2026-2027 Season

Al and Willie as "Lewis and Clark" were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren't even speaking. When CBS requests them for a "History of Comedy" retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs.

From the story that inspired the classic Hitchcock film, this bold adaptation is a gripping, unsettling, and moving look at human relationships in the face of societal collapse. In an isolated house, strangers Diane and Nat take shelter from relentless masses of attacking birds. They find relative sanctuary but not comfort or peace: there is no electricity, little food, and a nearby neighbor may still be alive and watching them. Another refugee, the younger Julia, arrives with some news of the outside world, but her presence also brings discord. Their survival becomes even more doubtful when paranoia takes hold of the makeshift fortress - an internal threat to match that of the birds outside. (From the Daphne du Maurier story of the same name.)

Countess Olivia refuses the company of men, or to see any entertainment while she is in mourning for her father and brother. The message seems not to have reached Duke Orsino of Illyria, who is determined to win Olivia's hand. While Olivia's household makes merry and plots pranks against the puritanical steward Malvolio, Orsino sends his new page Cesario to woo Olivia. The twist? Olivia immediately falls for Cesario. The second twist? Cesario is actually a young woman named Viola, recently separated from her twin brother Sebastian in a shipwreck. The third twist? Sebastian is alive and recently arrived in Illyria! Misconceptions! Mistaken identities! Yellow stockings! Madness is afoot in this classic comedy with a holiday twist.

An appalling situation: A bridegroom wakes on his wedding morning in his own bridal suite, with his bride-to-be about to arrive any moment, and finds a strange girl in bed beside him. What's more, she is an extremely attractive girl who, in the depths of his post stag-night hangover, he can't remotely remember having been introduced to. Worse, during the ensuing panic to get the stranger dressed and out of the way, the bride arrives, the girl is trapped in the bathroom, the best man must pretend that the girl is his girlfriend, his real girlfriend must be kept ignorant of the fact, and the chambermaid must pretend to be everybody's girlfriend. By the time the bride's parents and half the hotel staff get in on the act, the chaos reaches nuclear proportions.

Art imitates Life. Life imitates Art. When two actors with history are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reality as the story onstage follows them offstage. Stage Kiss captures Sarah Ruhl's singular voice; it is a charming tale about what happens when lovers share a stage kiss — or when actors share a real one.

Advertising executive Daniel Corban is frantic, and understandably so. His new wife, Elizabeth, has gone missing from a remote mountain lodge in the Catskills during their honeymoon. Police inspector Levine is called in to investigate this disappearance, believing a simple lovers' quarrel spurred Mrs. Corban to leave on her own accord. Soon the local priest, Father Kelleher, arrives with great news that Elizabeth has been found. When the bride returns to the cabin, however, Daniel emphatically claims that the woman is not his wife, while she strongly insists that she is. Who (if anybody) is telling the truth? Inspector Levine tries to follow the clues through the ensuing mayhem, twists, and turns. Can he determine fact from fiction, decipher the building paranoia, and finally solve this baffling case before someone gets hurt?