Atlantic Theater Company sets 2025-26 Off-Broadway season

The 40th anniversary season will include four plays, three of which have been announced so far, plus a children's musical across the institution's two venues.

Atlantic Theatre Company has named initial productions in its 2025-26 Off-Broadway season, which celebrates the nonprofit institution's 40th anniversary.

The season kicks off with Ethan Coen's world-premiere play Let's Love!, directed by Neil Pepe and originally slated for the 2024-25 season. The show comprises a trio of one-act plays that explore love in all its confusion and "miserable glory." Performances run September 25 to November 9.

Next, from February to March 2026, is Jake Brasch's The Reservoir, a play about cross-generational connection. A man named Josh moves home to Denver to get sober and still struggles with a foggy brain, which makes him realize he has more in common with his four aging grandparents than he thought. Shelley Butler directs.

The Reservoir is a co-production with Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

From May to June 2026 is Indian Princesses, written by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez and directed by Miranda Cornell. The satire is inspired by the playwright's own experiences and set in the summer of 2008, when five girls of color and their white fathers attend a camp-like bonding program complete with activities, adventures, and cultural appropriation. But where can the girls turn when the program sparks questions their fathers can't, or won't, answer?

The play is a co-production with Rattlestick Theater and The Terrence McNally Foundation.

All three productions will take place at the Linda Gross Theater, and a fourth production for Atlantic's season will be announced soon.

Additionally, the annual Atlantic for Kids program returns from December 13 to February 1 with a production of the children's musical Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, adapted from Mo Willems’s books, at Atlantic Stage 2.

Further information for the above productions, including exact performance dates, casting, and additional creative team members, have yet to be announced.

Photo credit: Ethan Coen, Jake Brasch, and Eliana Theologides Rodriguez. (Photos courtesy of productions)