 5, 2025 – January 11, 2026
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes
Directed by Bernie Cardell

Charles Dickens’ final, unfinished novel becomes a raucous and rollicking musical comedy whodunnit that invites the audience to choose the identity of the murderer leading to a different ending every night! A delightfully loony Victorian theatre company presents the tale as a show within-a-show in the Musical Hall Royale!

February 20 – March 29, 2026
9 to 5
Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton, Book by Patricia Resnick
Directed by Dana Hart Wright
Musical Direction by Tanner Kelly
Choreography by Dallas Slankard

Based on the blockbuster 1980 movie, 9 to 5 is the hilarious story of workplace revenge in the Rolodex era! Pushed to the boiling point, three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with their sexist, egotistical and lying boss. While he is “otherwise engaged” the women give their workplace a dream makeover and take control of the company that had kept them down.  Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?

May 15 – June 21, 2026
A STRANGE LOOP
Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by Christopher Page-Sanders

A Regional Premiere! Meet Usher: a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity and instincts he both loves and loathes. Usher wrestles with the thoughts in his head, brought to life on stage by a hilarious, straight-shooting ensemble. Bold and heartfelt in its truth-telling, A Strange Loop is the big, Black and queer American Musical!

Special Engagements!

September 29 – October 23, 2025
playing on the Berg-Young cabaret stage
FIRST DATE, THE MUSICAL
Book by Austin Winsberg, Music and Lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner
Directed by Brandon Lopez

When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds that they are not alone on this unpredictable evening. In a delightful and unexpected twist, Casey and Aaron’s inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons transform into supportive best friends, manipulative exes and protective parents who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers and potential conversational land mines. Can this couple turn what could be a dating disaster into something special before the check arrives?

December 2025 (specific dates TBD)
Who’s Holiday
by Matthew Lombardo

Fifth year! Jenny Weiss returns to play Cindy Lou Who in this wildly funny and heartfelt adults-only comedy that tells the story of Cindy Lou Who, now all grown up and residing in a beaten-down trailer in the snowy hills of Mount Crumpit, as she recalls (in between bong rips) that Christmas Eve she first met the Grinch and the twisted turn of events her life has now taken. 

February 14 – 15, 2025

Dear Jack, Dear Louise
by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Linda Suttle

Two strangers – a military doctor in Oregon and an aspiring actress in New York City – meet by letter during World War II. They dream of being together someday, but the war keeps them apart for years. Will letters be enough to spark a love story?  Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Crazy for You) tells the true story of his parents' courtship during World War II in this new play, signed, sealed, and delivered straight from the heart. 

MARCH-APRIL 2025 on the Berg-Young Cabaret Stage
Bella, Bella
by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by Mari Geasair

Regional Premiere! Playwright Harvey Fierstein takes on New York City’s very own political firebrand, Bella Abzug in his new raucous, heart-rending and absurdly humorous solo show. Set in 1976, on the eve of her bid to become New York State’s first female Senator, Bella Bella finds this larger-than-life, truth-slinging, groundbreaking, hat-wearing icon squirreled away in the bathroom of a midtown hotel awaiting that night’s election results while a coterie of family and celebs await her entrance.