Playwrights Horizons sets full 2025-26 Off-Broadway season

The celebrated nonprofit company will present six shows from October to June, including five plays and one musical by a diverse array of theatre artists.

Playwrights Horizons has set its complete 2025-26 season of new Off-Broadway productions at its namesake venue on 42nd Street.

Kicking off the season in October is Jen Tullock and Frank Winters’s Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God, a solo production in which Tullock performs as multiple characters in the story of a woman's religious upbringing, which she publishes as a book only for a woman she claims to have had an affair with to denounce the account as false. Jared Mezzocchi directs.

Also running in the fall, from October to December, is Practice by Nazareth Hassan (Bowl EP). The show, directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant, explores themes of power and submission among an ensemble of actors entering an unconventional devised theatre process led by an equally unconventional “genius” who instructs them to make a play about themselves.

The first show of spring 2026 is Jacob Perkins’s The Dinosaurs, directed by Les Waters. The show about community and healing is set at a women's group that meets weekly, and perhaps eternally as the world changes. Performances will run from February to March.

The sole musical in Playwrights Horizons's season, Milo Cramer's No Singing in the Navy, will run from March to April of 2026. A send-up of classic American musicals and their tropes, the show follows three soldiers spending 24 hours in New York on leave before they’re sent off to their deaths.

Playwright and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury's Rheology is next, from April to May. Chowdhury and his mother, theoretical physicist Bulbul Chakraborty, star in this play in which they challenge each other to an experiment, reenacting the latter's death in preparation for the eventual grief of the event and using science and emotion to explore it.

Rheology is presented in association with The Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, and Ma-Yi Theater Company.

The final show in the season, from May to June, is John J. Caswell, Jr.’s Jerome, directed by Dustin Wills. The two previously collaborated on Wet Brain at Playwrights Horizons, and they now team up for this three-hander set in the titular Arizona ghost town in the early '90s, where Con and Doane, two aging and largely isolated people in a gay relationship, open their arms up to a troubled outsider.

Exact performance dates, casting, and additional creative team members for all productions have yet to be announced.

The season also includes the Foreign Exchange Festival in December, held in partnership with London's Soho Theatre. Readings of four plays by U.K. playwrights will take place at Playwrights Horizons in New York, while readings of four plays by U.S. playwrights will be held at Soho Theatre in London.