Penguin Rep Theatre Announces Its 2026 Season: Four Productions, Including Two World Premieres in Stony Point, NY, Plus an Off-Broadway Transfer
(STONY POINT, NEW YORK) April 27, 2026 – Penguin Rep Theatre, under the leadership of Joe Brancato, founding Artistic Director, and Andrew M. Horn, Executive Director, announced its 2025 season, the nonprofit professional company’s 48th in Stony Point, New York will feature four mainstage productions, including two world premieres.
The company will transfer its acclaimed productions of Tom Dudzick’s Miracle on South Division and Cary Gitter’s The Steel Man to Off-Broadway. Dudzick’s comedy runs April 14 through May 10 at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (www.sheencenter.org). Gitter’s play runs November 3 through December 13 at 59E59 Theaters (www.59e59.org), where Penguin is a Resident Co-Op Company.
Horn describes the Penguin season as “a celebration of family, friendship, and the pursuit of freedom.” It Starts May 15 at the Rockland County venue with My Lord, What a Night, a new play by Deborah Brevoort. When world-famous singer Marian Anderson is turned away from a hotel in Princeton in 1937 because of her race, she finds an unexpected host in Albert Einstein. “What begins as a simple act of hospitality,” says Brancato, who will direct, “grows into a friendship based on their mutual love of music and commitment to human rights.” Featuring a cast of four who portray real-life historical figures, each with a unique perspective on how to effect change. This moving play is about courage, justice, and our shared humanity. Performances of My Lord, What a Night will run through June 7.
From July 9 through July 26, the company transports us back to 1973 – Soul Train, Watergate, Disney World, with The Heart Sellers, a new play by Lloyd Suh, directed by Maria Mileaf. Two newcomers meet by chance in the supermarket before Thanksgiving. While their medical-resident husbands work, the young women share stories about their new lives and cooking a frozen turkey. This “laugh-aloud love letter to friendship” (Broadway World) uses heart and humor to explore what it takes to make a new home.
August 14 through September 6, is the world premiere of Take Me America, a rousing new musical full of heart and soul written by Neil Berg (music and additional lyrics) and Bill Nabel (book and lyrics). It’s 2015 and Gary Campbell plans to save the world. But it’s only his first day on the job as an immigrant official and he confronts heartbreak – and hope – as he listens to the challenges and dreams of those looking to forge new lives in the U.S. … and then must decide their fate.
The mainstage season closes with the world premiere of Michael McKeever’s In Plain Sight, September 25 through October 18. Says Brancato, who will direct, “the author of Daniel's Husband and Mr. Parker returns to Penguin to ignite the stage with his customary wit, humor, savvy, and gut-wrenching twists.” After 11 years together, Elliot and Alan are set to marry-or are they? As the past threatens the present, one family confronts buried secrets and change.
Mainstage productions are scheduled at Penguin Rep Theatre, a repurposed hay barn, located at 7 Crickettown Road, Stony Point, NY. “The converted barn, circa 1880, has never been more inviting” (The New York Times). Horn adds, “It’s theatre so close you can feel it, with comfortable upholstered seats and no seat more than 30 feet from the stage.” The theatre is air conditioned, handicapped accessible, and has plenty of free parking.
Performances will take place: Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m., select Friday matinees at 2:00 p.m., Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
“The very best seats in the house go to subscribers before single tickets go on sale,” says Mr. Horn. For no additional charge, he says, patrons can select a value-added subscription series that includes post-performance discussions among the artists and audience, coffee and cake with the cast, and – new this season – dessert before the show.
An additional incentive to purchase season tickets, says Horn, “is to dine out at a discount, with select restaurants offering special benefits to Penguin subscribers.”
Tickets are priced at $56 (plays) and $60 (musical). Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more and young people (30 and under).
To order tickets or for further information, visit Penguin Rep’s website at www.penguinrep.org or call 845-786-2873.
ABOUT PENGUIN REP THEATRE
Penguin Rep Theatre (Penguin Players, Ltd.), based in historic Stony Point (Rockland County), New York, is an award-winning nonprofit professional theatre company now in its 49th year of operation.
Producing new plays in an intimate 108-seat venue, Penguin offers the excitement and thrill of experiencing original dramatic works to visitors to the scenic lower Hudson Valley.
Emmy Award winning actress Edie Falco says that “a visit to Penguin Rep is a perfect trip out of the city – a beautiful setting and the theatre rivals what you can see in New York.”
Sarah Jessica Parker invites audiences to experience “incomparable productions of new works” and to “visit fine theatre in a gorgeous pastoral setting only 50 minutes from Manhattan.”
As it launches its 48th season, Penguin Rep Theatre, dubbed “the gutsiest little theatre” by The New York Times, continues to present a cultural experience that is unique in the region: professional productions of new plays at affordable prices.