Studio Theatre

This darkly comedic one-man show by Marcelo Dos Santos follows a single, professionally neurotic stand-up who finally meets Mr. Right, only to do everything wrong. Strap in for a delightfully dark journey of self-sabotage that forces him to decide if love is worth the price of a killer punchline.

Jacob's impulsive punch at a pub fight has fatal consequences, and prison only leaves him angrier and more adrift. When a letter arrives from his victim's parents, James Graham's Olivier Award-winning play opens an unflinching reckoning with grief, masculinity, and forgiveness, directed by Studio's David Muse.

It's 1978 in Karaj, and Salme's four best friends ready her for her wedding in a flurry of tulle and teasing. Over the next decade the Iranian Revolution reshapes their country and their futures in Sanaz Toossi's witty, piercing story of the people who stay.

A dying grandmother asks her playwright grandson to write about the family, as bitter and vitriolic as possible. Joshua Harmon turns his comic eye on mothers and daughters, legacy, and addiction in a sharp-tongued, daringly personal play from the writer of Bad Jews and Admissions.

During the Harlem riots of July 1964, a painter searching for a model to finish his series on Black womanhood meets a woman who isn't who he assumes. As the borough burns, the two wrestle with class, colorism, and worth in Alice Childress's rediscovered classic, directed by Studio favorite Psalmayene 24.

Four cousins return to their grandmother's house in Tidewater Virginia to pack it up, and a weekend of board games and in-jokes gives way to spilled secrets and hard truths about the choices their parents made. A moving new comedy from James Ijames, writer of the Pulitzer-winning Fat Ham, about whether legacy means holding on or letting something new in.

Winner of the 2026 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Bess Wohl's Liberation opens in 1970s Ohio, where journalist Lizzie gathers weekly with five other women learning to tell the truth about their lives. Fifty years later her daughter faces the same questions and turns to the past to understand why change stalled out.