Prime Stage Theatre announces its 2026-27 season
Prime Stage Theatre in Pittsburgh has announced that three plays that speak to the American experience past, present and future, will make up its 2026-27 season.
First up is “Fahrenheit 451,” which will be presented Nov. 6-11. It is based on Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel about a bookless world.
Then, on Feb. 19-28, 2027, “Wade in the Water,” by Pittsburgh playwright Lynne Conner, will be staged. Set in 1851 Pittsburgh, “Wade in the Water” dramatizes the journey of a Black family on their way to Canada to escape Southern slavery.
The season wraps up with “You Can’t Take It with You”
on April 30 to May 9, 2027. Premiering on Broadway in 1936, “You Can’t Take It with You” by Moss Hart and Pittsburgh-born George S. Kaufman raised theater comedy to new heights.
“It’s about a slightly mad family,” Kaufman wrote. “But it has a point, that the way to live and be happy is just to go ahead and live, and not pay attention to the world.”
Prime Stage Theatre has produced 111 plays and 20 world premieres since its 1996 founding with the mission of “bringing literature to life”. The company has won national recognition as a leader in educational theater and received two National Endowment for the Arts grants for recent productions “Perseverance” and “Speak.”
All plays are presented at New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh’s North Side.
For more information on Prime Stage Theatre’s 2026-27 season, go to primestage.com.