Pasadena Playhouse has unveiled its 2026-27 mainstage season, featuring a mix of classic dramas, Broadway musicals, and new productions led by notable stage and screen actors.
The upcoming season at the historic Pasadena venue will include productions of “The Visit,” “Passing Strange,” “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical,” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” with an additional mainstage production still to be announced.
Membership packages for the 2026-27 season are now available at pasadenaplayhouse.org.
The season opens Sept. 9 with a new production of “The Visit,” Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s dark comedy adapted by Maurice Valency. The show will be directed by Tony Award winner Darko Tresnjak and star Tony winner Jefferson Mays, reuniting members of the creative team behind the theater’s recent production of Amadeus.
Later in the fall, the Playhouse will stage the Los Angeles premiere of the Tony Award-winning rock musical “Passing Strange,” directed by Tony nominee Zhailon Levingston. The coming-of-age musical, created by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, follows a young musician from South Central Los Angeles searching for identity and purpose through music and travel.
The spring lineup includes the first post-Broadway production of “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical,” based on Josefina López’s play and the HBO film adaptation. Set in Boyle Heights in 1987, the musical centers on a young Latina woman balancing family expectations with her own ambitions.
The season will close with Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” directed by Jessica Kubzansky and starring three-time Tony nominee Alfred Molina as Big Daddy. Molina previously appeared at the theater in productions including “The Father” and “Inherit the Wind.”
In a statement announcing the season, Producing Artistic Director Danny Feldman said the lineup was designed to reflect stories that “meet the moment we’re living in,” highlighting themes of morality, identity, and family dynamics across the productions.