New on the Radar: Sep 27-28

"Wolf!" (play)

Oct 8 - 12, 2026

In an AGI-governed parole program, two prisoners must rehearse vignettes from their predicted future in order to prove that they are capable of living it. Should they succeed and be immediately freed, they must come to peace with how true their data-driven, prophesized future really is—as they live it.

Ghosts and the Body Theater: A Performance Lecture (solo show)

Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2026

Ghosts and the Body Theater is a performative lecture by Dramaturg Jolene Noelle born from a simple question: Why do so many theaters claim to be haunted? Examining live/unlive bodies within performative spaces where the physical and spectral converge, this piece provides a brief glimpse at the many ghosts of the theater.

The Second Best School Shooting (play)

Oct 17 - 20, 2026

Fresh off a five-star sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run, THE SECOND BEST SCHOOL SHOOTING follows two best friends struggling to process surviving a school shooting that is overshadowed by a much worse school shooting on the same day. A dark comedy about America’s traumatized, despondent, yet somehow hilarious youth. Developed with hundreds of students, teachers–with community partnership from March For Our Lives. Written by Alice Stanley Jr. and directed by… Read More

Something Spooky (play)

Oct 24, 2026

Something Spooky is an award-winning paranormal comedy show that's gonna give you goosebumps. My grandmother had an imaginary friend who turned out to be not so imaginary. My family can’t agree on politics and what’s going on in the world, but we can agree that these things happened, and we still don’t know what it all means. Are you ready for a hilarious, heartwarming, and hair-raising experience in a haunted theater? Scream and laugh with strangers in… Read More

Bride to Be (solo show)

Nov 6 - 7, 2026

Bride To Be is a sharp, character-driven comedy that follows a woman swept up in the whirlwind of wedding planning. Between cake tastings, seating charts, DJs, dress fittings, and the relentless expectations of family and tradition, what begins as an ordinary engagement gradually transforms into a much deeper journey of self-discovery. As every decision becomes loaded with meaning, she finds herself questioning not just the details of the celebration, but… Read More

The Bridge (play)

Oct 20, 2026

Late August. The summer before senior year. Four teens venture out to Old Alton Bridge, more infamously known as Goatman’s Bridge, for one last adventure-filled hangout before school starts and the college applications grind begins.
However, as the teens immerse themselves into the haunted history of the bridge, secrets surrounding the tragic end of their junior year come to light and threaten to shatter the friend group for good.
The Bridge is a… Read More

Postcards from Paris (short play)

Dec 11 - 12, 2026

“Postcards from Paris” tells the bittersweet, "almost" love story of two best friends, Diana and Thomas, who continually blur the lines of "what ifs" and "maybes".
Told across a combination of shared scenes and long distance phone calls, the play explores what it means to love, long, and move on: because sometimes, the greatest act of love is to realize what ISN'T meant to be.

Cindy of Arc (play)

Oct 22, 2026

What is a Scold’s Bridle? What is the song Delta Dawn really about? Why are there no Jews in Whoville? In this incredibly timely and subversive play, your guide, Cindy, will take you through an abridged history of men's stories in order to answer these and other pressing questions. Think American Utopia with expletives, politics, religion, Nazis, dogs, cannibals, no David Byrne, and no Utopia. And it's a comedy. And we wear our shoes. Cindy of Arc is… Read More

Our Lady of the Clouds (play)

Dec 10 - 13, 2026

This adaptation of Argentine playwright Arístides Vargas' work emerges from F.U.N. Collective’s ongoing commitment to center immigrant and diasporic experiences. Blending bilingual text (Spanish/English), movement, and live music, the work expands beyond theater into an embodied, ensemble-driven experience. Performers transform across roles, collapsing time, identity, and memory in real time.
Inspired by the experiences of artists during Argentina’s… Read More

Miss Julie (play)

Nov 27 - Dec 19, 2026

It’s New Year's Eve. The rules are loosening. The boundaries between upstairs and downstairs are beginning to blur.
Over the course of one charged night, Julie, Jean, and Christine enter a dangerous game of desire, ambition, seduction, and control. Each believes they understand the rules. Each believes they know where the power lies.
Until it shifts.
Nearly 140 years after August Strindberg scandalized audiences with Miss Julie, director and adapter… Read More

Outside the Law (play, reading)

Nov 29, 2026

On November 29, Irondale turns to its own history with the launch of From the Vault, a new series revisiting productions from across the company’s four decades and examining the work that shaped its theatrical voice.
The series begins with Outside the Law, an ensemble-devised work originally created in 1989 that smashes together two seemingly disparate stories: Rosalind’s journey in Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the legend of American folk hero and… Read More

A Christmas Carol (play, reading) Free

Dec 20, 2026

Irondale will close out the calendar year by opening its doors to the neighborhood on December 20 for the Irondale Holiday Party & A Christmas Carol.
Friends and neighbors are invited to gather for mulled wine, cookies and hot chocolate before a special reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, directed and adapted by NextGen member Peter Charney and performed by the Irondale Ensemble.

The 1876 Project (play, workshop)

Jan 29 - Feb 5, 2027

From January 29–February 5, 2027, audiences will be invited inside the earliest stages of Irondale’s newest ensemble-created production through an open workshop for The 1876 Project.
Months before the finished work reaches the stage, audiences can witness the moment when actors, ideas and the beginnings of a play first encounter one another.
From this open workshop, the Ensemble will continue developing and devising the work toward its world premiere in… Read More

The 1876 Project (play)

Apr 20 - May 16, 2027

The 1876 Project takes its starting point from a consequential moment in American history. The year 1876 marked a decade since the end of the Civil War and the centennial of the United States. It was also the year Philadelphia hosted the Centennial International Exhibition, the first official World’s Fair
held in the United States, designed in part to present a story of American innovation, progress and prosperity to the world.
As the United States marks… Read More

things we burn for love (play, reading) Free

Dec 10, 2026

In Chinatown, joss paper maker Shu Fen Yu will do anything to stop her son from moving away, even fake dementia. But when a mysterious child begins haunting her shop, Shu Fen must confront a thirty-year-old secret and discover whether some things from the past refuse to stay buried.

Beyond Words (play)

Feb 8, 2027

Alex is an African Grey parrot. Irene is a researcher at Harvard University. Over the protests of her male colleagues, Irene teaches Alex to meaningfully communicate and solve problems at the level of a five-year-old child. This highly theatrical new work tracks their 30-year research experiment turned love story and captures man's longing to "talk with the animals." Inspired by the true life collaboration of Dr. Irene Pepperberg, and Alex.

lucky/bird (play)

May 17, 2027

Louise Evans, a three-time widow, raises peacocks on her front porch. During the neighborhood's summer parade, Louise and her birds are visited by a
mysterious young woman—is she a spirit? a figment of Louise's imagination?
A tight-knit community of Black folks grapple with their past.

Sweat (play)

Oct 8 - 16, 2026

Measure for Measure (play)

Nov 12 - 21, 2026

Everyone You Will Ever Love Is Right Here in this Bunker (play)

Apr 15 - 24, 2027

Marie Antoinette (play)

Apr 15 - 24, 2027