St. Ann's Warehouse sets fall 2026 Off-Broadway season

Three productions and a puppet display will be presented by the renowned DUMBO, Brooklyn venue for limited runs between September and December.

Summary

• St. Ann's Warehouse's fall 2026 Off-Broadway season includes the free public puppet display Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi and productions of Daniel Fish's Kramer/Fauci; Emma Rice's Tristan & Yseult; and Caroline Guiela Nguyen's Saigon

The celebrated Brooklyn venue St. Ann's Warehouse has named its fall 2026 Off-Broadway season, including three limited-run productions as well as a puppet display in celebration of America's 250th anniversary.

The puppets kick off the season from September 19-20. In Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi, 50 life-size buffalo puppets will be paraded through downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan accompanied by artists, public servants, gospel choirs, dancers, marching bands, and musicians. The public can experience this artistic spectacle for free.

Return of the Buffalo is directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi and conceived in collaboration with Bryan Doerries, Adam Shore, David Bither, JJ Lind. Bryan Doerries is creative director, Adam Shore, is music director, Ukwanda Puppets did the puppetry Design, and Craig Leo is puppetry director. St. Ann's presents this piece in collaboration with The Walk Productions, KBH Arts, and Theater of War.

The next three shows in the season will be performed at St. Ann's Warehouse in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. First is Kramer/Fauci, conceived and directed by Daniel Fish (2019 Oklahoma! revival) and performed from September 27 to October 24. Using verbatim transcripts, the show dramatizes the televised, fiery confrontation between Dr. Anthony Fauci and playwright/activist Larry Kramer in 1993 over the AIDS crisis.

Tony Award winner Will Brill (Stereophonic) and Thomas Jay Ryan (Henry Fool) respectively star as Fauci and Kramer in the show, which premiered to acclaim at NYU Skirball in 2025. The St. Ann's run is presented in association with OHenry Productions.

Next is Kneehigh and the Emma Rice Company's production of Tristan & Yseult, adapted and directed by Emma Rice (The Red Shoes, Wuthering Heights). From the Cornish court, Tristan goes into battle to collect his Irish bride-to-be, and their love story unfolds as an ecstatic musical extravaganza with a live band, aerial acrobatics, and plenty of laughter and tears.

Rice's production of Tristan & Yseult has been performed for over 20 years, first appearing at St. Ann's in 2014. The return engagement runs November 1-22.

The final fall show at St. Ann's is the U.S. premiere of Saigon, running December 3-20. The show spans two diners — one in 1950s Vietnam, the other in 1990s France — where strangers, eat, drink, argue, mourn, and reckon with history.

Saigon is written and directed by Caroline Guiela Nguyen of The National Theatre of Strasbourg. It is performed in French and Vietnamese with English supertitles.

More information about the above productions, including additional cast and creative team members, has yet to be announced.

Photo credit: Kramer/Fauci. (Photo by Maria Baranova)